IELTS Preparation Series 3, Episode 21: Talking About the Family
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Hello, and welcome to Study English, IELTS Preparation. I'm Margot Politis.
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The family is a common topic in IELTS, especially in Part 1 of the Speaking Test.
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Talking about such a familiar topic might seem simple, but doing it well requires thought
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and practice.
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Let's listen to someone talking about their family:
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My mother is a teacher and my father is an architect. I've got 2 brothers and one sister,
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so that's all the immediate family.
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She begins by identifying her mother and father, and then her brothers and sister. What did
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she call all of them together?
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My mother is a teacher and my father is an architect. I've got 2 brothers and one sister,
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so that's all the immediate family.
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The immediate family. Another term for this is nuclear family.
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That's the parents - mother and father - and the siblings - brothers and sisters.
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A male child is called the son of his parents and a female child is called the daughter.
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Mother and father are the formal words. In informal English you say mum and dad, like
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this:
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Me and my mum we immigrated to Australia in 1991 to Perth and then I moved over to Sydney
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to be with my dad, then dad moved back to Thailand, so yeah.
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The family outside of the immediate family is called the extended family.
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The parents of your parents are called grandparents - grandmother and grandfather. The brothers
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and sisters of your parents are called uncles and aunts.
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Listen:
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Both my parents were only children, so I don't have any aunts or uncles. But I do have a
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niece, my oldest brother's daughter.
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If you refer to your mother's sister, you can say "my aunt on my mother's side". If
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you refer to your father's father, you can say "grandfather on my father's side".
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The children of your aunts and uncles are called "cousins", whether male or female.
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The children of your brothers and sisters are called nephews if they're boys and nieces
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if they're girls.
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What did our first speaker say about her extended family?
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Both my parents were only children, so I don't have any aunts or uncles. But I do have a
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niece, my oldest brother's daughter.
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She said her both her parents were only children. This means they were the only child of their
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parents and didn't have any brothers or sisters.
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If there are several children in your family you talk about them by order of birth, like
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this:
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I have one older brother, he's 22. I have, I'm in the middle and I'm 20 and I have a
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younger sister who is 15.
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The first child in the family can be called the oldest and the last the youngest. Sometimes
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the youngest is called the baby brother or sister, or as in the next clip, the little
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brother or sister:
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I've got 2 sisters and a little brother.
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The children of a family are a generation and the children they go on to have are the
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next generation.
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For instance, when someone's parents immigrate to Australia and have children here, those
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children are called first-generation Australians. When they grow up and have children, their
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children are referred to as second-generation Australians.
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