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G future forms: present continuous, going to, will / won’t Are you seeing
V fam ily adjectives of personality your grandparents No, I’m going to
P sentence stress, word stress, adjective endings stay home. I'll
this weekend?
probably see them
next weekend.
IB Family life

1 V O C A B U L A R Y & S P E A K IN G
family

a Look at some photos showing family members.
W hat’s happening in each one? What do you think the
relationship is between the people?

b With a partner, explain the difference between
each pair.
1 a father and a parent
2 a mother and a stepmother
3 a brother and a brother-in-law

4 a grandfather and a great-grandfather
5 a nephew and a niece
6 a child and an only child
7 your immediate family and your extended family
c Read Changing—fo r the better and try to guess what
the missing percentages are. Choose from the list. Changing -

11% 43% 60% 67% 75%
for the better?
d ly 15))) Listen and check. Do any of the statistics
surprise you? Which ones do you think would be very
different if the survey was taken in your country?
amily life is changing in the US, but not in the way
e Work in small groups. Say what you think and give F we might think. The results of several different
reasons. US surveys expected to find th at family relationships
were suffering because of the decline in traditional
D o you th in k that...? family structures.
• families should have a meal together every day However, some of the results were very surprising...
• children should leave home as soon as they can
afford to of young of adults 30-34
• parents and their teenaged children should spend adults under still live at home
a lot of time together 25 and with their parents.
• parents should be friends with their children on
social networking sites, e.g., Twitter
• elderly parents should live with their children
when they are too old to live alone of families eat together every day.

Useful language:
Giving your opinion (2)
say they have the TV on during
We often use should + verb to say what we think is the
right thing or a good thing (to do), e.g., dinner.
I think families should have dinner together every day
because...
I don’t think parents should be friends with their children think a new baby in
on Twitter because... the family brings more
happiness.