The document provides an overview of the topics and activities covered in a basic conversation class for week 6. The week focuses on family vocabulary and pronunciation, with exercises on minimal word pairs, family trees, photos of family members, and questions about family. Students listen to passages and stories about daily routines and families. They practice pronunciation, fill in blanks, answer comprehension questions, and have a conversation practice section at the end of the class.

1. Basic Conversation
WEEK 6

2. Music Time
 Listen to We are Family add the missing words.
 Listen again. Fix the words that are wrong.

3. Minimal Pairs /n/ and /ŋ/
A B
sin sing
thin thing
win wing
ton tongue
banned banged
din ding
stun stung

4. The Family
a) Look at the two family trees. Number the people in relation to Richard.
b) Complete 1-3 with children, grandparents, or parents.
c) Listen and check your answers to a and b.
d) Now ask look at the pictures and who the people are.
Big paper:
Look at the people in the pictures. Do you know who they are?
Part b) Work together to answer the questions at the bottom of the page.
Extra: Who are these people?
The brother of your father.
Your brother’s son.
Your brothers and sisters.
Your sister’s daughter.
You are your mother’s ____.
You are your grandfather’s _____.

5. Vocabulary and Pronunciation
3.c) Put the words into the right list
4.a) Listen to Isabel showing a friend photos.
Who are the people?
What are their names?
How old are they?
What are their jobs?
4.b) Do you have any pictures of people in your family?
Show them to your partner and answer their questions.

6. Questions about family
1. Are friends more important than family? What do you think?
2. Do you have any siblings? Are you the oldest? The youngest?
3. Are your parents strict?
4. Do you look more like your mother or your father?
5. Do you often argue with your mother or father? What about?
6. How many people are in your (immediate) family?
7. How often do you see your cousins?
8. How old are your parents?
9. What are your parents like?
10. What do your mother and father look like?
11. How old are your grandparents?
12. What do you and your family like to do together?
13. When you get married, will you have any children?
14. What do your parents do in their free time?

7. Take a break!

8. What a life!
1a) listen to the sounds and number the
phrases.
1b) Do you do these things every day? Number
them in the order in which you do them.
1c) Work together and number the activities
for Suzy and Henry

9. Connected Speech
2a) Listen and write five sentences.
2b) Listen and repeat the sentences. Talk like me!
3a) Reading and listening. Listen along as I read the
story to you. How does Nico feel at the end of a typical
day?

10. Work together to answer the questions
1. What time does Nico get up?
2. What does he have for breakfast?
3. What two things does he check at the restaurant?
4. What time do all the customers arrive?
5. How many customers do they have in the restaurant at
lunchtime?
6. What does Nico ask the customers?
7. What does Nico do after lunch?
8. What time does he go home in the afternoon?
9. What does he do at 7:30 p.m.?
10. What time does he go home?

11. Listen to Amelia
d) Listen to Nico’s daughter. Fill in the blanks.
e) Whose day is more stressful? Nico’s or Amelia’s?
5a) Work together to make the questions. Then ask
each other.

12. Still got some time?
Any noise annoys an oyster
but a noisy noise
annoys an oyster more.
Fifty-five friendly fleas and fireflies.