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Vocabulary unit 1
This document provides vocabulary to describe personal relationships, dividing them into family relationships and non-family relationships. Family relationships include immediate family like parents, children, siblings, as well as extended family like aunts, uncles, cousins. Non-family relationships encompass those both close like friends, partners, and more distant like acquaintances, neighbors, colleagues. Descriptors are also given for family-related adjectives, verbs, and nouns.
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Vocabulary unit 1
- 1. VOCABULARY TO TALKABOUT PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS FAMILY NON-FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS RELATIONSHIPS Relatives / relations Landlord Tenant Parents Father Penpal / penfriend Mother Buddy – dude Children Friend Offspring (fml) – Close friend offspring Best friend Lifelong friend Only child Son Partner ----in business, in life, in Daughter an activity (class, bridge, Brother tennis…), in international Sister relations Sibling (fml) – Siblings Ally Aunt Uncle Acquaintance My aunt on my father’s Neighbour side = my paternal aunt My aunt on my Colleague / Workmate/ mother’s side = my Classmate /Flatmate / maternal aunt Roommate (first) cousin Housekeeper Second cousin Butler Grandparents Greatgrandparents guest Great- Host – hostess greatgrandparents… shrink
- 2. Grandchildren Greatgrandchildren Stepfather Stepmother COLLOCATIONS WITH Stepbrother ‘FAMILY’ Stepsister… ADJECTIVES Half-brother Nuclear family Half-sister Large family Extended family Godfather Adoptive family Godmother A close-knit family Godson A one-parent family Goddaughter VERBS Twins Triplets Belong to a family … Be part of the family Come from a family Foster-son Marry into a family Foster-daughter This runs in the family Foster-family NOUNS Family background Family history Family ties Boyfriend Family + member / life / Date business / commitments / Fiancé--- fiancée feud / heirloom / motto / Bridegroom -– bride planning / shield Best man Husband --- wife Suitor Lover Mistress
- 3. My soulmate My betterhalf Bachelor Spinster Old maid Bachelorette Mr Mrs Miss Ms Marital status = estado civil