ESL Connect - Family and Relationships

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Family and relationships

Practise naming family members and saying who things belong to.

Warm-up questions

How many people are in your family?
Do you have any brothers or sisters?
Who are you close to in your family?
Do you live with your family?

Key language

This is my mother.

That is her brother.

The red bag is mine.

The blue bag is hers.

Vocabulary

Family members

Match each word with its meaning.

cousin mother sister grandmother father brother

1. A female parent

2. A male parent

3. A male child in the same family

4. A female child in the same family

5. Your mother’s or father’s mother

6. The child of your aunt or uncle

Reading

Meet the Brown family

Read the text and answer the questions.

This is the Brown family. Anna and Mark are married. Anna is Mark’s wife, and Mark is Anna’s husband. They have two children: Lucy and Ben. Lucy is Ben’s sister, and Ben is Lucy’s brother. Their grandmother, Rose, lives near them. The family often visits her at the weekend.

1. Who is Mark’s wife?

Lucy Anna Rose

2. Who is Lucy’s brother?

Mark Ben Anna

3. Who is the grandmother?

Anna Lucy Rose

4. How many children do Anna and Mark have?

one two three

Dialogue

Looking at family photos

Read the dialogue and complete the missing words.

Mia: Who is this?

Sam: This is my sister, Laura.

Mia: Is this her dog?

Sam: Yes, it is. The dog is hers.

Mia: And whose bike is that?

Sam: It is mine.

1. “This is ______ sister.”

2. “Is this ______ dog?”

3. “The dog is ______.”

4. “It is ______.”

Grammar

Possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns

Use possessive forms to show who something belongs to.

Subject	Possessive adjective	Possessive pronoun
I	my	mine
you	your	yours
he	his	his
she	her	hers
we	our	ours
they	their	theirs

Remember

A possessive adjective comes before a noun: my brother.

A possessive pronoun replaces the noun: The phone is mine.

1. This is ______ mother.

mine my me

2. The red coat is ______.

her hers she

3. This is ______ house.

theirs their they

4. The blue car is ______.

our ours we

5. Is this ______ sister?

yours your you

Questions

Whose is it?

Use whose to ask about possession.

Question	Answer
Whose bag is this?	It is mine.
Whose keys are these?	They are hers.
Is this your phone?	Yes, it is mine.

1. ______ jacket is this?

Who Whose What

2. This phone is ______.

my mine I

3. That is ______ bicycle.

he him his

4. The children’s toys are ______.

their theirs they

Speaking

Talk about your family

Ask and answer simple questions.

Student A

Who is in your family?
Do you have brothers or sisters?
Who are you close to?
Whose photo is this?

Student B

This is my...
I have one brother / two sisters.
I am close to my...
It is mine / his / hers.

Write about your family

Review

Final check

Complete the sentences.

This is sister.

The black bag is .

That is house.

The keys are .

Is this phone?

Can you do these things?

Name common family members.
Describe simple family relationships.
Use my, your, his, her, our and their.
Use mine, yours, his, hers, ours and theirs.
Ask “Whose...?” questions.