Global Perspectives Elementary Student's Book Sample Unit

UNIT3Them & UsPart 2Listening & SpeakingFamily numbersVocabularyFamilyGrammarPossession; Questionswith beSpeakingYour familyReading & ListeningA family photographFunctional languageIntroducing peopleListening and Speaking1 Read the information about familiesaround the world.A typical family unit in SouthAfrica is four people. InSweden it’s two. In Gambia atypical family has eight people.2 1.51–1.55 Listen to five people. Writethe numbers of people in their family.1 Louise from Australia 42 Sulayman from Gambia3 Torsten from Germany4 Noriko from Japan5 Hasna from MoroccoLanguage note: use How many to askabout numbers.How many people are in your family?3 Ask other students in the class about thenumber of people in their family.A: How many people are in your family?B: Six. And you?Vocabulary1 1.56 Listen again to Hasna. Circlethe words you hear.brother daughter father husbandmother niece sister son wife2 1.57 Listen and repeat the words inthe family tree.Grammarmy sister’s daughtermy husband’s family• use ’s to talk about possession1 Match the descriptions to the familywords.1 my mother’s mother my aunt2 my father’s sister my brother-in-law3 my sister’s husband my cousin4 my sister’s son my grandmother5 my aunt’s daughter my nephew2 Write a definition (or definitions) forthese family words.my niece = my brother’s daughter / my sister’sdaughter1 my sister-in-law2 my grandfather3 my uncle4 my mother-in-law5 my nephewG Grammar focus – explanation & morepractice of possession on page 108SpeakingWrite the names of four people in yourfamily. Work in pairs. Ask questions aboutyour partner’s names.A: Who’s Jochen?B: He’s my grandfather.A: Who’s Christine?B: She’s my brother’s wife.my grandmother — my grandfathermy grandmother — my grandfathermy aunt my uncle my mother — my father my aunt — my unclemy brother-in-law — my sistermemy cousin my cousinmy niecemy nephew20Unit 3 Us