Family and Relationships Vocabulary
Family and relationships vocabulary covers the people every learner talks about: mother, father, sister, brother, grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, cousin, nephew, niece, in-laws, partner, friend, colleague, neighbour. Modern English adds the wider relationship lexis: step-sister, half-brother, ex-husband, best friend, close friend, acquaintance. Combined with descriptive adjectives (close, distant, supportive, complicated) and verb collocations (get on with, take after, fall out with), the worksheet builds the relationship-description vocabulary every A1–A2 learner needs.
This worksheet builds A1–A2 fluency with family and relationship vocabulary in describing-and-comparing contexts.
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What’s inside:
- Vocabulary box with 30+ family and relationship terms, plus key collocations
- Family-tree labelling tasks
- Gap-fill in family-description paragraphs
- Personalised production: describe your own family and key relationships
- Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes with discussion extension
Common challenges: False friends are dense in this domain — Italian parenti is relatives not parents; German Bekannte is acquaintance not known. The cousin terminology is gender-neutral in English (cousin = male or female), unlike many L1s. Step-and-half family terms can be culturally unfamiliar: step-father (mother’s new partner), half-sister (shared parent).
For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR A1 to A2, in beginner and pre-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Family vocabulary is core to Cambridge A2 Key (KET) Speaking Part 1 and informal-email Writing. Part of the Everyday Life & People collection — the natural next step is Shopping Vocabulary, which extends everyday vocabulary into transactional contexts.
