FAMILY LIFE

Introducction.

In Unit 4, you learn how to……

• Use let, make, help, get, want, ask, and tell to talk aboutrules and discipline.

• Use used to and would to talk about memories.

• Talk about family, relatives, and childhood.

• Give opinions with expressions like It seems like and Ifyou ask me.

• Use the expressions like definitely, absolutely, etc., toagree.

FAMILY.- Kids gripe about their parents

LOVE.- Parents gripe about their kids.

WORK.- Spouses gripe about each others

Verbs let, make, help, have, get, want, ask, tell

Structure

For let, make, help, have + object + verb

Examples

My parents won’t let me stay put late.

They make me come home before 11:00.

My kids never help me clean the house

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Structure

For get, want, ask, tell + object + to + verb

Examples:

I can’t get them to clean up their rooms

My parents want me to study law

I have to ask them to drive me everywhere

Complete the sentences with verb

1. When I was a kid my parents let me ……. Toschool by myselft .

2. My parents made me …….. To bed at 8:00.

3. My brother couldn’t get me ….. Any vegetables.

4. My sister never lets me ……….. Her computer.

5. I always have my husband ………. breakfast onthe weekends.

TASK

In conversation you cant also say, for example, help me to dosomething, but this is much less common.

Help+ verb

Help + to + verb

Inmediate family

Father Mother

Brother Sister

Husband Wife

Son Daughter

Family members

VOCABULARY

Extended family

Great-grandfather Great-grandmother

Grandfather Grandmother

Uncle Aunt

Cousin Cosin

Nephew Niece

Brother - in - law Sister - in - lawBlended family

StepFather StepMother

StepBrother Step Sister

Step son Step daughter

Halfbroter Halfsister

USED TO

Ruler.- Use used to for regular activities or situation in thepast that don’t happen now or are no longer true.

Examples:

I used to go over my sister’s house a lot

My grandfather used to keep candy in their pockets

The five of us used to play on a team

Negatives and questions with used to are less common

I didn’t use to like jazz

What kind of musick did you use to like?

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USE WOULD

Ruler.- Use would to for regular activities or situation in the past.

Examples

I’d play my niece and nephew

She’d always give use some

We would always win

Don’t use would for situations in the past

My sister used to live next door

(NOT My sister would live next door)

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In conversation…..

People often being a story with used to andcontinue with would