Talking About Family: Master English Conversations About Your Loved Ones | Complete English Course

hello and welcome to today's class our topic Today is [Music] family now family is a very popular word so many people know what family means family is the smallest unit of the society when we put the families together that is how we have a city a society a [Music] nation so for this class we're going to look at words that are associated with family we're going to understand what each word means exactly and also how to use them in having conversations all right are are you ready let's get started our first word is parent a parent a parent is a person's father or mother so instead of saying my father and mother you can say my parents one parent that's father or mother father and mother then we put s parents now parent is a noun but it could also be used as a verb and when it's a verb when you're using the word parent as a verb that means you are trying to be or act as the parent of a child parented if it's in the past parenting parents all right if for example I say my parents live in New York in this sentence the word parent is used as a noun I'm talking about people and where they live she helped in parenting him now she acted as a parent she acted as a a mother to him in the second sentence the word parents is used as a verb the parents bring food and drinks to their children in this other sentence the word parent is used as a noun now let's look at phrases that contain the word parent we have adoptive parent what does it mean to be an adoptive parent it means one's parent by adoption so this is not the biological parent of that child you didn't father the child the mother didn't carry the child in her womb in her belly they went to an orphanage home and then they signed some papers and they accepted that they would act they will be the parent of this child so that is what we mean by adoptive parents meanwhile birth of biological parent this means that you are the natural parent of that child if you are a mother you carried the baby in your womb if you are the father you are the one that got the mother pregnant so that is what we mean by biological or or birth parent we also have foster parent a foster parent is a person who cares for a child who is not his or her biological parent sorry his or her biological child so when you take care of a child when you care for the child as though the child were yours then you can be called a foster parent now a parent in-law is is the parent of your husband if you are a woman then the parent of your wife if you are the man because you are married to this person her parents become your parents in order to differentiate it you call them parent-in-law all right and then lastly we have single parent a single parent is a parent who lives with a child or children and has no husband wife or partner so when you cater for your child alone you leave alone with your child you are a single parent maybe you lost your spouse maybe he died or you're separated or diversed then you are a single parent next we have siblings siblings siblings refer to each of two or more children or offsprings having one or both parents in common a brother or a sister when you share the same parent with someone your father is my father your mother is my mother then we are siblings I am your sibling when we're talking about just one then that is a sibling when we're talking about more than one then that means siblings I have I have five siblings two sisters and a brother that is what we mean by siblings so how many siblings do you have do you have four siblings do you have two siblings who is your favorite sibling is your sister your favorite sibling is your brother your favorite sibling all right then we can have step siblings when we say someone is my step sibling or my half sibling which also means half sister or steps sister that is a situation where you share only one parent so for example we have you and your step siblings share only your dad you don't share the same mother but you share the same dad then that person is your step sibling or your half sibling you don't share the same father you share only the same mother the person is still your half sibling or your step sibling do you have step siblings do you have a half brother or a half sister I have two step siblings we share the same dad we don't share the same mother all right my mother is late my mother is dead so my father got married and he now has two children with his new wife these children are still my siblings but they are my half siblings because we only share a father and not father and mother meanwhile I have three siblings all right they are not half siblings and no we don't say full siblings it's just siblings they are my siblings they are not my half siblings because we share the same father and we also share the same mother all right now let's take a look at other examples my fa sorry my mother always tries to persuade me to spend time with my younger siblings so do you enjoy spending time with your siblings or do you have to be persuaded to be forced to be made to spend time with them I enjoy spending time with my siblings I always make them laugh we play games we play music we dance together we always have fun together ma Mata has no sibling now when you have no sibling you can say I am an only child I am the only only child of my parents I have no siblings all right that means your father and mother have just you to have just one child and that is why you have no sibling all right so that is what we mean when we use the word sibling sibling is not gender based when you say sibling it could be a boy it could be a girl all right it's not gender based unlike when you say brother brother means a boy when you say sister sister means a girl when you say sibling it could mean boys girls or both boys and girls at the same time next is nuclear family nuclear family now this has two words nuclear and family family is a couple and their dependent children they are regarded as a social unit all right when you talk about your nuclear family you're not talking about other family members like your grandfather your grandmother your uncles your aunts those are the extended family nuclear family means just the father mother and children that's what makes up the nuclear family did you grow up with your nuclear family or did you grow up living with your extended family some families in some homes there are extended family members there in some homes you find the uncles cousins grandmother grandfather leaving together in one home meanwhile in some homes you see only the father the mother and the children would you prefer to live with your nuclear family yes I would if you would why so people say it helps to prevent conflict to prevent issues with other family members instead of leaving together let everyone live in their different homes and once in a while we could all spend time together we could all come together for a particular holiday instead of leaving together every time do you prefer to live with your extended family members yes I do so why do you some people say it helps them get closer to each other it helps them build a deeper relationship with each other in some countries it is a normal thing to still live with your your parents even as an adult you live with your parents you enter a home you see the grandparents there you see the parents then you see the children it's okay meanwhile in some countries it's seen as if the child that still lives with his or her parent when he or she has become an adult is on successful all right it's it shows a level of not doing so well when it comes to finances all right in those countries is beli that if you are doing so well once you become an adult you should leave your father and mother's house you should start taking care of your responsibilities you should cater for yourself what do you think do you agree with this idea or do you disagree all right so now let's take a look at sentences that have the word nuclear family the phrase because we have two words the nuclear family has long replaced the extended family all right instead the caring relationship tends to be based on the the nuclear family so that is what we mean by nuclear family all right next is Offspring Offspring Offspring is a person's child or children it's also used for an animal and animals Young we know that talking about animals mammals which are groups of animals are known to give birth to their young ones alive are known to have their offsprings alive they don't lay eggs they give birth to their young woman on so we use the word Offspring The Offspring makes up the family tree when you go through a family tree that is an illustration most times you use a tree to illustrate it showing the members of of the [Music] family you see the grandparents you see another Branch you see the children they gave birth birth to under the children that gave birth to you see the children that their children gave birth to which are the grandchildren and it goes on and on and on all right other words we can use for Offspring includes if issue all right how many issues does she have sometimes you hear people say that [Music] seed all right and even fruit yes we can use that it has a similar meaning to offspring because a child is his parents fruits all right right do you have offsprings do you have children yes you do so how many children do you have how many offsprings do you have no I don't now if you're not married married if you don't would you like to have children is it something you picture yourself having or no you don't want to ever have children some people have their reasons some people have their choices now let's take a look at other examples on how to use the word Offspring in making sentences and in having conv ations the show is about two couples and the adventures of their rebellious offsprings all right so the off their offsprings were not nice they were rebellious they wouldn't do what their parents asked them to do all right when someone is rebellious that means they resist Authority control or even convention when you ask them to do something they wouldn't want to do that they would want to do what they have in mind they want to go against your orders all right so that was what this particular show was all about do you know anyone that has rebellious offsprings so one Offspring and two offsprings that's when we have more than one we add s do you have rebellious offsprings are your children rebellious sometimes and what do you do to correct them what do you do to make them understand that you can't be rebellious to me you have to be obedient to me the other sentence is she's The Offspring of a scientist and a musician that simply means she's the child of a scientist and a musician I am an offspring of a farmer and a banker my father is a farmer and my mother is a banker you are an offspring of what are the jobs of your parents the next word we want to look at is kin have you heard this word before kin maybe you've heard it when you need to sign some papers and you asked who is your next of King now what does kin mean Kim is one's family and relations all right your family members one of them is a king two of them Kings all right so King is a noun we can also say Kingsman all right Kingsman now other words that can be used or other words that have similar meaning to King is family all right lineage folks words that phrases that contain kin we have next of King which is a very popular one it's one or more persons in the nearest degree of relationship to another all right so sometimes when you want to open a bank account to save your money they would ask your next of King that means if anything should happen to you who would you like to have access to your money who would you like to have access to your finances for instance my next of King is my younger brother most people use their wives and even their children as their next of King but because I am not married I can use my brother or any other sibling I so desire to use or I want to use so who is your next of King is it your wife is it your daughter is it your mother who is it another phrase is K to now this word is somewhat oldfashioned it's no longer being used but regardless let's get what it means it's a relative or a relation of are you any King to him all right he is no King to me that means he's not related to me are you any are you related to him in any way another phrase that contains kin we want to look at the last one is kin selection what does k selection mean now this is a natural selection which shows some type some types of behaviors that we [Music] see within a family okay it could be the behavior that lowers the fitness of a particular individual or that increases the probability of the survival and reproduction so there are certain types of genes that we can see in our family members all right some King Kings Kings men or some people from the family might possess it might have it while some of them some other people might not have it it sometimes differs all right so that's what we mean by King and other phrases that contain the word King now let's take a look at examples many elderly people have no King to turn to for assistance so many elderly people must have probably lost the people they grew up with for for instance an 85y old man might have lost his Kingsmen his other family members those that were older than him even some that were younger than him we are next of King okay we are his next of King that means if anything should happen to him we will be called to make decisions regarding his finances or other important properties the person might have okay another word we want to talk about is household household a house and its occupants regarded as a unit now what exactly do we mean by household household is a group of people who live together and share maybe share money now even if they are not related or they could also be related to each other what is the difference between family and household a family consists of two or more people that are related by birth marriage or adoption residing in the same housing unit meanwhile household consists of all people who occupy a housing unit now regardless of the relationship they don't necessarily have to be related that is the difference so if I say my household and I all attended the wedding this would mean you could see my friends there you could see people that I live with that are not related to me but if I say my family members and I attended the wedding that means I'm talking about people that I am related to and then we are the ones that went for the wedding all right now what is a single person household this includes of those times where a person leaves alone okay if a person leaves alone then we can say that is a single person household when a person leaves alone but they also include people who leave independently as Lodgers in a separate room so you're on your own but you have a couple of visitors that are using some rooms in your apartment for the meantime now before we move on we want to quickly talk about the difference between house and home so that we understand what we mean when we say house and we understand what we mean when we say home now yes these two things are similar because a house is a building and a home is a building where we all live in but the word house is used to talk about that [Music] building for people or family to live in while home is used to talk about family leaving in a house or a familiar space inside a person's house it could also be a place where someone was born or has lived as a child a home is a place where you have your loved ones you come back to your loved ones all right so examples of how to use the word household in making sentences the whole household was asleep that means everyone beli in the building all its occupants were all sleeping I grew up as a part of a large household maybe the person that made the sentence we are assuming that the person always GRE the person always had so many people around him or her while growing up lived around so many people and that is why what we have here is I grew up as a part of a large household how about did you grow up as a part of a large household or maybe part of a small household there aren so many people in your building there are so many people in your apartment all right our next word is lineage lineage lineage refers to the Descent group reckon through only one parent either the father or the mother all right when we when we talk about lineage we're talking about all the members of a family and we can trace common accessory to a single person when we try to trace how this family came about we can look at the grandmother the great grandmother great great great grandmother the and we keep tracing it back to the person that started that family okay lineage is the line of descendence you give birth to your child your child gives birth to his child his child gives birth to your grandchild and that it goes that way that is it descendant of a particular assess all right do you know the story of your lineage we can say that there are some people that have the same common we can say that lineage are people who have the same common relative from 300 years ago the lineage helps to give us a perfect picture of the family tree we start to go up start to see all the members of the family now what are synonyms for lineage what are other words that have similar meaning to Lage bloodline pedigree her okay a part of a hereditary part inheritance these are words that are associated with lineage bloodline pedigree origin these are words that we can use to talk about lineage now how do we use lineage to make sentences the name of her long dead daughter was the end of her family's lineage now that means that every family member every person from that particular family is dead the last surviving person which was her daughter has just died that means there is no way to trace there is no one that comes from that Lage that is alive some people call it lineage some people call it lineage right we have all the pronunciations for this another sentence is it's it is only conferred on those of Royal lineage of those of Royal lineage okay that means that the family members they all come from Royal Blood their father was the king the mother was the queen and then certainly the children The Offspring will become princes and princesses right and that's the way to use the word Lage to make sentences okay another word is is relative a relative is a person connected by blood or marriage he is my relative she is my relative I am related to her all right do you know all your relatives what is your closest or rather who is your closest relative now relative can also be an adjective it can also be used to describe a noun matters relative to the world piece the relative isolation of life in the country in these sentences the word relative was used to describe the nouns but for our contest today were're talking about a person that is related to you now the antonymes the opposite of relatives are non- relatives that means they are not related to you much of the time is spent visiting relatives is this you do you enjoy hanging out with your relatives with them spending quality time with them the next sentence is at the family reunion I saw relatives I haven't seen in years are there people that are related to you that you haven't seen in years I have relatives that I have never seen in my entire life yes I know how about you have you seen all the people that are related to you so this is how to use the word relativ to sentence another word is me now this is a word that some people find confusing sometimes when we say this means we're automatically talking about a female Anise is a daughter of one's brother or sister or of one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law so if you have a brother your brother's daughter is your niece if you have a sister your sister's daughter is your niece now when we talk about brother-in-law for instance your brother is married his wives now walk with me his wife's brothers or sisters daughter is your niece and in this case we could also say in if you want to be more expen examples of how to use the word in a sentence now N is a naming word it's a now a few days ago I thought I'd found the perfect Christmas gift for my little in India now when we have just one we say but when we talking about more than one then we say I can't think of his Miss put it off I will take that again I can't think why his this put it off now this is also a family member but at this will be regarded as an extended family member and this is not part of the nulear family all right so that is what we mean by the word Lees okay now feel free to talk about your Lees do you have a favorite Le what do you like about your niece what do you like most about your sister's daughter okay you say well what I like most about my niece that's the word for sister's daughter for brother's daughter nephew is a male child nephew is the son of one's brother or sister of one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law all right so while Le is used for a female child Matthew is used for a male child he is my nephew he is my favorite nephew examp examples of ways to use the word nephew in the sentence is he asked his nephew to execute his will maybe he picked his nephew as his King his young nephew was Sol this young nephew was sad maybe something some some something depressing happened to him right do you have more nieces than nephews nephews means we're talking about more than one I have so many nephews all right and that is what we mean when we talk about neph all right it's time to practice fill in the blanks with the correct answer my sister is my only blank what does that mean what does another word you can use for system my father and mother are BL my father and mother are my BL I love them so much what is a word that we use when we want to talk about both mother and father my mother is feeding her work she is very proud of her Royal Bank now take a look at the words we studied and find out which word fits or suits these blackes well done if these were your answers Dad good job my sister is my only sibling my father and mother are my parents I love them so much my father is sorry my mother is feeding her Offspring and she is very proud of her royal Lage now we can say that father and mother are parents that's the same way we can say grandfather and grandmother are grandparents all right so well done congrat gratulations you did an amazing job today now you understand how to use some words that are associated with family making sentences and having conversations and feel free to keep using them when you're discussing with your friends all right It's Time to Say Goodbye bye and have a lovely day goodbye now