Vocabulary Activity
Before listening to the following video, try to guess the right option.
Example 0. Shanon has just discovered she is adopted and is flying to Europe to find her biological parents.
- A family is a group of people related to one another by blood , marriage or a common bond .
- Families can have different sizes and combinations, and there is no right or wrong one.
- Nuclear families consist of two parents and their children.
- In the case of gay or lesbian couples, children can have two moms or 2 dads .
- A family with just one parent is called single-parent .
- Extended families are not only parents and children but also aunts, uncles or grandparents.
- When two single-parent families are joined to live together, we have a blended family.
- If your parents are not your biological parents, you may live with an adopted family.
- Those families who take care of children who can't stay with their biological parents are called foster parents.
- Sometimes we prefer a chosen family to our blood family.
