How to Talk About Your Family in English | Basic English Grammar

live Oh are we on here not you okay good then I'm gonna start again hi everybody welcome back to our weekly live stream my name is Alisha and today we're going to talk about how to talk about your family in English so for today I'm going to explain some basic things like over here I'm going to talk about your family makeup so family makeup means the people in your family so your parents brothers sisters and so on this will be some review maybe but we'll practice some basic sentence structures here then we'll talk about your family members professions that means your family members jobs so how to explain that what do they do then we'll talk about how to explain where your family members live or just a couple of other things that you can do to explain like um where in the world they are so those are our three topics for today so I hope that you can send lots of messages in the chat this is going to be a good live stream I think for beginner learners but I hope that if your intermediate or advanced you can find something new here too so we'll begin in just a couple minutes I will check the chat hi everybody I see YouTube is up hi everybody on YouTube Junior hey junior Gabriella and Andre and one hi everybody thanks very much for joining us Facebook is up a high ma say I haven't seen you in a while live hi Bienvenue hi why ba hello good okay I see lots of people in YouTube and I think it's Facebook loading his facebook ready I see a couple people there I will share the video as well so when you join oh there's the video okay so when you join please make sure to like and share the video so other people can find it okay share good I'm done okay so we'll start in a couple minutes um a couple of quick announcements one on the YouTube channel there's lots of new stuff to check on the English class 101 YouTube channel there's a new Q&A Oh to watch and then there's also a new know your verbs a new episode of know your verbs about the verb let on the channel so please check those out and of course we have more new stuff coming soon great ok I see lots of people now fantastic hi everybody good ok we are three minutes and hi everybody Wow YouTube is exploding hi everybody good lots of people hello from Peru on Facebook hi there okay great so if you're just joining yes today's topic is how to talk about your family how to talk about your family so I think there are lots of people alive let's get started okay so I said today we're going to start by talking about family make up family make up so this is maybe a good kind of intermediate or advanced keyword this word make up so make up here doesn't mean like you know like eyeshadow or lip color or anything make up with in this use means like the parts of something that create a larger thing so your family makeup means the people who create your family so for this part I want to do a little bit of review then so to begin siblings siblings is the first category I want to talk about so siblings means your brothers and sisters brothers and sisters so these are a few sentence patterns that you can use to talk about brothers and sisters that you may have or not have so um let's begin in this case this is if there are no brothers and sisters some zero brothers and sisters this is the first case if you have no brothers no sisters you can use the expression I'm an only child I'm an only child only child so meaning one there's one child in my family it's me so here don't forget this I'm I'm an only child don't forget your article here either I'm an only child so there are no other there's I don't have a brother I don't have a sister I'm an only child if you do have a brother or if you do have a sister you can use a pattern like the next one so I've included two siblings here you can say I have an older brother and you can finish here if that's the case but for this example I have an older brother and a younger sister so I've introduced here two words you can use in talking about your family for the rest of this lesson actually so this word older and younger so sometimes students ask about the word elder elder elder sounds old-fashioned we don't use really elder very much to talk about our siblings we use it maybe to talk about actually old people in our society our elders for example but we don't use it so much to talk about our siblings instead I recommend the word older not elder older older so that's one point here second point here is when you're talking about your brothers and sisters you'll notice I've included articles here so one don't forget your article that's one but when you're talking about an older sibling oh so it starts with this vowel sound yeah when it starts with a vowel sound remember that your article needs to be and I have an older brother I have an older brother if you're talking about a younger a younger sibling this starts with that yeah sound so kind of a consonant sound you need to use this article so I have an older brother and young-earth sister so please don't forget these articles that's an important review point I think okay and I'll try to check the chat good you may on face our YouTube says I have an older sister and a younger brother perfect nice other ones vom Louis yes this is live hello masya says I have two brothers and I'm the middle ah I'll get to that point in just a second mafia about being in the middle let's see if you have other ones send them over other examples okay let's go to the next one if you have more than like one sibling you can use this pattern I have plus your number of sisters or brothers so you can combine this and like I did in this sentence for example so here for example I have two sisters or I have three brothers for example a point to be careful of here is this s make it plural I have two sisters I have two brothers so you could say I have two sisters and three brothers if you want to combine them so just use this number pattern don't forget your plural that's a key point for this one okay then finally for this beginning part is this one I mentioned it in response to messiahs comment on Facebook this I'm the middle child so I started this point with this expression I'm an only child I'm an only child here we're gonna use I'm I'm the middle child so middle child means I have a sibling here and I have a sibling here without meaning I have an older sibling and I have a younger sibling then this is me my terrible happy so this is me this is me in the middle in the middle so I'm the middle child I the middle child this is the expression we use always this it's because I'm the middle child in my family there's only one middle child it's me I'm the middle child in my family but please use this expression if you have an older sibling and a younger sibling and you are in the middle okay um gel birth on youtube I have two sister and a brother like I said don't forget this s I have two sisters don't forget your s make it plural please uh okay I am the middle child to someone good I have to I'm not sure with that way I have two brothers I mean enough again so careful don't forget many of you are forgetting to make this plural this s right here brothers I have two brothers - one brother two brothers so don't forget that test I have three sisters good let's see Oh someone says how do I have say siblings by my father interesting so you can say like I have two siblings let's see that gets a little bit more complicated I think I'm not sure actually about your situation so I won't answer that one specifically maybe I can come back to that later many of you are saying I'm the middle child ah someone says I'm a old sister in my family that's a great one if you yourself if you are this one if you are this child here you're not the middle child you can say here I'll make anyone I'm oh can they see this here yes okay thanks I'm the oldest I'm the oldest so here you see we're using the superlative yeah I'm the oldest I'm the oldest so not older oh there are comparative ease okay I'm the oldest I'm the oldest so if this is you if this is you you are the oldest the oldest child in your family on the other hand if this is you you can say I'm the youngest I'm the youngest so here we have some good grammar points today I'm the oldest I'm the youngest here I'm getting it very weird okay I'm oldest I'm the youngest um hope that helps some of you Wow someone says I have four brothers wow that's big I have one brother do you have even brothers sisters one a little brother aa little brother yeah you can say little or big for younger or older too so we could say little brother or little sister and big brother or big sister as well okay that was a lot fun okay um so let's go on I'm warm let's go on to the next part ah good you guys have great sentences three brothers two sisters nice okay so let's go on to this part children so part two for this part is children so I don't know if you have kids I don't have kids but if you do here's how to talk about it so first one children so as we talked about with siblings I have number you can use I have number plus kids kids so this kid is more casual and more friendly I feel more commonly used than children you can say children children here children is okay that's fine I have two children children is okay to use I prefer kids I have two kids I have three kids if you have one don't use the plural I have one kid I have one kid one kid two kids so caution on your singular and plural forms okay then if you don't have kids if you're like me you can say I don't have kids I don't have kids I I would not say I have zero kids that sounds kind of unnatural don't say I have zero kids say I don't have kids again plural plural here I don't have kids I don't have kids okay someone says I have one kid good I have no kids oh good Gustavo nice point I said I don't have kids what what did you write I have no kids I have no kids that's also okay someone says I have one baby she's so cute oh okay um good Oh Jo you said how do you say when you are the second of five brothers you just said it perfectly I'm the second of five brothers that's perfect nice good I don't have kids I don't have any kids perfect perfect everybody nicely done okay then um let's see what's my next point next point then so we've talked about kids numbers of kids is pretty easy to do ah you can't explain their ages if you want to so some of you said I have two kids or I have one kid you can say I have you know two kids my daughter is - my son is four so you can add some information about your kids so I'll put that here somewhere I'm running out of space here so plus age you can talk about their age that's the next natural point to include I have two kids my son is four my daughter is - okay good nice one I have three kids Oh someone wrote I have three kids or children's Damari wrote that please be careful a singular plural point I said children is okay yes but remember shape children is the plural form so child is an irregular noun so when we say one child we use child for the singular plural form is children so you can't say children's that's incorrect please use one child two children okay finally finally for this one let's move on to one more point to talk about your family makeup that is this marital status marital status so this is more of an intermediate or advanced vocabulary word your marital status this is a formal way of saying are you married or not so are you married or not there's a simple answer to this I'm I'm married I'm married so this don't forget this I'm that's one two married I'm married not I'm a marriage not I'm not married but I'm married I'm married is the correct expression here I'm married of course if not I'm not married I'm not married if you like if you are married I'm married you can say like you can use some more advanced grammar I've been married for five years oh my writing is messy I've been married for five years for example you don't have to zoom in on that I think it's impossible to read thanks I've been married for five years you could say okay so this is how to explain your marital status explaining whether or not you are married we don't use this for it's single or in a relationship though marital status is for married or not married okay good so this is the first part for today's lesson how to talk about your family makeup um I'm checking for your questions a PT or hi I'm YouTube says I am unmarried unmarried is also okay nice I'm unmarried I'm unmarried good um I'm married and I have two kids says Mena's on Facebook nice Umar can we say me is married note we cannot say me is married say I am I am married I am married is the correct sentence I am married Jeremy says I never been married uh if you want to use that eyes I have never been married I'm out of space I've never been married I have never been married okay I have to stop there so we can go on let's take a break because I've been talking forever so today's topic is family and relative so we have free stuff for you guys as always today the perfect PDF is our family and relatives cheat sheet so this has lots of vocabulary I'm not going to talk about today but this we're already talking about like brothers younger and older sisters younger older brothers and so on but there are other family related words here that you can find and we also have some family and relative related greeting words here so when you meet your relatives after a long time or you get together for parties and so on so this is a great one a great free thing to get this week so please check this out you can download this for free the link for this if you're watching on youtube is below the video knock the chat box in the description below the video if you're watching on facebook check the link above the video it should be above the chat box if you're watching on full screen or just in your newsfeed if you're not watching full screen so please go download this and all the other stuff that we have maybe I'll show this a bit later okay let's get back to it someone says Alicia your stuff is so cool yeah thanks okay it's our team our awesome team okay let's go to the next part if you're just joining us today's topic is how to talk about your fan how to talk about your family so we began we started today's lesson by talking about your family make up your family make up the people in your family so part 2 for today is this this how to talk about professions professions profession means job so how do you explain your family members job so maybe you can explain your job like I'm a teacher I'm a scientist for example but how do you explain your family members job I will introduce some patterns let's begin ok let's get to it so I'm using this keyword bracket so I'm going to use this keyword relative relative so relative means person in your family relative my relative is blah blah blah I'm going to use this so in this part please use the person in your family that you want to talk about so my mom my dad my brother my sister my younger brother my older sister substitute the person in your family right here okay so let's begin my relative is AA or an plus their job title their job title so quick review I talked about the difference between a and an over here yeah so we use an before a vowel sound uh before a consonant sound so my relative like my mom is a teacher for example my mom is a teacher teacher my dad is an engineer engineer so you could use mother or father if you use mother or father to talk about your parents it will sound a little more polite it's not wrong so it's fine to use that so my my mom is a teacher for example I'm used up because teacher begins with a consonant sound a teacher here my dad is an engineer I used an because engineer starts with a vowel sound in okay so this is one pattern you can use to introduce their job title there their job title okay then I'll check your comments nice my brother is a veterinarian nice one mom means mother mom means mother mother mom is like the more commonly used word for mother okay then let's say you want to explain the industry so this is a keyword for this pattern industry industry means like the type of company the kind of company so let's try an example like again my relative my mom or my dad my mother or father works here's the point works for up or n again this article is acupoint for today's lesson industry company so let's say for example uh my brother let's say my brother works for an electrical company electrical company so electrical so that means like electricity related they make electricity or supply electricity my brother works for an electrical company sorry an electrical company so points here one this s right here so we need to conjugate this verb my subject my brother my brother is the subject he so work the verb work takes an S it's a regular verb my brother works for you could say at if you want to um both are okay here my brother works for an electrical company so we can talk about the industry the type of company where our relative works idle says my mother works for an housewife okay a couple points my mother's job title so if your mother's job is housewife you don't need to include works for works for is used for a company a type of company if you want to introduce the job title just use this pattern so my mother is a housewife housewife my mother is a housewife my father is a farmer good my sister works for a beer company nice don't forget your article my sister works for a beer company their other ones my sister works for a factory ok interesting what kind of factory so introduce the kind of job the kind of company my father works for a mechanical company nice my sister works for a telecommunication company great ok good my mother is a housewife perfect you fixed it nice one thanks okay what's the pronunciation architect architect my father is an architect that's how you say architect alright good let's go to the next pattern then please but I'm my relative works for company so this one it's a little hard to see my relative works for company this one is like the easier version maybe of this so here we have the same works for we could use app as well but here we're using the company name the company name that means it's probably a famous company for example my sister works for Apple or my father works for Google for example so if you want to explain with the company name like it's a really famous company use that so my father works for Google my father works at Google ah great one George on YouTube my father is retired my father is retired is retired no article there no article my father is retired great one I'll add that here my relative great keywords my relative is retired retired so this means finished working finished working because like of old age or maybe an injury sometimes so my you can't see that sorry my father my relative is retired retired we use this in sports as well retired another person says my dad is deceased yes you can say that my dad my father my mother is deceased or has passed away yes if you need to explain that that is correct okay other things my father uh ah my father worked for a certain facts um sorry I missed the comment on Facebook but if you want to talk about a past job just change your verb here so here I'm using the present tense in all of these examples if you want to talk about a past job just use the past tense my father worked for something thanks it's okay I caught the question I think okay so my father worked for my mother worked for so use the past tense there I'm exaggerating worked for worked for okay let's move along to the last point for this one we're almost out of time let's go to the last one if your relative has their own company their own company you can use the verb run to run a company means they take care of the company they do everything for the company like management accounting hiring people they run a company so my mother runs um what kind of company my mother my mother runs an education company or my father runs a tech company for example so you can use the word run to talk about managing the company he or she runs a company ok good um I have to go quickly I didn't realize how much I was talking today so let's continue on without a break to the last part for today's lesson the last part for today's lesson is residents so residents means the place where you live the place where you live or for today's lesson the place where your family member lives so this is some review I think for you guys a lot of you guys but we live in we live in finish this sentence with your city or your country we live in Sao Paulo we live in Thailand we live in Mongolia we live in Senegal you can use your si or your country this we could mean your family it could mean you and your husband or wife you and your siblings whatever we live in a police ok another one my parents live in my parents live in point here is this s as S sound my parents live in so again my parents is our subject they two people they live in Montana or they live in Brazil so my parents live in again a city or a country here next one to review sorry we're going quickly because of time ok my mom or my dad I want to introduce these two because I know in some cases family members move around like for business trips for example how do you express that so to talk about family members who move you can use these expressions for example my mom travels between a and B so like my mom travels between New York and London or my mom travels between Beijing and Tokyo for example you can use travels between so again this s don't forget this s my mom travels between a and B another way to say it is goes back and forth between I'm sorry goes back and forth between plays my mom goes back and forth between place a and place B so you can use both of these to talk about someone who travels a lot okay good and then um last almost left if you want to talk about a single parent like my dad lives in and my mom lives in like poor you know your siblings you can do that just make sure you include this s in lives he or she lives in lives in a little grammar review today finally whew finally if you want to talk about your siblings we talked about siblings at the beginning of today's lesson your sibling so my youngest or my oldest brother or sister or to talk about your children my youngest or oldest son or daughter lives in you can do that with this pattern here so my youngest son lives in Osaka for example or my daughter you don't have to include these like my daughter lives in Tokyo for example so there are lots of ways we can combine all of this stuff good how do you say when we don't have a job ah I'm unemployed unemployed that's a good one so that relates over here professions unemployed not employed not having a job unemployed okay good one for you sorry I had to finish quickly I took a long time on the the first parts of this lesson but that's okay thanks for all your great questions that was awesome um my younger brother lives in Hokkaido oh really I hope he was okay in there Thanks okay um good I have to finish there for today because I'm totally out of time I talk too much as usual so if you missed it today's lesson is about how to talk about your family this lesson was recorded so you can find it on our YouTube channel in English class 101 or on our Facebook page so check one of those and also don't forget to get your free stuff this week I showed you this family and relatives PDF that has family related keywords should I go to this camera yeah family related keywords and things so this is just one example hello this is one example of the free stuff that you can find from the link below the video on youtube or above the video on Facebook but there are lots and lots of other things you can find too ah this might be important your pets I didn't talk about pets today but for many people I know pets are a part of the family so this is another PDF that's free you can find from the link below the video on youtube above the video on Facebook so definitely go download these after the lesson or just pause the lesson and go download oh wait so check those out if you have not already you can download you just need an account on the website you can make one for free if you don't have one okay but I have to finish there for today how is a lot of talking thanks so much for sending your questions and for sending all of your example sentences that was awesome that was really helpful I have to finish but next week we will be back as always same time same channel next week September 26th the topic will be how to talk about your hobbies how to talk about your hobbies so like we did today I'll do some kind of grammar review of these really small points and try to help you guys talk more naturally about the things you like to do so this should be a fun lesson I think how to talk about your hobbies next Wednesday September 26 so please join 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Published: Wed Sep 19 2018