Your parents are your mother and your father. Your mother is a woman and your father is a man.
Your parents
Try it: Choose the word: (mother / aunt / daughter) Answer: mother — This is a mother.
Word
Pronunciation
Example
mother
/ˈmʌð.ɚ/
my mother
father
/ˈfɑː.ðɚ/
my father
parents
/ˈpeɪ.rənts/
my parents
Children
A son is a boy child, and a daughter is a girl child. Parents call their children their son and daughter.
Try it: Choose the word: (daughter / son / aunt) Answer: daughter — This is a daughter.
Word
Pronunciation
Example
son
/sʌn/
her son
daughter
/ˈdɔː.tɚ/
his daughter
Brother and sister
Children with the same mother and father are brothers and sisters. A brother is a boy or a man, and a sister is a girl or a woman.
Try it: Mei: Lars, who is Anna? Lars: She is my ___. Our parents are Ingrid and Erik. Choose the right word for Lars. (sister / daughter / wife) Answer: sister — Anna and Lars are children of the same mother and father, so Anna is his sister. His daughter is his girl child, and his wife is married to him.
Word
Pronunciation
Example
brother
/ˈbrʌð.ɚ/
my brother
sister
/ˈsɪs.tɚ/
my sister
Husband and wife
A married man is a husband, and a married woman is a wife.
Try it: Lars: This is my mother, Ingrid. She is married to my father, Erik. Mei: Oh! So Erik is her ___. Choose the right word for Mei. (husband / son / brother) Answer: husband — Lars says Ingrid is married to Erik, and the man in a married pair is the husband: Erik is her husband. Her son is her child, like Lars, and her brother is a child of her mother and father.
Word
Pronunciation
Example
husband
/ˈhʌz.bənd/
her husband
wife
/waɪf/
his wife
This is my friend
A friend is not family. Your mother, your father and your sister are family, and a friend is not one of them. To introduce someone, say This is my and then the person: This is my friend.
Try it: Lars: Amina, ___ Sofia. She is not my family. Amina: Hello, Sofia. Choose the right words for Lars. (this is my friend / this is my wife / this is my daughter) Answer: this is my friend — Lars says Sofia is not his family, so friend is the only word that fits. A wife is family: she is married to him. A daughter is family too: she is his girl child.