Family Members : relations (vocabulary and possessives exercise)

July 23, 2012 | Posted by profanglais

Here is a vocabulary exercise on family members. Use the family tree to find out what relationship the family members are to the others. You can download this as a PDF and print it for yourself or your students – it’s free. Click here for the PDF version.

examples
grandfather, father, mother, son, daughter, grandson, aunt, uncle, cousin, nephew, niece, father-in-law, daughter-in-law, in-laws, parents, great grandmother, husband, brother, sister

Now fill in the gaps.

1. Margaret is Rebecca’s great aunt.
2. Sheila and Steven are Rebecca’s ___________
3. ____________is Valerie and George’s daughter.
4. Rose is Carol’s ____________ .
5. Valerie and _________ are sisters.
6. Brian is George’s _________ .
7. George is __________ father-in-law
8. Margaret is _____________ mother-in-law.
9. George and Harry are Rose’s____________
10. Margaret and Harry are Robert’s _____________
11. George and Harry are ______________
12. Rebecca, Zack and Charlotte are Rose’s ___________
13. Rebecca is Carol’s _______________
14. Steven is Margaret’s _____________
15. Lisa is Sheila’s ___________
16. Zack and Rebecca are _______________

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answers: 2. parents 3. Carol 4. Grandmother 5. Margaret 6. son-in-law 7. Brian’s 8. Robert’s 9. sons-in-law 10. parents-in-law (or in-laws) 11.Brothers-in-law 12. great-grandchildren 13. niece 14. nephew 15. sister-in-law 16. second cousins