1 00:00:01,250 --> 00:00:10,280 ‫An extremely popular topic in the whole of Israel speaking is family, but it's also quite likely that 2 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:16,390 ‫you could get a task to cue card on the topic of family. 3 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:21,790 ‫So it will be useful to take a look at a couple of examples of these Cucuy card types. 4 00:00:22,220 --> 00:00:29,720 ‫Take a look at a really great moral answer and have a look at some really focused language around this 5 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:30,350 ‫topic. 6 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,310 ‫So let's take a look at our first cue card. 7 00:00:35,450 --> 00:00:40,790 ‫Describe the person in your family who you most admire. 8 00:00:41,660 --> 00:00:53,180 ‫You should say who this person is, what your relationship is, what they do now, and explain why you 9 00:00:53,180 --> 00:00:55,460 ‫admire them so much. 10 00:00:55,910 --> 00:01:00,590 ‫So it's not just discussing your family in general. 11 00:01:00,980 --> 00:01:09,380 ‫It's describing one person who you most admire and you need to say who they are, what your relationship 12 00:01:09,380 --> 00:01:09,710 ‫is. 13 00:01:10,010 --> 00:01:12,650 ‫Are they in your extended family? 14 00:01:12,650 --> 00:01:20,000 ‫So not your mom, dad, brother or sister, or is it someone like your father or mother who you admire 15 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:20,510 ‫the most? 16 00:01:21,180 --> 00:01:28,040 ‫You also need to say what they do, whether it's working or something else, and also explain why you 17 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:29,660 ‫admire them so much. 18 00:01:29,870 --> 00:01:33,560 ‫And I might go into some other details as well. 19 00:01:34,610 --> 00:01:37,960 ‫OK, let's take a look at this model answer. 20 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:45,980 ‫Firstly, I'd like to say I hope they don't ever hear my answer. 21 00:01:47,050 --> 00:01:56,500 ‫The reason I say this is because all my extended family will probably hope I say I admire them the most. 22 00:01:57,790 --> 00:02:00,670 ‫It is a tough decision. 23 00:02:00,940 --> 00:02:09,730 ‫But after giving it some real thought, I'd probably say my grandmother is the person I look up to most. 24 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:18,140 ‫She's such an approachable person and has always been there for me when times were hard. 25 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:31,010 ‫I mean to say all my family are very close, but my grandma really tried her best to always look after 26 00:02:31,010 --> 00:02:31,280 ‫me. 27 00:02:32,630 --> 00:02:41,620 ‫We are quite a close knit family and often spend evenings and weekends together, when I was an adolescent, 28 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:46,520 ‫both my mom and dad had to work most days a week. 29 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:51,430 ‫That meant it was up to my grandma to take care of me. 30 00:02:51,770 --> 00:02:57,330 ‫And she did an amazing job doing that before she retired. 31 00:02:57,350 --> 00:02:58,160 ‫She was a cook. 32 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:02,140 ‫So we always had such amazing foods. 33 00:03:03,110 --> 00:03:05,240 ‫I can't really remember her working. 34 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:13,160 ‫I think I was too young, but I distinctly remember the amazing meals we would have together. 35 00:03:14,030 --> 00:03:19,430 ‫We'd spend hours in the kitchen together making foods and telling jokes. 36 00:03:20,210 --> 00:03:24,340 ‫Her food was always better than mine, though it still is. 37 00:03:25,130 --> 00:03:28,850 ‫We grew very close and still see each other most days. 38 00:03:28,850 --> 00:03:32,360 ‫Now it's fair to say I love my grandma. 39 00:03:34,620 --> 00:03:40,920 ‫Right, let's take a look at some of the really great language in this model answer. 40 00:03:42,650 --> 00:03:47,400 ‫OK, we will begin with this time opener. 41 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:53,640 ‫Firstly, this is a really great opener that you can use to begin speaking. 42 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,180 ‫Firstly, it shows the examining. 43 00:03:56,180 --> 00:04:02,030 ‫You have an understanding of what language to use to begin your speaking. 44 00:04:03,020 --> 00:04:08,120 ‫And here we have some topic specific vocabulary, extended family. 45 00:04:08,450 --> 00:04:16,040 ‫So your immediate family, your immediate family is really your dad's mom and brothers or sisters. 46 00:04:16,550 --> 00:04:23,120 ‫Your extended family is your uncles and cousins, nephews. 47 00:04:23,870 --> 00:04:26,240 ‫So extended family. 48 00:04:27,370 --> 00:04:35,840 ‫Here we have this bit of vocabulary, a phrase, tough decision, a very common collocation, if something 49 00:04:35,860 --> 00:04:46,210 ‫it's difficult to decide, you can say it is or it was a tough decision and another very negative phrase, 50 00:04:46,210 --> 00:04:49,030 ‫giving it some real thought. 51 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:53,440 ‫You don't have to say, yeah, you could just say giving it some thought. 52 00:04:54,010 --> 00:04:57,850 ‫After giving it some thought, I decided I would do this. 53 00:04:58,630 --> 00:05:00,430 ‫So that's a really great phrase. 54 00:05:00,430 --> 00:05:04,970 ‫You can use someone I look up to. 55 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:13,420 ‫Now, this really is a bit of an idiomatic expression, and it's not someone that you need to look up 56 00:05:13,420 --> 00:05:18,340 ‫to say look up to simply mean someone you admire. 57 00:05:19,930 --> 00:05:28,840 ‫Next up, we have times were hard or times are hard now that means a time in your life or somebody's 58 00:05:28,840 --> 00:05:33,110 ‫life where you are facing some difficulties. 59 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,600 ‫So, for example, times were hard last year. 60 00:05:36,820 --> 00:05:41,790 ‫We found it difficult to get enough food or something like that. 61 00:05:41,860 --> 00:05:43,270 ‫Times were hard. 62 00:05:44,850 --> 00:05:53,220 ‫Next up is more topic, specific vocabulary, close knit family, if you say your family is very close 63 00:05:53,220 --> 00:05:58,620 ‫knit, it means that you talk and see each other a lot. 64 00:05:58,740 --> 00:06:00,510 ‫So you see each other very often. 65 00:06:00,510 --> 00:06:05,220 ‫You have a great close relationship, close knit. 66 00:06:06,430 --> 00:06:13,990 ‫And here we have adolescent, so when you are talking about yourself as a young child, let's say from 67 00:06:14,290 --> 00:06:19,180 ‫two to around six or seven, we can call this adolescent. 68 00:06:20,980 --> 00:06:28,420 ‫And here we have take care collocation native expression, take care of somebody to look after somebody. 69 00:06:30,100 --> 00:06:38,470 ‫Here we have distinctly remember, again, a collocation, it's a phrase that's very common with native 70 00:06:38,470 --> 00:06:39,190 ‫speakers. 71 00:06:39,550 --> 00:06:47,860 ‫If you remember something a hundred percent, very clearly you can say I distinctly remember this thing. 72 00:06:48,970 --> 00:06:59,690 ‫And finally grew closer, grew very close, you can say we grew close, which means we became a relationship, 73 00:06:59,690 --> 00:07:06,640 ‫a friendship developed into something that was really big, really important. 74 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:08,730 ‫And we spent a lot of time together. 75 00:07:08,740 --> 00:07:10,450 ‫We grew very close. 76 00:07:11,370 --> 00:07:14,560 ‫OK, so there's some great language in this answer. 77 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:21,330 ‫Again, is probably a little bit longer than what we're looking for as we have two minutes. 78 00:07:21,340 --> 00:07:25,360 ‫Remember, one minute to plan, two minutes to give your answer. 79 00:07:25,690 --> 00:07:31,930 ‫But it's good, even if it's a little bit long just to concentrate on some of this language here. 80 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:35,980 ‫OK, let's take a look at our next cue card. 81 00:07:39,790 --> 00:07:44,470 ‫Describe a family celebration, you remember? 82 00:07:44,530 --> 00:07:54,730 ‫Well, you should say what the celebration was when it happened, where the celebration took place, 83 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:59,530 ‫and explain why you remember it so well. 84 00:08:00,820 --> 00:08:03,190 ‫So we're not talking about a person. 85 00:08:03,190 --> 00:08:06,960 ‫We're talking about an event, a celebration. 86 00:08:07,210 --> 00:08:15,480 ‫So we need to say what it was when it happened, where it took place and why you remembered it so well. 87 00:08:16,420 --> 00:08:18,970 ‫Here is our model answer. 88 00:08:21,140 --> 00:08:30,260 ‫I really do try and visit my hometown and family whenever there are celebrations or some family get 89 00:08:30,260 --> 00:08:30,830 ‫together. 90 00:08:31,910 --> 00:08:39,310 ‫I mean, we have a lot which is good for me as I love seeing all my close family members. 91 00:08:40,340 --> 00:08:47,780 ‫The most memorable celebration we had was most probably my younger brother's wedding. 92 00:08:49,030 --> 00:08:55,630 ‫He got married in our local community, so the whole village attended. 93 00:08:56,910 --> 00:09:05,790 ‫Also, my uncles arrange the celebration after the wedding, and they really know how to throw a party. 94 00:09:07,350 --> 00:09:14,460 ‫Luckily, during that week, some distant relatives were visiting us and my brother asked them to join 95 00:09:14,460 --> 00:09:15,240 ‫the party. 96 00:09:16,170 --> 00:09:19,460 ‫It made the event a special day for sure. 97 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,910 ‫I suppose many people only get married once. 98 00:09:25,470 --> 00:09:29,840 ‫So for this reason, it made the event really special. 99 00:09:30,150 --> 00:09:34,710 ‫And my brother and wife certainly had a memorable time. 100 00:09:35,940 --> 00:09:42,690 ‫Luckily, both my mom and dad aren't too strict and letters party after the wedding. 101 00:09:43,830 --> 00:09:53,100 ‫It really was so nice to reconnect with my extended family, some of them I hadn't seen for so many 102 00:09:53,100 --> 00:09:53,630 ‫years. 103 00:09:53,820 --> 00:10:00,590 ‫So I took the opportunity to spend some quality time with them and enjoy an amazing time. 104 00:10:02,470 --> 00:10:07,780 ‫OK, let's take a look at our focused language from this model answer. 105 00:10:10,380 --> 00:10:18,990 ‫First up, we have the piece of vocabulary hometown, which is where plaiting talk about where you grew 106 00:10:18,990 --> 00:10:20,400 ‫up or you were born. 107 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:25,410 ‫Usually our childhood home, our hometown. 108 00:10:26,660 --> 00:10:36,890 ‫And here is a great phrase, family get together, get together is basically a synonym for party or 109 00:10:36,890 --> 00:10:37,880 ‫celebration. 110 00:10:38,210 --> 00:10:46,540 ‫So it's a family get together, a family party, a really useful phrase that you can use here. 111 00:10:46,550 --> 00:10:49,370 ‫We have close family members. 112 00:10:49,790 --> 00:11:00,840 ‫Now, a close family member or close friend is someone that you have a very close and really developed 113 00:11:00,860 --> 00:11:01,670 ‫bond together. 114 00:11:01,670 --> 00:11:04,670 ‫So you might speak with each other a lot. 115 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:07,370 ‫You might see each other a lot. 116 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:13,330 ‫You can call these the people in your family, a close family member. 117 00:11:14,660 --> 00:11:25,100 ‫Up next, we have local community said that describes a place it can be in a city where the community 118 00:11:25,100 --> 00:11:27,110 ‫do things together. 119 00:11:28,450 --> 00:11:37,210 ‫Whether it's a town hall or a church or whatever religious place, usually everyone gets together in 120 00:11:37,210 --> 00:11:43,990 ‫a local community to do a whole village or whole town activities and events. 121 00:11:45,380 --> 00:11:55,930 ‫Here we have the phrase throw a party, and that basically means to organize an event or a celebration. 122 00:11:56,150 --> 00:12:04,100 ‫So if someone is really good, like the uncaused here, really good at throwing a party, it means that 123 00:12:04,100 --> 00:12:07,220 ‫they know how to organize an event. 124 00:12:09,030 --> 00:12:16,830 ‫Here we have distant relatives, which is similar to this vocabulary here, which we looked at before 125 00:12:17,370 --> 00:12:19,080 ‫extended family. 126 00:12:20,010 --> 00:12:29,430 ‫Except distant relatives are people that maybe you haven't seen for some time, so it could be someone, 127 00:12:29,430 --> 00:12:37,440 ‫maybe even from your immediate family, so a brother or a sister who has moved away for a very long 128 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:47,340 ‫time, it could be an uncle and aunty and nephews who have moved to another country a few years before 129 00:12:47,340 --> 00:12:57,900 ‫you would call them distant relatives, people that you really don't see very often here, just a collocation, 130 00:12:57,900 --> 00:13:02,510 ‫a native phrase, a native expression, special day. 131 00:13:02,700 --> 00:13:10,250 ‫You often see these put together to describe a celebration and just some vocabulary, strict. 132 00:13:10,260 --> 00:13:17,180 ‫If someone is straight, it means that they have very clear, often tight rules. 133 00:13:17,580 --> 00:13:25,530 ‫So if your father is strict, it means that your father has a lot of rules and expects that you can 134 00:13:25,530 --> 00:13:26,190 ‫follow them. 135 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:36,550 ‫Reconnect, we can use this with family members or friends, it's a person, you know, that you have 136 00:13:36,550 --> 00:13:39,340 ‫not seen for quite some time. 137 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:46,900 ‫If you would like to speak to them again, you can say, I would like to reconnect with that person. 138 00:13:47,950 --> 00:13:53,380 ‫And finally, a common collocation, which is quality time. 139 00:13:53,770 --> 00:14:02,510 ‫So quality time, it is basically means to concentrate on an activity or a person. 140 00:14:02,650 --> 00:14:09,610 ‫So if you spend some quality time together with a person, it means that really you're having a great 141 00:14:09,610 --> 00:14:13,770 ‫conversation, you are taking care of one another. 142 00:14:14,620 --> 00:14:23,170 ‫So some really useful vocabulary that you can use for family and of course, for some other topics as 143 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:23,650 ‫well. 144 00:14:24,130 --> 00:14:25,300 ‫See you in the next lesson.