Family Vocabulary: Nuclear Family and An Extended Family. Your Immediate Family Includes Your

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Family Vocabulary

Your family members are also called your relatives. You have an immediate or
nuclear family and an extended family. Your immediate family includes your
father, mother and siblings. Your extended family includes all of the people in your
father and mother's families.

Our sibling is your brother or sister. If you have 1 brother and 2 sisters, then you
have 3 siblings. Your parent is your father or mother. Your child is your son or
daughter. Your spouse is your husband or wife.

You may also have a stepfamily. Your stepfamily includes people who became part
of your family due to changes in family life. These changes may include death,
divorce or separation. New partnerships create new children. The new children and
their relatives become part of your blended family. Some people are born into a
stepfamily.

My relatives Relationship to I usually call


male female Me him... her...
parent Mother,
Mummy,
relative of whom Father, Daddy, Mum,
father mother I am the child Dad, Papa Mommy,
Mom, Mama,
Ma
sibling we have the
first name; first name;
same father and
brother sister sometimes Bro sometimes Sis
mother
sibling of my Uncle [first Aunt/Auntie
uncle aunt
parent name] [first name]
grandparent
parent of my Grandfather, Grandmother,
grandmothe parent Grandpa Grandma
grandfather
r
child of my
cousin first name
uncle or aunt
spouse relative to whom
first name
husband wife I am married

child relative of whom first name


son daughter I am the parent
child of my
nephew niece first name
sibling
grandchild
granddaugh child of my child first name
grandson
ter
great
parent of my Great
great grandfather grandmothe Great Grandpa
grandparent Grandma
r
mother in- parent of my first name;
father-in-law first name; Dad
law spouse Mum, Mom
sibling of my
brother-in-law sister in-law spouse; spouse first name
of my sibling
my previous
ex-husband ex-wife spouse (we first name
divorced)

my sibling born
to my father or
half-brother half-sister first name
mother but not
both

step-parent
new spouse of
one of my first name
step-father step-mother parents

step-child child of my
spouse but not of first name
step- me
step-son
daughter

In a family, the word generation means all the people in one stage of the
family. For example, your parents are one generation, you and your siblings are the
next generation, and your children and their cousins are another generation.

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