About My Family

Topic: Family

Mode: Interpretive

Level: Novice

Students will listen to a recording about someone’s family and will answer true or false questions.

Components of the activity: True/false questions

Instructions to the teacher

1. Create an audio recording for the following script.
2. Play the audio recording in class and ask students to answer the questions given based on the audio.

Script

Jenny’s family is big. She has six brothers and one sister. After Jenny’s parents divorced a while back, Jenny’s father remarried. Jenny’s mother did not remarry after the divorce. Jenny has two stepbrothers. Jenny is the fifth born among her siblings. Her oldest brother is married and he has two daughters.

Instructions to students

Listen to the audio and decide if each of the statements below are true or false.

1. She has a big family.
2. She has 7 brothers.
3. She has one sister.
4. Her parents are divorced.
5. She has three stepbrothers.
6. She has a stepfather.
7. She has a stepmother.
8. She has two nieces.
9. She is the youngest child.
10. She is an only child.

Answer Key

1. T
2. F
3. T
4. T
5. F
6. F
7. T
8. T
9. F
10.  F