Materials/Supplies

• Family photos
• 3x5 cards/stickers for family labels
• Board
• Overhead

Contributors & Organizations

1.Beverly Goodie – AMCS
2.Glenda Duck – H R C
3.Laura Walker-Foman - NHMC
4.Sandra Buchholz - AMCS

Objective

Student will be able to describe family members.

Vocabulary

Expansion vocabulary: aunt/uncle, niece/nephew, cousin, in-laws, children, parents, paternal and maternal, etc. (as desired)

Text Books

Oxford Picture Dictionary and Workbook, pp24-25

Side by Side, Level 1 (pp. 45-48)

Activity/Procedures

1. Have students introduce family members in their photos.
2. Review of vocabulary and expansion of family member titles.
   Role-play an entire family as a class, each person representing one family member. Question/answer for further review of family titles
3. WH questions about family members (in a text)
   (oral and/or written)
4. Write about your family - (a paragraph, to be finished for homework).

Evaluation/Assessment

1. Students will identify family members on a worksheet (pp. 24-25 Oxford Picture Dictionary)
2. Students will draw and label their family tree (including a minimum of two siblings of theirs).

Grammatical Focus

1. WH questions and answers
2. Correct use of is/are
3. Present continuous verb use
4. Personal pronouns
5. Possessive personal pronouns
6. Word sequencing for questions.