How to Talking About Your Family in English | ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษเกี่ยวกับครอบครัวของคุณ
How to Talking About Your Family in English | ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษเกี่ยวกับครอบครัวของคุณ
In this lesson, you can learn how to talk about your family in English. Do you have a big family? What do you like doing when you spend time with your family? Talking about family can be a good way to start a conversation in English, so it’s useful if you know what to say and have some questions to ask.You can learn:
- How to introduce your family in a simple way.
- How to talk about your immediate and your extended family.
- How to talk about your brothers and sisters.
- How to talk about your children.
- How to talk about your relationship with your family, and what you like to do together.
สำหรับหัวข้อนี้ถือว่ามีความสำคัญมากในการพูดภาษาอังกฤษ เมื่อคุณเจอกับชาวต่างชาติครั้งแรก ก็มักจะแลกเปลี่ยนพูดคุยเกี่ยวกับครอบครัวของคุณ ในบ้านอยู่กันกี่คน มีพี่ น้อง กี่คน เป็นต้น ถือว่าเป็นบทเรียนภาษาอังกฤษระดับพื้นฐานที่เราควรฝึกเอาไว้ วัตถุประสงค์หลักของการดูคลิปนี้คือ
- ให้นักศึกษามีทักษะการฟังภาษาอังกฤษ วิธีการพูด การเชื่อมระหว่างประโยค การรวบคำ รวมถึงการออกเสียงของแต่ละคำศัพท์ ที่มีการเน้นที่ไม่เหมือนกัน
- เมื่อดูคลิปนี้จบแล้ว นักศึกษาจะได้ประโยคภาษาอังกฤษต่างๆ ที่สามารถนำไปใช้พูดจริงในชีวิตประจำวัน หรือ ในการสื่อสาร
- นักศึกษาจะได้สาระความรู้เกี่ยวกับการใช้ภาษาอังกฤษที่ถูกต้องจากคำอธิบายของเจ้าของภาษาโดยตรง
- เพื่อให้นักศึกษาสามารถเข้าถึงภาษาอังกฤษได้เร็วขึ้น จากการเรียนภาษาอังกฤษโดยครูที่เป็นเจ้าของภาษา
คำบรรยายภาษาอังกฤษทั้งหมด
(ศัพท์ สำนวนไหนที่ยากๆ ผมจะเขียนอธิบายไว้ตอนท้ายครับ)
Hi, I’m Oli. Welcome to Oxford Online English!
In this lesson, you can learn how to talk about your family in English.
Do you have a big family?
What do you like doing when you spend time with your family?
Talking about family can be a good way to start a conversation in English, so it’s useful if you know what to say and if you have some questions to ask.
Let’s start with something simple.
Part one: introducing your family.
Let’s start with a simple sentence:
"There are ________ people in my family."
So you can say: "There are five... There are ten...
There are thirty people in my family."
That’s not too hard, but it’s not so interesting, either!
You should say who these people are.
"There are ten people in my family: I have
two sisters, one brother, my uncle and aunt,
two grandparents and my parents of course."
"There are four people in my family: my wife, my two sons and myself."
Part two: Talking about your brothers and sisters.
How many brothers and sisters do you have?
You could say:
"I have two brothers and one sister."
"I just have one sister."
"I’m an only child."
Let’s make it more interesting by adding more information.
Are your brothers and sisters older or younger?
Where are you in the family?
"I have two older brothers and one older sister.
I’m the youngest in the family."
"I just have one sister, who’s five years older than me."
"I’m the middle child: my brother is two
years older, and I have a younger sister who’s finishing university this year."
Part three: talking about your immediate and your extended family.
In English, we sometimes draw a line between your immediate family.
That means: you, your husband/wife, your children, parents, and brothers and sisters.
Then, you have your extended family.
That means: aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, nieces, grandparents, grandchildren, and so on.
Now, you can give more details about the people in your family, like this:
"My immediate family is quite small, because I’m an only child.
My mum is one of five children, so I have a lot of cousins, who are kind of like my brothers and sisters.
There are six people in my immediate family:
my parents, my brother and his wife, my sister and me.
I have a lot of other relatives, but they live in Canada so we don’t see them often."
Part four: talking about your children.
Do you have children?
Let’s see what you can say:
"I have three kids: two girls and a boy."
"We have a newborn son."
"We have one daughter, and my wife’s expecting our second child."
As always, you should add details to make your answers longer and more interesting:
"I have three kids: two girls and a boy.
Our eldest daughter has just started secondary school, and the two younger ones are still in primary school."
"We have a newborn son.
He’s just three weeks old now, so we’re still getting used to things!"
"We have one daughter, and my wife’s expecting our second child.
We don’t know if it’s a boy or a girl, but we’ll find out in three months."
Part five: talking about your relationship with your family.
Finally, let’s add some information about how often you see your family, and what you like to do together.
For example:
"I’m very close to my family.
We have lunch together every weekend."
"I see my older brother once a week; we play tennis or basketball together."
"I try to spend as much time as possible with my kids."
What now? You should know the answer: add more details!
Let's look: "I’m very close to my family.
We have lunch together every weekend at my grandmother’s house.
She always cooks something delicious!"
"I see my older brother once a week; we play tennis or basketball together.
I don’t see my other brother so often, because he lives overseas, although we talk on Skype every so often."
"I try to spend as much time as possible with my kids.
We play cards, watch films, or go to the park if the weather’s nice."
Part six: making a longer answer.
Now you should be able to make a longer answer talking about your family.
You should be able to talk about your relatives,
your brothers and sisters, your children if you have any, and your relationship with your family.
Let’s look at a sample answer:
"There are five people in my immediate family, although my extended family is quite large.
I have two sisters, both younger, so I’m the oldest child.
I don’t have kids yet but I’d like to have a big family one day.
I see my parents and my sisters quite often, because we all live near each other, although
I don’t see my other relatives that much." OK?
Could you make an answer like this?
Let’s look at one more sample answer first:
"I come from a big family: I’m the fifth child, and I have three brothers and one sister.
They’re all close to each other in age, but there’s a big gap between them and me.
I don’t have children, but I have lots of nieces and nephews!
I don’t see my family often because I live in a different country, but I speak to them regularly and we all get together once or twice a year, which is always very noisy but lots of fun."
What about you?
Try to make a longer answer talking about your family.
Use the vocabulary and ideas from the lesson to help you.
Next time you talk about your family in English, hopefully you’ll have lots to talk about!
That’s the end of the lesson.
I hope it was useful.
You can see more of our free English lessons on our website: Oxford Online English dot com.
Thanks very much for watching!
See you next time.
คำอธิบายเพิ่มเติม
immediate family หมายถึง สมาชิกในครอบครัวแบบใกล้ชิด โดยสายเลือด หรือ ทางกฎหมาย ได้แก่ ตัวคุณ พ่อ แม่ พี่ น้อง
extended family หมายถึง สมาชิกในครอบครับแบบห่างออกไป เช่น ปู่ ย่า ลุง ป้า หลาน ลูกพี่ลูกน้อง เป็นต้น
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