This month we studied relationships. i.e. How you know someone.
Here is the Vocabulary:
| PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS | friend
partner husband wife relative roommate |
| More personal relationship words
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mother (in-law)
father (in-law) sister (in-law brother (in-law) daughter (in-law) son (in-law) grandmother grandfather aunt uncle cousin step- (father, mother) half – (brother, sister) ex- wife/husband nuclear family extended family couple companion significant other best friend old friend friend from (high school) |
| PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
|
boss
customer colleague coworker client |
| More professional relationships
|
contractor
competitor business partner rival former boss |
| OTHER RELATIONSHIPS | administrator
teacher stranger neighbor classmate |
We also learnt words for talking about relationships:
| More verbs to discuss relationships
|
get along with
have a good relationship with look up to rebel against compete with hit it off have a crush on flirt with go out with break up with to date to be/get engaged to |
| Idioms about relationships | fair-weather friend
keep someone at arm’s length be at odds with somebody be on the same wavelength be on nodding terms with someone be crazy about someone go out with someone |
The grammar point for the month was a range of tenses. Here is a summary:
We also practised our viewing skills using the following video from English Firsthand 2:
In the final week we looked at talking about bad news. Specifically how to be empathetic.
We used this guideline:
- Share your experience and ask how about you?
- Listen and then ask how do you feel about that?
- listen well, so that you understand their story and then share a similar life experience you had.
