Global Intermediate - Unit 3

1. English Language I
Presentation prepared by Prof. Liliana Monserrat
Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras, 2015

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3. What is a Family?

4. FAMILY:
A group of 2 or more people who
live together and/or are related by
blood or marriage.

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The Family
is the basic social unit and
 it represents people living
together by ties of marriage,
blood or adaptation.
According to sociology, the
family has the primary
function of reproducing
society; biologically, socially,
or both.

6. Function of a family
 Emotional support
 Financial support
 A place for love and belonging
 Socialization
 Learning

7. Types of Families

8. Traditional or Nuclear Family
 This is what many people imagine when
they think of a typical family.
 Mother, father and children.

9. Extended Family
 Relatives other than parents and children (eg.
grandparents, aunts & uncles, cousins).
 Extended family members, regardless of where
they live, can be an important resource for
each other when they are needed. It’s just part
of being a family.

10. Blended Family
 Husband and wife, at least one of whom
has children from another marriage.
 A blended family can include children
from both spouses.

11. Single-Parent Family
 One parent and his/her children
 It occurs from divorce, death, leaving of a
parent or never having been married.
 It can be rewarding as well as challenging.
 Juggle all the responsibility (work and
home).

12. Childless Couples
 Husband and Wife who have never had
children, either because they do not want
to have children or they are not able to.

13. Adoptive/Foster Families
 Children are not biologically linked to their
parents.
 Parents must go through a legal process
to make children part of the family.
 May have both birth and adopted children.

14. 
Family Quiz
Who is, in relation to you…?
 Your mother’s brother
 Your father’s sister
 Your husband’s mother
 Your husband’s sister
 Your brother’s daughter
 Your sister’s son
 Your father’s brother’s children
 Your mother’s father
 Your daughter’s son
 Your father’s second wife