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  2. B2-C1 vocabulary
  3. Family

Family

No matter how much you love your family, they can be annoying sometimes. Watch the video to see why Izzy is frustrated!

Instructions

Watch the video. It's full of phrasal verbs, which are red in the comic. Then do the exercise to check you understand and can use the phrasal verbs.

Worksheets and downloads

Fast Phrasals - Family - comic944.27 KB
Fast Phrasals - Family - comic gap fill907.74 KB
Fast Phrasals - Family - comic no text713.87 KB
Fast Phrasals - Family - exercises249.39 KB
Fast phrasals - Family - answers158.03 KB
Discussion

Do you take after your mum or your dad? Do you have to look after a younger brother or sister? Do you get on well with your family? Tell us about them!

Language level
B2 Upper intermediate
C1 Advanced
Topics
family
relationships
friends
Average: 4.3 (11 votes)
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Comments

Submitted by MiguelMunozV on Sun, 02/11/2018 - 13:46

1. I take after both, I have a similarity in my eyes with my mom, also my hair is similar to her, with my dad I look like him body, intellectually i have learned things from both of my mom to be strategic and my dad to be bossy. 2. I have a sister and I have to look after of her casually, and sometimes she tries to look like me. 3. Before I do not do well with my family, but now I try to have a good relationship with them, I live with my dad my sister and my grandmother and sometimes we have discussions but the family has to be first, they trust in me and I in them, I try to do all things well and sometimes I do something different to improve the comunication between us.

Submitted by lolis901 on Sun, 02/11/2018 - 11:55

Everybody, always says, that my mom and I really look alike, I´m desagree, because we are very different in the way of thinking, but I know that I take after my mother, all the facial expressions, and our faces are very similar, my movements look alike with her and other kind of things, I don´t like hang out with a little baby or a little child, they makes me crazy, I never accept to look after children. And for my family I really love them, they are my support in some difficul moments, and they are everything for me, but obviously in some cases we figth or discuss a lot.

Submitted by JairoPerez22 on Sat, 02/10/2018 - 17:28

i cant talk about that. usually i dont have any problem with looking after children, i like to do it, obviously not all time, but when i do it its nice for me, Some times i need to look after my father, i think I´m more mature than him, and its hilarious!!!. idk why but i take on well with children. I think it is because i understand all kind of children problems, and i like tohelp them to not make the same mistakes that I made before. And I know that im doing it well, because their parents trust in me, and thats nice too!. in my family its the same, they say that im the best on a lot of thing, and i really feel great with it.

Submitted by santiago1101cardenas on Sat, 02/10/2018 - 03:05

I take after my mom every body said that, my family is kind of wear but I have a good relationship with must of my cousins and uncles ofcourse i have a good relationship with mi mom an dad, i don´t have any sisters or brothers so that means I didn´t have to look after somebody.

Submitted by andresreyes727 on Sat, 02/10/2018 - 03:02

1. I take after my mum in some things, sometimes in her serious expressions, also joy and the desire of study. 2. not exactly a brother or sister but a looked after for a younger cousin when he was a baby, was an incredible experience, people thought that he was my son. haha! 3. Of course, with all my family I get on well, they´re special with me, and me too.

Submitted by BFabio on Sat, 02/10/2018 - 02:43

i´m get on well with all my family, special with a cousin, is very cool with all the family, i don't have brothers and sisters, but i have an aunt that have two sons, and in some times she tells me to take care of them, are days that it is very nice to take care of them but there are but in some cases is so exhausting.

Submitted by juantrapinzon on Sat, 02/10/2018 - 02:06

I take after my parents, in diferents things but a lot, my father is really good with the finances and i am too, and my mother is really responsable and i am too. I look after my younger sister, she is 6 years old and i love her, she always is playing, and always she makes me happy. All my family is very close and almost always we go out, and help ourselves.

Submitted by JDP on Sat, 02/10/2018 - 01:53

I think that we take after our parents in most aspects like the humor or likes, my brothers are older than me, so i never had to look after them, they had to look after me and i take after my brothers too in some things, like my favourite kinf of music, and i get on well with all members of family
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Submitted by CesarDavid01 on Sat, 02/10/2018 - 01:44

Some of my cousins are like her, they always want to look like me hahahah and do the same things as me, it's very interesting to see a little boy doing those things, that's cute, and it makes me feel like an exemplary figure!

Submitted by JuanJoseGaitan8 on Sat, 02/10/2018 - 00:10

I'm a unique child so I don´t have to look after little brothers or sisters. I take after my parents a lot, I am very serious when it´s time to be like mom and I make a lot of jokes like dad. I have a great resemblance in the body my dad. Even though my parents are divorced they have always got on well with me.

Submitted by sebastian_2018 on Sat, 02/10/2018 - 00:02

I think I look like my dad a bit physically and humorously, I have 2 brothers, one of them is 8 years old, the other is 1 month old, I take care of a little of the older one sometimes. I get along very well with my family, with my uncles, aunts, cousins and brothers.

Submitted by marianasofia12 on Fri, 02/09/2018 - 23:32

I take after my mom, everybody, always says, that i have my mother´s face, i only have one brother and he is older than me, so i never had to look after nobody, and my brother neither, because my mom always is who look after us. offcourse i get on well with my mom and my brother, but like all the families, we sometimes we argue withe each other. But most of time we are a loving family.

Submitted by juansediaz17 on Fri, 02/09/2018 - 23:28

1) I take after my dad a lot 2) I have a little brother 4 years younger than me but also I have an older sister and brother, so my parents left one of them in charge of everbody. 3) Yes, although my family is a little big, because we are 6 people, I get on well with most of them, only with my little brother sometimes we get conflicts.

Submitted by pedropineros140 on Fri, 02/09/2018 - 23:27

I take after my mom because she has blond hair and white skin, and also i take after my dad because He has the same facial features as me. i have never looked after my sister because she is older than me. yes i do, because although sometimes there are some problems in my family, always we try to be join, actually i get on well with all my cousins. I have one sister and she has 20 years old, she is studying biomedical engineering in the rosario university, she is in the six semestre; my dad is dentist and my mom is waitress.

Submitted by DavidRamirez18 on Fri, 02/09/2018 - 22:49

My family almost tell me that I look after my dad beacuse of my way of being, the way to communicate with others and my expressions. Even though my parents are divorced and have other children. My dad have a one little girl, she has 8 months old and my mom have other girl who have 8 years old. About my family I really love stay with they because they support me all time specially in football. We are a very united family and we share a good moments.

Submitted by Miguelito_RR on Fri, 02/09/2018 - 22:26

I think that I actually take after my dad a Little bit, but not too much, and I definitely don take after my mom. I don't have Little brothers or sisters so I don't have to look after nobody. And definetiny I get on well with my family, specially with my brother because he understand me in all the things, but I get on well with every member of my family.

Submitted by isabella23 on Fri, 02/09/2018 - 22:13

My family are my two sisters and my mom and dad. I take after my dad a lot. I use some expressions like his and we have similar personalities. I have two sisters (one of them is older than me and the other one younger than me) and sometimes I need to look after her because I'm two years older. I love my family and we fight like every other family do but at the end of the day we support each other and we are very close.

Submitted by AlejandroCaroHoyos on Fri, 02/09/2018 - 21:09

Yes, I physically take after to my dad, but in the personality I take after to my mother. Yes, my little sister, who is one year old, because my mother spends all day with her and when I come to study, I take care of her while my dad comes to work. Yes, although with my mom we have different conflicts about different points of view.
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