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‫The topic of vocabulary is very common in everyday life, as well as in the elites test, so it's going

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‫to be very useful to you to look at eight pieces of vocabulary and phrases that you can really learn,

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‫understand and use.

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‫So let's take a look at the vocabulary list for family.

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‫We have beginning from the top immediate family, extended family take after.

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‫Relative get together and for the pronunciation, forget to gather notice there is only one T sound.

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‫I don't say get together, get together, one t sound, get together, get together.

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‫And next up, inspiration, support and squabble.

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‫So eight pieces of language that are highly linked and related to the topic of vocabulary.

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‫Let's take a look at our first one.

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‫And it is immediate family, immediate family, your brothers, sisters and parents that so it does

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‫not include your uncles, cousins or any other members of your whole family.

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‫Immediate family is your parents or siblings, brothers and sisters.

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‫Let's take a look at the example.

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‫My immediate family all live within an eight hundred meters walk from my house.

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‫In my immediate family, I have two parents and one younger brother.

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‫So here we are looking really at examples of sentences that you might use in the speaking test.

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‫And the next piece of vocabulary is extended family.

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‫So your extended family does include uncles and cousins, nephews, grand parents, that kind of thing.

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‫Having a large extended family means some very exciting festive celebrations.

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‫An extended family can lend support to one another in difficult times.

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‫OK, now we will look at take after take after is a phrase that we used to describe when someone is

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‫similar to a relative.

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‫For example, if your brother is very similar to your father, you would say, my brother takes after

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‫my father.

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‫Let's look at some examples.

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‫My sister says, I really take after my father and we look very alike or look very alike, so it can

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‫be looks or it can also be personality and characteristics.

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‫For example, if you have a similar sense of humor, you laugh at the same things you could say.

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‫You still take after your parents.

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‫It's very possible for some children to take after their parents.

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‫A relative.

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‫OK, so a relative is somebody who is related by blood to you, so it's anyone in your family, both

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‫immediate and extended.

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‫Because I live so far away, I'm not very close with my relatives.

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‫I found a long lost relative by searching on the Internet.

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‫OK, I've highlighted the term long lost relative, that long lost phrase, long lost you can use when

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‫you haven't seen someone for a long time, a long lost friend, a long lost relative.

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‫Try using it as it's a native collocation.

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‫And now we have get together another collocation, and it simply means usually a party or some kind

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‫of celebration where everybody meets together, get together.

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‫Let's take a look at some examples.

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‫Every Christmas, we have a family get together and play games so often during festive celebrations,

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‫you have a get together and you can add the now a family.

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‫So a family get together is a commonly used phrase.

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‫It can be used for birthdays, parties or any other celebrations.

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‫A family get together at least once a year.

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‫My family and friends try to organize a get together, a very negative sounding phrase, try and use

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‫it.

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‫OK, next up, we have inspiration.

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‫If someone is an inspiration to you, it means that they've changed your behavior and way of thinking.

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‫It's someone that you look up to and think they are great.

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‫Let's have a look at some examples.

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‫My aunt said her father was a big inspiration in her moving to a foreign country.

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‫I'd like to think I can be an inspiration to my younger siblings.

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‫And here we have support, so helping someone in your extended family offers a great support network

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‫to help and care for you.

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‫Another highlighted phrase and collocations support network.

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‫It's used when you describe a group of friends or family, a group of them that can be trusted to help

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‫you when you need it.

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‫Often when people finish studies, they move home to support their family.

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‫And then we have squabble, which means argument, but generally you only squabble with your family

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‫or friends, let's say the examples.

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‫It's common for a family to have a squabble over something not so important.

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‫And lastly, I would say my family rarely squabbles about anything, so squabble, an argument, a family

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‫small family argument.

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‫OK, so there are eight pieces of vocabulary and phrases that really you can use or understand for the

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‫common topic of family.