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Emma introduces Audra and explains the format of the lesson. They define and discuss the expressions 'the favorite,' 'the black sheep,' and 'the baby of the family' with examples from their own family.
hello my name is Emma and today we have a special guest this is my sister Audra Audra you can say hi hello audience hello Audra is here to help me Teach family expressions so today I will teach yousome of the most common Expressions we use to talk about our families Audra and I are also going to play a fun game today which you will see in a moment so first I will teach you an expressionand then Audra and I with our arrows are going to decide who the expression represents the best so you will see what I mean in a moment Audra are you ready I'm ready all right well so let's lookat the first expression I want to teach today the first expression is the word the favorite some families have a favorite child the favorite is the child in the family or the person in the family that the parents
like the best this isn't necessarily a good thing to have but I think in our family there might be a favorite so Audra and I are going to use our arrows and we're going to decide who we thinkthe favorite in the family is so Audra if you want to point your arrow who do you think's the favorite in the family is oh okay so otter is pointing it down which means she doesn't think there's afavorite or or I think it might be our brother James I think he is the favorite in the family okay so I forgot to mention Audra is just one of my siblings Audra and I have a brother whois very shy and doesn't like to be on camera so our brother James is not here today um so if we point down that might mean it's our other sibling so Audra thinks the favorite in the family is
James whereas I think the favorite in the family is me okay so it looks like we have a disagreement and that's okay um so again the favorite just means the person in the family who is liked the bestby the parents our parents would say there is no favorite but I think it's really me okay well let's now go to the next uh family expression which is a common family expression the next expression I want toteach you is the black sheep so a sheep is an animal it makes the sound in English but what about the black sheep what does that mean well the black sheep is the person in the family who isthe troublemaker they are the naughty person in the family or they're the person that embarrasses the family so Audra in our family who do you think is the black sheep
so I think our brother James is the black sheep Audra seems very confident and she thinks I'm the black sheep so I'm the troublemaker so we can agree to disagree Audra is there a reason you think I'm theblack sheep well I would say the reason dates back to a trip teacher Emma took to Europe with me and that alone would be why she is the black sheep stories from that trip would be why she isthe black sheep okay so we'll leave it there now let's look at some other great family expressions and find out more about our family okay so our next expression is the baby of the family so this is a
The lesson continues with 'daddy's girl,' 'the spitting image,' and 'take after.' Emma and Audra compare family members and explain how these expressions describe resemblance and close relationships.
tough question so first let me explain what the baby of the family is or Audra do you want to explain what is the baby of the family well based off of what you've written here I would say itis the youngest person in the family and it can be a child or an adult based off of the order they are born into the family okay it's a great great explanation um so in our family how manysiblings are there in our family there are three siblings we have an older brother James myself the middle child and I don't want to ruin the question here and with the answer but we also have a baby inthe family all right so let's use our arrows and figure out who is the baby in the family which means who is the youngest okay so we are in agreement so I am the baby of the family Audra
is the middle child and our brother James is the elder or the eldest great all right well our next question a daddy's girl Audra can you tell us what is a daddy's girl well Daddy's girl is a childwho has a very close relationship with her father um and normally it's a daughter hence Daddy's girl okay and can a daddy's girl be a woman as well does it have to be a child it can be awoman as well you can have that relationship at any point okay so in our family who is the Daddy's girl who has the strongest connection with our father all right we are in agreement so Audra is a daddy'sgirl that means she has a strong connection with our dad Audra tell us a little bit about your strong relationship with her dad I think we are very close and I have a Daddy's girl relationship because we're very
similar so we have the same interests we both don't really like hanging out with a lot of people we're introverted so that's partly why I would say I'm a daddy's girl okay excellent well let's now look at someother family expressions all right so our next word I'll have Audra introduce what's number five the spitting image the spitting image what does it mean to be the spitting image of someone it means essentially to look the sameas someone else okay please sometimes you have somebody who looks a lot like another member of the family so in our family there's somebody who is the spitting image of our grandma on my dad's side or our dad'sside who is the spitting image of our grandmaokay and so we're gonna actually show you a photo so you can actually see what we mean by spitting image this is an image of my grandmother from I think the 1930s when she was around my age all
right well now let's go to the next expression Audrey can you read this sure it says to take after to take after and what does it mean to take after someone it means to be similar to an oldermember in appearance or character okay so when you're similar to a family member either in personality or in looks we can say you take after that family member in our family who takes after our mom the most
They finish the comparison section by discussing who takes after whom, then move into 'get along with someone' and 'mama's boy.' The conversation includes how these expressions can vary by relationship and cultural context.
okay you know what I thought for me I think Audra actually I'm gonna change my answer yay peer pressure I actually do think Audra takes after our mom the most I just didn't know if if Audra knew thatbut it looks like Audrey you agree I do agree so tell us in what ways are you and our mom similar how do you take after our mom I would say I take after our mom because I amvery organized I really like making lists of things to do and I also have a very good sense of fashion those are the ways in which I take after our mom so fashion organization and making really good todo lists are some of the ways Audra takes after our mom okay who takes after our dad the mostokay so we have an agreement even though Audra is a daddy's girl um how do you think I take after our dad I would say you're both very intellectual so you're very interested in a variety of subjects and
reading and learning about those subjects and I would also say you're very very interested in weird things like different foods and making your own food concoctions and that would be something that makes you guys very similar okay somy dad and I both like to eat we both are open-minded about food and we like to try food from different cultures or different places and um you said we both like to learn and we're both very curiousall right um great so now let's look at some more family Expressions all right so Audrey can you read the next expression sure get along with someone okay so when you get along with someone what does it meanuh it means that you have a peaceful or friendly relationship with them okay and so we often use get along with with families we might say I get along well with my family or I don't get along with
my family Audra do we get along I'd say we get along really well 99.9 of the time 99.9 okay well so my next question then is who gets along best with our relatives so our cousins our aunts anduncles who gets along best or who has the friendliest relationship with our relatives okay so it looks like we are both in agreement um I'm the the one in the family who usually writes Christmas cards or birthday cardsto our relatives I call them a lot I visit them a lot I see how they're doing Audra for you you're more introverted that's correct so on Facebook I do not have my family as friends um I alsoprefer to to you know see them from afar rather than see them in person so Audra and I have different ways to uh with our relatives but we both get along with our relatives it's just I get along
with our relatives better and 99 of the time she gets along with her relatives whereas I'm around 50 of the time getting along well with relatives all right well let's now move on to the next question what isthe next expression a mama's boy okay and Audrey can you tell us what is a mama's boy it's a boy or a man with a close relationship to his mother and do you think this close relationship or strongrelationship with the mother is this usually a healthy relationship or do you think it's a little strange of a relationship well if you watch Hitchcock and you like psycho it could be a very unhealthy relationship but it canalso be an okay relationship uh It's just sometimes it's nice to have boundaries okay so what Audrey is trying to say is that when it comes to the word mama's boy it depends on how it's used you can
use this term mama's boy to insult someone and you can say oh you're a mama's boy you have an unhealthy relationship with your mom you are too close or some people actually are proud of being Mama's Boys andthey don't consider it an insult and they say yeah I'm a mama's boy you know me and my mom are very close so you might hear it in different ways depending on who uses it and how so in
Emma and Audra explain 'runs in the family,' 'follow in someone's footsteps,' 'breadwinner,' and 'stay-at-home parent.' They use their own family to show how traits, careers, and household roles can be described.
our family remember it's Audra me and our brother James who is the mama's boy in our family okay there's no mama's boy in our family so Audra and I were girls so we're not the mama's boy because ithas to be a man or a boy so that leaves our brother James why isn't James a mama's boy I would say that he has a very normal relationship with our mom they often disagree and he is veryindependent okay so the key word here is independent our brother James is very independent so he's not a mama's boy if our brother James uh had a very close but a little bit strange relationship with her mom whereour mom does everything for James uh you know James whenever he has a bad day at work or something comes crying to our mom that would be a mama's boy relationship or or if he lived in his mom's
basement as an adult or but that's okay yeah that's okay or or you know had her do his laundry and make him dinner and do all of those things that could potentially be mama's boy I should mention thoughthat this is a very cultural expression too because in many cultures uh men do live with their moms uh for a lot longer but in North America there's often people try to be more independent early on so there'salso a cultural difference here all right well let's look at a couple more Expressions okay Audra so I have a question for you we're not doing the game anymore we're just going to talk about some other expressions soI have here the expression runs in the family when something runs in the family it means there is a trait like a genetic trait or a personality characteristic that many people in the family have Audra in our family
what is something that runs in our family so what's something many people in our family have or do potentially I would say we all have a sweet tooth so we all love candy or sugar or baked goods orcake or cookies okay so that's perfect so we all have a sweet tooth in our family the Sweet Tooth runs in our family it's a great example um okay well let's look now at the next expression to followin someone's footsteps when you follow in someone's footsteps it means that you do the same thing or type of thing as someone else in the family so Audra did you follow in anyone's Footsteps in our family so Idid in the end follow in my dad's footsteps he worked for a company in a corporate office and likewise I also work for a company in a corporate office so Audra is a business person she works in business
in a corporation just like our father our father was a businessman and he also worked in a corporation so Audra has followed in our Father's Footsteps well let's now look at the next expression which sort of has todo with this um our father was the breadwinner in our family The Breadwinner Audrey can you tell them what is a breadwinner so a breadwinner is the person who earns the income to support the family or earns amajority of the income to support the family okay so in our family our dad was the breadwinner Audra you're married in your family who's the breadwinner so I would be the breadwinner in our family because I'm the soleperson who is working and bringing home the big bucks okay nice so Audra is a businesswoman and she is the breadwinner in her family but Audra is married so that leads to our next uh family expression which is
stay at home parent so you can have a stay-at-home mom or a stay-at-home dad what does a stay-at-home mom or dad do so my mom was a stay-at-home parent she would clean the house she would do the groceryshopping she would cook the meals and she would take care of the children and take care of the children which was us okay and so in your family do both you and your husband work or are one ofyou a stay-at-home parent so my husband is a stay-at-home parent which means he gets the fun of taking care of children cleaning the house grocery shopping and ordering so in pizza for us okay okay we can call hima stay-at-home parent or a stay at home dad because he stays home with the children and takes care of them and does exactly what Audra mentioned okay great so we so I guess in this way you are the
Emma wraps up the lesson, thanks Audra, and directs viewers to the website for a quiz. She also encourages viewers to subscribe for more learning resources and ends the video.
breadwinner just like our father was the breadwinner so that's another way where you follow in our Father's Footsteps so that's all for today for family Expressions I'd like to thank you Audra for coming here and helping us teachthese Great Expressions so thank you for your time um Audra is there anything you want to say to our audience before you go thank you for tuning in and for watching teacher Emma great so what I'm going torecommend you do is after watching this video you can go to our website at www.ingvid.com and there you can take a quiz where you can practice all the Expressions you just learned here today I also recommend that yousubscribe to my YouTube channel because we have a lot of other great resources on that channel where you can see things on grammar or pronunciation reading writing skills all sorts of things so I recommend you subscribe and don't
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