Mother idioms

Family idioms

The Saxon genitive

The Saxon genitive is a structure that indicates possession:

FORM

• Add 's after the possessor:
• Mandy's car
• The women's room
• The queen's jewels
• Add 's after the plural and after endings in 's':
• My friends' house
• Her granparents' car
• Lewis' job
• Frances' boat
• Add 's after the possessor's name, or use a possessive pronoun:
• A friend of my mother's (=one of my mother's friends)
• A friend of your teachers' (=one of your teachers' friends)
• Some expression take the possessive form (without the noun):
• We went to Peter's
• At the Simpson's
• At the doctor's
• Macy's

USE

• It tends to be used if possessors are people, animals or institutions:
• the cat's tail
• Mary's supermarket
• the government's proposal
• But remember:
• the leg of the table
• the end of the process
• the boot of the car

VIDEO

EXERCISE

Now try to describe who's who in the British Royal family:

taken from http://www.henry4school.fr/UK/monarchy/pdf/The%20British%20Royal%20Family%20Tree.pdf

And who's who in the Spanish Royal Family?

from bbc.co.uk

JUST SOME EXAMPLES:

The family

EXERCISES:

• Draw your family tree with the names of your family members.
• Exercise: Spell these words correctly.
• Match the text to the picture.
• Who's who? Write the family member each person is.
• Read the text (on the left) and complete the blanks.
• The Simpsons' family tree

Your family

Family members

Reading Comprehension Text: How Your Birth Order Can Affect Your Odds of Success

Read the following text by Jeffrey Klyger and then try to complete the chart.

http://motto.time.com/4286120/siblings-day-success-career/?xid=newsletter-brief

NOW COMPLETE THIS CHART

MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
ONLY CHILD	ELDEST CHILD	MIDDLE CHILD	YOUNGEST CHILD

Who's who in a family