Main practise: Vocabulary about family and friends
Revision: must have been - hectic - at least - a dozen
Notes
must have + past participle - to express feeling certain about a past event, i.e.
- He must have been very happy when he passed all his exams.
- Look at the puddles in the road, it must have rained last night.
- A hundred years ago people in my village were very poor. They must have had
hard, difficult lives. Vocabulary
at least - not less than and possibly more, i.e.
- I don't know how old my grandfather is, but he's at least eighty.
- We must leave now, it'll take at least three hours to drive to your mother's house.
aunt / aunty - the sister of your mother or father
cousin - the children of your aunt and uncle
(a) dozen - twelve
* grandmother/father - the mother and father of your mother or father
great grandmother/father - the mother/father of your grandmother or grandfather
half-brother/sister - a person who has the same mother or father as you
hectic - very busy; frantic activity, i.e.
- The cafe was very hectic at lunch-time.
- The town is getting too hectic these days, I'm going to move somewhere
quieter and less busy. kids - (informal) children
nephew - your sister or brother's son
niece - your sister or brother's daughter
second cousin - the son or daughter of your mother or father's cousin
uncle - the brother of your mother or father
* In speaking people usually use the less formal: grandma / granddad