EOI Girona

B1 Unit 1B

UNCONVENTIONAL FAMILIES

DISCUSS:

- What does the word family mean to you? Are all

families nowadays like the one in the picture?
- Do you think that families are changing? Why/How?
- What’s an unconventional family for you?

- Do you know the following terms:

fertility treatments / surrogacy / half brother/sister

single-parent family/households

WATCH the report and mark the following sentences TRUE or FALSE.

1. In the UK the average family has traditionally been a father, a mother and
two or three children
2. Single parent families have doubled in the UK in the last 25 years.
3. New families mean surrogacy, fertility treatments and same sex parents

IAN MUCKLEJOHN a single father

4. Due to family problems Ian didn't decide to have children until he was 40.
5. Ian had to go to America to be able to become a father.

JENNY BASHFORD an old mother

6. Jenny says people haven’t been helpful and sympathetic, she hasn’t got a
lot of support
7. Jenny got pregnant thanks to Alice, the egg donor.
8. She’s worried about the age difference between her and her daughter.

SIMONE STREET young mother

9. Simone is 40 years younger than her husband.
10. All Simone's children were born with disabilities.
11. Simone and her husband married after the children were born.

FIONA BYERLEY an adoptive mother

12. Fiona wanted to adopt children without any family ties.
13. Fiona brought Emily from Cambodia at the age of 18 months.
14. Only old and country people criticise international adoption.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11q3DYq23gX-Etx_whO8j0QrctDL9bytq/view?usp=sharing
 EOI Girona
B1 Unit 1B

UNCONVENTIONAL FAMILIES

ANSWER KEY

1. In the UK the average family has traditionally been

a father, a mother and two or three children T
2. Single parent families have doubled in the UK in
the last 25 years. F
3. New families mean surrogacy, fertility treatments
and same sex parents T

IAN MUCKLEJOHN a single father

4. Due to family problems Ian didn't decide to have children until he was 40. F
5. Ian had to go to America to be able to become a father. T

JENNY BASHFORD an old mother

6. Jenny says people haven’t been helpful and sympathetic, she hasn’t got a
lot of support F
7. Jenny got pregnant thanks to Alice, the egg donor. T
8. She’s worried about the age difference between her and her daughter. F

SIMONE STREET young mother

9. Simone is 40 years younger than her husband. F
10. All Simone's children were born with disabilities. F
11. Simone and her husband married after the children were born. T

FIONA BYERLEY an adoptive mother

12. Fiona wanted to adopt children without any family ties. T
13. Fiona brought Emily from Cambodia at the age of 18 months. F
14. Only old and country people criticise international adoption. T