Discovering Family Trees: Unraveling Our Roots

Discovering Family Trees: Unraveling Our Roots

Learning Objective

Understand the structure of a family tree and fill in their own family tree using English vocabulary for family members.

What do you already know about family trees?

What is a Family Tree?

A family tree shows the relationships between family members. It starts with the oldest family members at the top and goes down to the youngest.

Key Family Members

Opa, oma, vader, moeder, tante, oom, neef, nicht, broer, zuster = Grandpa, grandma, father, mother, aunt, uncle, cousin (male), cousin (female), brother, sister

Raji's Family Tree

Mahinder (Grandpa), Anata (Grandma), Rahul (Other grandpa), Sona (Other grandma), Ina (Aunt), Namid (Uncle), Suri (Mother), Payat (Father), Daya (Other aunt), Amil (Other uncle), Daya (Brother), Suri (Sister)

Drawing a Family Tree

Draw a family tree starting with yourself. Label the family members using English vocabulary.

Quiz Time!

True or False: A family tree starts with the youngest family members at the top.

Identifying Family Trees

Look at a family tree and identify the relationships using English vocabulary.

Creating Your Own Family Tree

Using the information about Raji's family, create your own family tree using English vocabulary.

Sharing Family Trees

Volunteer to share your family tree and explain the relationships using English vocabulary.

Reflecting on Learning

What new things did you learn about family trees today?

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.