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Teaching Family to Level One

Posted by Nancy Callan on 12 February 2012 | 0 Comments

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Were you aware that not all languages use the same one word for father's sister and mother's sister the way English uses aunt? Likewise, many languages have different words for the grandmother from your father's side and the grandmother from your mother's side. Learning about these differences in nomenclature makes teaching a family unit in an ESL classroom an interesting experience. 

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