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A2 Family & People Vocabulary: Relatives, Appearance and Character

This A2 Family & People Vocabulary module covers 60 everyday words in four groups — the people in a family, how someone looks, what someone is like, and the life events in between, from born and grow up to get married and retire. Every word comes with flashcards, a word-formation drill, a collocations match and a twelve-question quiz, free and self-scoring.

  • 60 words
  • 4 practice modes
  • 12-question quiz
  • Free progress tracking
  • No sign-up

What’s inside this module

Four stages: meet the words, build other forms from them, pair them with the words they normally go with, then test yourself.

Flashcards

Sixty cards, each with the word, its part of speech, a short A2 definition, an example sentence, and two typical collocations on the back — an older brother, a first cousin, a kind person. Rate each card “I knew it” or “Still learning” and your ratings are saved automatically.

Word formation

Eight gap sentences that ask for a different form of a word you have just met: marry becomes marriage, kind becomes kindness, generous becomes generosity, patient becomes patience. Every answer comes with a one-line explanation of why that form fits the gap.

Collocations & phrases

Ten sentence halves to pair up: walk down the aisle and get married, stop working and retire, pack the boxes and move house, grow a beard, identical twins. These are the combinations English actually uses, not just any pairing that makes sense.

12-question quiz

A mix of multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank, with an explanation after every answer, right or wrong. Your best score is saved automatically.

How to get the most from it

Five habits that make A2 vocabulary stick, not just pass a quiz.

Learn the family words as a tree

Draw your own family and label it: mother, father, aunt, uncle, cousin, nephew, niece. Words attached to real people are much harder to forget than words in a list, and the drawing shows you straight away which ones you are still missing.

Keep appearance apart from character

Tall, slim, bald and curly say what someone looks like. Kind, shy, lazy and honest say what someone is like. The two groups get mixed up constantly at A2, usually in answer to “What is your brother like?” — a question about character, not appearance.

Watch the life-event verbs

Born, grow up, get married, retire and graduate each behave in their own way. You are born, you grow up in a place, and you get married to someone. The example sentence on every card shows the pattern, so copy it exactly rather than translating it.

Come back for the re-deal

After you finish the flashcard deck, it automatically rebuilds itself from just the words marked “still learning.” A short second pass on the hard ones is worth more than repeating the whole deck.

Use one this week

Describe someone in your family using three words from this module — one relative word, one appearance word, one character word — and say it out loud: “My aunt is tall and very generous.” Three real sentences are worth more than thirty re-read cards.

More A2 vocabulary

The rest of daily life at the same level, plus the B1 module that picks these character words up again and adds forty more.