Blood Relations

intermediate24 min read

Relationship vocabulary across generations and in-laws, a symbol diagram that keeps the family straight, and set routines for pointing-to-a-photo statements and coded-relation expressions.

What you will be able to do

Name relations precisely across two or three generations, including in-laws.
Draw a family as a levelled diagram with fixed symbols.
Unpack a pointing-to-a-photo statement from the far end back to the speaker.
Evaluate a coded-relation expression one link at a time.

What is inside this lesson

1The relationship map
2Relationship vocabulary
3Draw a family diagram
4Pointing-to-a-photo statements
5Coded relations
6Worked example
7Common mistakes
8Practice

The lesson itself is for members

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