2021-10-10
14 分钟Hi there.
This is Harry.
And welcome back to another podcast where I try to help you to get a better understanding of the English language so that you can perhaps try for that job with the international company, or even if it's just to travel, when you can travel.
Or perhaps it's just to show that you have a, a better understanding of English when you have those conference calls at work.
Okay, so what is the podcast about?
Well, this particular podcast, we're going to look at collocations, and in particular, family collocations.
And I've split it into three parts.
An adjective plus family, verb plus family, and then finally adjective plus family plus noun.
And I'll explain and give examples as I go through each section.
Families are very important to us, either our immediate family, which is where we were born, our family of birth, or perhaps it's our own family that we've started recently when we got married or had children.
Whatever it is, they are very important.
And these collocations hopefully will give you some explanation as to how we can describe families.
Okay, so let's start with the adjective plus family.
So we can have a close knit family, nuclear family, an extended family, and a dysfunctional family.
So you can have a close knit family or an extremely close knit family.
If you want to add in an adverb there.
Extremely so.
Close knit means a family that stick together, that they are very close in terms of emotions and support.
They do a lot of things together, they socialize together, they go out together, they go to the cinema together, they support each other in all aspects.
And somebody might say, oh, that's a very close knit family.