A1 · Family and Friends
Talking About Siblings
- CEFR level:
- A1
- Sentences:
- 8
- Duration:
- 1 min
- Speakers:
- Emma & Tom
"Talking About Siblings" is an A1-level English conversation about family and friends, 8 lines long (about 1 minute) between Emma & Tom. Read the full script below with the translation next to each line, then try speaking one of the roles out loud.
Dialogue script
Each entry shows the English sentence first, with the translation on the line below it. To practise speaking, cover the translation and repeat after the audio.
- Line 1Emma 0:00
Tom, do you have any brothers or sisters?
- Line 2Tom 0:03
I have one younger sister. Her name is Lily.
- Line 3Emma 0:06
How old is Lily? Is she in school now?
- Line 4Tom 0:10
She's sixteen, a sophomore in high school. How about you?
- Line 5Emma 0:14
I have an older brother named David.
- Line 6Tom 0:16
Nice! Does David live nearby, or in another city?
- Line 7Emma 0:20
He works as an architect in Chicago now.
- Line 8Tom 0:23
An architect! You must be very proud of him.
Native audio, line-by-line recording and pronunciation scoring for this dialogue are in the EngTalk app.
Key vocabulary
Content words from this dialogue, ranked by the CEFR level at which they appear across the whole 500-dialogue library. Function words and proper nouns are excluded.
- sister /ˈsɪstər/ noun
a female sibling
- name /neɪm/ noun
a word used to identify a person or thing
- old /oʊld/ adjective
having lived or existed for a long time.
- school /skul/ noun
a place where people learn
- high /haɪ/ adjective
above the usual level or far above the ground
- older /ˈoʊldər/ adjective
having more age than someone or something else.
- named /neɪmd/ verb
gave a name to; called
- nice /naɪs/ adjective
pleasant, kind, or good
- live /lɪv/ verb
to be alive or have your home in a place
- nearby /ˌnɪrˈbaɪ/ adjective
close in distance
- city /ˈsɪti/ noun
a large and permanent human settlement
- works /wɝks/ verb
does a job or functions successfully