The French Family Tree: Relationships and Ages 👨👩👧👦
Three generations on one tree, from Claude (70) to little Zaki (1): students sort the eleven family members by age, then describe who is who with full sentences, like: Sylvie est la fille de Marie-France.
Two ready-to-use exercises on the same tree: the sorting task is free as a PDF, and the writing exercise, with its rich answer key on concubinage and PACS, is reserved for Premium members, with editable DOCX files.
✨ What students practise
First, the numbers and the comparison: du plus âgé au plus jeune, from Claude (70 ans) to Zaki (1 an), students put the eleven members in order and write their names and ages. A gentle task that also checks the numbers from 1 to 70, free for everyone.
Then the real writing work: describe the relationships with full sentences, like the model Sylvie est la fille de Marie-France. Sylvie est âgée de 39 ans et sa mère a 68 ans. Parents, children, grandparents, cousins, husbands and wives: the whole family vocabulary, in context.
Read the tree: three generations, from Claude (70) to Zaki (1).
Put the eleven members in order, from the oldest to the youngest. Free!
Write the relationships: who is the daughter, the son, the cousin of whom?
Compare with the answer key and its cultural notes.
📚 Two exercises, one tree
The same family, two different skills:
Class the eleven members from the oldest to the youngest: a numbers and comparison task, free as a PDF.
Describe who is who: parents, children, grandparents, cousins, with the ages. Premium.
Model sentences, plus cultural notes: married, in concubinage, or pacsés, like many French couples.
👪 The words of the family
Everything the tree teaches, from the grandparents to the cousins:
🔢 The sort-by-age exercise (free PDF)
The perfect warm-up: put the eleven members in order, from the oldest to the youngest, and write their names and ages. Free in both paper formats.
Preview: class the members from the oldest to the youngest
🎁 Free PDF – A4
The sorting task with its answer key, free for everyone.
🎁 Free PDF – US Letter
The same task sized 8.5 x 11 inches, free for everyone.
🔓 Want the DOCX and the relationships exercise?
Become a Premium member to unlock the editable files and the writing task.
💬 The family relationships exercise (Premium)
The real writing task: describe the relationships between the eleven members, with the ages, and discover the answer key’s notes on how French couples really live.
Preview: describe the relationships between the eleven members
🎯 Recommended level
❓ Frequently asked questions
📚 What level is this worksheet for?
Mainly A1-A2: the family vocabulary and the numbers are A1, and writing full sentences stretches towards A2.
🌳 What does the pack contain?
Two exercises on the same tree: sort the eleven members by age, and describe the family relationships, each with its answer key, in A4 and US Letter.
🎁 Which version is free?
The sort-by-age exercise is free as a PDF, in A4 and US Letter. The relationships exercise and all the editable DOCX files are reserved for Premium members.
📖 What is special about the answer key?
Beyond the model sentences, it explains how French couples live: married, in concubinage, or pacsés, with a simple explanation of the PACS.
🔢 Does it also practise numbers?
Yes: the sorting task goes from 1 to 70, and the sentences compare ages, so the numbers are revised in context.
