A2 Flyers Vocabulary: Family & Friends
Cambridge A2 Flyers adds 4 new family & friends words. With the 33 from earlier levels, your child needs 37 for the exam.
New at A2 Flyers: 4 words
- husbandnoun
- adjective
- surnamenoun
- wifenoun
Meanings and example sentences (4 words)
- husband
- (noun)
- A man who is married.
- My mum's husband is my dad.
- married
- (adjective)
- When two people love each other and become husband and wife.
- My aunt and uncle are married and live nearby.
- surname
- (noun)
- It's the family name that you share with your parents.
- My surname is Smith, just like my dad's.
- wife
- (noun)
- A woman who is married.
- My dad helps my mum, his wife, with dinner.
Also needed from earlier levels: 33 words
The A2 Flyers exam can use these family & friends words too.
From Pre-A1 Starters (24 words)
- babynoun
- boynoun
- brothernoun
child/childrennoun- classmatenoun
- cousinnoun
- dadnoun
- familynoun
- fathernoun
- friendnoun
- girlnoun
- grandfathernoun
- grandmanoun
- grandmothernoun
- grandpanoun
- kidnoun
liveverb
man/mennoun- mothernoun
- mumnoun
person/peoplenoun- sisternoun
woman/womennoun- adjective
From A1 Movers (9 words)
- auntnoun
- daughternoun
- granddaughternoun
- grandparentnoun
- grandsonnoun
- grown-upnoun
- parentnoun
- sonnoun
- unclenoun
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Questions parents ask
How many family & friends words are in the A2 Flyers wordlist?
A2 Flyers introduces 4 new family & friends words, including husband, married, surname. Together with the earlier levels, your child needs 37 family & friends words in total for the A2 Flyers exam.
Does my child also need the family & friends words from earlier levels?
Yes. Cambridge YLE vocabulary is cumulative: the A2 Flyers exam can use any word from the earlier levels. That's why this page also lists the 33 family & friends words from earlier levels further down.
Is this the official Cambridge list?
This page is aligned with the official Cambridge English A2 Flyers vocabulary list, with kid-friendly definitions, example sentences and audio added by FlyersEnglish. FlyersEnglish is not affiliated with or endorsed by Cambridge; the official PDF wordlists are available at cambridgeenglish.org.
FlyersEnglish is not affiliated with or endorsed by Cambridge. This page is aligned with the official Cambridge English wordlists; the official PDFs are available at cambridgeenglish.org.
Turn these words into a game
FlyersEnglish turns the A2 Flyers family & friends words into games with pictures and sound, and shows you which words your child knows.