Who do you live with?

Who do you live with?

  • Do you live on your own or with your family or friends?
  • Do you have any pets? If not, what pet would you like to have?
  • How do you help the people you live with?
  • Who makes you laugh when you’re at home, and why?

Discuss:

What can you see in these photographs?

Sometimes photographs can tell us stories. Discuss with a friend what stories you can see or imagine in these images?

In one picture, a family chats over tea. What are they talking about? In another, an older lady knits as she looks at us. What could she be thinking about?

What do you think that cat with the two dogs is thinking?

Photograph of schoolgirl and younger sister kneel at low table, the elder girl writing while her young sister waits with an envelope. Both girls look thoughtful.

Japanese schoolgirl and younger sister. Japan, 1939-1946. Catalogue ref: INF 3/1839

Illustration in which two young boys sit at a table set for breakfast. One is Egyptian and one is white British. A blonde man in a suit looks at them in the doorway.

Ahmad and Johnny at the breakfast table, illustration from booklet set in Egypt by W Lindsay Cable, 1939-1946. Catalogue reference: INF 3/597 1 of 16

Oil painting of elderly lady, in soft pastel armchair, her red wool knitting rested on her lap. She looks directly at the viewer.

Oil painting by Bainbridge Copnall entitled ‘People Like Me: Granny, seated with knitting’. United Kingdom, 1957. Catalogue ref: NSC 64/2

Two pug dogs with collars and a cat in between sit together, posing in an upholstered, wing backed armchair.

Cat and Two Dogs in an Armchair. Photograph by Frederic D’Arcis. United Kingdom, 1896. Catalogue ref: COPY 1/426.573

Illustration of two women and a child sitting together around two big baskets of nuts. They are shelling the nuts together.

A group of people preparing food by cracking nuts, from a poster about food production in the British Empire during the Second World War. Catalogue reference: INF 3/367

Colour illustration of a group of blond British children playing post office. A boy stands behind a box with the words "Post Office Savings Bank" painted on it. Another boy hands him a book labelled "Savings book". A third boy wearing a postman's cap is putting a package into a sack. Two small girl and a younger boy watch the three boys.

Poster featuring children playing post offices with the words “Happy and carefree…with an account in the Post Office Savings Bank”, 1961. Catalogue reference: NSC 25/300

Illustration of an older Japanese woman gazing into the difference. A small boy stands in front of her and looks up at her.

Japanese woman and boy – “What are you thinking about, granny?” 1939-1946. Catalogue reference: INF 3/1831

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