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Warm Up Nuclear Family or Joint Family Based on the visuals given above, give five words/phrases each, to describe these two family types. Nuclear family Joint family Here is a story that brings out the bond between the author and his loving grandmother. My grandmother, like everybody’s grandmother, was an old woman. She had been old and wrinkled for the twenty years that I had known her. People said that she had once been young and pretty and had even had a husband, but that was hard to believe. My grandfather’s portrait hung above the mantelpiece in the drawing room. He wore a big turban and loose fitting clothes. His long, white beard covered the best part of his chest and he looked at least a hundred years old. He did not look the sort of person who would have a wife or children. He looked as if he could only have lots and lots of grandchildren. As for my grandmother The Portrait of a Lady Prose Unit Khushwant Singh -A-Prose-The Portrait of a - - :