Unit 4. Relationships
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Lesson 1
1. This unit is about…
Topics:
Relationships in different situations
Single child versus many children
The One-Child Policy
Problems with having siblings
averagesInterfering parents
Skills:
Making up dialogues for particular situations
Arguing for or against an issue
Making appointments and apologizing
Speaking: Role-play — Making appointments
Writing: Design a T-shirt with excus for not going to
school
Write your own email and answer another Project: A family tree
Top excus for not going to the dentist’ｓGrammar:
Adverbs:
Comparison of adverbs
2. Focus
2.1 Match dialogues a–f to the situations 1–6.
First, take a look at all the 6 situations.
a. A: Why do we always have to watch what my brother and
sister want to?
B: Becau you cho yesterday and now it is somebody
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b.A: Is this your first time here?
B: No, I am a regular customer. I come every six weeks. But
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c. A: Where were you yesterday, Brian?
B: I’m sorry that I couldn’t come to school but I was ill and had to stay in bed.
d. A: Why did you cancel that dentist’s appointment?
B: Becau I hate dentists. And I thought my toothache
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e. A: Why do you always make dentist’s appointments for me?
B: Becau you never have time; when you make an
appointment you forget to go.
f. A: What is the problem with being an only child?
B: You never have anybody to talk to or share your problems
with.
2.3 Now create dialogues for the three situations:
1. Your friend has just cancelled a visit to the cinema with you
(for the cond time!).
Example:
A: Why have you cancelled our visit to the cinema again?
B: I’m sorry. I forgot that I had to go to my grandmother tonight.
A: But that is what you always say when you do not want to do something with me.
B: That’s not true. I only say that when I want to cancel a visit
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cinema.
2. Your grandfather has just told you he will give you the money for driving lessons. However, he says that you will have
to drive him to the doctor’s once a week. Example:
A: Okay, I will give you the money for driving lessons but you
will
have to drive me to the doctor’s once a week.
B: That’s
okay. But I can’t go on Mondays, Wednesdays,
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and Fridays.
A: And what is the problem on tho days?
B: In the mornings I have school and in the afternoons I have
a
part-time job in a supermarket.
3. You are complaining in a shop that your MP3 player that you
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the receipt.
Example:
A: I bought this MP3 player last week and it doesn’t recor B: Can you show me your receipt, plea?
A: I em to have lost my receipt.
B: I’m very sorry b
ut we cannot help you unless you show us
the
receipt.
