Connecting to the topic

1. Who do you live with? With friends? By yourself (alone)? (myself)

fellow

2. How do you stay in touch with (talk/ and write to) friends and family?

3. Do you like to use email? Why or why not? (Social app, social
network)

4. Do you like to write letters? Why or why not? Waste of time

5. Do you have a cell phone? Why or why not?

6. Do you ever go to an Internet café? Why or why not?

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CHAPTER 3

FRIENDS
AND FAMILY
UNIVERSITY OF CUU
LONG
Introduction
1. I see that your clothes are wet. I guess it’s raining.
2. Lee doesn’t see his family often and he feels sad. I think that he’s homesick. homesickness
3. After you move, please keep in touch with me, so I know how you’re doing.
4. Beth calls her family a lot because it’s not expensive for her to keep in touch by phone.
5. Alicia uses her computer all day, so she keeps in touch with friends by email.
6. Orlando likes to write letters. He keeps in touch with his parents by mail/ letter
7. I haven’t seen you in a long time, and I feel sad about that. I miss you very much/ so bad.
8. I don’t like to carry a lot of change, so I use a phone card to call from pay phones.
9. Are you OK, Beth? You look sad. What’s the matter?

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 Listen for Main Ideas
Listen to the first part of the conversation. Choose the best answer to each
question.
1. Why is Lee sad? 3. Who wants to see friends and family in
a. His mother’s sick. California soon?
b. His mother’s homesick. g. Ali
c. He’s homesick. h. Beth
2. Who gets homesick? i. Lee
d. Lee sometimes does.
e. Beth and Ali sometimes do.
f. They all (Beth, Ali and Lee) sometimes do.

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 Listen for Specific Information
Listen to the whole conversation. Choose the best answer to each question.
1. Besides email, how often does Lee get letters
from his family? 4. What does Ali say about staying in touch by
a. one or two times a month phone?
b. two or three times a week j. It’s inexpensive.
c. two or three times a month k. It’s expensive
2. How does Beth stay in touch with her and l. It’s difficult.
family? 5. What do Beth and Ali do to help Lee?
d. She stays in touch by email. m. They tell him to write a letter to his parents.
e. She stays in touch by mail. n. They tell him to call his parents.
f. She stays in touch by phone. o. They tell him to buy a phone card.
3. How does Ali keep in touch with his friends and
family?
g. He keeps in touch by phone.
h. He keeps in touch by email.
i. He keeps in touch by mail.
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 Listen for Specific Information
Listen to the whole conversation. Choose the best answer to each question.
1. Lee says, “She’s fine, but I miss her.” Who is he h. Ali says it because he’s going to get a phone card.
talking about?
i. Beth says it because she wants to go to the movies.
a. His family
b. His mother
c. Beth
2. Why does Lee say, “Email just isn’t the same”?
d. He wants to talk to his family.
e. Email is more expensive than a phone call.
f. Email is inexpensive.
3. Who says, “Wait for me,” and why?
g. Lee says it because he’s going to call his family.

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 After you listen
by by mis homesic by phone phone to guess to keep in what’s the
email mail s k card touch matter

1. Lee likesto keep in touchwith his family in Korea to hear all their news.
_____________
2. homesick
I’m _____________ because I’m so far away from my family.
3. miss
Ali, Beth, and Lee _____________ their family and friends in their hometowns.
4. to guess
I don’t know the answer. I’m going _____________ .
5. by email
I don’t have a computer, so I can’t keep in touch _____________.
6. I like to write and send letters in English, so I’m going to keep in touch with you
by mail
_____________.
What’s the
7. A: _________________. Are you okay?
matter
B Yes, I’m okay, but I’m a little homesick.
phone card to make calls from a payphone.
8. You can use a _____________
by
9. I like to hear my family’s voices so I keep in touch _____________.
phone
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 Stress
all fine guess Korea matter mom other sad Yeah Why
right friends homesic Lee miss okay reading Yes
email k
Lee
Beth: ______________? okay
Are you ______________? What’s the
matter
______________?
Ali: ______________,
Yeah Lee! ______________
Why are you so sad
______________?
reading email mom
Korea
Lee: I’m ______________ an ______________ from my
______________ in ______________.
all right
Beth: Is sheYes
______________ ? fine miss
Lee: ______________,
miss she’s ______________, but I ______________
friends
guess
her, and I ______________homesick
my family and ______________ in Korea. I
______________ I’m ______________.
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 Listening for Reductions: Listen and circle the letter of the sentence that you h
ear. Note that the reduced forms (*) are not correct written forms of words.

1. a. Are you OK? b. Are ya* OK?

2. a. I don’t miss them very much. b. I don’t miss ‘em* very much.
3. a. I want to go to the movies with you. b. I wanna* go to the movies with you.
4. a. What are you doing? b. What’re* you doing?
5. a. Why are you sad? b. Why’re* you sad?

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 Questions for practice

1.How many people are there in your family? What do

they do? What do you do together?
2.Do you have friends or family who live far away?
Who?
3.Do you keep in touch with your friends / family?
How?
4.How often do you talk to your friends/ family on the
phone? Email? Letters?
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 Starting
& Ending
Conversation
 Starting conversation
People often start conversations with people they don’t know.
Sometimes this happens at a party or in a new class because
you want to meet someone new. Sometimes this happens on
the street because you need help or directions.

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 Expressions to start conversations
• Excuse me. I don’t think we’ve met. My name is
__________________________.
• Hello. My name is __________________________.
• Hi. I’m __________________________. How’s it going?
• Hello. How are you?
• Hey! How are you doing?
• Excuse me. May I ask you a question?

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 Expressions to end conversations
• Would you excuse me please?
• I’ve got to go now. I’ll talk to you later.
• It was nice to meet you.
• Thank you for your help. Good-bye.
• Let’s get together sometime. Call me when you get a chance.
• I’d better get going. Nice talking to you.
• I’ve enjoyed talking to you. Maybe we could get together sometime.

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 Listening
Getting Meaning from Context: Listen to 5 conversations and choose the best
answer.
1. What is Beth homesick for? i. Three
a. Her family 4. What’s Ali doing?
b. California j. Writing a letter
c. Friends k. Talking on the phone
2. Who does Beth want to call her? l. Reading a letter
d. Dan 5. When can Beth get the cheapest rates?
e. John m. This weekend
f. No one n. In five to ten minutes
3. How many children are in Alicia’s family? o. After five o’clock today
g. One
h. Two
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Listening to a Voice Mail Messages
 Before Listening
1. Why do people have voice mail or answering
machines?
2. What do you do when you receive voice mail?
3. Do you like to leave voice mail messages? Why or
why not?

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 Vocabulary
- Call someone back
- Come by
- Expect someone
- Leave a message
- Look forward to something
- Miss a call

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 How to leave voice mail messages
Strategy
Voice mail makes some people nervous. But it’s easy to leave a message if you know what to say.

Step
1. Say your name and the day and time
2. Say why you are calling.
3. Leave instructions or say what you will
do
4. Leave your number. Say it slowly
5. Say good-bye
- Hi. This is Lee. It’s two o’clock, Tuesday May 5th.
- I’m returning your call.
- I’m calling about your ad in the newspaper.
- I’m calling to see if you want to go to a movie tonight.
- Call me back when you got a chance.
- I’ll call you back later.
- My number is 5550134.
- Good –bye
- Bye
- Talk to you later.
- I hope to speak to you soon.

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 Listening
Listening for the Main Ideas: Listen to Dan’s voice mail messages and answer
this question
How many people left messages for Dan?

There are 4 people left messages for Dan

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 Listening
Listening to Voice Mail: Write the number of each message below the photo
that matches it.

2
_________________ 3
_________________ 4
_________________ 1
_________________

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 Discussing Voice Mail
1. Do you have voice mail? Do you have answering machines? Why or
why not?
2. Do most of your friends have voice mail or an answering machine?
Describe their messages to your group.
3. Describe the best kind of outgoing message (the message that calllers
hear). What should you say? Should you give your name? Why or
why not? Should you say that you are not home? Why or why not?

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Describing People
Read and answer the following questions
1. How old is Mary?
2. What does she do?
3. Does she have long black straight hair?
4. Does she wear blue glasses?
5. Where can she not read books?
6. Is she chubby?
7. Does she have a few friends?
8. Is she a young sister in the family?

What does she look

like?
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 Expressions for describing people
Height Size Hair Eyes Age Other

Brown Young
Black Middle-aged
Blond Old
Large Brown Have a
Tall Gray In his/her
Small Black moustache
Short White teens,
Slim Blue Have a beard
medium - Long twenties,
Thin Green Have bangs
height Short thirties
heavy Gray Have freckles
Medium- In his/her
height early/ middle/
bald late twenties

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 What does she look - Pete ‘s got / has blue eyes.

like? - Mary’s got / has short curly

blond hair.
- Lizzy is tall and thin.
- Dave is in his twenties.
- David is 170 cm tall.
- Annie weighs 50 kilos.

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 1.She has got long black
heavy hair.
2.She has got short blond
hair.
3.Tom has got green eyes.
4.They have got beautiful
big blue eyes.

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How are two ladies different?

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 Listening
Beth is describing her friend Sue. Listen to the conversation. Which person is Beth
describing? Choose the correct photo.

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 Listening
Listen again. Choose the correct answer.

1. What color is Sue’s hair? 3. What else do you know about

a. Blond Sue?
b. Red g. She has green eyes.
c. Black h. She wears glasses.
2. Which word describe Sue’s i. She has short hair.
height?
d. Tall
e. Short
f. Medium

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Describing people
Choose one photo to describe the person and your classmate will guess
what photo is talked about.

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Questions
1.How would you describe yourself?
2.Are you similar or different to your sister/ brother?
3.Who takes after you in your family?
In my family, I think I’m quite similar to my mother.
We are not so tall and we are
Beautiful / pretty
Funny/ humorous/ caring / generous / kind / honest /
Reliable. The person who takes after me is my
younger sister. Lazy>< hardworking. Studious.
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