Touchstone 3

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Touchstone 3
Unit 4

• Family life

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Lesson A Family gripes

• gripe a strong complaint
• drama a play in a theatre or on television or
  radio, or plays and acting generally
• pressuring (v) to try to force someone to do
  something
• embarrassing (adj.) feeling ashamed or shy
• irritating making you feel annoyed
• a backseat driver a passenger in a car who
  continuously tells the driver how they should
  drive 
• junk food food that is unhealthy but is quick
  and easy to eat
• demand (n) a strong request

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• 1 Getting started A

1. Rob cant use his parents car. He has to ask
them to drive him everywhere.
2. Kanakos parents are always pressuring her
about school. They want her to study law. She
wants to study drama.
3. Luis has to be home before 1100. His parents
wont let him stay out late. They always make him
come home before 1100.
4. Paulo thinks his kids watch too much TV. He
tries to have them do their homework before
dinner, but they usually watch TV instead.
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5. Jongs kids dont help with the housework. She
cant even get them to clean up their own rooms.
6. Joannas husband holds the remote when theyre
watching TV. He never lets her have it.
7. Chucks wife is nervous about driving. Shes
always telling him to slow down.
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• 1 Getting started B

1. Robs parents dont want him to use the car.
2. Luiss parents make him come home before 1100.
3. Paulo cant get his kids to do their homework
before dinner.
4. Jongs kids wont help her clean the house.
5. Chucks wife always asks him to slow down,
even when hes not driving fast.
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• 2 Grammar A

1. When I was a kid, my parents never let me walk
/ go to school by myself.
2. My parents made me go to bed at 800.
3. My mother couldnt get me to eat any
vegetables.
4. My sister never lets me use / play games on
her computer.
5. My parents want me to spend more time with
them.
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6. My wifes always telling me to get more
exercise.
7. I always have my husband cook / make breakfast
on the weekends.
8. I think kids should help their parents (to)
clean the house.

• 3 Listening and speaking C
• 1. 2. 3. 4.

c
d
a
b
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Lesson B Family memories

• pocket a small bag for carrying things in, which
  is made of cloth and sewn into the inside or onto
  the outside of a piece of clothing
• niece the daughter of your brother or sister, or
  the daughter of your husband's or wife's brother
  or sister
• nephew the son of your brother or sister, or the
  son of your husband's or wife's brother or sister
• gigantic extremely big
• cousins the child of your aunt or uncle
• crawl to move slowly or with difficulty,
  especially (of a person) with the body stretched
  out along the ground or on hands and knees
• extended family a family unit which includes
  grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts and uncles,
  etc. in addition to parents and children

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• blended to mix or combine together
• got divorced to end your marriage by an official
  or legal process
• immediate family includes your closest family
  members, such as your parents, children, husband
  or wife, and brothers and sisters
• stepfather the man who is married to someone's
  mother but who is not their real father
• hide-and-seek a children's game in which a group
  of children hide in secret places and then one
  child has to go to look for them
• broccoli a vegetable with a thick green stem and
  a tree-like dark green top

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• tease (v) to laugh at someone or say unkind
  things about them, either because you are joking
  or because you want to upset them

• tic-tac-toe a game in which two players take
  turns putting O's or X's in a pattern of nine
  squares, trying to get three O's or X's in a
  straight line

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• 1 Building vocabulary and grammar B

Immediate family Immediate family Immediate family Extended family Extended family
father mother mother great-grandfather great-grandmother
brother sister sister grandfather grandmother
husband wife wife uncle aunt
son daughter daughter cousin cousin
nephew niece
brother-in-law sister-in-law
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Blended family Blended family
stepfather stepmother
stepbrother stepsister
stepson stepdaughter
half brother half sister
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1 Building vocabulary and grammar C

• The activities and situations are finished.

Mi Soon used to keep, shed always give, used to
tease
Claudia used to come over, would crawl
Melik used to live, used to go over, wed play
John used to love, used to play, we would always
win
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Lesson C If you ask me,

• definitely without any doubt certainly
• absolutely used for adding force to a strong
  adjective which is not usually used with 'very',
  or to a verb expressing strong emotion
• get into trouble causes oneself or other falls
  into problem or trouble
• be involved to include someone or something in
  something, or to make them take part in or feel
  part of it
• incomes money that is earned from doing work or
  received from investments

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• 2 Strategy plus

1. B Definitely. A Thats true.
2. B I agree. A Absolutely.
3. B Oh, I know. A Exactly.
4. B Thats for sure. A Youre right.
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Lesson D Childhood memories

• safety devices a piece of equipment that is used
  for a safe purpose
• implemented (v) to put a plan or system into
  operation
• recall to bring the memory of a past event into
  your mind, and often to give a description of
  what you remember
• yelled to shout something or make a loud noise,
  usually when you are angry, in pain or excited
• inevitably in a way that cannot be avoided
• athletic strong, healthy and good at sports

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• tag a game played by two or more children in
  which one child chases the others and tries to
  touch one of them. This child then becomes the
  one who does the chasing
• frustrated (adj.) to make someone feel annoyed
  or discouraged because they cannot achieve what
  they want
• sibling bonding
• knee the middle joint of the leg,
• which allows it to bend

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• roller-skate
• helmets a strong hard hat that covers and
  protects the head

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• knee pads a piece of soft thick cloth or rubber
  which is used to protect a part of your knee
• wrist guards

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• 1 Reading C

1. d Second paragraph Im surprised my mom
never really implemented a policy.
2. e Second paragraph She kind of left it up
to us.
3. a Second paragraph Once in a while, she
would put her foot down and make us take turns.
4. f Second paragraph Otherwise, it was a
free-for-all.
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5. c Fourth paragraph So, wed argue about it
until one of us gave in,
6. b Fifth paragraph For my brother and me,
fighting over the front seat was an important
part of our sibling bonding.
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• 1 Reading D

1. False. Rhonda and her brother usually decided
who would ride in the front seat.
2. True
3. False. If Rhonda yelled I call the front!
outside the house, she could ride in front.
4. False. Rhondas brother would usually touch
the car before Rhonda.
5. True
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• 2 Listening and writing A

? (cook a meal)
? (go on vacation)
? (go to the movies)
2 Listening and writing B
1. Now they have cable and satellite TV, so they
stay home.
2. The kids are older. They dont want to go on
vacation with their mom and dad. They would
rather hang out with their friends.
3. Shes too tired these days. She doesnt have
time.
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Vocabulary notebook

• moustache hair which a man grows above his upper
  lip
• adopted to take another person's child into your
  own family and legally raise him or her as your
  own child
• ex-husband A woman's ex-husband is a man that
  she was married to but is not now married to
• separated to divide into parts, or to make
  something divide into parts

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was interested in old cars.
used to drink milk.
had a beard.
used to ear a brown hat.
always listened to the radio.