Unit 3. Ways of socialising

Thursday, September 14, 2017
1. It is a means of communication.
2. Nowadays, most of the families have got one.
3. It begins with the letter “T”
4. You can talk to somebody faraway.
Before you listen:
Guessing game:
What is it?
It’s a telephone
Work with a partner. Study the pictures and answer the following questions.
Before you listen
What are they doing?
They`re talking on the phone.
2. What do you think each of them would say to greet each other?
They would say “Hello" to greet each other.
3. What do you think they would talk about?
I think they would talk about their usual jobs and things happening to them.
4. How long do you think it would take them to finish their call and why?
It would take them about five minutes to finish their calls because they are on the move in the street.
UNIT 3: WAYS OF SOCIALISING
LISTENING
NEW LESON
- marvelous (adj)
- argument (n)
- regulation (n)
- apoplectic (adj)
- the sank of the evening
- object (+ to) (v)
- fright (n)
- startle (v)
- out of kindness (pre)
= wonderful
: cuộc tranh luận/ bàn cãi
: nội quy / điều lệ
= easy to be angry
: lúc sẩm tối
: phản đối
: giật mình/ sửng sốt
Vocabulary:
: vì lòng tốt
: sự hoảng sợ, sợ hãi
Checking vocabulary:
- marvelous (adj)
- argument (n)
- regulation (n)
- apoplectic (adj)
- the sank of the evening
- object (+ to) (v)
- fright (n)
- startle (v)
- out of kindness (pre)
= wonderful
: cuộc tranh luận/ bàn cãi
: nội quy / điều lệ
= easy to be angry
: lúc sẩm tối
: phản đối
: giật mình/ sửng sốt
: vì lòng tốt
: sự hoảng sợ, sợ hãi
True/ False Prediction:
1. The telephone seldom causes arguments between members of the family.
2. A reasonable length of time for a call is the main problem.
3. Ten minutes is an unreasonable length of time for a call.
4. Young people cannot receive a phone call while they are having dinner.
5. You should tell your friends to call at night.
6. You cannot call your friends at any time when you have a separate telephone.
T F
1. The telephone seldom causes arguments between members of the family.
2. A reasonable length of time for a call is the main problem.
3. Ten minutes is an unreasonable length of time for a call.
4. Young people cannot receive a phone call while they are having dinner.
5. You should tell your friends to call at night.
6. You cannot call your friends at any time when you have a separate telephone.
TASK 1. Linda Cupple, a social worker, advises young people on how to use the telephone in their family. Listen to her talk and decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).
T F
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Task 2. Listen to part of Ms Linda Cupple’s talk again and write the missing words.
Calling hours should be (1) ________ upon. If your parents object to your leaving the dinner table to take calls, tell your friends (2) _______ calling at that hour; if someone does phone, ask him to call back, or offer to call him when dinner’s over.
A serious calling problem is calling very late at night, or very early in the morning. This (3) _________ mistake is made mostly by young people who consider 10 or 11 p.m., when a lot of tired (4) _______ are happily sleeping, the shank of the evening. So please tell your friends not to call after ten o’clock. The shock of (5) ________ out of a sound sleep and the fright of that instant thought − “There’s an accident” − are enough to give your parents a (6) ______ attack. Weekend morning calls aren’t so startling, but it’s the one time your parents can sleep late.
If your mother and father, out of (7) _________, have installed a separate phone for you, remember that you’re still a member of a family. So try (8) _______ to your family’s regulations.
to stick
agreed
to avoid
particular
adults
waking
heart
kindness
Audio script
The Telephone - Potential Family Background
Hello, everyone. In today`s talk I`m going to give you some pieces of advice on how to use the telephone in the most decent way so as to avoid unnecessary disagreements between you and members of your family.
The telephone, as you know, is a marvelous instrument, but it may cause arguments between you and your parents -arguments that could be easily avoided if you would sit down, talk it over and agree to a few simple regulations.
The most obvious problem, of course, is what everyone considers a reasonable length of time for a call. The exact duration must be worked out with your parents, but ten minutes should be an absolute maximum. That`s certainly long enough to say almost anything in five different ways, and yet it isn`t so long that other members of the family will become apoplectic. Even when your parents are out, the length of your call should be limited, because they, or someone else, may he trying to reach your home for a very important reason.
Calling hours should be agreed upon. If your parents object to your leaving the dinner table to take calls, tell your friends to avoid calling at that hour, if someone does phone, ask him to call back, or offer to call him when dinner`s over.
A serious calling problem is calling very late at night, or very early in the morning. This particular mistake is made mostly by young people who consider 10 or 11 pm. when a lot of tired adults are happily sleeping, the shank of the evening.
So please tell your friends not to call after ten o`clock. The shock of waking out of a sound sleep and the fright of that instant thought - "There`s an accident" - are enough to give your parents a heart attack. Weekend morning calls aren`t so startling but it`s the one time your parents can sleep late.
If your mother and father, out of kindness, have installed a separate phone for you, remember that you`re still a member of a family. So try to stick to your family`s regulations. That`s all for my talk today. Thank you for listening.
Listen again. Summarize Ms. Linda Cupple’s talk, beginning with:

In this talk Ms Linda Cupple gives us some pieces of advice on how to use the telephone in the family. The first is to work out a reasonable ...
After you listen
In this talk, Ms Linda Cupple gives us some pieces of advice on how to use the telephone in the family. The first is to work out a reasonable length of time for a call after a discussion with our parents, usually ten minutes at most. And it`s the duration of time for receiving or making a call at the usual time. Next, it`s a great problem to make a call very late at night or early in the morning, particularly on weekends, because it`s the time your parents can sleep late. So even you have a separate phone, try to stick to the family`s regulations.
Summary model
Listen to the talk again.
Practice summarizing Ms. Linda Cupple’s talk to present to the class next time.
Prepare the next lesson: Writing .
HOMEWORK
GOOD BYE!
Thank you for your attention!
See you again.