Unit 3. Ways of socialising

Tell the names of these
devices
Some advices on how to use the
telephone in the family.

Public
telephone

cell phone

Table phone



* Work with a partner. Study the pictures and answer
the following questions.

1. What are they doing?
2. What do you think each of them would say to greet each other?
3. What do you think they would talk about?
4. How long do you think it would take them to finish their call and
why?


Marvellous (adj) tuyệt vời
Arguments (n) tranh cãi
Regulation (n) quy tắc, nội quy
Absolute (adj) hoàn toàn
Maximum (n) tối đa

Object (v) phản đối
Install (v) lắp đặt

Chitchat (v) tán gẫu
Startling (a) làm giật mình


A

KEY:

1. Marvellous (adj)
2. Arguments (n)
3. Regulation (n)
4. Absolute (adj)
5. Maximum (n)
6. Object (v)
7. Installed:
8. Chitchat (v)
9. Startling (a)

B
A. được lắp đặt
B. tuyệt vời
C. phản đối
D. tán gẫu
E. quy tắc, nội quy
F. làm giật mình
G. hoàn toàn

H. tranh cãi
I. tối đa


Task 1.
1.The telephone often
causes
Task
1. arguments
T
between members of the family.
Cupple,
social
worker,
2.A Linda
reasonable
length ofatime
for a call
is the
F
advises
young people on how to
main
problem.
3.Ten
is a reasonable
time
useminutes
the telephone
in length

their of
family.
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for a call.
Listen
to should
her not
talkreceive
anda call
decide
4.Young
people
at
F
whether
dinner
time. the statements are true
5.Young
(T) orpeople
falseoften
(F) call their friends at night. T
6.You can’t call your friends at any time even
T
when you have a separate telephone.


Task 2.
Listen again and fill the missing words.
agreed

to stick

steal

heart

particular

party

to avoid
adults

kindness

kind

waking

waiting

• 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 young people
who consider 10 or 11 pm, 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
flight of that instant thought –“ There an accident”-are enough to give
your parents a (6) _______attack. Weekend morning calls aren’t so
startling, it’s the one time your parent 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.


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 one is to work out a reasonable
…………………
What should
length
of timethe
forlength
a call which
of timeisfor
about
eachten
call
minutes
The last?
other is the calling hours,
………………….

What
the
time
is the
which
timeisnot
notsuitable
suitablefor
for calling
calling
is
at dinner
?
time, late at night, early in
the morning, in the weekend morning.


• Prepare writing lesson.