Speaker 1 Kevin is very quick to think negative things about people. Even when he talks about his best friend, he always tells you about his faults. And if somebody hasn’t got any faults, he invents them

2

She looked like an angel. 

3

This was not good news for me. 

4

Sometimes I pushed her away. 

5

Later, when I got better at school … 

6

Now I think she’s great too. 

1.28 Lesson 5C, Exercise 5

1

Jake

I don’t think you should hang out with Luke so 

much, Sam. He’s not a nice guy and I don’t 

think he’s a good friend to have.

Solutions

 

Third Edition

 Upper-Intermediate

 

1

Audio scripts

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Sam

Luke’s fun! Why are you always commenting on

my friends? You don’t like any of them!

Jake

That’s not true! I like Jonathan and Charlie. 

Sam

That’s because they’re your friends, too! Why 

can’t I have some of my own friends?

Jake

You can and you do! Plenty of them. But I just 

think Luke’s a bit of a bad influence on you. 

He’ll get you into trouble very soon. 

Sam

You’re always acting the older brother and it’s 

so annoying.

Jake

That’s cos I 

am 

the older brother and I’m 

looking out for you!

Sam

Well, thanks, but I don’t need it. I’m old enough 

to make my own decisions now and I can 

choose my own friends.

Jake

Fine, whatever. Look, I’m just warning you. 

Have some sense. Be careful and don’t go 

along with all of Luke’s stupid ideas. 

Sam

OK, OK. I know what you mean. He does do 

some stupid things, but I don’t think he’s bad, 

just silly. He makes me laugh.

Jake

OK, fine, maybe he’s OK. But you look after 

him, then. Sounds like he needs it!

2

I’m one of six and I had the bad luck to be born in the 

middle. I’ve got two much older brothers who were born only

a year apart and have always been best friends. And I have 

two younger brothers and a sister, and they’re triplets! You 

can imagine what my mum thought when the doctor told her 

the news! I was two and a half when the triplets were born 

and I think it was a real problem for me. I was still just a 

baby myself. My poor mum and dad tried to spend time with 

me, but they were exhausted looking after the triplets. And 

my brothers were usually somewhere else doing something 

I couldn’t do. It’s not that they didn’t like me, they were just 

doing their own thing. So I was really happy when my 

grandma came to live with us. She became my second mum

and did everything with me that my mum wasn’t able to do. 

Grandma was the one who taught me how to ride a bike, tie 

my shoelaces, and took me to school on the first day – that 

sort of thing. We’re so close now, I don’t know what I’d do 

without her.