Unit 6 Lesson 6c family Business Reading the text: a tv guide Vocabulary

Work in pairs. Draw a family tree of the Blake family.

3. 
   a) Find the opposites of these adjectives in the article. Write them in the table.
   

patient considerate employed mature helpful honest reliable selfish

un-

m-

impatient

dis-

b) Do you know the opposites of these adjectives? Write them in the table.

happy intelligent polite ambitious friendly possible attractive correct sure organized healthy

Listening

4. 
   R6.4 a) Listen and practise. Notice that prefixes in-. etc.) aren’t usually stressed.
   

employed, unemployed

b) Work in pairs. Take turns to say adjectives from 3a) and 3b). Your partner says the opposite adjective

5. 
   R6.5 a) Listen to the beginning of this week’s episode of Family Business. Answer these questions.
   

Where are the people?

Which characters are talking?

What do they talk about?

2. 
   Listen again. Are these sentences true or false?
   

1. 
   Lydia borrowed some money from the bank this afternoon.
   
2. 
   The bank wants to close the restaurant.
   
3. 
   The Full Moon has only got eight customers.
   
4. 
   The Angel restaurant is full.
   
5. 
   Trudy has got a new job.
   
6. 
   She’s going to work in a bank
   
7. 
   Lydia is very angry with Eve King.
   

5. 
   a) Work in groups. What do you think will happen next? Use the characters from the article and make a list of ideas.
   

Trudy might leave home Maybe Lydia will talk to Eve.

b) Compare ideas with another group or the whole class.

7. R6.6 a) Listen to the end of the episode. Were any of your ideas correct?

b) Listen again. Answer these questions.

1. 
   Why is Kathy worried?
   
2. 
   What is Darren looking for?
   
3. 
   Does Darren stay at home with his wife and daughter?
   
4. 
   How much money did the restaurant make this evening?
   
5. 
   Where did Lydia go?
   
6. 
   Who’s the last person to arrive at the restaurant?
   
7. 
   Why did he come back?
   

8 What’s happening outside?

Help with Listening Missing words

In spoken English sometimes we miss out words if the meaning is clear

8.a) Look at these sentences from the radio drama. Notice the missing words.

kathy Shouldn’t you be at work? darken Having a break. (= I’m having a break.)

KATHY You going out? (= Are you going out?)

darren Yeah. Seen my cigarettes? (= Have you seen my cigarettes?)

b) Look at R6.6 p151. listen again and notice the missing words. What kind of words do we miss out?

9. a) Work in groups of four. You are going to write the beginning of the next episode of Family Business. Before you write, plan what is going to happen. Include at least four characters.

2. 
   Write the beginning of the next episode.
   
3. 
   Practise the episode in your groups until you can remember it.
   
4. 
   Role-play your episode for other students. Which episode, is the best, do you think?