Cryslee’s homework

Grammar Verbs follow by gerund

How do you feel about this thing? Discuss your answers using verbs or expressions followed by gerunds and infinitives.

1. Tell people that I’m angry with them.

I don’t mind telling people that I’m angry with them. I guess I’m very honest.
2. Help with chores around the house.
I usually avoid helping with the chores around the house.
3. Listen to people’s personal problems.
I avoid listening to people’s personal problems. I guess I am not too kind.
4. Eat a full meal late at night.
I hate to eat full meal at night.
5. Star conversation with people I don’t know.
I don’t mind to staring conversation with people I don’t know.
6. Go to places where I have to use English.
I enjoy going to places where I have to use English.

Personal profiles

Look at the Information about these people. Which person is most similar to you? Why?

Name: Emily Carlos Linda

Job: College student Artist Lawyer

Personality: Friendly and outgoing Wild and crazy Shy and reserved

Lifestyle: Into traveling can’t stand going home early into watching movies

I am most similar to Emily because I’m a college student and love traveling.

Write a similar profile to yourself.

Job: College student

Personality: Responsible

Lifestyle: Into traveling and dancing.

How have you change?

How have you change over the last five years? What do you want to change now? Complete the chart.

How I’ve change how I’d like to change.

Habits I used to study late, but now I don’t I’m interested in wake up early

Personality I’ve become more mature I’d like to be more friendly

Likes and dislikes I used to hate sushi, but now I love it

Writing

Write a paragraph about your most or your most negative quality. Make sure your paragraph have only on main idea.

I think that my most positive quality is that I’m very creative. I enjoy painting and drawing. Being creative is helpful when I need to
find solution for a problem.

I think that my most negative quality is that I’m not very friendly. Sometimes I am afraid of hurt people’s feelings. I am trying to find
a way to be more kind.

Grammar Nouns clauses after be

Combine the sentence.

1. I have a younger sister. The trouble is she wants to borrow my clothes.

The trouble of having a younger sister is that she wants to borrow my clothes.
2. I’m always at college. The bad part is that I miss my family.
The bad part about being always at college is that I miss my family.
3. I work at night. The worst thing is I can’t have dinner with my family.
The worst thing about working at night is I can’t have dinner with my family.
4. I’m older in my family. One bad thing is that I always have to babysit.
The bad thing about being the older in my family is that I always have to babysit.

Complete the sentences with your own ideas.

1. A problem with being an only child is that I feel alone

2. One benefit of being the older is that you can go out more often
3. A big disadvantage of having an older sibling is that you can’t have a lot of attention.
4. The best thing about having a big family is that you have more people to rely on.

Match the family members on the left with the definitions on the right.

a) Your great-aunt is (b) 1. Your father’s or mother’s grandmother.

 b) Your granddaughter is (c) 2. Your mother’s or father’s aunt.
c) Your sister in law is (d) 3. Your son’s or daughter’s daughter.
d) Your great-grandmother is (a) 4. Your wife’s or husband’s sister or your brother’s wife.

Which of the family members in the box can be combined with a prefix or a suffix in the chart? What does each term means?

Aunt daughter mother niece son

Brother father nephew sister uncle

Great grand- great-grand -in-law

Aunt daughter mother brother

Nephew father nice son

Uncle sister

What does each term means?

Your great aunt is your mother’s or father’s aunt.

Your great nephew is the son of one’s nephew of niece

Your uncle is your mother’s or father’s uncle.

Your granddaughter is your son’s or sister’s daughter.

Your grand-father is your father’s or mother’s father.

Your great-grand mother is your father’s or mother’s grand-mother.

Your great-grandniece is the granddaughter of one’s nephew or niece.

Your brother in law is your sister’s husband, or your wife’s or husband’s brother.

Your son in law is your daughter’s husband

Your sister in law your wife’s or husband’s sister, or your brother’s wife.

Reading.

A family of friends.
Read the article and answer the question:

1. In what way does Watters’s circle of friend’s function as a family?

Watters’s circle of friend stared meeting for dinner every Thursday night. And then they began functioning as a
family.
2. According to the article, what are some difference between a tribe and a family?
The article says that the members of the tribe can change, but the members of the family never change.
3. How does a group of fiends become a tribe?
A group of friend became a tribe when the members treat each other like a family.
4. What are some advantages and disadvantages of relying on fiends for family-like support?
I think that one of the advantages is that you have someone, besides your family, to rely on. And the disadvantage
is that they can change.
5. Do you consider yourself a member of a modern tribe? Why and why not?

No , because I don’t treat my friends as a family members.