Vocabulary building

Unit eight: dangerous gossip

Try your hand at answering all of these trick questions.

1. What can one catch that is not thrown? _________________________

2. If a plane crashes on the border between the United States and Canada, where do they bury the survivors?
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3. Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister? _________________________
4. How could a man go outside in the pouring rain without protection, and not have a hair on his head get wet?
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5. What goes up and down, but always remains in the same place?  _________________________
6. What is it that goes up, but never comes down?  _________________________
7. What has a head, a tail, but does not have a body?  _________________________
8. Why are movie stars considered cool?  _________________________
9. What is full of holes but can still hold water? _________________________
10. What can you hold without ever touching or using your hands?  _________________________

Speaking

SUPPORTING YOUR OPINION (cont.)

TOPIC: DANGEROUS GOSSIP? (Inside Listening & Speaking 3, pp. 92, pp. 96)

Is gossip ever healthy?

 Claim 1: (Well) Personally, I suppose.../ I believe…/ From my observation,…/ In my experience,…______
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__________________Supporting claim 1: (Illustrate/ Explain/ Expand)
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 Claim 2:
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__________________Supporting claim 2: (Illustrate/ Explain/ Expand)
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Can one piece of gossip change a person’s opinion of someone else?

 Claim 1: Yes, definitely/ absolutely/ certainly/ obviously,…
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__________________Supporting claim 1: (Illustrate/ Explain/ Expand)
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 Claim 2:
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__________________Supporting claim 2: (Illustrate/ Explain/ Expand)
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