Touchstone 3

Unit 4

Family life
 Lesson A Family gripes
• gripe: a strong complaint
• drama: a play in a theatre or on television or radio,
or plays and acting generally
• pressuring (v): to try to force someone to do
something
• embarrassing (adj.): feeling ashamed or shy
• irritating: making you feel annoyed
• a backseat driver: a passenger in a car who
continuously tells the driver how they should drive
• junk food: food that is unhealthy but is quick and
easy to eat
• demand (n): a strong request
 1 Getting started A
1. Rob can’t use his parents’ car. He has to ask
them to drive him everywhere.
2. Kanako’s parents are always pressuring her
about school. They want her to study law.
She wants to study drama.
3. Luis has to be home before 11:00. His parents
won’t let him stay out late. They always make
him come home before 11:00.
4. Paulo thinks his kids watch too much TV. He
tries to have them do their homework before
dinner, but they usually watch TV instead.
5. Jong’s kids don’t help with the housework.
She can’t even get them to clean up their
own rooms.

6. Joanna’s husband holds the remote when

they’re watching TV. He never lets her
have it.

7. Chuck’s wife is nervous about driving.

She’s always telling him to slow down.
 1 Getting started B
1. Rob’s parents don’t want him to use the car.

2. Luis’s parents make him come home before

11:00.
3. Paulo can’t get his kids to do their homework
before dinner.

4. Jong’s kids won’t help her clean the house.

5. Chuck’s wife always asks him to slow down,
even when he’s not driving fast.
 2 Grammar A
1. When I was a kid, my parents never let me
walk / go to school by myself.
2. My parents made me go to bed at 8:00.
3. My mother couldn’t get me to eat any
vegetables.

4. My sister never lets me use / play games on

her computer.

5. My parents want me to spend more time with

them.
6. My wife’s always telling me to get more
exercise.

7. I always have my husband cook / make

breakfast on the weekends.
8. I think kids should help their parents (to)
clean the house.

3 Listening and speaking C

1. c 2. d 3. a 4. b
 Lesson B Family memories
• pocket: a small bag for carrying things in, which is
made of cloth and sewn into the inside or onto the
outside of a piece of clothing
• niece: the daughter of your brother or sister, or the
daughter of your husband's or wife's brother or sister
• nephew: the son of your brother or sister, or the son
of your husband's or wife's brother or sister
• gigantic: extremely big
• cousins: the child of your aunt or uncle
• crawl: to move slowly or with difficulty, especially (of
a person) with the body stretched out along the
ground or on hands and knees
• extended family: a family unit which includes
grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts and uncles, etc.
in addition to parents and children
• blended: to mix or combine together
• got divorced: to end your marriage by an
official or legal process
• immediate family: includes your closest
family members, such as your parents,
children, husband or wife, and brothers and
sisters
• stepfather: the man who is married to
someone's mother but who is not their real
father
• hide-and-seek: a children's game in which
a group of children hide in secret places and
then one child has to go to look for them
• broccoli: a vegetable with a thick green
stem and a tree-like dark green top
• tease (v): to laugh at
someone or say unkind
things about them, either
because you are joking or
because you want to upset
them

• tic-tac-toe: a game in which

two players take turns putting
O's or X's in a pattern of nine
squares, trying to get three O's
or X's in a straight line
1 Building vocabulary and grammar B
Immediate family Extended family
great- great-
father mother
grandfather grandmother
brother sister grandfather grandmother
husband wife uncle aunt
son daughter cousin cousin
nephew niece
brother-in-law sister-in-law
 Blended family

stepfather stepmother

stepbrother stepsister

stepson stepdaughter

half brother half sister

1 Building vocabulary and grammar C
• The activities and situations are finished.

Mi Soon: used to keep, she’d always give, used

to tease

Claudia: used to come over, would crawl

Melik: used to live, used to go over, we’d play

John: used to love, used to play, we would

always win
 Lesson C If you ask me, …
• definitely: without any doubt; certainly
• absolutely: used for adding force to a strong
adjective which is not usually used with 'very',
or to a verb expressing strong emotion
• get into trouble: causes oneself or other falls
into problem or trouble
• be involved: to include someone or
something in something, or to make them take
part in or feel part of it
• incomes: money that is earned from doing
work or received from investments
 2 Strategy plus

1. B Definitely. 2. B I agree.
A That’s true. A Absolutely.

3. B Oh, I know. 4. B That’s for sure.

A Exactly. A You’re right.
 Lesson D Childhood memories
• safety devices: a piece of equipment that is
used for a safe purpose
• implemented (v): to put a plan or system into
operation
• recall: to bring the memory of a past event
into your mind, and often to give a
description of what you remember
• yelled: to shout something or make a loud
noise, usually when you are angry, in pain
or excited
• inevitably: in a way that cannot be avoided
• athletic: strong, healthy and good at sports
• tag: a game played by two or more children in
which one child chases the others and tries to
touch one of them. This child then becomes
the one who does the chasing
• frustrated (adj.): to make someone feel
annoyed or discouraged because they cannot
achieve what they want
• sibling bonding:
• knee: the middle joint of the leg,
which allows it to bend
• roller-skate:

• helmets: a strong hard hat that covers and

protects the head
• knee pads: a piece of soft
thick cloth or rubber which
is used to protect a part of
your knee

• wrist guards:
 1 Reading C
1. d [Second paragraph: I’m surprised my mom
never really implemented a policy.]
2. e [Second paragraph: She kind of left it up to
us.]

3. a [Second paragraph: Once in a while, she

would put her foot down and make us take
turns.]

4. f [Second paragraph: Otherwise, it was a

free-for-all.]
5. c [Fourth paragraph: So, we’d argue about it
until one of us gave in, …]

6. b [Fifth paragraph: For my brother and me,

fighting over the front seat was an important
part of our sibling bonding.]
 1 Reading D
1. False. Rhonda and her brother usually
decided who would ride in the front seat.

2. True
3. False. If Rhonda yelled “I call the front!”
outside the house, she could ride in front.

4. False. Rhonda’s brother would usually touch

the car before Rhonda.

5. True
 2 Listening and writing A
  
(cook a meal) (go on vacation) (go to the movies)

2 Listening and writing B

1. Now they have cable and satellite TV, so they
stay home.
2. The kids are older. They don’t want to go on
vacation with their mom and dad. They would
rather hang out with their friends.
3. She’s too tired these days. She doesn’t have
time.
 Vocabulary notebook
• moustache: hair which a man grows above his
upper lip

• adopted: to take another person's child into

your own family and legally raise him or her as
your own child
• ex-husband: A woman's ex-husband is a man
that she was married to but is not now married to
• separated: to divide into parts, or to make
something divide into parts
 1
was interested in old cars.

used to drink milk.

had a beard.

used to ear a brown hat.

always listened to the radio.