Unit 5

Parents and Children

 Vocabularies
Challenges Rewards
• Challenging • Amazing
• Crazy • Exciting
• Exhausting
• Fun
• Expensive
• Incredible
• Noisy
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• Life –changing
Relentless - persistent
• Stressful • Miraculous
• Underestimated-underate • Rewarding
• Unpredictable
 Metaphors: relationship
Good relationship Ending relationship
• Close family • Split up /broke up
• Inseparable • Separated
• Strong bond • Cracks appeared
• All very attached each other • Caused deep division
 Names
• A nickname is an informal name that your friends or family call you.
• Unisex names are for both men and women.
• A pseudonym is a false name that someone uses.
• A middle name is a second name that some people have between
their first and family name
• A stage name is like pseudonym , for actors.
• Patronymics is the system in which children are given their father’s
name (or possibly their grandfather's or earlier male ancestor’s
name), usually with a suffix added , eg if the father’s name is
William, then the son’s name might be will+son=Willson
• In matronymics, the mother’s name, grandmother's name or
earlier female ancestor's name is used.
• A maiden name is the original family name of a woman who now
uses her husband's family name.
 Will for present habits
• We can use will to talk about general truth and regular actions and habits
in the present.
Crops won’t grow with out sufficient water.
In the week we’ll eat things like pasta and rice dishes and at the weekend
we’ll cook meals that take more time.
We often use the adverbs of frequency such as usually, often and
sometimes with this meaning of will.
On a Sunday he will always go to the same café. He will usually order
coffee and he will read a newspaper.
On spoken English we can also use will to criticise or express disapproval of
regular habits. When will is used like this, it is stressed.
Those children will keep banging the door.
She will watch TV late at night and fall asleep on the sofa.
He just won’t listen.
 Used to would and past simple
• We use both used to and would to talk about repeated actions or habits in
the past that don’t happen now.
I used to drink lots of milk as a child. I wouldn’t drink juice.
Would is not very common in questions with this use.
We use used to to talk about habitual states in the past. We don’t use would
to talk about habitual states.
I would love ice cream.(wrong)
I used to love ice cream.
We use the past simple to talk about one event at a specific time in the past.
We also use the past simple to talk about something that happened at a
fixed number of times or for a fixed length of time.
He bought an ice cream. (one time)
He bought me an ice cream three times.(several times)
He bought me ice creams all summer.(=for a fixed length of time)
He would buy me an ice cream every weekend. (=regular action)
 Adjectives to describe taste and texture
• crunchy: making loud noise
• Dry - waterless
• smooth
• Bitter- sour
• Delicious- tasty
• Spicy- hot /peppery
• bland: not having strong taste
• Chewy – rubbery
• Disgusting- horrible
• Greasy- oily or slippery
• lumpy: containing lamps(a piece of a solid substance , usually with not
particular shape. Eg . a sugar lamp)
• Soggy: unpleasantly wet
• Sour- bitter
• Sticky- muggy
 Prefixes with self-
• Self-centred- tend to ignore the needs of others
• Self –conscious – overly concerned about his
own actions
• Self –control
• Self –righteous
• Self-pity
• Self –respect
 Changing the topic
• Speaking of….
• That reminds me ...
• By the way…..
• Before I forget….
• I have just remembered something….