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Unit 8 Lesson 5
Getting along with
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• discussed the necessity of having neighbours
• read about and identified different types of neighbours
• talked about your own neighbours
• described people's habits
A All of us have neighbours whether we live in big cities, small towns or villages. Do you think neighbours are important in any way? Discuss what you think in pairs.
B Neighbours can be of different types. Look at the following types, (a) Cross out the types that you don't want to have as your neighbours, (b) Which ones among the following are opposite kinds? Can you think of any other types?
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C Read the descriptions of some neighbours below. What type would you call them? Write their type under each passage (you can write more than one type for each if you consider it appropriate).
D Write down the type of person below each in the blank space.
1 Mrs Alim loves to gossip. She lives in an apartment block. There are five more families in the building. She has an experienced cook, so she doesn't have to do any cooking. Almost every day around eleven o'clock, she goes to visit one of her neighbours in the other apartments, mostly to gossip. Most of the housewives she visits do not have much house help and they use this time to cook, clean or t o other household chores. But Mrs Alim doesn't seem to be bothered. She also doesn't mind discussing the personal matters of one family with another.
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2 Asghar's family lives next door to Fahim's. Asghar lives with his parents and a younger brother, Shiblu who is ten years old. His mother is a school teacher and is away from home from 7:30 a.m. till 2:30 p.m. His father comes home at 5 o' clock. Sometimes Asghar comes back from the college at 1 in the afternoon. On those days his mother leaves the keys of the house with Fahim's mother so that Asghar can collect them from her whenever he comes back.
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3 Riaz is fed up with his next door neighbours. His bedroom is very close to theirs. Every time he sits down to study in the evening there comes the blaring sound of the television from the house next door. It seems that the TV is kept on the whole evening. It becomes very difficult for him to concentrate on his studies. In winter he can bear it by keeping his window closed but in summer it gets too hot and stuffy if the window is kept closed. So he is compelled to put up with the disturbance from next door.
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4 Farhana lives in the small town of Sherpur with her parents. Their house is not
very big and they don't have much furniture. So every time they have a party
her family burrows chairs from their neighbour's house which they happily
lend. Sometimes they also help her mother with cooking on special occasions.
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5 Mr Farid iff very annoyed with his neighbour, Mr Chowdhury. He hasn't got a phone in his house so he used to use Mr Chowdhury's telephone number for receiving emergency messages. But when he started getting frequent messages, Mr Chowdhury told him that there wasn't anybody in his house to convey messages and that this practice could not continue.
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E Discuss in pairs the neighbours you have. What kind are they?
F Write a description of any one of the neighbours described by your partner.
Focus:
Skills.
Reading,
speaking,
writing.
Functions.
Describing habits.
Grammar/Structure.
Simple present tense.
Vocabulary.
nosy, blaring, fed up, keen on.
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Unit 8 Lesson 5
Getting along with
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• discussed the necessity of having neighbours
• read about and identified different types of neighbours
• talked about your own neighbours
• described people's habits
A All of us have neighbours whether we live in big cities, small towns or villages. Do you think neighbours are important in any way? Discuss what you think in pairs.
B Neighbours can be of different types. Look at the following types, (a) Cross out the types that you don't want to have as your neighbours, (b) Which ones among the following are opposite kinds? Can you think of any other types?
Picture
C Read the descriptions of some neighbours below. What type would you call them? Write their type under each passage (you can write more than one type for each if you consider it appropriate).
D Write down the type of person below each in the blank space.
1 Mrs Alim loves to gossip. She lives in an apartment block. There are five more families in the building. She has an experienced cook, so she doesn't have to do any cooking. Almost every day around eleven o'clock, she goes to visit one of her neighbours in the other apartments, mostly to gossip. Most of the housewives she visits do not have much house help and they use this time to cook, clean or t o other household chores. But Mrs Alim doesn't seem to be bothered. She also doesn't mind discussing the personal matters of one family with another.
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2 Asghar's family lives next door to Fahim's. Asghar lives with his parents and a younger brother, Shiblu who is ten years old. His mother is a school teacher and is away from home from 7:30 a.m. till 2:30 p.m. His father comes home at 5 o' clock. Sometimes Asghar comes back from the college at 1 in the afternoon. On those days his mother leaves the keys of the house with Fahim's mother so that Asghar can collect them from her whenever he comes back.
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3 Riaz is fed up with his next door neighbours. His bedroom is very close to theirs. Every time he sits down to study in the evening there comes the blaring sound of the television from the house next door. It seems that the TV is kept on the whole evening. It becomes very difficult for him to concentrate on his studies. In winter he can bear it by keeping his window closed but in summer it gets too hot and stuffy if the window is kept closed. So he is compelled to put up with the disturbance from next door.
Type: ------------------------------------------------
4 Farhana lives in the small town of Sherpur with her parents. Their house is not
very big and they don't have much furniture. So every time they have a party
her family burrows chairs from their neighbour's house which they happily
lend. Sometimes they also help her mother with cooking on special occasions.
Type: ------------------------------------------------
5 Mr Farid iff very annoyed with his neighbour, Mr Chowdhury. He hasn't got a phone in his house so he used to use Mr Chowdhury's telephone number for receiving emergency messages. But when he started getting frequent messages, Mr Chowdhury told him that there wasn't anybody in his house to convey messages and that this practice could not continue.
Type: ------------------------------------------------
E Discuss in pairs the neighbours you have. What kind are they?
F Write a description of any one of the neighbours described by your partner.
Focus:
Skills.
Reading,
speaking,
writing.
Functions.
Describing habits.
Grammar/Structure.
Simple present tense.
Vocabulary.
nosy, blaring, fed up, keen on.