[00:31.74]Listen to the descriptions of Jenny,Nick,Matt,and Kirsty.Decide who’s who.
[00:40.52]Kirsty?She’s really interesting.She’s quite sporty and musical as well.
[00:48.67]She plays the piano a lot.She’s actually quite good.
[00:53.73]She’s in her twenties and has got lovely shoulder-length blonde hair.
[01:00.08]You’d like Nick.He’s really nice.He’s very easy-going.
[01:07.06]He’s got a great sense of humour.He’s only thirty-five.
[01:13.01]He’s got really short hair-shaved,I think.
[01:18.16]He’s very interested in photography and arty things.
[01:23.44]Jenny is in her forties.She’s really energetic sort of person-always doing things.
[01:31.69]She’s got a very warm personality and enjoys helping other people.
[01:37.15]She has short,dark hair and dark eyes.
[01:42.48]Matt is still at university.
[01:47.31]He’s really friendly and is one of the most popular I know.
[01:52.88]He’s very hard-working and serious,but he’s also a lot of fun.
[01:58.73]He’s got fair hair and he wears glasses.
[02:03.48]2 Pronunciation
[02:10.46]Listen to the stress s and intonation of these examples.
[02:16.31]It’s quite expensive.
[02:21.56]It’s quite expensive.
[02:25.03]Listen to these examples.Each is said in two different ways.
[02:31.28]1.I live quite near the office.
[02:39.63]2.She’s quite nice.
[02:47.39]3.He’s quite a good cook.
[02:56.14]4.We’re quite happy with the colour.
[03:03.51]5.He’s quite friendly.
[03:11.97]6.I think they’re quite conservative.
[03:21.12]7.The weather was quite good.
[03:29.66]8.It’s quiet interesting.
[03:36.53]2 While you listen The Brother from Hell!
[03:47.40]I can’t remember.Do you take mile?
[03:51.65]Please,but no sugar.Thanks.It’s weird,you know,
[03:57.51]but I’ve been to your house three times now,and I still haven’t met your parents.
[04:03.28]Yes,they’re out a lot.My dad works for the BBC and my mum’s a ,
[04:09.84]she does sort of temping work for a company,
[04:14.20]You know,like an advertising agency.They’re both really busy.
[04:19.84]Oh,they sound really interesting.
[04:23.50]Do you think so?I find my dad a bit dull,to be honest.
[04:29.27]He works late every day,even works some weekends,doesn’t read,doesn’t go out.
[04:36.32]I mean,don’t get me wrong,he’s quite nice,but I don’t know,
[04:41.65]I just don’t have anything to say to him.
[04:45.81]I think the things is,we just don’t spend enough time together.
[04:50.66]How old is he,then?
[04:53.72]About fifty-five,I think.I can never really remember. Oh,yeah.
[04:59.89]But my mum’s lovely,She’s really nice,
[05:04.43]a bit too nice though,sometimes,always trying to look after me.
[05:10.49]She worries about me leaving home.
[05:14.33]She’s a bit over-protective,if you know what I mean.
[05:18.56]I’m an only child,so..Oh,I didn’t know that.
[05:23.29]What?You mean you can’t tell!
[05:27.26]I don’t know.I’ve never thought about it. I suppose.
[05:32.30]So,what about you?Have you got any brothers or sisters yourself?
[05:37.95]Yes,I’ve got one of each,actually.
[05:41.71]Oh right.Older or youger?
[05:45.55]My sister’s two or three years younger than me,but my brother’s quite a lot older.
[05:51.32]He’s about forty now.
[05:54.48]Do you get on with them all right?You haven’t really talked about them very much.
[06:00.33]Well,my brother,not that well,actually.
[06:05.90]He’s different from me,a bit old-fashioned,a bit traditional.
[06:11.83]Well,actually,he’s a bit,how can I put it,right-wing.
[06:17.89]You know-things aren’t what they used to be,more police,
[06:23.82]death penalty-that kind of thing.He’s a bit of a fool,actually.
[06:29.75]Oh,well,it takes all sorts,I suppose.But my sister,she’s great.We get on really well.
[06:37.32]We’ve got the same kind of sense of humour.
[06:41.37]Just a pity about the brother from hell,eh? Yes,Oh,but he’s not that bad.
[06:48.42]We get on all right,as long as you steer clear of certain topics.
[06:53.88]Anyway,you were telling me about your parents.
[06:58.14]Oh,there’s not much to tell,actually.
[07:03.60]3 Emphasising Listen to the six sentences above,and practise saying them.
[07:14.86]It was really cold and really windy.
[07:20.03]She’s very nice,very interesting.
[07:25.28]It was extremely long and extremely boring.
[07:30.64]He’s a bit strange,a bit weird.
[07:35.92]He’s a bit old-fashioned,a bit traditional.
[07:41.87]It was really scary,really frightening.
[07:47.83]2 While you read FULL-TIME JOB!
[07:58.17]Every English-speaking child knows the nursery rhyme about the old woman with lots of children:
[08:05.33]There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
[08:10.48]She had so many children she didn’t know what to do.
[08:15.23]Nicola Pridam must understand the old woman’s predicament very well.
[08:22.00]She’s expecting her twentieth child and she’s only forty!
[08:28.26]She and her husband Kevin already have twelve sons and seven daughters.
[08:35.40]Kevin Pridham is a self-employed builder,
[08:40.96]but what he earns is not enough to feed and clothe their large family.
[08:46.60]Every week their grocery bill comes to $400.
[08:52.98]They go through thirty-five loaves of bread
[08:57.70]and twently-five boxes of breakfast cereal per week.
[09:02.54]If you have a chird in Britain today,
[09:06.98]researchers have shown that it will cost you almost $100 per week
[09:13.53]when you take into consideration food,clothes,pocket money
[09:19.28]and all the other expenses involved in bringing up children.
[09:24.24]Before they are eighteen you will have spent almost $100,000 per child.
[09:32.19]This means that Nicola and Kevin will have to find two million pounds!
[09:39.55]You can be fairly sure that the Pridham children will be handing clothes down to each other
[09:46.40]and doing odd jobs to provide themselves with pocket money.
