Basic vocabulary in use part 18

56 Leisure at home TV, radio, music, video I watch TV every evening.. What programs do you like best on TV and radio?. Hobbies/activities at home A lot of kids / young people play co

56 Leisure at home

TV, radio, music, video

I watch TV every evening (zot I see TV.)

Did you watch/see the movie about John F, Kennedy?

I listen to the radio every morning (ot I heas the radio.)

What programs do you like best on TV and radio?

I like watching movies on TV (or I like to watch )

I like listening to music on the radio (or I like to listen )

I often listen to CDs or tapes when I am relaxing

On weekends, we usually watch a video

Hobbies/activities at home

A lot of kids / young people play computer games

every day

Do you use the Internet? / Are you on the Internet?

I really like cooking

Do you like gardening?

We grow flowers and vegetables in our garden

I live in an apartment I don’t have a garden, but I

have a lot of house plants

Reading

I read a lot at home

What do you read?

I read novels [long stories]

Llike books about nature / different countries

I like magazines about rock music, computers, and sports

Do you read the newspaper every day?

Time with other people

Sometimes we invite friends over / we have friends over

[We ask them to come to our home.]

I often have people over / have friends over for dinner

My best friend stays over sometimes

[sleeps in my house/apartment]

I talk to my friends on the phone every evening

or I call my friends every evening

Just relaxing

Sometimes, I just do nothing

I like to take a nap after lunch

[a short sleep, usually during the day]

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Exercises

What are these people doing?

F

ill in the missing verbs

Sometimes I listen to CDs or tapes

Ì to my sister on the phone every Sunday

Some people like to a nap after lunch

Do you ever friends over for dinner?

The children computer games every evening

Do you want to a video tonight?

Did you the TV program about China yesterday?

My father vegetables in his garden

Answer these questions about yourself

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If you have friends over, what do you like to do?

Does anyone stay over at your house/apartment?

What do you like to read most?

How often do you call your friends?

Interesting or boring? Put these leisure activities in order, from most

interesting to most boring, in your opinion

gardening cooking reading using the Internet

istening to music doing nothing watching videos

SW Crime

A crime is an action that is against the law People who commit [do] serious crimes are called criminals

Crimes, criminals, and verbs

Crime Description Criminal Verb robbery steal from a person or a | a robber to rob somebody; to

place (e.g., a bank) rob a place (e.g., to rob

a bank)

burglary enter a place with force | a burglar to burglarize a place;

[break in] in order to to break into a home steal

theft steal something (e.g., a thief (a to steal something

a car, jewels) car thief, a

jewel thief) shoplifting | steal from a store a shoplifter | to shoplift; to steal

while pretending to be things from a store

a customer

There was a burglary at the school during the night

Burglars broke into the building after midnight

There was a robbery at the bank this morning

A robber robs a person or a place

That bank was robbed yesterday

My friend was robbed at the shopping mall

A thief steals something

Somebody stole my bicycle (not Somebody zebbed my bicycle.)

I was robbed at the shopping mall yesterday (zot I was stelen.) E> The law

A student was arrested for shoplifting this morning

The police came to the school and spoke to the principal

The student has to go to court next week

If she is guilty, she will have to pay a fine

If she is innocent, she can go home

I don’t think she will go to prison

qe Other crime problems

Some vandals broke the store windows

[people who break and damage things]

We have a lot of vandalism in my city

Computer hackers illegally take or change information

on someone else’s computer Hacking can be dangerous

Speeding can lead to disaster [driving a car faster than the legal speed limit]

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Exercises 57

What do you call

a person who steals cars? a car thief

a person who walks into a bank and steals money?

a person who steals things from stores while pretending to be a shopper?

a person who breaks into people’s houses and apartments to steal?

a person who steals jewels?

Fill in the blanks

1 The police officer arrested him for shoplifting

2 Some\v destroyed all the flowers in the park

3 The police stopped her for s She was doing 80 mph where the

speed limit was 5S

4 He had to pay aÊ of $50 for parking his car in the wrong place

5 The police made a mistake; she wasi She did not steal the

money

6 There are a lotofb in this part of the city, so always close the

windows and lock the door

7 Acomputer he was sent to prison for stealing credit card

information on the Internet

What do you think should happen to these people? Choose from the list

(a — i) on the right If you do not like the choices in the list, what do you

think should happen to them?

1 A student with no money stole a book from _ a fine of $100

a bookstore b 30 years in prison

2 A man was driving 90 mph and crashed his c six months in prison

car, killing two people d the death penalty

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3 A woman parked her car and blocked traffic e must work in a hospital

4 A teenager broke some lights in the park for six months

5 Arich woman was caught shoplifting f must not drive a car for

at a jewelry store a year

6 Burglars broke into a home, stealing g prison for life

a TV, cash, and some watches h five years in prison

i must do community service [work in the community without pay]

What do you think? Put all the crimes on page 116 in a list, from least

serious to most serious

Choose five or six words on page 116 and use them to make your own

sentences

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& 60 The media

TV and radio programs

The news is on TV/ on the radio at 6 o’clock every night [a report about important things that have happened recently] (zot The news are on TV.)

Do you watch soap operas / soaps? Days of Our Lives is my favorite [Soap operas are continuing dramatic stories about a group of people.|

I like nature programs best [programs about animals, birds, etc ]

I watched a documentary last night about immigration [a program that gives information about a topic, based on facts]

On talk shows, famous people talk to a host about their lives

The children watch cartoons on Saturday mornings [programs with drawings

that move.] (See Unit 55.)

I always watch sports programs and movies on TV

Newspapers and magazines

In most countries there are morning newspapers and afternoon or

evening newspapers

Every week/month, I buy a magazine

My mother buys women’s magazines

I like news magazines like Newsweek and Time

My little brother buys comics / comic books [magazines with stories

told in pictures]

Other types of magazines: sports magazines / computer magazines / teen

magazines / fashion magazines (See Unit 56.)

Media and technology

Do you have satellite TV?

How many channels do you get? We get 25

You can read some newspapers on the Internet

satellite dish | computer

People and the media

There was an interview with the President on TV last night

Reporters are outside Zelda Glitzy’s house [people whose job is to discover information about news events and describe them for newspapers, TY, etc |]

My sister is a journalist; she writes for The Valley newspaper [person who

writes news stories and articles for newspapers, magazines, TV, etc |

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Exercises 58

Fill in the blanks with words from page 118

1 The news !9 on Channel 3 at 9 o’clock every night

2 There wasa about air pollution on TV last night

3 Some people read magazines to get ideas about clothing

4 Isawa program about birds in Antarctica

$ My sister is 14; she reads magazines every week She likes the

love stories

With my computer Ï can get the sports news on the

Most young children don’t read newspapers; they prefer to read NO

Match the left-hand column with the right-hand column Draw lines

a movie star talks about his family life a international news

movie about elephants in Africa b sports program

soccer cup final c soap opera

reports from all over the world d nature program

Maria decides to marry John (again) e talk show

What can you find in these magazines? Match the left-hand column with

the right-hand column Draw lines

1 acomputer magazine a articles about health, diet, family

2 a women’s magazine b pictures of pop music stars

3 anews magazine c news about the Internet

4 a teen magazine d interviews with politicians

What do you call

1 a person who discovers information and describes it for newspapers, TV,

etc? a reporter

a person who writes articles in newspapers and magazines?

a newspaper you can buy every day after about 5 p.m.?

a magazine that children read, with cartoon pictures?

a TV program with factual information, sometimes analyzing problems in

society?

Answer these questions about yourself

1 Do you read a morning, afternoon, or evening newspaper?

2 How many TV channels do you get?

3 How many hours of TV do you watch every day?

4 What are your favorite kinds of TV programs? your favorite radio shows?

Write a paragraph about the media in your country Use words from

page 118

59 Everyday problems

At home

The TV isn’t working Can you repair/fix it?

The washing machine is broken We need to repair/fix it

The plants are dying

Did you forget to water them?

The room is messy I have to clean it up / clean up the room

Ilost my keys Will you help me look for them?

You cut your finger You should

put on a Band-Aid

[ say “I’m sorry.” ]

At work

Carla had a bad day at work yesterday First, she was

late for work

She had too much work to do

[more work than she could do]

Her co-worker was in a bad mood

[felt angry or sad]

Her computer crashed

[The computer stopped working |

Tip: When you need to make a list of things to do, make it in English, e.g.:

Fix my bike Waterthe plants Clean up my desk.