Unit 4 Page 35 Lesson A3B

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1. Listening and speaking

Reasonable demands?

B. Listen to the four people above talk about their parents’ demands. Each conversation is incomplete. What demand is each person talking about? Match.

1. Emma:

My parents have a bottled water business.

A what?

A bottled water business. You know, they sell all different kinds of bottled water.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Well, that sounds interesting.

Yeah, so they want me to get involved in that, too. Be part of it. Like my mom wants me to learn more about bottled water and everything, but I’m not really into it. I guess I could learn. Mom says she’ll teach me all about it when I finish college. She really wants me to…

1. Robert:

I’m in medical school. This is my third year. It’s good, but it’s pretty difficult, you know.

Uh-huh.

There’s a lot to do. I never seem to have much time.

Sure.

And this year I have to work long hours at the hospital, so I don’t really have much time for anything else. My parents are always complaining because they don’t see me very much. I mean, I go home every holiday, so that’s OK, but they want me to…

1. Julia

I really have to do some thinking about what I’m going to do with my life.

Yeah.

You see, I want to go out and see the world before I’m too old. I’ve never really been anywhere…

Uh-huh. What do your parents think about that? I mean, don’t they want you to get your degree first?

No, they’re OK with it. They pretty much let me make my own decisions. The only thing they worry about is that maybe they won’t have grandchildren, you know, that I’ll never get married and have kids. So, one day they want me to…

1. Justin:

I think I’m going to move back to New York.

Uh-huh. Your family lives there, right?

Yeah. I’d like to be nearer my parents. They’re getting older, you know, and I want to live a bit closer.

That’s nice.

Yeah, I’d like to be like an hour’s drive from their house or something. Uh, I mean, I told my mom I was thinking of coming back to New York, and she said, “Oh great. There are some great apartments around here!” And I said, :Mom, I didn’t mean I was going to be your neighbor!” But, actually, I think they’d really like me to…