Unit 3 Page 27 Lesson C3A

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3: listening and speaking

Away from home

A: listen to Frances talking about being away from home

How would she answer these questions?

Do your parents miss you?

Yes, and I miss them.

But they really miss me ….

It’s harder for them because I’m gone.

I’m busy right now, you know, with all my classes and my college work.

They’re like… they’re still in the same place, at home, but something’s missing.

I think they miss doing things with me.

Right. Of course. It must be hard for them.

Yeah. I’m looking - I mean, I’m already looking forward to going home for the holidays.

I miss my parents, but I’m not at all homesick.

That’s different.

I think they’re homesick for me!

Uh-huh.

Which makes me sad.

I don’t want them to miss me, but of course they do.

But I talk to them every day.

We’re very, very close.

I write my dad page-long e-mails every day.

That’s nice.

I bet he likes that.

Yeah.

I’ll always miss them.

I’ll miss them when I’m sixty!

Do you miss anything else?

About home?

Simple things like, you know, being able to have twenty-minute showers, and urn, not having to do my own laundry.

Yeah, right.

And just … my mother - she’s opening her own antique shop right now, actually, and she and I would, we used to do things like just drive around and suddenly come across an antique shop and then go exploring inside ….

That sounds like fun!

And my father and I really loved going for car rides, like taking short trips, and sometimes we’d just drive to Lake City, which is only an hour away, but it’s beautiful.

Uh-huh.

That kind of thing.

Little things.

Uh-huh.

You know. Playing video games with my brother, or having him beat me at chess, or fighting with him about something-you know, just things like that.

I do miss that a lot.

I never thought I’d miss my brother, but I guess l do, a bit.

Uh-huh.

I know what you mean.