Touchstone 3

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Touchstone 3

• Unit 7
• Relationships

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Lesson A Circle of friends

• freak a thing, person, animal or event that is
  extremely unusual or unlikely and not like any
  other of its type
• organize to plan or arrange something
• keep in touch with to communicate or continue to
  communicate with someone by using a telephone or
  writing to them

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1 Getting started B

• 1. Jen plays in a rock band thats really hot
  right now,
• 2. Nina is an interesting woman who sits across
  from me at work.
• 3. Angela / Shes a new friend I met through
  Mike.

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2 Grammar A

• Note ( ) indicates that the pronouns can be
  omitted
• 1. I have a friend who / that calls me a lot to
  talk about her problems.
• 2. I made some new friends at a club that / which
  organizes hiking trips and things like that.
• 3. My best friend has a guitar (that / which) she
  bought from a rock star.

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• 4. I know someone who / that has a big party once
  a year for all his friends.
• 5. I have a really interesting friend (who /
  that) I met at my health club.
• 6. I found this cool Web site that / which helps
  you find your old school friends.

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Lesson B Dating

• write back to reply to someone's letter
• (it) turned out (that) turn out to to happen
  in a particular way, or to have a particular
  result
• hung out to spend a lot of time in a place or
  with someone
• going out to have a romantic and usually sexual
  relationship with someone

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• get along have a good relationship
• settle down with to start living in a place
  where you intend to stay for a long time, usually
  with a partner
• signed up to arrange to take part in an
  activity
• immediately now or without waiting or thinking
  about something
• work out to happen or develop in a particular way

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• long-distance relationship peoples
  relationships travel a long way, or separated by
  a long distance
• break up to end a personal or business
  relationship 
• moved away to go to a different place to live or
  work
• came back to return to a place
• attend to go officially and usually regularly to
  a place

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1 Building vocabulary and grammar A

• 1. Steve and Anna grew up
• 2. After they graduated,
• 3. But the long-distance relationship didnt work
  out,
• 4. When Steve was 35,
• 5. He discovered that
• 6. When they saw each other,

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1 B

• 1. Steve and Anna grew up in the same town.
• 2. Steve and Anna started going out.
• 3. Anna went away to college.
• 4. Steve and Anna decided to break up.

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1 C

• along get along
• away go away, move away
• back come back, fly back, write back
• down settle down
• up break up, grow up, sign up
• out go out, hang out, turn out, work out

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2 Grammar A

• 1. Its more fun to go out with someone you know
  than to go on a blind date.
• 2. If you dont get along well with your
  boyfriends or girlfriends family, your
  relationship wont work out.
• 3. Its good to date a lot of different people
  before you settle down with one person.

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• 4. After you break up with someone, you should
  try and stay friends.
• 5. You should never go back to someone youve
  broken up with.
• 6. If you want to meet someone, its a good idea
  to sign up for a class.

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Lesson C Theyre probably just busy.

• weird very strange and unusual, unexpected or
  not natural
• sort of in some way or to some degree
• ignore to pay no attention to something or
  someone
• stressed out (adj.) worried and anxious
• annoyed (adj.) angry

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• nosy always trying to find out private things
  about other people
• irritating making you feel annoyed
• socialize with to spend time enjoying yourself
  with other people
• incredibly extremely
• look forward to (ing) to feel happy and excited
  about something that is going to happen

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1 Conversation strategy B

• 1. My neighbors are a little bit unfriendly.
  Maybe they think theyre better than everybody
  else.
• 2. The people next door go to bed kind of early.
  They sort of get annoyed when I have parties.

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• 3. The people across the street are always
  looking out of their window. They seem a little
  nosy. (I guess) they dont have anything better
  to do (I guess).
• 4. The guy above me plays the drums a bit too
  loud. It gets kind of noisy.
• 5. One of my neighbors is always coming over.
  Its irritating, in a way. I think shes probably
  just lonely.

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2 Strategy plus A

• 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

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a
d
b
e
3 Listening and speaking A
1. 2. 3.
friendly
demanding
strict
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3 B

• 1. Its nice to see her friendly face.
• 2. He makes the class fun.
• 3. Hes really good at explaining things.

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Lesson D Old friends

• reunion an occasion when people who have not met
  each other for a long time meet again
• supervisor a person whose job is to supervise
  someone or something
• figure out to finally understand something or
  someone after a lot of thought
• profitable making or likely to make a profit

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• subscriber someone who subscribes to a product,
  service or organization
• original not the same as anything or anyone else
  and therefore special and interesting
• registered to put information about someone or
  something, especially a name, on an official list
• launch to begin something such as a plan or
  introduce something new such as a product

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• lose touch to stop communicating with someone,
  usually because they do not live near you now
• visitor someone who accesses a web site on the
  Internet
• chaperone an older person, especially a woman,
  who goes with and takes care of a younger woman
  who is not married when she is in public
• stumble onto to make a mistake, or to pause
  unexpectedly when speaking

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• fork over to pay or give money for something,
  especially when you do not want to
• science-fiction stories about life in the future
  or in other parts of the universe

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1 Reading C

• 1. False. Gina remembered Ray because he was her
  first love.
• 2. True
• 3. True
• 4. False. You have to become a paying member to
  contact friends. OR You have to subscribe to the
  site and become a member. It costs 36 a year.
• 5. True

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2 Speaking and listening A

• loses the others address or phone number, has
  children, changes jobs / changes schools, has a
  fight.

2 B 1. 2. 3.
Dont know
Yes
No
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2 C

• 1. He has a lot to do at work now. / He got tired
  of parties and clubs. / He got busy with other
  things, like writing songs.
• 2. His friend got married. / His friend just had
  a baby. / His friend doesnt have time for
  running or socializing now.
• 3. It wasnt working out. / They were just very
  different people.

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Vocabulary notebook

• 1
• 1. 4.
• 2. 5.
• 3. 6.

go, move
go, come
eat, work
sign, grow
come, get
fall, settle
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2 up out

• wake, get
• break, meet
• show, sign
• wake, get
• grow

• hang, go

• stay

• go

• eat

• work