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Unit 1

What’s the Story?

Lesson A The story of my life

1A1A1. A: What’s his story?

B: He says he was at home watching TV when the robbery occurred.

two police officers talking about a criminal

2. A: I don’t want to hear any more stories out of you, young man!

B: But it’s true! I didn’t eat all the cookies. I swear!

a parent or grandparent talking to a little boy at home

3. A: what’s the magazine’s cover story this week?

B: The Olympics. The Games are big news right now.

two friends talking about the latest issue of a magazine

4. A: How was the movie?

B: The special effects were excellent, but the story was too predictable.

a fiend asking another friend about a movie he/she has just seen

1B1B____ an article or report in a newspaper or

magazine

____ the events in a book, movie, or person’s life

____ an alibi

____ a fabricated description of events

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1 Vocabulary Focus C

• suspect (N): someone who may have committed a crime

• verify (V): check to see if something is true

• inconsistent (adj): not staying the same in behavior or quality

• alter (V): change

• conflicting (adj): describes beliefs, needs, facts, etc. that are different and opposing

• make up (a story) (VP): to invent something (to fool someone)

• go after (VP): pursue an idea

• cover (V) a story: report a news story

• publish (V): to prepare and print a book, newspaper, magazine, article, etc so that people can buy it

• go over (VP): review

• interpret (V): analyze (to get the meaning)

• piece together (VP): figure out what happened

• figure out (VP): to finally understand something or someone after a lot of thought

• criminal (N): someone who has committed a crime

1D1D1. inventing something (to fool someone)

____________

2. review ____________

3. figure out what happened ____________

4. analyze (to get the meaning) ____________

making up

go over

piece together

interpret

5. changing ____________

6. report a news story ____________

7. pursue an idea ____________

8. check to see if something is true ____________

altering

cover

go after

verify

2B2B1. What is the “Everybody Has a Story” booth

and how does it work?

It’s a booth on the street where people come to tell stories and record them. They bring another person and interview them.

2. What is the story booth’s purpose?

To save our day-to-day experiences for people in the future to study.

2C2C1. Year she stared working in café

1957

2. What she did in the café in the 50s

worked in the kitchen, cleaning, filled in wherever they needed help

3. What she wasn’t allowed to do

serve the customers directly, eat there

4. What she does in the café now

owns the café, eats lunch there every day

3 Language Focus A

• journalist (N): a person who writes news stories or articles for a newspaper or magazine or broadcasts them on radio or television

3A3A1. The sentence ”My father worked as a

journalist…” tells us that Clive’s father is still / no longer a journalist.

2. The sentence ”I’ve also worked as a journalist…” tells us that Clive is still / no longer a journalist.

3. The sentence ”I worked for CNN…” tells us about a specific point / non-specific time in Clive’s work history.

4. The sentence ”I’ve reported from countries…” tells us about a specific point / non-specific time in Clive’s work history.

5. The sentence ”I’ve seen a lot of exciting situations” tells us that Clive is talking about a repeated action / something that happened once in the indefinite past.

6. The sentence ”I haven’t decided yet.” shows that the present perfect + not yet is used to talk about things that have not happened before now / happened at a specific time in the past.

3B3BInterviewer: Today’s guest is Mr. Clive Edward.

He ___________ (1. graduate) summa cum laude from Brown University in 1991. today he is an award-winning journalists for the XPTV Network. How long ______ you ________ (2. work) as a reporter?

Clive: More than fifteen years.

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Int: Mr. Edwards, what __________ (3. be) your most memorable experience to date?

CE: I ________________ (4. go after) many stories in my career, but the one about the international space station __________ (5. be) the most memorable. In fact, I’m still covering that story as it continues to develop.

has been

have gone after

has been

Int: You _______ (6. visit) some dangerous places in 1990.

CE: Yes, I did. I often ______ (7. go) to war zones.

Int: _____ you ________ (8. choose) where you would be assigned?

CE: No, I just _____ (9. go) wherever I was told.

visited

went

Did choose

went

Int: ______ you ever _____ (10. feel) scared on the job?

CE: Of course. Just last year a bomb __________ (11. explode) near me. That _____ (12. is) terrifying.

Int: ______ you ever ______ (13.be) injured?

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felt

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CE: Fortunately, no. I’m happy to say I ______ never ______ (14. be) hurt at all! It’s amazing considering some of the things I’ve done to get a story!

Int: Yesterday you _____ (15. win) the “Courage in Journalism” award. Congratulations!

CE: Thanks.

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4 Speaking A

• haunted (adj): (of a ghost) to appear in a place repeatedly

• ignore (V): to pay no attention to something or someone

• thumping (adj): very big or impressive

• investigate (V): to try to discover all the facts about something, especially a crime or accident

4A4Aa. ____ It happened when we were living …

b. ____ I was shocked at what I saw! ... In the end, it wasn’t …

c. ____ Did I ever tell you about the time there was a …

d. ____ It seems funny now, but at the time we …

e. ____ Once night however, we were …

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4B4BGiving general background information:

• A couple of years ago …

____________________________________

• Last summer …

____________________________________

It happened when …

One night …

Introducing the action:

• All of a sudden …

____________________________________

Ending the story:

• What happened in the end was …

____________________________________

Suddenly …

In the end …

Reflecting back on the story:

• Looking back on it, …

____________________________________It seems funny now …

1 Get Ready to Read A

• moral (N): is the message which you understand from a story, event or experience about how you should or should not behave

• protest (V): to have a strong complaint expressing disagreement, disapproval, or opposition 

• whine (V): to complain continually 

• demand (V): to ask for forcefully, in a way that shows that refusal is not expected and will not be accepted

1. What’s the moral of this story?

You should always do what your parents tell you.

2. Do you agree with this lesson? Why or why not?

3. Have you ever done something that you were warned not to do? What happened?

2 Reading

• adapt (V): to change something to suit different conditions or uses

2 Reading A• paw (N): the foot of an animal which has claws or nails, su

ch as a cat, dog or bear

2 Reading B

• expectantly (adv): in anticipation

• sorry (adj) (Line 5): in trouble

• solemnly (adv): seriously

• consequences (N): bad or harmful results

• misplace (V): to lose something temporarily by forgetting where you have put it

• your loss (NP): the death of a loved one

Reading C

1. Morris is afraid of the paw-he throws it in the fire. Herbert thinks it’s a joke-he winks at his mother.

2. He feels very sad about Herbert’s death.

3. The family gets the exact amount of money that they wished for.

4 Communication A

• booth (N): a small enclosed box-like space that a person can go into