Jane: Yes, what kind of people do you get along with?

Stuart: Hmm. Gook question. I guess I like people who are kind of shy and sensitive. I don‘t really get along with people who are loud and talk too much.

Jane: Yeah, you‘re kind of a sensitive person yourself.

Stuart: Oh?

Real World Listening

1 Predict

Answer

He‘s sensitive.

2 Get the main ideas

Answers

1. They went to a romantic movie.

2. He cried.

3. She thought he was sensitive.

4. Jeremy said he cries at movies, too.

Script

Sheri: Hey, I went out with the neatest guy over the weekend!

Jeremy: Yeah, what‘s he like? Tall? Handsome?

Sheri: Not really.

Jeremy: Dress nice? Drive a nice car?

Sheri: Not especially.

Jeremy: Then he must be buff. Does he work out a lot?

Sheri: No…but he has a nice smile…dimples. I like dimples. He‘s kind of cute.

Jeremy: And that‘s what you like about him?

Sheri: No, it‘s more than that. He‘s sensitive.

Jeremy: Sensitive? How can you tell?

Sheri: Well, we went to this really romantic movie, and there was this really sad part, and, and he…cried. Jeremy: He cried?

Sheri: Yeah, he just cried and he didn‘t try to hide it or anything. It was so sweet.

Jeremy: Oh…you like that, huh? Well, I cry at movies. Too!

Unit 7 I really take after my Dad

Vocabulary Task

Answers

1. brother‘s daughter = niece

2. Dad‘s new wife = stepmother

3. uncle and aunt‘s children = cousins

4. sister‘s new husband = brother-in-law

5. my mother‘s two girls = my half-sisters

6. brother‘s three boys = nephews

7. made her our legal child = adopted

Script

1. My niece is so cute. She‘s only two but she can sing 10 songs

2. I get along okay with my stepmother. She‘s actually pretty nice.

3. When I was little, I used to go to camp with my cousins. They were like my brothers and sisters.

4. everybody had a great time at my sister‘s wedding. My brother-in-law was even dancing on the tables.

5. After my mother remarried, she and Robert had two girls – my half-sisters. But we feel like one family and I call them my sisters.

6. I‘m not in a hurry to have kids yet. I spend a lot of time with my nephews and I know they can be a handful.

7. We are so happy to have Lena. We adopted her when she was just three months old.

Listening Task