Make Your Way 5, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

The diaries in 11 show the same events from two different perspectives. Get together in pairs or groups. Think of a situation that can be seen from two different points of view, e.g. mother/daughter, teacher/student, and write two diary entries for the situation, one for each person. 12 Silent dialogue Work in pairs. Partner A writes the following sentence on a piece of paper: “Everybody else does – so why can’t I?” Then he/she passes it on to partner B. B writes an answer and passes it back to A, who writes an answer in return and so on. Then read out your dialogue in class. 13 telly: Fernsehen, Glotze yawn, yawn!: „gähn, gähn!“ (bla, bla!) a bit wicked: hier: schädlich spots: Pickel to crack down on sb.: mit jmdm. strenger sein we don’t much fancy …: wir sind nicht gerade scharf auf … 26th November Preparations for Christmas are almost complete. I’ve just a few more presents to buy, and I promised to make the Christmas cake this year. We have arranged to go to my parents as usual – Devon is just the place to be for a really old fashioned country Christmas. It will be lovely to wander around the beach with the kids, and play games instead of watching television all day. 27th November The end of term seems like it’s never going to come. Today Miss Bates gave me a long lecture about pull- ing myself together and taking my work more seriously, yawn, yawn. I can’t wait for Christmas, even if we do have to spend it buried in Devon with Grandma and Grandpa. I love them dearly and it’s good to see them, but they live so quietly it’s hard to keep awake! They even think telly is a bit wicked, and we’re only allowed to watch it in small por- tions. Spending time with them makes you begin to see how Mum turned out the way she did. I just interrupted this bit of writing to go to the bathroom and check on my spots. There are three: one really big one and two about to show up any minute, all round my nose. I know I should be grateful I’m not covered in acne (Hazel Beckett would never even be able to count her spots) but I’m desperate for a way to get rid of them. How can David Slater possibly like me, looking like this? (He, of course, has almost no spots at all.) 28th November We had a bit of a shock today – a letter from Jenny’s class teacher saying that Jenny is not trying hard enough with her coursework. Her school report is not good – the teachers all say the same thing, which is that she doesn’t seem to be taking things very seriously. Mike and I are very worried – we don’t want her to ruin her chances of good results next year. But she’s been so much happier lately, and easier to get along with, that we don’t much fancy having another argument with her. She’s really getting into sailing; it’s so good to see her developing an interest. Jenny’s read the report, so she knows it’s pretty bad, but she doesn’t seem very worried. She doesn’t know about the letter. We’re going to have to crack down on her – but after Christmas. We’ll have a good long talk, and a few New Year’s resolutions. John has finished his letter to Santa. It took a long time because it was a very long list. Most of the items are things I’ve never heard of. They must be space creatures of some sort. I have pointed out that Santa is not made of money, and other children will want things too, and he was very sweet about it. Santa can get as many things as he can afford, and that will be all right. (adapted from Yvonne Coppard, “Not Dressed Like at, You Don’t”) 133 1 Compact unit 1: What a laugh! Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv