Page 12 - Lifelines Pre-intermediate.Student's book

1 Everyday life

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Here are sorne verb phrases that I Look at the photographs from the article.
go with the nownbed. a Read the flrst paragraph and discuss these questions
make a I Who are these people?
buy a 2 What kind of lifestyie do you think they have?
get out of 3 What do they do?
go to bed b Read the rest of the article and check your ideas.
get into
c How does the writer feel about these people?
lie in
stay in
have breakfast in
Write down some verb phrases for
each noun in this list. You can use a
dictionary to help you. ffimtaxr*'$ $hf;ndrert
house
home
school
work
holiday
car
bus
television
b Compare your phrases with the class.
2 Look at your list of activities. The Travellers don't have makes jewellery and sells lt at
jobs, because theY don't staY markets and fairs.
a Find things that you in one place long enough. come
They are the children of
o do every day. Both Paul and Janice
I only do al weekends. from notmal middle class
natrlre - modern gYPsies. families. That's one reason
c never do.
\(hen autumn comes, theY why Paul prefers the life of a
o do in the evenings.
disappear and we don't see Traveller. As Paul exPlains,
o sometimes do.
them on the news any more' 'Mlfather works in an He
a would like to do. ffice.
In fact, they move to the catches the sarue train to work
e don't want to do.
cities and look for emPtY euery da1. He comes home at
b Compare your ideas with a partner. houses For the winter. 5.30. And why dou lte do it? To
Perhaps the children go to
See Reflecting on Learning 4: Using pqy the tnortgage on the hause'
dictionaries p120. schooi for a few months. But then what does he do in bis
Paul and Janice ^re .frt, tineT He workt! He
Travellers. TheY aren't decorates the house, he digs the
married. TheY have t\vo garden, and he washes the car. He
children called Moonstone tltinks he'sf ee, but be't reallljnst
and Saffton. Their life is verY a slaae. Wel/, I don't taant to be
simpie. Dudng the dav theY like that.'
sit and talk to theit friends $[hat should we do about
In
while the children P1a,v. the Travellets? TheY're rebels
the evenings they usuallY eat againsr respectable sociery
together with other famiiies and thel' don't care what we
atound a big fite, and think' But wh1' shouldn't
somebodv usuallY PlaYs a they do their own tLrrng? As I
guitar or switches on a CD sit hete at my desk and think
playet. They Live on social about my mortgage, the
security benefits. If theY insutance, and taxes, I
need extra morey, Janice wondet whot riSht.
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