2.20. Express your agreement with the statements below using the structures So /Neither do/am I. You can speak about your friends or relatives.

1. Your brother is a frank and honest boy. He always says what's on his mind.

2. Your group mate Peter is hard to deal with.

3. Nelly is very reliable.

4. Gus looks a bit tired, weary and depressed.

5. Nick has a way with people. He is easy to deal with.

6. Katy is the very picture of her mother. Actually, she is the very image of her.

7. Kelly is good to look at: expressive eyes, a broad grin, nice-shaped lips. She is very trendy and chic.

8. Tom never keeps his word.

9. Your friend is nice and sweet. But he is not handsome.

10. These two brothers are so very much alike. You can not tell one from the other.

11. That chap is a bore. He's a bookworm.

12. My sister looks genuinely happy, joyful, and spontaneous.

13. My friend is always so pale, listless and depressed.

14. She is bright, but lazy and messy. She isn't doing well.

15. They are a perfect match. They never quarrel and are madly in love with each other.

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2.21. Answer the following questions, following the model below.

odel: What does your brother look like? - Jimmy is a tall, thin, young man in his twenties. He is dark-haired, hazel-eyed and dark-skinned.

1. Do you like the way she wears her hair?

2. What sort of man is your teacher?

3. What kind of people do you like to deal with?

4. What kind of people do you like to travel with?

5. What kind of people do you like to work with?

6. What kind of people do you prefer to have a good time and to relax?

7. What does you sister/brother look like? Are you alike?

8. Why does John always complain about his life?

9. Do you approve of Richard’s way of behaviour?

10. How do you find my room-mate?

11. Who is your sister/brother like?

12. Who does your brother/sister look like?

13. What is your boyfriend/girlfriend like?

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22. a) Social attitudes have changed not only in public but in the home as well. The following is an extract from an interview with a 22-year-old English girl who left home disillusioned with conventional family life and went to live in a commune. Read the text.

b) Have you any sympathy with Mary’s views? What do you think a ‘conventional family” is like? Would you like to live in a commune? Discuss these questions in the class.

nterviewer: What made you unhappy with conventional family life?

Mary: Well, my parents got divorced when I was in my teens, so I didn’t have a very happy childhood. They always seemed to be fighting over money and trying to force each other to do things all the time. If one of them wanted a holiday, then there was no peace at home until we had a holiday, even if we couldn’t really afford one. Eventually they just went their own ways.

Interviewer: So you went into a commune?

Mary: Yes, here things are completely different. No one has to worry about anyone else. You can come and go as you please. You don’t feel any pressure on you to do things. You do things for each other because you want to, not because you have to. We share everything.

Interviewer: Everything?

Mary: Yes. No one has his or her own belongings. If I like the skirt one of my friends is wearing, then I can wear it the next day. We all wear each other’s clothes, and the food is shared by everyone. We all take it in turns to do the cleaning and the washing up, and to look after the children.

Interviewer: Why don’t the parents look after the children themselves?

Mary: Children are the responsibility of the commune as a whole. They are too important to be left to individual parents to look after. That’s why so many people have problems nowadays. Look at my parents for instance!