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Vocabulary adjectives and
VOCABULARY prefixes ( un-, in-, im-, dis-)

6C AND SKILLS Family Business Skills Reading: an article;
Listening: a radio drama

QUICK REVIEW Superlatives Work in
Read the first paragraph of the article only. Then complete
groups. Swap information about your lives these sentences.
and make at least six sentences about the
1 Family Business is a .. .
group using superlatives. Tell the class
2 The Blake family own a restaurant called ...
three of your sentences: Petra's got the
3 There's also another restaurant called ...
biggest family.
4 The family's main problems are ...

a Read the rest of the article. Then answer these questions.
Speaking and Reading
1 Is The Full Moon restaurant successful?
Work in groups. Discuss these questions. 2 Do Lydia and Clive have a good relationship?

1 Do you watch or listen to soap operas on 3 How many children have they got?
TV, the internet or the radio? If yes, which 4 Has Trudy got a job at the moment?
ones? s Which of their children is a criminal?
2 Which soap operas are popular in your 6 When did Nick leave home?
country? Why are they popular, do you
7 Who are Elizabeth's parents?
think?
a Where is The Angel restaurant?
3 What are typical stories in soap operas?
b Work in pairs. Draw a family tree of the Blake family.

Trudy is Lydia and
www.english0905.com Clive's youngest child.
In the popular radio drama Family Clive Blake is the Nineteen-year-old
Business, things aren't looking chef at The Full Trudy is unemployed
good for the Blake family. They Moon - but being and she can't keep
own The Full Moon restaurant, married to Lydia a job for more
but a new restaurant called The isn't easy. He thinks than two weeks. Is
Angel is taking all their customers. she's impatient and this because she's
The Full Moon also has serious inconsiderate and immature, moody and
money problems and relationships would like to ask her unhelpful, perhaps?
between the family members are for a divorce. But if
getting worse every week. For he does, what will Kathy is Darren's
new listeners here's our guide to happen to the restaurant he loves? lovely wife and the
the main characters in radio's most mother of three-
popular drama. month-old Elizabeth.
Darren is the oldest
of Lydia and Clive's Kathy is quiet, easy-
Lydia Blake three children (their going and unselfish -
and her husband other son, Nick, left but does she have
Clive own home a year ago). a secret past?
The Full Moon Darren works as a
restaurant. waiter in his parents' Eve King is the
Lydia is bright restaurant - when owner of The Angel
and extremely he's not stealing cars restaurant, which
organised, or staying out all opened in the same
and she's very night. The most dishonest and unreliable street as The Ful I
worried about member of the family, he's the one we Moon last month.
the restaurant. She wants to borrow love to hate! Eve is attractive,
some money from the bank - if she ambitious - and
can't, The Full Moon might have single!
to close.