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VOCABULARY Vocabulary phrasal verbs

9C AND SKILLS Noisy neighbours Skills Reading: a letter to a
newspaper; Listening: a news report

QUICK REVIEW Adjectives (4): feelings Work in pairs. Read the letter again. Match the phrasal verbs in bold
Make a list of adjectives to describe feelings (excited, to their meanings a-j.
etc.). Choose four of your adjectives. Tell your partner a start living in a new home move in
about the last time you felt like this. b like someone and be friendly to him/her get on with

c leave a place
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Speaking and Reading e be standing and then sit in a chair

Work in pairs. Tell your partner about your neighbours. f tolerate
Who are they? What are they like? Do you have any g stop doing
problems with them? h arrive at a place

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a Read the letter and answer questions 1-4.
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1 What problem does Yvonne have?
2 How has she tried to solve the problem? • HELP WITH VOCABULARY
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3 How has this problem changed her day-to-day life? • Phrasal verbs
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4 How does she feel now? •
a Phrasal verbs have two or three parts: a verb and
b Work in pairs. What advice can you give Yvonne? • one or two particles. Look at the table. Then write
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I've lived in a rented flat for the last six months and •
until recently life has been very quiet and peaceful. •
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But now a new couple have moved in next door •
rain's and they are making my life impossible. The main • b Read about phrasal verbs.
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~:: problem is that they have parties during the week • • Some phrasal verbs are literal. We can understand the
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meaning from the verb and the particle(s):
that go on all night. Sometimes their friends tum up
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[)ID a at their flat at two or three in the morning, and when • A new couple have moved in next door .
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·male I complain they just tell me to go away. My two • They just tell me to go away.
children can't sleep because of the noise, so I don't get • • Some phrasal verbs are non-literal. Sometimes we
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ding enough sleep either. I was doing evening classes twice •
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the a week, but I've had to give them up because I'm • particle(s):
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too tired to go. Now when I get home I just take off •
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soon my coat, sit down in front of the TV and fall asleep - • I get on well with all my other neighbours .
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(= like and be friendly to them)
omen until the party starts next door, of course. •
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boost • They have parties during the week that go on all night.
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All this is making me very depressed and fed up and I • (= continue)
just can't put up with the noise any longer. I like living • c Look at phrasal verbs e-j in 3. Which are: literal (L)?
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team here and I get on well with all my other neighbours, • non-literal (NL)?
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over but these people are a nightmare. I don't want to •
• d Check in IU1ht!1:!il!f!i;Qilt p145 .
and go back to my parents' house where we were living •
ecord before, but I don't know what else to do. Do your -6
readers have any advice for me? PRONUNCIATION Listen and practise. Copy the
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bow Mrs Yvonne Chapman A new couple have moved m next door.
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Work in pairs. Student A p104. Student B p110.