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Charts
LISTEN.
1.1-1.6
O Read the sentences about sibling relationships. Then listen to the interview
cbD1-08
and circle T for frue or F for false.
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1. Gender doesn’t play a role in sibling differences.
2. Family relationships are different all over the world. 4
3. Parents often say that their children don’t fight. 4 1

4. Children in the research study didn’t fight very often.

5. When children are fighting about a toy, they are really fighting
about something that is more important to them.

Listen again and circle the word or phrase you hear in the interview.
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1. Sometimes we love / loved them to death; other times we don’t / didn’t.

2. Our siblings know / knew us differently from the way our adult friends
know / knew us because our siblings know / knew us when we were children.

3. The relationship is / was constantly changing.

4. I’m not talking / I don’t talk about sibling relationships all over the world.
5. And my brother is ten years older than I am, so we don’t fight / didn’t fight.

6. ...but in fact, the research studies show / showed that children between the ages of three

and seven fight / fought about 3.5 times per hour.

Charts 4 SPEAK & WRITE.
1.1, 1.3,
1.6 Work in a group of three or four students. Ask and answer questions using the phrases in the
box. When a student in your group answers yes to one of the questions, get more details by
asking follow-up questions.

comes from a large family has a set of twins in the family
is an only child enjoyed swimming as a child
is the youngest played a sport while he/she was growing up
resembles a family member won a competition while he/she was growing up

A: Do you come from a large family?

B: Yes, I have a lot of relatives.

A: Oh really? Where do they live?

Write four or five sentences about your classmates based on your conversations from
exercise A. Share your information with the class.

Andrea comes from a very large family. She has more than 20 cousins.

Misha won a pie-eating contest when he was 14 years old.

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