IB Who am I?

1 L E X IS IN C O N T E X T What’s your b Complete the sentences with the correct form

o f have.
personality type?
1 They couldn’t go to the concert because they didn’t
Try to complete the sentences without looking at the text have any way to get there.
on Student Book p. 9. 2 Jessica doesn’t need a company car because she
1 The dress caught my ey e _________in the window, so I doesn't have to travel for her job.
went into the shop to try it on. have you hadit?
3 This is a great cai\ How long___________
ure
2 Can you make s___________ all the windows are shut don't have time to walk.
4 Let’s take a taxi. W e___________
before we leave? 5 I only saw James briefly when he was in town. We just
ead
3 If you don’t face the problem h___________on, it will just had a quick lunch.
get worse. hasn't been
6 Ben doesn’t know everyone yet. H e___________
eelings
4 Lucinda’s boyfriend really hurt her f __________ when he working in our office for very long.
said she was overweight. Did you have a good flight?
7 Welcome to the U S .___________
5 The meeting was a disaster because we hadn’t planned it do you have to be at the
8 I’ll give you a ride. What time___________
dvance
in a___________ . airport?
6 Both applicants for the job were well qualified. I went with
ut
my g___________ feeling and chose Sarah.
uck
7 Maria got st___________ on the last test question, so she 3 V O C A B U LA R Y family
finished long after the other students. a Match a word in A to a word in B and complete the
ort
8 The manager told me to keep the meeting sh___________ sentences below. Use a hyphen where necessary.
because he had to leave early.
A extended father great half nuclear
only single step
2 GRAM M AR have B brother child f amily family figure
grandparents parent sister
a Circle the correct words or phrases.
1 Some friends o f ours (had) / had been / have had a nasty 1 Your extended family includes your aunts and uncles
car accident last night. and all your cousins.
only child
2 An_______________ has no brothers or sisters.
2 She can’t call her husband because she doesn’t have /
great grandparents
3 Your________________are your parents’
hasn’t /didn’t have a cell phone.
3 Did you have /Had you /Have you a good time at your grandparents.
single parent
4 A _______________ has to bring up their children
nephew’s wedding?
4 Are you coming out with us? Have you /Do you have / without help from a partner.
nuclear family
5 A _______________ usually refers to a mother,
Have you had to work late?
5 We had /had got /have got our TV repaired last week, a father, and their children.
half sister
6 Your_______________ is a daughter your father or
but it still doesn’t work.
6 Our mortgage is very high because we’re having / mother has with a partner who is not related to you.
father figure
7 A _______________ is a respected older man who
we have /we’ve had an enormous house.
7 I didn’t have to /hadn’t got to /hadn’t to wear a gives help and advice.
stepbrother
8 Your_______________ is the son o f your mother or
uniform when I went to school.
8 The manager called another meeting about the project, father’s new spouse from an earlier marriage.
even though we had already have /got /had several.
 b Correct the mistakes in the highlighted phrases. 4 READ IN G
1 Sophie looks as her mother. Some people think they
a Read the article quickly and look at the factors that are
must be sisters, looks like
affected by birth order. Number them 1 -5 in the order
2 My cousin takes in my aunt. They’re both extremely
they are mentioned in the text.
takes after
neurotic.___________
3
____ Brotherly love
3 The visitor turned out to be a far relative of ours. He
5
____ Appearance
distant relative
was one o f our late father’s cousins.___________
2
____ Intelligence
4 They’re a very near family. They get together every
close family 1
___ Character
weekend.___________
4
____ Illness
5 I have an excellent relation with my stepbrothers. We
relationship
often play soccer together.___________
6 Grace and I have the same taste in clothes. In fact we’re
alike
very like in many ways.___________
7 My in-laws brought up in the same town, but they didn’t
The older, the wiser?
go out together until they moved to Chicago.
grew up Research has shown over the years that birth order

8 Will’s family is extended all over the world, so he does a can have a fundamental effect on numerous areas o f
spread out
lot o f traveling.___________ an individual’s life. Listed below are some o f the main
factors that scientists believe may vary according to a
c Replace the words in bold with an idiom, using the child’s position in the family.
word in parentheses. Personality is one o f the favorite areas o f research, and
1 My sister gives the orders in her family, (pants) wears most studies have found that last-borns grow up to be the
the pants___________
most sociable, extroverted, and creative o f the siblings.
2 They broke up because they had completely different
1 C
opinions about how to raise their children, (eye)
didn't see eye to eye. A second question that interests scientists is whether
3 We discovered a hidden family secret when our aunt birth order affects brain power. Research carried out at
came to visit, (skeleton) a___________________________
skeleton in the closet. the University o f California, Berkeley showed that, in
4 We’re having a family meeting to celebrate my dad’s general, the IQ o f a first-born child is higher than that
80th birthday, (get) ___________________________
o f a second-born child.
5 My younger brother is the “different” member o f the
2 E
family that we all disapprove of. (sheep)
a family get togeter. Moving on to the relationship between siblings,
6 Ruby only wants one more child, but there are several studies have shown that older siblings invest more
twins run in her family.
twins in her family, (run) _________________________
time in younger ones than vice versa. Researchers at
7 The atmosphere’s kind o f tense right now because my
Newcastle University in the UK found that first-borns
two sisters aren’t talking to each other, (speaking)
on speaking terms. had significantly more frequent face-to-face contact
with their siblings than middle-borns or last-borns.
3 A

On a completely different note, a study in Italy has

shown that the number o f children in a family can
actually affect their health. It seems that the fewer
children there are in a family, the greater the chance
that they suffer from asthma or eczema.
4 F

Continuing on the theme o f health, a Japanese

study has shown that later-borns are less likely to be
overweight. Researchers found that boys from three-
child families had a significantly lower risk than only
children.
5 B

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b Five paragraphs have been removed from the article. 5 PRO N UNCIATIO N diphthongs
Read it again and choose from A -F the paragraph that
fits each blank (1 -5 ). There is one paragraph you do not a Circle the word with a different sound.

pj ^2^
need to use.

A Experts have no explanation for this lack o f interest

except that younger siblings may require more
parent serious comfort throughout
personal space after having shared the family home
wear employer close hours
throughout their childhood with their older brothers
^earring ) maternity bonus tedious
and sisters.

B The explanation for this difference in size is not clear,

but experts maintain that mothers o f small families
are often more concerned with persuading their
children to eat, which can lead to overfeeding and
& ■ ff

obesity. hurt rewarding prospects career

security demanding promoted experience
C The general reason given for these traits is that the last- furious staff contract anywhere
born tends to be the parents’ favorite child. A warm
atmosphere makes children feel secure, encouraging
them to grow up as self-confident individuals. b ffllETi^ Listen and check. Then listen again and
repeat the words.
D One possible explanation is that later-boms are
associated with greater risk-taking, so they are more
prone to accidents and hospitalization, which means
6 LISTEN IN G
they take more time o ff from work. a Listen to four people comparing having
brothers and sisters to being an only child. Do
E Experts use a theory called the dilution hypothesis they mention more advantages or disadvantages o f
to explain diminishing intelligence. This suggests having other siblings?
that the levels o f parental attention and stimulation they mention more advantages
will drop as more babies come along because family b Listen again. W hich speaker mentions these
resources have to be shared among more children. advantages o f having brothers and sisters?
A Q3 learning to interact with other children
F One theory offered to explain the prevalence o f these
B Q2 not being spoiled
afflictions is that younger children are exposed to
C O4 not being the center o f your parents’ expectations
a wider range o f infections by their older siblings,
D Q1 being able to share the responsibility o f caring for
causing their immune system to develop further and
elderly parents
offer them more protection.
c Listen again with the audioscript on p. 69 and try to
guess the meaning o f any words that you don’t know.
c Look at the highlighted words and match them to the Then check your dictionary.
definitions.
1 decreasing diminishing
2 particular qualities in your personality traits
3 close together and looking at each other face to face
4 serious and very important fundamental
5 pains and sufferings afflictions
6 likely to suffer from prone to
7 insist maintain