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UNIT 1:CULTURAL ISSUES AND VALUES

Cultural Issues

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10 Human societies : common beliefs : / handded down/passed on /Inherited : Similar backgrounds : 11 2 11 patterns of behaviour : ways of Living : not within the norm : - - distancing is cultural-specific : / to abide by the rules : behave wrongly : Healthy behaviour : conscious of cross-cultural similarities : Key to understanding an dtolerance :

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Use English Communicatively Asking for , giving and responding to advice . Asking for advice Giving for advice /ask/give/respond/ /Responding for advice

?....what would you do if ?what do you suggest

i think you should that's a good idea may be you should sounds like a good idea

?what do you think i should do ?.....why don't you ......thanks for your advice , but i really : A friend of yours wants to give up smoking, give him advice to help him with that

?your friend:what do you think i should do to stop smoking you: i think you should give up going out with smoking friends your friend: sounds like a good idea

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Past Simple Past Perfect

perfect Past : gone Tom went to sleep after the guests had - guestsTom went go Simple past Tom went to sleep had gone go - past perfect The guests had gone the verb past participle of + Had verb the - past participle + Had : Past participle Simple past Verb Had been Was- were Be Had gone Went Go forgotten Had Forgot Forget Had walked Walked Walk Had decided Decided Decide decide walk - regular verbs : / moved to New York You had studied English before you perfect past You had studied English .

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: York Moved to New

. . Simple Past

Past Perfect : Past Perfect Had + Past participle Past Perfect : +

Sam

- --- perfect past

Ann

past perfect --

Sam - a had already left -b door someone had forgotten to lock the -

: -- perfect Past not yet /already/ just/ yet/ never / by the time/ Before/after

Phrasel Verbs
+ Phrasel verbs Look . http://netcour.online.fr :

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Look at = EX: She looks at him and smiles Look after = EX: The mother looks after her child Look for = EX: They look for a place to park their car

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Get through to sb = communicate with

to succeed in making someone understand or believe something I just don't seem to be able to get through to him these days. [Often negative]

Get through to sth = pass to succeed in reaching the next stage in a competition If they win this they'll get through to the final I didn't even get through to the second interview stage

Go through sth = Repeat / / / To carefully examine the contents of something in order to find something EX:Customs officers went through her suitcase looking for drugs

Pull through = recover/survive / He pulled through his illness

Look through : read To read something quickly and not very carefully Could you look through these figures and see if I've made any obvious errors

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