BEFORE YOU LISTEN (Trước khi nghe)

WHILE YOU LISTEN (Trong khi nghe)

1. Linda Cupple, a social worker, advises young people on how to use the telephone in their family. Listen to her talk and decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).

(Linda, một cán bộ xã hội, khuyên người trẻ cách dùng điện thoại ở gia đình. Lắng nghe cuộc nói chuyện của cô và quyết định những câu nói đúng (T) hay sai (F).)

1. The telephone often causes arguments between members of the family. 

2. Listen to part of Ms Linda Cupple’s talk again and write the missing words.

(Nghe lại một phần của cuộc nói chuyện của bà Linda Cupple và viết những từ thiếu.)

   Calling hours should be (1) ………upon. If your parents object to your leaving the dinner table to take calls, tell your friends (2)………….calling at that hour; if someone does phone, ask him to call back, or offer to call him when dinner’s over.

     A serious calling problem is calling very late at night, or very early in the morning. This (3)……………….. mistake is made mostly by young people who consider 10 or 11 p.m, when a lot of tired (4)………..are happily sleeping, the shank of the evening. So please tell your friends not to call after ten o’clock. The shock of (5)…………..out of a sound sleep and the fright of that instant thought - “There’s an accident” - are enough to give your parents a (6)………  attack. Weekend morning calls aren’t so startling, but it’s the one time your parents can sleep late.

If your mother and father, out of (7) …………, have installed a separate phone for you remember that you’re still a member of a family. So try (8)………to your family's regulations.