Family Ties

Intro

1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.

• came up
• curious
• miss
• keep in touch

• up to
• check in
• natural
• grew up

• come out
• in to
• adventurous

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Hello!
Miguel and I recently had a discussion about our families. One of the things that came up is the fact that my parents live 3000 miles away in New York, while I live in Portland, Oregon. Miguel only lives 100 miles from his family in Eugene, Oregon, so he was curious what it’s like to be separated by so much distance.
Listen in to our conversation to hear what I told Miguel.

Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Miguel

Beth

Miguel:  Hey Beth, how is it to live so far away from your family?

Beth:  It’s kind of hard. You know, I miss everyone and it’s not always the same using email and the phone to keep in touch, but, you know, you find ways to let everyone know what you’re up to and to check in.

Miguel:  How did you make that decision to live so far away from home?

Beth:  I don’t know. It’s always been sort of natural to me to live in a place other than where I grew up.

Miguel:  Do your parents ever come out and visit you?

Beth:  Oh, yeah. They come to visit, or we go visit other friends in different parts of the country and try to arrange times to get together around the holidays and things like that.

Miguel:  Do you have, like, one particular holiday that you always try to get together for?

Beth:  We’re really big on birthdays. We try to see each other around our birthdays.

 

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