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Siblings

Date: Feb 27 2009

Themes: Family, Friend

Grammar: Plural vs. Possessive "S"

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Intro

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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.

Sometimes your siblings are your best friends, sometimes they’re your worst enemies, and sometimes they’re both at the same time. But whether you get along well with them or fight with them all the time, they’re a part of you, just like your parents. So you’re basically stuck with them, whether you like it or not.

Of course, not everyone has brothers or sisters. Only children don’t have to worry about fighting or sibling rivalry, but they probably get lonely sometimes. On the other hand, they don’t have to share their parents’ love or attention. Or presents.

Jason is an only child. Beren spent most of her childhood trying to kill her brother. Listen to them discuss the joys and pains of having (or not having) brothers and sisters.

Dialog

1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.

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

Beren

Jason

Beren: Do you have any brothers and sisters?

Jason: No, I don’t. I’m an only child.

Beren: Woah! I seem to meet a lot of those. It’s funny, I used to wish I was an only child.

Jason: I used to wish I had brothers and sisters so bad!

Beren: I probably would’ve given you mine. I have an older brother and a younger sister, and the little sister, she’s fun. Stacey. When she was really little I could get her to do anything. And that’s fun because it’s like having a doll that could talk and go get me things.

Jason: Yeah.

Beren: My brother, like we would have karate fights on the concrete. He almost killed me, actually.

Jason: Oh my gosh. Really?

Beren: Yeah, a couple times. But the big one was we played a game called “Chase,” where I was on my bike and he would throw a ball and try to bounce me off. And the ball got stuck in the spokes and I flew over the handlebars.

Jason: See that’s the thing, I wanted a playmate, but I guess I missed out on some of the hazards as well.

Beren: Totally. There’s the rivalry, like the sibling rivalry. My brother and I were really competitive with each other, we were always trying to out-do one another.

Jason: How has it translated to adulthood, though? How do you guys get along now?

Beren: He’s like my best friend. He’s awesome.

Jason: Really?

Beren: Yeah, totally. And we can joke about it. He’s like, “Remember the time I almost killed you?” And I’m like, “Ha ha! Yeah!”

Jason: And it’s totally OK because it was so long ago that you guys don’t hold a grudge?

Beren: Yeah, totally.

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Discussion

Beren has an older brother and a little sister, but she used to wish she was an only child. Jason is an only child who used to wish he had brothers and sisters.

Beren liked having a little sister when she was younger because she could boss her around. On the other hand, she and her older brother used to fight all the time. Once he even seriously hurt her when she was riding her bike. So maybe Jason was lucky to have no siblings growing up.

These days, Beren and her brother get along really well. They’re like best friends. They don’t want to kill each other anymore. They can laugh together about the fights they used to have when they were kids.

Do you have siblings? Do you get along with them or do you fight with them?

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quangds

Viet Nam

I love my family: My parents, my sisters, my young sister. They are very wonderfully. They alway take care, worry for me when i have a bad story.They are a listener people. Now I live far away them. But every time I usually think about them. I want to make everything for them because the simple I love you.

When i were a child, I alway went out with my sibling. I was born at poor village so we alway went to the city for working. We worked hard together. I never miss this time.It make me growth very much more. I hope, I will earn a lot of money for helping them. The life is very difficultly but we alway go next to each other.

designersl

China

i love my family everyone/everytime

lilyxie123

China

I have a little sister and a little brother,They are beautiful and handsome .I love them very much.I lead them to play anywhere in our countryside when i was a child.I miss my childhood.

janechen0103

China

My understanding is: you have the world's most fortunate brothers and sisters, you love them everyone. Is that true?

janechen0103

China

Congratulations!

janechen0103

China

Hello,everyone! I have a younger brother!I very much enjoy him, he is also.He is smaller than me 10 years! A lot of time,i like his teacher!This year, he would on the second-year middle school, and I have already graduated from university in a job!He looks very strong, but never bullied me.Mom and Dad are very affectionate, and we love them very much!

Raymond_zggo

China

I have big family,four sisters and one brother.I am the younger. I always get along well with my sisters and fighting with my old brother.

ganda13

Philippines

i only hve 1 sibling and thats my brother.we always had a rivalry in most things before that was when were still kids ,maybe because were different suxually and dont have yet a mature mind to understand each other likes and needs.girls like girly stuffs while boys like sporty stuffs.but we never come into the point that we hated each other so much because our parents instilled to us how to love one another.wen we got more older we learned how to respect one another,we realized the importance of having a sibling.i never wished that i ddnt hve a sibling because when you have one you are already assured that you have someone to lean on when your prents or other people around dont understand you..im lucky i hve a best bro in the world!

nghiemhoa

Viet Nam

I'm the oldest sister in my family. I have a younger sister and a younger brother. Previously, she and me always argue with together, always jealous about everything, but we have a same thing is both of us hate my brother, hi. But now, i'm studying in the capital, far way my family, i always miss them and sometime smile alone when think about my childhood

ivy8101225

China

I have three older sister, one youger sister and one youger brother! You would think impossible but it's true. Because of them, I had a fabulous childhood and now we are all each others best friend. The magic thing is that we strongly resemble my mother in looking and character which is working hard, optimistic . I would like to say thinks for all of my siblings !

pesticide-niuniu

China

I have to younger brothers. i love them so much. when we were really little, i can get them to do anything. but not , they get me to do anything… Haha…

pesticide-niuniu

China

I have two younger brothers. i love them so much. when we were really little, i can get them to do anything. but not , they get me to do anything… Haha…