Touchstone 2nd Edition • Language summary • Level 1

Unit 4 • Lesson C: Do you work out every day?

Vocabulary
Activities
have a part-time job (v)
run (v)

Routine verbs
come (v)
know (v)
live (v)
see (v)

Other words
big (adj)
chess (n)
law student (n)
around here
about 10 miles away

Conversation strategies
Saying more than yes or no
To be friendly you can say more than yes or no:

A Oh, are you a student?

B Yeah. Well, I'm a part-time law student.

A Oh, so do you live around here?

B No. I live about ten miles away.

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Touchstone 2nd Edition • Language summary • Level 1

Well . . .
You can start an answer to a question with Well . . . if you need time to think or if the answer is
not a simple yes or no:

A Do you work out every day?

B No. Well, I come here before class.

A Are you from here originally?

B Well, I'm from Chicago originally, . . .

© Cambridge University Press 2014 Unit 4, Lesson C, Page 2