Looking good feeling good ● Task  Inviting your friend to join a gym

sample answers

sample 1

student a likes swimming because he/ she thinks it will keep him/ her healthy and strong. there’s a swimming pool near his / her home, and he / she goes to swim for more than half an hour almost every day after school. his / her parents sometimes go swimming with him / her after work. he/ she also likes dancing. he/ she thinks he / she will have a great figure if he / she often dances. so every saturday morning, he /she goes to the gym to practise dance aerobics with his / her mother. they stay there for nearly two hours.

sample 2

student b plays basketball. he/ she thinks it can make him / her stronger and run faster. and the other reason is that he/ she learns teamwork is very important. he/ she plays basketball with his/ her classmates on tuesday and thursday afternoons on the school basketball court. on saturday they usually play a game with a team from another school. he/she finds it’s really fun and interesting. besides playing basketball, he/ she runs every morning for about 15 minutes. his/ her parents also go running together, but they run slower and for longer. they run for more than 20 minutes.

skills building 3: using punctuation

correct punctuation can make your writing clear and easy to read. read some rules about how to use the most common punctuation marks in an e-mail to check whether you know how to use these marks correctly.

1. english words used to refer to the most common punctuation marks:

comma(,); full stop (.); question mark (?); exclamation mark (!); colon (: ); semicolon (;); quotation marks (‘’)or (); apostrophe (’); hyphen (-); dash (--).

read skills building 3, including the tip boxes to discover in what different situations these punctuation marks are used. pay special attention to comma because it is not used as often in english as it is in chinese.

usually we use a full stop at the end of a sentence. then another sentence begins with a word the first letter of which is capitalized. a colon or a semi-colon can also be used at the end of a statement sentence, but after it another sentence can be used without a capitalized letter at the beginning of it.

2. read the e-mail on page 57 and try to add the missing punctuation mark in each line.

answers

2. i am very fat→i am very fat.

3. …, just because i’m different from them→…,just because i’m different from them.

4. i don’t do sports → i don’t do sports.

5. is this really such a problem →is this really such a problem?

6. ‘you’re just big-boned, she says. → ‘you’re just big-boned,’ she says.