Unit 13 Rainy days make me sad.
tina: well…yes and no. she was really late.
john: amy was late as usual, wasn’t she?
tina: yes, she was.
john: and waiting for her made me angry?
tina: yes, it made me angry.
john: what did you do?
tina: first we went to the rockin’ restaurant.
john: did you stay long there?
tina: no, we didn’t because amy didn’t want to stay.
john: why?
tina: she said that loud music made he tense.
john: that’s strange. loud music always makes me excited and want to dance.
tina: me too.
john: so then you went to the blue lagoon as usually, didn’t you?
tina: yes, you guess right.
john: it was quiet and the food was great there. did you have a good time there?
tina: yes, we did.
john: where did you go then?
tina: i wanted to go to the concert at the high school. but amy didn’t like to go there. we decided to go to the movies.
john: what movie did you watch?
tina: we saw remember me forever.
john: it was a really good movie, wasn’t it?
tina: yes, it was, but it was so sad it made us cry.
john: sad movies make me want to leave!
tina: you behave just like my brother!
3a reading and answering
on page 104 is an article about restaurant science. before you read, imagine just what a restaurant science is. while you read, try to divide the sentences into parts, underline the expressions and, blacken the connectives and circle the “make/s me + infinitive, make/s me + adjective” structure.
restaurant science
restaurant owners have to know how to make food. they also have to know how to make money. here are some things they’ve learned from scientific studies. the color red makes people hungry. red also makes customers eat faster. many fast food restaurants, therefore, have red furniture or walls. soft colors like pink and light blue ma ke people relaxed, so they spend more time eating their meals. soft lighting makes people look good, but it makes food look bad. loud music may be nice at first, but it soon makes people want to leave. hard seats also make customers want to eat quickly and leave. many restaurants, especially fast food restaurants, use this knowledge to make customers eat faster. customers only sit for about 20 minutes before they leave. because customers don’t stay very long, small restaurants can serve many people every day.
now you are to answer the three questions on page 104 in the box.
1.what does the color red make most people feel? →the color red makes people
hungry. red also makes customers eat faster.
2.why do so many fast food restaurant paint their walls red, play loud music, and have hard seats? →because red color makes customers eat faster, loud music makes people want to leave and hard seats also make customers want to eat quickly and leave.