Please record it with your natural speed, but not too fast (for students in grade 9).
Father and son
I take after my father. We’re both tall – that runs in the family – and we both have a passion for the outdoor life. I was brought up on a farm and always looked up to my father, so it was no surprise when I followed in his footsteps and joined him on the family farm. Basically farming is in my blood, and it’s been our way of life for five generations. Working with Dad is great. He knows the business inside out, and enjoys showing me the ropes. And from his point of view, he likes to have someone younger with new ideas – even if they aren’t that good!
Glossary:
1. If you take after an older member of your family, you look or behave like them.
• He takes after his mother/his mother’s side of the family.
• Most of my children take after my husband, both in appearance and character.
2. If something such as a quality, disease, or skill runs in the family or runs in someone’s family, many people in that family have it.
• His father and uncle were basketball stars in college, so athletic ability runs in the family.
• My grandparents lived well into their nineties, and it runs in the family.
3. If you have a passion for something, you have a very strong interest in it and like it very much.
• I thought this would be the job for me because I have a strong passion for helping people.
• John has a passion for fishing, so he fishes as often as he can.
4. When someone brings up a child, they look after it until it is an adult. If someone has been brought up in a certain place or with certain attitudes, they grew up in that place or were taught those attitudes when they were growing up.
• Our parents brought us up to believe in our own abilities.
• She brought up her children in just the same way her mother did.
5. If you look up to someone, especially someone older than you, you respect and admire them.
• I’ve always looked up to Bill for his courage and determination.
• Teenagers are always looking up to their older brothers and sisters.
6. If you follow in someone’s footsteps, you do the same thing as someone else, especially someone in your family, previously did.
• I hope that the United States is careful not to follow in England’s footsteps.
• My father is extremely proud that I followed in his footsteps and became a doctor.
7. You use basically for emphasis when you are stating an opinion, or when you are making an important statement about something.
• We’d like to buy a new car, but, basically, we just don’t have enough money.
• Why don’t you like him? ~ Basically, I think he’s crazy.
8. If an ability or tendency is in, or runs in, someone’s blood, it is natural to them and others in their family.
• Dan was born into a family of fisherman so one might say he has fishing in his blood.
• Her father and grandmother were painters too, so it’s obviously in the blood.
9. A way of life is the behaviour and habits that are typical of a particular person or group, or that are chosen by them.
• Mining activities have totally disrupted the traditional way of life of the Yanomami Indians.
• She loved travel, meeting people from other cultures and finding out about their way of life.
10. A generation is the people in a family born and living during the same time.
• That family has lived in the same house for four generations.
• The house has been passed down in the family from generation to generation.
11. If you say that you know something or someone inside out, you are emphasizing that you know them extremely well.
• Dave and Amy have been friends since childhood. They know each other inside out.
• I studied and studied for my driver’s test until I knew the rules inside out.
12. If you show someone the ropes, you explain to someone new how things work and how to do a particular job or task.
• On your first day, we will get someone to show you the ropes at the office. They will teach you to make copies, answer the phones.
• She shows her friend the ropes when she introduces her friend to a new fashion style.
13. You can refer to the opinions or attitudes that you have about something as your point of view.
• From my point of view, there is no way they can win.
• I respect your point of view, but I’m not sure I agree with you.
What a nice voice! Thank you!