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Unit Five Family and Friends All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ?Leo Tolstoy After studying this unit，the students are expected to be able to make an appointment in simple English. master the words and expressions as well as the useful sentence structures in the two texts and learn to understand the main idea of the passages. use tenses correctly based on different situations. translate sentences using the skill of negation and affirmation appropriately. write personal letters. How to keep our family connected? From the following passages, we can get different ways of different people from the different countries. Every year all of us: aunts, cousins, uncles, husbands and wives, go on a family vacation. Last year we went to Jamaica for a week. Instead of staying at a resort, we stayed in the house where my grandmother grew up. Living together for a week strengthened some old bonds and created new ones. To learn more about our family history, my mother hired a genealogist（系谱学家） in Mississippi who talked to older people in the area and went to the courthouse to pull slave, birth and marital records. Now my mother has two large books on our history, including old photographs, documents and an extensive family tree. Every year during the holidays we pull out this book and talk about our history and heritage. It helps us appreciate our ancestors we have never met. We show this book to all the people who marry into our family to help them understand our heritage and give them a deeper look at who we are. On Sunday evenings my husband and I sit down with our kids, and discuss a topic we like: education, hip-hop（街舞）, soccer, boys, and politic, new play station games. Nothing is off-limits. If the children have questions, they have the flo