HUMBERTO GÓMEZ NIGRINIS SCHOOL – NINTH GRADE – WEEK 2

LESSON 6: WHAT KIND OF FRIEND ARE YOU?

Name: _____________________________ Grade: __________ Date: ______

1. Answer the following questions:

a. Are you a friendly person?___________________________________________________

b. Who is your best friend?____________________________________________________
c. What characteristics does a good friend have?
________________________________________________________________________

You can use the following expressions to write the answers:

2. Check the Explanation of the topic in the Power Point Presentation/PDF.

3. Write questions for the sentences. Pay attention to the words in BOLD. Then,
answer in the positive and the negative form.

EXAMPLE:

a. Mr. Stevens works at a bank.

Question: Does Mr. Stevens work at a bank?

Answer: Yes, he does.

Answer: No, he doesn’t.

b. Mary gets up at six o’clock.

Question: ____________________________________________

Answer: Yes, __________________

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Answer: No, ___________________

c. It rains a lot in that country.

Question: ____________________________________________

Answer: Yes, __________________

Answer: No, ___________________

d. Sam and Kelly live in Australia.

Question: ____________________________________________

Answer: Yes, __________________

Answer: No, ___________________

e. My parents live in Ecuador.

Question: ____________________________________________

Answer: Yes, __________________

Answer: No, ___________________

f. You don’t like school.

Question: ____________________________________________

Answer: Yes, __________________

Answer: No, ___________________

4. Now, pay attention to the explanation about wh-questions for the Simple
Present tense. Again, you can check the Power Point Presentation/PDF
explanation.

5. Write questions for the sentences. Pay attention to the words in BOLD.

a. Thomas studies English at college. Example: Where does Thomas study?

b. Her friend lives in London.

Where ________________________________________________________________?

c. Susan studies Math.

What __________________________________________________________________?

d. Eva lives in New York.

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Who _____________________________________________________________________?

e. His brother always gets up at six o’clock in the morning.

When _______________________________________________________________________?

f. Mr. Brown goes to work by bus.

How _______________________________________________________________________?

g. The supermarket sells apples.

What _______________________________________________________________________?

h. They usually travel to the countryside on holidays.

Where ______________________________________________________________________?

i. Richard is a teacher. He teaches English.

What _______________________________________________________________________?

j. This bus goes to the shopping mall.

Where ______________________________________________________________________?

HUMBERTO GÓMEZ NIGRINIS SCHOOL – NINTH GRADE – WEEK 2 (PART B)

LESSON 7: A COMIC VIEW OF MY FRIENDS

Name: _____________________________ Grade: __________ Date: ______
1. Look at the images. What do you think this lesson is going to be about?

_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________

2. Choose with an X the things that a good comic strip must have.

Pictures Colorful Images Thought bubbles

A dialogue Monsters Human characters
Characters An interesting topic A story with a beginning,
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 Speech Bubbles Lots of animals middle and end.

3. Answer these questions.

a. Do you like comics? ________________________________
b. What is your favorite comic? _________________________
4. Read the photo story. What is the topic presented in it?

5. What should Jay do? Choose the best piece of advice for her.
 She should smoke ______ e. She should talk to the academic
 She should talk to the girls ____ coordinator and tell him/her that the girls
 She should go to another school _______ are smoking in the school. _____
 She shouldn’t talk to the girls __________ f. she should tell them she doesn’t want to
Smoke _____
6. Read part 2 of the photo story and answer the questions.

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 a. Is Jay part of the group now?
Yes ___________ No ___________
b. Are the girls violent in the photo story?
Yes ___________ No ___________
c. Is Jay violent?
Yes ___________ No ___________
d. Do Jay and her classmates get on well?
Yes ___________ No ___________

7. Read and choose the correct option (A, B, or C). In the context of the photo
story….
 Force means:
e. To oblige someone to do something.
f. To hit someone with your arms.
g. To invite.
 Standing up for myself means:
a. Making my own decisions.
b. Accepting my friends’ opinions.
c. Defending my ideas and myself.
 To take a stand means:
a. To use violent against classmates.
b. To assume a position.
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 c. To destroy school property.
8. Jay talked to the school psychologist about her problem. This is what she told
her:

a. Look at the sentences again. What is the psychologist doing? Choose one option.
 Expressing necessities.
 Giving some recommendations.
 Expressing obligation.

9. COMIC STRIP

Design your own comic strip.

a. Think of a story about an issue or problem about friendship.

b. Organize the number of panels and the pictures. Design a minimum of 4 panels.
c. Try to use real pictures or draw your characters.
d. What will the characters say?

Now, do it!

Taken and adapted from: English, Please! 1 (2013). Colombia: MInisterio de Educación Nacional.