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Having a Great Time English > Level A1.1 Starter
English > Level A1.1 Starter

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CONTENT
• Let’s Start! • Let’s Explore! • Let’s Practice! • Extension Activity • Target Words • Learning Points

Let’s Start!

Nice to meet you! Take a seat!

Learning Outcome Can Do Statements

Accurately use information about free-
time activities or personal likes/dislikes
in communicative situations.
Ask your partner:
• I can ask and say what people are doing.
• I can express possession using my, mine, your,
yours.
• I can talk about what I am not doing or people
are not doing.

• Where do you like to meet your close

friends?
• What do you like to talk about?

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Takeaway Having a Great Time
Having a Great Time English > Level A1.1 Starter
English > Level A1.1 Starter

Let’s Explore!

Peter meets someone new. Who is she?

Instructions: Read the text aloud.

Vanessa: Excuse me, is anybody sitting here?

Peter: No, take a seat. It's yours now.
Vanessa: Thank you.
Peter: Hi, I'm Peter. What's your name?
Vanessa: Hi, Peter. My name is Vanessa.
Peter: Nice to meet you, Vanessa. What are you doing?
Vanessa: I'm doing some work. What are you doing?
Peter: I'm studying.
Vanessa: Are you drinking a cappuccino?
Peter: No, I'm not drinking a cappuccino. It's coffee. Why don't I buy you a coffee?
Vanessa: Sure. Decaf, please. I'm not drinking regular today.
Peter: Ok. Be right back ...
Peter: Here you go.
Vanessa: Thank you! You are so nice! Maybe next time I can buy you a coffee.
Peter: Maybe! Try my coffee. It's delicious.
Vanessa: Mmm ... You're right! Try mine!
Peter: Yum!

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Let’s Practice!

What are they doing?

Instructions: Read the sentences. Fill in the blank with the missing word. Use: He, is,
What, I’m

Alice: _____ are you doing?

Henry: ______ doing some work.

Sam: What ____ your brother doing?

Fred: ______ is cooking dinner.

Let’s Practice!

Peter and Vanessa meet for the first time. What do they say?

Instructions: Draw a line from the first part of the statement on the left to the second
part on the right.

1. What’s your name? It’s yours now.

2. Mmm … you’re right Try my coffee.

3. Try mine! It’s delicious.

4. Take a seat. My name is Vanessa.

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Takeaway Having a Great Time
Having a Great Time English > Level A1.1 Starter
English > Level A1.1 Starter

Extension Activity

Let's practice meeting someone new! Imagine you are in a coffee shop and you talk
to a new person.

Instructions: Complete the following steps. Fill in the Self-Assessment.

a) Write a short dialogue (4-5 lines).

Self-Assessment Yes No
b) Imagine you are in a coffee shop and a new
person sits next to you.
I write about
c) Have a short conversation with that person.
meeting someone.
d) Introduce yourself.
I talk about current
actions.
I talk about
possessions.

Target Words

• Take a seat. (expression): use this to tell • to sit (verb): to rest using a chair
someone to sit down e.g. Is anybody sitting here?
e.g. Please take a seat here. • Be right back. (expression): use this to
• Nice to meet you. (expression): use this tell someone to wait
when you first meet someone e.g. I'm getting a coffee, be right back.
Example: Hi, I'm Peter. Nice to meet you. • maybe (adverb): possibly
• decaf (adjective): coffee with no caffeine e.g. Andy: Can you come to the party?
e.g. Can I have a decaf coffee, please? Wendy: Maybe ...

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Takeaway Having a Great Time
Having a Great Time English > Level A1.1 Starter
English > Level A1.1 Starter

Learning Points

The Present Continuous - Interrogative Form

When you want to ask a question in the Present Continuous tense, use this form:

To be: Subject: Verb-ing:

Is she studying?
he eating?
it raining?

Are they going?

we drinking?
you coming?

Examples:
• Ben: Is she studying Spanish?
Ruth: Yes, she is.

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