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Unit

LISTENING
1) a. Look at the pictures on the next page. Where are the people?

At school At work At home

b. Complete the conversations with sentences in the box.

a) Mrs. Garcez, this is my friend Chieko

Yamaguchi

b) Bye, Alex. See you.

c) Chieko, this is my friend Jane

d) Good Morning, Mr. Brown, How are

you?

e) Hey, Chieko.

f) Nice to meet you, Isabella.

g) My name is Chieko Yamaguchi

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A

C D

c. Listen and check your answers.

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 SPEAKING
2) Introduce yourself. You may say:

A: What’s your name?

B: My name is ______ . And what’s your name?
A: My name is ______.
B: Nice to meet you.
A: Nice to meet you too.

LISTENING
3) a. Check the questions you expect to hear.

How are you?

What’s your name?

How do you speel your last name?

Can you help me, please?

Can you repeat your name name, please?

Can you lend me a pencil please?

b. Listen again and complete the conversation.

CAN YOU HELP ME, PLEASE?

A: Excuse me. ____________________________________
B: Sure.
A: I’m a new student and I don’t know my room.
WHAT'S YOUR NAME?
B: _________________________________________________
A: Chieko Yamaguchi.
CAN YOU REPEAT YOUR NAME, PLEASE?
B: _________________________________________________
A: Chieko Yamaguchi.
HOW DO YOU SPELL YOUR LAST NAME?
B: Ok, Chieko. _____________________________________
A: That’s Y-A-M-A-G-U-C-H-I.
B: OK, Thank you. Your room is 206.

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 LANGUAGE AWARENESS
4) Study the following conversations.
Decide which one is formal (F) and informal (I)

SPEAKING
5) Greet your classmates. You may say:

A: Hi, How are you?

B: I’m fine, thanks. And you?
A: I’m fine, too.

VOCABULARY
6) Match the words and the picture.

1 friend 2 mother 5 father 8 brother

7 sister 6 colleague 40 boyfriend 30 girlfriend

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PRONUNCIATION
7) Listen and underline the stressed syllable. Follow the example.

Mother Father brother sister colleague boyfriend girlfriend

SPEAKING
8) Complete the conversations with the
sentences in the box.

a) Hey, Jane.
b) Nice to meet you, Mrs Casavella
c) Greg, this is my sister Fatimah
d) Nice to meet you too, Mr Schon

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C

B
D

SPEAKING
9) Introduce your classmates, You may say:

A: ____________, this is my friend ___________.

B: Nice to meet you.
C: Nice to meet you, too.

10) a. How do people greet in your country?

Check

Kiss
Shake hands

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 bow
hug

wave

b. How do people say goodbye in your country?

Check.

Kiss
Shake hands

bow hug

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wave
 READING
11) a. How do people greet in these countries? Check.

PEOPLE KISS HUG SHAKE BOW

HANDS
In the USA

In
England
In France

In Japan

In Arab
countries

In
Australia

b. Read and check your answers.

Dear traveler, greeting and saying goodbye may be a problematic

area. See how people do this in different countries.

In the U.SA., greetings are casual. Men normally shake hands.

In England, people say 'hello' when they meet friends. Shaking hands
is not usual. A kiss is common in informal situations between men and
women.

In France, people shake hands and kiss on both cheeks to greet and
say goodbye.

In Japan, the traditional greeting is a bow.

In Arab countries, men hug and kiss. Contact between men and
women is considered obscene.

In Australia, people usually shake hands. People do not generally kiss

or hug when meeting.

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 PRONUNCIATION
12) Listen and repeat

LISTENING
13) Listen to the conversations and write these students' last names.

1 2
WILLIAM CECYLIA
S H E R __
__C__ON__NBE__ G KWI__T__O__ S I
A K W __K__

3 4
RAJ OANA

G R __
RAN__A__ J N
A __A__ B R
__A__NUT__ U
I __

LISTENING
14) Listen to the conversations and circle the numbers you hear.

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 PRONUNCIATION
15) Listen and place the words in the boxes below.
Follow the examples.

fourteen fifteen forty fifty

sixteen sixty eighty
nineteen eighteen ninety

LISTENING
16) Complete the following sequences of numbers.

2 8 16

9 12 21

20 40 60 70

3 7 13

14 16

22 44 77

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 SPEAKING
17) Complete the conversations.

how are you?

I'm fine too
friend
Nice to meet you

Bye

Yes, sure

Bye

Goodbye

LISTENING
18) Listen to the beginning of the conversations and choose the
appropriate response.

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