CLASS 19

15 Reading (10 min.) • Picture Look at the picture and answer

the questions:
1.What’s in the picture?
Background notes
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Alberta is a province in western Canada.
2.Where is she?
Located in the foothills of the Rocky
Mountains, Alberta has long, cold winters. ________________________________
Hockey is short for ice hockey, a game with
six players on each of two teams. Players 3.Do you use e-mail?
skate around a rink trying to shoot a puck
into a goal with hockey sticks. It is the ________________________________
4.Do you like the same activities as Joy’s
national sport of Canada. class?
epals.com is a website where teachers and
students can go for cross-cultural exchanges, ________________________________
project sharing, and language learning. The 5.Which are the same? Which are
site is also a provider of school-safe e-mail, different?
e-Mentoring, and web-browsing technology
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for K–12.

15 Reading
A. List your favorite activities.

B. 41 Read along silently as you listen. Underline the students’ favorite forms of entertainment.

a)sports, hockey, skiing, movies, music b)sports, soccer, skiing, movies, music

Hi.
My name is Joy Walsh. I’m 12 years old. I’m in sixth grade
here in Alberta. Do you know where Alberta is? It’s in Canada..
My class would like to e-mail students from other countries.
We’re 11 to 12 years old. We all like sports. Our favorite sports
are hockey, skiing, and snowboarding. We also like movies
and music.
You can write to my class and other students from around the
world at www.epals.com. In your e-mail, please tell us where
you’re from, your age, and your favorite things to do.
I hope to get your e-mail soon!
Joy
C. Answer these questions.
17 Writing
1. What’s the e-mail writer’s name? A. GROUPS. Write your group e-mail using your answers
a)Joy Walsh b)Joy Wash c)Jon Walsh to the questions in Exercise
16. Read your e-mail aloud to the class or post it on the
2. Where’s she from? board and have your classmates read it.

a)Alberta, Canada b)Alberta, Canada

c)Alberta, Australia To: ________________________ CC:___________

3. What’s her nationality? Subject: ___________________________________

a)Canadian b)Australian
c)American ___________________________________________

4. How old are the students in her class? ___________________________________________

a)11 to 13 years old b)10 to 12 years old
c)11 to 12 years old ___________________________________________

5. What are their favorite sports? ___________________________________________

a)hockey, skiing, snowboarding ___________________________________________
b)hockey, skiing, surfboarding
c)hockey, skiing, snowboardimg ___________________________________________
6. What website can you visit to e-mail
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students from around the world?
a)www.pepals.com ___________________________________________
b)www.epals.com
c)www.epals.con ___________________________________________

___________________________________________
16 Your turn
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GROUPS. Talk about what you would like to tell Joy
and her classmates. Use these questions to guide
you. Make notes in your notebook. ___________________________________________
1. What are your names? ___________________________________________
_______________________________________
2. How old are you? ___________________________________________
_______________________________________
3. Where are you from? ___________________________________________
_______________________________________
4. What are your favorite activities?
_______________________________________
5. What’s your favorite book or movie? B.If your class is interested, check out
_______________________________________ http://www.epals.com with your teacher and choose a
class to write to.
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