It s nice to meet you. PREVIEW Personal information Look at the pictures. Write the occupation, hobby, or interest. How many more can you think of? Listen. Check your answers. - OCCUPATIONS engineer student office worker teacher stay-at-home mom (dad) HOBBIES AND INTERESTS dine out go dancing do fingernail art go to the theater do magic tricks listen to music exercise surf the internet student Your ideas: Your ideas: Work with a partner. Ask these questions: What do you do? What do you like to do? Ask more questions. Example: A: What do you like to do? B: I like listening to music. A: What kind of music do you like?
LISTENING Where are you from? TARGET - Listening for specific information: countries Listen. Some students are at a Youth Challenge International meeting. They are going to volunteer. Where are they from? Write the names on the map. There are extra labels. Lauren Kai Marisa Lauren England HeeSoon Russia Scott Olga Japan Korea Mexico Philippines Brazil South Africa Australia TARGET - Listening for specific information: volunteer jobs Listen again. What are they going to do? Write the jobs. There is extra. build houses work with children teach English teach English work in a hospital doesn t say hasn t decided Kai Lauren Marisa HeeSoon Scott Olga About YOU - Listen. Answer the questions about yourself.. I m.. 4. 5. Can you remember the questions? Ask a partner.
CONVERSATION How do you know Chris? -4 Listen. Two people are at a party. They are meeting for the first time. Great music isn t it? Yes, it is. By the way, I m. (name) Nice to meet you. I m. (name) How do you know Chris? - food - party We play tennis together. Do you play? We re dating. - Glad - Good Yes, I love tennis. How do you know Chris? Oh, I see. - volleyball - soccer - volleyball - soccer - went to high school together - work together - right - cool Practice the conversation with a partner. Use the blue and green words. 4 -minute Conversation Task Close your book. Have a conversation. English only. Talk about things you like to do. Drama Coach Add emotion. How do you feel meeting new people? Nervous? Shy? Excited? Relaxed? Let your voice show your feelings. Watch the video at efcafe.com
PAIRWORK A What does she do? GOAL Find out personal information about several people. -5 PRONUNCIATION Listen. Repeat silently. Then repeat out loud. Where is Pat from? She s from Atlanta. What does she do? She s an o ff ice worker. How old is she? She s in her early twenties. What does she do in her free time? She likes watching movies. THINK TIME Q Look at the chart below. Do you know the words (hometown, occupation, age, interest)? Fill in the information about yourself. You are A. AGES early 0s mid 0s late 0s 0 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 0-something How do you spell it? You (A) Kali Max MinJung Kenta Noi B (your partner) hometown Chicago Seoul Bangkok occupation student engineer teacher age 9 0-something early 0s interest surfing the internet doing magic tricks Ask B for the information you need. Fill in the chart. Then answer B s questions. OUTCOME Which people would you like to meet? Why? CHALLENGE! Interview B. Find out at least more things. Do you like? Are you? Now join another pair. Introduce B. 5
PAIRWORK B What does she do? GOAL Find out personal information about several people. -5 PRONUNCIATION Listen. Repeat silently. Then repeat out loud. Where is Pat from? She s from Atlanta. What does she do? She s an o ff ice worker. How old is she? She s in her early twenties. What does she do in her free time? She likes watching movies. THINK TIME Q Look at the chart below. AGES Do you know the words (hometown, occupation, age, interest)? Fill in the information about yourself. You are B. early 0s mid 0s late 0s 0 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 0-something How do you spell it? You (B) Kali Max MinJung Kenta Noi A (your partner) hometown Chicago London Osaka occupation student office worker stay-at-home mom age mid 0s about 40 interest dancing listening to pop music doing fingernail art 6 Answer A s questions. Then ask A for the information you need. Fill in the chart. OUTCOME Which people would you like to meet? Why? CHALLENGE! Interview A. Find out at least more things. Do you like? Are you? Now join another pair. Introduce A.
LANGUAGE CHECK GRAMMAR TARGET Using simple present: Questions and answers Compare these questions and answers. The verb tenses are different. Does the verb tense change the meaning? How? Where do you come from? I come from Chicago. / I m from London. Where did you come from? Today I came from Chicago. What do you do? I work in an office. What are you doing? I m cleaning my room. Do you live in Korea? Yes, I do. Are you living in Korea? Yes, I m living in Korea now. But I ll return to Japan soon. See the Grammar Explanation on page 8. GRAMMAR CHECK (6 points total) Unscramble the words to make questions. (8 points) Match questions -9 with similar questions (a-i). (8 points). teacher a you are? Are you a teacher? ( f ). know him do you how? ( ). hometown your what s? ( ) 4. do what you do? ( ) 5. do in what do your free you time?? ( ) 6. dad your do what does? ( ) 7. from do come this area you? ( ) 8. she city does in work the? ( ) 9. together going you out are? ( ) a. Where did you meet? b. Are you dating? c. What s your job? d. Where are you from? e. Where does she work? f. Do you help students learn? g. Is this your hometown? h. What s your father s occupation? i. What do you do on the weekend? VOCABULARY CHECK (4 points) Complete the sentences.. I m Jim, nice to m you.. I co from New York.. I w for a marketing company. How about you? 4. Which school d you go to? Your score: / 0 EXTRA! Work with a partner. Choose 5 questions from Step. Make a conversation. 7
your plans and dreams INTERACTION Images of my life GROUP TALK GOAL Find out about your partners life. Talk about your life. -6 LANGUAGE MODELS Try to write the missing words. Listen to check. What s _ that? Is it your _ h? Is this a p _ of your ipod? Are t _ your _ h ies? W did you do that? THINK TIME Q Think of or 4 important things in your life. Draw simple cave art pictures. IDEA BOX your family What does (that) mean? interests where you live things you ve done ACTION! Work in groups of. Look at your partners pictures. What do the pictures mean? Ask each partner at least questions: Who...? When...? Where...? Why...? What...? How...? 8 HOW DID I DO? I used a lot of English. ➊ ➋ ➌ ➍ ➎ I used many new words. ➊ ➋ ➌ ➍ ➎ I was successful. ➊ ➋ ➌ ➍ ➎ Now fill in the progress chart on page 6. FINISHED? Choose one: Task recycling Change groups. Do the activity again. Vocabulary review See page.
REAL STORIES Let me introduce myself. JinKyong was surfing dating web sites. Tony s introduction interested her. Read his introduction. Guess the missing words. Hi, let me introduce myself. I m half Italian and half American. I m years old and single. I graduated from a U.S. university last year, and I am now a professional in the IT world. My are listening to live music, especially jazz, going to the theater and dining in the country s restaurants. Of course, I don t, and I exercise each day to stay in shape. I enjoy being with and strongly believe men should play a bigger role in helping children. Unfortunately, my salary is a little too much for me to spend. If you are willing to help me spend it and have some free time, let s start time together. I m waiting for your. Complete the sentences. Use these words. There are extra. alone bring up enjoying half money smoke best children expensive hobbies reply top -7 Listen and check your answers. Answer these questions about the story:. True or false? Tony is a student.. Do you think Tony s message is completely true? Which things seem too good to be true?. One of these people really wrote the letter. Who do you think it was? Why? YOUR STORY Write your own introduction. For fun, use a little imagination! Follow up. Cover or cut off your name. Give your introduction to your teacher. Read someone else s introduction. Ask classmates questions to figure out who wrote it. ON YOUR OWN Now you can introduce yourself in English. Keep practicing on your own! Use your audio CDs (- to -7). Do the Extra Listening (page ). Practice English outside of class. Practice with your friends. 9