Self-introduction: me, my lifestyle and my family

 Some useful vocabulary to talk with your classmates

• Personal information
• My name/surname is…..
• I am ….. years old
• I am Italian/ I come from Pakistan …
• I live in ….. together with my parents/my mother/my father/my sister/my brother/my grandparents…
• I attend this course because…
• Before attending this course, I was…

• What do you do in your free time? Talk about your hobbies (music, sport, reading, go dancing, travelling, watching TV, surfing, playing ...)
• I enjoy listening to music
• I like reading
• I love playing football
• I spend a lot of time together with my friends
• My favourite TV program is ….. because….
• I spend many hours surfing
• How do you spend your free time?
• In my free time/in my spare time I like at most….
• What kind of hobbies do your classmates have?
• How much time do you spend daily on your hobbies?
• Do you like basketball? Yes I do./ No, I don't.

• About your family: how big is your family? Have you got any brothers or sisters? What do they do? Have you got a good relationship with them? What do your parents do?
• Parents
• Relatives
• Brothers/Sisters
• Children
• Aunt/uncle
• Daughter/son
• Cousins
• Nephew (male) /niece (female)
• Husband/wife
• Grandparents: grandfather/grandmother

MODULE 1

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2011!

I WISH YOU MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

MISS CARMEN

PRESENT PERFECT

EXTRA PRACTICE - MODALS

G-FORCE TRAILER

G-FORCE

G-FORCE “I’m pretty sure this is animal cruelty… but I LOVE it!!”?

1.  Watch the Trailer to G-Force and answer the following questions:

a)    What has US Government done for over a hundred

            years?

b)    Which animals were trained?

c)    What were they trained to do?

d)    What project has US Government developed?

e)    What is their mission?

2.  There are 5 members in the G-Force team. Write down the functions of each team member and their duties within the team. Use the following words to help you with the duties: crack, distract, supply, watch, search, lead, fight, report. You can add any other verbs you think appropriate.

Team Member	Function	Duty
BLASTER
JUARES
SPECKLES
MOOCH
DARWIN

3.  Think about qualities of a good secret agent and complete the sentences.

A good secret agent:

Must __________________________________________________________

Doesn’t have to __________________________________________________

Can ___________________________________________________________

Mustn’t ________________________________________________________

Needs to _______________________________________________________

Can ___________________________________________________________

Ought to _______________________________________________________

4.  Look at the pictures and discuss the questions.

a)   How do we use these animals to help us?

b)   What other animals do we use? How?

c)   Could animals be used as secret agents? How?