4º E.S.O. 1

interrogative pronouns

1. Match the questions and the answers.

1. What nationality are you?

2. What sports do you do?

3. What kind of music do you like?

4. What kind of books do you read?

5. Are you shy?

6. Can you play the guitar?

7. What do you like doing in your spare time?

8. Why are you learning English?

9. Where do you live?

10. Do you like watching football matches on

television?

11. What does your father look like?

12. What’s your mother like?

13. Have you got any brothers or sisters?

14. How do you feel about snakes?

a. Knitting and reading.

b. Mostly novels; sometimes history books.

c. Austrian.

d. She’s very calm and cheerful.

e. In a small town near Vienna.

f. No, I’m fairly self-confident.

g. They don’t interest me.

h. I prefer playing games to watching them.

i. Classical music.

j. He’s tall and fair.

k. Long-distance running.

l. I’d like to travel more, and I think it’s a

useful language.

m. Yes, two sisters.

n. Yes, but not very well.

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2. Here are some answers. What are the questions?

a. Carlos Peña. What’s your name?

b. Venezuela. ?

c. I’m an engineer. ?

d. 25. ?

e. One metre seventy-eight. ?

f. Two brothers and a sister. ?

g. In a small flat in Caracas. ?

h. Fluent English and a little French. ?

i. I watch TV or I go out with friends. ?

j. About twice a week. ?

4º E.S.O. 2

3. Match a word in A with a word in B and a line in C. Then answer the questions about yourself.

A B C

How

What

colour

far

tall

sort

much

often

size

long

newspaper

time

shoes do you take?

did you get up this morning?

of music do you like?

do you read?

is it from school to your house?

is your hair?

do you go swimming?

does a hamburger cost in your town?

are you?

does your English lesson last?

a. What colour is your hair? My hair is black.

b. ?

c. ?

d. ?

e. ?

f. ?

g. ?

h. ?

i. ?

j. ?

4. Put the words in the right order to form a question.

a. you the buy shops did at What? What did you buy at the shops?

b. the is teacher Who?

c. parents your are at Where moment the?

d. When you did her see?

e. did to Italy you go Why?

f. do How you school to come?

g. Whose that is car?

h. do to How you often go cinema the?

i. often have you do How holiday a?

j. do you What up have time get to?

k. job to have your wear you a Do uniform in?

l. you Why have did so to many books buy?

TEXTOS PARA ANÁLISE 2 ANO

Directions: practice the following conversations with a partner.

Conversation 1: Calling a child’s school

A: Ring! Ring!

B: Hello, you have reached Alpine academy. This is Carol. How may I

help you?

A: Hi, my name is Eleanor Wright. I am calling to inform you that my

child is sick and will not be in school today.

B: What is your child’s name?

A: Anna Wright.

B: How do you spell that?

A: Anna is spelled A-N-N-A, and Wright is spelled W-R-I-G-H-T.

B: Thank you. What grade is Anna in?

A: She is in second grade.

B: And what is her teacher’s name?

A: Mr. Roberts

B: All right. Thank you for calling.

A: You’re welcome.

B: Goodbye.

A: Okay bye.

Conversation 2: Wrong numbers and right numbers

A. Ring! Ring!

B. Hello?

A. Hi, this is Nidia. Is Sherri there?

B. I’m sorry. You have the wrong number.

A. Is this 555-5024?

B. No, it isn’t.

A. Oh, I’m sorry.

A. Ring! Ring!

C. Hello?

A. Hi, this is Nidia. Is Sherri there?

C. No, she isn’t.

A. Oh okay. Do you know if she went to the mall already? I was

supposed to meet her there.

C. Yes, she just left.

A. Okay I will go to meet her then.

C. Okay that sounds good. I hope you find her there.

A. Oh, thank you.

C. No problem. Goodbye.

A. Goodbye.

Conversation 3: Going to the Beach

A: Hi Chen. How are you?

B: Fine. How are you doing Lisa?

A: Fine. I have been working a lot lately and need a break.

B: Yes, I have been working hard lately too.

A: Well, I was wondering if you would like to come to the beach with me

this weekend.

B: Yes, that sounds great! Is it okay if my brother and sister come also?

A: Yeah, that’s fine. I was going to ask them if they wanted to come

anyway!

B: Oh, okay great. I think we should leave Friday after work. How does

5:00 sound to you?

A: Leaving at 5:00 sounds fine. We should be ready by then.

B: Okay, I will pick you up from your house at 5:00. I think we should

take one car to save gas.

A: Yes, I think that is a good idea. I am excited to go to the beach this

weekend!

B: So am I!

A: Okay, I will talk to you later.

B: Okay, bye.

A: Bye.

Conversation 4: Telemarketers

A: Ring! Ring!

B: Hello?

A: Hi, may I please speak to Andy Macintyre?

B: Yes, this is Andy speaking.

A: Andy, this is Terry Ortiz from Downtown Insurance Company.

How are you this evening?

B: Fine, thank you.

A: The reason I’m calling tonight is that we are offering

a new special policy that can save you a lot of money.

B: No thank you. I’m not interested.

A: Are you sure you do not want to take advantage of this one time offer?

B: Yes, I am sure.

A: All right. Thank you anyway.

B: Goodbye.

A: Goodbye.

(To stop a sales person from calling say “Please take me off of your list.” By

law the person must stop. She/he may explain that it will take three weeks to

remove your name from the list, but the conversation will be finished.)

Conversation 5: A Game of Basketball

A: Hi guys

B: Hey Sergio, what’s up?

A: Oh, not much. I’m bored.

C: Hey Sergio, if you are bored you should play a game of basketball

with us. We are just about to begin.

D: Yeah, that sounds like a great idea.

A: Well, okay. I’ll play, but I’m not very good.

B: That doesn’t matter. None of us are very good. Besides, we are just

playing for some exercise.

A: Okay cool.

C: There are four of us so we should play 2 on 2.

D: Yeah, that seems fair.

A: Let me put my athletic shoes on and I will be ready to go.

B: Okay, we will wait for you.

C: I am glad that we will finally have even teams!

D: This should be fun!