Application 1

Text

1- Read the text and take notes of the words you don't know.

The exchange student

This is the fictional city of Woodsville in US.

Woodsville is a nice city to live and It is a very busy city.

This is Sarah, Sarah is a student at the public highschool in Woodsville, today she isn't going to school because today the exchange student will arrive from brazil.

The exchange student is Roberto, Roberto will live with Sarah and her family for some time because he is taking english classes near Sarah's house

His plane will arrive at 11 a.m.

He is very anxious because it's his first time in another country.

Verbs

to live – lived

to stay – stayed

to be – was / were

to exchange – exchanged

to take – took

to pretend – pretended

to imagine – imagined

Exercises

1- Make a sentence using present continuous or simple present for each of the words you didn't know.

2- After reading the text, answer:

a- Is woodsville a real city?

b- Where is it located?

c- Does Sarah work?

d- What will change in Sarah's daily life?

e- Why is Roberto going to live with Sarah's family?

3- Make two sentences with each of these expressions using present continuous and/or simple present. (don't forget to use negative and interrogative forms)

a.Take classes

b.live in

c.arrive from

d.abroad.

4- Pretend this photo below is a photo of Roberto, describe his features and his clothes:

5- Now pretend you are Sarah, how would you introduce yourself to Roberto?

6- Now pretend you are Roberto, what questions would you ask Sarah?

7- Roberto is anxious because he doesn't know sarah, so he doesn't know how she looks like, on the telephone she said that she is wearing a blue blouse, jeans, a black jacket and brown shoes. Roberto also knows that she has dark skin,a long curled dark hair, dark eyes, a big mouth, a thin nose, thin eyebrows, a thin chin and that she is slim and tall. On a sheet of paper make a drawing showing how you imagined her.

Extra Exercises

1- Introduce yourself, don't forget to tell your profession, likes, dislikes and body features. (use complete sentences)

2-Translate the sentences:

a. Ela está fazendo o café da manhã para ele.

b. Paul é uma pessoa muito ansiosa.

c.Duane trabalha todos os dias das 9:00 da manhã as 6 da tarde.

d.Wendy nada muito bem em piscinas.

e. Marco está imaginando o que fazer com isso.

f. Lilly está fazendo um jantar para o intercambista.

Drills

1. Woodsville is a fictional city / real / American
2. It's nice to live in the city / good / not
3. She studies in highschool / is going / not
4. They like to live here / in that city / with their family
5. She stays there every day after class / witth her friends /
6. I want to meet the new exchange student / She / doesn't
7. He's taking an English course downtown / with his girlfriend / German
8. It's hard to imagine that story / situation / explain
9. She's not living abroad next summer / going to the beach / visiting her family
10. When did he arrive form Portugal? / his trip / the course
11. I like to take classes at night / with my friends / alone
12. My mother has many daily activities / teacher / I
13. The student is going to live in another country / study / school
14. That girl with dark skin,a long curled dark hair is Sarah / dark eyes and big mouth / thin nose and eyebrows
15. They are going to have dinner out today / next Friday / tomorrow