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ABC English ClubEnglish Speaking Course

Unit 1- Personal Information

By Ben Tran

In this unit

• Introducing yourselfTalking about you and your family; describing people physically – age, height, hair

• What job is right for youTalking personalities and jobs

Getting Started

Reading & Speaking 1

I’m Hector Mercado and I’m almost17 years old. I’m from Mexico City,Mexico. My favourite singer is Whitney Spears. I would like to writeto e-friends from all over the world.Please write to me. My email ishectormex@efriends.com

Answer questions about this boy.

Practice 1 – make questions

Hi. My name’s Lin. I come from China. I’m 20 years old. I’m a student. I study Business Administration at university. I live with my friends in Shanghai. I don’t live with my family because I go to Shanghai for studying.My family lives in a small village in Canton. My parents are both teachers, they teach at a secondary school. I have a younger brother. He’s 15 and he’s a high school student.I love my family. I visit them every summer.

Reading & Speaking 2

• Make some questions about this girl.

Vocabulary - email

1. At : (@)2. Dash: (-)3. Underscore: (_)4. Dot: (.)

Say your email in English.

Practice 2 – is or are

• This 1)_____ a picture of mye-friends, John and Carol.They 2)______ English. They3)_______ from London.London 4)_____ the capitalcity of England. Carol 5)____ sixteen. John and I 6)______ the same age. We 7)_____ both eighteen.

You talk!

• Introduce yourself.• Talk about one of your friends.

Review: Name, Age, Job

• What’s your name?(Possessive adjectives: my, your, our, their, his, her, its )________________________________

• How old are you?(Subject pronouns: I, you, we, they, she, he, it)________________________________

• What’s your job? Or What do you do?________________________________

Make questions with different pronouns

Possessive Adjectives

Family members

Family Relationship

1. My mother’s brother is my ___________.2. My father is cousin’s ___________.3. My uncle’s daughter is my ___________.4. My aunt is my cousin’s ____________.5. My nephew’s is my ___________.6. My uncle is my mother’s or father’s

__________.

Family Vocabulary 1• Your family members are also called your relatives. You have an

immediate or nuclear family and an extended family. Your immediate family includes your father, mother and siblings. Your extended family includes all of the people in your father and mother's families.

• Your sibling is your brother or sister. If you have 1 brother and 2 sisters, then you have 3 siblings. Your parent is your father or mother. Your child is your son or daughter. Your spouse is your husband or wife.

• You may also have a stepfamily. Your stepfamily includes people who became part of your family due to changes in family life. These changes may include death, divorce or separation. New partnerships create new children. The new children and their relatives become part of your blended family. Some people are born into a stepfamily.

• Note that spouses and step-relatives are relatives by marriage. They are not blood relatives. Your father and mother are related by marriage. But your father and you are related by blood.

Family Vocabulary 2

• One-parent / single parent family = a family with only mother or father.

• Siblings = brothers and sisters.• Household = all the people who live in one house• To start a family = to have children• Fatherly / motherly = behaving like a father or

mother

Questions about family

• What types of family do you have?• Do you live with your grandparents? What do

you think about?• What do you and your family usually do

together?• What are you most proud of your family?• Who is the troublemaker in your family? What

does he/she do that creates trouble to you or other members of the family?

My family 1

There are 3 people in my family; my parents and me. My father is John. He’s 54 years old. He’s a manager in a clothes factory. My mother is Mandy. She’s 53 years old. She’s a housewife. She cooks very well.I love my family.

My family 2

I come from a big family of 5 children, and I am the eldest son. My father is ,Tom, 56 years old and he’s a teacher at a high school. He likes his job very much, and he works very hard. He spends 3 to 4 hours on planning the lessons and doing research at home after teaching at school.My mother is, Mary, 54 years old, and she’s a housewife. She just stays home to take care of the family and does the gardening. She plants a lot of vegetables and flowers in our garden.

My family 3

Complete the story about “my family 2” with information of the siblings.(create the person or people for this family)

Talking about your family

Use what you’ve learned and introduce your family to class.

Pronunciation ɪ/iː - e/æ - eɪ/aɪ

Describing people

1. A: So is your boss young?B: He’s in his thirties, I guess, about 35.

2. A: It’s quite long.B: What color is it?A: It’s light brown. And it’s a little curly.

3. A: He’s not really tall, about 175 cm.B: Oh, yeah. That’s not very tall.

4. A: He looks about 17.B: No, he’s older than that. He’s almost 25.A: No, I don’t believe it. He doesn’t look that old.

Have-Has / Have got-Has got

Have/Has+I have a book. She has a book.- I don’t have a book. She doesn’t have a book.? Do you have a book? Yes, I do. No, I don’t. Does she have a book? Yes, she does. No, she doesn’t.

Have got/Has got+I have got a book. She has got a book.- I haven’t got a book. She hasn’t got a book.? Have you got a book? Yes, I have. No, I haven’t. Has she got a book? Yes, she has. No, she hasn’t.

What is he like?

Make the questions for height, hair, appearance

Vocabulary

Age :Height :Hair :

Personality

Describe personalities

Using the adjectives on previous page to talk about a person you know.

(in about 2-3 sentences or more)

Vocabulary 1

Positive(P) or Negative(N)

Listening 2

People’s Description

Describe a person you know; appearance and personality

Useful Language:The person I know is __________. He’s / She’s _________.

He /She looks _________. He’s /She’s in his _______.

Common Jobs / Careers

• Teacher• Office worker / staff• Doctor / nurse• Tour guide• Flight attendant• Waiter / waitress• Actor / actress

Think of more jobs or careers that are affected by people’s personalities.

Because

Because introduces a cause or reason1. I’d make a good journalist because I love

writing.2. I wouldn’t want to be a teacher because I’m

too impatient.3. I could be a teacher because I’m very creative.4. I could never be a stockbroker because I’m not

good at making decisions quickly.

What job is for you?

You Talk

Your personal qualities and skills.

Speaking

1. Use all you’ve learned in this lesson to talk about you (+ describe your appearance and personalities).

2. Listen to your friend, take note, then tell the people in class about him or her.

Next lesson

Education and Work