READING AND LISTENING CORNERS INSTRUCTIONS

READING CORNER

1- Reading comprehension. My friend activity

Pre-reading activity. Which adjective would you use to describe your best friend?  ______

Now, read and listen to the text on-line and then, answer the questions about it on-line. 

Post-reading activity.  

Which of these forms of the verb to be appears in the text?    ARE-  IS-  AM

Why does the author use IS all the time?

___________________________________________

Write down all the pronouns that you can find in the text. 

    

2.- Reading comprehension. Finding a penpal activity

Pre-reading activity. Do you know what is a penpal? _____________  If you don’t know it, look it up in this dictionary on-line: www.wordreference.com Now, that you know what is a penpal, read the information of the 6 people who are looking for penpals. Look up the words that you don’t know in the dictionary mentioned before.

FINDING A PENPAL  ACTIVITY . 

    Source : https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/writing-practice/penpal-letter

    Read the letter online and then do the game about it.  Write the answers here

 

 2.1)Now do the exercises on “print the exercises and writing task “ and write the answers here. 

2.1.1)   What´s the Word?

2.1.2)   Choose the asnwer . Write the answer here . Copy all the sentences. 

2.1.3)   Then do the exercises on writing . 

3.  TWO FRIENDS . “ My friend Peter “

     https://www.thoughtco.com/english-reading-comprehension-4083656

             Read the text about Peter and then answer teh following questions.

1. Where is Peter from?

2. Where is his wife from?

3. Where are they now?

4. Where is her family?

5. How many languages does the family speak?

a.               b.                 c.                d.

6. What are the children's names?

7. The school is:

True or False Comprehension Questions

1. Jane is Canadian. [True / False]

2. Peter is Dutch. [True / False]

3. There are many children from different countries at the school. [True / False]

4. There are children from Australia at the school. [True / False]

5. Their daughter has friends from Portugal. [True / False]

LISTENING 

1.    Tell me about yourself .

Listen to the audio anc complete the questions about it .

1.    What is the man´s name ?

2.    Where was he born ?

3.    Which sentence best describes his university studies ?

4.    Where does he work?

5.    What is one thing  the man likes to do in his free time ?

2- Introducing oneself, Peter’s hobbies, jobs and ages activity

Pre-listening activity. Listen to the first recording, introducing oneself. 

What does introducing mean ? ____________

What does oneself  mean? ______________

While-listening activity. Listen to the recording and answer the questions online.
1) 
2) 
3) 
4)   

Post-listening activity.  Copy the questions from recording 1 in the square below.

PETER’S HOBBIES

Pre-listening activity. Listen to the second recording, Peter’s hobbies.  Which are your hobbies? Complete with one name in each column .

Sports                      Culture                Others 

While-listening activity. Listen to  recording 2 and answer the questions online. 

Post-listening activity.  Copy the list of hobbies mentioned in the second recording and underline the ones that are new for you. 

JOBS’ AND AGES

Pre-listening activity. Listen to the third recording, Job’s and ages.  Write in letters these numbers. Do you remember them?

1:			11:				12:		13:
18:			19:				20:		23:
32:			45:				52:
68:			79:				81:
99:			100:				1000:

While-listening activity. Listen to  recording 3 and answer the questions online. 

Post-listening activity.  Copy the list of jobs mentioned in the third recording and underline the ones that are new for you. 

3a.- Emma introduces herself activity.

Listen to the recording and chose the correct answer for each question in your dossier. 

What’s her name?          Emma Smith         Emma Jones      Emma Pattinson

            How old is she?               32                                     20                                22

            What’s her address?      33, Charles St                 23, Charles St             13, Charles St

Where does she live? __________

What does she like?     ____________ and _________________

What does she hate? _____________ and ___________________

Does she like animals? _________________

            Where was she born?  London                             Liverpool                   Manchester

3b.- My name is Christine activity.

Listen to the recording once and write notes about this information missing. Make sure that you know the meaning of all these words.

Name:

Age:

Birthday:

Nationality:

Personal description: Height: 

Hobbies:
Hair :
Eyes : 

Post-listening description:

Write the same information about you.