Getting to know each other

Wh – questions
Use the wh – questions to ask anything about the topics below.

Complete using Who…. Or ….. What …. Then make a question for further information
1- Is going to the club tonight?
2- Is driving today?
3- Is going out tomorrow?
4- Are you?
5- Are you going to do next summer?
6- Books do you want ?
7- Is going to wake up early tomorrow?
8- Are you doing here?
9- Is wearing a black tie today?
10- Are you going to do in NY next month?
11- Is going to the party tonight?
12- Did you call?
13- Happened to you?
14- Speaks English here?
15- Brought the dogs?
16- Did you like the most?

Complete using the wh – questions.

1. What do you think about this club? Oh, it’s cool and exciting! Isn’t it?

2. ____________ one is the book you want? The English or Spanish one? English, of course.

3. ____________ have you studied English? At university.

4. ____________ have you been studying English? Four years and two months.
5. ____________ are you learning English for? To get a better job in a soon future.

6. ____________ do you surf the Internet? About 4 or 5 times a week. It depends.

7. ____________ radio is this? I guess it’s Peter’s. Isn’t it?

8. ____________ were the Beatles? Mmm…A very famous rock band!

9. ____________ is John going to live in NY? Because he needs to improve his English.

10. ___________ will he go to NY? On October, 20th.

11. ___________ did she pay for the car? I don’t know. Do you?

12. ___________ friends do you have here in Los Angeles? A few of

them.

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1/ Rachel Green was born on May 5th, 1971. Her parents are rich and strict and
they don’t agree with her lifestyle 1. Her mother, Sandra, is a housewife and her
father, Leonard, is a well-known 2 doctor. She has got two sisters: Amy, who is
younger and Jill who is older than Rachel.
She lives in Monica’s apartment in New-York and she first worked as a waitress 3 in
Central Perk. Today, she works as a designer4 for Ralph Lauren. Monica and Rachel
have known each other for a long time because they went to high school 5 together
and were schoolmates 6. Rachel was a popular and beautiful cheerleader7 whereas
Monica was rejected because she was obese and she had no success with boys.
Rachel is superficial and selfish 8. She likes money, fashion and shopping. Her
boyfriend is Ross Geller with whom she has a baby girl called Emma.

2/ Phoebe Buffay’s bizarre family history is reflected in her current chaotic

existence. Her biological mother Phoebe Abbott, who worked as a real-estate agent 1,
gave birth to Phoebe and her twin sister Ursula when she was an adolescent and then
she gave them up to her best friend Lily to bring up 2. Phoebe's birthday is on
February 16th 1969, and she is one minute younger than her twin sister 3 Ursula. She
lives in her grandmother's apartment in New-York and works as a massage therapist.
She believes she can sometimes read thoughts of people or sense 4 the presence of
dead friends or family. She has got some musical talents and sometimes she sings
and plays the guitar for her friends in Central Perk (a coffee shop in New-York) to
earn some money. She is a vegetarian and she only eats vegetables and fruit. She
can’t stand eating meat. She doesn’t want to eat “food with a face” because she
loves animals. She is funny, extravagant, a little bit naïve and innocent. She is still a
child at heart because she believes Santa Claus 5 exists.

Rachel Green Phoebe Buffay

Surname : Surname :
First name : First name :

Age / date of birth : Age / date of birth :

Marital status: Marital status:

Family:
Family:

Place of residence:
Place of residence:

Physical description:
Physical description:
Personality :
Personality :
Likes/ dislikes:

Likes/ dislikes:
job:
Best friend:

Job:

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 Now it’s your turn to talk about yourself .Complete this table to let
others know you more
Name :
I have never…
Date of birth :

Parents’ jobs : If I were rich I would…

Languages spoken :
I am frightened of…
Countries I’ve already been
to (how long ? When ?) :
On Saturdays I usually…

Any difficulties the teacher

should know : I’d like to be more…

Themes I’d like to study : I’m not interested in…

Hobbies :
If I could be someone / something else,
Sports : I would…

Types of music / singers : When I was little my favourite super

hero was… because…
Types of films / titles :

I like people who…

If I could visit a place, anywhere
I’d love to meet… in the world, I would go to…
because…
I hate…

Other people find me…

Complete using the words in the box.

1. social 2. brother 3. come from 4. reading 5. teach 6. two 7. instrument 8. nephews

My name is Reinhard Strobl. I ___ Austria. I live in Lienz, a city in the south of
Austria. I am teacher at the Polytechnische Schule Kufstein. This schoolyear I will
___ at Don Bosco’s Highschool in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. I came to Ethiopia with
my girlfriend Daniela, she is a ___ worker. At home I live with my mother and
my ___ sisters. My father died 5 years ago. I also have one ___, he went to work
to Malaysia last year. I am an uncle of two ___ and four nieces. I don’t have any

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children. In my freetime I like to play my ___ (trumpet), to do a lot of sport and
to meet my friends. ___ is another favourite hobby of me.
Complete the dialogue with the right questions :
Boy : Hello, I’m Peter ……………………………………………. ?
Girl : Hello, I’m Sara.
Boy : …………..............................................................………...…?
Girl : Parker.
Boy :
.................................................................................................?
Girl : I’m 15 years old.
Boy :
..................................................................................................?
Girl : On January 12th 1999.
Boy : and
...........................................................................................?
Girl : I am from Washington, in the USA.
Boy :
..................................................................................................?
Girl : No I’m not! I’m Australian.
Boy :
..................................................................................................?
Girl : At 10, Sergeant Road.
Boy :
..................................................................................................?
Girl : I arrived here a week ago.
Boy :
..................................................................................................?
Girl : I have got two older brothers and a little sister.
Boy :
..................................................................................................?
Girl : My father is a dentist and my mother is a nurse.
Boy :
..................................................................................................?
Girl : yes, I like them and I have a cat, a dog and a rabbit.
Boy :
...................................................................................................?
Girl : yes, I play basketball.
Boy :
...................................................................................................?
Girl : Math is definitely the best for me.
Boy :
...................................................................................................?
Girl : 01122579
Boy :
...................................................................................................?
Girl : Oh, thanks a lot, I’d love to attend your birthday party!

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