GENERAL ENGLISH COURSE FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Date: June 04th, 2020.

Aims (Goals / Objectives):

• Identify places around the city and services

• Listen to an audio and get factual information
• Learn to difference information questions with “What time, when, where and how long”

LESSON 3
FACTUAL INFORMATION

SITUATION A:

Speaking English involves the ability to understand what you hear from someone else so for that reason it is
necessary to know how to get factual information. In this moment I will speak and share with you some
details about an important event that I will have this Saturday, please you just have to focus on what you
need to listen to according to the chart:

Leave home at Travel by What to take Morning activity Cost Reason

As you have noticed, Normally people use some services such as a taxi or visit places like a bank or the
supermarket. In that way you must know vocabulary related to the most common services or places around
the city.

Check out the following vocabulary:

Label the two groups of words:

hospital ……. park .......... supermarket ……. mall ……… café …… Take transport ………. Go to gym .......... buy food / clothes ……….
restaurant ....... library .…. shop .….. museum …... station ……. Get money / use the ATM ……… hire a mechanic / plumber ..........
but ……….
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Now read each question, listen the audio and choose the best option:
GENERAL ENGLISH COURSE FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
 GENERAL ENGLISH COURSE FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SITUATION B:

Every time you have to do an activity, it has to be done at a specific time, place and day. If you want to know
this information you should ask questions such as “What time?, when?, where? Or How long? But you must
be careful about the kind of sentences because the will be in present, past, future, etc. or the ideas used to
complement the answer Let’s discuss about the next examples:

• When and where did you buy your laptop?

a) Tomorrow morning at Ripley b) An hour ago at Tottus c) Right now at a private store
• What time do you go to work?
a) Every day at 8:00 o’clock b) At twenty to eight on platform three c) It’s eight o clock
• How long have you been teaching english?
a) About thirty minutes b) At midday c) Since 2015
• When is your intervew?
a) Yesterday afternoon b) Next Thursday c) in 2009

Now read each question and match with the correct answer: