Inglês Introdutório I A - Compreensão e Produção Oral

Lesson 02: Knowing You Knowing Me

Tópico 01: Listening & Speaking

Listening & Speaking

Making questions is a very important ability in a foreign language. In this lesson, we are going to learn
how to make questions in English using 'verb to be'. Listen to the dialogue below and pay attention to the
questions.  (Translate).

Saber fazer perguntas em uma língua estrangeira é uma habilidade muito importante. Nesta lição
iremos aprender como fazer perguntas usando o verbo to be.

PRACTICE
Angelica got a scholarship and has moved to the United States to study. She is answering questions
about herself at UMASS (University of Massachusetts).  (Translate)

Angelica ganhou uma bolsa de estudos e se mudou para os Estados Unidos para estudar. Ela
está respondendo questões sobre si na Universidade de Massachusetts.

Listen to the interview and answer the questions. Give complete sentences.

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(1)
1. What's Angelica's surname?

(2)
2. Where is she from?

(3)
3. What's her telephone number?

(4)
4. What's her job?

(5)
5. Are her parents Argentinean?

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Correct Answers
1. Kotwitzy
2. She's Brazilian
3. 4135433065
4. She's a teacher
5. No. They're Polish

2. Match the columns.

Column A Column B

(1) Ask for someone's surname.

What's your email address?

(2) Ask for someone's telephone

Are you Argentinian?
number.

Are you single or married?

(3) Ask for someone's address.

What's your telephone number?

(4) Ask for someone's email address.

What's your address?

(5) Ask for someone's marital status.

What's your surname?

(6) Ask for someone's nationality.

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Correct Answers
4. What's your email address?

6. Are you Argentinian?

5. Are you single or married?

2. What's your telephone number?

3. What's your address?

1. What's your surname?

3. Search the net and find different ways to ask about:

a) Someone's age 

b) Someone's nationality 
 c) Someone's address 

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Correct Answers

a. How old are you? / What's your age?

b. What's your nationality?
c. Where do you live?

4. Look at the pictures below and write questions for the answers

Maria da Graça Meneghel 47 years old Married with 3 children

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Correct Answers

1. What's her name?/What is her name?

2. How old is she?
3. Is he single or married?

TO KNOW MORE
Suggested Links:

◦ Where are you from? [1]

◦ How old are you? [2]
◦ Beginner Dialogues [3]
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Tópico 02: Grammar Support

To be (+ - ?)

As you can see above, verb to be may appear in three different ways (+) Affirmative sentences - He is a
student; (-) Negative sentences - He isn't a student - and Interrogative sentences - Is he a
student?  (Translate).

Como você pode ver acima o verbo to be pode aparecer em três formas distintas: afirmativa,
negativa e interrogativa.

Affirmative
An affirmative sentence states that something is true. In an affirmative sentence, you have the subject
(I), the verb (am) and the complement (a student). (Translate).

Uma sentença afirmativa declara que algo é verdadeiro. Numa sentença afirmativa temos o sujeito
(I), o verbo (am) e o complemento (a student).

EXAMPLES
e.g.1: I am Brazilian.

Subject Verb Complement

I am Brazilian.
 e.g.2: He is married.

Subject Verb Complement

He is Married.

In the first example, the verb am follows the subject I. In the second example, the verb is follows the
subject He.

Interrogative
For the Simple Present of the verb to be, questions are formed by reversing the order of the subject and
the verb, so that the verb precedes the subject.  (Translate).

Para o presente simples do verbo to be a interrogativa é formada invertendo a ordem do sujeito e do

verbo de forma que o verbo antecede o sujeito.

EXAMPLES
e.g.1: Am I Brazilian?

Verb Subject Complement

Am I Brazilian?

e.g.2: Is he married?
 Verb Subject Complement

Is He married?

In the first example, the verb am precedes the subject I. In the second example, the verb Is precedes
the subject he

PRACTICE 1
Go to The verb to be [4] and make questions using verb to be.

Negative
In the Simple Present of the verb to be, negative statements are formed by adding the word not after the
verb. (Translate).

No presente simples do verbo to be, as sentenças negativas são formadas acrescentando-se a

partícula de negação not.

EXAMPLES
e.g.: I am not Brazilian. He is not married.

In the first example, not follows the verb am. In the second example, not follows the verb is.

PRACTICES 2
Go to To be - negative forms and contractions [5] and use negative sentences.

Present simple: to be (questions) [6]

Grammar Quiz: Am, Are & Is [7]

The forms of be (am, are, is) [8]

Make questions (to be) [9]

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Tópico 03: Vocabulary Development

Question Words
There are a few words in English that are so important in questions that they are called 'Questions
Words'. They usually come before the verb in question and ask about a specific item. (Translate).

Há algumas palavras em inglês que são tão usadas quando fazemos perguntas que são chamadas
de ‘Palavras de Perguntas’. Elas geralmente vêm antes to verbo auxiliar e se referem a um item
específico (indagam sobre uma informação específica).

Question Words Questions Answers

Who - used to ask about a I'm your new

Who are you?
person. student.

What - used to ask about a What´s your

I’m Brazilian.
thing. nationality?

When do you go to I usually go to the

When - used to ask about time.
the beach? beach on Sundays.

Where - used to ask about a

Where are you from? I'm from Brazil.
place.

Why do you study

Why - used to ask for a reason. Because I like it.
English?

How old - used to ask about

How old is she? She's 22 years old.
age.

PRACTICES 1
Como fazer perguntas em inglês [10]

Wh - questions [11]

Complete the sentences [12]

PRACTICES 2

Countries - Languages and Nationalities

1. Our nationality is very important because it identifies where we came from, our culture and who
we are. Look at the famous people below and write where they are from and what are their nationalities.

◦ a) Where he/she is from?

◦ b)What is he/she nationalitie?

1. Jorge Mario Bergoglio 2. Luciano Pavarotti

3. Gérard Depardieu

a)
a) a)
b)
b) b)

4. Grazi Massafera 5. Neymar Júnior 6. Hugh Grant

a) a) a)
b) b) b)

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Correct Answers

1. Jorge Mario Bergoglio the pope - He is from Argentina. He is Argentine.

2. Luciano Pavarotti - He is from Italy. He is Italian.
3. Gérard Depardieu - He is from France. He is French.
4. Grazi Massafera - She is from Brazil. She is Brazilian.
5. Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior - He is from Brazil. He is Brazilian.
6. Hugh Grant - He is from England. He is English.
 LISTEN
Click on the words to listen to countries, languages and nationality then click on next to see
more.

FURTHER PRACTICE (CLICK HERE TO OPEN)

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtpKmC1y8WE&list=PLV99C0C01kRp8kx
S6SYIiJhtpF3UFP8XB [13]

2. http://www.englishmedialab.com/beginnervideos/countries/countries.html [14]

Fontes das Imagens

1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9PsgBhtsnE
2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDyMd1pom-Q
3 - http://esl.about.com/library/speaking/bldialogues_personalinfo.htm
4 - http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/PresentSimpleToBe1C.html
5 - http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/PresentSimpleToBe1B.html
6 - http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/single/first3.htm
7 - https://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/37.html
8 - https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/be2.htm
9 - https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1018
10 - https://englishlive.ef.com/pt-br/blog/como-fazer-perguntas-em-ingles/
11 - http://a4esl.org/q/h/9704/dg-wh.html
12 - https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-47448.php
13 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtpKmC1y8WE&list=PLV99C0C01kRp8kxS6SYIiJhtpF3UFP8XB
14 - http://www.englishmedialab.com/beginnervideos/countries/countries.html