Meeting People

A set of cards, forms and some ideas (3 pages)

Name: Dean Hudson Name: Magdalena Planchos

Age: 39 Age: 35
Nationality: American Nationality: Mexican
Job: Sports writer Job: assistant director
Marital Status: married to Lynne, a of a language school
a history teacher Marital Status: married to Carlos, an engineer
Children: three boys, aged 5, 8 and 9 Children: two boys, aged 10 and 13
Home: a house in Denver, Colorado Likes: teaching English, old American
Likes: cooking, classical music films, computers
Dislikes: winter, washing up, smoking Dislikes: beer and cooking
Favourite Favourite
holiday place: London or Central America holiday place: The United Stated

Name: Della Freeman Name: Leandro Ezequiel Sosa

Age: 17 Age: 32
Nationality: British Nationality: Argentinian
Job: student at a college Job: lawyer
of engineering Marital Status: married to Silvia,
Marital status: single a journalist
Home: lives with her married sister in Children: one son, 10
sister in South London Home: a house in San Isidro, BA
Likes: meeting people from other Likes: doing sports and reading
countries, chatting on the net Dislikes: smoking
Dislikes: watching TV Favourite
Favourite Holiday place: Italy holiday place: Spain and Greece

Name: Pierre Dumas Name: Paloma Jerez

Age: 26 Age: 27
Nationality: French Nationality: Spanish
Job: works in a Job: teacher of
supermarket mathematics
Marital status: married to Suzanne, a Marital Status: married to Juan, a dentist
hairdresser Children: two girls, aged 3 (twins)
Children: a girl aged 3 Home: in a flat in Madrid
Home: a flat in the centre of Nantes Likes: going to parties, swimming,
Likes: American rock music playing the classical guitar
Dislikes: spaghetti, beer Dislikes: watching TV
Favourite holiday place: Corsica Favourite holiday place: Ibiza
 Name: Elma Ulriksson Name: Ted Lichere
Age: 30 Age: 29
Nationality: German Nationality: Australian
Job: Director of Job: pilot
German Radio Marital status: single
Marital Status: married to Bengt, Home: in a flat in
a teacher Sydney with two work mates
Children: Lina 2 and Marcus 4 Likes: swimming, skiing,
Home: in a flat in Berlin watching sports
Likes: playing with the children Dislikes: noisy places, big cities
Dislikes: war films Favourite
Favourite holiday place: Portugal and Spain holiday place: the Greek islands

Some useful ideas:

A. Individual work:
 Student has to pick up a card and start speaking (in first /third person) to practice
simple present.
 Student has to write a paragraph about the person he/she has chosen.
 E-mail writing

B. Pair-work
 One student takes the role of the person in the card; the other is the person who has
to fill in the form for him/her.
 Each student take a card and thus the role in it. In pairs they have to make up a
conversation getting to know each other.
One posible situation: two foreign students meeting on the train in England start a
conversation.
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