UNIVERSIDADE AGOSTINHO NETO

ESCOLA SUPERIOR DE HOTELARIA E TURISMO

FIRST ENGLISH DICTATION TEST SECOND YEAR

FULL NAME: ________________________________ROOM__________DATE________

Dictation Text I

Barrack Obama, America´s first black President

Barack Obama is the forty-fourth President of the United States, but the first African
American President in the history of the country. He was born in Hawaii in 1961. His
father was a black Kenyan, and his mother a white American from Kansas.

He is married to Michele, and they have two daughters, Malia Anne and Natasha,
known as Sasha. The children go to a private school In Washington. The girls have a
dog called Bo. Michele is an attorney (an American lawyer). She doesn´t work now
because her husband is a president. She says her most important job is as mother to
their children.

Barack Obama loves basketball. He has his own indoor basketball court in the Whitehouse, and
he often invites professional basketball players to come and play with him, he also goes to the
gym. In the evening he sometimes plays billiards, he and Michelle like going to restaurants and
cinema, and visiting friends for dinner. The family goes to church every Sunday.

The President and his family lives in the Whitehouse. It has 132 rooms. One hundred people
work for him. His chefs make his favourite food chili and pasta. Mr. Obama works in the Oval
Office in the White House. He often works more than sixteen hours a day.