UNIVERSIDAD DE SUCRE

ENGLISH V SLG 16 – SLG 17

UNIT 1: MY LIFE

UNIT GOALS:

1-Talk about the important people in your life.

2-Introduce a person to someone else.

3-Talk about classes and lessons you´re taking.

4-Describe something you learned to do.

SESSION 1

OBJECTIVES:

- Checking the vocabulary about the different type of relationships.

- Talking about the most important people in your life.
- Reviewing how to introduce a person to someone else.
- Compairing the simple present tense with the present continuous tense.

ACTIVITIES:

1-Watch the video and answer to the question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XppEzopIahs

a- Where are they?

b-What are they doing?

c- How are they related to each other?

RELATIONSHIPS VOCABULARY:

Colleague neighbor next-door neighbor just acquaintance

Girlfriend relatives acquaintance fiancé

Boyfriend friend Co-worker fiancee

Best friend classmate Old friend

Close friends roommate good friend

2- Complete the sentences using the studied vocabulary.

a- Linda and I work together at the same company, but in different departments. We are
____________________.

b-Tisha and Luke studied at the same school and they started a deep friendship. We can say that
Tisha is Luke´s __________________.

c- I have just met you. I am not your closest friend. We are _________________,

d- They live on the same street, of course they are ___________________.

e- He is Louis. He is from New York. We have been going out for so long. I am his
___________________.

3-Complete this information about you.

a- I am _________________.

b- I have __________ best friend(s). His/her / their name(s)

is/are______________________________________________. We met at __________________
____________ years ago.

c- I live in ____________________. The name of my neighborhood is ____________________.

____________________ is my neighbor. But, my next -door neighbor is ___________________.

d- I work at _______________. So, I have __________ colleagues. They are

____________________.

e-I have / I don´t have ___________________. He / she is ____________________. I love him/

her because ___________________.
f. At the university I have ____________________ classmates. My classmates are
___________________.

4- Work on page 5 and 6 to practice the vocabulary.

5- Read this paragraph.

Angelica Gómez is my best friend. She is an English teacher too. She is 45. She has 3 sons and 1
daughter. We met 25 years ago. We work together at CLEUS at Universidad de Sucre. So, now she
is my colleague as well. She is a very responsible, loyal and honest person. She likes to study and
to read. We share the same interests, that´s the reason why we have a very close relationship.

6- Write about who are the most important people in your life.

7- Watch the video and answer the questions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlXw2-Ft7jY

a- What is she doing?

b- What is happening?

8- Read and listen to the conversation on page 7 and in groups of three create a similar
situation to present it to the class.

9- Search for the difference between the simple present tense and the present continuous
tense. Do the exercises on page 8 and 193.