Name: ___________________________________________

Date: ______________________________________________

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Chapter
All About Me

Additional Practice 1
Reviewing Vocabulary
In Chapter 1, you study words and phrases for writing about yourself. Do the following activity to
review the vocabulary from the chapter.

Complete the sentences with the words and phrases from the boxes below.

food Mexican speak

live My name is work
married nickname years old

My name is Mirabella Casteneda. My is Miri. I’m

(1) (2)

(3)
. I’m 20 (4)
. I’m not (5)
. I’m single. I
live in New York City. I (6)
in a restaurant. The (7)
there is very good. I (8)
with three roommates. My roommates are
not from Mexico. They are American. I get a lot of practice with English because
my roommates don’t (9)
Spanish.

Colombia good at My favorite

Colombian I’m interested in student
English like study

I’m a (10)
at LaGuardia Community College. I (11)
English. I take a grammar class, a reading class, and a writing class. The reading
class is difficult for me, but I (12)
it. (13)
reading, but I’m
not very (14)
reading in (15)
. (16)
author is
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He’s (17)
. His stories are about people and
places in (18)
.

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Additional Practice 2
Reviewing Grammar
In Chapter 1, you study the simple present of be.
• affirmative statements Example: I am from New York City.
• negative statements Example: He is not married.
• contractions Example: They’re good at cooking.

Change the sentences below from affirmative to negative, or from negative to affirmative.
Then write another sentence with the information in the parentheses. Use contractions.
1 He is a student. (teacher)
He isn’t a student. He’s a teacher.
2 They are from India. (Taiwan)

3 I am good at history. (English)

4 They are not students. (not teachers)

5 I am good at sports. (art)

6 They are not from Argentina. (not Costa Rica)

7 He is not Korean. (not Japanese)

8 She is 20 years old. (24 years old)

9 We are not interested in soccer. (not basketball)

10 She is not Cayla. (not Caitlin)

11 It is Italian food. (Greek)

12 You are in math class. (English class)

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Additional Practice 3
Revising and Editing
Revising
In Chapter 1, you learn to connect your ideas with the connecting word and.

Read these sentences. Then use and to connect the underlined sentences.

1 My name is Shohta. 2 I’m from Japan. 3 I go to school. 4 I study math. 5 I study

art. 6 I also work at a Japanese restaurant. 7 I speak Japanese. 8 I speak English.
9 I live with my aunt. 10 I live with my cousins. 11 We live in a small house. 12 The

house has two bedrooms. 13 It has one bathroom. 14 I’m interested in music.
15 I play the guitar. 16 I play the piano. 17 My family likes to listen to me play.

Sentences 4 and 5
1 I study math and art.
Sentences 7 and 8
2
Sentences 9 and 10
3
Sentences 12 and 13
4
Sentences 15 and 16
5

Editing
In Chapter 1, you learn about capital letters and periods.

Read the sentences below. There are 10 more mistakes with capital letters and periods.
Find the mistakes and fix them.

M
my name is ivonne, and I am from mexico I am a gardener. I work for a big
gardening company. it is called knapp nursery i also go to school. my school is in
the center of the city. my children are students there, too.

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