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Jobs Use This is... to introduce someone informally. In more formal conversations (with a boss, professor, otc, people often use these phrases Model Conversation Tdlike to introduce you to q ; Take you to meet. Read the conversation. Then listen. @E==a Let me introduce. Teacher: Sonia, I'd like to introduce you to Mr. Peters. He’s our career counselor. Mr. Peters, this is Sonia. She wants some advice. She's choosing her classes for next semester. Mr. Peters: Hi, Sonia. So what do you want to do after you graduate? Sonia: Well, I'd like to be a pop star, but | can't sing. Anyway, | like clothes, and | love drawing. Maybe I want to be a fashion designer. Of course, | also like money. Maybe I want to be a CEO. Mr. Peters: So art, design, and business could be good classes for you. Let's look at the schedule. Bu Pop. as in pop rmusic or pop star. is short for popular. Vocabulary Something popula Is something a lot of people like. Match the words under the pictures to the correct definitions. U —— having many new ideas a popular singer —— a person who makes clothes —— things to wear —— to finish school or college __— to make a picture e. creative f. fashion designer Look back at the conversation in part A. Write the bold words next to the correct definitions. 1, _________ an opinion told to someone about what he or she should do 2, ______ a job that someone does for a long time; a person's work life a person whose job is to listen and give advice 4 half of a school or university year, often eighteen weeks In Your World Fill in the blanks. Then read your answers to your classmates and listen to their answers. Iwant to take a(n) ________class. I want to be a(n) Grammar want (to) and would like (to) Sometimes want and would like can be used in the same place. At those times. would like is more formal than want. Would like + noun is a less direct, more polite way of saying that you want something. Would like to means want to. It is less direct, so it can also be used for wishes that cannot happen. I want a pizza. /1 would like a pizza. I want some new clothes. /| would like some new clothes. we'd, they'd. I'd like to see a career counselor. Grammar Practice Put the words in order to make sentences. like / you / would / or / coffee / tea To make short forms with would like, add ~‘d to the subject pronoun: I'd, you'd, he'd, she’d, it'd, She'd like dessert. We'd like to graduate this year. I want to become a fashion designer. I would like to become a fashion designer. I would like to be a pop star (but I can't sing). 2. lawyer/a/be/to/like/ he'd 3. do/you/ what / like / would /to 4. class / want /a/ business / they / good 5. go/like/moon/to/I'd/the/to Listen to Speak Read the information. Then listen to the introductions. Write the name of the person in each picture. =a He's married and has a son. He loves his job and likes to give advice to students. in the summer, he travels with his family. He'd like to go to. Mt. Everest, but he’s too busy. someday. ‘She's married, with no kids. She studies computer science in college and also works at a big company. She wants to be a CEO She's single and lives with her best friend. They're creative and love the arts. She's a part-time barista now, but she would like to be a movie star. 1. Interview a partner about a person he or she knows (not a classmate). 2. Tell your classmates about the person, and answer any questions they have. Bis From where? To ask about someone's hometown, say, “Where Model Monologues are you from?” The answer Tm from.” Read the monologues. Write the number of each monologue next to the correct picture. Then listen, = 1. Man: I'm from San Francisco. It’s an urban area in the state of California. There's a very famous bridge there, the Golden Gate Bridge. San Francisco is beside a bay. There are tall buildings, and some mountains are nearby. | love my hometown. Woman:|'m from Helena, Montana. It’s small, but it’s a beautiful town. It's very rural. It usually snows a lot in the winter, but the summer is very hot. It's an awesome place. 3. Man: My hometown is Nashville, Tennessee. People call it “Music City.” You can hear all kinds of music every night, but country music is the most popular. Nashville is also famous for great food, and the people are really nice. Rural areas are often called the country. Country music is a kind of music about the lives of people in the country. Vocabulary Read the monologues again. Write the words from the box under the correct bridge urban bay rural mountain Match the words to the correct definitions. 6. famous + © a. very pretty 7. hometown + +b. a part of a larger place 8. beautiful + + & known to very many people 9. area . + d. the city or town where a person is from 10, state . + @. apart of acountry that can make some 5 of its own laws In Your World Use a dictionary. Find five English adjectives that describe your hometown. Write them here. 1. 2 3 4, 5. Grammar onda Go back to p. 11 to review S + be + adj. See p.73 to learn Questions with be like; adjectives about adjectives after other verbs. tea Ee ‘These questions ask you to describe a person | You can describe things using adjectives. Adjectives or place. can come after some verbs or before nouns. What + be + S + like (+ more information)? S+V+adj. (article +) adj. +N What is he like? What's Paris like at night? He’s calm and quiet. quiet man Who's your favorite professor? What's she like? | It’s beautiful and exciting. | beautiful lights What are your parents like when they're angry? | She's loud and passionate. | She's a passionate person. Lc | Grammar Practice wenger words that begin with a vowel sound. Put the words in order to make sentences. 1. mother /is/ what / your /like 2. your / like / siblings / are / what. 3. blue/Marcia/a/has/ car 4. in/ house / an / boy / lives / tall / the / old 5. beautiful / famous / she's / and Read the advertisement. Underline the adjectives. Look up any words you don’t know. [ Want to visit an exciting place? Come to Australia! ‘Whatever you'd like to do, you can do it here. There are big cities with beautiful beaches and great seafood restaurants. Australia is famous for its awesome weather. It's usually hot and sunny, even in ‘winter. You can swim in the ocean all year. Would you like to leave the crowded city and relax in the country? The huge rural part of Australia is called the Outback. You can go there to see amazing animals, like kangaroos. Come and see what Australia is like! 2 Travel to my hometown. What's your hometown like? Why would travelers like to go there? Write a paragraph about it. Look back at part C for ‘My hometown: ve

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