INTROUCTIONS & ROUTINE

Introduce yourself
(name, age, nationality an hometown, occupation, hobbies...)
Do you wake up early? Yes I do. / No I don’t
Do you prepare your lunch? Yes I do.
Do you like exercise? Yes I dooo but I am lazy sometimes
Why do you watch jiu jitsu training? Because I want to learn (quero aprender) more.
what do you read? (rid) ea= /iiiii/ I read novels (romance)
I usually (geralmente) don’t run
sometimes (ás vezes) I don’t run
I don’t eat sushi/fish.
You don’t practice jiu jitsu.
We don’t go to church.
Describe your routine They don’t practice exercises (couch potato)
I wake up early (cedo) (5:40AM)
I wash my face
I walk Xereta in the street
I prepare breakfast
I have breakfast (black coffee and
natural yogurt)
I exercise
I study
I read 9:20- I take a shower
9:30- I have breakfast
I clean my house 10- I use my phone
10:30 I go to the gym
I work from noon (12PM) until 4PM 12PM- I take a shower
I have break 12:30- I watch jiu jitsu training
1PM- I go to work
I work again from 5PM until 7pm I arrive at work at 2 PM
3pm- I have a lunch break
I take a shower 4PM- I come back (volto) to work
I prepare dinner 11pm- I come back home
11:40- I arrive home
I watch TV, read a book 11:45- I take a shower
I sleep around 9:30PM midnight (12AM)- I go to sleep
DESCRIBE MY LIFE: WORK, HOBBIES AND RELATIONSHIPS
 State Parks, freeways,
and other things Ilove about the US
J
e nn y C l a rk, an Australian mom and college student \Vho lives in Californ ia, says the
US isn'tjusl OK- it's paradisc.
The s e a r e s o rne o f h er r easons ...

Coffee Freeways
American cups of colTee are very big! A I prefer the roads in lhe USo 'f he freeways
5ma l! Clip ofcoflee in lhe US is li ke a large are very fast, and in California rhey have a
cup of corree in Australia . Tf you're in a lot of cal' lanes . Tt 's really easy to drive from
hurry, you go lo a dr ive-through and buy one plaee to another.
colTee from your caro It's so easy!
ThemeParks
State Parks Theme parks are very popular in rhe
California has 278 state parks, and they US, and \Ve live near rhe Crea r America
are beauliful. On lheweekends, 1 bringmy T heme Park.
family to a stalc park in my arca. We explore 1\1y eh ildren like
the forest, find small animals, and Ihe rides and
cojoy lhe taU rcdwood lfces. water slides.
Someti mes rhe
Malls li nes for the
1 love shopping, and in lhe
rides are long,
US, rhe malls are very big.
but that's OK.
People walk around amI shop
\Ve need resr!
for hours . US malls have
many diflerenr SlOres, and the Red Robin
salespeople are friendly
and he lp you find rhings. aRed Robin is
restauram
rh ar has great hamburgers.
Fall I don't eat meal, but 1 like the frenc h
l love the fa ll weather in
fries and Icmonade al Red Robin. ll hink
lhe USo A good fall day in
Ihe fried cheese stieks are fantas1 ie, but
California is cool, but not
somelimes lhey arcn'l on lhe rnenu. Maybe
loo cold. I also lave lhe lrees.
that's because they aren't very healthy!
'fh ey change from green lO
ycllow, red, and brow n .

4 READING & SPEAKING e Underlin e these verbs in t he texto W hat

do they mea n? Co mpa re your id eas w irh
a Look at the photos. In which o ne ca n you see . .. ? a partner.
D a drive -through D a ride D a (heme park buy bring explore f ind enJoy walk
D a car lane D a redwood fo res t D a hambu rger help prefer drive need think
D a cup of coffee D a dr iver
d Look at each parag raph aga in. Say if it's rhe
b Read and listen ro the a rtide. Mark the se ntence T (tr ue) o r sa me or di ffe rent in yo ur coun try o r ciry.
F (fa lse). Say why che F o nes are fa lse.
( caffee in Brazil is very gaod. We have
1 A large cup of co ffee in Austra lia is the same as a sma ll cup of and good coffee shops.
coffee in the USo
2 Californi a doesn't have a lot of state parks .
3 Jenny doesn't li ke (he sa lespeople in shoppin g ma ll s. p Useful words: Why? and because
Use because to answer the questian Why?
4 The fa H is very col d in Cali fornia .
Why are the freeways goad?
5 Ir 's easy to drive in rhe USo Because they are very fast.
6 Jenny doesn't Ii ke the lo ng Ii nes fo r rides at theme parks.
7 Jenny eaes hamburgers and French fr ies ar Red Robin .
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