UNIT First impressions READING 1 Giving personal information Louisa, Lars and Akemi have each written a short description of themselves as part of a pen-friend scheme organised by th teachers. Read the passages as quickly as possible and decide who drives to work. who has a long summer holiday who learns English at work. Rwne who would make the most interesting pen-friend. Tell your partner which one you chose and why. ‘My name’s Louisa. I’m 19 years old and come from Bologna in Italy. I'm a student at the university, where I study Law. Most of my lectures are in the afternoon, so I usually get up late and study in the evenings. At weekends, I often go to the cinema with my friends in the winter, or to the seaside in the summer. My family has a house on the Adriatic coast, and we all go there every summer for two months. I'm very interested in environmental issues, and would like to meet students from other countries who share my views. My name’s Lars. I'm 26 years old and I come from Malmo in Sweden. I'ma trainee manager in a company which sells office equipment. I spend one week of each month in a different department so that I learn various aspects of the work. I generally spend at least one day per week out of the office as my job involves sales and marketing. My job’s very interesting but rather tiring. I get up early each morning and drive ten miles to my office, but I still find the time to study English, because a teacher comes to the ‘company twice a week. In my spare time I like to go skiing and I enjoy all water sports. My name’s Akemi. I'm 25 years old and I come from Tokyo in Japan. At the moment I’m living in Cambridge, where I'ma student of English at a language school. My interests are theatre, ‘cinema and classical music, especially opera. In Japan I work in @ large department store selling cosmetics. When I go home | hope to get a job using my English, maybe in a travel agency. My ambition is to travel all over Europe and learn another European language.SENN UNIT 1. First impressions ce n sf them. ener ‘You Your partn, 7 & 5 Now complete this table for each o! aie 1 id ie | § ouisa Age }———_| National | Occupation : tie | Interests _— VOCABULARY 1 SII, Clothes SPEAKING 1 ———— Exchanging personal information 1 Look around the room ang fy jon for you and your partner. 1 Complete the information for you and yo intviatlon? 2 What questions did you ask your partner to get the How > What Where > What 2 Which grammatical tense did you use? Why? ' 3 Nowask the questions to as many people as possible in your group, and make a note of their replies. Compare with your partner. 4 Write paragraph about yourself for the pen-friend scheme. Present simple and continuous Look at these examples of the use of the Present simple and continuous tenses. The two columns on the right tell you the ‘grammatical tense used in the phrase and the time referred to. ‘Tense Time ‘States Heis tall and thin Present simple Always He isn’t American Habits/routines She gets up early Present simple Usually ‘She's wearing jeans Present continuous | Now Things which are always true The sun rises in the east. Present simple Always The sun is rising Present continuous :| Now Puta verb in these sentences in the correct tense. 1 Roland usually a raincoat, but today he an anorak instead, ’ 2) Linda t 8.00 am every day and to work by car, 3 Frances never sandals, 4 Matthew at his parents’ hous 5 Alekisa very reliable person, 6 Carolusually raining so she he in the centre of town but this week he ein the country. everybody we aii di ‘on foot, but this morning it is him. high-heeled shoes, in fact she usually make a list ofall the articles o; clothing that you can see Compare lists with a partner, ‘Add to the list some articles oj clothing that you cannot sec, but which people sometimes wear (maybe at another time of year) Divide your list into 4 groups of words. You can decide how to divide them, but each group must have a title. Show your groups to your partner and explain why you have grouped the articles in this way. Look at these words. What type of words are they? long cotton plain thick striped high-heeled leather thin woollen short long-sleeved waterproof tight-fitting light checked “heavy short-sleeved flat-hecled silk loose-fitting Which of these words can be used to describe which clothes? Choose one article of clothing from your list to put after each adjective,xb Terewe GRAMMAR 2 a F Order of adjectives D 1 Look at these phrases: a full-length red overcoat « pair of red and white striped cotton socks a Toose-fitting black woollen pullover 4 pair of brown leather shoes short-sleeved green cotton sweatshirt a pair of white flat-heeled sandals a plain blue cotton Tshirt hrases to describe articles of Now make similar p! clothing that you can see. ‘What do you notice about adjectives? Look at the four pictures below. Write one sentence describing the clothes worn by the person in each picture. 4. Link each of the expressions in the box to one of the pictures. Write two more phrases to describe the people in the photographs. the order of the y w mss