Welcome to This is English 1

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Welcome to This is English 1
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Unit 1 Talking about people
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Lin Xiaoyan arrives in London. Objectives In
this unit you Meet the five people whose story is
told throughout this unit. Learn how to give
information about yourself or another
person Learn how to ask someone about
themselves Learn how to talk about leisure
activities Learn how to give information about
travel arrangement.
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Five people in this unit
Name David Manning Lin Xiaoyan Polly Williams Mary White Franco Rossi
Age 34 28 30 23 50
Nationality British Chinese American British British
Home London Shanghai London London London
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Jobs and Workplace
Name David Manning Lin Xiaoyan Polly Williams Mary White Franco Rossi
Job IT Manager Deputy IT Manager Manager Student Restaur-ant owner
Work place ABHK Bank, London ABHK Bank, Shanghai Lucky Shops, London University of London Caffe Roma, London
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• ??????????
• 1. Whats your name, please?
• 2. Are you ?
• My name is Polly Williams/ Lin Ping.
• Im Jim Brown.
• ???????????
• How old are you, Li Lei?
• How old is he?
• Im twenty./ thirteen

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• ??????????
• Where are you from?
• Where do you come from?
• Where does he come from?
• I am from China. (I am Chinese.)
• I come from Jiangsu Province.
• He is from English.(He is British.)

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Country, Language Nationality
COUNTRY LANGUAGE NATIONALITY
USA English American
Australia English Australian
Britain English British
Canada English/French Canadian
Egypt Arabic Egyptian
France French French
Japan Japanese Japanese
Italy Italian Italian
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?????????

• What do you do?
• What are you?/ What is he ?
• Whats your job?
• Are you ???
• Im an accountant/ a manager...
• I work in an IT company.
• ????????a/an
• I am a teacher .
• you are a student.
• he is an engineer.

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jobs

• teacher policeman accountant engineer
• worker salesman doctor clerk
  
• soldier nurse receptionist
  officer
• editor postman director
  chef civil servant baker
• Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

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Present Simple ??????

• Present Simple??
• ??am/is/are
• ??do/does)
• ??1????????????????never, sometimes, often,
  usually, always,every day/ Sunday??????
• 1,I get up at six every day.
• 2, We go to work by bike sometimes.
• 3, He watches TV on Sundays.
• 4, Peter always does homework at home .
• 5, My mother usually washes the dishes after
  dinner.

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• 2????????????????????
• He is from Canada.
• Mary and Jim are often at home on Sunday.
• ----Do you speak English?
• ---- Yes, I do.
• 3??????????,???????
• The earth moves around the sun.
• Spring follows winter. ?????????
• Time and tide wait for no man.?????
• Pride goes before a fall. ?????

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??????,???????????????,???????,????????s?es ????
???????? 1,???s ???looks, lives, cleans.. 2,
?o, s, x, ch, sh ??????es??? dodoes, go goes,
watches, brushes, fixes. 3, ??????y ?????,?y
?i??es?? study studies, cry cries, try
tries. 4, have----has I get up at six every
day./But he gets up at 7. We work in Shenzhen.
But she works in Baoan. I like English./Peter
likes Chinese. Do you like English?Does Peter
like Chinese?
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1) ??to be ???
???? Im Chinese./Hes English. Shes
German. Theyre managers. Whats that? Wheres
she from? His names David. Her friends American.

• I am
• he
• she is
• it
• we
• you are
• they

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??????to be ??not

• I am not He is not They are not
• ??????to be ????
• Are you Is he Are they
• ???????????????to be ??
• What is your name? Where is he from ?

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2) work with sb./ work for/ work
in(at) You work with a person. /I work with Tom
in the same company. You work for a company. /I
work for an IT company. You work at a place./I
work at a school. You work in a town./ I work in
Beijing.
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3 ) like doing sth.(???.)
???? I like watching TV on Sundays. He
likes playing football. She likes walking with
her friends in the park. ???ing ????(?WB
P.2) cook--- cooking eat--- eating
dance--- dancing make--- making put---
putting sit ---sitting lie lying
die dying
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Describe leisure activities

• 1. read books
• 2. play the piano/ violin
• 3. play basketball/ football/ volleyball/
  badminton(???) / tennis/ table tennis/)/ golf
  (????)
• 4. bungee jumping
• 5. Swimming/ walking/ running
• 6. go swimming/ skating / skiing/ climbing
  bowling(???)
• 7. cook a meal / cooking
• 8. watch TV / a football match
• 9. See films (a film)
• 10. Play computer games

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Activity 7 Rewrite the sentences as the given
example

• ExampleMariaI like watching football and
  walking with my friends.
• She likes watching football and walking
  with her friends.
• David ManningI like studying Chinese and
  playing football in my free time.
• He__likes studying Chinese and playing football
  in his free time.

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• 2.Polly Williams I like cooking for my friends
  in my free time.
• She___________________________________
• 3.Lin xiaoyanI like bungee jumping in my free
  time.
• She____________________________________
• 4.Mary white I like playing the guitar in a band
  in my free time.
• She____________________________________
• 5.Franco RossiI like playing computer games and
  studying IT in my free time.
• He______________________________________

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• ??????????????
• I---my you---your he---his she---her
• we---our they---their it---its
• ?????s ??????
• Sallys teachers mothers

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Activity 6 Complete the text of Pollys email,
using the words below . Use each word once only

• Hi Rob!
• You want to know about my new boyfriend
• (1)name is David Manning.(2)lives in London and
  (3) British.(4)parents (5)from London,but(6)live
  in Oxford.He is (7) . Hes an IT manager and (8)
  works for ABHK Bank.Hes lovely, of course.
• See you on Thursday.
• Love,Polly
• years old his are he his they
  he hes

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Numbers

• 1-10,(one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
  eight, nine , ten)
• 11-20,(eleven, twelve, thirteen, fifteen,sixteen,
  seventeen, eighteen, nineteen twenty)
• 20-29,(twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-nine)
• 30, 40, 50, 60,70, 80, 90( thirty, forty, fifty,
  sixty,seventy, eighty, ninety)
• 100, 101-999 (hundred) (one hundred and one
  nine hundred and ninety-nine)
• 1000, 1001-9999 (thousand )( one thousand and
  one nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine
• 1,000,000 ( million ) one million
• 1,000,000,000 ( billion ) one billion

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• Room numbers
• Room 52, Room 100
• Room 101, Room 1224
• Telephone numbers
• 8211 6789 ??
• eight two double one, six seven eight nine
• 0755 84789022 ??
• O (zero) seven double five , eight four seven
  eight, nine o (zero) double two
• Times
• 07.25 ??o seven twenty-five
  13.45??thirteen forty-five 8.15 eight
  fifteen

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Read Xiaoyans email to David

• Dear Mr Manning,
• I am Lin Xiaoyan, the Deputy IT Manager at the
  ABHK,Shaihai.
• My flight details-the plane leaves Shaihai at
  18.25 and arrives in London at 20.50(local time)
  next Tuesday.The flight number is CA5027.My
  mobile phone number is 13604076796
• Thank you. See you on Tuesday.
• yours
• Lin xiaoyan

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How to write an email(???????)

• Forms of email
• From wangk_at_szrtvu.com.cn
• To everygreen_at_yahoo.com
• Subjects Good luck, my friend!
• Body of email
• Dear Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms,
• I havent heard from for so long. How are things
  going?
• Hope to hear from you as soon as quickly.
• Yours,
• Chris

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Review Reminder

• ?????
• who,what,when,where,how
• What is your name? My name is Wang Hua.
• Where are you form? I am from Nanjing.
• How old are you? I am 35 years old.
• What is your job? I am an accountant.
• Where is Peter? He is in America.

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?? I am David./My name is David. You work in
London./ Your job is in London. He is from Italy.
/ His parents are form Italy. We are ten years
old./Our dog is 8 years old. They are form
London./Their home is in London.
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?????? ????Im/My name is../My names /Im
from/Im an accountant/I work for.. /I live
in.(Shenzhen) ????Whats your /his/her
name? What is your/his/her job? Are you
from..?/Is he/she/from? Is your father
American? Is Marys landlord British? ????I like
swimming/reading/skating/ /shopping/fishing He/Sh
e likes swimming/shopping/reading.
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?????? The plane leaves at 1825. The plane
arrives at 230. The flight number is CA5027.
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The end