Unit 5 Who am I?

Lesson 4 Recognize when speakers need time to think

Speak and listen

1. Work in pairs. Answer the questions.
2. Where are your parents from?
3. Where were you born?
4. What languages ​​do you speak?
5. Listen to some students at an international school in Mexico.

Interviewer: Tell where your parents are from and what languages ​​you speak.

Joshua: My dad’s from the USA and my mom’s from Brazil. English is may favorite language because we speak it at home. Spanish is hard for me, and I don’t speak Portuguese…like, just a few words.

Amelie: My mom’s from France and my dad’s from Egypt. French is my favorite language because well I just like it. But I speak Arabic and Spanish too.

Hiro:           My parents come from Japan. I speak Japanese at home because my parents don’t want me to forget our language. But Spanish is the easiest language for me because I speak that at school. I think English is hard.

Interviewer: What are you going to do when you graduate from high school?

Joshua:       I’m going to go to college.

Amelie:       I definitely want to visit different places in the world.

Hiro:           I don’t know.

Interviewer: Where do you think you’ll live in the future?

Joshua:        I’m going to live in the USA. I grew up there.

Amelie:       I was born in Mexico and my friends are here. But I don’t know if I’ll live here. I might live in France.

Hiro:           It will be hard for me to live in Japan now. I belong in Mexico because you know I was born here and my friends live here.

 Match the students to the countries of their parents and the languages the students speak.

3. Choose the best answer.
4. English is Joshua’s easiest language because __________.
5. he speaks it at school
6. he speaks it at home
7. the grammar is easy
8. Wen she graduates from high school, Amelie __________.
9. is going to go to college
10. is going to travel
11. doesn’t know what she wants to do.
12. Hiro feels he belongs in Mexico because __________.
13. he speaks the language b. his family lives there         c. he was born there

React

4. Work in pairs: Order the things on the list from 1-5 (1 = most important)

What makes you belong to a place?

1. where you were born __________
2. where you speak the language __________
3. where your family is __________
4. where your friends are __________
5. where you like the weather, food, and people __________

Work with words.        

5 Make a table. Write the nationality and language for each country.

Country               Nationality                    Language

Brazil                    Brazilian                        Portuguese

China                   Chinese                          Chinese

Egypt                   Egyptian                        Arabic

France                  French                            French

Germany              German                          German

USA                     American                       English

Japan                    Japanese                         Japanese

6. Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions.
7. In which country is the Eiffel Tower?
8. What nationality was the astronaut Neil Armstrong?
9. Which country is Berlin the capital city?
10. Which nationality were the writers Tolstoy and Dostoevsky?
11. Which language do you write from right to left?
12. Which country’s flag is red with one big yellow star and four little stars?