Listening
10 minutesDialogue: At an airport café. Laura starts a conversation with a traveler.
Laura and Aisha
Here is the text from the listening. Read along and check your answers.
Comprehension:
1. Does Laura ask a lot of questions?
2. Does Aisha live in Brazil?
3. What's Aisha's job?
4. Does Aisha have family in Brazil?
Language Focus
12 minutesGrammar Discovery: simple present questions: Do you...? + short answers
Look at these questions and answers from the dialogue. What word starts every question?
Do you like this book? → Yes, I do.
Do you live in New York? → No, I don't.
Do you have children? → No, we don't.
How do we make questions with 'you'?
Try it!
Practice
15 minutesDo you...? + Short Answers
Complete with Do, do, or don't.
Verb + Complement
Match the verb to its complement.
Column A
Column B
Dialogue Verbs
Complete with the correct word from the box.
True or False — Aisha
Based on the dialogue, is each statement True (A) or False (B)?
1. Aisha loves coffee.
2. Aisha is a journalist.
3. Aisha works in Brazil.
4. Aisha lives in Dubai.
5. Aisha's sister lives in São Paulo.
Do You / Don't You — Practice
Read each prompt out loud. Use real preferences.
1. Ask me: Do you speak English? Do you speak Spanish?
2. Tell me what you want: I want a coffee. I want a new phone. I want a new apartment.
3. Negative: Do you speak Italian? No, we don't. We don't speak French either.
4. Describe your home: I live in an apartment. My apartment is small. Do you have an apartment too?
Let's Talk
13 minutesLet's Talk!
Use what you learned today to answer these questions. Elaborate as much as you can!
Dreams and habits — using verbs from real life.
1. Do you WANT to live in another city or country someday? Where, and why?
Follow-up: Do you want to learn another language too?
2. Do you WATCH movies in English? With subtitles, or only in Portuguese?
Follow-up: What's the last movie you watched?
Self-Assessment
How did you do today?
- ✓I can ask: "Do you live near here?" / "Do you like coffee?"
- ✓I can answer: "Yes, I do." / "No, I don't."
- ✓I can talk about my habits with a partner.
Great work today!
Next class: What time is it? — You'll learn to tell the time and say how you feel!