TASK 1. 2 PERSONAL PROFILES AND DESCRIPTIONS A PERSONAL PROFILE.

Look at the introduction made by Pascal of himself ( A Personal Profile text book on page 14. ). a) Complete the missing information (exer 1. On page 14). b) Answer the following question: What information does the introduction include? 1st paragraph Name +Nationality-Age and birthday 2nd paragraph- languages he speaks 3rd paragraph- hobbies and interests Look at the Writing plan, exer. 1 and check. Is there any information about his physical characteristics and personality? No, there isnt in a personal profile. DESCRIPTIONS. 1. A FAMILY DESCRIPTION

a) Who is Jemma describing? Jemma is describing herself, her dad and her mother and her little brother. // Jemma is describing her family. b) Is she describing them physically or personally? Physically. c) Underline in the text all the adjectives Jemma uses. d) Where are the adjectives placed? Underline the correct option in the sentence below: Adjectives are before/after nouns. e)

e)Look at the examples: She has got short, fair hair. He has got long, brown hair Which order do adjectives follow? Choose the right option: Adjectives for colours go before/ after adjectives for size and length. f. Now put the following sentences in the correct order: Hair/got/long./I/have/dark -> I have got long dark hair I have got long dark hair. Got/fair/ My sister/has/short/hair. ->My siter has got short fair hair A DESCRIPTION. Read the following description and answer the questions: The person I am describing is Becky, my best friend. She is twelve years old and lives in Solares. Becky is medium height and slim. She has got beautiful big blue eyes and long, brown hair. Becky is an energetic, outgoing and cheerful girl. She likes sports and dancing. She is very intelligent and hardworking. She is interested in languages and travelling. 1) How many paragraphs has the description got? The description has got 3 paragraphs/There are three paragraphs in the text. 2) Join each paragraph with the main idea 1st paragraph b 2nd paragraph c 3rd paragraph a a. personality description and interests/hobbies b. who the person is, relationship you have, age and place where he/she lives c. physical description.

3) a. Underline the adjectives. Then classify them into personality and appearance adjectives. b. Add up more adjectives you want.
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Intelligent Inteligente Medium height De altura media Hardworking Trabajador Slim Delgado/esbelto Energetic Active Beautiful Precioso, bonito Outgoing Sociable Big Grande Cheerful Alegre brown Castao/a-marrn 4. Now read the following short descriptions. Correct the mistakes: grammar, vocabulary, spelling, number of paragraphs, organization of information and punctuation. A. I am Aleyda. I have 13 years. my birday is in november. I am tall, my hear is brow, has long hear, my eyes is blue. Grammar mistakes Vocab./spelling mistakes Punctuation I have 13 years Birday my I..has Hear november My eyes is Brow How many paragraphs are there? Is the information well organized into a paragraphs? In the description there are two paragraphs. The information is well organized: firstly, there is a paragraph with an introduction of herself and secondly, there is a description of herself. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Is the information organized into topics height and weight (tall and slim, short and fat, description of eyes, description of hair- or is it mixed ? The information in the second paragraph is mixed: Im tall, my hear is brow (my hair is brown), has long hear(hair), my eyes is(are) blue.

____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Now rewrite the description without mistakes and organized into topics and/or paragraphs. I am Aleyda. I am 13 years old. My birthday is in November. I am tall. My hair is long and brown//I have got long brown hair. I have got blue eyes// My eyes are blue. B. My name is Elena. She is 9 nine- years old. I live in Sarn. I am short hair and am brown. I am medium height. I have greens bigs eyes. Grammar mistakes Vocab/spelling mistakes Punctuation She Nine I am Greens is Bigs Is the information well organized into paragraphs? Yes, because the information is organized into two paragraphs. The first paragraph is an introduction (name, age, where she lives) and the second paragraph is a physical description. A third paragraph with the description of the personality is also possible. Is the information in each paragraph organized into topics height and weight (tall and slim, short and fat, description of eyes, description of hair- or is it mixed ? No, because in the second paragraph she mixes the topics: hair, height and eyes. The right order is: height (altura) and then hair and eyes. Now rewrite the description without mistakes.

My name is Elena. I am 9 years old. I live in Saron. I am medium height. I have got short brown hair. I have got big green eyes. = I have got short brown hair and big green eyes.

C. My name is Sheila. I thirteen years old. I am tall and slim. I have fair, brown hair and brown eyes. Grammar mistakes Vocab/spelling mistakes Punctuation/paragraphs No verb in I thirteen Fair, brown hair= no From I am tall and years old puede ser rubio y castao slim there is a new a la vez. paragraph. Is the information well organized into paragraphs? No, there is only one paragraph, but there should be two paragraphs. The second paragraph should start in I am tall and slim. Is the information organized into topics height and weight (tall and slim, short and fat, description of eyes, description of hair- or is it mixed ? Yes, because she talks about her personal information and then about her height, her hair and her eyes. Now rewrite the description without mistakes. My name is Sheila. I am thirteen years old. I am tall and slim. I have long brown hair and brown eyes. D.

Grammar mistakes Has got medium heights= I am medium heights Has got brown ..= I have got Brown hairs= brown hair Browns eyes=brown eyes

My name is Alberto. I has got medium-heights. I has got brown hairs. I has got browns eyes. Vocab/spelling mistakes

Punctuation/paragraphs There arent any paragraphs.

Is the information well organized into a paragraph? No, because they are loose sentences. The sentences arent grouped into paragraphs Is the information organized into topics into each paragraphsheight and weight (tall and slim, short and fat, description of eyes, description of hair- or is it mixed ? No, because there are no paragraphs. Now rewrite the description without mistakes. My name is Alberto. I am 12 years old. I live in Solares. I am medium-height. I haVE got brown hair AND brown eyes.

4b. Do descriptions A/B/C/D include information about personality? No, they dont include information about personality ____________________________________________________________

4c. Do they include all the paragraphs typical in a description? __No, because they should have 3 paragraphs as in Beckys example 5. Write a similar description of someone you like: a friend, a person in your family etc. Remember to write 3 paragraphs. Go to unit 2 in your workbook page. 22

Homework for Monday 1d Students book Page 10-exer 4-5 Page 14, exercises 5 and 6 Page 15, 3 and 4 Workbook Exer 3 a 5 page 7 Page 10 exer 2 and 4 For more practice go to UNIT 2 in Students book page 23 exercises 1 to 4 Unit 2 in Workbook page 18 exercises