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Where
the
Tuareg – or Blue people
– originally come from?
2
lives in the
Blue House in South
Korea?
3
What
the
name of the country
where the Blue Nile
begins?
4
Which part of the USA
famous for
Blues music?
Writing and speaking
10
You are going to introduce yourself to people in your class
and !nd out as much as you can about them. First, prepare
some questions. Match questions 1– 4 with the follow-up
questions (a–d). Then write four more follow-up questions
of your own for questions 5–8.
1 What do you do?
2 Do you live near here?
3 Are you from a large family?
4 How many languages do you speak?
5 Why are you learning English?
6 What do you think of the course?
7 Are you doing any other courses at the moment?
8 Have you got any hobbies?
a How well do you speak
?
b How many
have you got?
c Can you walk there from here?
d Do you enjoy your job?
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Work as a class. Introduce yourself to three or four students.
Then work in pairs. Tell your partner about some of your
classmates you spoke to.
Manuela and Adela are from Lisbon.
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Pronunciation
questions
a
1.3
Listen to these questions. Notice
how the speaker’s voice rises at the end
of questions which begin with verbs,
and rises then falls for questions that
begin with
Wh-
words.
1 Do you want to do this quiz?
2 Where are the women going?
b
1.4
Listen and repeat these questions.
1 Where does yellow symbolise
wisdom?
2 Is it China?
3 What’s the next question?
4 When do people wear blue
in Mexico?
5 Are there any more questions?
6 Do you want to have a go?
Grammar
question forms
7
Look at the questions in the quiz
Colours
and their meaning
. Match the questions
(1–7) with these statements (a–c).
a We use
do
and
does
to make questions
in the present simple.
b When we make questions with
be
or
modal verbs (e.g.
can
), we invert the
subject and the verb.
c When the question word is the
subject of the question, we don’t
invert the subject and the verb.
X
QUESTION FORMS
(why /
where /
how
etc.)
are you
happy?
can you say
this
word?
does
is
it
she
mean?
doing?
who /
what
uses
this
colour?
For further information and practice,
see page 156.
8
Look at the grammar box. Complete the
blue
and
yellow
quiz questions with verbs
or question words.
9
Work in two pairs within a group of
four.
Pair A: Turn to page 153 and follow the
instructions.
Pair B: Turn to page 154 and follow the
instructions.
1
Which fruit
the Californian Yellow Fruit Festival
celebrate?
2
sport gives a yellow jersey to the winner?
3
Where
yellow taxi cabs come from originally?
4
Where
you see the house that inspired Van Gogh’s
‘Yellow House’ painting?
The colour yellow
The colour blue
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TALK ABOUT
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ROUTINES AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES
X
PERSONAL QUESTIONS
X
THE ROLES WE PLAY
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FIRST IMPRESSIONS
WRITE
X
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