Lesson 3: At the International School
1. Look, say, listen and answer. Track 42
a) Look at the first picture.
1. Who can you see? Omar and Fred.
2. Where are they? At Fred's house. / In Fred's living room.
3. What do you think they are talking about? Omar's first day at (the International) school.
c) Which questions did Fred ask?
Listen and tick (T) his questions.
1. What’s the time?
2. How are you? T
3. How was the journey to school? T
4. How was your first day? T
5. What was the weather like?
6. What were the lessons like? T
d) Now ask and answer Fred’s questions to Omar.
2- I'm OK thanks, but I'm cold!
3- It wasn't good. I was late for my first lesson.
4- It was great. I enjoyed it.
5- They were very interesting but difficult. They were all in English!
2. Read, ask and answer.
1. Did Omar miss the bus? No.
2. What went wrong? He feel asleep.
3. Why did Omar fall asleep? He was still quite tired from his flight.
4. How did Omar get to school? By taxi. /He called a taxi.
5. How late was Omar? 20 minutes.
3. Listen, answer and say. Track 43
a) Which words did Omar use about Mr. Harris? Listen and tick (T) Omar’s words.
calm _ fair_ kind_ interesting _ straight _ tall _ thin _ short
b) Ask and answer.
1 What does Mr. Harris looks like?
Mr. Harris is quite young. He's tall and thin and his hair is short, straight and fair/he's got short, straight, fair hair.
2 What is Mr. Harris like?
He's calm, polite and kind. He's funny and interesting.
4. Read, write and say.
a) Write the words from the box in the correct column.
| health | character | appearance |
| 3. ill | 2. generous | 1. heavy |
| 6. weight | 5. over | 4. clean noisy |
| 9. well | 8. worried | 7. fine |
b) Look at the words in exercise 3a. Do they go with appearance or character?
- Appearance: dark, fair, old, straight, tall, thin, young.
- character: boring, calm, friendly, funny, helpful, kind, interesting, quiet, polite.
5. Ask and answer.
1. How are you today? I'm fine, thank you.
2. How were you yesterday? I was fine.
3. What’s the weather like today? It is cold
4. What’s your classroom like? It is wide.
5. What does your father look like? He is smart.
6. How was your journey to school today? It is easy.
7. Write a description of your room at home. Use the questions to help you.
1. Where in your home is your room? My room at home is next to my mother's room.
2. What’s your room at home like? It's nice.
3. What size is it? Is it big or small? It is big.
4. What color is it? Its color is white.
5. What does it have in it? I have got a bed, desk and chair.
6. What do you think of it? What do you like about it? It's comfortable.
7. Do you dislike anything about your room? What? No. My room at home is next to my mother's room. It is nice and big. Its color is white. I have got a bed, desk and chair. It's comfortable and I like it.