Exercise 1:
It's your turn to translate the following short dialogues into English.
A: Hola. ¿Cómo estás? Hello! How are you?
B: Muy bien, gracias. Mira, esta es mi amiga Margarette. Very well, thanks. Look. This is my friend Margarette.
A: Mucho gusto, Margarette. ¿De dónde eres? It's nice to meet you, Margarette. Where are you from?
C: Soy de Canada. Estoy muy feliz de estar en Cuba. I'm from Canada, and I am very happy to be here in Cuba.
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A: ¿Cuál es tu nombre? What's your name?
B: Margarette Black.
A: ¿Qué edad tienes? How old are you?
C: 13 años. I am 13 years old.
A: ¿Estás en el curso de inglés? Are you in the English course?
B: No, estoy en el de español. No. I'm in the Spanish course.
A: Buena suerte. Good luck.
Exercise 2:
Complete the conversation and practice it later.
YOU: Javier Sotomayor is an Olympic Champion.
STUDENT: Really? What does he look like?
YOU: He's very tall, middle-aged and in very good shape.
Do you know Paulo F. G.? He's a popular salsa singer.
STUDENT: I'm sure who he is. What does he look like?
YOU: He's middle-aged, very good looking, tall and fit. He has brown eyes and
short black hair.
How about Rosita Fornés? She's a gamous Cuban vedette.
STUDENT: I don't think I know her. What does she look like?
YOU: She is old now. She was very pretty when she was young and not tall. She's kind of short. She's blond and has blue eyes. She has long straight blond hair.
STUDENT: O.K., it's my turn now. I bet you don't know the most famous Canadian pop singer.
YOU: What does she or he look like?
STUDENT: She is tall, slender, pretty with long blond hair. She is fit and has hazel eyes.
Here you have some possible answers:
"People in my life"
a) Who is important to you? My family is very important to me. My mother, my father and my brother. I love them all, but the most important of them all, if I had to choose. It's my mum. She is the best in the world.
b) What can you say about this person?
My mother's name is Maggie. She is a 52-year-old Cuban woman. We are from Cienfuegos. My father's family is from Havana and my aunt Freddy lives in Havana. Mother is middle-aged. She is fat, but very good-looking. Mum is not tall or short, she's of average height. Every morning she wakes me up with a kiss and a loving phrase and every evening she reads a short story for me and my brother Bismark. We all live in a house near downtown and the Pediatric hospital. We (my mother and I) like to go for walks on weekend afternoons. She doesn't like to walk for more than half an hour. She prefers to go 10 minutes ahead in any direction from 10 to 15 back home. Maggie is a hairdresser, and she spends too much time standing in her work. She likes mushroom pizza and strawberry icecream.
"My daily life"
My name is Briana Angelica. I am 12, and study at Osvaldo Rafael Sánchez Cabrera Secondary School. I wake up early in the morning to go to school on week days, but on weekends I sleep a litle bit more. I study and read books. I play soccer with my friends, and we also play cards or baseball. I go to my grandparent's place every two weeks, because they live far from my house. They are very nice with my sister and me and we love them.
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