CONVERSATION
BOOKLET
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CONVERSATION
BOOKLET
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CONVERSATION BOOKLET
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR AND PUBLISHER
RICHARD HUGH FISK
M. A. Johns Hopkins University
School of Advanced International Studies - Washington, D.C.
B.A. Syracuse University - Syracuse, New York
PEDAGOGICAL PROJECT
Coordination
Vera Laurenti Bianchini
Planning and Development
Élide Motta Cáceres
Assisted by
Ângela Nanci Pinto Benaglia
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Planning and Coordination
Eduardo Benaglia
Development
Sandro Guedes de Souza
GRAPHIC PRODUCTION
Eduardo Ricci
© RHF Foundation
First Impression 2015
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ISBN 978-85-8214-149-6
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Conversation Booklet
Lesson 1 - The Interview
(I) Personal information
1. What’s your name?
2. Spell your last name, please.
3. What’s your cell phone number?
4. What’s your home phone number?
5. What’s your email?
(II) Everyday activities
1. Do you make breakfast?
2. Do you drink coffee?
3. Do you get to work / school early?
4. Do you have lunch at school / work?
5. Do you go to bed late?
(III) Greetings
1. Hello.
2. Good evening.
3. How are you?
4. Nice to meet you.
5. Good bye.
(IV) Greeting people
1. Do you hug when you greet your boss?
2. Do you shake hands when you greet your friends?
3. Do you kiss when you greet your family?
4. Do you bow when you greet your teacher?
5. Do you give a high five when you greet your friends?
(V) At work
1. Do you get to work early?
2. Do you drink coffee at work?
3. Do you write emails?
4. Do you read books at work?
5. Do you have dinner at work?
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Lesson 2 - Hired
(I) Mondays
1. Do you go to the gym on Mondays?
2. Do your friends watch TV on Mondays?
3. Do you go out with your friends on Mondays?
4. Do you eat out on Monday evenings?
5. When do you and your friends eat out?
(II) English classes
1. When do you study English?
2. Do you practice every day?
3. Do you read in English?
4. Do you write emails in English?
5. Do your friends speak English?
(III) Money
1. Do you need a lot of money?
2. Do you need a lot of money to buy a car?
3. Do you need a lot of money to buy a house?
4. Do you spend a lot when you go out?
5. Do you have to spend money every weekend?
(IV) Eat out
1. Do you like to eat out?
2. When do you eat out?
3. Do you eat out with your friends?
4. Do you spend a lot when you eat out?
5. Do you get stressed out when you eat out?
(V) Work out
1. Do people need to work out?
2. Do you work out?
3. Do you like to work out at home?
4. When do you go to the gym?
5. Do your friends work out?
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Lesson 3 - The Meeting
(I) Fast food
1. Do you like fast food?
2. When do you eat fast food?
3. Do your friends like fast food too?
4. Do you and your friends eat fast food every weekend?
5. Do you eat a lot of fast food?
(II) Emails
1. Do you get a lot of emails?
2. Do you write emails every day?
3. When do you write emails?
4. Do you read a lot of emails?
5. Do you like to read and write emails?
(III) Business trips
1. Do you go on business trips?
2. Do people work a lot when they go on business trips?
3. Does your friend go on business trips?
4. Does he/she go on business trips every month?
5. Does he/she like to go on business trips?
(IV) Coffee
1. Do you drink coffee?
2. Do you drink coffee at work / school?
3. Do you like to drink coffee?
4. Does your friend drink coffee in the morning?
5. Does he/she drink a lot of coffee?
(V) Your best friend
1. What is your best friend’s address?
2. Do you see your best friend every day?
3. Does he/she work?
4. Does he/she switch off from work / school in the evening?
5. Does he/she work out at the gym?
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Lesson 4 - First Day at Work
(I) Presenting a project
1. Do you like to present projects at work / school?
2. Do you have to study to present a project?
3. When do you have to present a project?
4. Does your boss / teacher talk a lot when you present a project?
5. Do you have to write a report about the project?
(II) The beach
1. Do you like to go to the beach?
2. Does your best friend go to the beach every month?
3. When you go to the beach, do you relax?
4. Do you cook when you are at the beach?
5. Don’t you go to the beach every weekend?
(III) Lunchtime
1. When is your lunchtime?
2. Do you eat a lot at lunchtime?
3. Do you switch off from work/school at lunchtime?
4. Do you have lunch with your friends?
5. Do you relax during your lunchtime?
(IV) Working a lot
1. Do you work a lot every day?
2. Don’t you read and send emails in the afternoon?
3. Do you get a lot of calls?
4. Don’t you have to write reports?
5. Do you work on the weekends?
(V) Watching TV
1. Do you watch TV every day?
2. When do you watch TV?
3. Does your friend watch TV in the evenings?
4. Do you watch TV and then go to bed late?
5. Do you watch TV with your friends on the weekends?
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Lesson 5 - Tasks
(I) Making breakfast
1. Do you have breakfast every day?
2. Do you make your breakfast?
3. Do your friends make breakfast?
4. Do you drink coffee in the morning?
5. Do you eat a lot in the morning?
(II) Yesterday at work
1. Did you get to work late yesterday?
2. Did you relax at lunchtime?
3. Did you have a meeting in the afternoon?
4. Did you write a financial report?
5. Did you talk to your boss?
(III) Yesterday at home
1. Did you read a book yesterday?
2. Did you watch TV?
3. Did you fix dinner?
4. Did you call a friend?
5. Did you go to bed late?
(IV) Christmas
1. When is Christmas?
2. Do you like Christmas?
3. Did you go on a trip last Christmas?
4. Did you eat out?
5. Did you eat a lot?
(V) Homework
1. Do you do your English homework?
2. Did you do the homework at school?
3. What time did you do the homework?
4. Did you need help?
5. Do you like to do homework?
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Lesson 6 - Good Work!
(I) Work assignments
1. When you have a work assignment, do you ask for help to do it?
2. Do you finish it on time?
3. Did you have an assignment to do last week?
4. Did you send it to your boss?
5. Did you have to present it?
(II) TV show
1. Do you like to watch TV shows?
2. Did you watch a TV show yesterday?
3. What TV show did you watch?
4. Did you relax when you watched it?
5. Do you want to watch it again this week?
(III) Washing clothes
1. Did you wash clothes last week?
2. Did you ask for help?
3. Do your friends wash clothes?
4. Do they know how to wash clothes?
5. Do you prefer to wash clothes or fix dinner?
(IV) Traveling
1. Did you travel last year?
2. Where did you go?
3. Did you like the place?
4. Did you visit the tourist attractions?
5. Do you plan to visit the place again?
(V) Your favorite movie
1. What’s your favorite movie?
2. When did you watch it?
3. Did you watch it at home?
4. Did your friends watch it with you?
5. Do you like to talk about movies?
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Lesson 7 - Welcome Back
(I) Vacation
1. Where did you go on your last vacation?
2. Who did you go with?
3. Did you relax?
4. Did you have fun?
5. Do you want to go back there one day?
(II) Snack bar
1. Do you like to go to snack bars?
2. What’s your favorite snack bar?
3. Who do you go with?
4. Do you eat and drink a lot when you go to snack bars?
5. When did you go to one?
(III) Church
1. Do you go to church?
2. Did you go to church last Sunday?
3. Do your friends go to church?
4. When you go to church, do you feel good?
5. Who doesn’t like to go to church?
(IV) The mall
1. Did you go to the mall last week?
2. How much did you spend there?
3. What do you like to do when you go to the mall?
4. Do you buy a lot of things?
5. Who do you like to go to the mall with?
(V) American currency
1. How much is a dime?
2. How much is a nickel?
3. You have 2 quarters. How much do you have?
4. You have 5 dimes and 5 nickels. How much do you have?
5. You have 3 quarters and 5 pennies. How much do you have?
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Lesson 8 - Making Plans
(I) Breakfast
1. Do you have breakfast every morning?
2. What do you like to eat in the morning?
3. What do you like to drink in the morning?
4. What did you have for breakfast today?
5. Would you have the same thing on Sunday?
(II) Lunch and dinner
1. What time do you have lunch?
2. Where do you have lunch?
3. What time do you have dinner?
4. What did you have for dinner yesterday?
5. Do you know how to cook?
(III) Desserts
1. Do you like desserts?
2. What’s your favorite dessert?
3. Did you eat chocolate cake last week?
4. Do you know how to make a flan?
5. What dessert would you have now?
(IV) Basketball
1. Do you like basketball?
2. Do your friends play basketball?
3. Would you play basketball this weekend?
4. Did you watch a basketball game last week?
5. Would you go to a basketball game?
(V) The United States
1. Would you like to go to the United States?
2. When would you go?
3. What would you do there?
4. Who would you take with you?
5. Will you go there on your next vacation?
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Lesson 9 - Getting a Promotion
(I) Languages
1. Do you study English every day?
2. When do you study English?
3. Would you study German?
4. Would you like to know Italian?
5. Would you like to speak Spanish?
(II) Actor/Actress
1. Would you like to be an actor / actress?
2. Do you think it is a good profession?
3. Who is your favorite actor / actress?
4. Do they work a lot?
5. Do actors / actresses get a lot of money?
(III) A nervous person
1. Are you a nervous person?
2. When do you get nervous?
3. Are you nervous today?
4. What do you do when you are nervous?
5. Do you try to relax when you are nervous?
(IV) Nurse vs doctor
1. Would you like to be a nurse or a doctor?
2. Do nurses work a lot?
3. Do you have to study a lot to be a doctor?
4. Do doctors have to work at night? How about nurses?
5. Do doctors and nurses have to be good at working with people?
(V) A competent professional
1. Does a competent professional get to work late?
2. Is a competent person angry every day?
3. To be a competent professional, do you need to work a lot?
4. Would a competent professional like to go on business trips?
5. Do competent professionals get promotions?
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Lesson 10 - Family
(I) Martial arts
1. Do you practice martial arts?
2. If yes, do you like it? If no, would you like to practice it?
3. Do your cousins practice martial arts?
4. Who, in your family, practices martial arts?
5. Is he/she practicing martial arts now?
(II) Siblings
1. Do you have a brother or a sister?
2. What’s his/her name?
3. What is he/she doing now?
4. Does he/she study English?
5. What is he/she good at?
(III) Riding a bike
1. Do you know how to ride a bike?
2. Did you ride a bike last weekend?
3. How do you feel when you are riding a bike?
4. Who do you like to ride a bike with?
5. Would you ride a bike every day?
(IV) Grandparents
1. What are your grandparents’ names?
2. Do they live with you?
3. What do you like to do with them?
4. Does your grandmother bake cakes and pies?
5. Does your grandfather cook too?
(V) Married or single
1. Are you married or single?
2. Are your parents divorced?
3. Is your best friend engaged?
4. Who is a widow or widower in your family?
5. Do you have children?
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Lesson 11 - Dress Code
(I) Colors
1. What’s your favorite color?
2. What color is the classroom?
3. What color are you wearing today?
4. What is a happy color?
5. What is a sad color?
(II) Restaurants
1. Do you like to go to restaurants?
2. What’s your favorite restaurant?
3. Did you go there last month?
4. Will you go there this weekend?
5. What do you like to eat and drink at that restaurant?
(III) Footwear
1. Do you like to wear sneakers?
2. Do you wear sneakers to work / school?
3. Are you wearing sneakers now?
4. Would you wear flip-flops to go to a movie theater?
5. Do you wear socks with flip-flops?
(IV) Accessories
1. How many wristwatches do you have?
2. Is there a girl wearing a wristwatch in the class now?
3. How many earrings do you have?
4. Are there boys wearing earrings here today?
5. How many people are wearing belts in the classroom?
(V) Vegetarian
1. Do vegetarians eat meat?
2. What do vegetarians like to eat?
3. Are you vegetarian?
4. What do you like to eat?
5. Who is vegetarian in your family?
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Lesson 12 - I Can Do This!
(I) Your hair
1. What does your hair look like?
2. Do you like your hair?
3. Would you change your hair?
4. Would you change the color of your hair?
5. What do you like about your hair?
(II) In the office
1. Can you type an email in two minutes?
2. Can you install a computer program?
3. Can you answer a call in English?
4. Can you organize files in 30 minutes?
5. Can you present a project in one hour?
(III) Sports
1. What’s your favorite sport?
2. Can you play it?
3. Do you watch it on TV?
4. Can you play tennis?
5. Do you like to watch tennis?
(IV) Your family
1. Do your parents have black wavy hair?
2. Is your brother/sister medium height?
3. Does your grandfather have blue eyes?
4. What color is your grandmother’s hair?
5. Describe an aunt.
(V) Your free time
1. What do you like to do in your free time?
2. Can you go to the mall?
3. Do you like to read?
4. Where do you like to go?
5. Do you go out with your friends?
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