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Interview
Exercise 1: Read the interview on page 50 and 51 of your Language Books, and answer the following questions
1 John Brown interviews people who have interesting things to talk about What interesting thing does Professor Dent have to talk about?
2 What was the Mary Celeste?
3 Who is the first person to speak in this interview?
4 Who is the last person to speak in this interview?
Exercise 2: Roy Jones is an interviewer He is interviewing Lionel Messi
about his career as a footballer Fill in their names in the interview below
: Hello, Lionel, how are you today?
: I’m fine thank you
: Are you happy playing for Barcelona?
: Very happy They are the best club in the world
: Would you ever move to Real Madrid?
: Never They are a great team but I love Barcelona too much
Aninterview is when one person asks another person questions They differ
from a normal conversation, as usually interviews are with famous people, or about interesting events
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Exercise 3:Label the subject, verb and object in these sentences
Ex: Linda traveled to Vietnam.
1 She saw a huge shark
2 I kicked the football as hard as I could
3 The principal warned the students to behave
4 We went to the park
Simple sentences MUST have aSubject(noun) and aVerb
She ran.
John shoutedloudly
Often simple sentences will have another noun called an object The object is the thing that the action happens to
John shoutedloudly at his mum.
Theyall gotonto the bus.
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Exercise 4: Join the simple sentences together to make compound
sentences Make sure you use the correct coordinating conjunction.
Ex: She likes cats She likes dogs.
→ She likes cats and she likes dogs
1 I eat rice I eat candy
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2 She likes basketball She doesn’t like tennis
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Coordinating conjunctions
F - For
A - And
N - Nor
B - But
O - Or
Y - Yet
S - So
We join two main clauses together using a coordinating conjunction This
makes acompound sentence Each clause must have a subject and a verb.
We can join 2 or more simple sentences together to make one sentence
usingcoordinating conjunctions
1 I like Roblox, and I like PUBG.
Main clause Main Clause
2 Sometimes I stay up late, but sometimes I go to bed early.
Main Clause Main Clause
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4 I don’t know what to do I will ask a teacher
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First-hand account and Second-hand account
Exercise 5 :Circle thefirst-hand account below.
On July 20, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human
to ever set foot on the moon As he took his first step, Armstrong famously said,
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
On July 20, 1969, I became the first person to ever set foot on the moon I remember taking that first step and feeling like I had achieved something really special
Afirst-hand account is written by someone who experienced the event and
may include opinions A second-hand account (or report) is written by
someone with knowledge of an event or topic but who did not experience it
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Changing from Active to Passive
Active Voice: Alex sang the song at the coffee shop.
Passive Voice: The song was sung by Alex at the coffee shop.
Active
The Captain turned the ship
subject + Verb 2 + Object
Passive
The ship was turned by the Captain
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1 John ate the sandwich
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2 Billy whispered a secret
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3 The family rode their bikes to the beach
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