Thursday, March 14th

A. Building Your Profile

There is no better way to learn about someone or something than by ASKING LOTS of questions.  We'll do this in order to learn about ourselves...and of course, ALL in ENGLISH

How do we do this? Easy.  I will start by building your profile asking you questions about your professional, personal and social life.  It is not necessary to go too deep, as the goal is to practice your oral expression and comprehension.  Then, once I am done, you will get up and do the same.

But are there any rules? Yes, only one. That besides asking questions about one's professional, personal and social life, you come up with FIVE ODD questions.  What do you mean? Well, anything really.  I want you to use your creativity and ask some WEIRD/ODD questions that perhaps you may have posed to someone in the past to get to know them. Give me an example please. Ok, ok, here is one: Have you Seen or Heard about the new craze about the Harlem Shuffle and what do you think of it? There you have it, a weird but hopefully fun sample question to ask while you are building my profile.

Are you ready?  Let's do it!

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B. Asking politely someone something

Use the following forms when asking:

May I please?

Do you mind if or Will you mind if?

Is it OK if or Will it be OK if?

Does it bother you if or Will it bother you if?


Look at the following list of requests and build a sentences using the forms shown above

1. Stop smoking                             

2. Listen to Music

3. Provide me the details of the meeting

4. Do the dishes

5. Help me on this project

6. Turn up the music

7. Get a new person to handle sales

8. Go out tonight

9. Go to sleep early

10. Meet the team this afternoon

C. Time Prepositions: At, In, On

Put in the correct preposition (choose in / on / at or no preposition)

1) There was a loud noise which woke us up midnight.. 2) Do you usually eat chocolate eggs Easter?. 3) What are you doing the weekend?. 4) last week I worked until 9pm every night... 5) My father always reads the paper breakfast time.. 6) She plays tennis Fridays.. 7) The trees here are really beautiful the spring.. 8) I'll see you Tuesday afternoon then.. 9) Shakespeare died 1616.. 10) She studies every day.. 11) John is going to buy the presents today.. 12) In my hometown, the shops open early the morning.. 13) She met her husband 1998.. 14) The party is next Saturday.. 15) We are meeting Friday morning.. 16) I often get sleepy the afternoon.. 17) His daughter was born the 24th of August.. 18) Mobile phones became popular the nineties.. 19) Luckily the weather was perfect her wedding day. B. Time Prepositions: For, During and While HOW TO USE DURING during is a preposition which is used before a noun (during + noun) to say when something happens. It does not tell us how long it happened. For example: "Nobody spoke during the presentation." "We get plenty of snow here during the winter." HOW TO USE WHILE When is used to talk about two things that are happening at the same time. The length of time is not important. Remember that while is used with a subject and a verb (while + subject + verb). For example: "The phone rang while I was watching TV." "I met him while we were studying in the library." HOW TO USE FOR For is a preposition which is used with a period to say how long something goes on: "Simon has been sleeping for 8 hours." "We waited for 30 minutes outside your house." 1. I worked duringwhilefor the holidays.  2. We'll walk whileduringfor an hour. then we'll have a rest.  3. She is gardening whileduringfor her husband is painting the chairs.  4. Bob called me whileduringfor the meeting  5. We met forduringwhile the barbecue party.  6. I've been waiting for them whileduringfor two hours.  7. Samantha visited the Eiffel Tower whileforduring her stay in Paris  8. whileduringfor I think of it, don't forget to call Mr Blair.  9. Don't speak duringforwhile I am doing this exercise !  10. Two years ago she stayed in Paris duringforwhile three months.