English In Mind Welcome section

Greetings and introductions

A) Complete the dialogue with the words in the box. Then listen and check.
Fine, I’m, name’s, nice, this, you

Liz: Hi. My name’s Liz.
Monica: Hello, Liz. I’m Monica.
Liz: Nice to meet you. Excuse me a moment. Hi, Jack. How are you?
Jack: I’m fine, thanks. How about you?
Liz: I’m ok, thanks. Monica, this is my friend, Jack.
Monica: Nice to meet you, Jack.
Jack: Nice to meet you too, Monica.

The verb BE
B) Complete the dialogue with the correct form of verb be. Then listen and check.

Jack: Hi, my name‘s Jack, and this is Monica. She is from Italy.
Marek: Nice to meet you. I am Marek, and those two people are my friends, Barbara and Adam. Are you from Rome, Monica?
Monica: No, I’m from Milan. Where are you from?
Marek: We are from Poland. Adam and I are from Warsaw and Barbara is from Gdansk. Are you on holiday in Cambridge?
Monica: No, I’m not. I‘m a student at a language school here. Are you all students?
Marek: Yes, we are. We are at a language school too.

Possessive adjectives
Read Liz’s email from her new e-pal, Laura. Fill in the spaces with my, your, his, her, our or their.

Hey Liz, Thanks for your last email! And I loved the photos of my and friends and family — I looked at them yesterday. My mum and dad look really nice in the photo. So now I’ll tell you about me and my family here in Switzerland. I’ve got two brothers. Their names are Lukas and Andreas and they are 16 and 19. My mother is American and her name is Christine. Dad is Swiss German — his from Zürich, and his name is Dieter. We live in Geneva. Our house got four bedrooms and a small garden. We’ve got a dog and we think he’s lovely. His name’s Zak. Please tell me some more about your friends. I’d really like to meet more English people!
See ya

Laura