Inglês da Professora Denise Mardegan

Work Tourism Rankings (Group Work) Which 10 countries do you think ranked highest in the world tourism rankings? Try to guess with a partner. (Answers (from 2010) on the bottom of next page.) The Foreign Visitor (Pair Work) Option 1 : A foreign VIP client of your company will visit from this Thursday to next Monday. Your boss has given you an unlimited budget to show your country to the client. Design the best itinerary you can for the visit. Option 2 : You met some friendly aliens on a recent space flight. You invited them to visit Earth sometime. Yesterday, they contacted you. They’d like you to give them a 5-day tour of your planet. Design the best itinerary you can. (Transportation will not be a problem as you can use their spacecraft.) Role-play #1 Student A: You want to take your wife/husband on a trip this weekend. First, decide where you want to go. Then, phone your travel agent to reserve a plane ticket and hotel. Also, ask for recommendations of things to...

This is another one-hour conversation activity. Name: Origami Fortune Tellers Prep Time : 5 minutes (or however long it takes you to learn how to make origami fortune tellers. You can learn how from this link .) Materials: White Paper Primary Objective: Discuss countries around the world Other Benefits: Great for kinesthetic learners Plan: Pre-Speaking (20 minutes) Have the students gather around and watch you create a fortune teller. They should then return to their seats. Pass out white computer paper and have the students rip it so that they have squares instead of rectangles. Now they should follow along as you create another in front of the class. On the eight triangles inside the fortune teller, the students should write the names of eight countries that they want to visit. Now, put the Fortune Tellers aside for a few minutes. On the board, write the following questions: What would you do in __________? How would you travel to _________? What do you t...

Press here to listen the dialog:  Step 1:    Listen to Dialog  (press here to listen it) Do not view the questions until after you have listened to the audio file. Reading the questions first will not help you improve your English listening skills.  Step 2:   Quiz - View Questions 1.  What type of movie is Forrest Gump?  Action  Drama  Suspense  Comedy 2.  Besides watching movies, what does this person like to do?  Go shopping  Swimming  Drinking and partying  Playing basketball 3.  What does this person do for exercise?  Golf once a week  Basketball on the weekends  Jogging twice a week  No exercising 4.  What is the favorite thing this person likes to do?  Playing computer games  Reading books  Going shopping  Playing pool View Answers 1. Drama 2. Go shopping 3. Jogging twice a week 4. Playing computer ...