• RICARDO ANDRES BARCENAS CHAVEZ

Pre_reading activities

GROUP: O

UNIT 7 – LESSON D

Who where your best friends when you were 5 years old?

• MI BEST FRIEND WAS A CHILD CALLED CAROLINA MEJIA CHAVEZ. HE IS VERY FUNNY.

•CAROLIN LIKED TO SHARE HIS TOYS BECAUSE THAT AGE IS VERY IMPORTAN HAVE A GOOD FRIEND.

•WE PLAY ALL DAY BECAUSE SHE LIVED IN THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR.

•SHE HAVE MI BEST FRIENDS IN THIS YEARS OLD

Where did you meet most of your friends at a that age?

I MET ALL MY FRIENDS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, AND SCHOOL.

Why were they your best friends?

THEY WERE MY BEST FRIEND BECAUSE I SHARED A LOT OF A DIFFERENTS THINGS WITH THEM AND THE BEST MOMENTS OF MY CHILDHOOD

What did you have in common?

•WE WERE LIKE A GANG BECAUSE ALWAYS SHARED EVERYTHING AND HELPED EACH OTHER LIKE A BROTHERHOOD.

•WE LIKE TO PLAY THE SAME GAMES.

What did you use to do together?

We used to go the park playedswings, hiddens or played in theslide. We went everyday toplayed

Old friends- -Reading activities. Read the article andanswer

• What does the web site do?

•The site helps members to find people from their past specially old friends (school)

• Has you ever used a website like this? Would you use it?

•Yes I use facebook and hi five. I think is very similar to classmates.com, the only different that I can see everything about my friends and family and theycan see it too(facebook is all free) and in classmates.com the member have to pay to participate in this web, and both have the same function connect people and find old friendships

Make a list o of new words or expressions from the reading (vocabulary). Remember to

write the definitions

•STUMBLED: to strike the foot against something, as in walking or

running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.

•PROFITABLE: remunerative

•NEW-LY: recently, lately: a newly married couple

•BEYOND: that which is at a great distance

•FORMER: preceding in time; prior or earlier: during a former stage in

the proceedings

d) Old friends- post reading activities. Re-read the article and answer the questions on page 72-C. Remember to justify your

False (F) answers

1-False-Gina didn’t forget Ray because he was her fist love

2-True

3-True

4-False- if you want to be a member of classmates.com you have to pay $36 a year

5-True

PART B: WRITING. Book page 73- Part 3-Writing. Use the guidelines (Think about.....) to write your article.

Mínimum 8 lines.•Pilar- i met her in second semester in Gestion de Calidad,she seemed like a very nice person, funny, and smart girl,since second semester until now we see all the classestogether, and shared our knowledge. We have a lot of thingsin common. She is very friendly and always make me laught.She is my best friend in the university and is my support formy diferent class “one can say that is my secretary”

•Juan David- I met him in my neighborhood since i was 5years old, until now he is my best friend, he lives in Buga mynatal town, but every time that i travel hang around withhim, play soccer, chat, party, a lot of different things. He has abeautiful hose with a big pool, every time a go i try to swimat less 1 hour. His parents love me, they consider me like asecond son.

•Jhoan- i met him in nine grade, since that is my best friend,we always played volleyball, and soccer in the shool. Rightnow he is Universidad del Valle studying mechanicEngineering, and we only see each other the weekends, forhave fun a little a drink some beers for chat about aou futureand our laboral beginning. We have in common the ideasabout life and the way we see the world, we always likephilosophize about our problems. He always be my bestfriend for rest of my life.