1.15 Four people

Student A Work with a partner. Ask and answer questions to fill in the missing information about the following four people.

Name	Philippa	Kurt	Maria	Jack
Date of birth		1 June 1944		31April 1975
Country of origin			Portugal	New Zealand
Married or single	single		married
Number of children	none		2 boys, 1 girl
Home town		Berlin		Wellington
Present job	actress			policeman
Interests or hobbies	music	gardening	horse riding	playing rugby

Dislikes		cold weather	doing the washing-up
		people who snore	writing letters
Main ambition	to win an Oscar			to visit Europe

Before you start, work out what questions to ask, e.g.

What is Philippa's date of birth? What is Kurt's present job?

Where does Maria live? What two things does Jack dislike?

etc.

When you have finished, compare your tables.

Student B Work with a partner. Ask and answer questions to fill in the missing information about the following four people.

Name	Philippa	Kurt	Maria	Jack
Date of birth	18 February 1970		12 August 1958
Country of origin	Wales	Germany
Married or single		married		married
Number of children		1 boy		2 girls
Home town	Swansea		Oporto
Present job		journalist	teacher
Interests or hobbies	learning languages	painting	playing tennis	playing golf

Dislikes	ironing			people who smoke
	getting up early			going to the dentist
Main ambition		to write a novel	to travel to America

Before you start, work out what questions to ask, e.g.

Is Philippa married or single?

What is one of Kurt's interests or hobbies?

What two things does Maria dislike?

What is Jack's job?

etc.

When you have finished, compare your tables.

1.16 A family tree

Here is a drawing of a family tree. Student A also has a drawing of a family tree but it is not exactly the same as yours. (There are seven differences.) By asking Student A questions, see if you can find the differences. Put a circle around anything that is different. Before you start, work out the sort of questions to ask. For example:

Who is Mary married to?

What does Samantha do?

How many children have

Brian and Ann got?

How old is Alice

OR Is Mary's husband called Paul?

OR Is Samantha a hairdresser?

OR Have Brian and Ann got one

child?

OR Is Alice seventy-two?

When you are both ready, take it in turns to ask and answer questions.

When you have finished, compare the family trees.