SPEAKING talk about An anecdote from the past

SPEAKING talk about… • An anecdote from the past. • A book you have read or a movie you have seen… Characters, setting, plot, reasons to read it or to watch it… • Rules at home, school, city… Your opinions about them.

GRAMMAR: Passive Voice Change the sentences to passive voice. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. We must look into the question. Someone reads the newspaper to him every day. The Chinese discovered acupuncture thousands of years ago. He has given back the book. The police locked up the criminals. The robbers made up the story. The boy is eating the cake. The spider scared her.

GRAMMAR. Conditionals Complete the sentences and decide which type of Conditional Sentence it is. 1) If I ____had______ (have) lots of money, I would sail round the world. ____ 2) If my sister ___________ (see) this puppy, she will love it. ____ 3) If I ____________ (pack) the suitcases myself, I wouldn’t have left my swimsuit. ____ 4) I ________________ (wait) for you outside the cinema if I arrive early. ____

VOCABULARY MATCH THE PHRASAL VERBS WITH THEIR MEANINGS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Come up with Give up Grow up Look up Pick up Set up Stand up Turn up a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. appear, be found. Become an adult Find in the dictionary Lift, collect Rise to your feet Stop Start, créate Think off

READING COMPREHENSION A LUCKY BREAK FOR THE SHOESHINE BOY In 1998, twelve-year-old Vínicius de Oliveira from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil became a film star in the film Central do Brazil, or Central Station in English. The film got a Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film. But Vinicius was not always a star. Before he made the film, he was a shoeshine boy, cleaning people´s shoes in the streets of Rio de Janeiro. In 1997, Vínicius was just eleven years old, with almost no education. He worked at an airport in Rio de Janeiro, cleaning the shoes of businessmen. One day, he asked a man if he wanted him to clean his shoes, but the man said “no”, because he was wearing trainers! Vínicius was poor, so he asked the man if he had any money, and a conversation started. First, the man asked him what his name was, then he asked Vinicius where he lived, how old he was, and so on. And then came the real surprise – he said he wanted Vinicius to do a film test! The man was the Brazilian film director, Walter Salles. At first Vínicius said “no”. He told Salles that he couldn´t act, and that he had never seen a film because he had no money for entertainment. But Salles continued talking to him, and Vínicius asked if the others shoeshine boys could also do the film test, so that they could have a chance too. Salles agreed, and Vínicius said he would do the test. But it was Vinicius who got the part. After the test, Walter Salles asked him if he would take the part of Josué, the boy in the film. Vinicius had really enjoyed the test, so he agreed, and asked Salles when he could start. Salles said he was very happy with Vínicius¨ performance in the film. Vínicius was not the first boy that Salles had asked – he´d tested 1. 500 boys before he found him! So that day at the airport was very lucky for the shoeshine boy. If he hadn´t been there that day, he would never have become a film star. And if Walter Salles hadn´t been wearing trainers, perhaps he would never have started talking to Vinicius!

QUESTIONS 1. How old was Vínicius when Walter Salles met him? ______________________________________ 2. Why did Salles not want Vínicius to clean his shoes? _____________________________________ 3. Why did Vínicius ask the man to give him some money? _____________________________________ 4. Why did Vínicius say “no” when Salles first asked him to do a film test? ______________________________________ 5. When did Vínicius say “yes” to Salles? ______________________________________ 6. How many test had Salles done before he met Vínicius? ______________________________________ 7. Why was that day at the airport “a lucky break” for Vínicius? ______________________________________ 8. Give your opinion about the article: ________________________________________________________________________________ ___

WRITING: Write a composition about…. An important “First time” for you… What was it? How old were you? What were you and other people doing at the time? What happened? How did you feel?