BASIC BOOK 2 – DICTATIONS 11

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LESSON 11:
improve (d) - his reading ability
improving - my life
- our pronunciation in English
01- Did you improve your English last year?
02- How did you improve it?
03-
Do you want to improve your reading?
04- Do you have to improve your reading? Why?
05- Do you have a good reading in French, Portuguese, English, Spanish
06-
What do you need to do to improve your reading?
07- Do you read a little bit every day? Why?
08- Do you have a good life? Why do you think that?
09-
Do you want to improve your life? Why?
10- What do you need to do to improve your life?
11- Do you think that if we read a lot we can improve our pronunciaiton
12- Ask him if he thinks that he is improving the pronunciation in English:
Peter wants to improve his reading ability, but he hasn’t had time to read a little
bit day by day, because he has been working too much lately. If he really wants to
get a better reading, he needs to read more.
a- What does Peter want to improve?
b- Does he have time to read a little bit day by day?
c- Why doesn't he have time…?
d- What do you think he needs to do to get better and become fluent in English more quickly?

WHAT ABOUT YOU?

1- Do you want to get better at English soon? Why?

2- Do you have time to read a little bit every day? Why?
3- Do you want to become fluent in English? Why?
4- Do you think reading day by day is important? Why?
5- Have you worked or studied a lot day by day?
6- Where do you work or study?
7- What parts of English do you think that you have to study more?

hope (d) - every moment

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hoping - to have a better life soon
- to learn this language very well soon

01-
Do you think that you have a good life? Why?
02- ASK him-her if --- HAS a good life.
03-
Do you want to have a better life?
04- Do you hope to have a better life in the future? Why?
05-
Do you hope to finish this course soon?
06-
Do you want to speak English very well soon?
07- Do you hope to be speaking English better in 3 months? Why?
08-
What do you hope every moment?
09-
Do you hope to improve more your life? How?
10- How can you improve your life?
11- ASK HIM/HER IF he wants to have a better life soon?
12- ABOUT LEARNING ENGLISH? Do you hope to speak English very well
soon? What do you hope?
13- Speak about two things that you hope every moment:
Kerin hopes to have a better life soon. Because of this she has studied
English very hard. She thinks that with the English language spoken well,
she’ll get a better job and will improve the life. I believe that she will get a
better job.
a- What does Kerin hope?
b- How does she study English? WHAT ABOUT YOU? Do you study very hard?
c- What does she want to get every moment? Would you like to get a good or better job in
the future?
d- Do you believe that she will get it? Why do you think? (personal opinion)
WHAT ABOU YOU?
01- How do you study English?
02- When do you study English at NNEL?
03- Who’s your teacher AT THIS MOMENT?
04- Do like the group that you are in or do you prefer to go to another? Why?
05- Do you hope to get a better job in the future? Why?
06- Do you intend to study English in next months? Why?
07- How is your life day by day?
08- Speak about 2 or 3 things that you do during the day:
find\ (found-found)

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finding - the house key
- the car key
- my pair of sneakers
1-
When did you need to find anything in your house? What?
2- Do you have your house key with you here?
3- Where did you find your pair of snearkes in the morning? (room – bedroom)
4- WHAT ABOUT YOU? Where did you find it, in the kitchen?
5- Do you remember where you put your pair of sneakers? Where?
6- Where is your house key?
7-
Ask him if he found the page that the teacher asked him to read?
8-
What’s the page that we’re studying now?
Samuel forgot where he put the house key when he arrived here. He has to find
it because he is going home now and when he arrives there, he’ll need it. Josh
thinks that he put it on the office table when he arrived to work in the morning.
a- What did Samuel forget?
b- Why does he have to find it?
c- When will he need the house key?
d- Where and when does Josh think he put it?

WHAT ABOU YOU?

01- Do you need to find anything in your house?
02- When will you need your house key?
03- Did you forget to do your exercises or you did all of them?
04- Do you like to arrive early or late at your job or school?
05- Can you help your classmates to do the homework on the weekends? Why?
06- Do you think your English teacher or boss angry or calm?

become (became-become) - famous (actor / actress / singer)

becoming - good friends

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- rich ( by working hard)
1- Are you rich?
2- Are you famous?
3- Would you like to become rich?
4- What do need to do to become rich?
5- Do you have a famous friend? Who?
6- Do you know a famous actor or actress? Who?
7- Ask me I know a famous singer:
8- Do you want to become famous?
9- Do you think that famous people have a lot of money?
10- Do you want to become rich? Why?
11- If you become rich, will you travel a lot?
12- Do you have good friends?
13- Who’s your best friend?
14- When did you become friends? Last year or some years ago?
15- Do you think you can become rich working hard?
16- Do you know anybody who became rich working hard? Who?
My friend Bethany Loren is an actress and she’s becoming rich and famous
because she is a great actress. We became good friends 12 years ago, but we
haven’t had time to see each other lately because she has traveled a lot.
a- Who’s Bethany Loren?
b- What’s she becoming?
c- Is she a good or a great actress?
d- When did you become good friends?
e-
Why she has not had time to see you lately?

WHAT ABOU YOU?

01- Do you know a famous actor or actress or actor?
02- Do you know anybody that would like to became a singer? Who?
03- If you become very rich, would you like to have a farm?
04- When did you know your best friend? Where?
05- About you and your best friend: When do you have time to see each other?
06- If you became very rich and famous, will you forget the friends that you have today? Why?

cooperate (d) - with your teachers

cooperating - to improve and make your English better

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1- Do you cooperate to make your English?
2- How can you cooperate to make it better?
3- Do you study English a little bit every day? Why…
4- THE TEACHERS WILL GIVE A PARTY. Will you cooperate with yours
teachers?
5- How will you cooperate?
6- Do you think that one of the ways to cooperate with your teacher is bringing
your exercises ready every class?
7- Do you bring the exercises ready every class? Why?
8- ASK HIM/HER IF she bring the exercises ready every class?
I’m cooperating to improve and make my English better by studying a little bit every
day. I hope to improve and be speaking this language very well soon because I intend to
travel to the U.S.A. in December. I go alone and by plane.

a- Are you cooperting to make your English better?

b- How are you cooperating to make it better?
c-
What do you hope?
d- Do you intend to travel to the U.S.A or to England? When?
e- If you go to the U.S.A, how do you go?
f- ASK him/her if she ihopes to be speaking English very well in December.
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do (did/done) - the exercises quickly

doing - with a lot of money
- at home later
- every morning

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01- What do you do every morning?

02- Do you like to do the exercises?
03- Do you have a lot of exercises to do at home this week?
04- Do you think important to do a lot of exercises?
05- Do you do the exercises quickly?
ABOUT MONEY….
06- Do you have a lot of money?
07- ASK HIM/HER IF he/she would like to have a lot of money:
08- What would you do if you had a lot of money?
09- What do you like to do in the morning?
05- What will you do later?
06- ASK HIM/HER IF he/she will make a cake later?
07- Will you have lunch or dinner later? Where will you have…?
08- Do you have a lot of exercises to do?
09- Do you do your exercises quickly or slowly?
10- ASK HIM/HER IF he/she likes to eat quickly:
ABOUT MONEY…
11- If you had a lot of money, would travel a lot?
01- Would you buy a big house
02- or an apartment, if you had a lot of money?
13- Would help your family or friends?
14- Would you cooperate with your English teacher?
If my friend Hellen had a lot of money she would buy a ship to travel around the
world with her best friends for one year. This is what she’d do, but my other friend
Alinson would buy a big farm in Minas Gerais with a lot of animals in it.

a- What would Hellen do if she had a lot of money?

b- Would she travel alone? Who would she take in this trip?
c-
What would Alinson do if he had a lot of money?
d-
WHAT ABOUT YOU? What would you with a lot of money?
e- Do you think that Alinson likes animals? Why do you think that?
f- ASK HIM/HER if ____ like to travel to Europe?
g- How would you travel to Europe?

begin (began/begun) - a new lesson soon

beginning - a French Course
- to speak English with fluency

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1- Do you intend to begin a new language course?
2- Which course would you like to begin? A French or a Spanish Course?
3- When would you like to begin it?
4- Would you like to begin another course?
5- ASK HIM/HIM what lesson HE/SHE began some days ago?
6- When would you like to begin a new lesson?
7- Do you want to begin a lesson soon? Why?
8- Which lesson will you begin when you finish this lesson?
9- When did you begin Lesson 11?
10 - Do you want to finish this lesson soon?
11- ASK HIM if HE wants to speak English with fluency?
12- What do you need to do to speak with fluency?
We would be beginning a new lesson today, but we’ll begin only next
week because we need to finish this Eleventh lesson first. My classmates
and I hope to be starting Lesson 12 soon because we want to learn more
and more and improve our English.
a) Do you want to improve your English? Why?
b)
Which lesson would you be beginning today?
c) Why aren’t you beginning it?
d) When will you be beginning Lesson 12?
e) Do you hope to start t he next lesson soon?
f) Do you think important understand all the lessons very well before you go to
another lesson?

practice (d) - converstation in class

practicing - sports on the weekends
- soccer and swimming every afternoon

1- Do practice?
2- What do you practice?
3- Do you like to practice conversation in class?
4- Do you think that if you practice conversation you’ll improve your English?

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5- Do you practice conversation at home? Why?
6- Who practices conversation with you?
7- Do you practice ANY sports?
8- Do you practice practice any sport on the weekend?
9- ASK HIM-HER if …. would like to practice swimming:
Steve is a tall boy. He likes to study English and sometimes he practices sports. At
school, he practices conversations in English with the teacher and classmates. On
the weekends he plays soccer with some friends near the house where he lives. I
don’t practice anything.

a- Is Steve a short boy?

b-
Which language does Steve like to study?
c-
Where does he practice English conversations?
d- Who practices conversation with him?
e- What does he do on the weekends?
f- What about you? WHAT DO YOU PRACTICE?

increase (d) - the understanding in English

increasing - the price of the things at the supermarkets
- the salary of the teacher

01- Do you have a good salary?

02- Would you like to have a good salary?
03- ASK HIM/HER if HE/SHE would like to have a better salary?
04- Why would you like to have a better salary?
05- Do you need to increase your salary ?
06- Would you like to increase the salary of the teacher?
07- Do you have a good understanding of English?

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08- ASK HIM/HER if HE/SHE would like to increase the understanding?
09- Do you think that you need to increased your understanding in English day by
day?
10- What do you need to do to increase your understanding in English?
11- Do you think that the price of the things has increased a lot?
12- ABOUT your SALARY? Is your salary increasing a lot?
13- Do you think that NNEL course has a good price?
Lya hasn’t bought a lot of things when she goes to the supermarket. She really has
bought and brought much less. Surely, it’s because the prices has increased too
much lately. I think she needs to ask her boss to increase her salary very soon..

a- Has Lya bought a lot of things when she goes to the supermarket?
b- Why she hasn’t bought?
c-
What do you think that she will do?
d- WHAT ABOUT YOU/YOUR FATHER/MOTHER: Does he/him have a good
salary?
e- Do you think that HE/HIM needs to have the salary increased?