Getting to know each other

Getting to Know Each Other

NAME

• What’s your name?• My name’s _____.• What’s your first name?• What’s your surname?• What’s your family name?• How do you spell it?

DATE OF BIRTH

• When were you born?• I was born in 1963.• I was born on the tenth of May, 1963.• What’s your date of birth? (official)• The twenty-second of August, 1959.

AGE

• How old are you?• I’m thirty-two.• What’s your age?• Forty-five.

PLACE OF BIRTH

• Where were you born?• I was born in Plymouth.• I was born in England.

FAMILY SITUATION

• Are you married or single?• Do you have any children?• I’ve got two girls and a boy.• How many children do you have?• How old are your children?• They’re five and three.• What are their names?

JOB

• What’s your job?• I’m an accountant.• Where do you work?• I work for EDF.• What do you do for a living?• I’m unemployed.

COUNTRIES VISITED

• Which countries have you visited?• Which countries have you been to?• I’ve been to Italy, Spain, and Germany.

LANGUAGES

• Which languages do you speak?• How many languages can you speak?• My native language is French but I can also

speak English and a little Spanish.

LEISURE ACTIVITIES

• How do you spend your free time?• I go to the gym two or three times a week.• I play football at the weekends.• I read a lot.• Do you have any hobbies?• I collect stamps.• I’m a keen photographer.

LIKES

• What do you like?• What do you like doing?• I like listening to music.• I love pizza.

DISLIKES

• What don’t you like?• Is there anything you don’t like (doing)?• I don’t like washing the dishes.• I can’t stand dogs.• I hate Mondays.

PETS

• Have you got any pets?• Do you have any pets?• I’ve got a cat and a dog.• Just some tropical fish.• No, I haven’t.

FAVOURITE MOVIE OR BOOK

• Have you got a favourite movie or book?• Do you have a favourite movie or book?• What’s your favourite movie or book?• My favourite movie is Titanic.• My favourite book is

Gone With The Wind.

AMBITION

• What’s your greatest ambition in life?• What would you most like to achieve?• I want to find a well-paid job in marketing.• I’d like to climb

Mount Everest.• I’m not ambitious.