Wednesday, October 15, 2014

5. Sharing Your Personal Information

Vocabulary presented in class
feet (or meters)
inches (or cm.)
tall
short
how many
young
old
telephone
pounds (or kg.)
street
zip code (or postal code)
address
I am; you are; he is; she is
(I’m; you’re; he’s; she’s)



5. Sharing Your Personal Information: Story

Michael Lagarto is a lizard (1). He has a telephone number and an email address.

Mike’s friend puts (2), Michael’s personal information online without (3) his permission.

Now everyone knows (4) that Michael is one foot two inches tall, weighs (5) six pounds three ounces and is very young.

 Anyone can see (6) Michael’s two years old. Everyone has (7) his telephone number, his street address, and zip code.

Michael gets (8) lots of emails and phone calls from businesses (9). They all want him to buy something (10). 

Michael is worried about someone finding out (11) his credit card (12) number.

To protect himself, (13) Michael changes (14) his name. He changes it from Michael Lagarto to Michael Jackson.

He starts wearing pretty shirts (16) and pants with gold and silver (17). Now nobody sends (18) him emails or asks about his identity. Everybody knows (19) Michael Jackson! He’s famous!



1)       lagarto
2)       amigo pone
3)       sin
4)       Ahora todos saben
5)       pesa
6)       Cualquiera puede ver
7)       Todos tienen
8)       recibe; agarra; consigue
9)       negocios
10)   quieren que él compre algo
11)   se preocupa que alguien discubra
12)   tarjeta
13)   Para protegerse
14)   cambia
15)   Ahora lleva puesto
16)   Él comienza a llevar camisas bonitas
17)   oro y plata
18)   nadie le envía
19)   Todo el mundo conoce a


5. Sharing Your Personal Information: Reading

Michael Lagarto is a lizard. (1) Michael likes to send (2) emails to his friend Pete. Peter Cottontail is a rabbit (3).

Michael jokes (4) with Pete in an email. He says, “Pete, you are fat. (5) You weigh (6) 310 pounds. You are five feet two inches tall and are very old.”

Pete doesn’t like that. He’s really one foot and three inches tall. He weighs just (7) five pounds twelve ounces and is just four years old.

Pete decides to get even with (8) Michael. Pete puts Michael’s personal information on Facebook without Michael’s (9) permission.

Now everyone can read (10) that Michael is one foot two inches tall, weighs six pounds three ounces and is only two years old. Everybody knows his telephone number and his birthday.

Because (11) Pete put so much (12) of Michael’s personal information online, Michael receives a lot of emails and phone calls from people and businesses he doesn’t know. (13)  

They all want him to buy something. (14) It’s a real problem. Michael is worried about (15) someone finding out (16) his credit card number.

Michael changes his name. (17) He changes it from Michael Lagarto to Michael Jackson.

Michael Lagarto knows that (18) Michael Jackson was a famous singer and dancer (19). He always (20) liked Michael Jackson so he changes his looks, too. (21)

Now he wears (22) a lot of pretty shirts (23) and pants with gold and silver (24). He has a special Michael Jackson glove (25).

 He learns (26) how to dance and sing like Michael Jackson. Now he makes lots of money singing, dancing, and acting like (27) Michael Jackson. 



1)       lagarto
2)       le gusta enviar
3)       conejo
4)       bromear
5)       gordo
6)       pesas
7)       solo
8)       vengarse de
9)       sin el plermiso de Michael
10)   Ahora todos pueden leer
11)   Porque
12)   pone tanta
13)   gente y negocios que él no conoce
14)   quieren que él compre algo
15)   se preocupa de
16)   descubra
17)   cambia su nombre
18)   sabe que
19)   cantante y bailador
20)   siempre
21)   aspecto, también
22)   lleva puesto
23)   camisas bonitas
24)   oro y plata
25)   guante
26)   aprende
27)   gana mucho dinero cantando, bailando y actuando como


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