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How to use the Warm-Ups

The optional, photocopiable charts on the following pages are designed to be used asa warm-up activity before students actually look at the unit in the Student's Book.

Students fill in missing words in the questions, and then write their own answers. Doingthis forces the students to think about the meaning of the questions before beginningthe listening activities in the unit. The Warm-Ups can be done in class, or they can beassigned for homework. This activity can also be used as a review or a test.

The time it will take to complete the Warm-Ups will vary from unit to unit. Generally,they should take 10–20 minutes to complete.

Procedure:

1. Make sure the students have their books closed so they cannot see the answers.

2. Photocopy and distribute the Warm-Up charts.

3. Have the students fill in the blanks with words from the box.

4. When finished, have the students open their books and check their answers.

5. Finally, have the students write their own answers to the questions.

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7 What do your mother and father ____________________ like?

5 Are ____________________ parents strict?

4 __________________ are your parents from?

3 How old are your ____________________ ?

2 How _________________ is/are your brother(s)/sister(s)?

1 Do you have any brothers or ____________________ ?

6 Do you get along with your mom or ____________________ better?

9 What do your parents do in their ____________________ time?

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13 Do you want to live with your parents after you get ____________________ ?

Do you look more like your ____________________ or your dad?

What ___________________ do you do together with your family?

How ___________________ do you see your aunts, uncles, and cousins?

How old are your grandparents? Where do they ____________________ ?

dad free live look married mom often

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Topic 1 Family (Warm-Up)

Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. Next, write your own answers.

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Topic 2 Food (Warm-Up)

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7 What ___________________ you have for breakfast today?

5 ____________________ you cook?

4 What's your favorite __________________ or dessert?

3 What's your ____________________ fruit?

2 What's a food you _________________ ?

1 What's one of your favorite ____________________ ?

6 ____________________ can you make?

9 What did you have for ____________________ last night?

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13 What's the ___________________ thing you've ever eaten?

How often do you ____________________ breakfast?

What ___________________ toppings do you like on your pizza?

How often do you buy food at a ______________________ store?

Do you like ____________________ food? What kinds?

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☞ can convenience did dinner ethnic favorite foods

hate kind of skip snack strangest what


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Topic 3 Time (Warm-Up)

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7 What time do ___________________ usually eat dinner?

5 What time do you ______________________ get up?

4 What's the __________________ today?

3 What year were you ____________________ in?

2 When's your ____________________ ?

1 How ____________________ are you?

6 ____________________ time do you eat breakfast?

9 What were you ___________________ at 3 p.m. yesterday? At 8 p.m.?

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13 ___________________ many watches do you own?

What time do you usually ___________________ to bed?

Are you usually ____________________ , on time, or late?

Do you usually ______________________ on Sundays?

How ____________________ time do you spend on the phone each day?


☞ birthday born date doing early go how

much old sleep in usually what you


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Topic 4 House & Home (Warm-Up)

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5 ______________________ you live in a house or an apartment?

4 __________________ do you live with?

3 Do you ____________________ it? Why or why not?

2 How __________________ have you lived there?

1 Where do you ____________________ ?

6 What's ____________________ like?

9 What are your ______________________ like?

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13 How much longer do you ___________________ you'll live where you are now?

What things in your bedroom are most _______________________ to you?

Is your home __________________ a train or bus station?

What __________________ your dream house look like?

How many times have you ___________________ before?


☞ do does important it like live long moved

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7 What's ______________________ you don't like about your house?


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Topic 5 Music (Warm-Up)

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5 How much time do you ______________________ listening to music?

4 What's __________________ of your favorite songs?

3 Who did you like ____________________ you were in junior high school?

2 Who's your favorite singer __________________ group?

1 What kind of music do you usually ____________________ to?

6 ____________________ do you usually listen to music?

9 About ______________________ many CDs do you own?

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13 What kind of music shows do you ___________________ on TV?

_______________________ you a good singer? Do you like karaoke?

Have you bought any good CDs _____________________ ?

What are some ____________________ you've been to before?

Can you play any musical ______________________ ?


7 What kind of music do you ______________________ ?

☞ are concerts dislike how instruments listen one

or recently spend watch when where


Topic 6 Transportation (Warm-Up)

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7 What are ____________________ things you dislike about taking the train/bus?

5 Do you ever travel ____________________ rush hour?

4 What do you usually do ____________________ the train/bus?

3 How ____________________ is the train/bus fare?

2 _________________ long does it take?

1 How do you ____________________ to school?

6 What's a funny or strange _______________________ you've had on the train/bus?

9 Do you ____________________ a car?

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13 Do you have a bicycle? How often do you ___________________ it?

Do you have a driver's ______________________ ? When did you get it?

___________________ your family have a car?

What's ___________________ favorite type of car?

Where's a good ___________________ to go for a drive?

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☞ does during experience get have how license

much on place two use your


Topic 7 Sports (Warm-Up)

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7 ____________________ you a member of any sports team or club?

5 What's a sport you ____________________ like? Why?

4 Which sports did you do __________________ junior high school?

3 What's your ______________________ sport?

2 What _________________ do you like to watch?

1 Do you ____________________ any sports?

6 Are you ______________________ sports?

9 How often do you go swimming? Where do you ____________________ ?

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13 Which sports ____________________ you like to try?

____________________ often do you exercise?

Who's your favorite _______________________ athlete?

What do you ___________________ of sumo?

Would you rather go scuba diving in Guam or ____________________ in Canada?

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play professional skiing sports think would


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Topic 8 Numbers (Warm-Up)

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7 How tall is your dream date? How much ____________________ s/he weigh?

5 What's the _______________________ today?

4 What's the population of your ____________________ ?

3 What's your shoe ____________________ ?

2 What's your _________________ number?

1 What's your _____________________ ?

6 ____________________ tall are you?

9 How ____________________ students go to your school?

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How ____________________ can you swim?

How many TV channels do you get at ___________________ ?

How much do you usually ___________________ to get your hair cut?

How much do you usually spend a ____________________ on transportation?


☞ address country does far home how make

many month pay phone size temperature

13 How much money do you think you'll __________________ at your first job?


Topic 9 Best Friends (Warm-Up)

7 What does s/he look ____________________ ?

5 Where ____________________ s/he from?

4 ____________________ did you first meet?

3 How often do you ____________________ each other?

2 How long have you ___________________ each other?

1 Who's your ____________________ friend?

6 Where does s/he ____________________ ?

9 ____________________ is s/he like?

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13 Would you let your friend ___________________ ¥100,000 if you had the money?

What are his/her ________________________ ?

What do ___________________ have in common?

In what ways are you _________________________ ?

___________________ you ever argue?

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known like live see what where you


Topic 10 TV (Warm-Up)

7 Do you watch the news? Which ____________________ ?

5 ____________________ you like (name of show)?

4 Are there any __________________ of shows you don't like?

3 What's one ____________________ your favorite shows?

2 What kind of ____________________ do you usually watch?

1 ___________________ often do you watch TV?

6 Do you like cartoons? ____________________ ones do you like?

9 Who's ____________________ favorite comedian?

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13 Are you ___________________ to watch TV tonight?

Who's ____________________ of your favorite TV personalities?

What's ___________________ commercial you like?

What TV show is _____________________ popular now?

What ___________________ you watch yesterday?

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☞ a did do going how kinds of one

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Topic 11 Work (Warm-Up)

7 Do you think it's more important to make a lot of money or to ____________________ your job?

5 What kind of work do you want to do in the ____________________ ?

4 Do your brothers or sisters work? What __________________ they do?

3 Does your ____________________ work?

2 _________________ does your father do for a living?

6 What's a part-time job you'd ____________________ to have? Why?

9 When you were a ____________________ what did you want to be?

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13 What's your ____________________ job?

What's a job that you ____________________ want to do?

Would you ___________________ be a taxi driver or a police officer?

Would you rather work _________________ or outdoors?

____________________ a job that you would find really boring?

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mother part-time rather what what's wouldn't

1 Do you have a ____________________ job? What do you do?


Topic 12 Vacation (Warm-Up)

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7 ______________________ did you stay?

5 Who did you go ____________________ ?

4 How long did the trip __________________ ?

3 ____________________ did you get there?

2 How long _________________ you there?

1 Where ____________________ you go?

6 What did you do ____________________ ?

9 What _______________________ did you buy?

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13 Did you have ____________________ problems?

____________________ kind of food did you eat?

How much did the ___________________ cost?

What was the weather ___________________ ?

What did you enjoy the ____________________ ?

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☞ any did how like most souvenirs take

there trip were what where with

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Topic 13 School (Warm-Up)

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7 Do you ever ____________________ class? Why?

5 Which subjects ____________________ you best at?

4 Who's your favorite ____________________ ?

3 What's your favorite ______________________ ?

2 What don't _________________ like?

1 What do you __________________ best about this school?

6 ______________________ subjects are difficult for you?

9 ________________________ you belong to any clubs?

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13 Are you ________________________ studying abroad someday?

How much ________________________ do you do per day?

What do you ___________________ do on the weekends?

___________________ do you usually do during summer vacation?

What do you think you'll do ____________________ you graduate?


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subject teacher usually what which you


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Topic 14 Movies (Warm-Up)

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7 ______________________ one of your favorite actors or actresses?

5 ____________________ do you prefer, action or drama?

4 What kind __________________ movies do you like?

3 How often do you ____________________ videos?

2 How often do you _________________ to the movies?

1 Do you usually watch movies at home ____________________ at the theater?

6 Are ____________________ any kinds of movies you don't like?

9 What's the funniest movie you've _____________________ seen?

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13 Which movie star would you most like to ______________________ ?

What's the ___________________ movie you've ever seen?

__________________ the last movie you saw? Who's in it?

Which movie do you ___________________ to see?

_____________________ you ever seen the same movie more than twice?


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Topic 15 Money (Warm-Up)

7 How much do you usually ____________________ on the weekends?

5 What's your ______________________ phone bill normally?

4 What have you ______________________ a lot of money on lately?

3 Do your ______________________ give you an allowance?

2 Are you ___________________ money to buy something?

1 How much money do you ____________________ with you now?

6 ____________________ much do you usually spend on lunch?

9 Do you have a credit ____________________ ?

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13 Do you ever give _____________________ to charities?

How much did the ____________________ you're wearing cost?

What's a "good buy" you've ___________________ before?

What would you do if you ___________________ the ¥100,000,000 lottery?

Do you ___________________ gamble?


☞ card clothes ever gotten have how money

monthly parents saving spend spent won


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Topic 16 Restaurants (Warm-Up)

7 Have you ever ____________________ to Hard Rock Cafe?

5 Do you ever eat ____________________ for lunch?

4 How much __________________ you usually spend?

3 Who do you ______________________ go with?

2 _________________ do you usually go?

1 How often do you ____________________ out?

6 What restaurant near here do you _______________________ ?

9 What's your favorite ____________________ food restaurant?

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13 What's a funny _______________________ you've had at a restaurant?

What's ____________________ of your favorite restaurants?

Where's a good place to go for a really ___________________ meal?

What kind of ethnic restaurants ____________________ you been to?


☞ been cheap do eat expensive experience fast

have one out recommend usually where

What's the most ______________________ restaurant you've ever been to?


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Topic 17 Animals (Warm-Up)

7 ____________________ you ever ridden a horse?

5 What animals do you think are ____________________ grotesque or scary?

4 What ____________________ or movie do you like that has animals in it?

3 What stuffed animals ____________________ you have, or did you use to have?

2 What are 3 animals you ___________________ are really cute?

1 What's one of your favorite __________________________ ?

6 What kind of _______________________ wild animals have you seen before?

9 What is/was its ____________________ ?

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13 ____________________ you could be any animal, what would you be? Why?

Have you ever had a pet? What ____________________ ?

What strange or unusual _____________________ does/did it do?

___________________ kind of pet would you like to have?

Do you like ____________________ or dogs better? Why?

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Topic 18 Shopping (Warm-Up)

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7 ____________________ you a good bargain shopper?

5 Where ____________________ you buy the shoes you're wearing now?

3 What's your favorite shopping ____________________ ?

2 What's something you've ___________________ recently?

1 What kind of things do you like to ____________________ for?

6 ______________________ a good place to buy cheap but fashionable clothes?

9 About how much money do you spend on presents ____________________ year?

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13 What's something you want to buy ____________________ can't afford?

What's the most money you've spent __________________ a piece of clothing?

Do you usually buy _______________________ presents for your family?

What are 2 videos you've bought ___________________ ?

Do you ____________________ buy things you don't really need?

a are area before bought but Christmas

department did often on shop where's


4 Which _______________________ store do you go to most often? Why?


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Topic 19 Health & Fitness (Warm-Up)

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7 Do you ____________________ vitamins?

5 How often do you ____________________ junk food?

4 Is __________________ diet healthy?

3 How often do you ______________________ ?

2 _________________ do you do to stay healthy?

1 Are ____________________ healthy?

6 Do you eat a lot of ____________________ and vegetables?

9 Have you ever been on a ____________________ ? Did you lose weight?

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13 ____________________ you want to live a long life, what should you do?

Are you _______________________ ?

___________________ you smoke?

Do you have a ___________________ of stress?

How many hours of sleep do you get ____________________ night?


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Topic 20 Fashion (Warm-Up)

7 How many _______________________ shoes do you own?

5 Do you own any designer ______________________ ? Which ones?

4 About how much money do you spend __________________ clothes per year?

3 What kind of clothes are ______________________ now?

2 Do you think it's ______________________ to be in fashion?

1 What ____________________ of clothes do you usually wear?

6 ____________________ do you usually buy your clothes?

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13 What do you ____________________ of nose rings?

How often do you ____________________ dressed up?

Do you ___________________ a cell phone? What type is it?

___________________ you ever dye your hair?

What kind of jewelry do you ____________________ ?

brands do get have important in style kind

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9 What colors ____________________ good on you?


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Topic 21 Travel (Warm-Up)

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7 Who do you _____________________ to travel with?

5 ____________________ long does it take you to pack for a one-week trip?

4 What's a country you'd __________________ want to visit? Why?

3 Which ______________________ do you most want to visit? Why?

2 _________________ you rather travel abroad or somewhere in your own country?

1 How many times have you traveled _______________________ ?

6 Do you prefer to travel by plane, ____________________ , or bus?

9 What's your biggest __________________ when traveling?

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13 Are you _____________________ to go anywhere this year?

_____________________ foreign airline would you prefer to fly on?

Did you go on a school _____________________ in high school?

If you were going to Hawaii, what kind of ______________________ would you buy?

____________________ are 2 useful phrases for travel?


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Topic 22 Books, Magazines & Newspapers (Warm-Up)

7 What ____________________ one of your favorite books as a child?

5 Who's your favorite ____________________ ?

4 How much do you __________________ on books and magazines a month?

3 Where do you usually ____________________ ?

2 Do you _________________ fiction or nonfiction?

1 ____________________ kind of things do you usually read?

6 What's the ___________________ book you've ever read?

9 What's your favorite ____________________ ?

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13 If you wanted to ____________________ a book, what kind of book would you write?

____________________ you reading any books now?

Do you like _____________________ ? What's your favorite one?

How ___________________ do you read the newspaper?

Which ____________________ do you usually read first?


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Topic 23 Sickness (Warm-Up)

7 Have you ever been in the _____________________ ? For what?

5 Do you usually ____________________ painkillers?

4 How often do you get a _____________________ ?

3 What do you ____________________ to get better?

2 _________________ often do you get a cold?

1 When was the ___________________ time you were sick?

6 Do you have ____________________ allergies?

9 What's the _____________________ temperature you've ever had?

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13 How many days of ____________________ do you miss a year because of sickness?

____________________ was the last time you went to the doctor?

Have you ever ___________________ a hangover?

____________________ you ever broken a bone?

any bad do had have headache highest

hospital how last school take when


Have you ever had a really ___________________ sunburn?


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Topic 24 Holidays (Warm-Up)

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7 What do you ____________________ do on Halloween?

5 How many _____________________ do you usually buy?

4 What do you usually __________________ for Christmas?

3 What are the most ____________________ holidays in your country?

2 What was the last holiday you ____________________ ? What did you do?

1 What's your favorite _____________________ ? Why?

6 ____________________ the best Christmas present you've ever gotten?

9 Did you get any valentines ____________________ year?

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13 What did you do last ___________________ ?

Do you ever buy _______________________ or flowers on Valentine's Day?

How do you usually _________________ New Year's Eve?

What ___________________ you do last year?

____________________ do you usually spend New Year's Day?


☞ celebrated chocolates did do holiday how important

last presents spend usually what's year


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Topic 25 Fears (Warm-Up)

7 What's the ___________________ movie you've ever seen?

5 Are you afraid of roller ____________________ or heights?

4 __________________ you afraid of flying?

3 Which insects are you the ____________________ afraid of ?

2 What animal _________________ you the most?

1 When you were a ____________________ what things were you afraid of ?

6 Are you afraid of going to the ____________________ ?

9 ___________________ you ever seen a ghost?

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13 Is there _____________________ you're afraid of ?

What's a scary _______________________ you've had?

What things ___________________ you nervous?

Are you afraid of giving a __________________ in public?

What ____________________ are you worried about recently?


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Topic 26 Dating (Warm-Up)

5 ____________________ you prefer girls/guys with short or long hair?

4 Would you rather go to a ________________ and dinner, or to an amusement park for a date?

3 Are you ______________________ somebody now?

2 Where did you go on your _________________ date?

1 Where's a ____________________ place to go on a date?

6 What does your ideal date _____________________ like?

9 Do you think it's okay to ____________________ someone on the first date?

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13 Would you ever try using a matchmaker to find a ______________________ ?

____________________ old do you want your date to be?

Do you think it's okay for ___________________ to ask guys out?

Do you feel comfortable holding ___________________ in public?

Would you ever ____________________ on a blind date?


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7 What are 2 qualities you would _____________________ your date to have?


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Topic 27 Marriage (Warm-Up)

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7 ____________________ are 3 qualities you want your future spouse to have?

5 Would you marry someone from a ______________________ country?

4 Would you __________________ someone 10 years older than you?

3 How ____________________ do you think couples should know each other before getting married?

2 How old were your ___________________ when they got married?

1 At what age do you want to ____________________ married?

6 Would you ____________________ with someone before getting married?

9 What ____________________ of wedding do you want to have?

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13 Would you ever get ______________________ ?

Do you want to have ____________________ ?

How many ___________________ will you invite to your ceremony?

___________________ do you want to go for your honeymoon?

___________________ your parents happily married?


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7 ____________________ you use to believe in Santa Claus?

5 Do you _____________________ in love at first sight?

4 __________________ you believe in horoscopes?

3 Do you believe ____________________ UFOs?

2 Do you believe in _________________ after death?

1 Do you believe in ____________________ ?

6 Do you think there's life on other ___________________ ?

9 What's your blood ____________________ ?

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Do ____________________ believe blood types can tell a person's personality?

Does your ____________________ type match your personality?

___________________ a common superstition about bad luck?

Do you think ____________________ can give us useful information?


☞ believe blood did do dreams God important

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Topic 29 Crime (Warm-Up)

7 Have you ever done any other ____________________ thing?

5 Have you ever had anything __________________ ?

4 What ____________________ are you afraid to go to because it's dangerous?

3 ____________________ you ever witnessed a crime?

2 _________________ kind of crimes are increasing?

1 Do you think your country is ____________________ ? Why or why not?

6 Have you ____________________ stolen anything?

9 What would you do if you heard a ____________________ in your house while you were sleeping?

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Has your ____________________ ever been burglarized?

What would you do if you saw a ___________________ being molested on the train?

What ___________________ do you do to protect yourself from crime?

What's a crime that was in the ____________________ recently?


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Topic 30 Opinions (Warm-Up)

7 What do you ____________________ of your country's leader?

4 Do you think ____________________ teachers give you too much homework?

3 ____________________ do you think of this school?

2 What's your __________________ of gambling?

1 What do you think of ______________________ ?

6 ____________________ do you feel about the American right to own a gun?

9 ____________________ you think people should feed stray cats?

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13 What do you think is the ____________________ important thing in life?

Do you think the government should let more foreigners ____________________ in your country?

What do you think ___________________ Thai food?

___________________ do you think is a better actor, Brad Pitt or Leonardo DiCaprio?

Who do you think is ____________________ , Jim Carrey or Eddie Murphy?


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