1. Work in pairs. Introduce yourself to a partner
2. Listen to short stories about the life of people and say what their stories are about.
In this section, listen to our audio fiction series for intermediate (CEFR level B1) learners about a group of people from around the world who are living in London.
Meet Fadi then Harry
Also meet:
Meet Johnny |
Meet Magda |
Meet Olivia |
Meet Sarah |
3. Read Fadi's and Harry's stories and check your understanding
What new information have you got?
Welcome everybody. I’m Fadi, good to meet you. Yeah, you’re right. Fadi isn’t a typical English name. That’s because my family is from Lebanon. I was born there too, but I’ve lived in London ever since I was a kid. Now I think of myself as being both, Lebanese and English. **Mostly**, I’m a Londoner. London is full of people from all over the world so I fit inperfectly here.
What do I do? Well, ideally, I mean, if the world was perfect, I wouldn’t do very much at all. Play football… watch TV… play video games… hang out with my friends. But unfortunately the world isn’t perfect so I have to work. I work for our family business. We’re suppliers to restaurants, so we import foods from different parts of the world, the Mediterranean and Middle East mostly, and then sell them on to restaurants. It’s ok, not my ideal job but, well it’s the family business so I have to be part of it really.
I get to travel quite a bit for my job too, which is ok. I wouldn’t like to be sitting in an office all day.
I love London like I said, there’s loads going on, people from everywhere, even if the weather here is **lousy**. I’m 24 now. My mother keeps on asking me when I’m going to get married. But it’s not going to happen for a few years yet. I think 24 is way too young to marry and besides, there are too many beautiful girls in this city, even if I’m not going out with any of them at the moment.
What else, er… not much really. I like nice clothes, night clubs, Arsenal football club, oh and **hanging out** with the people at Tony’s Café.
Hi all, I'm Harry. Pleased to meet you.
I'm from London, nowhere else, just London. It's strange, I've lived here all my life and now most of my friends are people who originally come from somewhere else. You don't often meet original Londoners any more. But that's not a problem for me though, I love it. The crowd I hang out with at Tony's for example, they're from all over the world really. Butonceyou're in London, then you're a Londoner as far as I'm concerned.
Anyway, enough of that - what about me?
Well, I'm 23 years old. My friend Olivia keeps on telling me I'm still only a kid but sometimes I feel old, I tell you. Too much work! I quite like my job - I'm an IT systems consultant but sometimes I think I'd like to change. I'm not sure what else I could do though and IT is a good field to be in, even if you have to constantly keep up with all the changes. Being a consultant means that I'm always working on different projects which is good because it never gets boring but it also means that I never really know if I'm going to have any work when the project I'm working on finishes. So that's a bit of a downside.
Everyone thinks that I must have lots of money because I work with computers but unfortunately, that's not true. I'm just a technician really; I'm not like my friend Johnny, now he makes tons of money.
What else? Well, when I'm not working or spending too much time in Tony's café, I like to go to the gym. I try to work outthere at least three times a week - keep myself in trim. Sometimes, I have a game of football with the boys too. I'm not a great player but I enjoy it. I ride my bike around London too. Partly because it helps me keep in shape, partly because it's more ecologically friendly and just because it's easier no worries about traffic jams or parking. I like music a lot - hip hop and R'n'B mostly - but I'll listen to anything really. And that's about it.
See you soon.
4. How to make friends? Whatch the video. What do you think of the tips?
5.Think of the topics which you would like to dIscuss if you met new people.
6. Write about yourself. Upload your introduction to your YouTube channel.
7. Say what Episode 1. Nice to meet you. is about.
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