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B Answer the questions below. Discuss your answers with a partner.

1 Do you want to continue studying English? For how long?

2 Are you a high school graduate? If you are, when did you graduate?
If not, when will you graduate?

3 What kind of job do you want to have in the future?

4 What is your favorite TV commercial?

A There are five different contractions in the passage on page 23. Write each Vocabulary Skill

contraction below. Then write the two words that make up the contraction. Contractions

Contraction Two words
1 It's /tis In spoken English
and informal writing,
2 it is common to use
3 contractions. For
4 example, I'm is a

5 contraction of I and
am. The apostrophe (')
B Read the sentences . Do you know the contractions for the words in shows that letters are
blue? Write them on the line. missing in the word.
1 Tim Q in school today. �sick. isn't I He's

2 Mary Ann does not speak Spanish.
3 Who is that man? What is his name?
4 There is a movie on TV now.
5 That is Paul. He is an actor.

C Complete the interview below. Use the contractions from A and B above.

An interview with Kira Foley from The Martial Arts Institute
Interviewer: What class are you taking?
Kira: (1) taking a taekwondo class twice a week.
Interviewer: (2) taekwondo?
Kira: (3) a Korean martial art. (4) taking
the class for fun and exercise.
Interviewer: Is this your first time studying taekwondo?
Kira: No, it (5) . I took a class last summer.
Interviewer: (6) your instructor?
Kira: His name is Kim Hae Chui. (7)- a good teacher.
Interviewer: Does he speak Korean in class?
Kira: No, he (8) . He speaks--English.

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