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Write. Pair. Share.
1. Write autographical sentences. Make sentences that explain who you are and where you come from. Are you the oldest, youngest, middle or only child? Use some adjectives to describe your personality. Write ten to fifteen sentences.
2. Share your paragraph with a partner. Ask each other questions to make sure you understand your partner’s paragraph.
3. Find another pair. Each person tells the other pair about your partner.
Sentence examples:
I am the oldest child in my family. I am shy. I am quiet. I am a Vietnamese teenager. I am from this neighborhood. I am outgoing.
I am friendly. I am 14 years old.
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4. (v) to make as one’s own
7. (v) to say or speak correctly
8. (n) a tropical fruit, but also meaning someone who looks Asian
but is American inside
10. (n) people from outside the country
11. (adj) happening in the opposite way to what is expected
12. (adv) going by instinct or knowing unconsciously
14. (v) to change so as to fit in a new situation or lifestyle
15. (n) an act of being unfaithful or untrustworthy
18. (n) meaning “a place that I love” – a place so wonderful it is in
my dreams
19. (adj) well-known in a culture for many generations
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1. (n) something painted white, meant to say an Asian person who acts like a White or Caucasian (Western) person
2. musical instrument having strings such as a guitar
3. (n) family name
5. (adj) usual, typical
6. (adv) with an imaginative or sensitively emotional style of
expression
9. (adj) having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about
something or someone
13. (v) made fun of, being laughed at in order to hurt feelings 16. (adj) going in the opposite direction
17. (adj) foreign, strange
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