Unit 1, Check-in Funny stories at high school

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CHECK-IN

Funny stories at school

Ex. 1

Watch the vlog by JennxPenn, Funny stories at high school, and answer the questions.

a JennXPenn is ...

Which type of school is this?

1. middle school
2. boarding school
3. university
4. elementary school

Which type of school is this?

1. middle school
2. nursery school
3. high school
4. elementary school

Which type of school is this?

1. middle school
2. nursery school
3. college
4. elementary school

Which type of school is this?

1. middle school
2. nursery school
3. college
4. elementary school

b She's a ...

1. freshman
2. sophomore
3. junior
4. senior

c She is going to tell us …

1. some embarrassing things she did in high school.
2. some things she did in high school and she got punished for.
3. some things she did in high school and didn’t get punished for.

d Are these statements true or false? Correct the false statements.

STORY 1

1 ‘Words with friends’ is an app to take pictures.

1. true
2. false

It is an app to play Scrabble.

2 Her teacher gave the students her password for ‘Words with friends’.

1. true
2. false

Her teacher gave her and her classmates her username.

3 She beat the teacher at Scrabble.

1. true
2. false

4 She asked her dad to help her.

1. true
2. false

No, she just used an app. 

5 She used an app to cheat.

1. true
2. false

6 She looked up the meaning of difficult words in the dictionary.

1. true
2. false

She always chose the words that got the most points, even if she

didn’t know those words.

7 The teacher didn’t realise that she was cheating.

1. true
2. false

Her teacher knew and tried to expose her in class by letting Jenn

explain all those difficult words in class.

d Are these statements true or false? Correct the false statements.

STORY 2

1 She took one field trip each year in high school.

1. true
2. false

Her school never goes on field trips, so this was the first one.

2 She went on a field trip with her class to New York.

1. true
2. false

3 They went to visit Central Park with her class.

1. true
2. false

They went on a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

4 In the field trip, the students had to spend a whole day at the Metropolitan Museum.

1. true
2. false

5 Jen and her friend went shopping.

1. true
2. false

d Are these statements true or false? Correct the false statements.

STORY 3

1 She doesn’t like photography.

1. true
2. false

She does, but taking a class and getting grades, ruined it for her.

2 She used Instagram photos and filters in her photography class.

1. true
2. false

3 She won a competition at her school for best picture.

1. true
2. false

She won a competition at her school for best picture.

4 A lot of kids in her class used a DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex camera) for
their pictures.

1. true
2. false