Libro Ingles

ROGER IS AN ENSIGN BOOK 14 LESSON 1

FUNCTION

I need your full name and rank, please.

My name is Roger Lee Park, and I´m an ensign.

This is Ensign Park.

GRAMMAR

Book/books glass/glasses child/children fish/fish family/families

Hal just got here. Ned will be here soon. As big as a mountain.

SKILLS

Main idea. Title. Topic. Summary. Key word-paragraph.

VOCABULARY.

Assign/be assigned bar opportunity

Be up for basic training personnel

Enlist captain petty officer

Promote/ be promoted chance private

Serve commander private first class

Station/be stationed corporal

Train duty promotion

E-1/E-6 recruit

Ensign retirement

Advanced grade seaman

Basic insignia seaman apprentice

Enlisted lance corporal seaman recruit

Follow-on lieutenant service

Retired lieutenant commander staff sergeant

Lieutenant junior station

Airman basic grade technical sergeant

Airman first class Marine Corps training

Amn noncommissioned

Armed forces officer

Assignment O-1/O-6

1

Vocabulary

ENLISTED RANKS

First, look at the underlined words in the chart and repeat the sentences your instructor says.

EXAMPLES: An E-4 in the Marine Corps is a corporal.

Next, ask and answer questions like the examples:

EXAMPLES: What is an E-6 in the Navy?

A petty officer first class.

What is an E-5 in the Air Force?

A staff sergeant.

3

JOIN THE MILITARY.

Repeat the underlined words and read the “ad”.

THE MILITARY OFFERS YOU

1. The opportunity to serve your country and see the world. With military bases in every state, you will have a variety of assignments.

2. Many opportunities to further your training and education.

3. Promotion opportunities. The military wants you to be all you can be.

4. A medical plan to cover all military personnel and their families.

5. A chance for an early retirement. You may be a person who can enjoy a second career.

Call the Armed Forces at (555) 555-0000.

4

Circle T if the statement is true. Circle F is the statement is false. The answers should be from the ad.

1. The military offers many opportunities. T F

2. When you are in the military, you’re serving your country T F

3. In the military, people live in one place only T F

4. The military also offer to train you. T F

5. In the military, you will not have a chance to be promoted T F

6. The people in the military have a good medical plan T F

7. No one in the military has a chance to retire early T F

HE WANTS TO BE A MARINE.

Listen to the instructor read the dialog. Then read the dialog with another student. After that, answer the instructor’s questions.

Willy: Did you read the ad in the paper about the opportunities that the military offers?

Jimmy: Yes, and I think I’m really going into the service.

Willy: Which one?

Jimmy: The Marines. My father is a retired NCO. He was in the Army for many years. I think I’d like to do something else.

Willy: What’s your father doing these days?

Jimmy: Since he retired, he travels and goes fishing a lot.

5

JIMMY’S A NEW RECRUIT !!

Listen to the instructor read the dialog. Then read the dialog with another student. After that, answer the instructor’s questions.

Jimmy: I’ve enlisted, Willy! I start basic training in two weeks.

Willy: That’s great! Where will you train?

Jimmy: In Quantico, Virginia.

Willy: Where’s that?

Jimmy: it’s near Washington, D.C.

Willy: I’m really happy for you. Let’s go to a restaurant and have a nice meal. You’re an enlisted man, now.

Listening Skill

TOPIC, MAIN IDEA, AND TITLE.

Listen to a paragraph two times. Select the topic and main idea of the paragraph. Then select the best title for it.

PARAGRAPH 1

The topic of the paragraph is __________.

a. Cost of the first airplanes.

b. Beginning of the Air Force.

c. People in the Air Force.

d. Pilot training.

The main idea of the paragraph is _______.

a. The first plane carried only two people.

b. The Wright brothers made the first plane for the Air Force.

c. The U.S. Air Force started as part of the U.S. Army.

d. There were only two instructors in the Air Force.

6

The best title for the paragraph is ______.

a. The Army Signal Corps.

b. Learning To Fly An Old Plane.

c. Up, Up, and Away.

d. The Early Days of the Air Force.

PARAGRAPH 2

The topic of the paragraph is ______.

a. The U.S. Air Force Academy

b. Women of The Air Force

c. Pilot training

d. A bachelor´s degree

The main idea of the paragraph is ______.

a. Students take pilot training after graduation.

b. Women go to the U.S. Air Force Academy and become officers.

c. U.S. military students also get a college degree.

d. The U.S. Air Force Academy trains young men and women to be officers.

The best title for the paragraph is ______

a. Military Academies in the

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