Getting to know someone

In order to start a conversation, it is important to revise how to ask questions. Two teenagers are taking park.
Pair-work: What are the questions you would ask someone you are meeting for the first time?
The result was:

1. What is your name? 
2. How old are you? 
3. Where do you come from? 
4. Where do you live? 
5. Do you have brothers and sisters? 
6. Do you have pets? 
7. What are your hobbies? 
8. What music do you listen to? 
9. What type of films do you watch? 
10. What type of video games do you like? 
11. What types of books are you reading? 

In order to answer correctly the verb to be and to have have to be mastered.
To be has a different use in French and in English. For instance,
when you express you age
She is fifteen years old /  she is fifteen
You can feel that it is pointless translating from French into English word for word.
Age, but also how one feels physically:
I am cold/ I am hot
I am hungry/  I am thirsty
Or a strong feeling like: I am afraid/ I am scared
or a physical description: I am sleepy/ I was sick
or a moral statement: I am right/ I m wrong
Or the weather: It is windy/ cold/ warm
and : I am lucky!

See p 36 of "La Gammaire anglaise au Lycée" de Berland-Delepine