Reading:  family ties

 

Lucy, 14 I love my big sister Megan. She’s very pretty. She’s tall and slim with long fair hair. Megan’s very smart and athletic. She always helps me with my homework and she’s on the school’s football and basketball teams. In her free time, she likes sailing and often takes me to the cinema with her friends.

 

Alicia, 15 My mum’s wonderful. She’s tall and slim with blonde hair. She’s a teacher at primary school. All her students love her because she’s very patient and caring. She comes to all my dance rehearsals and my younger brother’s hockey games. She likes dancing a lot. She’s the world’s best mum!

 

Bobby, 16 My uncle Rob’s the best! He’s my mum’s younger brother. He’s tall and slim with a beard and moustache. Uncle Rob has a great sense of humor. I always have a great time with him. We usually go hiking and camping on weekends. He also takes me on trips with him when I don’t have school. He’s a talented journalist and works for the local paper. I hope to be like him one day.

 

 

a) Mark the sentences T (true), F (false) or DS (doesn’t say).

1 Lucy is younger than her sister.

2 Lucy’s sister goes to college.

3 Alicia’s mum teaches young children.

4 Alicia is an only child.

5 Alicia likes hockey.

6 Bobby’s mum and his uncle Rob are brother and sister.

7 Rob works at a camp. 

Grammar: Past Perfect

Exercise 1 Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past perfect.

1. The Jamaican team were excited about going to Austria because they ____never___(see) snow before.

2. After the holiday, he was keen to see the photos that he____(take).

3. Anna___(come) first in the school cross-country race last week.

4. I missed the first goal, because by the time I got to the stadium, the game____(start).

5. The first time I tried skiing. I found it quite easy because I____(do) a lot of waterskiing.

6. After the accident, I phoned Andy’s parents to say that he___(hurt) his arm but he was OK.

7. Manchester United____(win) the championship last year.

 

Exercise 2 Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past perfect.

In 1889, Lusy Dodson (1) ____ (be) in bed when she (2) ____ (hear) a voice call her name. She (3) ____ (realize) that it was the voice of her mother who (4) ____ (die) 16 years before. She (5) ____ (look) up and (6) ____ (see) that her mother had two small children in her arms. The ghost (7) ____ (ask) Lusy to look after the children because they (8) ____ (lose) their mother. Lusy (9) ____  (take) the children into her bed. The next morning, the bed was empty and the children (10) ____ (go). Two days later, Lusy learnt that her sister-in- law (11) ____ (die) that same night, leaving two small children. She later (12)  ____ (learn) that her mother ghost (13) ____ (visit) her just two hours after her sister-in-law’s death.

 

 

UNIT 4 CHARACTER

Text: Face reading Grammar: Comparison of Adjectives Vocabulary

                    

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