Name: ____Javier Rincon Quevedo______________________ Group: _________________________

Dorita is an English student at a school in Queens, New York City. Listen to her
letter to Miguel, her brother in Argentina. Complete the text with the missing
words.

Dear Miguel,

How (1) _are____ you? I’m (2) __fine____. Here’s a letter in (3) _english___. It’s (4)

__good__ practice for (5) ___you___ and me! I have (6) __classes__ in English at La

Guardia Community College. (7) ___I´m_____ in a class with (8) __eight students_ (9).

They’re all from different countries: (10) __Japan___, (11) __Brazil__, Switzerland, (13)

__Poland_ and Italy. Our teacher’s name is Isabel. (14) __she´s__very nice and a very

good (15) __teacher__.

I live in an (16) __apartment_ with two American (17) _girls__. Annie and Marnie Kass. (18)

__they_ (19) __are_ (20) _sisters__. Annie’s (21) _twenty__ years old and a (22) _dancer_.

Marnie’s (23) _eighteen__ and a student. (24) __They´re___ very friendly, but it (25) _isn

´t_ easy to understand them. (26) __They__ speak very fast!

New York is very big, very exciting, but very expensive. The subway isn’t (27) _difficult__

to use and it’s cheap. (28) __It´s__ very cold now, but Central (29) __park__ is lovely in

the snow. I’m very (30) __happy__ here.

Write to me soon.

(31) __love___, Dorita

Taken from: New Headway English Course. Elementary Student’s Book. Oxford University Press
Activity 2. Read the following sentences. Correct the wrong ones.

 Dorita is from Argentina. √

 She’s in Miami. X No, she isn’t. She’s in New York.

 Dorita’s happy in New York.

 She’s on vacation.
 It’s a very big class.
 The students in her class are all from South America.
 Annie and Marnie are both students.
 The subway is easy to use.