A.

Setting
Circle the correct option.
1. Jenna’s 13th birthday took place in
a. 1987. b. 1988. c. 1989.
2. When she was 30 she lived in
a. Washington. b. New Jersey. c. New York.
3. She is a successful magazine editor at
a. Sparkle. b. Poise. c. Runway.
B. Characters
Write the names of the characters under the pictures.

C. Plot
Complete the synopsis with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

Jenna Rink, a girl celebrating her 13th birthday in 1987, 1)_____________ (wish) to be 30 in hopes that it
would help her overcome her unpopularity at school. Jenna especially 2)_____________ (want) to join the
"Six Chicks," a school clique led by Lucy "Tom-Tom" Wyman, who takes advantage of Jenna's desire to fit
in by manipulating her. Jenna's best friend, Matt Flamhaff, 3)_____________ (give) her a doll dream house he
built for her and a packet of "magic wishing dust" for her birthday, which is sprinkled on the roof of the
house.

Tom-Tom 4)_____________ (dash) Jenna's hopes of joining the Six Chicks by pulling a cruel practical joke on
her during a game of "Seven Minutes in Heaven." Jenna, mistakenly thinking Matt was responsible, gets
angry with him and barricades herself in the closet where she put the Dream House. She 5)_____________
(cry) and rocks back and forth, bumping into the wall, wishing to be "Thirty, flirty, and thriving". The
wishing dust from the dollhouse sprinkles on her, and seconds later, Jenna 6)_____________ (awaken) as a
30-year-old woman living in a Fifth Avenue apartment, without her friends or family. It 7)_____________ (be)
now 2004, but Jenna has no memory of the 17 years that have passed since her 13th birthday.

30-year-old Jenna's new best friend Lucy -- no longer nicknamed Tom-Tom -- drives her to her work office.
Soon, Jenna 8)_____________ (discover) she works for Poise, her favourite fashion magazine when she was a
teenager. Without her best friend from 1987, Jenna 9)_____________ (ask) her assistant to track down Matt.
To her dismay, Jenna 10)_____________ (learn) "Mattie" and her have been estranged since high school
when Jenna fell in with the in-crowd, and that Matt 10)_____________ (be) now engaged.

This is complicated by the fact that Jenna has become a shadow of her former self. She has lost almost all
contact with her parents, and she is having an affair with the husband of Tracy from the art department. Not
only is she generally despised by her co-workers, she is suspected of giving her magazine's ideas to a rival
publication, Sparkle. Jenna slowly 11)_____________ (realise) that the person she has become is neither
trustworthy nor likeable, and unknowingly 12)_____________ (begins) to reverse the situation by distancing
herself from her new, shallow boyfriend, acting kinder and more honest to her co-workers and friends, and
trying to restore her relationship with Matt.

After Jenna 13)_____________ (overhear) Lucy bad mouthing her to a coworker, she sadly realises that what
she thought she wanted wasn't important after all. She heads back to her hometown in New Jersey to
reunite with her parents and reminisce by looking through school yearbooks and other items from her
school days. These inspire her on her return to Manhattan. Over several outings and working together on a
magazine project, Jenna and Matt 14)_____________ (become) friends again. Although Matt is engaged and
Jenna has a boyfriend, they 15)_____________ (kiss) during a nighttime walk. Dazed, Matt realises he loves
Jenna, but cannot change the past.

After arranging a magazine photo shoot with Matt, then making a successful presentation for a planned
revamp for Poise, Jenna prepares for the revamp when she gets bad news from the publisher: Poise is
shutting down because the work she put into the relaunch ended up in Sparkle. Jenna learns she was
responsible for sabotaging Poise from within by sending their material to Sparkle for months. When Lucy
learns this, she 16)_____________ (trick) Matt into signing over the photo rights from the relaunch shoot to
her. She 17)_____________ (accept) the position of Sparkle editor-in-chief, using Jenna's work as her own --
as she did when the girls were in high school.

When an already-distraught Jenna 18)_____________ (discover) Matt is getting married that day, she rushes
to his house and begs him to call off the wedding. Matt cannot say yes, although he tells Jenna he loves
her. From his closet, he pulls the "dream house" he made 17 years before and gives it back to her. Jenna
19)_____________ (leave) in tears, crying over the dream house and wishing she could return to 1987.

Unbeknownst to Jenna, specks of wishing dust remain on the dream house, and her wish is granted.
Thirteen again, she kisses Matt, confronts the snobby Lucy ("Tom-Tom"), tears up the homework Lucy had
manipulated her into writing, and 20)_____________ (spill) juice over Tom-Tom's outfit before happily leading
Matt away.

At a future date (presumably 2004), the adult Jenna and Matt emerge as newlyweds and 21)_____________
(move) into a home identical to the dream house Matt built when Jenna was 13 -- sharing a packet of their
favourite childhood candy, Razzles.

D. Vocabulary
Use a dictionary to look up the meaning of these adjectives. Which characters do they describe?
1. Unpopular 7. Kind
2. Cruel 8. Honest
3. Estranged 9. Successful
4. Despised 10. Distraught
5. Untrustworthy 11. Snobby
6. Unlikeable 12. Manipulative
E. Fashion in 13 going on 30
a. These are some words that can be used to talk about someone’s style. Look for pictures online and
find out about the meaning of the words.
1. Romantic 5. Minimalist
2. Bohemian/Boho 6. Streetwear
3. Preppy 7. Business casual
4. Y2K 8. Sporty

b. Go back to the words in exercise A and match them to the outfits below.

c. Write the name of each colour.

 d. Here are some words to describe patterns. Match the words to the pictures.

PLAID ANIMAL PRINT PAISLEY STRIPED

PLAIN FLORAL CHECKED POLKA DOT

e. Look at the pictures and write descriptions.

2. 3.
1.

4. 5. 6.