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Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”

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Nombre: ______________________________________________________________

1. Read and answer

Carol Simpson is a very responsible and mature young woman. She works as a shop assistant
in the morning and goes to university in the afternoon. Every day she gets up early and takes the
bus to the shop. She works there from nine to twelve thirty. Then she walks to the university,
has lunch there with her friends and goes to class. She wants to be a French translator. She can
speak French very well.
Carol has got a boyfriend. His name is James. They are planning to get married next year. Carol wants to
go on working after she gets married. She doesn’t want to stay at home all day!

1. What does Carol do in the morning?

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2. Carol works in the afternoon. TRUE FALSE
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3. How does Carol go to the university?
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4. Does Carol have lunch alone?
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5. Carol and James are married. TRUE FALSE

2. Complete with words from the box. Be careful! There’s an extra word

THERE ANY AN A SO TO HER THEIR IN BUT AT

At weekends, Carol usually goes out with James, ____________________ today is Saturday and Carol is
____________________ home. She is studying for ____________________ exam with some of
____________________ friends. It’s a very difficult exam and ____________________ are many books on the
table. Carol’s friends are copying exercises into ____________________ notebooks and Carol is reading.
James is ____________________ the kitchen. He doesn’t like ____________________ cook but
he wants to help Carol, ____________________ he’s making some sandwiches for lunch. There
isn’t __________________ ham, so he’s just making cheese and tomato sandwiches!

3. Complete with words from the box. Be careful! There’s an extra word.

DAY FUN MUSIC WATCHING LIKE EARLY CAN’T QUIET

CLOTHES FOOD LATE

It’s ten in the evening on Saturday and Carol and James are ____________________
television. It’s a programme about international festivals. In Jamaica there is a spring carnival in
April. Every ____________________ people put on fantastic, colourful ____________________
and go out into the streets. There’s a lot of loud ____________________, wild dancing and lots
of street kiosks selling tasty ____________________. It’s never ____________________ during carnival
and people usually go to bed ____________________. People have a lot of ____________________

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during this celebration. Carol and James would ____________________ to go to Jamaica one day and see
it! They ____________________ go now. Carol is studying hard!

4. Choose the right verb.

Hi! I’m Nick. I’m James’s brother. I LIVE / AM LIVING in London. It’s eight o’clock in the morning. My
family and I HAVE / ARE HAVING breakfast at the moment. I HAVE GOT / HAS GOT a brother, James, and a
sister, Liza. My sister TALKS / IS TALKING to my cousins. I HAVE / HAD two cousins. They live in Canada but
they VISIT / ARE VISITING London at the moment. They usually ARE STAYING / STAY with us. They ARE
LIKING / LIKE London very much, especially the like the food in bars and restaurants.
Yesterday it WAS / WERE rainy so we HAVE / HAD lunch at home.

5. James is talking to a friend about his father. Complete their conversation with an appropriate
bubble. Be careful! There’s an extra bubble.

Does he wake up
How many patients Would he like to work in a bank

Where do they come What does he do Does he work in a hospital

Jenny: What time ___________________________ _____________________________________________?

James: He wakes up at 6.30.
Jenny: Oh, and _______________________________________________________________ when he gets up?
James: He has a quick shower and then he has breakfast.
Jenny: __________________________________________________________________________ has he got?
James: Oh, he has got a lot of patients.
Jenny: I see. _________________________________________________________________________ from?
James: Some of them are from London, but others come from different parts of the country.
Jenny: __________________________________________________________________________________?
James: Oh, no! He loves his job.

6. Composition
 Write a paragraph about one of your friends. Use the questions as a guide.
 What’s his name?  Where does he live?
 How old is he?  Describe his family.
 What does he do?  What does he do at weekends?

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