IMPROVING YOUR READING SKILLS READ THE TEXT ANSWER THE

What is Ella interested in?

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Who is Ella’s favourite singer?

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Is Anastacia British?

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Where is she from?

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Is she good at singing?

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What is good about Anastacia’s music?

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What is the name of her number one single?

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Is her next concert in the United States?

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Where and when is Anastacia’s concert in London?

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When are the tickets on sale?

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Write a title for the text.

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MELBOURNE

The people of Melbourne, Australia love food, sport and shopping! It’s a great place to eat, drink and go shopping. There are cafés, restaurants and hotels.

Melbourne is a very multicultural city. People of many different nationalities live there. There are some great Italian cafés in Brunswick Street in the centre of the city. Mario’s and The Retro café are very popular. If you prefer Asian food, try the Mid City Arcade. There are some really interesting Chinese and Japanese restaurants, and great Japanese clothes shops. There’s even a Chinese chemist.

If you like shopping, there are some great shopping centres, too. Try the Como Shopping Centre for shoes and clothes, and if you have got time it has got its own cinema too. But if you want to buy CDs, then there are some good music shops in Centrepoint.

If you are interested in sport them Melbourne is the place for you. People in Melbourne like to be healthy so there are a lot of swimming pools and sports centres. You can practise your favourite sports. Melbourne is famous for the Melbourne Gold Cup horse race and the Australian Open Tennis Championship. Many people come from all over the world to watch them every year.

Is Melbourne a good place for shopping?

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What are the two Italian cafés in Brunswick Street?

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Where are the Chinese and Japanese restaurants?

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Has the Como Shopping Centre got a Chinese chemist?

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Where can you buy CDs?

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Why is Melbourne a good place for people who like sport?

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What sports events is Melbourne famous for?

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Choose the correct answers.

Melbourne is a great place for:

A food B drink C food, drink and shopping

The Mid City Arcade is a good place for:

A Italian cafés B Asian food C music shops

The Como Shopping Centre has got a:

A cinema B hotel C Chinese chemist

There are some music shops in

A Como Shopping Centre B Centrepoint C Brunswick Street

Centrepoint is a:

A hotel B restaurant C shopping centre

Callum’s ‘school’ day

Callum Ferguson isn’t a normal student. He’s fourteen and he doesn’t go to school. His mother teaches him and his sister, Jean, at home. Their lessons start at nine o’clock and they have lunch at half past twelve. Their school day finishes at half past three and they normally do forty-five minutes of homework every day.

They study history, geography, maths, English, French, science and they revise for the same exams as their friends at school. But at home they also study extra subjects like graphic design and food technology. Another tutor, Mr Gregory, teaches them music and art. Callum’s favourite subject is geography. He starts a new project every month. Jean prefers maths. They can’t do P.E. at home so they go to the sports centre in the evenings.

Callum enjoys his lessons at home. He doesn’t have to get up early or wear a uniform. His mother is a good teacher because teachers in normal schools don’t have much time with each student. He doesn’t miss his friends because he sees them a lot in the evenings and at weekends.

Do Callum and Jean go to school?

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Who teaches them?

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What time does their day start?

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When do their lessons finish?

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How long do they have for lunch?

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Do they study the same subjects as their friends?

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Who teaches them music and art?

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What is Callum’s favourite subject?

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Do they do P. E.?

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What sports does Jean play?

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A Chinese teacher

Lee is a teacher but he doesn’t teach in a normal school. He teaches Chinese at a language school. He’s from China but he lives in London.

Lee likes his job very much. He starts work at six o’clock in the evening and he finishes at nine o’clock. His school is opposite the train station, but Lee gets the bus to work because there’s a bus stop outside his house. There’s a Chinese restaurant next to his school. Sometimes after class, Lee and his students have dinner together in the restaurant.

A lot of people in London want to learn to speak Chinese, so Lee has got a lot of students. His students work during the day so they attend the classes after work. They think that Chinese is very difficult.

Alice goes to Lee’s class. She studies a lot and revises hard for her exams. Lee thinks that she’s a very good student. She doesn’t copy from other students and she does her homework. She thinks Chinese is easy! Alice works in a Chinese chemist’s, and she wants to go to China to study alternative medicine.

1 Where does Lee teach?

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2 What does he teach?

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3 Where is he from?

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4 When does he start work?

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5 How does he travel to work?

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6 What does he sometimes do after class?

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7 Have Lee’s students got jobs?

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8 Does Alice study a lot?

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9 Why is Alice a good student?

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10 Does she think that Chinese is difficult?

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