Do you have any family traditions? What are they?

LESSON 3

I ... to the local comprehensive school. I ... lots of friends there. I... most subjects, and especially Information and Communication Technology and Physical Education. In future I ... take a course at theuniversity. Ihope so, anyway.

At the moment I ... a School Exchange Project on my computer. I... my project last week and ... it yet. It’s interesting and difficult work. I ... two twins, a boy and a girl from Ukraine. Nowwe ...very often. They are nice. And the girl is very pretty.

I ... in sports, music, computers games, reading sci fi books, watching films. My favourite film star ... Jennifer Lopez.

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Read Jimmy’s story and think of words to fill in the gaps. Write down these words in your workbook.

Liten to Jimmy and check your ideas.

Tell about Jimmy using the pictures and his story (ex. 1, p. 12) as a clue.

Work in pairs. Read the true / false statements. If the statement is false give the correct statement according to Jimmy’s story (ex. 1, p. 12).

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1.Jimmy comes from Germany. 2. Lancaster is a city in the north west ofEngland. 3.Jenny is sixteen. 4.Jimmy is a student at the university. 5.His favourite subject at school is English. 6.At the moment he is doing aproject in Mathematics. 7.He has already done his project. 8.He likes e mailing with Ukrainian children. 9.In his free time he likes playing basketball.

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Ask questions about Jimmy. Use Jimmy’s story as a clue.

Example: What’s your name? — My name is Jimmy Collins. 1. It’s in the north west of England. 2. Jenny is my twin sister. 3. We’re fourteen. 4. My mother has a part time job as a nurse. 5. My father works in the office. 6. My favourite subjects are Information and

Communication Technology and Physical Education. 7.I hope to take acourse at theuniversity. 8.We are very busy. We are doing a project now. 9.Not very. Infact it’s quite difficult. 10.Yes, of course. It’s Jennifer Lopez.