Hi Nick,

It’s great to hear from you. I want to tell you about my best friend. My grandma is my best friend. She is 68 years old. She (1)________with our family. She was a maths teacher (2)________a secondary school. She likes (3)________up early and watering the flowers in our garden. She usually helps (4)________ with my homework. In the evening, she tells me interesting stories. She also listens (5)________ me when I'm sad. I love my grandma very much.

What about you? Who's your best friend?

Bye bye,

An

1. A. lives            B. works            C. goes

2. A. for              B. on                     C. at 

3. A. going          B. staying            C. getting 

4. A. I                B. me                  C. my

5. A. with          B. to                     C. for

Hi Nick, It's great to hear from you. Now I'd like to tell you about my best friend. My mom is my best friend. She is 37 year old. She is a teacher...................... a secondary school. She ..............math. My mother is tall and slim and she has.............................. hair. She is very kind and..................... She never gets angry with us. She likes cooking and......................math magazines. She usually helps............................with difficult math problems. I love my mother very much.

III. Read the passage, and decide whether the statements that follow are True or False.

My grandma is my best friend. She is 68 years old. She lives with our family. She was a maths teacher at a secondary school. She likes getting up early and watering the flowers in our garden. She usually helps me with my homework. In the evening, she tells me interesting stories. She also listens to me when I’m sad. I love her a lot.

1. The author’s best friend isn’t young.

2. She helps the author do the housework.

3. She teaches maths at a secondary school.

Part 1: Choose the correct answer (A, B or C) for each blank in the email below.  

1.         A. smart                                              B. great                                   C. new

2.         A. lives                                                B. works                                  C. goes

3.         A. for                                                  B. on                                       C. at

4.         A. going                                              B. staying                                C. getting

5.         A. I                                                      B. me                                       C. my

6.         A. with                                                B. to                                        C. for

. My grandma is my best friend. She is my (1) ___________ mother. This year, she is 73 years old. She has long, white (2) ___________ with a round face. She (3) __________ me how to wash the dishes and (4) _________ dinner. She is (5) ___________ to other people. She helps them when she can. She is (6) ____________, too. She makes me laugh all the time. I love her so much.

1) A. father                 B. father’s                            C. fathers’                            D. fathers

2) A. nose                    B. leg                                     C. mouth                               D. hair

3) A. teach                  B. teachs                                C. teaches                              D. teaching

4) A. do                       B. have                                  C. cook                                 D. wear

5) A. kind                   B. clever                               C. caring                               D. active

6) A. careful               B. funny                                 C. hard-working                   D. friendly

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Exercise 5: Read the passage and answer the questions
Hi, my name is Tina. I am thirteen years old and today I want to talk about my best friend Selena. She is my classmate and she is thirteen years old too. We attend a very big school near Scotland. We share the same desk and love the same school subjects. Our favorite lessons are Arts and Physical Education. I am very good at tennis and she is very good at volleyball. She plays volleyball at our school team. We both have a busy life. We always get up at a half past six and at seven o’clock her father takes us to school by car. They live next door to us, so after school we always do our homework, walk our dogs and play together. Our classes start at half past seven and finish at 4 p.m. Her mother is a nurse. My mother is a nurse too and they work at the same hospital. Our fathers are both engineers but they work at different companies. On Mondays, Selena has violin class and I have piano class. On Tuesdays and Thursdays she practices volleyball at the school’s gym and I play tennis in our school court. Friday is my favorite day because Selena stays overnight with us. On the weekends, we usually go to the movie theater or have a picnic if the weather is good. I am the only child, I don’t have a sister but she is like a sister to me.
1. Where is their school?
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2. What are their favorite subjects?
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3. What do they do after school?
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4. Do their fathers work in the same company?
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5. Why is Friday Tina’s favorite day?
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Exercise 5: Read the passage and answer the questions
Hi, my name is Tina. I am thirteen years old and today I want to talk about my best friend Selena. She is my classmate and she is thirteen years old too. We attend a very big school near Scotland. We share the same desk and love the same school subjects. Our favorite lessons are Arts and Physical Education. I am very good at tennis and she is very good at volleyball. She plays volleyball at our school team. We both have a busy life. We always get up at a half past six and at seven o’clock her father takes us to school by car. They live next door to us, so after school we always do our homework, walk our dogs and play together. Our classes start at half past seven and finish at 4 p.m. Her mother is a nurse. My mother is a nurse too and they work at the same hospital. Our fathers are both engineers but they work at different companies. On Mondays, Selena has violin class and I have piano class. On Tuesdays and Thursdays she practices volleyball at the school’s gym and I play tennis in our school court. Friday is my favorite day because Selena stays overnight with us. On the weekends, we usually go to the movie theater or have a picnic if the weather is good. I am the only child, I don’t have a sister but she is like a sister to me.
1. Where is their school?
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2. What are their favorite subjects?
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3. What do they do after school?
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4. Do their fathers work in the same company?
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5. Why is Friday Tina’s favorite day?
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My grandma is my best friend. She is my father’s mother. This year, she (1) __________ 70 years old. She has a round face with long, white (2) __________. She teaches me to wash the dishes and (3) __________ dinner. She is (4) __________ to other people. She helps them when she can. She is (5) __________, too. She makes me laugh all the (6)__________. I love her so much.

Part 4: Read the following passage and decide if the sentences are true (T) or false (F).

The colours you paint the rooms in your house can make you more comfortable. The following colours can help you to eat, sleep, study and relax in your own home.
The dining room
The colour orange can make you feel hungrier at mealtime. It also encourages more interesting talk between family members.
The bedroom
The perfect colour for your bedroom is blue. It is a very relaxing colour, and can make you feel happier and more positive when you wake up in the morning.
The study
Yellow is a good colour for this room: it makes you feel happier and helps you to think. It also makes dark spaces a little brighter.
The living room
The perfect colour for your living room is pink. Don’t use such colours as red, purple, and black because they don’t help you to relax.

1. Orange in the dining room makes people eat and talk more.         ____

2. A blue bedroom helps you to wake up earlier.                               ____
3. A yellow study helps you to work better.                                       ____
4. You feel relaxed in a red or black living room.                              ____
5. Different colours are good for different rooms in your house        ____