Dear Aunt Fabienne,

Mum asked me to let you know that i arrived home okay. I enyoued travelling back (1)... train, and i was surprised that (2)... only took me three hours to get home. Thank you very much for looking after me (3)... i was in France. I'm going back to school (4)... week. My French is a lot better (5)... it was before, so i hope my marks will improve!

I (7)... like to keep practising French and i'm looking (7)... a pen friend. i thought of your friend's son Elian. We can send emails once a week. Let me know (8)... you think.

I (9)... we can see each other soon.

Daniel

0. I / be / very pleased / meet you / teacher’s conference / London / last year.

à I was very pleased to meet you at the teacher’s conference in London last year.

1. I / be / kind / you / invite me / come and see you / while / I / be / England / this summer.

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2. I/ hope / pay / your school / 26^th and 27^th June / if not be convenient.

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3. please / not / rearrange / programme / me.

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4. I / be / very happy / fit in / whatever you / do at that time.

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5. I like / overnight / 26^th and hope / arrange / accommodation / me

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6. I / telephone / you once / reach / London / confirm / exact time / arrival / school.

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I am looking forward to meeting you again.

Yours sincerely,

Mai

0. I / be / very pleased / meet you / teacher’s conference / London / last year.

à I was very pleased to meet you at the teacher’s conference in London last year.

1. I / be / kind / you / invite me / come and see you / while / I / be / England / this summer.

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2. I/ hope / pay / your school / 26^th and 27^th June / if not be convenient.

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3. please / not / rearrange / programme / me.

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4. I / be / very happy / fit in / whatever you / do at that time.

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5. I like / overnight / 26^th and hope / arrange / accommodation / me

à_____________________________________________________________________

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6. I / telephone / you once / reach / London / confirm / exact time / arrival / school.

à_____________________________________________________________________

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I am looking forward to meeting you again.

Yours sincerely,

Mai0. I / be / very pleased / meet you / teacher’s conference / London / last year.

à I was very pleased to meet you at the teacher’s conference in London last year.

1. I / be / kind / you / invite me / come and see you / while / I / be / England / this summer.

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2. I/ hope / pay / your school / 26^th and 27^th June / if not be convenient.

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3. please / not / rearrange / programme / me.

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4. I / be / very happy / fit in / whatever you / do at that time.

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5. I like / overnight / 26^th and hope / arrange / accommodation / me

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6. I / telephone / you once / reach / London / confirm / exact time / arrival / school.

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I am looking forward to meeting you again.

Yours sincerely,

Mai0. I / be / very pleased / meet you / teacher’s conference / London / last year.

à I was very pleased to meet you at the teacher’s conference in London last year.

1. I / be / kind / you / invite me / come and see you / while / I / be / England / this summer.

  à___________________________________________________________________

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2. I/ hope / pay / your school / 26^th and 27^th June / if not be convenient.

à_____________________________________________________________________

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3. please / not / rearrange / programme / me.

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4. I / be / very happy / fit in / whatever you / do at that time.

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5. I like / overnight / 26^th and hope / arrange / accommodation / me

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6. I / telephone / you once / reach / London / confirm / exact time / arrival / school.

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I am looking forward to meeting you again.

Yours sincerely,

Mai

Put the verbs in brackets into Past simple or Past continous.

Dear Peter,

I'm writing to tell you about what happened to me last week while I __________ (visit) my aunt who lives by the sea. One afternoon I __________ (take) her dog for a walk by the cliffs when I __________ (notice) a girl who __________ (climb) a tree by the edge of the cliff. As she __________ (hang) there, the branch suddenly __________ (break) and the girl __________ (fall) over the edge. I __________ (run) to the edge, but although the girl __________ (shout) for help, I __________ (not/be/able to) see her. I __________ (think) about what to do when a man __________ (come) along the cliff path. I __________ (explain) what had happend and while he __________ (go) for help I __________ (talk) to the girl. Well, everything __________ (end) happily. The girl was rescued and her parents __________ (thank) me by giving me a large bunch of flowers. The story __________ (be) in the newspaper too! That's all my news-write and tell me your soon.

With love,

Lucy

I.                   Choose the best answer:

1.                 Do you think that’s a (real/ really) diamond in her ring?

2.                 He was (wonderful/ wonderfully) kind to me.

3.                 As soon as I saw him I was (sure/ surely) he had been drinking.

4.                 I felt her arm (gentle/ gently) to see if any bones were broken.

5.                 The job was (surprising/ surprisingly) easy.

6.                 She speaks English (good/ well).

7.                 They made very (good/ well) bread here.

8.                  She (hard/ hardly) ever wins a game.

9.                 We have to work (hard/ hardly) for the exams.

10.            I haven’t seen the postman (late/ lately).

Read the following passage on transport, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

1) It was the first photograph that I had ever seen, and it fascinated me. I can remember holding it at every angle in order to catch the flickering light from the oil lamp on the dresser. The man in the photograph was unsmiling, but his eyes were kind. I had never met him, but I felt that I knew him. One evening when I was looking at the photograph, as I always did before I went to sleep, I noticed a shadow across the man’s thin face. I moved the photograph so that the shadow lay perfectly around his hollow cheecks. How different he looked!

(2) That night I could not sleep, thinking about the letter that I would write. First, I would tell him that I was eleven years old, and that if he had a little girl my age, she could write to me instead of him. I knew that he was a very busy man. Then I would explain to him the real purpose of my letter. I would tell him how wonderful he looked with the shadow that I had seen across his photograph, and I would most carefully suggest that he grow whiskers.

(3) Four months later when I met him at the train station near my home in Westfield, New York, he was wearing a full beard. He was so much taller than I had imagined from my tiny photograph.

(4) “Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “I have no speech to make and no time to make it in. I appear before you that I may see you and that you may see me.” Then he picked me right up and kissed me on both cheeks. The whiskers scratched. “Do you think I look better, my little friend?” he asked me.

(5) My name is Grace Bedell, and the man in the photograph was Abraham Lincoln. 

The little girl could not sleep because she was

A. Sick

B. excited

C. lonely

D. sad

Read the following passage on transport, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 1 to 8.

(1) It was the first photograph that I had ever seen, and it fascinated me. I can remember holding it at every angle in order to catch the flickering light from the oil lamp on the dresser. The man in the photograph was unsmiling, but his eyes were kind. I had never met him, but I felt that I knew him. One evening when I was looking at the photograph, as I always did before I went to sleep, I noticed a shadow across the man’s thin face. I moved the photograph so that the shadow lay perfectly around his hollow cheecks. How different he looked!

(2) That night I could not sleep, thinking about the letter that I would write. First, I would tell him that I was eleven years old, and that if he had a little girl my age, she could write to me instead of him. I knew that he was a very busy man. Then I would explain to him the real purpose of my letter. I would tell him how wonderful he looked with the shadow that I had seen across his photograph, and I would most carefully suggest that he grow whiskers.

(3) Four months later when I met him at the train station near my home in Westfield, New York, he was wearing a full beard. He was so much taller than I had imagined from my tiny photograph.

(4) “Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “I have no speech to make and no time to make it in. I appear before you that I may see you and that you may see me.” Then he picked me right up and kissed me on both cheeks. The whiskers scratched. “Do you think I look better, my little friend?” he asked me.

(5) My name is Grace Bedell, and the man in the photograph was Abraham Lincoln.

The little girl could not sleep because she was

A. sick

B. excited

C. lonely

D. sad

Read the following passage on transport, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.

1) It was the first photograph that I had ever seen, and it fascinated me. I can remember holding it at every angle in order to catch the flickering light from the oil lamp on the dresser. The man in the photograph was unsmiling, but his eyes were kind. I had never met him, but I felt that I knew him. One evening when I was looking at the photograph, as I always did before I went to sleep, I noticed a shadow across the man’s thin face. I moved the photograph so that the shadow lay perfectly around his hollow cheecks. How different he looked!

(2) That night I could not sleep, thinking about the letter that I would write. First, I would tell him that I was eleven years old, and that if he had a little girl my age, she could write to me instead of him. I knew that he was a very busy man. Then I would explain to him the real purpose of my letter. I would tell him how wonderful he looked with the shadow that I had seen across his photograph, and I would most carefully suggest that he grow whiskers.

(3) Four months later when I met him at the train station near my home in Westfield, New York, he was wearing a full beard. He was so much taller than I had imagined from my tiny photograph.

(4) “Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “I have no speech to make and no time to make it in. I appear before you that I may see you and that you may see me.” Then he picked me right up and kissed me on both cheeks. The whiskers scratched. “Do you think I look better, my little friend?” he asked me.

(5) My name is Grace Bedell, and the man in the photograph was Abraham Lincoln. 

The word “it” in paragraph 4 refers to

A. Time

B. Speech

C. Photograph

D. Station

Read the following passage on transport, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 1 to 8.

(1) It was the first photograph that I had ever seen, and it fascinated me. I can remember holding it at every angle in order to catch the flickering light from the oil lamp on the dresser. The man in the photograph was unsmiling, but his eyes were kind. I had never met him, but I felt that I knew him. One evening when I was looking at the photograph, as I always did before I went to sleep, I noticed a shadow across the man’s thin face. I moved the photograph so that the shadow lay perfectly around his hollow cheecks. How different he looked!

(2) That night I could not sleep, thinking about the letter that I would write. First, I would tell him that I was eleven years old, and that if he had a little girl my age, she could write to me instead of him. I knew that he was a very busy man. Then I would explain to him the real purpose of my letter. I would tell him how wonderful he looked with the shadow that I had seen across his photograph, and I would most carefully suggest that he grow whiskers.

(3) Four months later when I met him at the train station near my home in Westfield, New York, he was wearing a full beard. He was so much taller than I had imagined from my tiny photograph.

(4) “Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “I have no speech to make and no time to make it in. I appear before you that I may see you and that you may see me.” Then he picked me right up and kissed me on both cheeks. The whiskers scratched. “Do you think I look better, my little friend?” he asked me.

(5) My name is Grace Bedell, and the man in the photograph was Abraham Lincoln.

The word “it” in paragraph 4 refers to

A. Time

B. Speech

C. Photograph

D. Station