My favourite book

A. Jian

This well-known book was in a box of old books that a neighbour gave me. I wasn't sure about it when I picked it up because I saw the pictures and thought it was a book for little children. But I was bored, so I started reading. After a few pages I couldn't stop, and when I got to the last page, I was quite upset that there wasn't more. It's about two friends who play a game, and how it changes their lives. It's brilliant!

B. Max

This was one of the first books I ever had, but it's still a favourite. Even before I could read, I loved looking at the drawings as my parents read the story to me. Now my little sister's got it, and she loves it too. The writer has become quite famous, but this is the first book she wrote, and not many people have heard of it. It's very different from the books she wrote later. I suppose what you write about changes as your life changes.

C. Kojo

I read this book for the first time when I was about eight. One of the reasons I liked it was that it was about people growing up in a place which I knew nothing about. My friend read it too, and our ideas for games often came from this book. I read it again recently, and I still think it's great, except the last few pages. What happens in them doesn't seem real.

For each question, choose the correct answer.

My favourite book

A. Jian

This well-known book was in a box of old books that a neighbour gave me. I wasn't sure about it when I picked it up because I saw the pictures and thought it was a book for little children. But I was bored, so I started reading. After a few pages I couldn't stop, and when I got to the last page, I was quite upset that there wasn't more. It's about two friends who play a game, and how it changes their lives. It's brilliant!

B. Max

This was one of the first books I ever had, but it's still a favourite. Even before I could read, I loved looking at the drawings as my parents read the story to me. Now my little sister's got it, and she loves it too. The writer has become quite famous, but this is the first book she wrote, and not many people have heard of it. It's very different from the books she wrote later. I suppose what you write about changes as your life changes.

C. Kojo

I read this book for the first time when I was about eight. One of the reasons I liked it was that it was about people growing up in a place which I knew nothing about. My friend read it too, and our ideas for games often came from this book. I read it again recently, and I still think it's great, except the last few pages. What happens in them doesn't seem real.

A young cheesemaker

16-year-old Pat Tulloch has an unusual hobby. She makes cheese on the family farm in Australia. She began by making yoghurt with her mother when she was little. Then she started watching her father's workers make cheese. When she was ten, she made some herself for the first time. ‘It wasn't great,’ she says, ‘but the workers told me what I was doing wrong and that helped me to slowly get better.’

Pat always needs good milk for her cheese, but she doesn't have to buy it. Her mother and father keep 100 cows on their farm. Pat can just ask them when she needs more. Last year, Pat's neighbour gave her a young cow to keep and look after, but it doesn't produce milk to make cheese yet.

For each question, choose the correct answer.

Pat and her family make several types of cheese. Recently they won a prize for one of them. ‘It's been great for helping customers find out about us,’ says Pat. ‘Last month we started selling cheese in New Zealand. People there read about our prize in a food magazine. Soon we're going to do some advertisements, too.’

 Pat's next idea is to post some online recipes for cooking with cheese. ‘One of my favourites is cheese with eggs for breakfast. It's great! Our cheese is also lovely with pasta — I hope a restaurant might buy some one day.’ But right now Pat is still at school. ‘Making cheese is fun and winning a prize for it is great, but doing well in my studies matters more for now.’

Philo T. Farnsworth

Philo T. Farnsworth was born in the USA in 1906. As a child, he was very interested in science and electricity and spent a lot of time (19)........... about it. He also won a national (20)............  for young engineers when he was just 13.

When he was 20, Farnsworth (21)............... his own business. In 1927, he showed everyone his new idea: a (22).............. of sending pictures using electricity. Many other people were working on ideas for a machine to do this, but Farnsworth's was the first that had no moving parts. In fact, it was the first true electronic TV.

After many business problems, Farnsworth had success in 1938 when another company (23)............... him $1 million for his idea. He is not very famous these (24)................ but, as the father of electronic television, Farnsworth changed the world.

We're back (0)............. our family holiday in the US. It was amazing! It's (25)............ biggest country I've ever been to. We travelled from Los Angeles to Seattle (26)............ car. It's nearly 2000 km and the trip took us (27).............. very long time -nearly a week.

My family liked Los Angeles best, (28)................ I didn't agree — Seattle was my favourite place. It's smaller (29)............... Los Angeles, and the food was better. Seattle is near the sea and we ate lots of fish. The only problem was that (30)................ rained almost every day!

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Writing

Part 6

Question 31

You are going camping next weekend with your family.

Write an email to your English friend, Lee.

In your email:

• ask Lee to come camping with you and your family
• say why you are going camping
• tell Lee what to bring

Write 35 words or more.

Writing

Part 7

Question 32

Look at the three pictures.

Write the story shown in the pictures.

Write 35 words or more.