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A narrative can be written in the first or tne third persa n and describes a series of
events, either imaginary or based onyour own experience. A good narrativa should
consist of:
a) an introduction inwhich you set the scerie (people invoived. time, place) in an
interesting way fa catch the reader's a!tention and make him!her want fa
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reactions or consequences. The more unpredictable your conclusion is, the
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scene (e.g. It was ra:ining hard and tbewino WBS blowing as Jonetnen drove
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towards the small cottage.), Past Simple to describe the main events of thestory.
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word, G for grammar or P for punctuation.
G waiJ
"Someone from the hospital calle. ; it sounded urgent. It's your wife,
Maybe you should ..-" Paul.didn't vaite for the secretary to finish.
He turned pale and broke intoa cold sweat, then did his way hur-
riedly back to the car park, jurnped into his car and drived crazily
ing her, he dashed or the lift. Heart pounding, Paulhis eyes closed or
a moment, praying. He dreaded what he was about to find.
The door opened onto adimly lighted corridor. Paul walked towards
Room 12 and.nervous pushedthe door open. She waslaying in bed,
exhausring. She sleepily opened her eyes and murmured, "hello, darling. Sory i couldn't wait. Its a boy."
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years, though.
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G: I thought you w~ going tg see tg tharn.
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ond wo're arguing already!
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about Russia
People work from 10.00 a.m. until 6.00 p.ffi. every day.
Russians like going to the countryside at the weekends.
When they want to relax, Russian people like doing
nothing at a11.
Cafs are becoming more and more popular in Russia.
a) .
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to two teachers, Valentina from
Russia and Chris from New Zealand, talking about
lifest.yles in their countries, Check yonr answers to 1.
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aspects of living in a tawn ar city that is popular
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Hi Sally,
How are you? I hope you and Lawrsnce-are both well. I bumped
into your mum the other day and she said you were thinking O
doing some renovations. She also said that you're keen to hear
Irom people who had been through the renovation process and I
told her I would write to you.
a)
Listen to neighbours Simon and
Monica talking about house renovations. Tick
the true sentences. Correct the false ones.
1
3
4
5
6
7
8
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damaged.
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reconnected
sameevening.
Also if you can afford it, I would strongly recommend that you
move out while the builders are working. Although the builder
was in the top part of the house, it was still hard living on the
ground floor. Every day I would come home from work and have
to clean everything before I could cook anything. I got so tired
that we ended up eating takeaways or going out to restaurants
far more often than we usually do. I sometimes think that we
spent more money eating out than we saved by not moving out!
So I ihink you can see that our experience was fairly negative.
However, that's because we made mistakes right from the
Builderfell from
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The first thing I'd suggest you do is look al your budget and
make sure you've got enough money to make the work as stressfree as possible. Greg and I tried to save money by deciding to
uve in our house while it was being renovated. Another mistake
we made was in no! asking the architect to be the project
manager of the actual building process. Greg thought that as
we would be living on-site we wouldn't need an architect. Greg
knows a bit about building, but he didn't know enough to
manage a process as complicated as this. For example, he
signed some plans that meant the door at the top of the stairs
opens the wrong way! Getting a good architect to manage the
Willreplace
ceiling.
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think about what type of text
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s the text teliing a story? 15 ir
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I'rn just eating up my beans.
1 ate cereal for breakfast.
1 hate cereal for breakfast.
Can 1 introduce you to Anna?
Can 1 introduce you to Hannah?
Roben has no heart.
Robert has no art.
This is my murn, Helen.
This is my murn, Ellen.
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What is a good way for women to stop putting weight
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What dd the women in the study Iind hard to do alter
they lost weight?
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question about clicking one's fingers?
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environment have on]apanese Ife?
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any harm. However, 1 would osk why you are cloing it? 1s it a
nervous problem? Ijso, you may have to think about your
reaction to stress. If it is just a way of dealing witli occosional
stress, 1 don't see what horm it does, except that it may be
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realities of giving up the security of our careers and starting all over
again are just too dfficult to consider.
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visit the Careershifters.mg website which offers expert help and
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