READING

Read the text. Then answer the questions with complete answers.
My favourite singer
Hi! My name is Ella. My favourite singer is Anastacia. She’s American. She’s from
Chicago and she’s 33 years old. She’s a great singer. Her music is excellent!
Anastacia loves music. She has three albums and a number one single, Left Outside
Alone. Her next concert is in London. It’s in December. The concert is at the London
Apollo.
a) Who is Ella’s favourite singer?
b) Is Anastacia British?
c) Where is she from?
d) How old is she?
e) Is she a good singer?
f) Is her music good?
g) What is the name of her number 1 single?
h) Is her next concert in the United States?
i) Is it in Europe?
j) Where is the concert?

Melbourne
The people of Melbourne, Australia, love food and shopping! It’s a great place to
eat, drink and go shopping. There are cafés, restaurants and hotels.
There are some great Italian cafés in Brunswick Street in the centre of the city.
Mario’s and The Retro café are very popular. If you prefer Asian food, try the Mid
City Arcade. There are some really interesting Chinese and Japanese restaurants,
and great Japanese shops. There’s even a Chinese chemist.
If you like shopping, there are some great shopping centres, too. Try the Como
Shopping Centre for shoes and clothes, and if you have got time it has got its own
cinema, too. But if you want CDs, then there are some good music shops in
Centrepoint.
a) Is Melbourne a good place for shopping?
b) What are the two Italian cafés in Brunswick Street?
c) Where are the Chinese and Japanese restaurants?
d) Has the Como Shopping Centre got a Chinese chemist?
e) Where can you buy CDs?

A Chinese teacher
Lee is a teacher but he doesn’t teach in a normal school. He teaches Chinese at a
language school. He’s from China but he lives in London.
Lee likes his job. He starts work at six o’clock in the evening and he finishes at nine
o’clock. His school is opposite the bus station, so Lee gets the bus to work. There’s a
restaurant next to his school. Sometimes after class, Lee and his students have
dinner in the restaurant.
A lot of people in London want to learn to speak Chinese, so Lee has got a lot of
students. His students have got jobs and they come to the language school after
work. They think Chinese is very difficult. Alice goes to Lee’s class. She studies a
lot. Lee thinks that she’s a good student. She doesn’t copy from other students and
she does her homework. She thinks Chinese is easy!
a) Where does Lee teach?
b) What does he teach?
c) Where is he from?
d) When does he start work?
e) How does he travel to work?
f) What does he sometimes do after class?
g) Have Lee’s students got jobs?
h) Does Alice study a lot?
i) Why is Alice a good student?
j) Does she think the Chinese is difficult?

Jobs in entertainment
Annie is a Canadian circus acrobat. She practises in the morning, relaxes after
lunch, and the show is every evening. Annie travels all over the world, but her job
isn’t always fun, because she works every day. She says, “It’s a fantastic job, but I
don’t have a real home and I don’t often see my family.”
Every summer Will works at a theme park. From nine o’clock to four o’clock, he
sells entrance tickets and helps park visitors. He loves his job, because after work
he goes on the park rides, eats hamburgers and hot dogs, and he doesn’t pay any
money!
a) What does Annie do?
b) Does she work at weekends?
c) Does she see her family often?
d) What does Will do at work?
e) Are the rides expensive for him?
EXERCISES
1. Complete the questions.
a) ……………………… is your birthday?
b) ……………………… is the capital of Brazil?
c) ……………………… old is your father?
d) ……………………… are you from?
e) ……………………… is your favourite singer?
f) ……………………… is the concert?
g) ……………………… is your town?
h) ……………………… is Kylie Minogue’s sister?
i) ……………………… easy is French?
j) ……………………… is your name?
2. Write the words in the correct order.
a) good/ I/ sports?/ at/ Am
b) Moroccan?/ she/ Is
c) American?/ and/ Brad/ Joanna/ Are
d) quiet?/ people/ Italian/ Are
e) English/ a/ Is/ language?/ difficult
f) Got/ a/ have/ player/ room./ their/ CD/ in/ They
g) restaurants?/ got/ town/ Chinese/ any/ Has/ her
h) got/ today./ have/ You/ boring/ exams/ some
i) dogs?/ Sam/ two/ Have/ got/ Josh/ and
j) homework?/ do/ you/ your/ When/ do
k) your/ does/ live?/ grandmother/ Where
l) your/ often/ dinner?/ does/ father/ make/ How
m) you/ Who/ have/ with?/ lunch/ do
n) does/ Why/ six o’clock?/ she/ up/ get/ at
o) Saturday?/ on/ do/ they/ What/ do
p) tennis/ in/ he/ plays/ the evening
q) pictures/ we/ the weekend/ paint/ at
r) her friends/ on/ meets/ Tuesdays/ she
s) the mornings/ walk/ they/ to school/ in
t) she/ where/ live?/ does
u) do/ up?/ when/ get/ you