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Jenny is emailing to ‘A suggest how Lara could do so B remind Lara that she needs to book some cheap train tickets. invite Lara to visit some different around the UK with hey A People will be as places favourite childhood sweets at the B The shops have changed over the last tury. © The lecture will cover some surprising .cts about swe!Tomato sauceReading Websites on the environment A futurenow.org B_ ourworld.org © cleanplanceorg D plobaleco.org rl by E xéoy F planetmattere. } :Part 3 a Questions 11-15 12 player in Germany, as his father had been ch many of his games when I was You migt k that seeing so many matches would give me a love of the sport, but it actually had the opposite effect. | loved telling my frie w good my dad was, of course, hen he won a game, but | used to take a book with me to read instead 13 | Star ary school, | was still two years away from being a teenager but | Ay two metres tall. Seeing my height, my sports teacher asked if 'd be ted in training with the b: I enjoyed the session need to develop my match, but the | had more confidence in m a whil gree, but a few | | found myself playing ag another school. Mum and | c ing tc h didn't really help — it made me more nervous. But it was OK in | | tr | 14 | For the next four years, | practised every day and did really well, even joining a adult team before | moved abroad to a special sports academy in the USA whe’ s fifteen. The cc 's Olympic basketball players, and it was fantastic to work with him. How an't say | enjoyed my first experience of living far from my parents. At home, I'd never been able to spend much time with my friends due to all the training, so that w such a change for me. | got used to everything about my new life in the end, though, and my English improved quickly too! 15 tured professional at of eighteen, three years after arriving in the USA. en taller than most players in the professional league since | was fifteen, but h been much too light for t, So had to get that right first. My coach already —_| new at iat would take me while | was still at college, so | joined them anc11 What does Luka say about his childhood? sketball ‘A He had a great interest in He Enjoyed watching his father play basketbal B © He felt proud of his father's success at basketball D whe wanted to become a basketball player. | 12 Luka feo! before his frst match at secondary s \ ‘A He wasi't sure that he would do we ‘| B He was pleased that his parants would be there. | ip © He wasn’t happy about his te att brea D_ He was delighted to be part ofthe team, 43 Luka thinks the most dificult thing about moving to the USA k A learning a new language. fior B being away from his fami Pot © gating 2 good coact land D__missing hist 14 What did Luka have to do b rofess e A nplete his studies find a suitable team B © reach acertain height D put on weight ba! 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