READING: Read the article. For questions 1–5, choose from the people (A–C).

They may be chosen more than once.

Pleased to greet you!

Greeters are local people who volunteer to show visitors around their town or area. Here, we meet three of them.
A Haroula Jackson
Haroula Jackson is a Greek Australian who shows Greek visitors around her area of Melbourne. Her guest today is Nick
Tavrides. Harioula hopes to find someone who knew Nick’s great-uncle, who settled in Melbourne seventy years ago.
He also hopes they may even bump into a distant cousin or uncle.
B Pablo Hernandez
In Buenos Aires a retired university teacher, Pablo Hernandez, enjoys showing visitors around his area: the Recoleta
neighbourhood. Today he is looking after Sylvie and her friend Stéphane from France. They want to see some of the
buildings that were designed by French architects a century ago. Paolo always takes his guests to the extraordinary El
Palacio de las Aguas Corrientes and its strange collection of toilets!
C Anthea Cohen
In London, local historian Anthea Cohen is about to set off on a tour of Hampstead and Highgate, two north London
villages. The tour leaves at ten o’clock exactly and she never waits for late arrivals to turn up. She begins by visiting the
house where the famous poet Keats lived. And she finishes the tour with a visit to Highgate Cemetery. This is the resting
place of many famous people including Karl Marx.
Which person …
1 expects visitors to be punctual? _____
2 takes visitors to famous people’s homes? _____
3 is helping someone discover an ancestor? _____
4 shows visitors a display of unusual objects? _____
5 believes some older people may be helpful? _____

VOCABULARY: Match the adjectives with their meanings.

CLEVER – CONFIDENT – FUNNY – LIVELY – SPORTY – BOSSY – LAZY – NOISY – RUDE – CALM – SERIUOS – SHY

Someone who:
1. always tells people what to do is _______________
2. doesn’t like working is ________________
3. is happy and active is _________________
4. makes loud sounds in an annoying way is ___________________
5. speaks or behaves in a way that isn’t polite is ____________________
6. makes people laugh is __________________
7. is intelligent is ___________________
8. believes he/she can do things well is ___________________
9 likes activities such as ball games or team games is ___________________
10. thinks about things a lot and doesn’t laugh much is ____________________
11. is often nervous with people they don’t know is ___________________
12. is relaxed and not angry is ____________________
COMMUNICATION: Complete the conversations with these verbs.

EXPLAIN – MEAN – PRONOUNCE – REPEAT – SAY – SPEAK – TRANSLATE – UNDERSTAND

1. A: Listen and ______________________ after me: “SUCCESS”. - B: “SUCCESS”

2. A: How do you ____________________ “dificil” in English? – B: “Hard” or “difficult”.

3. What does “challenge” ________________? – B: Something new, exciting or difficult.

4. Can anyone __________________ Italian? – B: Yes, I can.

5. How do you __________________ this word? – B: “P-R-O-U-D”. “Proud”

6. Can you ____________________ this word into Turkish? – B: Yes, that’s “mutlu”.

7. I don’t ______________________ this grammar point. – B: Don’t worry, I can _____________ it again.

VOCABULARY: Complete the text with the correct option A, B, C or D.

1. A. get B. switch C. try D. keep

2. A. goes B. puts C. takes D. gets
3. A. tie B. start C. install D. connect
4. A. fill B. set C. end D. pick
5. A. efficient B. expensive C. relaxed D. hard
6. A. topics B. discussions C. issues D. opinions

WRITING:

Your English teacher has asked you to write an ARTICLE about a topic of your interest. Your article will be published in
the local magazine.

• Choose a topic
• Organize your ideas into paragraphs
• Don’t forget to write a title
• Write approximately 100 words.