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B. Put one, two or three words in each of the empty places in these
sentences.
1. Bill is young. Peter is . . . .
Joe is . . . .
2. The first fortune-teller is friendly,
the second one is . . . , and
the third is . . . .
3. The girl on the left is surprised.
The one in the middle is . . . .
And the one on the right is . . . .
C. Write this story, but do not put pictures: put words.
This
is a teacher in
.
The small
in his classes are very good at mathematics. When
he asks them
about
, they know
all the
. He says, ‘One
hundred
are
840 French francs today. Oranges
one franc
twenty each. How many will I get for one pound? Quick! ’ And he
is not
when
they all answer, ‘Seven, sir! They’re
rather
, aren’t they?’
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Jack had a small, red car, and he liked driving it very fast. This was all right when
he was out
in the country, but in towns and big villages driving fast is dangerous,
so there is always a speed limit. In Jack’s country it was fifty kilometres an hour.
Jack often drove faster than that through towns.
One day Jack
was driving his small, red car through a town when a very
young
policeman stopped him and said, ‘You were driving at more than fifty
kilometres an hour, sir. Please give me your name and address.’
Jack looked at the young policeman carefully for
a few seconds and then said
to him, ‘But I started my journey less than an hour ago!’
The policeman was new to this work and did not know the answer to Jack’s
excuse. He thought for a few seconds and then let Jack go.
Words outside the 1000:
speed limit
