Listening Listening: Complete The Fi Ve Conversations. Choose The Correct Answer: A, B or C

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Complete the five conversations. Choose the correct answer: a, b or c.

0 I’ve got something to tell you! a That’s not true!


b What is it?
c It’s important.
1 A woman rang and asked to speak to me. a Why did you do that?
b Where was your phone?
c What did you say?
2 Something strange happened this morning. a Why? What did you do?
b What was wrong?
c Really? What?
3 My phone was broken – but it still rang! a That’s weird!
b But you never ring!
c I don’t think so!
4 Guess what? I won a competition! a Oh no!
b Cool!
c Thank you!
5 What did you win? a I got a digital camera.
b I never enter competitions.
c I don’t mind.

Listening
10 Listen to a woman talking to a police officer. Answer the questions.
Choose the correct answer: a, b or c.
0 The woman was coming home from 3 When she opened the front door, someone
a the shops. a called her.
b her office. b was just leaving the garden.
c her friend’s house. c came out of the house.
1 Her husband is learning 4 She saw a man carrying
a French. a cameras and jewellery.
b English. b cameras and money.
c Spanish. c money and jewellery.
2 When she reached her house, she 5 The woman thinks the man was wearing
a ran to the front door. a jeans and a hoodie.
b didn’t open the door. b a hoodie and a hat.
c felt a bit afraid. c jeans and a hat.

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Reading
11 Read the article about the famous crime writer, Agatha Christie.

Agatha Christie – her life and work


GROWING UP WELL-LOVED CHARACTERS
Agatha Christie was born in 1890 to a rich Agatha Christie’s other famous detective, after
family in the south west of England. She spent Hercule Poirot, was Miss Jane Marple. Poirot
a lot of her early childhood alone, with few appeared in more novels than Miss Marple,
friends, because her mother decided to teach but Christie much preferred Miss Marple as
her at home. She loved reading and started a character. She used her grandmother as the
writing at an early age. model for Miss Marple!
EARLY DAYS AS A WRITER RECORD-BREAKING STATISTICS
She married her first husband in 1914. A Agatha Christie, the ‘queen of crime’, died
publishing company published her first novel in 1976 at the age of 85. She is the best-
featuring the famous Belgian detective, Hercule selling novelist of all time: her 66
Poirot, in 1919. He appeared in 33 of her novels detective novels and 14 short story
and in 54 short stories but she never liked him! collections are available in more
than 100 languages; and sales of her
FOREIGN ADVENTURES
books are approximately 4 billion
After her divorce in 1926, Agatha Christie
copies. Her play The Mousetrap
married an archaeologist and she developed
opened in London in 1952 and
a great interest in archaeology. She and her
it was still on in 2015 –
husband travelled together to many exotic
an unbelievable 63 years later!
places and she set a lot of her most successful
murder mysteries in those places.

Are the sentences True (T) or False (F)?


0 Because her family was rich, Agatha Christie went to an expensive school. F
1 Hercule Poirot was her favourite character in her books.
2 Agatha began to travel to foreign countries after her second marriage.
3 The character Miss Marple was in more books than Hercule Poirot.
4 Agatha based Miss Marple on someone in her family.
5 Agatha has sold more books than any other writer.

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