UNIT 1
Reading A model’s life Karen Webster is a famous 14-year-old fashion model. At work, she wears expensive clothes. She sometimes goes to Hong Kong and other exotic places, but she says that a model’s life is also hard work. She works all day, then has private lessons in the evening. She often works at weekends, too. When she’s not at work, Karen loves sports, reading and listening to music. There are lots of big fashion parties in the modelling world, but she never goes out to them. After work, she is always very tired. At home, she doesn’t wear expensive model’s clothes. She likes jeans, caps and trainers. Karen enjoys her job, but she doesn’t want to be a model forever. She loves clothes, and in the future, she wants to be a fashion photographer. 1 Read the text and answer the questions. 1 What positive things about the life of a model are in the first paragraph? ___________________________________________________ 2 How does Karen study? ___________________________________________________ 3 What does Karen do in her free time? ___________________________________________________ 4 Why doesn’t she go out to big fashion parties? ___________________________________________________ 5 What does Karen want to do in the future? ___________________________________________________
Vocabulary 2 Complete the sentences with the correct form of a verb in the box. teach
live read
listen
wear hate speak
1 Does Xavier ________ in Zaragoza? 2 I ______ maths lessons. They’re so boring! 3 David’s family are Canadian. They ______ English and French. 4 Do you often _________ to the radio? 5 My parents work at the university. They _________ history. 6 Sometimes I _______ comics in my free time. 7 Do you _________ a uniform to school? 3 Read about Toby’s school uniform. Complete the gaps with the correct clothes words. (8 marks) I don’t like my school uniform very much. On top, I usually wear a white shirt and a red (1) j _ _ s _ _. It’s terrible! Then I have dark trousers and black shoes and (2) _ _c _ s. When it’s cold, I wear my black and red school (3) _ _ _ k _ t to walk to school, and we also have a school (3) c_ _ to wear on your head, but I never wear it. When we do sport at school, we have red (5) T-_ _ _ _ _ s, and school (6) sh _ _ _ s. I always change my clothes when I get home. I normally wear a (7) s_ _ _ t _ _ _ _ _, jeans and my favourite (8) t_ _ _ _ _ _ s on my feet.