Sentences

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1    Brendan’s main subject at university is Technology.

2    Brendan studies at university in the UK.

3    Brendan is most interested in the nineteenth century.

4    Brendan likes studying about unsuccessful technology the most.

5    The bag alarm wasn’t popular because it was dangerous.

6 The computer screen hat was 40 cm across.

7    People felt ill when they wore the computer screen hat.

8    The computer screen hat is popular with many video gamers.

9    The car that Brendan talks about could go very fast.

10   No one these days owns a car like the one Brendan talks about.

Speaker:

live isn’t warm enough?

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2

… says they can get food from every continent in their city?

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3

… prefers food from another continent?

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4

… thinks food from their own

country is better than food from other countries?

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5

… says that you can buy food from

all over their continent in their country?

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6

… thinks that the weather in another

country is worse than the weather in their country?

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7

… says that some people in their

country don’t like the weather in summer?

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8

… prefers the weather in another part of their country?

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9

… plays in a group?

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10 … watches films from all over the world?

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0   A about

B around

C of

1   A is

B were

C was

2   A old

B ago

C past

3    A the funnier

B funnier than

C the funniest

4   A do

B make

C know

5   A doesn’t

B don’t

C didn’t

6   A many

B much

C any

7   A ‘s making

B make

C ‘re making

8      A ‘m going to

B ‘m go to

C go to

9   A have

B ’m having

C go to have

10 A doesn’t

B don’t

C didn’t

The World’s Most Difficult Weather

Humans now live in most places around the world. We are good at using our intelligence to survive in some very difficult places. But there are some places on Earth which are impossible to live in. Here’s one of them.

It’s hard to say exactly where the hottest place in the world is because this can change from year to year. At the moment, though, this record belongs to the Loot Desert in Iran. This part of the Asian country beat America’s Death Valley and Africa’s El Azizia in Libya by quite a few degrees. The maximum at El Azizia was 58°C, slightly more than Death Valley’s 57°C in the west of the USA, but well below the temperature of 70.7°C recorded in the east of Iran in 2005.

We often think that deserts have no water in them, but there is water here in the spring, as snow melts in the nearby mountains and flows in rivers through the area. But this soon dries up and there is little or no water there for the rest of the year. The maximum rainfall is only 100 mm per year compared to 50 mm in much of the Sahara.

In a seven-year study from 2003 to 2010, American scientists found that Loot was the hottest place on Earth for five of those seven years. They used satellites in space to measure this because it’s too hot for scientists to live there!

So, when you’re booking your next holiday, it’s probably best to choose somewhere different to the Loot Desert!

True

False

Doesn’t say

Humans now live on every ¹         continent on Earth.

Humans can’t live in some ²         parts of the world.

We know where the hottest

place in the world is.

Iran is in Asia.

Libya is in the West of

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Africa.

Death Valley is the second

hottest place on Earth.

It was over 70°C in Death ⁷         Valley.

The Loot Desert is in the

east of Iran.

There are very long rivers in

the Loot Desert in spring.

There’s more rain in the

Loot Desert than in most of the Sahara Desert.

The Loot Desert was the hottest place on Earth in

every year from 2003 to 2010.

Scientists can’t visit the Loot

Desert in the summer because it’s too hot.

WRITING

It’s your birthday next week and you want to invite some friends to go for a meal and then to the cinema with you and your family. Write an email to your best friend inviting them to come.

In your email

• greet your best friend and tell them some of your news

• tell your friend what your plans are for your birthday

• invite your friend to come and tell them arrangements of when and where to meet

• tell your friend what they need to bring with them.

Write as much as you can about each of these things in your email.

Write between 100 and 140 words.

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