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Gerry and Cath
Complete the text about Phoebe's home. Use the
notes below to help you.
Home a bus: two bedrooms, a kitchen,
a sitting room, a bathroom
Where? near Oxford in England
Who?
me, my mum, Tania, and my dad, Harry
Every day go to school, help parents on the bus,
wash the bus, help dad cook the dinner
On Sunday go swimming, watch TV
fetches wood for the fire?
uides the boat?
washes the clothes?
My home is a red
2.
bus ! I live on a big bus
Oxford with my run
Harry We've
hangs out with friends?
Tania, and my dad harry
got two my to the bedroom line bus and a
sa
plays football
a sitting room and a
bathroom I go to 5
cay, but after school?
the bus. 18
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Sundays I go swimming and 10
does the washing?
the bus and
the dinner. On
Wath TV
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