7 Read about Tony. Then answer the questions. Write full sentences. (10 marks)
My name is Tony. There are five of us in my family: me, my
parents and my two sisters. I'm twelve, and I'm the youngest
person in the family. My dad is a teacher. My mum works in a
library. She's younger than my dad. My dad is free at
weekends, but Mum works on Saturday mornings.
We live in a flat in Harlow, a big town about fifty kilometres
from London. We moved here three years ago. Before that, we
lived in Oxford. I like living here because there are lots of
young people in my street.
It's only five minutes on foot from our flat to my school, so I
don't need to get a bus in the morning. I enjoy learning
languages and my favourite subject is Spanish. I'm going to
visit Spain next month with a group of students from my
school. It'll be my first visit to Spain. I can't wait!
1 How many people are in Tony's family?
2 What is Tony's dad's job?
3 Where did Tony's family live three years ago?
It's become common to see people walking down the street with their phones clamped to their ears, and for some people, that phone just never stops ringing. It's disturbing to think that mobile phones might actually be dangerous to our health. Is this threat for real, or is it just scaremongering?
It's strange not to have a mobile phone now.
Today nobody can imagine his life without a mobile phone.
Mobile phone is an essential part of our life. A mobile is a best friend of a person. A cell phone is a fashion statement for a person.
Life without a mobile phone is like living without eyebrows…you don’t really need it, but it does improve your image if you have it. Actually, I find that other features are harder to live without. But not having a mobile phone today gets you thrown back into the “cave person” category. People nowadays don’t even ask if you have a mobile phone ,they just get down to asking your number and give you this strange look of disgust coupled with astonishment if you tell them you don’t have one. I guess it’s good to have a mobile phone in a way that we become more sociable and we have things, which can be done at the touch of a button, but have we spared a thought of what would happen to the world if all the mobile networks were down for one whole hour???