Exercise 5. Ask 5 questions about Sally in exercise 4.

Exercise 6. Make your own dialogue using the sample below:

Michael: Hi, Jennifer. Did you have a good weekend?

Jennifer: well, I had a busy weekend, and I feel a little tired today.

Michael: Really? Why?

Jennifer: Well. On Saturday, I exercised in the morning. Then my roommate and I cleaned, did laundry, and

shopped. And then I visited my parents.

Michael: So what did you do on Sunday?

Jennifer: I studied for the test all day.

Michael: Oh, no! Do we have a test today?

Jennifer: I didn’t study! I just watched television all weekend!

 

 

Exercise 7. Read and listen to text about Mattie’s life a long time ago. [7.2]

 

Mattie was never at school. She lived with her mother and four sisters. She started work when she was eight. She worked in cotton fields from 6.00 in the morning to 10.00 at night. She couldn’t read or write but she could think, and she created poems in her head.

 

Exercise 8. Read and listen to Mattie talking about her past life. Complete the text, using the Past Simple form of the verbs below. [7.4]

look work learn earn marry die hate want

 

I ______from 6.00 in the morning until 10.00 at night. Sixteen hours in the cotton fields and I only ______ $2 a day. I sure ______ that job but I________ the poems in my head. I really _______ to learn to read and write. When I was sixteen I ________ Hubert, and soon there were six children, five sons, then a daughter, Lily. Hubert ______ just before she was born. That was sixty-five years ago. So I ________ after my family alone. There was no time for learning, but my children, they all ________ to read and write – that was important to me. And when did I learn to read and write? I didn’t learn until I was 86, and now I have three books of poems.

 

Exercise 9. Complete the questions about Mattie. Listen and check. Practice the questions and answers with a partner. [7.5]

1 A When did she start work?

B When she was eight years old.

2 A Where ____ she ____?

B In the cotton field.

3 A Who _____ she _____ with?

B Her mother and sisters.

4 A How many hours ___ she_____?

B Sixteen hours a day.

5 A How much ____ she _____?

 

B $2 a day.

6 A Who ____ she _____?

B Hubert.

7 A When _____ Hubert _____?

B Sixty-five years ago.

8 A When _____ she ______ to read?

B She didn’t learn until she was