Parents usually give their 1___________ pocket money. Some

young people have a part-time job to earn more money.

HOUSE

They do babysitting, they deliver newspapers to 2_________

BE

(this is called ‘a paper round’) or they work in a shop

GET

on Saturdays. You can do a paper round when you 3_________

WORK

14 years old, but you have 4_________up very early in the

THEY

morning. People want 5__________ newspaper when they

CHILD

have breakfast. You must be 16 to work in a shop. Most

young people can 6__________ in big department stores,

supermarkets or in clothes shops.

In Britain most people learn French or German. In a few

1_______ you can also learn Italian, Spanish or Russian.

Not many people learn Latin now. All pupils must 2_________

one foreign language until they 3_____ 16.Schools usually

BE

organize school trips to France or Germany. Pupils travel in a

TEACHER

group with their 4__________ . They stay in a hotel or they

GO

go camping. Some schools have an exchange with another school

HAVE

in France or Germany. A group of pupils from the British school

PARTNER

5____________ to the exchange town. Each pupil 6___________

BE

a partner and they stay with their 7__________ family. They

SCHOOL

sometimes go to school with their partner. Later in the year the

STUDY

pupils from France or Germany come to Britain and stay with

their British partners. Exchanges 8_________ very useful,

because you learn about daily life in another country.

Crisps are made from 1 _________ . The potato 2___________

in Peru in the 16th century and brought to Europe by the

POTATO

Spanish.Crisps 3 _________ in the United States about a

DISCOVER

century ago. More crisps 4_____________ today in America

INVENT

than in any other country. But, in fact, they are not called crisps

EAT

in America. They are called chips.

Answers

Exercise 1. 1.children, 2. houses, 3. are, 4. to get, 5. their, 6. work.

Exercise 2. 1. schools, 2. study, 3. are, 4. teachers, 5. goes, 6. has, 7. partner's, 8. are.

Exercise 3. 1. potatoes, 2. was discovered, 3. were invented, 4. are eaten.