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Q Grammar in a text. Complete the text with expressions from the boxes.

1-4: glad to leave / happy not to have pleased to find sorry to say unhappy to think

Five years ago, I went to Australia to start a new job. I was ►. .0!'?.^. London,
but I was very i .............................................. goodbye to my friends and family, and my mother was
2 ....................................that I would be so far away. I was a bit afraid of my new life, so I was
3 ....................................any problems when I arrived. Sydney was beautiful, and I was
4 ....................................friendly people in the office, an interesting job and a lovely apartment.

5-7: happy to be pleased to see surprised to find

Everything went well in Australia, but I never felt really at home there, and in the end I decided to come
back. Today I arrived in London, for the first time in five years. I was 5...............................................so many
changes, but I am really 6...............................................here again. On the way from the airport I started to
cry - I was so 7.............................................. a big red London bus.

Q GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY: vehicles. Make sure you know the words in the box.
Use a dictionary if necessary. Then look at the advertisements and say what the advertisers

want you to buy.

bike motorbike motorboat plane tractor/ yacht

► Ttocw wfliA/t n-ce to buij a trac-tor.

products, contact Trakta for the Heathield H300 Hybrid CELGA 113A
address of your nearest dealer.

• 4130 Molloy frame • 24-speed Hitalo gears 1000 hours AF/E. CofA to
Trakta Tractors November. New leather seats
Quality 8 Performance
Trakta Tractors (UK) Ltd.,
Belmarsh Court, Belmarsh Park, Cheltenham,

BA R R I E S
new spec machines arrivinq
NOW
CALL US FOR THE BEST DEALS

Sorensen... Setting a new
standard in design and
performance.
machines to cle a r DVR300...........£5590
ALPHA.............£5450

^ Internet exercise. Find three advertisements on the internet. Write some words from each
advertisement, and say what the advertisers want you to do or buy.

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