Choose two of the situations below. Write two messages using the correct phrases for each situation. • Message of congratulation: a friend passed a driving test.
• Message of sympathy: a friend broke their leg when they were playing football.
• Phone message: to your parents / from your sister / she missed the train.
• Thank-you note: you received a music gift voucher from your aunt and uncle.

 Hi, I am Ray. My Dad is not a famous person or a national hero. But he is my hero! He is always fun. I can play-fight him and he doesn't mind. He isn't a person who won a championship or walked on the Moon or saved people in trouble but he is kind and clever and he is never bored to be with. My best days are the days that I spend with my father. He knows a lot about space exploration and the achievements of scientists. I like his stories about space expeditions and astronauts.Sometimes my friends join us to listen to his stories and I am proud of my Dad.

If you go to school or university, you are faced with a number of exams. Basically, these exams are supposed to test your knowledge and skills. Also, they may motivate you to study harder.

In my opinion, it is really the case that exams motivate students to study harder. Firstly, exams are often a pass to a higher level of education. If you get good marks in examinations, you are admitted to further education. If you fail, you do not get the admittion. So, you make every effort to keep the right to study further. Secondly, exams are a good way to assess your learning efficiency and detect possible gaps in your knowledge. Bad marks mean that your knowledge is flawed and you need to be more disciplined and work harder to do away with the flaws.

But there are people who believe that examinations do not give real motivation to a student. They say that being a good student with excellent marks does not guarantee future prosperity.

Nevertheless, I cannot assent to the foregoing opinion, because being a good student is the beginning of being a good employee or worker who can earn a good living. Highly qualified professionals are always in great demand in any business sector.

In conclusion, exams play an important part in our life, although any exam is a kind of pain. But the saying is: no pain, no gain!