Read and write only from 1-3 missing words in these gaps where necessary. 1. It is true that the world today is full of dramatic events and most news seems to be bad news. But people aren't
events.
2. Some people say that journalists are given too much freedom. They often intrude on people's private lives. They
follow celebrities and
about them which are untrue or half-true.
3. Its main advantage is that news appears on the screen as soon as things happen in real life and you don't have to
wait for
on TV.
Soon the summer holidays will come! I won't have to get up early in the morning and run to school. I will be able to stay in the bed till midday. If the weather will be fine my friends and I will go for a walk every day. It will be fun! Then I will spend a month in the country where my grandfather and grandmother live. It will be great. I will drink milk and eat a lot of tasty food which my granny will prepare for me.
I have many friends in this village because I go there every holidays. We'll play football and tennis every day! There is a small river near the forest and we'll swim when the weather will be fine.
2. They are orphans.
3. This man is a distant relative of mine.
4. This woman is a widow.
5. They are husband and wife.
6. They are brother and sister.
7. Is your mother at home, Alec? — No, Mother is not at home.
8. Where is your uncle, Peter? — uncle is at the factory.
9. Mother is an employee and Father is a doctor.
10. Aunt, what is the short for Richard? — It's Dick.
11. The Petrovs, our neighbours, are very nice people. They are six in the family: grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, a son and a daughter.
12. What is your cousin's profession? — My cousin is a surgeon by profession
13. Are the Smirnovs in the Far East now? — Yes, they are. They are in Khabarovsk.