Reading
Multiple
matching
1
Read
about
Josh's
first girlfriend,
Ava.
Underline
what
he
says
about
the
following
things,
as
in
the
example.
•
Ava's
appearance
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When Ava agreed to go out with me,
I thought I was the luckiest guy
in
the
world, She looked like a fashion model;
beautiful
and glamorous. She was taller
than me, actually! I didn't understand
what she saw
in
an
ordinary guy like m
e.
She was
y'~ry
..
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and loved
gOing
out ... and being the centre of attention.
She loved talking about herself and
about her shopping - she
could
do
that
for hours. But when
I tried
to
tell her
something, she stopped
listening very
quickly.
In
the end, I decided to find
myself a girlfriend I could talk to for a
change!
2
Read
the
five sentences below.
Tick
(.I)
the
ones
that
are
true
about
Ava and
her
relationship
with
Josh.
1
She
was
perfect in every way.
2
Her personality
was
less
attractive
than her appearance.
3
She
left me because I wasn't
glamorous.
4
I decided
she
was
not
the
right
person for me.
S
She
was
talkative and self-centred.
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In
this type
of
task, reading for specific information
is
important. This
is
because all the texts
are
on a similar topic
and you have
to
find the details that make them different.
3 Read
three
people's descriptions
of
their
first
girlfriend/
boyfriend.
Match
the
statements
1-7
below
to
the
people
A-C.
You
can choose each person
more
than
once.
My first boyfriend Charlie and I were in the same class
in
secondary
school. I liked him from the beginning;
he
had red wavy hair and a
funny round face with
freckles. When we were eleven,
he
was small
and plump, but then in two years
he
grew tall and thin and looked
really cool.
He
was easy-going, friendly and great fun to be with .
..
and
he
still
is.
He
was a great boyfriend and now
he
's a great husband!
Adam was
good-looking, with lots
of
dark wavy hair, but his clothes
often
looked a bit scruffy. That was because
he
often climbed trees
and got into strange
places to photograph birds.
He
was really into
photography.
He
always had a camera with him and took pictures of
people, houses, trees,
of
everything really ... and also of me. He's a
professional photographer now, and when I see his work
in
a book or
magazine
I sometimes think, 'I was
in
his earliest photos.'
My first
girlfriend was Amy in primary school.
We
were both seven
years
old. She had lovely grey eyes and long, soft hair, and I told her
she was
almost as beautiful as my mum. She was a very good girlfriend:
she always gave me one of her sandwiches. I gave her my favourite
model car, a
red
Porsche, and we promised to get married
in
the future.
I was very jealous when she talked to other boys, but I said nothing,
because my dad
told me a man must respect a woman's freedom.
Which person
says
this about his/her first boyfriend/girlfriend?
1
0 His/Her appearance changed
with
age.
2
0 He/She shared something with me.
3
0 I compared
him/her
to
someone I admired.
4
0
We
eventually
got
married.
S
0 He/She had
an
artistic passion.
6
0
We
met
at a very early age.
7
0 He/She
was
attractive
but
didn't look tidy.