Revision I. Complete the text. Use the present perfect or past simple of the verbs in the list.

You can use some verbs more than once.

do/ have /work | not finish | not learn /stop | be | buy | live get / look

My grandmother is 65 and °has done a lot of things in her life. She 1 born in the country and 2 on a small farm until she was sixteen. She 3in many different places, but she always says the farm 4__ _ _ the best place of all. She5school because she started working when she was fifteen. She 6 many different jobs in her life - she 7 a children’s nurse, a dressmaker and a shop assistant among other things. She 8in a very expensive shop in London for several years. She 9 working after she 10married. She 11 ___ five children and she 12 after the house. Grandma loves new things. She 13 just ___ a laptop, but she 14 how to send emails yet. I'm going to her house to help her now.

2. Write short paragraph with title : Mistakes are important. We learn from them.

Ead the passage from "marriage is a private affair” by chinua achebe. "i shall never see her,” was the reply. from that night the father scarcely spoke to his son. he did not, however, cease hoping that he would realize how serious was the danger he was heading for. day and night he put him in his prayers. nnaemeka, for his own part, was very deeply affected by his father’s grief. but he kept hoping that it would pass away. if it had occurred to him that never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue, he might have been less optimistic. "it has never been heard,” was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later. in that short sentence he spoke for all of his people. this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke when news went round about his son’s behaviour. by that time the son had gone back to lagos. "it has never been heard,” said the old man again with a sad shake of his head. "what did our lord say? ” asked another gentleman. "sons shall rise against their fathers; it is there in the holy book.” "it is the beginning of the end,” said another. how does this passage reinforce the traditional social hierarchy? the older men in the village tell okeke that he should respect nnaemeka’s decision. the older men in the village console nnaemeka about okeke’s attitude toward his choices. the older men in the village commiserate with okeke regarding nnaemeka’s decision to disobey him. the older men in the village think that nnaemeka should be optimistic that okeke will accept his decision.

What is the main idea of “young lions, young ladies”?

Read the excerpt from part 3 of the call of the wild. but it was in giving the law and making his mates live up to it, that buck excelled. dave and sol-leks did not mind the change in leadership. it was none of their business. their business was to toil, and toil mightily, in the traces. so long as that were not interfered with, they did not care what happened. billee, the good-natured, could lead for all they cared, so long as he kept order. the rest of the team, however, had grown unruly during the last days of spitz, and their surprise was great now that buck proceeded to lick them into shape. what theme is most supported by the ideas in this excerpt? good leaders are strong and intelligent. loyalty can be a very powerful force. only the strong survive in the wilderness. we are all ruled by our natural instincts.