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It's up to you in this reading activity in which you can travel in time, to fall in love, and meet some interesting people including Rudolph Valentino, the gardener and dishwasher who became a superstar playing romantic roles in films like Blood and Sand and The Son of the Sheik.

All you have to do is read the first paragraph and click on the option of your choice. Keep reading and clicking to see if your love story has a happy ending… or an unhappy ending. There are lots of possible stories so you can try reading the texts again and again… and again… and again… and again.

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Can you follow instructions?

Posted by eLynx in Reading on June 1, 2007

Do this as quickly as you can. You have only five minutes.

01. Read everything before you do anything.
02. Take a piece of paper and put your full name in the top right-hand corner.
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Error Correction (intermediate)

Posted by eLynx in Writing on June 1, 2007

01 Each of these sentences contains one error. Find it and correct it.
01 Pat not live in London, she lives in Bristol.
02 What time are you normally getting up?
03 Always we invite friends for dinner at the weekends.
04 Maria has seventeen years old and she's from Mexico.
05 We'll meet Cathy and Kate tonight in the Chinese restaurant.
06 He's thinking that you don't like him.
07 I want that you listen carefully.
08 They are thinking of go to Australia for their holidays.
09 Before to leave the room, please switch off the lights.
10 Janine likes meet new people. She's very sociable.
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Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing

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