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A DAY IN LIFE OF TWO SISTERS FROM AFRICA   BEFORE READING   1 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs.   1  I  clean come cook  home from school at three o'clock. 2 My mum cooks does drives  my sister to school. 3  I always help my mum  clean drive get up  the house. 4 My mum doesn't drive to work. She irons walks looks after  . 5 My dad never cooks gets up irons  his clothes. 6 I usually  drive get up iron  at six o'clock on school days. 7 My mum looks after gets up walks  my cousins. 8  I  do iron make  breakfast for my family at the weekend. 9 My mum irons does makes  the washing in our house. 10 We go do make  to the supermarket on Saturday evenings.    2 Read the text. Are these sentences true or false?   1 Mary lives with her dad and sister.                     truefalse 2 Jenny is Mary's little sister.                                 truefalse 3 Mary and  Jenny leave the house at 6.00.           truefalse 4 They have lunch at school.                                  truefalse 5 Mary and Jenny go to school in the evening.       truefalse         Mary is twelve and she lives in Zambia, in Africa. Every morning she and her little sister, Jenny, get up at half past four.    First they go out and get some water. It takes an hour to do that. When they come home they have breakfast with their mother Lisa. After breakfast, Lisa goes to work.   Mary and Jane walk to school. They leave the house at half past six and they get to school at seven. At twelve o'clock they have a lunch break. The school finishes at half past two and the girls walk home. They go and get water again. They do the washing and clean their small house.   Their mother comes home from work at eight o'clock. Mary and Jenny help their mum make dinner. After dinner, they do their homework.   Their life isn't easy, but they have got their mum, food and they go to school. They are lucky because many children in Zambia haven't got these things.   3 Choose the correct ending.   1 Mary gets up at  4.306.007.00 . 2 Mary and Jenny have breakfast at 4.305.307.00 3 Their mother goes to work at 5.30before breakfastafter breakfast 4 The sisters go to school by busby caron foot 5 They have breakfastlunchdinner at school. 6 They get water  oncetwicethree times a day. 7 Their mother makes breakfastlunchdinner when she comes home. 8 Lisa comes home at sixseveneight o'clock.     COLLOCATIONS (MAKE, HAVE AND DO)   4 Put the nouns into correct columns   the shopping     a break     a phone call     your bed a shower     the washing     a lot of noise     a celebration your homework         make                        have                      do                                      5 Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs from Exercise 4.   1 I usually  a shower before breakfast.  2 My mum  the shopping at the weekends. 3 My sister never  her bed. 4 My little brother and his friends always  a lot of noise. 5 I  the washing every morning. 6  They  a break when they  their homework. 7 When it's someone's birthday, we always  a celebration. 8 He often  phone calls with my mobile phone!