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Reading for Writing




               Write a student profile


               1  Read the student profiles and discuss the questions.





































                 Ann, 15                                          Thando, 16

                 Lakeside High School                             South Hill High School

                 USA                                              South Africa



                  My name is Ann Wells and I’m a Grade            I’m Thando Gowon. I’m 16 this year. I
                  10 student at Lakeside High School. I’m         come from South Africa. I’m a Grade 10
                  an active person and I love sports. I’m         student at South Hill High School. I look
                  curious about everything. I often ask           good, think fast, and play hard. You’ll

                  questions, but I learn best by doing. My        never see me without a book or a pen.
                  favourite subject is physics. Dancing and       If I’m not in class, I’m either in the library
                  skating are my hobbies, and I also like to      or in the computer lab. At the weekends,
                  read short stories. I plan to become an         I play computer games if I’m not busy

                  engineer in the future.                         studying. My dream is to start my own IT
                                                                  company!





                   1   What is Ann like? How do you know?

                   2   What does “You’ll never see me without a book or a pen” mean?
                   3   Which profile do you like better? Why?





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