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Vocabulary

Classroom objects
Answer the questions below with a word about school.
1 Your teacher might give you this to check you have understood your lessons. t e s t
2 You can use this to help you draw a straight line. r
3 You can write things in this that you want to remember. n
4 If you make a mistake when you’re writing in pencil, you can use this to correct it. r
5 This has lots of information and exercises in it, and you use it in class. t
6 The teacher writes on this in the classroom. b
Reading Part 4

Exam advice
Each answer will come from only one section of the text, so read the questions and sections
carefully – there may be information in other sections that looks almost like the answer.

Read the article about three girls who enjoy studying Maths.
Then answer the questions.
I MATHS

Mandy Charlotte Tina

Maths is much I thought Maths was quite easy My dad
easier for me when I had my rst class and teaches Maths
now than other I loved trying to nd the answers! at a college, so he’s pleased I like
subjects like I study with a really friendly it now. He says when I’m older
languages, but group of girls in my class, so we I could study in his classes! So
I found it hard when help each other, and talk together. I’m thinking about that. Maths
I started. My older sister really Mrs Sams, my teacher, will help me to study Science at
hates Maths, so my parents are sometimes says a high level, too. But for now I’m
pleased that I like it so much. we’re too noisy, but just happy when I can do things
Mr James is my Maths teacher. she knows we’re like help my grandma count her
We all talk about Maths working hard! I love money when we’re shopping. My
problems together in class and Science, too, and Maths teacher is nice, but I don’t
he explains things clearly – and I understand it much know many people in my class.
he’s really funny, too, so that’s better now because But that means I work hard and
why we all like the subject. my Maths has improved. don’t chat!

0 Who liked Maths as soon as she began studying it? 4 Who has someone in her family that doesn’t like
A Mandy B Charlotte C Tina Maths?
A Mandy B Charlotte C Tina
1 Who enjoys Maths because of her teacher?
A Mandy B Charlotte C Tina 5 Who might study Maths after she leaves school?
A Mandy B Charlotte C Tina
2 Who likes using Maths outside school?
A Mandy B Charlotte C Tina 6 Who likes the other people in her Maths class?
A Mandy B Charlotte C Tina
3 Who thinks learning Maths has helped her with
another school subject? 7 Who doesn’t talk much in her Maths class?
A Mandy B Charlotte C Tina A Mandy B Charlotte C Tina

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