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ffiffi Look at the picture opposite. Do you know this Match sentences A-F from exercise 5 with gaps 1-5 in the
text. There is one sentence that you do not need.
game? What other online games can you name?
ffi Work in pairs. Asl< and answer the questions.
Without looking at the text, guess the answers to these
questions. 1 How simitar is FarmVitte to being a reaI farmer, in your
opin ion?
1 How many people in the world play FarmVille?
2 Why do you think FarmVilte is so poputar?
2 Can you spend real money ptaying FarmVitte?
3 What other different lifestytes would you [ike to
S f .le Read the text quicl<ly, ignoring the gaps, and find experience in an online game?
the answers to exercise 2.

lf?i[EnfFM Match the highlighted nouns in the text with
the definitions below.
1 the area next to the farm buitdings
2 an area ofground
6d t,aZ Read and listen to the song. Then choose the best
3 the parts of a ptant that you put into the ground to grow
summary of the lyrics: a, b or c.
new ptants
4 a ptant that is used to make bread a A man who lives in the city is remembering his happy
5 plants that farmers grow childhood on a farm and wishing he coutd go back.
6 a machine that farmers use to prepare fields for ptanting b A man thinks that country Iife is boring and decides to
move to the city and mal<e a [ot of money.
c A man moves to the country to escape the pressures of
life in the city, but it doesn't make him happy.
When doing gap-fill exercises, pay attention to words
that connect the sentences with the rest ofthe text.
These wit[ often be pronouns (e.g. they, these, those,
etc.), which relate to the noun. lf there are Iinking words
in the text, you have to look for [ogical retations, such as
a response to a question. : i
,. Iy,d#efle4,iucds$fu1 fella .i. 1
:,;Tt!ought,,to,himself oops I've got a lot of money
Read the exam strategy. Underline three examples of a.ral race terminally '
.,I&;ilught,in
demonstratives (e.g. this, thot, these, those) in sentences qional, cynic but my heart's not in it
:
1..:..I'm,.a.,profeq
A-F below. Then read the text again and try to identify the .t.rl.lry:paLlng thep1i9C of living:life at the limit
words and phrases which the demonstratives refer to.
A They use these coins to buy more seeds and also animats
for their farm.
eilives,in-a bouse, a v,ery big house in the iountry
They say that the games are addictive, with players
spending up to eight hours a day on the computer.
Before this, most ptayers were happy to spend no more
than an hour a day ontine.
Zynga, the company who invented FarmVitle, makes an
estimated $SOO,OOO a day from its Facebook games.
flie iOuntry'iri the country in the counffyr;,:.
For most ptayers it's a retaxing hobby - a change from
the pressures of modern city tife.
Now imagine setling those crops and using the money to 'bb*,:rn:'e;qnq l,im so sad, Ildont know,why
make your farm bigger and better. ;'b1ow,he-r'qUt,I am so- sa{ I dorit knoW,*hy
[i$hr,tri.'U+ei;in ,a ho"t.' a -very bigihouse '
in the country
it,I{e]q, gat, a. fo€,-in :hiS'ehest rso'he- needsr a 1ot'of rest
in the countr
:i$..,e.,$o,e!n1'diinksmo&;1 laugh,"takes her.b-al baths

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