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Writing 5 Complete b so that it means the same as a.
Use no more than three words.
4 Read the email. Complete the text using the
_
words incapitals. Makechanges to the words
if necessary.

Dear Alison

sleep Everyone's still ÿ asleep but I've woken up
1_
real early so I'm writing you this email.
We've come to stay at my grandma's house for y

a week. She's been ill recently,but she's getting VK
2 _ ÿ a No butterfly is smaller than the Western
good now and we've come to give her some
slow help.She's doing things more 3 _ than Pygmy Blue.
b The Western Pygmy Blue is the smallest
usual,but apart from that she's OK.
butterfly in the world.
Her house is very old and beautiful. It has 1 a You can see through butterflies'wings
__
five bedrooms.I'm sharing a room with my becausethey are very thin.
old/big 4 _ sister. It isn't as 5 _ as the other b Butterflies'wings are _ you can
see through them.
nice rooms, but it's the 6_ because it has 2 a The butterfly was small. Itwas attractive.
amaze 7 _ views over the river. It was green.
_
butterfly.
b It was an
cold Unfortunately,the weather was so 8_ 3 a Rosy paints beautiful pictures of butterflies.
and wet yesterday that we spent the whole day b Rosy paints butterflies .
9
indoor This morning the sky looks 4 a Ididn't use to be able to identify butterflies
10 _ very quickly.
clear so Ithink my sister and Iwill be able _
interest to go out and do something 11_ b Ican identify butterflies now.
5 a The Goliath Birdwing butterfly is bigger than
later on. the Blue Morpho butterfly.

b The Blue Morpho butterfly is _
wake Mum and Dad are 12 _ now,so I'mgoing
as the Goliath Birdwing butterfly.
to go and have some breakfast.
6 a Isaw a very rare butterfly last year. Isaw it
I'llwrite again soon, here. __
b Isaw a very rare butterfly
Cathy
6 This is part of an email that you received from a
new English friend, Libby.

Ican't use a computer very well.

How often do you use a computer? Tell me
about a computer that you sometimes (or
usually) use. How good are you at doing
different things on the computer? Are
you better than your friends and your
family, or not as good as them?

Write an email to Libby,telling her about you and
computers.

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