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In this comic story, Lauren, Steve and Charlene are Australians in thei r First reading. Which summary of the story has no mistakes in it , a or b?
teens, sharing a flat in Melbourne.
Lauren didn't want to see Paul when he came to the flat. She
PoulThZFei Louren. f 've oot .er)\ Pouf didn't go to the cinema. He thought Louren couldn't go out with him, because she was working at the pizza
for you. tickets f or tlíe cineh¡- wos lying to him, so he went to the pizzo porlour
oníght. Com parlour. At the pizza parlour she didn't speak to Paul. After the
with me... pizza parlour closed Paul was angry because she hadn't spoken to
him. Lauren was scared of him and she phoned Charlene and
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f ' m working told her to come and get her in the car. Steve told everybody to
t the piz get in the car. Back in the flat Lauren told Charlene that Paul was
Kl!,tüi'! too intense and she didn't like him any more. In the other room,
Poul knows thotlouren dosen't usuolly work ot
Pouf met Louren of the pizza porlour porlour on o Mondoy but tonight...
the pizza Paul was crying. Steve told him to go and say sorry to Lauren.
where she works in the'evenihgs.
Poulstops Louren outside the pizza porlour ofter it f 'll tolk to who f wont, Poul. Paul asked Lauren out but she was working at the pizza parlour
hos closed...
oul! Whot Nor,go on home. You're scoríng that evening. Although he had two tickets for the cineffia, Paul
Who wos thot guy?
You were tolking ! are you doi didn't go but went to the pizza parlour. There he saw Lauren
hi glf euening.
talking to somebody and he got jealous. After Lauren left the
pizza parlour he stopped her and asked her out again. Lauren w¿ls
afraid of him, So she phoned Charlene and told her to bring
Why wont you go out with me?
Steve. Back at the flat Lauren wasn't sure that she had dotre thc
Louren, please. I just wont o chonce...
right thing when she phoned for help. Meanwhile, Steve tolcl Paul
Bock ot the f lot Louren thinks she
over-?eoct¿d. Chorlene thinks to write to Lauren and not to try and see her again.
Chorlen e, T'm outsi Louren did the right thing.
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Match the correct punch lines (a-f ) with the jokes (1-O¡.
WHAT TYPE OF LTGHTS DID 1 There's a white house, a red
NO AH HAVE ON THE ARK ? house and a blue house. The
red house is on the left, the
blue house is on the right. Those who can count
Where's the White House? and those who can't.

I went to the bank last week now I'm perfect.

and said to the cashier, 'Can
you check my balance?' No, who wrote it?

There are only three kinds

To blame it on the
computer is even
of people in the world.
more natural.
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I used to be big-headed but
In Washington DC.
Match the questions (1-O) with the answers (a-f) in these jokes.
Have you read Shakespeare? She pushed me over.

What did one maths books 6 It's natural to make

say to the other maths From the footprints ul mistakes.
book? the butter.
llere's one to tell your frrends - just for fun!
What is white and climbs
A coward.
trees? A dog walked into the Post Office and asked to send a telegratn. The
How do you tell when an trrunter clerk gave him the form and the dog wrote 'Woof - woof -
I have problems.
elephant has been in the woof - woof - woof - woof.' The counter clerk looked at the form and
fridge? said, 'For the satne money you could have one more woof.'
Because it's too far to
Why do birds fly south for walk. 'No,' said the dog. 'lt wouldn't tnake sense.'
the winter?
What do you call a A friclge. I liecl ¿rllout
the clint lling. The punch line of a joke is the line that makes you laugh (hopefully!).
boomerang that doesn't
Noah = In the Bible, he was a man who set out in the Ark (a kind of boat) with
come back?
two of ovrlry kind of animal in the world. A flood covered the world with water
A st it'k.
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