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10.to live alone;

11.to have a nickname;

12.to speak any foreign language;

13.to like learning English;

14.to be interested in sport;

15.can play chess;

16.can play a musical instrument;

17.to be abroad;

18.to smoke.

b) Ask one of your groupmates these questions. Note the

answers.

c) Write some sentences using the received information.

Don’t use the personal name in your sentences.

d) Pass your sentences to the teacher who will read them to

the group. The group has to guess who the sentences are

about.

Text 1B. The Richest Man in the World.

Read the text and do the exercises given below.

Everyone has head about Bill Gates, the icon of American business and the richest

man in the world.

Microsoft, the business he started with a friend in 1975, has become the world’s

largest computer software company. Also the company is in big trouble today – the

US government has broken it up – experts say it will remain successful.

Bill Gates was born on the 28

of October 1955 in Seattle, USA. Seattle was once

famous for producing Boeing aircraft, but is now better known as the home of

Microsoft. From his parents Bill got a good business sense and a quick mind. His

father is a lawyer and his late mother was a teacher and then a company director.

At school Bill soon showed that he was very intelligent. His favourite subjects

were Maths and Science. At 13 he got interested in computers. Bill Gates and his