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education, work, and ambitions. Talking about you

5 When we meet someone for the first
time, we sometimes say a little bit
Milena Dusek is Czech. She was born in Prague, where she still lives with about ourselves.
her mother and two sisters. She's 18, and she goes to an international school.
She is studying English, psychology, and economics. I was born in .. .
I go to school in .. .
'My parents are divorced. My father is a journalist, and works for a newspaper y
called Blesk. My mother works as a chef in a restaurant in the Old Town. I see
Find the expressions in the box in
my father quite often. He lives nearby.'
the texts about Milena, Georg, and
Milena wants to work in banking. She's going to study business when she's Archie. Underline them.
older, so it's important that she speaks very good English. Next summer she's
was born grew up live with
going to London for two months to study at a language school. She's going to
going to hope work as/for
stay with an English family, and she's going to learn English for five hours a day.
studying/studied excited about
She's excited about going to London, but a little bit worried, too. 'I hope the
family are nice, and I hope I like English food!' she says. 6 Use the expressions in exercise 5 to
write sentences about you.

7 Work with a partner. Imagine you
Georg Reinhardt is an architect. He's married, and he lives with his are meeting for the first time.
wife, Karlotta, and three children, in Berlin. Karlotta is a housewife, and
Tell him/her about yourself.
their three children go to a local gymnasium (school).
Ask questions to learn more about
'I was born in Frankfurt, where I grew up and went to school. I studied
him/her.
architecture at the University of Munich. I met Karlotta at university, she
was a student of modern languages. We moved to Berlin in 1995.' ~ you ... ?) When did you ... ?
do
Georg also teaches architecture. Next year he is moving to America, to
teach at the University of California in Berkeley for three years. His family
What are you going to ... ?
is going with him. They're going to live on the university campus, where
there is a school for the children. His wife is going to teach German.

They're all very excited about the trip. 'The kids are learning English.
They want to see the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco: says Georg.
'My wife and I are looking forward to living in sunshine all year round.'

Archie McCrae is Scottish. He was born in Glasgow, where he grew up with
his parents and his brother and sister. His father is a doctor and his mother
works for the reseach company, Bayer.
'I went to Drumchapel High School. I studied biology, chemistry, and physics.
At school I met Fiona, and we started going out when we were 16. We studied
medicine together at the University of Edinburgh, and now we live in Edinburgh.'

They want to work in developing countries. Next week they're going to Zambia,
in Southern Africa, for a year. to work in St Francis' Hospital in the east of the
country. They're going to train doctors and nurses in villages near the hospital.

How do they feel about their trip? 'We're very excited, but a bit nervous: says
Archie. 'Zambia is a beautiful country, but very poor. The people are wonderful.
I hope we can help them.'
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