A) A special birthday

B) Christmas holiday

C) Summer events

Email 1

Hello to you all - and thanks for your Christmas email.

We were on holiday in Lanzarote before Christmas, arriving home at night on Christmas Eve. It was a good time to go away because there was much snow and ice in England but in Lanzarote the temperature reached 25 degrees! We had a lovely holiday and have also enjoyed a nice Christmas at home.

Although it is still a holiday I have called in at work to check that everything is ok.

We hope you have a lovely New Year and that 2011 is a good year for you all.

Best wishes from Andrew, Margaret and Olivia.

XXX

Email 2

Hello!

I'm so glad the email reached you safely.

Thanks for your birthday greetings.

I had a very special birthday this year. Margaret and Olivia took me away to a secret location. It turned out to be a town called Darlington - just along the coast from Scarborough and Robin Hood's Bay - where I went to college many years ago. I showed them the house I lived in, the pubs I used to visit and also the college! We stayed in a hotel there for two nights.

How is Volgograd? Has it been a cold winter? On TV this week was a major documentary about the Battle of Stalingrad and it also showed lots of images of Volgograd today.

Well, must go as I have to meet someone in Chesterfield.

Andrew xxx (and Margaret, Olivia).

Email 3

Hello!

How are you?

Olivia is growing up very quickly. We received her first school report yesterday and the teacher had lots of excellent things to say about her and how she is learning. This week she is performing in a dancing show. She is doing three different dances including ballet, tap and freestyle and has three beautiful (but expensive) costumes to wear.

We spent a few days in Germany at the end of June for a street festival in a town called Sindelfingen. The town is 'twinned' with Dronfield and we were invited by the town's Mayor to visit it. The street festival itself was amazing with hundreds of stalls lining the streets of Sindelfingen selling food, beer, jewellery, sweets and many more things.

At the end of August we’ll be travelling by car to France. A friend of ours has a house at place called Descartes in the Loire Valley. We’ll cross the Channel by ferry and we’ll take Olivia to Disneyland Paris for three days before driving down to the house.

Do you have any travel plans this year or are you going to spend lots of time at your beautiful summer house? And how was the birthday party?

Well, I must get some more work done. Please pass on our fondest regards to everyone over there.

Lots of love

Margaret xxx

3a. Complete the following sentences using information from the emails. Develop the idea using the following words and expressions:

1) to have a lovely holiday, to arrive home, to enjoy a nice Christmas;

2) to take smb away, a secret location, used to visit, to stay in a hotel;

3)-5) a school report, to perform in a show, to do dances, to wear a costume, to invite, to be twinned with, to sell things, to cross the Channel by ferry, to pass regards.

1) The family was happy to go away before Christmas …

2) Andrew’s birthday was quite special because …

3) Olivia is good at …

4) A street festival in Sindelfingen ….

5) In August the family plans to …

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