Reading and Writing Portfolio 10 Reading letters asking for advice Writing pronouns and possessive adjectives; a letter of advice Review should/shouldn’t; Why don’t you … ? The advice page 1 Read letters A–C. Then choose the correct answers. 1 Jasper broke his leg in a car accident /doing sport. 2 He stayed at home/in hospital for four months. 3 He can/can’t cycle very fast. 4 He doesn’t like watching/doing sport. 5 Adam is Olivia’s/Samantha’s boyfriend. 6 Last night Adam was in a restaurant with Olivia’s sister/ Ask Angela If you’ve got problems, Angela Armstrong is here to help. A a woman he works with. 7 They left the restaurant at different times/together. 8 Olivia told/didn’t tell her sister about what happened. 9 Maria is Yvonne’s daughter/friend. 10 Rick has/hasn’t got a job. 11 He likes/doesn’t like putting Maria to bed. 12 He always/sometimes goes out on Saturday night. A Four months ago I was in a car accident and I broke my leg very badly. It’s OK now, but I’m quite overweight at the moment because I spent four months just sitting at home. My wife says I should lose about ten kilos and I agree with her. Last weekend we went cycling with our friends, but they were all faster than me and I lost them! And I really hate doing sport – it’s really boring! I want to lose weight without doing any exercise. Can you give me some advice? Jasper, Northampton B 1I’ve HELP WITH WRITING Pronouns and possessive adjectives 2 a Look at the words in bold in letter A. Write them in the table. subject pronouns object pronouns possessive adjectives 1 6 9 2 you your He him his She 7 her 3 I it its 4 us 10 5 8 their got a big problem with 2my sister, Samantha. Last night I saw 3her boyfriend, Adam, in a restaurant with another woman. Her name is Jodie and 4she works in 5his office. 6They both looked very happy and 7he left the restaurant with her, arm in arm. I didn’t call my sister because I didn’t want to hurt 8her. Now I don’t know what to do. Should I tell her I saw 9them together, or should I talk to Adam first? What do 10you think I should do? Olivia, Brighton b Look at these sentences. Then complete these rules with before and after. I broke my leg four months ago. 3 She saw them in a restaurant. ● Subject pronouns come ● Object pronouns come ● Possessive adjectives come verbs. verbs. TIP • Notice the difference between it’s and its. It’s OK now. (it’s = it is) What’s its name? (its = possessive adjective) 82 nouns. Read letter B again. Which people do the words in bold 1–10 refer to? 1 Olivia 6 2 7 3 8 4 9 5 10 5 C Read letter C again. Then read Angela’s answer to Yvonne. Choose the correct words. I’m married and we’ve got a new baby, Maria. She’s our first child and she’s only two months old. The problem is that my husband, Rick, never helps me with our daughter. He works very hard, I know, but when he gets home from work he just watches TV and waits for his dinner. When I ask him to put Maria to bed, he always says that he’s too tired. But he goes out with his friends every Saturday night – he’s never too tired for them! Can you help me? Yvonne, Manchester Dear Yvonne Life is often difficult for married couples when 1 they /them have 2them/their first child. Why don’t 3you/your talk to 4you/your husband and tell 5his/him how 6you/your feel? You say that 7he/him works hard, but Maria’s 8him/his baby too. 9You/Your daughter needs to spend time with 10she/her father – it’s important for babies to have both parents in 11their/them lives. Tonight why don’t you both put Maria to bed? You also say Rick goes out with 12him/his friends every Saturday – maybe you can go out with 13you/your friends on Fridays and 14he/his can be with 15him/his daughter. Angela Have you got a problem? Email me at askangela@mylife.co.uk 4 Read Angela’s answer to Olivia. Change the words in bold to the correct pronoun or possessive adjective. 6 Dear Olivia he I think you should ask Adam why 1Adam was in a Read letter A again. Think of five things Jasper should do to lose weight and why he should do them. Make notes in the table. advice reason why eat more salads they’re low in fat the restaurant with Jodie. You said 2the restaurant was near 3Jodie and Adam’s office, so maybe 4Jodie wanted to talk to 5Adam about work. Maybe it was 6Jodie’s birthday – or 7Jodie and Adam might just be friends. Just because you saw 8Jodie and Adam together, it doesn’t mean 9Adam is going out with 10Jodie. Why don’t you talk to Adam and get 11Adam’s side of the story before you talk to your sister? Then you can help 12Samantha if there’s something wrong in 13Samantha’s relationship with Adam. b Imagine you are Angela. Write your advice to Jasper. ● Use your notes from the table in 6a. ● Use pronouns and possessive adjectives. ● Use You should … , You shouldn’t … and Why don’t you … ? to give advice. ● Read and check for mistakes. ● Give your advice to your teacher next class. Angela Tick the things you can do in English in the Reading and Writing Progress Portfolio, p88. 83
