READING

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READING

Banana Tree Farm

15 Capital Road

Maronga

Malawi

2^nd June, 1999

Dear Terry,

I got your name and address from a pen-friend magazine, and I´d like to be your pen-friend. Can I?.

First I´d like to tell you some things about the place where I live. Karonga´s really just a big village. I know everybody here. I live on a farm with my parents, three brothers, two sisters and two cousins. The cousins are my aunt’s children. She’s ill so my mother looks after them for her.

Most men in Karonga, including my father, have more than one job. You see, the farm’s small and we don’t have much money for it. So she works as a shoemaker and a mechanic as well.

On the farm we groe bananas and we sell them in the local market. When we have to pay for big things like school fees and school uniforms, we sometimes kill one of our pigs.

I go to a catholic school in Karonga. I’m quite a good student. Among the eighty students in my class, I’m third. We learn English, of course. English is very useful because there are so many different languages in Malawi. We need one language which everybody speak and understand.

I love living in a big family, but I’m only going to have two children. I don’t want to stay at home all day or work on the farm. I think I’m clever enough to be a doctor. However, that’s very difficult for a girl. Actually, I’ll probably have to choose between being a nurse and working on a farm somewhere.

I just finish now. Please write back and tell me about yourself. Do you big in a big city or in a village like me? How many people are there in your family? What hobbies do you like?

And most important of all, as “Terry” can be Teresa or Terese, are you a boy or a girl?.

Love,

Dowa

UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT

1. Say if these sentences are true or false

1. There are ten people living in Dowa´s parents house.
2. Dowa´s cousins are ill.
3. Dowa´s father has more than one job.
4. He sells bananas to pay for school fees and uniforms.
5. Dowa´s school is in the village.
6. Classes are about the same size than in Spain.
7. English is useful as a common language for people in Malawi.
8. Dowa wants to work on a farm.

2. Answer these questions on the text

1. Where is Karonga?____________________________________________________
2. What does Dowa´s father do?___________________________________________
3. What does he grow?___________________________________________________
4. Is Dowa´s farm very big?_______________________________________________
5. Have they got any animals?_____________________________________________
6. What kind of school does Dowa go to?____________________________________
7. What does she want to be?______________________________________________

3. Make a list of all the words for relatives in the text. Then write any additional words you know for relatives

Parents, Brothers……

Now complete these sentences

1. Your father is your mother’s____________________________________________

And she is his________________________________________________________

2. Your fathers parents are your___________________________________________
3. You are your mother’s sister’s___________________________________________

Your father brother is your_____________________________________________