Complete the sentences putting in the verbs from brackets. use the present simple(indefinite) or present continuous(progressive) 38. snow (melt) in the spring. 39. my brother never (clean) the room. 40. she (wake up) early in the morning. 41. let’s go to the beach. the sun (shine) brightly! 42. andy and jake (swim) in the pool at the moment. 43. my cousins (live) in london. 44. - i’ve lost my pho - not again! you (lose) always your phone!

Dear Emma,

Thanks for your letter. I was very glad to get it.

As for my family, we are very friendly indeed. We are five: mum, dad, me and two my younger twin-sisters. They are also annoying sometimes like your brother, but I think it is just the matter of their age. You know my mum is a housewife, so she spends most of her time with them. But weekends we spend all together. I like this time because our father always joins us. We usually drive to the country or to the seaside. We have a lot of fun together.

Well, what about you? How do you spend the weekends? Where do you go with your friends or with your brother? Is your brother much younger than you or not? Have you got anything in common with him? Anyway, I want you to get along with him.

Now I must go. Write soon.

Best wishes,

Elena

At the beginning of the summer I went to Chelyabinsk, this is in the Urals. There I spent a month walking with my friends. On July 5, I went to the Artek camp. It was cool, we climbed Bear Mountain from three in the morning to two in the afternoon. I got into the naval squad, we went to sea on yachts and won the cup. On the fifth of August I was in Moscow at the piano music school. There I learned a lot of new things. It was very interesting. After Moscow, I flew to Chelyabinsk again. We went shopping, bought school uniforms, stationery and household goods, said goodbye to friends and on September 1, I was finally at home.