Vocabulary 1 Write a word from the box in each gap.hours • minutes o'clock • past . quarter • seconds .watchfour.1 There are 60in one hour.2 To say that it's thirty minutes after four o'clock, you say half3 There are 24in one day.4 There are 60in a minute.5 One hour after two o'clock is three6 Fifteen minutes before five o'clock is ato five.7 Ais like a small clock and it gives you the time.​

My favourite sport is chess. Even though all my friends tell me that it's not a sport, I disagree. It requires as much hard work, as much training as all of the other sports. I loved chess since I was a kid. My grandfather is a chessmaster, and he introduced me to this wonderful game when I was 3 years old. He made me play with him, and even though I cried and didn't want to do it at first, I eventually warmed up to it. Sometimes he didn't feed me until I won at least one match against him, and, well, because I was 3 and not much of a chessplayer, I would go hungry for days. Then he was sent to jail, but I still keep his favourite chessboard. God, I love chess.