S201-205 Homework: Sometimes Tom feels lonely

You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen-friend Tom who writes:

The Harris family, Bloomfield, NM

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... Sometimes I feel lonely because I am an only child. I often wonder what it would be like to have a big family. How big is your family? What kinds of activities do you like to do together? Do you have a favourite relative whom you like to visit?

I've just come back from a fantastic trip to Scotland....

Write a letter to Tom. In your letter,

• answer his questions
• ask 3 questions about his trip to Scotland

Write 100-140 words. Remember the rules of letter-writing. Please send this to me or bring it to your next class.

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Exercise adapted from Olga Afanasyeva, Virginia Evans, Victoria Kopylova, Practice Exam Papers for the Russian State Exam, 2010 Revised Edition, Moscow: Express Publishing/Prosveshchenie Publishers.