Read the text looking carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which…
Read the text looking carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (✔) at the end of the line. If a line has a word which should not be there, underline it and write the word at the end of the line. There are two examples at the beginning for you.
0 I am not sure what I’m going to do with myself 00 when I leave from school. Next week, our class are
1 having a meeting with the school careers officer from
2 who they say is he going to tell us all about the different
3 jobs available. We’ll also have be able to ask questions.
4 lam thinking of taking up evening classes to improve
5 my marks in Maths because of my dream is to become
6 a doctor. Although my parents don’t disagree with my
7 ambition they doubt whether I’m going for to get good
8 enough marks to get into university to do medicine. But
9 they don’t want to discourage me from so I think they’ll
10 agree with to the extra lessons. By the time I finish school
11 I will have been formed a much better idea of what I’d like
12 to do, but the problem is we are going to be have to
13 decide which subjects to study for university two years
14 before we will finish school. Anyway, whatever happens
15 I’m going to have to get on down to some hard work if
16 I want to achieve my aims
‘We don’t think a holiday together is a good idea.’ ‘., really.’
I arrived in Marshfield an hour before the meeting. I wondered why Drake, the chairman had thought that my presence was so important. I went into the local Party office. I had to be present every Friday evening and I intended to do so for years. My work was to interview a couple of dozen constituents about their housing problems, their pensions and a lot of individual problems.
After a year of elections I started to make excuses. I couldn’t find houses for people when the houses didn’t exist. I thought that these constituency problems were better dealt with by letter. In reality there was so little I could do to help people, who waited patiently to see me.
I wanted to believe that they had called me in order to make me promise to attend more regularly in future. I thought that I must win them back for if I lost Marshfield I would have lost everything -no seat, no right of entry to the House of Commons.
Entering the room I met Jimmy March, the Party secretary. It seemed to me that he was avoiding me. I felt that he was rather indifferent to me. I understood that something was wrong and tried to promise to be along more regularly on Fridays in future. I drew from my experience that I should do my useless work and make image that I am helping people.