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Technicum Si-Tarek Of Relizane First/Second Year Students Technological/Technical Streams 2004/2005 Practice: Brian's Family   Read the following text carefully then do the activities below.   Brian's Family.   My Family lives in New York city. There are six members in my family. My mother, father and my youngest brother, Ted, live in a house. It is not big but it is very comfortable. My married brother and sister live in different houses. New York is the largest city in New York State and in the United States. It is located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson River; a major financial and cultural centre. My father works in an office. He is an accountant. My mother does not work. She takes care of the house. She always wakes up at 6:30 to prepare breakfast. My father and brother, Ted, never wake up before 7. Ted, who is a student at the department of economics, usually takes the bus to University. My father goes downtown on foot. He works hard all day. He takes one hour for lunch. He usually eats in a cafeteria near his office. Ted prefers having a sandwich for lunch. In the evening, my family meets in the living room. They watch TV while they have dinner. After that, my father retires to his bedroom to read a newspaper before he sleeps. My brother usually listens to music before he goes to bed. My mother generally washes and dries the dishes, watches her daily film then goes to bed by 11 p.m.   SECTION ONE: Comprehension.                                                           Exercise 01: How many negative sentences are there in the above passage? Exercise 02: Match each of these ideas with its corresponding paragraph(s).   a. Brian’s family occupations.  b. Brian’s family home location. c. Brian’s family regular activities. d. The location of the city where Brian’s family live.   Exercise 03: Answer the following questions according to the text.   a. How many persons are there in Brian’s family?    b. Does Brian’s mother have a job?    c. Where does Brian’s father have lunch?      Exercise 04:  Match the words and their meaning.   Words Meanings 1. Downtown: 2. City: 3. living room: a.A large and very populated town. b.A place in a house where people can sit and talk  and relax. c. The commercial centre of a town or city. SECTION TWO: Mastery of Language.                                                   Exercise 01: Give the “adverb” of frequency that corresponds to each definition.   Definition: Adverb 1  At all times: 2. Many times at short intervals: 3. Not often: 4. At no time in the past or future: 1.  2. 3. 4.   Exercise 02: Fill in each blank with one word so that the paragraph makes sense.   Youcef is an Algerian pupil  fifteen. He  at a secondary school. The  he goes  is near his house. It  him ten minutes on foot.  is a very good pupil. He  studying French and English very much.   Exercise 03: Ask the appropriate questions about what is underlined.   Tamenrasset is located in the southernmost of Algeria.           1                                              2 Q-1- Q-2- Exercise 04: Complete the following conversation.   A: B: I live in Oran. A: B: It’s in the west of Algeria, a little more than a hundred kilometers from Relizane. A: B: Certainly, there are many interesting places there. A: B: For instance, there is a zoo, a museum, many cinemas, a very big library and many other interesting places. SECTION THREE: Written Expression.                                                      Put the following statements in the correct order to make a coherent paragraph.     - and in the southeast we can find the Ouarsnis.     - In the northeast there are the Dahra mountains     - Mount Beni-Chogran, in the municipality of El-Kalaa,     - is in the southwest.     - Situated  in the west of Algeria,     - the wilaya (state/department) of Relizane extends over 4,851 square kilometers.     - There are many mountains in Relizane.