5 Read the text and choose True or False. Some facts about soap operas  Soap operas started on US radio in the 1920s and then moved into television in the 1940s. In the USA in the 1940s, 90% of day-time programmes were soap operas. The name ‘soap opera’ comes from the ads that they often broadcast during soaps – ads for washing products and other things you needed to clean your home. The programme makers thought that the people who watched soap operas were women working at home. In soap operas, the story never ends at the end of an episode. It always continues in the next episode. Most soaps follow a group of characters who live or work in one special place. They follow the day-to-day lives of these characters, who are like us, ordinary people – except that soap opera characters are usually more handsome, beautiful and rich. Most soap operas are about love and relationships. The US soap opera The Guiding Light started in 1937 and still continues. There are many ‘old’ soaps in other countries too. In the 1980s, magazines about the soaps started. Also in the 1980s, Australian and Brazilian soaps became very popular around the world. Soaps are the most popular kind of television drama in the world today.1 They first broadcast soaps on TV. True / False2 Soaps began about 90 years ago. True / False3 Soaps were not very popular in the USA in the 1940s. True / False4 These programmes are called ‘soaps’ because the stories showed soap and other house-cleaning products. True / False5 The stories in soaps begin in one episode and finish in the next. True / False 6 In most soaps, action usually happens in one town or place. True / False7 The people in soaps are the same as ordinary people. True / False8 Some soap operas are more than 50 years old. True / False9 There are magazines about the characters and stories in the soaps. True / False10 US programmes are the only popular soaps around the world today. True / False
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2 Complete the text with the correct form of the verb in brackets. Dear Carla, I’m writing to tell you about our great trip to London. We only 1 ____________ (get) home yesterday. We went for two weeks – Jo, Julia, Frank and me – and we 2 ____________ (see) lots of interesting things. We went to the Notting Hill Carnival and listened to some fantastic music. We 3 ____________ (dance) for hours and hours and we ate some really exotic food – quite delicious. We did some serious tourist things too! We visited Westminster Cathedral, Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square. But we 4 ____________ (not go) to Madame Tussaud’s – we 5 ____________ (not have) time. And of course we went shopping. There are some really good shops in London, and markets too. 6 ____________ (you go) to Portobello Road Market when you were here? On the day I went, there 7 ____________ (be) lots of great things to buy, especially clothes … but I 8 ____________ (be) good. I 9 ____________ (not spend) lots of money. I only bought one sweatshirt. And 10 ____________ (you and Peter visit) the parks? I really enjoyed them. They’re so big and so green. One night there was an evening of music in the park and we listened for hours – brilliant! Write to me soon and tell me about your holidays! Love, Kari 3 Complete the dialogues. 1 A: What ________________________ when I rang you? B: I was visiting my aunt. 2 A: Did you live in London before you moved here? B: Yes, I ________________________ . 3 A: Did you enjoy visiting your family? B: No, because I ________________________ ill. 4 A: Were you at school last year? B: No, I ________________________ . I finished the year before. 5 A: She ________________________ TV when I came home. B: That’s right. She loves programmes about animals, and there was a good one on. 6 A: Did he go out last night? B: No, he ________________________ . 7 A: What ________________________ last night? B: A pizza, some pasta and a sandwich. I was very hungry! 8 A: She ________________________ good at English when she came to this school. B: Yes. That’s because she lived in England for six years. 9 A: Why did you get angry? B: Because they ________________________ TV and weren’t listening to me. 10 A: Why did they have nothing to eat last night? B: Because they ________________________ enough money for a meal.
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