What about your family?

Exercise 3. Listen to Mike’s teacher who is reading Mike’s homework in class. The teacher makes mistakes on purpose. Find out how many mistakes he makes. / Послухайте вчителя Майка, який читає домашнє завдання Майка в класі. Учитель робить помилки навмисно. Дізнайтеся, скільки він робить помилок.

The teacher made 9 (nine) mistakes.

My kid brother Ted is a real nuisance. He sings to me all the time. He doesn’t play in his room, but he comes to my room and makes a noise. “Please, tidy the room now,” I tell him, but he doesn’t. He just says: “I’m too small.” In fact, he doesn’t do any chores. I help our mum with the dishes, I take out the chairs, I wash dad’s car....

Ted always takes my things without asking and doesn’t give them back. I still don’t know where my tennis racket is.

When I phone my friends he always repeats everything I say. “Luckily we don’t have anything for dinner today.” “Luckily we don’t have anything for homework today,” he says. “I think Jessica doesn’t like me.” “I think Jessica doesn’t like me,” he repeats.

“Shut up!” I scream. “Get out!” he screams, too. I don’t understand what’s so funny about repeating what other people say.

“He’s too small,” my parents just explain. “He doesn’t understand.”

Ted eats ice cream before dinner and then he doesn’t eat his food. Sometimes he hides dad’s umbrella and doesn’t want to say where it is. So, mum and dad sometimes really get angry, but Ted just says: “I’m too small.”

Sometimes I would like to be “too small”, especially when Ms Jones tells my dad that I don’t do my homework regularly.

So, that’s Ted. He really annoys me, but he is my kid dinosaur and I love him.