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57 Read the blog post about the secrets of Jemma’s house. In most lines (1–16) there is a word that should not be there. Write these words in the spaces provided. 2–4 lines are correct. Make a in the space if the line is correct. There are two examples (0, 00) at the beginning. LANGUAGE IN USE 6 Jemma_84 Very soon an exchange student from Austria will be coming to stay on at my crazy house. They are in for a surprise as that our home has some weird features. Iwant to share a few ones of these with many you. To stop our dog, Buster, getting outside, we were turned the door handles upside-down so he can’t stand open the door. Of course, visitors have to know of this too. The motion-sensitive light is supposed to be go on as you pass out, but you have to more or less do a dance in front of it until it works. This makes our neighbours to smile! In the bathroom the hot and cold taps aren’t marked, so you may end up brushing down your teeth in hot water and washing your face in cold. Brrrr! I am bet the Austrians will don’t have a pull-chain to flush their toilets like we do. I wonder for how long it’ll take them to work that right one out! on (0) (00) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) The secrets of my house Reading Jemma’s post above has given you the idea to write a similar blog post: You are spending your holiday at a really strange hotel in/at/on … (choose a place) that has some weird features. You have decided to share your experience with your friends by writing a blog post. Give examples of some of the weird features and say what you are planning to do about them. Don’t forget to give your blog post a title and invite other bloggers to comment. WRITING 7 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv