My name's Bilal and I live in Bradford in the north of England. Both sets of my grandparents emigrated ____ Pakistan in the 1960s, just before my parents were ____. My dad worked on the buses and my mum stayed at home and ____ up the family. Dad would like a change of ____ but it's a bit late for him now to ____ jobs. I think he's just looking forward to ____. I've got a sister who's 25. She didn't leave home until last summer, when she ____ married. My dad wants me to go to university in Birmingham and study ____. But I think I'd like to ____ my own business, creating computer games. Boy: Tell me a bit about your ____, Sandra. Girl: Well, I grew ____ in the village where my family has lived for ____. My great-great-grandad ____ here from Birmingham in the 1930s, looking for work. B What kind of work did he find?G He found a job on a farm, just outside the village. He settled ____, married a local girl and started a family. They worked incredibly hard and over the years they managed to save quite a bit of money and eventually bought a small farmhouse with some land. B: And does your family still own that land? G: Yes, it does. My great-great-grandparents had a son. When he got ____, he bought more land and now the farm is quite big. I don't have any brothers or sisters so one day I'll ____ it and keep it running. My mum met my dad while she was on holiday in France. She's British and he's French. They ____ in love, ____ engaged after a week and were married a month later. And thenI ____ born! They named me Charlotte as it's both an English and a French name. Anyway, unfortunately the marriage didn't last. They split ____ when I was just a ____ and got ____ a few months later. I was ____ up by my mum after she moved ____ to the UK. It was tough for her being a single parent. But she went to university, got a degree and then ____ a teacher. She met my ____-dad at university and they've been married for about 10 years. My name's Callum. My mum's parents were from poor working-class families in Glasgow. They ____ school at sixteen and didn't go to ____. But they started a successful ____ and didn't ____ until they were in their seventies. My mum ____ quite a bit of money when they passed ____, but she didn't want to work in the family business and ____ it. She moved south and ____ down in Liverpool. She got ____ and took an office job. But she soon wanted a ____ of career. I think she was fed up with the cold, wet weather too, because she persuaded my dad to ____ to Australia when I was two. I'd love to visit Glasgow and Liverpool one day and see where my mum and her parents lived before emigrating.

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