READING 1 Read the magazine article. Put the information in the correct order. • British men like the pop singer, Kylie Minogue. 7 Many British people would like to live next door…
READING 1 Read the magazine article. Put the information in the correct order. • British men like the pop singer, Kylie Minogue. 7 Many British people would like to live next door te a gardening expert. • Kylie lives in a fashionable part of London: Mr Titchmarsh's neighbours do not know him very well. Most people do not want to live next door to the prime minister: Alan Titchmarsh is a well-known British gardening expert. Life 10 15 WHO WOULD YOU LIKE AS.... a neighbour? A recent opinion poli asked 1,000 people in Britain this question. The surprise winner of the poll was Alan Titchmarsh - a gardening expert on BBC TV - with 29% of the vote. The British are very interested in gardening and Titchmarsh is very popular. He is a best-selling writer and a famous TV face. He is even In Madame Tussaud's. To find out more about him, we spoke to some of Mr Titchmarsh's neighbours. We did not learn very much. 'He's a very quiet man and we don't see him much, said one neighbour. We don't ask him for help with our gardens,' said another. 'He's a very busy man." Titchmarsh, a very private man, lives in an eighteenth-century farmhouse in a small village in the south of England. Like many people, he likes quiet neighbours and he is happy where he lives. The top woman in the poll was the Australian pop singer, Kylie Minogue. 85% of her voters were men. Ms Minogue lives in fashlonable Chelsea in the west of London. Her neighbours include her sister Dannii, pop stars Madonna and Bob Geidof, supermodel Liz Hurley, Sean Connery and Formula One king, Bernie Ecclestone. It is an excellent place for star-spotters and Kylle Minogue fans. The British like gardening and attractive Australian pop singers, but, It seems, they do not want to live next door to their prime minister. He got only 3% of the votes in the poll. Is this because people do not want to live in Downing Street? Or is it because they do not like the prime minister?
Here is the information from the article arranged in the correct order:
- A recent opinion poll asked 1,000 people in Britain this question: "Who would you like as a neighbour?"
- The surprise winner of the poll was Alan Titchmarsh - a gardening expert on BBC TV - with 29% of the vote.
- Alan Titchmarsh is a well-known British gardening expert.
- The British are very interested in gardening and Titchmarsh is very popular. He is a best-selling writer and a famous TV face. He is even in Madame Tussaud's.
- Titchmarsh, a very private man, lives in an eighteenth-century farmhouse in a small village in the south of England.
- To find out more about him, we spoke to some of Mr. Titchmarsh's neighbours.
- We did not learn very much. "He's a very quiet man and we don't see him much," said one neighbour. "We don't ask him for help with our gardens," said another. "He's a very busy man."
- Like many people, he likes quiet neighbours and he is happy where he lives.
- The top woman in the poll was the Australian pop singer, Kylie Minogue. 85% of her voters were men.
- Kylie lives in fashionable Chelsea in the west of London.
- Her neighbours include her sister Dannii, pop stars Madonna and Bob Geldof, supermodel Liz Hurley, Sean Connery, and Formula One king, Bernie Ecclestone.
- It is an excellent place for star-spotters and Kylie Minogue fans.
- The British like gardening and attractive Australian pop singers, but, it seems, they do not want to live next door to their prime minister.
- He got only 3% of the votes in the poll.
- Is this because people do not want to live in Downing Street? Or is it because they do not like the prime minister?
- Many British people would like to live next door to a gardening expert.
- Mr. Titchmarsh's neighbours do not know him very well.
- Most people do not want to live next door to the prime minister.
- British men like the pop singer, Kylie Minogue.
