Name: Diego Arredondo Nava Date : 13-11-19
1 Listen to a speaker talking about organizing her home. Complete the text about Marie Kondo.
eight nineteen Japan Tokyo the USA
Marie Kondo is a businesswoman and a tidying expert! She’s from
1 Japan and she started her business
when she was just 2 19 . While Kondo was studying in 3 tokyo , she helped people to organize their
homes and developed the KonMari method. Later, she wrote a book about her ideas. The book has been
very popular in countries like Japan, Germany and 4 5
USA and it has sold over 8 mil ion copies. (5 marks )
2 Listen to a speaker talking about organizing her home. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)?
1 Kondo says that we should throw away all of our clothes and books. T
2 You can do an online course about the KonMari method. T
3 Kondo believes that tidying our homes can make us healthier. T
4 The speaker was feeling unhappy last month.
T 5 Kondo says that clothes are the hardest thing to throw away. T (5 marks )
3 Complete the sentences from the audio with the correct form of the verb in brackets.
Listen to a speaker talking about organizing her home and check your answers.
1 She help ed people to organize ( organize) their homes.
2 I wanted j ( find) out more.
3 In her book, Kondo suggests j ( start) with your clothes.
4 I had expected j ( be) bored and tired at the end of the day.
5 I don’t mind j ( open) the wardrobe now ! (5 marks ) lOMoARc PSD|36126207
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Kondo says that we should only keep the clothes, the books an 1
I was feeling real y stressed and miserable – it was time to try th
My room used to look terrible – there were clothes on t he floor,