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Life in an island community
Off the west coast of Scotland , there ____________________ many small island communities . Life in these communities ____________________ very different from life in the big cities . People from the cities often say that life in the islands ____________________ slow and boring . But the island people tell a different story .

Many families live by fishing or farming , and people usually have more than one job . Many families have rooms for tourists who come to visit the islands in summer . The tourists go walking and fishing and play sports . Sometimes they study Gaelic , the local language . And they stay in a 'bed and breakfast' with a local family or in one of the small island hotels . In the long summer evenings , people meet and talk together . They tell stories of where they live and what they do .

The children on the islands go to small local schools . They have their classes in English and Gaelic . Sometimes there ____________________ only eight or ten children in one school ! When they ____________________ twelve , they go to secondary school in a bigger town on the island . When they finish that school , they decide whether to go to university in a big city , or to stay and work on the island .
Are the sentences true ( T ) or false ( F ) ?
1 City people and island people have the same opinion about island life . ____________________
2 People on the island mainly do one job . ____________________
3 Tourists can stay with local families in summer . ____________________
4 Children speak two languages at school . ____________________
5 There are no secondary schools on the islands . F