In the popular radio drama Family Business

In the popular radio drama Family Business, things aren’t looking good for the Blake family. They own the Full Moon restaurant, but a new restaurant called The Angel is taking all teir customers. The Full Moon alsohas serious money problems and relationships between the family members are getting worse every week. For new listeners here’s our guide to the main characters in radio’s most popular drama. Clive Blake is the chef at The Full Moon-but being married to Lydia isn’t easy. He thinks she’s impatient and inconsiderate and would like and to ask her for a divorce. But if he does what will happen to the restaurant he loves? Trudy is Lydia and Clive’s youngest child. Nineteen-year-old Trudy is unemployed and she can’t keep a job for more than two weeks. Is this because she’s immature, moody and unhelpful, perhaps? Kathy is Darren’s lovely wife and mother of three-month-old Elizabeth. Kathy is quiet, easy-going and unselfish-but does she have a secret past? Lydia Blake and her husband Clive own The Full Moon restaurant. Lydia is bright and extremely stubborn, and she is very worried about the restaurant. She wants to borrow some money from the bank – if she can’t, The Full Moon might have to close. Darren is the oldest of Lydia and Clive’s three children (their other son, Nick, left the programme a year ago) . Darren works as a waiter in his parents’ restaurant-when he’s not stealing cars or staying out all night. The most dishonest and unreliable member of the family, he’s the one we love to hate! Eve King is the owner of The Angel restaurant, which opened in the same street as The Full Moon last month. Eve is attractive, ambitious –and single!

Read the article. Then answer these questions.

Do Lydia and Clive have a good relationship? ___________________________________

Is The Full Moon restaurant successful? ________________________________________
How many children have they got? ____________________________________________
Has Trudy got a job at the moment? ___________________________________________
Which of their children is a criminal?__________________________________________
When did Nick leave the programme? _________________________________________
Who are Elizabeth’s parents? ________________________________________________
Where is The Angel restaurant? ______________________________________________

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Find the opposites of these adjectives in the article. Write the following words in the table: patient, considerate, employed, mature, helpful, honest, reliable, selfish, happy, inteligent, polite, ambitious, friendly, possible, attractive, correct, sure, organised, healthy.

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Grade 11
Control work 5