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A very special ordinary girl

1 Read the article. Pick a heading for each paragraph. Note – there’s an extra heading.

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Fran’s likes are not for sale

How it all began

Setting up a company

Reactions – likes and dislikes

Growing interest

Meet Fran

2 Read the article again. Tick if the statements are right (), wrong () or not in the text (?).

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1. Fran knows exactly what kind of job she wants to have later.

2. Fran is an unusual teenager because she talks online to many people.

3. Fran started her vlog when she was 15.

4. Her first successful vlog was about a baseball cap.

5. When the number of fans jumped to 5000, Fran was afraid of the change.

6. In one of her vlogs, she wanted to know why she should buy a trendy handbag.

7. In her vlog, Fran tries to be friends with everybody.

8. The company that sells energy drinks sent Fran 300 free cans of it.

9. Fran said that the energy drink didn’t taste good.

10. Fran told the company how they could make the drink better.

3 Five statements in exercise 2 are wrong. Correct these statements on a separate piece

of paper. 4 Find words and phrases from the text that mean the same as:

get connected to the internet (paragraph 1):

uploading videos of your personal comments to the internet (paragraph 2):

the number of subscribers kept going up (paragraph 3):

got lots of likes (paragraph 4):

doesn’t pay attention to the people who upset her (paragraph 4):

what drink she likes better (paragraph 5):

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A very special ordinary girl

1 Read the article. Pick a heading for each paragraph. Note – there’s an extra heading.

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Fran’s likes are not for sale 5How it all began 2Setting up a company –Reactions – likes and dislikes 4Growing interest 3Meet Fran 1

2 Read the article again. Tick if the statements are right (), wrong () or not in the text (?).

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1. Fran knows exactly what kind of job she wants to have later. 2. Fran is an unusual teenager because she talks online to many people. 3. Fran started her vlog when she was 15. 4. Her first successful vlog was about a baseball cap. 5. When the number of fans jumped to 5000, Fran was afraid of the change. 6. In one of her vlogs, she wanted to know why she should buy a trendy handbag. ?

7. In her vlog, Fran tries to be friends with everybody. 8. The company that sells energy drinks sent Fran 300 free cans of it. ?9. Fran said that the energy drink didn’t taste good. 10. Fran told the company how they could make the drink better.

3 Five statements in exercise 2 are wrong. Correct these statements on a separate piece

of paper. 1 Fran doesn’t know exactly what she wants to be when she grows up. 3 Fran started her vlog several years ago. / Fran didn’t start her vlog when she was 15. 5 Fran was amazed at the change. / She was not afraid. 7 Fran says you can’t be friends with everybody. 10 Fran told the company “Thanks, but no thanks.” / She wasn’t interested in working with them.

4 Find words and phrases from the text that mean the same as:

get connected to the internet (paragraph 1): go online

uploading videos of your personal comments to the internet (paragraph 2): vlogging

the number of subscribers kept going up (paragraph 3): it kept climbing

got lots of likes (paragraph 4): received a huge number of likes

doesn’t pay attention to the people who upset her (paragraph 4): ignores the haters

what drink she likes better (paragraph 5): what drink she would prefer

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A very special ordinary girl

1. In some ways, Fran is a pretty normal 15-year-old: she’s a student at a normal high school, she sometimes fights with her parents, and she doesn’t know exactly what she wants to be when she grows up. In other ways Fran is pretty unusual: after school, Fran goes online and talks to an audience of over 100,000 people every day.

2. Several years ago Fran started a vlog called fantasticfran. In her vlog she talked about anything and everything – how her day was at school, what movies she saw, and which actors were her favourite. After about a year of vlogging, Fran uploaded a video where she talked about a certain brand of baseball cap that was popular with guys at her school. The silly part, Fran said, was that guys were leaving the sticker on – you know, the sticker that says the size – which you would normally take off after buying. “What’s up with that?” asks Fran in her vlog, and throws her hands up in the air.

3. The vlog about baseball caps changed everything. Before, Fran had about 300 subscribers, mostly friends and family. After, that number jumped to 5,000, and kept climbing. Fran was amazed at the change. And she kept asking the question: “What’s up with that?”

She asked this question about every trend that was supposed to be “cool”. New smartphones, piercings, tattoos, make-up ... she wanted to know two things: 1) Why was this stuff so important? And more importantly: 2) Why she was supposed to buy it? 4. She received a huge number of likes, comments and fans. Now Fran has over 100,000 subscribers, with new people subscribing every day. Some of the comments aren’t from people that like Fran, sometimes people are upset with her. But Fran says that she just ignores the haters, because you can’t be friends with everybody. All of this attention has started to make adults take notice as well. In her latest vlog, Fran told a little story. She said that she got an email from a certain company that sells energy drinks. They had watched her vlog on their product. Fran had tried their newest energy drink, but of course, she wasn’t a big fan. In fact, she had said that her teeth felt sticky after drinking it. Maybe it would make a nice perfume for girls, or hair gel for guys, but it wasn’t a tasty drink. 5. According to Fran, this company asked her in the email what drink she would prefer. What does Fran like? Fran smiled in her vlog as she told the end of the story. She said that she told the company “Thanks, but no thanks.” She wasn’t interested in working with them and her opinion could not be bought. “What’s up with that?” she asked. We hope it stays that way, Fran.

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