II Lesson 3 Jigsaw reading Text a

Leaving home – David Snow talking about his daughter.

My daughter Jackie is living in London now. We're very worried about her, really. London is such a dangerous place for a young girl. She's only eighteen, and London's so far away. Her mother went down to see her there, but I don't like London.

I don't know why she went there. I think she has some friends there. She says she wants to be a dancer, and she's doing a sort of course, a ballet course or something, but dancing isn't a real job, and you don't earn much money being a dancer.

She's living in a flat in north London – with her boyfriend, I think, and we don't like that at all. We've never met the boyfriend- Tony, his name is. He doesn't have a job. I think she's earning some extra money working as a dancer in a theatre or club in the centre of London, but I'm not sure. I hope it's a nice place. I do worry about her. London is such a big place. I'm sure she wants to come home, really. She phones home sometimes, but not very often and when we phone her she's always out. We are her parents, and I know we're important to her, but it still makes me sad.