Summary

The first part of the assignment requires you to summarize “Living alone is living the dream – but it can be a nightmare too”. The text is an article by Ruth Spencer published on The Guardian website in 2016.

The writer describes her experience of living alone. After breaking up with her boyfriend with whom she had been living for three years, the writer looked forward to living alone for the first time in her life. Until then, the writer had lived with her single mother, with friends, or her boyfriend.

She imagines that living alone will give her the chance to redecorate, to keep the house clean, and to spend quality time reading. Six months later, however, the writer is nowhere near achieving these things.

She still hasn’t hung up her plant,...