Guendalina Tavassi Shows Her Rome Home
Guendalina Tavassi is a famous person on Italian TV. She lives in a house in the centre of Rome.
Her house has a fireplace with a nice frame. It also has a sofa made of velvet. There is also a white bedroom.
Guendalina is known for a TV show called Grande Fratello VIP. This means Big Brother VIP in English. On the show, she talked about how she met her husband.
Guendalina had a hard childhood. She also talks about her cosmetic surgery. This means small operations to change how you look.
She loved a man named Federico Perna. Guendalina became a mother when she was only 17 years old.
Vocabulary15 words
- fireplace
- a place in a house where you make a fire
- frame
- something that goes around a picture or object
- sofa
- a long soft seat for more than one person
- velvet
- a soft, smooth kind of cloth
- cosmetic surgery
- a small operation to change how you look
- childhood
- the time when you are a child
- maternity
- the state of being a mother
- centre
- the middle part of a place
- famous
- known by many people
- husband
- a woman's married partner
- bedroom
- a room where you sleep
- show
- a program on TV
- talked about
- spoke about something
- loved
- had strong feelings for someone
- mother
- a woman who has a child
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1. In the centre of Rome 2. A fireplace and a velvet sofa 3. 17
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Guendalina Tavassi is a famous person on Italian TV. She lives in a house in the _____ of Rome.
Her house has a _____ with a nice frame. It also has a sofa made of _____.
There is also a white _____.
Guendalina is known for a TV show called Grande Fratello VIP. On the show, she talked about how she met her _____.
Guendalina had a hard _____. She also talks about her cosmetic surgery.
She loved a man named Federico Perna. Guendalina became a _____ when she was only 17 years old.
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