[ An overheard telephone conversation ]

"Good morning - GT's removals, Mai Ling speaking.

How can I help you?

Oh! You want to know who I am?

Oh. Well, I am the personal assistant to Granma T.

I run her office, formalise all the necessary arrangements, manage the workforce and do all the accounts on that old machine with the beads on.

I also child mind those two mischievous scamps - Little Ming and Little Fung, though they are not so little!

How old am I?

Oh dear, I am not the oldest here. Numerically, I am one more than a prime, the number has eight divisors and three prime factors. So there!

Anyway enough of me. I will get Granma T to speak to you...please hold.......

........while you wait perhaps you should er.......

1. Complete my silhouette
   
2. Look at a Chinese 'abacus' and see how it differs from a Japanese or Russian one. Learn how to use one
3. Find other appropriate ways of describing Little Ming and Little Fung.
4. Work out my age!
5. Make lists of comparatives and superlatives -
   

   e.g.	old, older, oldest
   	tall, taller, tallest
   	bright
   	faint
   	great
   	bad
   	many
   	good
   	beautiful
   	much
   	well
   	ill"