ELEMENTARY UDENT’S BOOKRe Eri rel p EO Pp L E AN D + describe people and places + introduce yourself + explain where you are from p LAC ES + talk about jobs and where you work + ask and answer common questions + say more about your town / city page 6 talk about free-time activities discuss what you like — and don't like arrange to meet describe your dally life talk about how often — and when — you do things use more English in class page 14 VIDEO 1:A famous city page 22 REVIEW 1 page 23 WRITING 1: Forms page 150 | H + talk about the area you live in name things you often buy and de explain where things are explain what you need to do + describe your house / fiat + ask people to do things : page 24 + talk about what you did in the past + comment on what people tell you + talk about dates and months ¥ + ask and answer questions about holidays = page 32 : VIDEO 2: Alex the parrot page 40 REVIEW 2:page41 WRITING 2: Pen friends page 152 + describe what you want + talk to a shop assistant + understand prices + talk about department stores + talk about things happening now ~ give excuses follow directions in a store describe classmates and teachers name school and university subjects talk about courses you're doing talk about languages and education give opinions about what's better VIDEO 3: Photo camp page 58 REVIEW 3:page59 WRITING 3: Cards page 154 + talk about your family + express surprise + give opinions about family life + talk about things that are necessary or not necessary talk about people you know talk about people's plans make simple suggestions * talk about things you'd like to do. discuss government plans 7 give basic opinions and reasons 7 VIDEO 4: Two Kenyan guys in Texas page 76 REVIEW 4: page 77 WRITING 4: Making arrangements page 156 2DEVELOPING CONVERSATIONS VOCABULARY READING LISTENING Countries + My home town Language schoo! + Which part? 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Superlatives. recommendations “ i oe too, epee! i ee + My eating habits + In arestaurant * Ordering food and drink 7 ae quart ne maine + Talking about food vocabulary: Forming negatives by adding un- Ss + Inthenews + Weather * Sixreasonsnotto.. - What's the forecast? + Short questions: + The countryside and + Talking about animals _ the city = Animals a % i 7: + will wont for - Desaribing films, - Comments on the » Talking about films + What's it like? predictions plays and musicals news and musicals » Adjective + verb + Life and society + Anew life » Anews report "+ bethinking of+-ing + Machines and : « Talking about + Adverbs technology ‘ technology = + Computers and the + Technology can + Aqguestionnaire internet ‘save US. about computers and + Whattechnology technology. y does E i marriage + Poems about + News about + Did Heil you ial cet promises relationships —_ Love at first sight | Contents 5IN THIS UNIT YOU LEARN HOW To: describe people and places introduce yourself + explain where you are from + talk about jobs and where you work ask and answer common questions Say more about your town / city SPEAKING 1 Talk to other students. Tell each other your names. WORDS FOR UNIT 1 2 Work in pairs. Match the words to the photos. airport government river beach 7 mosque shop assistant businesswoman museum traffic hurch nurse university uintryside office waiter factory police officer EEE Listen. Check your answers. Listen again. Repeat the words. Work in pairs. Test each other. Cover the words. Student A: point to a photo. Student B: say the word. Do you know the English words for anything else in the photos? Unit 1 People and places _7SPEAKING 1 Work in pairs. Try to say the names of everyone in your class. That's Yuki. What's his name? What's her name? LISTENING 2 [EXE] Listen to a teacher and a student at an English-language school. Tick () the sentences that are true. 1 The dent’s surname is Miguel. He's from Spain He works ina city called Chihuahua The city is in the east. s hot in the ty now, 3 busi sman. EMEA Listen again. Correct the sentences in Exercise 2 that aren’t true Work in pairs. Look at the audio script on page 197. Practise reading out the conversation VOCABULARY Countries 5 Work in pairs. Match the countries in A to the parts of the world in B. A B Costa Rica Aftica Brazil North America Italy Central America Canada South America China the Middle East Saudi Arabia Europe Kenya Asia Write one more country in each part of the world. Use a dictionary if you need to. Then work in pairs. 9 Student A: say the country. Student B: say the part of the world Look at the photos on pages 6 and 7. Say what country or part of the world you think they are in. For example: [ think the beach in the photo is i This photo is in Turkey. It’s starit ‘DEVELOPING CONVERSATIONS Look at the map below. Complete these sentences with places on the map. 4 I'm from ____—- the capital. 2 I'm from _______— in the north. _ 3 They're from — inthe south. 4 I'm from _____— in the east. 5 My mum's from —in the west. Z 6 My dad’s from —in the middle. 8 Use countries from Exercises 5 and 6 — or Use cities / areas in your country — to have Conversations like this: A: Where are you from? 8: Brazil, A! Which part? 8: Recife, © Where are you from? 5: 1'm trom Rome. ©: Which part? D: Morena — in the south. GRAMMAR late. a teacher. OK. a good student. at the airport. from Moscow. _] in te OK? 11 Complete the sentences with the words in brackets and the correct form of be. 1 How ____? (you) 2 Where ____ from? (your granddad) 3 _____ from Spain. (my parents) 4 a receptionist in a hotel. (I) 5 It____a good job. (not) 6 a very big city. (Tokyo) 7 How old___? (Miguel), 8 late? (we) 9 cold? (you) 0 4 a boring place. (it) 12 Listen and check your answers. Repeat the sentences. 13 Work in groups. Ask students where their parents / grandparents are from. G _For further practice, oe es CONVERSATION PRACTICE 14 Look at the questions. Write one more question to ask. Then use all the questions and have conversations with other students. And where are you from? Oh, OK. Which part? + Hi. How are you? + What's your name? Cenk kk a men ee een Unit 1 People and places 9VOCABULARY Jobs and workplaces How many jobs can you write in English in one minute? Find out what jobs people in your class do, Ask: What do you do? Match the jobs (1-8) to the places people work (a-h). 4 areceptionist 5 apolice officer 2 ateacher 6 a waiter 3 ashop assistant 7 adesigner 4 anurse 8 a civil servant a ina clothes shop / in Harrods b ina clinic /in a hospital ¢ ina tax office / ina local government office d at home/ ina studio € ina big hotel / in a small company f inaschool/ in a university g ata local police station / in the traffic department h ina café / ina restauran’ We use a/ an with jobs I'ma teacher. My sister's a designer My dad’s anal Work in pairs. Use the ideas in Exercise 3. Have three different conversations. Use this model: A: What do you do? B: I’m a waiter. A: Oh, yes? Where do you work? B: In. coté in town. What do you do? A: I'm a designer. B: Where do you work? A: Ina studio in Berlin. LISTENING EXE4 Listen to four conversations. Circle the words you hear. 1 Jan is a doctor/ a nurse in a clinic / a hospite Warsaw. 2 Lara is a designer / a teacher in a schoo! /.an of in Bristol. She enjoys / doesn’t enjoy it a receptionist. She 3 Marta is a civil serv an office | a comp: great/ OK ny in the north of Brazil. He He doesn waiter > in the centre of tow He wants to become a police officer / ani Work in pairs. Look at the audio script on page 197. Choose one of the conversations practise reading it out. nf 10 Me oo a-7 Read these sentences. Do the people like their job? Write ¥ ork. 4 | want different job. 5 It’s interesting. 2 It's great. 6 Ido very long hours. 3 The people are 7 W's boring, reallyinice: 8 work at night. It’s not 4 The money's bad. good. g Ask different students these questions. . What do you do? . Where do you work? + Doyou enjoy it? GRAMMAR Present simple Look at these examples of the present simple. in Rio Branco. She works in an office. _|idon’t speak French. He doesn’t like it. Where do you work? Do you enjoy it? 9 Complete the table with -s, do, does, don’t and doesn't. |/ You / We / They live there. He / She / it live’ there. Negatives I/you/ we/ they + + infinitive he/she /it +? + infinitive EE ———————— Questions 4 +1 / you / we / they + infinitive? E + he/she / it + infinitive? G . Check your ideas on page 166 and do Exercise 1. 10 Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. SS My wife's a journalist. She ‘ (work) for a local Newspaper. | © (not see) her a lot because she ‘___(do) very long hours. She * (get Up) early and she sometimes works all night. When she : (have) free time, we ° (not go out), (not (be) very because she only wants to sleep! But she 7 Want) a different job because her job * (like) it a lot. interesting and she ® 11 12 13 14 15 Write about three people you know. Then tell a partner. For example: My friend Juan is a teacher. He works in a school. He likes his job because the people are nice, / He doesn’t like his job because the pay is bad. Put the words in the correct order to complete the questions. The first one is done for you. 1 What do /you/in/ free time / do / your /?. What do you do in your free time? 2 Where live do /you/? 3 Who with / you /do/ live /? 4 How go / do /there / you /? 5 What time you/do/get/up/? 6 When to bed / you /go/do/? 7 Howmany languages / you /speak/do/? 8 Do you /to go / out / want / ? Match the answers (a-h) to questions 1-8 in Exercise 12. I live on my own. At about twelve o'clock most nights. 1. go swimming, | play football, | read. In Belvaros, near the river. Itake the bus. Two — French and Spanish. Sure. Where do you want to go? s@>7 of) aos At half past seven PRONUNCIATION (ENGI Listen to ‘do you’ — first fast, then slow. Then listen to five questions from Exercise 12 - first fast and then slow. Repeat them. Work in pairs. Student A: ask the questions in Exercise 12. Student B: say the answers in Exercise 13 (ej For further practice, see Exercises 2 and 3 on page 167. SPEAKING 16 Choose five questions from these pages. Write one more question, Then work in pairs. Ask and answer your questions.A NICE PLACE TO LIVE 6 VOCABULARY Describing places 1 Work in pairs. The first page of this unit has ten words for places. How many do you remember? 7 2 Look at page 7 and check. Say the plural of the words, Which word has an irregular plural? Which two words have no plural? ROTATES ASS Choose the correct words. wo 1 It's a small / big city. Ten million people live there. 2 | don't go swimming there because the beaches are very quiet / dirty 3 It's very hot / cold in the summer: 35 or 40. It's a very expensive / famous town. Everyone knows it. a It doesn’t have any shops. It’s busy / boring! 6 It's very cheap / safe. My house is only 400 euros a month 7 A lot of people visit in the summer. It’s very busy / quiet. 8 I really like it. It's a great / boring place to live 9 The countryside is very nice. It's a dirty / beautifull area 10 It’s very famous / safe. | walk everywhete — day ahd night. 4 Work in pairs. Say places you know using the ideas below. Do you agree? is. a very big city. is very quiet. is very cold in the winter. is very expensive isa beautiful area. is a very famous town. READING 5 Work in pairs. Describe the places in the photos. Use words from Exercise 3.Read the four texts. Match the texts to the : : photos on page 12. Then decide which person is: With plural nouns 4 adesigner. 3 a businessman. cinemas. 2 anurse. 4 a teacher. some parks near here. 7 Work in pairs. Answer these questions. alot of | shops in town. 4 Is each place nice? Why? / Why not? 2. Which place is best / worst for you? Why? 3 Which job is best / worst for you? Why? 9 Complete the sentences with words from the table in Exercise 8. 1 There are a lot of nice shops near my house: 2 a university in your town? 3 a beautiful old mosque in the town centre. 4 any hospitals in the area. 5 _____an expensive restaurant near here. I's famous! 6 _____ some beautiful houses in the old part of the city. 7 ____ some nice little places to eat on the beach. 8 _____ an airport outside town. 9 _____ any cinemas in your town? 10 any schools in the village. We go to the next town. aa PRONUNCIATION 10 [EMG Listen to the sentences from Exercise 9 said slowly and then faster. Listen again, Practise saying them. 11 Workin groups. Discuss these questions. Try to use there’s / there are. + Which sentences in Exercise 9 describe the place you are from? + What's the best thing about the place you are from? + Which places in your country are very goed / bad to live in? Why? s/ there are tio ta lot of jobs now. SOUNDS AND VOCABULARY REVIEW 8 ¢ . _. 12 Listen and repeat the sounds with /I/, /r/, /w/ ‘omplete the table with the missing words. and /j/. Are any of them difficult for you to hear or say? 13 [EME Work in groups. Listen to eight sentences using these words. Together, try to write them greatimuseum. down. Then listen again and finish writing them. a/an | oid church near here. $$$ << ———_—_——_—_— cinema. 2 eafeinearhere? oe airport? ] isn't park near here. | TT —— Unit 1 People andplaces 13IN THIS UNIT YOU LEARN HOW TO: talk about free-time activities uss what you like — and don't like + atfange to meet describe your daily life talk about how often — and when — you do things use more English in class WORDS FOR UNIT 2 Work in pairs. Match the activities to the photos cooking meeting new people dancing playing computer games doing sport playing the guitar drawing reading going out for dinner singing going to a concert swimming going to the cinema walking listening to music watching TV EJ Listen. Check your answers. Listen again. Repeat the words. Work in pairs, Test each other. Cover the words Student A: point to a photo. Student B: say the activity. Do you know the English words for anything else in the photos?SPEAKING 1 Complete the sentences with activities from page 15. 1 ___is boring. 4 is great. 2 ____isinteresting. 5 I'mbad at 3 ____is expensive. 6 I'm good at 2 Work in pairs. Tell your partner your ideas. Does your partner agree? LISTENING 3 Look at the people in the pictures. What activities do you think they like / don’t like? 4 Listen to the two people talking, Complete the table with doesn’t like, thinks it’s OK and loves. Woman Man doing sport walking doesn't like playing computer games going to the cinema loves 5 Work in pairs. Look at the audio script on Page 198. Practise reading out the conversation. 16 DO YOU WANT TO COME? SPEAKING 6 GRAMMAR li ras Si | 10 11 G)) For farther pract Work in groups. Ask Do you like ...? questions, Reply with J love it, It’s OK or No, not really, A: Do you like cooking? B: Yes, | do. [ love it. What about you? A: It’s OK, but I'm not very good at it. Verb patterns a After some verbs, we often use -ing. | ove playing tennis. b After some verbs, we often use fo + infinitive. Do you want to see Love Train? Which sentences are the same as pattern a above, and which are the same as pattern b? He really likes swimming. | need to go now. | enjoy working on my own. q 2 3 4 | want to learn to drive. 5 Try to use the words you learn. 6 | hate living in the city. Check your ideas on page 168 and do Exercise 1. Write full sentences from the notes. 1 My daughter / want / get / a new phone. My sister / love / play / tennis. you / like / dance? |/ try / study English / every day. |/ not / enjoy / shop: We/ need / buy / some things later. \/ really hate / cook. \/really want / learn / draw. / V f E - E f E 12 OYORTARWN PRONUNCIATION EAEEE Listen and repeat six sentences with 0 + infinitive. Notice how we often say to as to Complete the sentences so they are true for y" | love | don’t really like 1 2 3 This WeekI need 4 | want to learn 5 | don’t really enjoy Work in pairs. Tell your partner your ideas SmarrDEVELOPING CONVERSATIONS Arrangements We can make future arrangements using the present simple. A: Do you want to go shopping on Saturday? B: OK. Where do you want to meet? A: Outside Harrods — the big department store. B: OK. What time? A: Isten OK? B: Yeah, Fine: 12 Match the questions in the box to the pairs of possible answers in 1-5. Do you like going to the cinema? ou want to see Monsters 6 on Sunday? What time do you want to meet? Where? What time does the film end? 1A: a B: Is four good? / Is seven OK? The film starts at eight. sure. About seven, | think. / About 11.30. long film I > BOK. That sounds nice. / Sorry. I’m busy then. 4A _ & Yes, it's OK. / No, not really A B: Outside the train station. / Outside the cinema EAEF Listen to two conversations where people make arrangements. Choose the correct words in the notes. Watch ‘match / film with Jack Meet outside “café / Green Street siation at four / five Lunch with Tina Frenci Meet °one restaurant / Italian restaurant two o'clock outside the °cat Work in pairs. Which day in the conversations do you think sounds best — Saturday or Sunday? Why? CONVERSATION PRACTICE Decide two things you want to do at the weekend (on Friday night, Saturday or Sunday) Decide where you want to meet and what time Work in pairs. Have conversations like the ones in the box in Developing Conversations. PERI eee en ee Unit 2 Freetime 17' | VOCABULARY Daily life 1 When do people usually do the activities below? Put them in the three groups in the table. do homework have a coffee finish school have a shower t home from work have lunch t up leave work ‘0 bed watch the news go to the theatre write emails in the morning | in the afternoon 2 Work in pairs and compare your answers. Do you always agree? If not, why not? 3 Look at the words in Exercise 1 for two minutes. Close your books. Work in pairs. See how many words you remember. GRAMMAR Adverbs of frequency We use some adverbs to show how often we do something, Notice their position in the sentence. ! always have a shower in the morning / usually go to bed at midnight. 18 in the evening A oe : - \ wa - dda = USUALLY FINISH AT FIVE 4 Complete the table below with the adverbs in the box. Then translate all the adverbs into you language. J always never often sometime: occasionally hardly ever on VSS SCC eRe Cn eee 5 Tick (/) the sentences that are true for you Change the adverbs in the other sentences to make them true for you, lalways watch the news in the evening 1 2 usually have a coffee after my lunch. w I never drink beer or wine 4 hardly ever read novels. 5 loften listen to music when | go to sleep. & loccasionally go to rock concerts 7 lalways do my homework for my English cle 8 Isometimes go swimming at the weekend 6 Work in groups. Take turns saying your sentences. Who is most similar to you? te i < im et ec wks oes — Rwy-—-— eee write four true sentences using the phrases 10 in the box and an adverb. Then say them to a partner. cook dinner for friends sleep in the afternoon use English outside class work at the weekend a READING g Read an article about how three people spend their free time. Answer these questions. 4 Who is most similar to you? Why? 2 Who do you think is the happiest person? Why? 9 Read the article again. Decide which person: { does sport or exercise. 2 spends a lot of money, 3 is tired at the weekend 11 4 likes TV. 5 seems quiet. 6 has a busy social life. 7 goes to bed quite early. 8 works long hours. aS BIRGIT FROM GERMANY Complete the sentences with the prepositions in bold in the article. I'm always very busy —_ __ Mondays, 2 | always go running ______ Sunday mornings. 3 | don't usually work _____ Fridays. It’s great. | get up _—______ nine or ten. 4 Our school day finishes — four. 5 The film starts 10.30. eight and ends 6 We don’t usually do very much the weekend — just relax. 7 | sometimes have a short sleep _ the afternoon. 8 I'm usually very tired ___ the morning. | need to have a coffee! SPEAKING Work in groups. Ask each other these questions. + What do you normally do on Friday nights? + What do you normally do on Saturdays? + What do you normally do on Sundays? + Do you go out in the evening during the week? When? What do you do? Which person in the group has the best social life? 1do something most nights. On Mondays and Wednesdays, I go to my English cle id on Tuesdays, | usually go to the cinema with friends, because the tickets are cheap then. On Thursdays, | always go to the gym. L ustally go out dancing on Sauurday nights, | often get home at four or five in the morning, so on Sundays, I sleep! 1 sometimes get FRANKIE FROM THE UK Fiee time? | don't have any free time because I have my own business. | occasionally go to a rock concert — about once or twice a year’ 20 shopping at the weekend. I like buying expensive things with the money I cam. Thave avery nice car and avery big TV, 1 like watching sport but 1 hardly SVETLANA FROM RUSSIA 1 don't go out much during the week. | usually study for two hours: in the evening, | meyer watch TV really, 1 usually play the piano every day, It helps me to relax. Then | go to bed at nine or ten nd read Av the weekend, | go out with my family to a park or the countryside and we go for a walk, sometimes yo loa shopping centre with friends, ever buy anything! at thtee in the afternoon. and | sometimes Unit 2 Freetime 19A LOT OF HOMEWORK! = SPEAKING 1 Work in pairs. Discuss these questions. : + Do you like doing courses in your free time? + ts this your first English course? + Do you like learning English? + Do you like... . doing homework? ... watching films or TV shows in English? .. listening to songs in English? ... reading in English? ... finding new words in a dictionary? .. practising your pronunciation? VOCABULARY In an English class 2 Match 1-5 with a-e and 6-10 with fj. 1 listen a a break / notes 2 take b the text / the questions 3 turnoff ¢ in pencil / the words in your notebook 4 write d to the conversation / and write what you hear 5 read e your mobile phones / the light 6 do f the words / what you think 7 check g afilm/the video and take notes on what you see 8 close h Exercise 1 / alot of homework 9 say i your book / the window 10 watch j_ the answers / the meaning in your dictionary wit 3 Work in pairs. _ 1 Student A: close your book. ’ Student B: say a verb. write 3 E Jf Student A: say a phrase. write the answers ne 4 Do you need these things for your English clas.) ‘ Explain why / why not. 5 | —~ 6 a dictionary paper scissors a mobile phone apen tissues 8 We money a rubber water 3 For example: . always need a pen because | need to take notes. . I don't need scissors because / don’t cut things in clas: GRA LISTENING 5 [REE Listen to three conversations in an Englis; Cc class. Decide which conversation (1-3) happens o ee Wet a atthe beginning of the class. a ofw b in the middle of the class. Nou ¢ atthe end of the class. calle 6 Listen again. Decide if the sentences are true (T) or false (F). 4 Camilla has money for two coffees 2 The break is 25 minutes long. 3 They need to do two exercises for homework and learn some words 4 Simon wants a lot of homework. 5 Simon sits next to Camilla. E 6 Camilla gives him her dictionary. ‘Son The We Hei COL7 (KEI Listen again. Complete the sentences with one word. Contractions (it’s, isn’t, ete.) are one word. 7 It's a break. He says 2 OK, thanks. How 3. B: This is a lot of homework. A Do you so? 4 Simon— or ten minutes. 5 Hi, ______ I'm late. 6 Teacher! What does ‘turn off’ ? a café next door. is the break? to do it. Do some every day. Five g Work in pairs. Discuss the questions. + Are Camilla and Simon good or bad students? + Do you like the way Matty teaches? Why? / Why not? - How often are you late / do you forget things / do you do homework? GRAMMAR ia ae.) a Countable and uncountable nouns We usually use a / on with singular nouns and some / a Jot of with plural nouns. Nouns with both singular and plural forms like this are called countable nouns. Sell ‘Some Rouns have no plural form. ‘These nouns are called uncountable nouns. ‘We use some or a /ot of with them. Here are some nouns that are often uncountable: “ouniryside food help paper time traffic water 2 Complete the sentences with a / an, some or G lot of. 1 IWant to be _ English teacher. 2 Doyoulhave rubber? 3 Do you want water? 4 Ineed _ paper to take notes : Sorry I'm late. There's traffic today. There's nice countryside near here. 10 Look at each pair of sentences in the box and circle the differences. In pairs, discuss what things are different when you use an uncountable noun instead of a countable noun. Countable 1, don't need a dictionary. Idonttneed any help 2. There aren't any cars. There isn'tany traffic. 3. There aren'tmany cars, ‘There isn'tmuch traffic 4 Doyou have a rubber? jaye any paps 5 Doyou have any tissues? Do we have any homework? 6 Doyouwant some chips? Do you want some water?” Crema 11 Workin groups. Look at the words in Exercise 4. Find out: + who has the most things. how many of the things you have between you. For example: A: Do you have a pen? B: Yes, here. Do you have any paper? A: No. | don’t. 12 Use these ideas to write sentences that are true for you. |/ have / free time There / be / thing(s) to do here 1/'do / homework | / want to have / kid(s) 1/ drink / coffee 6 I /like/ rock music apwn = 13 Workin pairs. Say your sentences to each other. How similar are you? ecm Sr as SOUNDS AND VOCABULARY REVIEW 14 Listen and repeat the sounds with /k/, /g/, {s/ and /z/. Are any of them difficult for you to hear or say? 15 [EEN Work in groups. Listen to eight sentences using the words in the box. Together, try to write them down. Then listen again and finish writing them. break closes G _Forfurtherrevision, see Exercises 1-3 on page 169 countryside get games homework telax Unit 2 Freetime 211 Work in pairs. Look at the photos. Discuss these 4 In pair: questions. the six different parks the c ty do you think this is? ten things the woman says people do | o you know the places in the photos? 5 Work in groups. Do you have any photos of y ij ‘ood city to liv 21 Sara Ur Way . aigoodjelty tolimer Whiyed town / city? Show the other students in you . az group. Say something about each photo. 2 COREY Watch the first part of the video (0,.00— 0.58). Answer these questions. UNDERSTANDING FAST SPEECH in , ‘ 6 (CIM Read and listen to this extract from t e aKeT KG @ city video said fast, then slow. Stressed so\ the wor t it the open space CAPITALS. a : y ter For TOUrists, PAris Is the Elffel TO: the CHURches, But for ME, PA *h the rest of the video (0,58-2.18) the PARKS, GARdens and SQUARES €r say the same ten thin t You try! Practise Saying the extract wit! same stressed sounds. 22REVIEW 1 4 Choose the correct option. 4 A: Where ore / is he from? B: France. 2 A Do you want to go / going to the cinema later? B: OK. What time? 3 A: Do you have a/ any tissues? B: Yes. There are one / some in my bag. 4 & Are/ fs you OK? B: Yes, I’m / am OK, thanks. 5 A: Do you like play / playing tennis? B: Yes, it's / he’s great. 6 A Does / Is your town big? B: Not really. There /s/ are only about 10,000 people. 7 A: What you do/ do you do at the weekend? B: | usually stay at home. / don’t / ’m not earn much money. @ & Do/ Does your son like football? B: He love / loves waiching, but he doesn't play very onen / sometimes. 2 Write full questions to complete the dialogue. Use the words in brackets. z ? (do) Bema doctor A? ? (work) ® Ate hospital in the north of Rome. a ? (enjoy) B: Yes. it's a great job. 3 Put the word(s) in bold in the correct place in the sentence. 1 Ineed do some shopping. to | play computer games. hardly ever woh Sorry, | understand. What does ‘journalist’ mean? don’t Ds you have pencil and paper? a cS There’s a palace near the river. It's great. beautiful She speaks English very well, but she's from the UK not ow GEG Listen and complete the sentences with , One word in each space. Contractions (I’m, don’t, te.) are one word. —__you__ SSCS MTN?’ - need help, 2 .____ time ___ want — — 4 There places to visit 51 need homework 6 ____gets'up___sixand work seven. 5 Work in pairs. Compare your ideas. Listen again and check. VOCABUL 6 Match the verbs in the box to the groups of words they go with in 1-8. check help play turn off close live say watch 1 ~ the news ~ a football game / ~ a film 2 ~ in the countryside / ~ in the capital / ~ on my own 3 ~ in the park / ~ the piano/ ~ a game 4 ~ what you think / ~ no /~ a jot 5 ~the TV/ ~ your phone / ~ the light 6 ~ my grandparents / ~ me / ~ to do my homework 7 ~the answers / ~ the word in a dictionary / ~ it's OK 8 ~ your book/ the shop ~s at nine / ~~ the window Put the words into three groups — places, jobs or free time. —<—<——— ee assistant countryside factory officer church dancing guitar receptionist clinic department the Middle East swimming concert draw nurse waiter Match each adjective in italics in 1-8 with its opposite in a-h. 1 It's a boring job. a cheap 2 |have a busy social life. b best 3 He has a big car. Cc quiet 4 It's an expensive restaurant. d interesting 5 It's the worst place to live in the UK. © west 6 It’s in east Paris f old 7 it's a long film. g small 8 | have a new mobile phone. h short Complete the text with the verbs in the box, finish go like spend | get have listen work 11___ ina department store in town. | usually start at eight o’clock and *_______ at four. | leave the house at seven and *____ home at five or six. | ‘ doing sport. | often * to the gym after work. | usually © about an hour there. Then, in the evening | just” dinner with my. wife and watch TV. We sometimes sit and ®______ to music. Review 1 23 errrIN THIS UNIT YOU LEARN HOW TO: + talk about the area you live in * name things you often buy and do explain where things are + explain what you need to do describe your house / flat ask people to do things WORDS FOR UNIT 3 1 Work in pairs. Match the words and phrases to the photos. bathroom a post office n the house put on make-up store set the table share food sit in the kitchen the go to a chemist hang up the washing the living room h some clothes 2 Er Listen. Check your answers. Listen again. Repeat the words. Work in pairs. Test each other. Cover the words. Student A; point to a photo. Student B: say the words. Which photos do you like / not like?IS THERE ONE NEAR HERE? R 1 SPEAKING GRAMMAR ; 1 Work in pairs. Say the shops, restaurants and 3 other facilities that are near your home — and see ‘ 4 the place you work or study. Decide which area Prepositions of place is best. We use these prepositions, and phrases with Prepositions : ' to describe where things are: 5 ae in on between behind opposite next to in front: é A: There's a really good supermarket near my home, 5 and there are /ots of different restaurants and there's a sports centre. 4 Work in pairs. Label the balls in the picture wi, ; B: Near my house there's a small café, a bank and two the prepositions in the box above. shops. There's a small park. 1p small par o B 13 | 6 4 A: | think my area is best, then, I B: Maybe. f siege E VOCABULARY Local facilities oe 2 Match the things people do (1-8) to the places in a a the box. 3 LIS’ a bank a chemist’s ashoe shop 7 «OI @ bookshop a clothes shop asports centre 2 a café a post office ~) ) e 1 buy some toothpaste / buy some aspirins 3 2 buy a novel / buy a phrasebook t 3 have something to eat / have something to drink a 38 — 4 buy a shirt / buy a jacket e 5 buy some boots / buy some shoes ‘ 6 play tennis / go swimming A 7 buy some stamps / send a package od : 8 change some money / get some money , 3 Work in groups. Discuss these questions. OS la on Ce CR ene 4 + Which of the places in Exercise 2 do you go to most? E + What do you usually buy — or do — in each one? € BOC FACTORY 26 4NV1 NOSYOVr5 Read the sentences and label A-H on the map. 4 There'’s2 bank on this road — next to the supermarket. There’s a hote! on the next street — on the left. There’s 2 great Museum on this road — on the right. 4 There's a post office on the next road opposite the church. There's a café on Jones Street — next to the station, There’s a cinema at the end of this road. There’s a big department store on the corner of Church Sireet and Jackson Lane. w ho or so § There's a clothes shop between the internet café and the department store. 6 Workin pairs. Cover Exercise 5. Look at the map. Ask and answer questions like this: dc Js there a post office near here? &: Yes, there’s one opposite the church. 2 on page 171 LISTENING 7 [GEE Listen to three conversations where people ask about local places. Answer the questions for each conversation. a What places do they want to find? b What do they want to buy / do? Listen again. Tick (/) the sentences that are true. Conversation 1 1 The clothes shop is on New Street. 2 its on the left. 3 ifsnext to a bookshop. Conversation 2 4 There are lots of good places to eat in the area 5 The supermarket is on Dixon Road 6 its next to a small park. BOOKSHOP ee © avou WaWd Conversation 3 7 The department store is on the corner of Chester Street and Hale Road 8 It’s on the right. 9 It's opposite a clothes shop. DEVELOPING CONVERSATIONS Asking for information When we ask friends for information about places, we often explain why we want to go there. Our friends can then give suggestions. For example: ‘A: | need to buy some shoes for my son. Are there any shoe shops near here? B: Tiy Kids Stuff — it’s a clothes shop for kids. They sell nice shoes. Cc Are there any restaurants near here? We want to get something to eat, D: There aren't really any places in this area. Try the supermarket on Dixon Road. They have sandwiches and salads. 9 Look at the questions below. Think of two reasons to go to each place. a clothes shop a sports centre Wheadite:.. an internet twantto.. | =tnere cafe near here? a chemist’s @ post office a bank 10 Workin pairs. Ask each other questions and give your reasons from Exercise 9. Answer with suggestions of places you know, For example: A; | want to buy a jacket. Is there a clothes shop near here? B: Yeah, try Topshop on Oxford Street. or No, but try the big supermarket — they sell some clothes. CONVERSATION PRACTICE 11 Choose one of these tasks. a Work in pairs. Student A: look at File 1. on page 192. Student B: look at File 3 on page 193. Take turns to ask Is there a... near here? to find the places you want. Explain why you need to go to each place. Your partner should answer with information from their map. b Work in groups. Think of five things you want to buy or do, Then ask other students /s there a... near here? The other students give true answers about the place you are now. 5 To watch the video and do the a Unit 3 Home 27FAMILY HOME VOCABULARY In the house 1 Complete the descriptions of two places with the words in the box. r —————$——SS— apartment bed kitchen sofa | balcony bedrooms sink table bathrooms cuipboards | Description 4 house. It’s really hice. We have four _and two * . We have a lovely living room and a big _. We also havea small garden, and | have a study because | work from home. We have a 1 Description 2 llive inian* . It has one bedroom, and a very small bathroom with only a shower, * and toilet. | have a small kitchen with a © where | eat. | also have a” where | hang my washing. The place is OK for me, but | don’t have any space for friends to stay, | only have two chairs and | don’t have many © ____ to keep things in. | usually watch TV lying in ® , because | don't have a living room or a '2 to sit on! 2 Work in pairs. Describe where you live. Use some of the language in Exercise 1. You need to spend time learning words. Here are three ways to help you remember them: —learn short phrases of pairs of words — connect words to rooms in your house = connect words to people 3 Ona big piece of paper, draw a plan of your house. Write these phrases in different rooms. Then work in pairs and compare your ideas. brush his teeth cuit vegetables get dressed get a towel lie down loak in the mirror make dinner put on make-up put things in the fridge | send an email | set the alarm clock take an aspirin talk on the phone wash the dishes | watch a film work on the computer | 4 Work in pairs. Make a list of the people in your class. Write sentences like the examples below. Use an -ing form for the activity. Kenji's in the kitchen making dinner. Sara's on the balcony talking on the phone, 5 Now close your books. How many words and phrases can you remember? 28 READING 6 Quickly read the blog on page 29, by a you, Greek woman, Maria. What places do the : photos show? 7 Read again. Answer these questions. 1 What is good / bad about each place? 2 Who does she live with? 3 What problems does she have with each person2 My name city. Ther Dimitra, < and | stuc We usual 8 Match the verbs with the words they go with ae the blog. Then look at the blog and check you 5. jc0 in answers. 1 live a an hour to drive there 2 study b a room with my sister 3 take ¢ hours putting on her make-up 4 share d with my sister and brother 5 annoy e me 6 spend f Business Management 9 Work in pairs. Say what you remember about Maria and her family, using the language in Exercise 8. For example: Maria lives with her sister, Dimitra, and her brother, Costa. GRAMMAR Pronouns, possessive adjectives and '’s Look at these sentences from the blog. She spends hours putting on her make-up. Sometimes my sister and brother annoy me. My sister’s bedroom has its own bathroom. We use pronouns like she and me to feplace’nounsand | names, We use person + ‘s or Possessive adjectives like her. y and /ts before a noun 10 Complete the table. Subject | Object Adjective ee | ect I ) | i my you | you == he him a, she ‘_ 5 her is it its we us . they J thel G _ Check your ideas on page 170 and do Exercise there. Th there. It's quiet anc In our far because listen to lovely vie own batt the best. Our flat i with Dim and | kee mess! Th floor and We take 1 kitchen. | my sister sometim my sister make-up one bath ONOGA WN = (hi (17[Link] Myname’s Maria and | live in Thessaloniki. It's a great city. There are lots of things to do. | live with my sister, Dimitra, and my brother, Costa. They both work here, and! study - English and Business Management We usually stay in the city during the week and then sometimes at the weekend we go back to our family house in the mountains near Askds. My parents live there. They're retired. it takes about an hour to drive there. It's a beautiful place, but the village is very quiet and small and there's not much to do, in our family home, | think | have the best room because | have a balcony. Sometimes | sit there and listen to music or read or just relax and look at the lovely view. My sister’s bedroom is big and has its own bathroom, which is why she thinks her room is the best. But | don't need my own bathroom. Our flatin Thessaloniki is very small. | share a room with Dimitra, but Costa has his own room. Dimitra and | keep our room nice and tidy, but Costa's isa mess! There are clothes, books and paper on the floor and table. Men! We take tums to cook, wash the dishes and clean the kitchen. | love living with my family, but sometimes my sister and brother annoy me. My brother sometimes forgets’ to do his jobs in the house and my sister sometimes spends hours putting on her make-up and washing her hair —and we only have one bathroom there! Complete the sentences. Use the correct object Pronoun or possessive based on the words in brackets. The first one is done for you. 1_____roomis very untidy. ((/ sister) My sister's room is very untidy. 2 Ilive on __ —_ own. (I) 3N 3 My toom has __ own bathroom. (it) 4 My mum sometimes annoys an () nds keep a cat in ___ apartment. (they) ° usually makes dinner for ____—- (We) 7 We We pay someone to clean _ __ home. (we) 8 tha {have a friend who works for ___ company father) | i house most week’ grandparents) Work in pairs. Discuss if the sentences in Exercise 11 are true for you or not. Porgy yee ease eo oe ey SPEAKING Think about your answers to these questions. Use a dictionary if you need help. What's good / bad about living with your parents when you're an adult? + What's good / bad about sharing ga room? » What’s good / bad about living on your own? Do you ever have any problems with the person ‘opie you live with? What? Work in groups. Discuss your answers. Unit 3 Home 29CAN YOU HELP ME? LISTENING i Match the sentences (a-h) with the pictures (1-8). a | can’t concentrate, e I'mcold. b | ean't get it. f I'm hot. c Ican't hear it. g It's a mess. d Ican't find my keys, h It's very dirty, 2 Work in groups. Discuss these questions. Which of the problems in Exercise 1 do you sometimes have in your home? Imagine you are the people with problems In Exercise 1, What's a good thing to say or ask in each situation? 3 Listen to three conversations (1-3), Match each one to a situation in Exercise 1, 4 ERED Listen again, Complete the sentences with one word in each space, Conversation 1 1 | walk ACrOSs Tt without breaking something! 2 Cah you it, planse? Conversation 2 3 What temperature is the air-conditioning ____ 4 Can you it up? I'm cold. 5 It's cold. Conversation 3 6 What did he em 7 Can you turn it 2 8 Is that for you? UNDERSTANDING VOCABULARY Collocations We call words that often go together colfocations. The most important kinds of collocations are: = verb + noun: watch TV, dry my hair, clean the house adjective + noun: a busy week, a famous town, 0 expensive area preposition + noun: on the corner, at the weeken®' morning j, ctive When you learn a noun, try to learn verbs and adie that go with it. nen For new verbs, learn some nouns that go with tne 5 you Learn new preposition + noun collocations whe" Y meet them. ceo oo ae mm e mp kt aoa URS me Sa eee GR. cc To: lec To: infil Ca Cay5 Match the verbs in the box to the groups of 8 What different ways can you answer the nouns (1-6) that they go with. questions in the box above? ash __puton ini o : eck your ideas on page 171 and do E: cut share wash = 9 Put the words in the correct order. 4 ~—myjacket / ~ your shoes / ~ some make-up 2 ~ myself /~some vegetables / ~ my hair 2g 3 ~the TV/~ the air-conditioning / ~ the music 3 4 ~ my hair /~ my teeth / ~ the dog 4 5 6 i sleep /1/can't/. you/can/me/help/? use /1/can/ bathroom / your /? up/you/turn/can/ music / the /? book / find /1/can’t/ my/ . can/ clothes / wash /some/1!/? § ~your hands / ~~ some dirty clothes / ~ the plates 6 ~a fiat /~ a room with my sister / ~ a pizza @ Match the nouns in the box to the groups of week /can't/ we /next/ come /. ethe and adjectives (1-6) that they go wath: 8 moment/can't/he/ drive /at/the/. ee ee ee , air-conditioning cupboard table 10 Listen to the sentences in Exercise 9, Spas SS es __ayel | Notice how we usually say can as /kan/ and can’t as /ka:nt/. Practise saying the sentences. 4 Ineed a ~ to dry myself / have a clean ~/ the ~'s wet ae 11 Use the words in 1-7 to write a question with 2 tum the.~ on/ turn up the ~ / turn down the ~ / e « b A off the ~ me can and an explanation with can’t. The question sometimes comes before and sometimes after the explanation. The first one is done for you. 4 |/ hear you you / speak louder 3 set the ~ for dinner / clear the ~ / it’s on the ~ wash your hands in the ~ / leave the dirty plates in the ~ / fill the kitchen ~ b can't hear you. Can you speak louder? 5 setthe ~ for seven/ hear the ~/ the ~ goes off 6 hang it up in the ~ / put it back in the ~/ the ~ under 2) yOue ave CE the sink 3 |/do this exercise you / help me 7 Say things about you and people you live with 4 you /turn it up |/ hear the CD using the collocations below and always, usually, 5 |/come tothe class you / tell me the homework hardly ever or never. 6 |/ read the board | / sit nearer For example: 7 |/ go to the toilet 1 / wait My mum always washes my clothes. 12 Work in pairs. Have short conversations using My brother hardly ever washes his hands before dinner. your sentences from Exercise 11. For example: + wash my clothes P A: / can’t hear you, Can you speak louder? + wash ... hands before dinner + pul mik back in the fridge B: Yes, of course. Sorry, leave dirty plates in the sink ene ene eel set the table for dinner + hang up towels after using them SPEAKING + Set the alarm clock 13 Work in pairs. Write four short conversations + turn on the air-conditioning based on the pictures in Exercise 1. 14 Remember your conversations. Act the GRAMMAR conversations for another pair. a — ma con/ P - SOUNDS AND VOCABULARY REVIEW 10 can't . 15 Listen and repeat the sounds with /f/, /v/, } ™4Y something Is impossible, use con't + infinitive. /p/ and /b/. Are any of them difficult for you to San't get it. hear or say? Me con't hear it aes, 16 [9E2I Work in groups. Listen to eight sentences haere to. do something, use Can I / you, etc. + using these words. Together, try to write them ‘; down. Then listen again and finish writing them. “an you turn the TV down, please? lean’t concentrate. ; - = Can i use this towel? | wart to have o shower. | bank livingtoom _ plates sofas bathroom package past office vegetables RY nea Unit3 Home 31o\ ~ = ueIN THIS UNIT YOU LEARN HOW TO: ou did in th WORDS FOR UNIT 4 Work in pairs. Match the words and phrases to the photos EEN Listen. Check your answers. Listen again. Repeat the words. Work in pairs. Test each other. Cover the words. Student A: point to a photo. Student B: say the words. Which photos do you like / not like?| HAD A GREAT W LISTENING 1 Read what four people say about last weekend. Do you think each person had a very good time, an OK time or a bad time? @ |wasill.| had a bad cold, b We went to a rock festival. ¢ Some friends came to visit, so | showed them round the city. d Nothing much, really. | did some shopping on Saturday. 2 [EREZ Listen to four conversations. Match the conversations (1-4) to sentences a-d in Exercise 1. Does each person say the weekend was good, OK or bad?’ 3 [EMEZH Listen again. Match a-f below to conversations 1~4, Conversation 1 Conversation 2 Conversation 3 Conversation 4 a We had a picnic in the park 6b | saw The Loons on Saturday night. They were good © | stayed in bed all weekend d | cooked lunch for everyone © | played tennis, watched TV f itwas the usual things. fantastic 34 4 Work in pairs. Discuss whether you like: + busy weekends or quiet weekends. + going to music festivals. + going tomarkets. + cooking for lots of people + showing people round your town / area GRAMMAR Past simple The past simple form is usually infinitive + -ed. If the infinitive form of the verb ends in-e, just add -2 ! played tennis and watched TV. / wanted to go out yesterday. She smiled to herself A lot of common verbs are irregular, You just need to learn the past simple forms of irregu verbs when you meet them see ~ sow take — took spend — spent get= got read — read buy — bought 3 stay 4 play 5 wat @Gxc= Work Stude Stude forms. Then Comr last w verbs be come oy nnerWn = DEVEL That We use people : A: Som the « Bi That 9 Writ soune bad 1 We 2 twSeudent Ac say the infinitive forms in Exercise 5. ‘Smudent B: cover the exercise. Say the past simple formes. ‘Then change roles and repeat. the sentences about things people did last weekend with the past simple forms of the verbs in the box. te get reve stay om =e Spend watch tI tonch with my grendparents. 21 $2 the beach with some friends. 3 We @t home and relaxed. 21 = fomthall match on Saturday. 5 ie @ free concert in town. © Some Siencs $0 our house for dinner. 7 fweet shopping and! some new shoes. 8 ta weekend sad for an exam. 8 Write three things you did im the past that were rest and three thines you did that were bad or boring. Work in groups. Share your ideas. DEVELOPING CONVERSATIONS That sounds ... We we thot sus + adjective tc comment on what Pessie sax. & Some trends came tp vist so! showed them round Bec & Tatsound nice 3 Write 2 comment about each sentence using that OO om& Wl he 10 11 iz Practise the conversations. For example: &: What did you do? B: We rented g boot and went on the lake. & That sounds great. aa PRONUNCIATION Listen. Circle the form of the verbs you hear in the sentences. 1 visit / visited 2 visit / visited 3 play/ played 4 try / tried; play / played 5 want/ wanted; rain / rained 6 chat/ chatted 7 walk / walked; chat / chatted 8 walk / walked We usually say past -ed endings as /d/ or /t/. played walked /remd/ /plerd/ Aworkt/ When the infinitive ends in /t/ or /d/, the pronunciation of past -ed endings is /1d/. chatted /'tfetid/ rained decided jdt'sardid/ visited /'vazatid! wanted fwontid/ Work in pairs. Look at the audio script for Track 24 on page 200 and practise reading out the conversations. CONVERSATION PRACTICE 13 14 15 Think about last weekend. Did you have a nice weekend? Choose an answer from the list below. Write down two or three things you did. a Yeah, it was great. b itwas OK. c¢ Notreally. Have conversations with different people in your class. Use these two questions. + Did you have a nice weekend? + What did you do? Comment on people’s answers about their activities with that sounds ... Work in pairs, Decide which person in the class had the best weekend — and why. ee unr eye Ne) 8 Unit 4 Holidays 35A PUBLIC HOLIDAY VOCABULARY Months, seasons and dates 1 Put the months in the correct order. August June January December February May October September April July March November 2 Work in groups. Discuss these questions. - Look at the four photos above. Do you have the four seasons in your country? + What months are they? + Did you go on holiday this / last year? + What season was it? What month? We use ordinal numbers for dates. March the fourth, May the sixth To make most ordinal numbers, add -th to the number Some are irregular 1 first 2 second 3" — third Bi fifth 9" — ninth 12" — twelfth 20” — twentieth 21" — twenty-first 30” — thirtieth 31" — thirty-first We use on with dates: on October the twelfth, 36 EEG Listen and write the dates youhearin 9 We 1-6 to complete the information about public wt holidays. Ex 1 New Year's Day, UK Jan 1s is 2 Mother Teresa Day, Albania a 3 Women's Day, Russia GR 4 Day of the Dead, Mexico mn 5 Sant Joan's Day, Catalonia 6 Martin Luther King Day, USA Pas Work in pairs, Follow the instructions in you'" ee Student A: use File 2 on page 192 pe Student B: use File 4 on page 198 10 Co Work in groups. Discuss these questions: eo + Which of the public holidays in Exercises 3 a"°" ' you celebrate in your country? How? 2 | + Do you know anything about the other publ’ 34 holidays? + Do you have any public holidays to celeb’a® @x people? When? Who is the person? + Who has a birthday next in your class?en usualy ef Ididn't get us very well, Saturday the 16th at three in the disunny. There wasn’t 4 cloud in ‘as much as you can about ‘did, using the words in the beach with some friends. 6 ete my neighbour, but he 7 \wentto café sha | hada coffee, but then I saw that | —any money (had) 8 I Went back to my flat. | broke a wintiow to get in. | — again after that. (went out) In negative cente ten Use any: ft J (oS Ueanabossonsre enna enne Ididn'[Link] flowers i didn't Have anyone fo say nice things to me. 12 Complete the sentences by adding any, anyone, anything and anywhere. 1 Twanted to buy it, but | didn’t have: 2 The film was in English. | didn't understand ‘ money. 3 The beach was very quiet. We'didn’t see there for maybe three days, 4 We went shopping in the morning, but | didn't buy 5 | had a very quiet weekend. | dida't go. 6 We stayed iy very small town. There weren't shops of banks! 7 | didn't enjoy the party. There wasn't knew there. to park the car,so | drove 8 There wasn't home ETE SPEAKING 13 Write answers to these questions. Then work in groups and say what you've written. « What's your favourite public holiday? What co you normally do? + When was the last public holiday? What di you clo? Unit4 Holidays 37DID YOU GO ANYWHERE NICE? VOCABULARY Going on holiday go on holiday If You go on holiday, you stop working and go away to a di t place to'relax, usually for a few days or more. 1 Match the verbs (1-6) to the groups of words they go with (a-f). 1 fly a aday in Rome / the week relaxing / lots of money: 2 stay b to Helsinki / with British Airways / first-class. 3 take ¢ the train /the bus / a taxi 4 spend d with friends / in a hotel / in a bed and breakfast 5 rent e sightseeing / out for dinner / swimming 6 go f acar/aboat/a flat 2 Workin groups. Discuss these questions. How often do you / does your family go on holiday? Do you usually go to the same place or do you go to different places? What do you usually do when you are on holiday? READING 3 Read an email from a Danish man to his Italian friend. Put the photos in the order they are Reac ques 1W 2 Di To Mauro 1990@shotmait,it 3 He Subject Re: Ireland 4 Ww. Hi Mauro, 5 W How are you? | hope you and your family are Well 6 De : Parca? li \ How was your trip to Korea? I'm Sip iwasgrest 5 Con Helena and | spent three fantastic weeks in |retang spac and had a ‘really great time. We flew to Dublin, the 1 Ww capital, and spent a week there. It's a beautifui City, We went sightseeing every day and saw all the ojq 2 buildings. Then in the evenings, we went out and 3: It enjoyed the nightlife. It’s a fun city! You'd love jt, 4 Wy After that,. we rented’ a car and spent two weeks or driving round the country. It’s really beautiful! | was 5 M worried about the weather, but it didn’t rain once. 6 Ww We stayed in little bed and breakfasts and met some . really lovely people, 7 O1 My favourite place was the west of the country. We 8 He went walking in the mountains in County Mayo fora 9 Di few days. It was lovely and quiet. On the first day we QO Th didn’t see anyone else — we only saw sheep! Anyway, now we're back in Copenhagen and back a SPEAI work! How was your summer? Did you go on holiday anywhere? Did you have a good time? 6 Worl Please write and tell me everything! Or why not you come and visit us? There are some cheap flights in - to September and the weather is still OK. to Your friend, + to Nicklas for for GRAM Past : For the | How wa How jor For othe Where ¢ Did you 7 Uset you « 1 you any whe“Match the answers a-i to the questions (1-9) in Exercise 7. ae ee a Yes, | did. It's a great country. 'b Yes, arent. They eat lois of fruit jots of rice: ks lovely. © Istayed With fiends In Rio and theninahotel Yes, (did. | went to Brazil, & Two weeks, f [Wenton/my own. g. No, not really, Most things are quite cheap ther h Rio de Janeiro and Salvador in the east. 1 Itwas great, yes, Really hot and sunny. — lit September. other the best place in ane SPEAKING 10 Choose one of these things to talk about. + last weekend + the last public noliday + the last time you went on holiday + your last birthday + a special day in your life 11 Write five past simple questions for your partner to ask you about your day / weekend / holiday. 12 Workin pairs. Swap questions and interview each other, SOUNDS AND VOCABULARY REVIEW 13 ESEEN Listen and repeat the sounds with /d/, //, /m/ and /n/. Are any of them difficult for you to hear or say? 14 [ERED Work in groups, Listen to eight sentences using the words below. Together, try to write low Write past simple ae ion them down. Then listen again and fnish writing } ask a friend about their holiday, . them, 6 where stay? 7. invery expensive? drove missed fented time June mountains spent warn & the weather good? 9 the food good? For furthi Unit 4 Holidays 340 Look at the photo. Work in pairs. Discuss these questions. + Which is the dog, the cat and the parrot? « For each animal, give a mark O-5 in each row of the table below. + Which do you think is the best pet / animal? Dog Cat Parrot intelligent clean friendly | beautiful easy to keep Watch the video about cognitive biologist Irene Pepperberg and the project and tests she does with a parrot called Alex. Which one of the sentences below best explains what the project shows? 1 Parrots are the best pets for children. 2 Parrots are more intelligent than cats. 3 Parrots can repeat sounds but they don’t understand the meaning of words, 4 Parrots can show they understand size and colour. a Parrots can do the same maths as a five. year-old human a Complete the summary of the video wii these words. Then watch the video and check ied different love many smaller words Irene Pepperberg worked with an | parrot called Alex. Alex amazed scientists because! understood words. He could answer questions iker ?____? What colour? What's the same? What's 3 ? What colour’s bigger? What colours ‘i ? This showed cognitive * sim! to four- or five-year-old humans and so the scientss believed adult parrots can think and communicate! ®____in 2007. He learned around 1507_— in his life and his last ones to Irene were ‘1 ®__— you’. 4 Work in groups. Tell the people in your grou about someone you know who has / had a? The others ask these questions to find out Do you like it? Did you like it? What was its name? How big was it? Where does (s)he keep it? Where did they keep How old is it? What's its name? How big is it? de How old was it when! UNDERSTANDING FAST SPEECH the 5 (CQNEE Read and listen to this extract for n video said fast, then slow. Stressed sou” CAPITALS, ALex was ABle to idENtify an OBject MANY COlour, SIZE, and SO on. wave” vith thé 6 You try! Practise saying the extract with Same stressed sounds. There's Our ho} Simon’ Can yo I'm sort Did you They w My hou betwee ONO AWN 2 Complet the verbs We ' 2 days there After that, wee 3 Rewrite 1 question: can ce There's The hot He had | unders of wWN = 6 | can he Write full Use the v —— B: Yes, it w AS? B: | went te A That's n B: Leeds. \ A B: Othello. Ber B: | liked it, 5 List word in e etc.) are c! REVIEW 2 eh Tad 4 Choose the correct option. 4 There's a café on / in the corner of this road. 2 Our house is In front / next to a school. 3 Simon's / Simon parents live on this road. 4 Can you give he / him the keys? 5 I'm sorry, | can’t/ can see the board. 6 Did you went/ go out last night? 7 They were / was both ill at the weekend, @ My house Is at / in the end of this road, opposite / between the church. 2 Complete the text with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets. We * (have) a great holiday in Greece. We 7___ffly)to Athens and * (spend) three days there and + (see) all the famous sights. After that, we © (take) a boat to Mykonos and we ® (stay) in a small hotel near the beach. 3 Rewrite the sentences as negatives (-) or questions (7). 1 Ican come to the next class. (-) 2 There's a supermarket near here, (?) 3 The hotel was very good. (-) 4 He hada nice time. (?). 5 | understood everything. (-) 6 I can help you later. (7) 4 Write full questions to complete the dialogue. Use the words in brackets. hy! (nice weekend) ‘Yes, it was great, "®48ons language. A We often then’ use other comp Bilingual children get higher They are more creative. 9 Choose the best comparative to explanations. 1 Her English is better than mine, She Jower grades. 2 This computer |s better than ming. My foster, 3 Mt Platt |s a better teacher than Mrs Jon funnier more boring. 4 | think Biology is better than English. Its. interesting / more difficult, 5 They're better students than me: I'm more f lozier. Work in pairs. Discuss what the basie dject is for each option in Exercise 9. When d “er, “ier and more to make compa Write sentences using comparatives and th ideas below, 1 I'm / good at swimming / you. 2 MY house in/near to/ the school / your place. a I'm /tatt (you, 4 You're / interested / it history 7 me Noal was / small / your school Warm / fast week? this week 12° Work in the sent better a Palts, Ask each other questions about ences in Exercise 11, Find out who # it Swimming, ete.THE WORLD IN A SCHOOL bn chen stn the cen i ba sericnees before they moved to the WK. Maybe they Janet Scott finds the benefits of knowing twe xperienced @ war, or a parent died, or they lost thett net hools can help the lien, For example he's ‘ arle Primary School in Londor the students feel more positive about sehool and theit The students at Newbury Park speak over 40 languages! Each mont, a teacher filins 4 new lile if they occasionally do something at school in student and asks the child to say simple thing like hello and thety fist laryra like they do at Newbury Parle the other thank you in their language. They show the film to the oth But most bilingual children don't have any problems children in the school to teach them the foreign words. In uischool. In fact, growing up bilingual is usually January and February, the students learned some Turkish and better than only knowing one linguage. Researely Japanese. This month, they're learning Romanian hy that bilingual children ave better at solving In England, one in seven children now speaks a foreign roblems and they usually finish school with higher language at home, and some teachers think is causin sacl That's because they are more-ereative and problems. They think teaching is more difficult with bilingual hey're often better at explaining ideas. Thats pood children in the class and that bilinguals can't do well in any rews, because 70% of th world’s population speak subject if they don't speak English at home Wo oF more language SPEAKING SOUNDS AND VOCABULARY REVIEW Choose five things from the box. Decide if they § 279 Listen and repeat the sounds with ©, o are better or worse now than before. Spe nd two »/ and /s;/, Are any of them difficult for you to " say? minutes thinking of one or two reasons why, Use hear or say a dictionary if you need to 6 218 Work in groups. Listen to eight sentences i using these words, Together, try to write them BS economy parent bi Oe down, Then listen again and finish writing them exams school universttie hospitals sport he weather \ blineene. p hieghec atic enue education earned pen 1 people teacher YOUNG PEOF “gmat Pend sacar Work in 5 Jeas. What do the groups. Say your ideas. - u other people in your group think? For further revision CORI is Unit 6 Education §7Look at the photo of a refugee camp. Discuss these questions. + Why da you think the diffeent peopie in the photo are there? = What thin can help refusees in this situation? + Are there [Link] in your cotintry? Where are they from? (EM Watch the first part of the video (0.00-2, 15) about a special course. Answer these questions. 1 Who are the teachers? Who do they work for? 2 Who are the students? Where a do they liva now? hey from? Where 3 What is the course for? Read the sentences (1-4) from the second part of the video. Match them to the follow-up sentences (ad) 1 Life Is diffi © They also learnt how to document ti showing ovary hei d_ But Reza and the other photagra these young adults how to si in'a new way. 4 CREM Watch the second part of the video (2.16-3.50). Put the pairs of sentences in Exercise 9 in the order you hear them 5 Work in pairs. Discuss these questions + Do you thinic th Why? / Why note 2urse Is a good ided * Doyou like taking * Do you have-any photo You like 6 Work in groups. Show some photos you like 0 each other, Ask each other questions like thes + What are ti Du take it + Who'sithi UNDERSTANDING FAST SPEECH aE | video s ad and listen to this extract from tht ‘aid fast, then slow. Stressed sounds a1 in CAPITALS sIXty YOUNG REfuGEES HE of their LIVES in PHOtagraph ‘ou try! Practise saying the extract with the aM stressed sounds,eae: Choose the correct option. 4 A Can you pass me that / those cups over there? B: Sure. Here. 2 Ai You are / Are you waiting to pay? B: No. Go ahead. 3 A: How was the exam? B: Bad! It was more difficult / difficulter than last year. 4 A: Hello. Can | speak to Greg, please? B; Sorry, he does / he’s doing his homework. 5 A: Did you enjoy the film? 'B: It was quite / very good, but not great. 6 A: Do you like this dress? B: | prefer the blue one / ones that you tried on before. And it was more cheap / cheaper! 7 A: Doyou want to try some of this / that soup? B: Oh, it’s nice. It's more good / better than my one. 2 Write full questions to complete the dialogue. Use the words in brackets. A:*’___? (do) B: I'm at university. A: Oh, right. 2 ? (studying) B: Business Management. A;*__? (going) B: Great. I'm really enjoying it. | really like Marketing. A:4__—? (What year) B: My second year. | have two more years after this. A:So®5_____ Business Management? (doing) B; My parents want me to manage their factory. 3 Complete the sentences with one word in each space. Contractions (he’s, don’t, etc.) are one word. working at the moment. doing my homework. 1 Host my job. I'm 2 | can't help you now. 3 What____ all those people looking at? __ raining outside. 4 Do you have a coat? 5 jlove____ shoes. They're ————_nce. 6 A: I can’t do exercise. Can you help me? B: Sure. Itisa ___ difficult. 4 EET Listen and complete the sentences with one word in each space. Contractions (I’m, don't, etc.) are one word. “I son's Law ____ university. 2 — to____ a horse —— ___ moment. 3. Excuse me. — —— __. changing rooms. — my classmates _ friendly. 5 Match the verbs in the box to the groups of words they go with in 1-8. borrow go up leave lasted give improve look for pay 1 ~ your dictionary / ~ the money / ~ a pen 2 ~sales/~ my grades / ~ my English 3 ~ your opinion / ~ us information / ~ me some advice 4 ~ my job/~ school /~ home 5 ~ my keys /~ the toy section / ~ a new fiat 6 ~ atthe till / ~ for my course / queue to ~ 7 ~ along time / ~ two years / ~ about four hours 8 ~ the escalator / ~ the stairs / ~ the mountain Put the words into three groups — shops, study or clothes. bakery fail leather shirt Chinese History red top subject Engineering jeans security guard training entrance jumper shelf vegeiables Choose the best option. 1 Lots of people do it. It's very popular / helpful / special. 2 She's 1.84.m. She's quite high / slow / tall. 3 \t’s an interesting course, but it’s quite friendly / difficult / boring. Our teacher's nice. He’s very lazy / patient / hard. | like art. I'm quite important / average / creative. | found a bargain. | was very strange / happy / young. | feel a bit easy / strange / stupid because | failed the exam. 4 5 6 His cat died. It was really sad / warm / modern. w 8 Complete the text with the words in the box. assistant ground section took | came out perfume size experience sale store | went toa big department * to buy adress for my wife. | went to the womenswear * and found a really nice dress in the * . twas reduced by $100, but it was the wrong * . lasked the S____, but she said it was the only one they had, | decided to buy some * instead. |” the lift to the °______ floor but it stopped between floors. | waited for 20 minutes! | felt ill and when |__| went home. It was a bad 10 Review 3 59WORDS FOR UNIT 7 1 Work in pairs. Match the words and phrases to the photos. WA Listen. Check your answers. Listen again. Repeat the words Work in pairs. Test each other. Cover the words a photo Student A: 5 Student B:VOCABULARY Relationships 1 Complete the table with the words in the box. daughter grandmother mum uncle girlfriend husband sister Male Female grandfather wife dad son aunt boyfriend brother cousin 62 2 Complete the sentences with words from Exercise 1. 1 Patis my uncle. He’s my mum's 2 Clare is my She’s my aunt daughter. 3 Larry is my cousin. He’s my u 4 Tina's my younger - than her a Mel is my brother's _ months ago. 6 My mum's Now, and so is my dad’s dad. alive. She's 88! Nv w ulWork in pairs. Look at the photo. s; * think the people are. sh For example: j think she’s the wife of this man here, mother of these two here. Maybe these three are sisters — or cousins. 4 Write the names of six people in your family. Then tell your partner who they are. 9 and probably the LISTENING 5 ozo Listen to three conversations about families. Which relations from Exercise 1 do they mention? Listen again. What do you learn about the _ family members? sRAMMAR 10 verbs (e.g. be, do, can)to is need to repeat the main verb 7 Complete the answers in these short dialogues with the correct auxiliary verbs. 1 A: Do you have any brothers or sisters? B: Yeah, | 2 A‘ ls he married? B: Yes, he 12 3 A: Does she have a boyfriend? . 13 B: Yes, she 2 A: Do your children still live with you at home? B: My son does, yes, but my daughter A: Are you very similar? B: Yes, we * or 6 A: Are your grandparents still alive? B: My mum’s parents are, yes, but my dad's 14 7 A: Did you de anything nice at the weekend? B: Yes, | 8 A: Did it rain? B: No, it 15 Work in pairs. Take turns reading the questions, but this time give opposite answers. For example: 4: Do you have any brothers or sisters? B:No, I don't. eee ea DEVELOPING CONVERSATIONS rmati dding In conversations, wedon't normally just give short answers to question fe try to acd comments. Match the extra comments to the questions and short answers in Exercise 7. Luckily! It was a bit cloudy, but it stayed dry. My grandfather had his 80th birthday party. A younger brother. They died a few years ago. She's studying in the United States. We're sisters, but we're best friends too. eroanan0 to The wedding was last month, actually. h He's a really nice guy. | like him. Work in pairs. Practise the conversations in Exercise 7, adding the comments above. Write short answers to these questions and then add comments. Then ask and answer the questions in pairs. 1 Do you live near here? 2 Do you have any aunts or uncles? 3 Are you married? 4 Did you go anywhere during the holidays? 7 PRONUNCIATION We often say Really? to show surptise / interest. The intonation goes up high and then down, ahs Really? EEE Listen and repeat Really? three times. [E9E Work in pairs. Listen to six sentences. After each sentence, say Really? if the information is surprising or interesting. If it’s not, say Oh, OK. CONVERSATION PRACTICE Write five questions about families to ask other students in your class. Use ideas from these pages. For example: Do you have any brothers or sisters? Are they older or younger than you? Ask your questions to different people in your class. Add comments when you answer their questions. Say Really? when you hear interesting or surprising things. Ask extra connected questions if you want to. PRR cin AC ee Rio Unit 7 PeopleIknow 63| HAVE TO DO A LOT OF HOUSEWOR) VOCABULARY Obs and activities in the home Work in pairs. Which jobs and activities can you see in the photos? nN Match 1-5 to a-e, and 6-10 to fj. 1 look after a the washing 2 tell b songs together 3 sing ¢ my baby brother ?| 4 repair d jokes to each other 5 do e the roof 6 feed f my daughter from school ’ 7 pick up g astory at bedtime 8 play h the dishwasher 9 empty i the dog 10 read j games together 3 Work in pairs. Discuss these questions. Which of the jobs and activities in Exercise 2 do you do? How often? + Which do you enjoy doing? Which don’t you like doing? Why? + Which do you think are essential? SPEAKING 4 Work in pairs. Read the introduction to a discussion board on a website. Discuss the three questions at the end. Family life is changing. In the past, women stayed at home and looked after the children. They did all j the housework, and men earned money and maybe 6 Read th i thi repaired a few things in the house. Now, both eee parents often have full-time jobs. Who does all the 2 ' housework? How does both parents working affect CES ir the kids and family life? Is it a good thing? =< GRAMM. Look at READING maa 5 Read the comments on the message board. Who aie fe is writing each comment? Match each name to empty one of the people below. There is one person 2 Myson you do not need. a grandmother a mother a father = a daughter a nanny an uncle ason 64ff Poa) Bertha. Canada My son Travis brings the kids to my house three days a week — when he has to work, They're a bit difficult sometimes, but | love being with them, We sing songs and play games. also think my son's wife Clara Is really great. tm happy that she has a job and doesn't have to stay at home alll the time. She has a very full life. Ghours ago Like rn José, Chile I'm happy both my parents work because they can buy me nice things. Shoursago Like Sophie, Germany We have a dishwasher and | have to fill it and empty it, Mum and Dad-say they don't have time. It’s not fair! My friends don't have to do jobs in the home. Their parents: do them or they have a'cieaner! Shours ago Like again after | had my baby, Lianna. My husband jakes her to nursery school at nine and | pick her up at five. | then have to do housework and feed Lianna. | also have to get up at night if she wakes. up. Its difficult, but | still want to work. | love my job and | feel like'I’m doing something important for society, Shours ago Like e Hannah, Australia | recently started work <4 Roberto, Italy | think it's better to have one parent at home, but it doesn't have to be the: woman. My wife had a better job than me, so | left my job to'stay with our kids. 2hoursago Like = to work. Send your kids to live ina private school. My brother does that and everyone's happy. The kids always have friends and get a good educatien. The family spends the holidays together. Thoursago Like nN David, England Of course both parents want 6 Read the comments again. Decide if each person thinks both parents working is a good thing, a bad thing, or both good and bad. 7 Work in pairs. Say if you like what each person wrote or not. GRAMMAR have to / don’t have to 8 Look at the comments again. Complete the sentences with the missing words. 1 We have a dishwasher and | empty it. 2. My'son Travis brings the kids to my trouse three cays a week — when he work. 3 My friends __ fill tand do jobs in the home. 4 I'm happy that she has a job and __ stay at home ail the time. 9 Complete the explanation in the box by choosing the correct option. Have to and has to + infinitive show it's ‘necessary / not necessary to do'something. Don't have to and doesn't have to + infinitive show it's: *necessary / not necessary to do something. 10 Complete the sentences with the correct form of have to or don’t have to. We really have any food. do some shopping. We don’t 2 The exam’s easy, You study very hard to pass it. 3 |____ work today, so we can go out somewhere, if you want. 4 She can’t play today. She finish her homework. 5 We have lots of time. We ______ leave now. 6 He can't come today. He look after his sister. 7 ____|_____go to bed now? 8 What time he be there? 11 Work in groups. Say things you have to do: at home. at work/ school. + this week. G_ | For further practice, see Exercise 2 on page 177, SPEAKING 12 On your own, decide if it is good, bad or doesn’t matter: - if both parents have to work. « ifkids have to'do lots of homework, + ifkids don’t have to do jobs in the home. + if kids watch TV. » if families eat together. + if parents set lots of rules for children. « if patents send their kids to bed at eight o'clock, + if parents don't go out on their own. 43 Work in pairs. Take turns saying your ideas. Reply using J agree, I don’t agree or it depends. For example: A: It'doesn’t matter if both parents have to work. B: it depends. Sometimes it’s OK, but sometimes it’s a problem, 14 Write two more opinions you have about family life. Work in groups and tell each other your ideas. Do you all agree? Unit 7 People! know 686 Work in pairs. Which of the adj = met Johan at university, Jahan lives in New York ‘He's a doctor. r husband studies with Miguel, She doesn't get on |with Miguel. Miguel is 21. a student. He met Claire when he was on Claire wants to come to England, 4 Utils her grandmother. Liu'is stupid. She fives in Shanghai. ‘Match the verbs (1-6) with the words they went ‘with in the listening (a-f), 1 share 2. stupid things 2 90 b face-to-face 3 say © college 4 meet 4 me feel good 5 leave © afiouse 6 make 1 toparties Work in pairs, Discuss these questions, + Do yoli know people who share a house? Do they like i? + What's a good age to stop going to parties all nignt? + Bo you know anyone who says stupid things? What kinds of things do they say? + Whio/ What \isuially makes you fea! goou? VOCABULARY Describing people jectives in the box do you think are positive? Which do you think are negative? Why? clever confident fit furiny loud quiet 8 She's very ___—_| mean, she's gx does — and she knows A. Explain why. + Which adjectives do yau think describe SPEAKING 9 Think of four people you know — not members. Write their names and think about how to answer the questions for each persox There is an example for each question. 1 How did you meet each other? We were in the same class at secondary. N What kind of person is he/ she? He's great. He's very funny and very How often do you talk? wo Two or three times a week. We talk on. alot S How often ide you go out together? Maybe once or twice @ month. We go outta or for a drink, Work in groups. Ask and answer the people you know. Start like this: have a friend caltect SOUNDS AND VOCABULARY rr RAEAI Listen and repeat the sounds with ita /. Are any of them difficult to hear or say? Work in groups. Discuss these questions. * Which adjectives describe people in your fanaiy> you? | 1% EREEI Work in groups, Listen to eight sentencé® dor agreed | confident feed femal fit leave ng these words, Together, try to write them! ‘wn. Then listen again and finish writing the™ simliatA LITTLE HELP FROM YOUR ERIEN eltica friends last a lifetime, but often we make friends for particular reasons at particular nh 5 ‘ Here, we look at a few of the different kinds of friends we make during our lives Ss : TUE AITN ICKIT THE OLD FRIEND Old friends are friends you met a long time ago a and that you are still close to, You have a shared Paks ters history. You enjoy talking about the past and always stay in touch cult r le lat she ly? These friends are always happy to t they can be useful. People that c or brothers or sisters know can oft things or help us to find a job: y put on. 901. friends’ through the internet hips move into the real world, but usually they don't People know 67IN THIS UNIT YOU LEARN HOW TO: * talk about people's plans > make simple suggestions + talk about things you'd like todo + discuss government plans + give basic opinions and reasons WORDS FOR UNIT 8 1 Work in pairs. Match the phrases to the photos. Which two phrases do not match a photo? abig clock grow fruit build a house have a check-up destroy a building lose your job do some exercise the main square drive someone round move house get married provide help get a taxi a romantic dinner go fishing save money go to the library win the lottery 2 (ME Listen. Check your answers. Listen again. Repeat the words. Work in pairs. Match phrases that have a connection. How many different connections can you make? Use your own language to explain if you need to. For example: get a taxi / the main square: You can get a tax/ in the main square. get a taxi / drive someone round: Taxi drivers drive people round.Pe ~ tree BEL, at i SPEAKING 1 Work in pairs. Discuss the questions, +» What entertainment Is there where you live? Do you go out much In the evening? » When do you go out — and where? What do you do in your free time? VOCABULARY Common activities 2 Complete each group of collocations with one verb from the box do get go go for go to have play write 1 tennis / ~ basebal 2 ~ afew emails /~ a letter 3 ~ some shopping / ~ my homework 4 ~awalk in the park ) run 5 the library / the doctor's for a check-up 6 ~a meeting with a client omantic dinner 7 ~ hor fishing 8 ~ something to eat » two things people do at work things students do. you are planning never LISTENING 4 [HEE Listen to three conversations Decide which conversation (1- 5 [MES Listen again. Find out in w conversation someone gol We us to +* to tall PR fro Not dial ans Tell tod You outGRAMMAR Look at these sentences from the list DEVELOPING CONVERSATIONS 5 enin; 6 complete the rules in the Grammar box. ig. Then a; What're your plans? selena ‘enacts g; ’m going to go running by the river later, We often make s : ss peal A: What about tonight? Are you going tobe busy then? DOYeu want to meet somewhere? g; No. Why? ies 0K is How about in the main square at eight? 11 Put the sentences in the correct order to make a present form of the i! 2 peice, conversation. kab wea —— and especially 12.3) 4. 5 6 7__8__ 9s - @ How about in the main square, under the big clock? s on page 178 and do E: Ben Ors c Oh, sorry. Well, how about seven thirty? 7 Complete each sentence with the correct form d What're your plans for later? of be + going to + the verb in brackets, e Perfect! See you later Bye. : 1 A: My boyfriend _______ me for a romantic dinner f Yes. Great. Where? tonight. (take) hous g |.don't have any. Why? Do you want to meet B: That's nice. Where you ? (go) somewhere? 2h |______ tomorrow. My flight is at six in the h it's quite early. BSE SLHERYS) i Yes, fine. What time? B: Really? That's early. What time ? (get up) : ED Li. heck ideas. 3 A: Some friends ______ next week. (visit) ) Sean ae B: That’s nice. How long ? (Stay) 13 Write eee ae How about ...?to respond to each question. a 4 RB: | spoke to Sergei. He ____. He’s got another P a bad headache. (not come) 1 What do you want to see at the cinema? B: Really? to the doctor's for a check-up? | 2 What are we going to get her for her birthday? hope it isn’t anything serious. (go) 3 What do you want to eat tonight? 4 Do you know a good place to have ¢ party? EEONONGIATION CONVERSATION PRACTICE 8 EEG Listen to going to and six sentences from Exercise 7 — first slow and then fast. Notice how we often say going to as /gano/. 14 Workin pairs. Have conversations about your plans. Take turns being Student A and Student B_ Use the guide below to help you. 8 Work in pairs. Practise reading out the Smart See dialogues in Exercise 7. In each dialogue, answer the final question. What're your pians for today? 7 I'm going to_.. Wh 10 Tella partner which things below you are going Soar _ to do today / tomorrow / this week. Say when. Your partner is going to ask a question to find I'm going to... What about tonight? out more. Z De you want to go cut ——— = ] somewhere? ans meet a friend cook dinner / lunch go on holiday write an email / on my blog Yes, great. Where? watch TV’ do some studying / homework | How about ...? i It go aP ins getup early (late OK. Fine. What time? nl? For example: = P =i How about erfect. See you later. A: 1m going to meet some friends tonight Bye. B: Really? Nice. Where are you going to meet? A: In the centre of town. We're going to have dinner @_ 14 To watch the video and do the activit somewhere. Sree ek si Units Plans 71HOPES AND DREAMS ; LISTENING 1 You are going to hear four people talkin, 2 things they want to do. The pictures li each person is thinking. Work in pairs wie you think they say? mm or 2 [SEE Listen and match each speaker to on. . the pictures. Then work in pairs and compan your ideas. = Speaker 1: Picture Speaker 2: Picture "I Speaker 3: Picture — Speaker 4: Picture — 3 [ESET Listen again. Tick () the sentences thy are true. Conversation 1 1 He's from Manchester 2 He already does kung fu Conversation 2 3 She’s planning to leave her job this yea 4 She wants to have children before s business. Conversation 3 5 He thinks that retiring is 6 He wants to grow flow Conversation 4 7 She wants to be rich. 8 She wants to learn how to drive. Read the audio script on page 205 to ¢ answers. Underline the words that hely decide 5 Work in groups. Would you like to do things the people talk about? Why? / Why"four the ot? ULARY Life events and plans h pair of sentences with plete ead r with one verb 6 Com the box. One sentence is about a past event one is about a future plan. Use the correct Ae jn each sentence. 1 a Mywife's going fj = b Myfriend years ago and he can’t work now. a baby in January. a serious accident a few 2a We to St Petersburg when | was ten, My dad got a job here. . We're going to need a bigger place! 3a Mymum working When she had me! b My dad says he’s going to hope so! 4 a My grandparents ____ ago and now | run it. I'd like to older. os house next year. We smoking. a restaurant 50 years o my own business when I'm 5al a writing competition when | was 30, and after that | left my job and became a writer. We're going to. the lottery and then we can stop work and travel round the world. o 6 a We're going to b My parents married next year. divorced when | was younger. 7 a |_______ home when | was 27. | went abroad to work. b |wantto my job. I'd like to do something different. co o ltrained to a nurse after | left school. My brother's an actor. He'd like to ____— famous, but he’s still waiting for his big opportunity. o 7 Work in pairs. Use verbs from Exercise 6 to talk about your life up to now and your plans for the future. GRAMMAR eile qin St a would like to + verb ve ue would like to + infinitive to talk about things we ant to do — or hope to do — sometime in the future. I'd really like to learn Spanish, I'd like to go to Iran one day. I'm sure it's interesting. Negatives ! wouldn't like to do his job! It’s hard! | wouldn't like to live there. It’s not very nice. Questions Would you like to go out with me? Would you like to try some of this food? 8 Use the notes to make sentences with the correct form of would / wouldn’t like (to). \/ really / spend a year in South America. |/ really / meet him sometime. | love his music! My brother / learn how to cook. She / change jobs sometime soon. |/not/ be famous! It's a nice apartment, but | / not / live in that area. you / get something to eat after class? orton Wn = you / come shopping with me tomort ow? | PRONUNCIATION 9 (BET Listen and check the answers to Exercise 8. Notice when we use the contraction ‘d. 10 Workin groups. Discuss which of the things below you'd like to do sometime in the future. ‘There is an example for the first sentence. 1 buy my own house A: I'd really like to buy my own house one day. B: I'm OK just renting. | think it’s easier. get married have kids travel round the world move toa different country 2 3 4 5 6 speak really good English 7 write a book 8 get fitter 9 learn to play a musical instrument 0 learn another foreign language Now tell other people in your group about: + aplace you'd really like to visit. + a person you'd really like to meet. + something you'd really like to do. + something you'd like to learn. + something you'd like to stop doing G _ for further prac (eETero oe Unit8 Plans 73SPEAKING Work in groups. Discuss these questions. + How important are the changes below for your town / city? better water anew airport better wi-fi a new hospital a bigger library anew metro line improved roads anew museum more schools anew shopping mall 3 more street lights anew stadium + Say if they are very important, quite important or not very important. Explain why. + Look at the photo. Are they building or destroying anything in your city, area or country? What? Where? Is it a good idea? + Are they planning to build anything? What? Where? Is it a good idea? VOCABULARY For and against If you are for a plan, you think it's good, If you are against a plan, you think it's bad. When we explain why we think a plan is good or bad, we sometimes use be going to to say the results we predict for the future I'm for building more schools There are going t ‘ewe students in each class reales That's good for kids Read the comments (1-9) Speakers for or against th 1 It’s 2 tt about plans. Are the e plans? joing to save time 5 going to provide . J 10 provide a useful service 1h 3 It’s going to improve education 4 It's going to help businesses. 5 It's going to cause a lot of noise and pollution 6 It's going to be bad for the economy, 7 It's going to create jobs 8 It's going to cut the number of cars on the ro 9 People aré going to lose their jobs. Work in pairs. Which comments in Exercise could you make about the changes in Exerc For example: A new airport is going to cai pollution. A new shopping me useful service Spend two minutes trying to remember ti in Exercise 2. Then cover Exercise 2 and? the sentences below with the verbs. The "10 is given. 1 | don't want the government to cut b. bad for public services. 2 The government needs to use technology : s a lot of money : I'm for having the Olympic games ¢ lots of opportunit The government wants to ¢ policemen, but I'm against it. It's going problems. There's going to be 5 It's a good idea to stop cars in th toi 1e city and f people 6 Abig it's | h th Shopping is nicer w ar company is « money. | varnmen gre? Complete headings 1-3 on the website. Then compare your ideas in pairs. ‘which person: 1 would like more tourists? 2, would like to improve education? 3. wants to save time? 4 wants to save money? § likes sport? 6 is worried about the environment? Jamila EUS KING Read the plans below and decide which you are for and which you are against. Write one reason why. | The government is going to build new train lines for high-speed trains. 2 The government wants to make a law to stop people building in the countryside or next to the sea. 7 Workin pairs. Say which people have similar opinions to you and why. 3 The government is going to increase the age when people retire from 65 to 68. 4 The local government is going to close all the libraries and provide some books online for free. 5 The local government would like to build a shopping mall in your area with 100 shops and a car park. 9 Workin groups. Discuss your opinions about the plans in Exercise 8. For example: Sel A‘ I'm for the high-speed trains. It's going to create jobs. B: | agree. It’s going to save time and provide a useful service for us. C:/'m against it, It’s going to be bad for the environment. 5 / SOUNDS AND VOCABULARY REVIEW 10 [MEQ Listen and repeat the sounds with /ev, ‘a! and /u;/, Are any of them difficult for you to hear or say? a BS GEN Work in groups. Listen to eight sentences using these words. Together, try to write them down. Then listen again and finish writing them. ( Create exercise move " 0 Srive provides situatl 4 @ ra _ DS ; Cee ee a ane of {0 fie Elian e yAelU Me) aN Te RS! @ The local government wants to_. | think it's a good idea. It's going to help business and more people are gaing to come here. At the moment people have to fly to the capital and then get the train. Ittakes hours. | don't think it's. a good idea. It's not going to be near my house, but | still don’t want all those planes to come here. There’s going to be a lot of noise and pollution. And they wantto build it in some nice countryside outside the city. its going to improve the situation. The government is spending too much money at the moment. They need to-do something about it and | don't want to pay more taxes. It's going to cause a lot of problems because there are going to be fewer doctors, fewer policemen, fewer teachers. Maybe some people can pay to see a private doctor. or pay for extra classes for their children, but for a fot of people it’s going to be bad for their health and their children’s education (@J) Our government wants to its going te be good for our country and our economy. Lats of people are going to come here and spend money in the hotels and restaurants, And they're going to meet local people and learn about our country too. | think its great opportunity, And for me, its going to be good because |'d reall nd see the matches — | It's going to cos think we cou! 61 Look at the photos. Answer the questions. + Where are the two places? + What can you see in each photo? + What do you think is similar and what's different about their houses and lifestyles? 2 (IEG Read the summary of the first part of the video and check any words you don’t know, Then watch the first part of the video (0.00-2.07) and complete the summary with ‘one word in each space. Two Maasaimen are travelling around |_ —— They decide to visit a ranch in 2 td see all the cows, because the Maasai believe all [Link] in the 2 belong to them! They meet a man called ——.. He's famous because he owns a ranch in 46 well as his ranch at home, He's going to show the Maasai men around and Introduce tery to his family. When they are in the car, thay try to learn Some ways to say ‘Nello’ and'how are you’. The asa men fia it —tounderstand the Texan mans accent 3 CEE! Watch the second part of the video (2,08-4.44). Answer these questions 1 Which members of the family do you see and hear about? _ 2 Which tooms do you see? 3 How aiferentis the Maasal’s house? in wnat w ys? 1 4 (EEI Choose the correct option. Watch the second part of the video again to check. 1 The ranch was owned by his grandmothers! grandfather's family. 2 Aprime iminister | A famous Hollywood actor w= them and stayed in the bedroom. 3 The gun is not real/ was used in o war. ‘The Maasai move every year! every three yous 00k for fresh grass. 8 A fire | The rain destroys the Maasal’s old hous? The Maasaii are going to tearn how to Become cowboys / cook. Work in groups and discuss the questions. * Would you like to visit the two homes? Why? Why nov? Do you ever have visitors to your home? * Do YoU have any paintings on photos of your tim ON the wall in your home? Who of? i * Be You have any special objects people canstey your home? What are thay? Why are they spe * What's vou favourite part of your house? WV? UNDERSTANDING FAST SPEECH 8 Cm Read and listen to this extract from 0 said fast, < sour in CAPITALS then slow. Stressed tNDe like the Women iq YOUR culture —SHE 'e COWS to the Marriage prc You try! Practise «« phe ae y! Practise saying the extract wit Stressed sounds.Complete 1-7 with one word in each space, 4 A Are you B: Yes, | o'clock. 2 A: Do you have to work at the weekends? B: No, | 3 A: Who's going to be here for lunch today? lm going to leave at about four Make the dinner? B: We 4 A: Your grandmother's 98! Wow! Can she still walk OK? B: Yes, she . but she’s very slow: 5 A‘ Dovyou enjoy studying? B: No,|___. 6 I can'ttalk now. | have Speak to my boss. 7 tdon't speak much English, but my wife 8 |________like to visit Chile next year, but tickets are very expensive. Rewrite the sentences as negatives (-) or questions (?). 1 I'm going to see him today. (-) 2 She has to come to the meeting. (-) 3 You'd like to be famous some day. (?) 4 I'd like to work for that company. (-) 5 He's going to stay here. (?) 6 | have to wait. (?) 7 We have to go to the meeting. (-) 8 She'd like a cup of coffee. (?) Put the word in bold in the correct place in the sentence. She have to drive me to the station. | can take:a taxi. doesn’t 2 My parents speak Chinese and my older brother too. does 3 My grandfather's tall and my dad is. too 4 It's OK. You don't to do it. You decide. have 5 Would you like get something to eat? to 6 My husband is going to, but I'm not. go QA Listen and complete the sentences Ms ; one word in each space. Contractions (I'm, don’t, ete.) are one word. 1 She's ——————— the idea. 2 _____ work tomorrow, my wife _—— 3 ____ you _—— ___ tomorrow? 4 really __ Sr working and travel more 7 : __ toveat? § My daughter still aa my sons —— = 5 GRA Work in pairs, again to cheeky Compare your ideas. Listen CTW Ny 6 Complete the texts with the verbs in the boxes. stop [cut ___ Provide save the speed limit the change is going to = money in the v ealth service, The government would also like to = more bus services, build create help improve The government says it's going to*_____ more Jobs and opportunities for young people. It wants to*_____ education and 7 alot more Schools, roads and houses. It's a big job, but it’s going to® businesses. The government wants to 1 In cities to 40 km/h. Itsays Z accidents and 2 7 Complete the adjectives with the missing letters. 1 My dad's very f___. He ran'a marathon last year. 2 My sister's very c___ver. She always gets A grades. 3 She's doesn’t say much. She’s very qu _- 4 5 You can trust her. She’s very re_.__le, On my birthday, he took me out fora ro__tic dinner. 6 My granddad is very f_____y. We laugh a lot together. 7 She's very s_____ct with her kids. They can’t do anything! 8 It’s very |___d! Can you turn it down? 9 He's very quiet. He’s not very c____fi_._t. 10) She’s'53?' fm su ____4 ed. | thought she was younger, 8 Match the verbs in the box to the groups of words they go with in 1-8, do go lose pick up repair get have move play start 4 ~to Germany / ~ house / ~ to a nicer area 2 ~ameeting witha client / don't ~ time / ~ a check-up: 3 ~my-child from school / ~ a friend from the airport / 4 ~ games /~ an instrument / ~ tennis 5 ~ running / ~ to a party /~ home 6 ~mycar/~a broken chair / ~ the roof 7 ~ something to eat / ~ divorced / ~ a taxi home 8 ~ my homework / ~ the washing / ~ some exercise 9 ~ your job /~ money / ~ some weight 40 ~ my own business /~ a family / ~ smoking Review 4 Plans 77IN THIS UNIT YOU LEARN HOW TO: * talk about Places you've been to * recommend places * explain and ask about problems * talk about experiences WORDS FOR UNIT 9 Work in pairs. Match the phrases to the photos. break a buy fr ish call an ambulance an exciting ride Get a great view 2 [EMEEI Listen. Check your answers. Listen again. Repeat the words. wo Which things do you think are part of a good experience? Which are part of a bad experience? 4 Work in pairs. Test each other. Cover the words. Student A: point to a photo. Student B: say the words.SPEAKING Work in pairs. Discuss the questions. + Do you know the building in the photo? If yes, what do you know about it? + What do you know about the city of Istanbul? 2 Make a list of eight very famous buildings or places around the world — and four very famous ones in your country. Work in groups and compare your lists. Did you think of the same places? GRAMMAR Present perfect 4 Look at the dialogues below, then complete the rules in the Grammar box. 1 A: Have you visited the Hagia Sophia? B: No, never. Have you? A: No, | haven't. 2 A: Have you tried Turkish food? B: Yes, lots of times. | lov wo A: Have you been to Istanbul? B: Yes, / have. Have you? 80 ‘Ve & WAVE YOU EVER BEEN THERE? fis We use the present perfect to ask about an action be wh now when we feel it is connected to the present situs — to ask, for example, if someone has experien something. To make the present perfect, we use a form of the ve" LIST] t +a past participle. , Regular past participles end in *____ tou Some past participles are irregular. the For example, be —°__ , the 1 Check your ideas on page 179 and do Exercise al b | Work in groups. Ask each other about oe famous buildings / places you thought ° if “ Exercise 2, and answer using the phrases st the box. Sa For example tt A: Have you (ever) been to .,.?/ Have you &” J \ visited h \ B: Yes, | have. Have you? t Spe Yes, | have. Have you? Lis No, I haven't. Have you? No, never, but I'd lie toChoose the correct option. 4 A: Have you ever been to Africa? B Yes. I went / have been to Nigeria and Ghana a few years ago. 3 A Have you tried the restaurant here in the hotel? & No. Hove / Did you? A Yes. We went / have been there last night. It was / hos been really good. 3 Ac Have you ever been to Turkey? B: Yes. We hove been / went there last year on holiday. & Of, really? Did you visit / Have you visited the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul? B No. We wanted / have wanted to, but we were only / have only been in the city for a day. 4 & Have you ever tried Thai food? & No, never. f& Really? Wow! Well, have you tried / did you try any other Asian food? & Yes Once. I've been // went to an Indonesian restaurant when | was in Holland, but | haven't really liked / didn’t really like it. Change partners. Have similar conversations to I the ones in Exercise 6, but this time, add details : when you answer. E USTENING & ER Listen to a conversation between two tourists in Istanbul and someone who lives there. Put the questions in the order you hear them. The first one is done for you. 122 3 4 5 6 7-8 How tong did you spend there? Have you been to Topkapi Palace? o © What are your plans for this evening? Did you go up the Galata Tower? Mave you been to Istanbul before? av you ined the fish here? ave YOu been? When did you arrive? Work in pairs, Do you remember how oe eet answer the questions in Exercise 8? © again and note the answers. 10 Work in groups. Discuss the questions. + Which countries / cities w Ih isit? Why? ould you really like to visit? + Do you know anyone who's been to any of those Places already? Did they like them? + Which tourist places in your country have you never been to? Why not? DEVELOPING CONVERSATIONS Recommending 7 . If someone hasn't been to a place that we think is good, is A if someone hasn't been to a place that we think is bad, we often say Don't! We can then explain why we are recommending (or not recommending) the place. : Have you tried the fish here? : No, we haven't. : Oh, you should. It’s very good — very fresh. : Have you visited the palace? : No, | haven't. Don't! It’s really boring. Q90 FOP 11 Think of four places you think are good to visit and four places that you think are bad. Think about why. 12 Work in pairs. Have conversations about your places. Follow these patterns. A: Have you been to the zoo here? B: No, / haven't. A: Oh, you should! It's great, They have lions! C: Have you been to Harrods? D: No, never. C: Don't! It’s very expensive! CONVERSATION PRACTICE 13 You are going to roleplay a conversation like the one you heard in the listening. Student A: you're a local person, Ask the questions below. Student B: you're a tourist. Answer Student A's questions. Use language from these pages. ‘Then change roles and have another conversation. + Have you been here before? « When did you arrive? + Where have you been? + Did you like it? + Have you been to « What are your plans for this evening? Unit9 Experiences 81a HAT’S HAP B 3 Work in pairs. Take turns saying a differen : VOCABULARY Problems sentence ending for each verb in Exercise! i Match the verbs in each group with the correct How long can you continue? sentence endings. For example: GRAM 1 forgot the wrong train. A: | forgot to tell you. 2 Aimade ames B:/ forgot his name. Past Sati Sek) ee Tesuinoi ie ves A: | forgot to turn off the light Pe 4 |broke on the floor. B: / forgot the word. 5 It fell my glasses. A: | don't know another. 1 point to you! OX 6 Imissed my flight. « m cal next. 7 Work 7 I lost myself : Imade .. have 8 Ihurt a bit il LISTE have 9 I felt my passport NING , . . . 4 i wersations t 2 How serious are the problems in Exercise 1, oe to five ee eae in whiet . in your opinion? Work in pairs and write the cont rie 8 ae a sentences in the table below. ersation (1-5): a someone has made a mess. Very serious b someone has lost something. € someone has hurt themself Quite serious d someone has taken the wrong roa? Not very serious @ someone has forgotten to bring $ 82Work in pairs. Look at the sentence o "What are the two missing wont th A gach senrence? Listen again and check. ion 1 i ave you checked In your 2 2 ive found them! They were by ! 3 = thrown the plate on the floor, 4 po you have & cloth or Some tissues? There's sauce on ———" F conversation 3 5———* bottle this morning, 6 Is notin Conversation 4 7 Ive cut ___—_- 8 Do you have Conversation § or something? . 9 9 Oh! You've come the . Do you have a map? 40 You need to go back and then here. Work in groups. Discuss how often you and people you know: « jose things, + hurt yourself, 10 + forget things. take the wrong direction. + break things. make @ mess. ti For example: Ai l'm quite good. | hardly ever lose things, but my dad often loses things — especially his keys. Bi think I'm average. | sometimes forget things but! think It's normal, My friend, Kenji — he never forgets things. He hears something once and he remembers it! He’s amazing. GRAMMAR 12 Past participles ‘Regular verbs have the same -ed ending for both the past ‘simple tense and the past participle, but many common Verbs are irrequilar. e 1 Work in pairs, Decide if the verbs in the box have a regular or irregular past participle. You have seen all the verbs in this unit! | | ative be ne Ge | in bre f= se a tome happen talks | cut ie throw | do Ines ti | fait make ry Thies visit RYU Tele en Complete the sentences wi es with the correct present perfect form of the verbs in brackets. 1 my keys? I'm sure | them down here Somewhere. (you / see) S 2 I'm really sorry. your name! (I / forget) 3 | don't believe it. my bag! (someone / take) 4 What was that noise? What 2 (you /:do) 5 I'm really sorry. a glass. (I / break) 6 Can you help us? {our bags / not arrive) 7 Hi. This is Andrew. I'm really sorry, but our flight. (we / miss) 8 Where ? Is he going to come back? (Martin / go) 9 the police? (anyone / call) a | PRONUNCIATION [EEG Listen to the present perfect forms in Exercise 8 — first fast, then slow. Notice how have can sound like /hv/, /hov/, /av/ or /v/ and how sometimes you don’t hear it at all in fast speech. Listen to the slower version and repeat the sentences. Work in pairs. Write a response to each sentence in Exercise 8. For example: 4 Have you seen my keys? I'm sure | putthem down here somewhere. Yes, They're in your hand! 2 I'mreally sorry. I've forgotten your name! That's OK. I've forgotten yours too! Work with another pair. Read out your dialogues. Pere ee oer ee ek SPEAKING Work in pairs. Discuss these questions. Give some details. + Have you lost anything recently? « Have you broken anything recently? + Have you taken any exams recently? « Have you hurt yourself recently? « Have you missed anything recently? Have you seen anything good recently? (TV or films) Unit 9 Experiences 83MEMORABLE EXPERIENCES VOCABULARY Describing experiences 2 Work in pairs. Discuss which adjectives ;, 1 Exercise 1 describe good exp iences ang Match the sentences (1-8) to the pictures (a-h). describe bad experiences. i S 5 It was really relaxing. 3 Work in pairs. Read the sentences twas really annoying. a a= you understang ae It was really boring. words in bold. Then discuss what adj : : Exercise 1 best describes each experienc, & 1 We went to a big theme park with some an, rides. 2 The plane was delayed and we had to wait. 3 Someone with a gun stopped us and stole oy, It was really stressful. money. It was really sad, te It was really exciting. 2 3 4 5 It was really embarrassing. 6 7 \twas really scary! 8 4 We did nothing for a week. We just lay ON the be and swam in the sea. 5 The airline lost our bags on the way there. 6 My boyfriend asked me to marry him. 7 There was an accident on the motorway anc several people died. 8 | got up in the night to get some water from th: cooler and | forgot to take my room key! 9 We went over the city in a helicopter. 10 My wife's parents stayed with us for a coupleo months last summer. READING 4 Work in groups. Discuss the questions. + Has this been a good year for you or not? + What are you going to remember from this Read about the memorable experiences pe? had in one year. Which person talks about 1 a celebration? a theme park? a concert? a football match? a holiday? a baby? Read again. What do you think of the experiences in the text? Rank them from 1 (= the best) to 6 (= the worst). @ Thebest 1 QOuhRWN 2 3 4 5 m@ The worst 6 Work in pairs. Compare your lists from 6 and explain your ideas.@ iRissu. ESTONIA y to our national dance and te eal in Tallinn. 18,000 of us sang ee and more than 100,000 people watched se When you sing with so many People, you create en amazing sound. I actually started crying! (2) JUANA. Mexico Thisyear was very stresshul at work, put in November I went to a meditation centre for ten: days. In the centre, you don't speak woanyone, you can't use your mobile phone ora computer, or watch TV. You try not to think. You relax completely. It was exactly what 1 needed, S* LAURA. SCOTLAND =f thad a party for my 21st birthday. All my family were there. It was really nice ~apatt from when my dad gave a speech about me. It was a bit embarrassing. () MANUELA, ITALY Having my daughter was obviously R unforgettable, but it was extra special because [ had her at home. The day it happened, Istaned feeling her move at six in the evening. We thought we had lots of time, but by seven Slock 1 was in a lot of pain! My husband called an ambulance, bur my daughter arrived first! Jt hurt alotand it was a bit scary without a doctor, but it Was very quick. and shes beautiful and healthy! © Trio, oman are NE Went to Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi. | love cars Pecially Ferraris. It was really good, but there Were some | iz queues. We waited for two hours 1 stest roller coaster in the world! ride only lasted a minute, but it was really Sxciting and I loved it! + JACK, UK Pn May the 3 } Oth, | went to see my team Hull play 1¢ Cup Final, We lost 3-2 Cc ai nats Pair of collocations with a verb —\_ an amazing sound / more jobs ———— Your mobile Phone / your computer ———— 4 Speech /him a present ~—— 4 ambulance / the police ——— for two hours / for a bus a @ 3 4 5 Co 3-2 Our last match 9 i ‘ , Work in pairs. Discuss the questions. + Have you ever been t 1o.a festival? ? Was it guod? tival? Where’ + Have you ever been to a theme park? Where? Was it good? * Have you ever given a speech? When? In front of how many people? * Have you ever queued for a long time? How long for? What for? + Have you ever called an ambulance or the police? Why? Was everything Ok? SPEAKING 10 Choose an experience that one of the adjectives from Exercise 1 describes. Plan what you want to say about the experience. Use a dictionary or ask your teacher for help, if you need to. Write: + what the experience was. when it happened. where you were, + who you were with, + what happened first, second, ete. For example: One time | lost all my bags. Five years ago | went on holiday to America with my family. We went to New York. We arrived late and we missed our next tight. When we got to San Francisco, our bags didn't arrive. It took six days to get them! 11 Work in groups. Tell the group your story, but don’t say the adjective. Can the other students guess which adjective you chose? For example: A: f(t sounds very stressful. B: Yes, it was! SOUNDS AND VOCABULARY REVIEW 12 13 Listen and repeat the sounds with /i/, /p/, / av/ and /ou/, Are any of them difficult for you to hear or say? (KC Work in groups. Listen to eight sentences using these words, Together, try to write them down. Then listen again and finish writing them, broken found planned sod forgat lost round stole \ OTe ce) Unit 9 Experiences 05= aL mareIN THIS UNIT YOU LEARN HOW TO: + talk about train travel > buy tickets + talk about the time talk about transport where you live * recommend places WORDS FOR UNIT 10 1 Work in pairs. Match the phrases to the photos. an animal on the line a lovely pool change money park the car charge for the motorway pay in cash | cycle in a bike lane taste delicious get a haircut travel first class get in the car vote for it get off the train w n the platform go to the gym watch a live band a lot of crime 2 [EEX Listen. Check your answers. Listen again. Repeat the words. 3 Work in pairs. Test each other. Cover the words. Student A: point to a photo. Student B: say the words. Unit 10 Travel 87 > iar’ aeVOCABULARY Trains and stations a ONOAO RW = ernansd h Work in pairs. Check you understand the words in bold in the questions below. Then decide who usually asks the question — a passenger (P) or someone who works for the train company (T)? Would you like a single or return? I'm a student. Do | get a discount? Which platform is it? Is ita direct train? What's causing the delay? Which stop do we get off at? How would you like to pay? How much is a first-class ticket? Match the questions in Exercise 1 to the answers below (a-h). a Incash. No, you have to change in Munich. 67 pounds — and second class is 39. Areturn, please, coming back tomorrow. Not the next one, but the one after that, Platform three. There's an animal on the line, Yes, you get 15% off. Work in pairs. Practise saying the questions and answers in Exercises 1 and 2. LISTENING 4 Listen to a conversation in a train sta in Amsterdam, Holland. Answer the question 1. What kind of tickets do the passengers buy? 2 How much are the tickets? 3 How do they pay? 4 What time is their train? 5 Which platform do they need? 5 Listen again, Complete the sentences one word in each space. i! — can | help? 2 The train Is at 12,25 3 It's probably to buy two single 4 Please your PIN, Great 5 You have to at Hilversum. 6 How long does the Journey 7 You around three o'clock 8 Thanks for your 6 Work in groups. Discuss the questions Are trains good or bad in your country? Why + Do you have a favourite train journey? Are there any train journeys you'd like to! DEVELOPING CONVERSATIONS Telling the time We can say times in two different ways 12,25; twenty-five past twelve or twelve 11.45: quarter to twelve or Both ways are very common "Wor Say dit feWork j i k in groups. Discuss the questions. > What time is it now? What time did your class start? What time does it finish? What time do you usually get up? What time did you go to bed last night? + What time do you usually catch the bus / train in the morning? What time do you usually get home? What time do you usually have dinner? i PRONUNCIATION 10 Listen to eight phrases and sentences that use to between other words. Notice that we often pronounce fo as /ta/. Listen again and write what you hear. li Listen again. Repeat what you hear. CONVERSATION PRACTICE 7 Match the times (1-8) to the pictures (a-h). 12 Workin pairs. You are going to roleplay a { half past three 5 five past nine conversation at a station. Jeqherter to four 6 six twenty-five Student A: you sell tickets. Look at File 8 on 3 four fifteen 7 nine o'clock page 195. 4 five to nine 8 two thirty Student B: it’s nine in the morning. You'd like to buy 4 B a ticket to Hull. Ask Student A for information. ‘ sls 13 Nowroleplay the conversation. Use the guide “ s \ - below to help you. en ie Student A Student B a! 7 Ask: How can | help you? a Say where you'd like to i | go to. ae: / - f . Ask about the kind of = 4 ticket: a 7 a ~ Single or return? ; F 4 , First or second class? aaa al Fast or slow train? Direct ot with a change? Say what ticket(s) you | want 1, a Fz Say the final price. | 7 - Confirm the platform — —_— and time the train leaves i 7 and arrives. “ | 7 Thank Student A | 4 14 Change roles and have another conversation. a Student A: it's four in the afternoon. You'd like to : buy a ticket to Hope. Ask Student B for information is oe Student B: you sell tickets, Look at File 5 on keen PoC esses ROM. Work in pai - Say ea Pairs. Cover the times in Exercise iF diffe, times in the pictures (a-h) in two Tent ways, Unit 10 Travel 89GETTING AROUND + Doyou have a car? What kind? Is it easy to VOCABULARY Transport where you live? Has your Car ever broken oo 1 Complete each group of collocations with one Have you ever rented a car? a word from the box. + How often do you fly? When you book a flight, you choose the airline? Have you ever Missed 4 fi bike bus car flight taxi trai + Do you ever take taxis? Why? / Why not? js ther much competition between taxi companies city? Have you ever been charged too muc a strange route? Inyo 1 getthe ~/the 73 ~/get off the ~ / wait at the ~ ‘ OF tye stop/ the ~es run all night 2 goin the ~ /getin the ~/ park the ~/my ~ broke down /renta~ 3 catch a ~/ get the 8.20 ~/a direct ~ / miss my ~ di pick me up from the ~ station 4 tide a ~ / lock my ~ / fell off my ~ / have a mountain ~/ someone stole my ~ 5 geta ~/ stop a ~/ the ~ driver took a long route / 5 the ~ driver charged too much 6 book my ~/ miss my ~/ the ~’s delayed / ~ FROO to Rome READING 4 Read the article about taxis round the worlg Decide which of the ten paragraphs (1-10) j, not true. Work in groups. Discuss your ideas about wija part of the article is not true. Then check in ; File 10 on page 195 to see if you were right : 6 Workin pairs. Look at the things, places and numbers below. Can you remember what the article says about these things? 1 320 and 25% 6 7,000 and 300 2 the hippocampus 7 Olden and 550 3 Uzbekistan 8 Seoul and 17 4 South Africa and 2,000 9 Britain, Europe ans 5 acompany in Puebla 2 Tick the collocations you knew before and cross the collocations that are new for you. Then work in pairs. Compare what you knew. Check any words you don’t know in a dictionary. 3 Work in groups. Discuss these questions. + What bus routes go near your house? Where do they go? Do you take any of them? If yes, what stops do you usually get off at? + Do you have a bike? What kind? Is it safe to ride a 7 bike where you live? Do people often steal bikes there? Have you ever fallen off a bike? Read again and check your ideas. KNOWLEDGE: London taxi drivers have to take a course to learn 320 routes and all the names of the roads on each route, Only 25% of people finish the course and pass the exam. SAFER: Many women don't feel safe im taxis if a man is driving,” there aren't enough women taxi drivers because they don't feel sale picking up men! A company in Puebla, Mexico, has pink taxis. Women drive them and they only pick up wemet BIGGER BRAINS: On average, taxi drivers have a bigger hippocampus than other people. The hippocampus is a part of the brain connected to memory and learning, EXPENSIVE: In Muscat, Oman, you can get Ferrari Enzo taxi. The driver charges clients $30 per kilometre. L HAVE A CAR, 1 AM A TAXI DRIVER: In Tashkent, Uzbekistan, anyone with a car can be ataxi driver. If they see someone waiting at the side of the road, they can stop and negotiate a price a one-million-doll: DANGEROUS: In South Africa in the 1990s, competition between different taxi companies caused ‘taxi wars’ in which more than 2,000 people died THE LONGEST JOURNEY: In 1930 two old ladies in Aust a taxi on a 7,000-mile trip across the desert, with taxi driver ¢ Heard. The trip cost around £300. ‘i <3 ou LOST IN TRANSLATION: A Spanish couple had to pay 33°" J 3 ne gti they got a taxi in Norway, They wanted to go to Olden but the! understood Halden — more than 550 kilometres further awey THAT'S BETTER: The city of Seoul, South Korea found lore tourists had difficulty using taxis beeause they don't know enouy Korean, So now it provides a free translating service 0 seventeel df languages. Customers can phone a number and ask @ translator” to the driver. THEYRE THE BEST: Britain has some of the worst wanspe"l <0 ys in Europe. There’s too much traffic, there are woo many eh transport and it. costs too much. However, the UK ismumbe! alr axis, International tourists voted on a website. They stil Bit drivers are friendly and reliable: in fact, the: best in the worlgrAMMAR many and not enough bad because it's mo Look at the sentences above. Complete these rules with too much, too many or not enough. ' G Check your ideas on page 181 and do Exercise 1. 3 Choose the correct option. SPEAKING 7 11 Work in groups. Talk about where you live using too much, too many and not enough. Think about the things in the box. Say what your town or city needs to make things better. For example i 2 my city are OK, but there aren't enough ht. They stop at midnight. tn places to park tax . 1s pollution traffi flights roads and motorways — train eye meWHERE’S THE BEST PLACE 10 GQ) . DEVELOPING CONVERSATIONS Where’s the best place? Wh know good places to de things, we t place to..? we often say Try + the name of a piace. i Match the questions (1-8) to the suggestions (ah). good value for money 2 Work in pairs. Discuss what you think the words in bold in Exercise 1 mean. having conversations \sk questions 1-8 good places you know in your Then change roles LISTENING 4 Listen to a conversation in a hotel between and a receptionist. Answer these Choose the correct option. Then li again and check your answers 2 How can // can help you? We like / We'd like to go out for dinné t's not the chea Need we / Do we need to be Which / What time What's the eas: would you like y It take pendsin pairs. Discuss these questions, wok opy to go to a more expensive ’. we Nod there Is very good? . omen do you eat fish and seafood? Do _ wow place to eat fish? * ; of places do you eat in when yo: i 1 peste com know? Wveselts poy prefer walking or taking a taxi? Why? J R fe shopping in markets or do you % teins of places? Why? you prefer | poyu usually buy presents when you go on aaiicay Staurant you have 2 if yes, what kind of things do you buy? than two things, use the +a superiative e adjectives: one-syllable adjectives. es ending in a consonant, double the ending in -y, change to -iest. adjectives (two or more syllables), use the of superiative adjectives are irregular. Read the information in the Grammar box and complete the table with the correct superlative forms. Adjective Comparative Superlative god better i bed worse => a ar more PET aoE smaller ee bigger ee . stranger a = hotter ee sd | earier en Song more poring t _ =| Complete th supe '€ Conversations wi i r j ss ™ of the adjectives in WA ong sa 1 A: What's \ (quick) ———— Way to get back to our hotel? B: Take the underground. it's A: How was Vienna? B: Amazing. It’s one of been to. (beautiful) 3 A:lsitan expensive hotel? B: it’s Well, it’s not Place to stay, but it’s not either. (cheap, expensive) 4 A: ls the crime bad there? only two stops away. cities I've ever B: Yes. It’s one of cities in the world! (dangerous) 5 A: How was your journey? B: It was awful — one of flights I've had. (bad) 6 A: How's your course going? B: It's impossible! It's _____ thing I've done! (difficult) For further practic scr ee SPEAKING 9 Workin groups. Make questions by changing the words in italics into superlatives. 1 Where's good place to live in your town / city? 2 And where's bad place to live? 3 Where's old part of your town / city? 4 What's easy way to get around your town / city? 5 Where’s cheap place to eat? 6 What's big city in your country? 7 Whai’s beautiful part of your country? 8 What are popular places for tourists? 9 Who's famous person from your country? 40 What's delicious food from your country? 10 Now discuss your answers to the questions, Do you agree with the other people in the group? SOUNDS AND VOCABULARY REVIEW 41 [SEZ Listen and repeat the sounds with /v/, /u:/, /sx/ and /a:/. Are any of them difficult for you to hear or say? [2 Work in groups. Listen to eight sentences 12 using the words in the box. Together, try to” write them down. Then listen again and finish writing them. route world half booked value would | car journey rere ms Unit 10 Travel 93