4 Lesson 4

Read

1. Discuss in pairs. What topics do teenagers usually talk about? Put the topics in
order from the most common to the least common.

▪ the future ▪ homework and exams

▪ problems with parents or ▪ sports
siblings ▪ TV, music, films
▪ problems with friends

2. Read the situations quickly and match them with the pictures. What are the teens doing?

a b c

1 Two people from my class always 2 I have a group of five really good friends.
make fun of me because I always But my friend Diana is really annoying.
wear a cycle helmet when I’m cycling She always criticises one of us – what
to school. The roads are quite busy so we wear, what we say, what we’re
I think it’s safer to always wear a having for lunch – everything. Sometimes
helmet. I want to be safe, but they I talk to her about it, and she always
say it looks stupid. Normally I don’t apologises, but then she starts doing it
care what they say, but sometimes it again.
hurts when they are mean.
Aleja 15
Rachel, 14

3 I usually hang around with my friends

Glossary
Max and Larry at break – we all love
basketball. But now they smoke. They
have a group of new friends who go ▪ make fun of: burlarse de
to get cigarettes at break and smoke ▪ I don’t care: no me importa
them behind the gym. We hardly ever ▪ annoying: fastidioso/a
play basketball now, and I feel like I’m ▪ apologise: disculparse
▪ hang around: pasar el rato
losing my friends. Maybe I should start
▪ break: descanso
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smoking too?
Jack, 14

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Module 1
3. Read the situations on page 22 again and complete the table.

Rachel Aleja Jack

1. What is the problem?

2. What is your idea to solve

the problem?

Focus on Language

4. Read the advice. Match the sentences with Rachel, Aleja and Jack.

a. You should find some new friends who enjoy your hobby.
b. You shouldn’t be friends with someone who is always criticising you.
c. You could ask your friends and other classmates to wear one too.
d. You should ask her why she always criticises her friends.
e. You shouldn’t worry what other people say about you.
f. You shouldn’t do things that are bad for your health.

5. Look again at the modal verbs in exercise 4. Which verb do we use to:

a. give a suggestion?
b. give advice and tell someone to do something?
c. give advice and tell someone NOT to do something?
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6. Listen and repeat the sentences.
Useful language
a. You should talk to your friends. Pronunciation of modal verbs:
b. You shouldn’t do things that are bad for you. should /ʃʊd/
c. You could try a new sport. shouldn't /ʃʊdnt/

7 could /kʊd/
7. Listen and write the word you hear. The letter ‘l’ is silent in these
modal verbs and the vowel sound
a. You talk to your parents ʊ is pronounced like ‘oo’ in the
words: good, wood.
about it.
b. You get upset.
c. You find other things to do.
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d. What I do?
e. You stay at home all day.
f. You come to drama club
with me.

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Listen
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8. Look at the pictures and read the descriptions. What is happening in each picture? Listen
and check your ideas.

a. The Fun Club b. Community First c.The Tutoring Cooperative

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9. Listen again and answer the questions.

a. Who is the Fun Club for?

b. When can you go to the Fun Club?
c. How does Community First want to change the neighbourhood?
d. When is the first meeting?
e. How does the Tutoring Cooperative work?
f. How often can you go to it?

Focus on Vocabulary

10. Look at the adjectives in the box. Which of them

have a positive meaning, and which of them have
a negative meaning?

annoying – busy – friendly – boring – active –

nice – generous – mean – interesting – fun

11. Complete the sentences with the adjectives in

Useful language
exercise 10.
Descriptive adjectives are words that
a. Jenny is a really person. She describe a person, place or thing.
knows so much about everything.
b. Brandy is really . She never has ▪ Adjectives can go before a noun.
any free time! John is the kind boy who lives next door.
c. The Community First meeting will be adjective + noun
. Everyone wants to go.
▪ Adjectives can go after the verb be.
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d. Some of my lessons are really and Susana is beautiful.

I can’t concentrate.
verb + adjective
e. I don’t like Laura – she’s really to
me and says horrible things.

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Focus on vocabulary

1. Read the text. Then complete the chart in your notebook so it is true for you.

To save energy … To save water … To save petrol … To save paper and plastic …

I turn off lights.

Do you...
▪ save energy?
To save energy, turn off the lights and other
electrical equipment when you don’t need
them. Use rechargeable batteries.
▪ save water?
To save water, have short showers and turn off
the tap when you clean your teeth.
▪ reduce pollution?
To reduce pollution, walk, cycle or use public
transport. Don’t travel by car.
▪ reduce waste?
To reduce waste, recycle paper, metal and
plastic. Reuse plastic bags. Recycle. Don’t buy
bottled water – use a reusable water bottle.

Glossary
save = ahorrar
turn off = apagar
rechargeable = recargable
reduce = reducir
waste = basura

2. In small groups, discuss your answers.

Example: I save energy, because I always turn off the lights. What about you?

3. What changes should you make to help the environment?

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Example: We should … walk, cycle or use public transport.

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Module 3
Read
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4. Do the quiz. Then listen to check your answers.

1. Which is the most dangerous species? 3. Very large animal farms destroy …
A. Sharks A. rivers and lakes.
B. Humans B. the fields.
c. Spiders c. our houses.

2. Animals die and may become extinct when they …

A. lose their habitat.
B. are food for other animals.
c. are food for people.

5. Read the text. Are the sentences a-e true (T)

or false (f)? correct the false sentences.

MeATLeSS MoNdAYS

It’s important to turn off lights and recycle paper, but there’s another way
we can help the planet … by eating less meat. Here are the facts:
▪ farm animals use 30% of the Earth’s surface
▪ we cut down the Amazon rainforest to grow soya to feed animals
▪ animals eat 97% of the world’s soya crop (which could feed humans)
▪ to produce one kilo of beef it can take up to
twelve kilos of grain
▪ to produce one kilo of beef it can take up to
fifteen thousand litres of water!!
To produce meat we cut down trees and use lots of
water. It isn’t good for the environment.
Also, as the world’s population grows, eating meat is
not an efficient way to feed people.
Meatless Mondays is a campaign to encourage people
not to eat meat on one day of the week, every week.
It helps the environment and is good for your health.
You should try it!

a. Meatless Mondays is a campaign to get people to recycle paper.

Glossary
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b. We are damaging the planet to produce meat.

feed = alimentar
c. We need just a little water and food to get a lot of meat. grow = crecer
d. Eating meat is the best way to feed a growing population. encourage = animar

e. Eating meat every day is bad for our health.

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Listen
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6. Listen to the interviews and write who agrees with the sentences a-f: charlie (c) or Tanya (T).
To look after the environment …

a. you should eat less meat.

b. you shouldn’t waste water.
c. you should turn off lights.
d. you should walk, cycle or go by bus.
e. you shouldn’t throw away plastic bags, reuse them.
f. you should recycle your rubbish.

Focus
focUS oN on language
LANGUAGe

7. Read the sentences and answer the questions a-e. 3

Should I
eat meat?
1 2
He shouldn’t
You should waste water.
turn off lights.

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8. Say it!
They should
walk to school. practise the sound /∫ /.
Listen and repeat.
4 Should Shelley shop for shoes?

a. Are these sentences making suggestions or giving an order?

b. Which sentence is saying not to do something?
c. Which sentences are saying to do something?
d. Does the word should change for different parts of speech (I, you, he, she, we, they)?
e. How do you form a question?

9. Write sentences to give advice to a friend who wants to help the environment. Use the
words in the box or your own ideas and should / shouldn’t.

eat less meat have shorter showers throw away plastic bags
recycle your rubbish turn off the lights travel everywhere by car
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waste food save water walk or cycle

Example: You should eat less meat. / You shouldn’t throw away plastic bags.

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Module 3
Speak

10. In pairs, ask for and give advice. Use the information in the box and your own ideas.

shop local turn off the lights leave the car at home eat less meat
buy only the food you need reuse plastic bags turn off the tap when you clean your teeth
turn off electrical equipment have quick showers do short journeys on foot

I’d like to save water.

Can you advise me
what I should do?

I’d like to think more about the

environment when I shop for food.
Can you advise me, please?

I’d like to save energy. What

suggestions can you make?

What should I do to
reduce pollution?

WRITeWrite

11. Make a poster for your classroom about

things people should and shouldn’t do
to help the environment. Look through
lesson 5 for ideas.

Writing Tip
Think of ideas and plan your poster.
Find or draw pictures to illustrate your poster.
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Do a rough version to check and improve.

Ask someone to check the writing.
When you are ready, do the final copy.

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