UNIT OBJECTIVES

tal k about past events ln your life

ask questions about the past
congratulate and sympathize with people
FIRSTS AND

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write a comment agreeing or disagreeing with an online post
summarize a story
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START SPEAKING
A Look at the picture. Where are the children? What are they doing for the first time? Are they all happy?
Why or why not?

B Think of a special picture of you as a child. What are you doing in the picture? Where are you?
Is anyone else there? For ideas, watch Allison 's video.

Is your picture different

from Allison~?
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ONE AMAZING DAY talk about past events in
your life

II LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT
A Look at the photos below. What are the people doing for the first time? Are their experiences positive
or negative? Why do you think so? Read their stories. Were your answers correct?

I live in Colorado, in the middle of the _____ '

USA. For my 45th birthday. I visrted
the ocean for the first time in my hfe. -
It was amazing. My friends weren't
with me, but I stayed on the b~ach

marathon (n) a running race of

B Complete the sentences with the names Carol, Malik, or Barbara. 26 miles (42 kil ometers)
Whose story do you find most interesting? Why?
1 Malik describes an accident. 3 Carol talks about a birthday.
2 Barbara talks about a competition . 4 Carol says where he/she lives.

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EJ VOCABULARY: Describing opinions and feelings
A llillJ Match the four adjectives in the box with the correct emojis below. Then find and llilllfil:liM
eight more adjectives in the stories on page 44. Match them with the other emojis. Listen and check.

,ooj crazy loud strange

@1 coo l p @s pround P ~ 9 loud B

~ 2 fun P ©6 amazing P (!J),o crazy B

03 strange N A1 dangerous N @ 11 tired B

@4 horrible N @a perfect P 8 12 angry N

B Decide if each adjective is generally positive (P), negative (N), or can be both (8).

C Now do the vocabulary exercises for 5.1 on page 145.

D I PAIR WORK I Look at the words in the box. Use the words from exercise 2A to describe them.
bike-sharing programs birthdays concerts fast cars L.. Bike sharing programs are fun. )
festivals my street soccer video games
I don't know. I think ~iking
city is dangerous.
El GRAMMAR: Simple past
in the

A Complete the rules below. Use the sentences in the grammar box to help you.
1 Th e simple past of be is was/were or were. Th e negative is wasn't or weren't
2 The simple pas t of regular verbs ends in -ed. For example, visited
3 The simple pas t of irregular verbs doesn't end in -ed. For example,
ran

I visited t he ocean fo r the first tim e in my life. It was my first marathon.

I ran a red light and hit anoth er car. My friends weren 't with me.

B Now go to page 133. Look at the grammar chart and do the grammar exercise for 5.1.

C Marina is talking about her first love. Complete the text with the simple past of the verbs in the box.

be go live move not be talk

I re member my first love very wel l. His name ' was Raul. We ' lived on the same
street, and we ' went to th e same school. He was funny, and he always • talked
about cool and interesting things. We ' weren't together for a long time because his fa mily
moved to another ci ty, but I have very nice memories of him.

D I PAIR WORK I Think about an important person in your life when you were younger.
Tell your partner about this person . Use the simple past.

II SPEAKING
I PAIR WORK I Th ink of a special day in your life. Where were you? Who was with you?
What happened? Was it a good or a bad experience? Tell your partner.
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 GUESS IN 60 ask questions about the past

SECONDS

II VOCABULARY: Des cribing life events

A Listen and say t he life events. Write five of th em under t he p ictu res.

be born buy a house or apartment graduate from college get married

get a job become a grandparent have a baby retire (stop working)
buy a car meet you r future wife/husband learn to drive start school

graduate from college get a job get married start school have a baby

B I PAIR WORK I Write t he 12 life events in th e order that th ey

usually happen. Compare with a partner. Are th ey in the 5
sa me ord er? Explain you r choices.

C Now do the vocabu lary exercises for S.2 on page 145. 1 2

El LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT
A Look at the pictures. Can you guess the famous
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man? Li sten to Carla try to guess. N umb er th e pictures
in th e order you hear them.
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Carl a Was he born in 1954?
Host Yes, he was.
Carla And did he die in 1989?
Host No, he didn't . He died in 2011. Carla Children! How many children did he have?
Carla Hmm, when did he retire? Host He had six children. Correct! You have ten
Host He retired in 1989. seconds.
Carla OK! Umm. Did he study medicine? Carla Did he co me from Argentina?
Host Yes, he did. Host No, he didn't come from Argentina.
Carla OK. The "six." That 's difficu lt . I don't know. Carla Did he come from Brazil?
Did he g et married six times? Host Yes, he did!
Host No, he didn't. Carla OK. Sports. Was he an athlete?
Carla Did he buy six cars? Host Yes, but what was the sport? And we're
Host No, he didn't . Think abou t fami ly ... out oftime. Carla, for $1,000, who is the
famous person?

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 B Write six sentences about the famous person in exercise 2A.
He was born in 7954.

C 1111 Who is the famous person? Listen and check. Were you right?

El GRAMMAR: Simple past negative and questions

A Complete the rules. Use the sentences in the grammar box to help you.
1 Use did when you ask a question.
2 Use didn't to make a negative.
3 Th e main verb in questions and negatives is / isn't in th e simple past.

Did he die in 1989? No, he didn't . He died in 2011 .

Did he come from Argentina? He didn't come from Argentina.

B Ill) Look at these verbs from exercise lA on page 46. Write the correct simple past form .
Listen and say the words.
got
1 get 3 become became 5 meet met
2 have had 4 buy bought
C Now go to page 134. Look at the grammar chart and do th e gra mmar exercise for 5.2.

D I PAIR WORK I Correct these false statements about the famous person
using the simple past negative. Then check your accuracy.
1 He had seven children.
2 He studi ed French. ,------- <
He didn't have seven childre. He had six children
He didn't have
He didn't study French. He studied Medicine
ACCURACY CHECK

3 He came from Mexico. seven children. Don't use the simple past after did
He didn´t come from Mexico. He cameHe from
hadBrazil
six children. or didn't In questions and negatives.
4 He became a soccer player in 1954.
He didn't become a socer player in 1954. He was born in 1954 I didn't ~ last night.)(
5 He died in 1989.
He didn't die in 1989. He died 2011 I didn't study last

II SPEAKING
I PAIR WORK I Draw six small pictures about what you did last weekend. Ask your partner questions
about their pictures. Ask for extra information. For ideas, watch Irene's video.

Did you go for coffee REAL

last weekend? -.? STUDENT Did you do the same •.•
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II FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE
A Look at the pictures. What do you think is happening?
What are they saying to each other? Read and listen to the conversations. Were you rig ht?

1 A Hey, I made it!! What a fa ntastic experience! 2 A Oh, no! I failed my chemistry final.
B Congratulations, Johnny! Great job! B I'm so sorry, Ana.
A It was rea lly scary at the top! A I fa iled by two points!
B You 're right, it wasn't easy, and the weather B Th at 's terrible! Talk about bad luck.
was terrible. A I know, rig ht? Oh, I can't believe t his!
A Not bad for my first time, huh? B Never mind. You can take the
B You did really well. I'm proud of you.
A You know what? Now, I want to climb
another mountain.
class again over the summer.
A Really?
B Yes, don't worry about it, Ana.
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B That's great news! Let's do it! It's not the end of the world .
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B Complete the chart with expressions in bold from the conversations above.

Congratulations (good news) Sympathy (bad news)

Congratul ations! I'm so • sorry
Grat job! That's terrible! Talk about 5 bad luck
You did ' really well ! 6
Never mind.
That 's '
great
news! Don't worry about it. It's not 7 end of the world
C i PAIR WORK i Practice the conversations in exercise 1A with a partner. Then change the good and bad
news and practice again.
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El REAL-WORLD STRATEGY
A Im Listen to a short conversation.
What test did the person take? What information
does the person get wrong? f

CHECKING YOUR UNDERSTANDING

When you want to check your understanding of what someone said, you can ask a question
with mean.
You mean ... ? So, you mean ....
Do you mean ... ? I thought you said ... .
The rep ly often incl udes the phrase,/ meant ..

B 111'1Read the information in the box above about checking your understanding. Then complete
another short conversation with one of the questions from the box. Listen and check.
A Well, I failed my driver's test.
B Oh, I'm so sorry.
A Why? It 's amazing! I can finally drive!
B But I thoughtou said you failed t he test?
A No! Ha! I meant "passed," not "fa iled ." Duh! I passed my dri ver's test. I'm j ust so excited!!

C I PAIR WORK I Student A go to page 157. Student B go to page 1S9. Follow the instructions.

El PRONUNCIATION : Saying the stress in words

A IEll Listen to the words. How many syllables do you hear in each word?
1 amazing 3 3 congratul ations 5 5 impressed 2
2 sorry 2 4 terrible 3 6 fantast ic 3
B 11D Listen . Which speaker, A or B, uses word stress clearly?
A B A B A B
amazing D D 3 fantastic D D s terrible D D
2 congratul ations D D 4 horribl e D D
C I GROUP WORK I Practice the conversations below. Take turns being A, B, and C. Focus on word stress.
1 A I passed my driving test. 2 A I gotthe job! 3 A How was t he test?
B That 's amazing! B Congratulations! B I fa iled. It was horri ble!
C You did really well. C That's fa ntastic! C Yes, it was terribl e! I
failed, too.

II SPEAKING
I PAIR WORK I Read the situations. Practice responding to the news with your partner.
1 Your old friend tells you that he or she got married recently. Congratulate him/ her on the news.
2 A coworker of yours didn't get the job he/ she rea lly wante d. Sympathize and try to make him/ her
feel better.
3 Your neig hbors' daughter just found out that she is going to a very good university. Congratulate her.
4 Your favorite teacher wa s in a car accident. He isn't hurt, but his car is totally dead . He loved th at car.
Sympat hize with him.

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FIRST IMPRESSIONS disagreeing with an online post

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READING
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PAIR WORK Look at the pictures. Which picture is Chicago?
Which is Bristol? Which is Melbourne?

B M#'i•O•lil,'l"iidi•lf·H Read the posts. What kind of website is th is?

Who is positive, and who is negative about their first d ay?

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"tcppcd off the bu,; fro rn t he a irport. Everything w;

crowds. the la nguage- and everyone wa" in a hurry.
ry cold . I needed war m d othcs. a nd ra-,1! In Mexico. w
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Julia: rm from Cologne in Germany. At IF 20 I """'
o, the U.K. as an exchange........_ I remember my fllSI day
at the uruvers11y in BriSIOI. II was sc:ary. but then I looked
around and saw so many other people on my saru..-
1lhougi.. "They must feel the same." Thal helped. AtKI •
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was a beautiful Sep1ember day. Suddenly. I fell so posdive.
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Kamal: I wa,. horn in Nepal. bul I went 10 live in
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Melbourne. Au~mlia. a, an immi(!n:ml worker. On 1ha1
fiN day. I Jidn"1 under-.tand any Engli.Jl. hu1 I remember
thal people were friendly. I !-.miled. and they smiled hack. . ~-,:;, .
I~ I walked ak,ng. lhc river and felt very free. fa·crything wa-.
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Send your first impressions t o lstday @ourplnnel .com

C i;jf)•li•];j•j:jp.jjJj Read the posts again. the sente nces that a re true. Correct the false ones.
Rafael wasn't prepared for his arrival in Chicago because
D 1 Rafael was prepared for his arrival in Chicago. Mexico doesn't have winters.
D 2 The weather is different in Rafael's country.
D 3 Julia went to Bristol for work. Julia went to Bristol as exchange student.
D 4 Julia felt very scared and alone, and those feelings never changed . Julia felt very scard and alone, and she looked
araound and she saw other studients in the same situation.

D 5 When he arrived, Kamal already knew some English. When he arrived, Kamal didn´t undestant any English.

D 6 For Kamal, his first day was like a new beginning.

D I PAIR WORK I U:1@33i'Oi!·ibi Imagine what these people say a bout your hometown. Do they say the
same things or different things?
an exchange student fro m another country a businessperson
an immigrant worker
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El WRITING
A Look at these comments on the posts in exercise 1B. Match them to the correct posts. Write R (Rafael),
J (Julia), or K (Kamal).

Tweets Tweets & replies Media

@tobytwo: I know the feeling , I didn't understand a word of English on my first day.
It was just terrible!

2 @TheresaB: Interesting, but my first days in the U.K. weren't like that. It rained
and rained. ··

3 @cigdemyilmaz4: No way! I didn't like being an exchange student at all. I missed my

home all the time. Didn't you miss it?

A 4 @patricianuilez12: Are you kidding? So what if the weather isn't the best? It's a great
town! Buy a coat and keep an open mind.

s @daviddaly: Absolutely! e My first day in San Diego was the same - all those people,
all those strange sounds and smells - it was amazing, actually!

.1. 6 @titusx2: You 're so right. I hated Canada when I arrived - so cold and unfriendly - but
I call it home now. Don't trust your first ideas about something!

B Which of the six comments agree with the posts? Which disagree?

C Look at the expressions in bold in the comments. Are they to agree or disagree?
Agree: I know the feeling,
Disagree: Interesting, but

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D Write a comment to Rafael, Julia, or Kamal agreeing or disagreeing
w ith their posts. Use the expressions in exercise 2C. Why do you
You can say Are you crazy?,
agree or disagree? What information should you include?
Seriously?, Are you kidding?
when the person is a friend
or someone you know well.

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 summarize a story

Iceberg!

The Titanic left Southampton, England, The Titanlc hit a n Iceberg off the coast of Some passengers and crew escaped on
fo r New Yo rk on April 10, 1912. It was Ca nada on April 14 It made a ho le, a nd lifeboat s. Survivors were rescued by
the ship's first ti me at sea . t he ship started to slnk very quickly. another ship, the Carpathia, on April 15.

(Q> II RESEARCH Look at the pictures and read the captions. What do you know about the story of the
Titanic? If you can, go on line to see more pictures and learn the full story of the famous accident.

II PREPARE You are going to read a story about a person who was on the Titanic. Divide into four
groups (A, B, C, and D) and follow the instructions for your group. Then answer the questions below
and take notes.
Group A: Go to page 157. Group C: Go to page 159.
Group B: Go to page 158. Group D: Go to page 160.
How old was the person?
2 Where was the person from?
3 Was the person a passenger or a crew member? If a passenger, what type of ticket did the person have?
4 Did the person survive? If so, how?
5 What did the person do in the years after the accident?

II PRESENT Make new groups with one person each from groups A, B, C, and D. Tell your new group
about your person using your notes. Take notes on the other stories that you hear.

We read al,out Carla Jensen. She was from Denmark and was only 19. She traveled ...

m DISCUSS Discuss all the people in your stories. What do they all have in common? How are they
different? Whose story do you like most? Why?

Carla traveled third class. She didn't have much money, 1,ut Molly was rich ...

To check your progress, go to page 154.

USEFUL PHRASES
RESEARCH /:i?,\ DISCUSS

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PRESENT
The picture shows ... V Our group read about ... They all traveled/survived/
worked ...
What does it say about ... ? After that ... / Then .. ./
I ca n't find the answer. Where Later . I thoug ht his/her story was really
does it tell you about .. . ? sad/i nspiring/ interesting .
I liked this story most because .
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