English Book-Gateway B1 Student 39 S Book

Vocabulary
Reading
Grammar
Ages and stages of life
What are your parents doing

now?
Present simple and

present continuous
International cultural knowledge:

British teenagers and their parents
Strict parents
Articles
The importance of family

dinners
Pronunciation: The
Popular culture:
Song: Girls Just Want to Have Fun by
Cyndi Lauper
The family
Noun suffixes -merit, -ion,
-ence
An international e-pal
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Crimes
Criminals
Phrasal verbs connected
with investigating and
finding
Newspaper stories about

crime
The story of Bonnie and
Clyde
Past continuous
Past simple
Pronunciation: The
-ed ending
The British Police
Cross-curricular- History:The origins

of the British Police
The British Secret Intelligence Service
Literature:
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
An informal letter
Gateway to Exams 1-2
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Countries, nationalities and

languages
Translating the world's best

seller
Pronunciation: Word stress
English words from other

languages
Learning a language
Negative prefixes un-, in-,
im-,ir-,il-
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Some, any, much,

many, a lot of, a few,
a little
Relative pronouns
The world's language
Learning a different
language
Parts of the body
News stories on health
Health problems and

illnesses
DrJekyll and Mr Hyde and

Frankenstein
Compound nouns
connected with health and
medicine
Notes and messages
Cross-curricular - Language:
A language with no numbers
Popular culture: Learning to speak
Klingon
Learning to speak Klingon
Contrastive word stress

English as an international language
Present perfect with

ever and never
for and since
Literature:
DrJekyll and Mr Hyde and Frankenstein
Popular culture:
Song: How to save a life by The Fray

just, yet and already

in compound nouns
Present perfect and

past simple
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TV programmes
Turn off TV week blog
The development of
television
Adjectives describing TV
programmes
Adjectives ending in -ing
and -ed
Comparatives and
superlatives
Cross-curricular - History of Science:

John Logie Baird and Philo Farnsworth
Pronunciation:
Sentence stress and
weak forms
Popular culture:
Robin Hood and Maid Marian
Less... than,
(not) as... as
Too and not enough
Listening
writing
Speaking
Exam success/Study skills
Family relationships
Making notes
Reading: Multiple-choice activities
Family dinners - radio

programme
An informal email
Asking for personal

information
Paragraph topics
Pair interviews
Pronunciation: Intonation
in questions
Meeting at a party exchanging personal

information
Speaking: Information role-plays

Grammar: Using reference material
Writing: Keeping a mistakes checklist
Role-play: at a party
Crime news-radio
Making notes
Giving opinions
Listening:True/false activities
SIS quiz
An informal letter
Pair interviews
Writing: Knowing about evaluation
Shoplifting
Reporting a past event
Vocabulary: Using a dictionary
Talking about last

weekend
Role-play: last weekend
Reading: Prediction
i
Dubbing actors
Mini-dialogues
Describing places
Information for a summer

school
Definitions
Asking for information
A language biography
Role-play: information
about a summer course
Paragraphing
Use of English: Multiple-choice cloze

activities
Speaking: Evaluation
Knowing what type of learner you are

Listening: Keeping calm
Health problems
Notes and messages
Accidents - an interview
Abbreviations
Exchanging messages
Asking about experiences

in a photo
Describing a scene
Using fillers
Describing TV
programmes
Robin Hood and Maid
Marian - radio interview
Finding out the news
Making suggestions: what
to watch
Reading: Matching activities

Writing: Content and style
Vocabulary: Keeping vocabulary records
Speaking: Words you don't know
Descriptions and opinions
Pair interviews
Listening: Identifying the speaker activities
An email - favouriteTV
programmes
Comparing ideas
Speaking: Negotiating
Talking about inventions
Reading: Reading for general information
Role-play: planning
activities and negotiating
Grammar: Use and form
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Vocabulary
Reading
Grammar
Geographical features
Protecting the environment
Zero conditional
The environment
The Australia quiz
First conditional
Different uses of get
Environmental problems in
Australia
Be going to and will
Recycling
Letter to an editor

Australia
Cross-curricular- Geography:
SOS Australia
Pronunciation:
Sentence stress and
going to
Will, may, might

Jobs
A blog about unusual jobs
Personal qualities
Jobs for young people
Compound adjectives
American students who

work
Modal verbs
of obligation,
prohibition and
advice
Summer job advertisements
Pronunciation: silent
letters
Letter of application and CV
Second conditional
Relationships
The Butterfly Lovers
Past perfect
Feelings
The abdication of King

Edward VIII
Pronunciation: The
contraction
Questionnaire: ideal jobs/

personality/romance/advice
Gerunds and
infinitives
Top Teen Author: Anthony

Horowitz
Reported speech statements
Maximum Ride: Prologue
Reported speech questions
Pronunciation: stress in
compound adjectives
Noun suffixes -ness, -ship,

-dom

American teenagers and work
Popular culture:
Song: / need a holiday by Scouting for
girls
Cross-curricular - History:
The King and Mrs Simpson - A royal
love story
Literature:
Romeo and Juliet by Wi 11 ia m
Shakespeare
Gateway to Exams 7-8 pi 08

Fiction
Non-fiction
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Book review

with reading and writing
Conversation in a bookshop
Computers and computing
Using the Internet
The Internet
Internet cheating
Collocations with email
Making silicon chips
Pronunciation: nouns and

verbs
CERNand the WWW
Pronunciation:
Intonation in direct
and reported
questions
Literature:
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
by James Patterson
Literature:
The Ides of March by Valerio Massimo
Manfredi
The passive present simple
Cross-curricular - Science:
The inventor of the World Wide Web
The passive other tenses
Cross-curricular - Geography:
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley: Classifying

information
Second Life
Wordlists 136
Study skills 146
Spelling rules and pronunciation guide 149
Exam success 150
Listening
Writing
Speaking
Exam success/Study skills
Environmental problems
Making notes
Pair discussion
A school meeting
A summary
Making arrangements
A short story
Talking about your

environment
Use of English: Sentence transformation

activities
Writing: Writing in exam conditions
Making arrangements
Listening: First listening, second listening
Pronunciation: Intonation
- showing enthusiasm
Writing: Organising ideas into paragraphs
Describing personal
qualities
Discussing personal
qualities and jobs
Reading: True/false activities
Making notes
Describing and guessing

jobs
A formal letter
Describing jobs
A summer job in the USA
Requesting information
about working conditions
A letter of application
and CV
Asking for and giving

advice
Listening: Multiple-choice activities

Vocabulary: Efficient vocabulary revision
Speaking: Making mistakes
Role-play: Information
about a summer job
Feelings
Making notes
Speaking
Speaking: Reporting past events
The story of Romeo and

Juliet
A personal description
Re-telling a story
Writing: Answering the question
Finding out about

childhood experiences
Reading: Reading for specific information
A conversation about a
party
Listening: Listening outside the classroom
Evaluating a questionnaire
Discover your secret self!

(questionnaire)
Fiction and non-fiction
Reporting information
Discussing reading habits
Reading: Missing sentence activities
James Patterson - radio

programme
Making notes
Reporting personal
statements
Listening: Completing notes
Conversation in a
bookshop
Reporting results of a
questionnaire
Books and films survey
SirTim Berners-Lee: radio

programme
Wikipedia: radio
programme
Interviewing a famous
person
Reading: Reading for pleasure

Writing: Brainstorming
Making offers: Shopping
Trivia questions
Discussing computer use
Use of English: Cloze activities
Text messages and

abbreviations
Presentation about your

country
Speaking: A conversation based on a photo
Photo description
Group Quiz
Reading: Guessing from context

Speaking: Practice makes perfect
Talking about photos:

Speculation
Speaking bank 154
Writing bank 156
Irregular verbs 158
Communication activities and quiz answers 159

5
Grammar
Present simple and present continuous
Articles
Vocabulary Ages and stages of life The family

Noun suffixes -ment, -ion, -ence
1 Family matters
Speaking
Asking for personal information
Writing
An informal email
Vocabulary
Ages and stages of life
1
Work with a partner. Match the photos with these

words. What ages go with each stage of life?
baby
child
middle-aged adult
senior citizen
e
2
teenager
baby, 0-3 approximately
Put the stages of life in order. Begin with birth,

adolescence
death
young adult
birth
middle age
Listen, check and repeat
The family
4
Divide these words into three lists:

Male/Female/Male or Female.
Complete the sentences with these words.

born
aunt
brother-in-law
daughter
grandfather
husband
nephew
stepfather
uncle
grandson
niece
wife
Male
Female
Male or Female
husband
daughter
cousin
one-parent
only child
partner
single
If you are
An
You can use the word
the brother of one of your parents
your mother's new husband in a second or
, you aren't married.

doesn't have brothers or sisters.
to describe either a husband or
wife or the person that someone lives with.
the man that a woman is married to
husband
If you are married and then end the marriage, you are
families are families where only the father or the mother

lives at home and looks after the children.
Approximately 670.000 babies are
Match the words in 4 with these descriptions.

1
divorced
cousin
every year in Britain.
LISTENING @ 1.02 Listen to three people talking about themselves and

their families. Choose the correct alternative for each person.
later marriage
Joshua is QshM/MeenQQe.l He has a bjg/smaJl family.
a daughter of your brother or sister
the son of one of your children
Olivia is a ch\ld/a teenager She has got a big/smalj'family She lives with her
/.
She spends a lot of time with her gM/cousin.
the brother of your husband or wife
Jessica is a senior citizen. She's got four/tweJy children. She is

/.
SPEAKING Work with a partner. Take it in

turns to define the other words in 4. Can your
partner say the family member?
It's the son of your brother or sister.
Nephew.
Unit 1
9a SPEAKING Make notes about your family. Use the words from this page.
/ live with mum and dad, one sister, open visitgrandparents

9b Tell other people about your family using your notes.
/ live with my mum, dad and sister. My mum's name is...
r Keading
Look at the photos. What can you see in them? What do you think the text is about? Guess.
Read the text and choose a good title.
2
1 New technology in the USA
Protection 24 hours day - is it a good idea?
Unhappy families
WHAT A R E YOUR PARENTS DOING NOW?

Maybe they're watching you, listening to you or finding out where you are. How?
It's all thanks to new high-tech equipment from specialist companies in the USA.
A company called BladeRunner has a jacket with a GPS system inside. It costs $500, and for $20 a
month your parents can always see where you are (or where your jacket is!). But that's nothing Do your
parents want to know what you're eating? No problem. MyNutriKids tells them what you're having for lunch at school Do your
parents want to know your exam results? GradeSpeed is a service which gives them that information. Do they want to know what
online, conversations you're having? IMSafer tells them. You usually arrive on time for extra-curricular sports classes. But if one day
you don t arrive on time, there's a service which informs
another service which sends them a message if
y 0 U
r parents. And there's
go outside a specific area.
So, are your parents protecting you or are they spying on you? Babies and small
children need constantqare and protection. But is it really important for
parents to know where their teenage kids are every minute of the day?
Adolescents need to take their own decisions and make their own
mistakes. Mistakes are an important part of growing up, of passing from
childhood to independence. We think it's important for parents to give
their children the opportunity to do this.
EXAM SUCCESS
Match the underlined words in the text with their

definitions.
Here is a multiple-choice reading activity. In this type of

exercise you have three or four options. You choose the option
that is best according to the information in the text. If you
aren't sure of the correct answer, what can you do?
EXAM SUCCESS page 150
something you do at school, but not part of your normal

studies
erfmzCHWk$l.
things that you do wrong, that are incorrect

connected to the Internet
Read the text again and choose the best answers.
chance, possibility
1 The BladeRunner jacket
permanent attention and help
a costs $500.
b only works if you pay regularly,
has a mobile phone inside.
2 GradeSpeed
a helps students to work fast in exams,
b helps students to have good results in exams,
gives parents information about exam results.
3
a
b
One of the services

tells parents if their children do not arrive at a place on time,
4
a
b
A lot of the new technology

is dangerous for children,
stops children from entering a new zone,

tells children if they are going into a dangerous place.
gives parents information about their children,

is difficult to use.
written or spoken information that you send to somebody
7
5
tells.
SPEAKING What about you?

1
Do your parents usually know what you are doing?
Imagine. Your parents give you a GPS jacket. Would you wear
it? Why/Why not?
/ think my parents usually
know where I am.
Me too. My parents always call
me when I'm not at home.
5 In the article, it says that for young people it is

a bad to make mistakes.
b important to listen to parents.
important to have the chance to make mistakes.
Unit 1
Grammar in context
GRAMMAR GUIDE
l a Look at these sentences. Which sentences are in the
present simple and which are in the present continuous?
1 You usually arrive on time for sports classes.
2 They're watching you now.
3
4
1 Complete the sentences with the correct form of study.

Present simple
We think it's important.

Adolescents should take their own decisions.
Affirmative:
He
Negative:
He
studies
physics.
he
Question:
Affirmative:
She
Negative:
She
English now.
maths now.
she
Question:
(GRAMMAR REFERENCE page 16
STUDY SKILLS
STUDY SKILLS page 146
When you have a problem with grammar, where can you find help?
Look at the picture. Describe what the people are doing. Use the present continuous form of
these verbs.
call
chat
A boy is listening
drink
laugh
listen
ride
run
sit
to music.
1 I i ^g
i
I
English?
Present continuous
l b Match the sentences in l a with the explanation of their

uses in a - d .
a For actions that are happening now or temporary actions,
b For regular or routine actions,
For things that are always or generally true,

d With certain verbs like love, like, hate, think, believe, know,
understand, want, need.
history.
study
walk
wear
French?
Developing vocabulary
3
Complete the dialogue about the picture using the present

simple or present continuous form of the verbs given.
MUM: Can you see Mike?

1
Yes, I can.
DAD:
equipment
MUM: What (a)

DAD:
he
(do) now?
Right now he's (b)
(take)
his bike to school on Fridays, (d)
NO, he (e)
MUM: He normally (f)

DAD:
(wear) a helmet when he
Let me call him to find out what (h)
(do)?
MIKE: Oh, hi, Dad. Well, you know I usually (j)
(play)
football on Fridays. But because this Friday is Pete's birthday we

decided to come to the park. Pete (k)
(have) his
bike here.
DAD:
Why (I)
you
MIKE: How (m)
move
improve
retirement
(know) that? Dad!
you
-ion
(spy) on me again?!
Noun
Find these words and phrases in the dialogue in 3. Which go with

the present simple and which go with the present continuous?
1 at the moment
4 now
7 this Friday
2 never
5 on Fridays
8 usually
3 normally
6 right now
protection
inform
invent
at the moment = present
discussion
continuous
Complete the sentences with the present simple or present

continuous form of these verbs.
look after
need
not understand
I can't come out at the moment because I
Why
My cousin always
Can you say that again? I
Can I help you, Dad?
My sister
you
shout
my baby sister.
? My grandfather can hear you.

in a restaurant on Saturday afternoons.
you
Adjective
Noun
independence
10
adolescence
different
11
12
confidence
anything?
down right now because she doesn't feel well.
J4$<^
Complete the sentences with nouns from 2.

1
? My mum is working at the moment.
? My uncle and aunt live in Liverpool.
? No. my cousin isn't studying at university
? My grandparents go for a walk in the

mornings.
He and his brother are very similar. There isn't a

big
between them.
The computer is a brilliant
She doesn't live with her family. She likes having
? My family and I usually go to the
complete
cinema at the weekend.

5
SPEAKING Use the questions in 6 to interview your partner. When
you finish, think of similar questions to ask.
What do you do on Fridays?
is the period between

childhood and being an adult.
I play basketball on Fridays.
-ence
work
Write questions for these answers.

1
equipment
Verb
lie
eauip
(not wear) a helmet?
you
(n)
Noun
Verb
(happen) . . .
you
Complete the words in the table and then use

your dictionary to check the words.
-merit
(ride) his bike.
Mike? What (i)
protection
he
(wear) a helmet at the moment?
(g)
independence
The parts of the word in bold are suffixes. Suffixes

change the type of word, e.g. from an adjective to
a noun.
(ride) a bike.
MUM: Impossible. He never (c)
DAD:
Look at these words from the text on page 7.
You can find a lot of

about many different topics on the Internet.
A hat can give you
from
the sun.
I go out with my friends.
Unit 1
Teenagers and parents
International cultural knowledge

British teenagers and their parents
I
Strict parents are parents who have

very clear rules for their children to
follow and obey. Work with a partner.
Do you think these statements are
true (T) or false (F)? Guess.
British parents are very strict.
T/F
British parents don't like being strict.
T/F
An experiment on TV shows that British

T/F
teenagers hate strict parents.
Read the text. Check your answers

from 1.
Read the text again and answer the

questions in your own words.
What is The world's strictest parents'?

It's a television programme
British
adolescents
and
about
discipline.
Who is Andrea Wiseman?
What negative things do British teenagers

do, in Wiseman's opinion?
What negative things do British parents

do, in Wiseman's opinion?
What are the negative effects on

teenagers when parents act in this way?
What happens to the British teenagers in
Strict
What's the problem with British teenagers?'
Many British newspapers and TV
programmes are asking this question
at the moment. A lot of people are
saying that there are problems with
teenagers at school, on the streets and
in their homes. Why? What, or who, is
responsible for these problems?
rules, no discipline because they want

their children to be 'free'. They don't tell
their children to work hard because they
don't want their kids to have any stress.
The problem with this is that parents
give their sons and daughters no cultural
values. When a teenager does something
bad and their parents say something, the
teenagers immediately say 'My parents
are really strict' or 'My parents aren't
fair'.
A recent BBC television series explores

these questions. It's called 'The world's
strictest parents'. Is that because British
parents are very strict? Just the opposite,
it seems.
The director of the programme, Andrea
Wiseman, explains why they are making
it. She thinks that in the United Kingdom
teenagers pay no attention to adults.
They don't want to do well at school.
They think they can do what they like
and they are only interested in new
fashions and Hollywood celebrities.
Why are British teenagers like this?'
Wiseman says it's because their parents
give their children everything they can
But they give their children no limits, no
So what happens in the TV programme?

Some problematic British teenagers go
and live with parents in different parts
of the world. They live with families
that believe in traditional discipline
and cultural values. In Ghana, Jamaica,
Botswana and the southern US state
of Alabama, the teenagers have the
experience of living with parents who
want and expect good behaviour and
hard work. The results are interesting. In
the end, the British teenagers seem to
prefer having strict parents!
The world's strictest parents'?
WORD BOOSTER
What about youl
Match the words and definitions.

1 explores
2 celebrities
3 discipline
10
a the way that someone does things, for

example, at school
b famous people
treated in a good and equal way
4 values
d the way that we make people obey rules
5 fair
e ideas that are important in our lives
6 behaviour
Unit 1
looks at, investigates
Would you like to watch this programme on TV?

Why/Why not?
How strict do you think parents are in your country?
I'd like to watch it.
Why?
Because I'd like to see the British teenagers
living in these different countries.
Popular culture
'Girls just want to have fun' byCyndi Lauper

5fA
5
Look at the picture. What is happening?

Verse 1
come home in the morning light,
My mother says "When you gonna live your life right?"
Oh, mama dear,
We're not the fortunate ones,
And girls, they want to have fun
Oh, girls just want to have fun
Listen to the song and match the picture to
a verse.
Now read the words to the song and match a sentence to

each verse. There are four sentences but only
Zt
verses.
The girl's father is
$daUghter at
unusual times.
The girl's broth
about things.
^ "
0 p i n i o n s
The girl's mother is angry becat

_use her daughter stays out
verse
late, verse
4 The girl doesn't want a boyfriend to control her. verse
8 What about youl
1 What do you think of the song's words and music?
2 How does the song make you feel?
I think the words
ore really good.
Verse 2
The phone rings in the middle of the night,
My father yells "What you gonna do with your life?"
Oh, daddy dear,
You know you're still number one,
But girls, they want to have fun
INSIDE INFORMATION
Chorus
That's all they really want
Some fun
When the working day is done,
Oh, girls, they want to have fun
The song appears in many films,

adverts and TV series, including
an episode of The Simpsons.
> The song is one of the first songs
about girl power. Cyndi Lauper
was an inspiration for artists like
Madonna.
Verse 3
Some boys take a beautiful girl,
And hide her away from the rest of the world
I want to be the one to walk in the sun
Oh, girls, they want to have fun,
Chorus
Me too. What
about the music?
This song first appeared in 1984.

It won the first ever MTV Best
Female Video award.
Grammar in context
GRAMMAR GUIDE
Articles
1
Look at these sentences and then complete rules

1 - 5 with a/an, the or no article.
a
I think family dinners are a great thing,
Family dinners are an important time for us.
The dinner I'm eating today isn't good,
The government talks a lot about family dinners,
I'm a computer technician.
We use
when we talk about things
&$1&
in general.
2
We use
to talk about a specific person
or thing or a person or thing mentioned before.

3
We use
to talk about a singular,
countable person or thing for the first time, or to

say that the person or thing is one of a number of
things or people.
4
SPEAKING Work with a partner. Describe the photos.

Who can you see? Where are they? What are they doing?
How are the people feeling, and why? If you are not sure
of something, use / think and/or / imagine.
We use
something that is unique.

5
We use
GRAMMAR REFERENCE page 16
What do you usually do when you have dinner - talk,

watch TV, listen to music . . . ?
2a
LISTENING @ 1.04 Listen to a radio programme about

family dinners. Match the people and their situations.
A eats with the family just once a week
eats with the family but they don't talk
makes dinner for the family every day
Mike
D never arrives home in time for dinner
Chris
E eats and talks with the family every day
Sally
F usually eats with the family but isn't

eating with them today
Alice
Jennifer
Daniel
G always eats alone because mum and

dad work
to say what somebody's
profession is.
pre
l b Ask and answer these questions.

1 What time do you usually have dinner?
2 Where do you usually have dinner?
3 Who do you usually have dinner with?
4
to talk about someone or
R0NUNCIATI0N
1.05 Listen to how we pronounce
the in List A and in List B. What is the difference in
pronunciation? Why is this?
List A:
List B:
the problem
the end
the dinner
the important thing
the government
the evening
the weekend
the afternoon
2b
3
Complete the sentences with the if necessary.

1
Today on
programme we're talking
about
2
H has to order pizza because nobody has

time to cook
Listen again and repeat.
family dinners.
I'm going to
fridge to see if there's anything
to eat.
3
I think
Do you think it's important to eat with your family?
In my house
Why/Why not?
Adults don't always arrive home on time because of

work.
I don't like
/ think it's important to eat together.

Why?
Because you can talk about what you did
that day or talk about your problems.
Unit 1
In
communication is essential
breakfast isn't an important meal.
food at school.
films they often show
eating together.
families
Read the text and choose the correct alternative.

(a) An/The
interesting study in the USA s h o w s (b) the/0 importance of family dinners. T h e results
show that (c) O/the teenagers w h o eat with their families five or six times a w e e k usually get
(d) O/the top marks at school. There is probably (e) a/the simple explanation for this. Rakeish Bedesi
is (f) O/the president of A p p l y i n g t o S c h o o l . c o m . This is (g) o/the service helping students w h o want
to go to (h) O/the university. He says he sees (i) o/the big difference b e t w e e n families that discuss
things and families that don't. W h e n you eat together and talk about (j) O/the different opinions
and options, students can plan for the future. Do you want to be ( ) O/o great inventor o n e day?
Talk about it over dinner!
Look at these questions. Add a, an, the or 0 if the question does not need an article.
1
Do you think
Are
Do you think
Do you talk about
Do you think
Do you like
Do you listen to
family dinners are important?
family dinners
important part of life in your country?
children and
parents talk a lot in your country?
important things when you have
dinner?
food you eat makes a difference to your school marks?

food at your school?
music at dinnertime?
SPEAKING Interview your partner using the correct questions in 5.

Do you think family dinners are important?
Yes, I do. I think they are an important part of family life.
^
Unit 1
developing speaking
1
Asking for personal
information
Complete this personal information file with information about you and your brothers, sisters or best friend
Brothers/Sisters/Best f r i e n d :
W h a t y o u u s u a l l y do on Saturdays:
Age:
W h a t y o u u s u a l l y do on Sundays:
W h a t t h e y do:
Your likes/dislikes:
How often y o u see t h e m :
Look at these four people and their personal information files. Tell your partner which people are similar to you. Explain why.
Oliver is similar to me because he's got one brother and he does sport on Sundays.
Oliver
Liam
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
one brother, one sister

brother at university, sister works
goes out w i t h friends on Saturdays
plays tennis on Sundays
one brother
brother at university
does sport on Sundays
Emma
Philippa
.
.
.
.
one brother
brother studies at school
watches films on Saturdays
doesn't like sport
LISTENING 1.06 Listen to two teenagers talking at a

party. Look at the personal information files in 2. Which
two people are talking?
Work with a partner. Complete the dialogue with the

correct questions. Look at the Speaking Bank for help.
(a)
5a
one sister
sister lives i n the USA
plays tennis on Saturdays
plays computer games on Sundays
PRONUNCIATION *1.07 Listen again and check your answers.

Which questions in the dialogue go with Diagram A?
Which go with Diagram B?
Diagram A
Diagram
5 b Listen and repeat the questions.

?
5c Complete the rules.
Yes, I've got one brother.

Me too. (b)
He's 22.
(c)
In Wh- questions (e.g. What's your name?) the intonation

usually goes /doyyn at the end of the question.
In Yes/No questions (e.g. Is your name Anna?) the intonation

usually goes up/dgyyn at the end of the question.
No, he doesn't. He's at university in Manchester.

(d)
About once a month, when he comes home for the

weekend.
?
I usually go out with my friends on Saturdays and we

sometimes play football on Sundays, (f)
My brother and I often go to the cinema on Saturdays.
But I never play football because I don't like sport.
Speaking Bank
Useful questions to ask for personal information
Have you got any brothers or sisters?
What do you do at the weekend/in the evenings/
on Wednesdays?
What about you?
Do you like . . . ?
What do you think of... ?
How often do you . . . ?
14
Unit 1
SPEAKING Practise the completed dialogue in 4 with your

partner. Pay special attention to the correct intonation in
questions.
Practice makes perfect
That's good! I see my brother every day because he's only

fourteen, (e)
7a SPEAKING Work with a partner. Do this role-play using the

dialogue in 4 and the Speaking Bank to help you.
?
You meet an English boy/girl at a party.
Find out i f he/she has brothers or sisters.
Tell him/her about your family.
Find out what he/she does at the weekend.
Tell him/her what you do i n your free time.
7b Change partners and repeat.
EXAM SUCCESS
In information role-plays, how can you keep the conversation 1
going?
eveloping speaking
1
Asking for personal
information
Complete this personal information file with information about you and your brothers, sisters or best friend.
Brothers/Sisters/Best f r i e n d :
W h a t y o u u s u a l l y do on Saturdays:
Age:
W h a t y o u u s u a l l y do on Sundays:
W h a t t h e y do:
Y o u r likes/dislikes:
How often y o u see t h e m :
Look at these four people and their personal information files. Tell your partner which people are similar to you. Explain why.
Oliver is similar to me because he's got one brother and he does sport on Sundays.
Oliver
Li am
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
one brother, one sister

brother at university, sister works
plays tennis on Sundays
one brother
brother at university
does sport on Sundays
Philippa
Emma
one brother
brother studies at school
watches films on Saturdays
doesn't like sport
5a
LISTENING . 0 6 Listen to two teenagers talking at a

party. Look at the personal information files in 2. Which
two people are talking?
Work with a partner. Complete the dialogue with the
correct questions. Look at the Speaking Bank for help.
one sister
sister lives i n the USA
plays tennis on Saturdays
plays computer games on Sundays
PRONUNCIATION 1.07 Listen again and check your answers.

Which questions in the dialogue go with Diagram A?
Which go with Diagram B?
Diagram A
Diagram
5 b Listen and repeat the questions.

Yes, I've got one brother.

Me too. (b)
He's 22.
(c)
.
.
.
In Wh- questions (e.g. What's your name?) the intonation

usually goes up/down at the end of the question.
In Yes/No questions (e.g. Is your name Anna?) the intonation

usually goes /down at the end of the question.
No, he doesn't. He's at university in Manchester.

(d)
About once a month, when he comes home for the

weekend.
?
I usually go out with my friends on Saturdays and we

sometimes play football on Sundays, (f)
My brother and I often go to the cinema on Saturdays.
But I never play football because I don't like sport.
Speaking Bank
Useful questions to ask for personal information
Have you got any brothers or sisters?
What do you do at the weekend/in the evenings/
on Wednesdays?
What about you?
Do you like . . . ?
What do you think o f . . . ?
How often do you . . . ?
14
Unit 1
SPEAKING Practise the completed dialogue in 4 with your

partner. Pay special attention to the correct intonation in
questions.
That's good! I see my brother every day because he's only

fourteen, (e)
7a SPEAKING Work with a partner. Do this role-play using the

dialogue in 4 and the Speaking Bank to help you.
?
You meet an English boy/girl at a party.
Find out i f he/she has brothers or sisters.
Tell him/her about your family.
Find out what he/she does at the weekend.
Tell him/her what you do i n your free time.
7b Change partners and repeat.
EXAM SUCCESS
In information role-plays, how can you keep the conversation jj
going?
EXAM SUCCESS page 150 *
Look at this advert from a teenager called Alanna. What does Alanna want?
Would you be interested in contacting her? Why/Why not?
Category
Language - English
Main aim
Find an i n t e r n a t i o n a l e-pal
I speak
English a n d a l i t t l e Spanish
My interests M u s i c , b o o k s , t r a v e l
Message
Hi! I'm f r o m D u b l i n . I've g o t t w o

b r o t h e r s , t w o sisters a n d a p e t d o g
called B u t t o n s ! I love t r a v e l l i n g a n d
Name Alanna
discovering new countries, new
My country Ireland
m u s i c a n d n e w b o o k s . If y o u w a n t t o
My age
p r a c t i s e y o u r English a n d m a k e n e w
14-18
friends, write to me.
Read this reply to Alanna's advert. Do you think this person is a good e-pal for Alanna? Why/Why not?
Message - Hi Alanna!
From:
Subject:
Silvia < s i i v i a l o m b a r d i @ m a i i n e t . c o m >
To: Alanna
<teacakes@rea!mail.com>
HiAianna!
Hi Alanna!
I'm Silvia. I'm f r o m Florence in Italy. Let me tell you about myself.
I'm from quite a big family. I've got t w o brothers and a sister. M y
sister and I are almost the same age and w e go everywhere together.
My father works in a bank and my m o t h e r is a teacher. M y m u m
teaches at my school. That's often a good t h i n g , but sometimes it
can be really bad ;-).
I love listening to all types of music, but especially pop and rock. M y favourite group is an Italian group
called Negramoro. Do you know t h e m ? Right n o w I'm listening t o their latest CD.
English is my favourite subject at school. This year I'm doing extra classes and I also read books in
English. At the m o m e n t I'm reading a Sherlock Holmes book.
Anyway, that's all for now. W r i t e back soon if you'd like t o be my e-pal.
Best wishes
Silvia :-)
Look again at the email in 2 and complete the information
Match the paragraphs in Silvia's email with their content.
in the Writing Bank.
Paragraph 1
favourite subject at school
Paragraph 2
main hobby
Paragraph 3
basic personal information
Paragraph 4
asking for a reply
Paragraph 5
family
Writing Bank
To begin an informal email we usually use the
word
Hi
We use contractions like

We can use emoticons like
We can use the word
I'm
>)
or
or
to change the subject.

Look at the task and write the email. Use Silvia's email and
the Writing Bank to help you.
To finish an informal email letter we can use:

That's
Write
fornow.
soon.
Best
STUDY SKILLS
When you finish writing, what do you need to check?

W r i t e an e m a i l w i t h i n f o r m a t i o n about yourself to a
new e-pal. Tell your e-pal:
basic personal i n f o r m a t i o n
i n f o r m a t i o n about your f a m i l y
i n f o r m a t i o n about your m a i n hobby
i n f o r m a t i o n about your favourite subject at school.
Jnit 1
Language reference and revision

Grammar reference
Present simple
Form
Affirmative
Spelling
See page 149 for rules about spelling the third person singular form.
I/You/We/They work.
He/She/It works.
Use
We use the present simple to talk about:
Negative
I/You/We/They don't (do not) work.

He/She/It doesn't (does not) work.
Question
Do l/you/we/they work?
Does he/she/it work?
regular habits and routines.

We have our English class on
Yes, l/you/we/they do. No, l/you/we/they don't.

Yes, he/she/it does.
No, he/she/it doesn't.
permanent situations.
They live in a bij city.
general and scientific facts.

Water boils at 100C.
Short
answers
Time expressions we often use with the present simple:

always, usually, often, sometimes, rarely, never, once/twice/three
times a day/week/month/year, on Mondays/Tuesdays
Thursdays.
See notes below about state and action verbs.
Present continuous
Spelling
Form
Affirmative
subject + am/are/is + verb+wg

We're
Negative
Question
Short
answers
See page 149 for rules about spelling the -ing form.
Use
waiting.
subject + am not/aren't/isn't + verb+mg

She isn't
listening.
Am/Are/Is + subject + verb+mg?
Are they
watching?
Yes, subject + am/are/is.
No, subject + am not/aren't/isn't.
Yes, 1 am. No, they aren't.
Time expressions we often use with the present continuous:

now, right now, at the moment, today, this week
We use the present continuous to talk about:

1
actions in progress at the moment of speaking.

/ can't answer
the phone. I'm having a shower.
temporary actions and situations.

John's
living in New York for a few
months.
NOTE: Some verbs are not usually used in the present continuous
because they describe states not actions:
have (= possess) need love hate want prefer believe know
understand think (= have an opinion) mean hear see seem
Articles
A/An
We also use the to talk about specific things or people.
We use a/an with singular, countable nouns. We use it when we

mention something for the first time, or to say that the person or
thing is one of a number of things or people.
The people I saw yesterday
were
friendly.
The cheese is in the fridge.

The dogs in that park don't look very
dangerous.
We also use the to talk about something unique, something that
I've got a dog. It's a labrador.

We use a/an to say what somebody's profession is.
He's an engineer.
there is only one of.

the sun, the government
(in a particular
country), the world
No article
The
We use the with countable (singular and plural) and uncountable
nouns. We use it to refer to something or somebody previously
mentioned.
I've jot a dog. The dog is really big.
We do not use an article with plural countable nouns or uncountable

nouns when we are talking about people or things in general.
People are friendly here.
I like cheese.
Tigers are dangerous.
Vocabulary
1 Ages and stages of life
adolescence baby
birth child childhood
death middle age
middle-aged adult old age
senior citizen teenager
young adult
Unit 1
2 The family
aunt born brother
brother/sister/father/mother-in-law
cousin
daughter divorced grandfather/mother
grandson/daughter husband nephew niece
one-parent family only child partner single
sister son stepfather/mother uncle wife
3 Noun suffixes -ment, -ion, -ence

equipment improvement movement
retirement discussion information
invention protection adolescence
confidence difference
independence
4 Other words and phrases
page 136-
Grammar revision
1 Write the third person singular form and the -ing form of
the verbs below.
Verb
Third person singular
Choose the correct word to complete the sentences.

1
He's
a new pair of jeans today.
a wears
-ing form
2
1 have
3
4
4 try
5 get
does
7 do
WORKBOOK page 4
/8
French or German right now.
bstudys
study
I'm sorry, I
what you're telling me.

b not understand
d don't understand
Where's your cousin? He normally

bis arriving
on time.
arrives
Ah! Now I
d is coming
what you mean.
b'm seeing
' m knowing
d m not understanding
Stop talking to her because she

a don't listen
' s listening
points)
d's studying
a'm not understanding

not understanding
a see
8 cut
d has
I'm not sure if he
a come
6 miss
d carrying
your sister have English lessons?

bdo
a studies
3 write
wearing
When
a is
2 lie
b carries
Why
a hasn't
to you.
b isn't listening
d never listens
she doing anything?
b isn't
doesn't
d don't
(
WORKBOOK page 4
/8
points)
Articles
3
Choose the correct alternative.

1
It's Q/the/Q. beautiful day and g/the/0, sun is shining.
A/The/0,young girl walks into a restaurant A/Thg/0girl

down and orders a pizza.
sits
My cousin loves g/the/0 books. He's a/the/0 writer.
Pete's uncle is g/the/0, doctor. He says g/the/0, cigarettes are

bad for your health.
(
WORKBOOK page 7
/8
points)
Vocabulary revision
/Ages and stages of //fe - The family

2
Complete the text with the appropriate words.
Complete the sentences with the correct form of these words.
'My name's Harry. I live with my mum. She's middlefa)
adolescent
inform
I think she's 50 this year. My dad doesn't

1
live with us because my parents are (b)

I'm an (c)
move
improve
She usually gets 50% or 60% in her exams but in this exam she
2
,
Gan you
? I can't see the blackboard if you
sit there.
George. He's the son of my Uncle Jack. He's young. I remember
I love my MP3 player! What a great
when he was born. In fact, I was there at the hospital on the
This program
There are two or three
day of his (e)

(f)
My Aunt Angela, Uncle Jack's

, is really nice too. My mum says she
and to stay (h)
She wants to be a secondary school teacher because she likes
A dictionary gives you
He doesn't want to get married at the moment. He wants to

be
/8
between the
working with
father. I prefer my mum not to get married
WORKBOOK page 2
your computer from viruses.
present simple and the present continuous.
wants to get married again, but I don't really want to have a

(g)
independent
protect
has 90%. That's a big
child. I haven't got brothers or
sisters but I spend a lot of time with my (d)
different
invent
points)
WORKBOOK page 5
about new words.

and free.
(
/8 points)
/40
points^
Unit 1
1 7
Grammar
2& iminal record
Past simple
Past continuous
Vocabulary Crimes Criminals

Phrasal verbs connected with investigating and finding
Speaking
Writing
An informal letter
Crimes
1
Work with a partner and match the pictures with these words
burglary
robbery
d
burglary
1.08/9 Listen and repeat.
Complete the sentences with the correct form of these verbs. You
can use one word three times.
burgle
ktH
mug
pirate
A murder is when somebody
A burglary is when somebody
Criminals
6
rob
steal
kills
vandalise
another person.
a house and
things from it.

3
A robbery is when somebody
a bank or a person.
Vandalism is when somebody
public property
and damages it.

5
Shoplifting is when somebody
Piracy is when somebody

and DVDs by copying them illegally.
things from a shop.
Mugging is when somebody
software such as CDs

another person and
takes their money using violence.

8
4
A theft is when somebody
Crime
Criminal
burglary
murder
robbery
shoplifting
theft
vandalism
piracy
mugging
burglar
something.
What is the difference between rob and steal? Use your dictionary to
check your answer.
7a
Why is it good to guess information about words before you look

them up in a dictionary?
Try to complete the table without using a

dictionary. Then use your dictionary to check and
complete the table.
LISTENING @ 1.10 Listen to four radio news items. What are the
SPEAKING All of these crimes are serious. Put them

in order of how serious you think they are, from 8
(very serious) to 1 (not so serious).
7b Work with a partner. Compare your ideas.

/ think murder is very serious. I give it an 8.
crimes?
1
4
-
Unit 2
"
~~
~ ~
I agree. What do you

think about mugging?
t Reading
1 Look at these pictures. They illustrate newspaper
stories about crimes or criminals. Can you match the
titles of the stories with the pictures? There is one title
you do not need.
Q Now you s e e it, n o w y o u don't
0 And this photo is me stealing your car

0
The perfect police officer
Q Burglar in a box
0
Let me back in!
2 Work with a partner. From the titles and pictures,

what do you think happens in each story? Guess.
What about the story with the car?
I think that somebody steals the car
when the boy is taking a photo of it.
3
Read the stories and match the pictures, titles and texts.
Story A
Title
Picture
Story
Title
Picture
Story
Title
Picture
Story D
Title
Picture
STUDY SKILLS
Why is it useful to look at pictures and the title of texts before
you read them?
Prison guards in Vienna got

a big surprise yesterday.
They discovered a young
man just outside the prison.
They thought that he was
escaping. But they found out
that the young man, Detlef
Federsohn, was trying to get
back in! Federsohn was in
prison for two years for theft.
When he left prison and lived
on the outside, he decided
that he preferred life inside.
'Life is great in prison,' said
Federsohn. 'They give you
your meals, wash your clothes
and let you watch television. I
can't do that with my mum.'
A gang of robbers wanted to

rob the famous magician David
Copperfield last week. They learnt
an important lesson: never mug
a magician. Four young people
attacked Copperfield after a show in
Florida, last week. Copperfield had
money, his passport, and his mobile
phone in his pockets. But when the
robbers were looking for something
to steal, he showed his pockets to
the thieves and the objects weren't
there! The thieves didn't wait to look
for them. The police arrested the
men when they were running away
... after a call from Copperfield on
his disappearing phone.
4 Read the stories again and answer the

questions.
A British car thief made

a basic mistake. Lee
Hoskins was stealing an
Opel Astra when he came
across a camera inside
the car. So what did he
do? He and his girlfriend
took photos of each other
next to the car. Soon
afterwards, they crashed
the car. They quickly ran
away from the scene of
the crime but they left the
camera inside the car. The
police soon worked out
who the thief was! 'Some
criminals can be really
stupid,' said a police officer
looking into the case.
A Colombian criminal
had an original idea for a
burglary. He got inside a
box and a friend sent him
by.post to the house of a
rich businessman. But the
businessman was surprised
and suspicious when the
large parcel turned up at
his house. He didn't think
it was normal to receive
this big parcel and so he
called the police. When the
thief finally came out of
the box, he saw ten police
officers standing there
waiting for him.
Match the underlined words in the stories with their definitions.

1
stopped and took to the police station
.^...
1 Why were the prison guards in Vienna

surprised by Detlef Federsohn?
people who look after a place or person
a box or package that you send by post
2 Why didn't Detlef Federsohn want to live with

his mum?
breakfast, lunch, dinner
how you feel when you think something is not normal and could be
bad or dangerous
crime, incident
using the postal service
let somebody see something
Who attacked David Copperfield?
4 Why didn't they steal anything from

Copperfield?
5
What photos did Lee Hoskins take?
How did the police catch Lee Hoskins?
How did the Colombian burglar get into the

rich man's house?
3 Why wasn't the burglar's plan successful?
SPEAKING What about
youl
Which story do you prefer and why?

/ like the story about the magician.
yyhy?
Because he's very clever. The criminals didn't steal anything from him.
Unit 2
Grammar in context
GRAMMAR GUIDE
Past
simple
1c In l a find a sentence with . . .
l a Look at these sentences. Which

sentences are in the present simple
and which are in the past simple?
a
a form of be in the past simple affirmative d......
a form of be in the past simple negative
Four young people attacked him.
a regular verb in the past simple affirmative
What did he do?
an irregular verb in the past simple affirmative
They give you your meals.
a past simple question
He was outside the prison.
a verb in the past simple negative
He had money in his pockets.
My mother doesn't do that.
He didn't think about it.
The objects weren't there.
I d Complete the sentences with the correct past simple forms of be, walk and go.
Affirmative:
He
Negative:
He
^/.1^/^.
there yesterday.
he
Question:
1 b When do we use the past simple?
2a
there yesterday.
there yesterday?
PRONUNCIATION Look at the three lists. How do we pronounce the -ed ending in each list?
2b ^
List A:
finished
List B:
wanted
ListC:
stayed
watched
liked
passed
needed
painted
started
arrived
discovered
planned
1.11 Listen, check and repeat.
2c In which list is the -ed ending pronounced /id/? Which letters come just before -ed in the words in this list?
3
Work with a partner. Write an A to Z of irregular past simple forms. How many can you think of in five minutes?
A ate,
boujht,
...
Complete the text with the past simple form of the verbs.
One night a girl and her boyfriend (a)
(be) in the middle of a long phone
were
conversation about their future. Suddenly the boyfriend (b)

talking. The girl (c)
(stop)
(become) very worried. She
(d)
(begin) to shout but he (e)
(not reply). She
(f)
(think) that her boyfriend (g)
(be) in some
kind of danger. At first, the girl (h)

then she (i)
(not know) what to do. But
(make) a decision and (j)
the police. Officers (k)
(run) to her boyfriend's house in
Nuremburg, Germany. They (I)
(expect) to find a murderer
or a burglar, but they (m)

(n)
(call)
(not find) any criminals. They just
(find) the boyfriend sleeping next to the phone!
Complete these questions about the text in 4 with the past simple form of the verbs.
20
What
What
Why
What
were
(be) the boy and girl in the middle of?

the boy
the girl
she
(do)?
(start) shouting?
What
What action
.she
they
(think)?
SPEAKING Work with a partner. Take it in turns to ask and answer the questions in 5.
Unit 2
(decide) to do?
. (take)?
below. Student B: turn to page 159. Prepare questions to ask
Phrasal verbs connected with

investigating and finding
your partner to find the missing information.
7a SPEAKING Work in pairs. Student A: look at the information
Find the phrasal verbs in the stories on page 19

and match them to the definitions below.
When was Bonnie Parker bom?
7b Interview your partner.
come across
look into
find out
turnup
look for
workout
Student A
Bonnie and. Clyde w e r e a p a i r of n o t o r i o u s c r i m i n a l s .
Bonnie P a r k e r w a s b o r n i n (a)
in Rowena,
Texas. S h e w a s v e r y i n t e l l i g e n t .
Clyde's full n a m e w a s (b)
He w a s
born i n 1 9 0 9 i n E l l i s C o u n t y , T e x a s .
Bonnie (c)
in 1930. T h e y
investigate
find by accident
solve a problem by considering the facts
try to find
discover
arrive or appear unexpectedly..
look into
committed m a n y c r i m e s i n t h e n e x t f o u r y e a r s .
They robbed (d)
banks, although generally
they p r e f e r r e d s m a l l s h o p s a n d p e t r o l s t a t i o n s .
They often stole c a r s too. O n c e C l y d e s e n t a l e t t e r
to H e n r y F o r d , to t h a n k h i m . H e t o l d h i m t h a t
(e)
But Clyde also h a d a v i o l e n t s i d e . H e p r o b a b l y

killed ten or e l e v e n p e o p l e .
I n J a n u a r y 1 9 3 4 (f)
helped some
friends to e s c a p e f r o m a T e x a s p r i s o n . B u t t h e
Texas police d e c i d e d t h a t it w a s t i m e to s t o p
Bonnie a n d C l y d e , (g)
killed
Rewrite these sentences using the correct form

of the phrasal verbs in 1.
the pair of c r i m i n a l s w h e n t h e y w e r e i n t h e i r c a r .
Bonnie and Clyde w e r e so f a m o u s t h a t m a n y people
Detectives are trying to find the murderer.

Detectives
went to see the c a r a n d t r i e d to s t e a l t h e i r c l o t h e s !

2
^/?^
The CIA began to investigate the case.

The CIA
They found the knife by accident in the garden.

They
The knife appeared unexpectedly in the garden.

The knife
Sherlock Holmes used logic to solve crimes.

Sherlock Holmes
After their investigation, they soon discovered

where the thief was.
After their investigation, they
How many sentences can you make with

the words in the table? Your sentences must
include the phrasal verbs in 1.
/ lookedfor the key.

looked
I
found
came
worked
out
the key.
for
the answer.
across
the identity of the criminal.
Unit 2
1
T h e
p o l i c e
a n d
t h e
S I S
^ T h e origins of the British Police
Cross-curricular - History
The origins of the British Police
*\
The British Police force was the first modern police force in the world. It
began in 1827.
People sometimes call police officers 'Bobbies'. This is because the

perscmwô started t\ve po\\ee tacce was S\Y ô\>ert
V o u are q o i n q t o r e a d s o m e f a c t s a b o u t
t h e British P o i i c e . Before y o u r e a d , w h y
do you think these words or numbers
appear in the text?Guess.

1 1827
5 panda cars
2 Bobbies
6 999
3 green
7 1 metre 78
4 1915
8 Scotland Yard
The first police woman started work in 1915. Women became a regular part
of the police force at this time because many men were away fighting in the
First World War.
The emergency number to call the police in

Britain is 999. They chose this number because
on old telephones it was very difficult to ring the
number by accident.
People called the first police cars 'panda cars'

because they had panels of different colours,
sometimes black and white, or often blue and white
I n the past, to be a police officer you needed to be 1 metre 78 or more.

Now i t isn't important how tall or short you are.
The first police headquarters were in a place called Great Scotland Yard.
In 1890 they moved to a different place. People called this New Scotland
Yard. Then, in 1967, the police built a new, modern headquarters which
is also called New Scotland Yard! It is just 450 metres from the Houses of
Parliament in London.
I think 1827 is when the British Police

began.
2
Read the text and check your answers.
Sir Ytobert Peel didn4 want the police to wear green. Green was the
colour of the army uniform and the army wasn't verypopular at the time
So Peel decided to make police uniforms blue. This was the colour of the
navy. The navy was popular.
WORD BOOSTER
1
army
uniform
3
popular
navy
The British Secret Intelligence Service
ft
Work with a partner and do the

Secret Intelligence Service quiz.
1.12 Listen. Did you choose the
j.i
rorrert
~*
bj acadeut
> headquarters
What about youl
Do you think real secret agents have

exciting lives? Why/Why not?
Would you like to be a secret agent or

a police officer? Why/Why not?
e
f
t know, guess'
The popular name for the SIS is MI5IMI6.

The SIS generally works in Britain!outside
Bntam.
films.
The headquarters of the SIS in London has a secret

nuclear bunkerla
secret
someth'\nq that many

not wanting to, by mistakel
RnnW o f t h e
In real life the SIS has/doesn't have a director of

Technology, like the character Q in the James Bond
Unit 2
a large group of soldiers
people like
The director of the SIS is /
22
central offices
who fight at sea
infrhpnni7?
a large group of soldiers

who fight on land
special clothes that you

wear for work or school
tunnel under the R,ver Thames.
f u t u r e ?
The Crash
Literature
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

INSIDE INFORMATION
The author of the James Bond novels was English. His name was Ian
Fleming. During the Second World War, Fleming worked with spies in
the Intelligence department of the British Navy.
Casino Royale was the first James Bond novel. It appeared in 1953.
They made a film of Casino Royale in 2006, with Daniel Craig as Bond.
In Casino Royale Bond's mission is to destroy Le Chiffre, an important
Russian agent. Le Chiffre loses all his money when he plays cards
with Bond. But Le Chiffre and his men kidnap Vesper, the woman
who is working with Bond. Mathis is another local agent working
with Bond. The text here describes what happens when Bond
follows Le Chiffre and Vesper in his car.
1.13 Read and listen to the text. What do you

think is going to happen just after this scene?
7 Read the text again. Decide if the sentences are true

(T) or false (F).
1 The weather was good that night.
2 Bond decided to give Le Chiffre the cheque.
T/F
3 Bond was driving the Bentley and Le Chiffre was

driving the Citroen.
T/F
4 There were five people in the Citroen.
T/F
5 Vesper was sitting in the backseat of the car.
T/F
6 Le Chiffre drove very fast to escape from Bond.
T/F
8 Correct the false sentences in 7.
There were three men and the girl in the Citroen. Le Chiffre
was driving. The man who had carried the walking-stick gun
was beside him. There was a thick handle next to the man's left
hand. The handle came from the floor of the car.
The tall, thin gunman was sitting in the back seat. Vesper
was next to him. She had a sack over her head. It was tied
around her neck with a piece of rope.
Le Chiffre watched Bond's car in his driving mirror. The
Bentley was only a kilometre behind. When he went round a
corner, Le Chiffre slowed to fifty kilometres an hour. He could
see a crossroads ahead.
'Get ready,' he said to the man beside him.
The man put his fingers round the handle. A t that moment,
the Bentley's headlights came round the corner.
'Now!' said Le Chiffre.
He stopped the car and all three men jumped out. They ran
back to the crossroads. Each man carried a gun.
The Bentley was speeding towards them.
WORD BOOSTER
7 Le Chiffre and his men are planning a surprise

attack on Bond.
Soon Bond was speeding along the coast road. There was no
wind, and the night was clear.
Bond drove faster and faster. He was angry. Why had M sent
Vesper - a woman - on this job? He knew that Le Chiffre's men
would give him the girl if he gave them the cheque. Well, he
wouldn't do it! This job was more important than Vesper. A l l
right, he would try and catch the Citroen. But if he didn't catch
them, he would go back to his hotel. He would say nothing to
Mathis about the Citroen. He would not pay Le Chiffre's men
the forty million francs. Tomorrow he would show Mathis the
note. He would ask Mathis what had happened to Vesper.
Bond's Bentley was travelling at 160 kilometres an hour. The
Citroen was only a kilometre or two ahead. Bond took a gun
from under the driver's seat. He put it on the seat beside him.
T/F
Match the words and pictures

1 cheque
|~~
2 sack
3 driving mirror
4 crossroads
5
headlights
PROJECT
9 a Work in groups. Do you know anything about the fictional British
detective Sherlock Holmes? Make notes on these topics:
personality and appearance
the author who created Sherlock Holmes
famous stories and films
British life at the time
9 b Each person in the group should choose one of the topics, find
out more information and look for illustrations.
9 c In your group, decide how to present your information to the rest
of the class. Prepare it and present it.
Unit 2
23
Grammar in context
GRAMMAR GUIDE
Past
continuous
l a Look at sentences 1-4 and match them to the

explanation of their uses in a - d .
1
2
3
4
SPEAKING Work with a partner and discuss these

questions.
1
What can you see in the photo?
What type of objects do people steal from shops?
EXAM SUCCESS
LISTENING
1.14 You are going to hear two teenagers
talking about a shoplifting incident. Listen and decide if
each statement is true (T), false (F) or if the information
is not mentioned (NM).
The boy stole a pair of sunglasses

when he was five.
T/F/NM
The boy was staying with his

uncle at the time.
T/F/NM
The boy's mum was looking for a

pair of sunglasses too.
T/F/NM
The sunglasses were red.
T/F/NM
A n old man saw the boy when he

was stealing the sunglasses.
T/F/NM
A policeman arrested the

boy while he was leaving the
supermarket.
T/F/NM
The boy doesn't like wearing

sunglasses now.
T/F/NM
Compare your answers with your partner.
Listen again and check your answers. What did the
boy decide to do after this crime?
Unit 2
a
b
A completed action in the past.

Two completed actions in the past that happened
one after the other,

An activity in progress in the past,
An activity in progress in the past interrupted by a
sudden action.
l b Complete the rule.

We make the past continuous w i t h the past
simple of
+ verb -ing.
You are going to do a 'true/false/not mentioned' listening

activity. What do you think is the first thing to do in this
type of activity?
My mum was looking for something.

While I was waiting for my mum I saw some
sunglasses.
I just put the sunglasses in my pocket.
She took me back to the supermarket and I gave
the sunglasses back.
SPEAKING This supermarket needs a new security officer.

Have you got good powers of observation and memory?
Look at the scene for two minutes. Then work with a
partner. Take it in turns. One of you closes the book and
the other asks questions.
3 Work Individually. Write complete sentences to answer

the questions about the story.
Complete the dialogue by putting the verbs in the correct

form of the past continuous or past simple.
POLICE OFFICER:
So, can you tell us, sir? What (a)
ROBIN BANKS:
were you
(do) at 10pm last night?
doing
Let's see. I think I (b)
(help) my
mum with the shopping at 10pm.

POLICE OFFICER:
Really? When we (c)
(ring)
your mum last night at 10pm she

One afternoon a young girl was sitting i n a cafe d r i n k i n g tea.
1 What else was she doing? SA<?
ROBIN BANKS:
(d)
(not do) the shopping. She
(e)
(watch) TV at home.
Ah, now I remember. I (f)
(run) at
that time.
Suddenly a man ran into the cafe and shouted her name.
POLICE OFFICER:
(g)
anybody (h)
(see)
you while you (i)

2 What was the girl's name?
(run)?
ROBIN BANKS:
Erm. Yes, my friend Jack Door saw me.
POLICE OFFICER:
Jack Door? Impossible. Didn't you know? He's in
ROBIN BANKS:
Oops! Anyway, why are you asking me all these
POLICE OFFICER:
Well, Mr Banks, our cameras (j)
prison.
3 What was the man wearing?
questions?
4 What was the man carrying?
(catch) you running last night. You

(k)
The young girl didn't appear to be very happy to see the man.
She immediately started to look inside her bag.
(run) out of the National
Bank and you (I)
(carry) a bag
with ten thousand pounds in it.

5 What was she looking for?
6a
6 What did she take out of her bag?
SPEAKING What you were doing at these times? Think of

three things that are true and three that are false. You need
to make your partner think that your false stories are true.
1
2
3
The man ran quickly towards the girl.
at 8am last Saturday

at 10pm last Saturday
at 9am on Sunday
4
5
6
at 7pm yesterday
at midnight last night
at 7.30am this morning
6 b Interview your partner. Which information do you think is

false? Look at this example.
7 Then what did he do?
What were you doing at 8am last Saturday?

8 What did the girl do and why?
I was revising English.
9
How did the story end?
Why were you revising English at 8am?

Because I had an exam last week and I
4 Read your complete story to your partner. Are your stories

similar or different? Which story do you prefer?
didn't have any other time to study.

Why not?
One afternoon a young girl was sitting
with my friends for the weekend.
in a cafe drinking tea. She was talking on

her mobile phone. Her name
was...
Because at ten o'clock I went away
I think it's false!
Unit 2
Developing speaking
1
Reporting
a past
event
SPEAKING Work with a partner. Say what you can see in each picture
OBJ^
G T S
LISTENING
1.15 Listen to two teenagers talking about
last weekend. Which pictures from 1 appear in the story?

3
Work in pairs. Student A: complete the gaps in Sophie's

dialogue. Student B: complete the gaps in Jake's dialogue.
SOPHIE: Hi there. How are you? Did you have
a good (a)
JAKE:
NO, not really.
SOPHIE: Why not? What was the (b)

JAKE:
Well, I went out with my friends on Saturday night

and something terrible (1)
SOPHIE:
(C)
JAKE:
We were in the town centre. We went to that new

(2)
, Gino's. We had a great time but
when we were leaving a boy and a girl suddenly came
up to me and asked me the time. I told them and then
we left. A few minutes later, when we were going home
on the bus, I wanted to call my parents. I looked for my
(3)
SOPHIE: (d)
JAKE:
Useful words and expressions of sequence and time

At first
what did you do next?
I
1
First of all
Then
In the end
Finally
Suddenly
Next>/
After that
The next day
SOPHIE:
Oh no! So what happened (e)
JAKE:
After that, I called the (5)

number. But now I haven't got a (6)
it
?
to block the
Listen again and check your answers.

SPEAKING Work in pairs. Practise reading the dialogue aloud.
Unit 2
everywhere but I couldn't find it.
I think the boy and girl (4)

when they were asking me the time.
26
Speaking Bank
We went back to look for it but it wasn't there.
SOPHIE: That's (f)
Look at the words and expressions in the Speaking Bank.

Tick the ones which appear in the dialogue.
A few minutes/hours/days later

7a SPEAKING Choose a place, object and crime from 1. Make
notes to invent what happened to you last weekend.
7b Work with a partner. Student A: Ask Sophie's questions
from 3. Student B: Answer the questions. Use the Speaking
Bank and your notes to help you. Now change roles.
Look again at the letter in 1 and complete the

information in the Writing Bank.
Read the letter and look at the picture story. What

differences can you find between the letter and the
pictures?
There are two friends in the letter, but only one in the
Useful expressions and conventions

in informal letters
picture story.
In informal letters, we write oucaMress and

in the top right corner.
Then we write Dear or
6 5*^1\
and the name of
the person.
C^d,
We often begin with Thanks for your
or
I'm writing to tell you about...

To end an informal letter we can use Write back soon
and
Imagine that you found something unusual last week.
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Make notes to answer the questions.
JT
jpch.
Our
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1
2
When did you find it?

Where were you?
5
6
Why was it unusual?

What did you do with the
3
4
Who were you with?

What did you find?
object?
What happened in the end?
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t> ftd (rut miw *Jc heAmjed .
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a ^ p W <1
Look at the task and write the letter. Use your notes
from 3 and the Speaking and Writing Banks to help you.
Last week you found something unusual. Write a
letter to a friend telling them about what you found.
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&&
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Cjo^
cb\y
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wltU * bay?'
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Tell them:
what you found and where
why the object was unusual
what you did next and what happened in the end.
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EXAM SUCCESS
What are the criteria for getting a good mark in your
English writing exams?
Unit 2

Grammar reference
Past simple of be
Form
Affirmative
\ I/He/She/It was there,

j You/We/They were there.
Negative
1 I/He/She/It wasn't (was not) there.

1 You/We/They weren't (were not) there.
Question
Spelling
Was l/he/she/it there?

Were you/we/they there?
Short
answers
: Yes, l/he/she/it was.

| Yes, you/we/they were.
See page 149 for rules about spelling the third person
singular form.
No, l/he/she/it wasn't.

No, you/we/they weren't.
Use
We use the past simple to:
Past simple of regular and irregular
verbs
1 describe finished actions or situations in the past.
/ went to San Francisco in 2005.
Form
2 to say that one thing happened after another.
Affirmative
I/You/He/She/It/We/They walked home.

I/You/He/She/It/We/They went home.
Negative
I/You/He/She/It/We/They didn't (did not) walk home.

I/You/He/She/It/We/They didn't (did not) go home.
Question
Did l/you/he/she/it/we/they walk home?

Did l/you/he/she/it/we/they go home?
Short
answers
Yes, l/you/he/she/it/we/they did.

No, l/you/he/she/it/we/they didn't.
Past
Wken the letter arrived, ke opened it and read it.
continuous
Use
Form
Affirmative
We use the past continuous to:
I/He/She/It was watching.

You/We/They were watching.
Negative
I/He/She/It wasn't (was not) watching.

You/We/They weren't (were not) watching.
Question
Was l/he/she/it watching?

Were you/we/they watching?
Short
answers
Yes, l/he/she/it was.

Yes, you/we/they were.
talk about activities in progress at a moment in the past.
At six o'clock I was watcking a film.

2
describe scenes in a story or description.
The sun was skining and tke birds were singing.

3
No, l/he/she/it wasn't.

No, you/we/they weren't.
talk about an activity in progress when another, shorter activity

happened or interrupted it. It tells us that an action was in
progress, but not that the activity was finished.
/ was crossing tke road wken I saw tke accident.

We often use while and as with the past continuous.
While/As I was crossing tke road I saw an accident.

Remember that some verbs are not usually used in the continuous
(see page 16).
/ wanted to see tke concert.

I was wanting to see tke concert.
Vocabulary
2 Criminals
1 Crimes
mugging
murder
nouns: burglary
piracy
robbery
shoplifting
theft
vandalism
verbs:
Unit 2
burgle
kill
rob
steal
mug
pirate
vandalise
burglar
pirate
thief
mugger
robber
vandal
murderer
3 Phrasal verbs connected with

investigating and finding
shoplifter
come across find out

look for
look into turnup
workout
Other words and phrases
page 137-8
Grammar revision
Past simple
Past
1 Change these sentences from present simple to past simple.

1
continuous
Complete the sentences with the past continuous form of

these verbs.
Richard and I are students at this school.
cry
listen
read
ride
sit
sleep
wait
write
2 What's the problem?

3 We leave school at 5 o'clock.
4 She catches the bus at that stop.
At nine o'clock last night I
Which CD
He
6 She doesn't teach English.

7 Running makes me tired.
8 They've got a problem.
WORKBOOK page 12
/8 points)
Past continuous and past
you
to?
a letter, it was an email.
5 What time do you finish work?
a detective novel.
the baby
They
Which chair
My grandmother
at 2am?
my bike this morning.

for the bus, it was a taxi.
you
in?
because she was very sad.
WORKBOOK page 15
/8 points)
/8 points)
simple
3 Choose the correct alternative.

1
While I travelled/was travelling to work, my phone suddenly rang/was ringing.
2 The boy stole/was stealing the apple while nobody looked/was looking.
3 Craig drove/was driving home when he remembered/was remembering it was his mum's birthday.
WORKBOOK page 15
4 Sam broke/was breaking the window and then he ran/was running away.
Vocabulary revision
Crimes
Criminals
1 Complete the sentences with these words. There are more

words than sentences.
Complete the sentences with words from 1.

1
burglary burgle kill mug mugger murderer piracy

pirate rob shoplifter shoplifting steal theft thief vandal
someone, you attack them to
is someone who steals from a shop.
is someone who damages and destroys
things for no reason.
2 When you
from a person or a place, you
take money or objects illegally.
3
is someone who makes and sells illegal
copies of software, for example.

2
1 When you
steal from them.
building illegally to take things.
someone, you take their life.
5 A
is someone who takes another person's
life.
is the crime of entering a house or
4 When you
is somebody who steals things in
general.
is when you take something illegally.
WORKBOOK page 10
with investigating
/5
WORKBOOK page 10
points)
and
/5 points)
finding
3 Complete the sentences with these prepositions.
across
for
into
out
1 I was looking (a)

(c)
out
up
my keys yesterday but I couldn't find them anywhere. I hope they turn (b)
2 They can't find the murderer, so a new detective is going to look (d)
(e)
soon. If you come
them, could you tell me?

who the criminal is. It's urgent to find (f)
WORKBOOK page 13
the case. If they use logic, they can probably work
who did it.
/6 points)
/40 points^
29
Gateway to exams
Units 1-2
Reading
Tip for Reading Exams
In multiple-choice reading activities, remember...
If you aren't 100% sure of the correct answer, begin by taking away
any answers which you know aren't correct.
Look at the photo. T h e t e e n a g e r is w e a r i n g a 'hoodie', a

jacket or sweatshirt with a h o o d w h i c h c a n cover your head
or face. Do you like hoodies? H o w often do you w e a r one?
R e a d t h e text a n d w r i t e a title for it.
Hoodies - yes or no? That is the question in many

shopping centres in the U K . Hoodies are very popular
with today's teenagers, but people often make a direct
connection between hoodies and crime.
Bluewater shopping centre i n Kent recently decided
to stop teenagers wearing hooded tops from entering
R e a d t h e text a g a i n a n d c h o o s e t h e best
answers.
shops. Teenagers can't wear any clothes that cover

their faces or heads. The main reason for this is that
security cameras cannot identify teenage criminals
T h e B l u e w a t e r s h o p p i n g centre had problems

because
who are wearing hoodies.

A
But not all shopping centres are doing the same

thing. A representative from a big shopping centre
in Manchester said: 'We don't think it's necessary to
stop all teenagers who are wearing these clothes. We
prefer to look at each case on a personal level. Some
T h e s h o p p i n g centre in M a n c h e s t e r
A
people just wear hoodies because that's the fashion.'
thinks all t e e n a g e r s are the s a m e .
stops s o m e p e o p l e if they do s o m e t h i n g
bad.
likes h o o d i e s b e c a u s e they're in f a s h i o n .
People on the streets have different opinions. Jo

Sparr, a senior citizen from Manchester, said: T don't
h o o d i e s are popular.
p e o p l e w h o w e a r h o o d i e s are criminals.
it is difficult to k n o w exactly w h o
s o m e b o d y is w h e n they w e a r a hoodie.
like them. You can't see the person's face. It's really
bad when you see a big group o f teenagers together
all wearing hoodies. I want hoodies to be illegal, not

only in shopping centres but also in city centres.'
P e o p l e on the streets
A
a g r e e that h o o d i e s are b a d .
w a n t to stop big g r o u p s of t e e n a g e r s
wearing hoodies.
have different ideas a b o u t hoodies.
Middle-aged Rob Dyson said: T h e y ' r e only clothes.

It doesn't make any difference to me what these
kids wear. Just wearing a hoodie doesn't make you
a criminal.'
Police statistics s h o w that

A
So what do the police say about all of this? Manchester

Police looked into the question and found that 1.2%
of robberies were by people wearing hoodies. But
at Bluewater shopping centre they are happy. N o w

that teenagers can't wear hoodies, there isn't much
shoplifting in the centre.
So, hoodies - yes or no? It depends on who you
speak to.
30
p e o p l e w e a r i n g h o o d i e s are often
criminals.
m o s t p e o p l e w h o steal don't w e a r
hoodies.
the n u m b e r of c r i m e s by p e o p l e w e a r i n g
h o o d i e s is g o i n g d o w n .
T h e text says that

A
h o o d i e s are a bad thing.

it isn't clear that h o o d i e s are a bad thing.
s h o p s don't like h o o d i e s .
Listening
Writing
l r
Tip for Listening Exams
Tip for Writing Exams
In true-false activities, remember...
In writing exams, remember...
Before you listen, read the questions. They can give you
ideas about the topic of the text and the vocabulary you
are going to hear.
It's important to know what the examiners want to see in

your answer. Find out how many marks there are and what
you need to do to get a good mark.
4 %6 You a r e g o i n g to listen to t w o p e o p l e t a l k i n g
about an u n u s u a l incident that w a s o n t h e n e w s .
Listen and d e c i d e if t h e s t a t e m e n t s a r e t r u e ( T ) or
false (F).
1 The u n u s u a l incident w a s w i t h an
A m e r i c a n university professor.
T/F
The p r o f e s s o r w a n t e d to c r o s s t h e
road to g o to a c o n f e r e n c e .
T/F
'Jay-walking' is t h e A m e r i c a n w o r d
for w h a t t h e p r o f e s s o r d i d .
T/.F.
The p r o f e s s o r k n e w that he w a s
breaking t h e law.
T/F
The p r o f e s s o r w e n t to p r i s o n for
eight d a y s .
T/.F
W r i t e a n i n f o r m a l e m a i l to a n e - p a l . D e s c r i b e
a g o o d f r i e n d at s c h o o l . F o l l o w this p a r a g r a p h
plan a n d r e m e m b e r to u s e t y p i c a l w o r d s a n d
expressions.
P a r a g r a p h 1: B a s i c p e r s o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t
your friend (name, age, where
from)
P a r a g r a p h 2: H o b b i e s
P a r a g r a p h 3: F a v o u r i t e s u b j e c t at s c h o o l
P a r a g r a p h 4: A s k for a reply
'Can Do' Progress Check

1
How well can you do these things in English now?

Give yourself a mark from 1 to 4.
Speaking
1 = I can do it very well.
2 = I can do it quite well.
Tip for Speaking Exams
3 = I have some problems.

4 = I can't do it.
In information role-plays, remember...

Use basic question words like Who? What? When? Where?
How? Why? to help keep the conversation going.
EXAM SUCCESS pages 150
b
5 Look at this situation a n d m a k e a list of q u e s t i o n s
that you c a n ask.
There is a n e w s t u d e n t f r o m E n g l a n d in y o u r
school.
A s k t h e m to tell y o u a b o u t a m e m b e r of their
family w h o is s p e c i a l to t h e m .
Find out i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t this p e r s o n a n d

w h y t h e y are s p e c i a l .
Tell t h e m a b o u t a m e m b e r of y o u r f a m i l y w h o
is special to y o u .
h
i
Which member of your familyis special toyou ? How

often doyou see this person?
6 Make notes w i t h y o u r a n s w e r s to t h e q u e s t i o n s in 1.
2
my sister
everyday
7 Work with a p a r t n e r a n d act out t h e r o l e - p l a y in 1.

Use your q u e s t i o n s a n d n o t e s if n e c e s s a r y .
I can talk about routines and what's happening

now using the present simple and present
continuous.
I can ask for and give basic personal
information.
I can make nouns using the suffixes -ment, -ion,
-ence.
I can understand conversations about families
and family life,
I can write a basic informal email about myself
or somebody I know well,
I can report past events using the past simple
and past continuous,
I can explain sequences of events in the past
using expressions of sequence and time,
I can understand written and spoken texts
about crimes and the police,
I can talk about different crimes and
investigations,
I can write a basic informal letter about a past
event.
Decide what you need to do to improve.

1
Look again at my book/notes.
Do more practice exercises. ^> WORKBOOK pages 2-19
Other:
31
Grammar
Countable and uncountable nouns Relative pronouns

Some, any, much, many, a lot of, a few, a little
3 Lost in translation
...
,,
Vocabulary
Countries, nationalities and languages

Learning a language Negative prefixes un-, in-, im-, ir-, il-
Speaking
Writing
A language biography
"
Vocabulary
Countries, nationalities and languages
Learning a language
Work with a partner and complete the table.

Country
Nationality
Language(s)
1 Brazil
Brazilian
Portuguese
2 Austria
Austrian
Welsh
Look at these words. They are all verbs. What nouns can
you make from them?
memorise
practise
revise
study
translate
study student
6
Look at these words. Decide if we use do or make with each

word. Can you think of other verbs we can use with the
words?
4 Japan
Dutch
5
6
Egyptian
Argentinian
English
an essay
an exam
an exercise
homework
a mistake
do English, study English, learn English
7
Polish
Swiss
Romansh,...
10 Russia
2
3a
1.17 Listen and check your answers.

PRONUNCIATION Mark the main stress in each word in 1.
Brazil
Brazilian
Portuguese
3b
1.18 Listen again, check and repeat with the correct stress.
4 a SPEAKING Which of the countries in 1 would you like to

visit? Why? Make notes.
Wales like rugby, go camping...
Japan love the fashion and shopping
4 b Work in small groups. Use your notes to talk about the
countries you would like to visit and explain why.
I'd like to visit Wales because I enjoy watching
rugby. I want to visit Cardiff and go camping.
SPEAKING Interview your partner with these questions

about learning English. Are your answers similar?
1
How do you study English outside school?
How do you revise vocabulary before an exam?
How often do you translate from and into English?
How do you feel about writing in English?
How often do you do English homework?
When do you take English exams?
How do you feel when you make mistakes in English?
Do you prefer practising speaking, writing, reading, and

listening or doing grammar and vocabulary exercises?
How do you study English outside school?
I do my homework and I sometimes

read books in English. I watch
DVDs in the original version too.
Work with a partner. Look at these book covers? Could you

read these books? Why/Why not?
You are going to read a text about translating the Harry

Potter books. Read the first sentence of each paragraph
and match them with these topics.
a
Paragraph
why the translators needed to work fast
Paragraph.
the number of translated Harry Potter

books
Paragraph.
some problematic translations
Paragraph,
why translating Harry Potter wasn't easy
3
Translating the worlds
bestseller
Tk ere are more than 4 0 0 m i l l i o n Harrv Potter

boobs in trie world. But approximately 100 m i l l i o n
copies do not contain any lines from the authors original
text. Tkat's because tbey are translations. At tke moment,
tbere are versions i n oyer sixty languages, including
Welsh, Latin and Ancient Greek.
Jean-Francois Menard, tke Frenck translatgr of

tke Harry Potter kooks, translated tke 700-page
fourth boob in just 6 3 days. The translators didn't have
much time because they could only begin when the
English version appeared in the shops. This was because
the author wanted the story to be a total secret. I n a few
countries where the general public's level of English
is very hi^h (for example in Scandinavia), i t was very
important to translate the boob quickly, i f not, people
in tkose countries could just kuy tke original Englisk
version, not tke translation.
3 Read the text again. Are these statements true (T), false (F)
or is the information not mentioned (NM)?
It's true tkat tke translation of ) . K. Rowling's books

kad some special difficulties. One kig proklem was
with invented words and names. 1 kere are a lot ftkese
words in tke series - approximately 4 0 0 ! Spanisk readers
find most of tkese words exactly tke same as in Englisk.
So, quidditch* and muggles* * are unchanged in tke
bpanisk versions. But in Brazil tke translator invented
ker own Portuguese words to express tke ideas and sounds
of tke original words, bo we kave quadribo! to translate
quidditch, and trouxas instead[of muggles.
* Quidditch is the invented sport that Marry Potter plays.
* * Muggles are humans
who haven't got magical powers.
Match the underlined, words in the text with their

definitions.
More than half of all Harry Potter books are

translations.
T/F/NM
forms of something that are different from the

original
versions.
2 There is a Japanese version of the Harry Potter

books.
T/F/NM
from time to time
have
3 The Harry Potter translators didn't have the

books before the general public.
T/F/NM
in the place of
more than
T/F/NM
not different, the same as before
Scandinavian translators need to work fast

because not many people can read the English
version.
Some people translated the books without
official permission.
T/F/NM
6 The official translation in Venezuela contained
T/F/NM
some stupid comments.
I n otker countries suck as Ckina, tkere were

unofficial, pirate translations. People sold tkem on
tke streets illegally. Tke autkor didn't receive any money
from tkese kooks and often tke translations were not very
good. A pirate version in Vene zuela m 2 0 0 3 contained
many mistakes. Tke translator occasionally put a few
of kis own informal messages into tke text, for example
Here comes sometking I can't translate, sorry', or 'I didn't
understand w kat tkat meant.
People had to do a test to become official

translators of the Harry Potter books.
T/F/NM
All the translators used the same technique to

translate Rowling's invented words.
T/F/NM
4 Correct the false sentences in 3.
person who translates
problems

1 Do you have any Harry Potter books or DVDs? What do you
think of them?
2 Do you prefer reading books or watching films in the original
version or in your own language? Why?
I've got the first three Harry Potter books
and the first DVD. I love Harry Potter!
Unit 3
G r a m m a r in context
Some, any, much, many, a lot of, a few, a little

l a Find these words in the text on page 33. Are they countable or uncountable?
1
book
day
time
shop
money
mistake
1 b Look at these sentences. The words in bold all express quantity.Then answer questions a - e about the words.
1
The Harry Potter books presented some special difficulties.
a Which words do we use with uncountable nouns?
They needed some time to do the job well.
They do not contain any lines from the original text.
b Which words do we use with plural countable nouns?
Did the author receive any money from these books?
There were not many mistakes in the official translations.
There was not much time.
There are a lot of invented words.
They didn't have a lot of time.
9
10
some, any, much, a lot of, a little

Which words often appear in negative sentences and
questions?
d Which words do we use to talk about large quantities?
e Which words do we use to talk about small quantities?
He added a few informal messages into the text.
( G R A M M A R R E F E R E N C E page42^
They had a little time to check their work, but not much.
2 a Complete the dialogue with some or any.

JAMIE: Alex, I'm going shopping this afternoon. What do we need to get? Have we got (a)
ALEX:
Yeah, we've got (b)
bananas but we haven't got (c)
JAMIE: What about sugar? Have we got (d)

ALEX:
No, we haven't got (e)
bananas?
tomatoes or potatoes.
sugar?
sugar, but we have got (f)
chocolate. And we need to get (g)
biscuits too.
JAMIE: OK. Listen. I think I'll get (h)
ALEX:
Good idea. In that case, get (i)

(k)
hamburgers for dinner tonight.

tomato ketchup too. We haven't got (j)
at the moment. And get
yoghurt for dessert!
2 b All the words in bold are types of food, but they all have something else in common. Can you guess what it is?
3

N o b o d y knows exactly how (a) much/
many words there are in total in the English
language but there are (b)
gjgt/gjotgl
One reason why there are so (c) many/much

is that English takes words from (d) much/
many other languages. Look at the words for
food in exercise 2a for example. There may be
(e) a few/a little words there that come from
your language, (f) Some/Any
of the words
come from South America - potato, tomato

and chocolate. There aren't (g) any/many
words from Chinese in the English language,
but ketchup is one of them. Originally,
ketchup was the name for a type of fish
sauce in China. Teenagers in Britain don't eat
(h) many/much fish sauce but they do eat
(i) lots/lots of hamburgers. There is (j) some/
any confusion about the origin of the word
hamburger but (Ic) q.IqI of/much people think that it comes from German. Because Britain and France are neighbours it is normal
that there are (I) a few/a lot. of French words in English - hundreds in fact. Biscuit is just one example. On the other hand, (m) a lot.
of/many fruit travels a long way to get to Britain. That explains why the word banana comes from an African language. There are
also (n) a few/a little words from Turkish, like yoghurt. And, finally, if you ask for (o) a few/a little sugar in your coffee, you're using
two Arabic words. Just by being in an English kitchen you can travel to (p) much/many countries!
Unit 3
Developing v o c a b u l a r y
4 Work with a partner. Complete these sentences about your
language. Use these words and phrases for ideas. You may
complete each sentence with two or three different ideas.
English/French/German/Russian words
phrasal verbs
irregular past forms
words beginning with z

1
IE
There are some
Negative prefixes un-, in-, im-, ir-, /71
prepositions
prefixes
illegal
present tenses
invisible
words with more than 12 letters

2
,4,
Look at these words. What do they have in

common? What is the opposite of each word?
5 There are a few
monuments
food
fruit
mountains
trees
Many common English verbs, such as go, do and

Authors aren't usually hgpjty/
pirate versions of their books.
'A books' is correct/incorrect English.
offices
modern/old buildings
people
snow
water
3a
about
You couldn't see the words. They were

visjbje/inyisible.
5a SPEAKING Work individually. Look at the photos and choose a

country. Make notes about things that there are or aren't in this
country. Use these ideas.
tourism
unusual
4 There aren't many
bicycles
informal
unhappy
make, have gjegujgr/anjrjegujgi past form.
I I 3 There aren't any
animals
incorrect
irregular

1
2 There are a lot of
impossible
'Dear Sir or Madam' is a fgrmgj/infgimal

expression.
It is leggl/ijleggl to sell pirate copies of books or

CDs in shops.
It is possible/impossibje to translate a long book

in two days.
RONUNCIATION (jg)l.19 Listen to these two

dialogues. How is the pronunciation of the
word irregular different in the two dialogues?
Why is this?
3b Practise saying the words in 1. Say the words

with normal stress and then say them with
stress on the negative prefix.

Listen, check and repeat.
4 a SPEAKING Work with a partner. Write minidialogues similar to the second dialogue in 3a.
It's possible to go up
Mount Everest in a day.
5b SPEAKING Work in pairs. You need to discover your partner's

country by asking questions with any, much, many, a lot of, a few,
a little. Your partner can only answer 'Yes' or 'No'.
Is there any snow there?
Yes, there is.
Is there a lot of snow?
No, there isn't.
Do many people live there?
No, only a few people live there.
4 b Practise saying the dialogues. Stress the

negative prefix.
Unit3
Click I V e r y
different: languages

English as an international language
Work with a partner and discuss these questions.

What do you think the countries marked on the map have in common?
In the text you are going to read, they call English 'the world's language'.
Why do you think they call it this?
Read the text. Do any of your ideas from exercise 1,
INSIDE INFORMATION
Bill Bryson is an American writer who is

very popular in Britain.
His books include travel books (Wotes
from a Small Island is about Britain),
biographies (Shakespeare: The World as
Stage) and science (A Short History of
Nearly Everything).
question 2 appear?
ow many people speak English

in the world? This is a difficult
question because so many
people speak it in so many
5 different countries and situations. David
Graddol is a British linguist who wrote a
study about English called English Next.
Graddol says that there are approximately
450 million native English speakers around
to the world, in about 70 countries. Just to
compare that with other languages, some
people calculate that there are 885 million
native speakers of Mandarin Chinese. But
in the case of Mandarin Chinese people
15 do not generally speak i t outside China.
This means that, at the moment, i t is not
really a world language in the same way as
English. As David Graddol tells us, there are
probably a billion people learning English
20 as their second language. China alone
produces over 20 million English speakers
a year! Now the English language does not
just belong to the English - as Bill Bryson
shows in the text below, i t belongs to the
25 whole world.
T h e
30
35
40
45
w o r l d ' s
'Already Germans talk about ein Image

Problem and das Cash-Flow, Italians program
their computers with il software, French
motorists going away for a weekend break
pause for fewer fuelling stops, Poles watch
telewizja, Spaniards have a flirt, Austrians
eat Big Macs, and the Japanese go on a
pikkunikku. For better or worse, English has
become the most global of languages, the
lingua franca of business, science, education,
politics, and pop music. For the airlines of
157 countries (out of
168 in the world), i t is
the agreed international
language of discourse.
In India there are more
than 3,000 newspapers
in English. . . . When
Volkswagen set up a
factory
in
Shanghai
it found that there
were too few Germans
l a n g u a g e
who spoke Chinese and too few Chinese

who spoke German, so now Volkswagen's
50 German engineers and Chinese managers
communicate in a language that is alien
to both of them, English. Belgium has two
languages, French and Flemish, yet on a
recent visit to the country's main airport in
55 Brussels, I counted more than fifty posters
and signs and not one of them was in French
or Flemish. They were all in English.'
Now write the line numbers where you can find this information
about English.
1
Many people are native speakers of English.
Many people are learning English as a second language.
Other languages often use English words.
Many companies and businesses use English.
Read the text again. Why do these words or numbers appear in the text?
pikkunikku
Volkswagen
450 million
weekend break
Brussels airport
three thousand
157
seventy
WORD BOOSTER
native
speaker
'picnic'.
5
1
What about you?

Did any of the information about English surprise you? Why?
How important do you think it is in your country to learn English? Why?
airline
discourse
set up
factory
alien
36
Unit 3
b somebody w h o speaks a
language from birth
belongs to
7 Japanese people use this word but it's really the English word
/ didn't know that they use

English words in Japanese.
a spoken or written language
Me neither.
began, created
British Airways, Lufthansa,
Iberia, etc.
e is part of something
f
unusual, from a different culture
g building where people make i

produce things
Cross-curricular - Language f
A language with no numbers
T h e
- b r i b e
l i v e in 1
people speak -the Piraha lanquaqe.
6 Look at the photo of the Piraha tribe.

What language do you think they
speak? Do you think they have
many words or not? What
words do you think are
important for them?
7
P i V a W
j
tfave 3
different
between
or 4
sounds.
Difference
men and
because
sounds. Count
men use 5
and
usinq -the ujords one, 6
(or
7
onlij. Coun-tinq is
s-tovies.Tte PiVaW
them. The Piraha 9
Pov fomilij members.
on\tf have 10
Piraha lanquaqe is simple because 11
1.20 Look at these notes

about the Pirahas. Listen to
a radio programme about
them and fill in the missing
information.
Popular culture
Learning to speak Klingon

5
You are going to read about a language called Klingon.

Before you read, work with a partner. What would you
like to know about this language? Write four questions
How many people can speak Klingon?
he Klingons are an alien race.

They first appeared in the
science fiction TV series Star
Trek. The Klingons love violence
and war. And they have their own
language.
The inventor of the Klingon
language was Mark Okrand. Okrand
has a PhD in linguistics. He began
working on Star Trek in 1982. A
friend of a friend told him that they
were looking for a linguist to write
a short dialogue in Vulcan [the
language of the famous character Mr
Spock). Okrand wrote the dialogue
and enjoyed it. Two years later they
asked him to write a few words for
some scenes in Klingon. This time he
didn't just write words, he invented
a complete grammar. This grammar
has some familiar and some
unfamiliar elements. One unusual
thing is the word order.
Over 300,000 people bought
The Klingon Dictionary, written by
Okrand. But there are probably only
2,000 people in
the world who
can speak
Klingon.
Many of
these
- people
Wkere canyon learn it?

only know a word or two. But some
invent poems and stories or write
translations, including translations of
Shakespeare.
But it's one thing to write Klingon,
and it's another thing to speak it.
There are only 20 or 30 people
who can have a conversation in
Klingon. There is an annual Klingon
conference and it is one of the few
places where people can have these
conversations. I went to one of their
conferences in 2007.
On the first afternoon of the
conference, I saw a small group
of people around a table. They
were talking in Klingon, slowly, and
using dictionaries a lot, but they
were communicating. I sat and
listened. I was happy when, at last,
I understood my first spoken Klingon
sentence: Ha'DibaHvlSopbe' ('Animal
I it eat not'= I'm a vegetarian).
Later at the conference, I met
two people who were chatting in
Klingon. They were Captain Krankor
and his girlfriend Agnieszka. When
he is wearing his Klingon costume,
Krankor only speaks Klingon. He
travels with a guitar and sings
Klingon translations of The Beatles
and The Rolling Stones!
Arika
Read the text. Does it answer any of your questions?

What are the answers?
10 Read the text again and write questions for these

answers.
? In 1982.
? Over 300,000 people.
? About 2,000.
? Only twenty or thirty.
? At an annual conference.
6
? Ha'DibaHvlSopbe'
? He only speaks Klingon.
Wken did Mark Okrand begin working on Star Trek?
11 Who are these people?

1
He was the inventor of the Klingon language.
His famous literary works exist in Klingon.
He speaks Klingon when he wears special clothes.
There are Klingon versions of their songs.
He speaks Vulcan.
WORD BOOSTER
Okrent

1
alien
a talking in a friendly way
2 violence
b from another planet
3 familiar
use of physical force to attack others
d once a year
annual
5 chatting
e describes something that people

know well
I INSIDE INFORMATION f
The first Star Trek series appeared in 1966. The series was popular in
many countries for many years.
There are over ten Star Trek films. In 2009, the story of Star Trek
began again with the eleventh film.
Star Trek fans are mad about the films and series. They have a special
name, Trekkies or Trekkers, and they have regular conventions.
3
37
1
Work with a partner. Who are the people in these photos?

What do you know about them or their films?
GRAMMAR GUIDE
Relative
pronouns
l a Look at these sentences.

1
France is a place where they dub a lot of films.
I'm the person who does Angelina Jolie's films.
Mission Impossible is the film which made me

famous in China.
I become the character (that) she plays.
That was the moment when I decided to become

an actor.
That was the first film that became popular.
He's the actor whose films I like the most.
Which words in bold refer to:

a
people?
things?
possessions?
places?
times?
who
and
and
1 b Look at sentences 4 and 6. Why is it possible to

omit fnaf in sentence 4, but not in sentence 6?
GRAMMAR R E F E R E N C E page 42
Look at the relative pronouns in these sentences.

In which sentences can you omit the relative pronoun?
1
English is a language which millions of people speak.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is an actor who later became a

politician.
LISTENING (Sg) 1.21 Listen to four speakers. Match

each speaker to an actor in 1. What is the connection
between them?
Speaker 1
Speaker 3
Speaker 2
Speaker 4
Is it necessary to understand every word when you listen to

a text in English? Why/Why not? STUDY SKILLS page 146
Listen again and match the speakers and the correct
information. Two speakers have more than one answer.
A worked on a video game.

has a lot of competition to get work.
wanted to act when she was small.
Speaker [1_
D doesn't imitate the actors that she dubs.
Speaker \~2
E is physically similar to the actor he dubs.
Speaker
Speaker
F worked very fast.

G doesn't want people to see her.
H doesn't usually speak fast.
[
Unit 3
The credits are a list of people who worked on a film or TV

programme.
STUDY SKILLS
That's the film that I saw last week.
I'm sure she's the actress that appeared in Fantastic Four.
The first thing that I did was to switch on the TV.
That was the series which made him famous.
He never forgot the people who helped him at the start of

his career.
EXAM S U C C E S S
Match the sentence halves using appropriate

relative pronouns.
You are going to do a multiple-choice cloze activity. You have a text

with gaps. You must fill in each gap with one of three or four words
given. Why is it a good idea to read the complete text first, without
thinking about the gaps?
Mumbai, or Bombay, is the place where they

make Bollywoodfilms.
^Mumbai, or Bombay, is the place . . .
2 Brad Pitt is the actor...
3 Christmas and summer are times...
4 J. R. R.Tolkien was the writer...
3 Read the text and fill in the gaps.

Poland is one country (1)
where
dubbing f i l m s
is not popular. In Poland, actors don't copy the original,

English-speaking actors. Instead there is just one speaker
(2)
simply reads all the original English
dialogue in Polish. W h i l e you are listening to the speaker, you

can also hear the original English version in the background. This
is something (3)
5
6
7
In Old California (1910) was the first film . . .

Spiderman and Batman are superheroes...
Krzysztof Kieslowski was a Polish director...
a lot of new films appear in cinemas.
made the film Mr and Mrs Smith with Angelina Jolie.

became famous for his films Red, White and Blue.
dthey make Bollywood films.

e books became a series of very popular films.
f
adventures became very successful films.
g was made in Hollywood.
is very popular in Poland. It
doesn't seem unusual to watch popular f i l m s and series and hear

a middle-aged man reading the dialogue of a group of teenage
girls. People have their favourite speakers (4)
5 a SPEAKING Choose six words from the Vocabulary
they like the quality of their voices. One popular speaker,

(5)
sections in Units 1 - 3 . Write definitions of the
C V includes some big H o l l y w o o d f i l m s ,
words using who, that, which, where, when,
says he has his own rule: 'Interpretation, yes; expression, no.'

There is one thing (6)
whose.
creates problems for

5 b Read your definitions to your partner. Can your
speakers. Polish words are generally long, in comparison to

English. A n d they have a (7)
partner identify the words?
of consonants.
Sometimes translators simplify and cut the dialogue because
It's a person who attacks you to
speakers need to read slowly. I n 2001, a television channel used
take money or objects from you.
six different voices on a famous American comedy series. They
A mugger.
wanted to see i f dubbing could be popular. This experiment

(8)
work. They had a lot of phone calls f r o m
people who were very unhappy (9)

A
which
who
where
It's the stage of life
they d i d this!
whose
does
who
whose
can
what
which
because
why
but
which
whose
his
who
that
when
that
this
who
lot
lots
many
little
can't
didn't
when
which
don't
wasn't
who
where
when you're a child.
I
Childhood.
Complete these sentences with true information

about you.
is a place where I'm usually
1
happy.
is an object which is really
2
important to me.
was a year when something
special nappenea to me.

4
is a person who is special to me.
is a place where I want to go one

day.
is a language that I want to learn.
is a film that I love.
SPEAKING Work with a partner. Compare your

sentences in 6 and discuss your answers.
Home is a place where
I'm usually happy.
Me too. But I wrote 'the swimming pool'.
I go swimming every weekend. I love it.
Unit 3
39
>eveloping speaking
1

Complete the dialogue with the correct information in 4.
SPEAKING Work with a partner. Ask and answer the

questions.
RECEPTIONIST: Good morning. This is the (a)
Do you usually study English in the holidays?
Did you study English last summer?
If so, where did you study and what did you do?
English Centre. How can I help you?

STUDENT:
2 a SPEAKING Look at this advert for a school that organises
RECEPTIONIST: Yes, of course. We have a course for students
summer courses for students of English. Think about these
between 14 and 17. It begins on (b)
questions and make a note of your answers.

1
2
Good morning. I'd like some information about your

summer courses, please.
Do you think it's a good place to learn English in the summer?
STUDENT:
Why/Why not?
RECEPTIONIST: Yes, that's right. The course lasts (d)
You want to do a summer course to practise English.
STUDENT:
What factors are important in deciding where to study?
Sorry, did you say (c)
Do you organise accommodation?
RECEPTIONIST: (e)
STUDENT:
, we (f)
How much is the course?
RECEPTIONIST: The price of a (g)
Cardiff English Centre
course is
(h)
L e a r n E n g l i s h in W a l e s !
STUDENT:
Based in the heart of Cardiff, the Cardiff English Centre has been
welcoming students to Wales for over 20 years. As a small school we
are able to give students the personal care and attention they need
to make the most of their stay and have fun while learning English.
Why not contact us to find out more?
Could you repeat that?
RECEPTIONIST: Yes, I said the price is (i)

STUDENT:
Does the price include other activities?
RECEPTIONIST Yes, it does.

STUDENT:
Daffodil House, 47 Town Road, Cardiff, Wales, CF1 OBE

Email: info@cardiffenglishcentre.com
What other activities are there?
RECEPTIONIST: There are (j)

(k)
, there are
, and there are sports activities,
including (I)
STUDENT:
Oh, that sounds interesting. Can you send me a

registration form?
RECEPTIONIST: Yes, of course. Can you give me your name and

address?
STUDENT:
7
Yes, it's...
SPEAKING Practise the dialogue in 6 with your partner.
2 b Work with a partner. Compare your answers.
8 a SPEAKING Work with a partner. Do this role-play using the
LISTENING 1.22 Listen to a student asking for
information about the Cardiff English Centre. Does he ask
questions from 6 and the Speaking Bank to help you.
about any of the factors you thought of in 2?

4
You want to find out the following information about

summer courses at a language school:
the starting date of the course
the length of the course
i f accommodation is organised or not
the price
other activities on the course
Listen again and choose the correct alternative.

Course b y i ^ " " J w n e / ^ j u j j /

Course
Ush-
one wek
' *J^
2
j <Jys/h<o weeks
Student A: You are the receptionist at the Sydney English
Centre. Look at page 159.
f &
815
Student B: You want information about the Sydney English
l8oldso
Centre.
8 b Now change roles.
Look at the useful expressions in the Speaking Bank.
Student B: You are the receptionist at the San Francisco
Read the dialogue in 6 and tick the expressions which
English Centre. Look at page 159.
appear in it.
Student A: You want information about the San Francisco

English Centre.
Speaking Bank
Useful expressions for checking understanding
40
Sorry, did you say . . . ?
Pardon?
I'm not sure I understood.
Unit 3
EXAM S U C C E S S
What do you need to do to get a good mark in a speaking

1
exam?
A language biography is a text where you describe your experiences of learning a different language. Read this language
biography written by a student of English. What similarities are there between her experiences and yours?
We both started (earn in j English at primary school
My name is Alexandra M a s l o v a a n d I'm 16 years o l d . I'm
Russian and m y m o t h e r - t o n g u e is Russian. A p a r t f r o m
Russian, I can speak English. I s t a r t e d l e a r n i n g English
when I was at p r i m a r y s c h o o l . I w a s seven years o l d .
Primary school was w h e r e w e l i s t e n e d t o , a n d sang, a
lot of songs in English. W e also played g a m e s a n d r e a d
some stories. W e d i d n ' t s t u d y a l o t o f g r a m m a r in p r i m a r y
school b u t w e l e a r n t a l o t o f v o c a b u l a r y a n d w e p r a c t i s e d
speaking. At t h e m o m e n t I'm s t u d y i n g English at s e c o n d a r y
school. W e s t u d y a l o t o f g r a m m a r a n d v o c a b u l a r y , b u t w e
don't speak m u c h . W e s t u d y v o c a b u l a r y by w r i t i n g a list
with new w o r d s a n d revising i t . F r o m t i m e t o t i m e w e d o
vocabulary tests. W e d o n ' t d o m a n y t r a n s l a t i o n s in lessons,
but we d o lots o f g r a m m a r exercises. O u t s i d e s c h o o l I d o n ' t
really speak m u c h English. For h o m e w o r k , w e o f t e n r e a d
special English readers w h i c h o u r t e a c h e r gives us. W h e n w e
finish t h e m , w e usually w r i t e s u m m a r i e s . I listen t o a l o t o f
English because I love English a n d A m e r i c a n m u s i c a n d I also
watch DVDs in English. W h e n I w a s t h i r t e e n I w e n t t o L o n d o n
for a holiday. W h e n I w a s t h e r e I m e t s o m e g r e a t p e o p l e . I'd
like to go s o m e w h e r e else in t h e UK, t o O x f o r d f o r e x a m p l e .
I like learning English by d o i n g a c t i v i t i e s a n d g a m e s in pairs.
I make a f e w mistakes w h e n I speak English, b u t I w r i t e t h e
corrections d o w n a n d revise t h e m f r o m t i m e t o t i m e .
The text in 1 is not divided into paragraphs. Read it

again and mark where each new paragraph should
begin. Use the plan below to help you. When you
finish, read the information in the Writing Bank.
Paragraph 1:
basic personal information
Paragraph 2:
language-learning experiences at
primary school
Paragraph 3:
language-learning experiences at
secondary school
Paragraph 4:
language-learning experiences outside

school, including trips
Paragraph 5:
how you prefer to learn a language
Make notes for the paragraphs in 2 with information about

yourself and your experiences of learning English.
! 7 ^ 1
Paragraphs
We use paragraphs to group similar ideas and information together and
express them more clearly. When you write a text in English, brainstorm
your ideas and then group those ideas into logical paragraphs.
4 Practice makes perfect

Write your own language biography using your notes in 3.
Organise your information into five clear paragraphs.
Unit 3

Grammar
Countable
reference
and uncountable
nouns
Book, mistake, shop, euro are all examples of countable nouns.

We can count books, mistakes, shops, euros and so there is a
singular and plural form. Some things, for example liguids, we
cannot count and so we do not usually use a plural form. These are
uncountable nouns. Other examples are milk, money, bread.
Many words can be both countable and uncountable. It depends
on the context.
Coffee is badfor you.
Bring me two coffees.
/ kaven'tgot muck time.
(uncountable = in general)
I went tkere tkree times.
(countable = on three occasions)
With uncountable nouns we can often make them countable

by adding a piece of before the word.
advice, furniture,
information, news
(uncountable = in general)
a piece of advice, a piece of furniture,
(countable = two cups of coffee)
a piece of information, a piece of news
(uncountable)
(countable)
Some, any, much, many, a lot (of), a few, a little
Use
We use a lot of in affirmative and negative sentences and in questions,

with countable and uncountable nouns.
I'vegot/I kaven'tgot a lot of time/books.
Have you got a lot of time/books?
We use some with uncountable nouns and with plural countable

nouns, in affirmative sentences.
/ vegot some books.
We've got some free time.
We use any with uncountable nouns and with plural countable
We use of when a lot comes before a noun. But when there is no noun
nouns, in negative sentences and questions.
after a lot we do not use of.
I kaven'tgot any money.
Have you got any water? Yes, I'vegot a lot.
Are tkere any books?
A lot of and lots of are the same.

I've got a lot of time. = I've got lots of time.
We use much, many, a lot (of) to talk about big guantities.

We often use much in negative sentences and questions, with
uncountable nouns.
I'kaven'tgot muck time.
Have you got muck water?
We use a few and a little to talk about small quantities.

We use a few with plural countable nouns.
Tkere are only a few problems.
We often use many in negative sentences, with plural countable

nouns.
/ kaven'tgot many books.
Relative
We use a little with uncountable nouns.

We've onlygot a little time.
Haveyou got many books?
pronouns
Use
We can omit who, which, or that when a noun or pronoun comes

immediately after. Who, which, or that are the object of the second
half of the sentence.
We use relative pronouns to give information about the person,

thing, place or time in the first half of the sentence.
J. R. R. Tolkien is tke person wko/tkat wrote Tke Lord of tke Rings.
Tkat's tke book wkick/tkat
Tkat's tke film tkat I saw. = Tkat's tke film I saw.

Ske's tke actress tkat my brotker likes. = Ske's tke actress my
ke translated.
brotker likes.
Tkat's tke actor wkose film I saw yesterday.
but
Liverpool is tke place wkere I was born.

Sunday is tke day wken Igo for a run witk my friends.
Tkat's tke film tkat was popular.
We use who and that for people, which and that for things, whose
for possessions, where for places, and when for times.
Ske's tke actress tkat made tke film.
Vocabulary
1 Countries, nationalities, languages
Countries:
Learning a language
Argentina
Austria
Brazil
Egypt
Japan The Netherlands
Poland
Russia
Switzerland
Wales
Nationalities: Argentinian
Austrian
Brazilian
Dutch
Egyptian Japanese
Polish
Russian
Swiss Welsh
Languages:
42
Unit 3
Dutch
English
French
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Welsh
German
Romansh
do/study English
do/write an essay
do/take an exam
do an exercise
do homework
make a mistake
memorise
memorisation
practice (n.)
practise (v.)
revise
revision
student
study
translate
translation
3 Negative prefixes
unhappy
unofficial
unusual
incorrect
informal
invisible
impossible
illegal
irregular
4 Other words and phrases

page 138-9
Grammar revision
Some, any, much, many, a lot (of), a few, a little
1 Complete the sentences with some, any, much, many, a lot (of), a few, or a little.
1
I haven't got many English magazines, only
We haven't got
information about this
country - nothing at all.

3
A: Were there
B: Yes, thousands.
We haven't got
people at the concert?

time before the train
leaves, only five minutes.
It didn't rain last summer so there was only

water in the river.
I haven't got
He gave me
There were only

four or five I think.
money, just five euros.
good advice.
people at her party,
(
WORKBOOK page 22
Relative
/8
points)
pronouns
2 Join the two sentences to make one sentence. Use who, which, that, whose, where, or when.
The Coen brothers are film directors. Their films often win prizes.
The Coen brothers are film directors whose films often win prizes.
Jerzy Dudek is a football player. He speaks Polish and English.
Woolton, in Liverpool, is a beautiful place. My grandparents live there.
Last year was a special year. Many important things happened that year.
That's the teacher. Her classes are brilliant.
This is a great book. They want to make it into a film.
Piraha is an interesting language. Only 200 people speak it.
Sergei Lukyanenko is a Russian author. He writes fantasy novels.
We go to the cinema on Wednesdays. There's a special price on Wednesdays.

(
WORKBOOK page 25
/8
points)
Vocabulary revision
Countries,
Learning a language
1 Complete the sentences with these words. You need to use
one word twice.
do
exercise
practise
make
revision
practice
translation
Yesterday we wrote a
into Polish.
of an English poem
Before the exam, he did some
by having a
quick look at his notes.

3
Anybody can
Yesterday's exam was just a
, it wasn't the
Did you
This is the fourth
You have to
At our school we
WORKBOOK page 20
Negative
3
the exercises yesterday?

on this page.
regularly to speak English well.
English and German.
(
/8
points)
and
languages
Complete the sentences with the correct country,

nationality or language.
1 Dutch people are from
2 In Argentina they speak
3 People in Wales speak English and
4 Swiss people are from.
Austrians speak
people are from Poland.
People from Egypt speak
8 People from Egypt are.
WORKBOOK page 20
a mistake.
real one.
5
nationalities
/8
points)
/8
points)
prefixes
Complete the words.

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
sad = un
wrong, with a mistake = in
not following the usual rules, e.g. go- went = i r .
criminal = il
you cannot do it = im
relaxed and friendly, casual = in
you cannot see it = in
strange = un
WORKBOOK page 23
/40
points
43
Grammar
Present perfect with ever, never, for, since, just, yet, already
Present perfect and past simple
4 Fit and well
Vocabulary
Parts of the body Health problems and illnesses

Compound nouns connected with health and medicine
Speaking
Describing a scene
Writing
Notes and messages
Vocabulary
Parts of the body
Health problems and illnesses
Work with a partner and put these words in the correct

place in the photo.
arm
back
chest
foot
hand
head
nose
stomach
ear
elbow
knee
throat
leg
toe
Work with a partner. Complete each phrase with three

parts of the body.
1
finger
neck
tooth
4
I've got a broken
Have you got a/an
My
ache?
hurts.
Complete the texts with the correct form of these words.

Use a dictionary if necessary.
cough
flu
pain
sore
temperature
virus
Karen isn't very well at the moment. She's got a very bad cold, or
perhaps it's (a)
She (b)
all the
time and so now she has a (c)
Pete has a very high (d)
throat.
, 39.5 C. He's got
(e)
in his arms and legs. Perhaps it's a
(f)
because a lot of people are ill at school at the
moment.
5
LISTENING (jjg) 1.25 Listen to four people. What health

problem does each one have?
Speaker 1
Speaker 3
Speaker 2
Speaker 4
SPEAKING Work in small groups. Each person mimes an

illness. The rest of the group guesses what it is.
STUDY SKILLS
1.23/4 Listen, check and repeat.
Unit 4
To learn vocabulary, it is essential to keep a record of new

words. Do you do this? How do you organise the words?
STUDY SKILLS page 147 |
Reading
Work with a partner. Ask and answer these questions.
How often do you catch a cold? What do you take to stop a cold?
What do you think is good advice for somebody with a stomach virus?
Do you know any unusual ways to stop a cold?
Do you sometimes feel sick when you travel by car, plane or ship?
Read these newspaper articles. Match each

question in 1 with one of the three articles.
1
G O O D H E A L T H Tuesday, July 24, 2010
HEALTH WATCH
T h i s
w e e k s
SEASICK ON DRY LAND

Have you ever been on a boat or a ship?
If you have, you probably know about
seasickness, that terrible feeling caused
by going up and down non-stop on the
sea. But imagine feeling seasick when
EXAM
L e t t e r of the
you're not at sea. Mrs Jane Houghton

has been seasick for the last four years.
She was at sea for three days. When
she goL off the boat, she started to feel
seasick and she has never recoyered. One
unusual thing about her illness is that
she only feels OK when she is moving in
a car, boat or aeroplane. It's difficult for
Mrs Houghton to work because when
she sits at her computer she feels terrible.
Mrs Houghton has created a website with
information about her illness. She wants
people to know about it. Perhaps one day
doctors will find a cure.
STAY AT
A large number of people have a stomach
virus called the norovirus at the moment,
This virus can cause stomach ache, high
temperatures and pains in your arms
and legs. Doctors have told patients to
stay at home for two days after the illness
has gone. Professor Steve Field says: "We
recommend that patients stay at home,
take paracetamol and drink lots of water.
It is also important that they wash their
hands regularly' The Health Protection
n e w s
w e e k
ANSWERED BY DR LUCY SMITH
Dear Lucy,
I've had a bad cold for over a
week. I'm taking medicine hut
it doesn't do anything. My mum
says that chicken soup can help
me. Is she mad?
Sarah Johnson
Dr Lucy Smith answers: 'Your
mothers cure for a cold is what
we call an "old wives' reme.dy".
A lot of people think that it's
a mad. idea with no scientific
basis. But a new study has
shown that many of these "old
wives' remedies" do work.
And scientists have found out
that chicken soup is a great
cure for a cold. All kinds of hot
soup can help to ge.t.rid. of a
sore throat. And hot soup also
helps to kill viruses quickly. So
relax, your mum isn't mad!'
HOME
Agency has said that this year there are
twice..a.S..roany people with the virus as
last year. There are between 600,000 and
one million cases of norovirus in the UK
each year.
SUCCESS
You are going to do a matching activity for this reading text. In this type
of activity, you say which text or part of a text contains a specific piece of
information. What do you think is a good way to do this type of exercise?
definitions.
1
something that stops a pain or illness
take away/stop something bad
felt normal or good again after an illness
stupid, silly
Which article...
frequently
talks about an old, traditional cure for an illness?
two times more, double the quantity
recommends taking a type of drug?
left, got back to the land
mentions one person with problems at work?
mentions a recent discovery in the world of medicine?
talks about the usual number of people who suffer a specific illness?.
talks about an unusual illness?
gives information to help one person?
mentions personal hygiene?
SPEAKING What about youl

How serious do you think the different health problems
are? Why?
/ think the first problem is really very serious
because she can never sit and relax.
GRAMMAR GUIDE
Present perfect
with ever and never

1c Complete the sentences with the present perfect
l a Look at these sentences and match them to the

explanation of their uses in a - c .
forms of see and visit.
Have you ever been on a boat or a ship?
Affirmative:
He
I've had a bad cold for a week.
Negative:
He
She has created a website with information.
Question:
the doctor.
the doctor.
he
the doctor?
a
an experience or experiences which happened at an
I d Look at these sentences and choose the correct

alternative.
1 Have you ever/never caught a cold?
unspecified moment in the past

b
a past action which has a result in the present
a situation that started in the past and continues to the

present
I've eyer/nevei been seriously ill.
l e Choose the correct alternative.
l b Complete the rule.

We make the present perfect with the present simple
of have + the
of the main verb.
Ever/never means at any time in your life.
Eyer/neyei means at no time in your life.
Ever and never go just after/before the past participle.

Complete the sentences with the present perfect.

1
'
have decided
university.
(decide) to study medicine at
My friend
We
(do) a project about the history
of medicine at school.
My mum
(meet) a famous doctor.
catch a cold? - Have you ever caught a cold?
stay in bed because of flu?
have a very high temperature?
sleep in a hospital?
be on a ship?
take medicine that tastes really bad?
visit a friend in hospital?
break your arm?
watch a hospital drama?
(not see) the doctor this year.
Dad
(go) to the
hospital?
Complete the sentences adding ever or never in the

correct place.
46
Write questions to ask your partner.
(not buy) any headache
tablets.
5
Have you had hot soup to stop a cold?
I've felt sick in a car.
She's taken antibiotics.
Has your dad seen an accident?
Sam and I have written a story about doctors.
Have you been in a plane?
Unit 4
5 a SPEAKING Work with a partner. Ask and answer

the questions in 4.
5 b When you finish, tell a different student about
your partner.
Adam has never stayed
in bed because of flu, but
he has broken his arm.
Compound nouns connected with health

and medicine
GRAMMAR GUIDE
Present perfect
with for and
since
We make compound nouns by joining two

nouns or an adjective and a noun.
Join words from column A and column to
make compound nouns, then match them with
the correct definitions. Use your dictionary if
necessary.
6a Look at these sentences.

1 She has been seasick for the last four years.
2 I've had a bad cold since last Friday.
We use for and since with the present perfect to talk about
things that started in the past and continue in the present. When
do we use for and when do we use since?
6b Look at this question and answer.

How long have you known Andy?
For ten months.
1 pain^..._
aid
2 heart
room
3 health
centre
4 waiting
Do we use How long to ask about frequency or duration?

killer
5 food
attack
6 first
poisoning
Definition
7 Put these time expressions in the correct column.
6 o'clock
7 February
th
ten seconds
three days
2002
the age of five
an hour
a place where people wait, for example, to see

a doctor
Friday
a medicine that reduces pain
the day I met you
twenty minutes
basic medical help that you give to someone

when they have an accident
for
since
d a building where people can go to see a

doctor or nurse
twenty minutes
J e
8 Complete the sentences with information about you. Use the

correct form of the present perfect and a time expression.
I have been (be) at this school since / was twelve.
when somebody has a lot of pain in their

chest and their heart stops working
an illness you get from eating food which is in
bad condition
@ 1.26 Listen and check your answers.
3 a PRONUNCIATION 1 . 2 7 Listen again to the

pronunciation of the compound nouns in 1.
Where is the stress in words 1-5? Is it on the
first word or the second word? And in 6?
(know) my English teacher for

(have) short/long hair for
(live) in this area since
(have) this watch for
3b Practise saying the words with the correct

stress.
(wear) jeans since
Complete the sentences with the compound

nouns in 1.
(be) able to swim since
(live) in my home for

2
9a SPEAKING Guess your partner's answers in 8 and write
them down.
9b Ask your partner questions to find out if you were right.
When I'm ill I go to the

near my house.
Please take a seat in the
The doctor will see you in ten minutes.
3
4
Salmonella is a type of
My neighbour has died of a
He never did any exercise and he had a very
How long have you
bad diet.
been at this school?
5
I've been here for
just one year.
I want to learn
so that I know
what to do if there's an emergency.

6
A: My back really hurts.

B: Why don't you take a
Unit 4
Literature
DrJekyll and Mr Hyde and Frankenstein
Work with a partner and discuss these questions.
Have you ever read these books or seen films based on them?
Who was Frankenstein? What did he do?
Who was Dr Jekyll? What did he do?
Here are the endings of the two books. Which is the
ending of Frankensteinl Which is the ending of Dr
Jekyll and Mr Hydel Underline words or information
that help you to decide.
You know that I have spent many months in my laboratory.

I'm sure you want to know about my work. What have I
studied? What have I learnt.' I have studied many drugs and
chemicals, seeing their effect on the body and mind.
There is both good and evil in all of us. The mind has
both a dark and a light side. 1 have tried to use chemicals
to separate these two parts. I wanted to separate the dark,
evil part of my mind from the good, light part. A n d I have
succeeded.
I tried many drugs and almost killed myself. A t last I made
the right one but I wasn't sure. I had to try it. Late one night
in my laboratory I drank the bright green liquid. 1 waited for
a moment, then the drug began to work on my body. There
was a terrible pain in my chest and atter that I fell and lay on
the floor for some time.
When at last I stood up, 1 felt different. There was no
pain. I felt young and strong again. There is a mirror in the
laboratory. I went to the mirror and saw that my face was
different. This different man is a monster, the bad part of me.
I cannot control him any longer. He takes over my body and
uses it, thinking only of cruelty and murder. Only one drug
can control him, a drug which I bought from M r Maw the
chemist's. But there was something unusual about Mr Maw's
chemical and now he has no more. This is the last letter
I am writing as a normal human being. Soon the monster
inside me will come again and take over my body and my
mind. I have locked myself in my laboratory. There is only
one solution - poison. By killing myself I will also kill the
monster.
Goodbye.
1 have followed the Monster through forests and across

deserts. A t last we have reached this place of ice and snow.
The cold is terrible, but the Monster feels nothing. He does
not teel cold or heat. Now the journey has ended. The
Monster is ready to stand and tight. He is big and strong, but
1 have my gun. I will be able to kill him before he kills me.
'Do not kill me yet,' the Monster cried. 'Listen to what
I have to say.'
'What can you say to me?' 1 replied. 'You have destroyed
everything 1 loved. You are a thing of evil, a wicked
creature.'
'You made me,' the Monster replied. ' I did not wish to be
evil. I wanted to be your friend. But you made me ugly and
you ran away from me. I asked you to create a friend tor me
but you destroyed her. 1 had no family to love, so I destroyed
yours. It is your fault.'
As 1 listened to the Monster's words, my mind was filled
with horror.
'What you say is true,' I cried. ' I was the murderer of
those 1 loved!'
'Now that you have said these words, my life of misery
and unhappiness is complete,' said the Monster sadly. 'You
are the guilty one, not me. Now I shall go far away from this
place to my death.'
And with one last look at me, the Monster turned and
went.
I have decided to die in this terrible place. The story of
my life has ended. Here I will stay until my body is hard and
cold. Goodbye, and may God forgive me.
WORD BOOSTER
I INSIDE INFORMATION
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was
written by Robert Louis

Stevenson in 1886. Stevenson
also wrote the popular novel
Treasure Island.
Robert Louis Stevenson

was born in Scotland. He
was often ill but he enjoyed
travelling and adventure. He
visited places such as Hawaii
and Honolulu and he died in
Samoa.

'
Frankenstein was written by the

British author Mary Shelley. She
was 19 when she wrote it. It was
published in 1818.
Frankenstein is the name of a
doctor who wants to create life.
Shelley had the idea for her story
when a group of writers spent a
rainy night reading ghost stories.
That night they decided to have
a competition to write their own
horror stories.
evil, wicked
a take control of
take over
b substance that can kill you
reach
poison
d very bad, with bad intentions
close something with a key
lock
e arrive at
destroy
break, ruin
misery
'You are the one who did this
'It is your fault'./

'You are the guilty one.'
h state of being very unhappy
bad thing.'
3 Read the extracts again and answer the questions.
Complete these sentences about the stories in an

appropriate way.
Frankenstein
Both stories are about
2
3
In both stories, science

One similarity/difference between the stories is that
2 Why is the Monster angry with Frankenstein?
The narrator in each story is
}3 What happens to the Monster at the end of the story?
When the narrator tells the story in the first person (I), it usually
What effect does the weather have on Frankenstein? And on

the Monster? Why?
makes the story
4 What happens to Frankenstein at the end of the story?

Or Jekyll and Mr Hyde
5 What was the purpose of Dr Jekyll's experiment?
5
1
What about you?

Which of the two stories do you prefer? Why?
6 What happened when Dr Jekyll drank the bright green liquid?
Imagine they are making new films of these two books. Choose
good actors to play the parts of Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde, Frankenstein,
and Frankenstein's monster. Explain your choices.
7 Why can't Dr Jekyll control Mr Hyde now?

I How does Dr Jekyll beat Mr Hyde at the end of the novel?
/ prefer Frankenstein because I think the

monster is a really interesting character.
^ ^ ^
Popular culture
He's frightening, but

really he's a good person.
'How to save a lite' by The Fray
6 @ 1.28 Listen to the song and put

the verses in the correct order.
7 What about you?
What do you think of the song?
,'
o v e
Step one, you say we need to talk

He walks, you say 'Sit down, it's just
a talk'
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
music.
Me too, and I like the singer's voice

It's a really emotional song.
WORD BOOSTER
a pass quickly
b ask yourself
let somebody have

something
d speak loudly, shout

e speak quietly
f
responsibility for doing

something bad
raise your
voice
g feeling of anger and

unhappiness because
of a bad experience
lower your
voice
h look at something or
someone for a long time
4SIDE INFORMATION
CHORUS
Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you
all night
Had I known how to save a life
Some sort of window to your right

As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
You begin to wonder why you came
Let him know that you know best

'Cause, after all, you do know best
Try to slip past his defence
Without granting innocence
As he begins to raise his voice

You lower yours and grant him one last
choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones you've followed
Lay down a list of what is wrong

The things you've told him all along
And pray to God he hears you
And pray to God he hears you
He will do one of two things

He will admit to everything
Or he'll say he's just not the same
And you'll begin to wonder why you
came
Lft,
The Fray are from the USA. This song was number
one for a long time in many different countries.
The song appeared in the TV hospital drama Grey's
Anatomy and was used to promote the series. It
became the unofficial theme tune.
The song is about the singer's experiences working
at a centre for adolescents with problems.
1
Look at the pictures. They are all of the same person.

Work with a partner. What can you see in each picture?
GRAMMAR GUIDE
Present perfect
with just, yet, already
l a Look at these sentences and complete rules 1-3

with just, yet or already.
a
b
I've just had an accident,

He's already had a lot of serious accidents,
I haven't hurt myself badly yet.
Has he broken his leg yet?
We use the present perfect with

to talk about very recent events.
We use
to talk about something
that has not happened, but we think it is going to

happen soon.
3
We use
to talk about something
that has happened, possibly before we expected.
l b Choose the correct alternative.
1
2
We use yet in affirnTative/negative sentences and

questions.
Yet usually goes at the end of the sentence,

but already and just usually go after/before the
past participle.
(GRAMMAR REFERENCE p a g e l 4
What do you think has just happened in these pictures?
Write sentences.
He'sjust hurt himself.

He'sjust had an accident.
He's just fallen.
LISTENING 1 . 2 9 Listen to an interview with the person

in the pictures. Put the pictures in the order that you
hear the person mention them.
Listen again. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)?

Correct the false sentences.
T/F
People have a special name for Steve because of his

accidents.
Steve has had 15 accidents in total.
T/F
Steve hasn't had an accident for a long time.
T/F
Steve was working when he had his last accident.
]7F
On Friday 13 one year Steve had two accidents.
J/F
Steve and his family are worried about his accidents.
th

What do you think of Steve's story? Why?
/ think it's sad because he
has lots of accidents.
Unit 4
J/F
Complete the dialogue by putting the verbs in the present

perfect or past simple.
ALAN: (a)
you ever
DAVE: Yes, I (b)
Two years ago I (c)
skiing and I (d)

ALAN: I (e)
I (f)
(break) your leg?

(go)
(break) my left leg.

never
(break) my leg but
(have) some bad accidents in the past.
For example, I (g)
(crash) my bike at least five
times.
DAVE: (h)
week?
you.
ALAN: NO, I (i)
.(fall) off your bike last
Last week I (j)....
horse and I (k)
(ride) a
(fall) off!
SPEAKING Ask your partner if they have ever done these

things. Ask follow-up questions in the past simple to find
out details of their experiences.
SPEAKING Write six sentences about yourself, two with

already, two with yet, and two with just.
I've already done my history homework.
3b Change your sentences into questions to ask your partner.
Have yon already done your history homework?
3c Interview your partner with your questions.
break a leg
eat insects
meet a famous person
visit Britain
GRAMMAR GUIDE
Present perfect and past

4
simple
Look at this part of a dialogue and then answer

questions 1-4.
PRESENTER: Have you ever had two accidents at the same
time?
STEVE:
Yes, I have.
PRESENTER: What happened?

STEVE:
It was when I was a boy. I fell off a horse and a

car hit me.
Is the presenter's first question in the past simple or

the present perfect?
Does the question ask about general experience or

a specific moment in the past?
Is the presenter's second question in the past simple
Have you ever broken your leg?
Yes, I have.
or the present perfect?

4
Does the question ask about general experience or
Where were you when you broke it?
a specific moment in the past?
Unit 4
Developing speaking
1
Describing
a scene
SPEAKING Work with a partner. Look at these photos. What

is the connection between them?
2 a LISTENING 1.30 Listen to a girl describing one of

the photos. Which photo is she describing?
2 b Which of these questions does the girl answer? Tick
the questions that she answers.
1
Where are the people?
What type of people are they?
What are the people doing?
What are they wearing?
What things or objects are in the picture?
What has just happened before the scene?
When is the scene taking place (morning, night,

summer, winter, etc.)?
Have you ever been in a situation like the one in the
What do you think about the picture?
picture? When? What happened?
SPEAKING Compare answers with your partner.

Do you remember what information the girl gives?
Together, practise describing the same photo.
Fillers are words or sounds, which give you time

to think without stopping the conversation. Listen
to the girl again. Tick the fillers she uses in the
Speaking Bank.
Speaking Bank
Useful expressions for filling the
conversation
Errr . . . S
Well . . .
The thing i s . . .
I'm not (really/totally/completely) sure but
Maybe . . .
You know . . .
I think...
I imagine . . .
It looks like ..
I imagine t h a t . .
STUDY SKILLS
What do you do if you don't know the English word
for something when you are describing a picture or
having a conversation in English?

5
SPEAKING Work with a partner. Each describe

a photo, using the questions from 2b and the
Speaking Bank to help you.
Choose one o f the photos on this page.

Describe the photo. Have you ever
been in a situation like the one in the
picture? When? What happened? What
do you think about the picture?
Unit 4
MSUIIS
Read these three notes and messages. Write one sentence
to explain the situation in each one.
Look at the notes and messages in 1 again and complete

the information in the Writing Bank.
Writing Bank
D
Useful expressions in notes and messages

In notes and messages it is normal to begin simply with the
name of the person we are writing to.
frmd, 1, fell W
We usually write short, direct sentences in messages.

For example, we often use imperatives like
j rather than Could you bring
him some magazines?
UiA
Sckoo/.
Sports frockes -foot him
(x> SVi k)iM. Can Cow*. And
Witt m -fare ahtu UQft.
We often use abbreviations like PS or

to keep messages short.
We use expressions like I was really

when we are writing about bad news, or Congratulations!
1
when you are happy for somebody.
Sal . II Cjj (wl-s " qs SoWtAk ij\ a.

fh't/t f&tly {
We use the expression

when we want
somebody to recover from an illness or accident quickly.
Match the abbreviations and their meanings.

1 PS-.,
2 e.g.
s-
^fCXxT
a as soon as possible
' d here is some additional information to

a s a
but- I ôrv^wS-c I ' U . IcstS^l

odrWr ? K " cfet^ AÔ^J
*- iyt't.
please pay special attention

(Latin: Nota Bene)
I'M
b for example (Latin: exempli gratia)
"
'
my letter or note (Latin: Post Scriptum)
.
5 ie
e and other things of the same type

(Latin: etcetera)
f that is, this is exactly what I mean
(Latin: id est)
OL-SCV^'

4 a Look at the task and write the message. Use the
expressions from the Writing Bank and the abbreviations
from 3.
You've just gone to visit your friend at his home

because he hasn't been at school for two days. He's
just gone out to the chemist's. You don't have your
G ^
I
ujas rejtLLj
*
Sorry
mobile phone so you leave him a message. Include this
htjw
information:
^-
find out how he is

find out what he has done in the last two days
tXtt*\omjiLiJc, 3 ' / / ' this
rtote.
QncL Some
\:.
T- 1\. ^j^"- -
tell him what you've done at school

tell him some news about one or two of your friends.
4 b Give your message to your partner. Write a reply to your
partner's message.
EXAM S U C C E S S
II
tSys-
Look at the instructions for the writing task in 4. Can you write
in any way you like? Is the style (formal or informal) important?
J
Unit 4

G r a m m a r reference
Present
perfect
Use
Form
Affirmative
Negative
We use the present perfect to talk about:
subject + have/has + past participle
subject + haven't/hasn't + past participle
an experience in someone's lifetime, without saying the

exact time when the event occurred. When it happened is
not important.
We haven't been in hospital.
I've been to hospital.
Ske has broken her leg.
have/has + subject + past participle
Question
Have yon visited somebody in hospital?

3
Short answers
recent events which have a result in the present.

She's found her keys. (= She has her keys now.)
Yes + subject + have/has.
actions or situations that began in the past but continue in

the present.
No + subject + haven't/hasn't.
Helen's been a doctor for ten years.
Yes, 1 have.
(= Helen started to work as a doctor ten years ago and she

is still a doctor now.)
No, they haven't.
Ever, never, for, since, just, already,
yet
It means 'at any time in your life'.
We use just with the present perfect to emphasise the fact that
something happened very recently.
Have you ever studied
/ havejust finished my homework.
We can use ever in questions with the present perfect.

medicine?
Ever comes just before the past participle.
(= I finished my homework only a few moments ago.)

Just goes after the first verb.
We can use never in negative sentences in the present perfect.

It means 'at no time in your life'.
We use already to talk about something that has happened
I've never bad a serious accident.
earlier than we expected.
Never comes just after the first verb.
Don't do tke skopping. I've already done it.

Already usually goes just after the first verb, or at the end
For and since are used when the present perfect is describing actions
of the sentence for emphasis.
or situations that began in the past and continue in the present. We

use for with periods of time and since with moments in time. With
We use yet to ask if something we expect has happened, or to
this use of the present perfect we use the question 'How long ... ?'
say that it hasn't. It is used in questions or negative sentences.
How long have you been a nurse?
Have you done your
komeworkyet?
I've been a nurse for three months/since January.
I kaven't fniskedall
tke
For and since go just before the time expression.
Yet usually goes at the end of a sentence or clause.
Present perfect
and past
auestionsyet.
simple
The present perfect describes actions in the past but without saying the
If we say the specific moment in the past when something
specific moment when they happened.
happened we must use the past simple.
I've been to England.
/ went to England last year.
Vocabulary
1 Parts of the body
arm
back
chest
ear
elbow
finger
foot
hand
head
knee
leg
neck
nose
stomach
throat
toe
tooth
2 Health problems and illnesses

broken
cold
cough
3 Compound nouns connected

with health and medicine
first aid
food poisoning
health centre
heart attack
painkiller
waiting room
earache
flu
headache
hurt
stomach ache
pain
sore
toothache
virus
temperature
4
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Unit 4
Other words and phrases page 139-140
Grammar revision
Present perfect with already, yet, just
Present perfect with ever, never, for, since
Lily's mum is in hospital and Lily has to do the jobs around

the house. Look at her list of jobs and write sentences in
the present perfect with already, yet and just lor the things
she has and hasn't done. Remember! We use just for things
done a short time ago.

1
Mark and I have took/taken a lot of photos.
Hgs/ you and Hannah started the project?
3 They've been friends for/since they were kids.

4
Have you eyer/neyei felt sick in a car?
My friend and I have ever/never been to Scotland.
We haven't had an English test for/since ages.
How long/much time, have you known Samantha?
J o b s
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e
WORKBOOK page 30
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simple
v*kvo monies
dishes
r u b b i s h oucb
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2 Are these sentences correct? Correct them if necessary.

1
Danny has been to Romania last year.
Have you seen the Eiffel Tower when you were in Paris?
A: Did your sister ever ride a horse?

B: Yes, she loves horse-riding.
1
2
3
I've seen this film twice.
My brother's 18. He went to the USA three times.
Did you speak to the teacher yesterday?
WORKBOOK page 33
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points)
WORKBOOK page 33
/6
points)
J
Vocabulary revision
Illnesses
Parts of the body

2
1 Label the parts of the body.
Look at the pictures and identify the health problems.
She's got a
3
He's
She's got a.
. leg.
A lot of people are ill

because of a
WORKBOOK page 28
Compound nouns connected
/11 points)
with health and
WORKBOOK page 28
/4
points)
medicine
3 Complete the compound nouns with the correct words.

1
Sit in the
it's your turn.
room. The nurse will call you when
My sister had an accident but there was someone there who

knew first
She ate something bad and now she's got food
WORKBOOK page 31
4
5
Take this pain
three times a day if your back hurts.
My neighbour is a doctor at the
centre down the
road.
6
Quick! Get a doctor. I think this man is having a

heart
(
/6
/40
points)
points)
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Gateway to exams
Units
3-4
Reading
In matching activities, remember...
Read all the text once quickly to get a general understanding. Then
read the information that you need to find. Look for the section of the
text where you think this information appears and look at it again in
more detail.
Look at t h e title of t h e text y o u are g o i n g to read.
Being bilingual is good for your brain

Work with a partner a n d answer these questions.
1
W h y d o y o u t h i n k t h a t b e i n g b i l i n g u a l is p r o b a b l y g o o d
for t h e brain?
H o w d o y o u t h i n k s c i e n t i s t s d i s c o v e r e d this?
R e a d t h e text. W h a t a n s w e r s d o e s it give t o t h e q u e s t i o n s
in 1?
R e a d t h e text a g a i n a n d m a t c h t h e p e o p l e in
A recent study says that speaking two languages can help
1 - 6 w i t h t h e i n f o r m a t i o n in a - f .
old people to stay mentally active. D r Ellen Bialystok

and her team o f scientists at York University i n Canada
planned some special tests. Then they asked 104 people
T h e British Alzheimer's S o c i e t y
P r o f e s s o r Clive Ballard
104 p e o p l e f r o m C a n a d a a n d India
b e t w e e n t h e a g e s of 3 0 a n d 8 8
between the ages o f 30 and 88 to do them. From the tests,

the scientists found out that people who can speak t w o
languages are very good at thinking fast.
Dr Ellen B i a l y s t o k a n d her t e a m
The scientists did different experiments and came to the
T h e C a n a d i a n s , w h o only s p o k e English,
conclusion that being bilingual can help o l d people to
T h e Indians w h o d i d t h e tests
think quickly. Investigation has shown that playing musical

instruments, dancing or reading can also help to keep you
h a d t h e idea for this investigation into
mentally active. Simple activities like doing crosswords or
bilingualism.
playing board games like chess or monopoly can also have

a positive effect.
did t h e t e s t s that t h e scientists invented.
Dr Bialystok thinks that speaking different languages
w e r e t h e p e o p l e w h o s p o k e English a n d
Tamil.
is very good for you and your brain. Half o f the people
who d i d the tests came from Canada and only spoke
didn't d o t h e t e s t s as quickly.
English. The other half came from India and could speak
w a n t e d t o k n o w a b o u t t h e results.
t h i n k s t h a t all e d u c a t i o n is g o o d for t h e
English and a language called Tamil. The scientists tested

vocabulary skills and maths ability. They also checked
brain.
how fast the people d i d the activities. The ones who could
speak two languages did the exercises quickly and well.
The people who spoke only one language weren't so good.
W h a t a b o u t you?
1
The British Alzheimer's Society was very interested in the

discoveries. 'It is possible that i f we learn a second language
when we are young, it can help us even when we are old,'
said Professor Clive Ballard. Ballard is the Alzheimer's
Society's Director o f Investigation. 'Education in general
can certainly help the brain to stay active.'
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A r e y o u bilingual? D o y o u k n o w a n y b o d y
w h o is?
W h a t a r e t h e a d v a n t a g e s of b e i n g
bilingual?
Writing
Use of English
Tip for Writing Exams
ip for Use of English Exams

In multiple-choice cloze activities, remember...
Read the complete text first without thinking about the gaps.
This helps you to get a general understanding of the text.
5 Complete t h e text by c h o o s i n g t h e c o r r e c t o p t i o n : A,
, or D, to fill e a c h g a p .
In China they h a v e u s e d a c u p u n c t u r e for t h o u s a n d s
and t h o u s a n d s of y e a r s . But n o w a s c h o o l in
England (1)
j u s t s t a r t e d to u s e it w i t h t h e i r

Include all the information in the instructions or you will
lose marks. And don't forget to write in the correct style
(formal or informal).
You are s t a y i n g w i t h a n English t e e n a g e r called

J o e . You haven't g o t a m o b i l e p h o n e . T h i s
a f t e r n o o n y o u are at h o m e a l o n e but y o u n e e d
to g o o u t to t h e chemist's to b u y s o m e m e d i c i n e
a n d t h e n t a k e it to a f r i e n d . L e a v e J o e a m e s s a g e .
I n c l u d e this i n f o r m a t i o n .
students. S t a n c h e s t e r C o m m u n i t y S c h o o l is t h e
school (2)
E x p l a i n w h e r e y o u h a v e g o n e a n d why.
they have b e g u n this project. A t this
school they h a v e a t e a c h e r w h o h a s s p e n t t i m e
I n f o r m t h e m w h o is ill.
living in C h i n a , s t u d y i n g a c u p u n c t u r e w i t h C h i n e s e
experts. T h i s t e a c h e r h a s (3)
G i v e t h e a d d r e s s of t h e p e r s o n w h o is ill a n d
a c u p u n c t u r e to
their telephone number.
a small g r o u p of s t u d e n t s at t h e s c h o o l (4)
2005. T h e s e s t u d e n t s suffer d i f f e r e n t p r o b l e m s .
A s k J o e to ring y o u w h e n he g e t s h o m e .
A very c o m m o n p r o b l e m that t h e s t u d e n t s h a v e
is stress, usually stress c a u s e d by e x a m s or
homework. P e o p l e (5)
suffer f r o m s t r e s s o f t e n
have h e a d a c h e s , b a c k a c h e , or s t o m a c h a c h e .
The students all say that t h e y e n j o y t h e t r e a t m e n t

and they say t h a t it h a s (6)
h e l p e d t h e m a lot. It
makes t h e m feel g o o d a n d r e l a x e d . In fact, m a n y of
the students also say that n o w t h e y h a v e s t a r t e d to
Give yourself a mark from 1 to 4.
sleep really w e l l . Let's h o p e t h a t t h e s t u d e n t s haven't

started to s l e e p in c l a s s (7)
is
have
D was
A that
who
where
D which
A give
gave
gives
D given
A since
for
at
D on
who
when
D what
A yet
ever
never
D already
A just
yet
already
D never
A has
2
3
1
2
3
4
=
=
=
=
I can do it very well.

I can do it quite well.
I have some problems.
I can't do it.
I can talk about different quantities.
I can understand written and spoken texts

about different languages.
I can make negative adjectives by using

prefixes.
I can ask for information about language

courses and check that I have understood.
I can write a text about my experiences of

learning a language.
I can report general and recent experiences in

the past using the present perfect.
In speaking exams, remember...
It's important to know what the examiners want to hear. Find

out how many marks there are and what you need to do to 1
get a good mark.
I can talk about activities which continue up

to now using the present perfect with for and
since.
I can discuss health problems and illnesses.
I can describe scenes in photos and pictures

using fillers.
I can write basic notes and messages.
Speaking
6 Work with a partner. L o o k at p a g e s 4 0 a n d 123.

Each c h o o s e a d i f f e r e n t p h o t o . Take it in t u r n s to talk
about y o u r p h o t o s u s i n g t h e q u e s t i o n s below.
Now decide what you need to do to improve.
W h e r e are t h e p e o p l e a n d w h a t are t h e y d o i n g ?
W h a t t y p e of p e o p l e are t h e y ?
Do more practice exercises. => WORKBOOK page 20-37
Other:
3 W h a t are they w e a r i n g ?
4
W h a t else is in t h e picture?
How d o y o u prefer to learn a l a n g u a g e ?
Grammar
Comparatives and superlatives
Less... than and (not) as
Too and (not) enough
5 TV world
Vocabulary
TV programmes Adjectives describing TV programmes

Adjectives ending in -wând -ed
Speaking
Negotiating
Writing
Descriptions and opinions
Vocabulary
TV programmes
Adjectives describing TV programmes
Work with a partner and match the photos with

these words.
cartoon
advert
comedy
film
game show
soap
chat show
documentary
Look at these adjectives. Do they have a positive (+) meaning or a

negative (-) meaning?
awful
drama
boring
interesting
cool
moving
funny
popular
informative
scary
reality show
sports programme
the news
Match the adjectives in 6 with the definitions.

1
when something gives a lot of information

when something makes you laugh
2
3
when something makes you feel frightened
Think of examples of programmes for the other

words in 1.
when something is very bad
when something makes you want to know more
when something isn't interesting
when many people like something
PRONUNCIATION Where does the stress come in each
when something is very good
noun or compound noun in 1?
when something makes you feel very emotional
drama House, CSl

4
comedy
5
informative
chat show
SPEAKING Look at the words in italics in the

questions. Check that you understand them. Then
use the questions to interview your partner.
1
What is your favourite type of TV programme?
What is your favourite series?
What channel is it on?
Who usually turns the TV on in your house?
What time do you usually switch the TV off?
Who is in charge of the remote control in your house?
LISTENING @ 1 . 3 3 Listen to five people talking about TV

programmes. What type of TV programme are they talking about?
1
9 a SPEAKING Think of things or people for each adjective in 6 and

make a note of them.
funny Jim Carrey, The Simpsons
9 b Work with a partner and compare your ideas.
/ think Jim Carrey is really funny.
Oh no! I think he's awful.
Unit 5
1 You are going to read a blog. The title is Turn Off TV Week. What do
you think Turn Off TV Week is?
2 You have four minutes to read the blog and decide if each person
thinks Turn Off TV Week is a good idea or a bad idea. Do not stop
reading if there are words you don't understand.
1
Bob Martin
Read the blog again and write down evidence from

each person's text to justify your answers in 2.
STUDY SKILLS
Why can it be useful to set yourself a time limit the
first time you read a text? STUDY SKILLS page 147
good/bad
2 JaneW
good/bad
3 JoPike
good/bad
Turn Off TV Week

by BOB MARTIN on FEBRUARY 2 5 , 2 0 1 1
The annual Turn Off TV Week starts today. The idea is to live
without TV for a whole week. The people who organise it say that
television is a bad thing. Personally, I'm not sure that they're right.
First of all, the organisers say that the kids of today are lazier and
in worse physical condition than kids of the past because they
spend all their time in front of the TV. But a recent study of 10,000
US children aged 10 to 15 found no connection between TV and
physical fitness. Children who don't watch TV don't always do
more physical activity. And even the world's biggest TV addict can
find an hour in the day to do exercise. In my case, soaps always
make me want to turn off the TV and go down to the gym!
I agree that there are lots of terrible programmes on TV. But
I don't agree with saying 'No TV'. I just think we need some
more intelligent programmes. TV can be informative, funny and
moving. And, yes, it can be awful too. The most important thing
Choose the best answers.

1 A recent study in the USA shows that
a TV makes children fat.
b watching less TV generally makes children fitter and
more active.
watching less TV doesn't really make children more
active.
2
a
b
Bob Martin thinks

a lot of TV is bad, especially soaps,
a lot of TV is bad, but not soaps,
all TV is awful.
3
a
b
Bob thinks that TV

has a negative effect on conversation.
only stops conversation.
can have a positive effect on conversation.
4
a
b
JaneW
likes all types of programmes.
only watches programmes that she knows and likes.
knows when to switch the TV on and off.
5
a
JoPike
hates all TV.
thinks sports programmes are OK.

doesn't like the same TV programmes as the general
public.
is to think about what we watch and be more selective.. Another

thing that is not black and white is the idea that TV only stops us
from communicating with others. An American professor found
that parents in homes with no TV have an hour of conversation
with their children every day. In other homes, there was only 38
minutes of conversation ... a week! That's bad. But TV can also
bring people together and help to start conversations. Is there
a better way to begin a conversation than by chatting about the
latest episp.de of your favourite series?

definitions.
Turn off my TV? OK. But I also plan to continue turning it on when
one part or 'chapter' of a TV series
there's something good on.
talking in a friendly way
describes a person who chooses carefully
episode
[2 COMMENTS]
Post a comment
JaneW - 25 Feb 2011,10:11 AM

I agree. You can't say that all TV is bad. It's as stupid as
saying that all books are good, or that all pop music is bad.
Maybe a lot of TV is bad. But the idea is to look for the
good programmes. I always read the TV guide and decide
what I'm interested in watching. I watch my favourite
programmes and I also try some new programmes
too. I watch them and then I switch the TV off.
JoPike - 25 Feb 2011,11:01 AM
OK, I agree there are some good programmes
on TV. But we all know that the most popular
programmes are awful. Unreal reality shows, boring
football matches, stupid soaps. That's why Turn
Off TV Week exists, and that's why I like it. It tells
people that there are more important things in life
than knowing what's happening on Big Brother.
not having something
describes a person who knows
that something
is true
do something once to see if it is good
use (v.)
8
6
once a year (adj).
SPEAKING What about youl

1
Do you think TV is a good or a bad thing? Why?
How much TV do you watch on weekdays and at

the weekend?
/ think a lot of TV programmes are really bad.
I don't agree. Some programmes

are quite interesting.
Unit 5
59
3
GRAMMAR GUIDE
Comparatives
and
superlatives
l a Look at the comparative and superlative form of

these adjectives.
Adjective
Comparative
Superlative
| 1 long
longer
the longest
2 big
bigger
the biggest
3 lazy
lazier
the laziest
4 important
more important
the most important
5 bad
worse
the worst
Complete these sentences with the comparative form

of the adjectives and than.
1
I think soaps are

(boring)
Adverts are
(good)
Reality shows are

(bad)
Watching films at the cinema is

watching them on TV.
(interesting)
Watching TV is
(easy)
Will Smith is.

(thin)
Now match the adjectives to the correct rule.

a
adjectives with two syllables or more, use

more/most + the adjective
one-syllable adjectives which end in one

vowel + one consonant, double the last
consonant and add er
two-syllable adjectives ending iny, omity

and add ier
one-syllable adjectives, add er
irregular adjectives with no set rule
good
short
1c Complete the sentences with the correct words.
John Travolta.
a lot
far
much
slightly
Elijah Wood (born in 1981) is much/slightly older than Kirstin

Dunst (born in 1982).
For most people, watching football on TV is gjgt/gbit more

exciting than watching yoga.
The programme lasted 60 minutes. It was fgj/gbit longer than

normal, because they usually last 55 minutes.
the
SPEAKING Complete these sentences with a logical opinion.

Then work with a partner to compare your sentences.
1
popular actress in the USA
(GRAMMAR REFERENCE
reading.
Watching TV is far/a bit more popular as a hobby than writing

poetry.
fat
She's the
at the moment
chat shows.
boring
a lot of TV programmes.
Choose the correct alternative in these sentences.

Use your dictionary if necessary.
funny
The new series is more popular

old one.
documentaries,
Look at these words. They are words which we frequently

use with comparative adjectives to modify them.
a bit
l b Use the rules in l a to write the comparative and

superlative form of these adjectives.
more boring than
page 68 )
SMrleHJohansson^
a lot younger than
MerylStreep
2
slightly more popular than
far funnier than

2 a PRONUNCIATION 1 . 3 4 Look at these sentences and listen.
Then answer the questions.
a
Films are longer than game shows,
Books are more interesting than films,
This programme was better than that one.
Soaps are more popular than reading.
Which colour represents the stress in the sentences: red or

blue?
Which types of word receive the stress? Nouns, main or

auxiliary verbs, articles... ?
2 b Listen again and repeat the sentences.
Unit 5
much more informative than
a bit scarier than
. much more boring than
a lot longer than
Developing v o c a b u l a r y
Adjectives ending in -ing and -ed
1
Write the -ing or -ed forms of these words. Use your

dictionary if necessary.
-ing
-ed
1 boring
bored
2 interesting
frightened
3
4 surprising
5 confusing
6
tired
relaxed
8 embarrassing
moved
9
10 disappointing
2
Choose the correct alternative. Then complete

the rule.
1
When a film is excited/exciting, we feel excited/exciting.
When a situation is fnahteriecl/friahtenina. we feel

frightened/friqhixning.
When a book is bored/boring., we feel bored/boring.
To describe how somebody feels, we use the

ending.
3
6b Work with a partner. Take it in turns to compare the two

photos.
Complete the sentences with the -ed or -ing form

of the words.
1
I was
cancelled the series.
(surprise) to hear that they've
It was so
(embarrass) when the
presenter forgot what to say.
That new game show is really

(confuse). I don't know what they have to do.
He's a lot younger in the second picture.
That film made me feel really emotional. I was

(move).
Yes, and his hair is much longer!
(disappoint) because not many
7 Complete the questions with the superlative form of the

adjectives.
Who is
country?
the most famous
people watched it.
(famous) actor from your
2 What is
free time in your opinion?
(interesting) way to spend
3 What is
(boring) day of the week
Who is
(funny) person in the class?
5 Who is
(happy) person you know?
What is
Some people think that classical music is

(bore).
I think classical music is really
(relax).
4 a SPEAKING Look at these words. Then make notes

with your opinions.
for you?
4
The directors of the new show were very
exams
spiders
sport
theme parks
watching documentaries
(good) part of your day?
8a SPEAKING Interview different people in the class using the

questions in 7.
exams tiring, make me feel frightened

4 b Compare your ideas with a partner.
8b Tell the class some interesting answers that your

classmates gave you.
/ think exams are really tiring.
Lucy thinks bungee jumping is the most
Yes, and sometimes they make
interesting way to spend free time!
me feel a bit frightened.
4 .
Unit 5
T V heroes
Cross-curricular - History of Science
John Logie Baird and Philo Farnsworth
i
Work with a partner. Guess the answers to these quiz questions.
Read the text and find the answers to the quiz questions.
Read the text again and match the years and events.
1925
First regular transmissions in colour
1926
First programmes for BBC, with sound
1928
First black and white image sent
1929
World's first public demonstration of TV
1936
BBC changed from mechanical to electronic system
1967
First transmission from London to New York
1. What nationality was the first

Person to.transmit a blac;an?
white TV image?
2. What year was this?
3-When did televisions become
common in homes?
1 ?V 1
^ '
9begin?
' '
programmes
1
, 8 1
Television is one of the

greatest technological
inventions of the 20th
century. A Scottish man
called John Logie Baird
invented it. Inventors in the
USA and Europe were working
on electronic television systems
but Baird used a mechanical system, in 1925,
he was able to send the first black and white
picture - of the head of a doll - from one end
of his flat to the other. He then used a local
office boy, not the doll, and this teenager was
the first person ever to appear on TV.
images from
London to New York.
Baird made the first television
programmes for the BBC in 1929.
These programmes had sound, not
just pictures.
In January 1926, Baird invited scientists to his

flat and showed them his invention. He called
it a 'televisor'. Later that year Baird started the
world's first TV station and gave it the name
2TV. in 1927, he sent images
730 kilometres from
London to Glasgow
using telephone
cables. A year later,
1
his company
sent the first
transatlantic TV
More and more people had televisions

after the Second World war. Colour TV
began in the USA in the 1940s but only
a small number of people had colour
televisions in their houses. They were
very expensive, in Britain and the USA, the
first regular colour TV programmes only
began in 1967.
However, Baird's system was very limited

and basic. A totally electronic system was
more popular and practical. The inventor
of this electronic system was an American,
Philo Farnsworth. In 1936, the BBC started
using Farnsworth's system because the
picture was better than Baird's.
Now, in the 21 st century, we have

digital television. TV has changed a lot
since the face of a boy appeared on
TV in John Logie Baird's flat!
I INSIDE INFORMATION
The letters BBC stand for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Between TV and radio, the BBC is probably the largest news
service in the world. Its programmes go out to over 274 million
homes in 200 countries.
There are no adverts on the BBC, except for adverts for the BBC's
own programmes.
////
WORD BOOSTER
Match the words and the pictures.
1 doll
2 cable
3 century
1 S O O
1 9 0 0
Are these statements true (T) or false (F)?
Baird invented an electronic TV system.
J/F
The first TV images were of a boy.
J/F
The first boy on TV wasn't a famous person.
J/F
Baird was the first person to send TV images from England to

the USA.
J/F
The BBC decided to stop using Baird's system because it

wasn't good enough.
J/F
There weren't many TV programmes in colour in the 1950s.
J/F
Correct the false statements in 4.

What about you?
Match the words and the definitions.

1 flat
a frequent
2 TV station
b pictures
3 images
apartment, home
4 sound
d company that makes TV programmes
5 regular
e things you can hear
Apart from TV, what do you think are the greatest inventions of the
20th century? Why?
/ think the computer is probably the
greatest invention of the 20th century.
Why?
Because you can do nearly

anything with a computer.
Popular culture
Robin Hood and Maid Marian

7
Work with a partner. Make a list of things you

know about Robin Hood and Maid Marian.
Robin Hood was in love with Maid
Marian.
yjj) 1.35 Robin Hood and Maid Marian have

been heroes in British and American TV
series and films since 1908. Listen to a radio
interview about Robin and Marian. Do you
hear any information you talked about in 71
WORD BOOSTER
Match the words and the definitions.
1 version
2 outlaw
a someone who shoots arrow:

b rescue
criminal
3 save
lm
d bad character in a book or film
4 brave
e form of something that is

different from the original
5 archer
6 baddy
f able to deal with danger or

trouble without being scared
Listen again and answer the questions.

How many different TV and film versions have
they made of Robin Hood?
Why does the film critic think that Robin Hood is
so popular?
Why does the film critic talk about Mexico,
Australia and China?
How has Maid Marian changed in recent years?
What does the film critic think about this change?
What is different about Robin Hood in this latest
film version?
Unit 5
63
1
Work with a partner. The photos show different ways of

finding out the news. Which do you prefer and why?
GRAMMAR GUIDE
Less ... than, (not) as ... as

1 The news on TV is as good as the news on the
radio.
2 Newspapers aren't as up-to-the-minute as the Net.
3 Newspapers are less up-to-the-minute than the
Net.
l b Are these statements true (T) or false (F)?
1
We use as . . . as to say that two things,

people or situations are similar.
T/F
Not as . . . as and less . . . than have a

similar meaning.
T/F
Not as . . . as and l e s s . . . than are the

opposite of more . . . than.
T/F
GRAMMAR REFERENCE pagei
Rewrite these sentences but keep the same meaning.

Use o s . . . as, not as... as, less... than.
2
LISTENING vjjj)l.36 Listen to a radio programme where

people are calling to say how they like to find out the
news. Match the speakers and their preference.
There is one option you do not need.
European svivs aren't as violent as American TV series,

Soaps are interesting, but game shows are equally
interesting.
Game shows
a T h e Internet
b
Radio
Weekly news magazine
Amanda j
11
Jerry
~[~2~|
~]~3~|
Newspaper
Sarah
TV
Dan
Computer games are more popular with today's teenagers

than TV programmes.
TV programmes
TTI
EXAM S U C C E S S
ln the next activity you need to identify the statements

that a speaker makes. Do you think the speaker will say
exactly the same words as in the statements you read?
Football programmes on TV are exciting. Football

programmes on the radio are equally exciting.
Football programmes on the radio
Watching horror films at the cinema is scarier than

watching them at home.
Watching horror films at home
Listen again. Which speaker...

1
finds out the news at breakfast time?
Amanda/Jerry/Sarah/Dan
2
American TV series are more violent than European series.
Books are more informative than TV documentaries.

TV documentaries
thinks that pictures and images are an important

part of the news?
thinks the news on T V isn't very informative?

thinks the most important thing is to f i n d out the
SPEAKING Work with a partner. Do you agree with the

opinions in 2?
What do you think about
the first sentence?
news quickly?
I agree. I think American TV
is tired of w o r k i n g w i t h computers?
series are often very violent.
Unit 5
GRAMMAR GUIDE
Too and (not)
enough
4a Look at the sentences.

1 On TV they're too interested in sensationalism.
2 The news on TV isn't serious enough.
3 It's good enough for me.
4 I spend enough time in front of the computer.
4 c Look at the word order in the sentences 4a.

1 Does too come before or after the adjective?
2 Does enough come before or after the
adjective?
3 Does enough come before or after the
noun?
4b Match the first and second halves of the rules.

1
We use too
a to say a person, thing or situation is insufficient.
We use not... enough
b to say a person, thing or situation is sufficient.
We use enough
to say a person, thing or situation is excessive.
Complete the sentences with the verb fo be and too or

not... enough plus the adjective.
5 Complete this text with these words.

as
small
enough
food
surprising
light
GRAMMAR REFERENCE page 6 8 )
modern
too
This film is for adults, and Corinne is only fifteen.
She isn'toU.enough (old) to see it.

2
Nanook of the North
This game show
(easy). Everybody always
wins.
3
This cartoon
(original). It's exactly the
same as all the others.

4
Owen needs to improve. He
(good) to
be in the first team.

5
6
It
(hot) in here. Can you open the window?
I can't watch this match because I'm so nervous.

It
(exciting)!
That horror film was awful. It
(scary).
I was so bored I fell asleep!

In 1922, Robert H . Flaherty made a silent documentary
about the life of the Inuits i n the Arctic. It was the very
first documentary film and it caused a sensation. For the
first time, people could see real life i n a distant, exotic
place. However, n o w some people say the film wasn't
authentic (a)
because Flaherty changed
some things to make the film more exciting. For example,
the Inuits already used guns to catch and k i l l animals. But,
in the film, Flaherty wanted the Inuits to use traditional
ways of hunting because guns looked too (b)
.
Scenes with guns weren't (c)
enough for
the American public. Another example was that Flaherty
used big cameras to make the documentary. So when they
went to film inside igloos, there was a problem. The igloos
were too (d)
, and they were (e)
dark. So the Inuits built a special igloo w i t h just three
walls, to give enough (f)
for
filming.
Maybe
nowadays we can criticise Flaherty for not showing real
life. But many of the directors of today's 'reality' shows
admit that real life often isn't as interesting (g)
they would like and that they sometimes cheat to make
their programmes more popular. Nanook of the North is
still an incredible film and it captured images of a life that
was already disappearing i n 1922. The Inuits of Flaherty's
film never had enough (h)
and Nanook died
of hunger just two years after appearing i n the film.
STUDY SKILLS
When you do a grammar exercise there are two main types of
things to think about. What are they?
7a SPEAKING Look at the questions. Make notes with ideas.

Use these adjectives with too and enough.
attractive
lazy
clever
long
old
fast
fit
serious
good
short
healthy
slow
young
Could you be a newsreader on national TV at the moment?
Could you win a gold medal running 100 metres at the

Olympic games next week?
Could you be a popular Hollywood actor?
Could you win a Nobel Prize one day?
newsreader not old enough, not serious enough

7 b Tell your partner your answers.
We aren't old enough to read the news.
No, we aren't, and my hair's too long! The men
who read the news always have short hair!
Unit 5
Developing speaking
Negotiating
SPEAKING Work with a partner. Imagine these programmes are
SPEAKING Look at these different ways of spending the

evening. Work with a partner. Think of good and bad
things about each activity.
on TV tonight. Which one(s) would you like to watch? Why?

7.00 Cook off!
Twelve contestants
take on the food
challenge.
I 7.30
The Daily Show
The Real Shakespeare
Sunnydale
Did Shakespeare really Bob tells Tracey it's all

write all of the plays? over between them.
Timothy Robinson
investigates.
Station Street
Topical magazine
show.
8.00
PICK Earthwatch
David Kent explores

8.30 the wonders of the
Amazon rainforest.
19.00 The Informer
Smith is accused of
murder, fast in the
series.
News
NEW SERIES No Place Like Home
Sarah is appalled by The property renovation show

Hazel's behaviour.
; returns.
You're Nicked!
Who Wants to be
PICK Incredible Stories
An insight into the

Incredibly Rich?
life of Britain's police James Kay hosts the
force.
big money quiz.
Conjoined twins, Sarah and

Louise Harmer, talk about their
life together.
The Review Show
Family-ville
Dance Nation
The week's cultural

highlights.
Three couples remain Animated sitcom about

n the competition
America's most unusual
and there's another family.
routine to learn.
19.30
The Politics Slot
Panel discussion on current

affairs.
10.00 News
FILM Three's a Crowd

(2009)***
PICK Patterson's
People
A young woman's
Interviews with the
Highlights from this life is turned upside rich and famous.
down
when
her
afternoon's big match
mother-in-law moves I
between Liverpool
larital home.
and Barcelona.
Criminal Intent
A businessman is shot dead.
10.30 Sports Roundup
LISTENING 1 . 3 7 Listen to two people deciding what to watch

on TV tonight.
1 Tick the types of TV programme you hear.
2 Put two ticks for the programme they decide to watch.
chat show
comedy
game show Q Q
soapQQ
3
reality show Q Q
sports programme Q Q
Listen again and answer the questions.

1
documentary
What does the boy think about soaps?
What does the boy think about the Shakespeare programme?
What does the boy think about the crime programme?
What does the girl think about the dance programme?
Listen a third time. Tick the expressions that you hear.
EXAM SUCCESS
You are going to do an oral exercise called 'negotiating'.
You usually work with another person. The examiner
explains a situation where you and the other speaker
need to come to a decision. What can you do if you can't
think of anything to say?
Speaking Bank
Useful expressions for making suggestions
Shall we (do something)?
Why don't we (do something)?

Let's (do something).
How about (doing something)?
SPEAKING Work with a partner. Do this role-play using

your ideas from 6 and the Speaking Bank to help you.
Useful expressions for responding to suggestions

Great!
Yes, b u t . . .
OK.
I'm not sure.
Fine.
I know what you mean,
Yes, let's...
but...
Good idea.
No, I prefer...
You're right.
Why don't we . . . ?
Me too/Me neither.
But what about... ?
You and your partner want to spend the evening together]

Suggest an activity and explain why you think it is a
good idea.
Listen to your partner's suggestion and explain why
you don't want to do this activity.
Talk about different activities until you come to a
decision about what to do.
SPEAKING Work with a partner. Take it in turns to suggest

watching a programme from 1 and respond to the suggestion.
Why don't we go for a walk? It's really

nice outside, and we could take the dog.
Shall we watch the Shakespeare
documentary?
I'm not sure. I'm a bit too tired to go
I'm not sure. What about watching...
Unit 5
for a walk. Sorry. How
about...
Read this email from a girl called

Marina. Write a few words to
describe what she talks about in the
three main paragraphs of her email.
Paragraph 1.
Paragraph 2 .
Paragraph 3.
Message - i v in
Reply to All
Reply
From:
To:
Subject:
Forward
Delete
Print
mm
Mark as Unread
Marina <nicenails@mailnet.com>
Matt <matt2389@realrnail.com>
TV in Spain
Hi Matt,
You asked me to tell you about TV here in Spain. Well, there are lots of reality shows and lots of chat shows talking about
famous people. Soaps are popular, either Spanish soaps or ones f r o m South America. And we have lots of American TV
series, particularly dramas and cartoons.
Personally, my favourite programme is a sports programme. It's called 'Football Crazy' in English. It's on the Canal +
channel on Sundays, which is the day when Spanish teams usually play. The programme starts at 7pm and finishes at
10pm. In fact, it starts again at 11pm but I don't watch it t h e n , it's t o o late because I have school the next morning.
I think this programme is cool because it tells you what's happened in all the matches that weekend. In my opinion, the
best thing about the programme is that they show you all the goals and action f r o m every match, not just in Spain but
in all the best leagues in the world. As far as I'm concerned, it's much more interesting than other football programmes
because the presenters always have funny comments to make about the matches, and they often find surprising things
to show.
Why don't you tell me something about TV in your country? What's your favourite programme?
Best wishes,
Marina
Read the email again and find out this information about
Marina's favourite TV programme.
1
SPEAKING Work with a partner. Make a list of British

or American TV programmes that are popular in your
country at the moment.
Title of the programme:
Individually, write your opinion of the programmes.

Use the expressions in the Writing Bank.
2 Channel:
3
Day and time it's on:
Description of the programme:
Reasons why the writer likes it:
Tell your partner your opinion of the programmes.

Are your opinions similar?
5
Look at the information in 2. Write information about

your favourite TV programme.

Look at this task and write the email. Use the
paragraph plan from 1 and the Writing Bank to help
you.
Read the email again and complete the expressions in the

Writing Bank.
Write Marina an email with information about

your favourite T V programme. Tell her:
Expressions of opinion
Personally
, my favourite programme i s . . .
this programme is cool because . . .
'
, the best thing about the programme is

As
basic information about the programme

(title, channel, time, day)
a description o f the programme
reasons why you like it
concerned, it's...
Unit 5

Grammar
Comparatives
reference
and
superlatives
Form
Adjective
Comparative
Superlative
long
short
longer
shorter
the longest
the shortest
big
fat
bigger
fatter
the biggest
the fattest
Two syllables e n d i n g in -y
lazy
funny
lazier
funnier
the laziest
the funniest
Two or m o r e syllables
important
boring
more important
more boring
the most important

the most boring
Irregular
bad
good
far
worse
better
farther/further
the worst
the best
the farthest/furthest
One syllable
One syllable e n d i n g in one
vowel and one consonant
Use
We use the comparative to compare two people, places
We use than in sentences that compare two people, places or things.
or things.
Soaps are worse than documentaries.
We use the superlative to compare more than two people,

places or things.
We use the before the superlative form of the adjective and we often use in.
He's the most famous actor in Hollywood.
Less ... than, as ... as
Use
Less is the opposite of more.
badminton is less popular than football.
(= Football is more popular than badminton.)
We use a s . . . as to say two things are the same.
We use not a s . . . as to say that the second person or thing is

more . . . than the first one.
badminton isn't as popular as football.
( = Football is more popular than badminton.)
books are as good as films.
Too
Form
Use
The word too comes before the adjective.

The programme is too serious. Peopleget bored when
We use too to say that something is excessive. It is not the same as very
because it has a negative meaning.
they watch it.
He's very clever. (= positive)

Yes, but sometimes he's too clever. (= negative)
Enough,
not...
enough
Form
Use
The word enough comes after adjectives and before nouns.
We use enough to say that something is sufficient.
It's good enough.
We use not enough to say that something is insufficient.
It isn'tgood enough.
He's good enough to be a TV presenter.
I ha ven tgot enough time.
I'm not fast enough to win a gold medal.
Vocabulary
i TV programmes
advert (ad/advertisement)
cartoon
channel
chat show
comedy
documentary
film
game show reality show
remote control
series
soap
sports programme
the news
2 Adjectives describing
TV programmes
3 Adjectives ending in -ing and -ed

bored
boring
confused
confusing
disappointed
disappointing
embarrassed
embarrassing
frightened
frightening
interested
interesting
moved
moving
relaxed
relaxing
surprised
surprising
tired
tiring
awful
boring
cool
funny
informative
interesting
moving
popular
scary
4
68
Unit 5
Other words and phrases page
hi
Grammar revision
Comparatives and
superlatives
1 Correct the mistakes in these sentences.

1 Charlotte's school is more bigger than this school.
2 You look thiner than the last time I saw you.
3 Some people think that watching sport is more boring that
playing it.
4 The Volga is longest river in Europe.
5
6
7
Ethan is much worst at German than Jake.

Do you think this exercise is most difficult in the book?
That's the sillyest thing you've said today.
WORKBOOK page 40
/7
points)
/6
points)
Less ... than, (not) as ... as

2 Make true sentences using the words and as... as, not as... as or less...
1 Holland/big/the USA
2 A kilo of sugar/heavy/a kilo of iron
3 Knowing English/important/knowing anatomy

4 Jamie (born 1995)/old/Alex (born 1995)
than.
l/good at maths/my best friend

Playing tennis/dangerous/parachuting
WORKBOOK page 43
Too, (not) enough

3 Write sentences using the adjectives too or (not) enough.
1
Why is it difficult for most people to climb Mount Everest?
Why can't Linda drive?
It
She's only sixteen. She
(high).
2 Why can't your brother vote in the General Elections?

He's only 15. He
Why can't palm trees grow in the Arctic?
(old).
It
3 Why can't you run a marathon?

My legs
4
(young).
(warm).
Why don't you like that series?
(strong).
I don't understand the story. It
(confusing).
Why can't you buy a sports car?

I
WORKBOOK page 43
(money).
/7
points)
Vocabulary revision
TV
Adjectives
programmes
3
1 Name these types of TV programme.

1
It tells you information about today's events.
2 They interview famous people.

3
It's based on a competition with prizes.
It looks at facts or historical events.

There are ten words but only six sentences.
disappointed
disappointing
embarrassing
frightened
relaxing
surprising
embarrassed
frightening
relaxed
tired
It follows the lives of fictional characters in a melodramatic

style.
ending in -ing and -ed
It goes between programmes to get you to buy something.
WORKBOOK page 38
/6
points)
describing
TV
2 Think of an example of something which you think is:

awful
moving
boring
popular
cool
relaxing
informative
scary
WORKBOOK page 38
to see you because I thought you were on
I went out with one black shoe and one brown shoe. It was
really
programmes
It's
holiday.
Adjectives
I thought I was going to get ten in the exam, but I only got
five. I was
I hate high places. Yesterday we went up a really big tower.

I was
The examiner was so nice. She made me feel

before the exam.
6
/8
points)
I'm very
WORKBOOK page 41
after running. I can't move my legs!

/6
points)
*
/40
points)
Unit 5
69
Grammar
> Be going to, will, may, might
Vocabulary Geographical features
Speaking
Making arrangements
Writing
A formal letter
.1 R
Zero conditional and first condition!
The environment
Different uses of get |
1
Work with a partner and match the photos to these words

beach
desert
mountain range
forest
icecap
rainforest and jungle
The environment
3
Work w i t h a partner. Match the words w i t h the definitions.

drought
oil spill
1
environment
ozone layer
flood
pollution
global warming
recycle
nuclear disaster
waste
save
when heat cannot escape from the atmosphere and the

temperature on earth goes up
greenhouse effect
the process of making the air, water or land worse, with chemicals,
for example
greenhouse effect
to use something again, or change something so that you

can use it again
a large quantity of water that suddenly covers an area
the natural world around us
the increase in the temperature on earth
10
to use something more than necessary, or in an incorrect way
a long period of time when there is no rain
11
an accident with nuclear power, usually causing radioactivity
the part of the earth's atmosphere which protects the earth
12
to stop using something (for example water, money,

electricity) or to use it less
5
6
an accident when oil comes out of its container, for example
from the sun

4
SPEAKING Work with a partner. Use words from 3 to talk about

the photos.
at sea
5
LISTENING 2.03 Listen to four descriptions of environmental

problems. Match each description to a photo in 4.
1
6 a SPEAKING Look at the questions and make a note of your

answers.
You can recycle bottles here. It's good for the environment.
Unit 6
How is global warming affecting your country?
Where and when do you have floods or droughts in your

country?
What do you do to protect the environment?
What products or materials do you recycle?
How do people waste water or electricity in your country?
What do you do to save water or electricity?
6 b Work w i t h a partner. Ask and answer the questions.
Reading
1 You are going to read a text about things we can do to protect the environment. You have three minutes to read the four
paragraphs and match t h e m to these titles.
Paragraph
a Young people can make a difference
Paragraph
What is a carbon footprint?
Paragraph
b Predictions for the future
Paragraph
d Your lifestyle and your carbon footprint
I It's difficult to know exactly how our climate will

change. Scientists think that the global temperature
may go up by between 1.4C and 5.8C in the next
fifty years. This global warming will definitely make a
big change to life on earth. Most areas will become
warmer. Some parts of the world might have terrible
floods, but some may have droughts. This will
probably be bad for plants and animals in all parts of
the world. In the Arctic we can already see that the
changing weather is going to make life very difficult
for polar bears.
So what can we do about this? One thing
we can do is to think about our 'carbon footprint'.
A carbon footprint is a way of working out
the difference that each person makes to the
environment. It shows the pollution that we, as
individuals, are responsible for For example, when
you go to school by car every day your carbon
footprint gets bigger because you are adding to the
pollution. When you walk to school or go by bike,
your footprint is much smaller.
2 Choose the correct alternative. Write the number of the
paragraph where you found the answer.

1 A carbon footprint works out the difference that each
human being/type of transport makes to the environment.
Paragraph
2 The text suggests that teenagers can take decisions for their
parents/influence their parents'decisions.
Paragraph
3 Rail travel/Flying is relatively good for the environment.
Scientists gre/arengt sure what will happen in the next
cause (v)
the plastic that covers things you buy
deciding, calculating
results
are responsible foe
routines
the mark that your foot leaves on the ground
Choose the six words in the text which you think are the most
talking about how the climate is changing.
Paragraph
Paragraph
/ chose 'climate' because the text is
not affect nature all over the planet.

Everyday activities make/don't make a big difference to
Match the underlined words in the text w i t h their definitions.
your choices.
4 The effects of climate change will probably/will probably
your carbon footprint.
E l You are a teenager. Perhaps you think that

you are not responsible for your own carbon
footprint because your parents and your school are
responsible. But you can help your family and others
to change their habits. And you can watch less TV
and turn off the light when you leave a room. Each
small action will make your carbon footprint smaller.
And that will help to slow down global warming and
its dangerous Mnseguences,
important. Compare your answers w i t h a partner and explain
Paragraph
I Your decisions in life make a difference to your

carbon footprint. Do you fly when you go on holiday?
Planes are much worse for the environment than
trains. They leave a bigger carbon footprint. When
you buy products that have a lot of plastic packaging,
you are also making your carbon footprint bigger.
Use your words in 4 to write a short summary of the text.

1 How important do you think global warming is? Why?
2 Do you think your carbon footprint is big or small? Why?
fifty years.
Paragraph
7
Scientists predict that the changes wilJMQ.O.'.i be the same

in different places.
Paragraph
/ think global warming is the most

important problem in the world right now.
I don't agree. There are other big problems too.
Unit 6
71
Grammar in context
G R A M M A R GUIDE
Be going to a n d will
l a Look at the sentences.
a
I think global warming w i l l get worse,
Greenpeace began in 1971. In 2021 it will
l b Match these explanations of the use of will and be going to

w i t h example sentences a-e in 1a.
We use w i l l . . .
celebrate its 50 anniversary,
for decisions that we take at the moment of speaking.
What can I do to help? I know! I'll keep a record
to talk about an objective truth.
of my carbon footprint,
to make a general prediction. We often use think, hope,

expect with this use.
th
Yesterday I decided what to do in the summer.

I'm going t o work for Greenpeace,
We use be going to
Look at the sky. It's going to rain.

2 a PRONUNCIATION Look at these sentences. Why do you

think some words are marked in bold?
to make predictions based on some sort of evidence.
to talk about plans or intentions.
Write d o w n six different plans or intentions you have for the future.
Write about these areas:
The situation is going to get worse.
1 school
3 work
5 family
Temperatures are going to go up.
2 home
4 sport/hobbies
6 friends
It's going to be a hot summer.
I'm going to do a project about biology at school next week
We're all going to have problems.
I'm going to do something to help.
2 b 2.04 Listen to the sentences. What happens to

the words in bold? What is the pronunciation of
be going to?
Complete the sentences w i t h the correct f o r m of the

verbs using will or be going to.
1
Experts expect that the ice

cap
1 the environment
3 politics
2 TV
4 clothes and fashion 6 medicine
5 sport
hotter in the
future.
SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Compare your plans and predictions

f r o m 4 and 5. Are they similar or different?
G R A M M A R GUIDE
Will, may, might

7a Look at the sentences and give an approximate percentage of
certainty for each expression in bold.
(disappear) one day.
It's only 10am but the sun is already strong.

It
Now write down six predictions for the future. Write about these areas:
/ think the planet willyet

6
2c sjj) Listen again and repeat the sentences w i t h the

correct stress.
3
This will probably affect plants and animals.

/0-80%
(be) a hot day.
A: What's the matter?
certain
Global warming will definitely make a big difference.
Perhaps some places will have more rain.
It's possible that other places will become drier.
Different parts of the world might have terrible floods or
B: I'm really hot.

A: I
4
(open) the window.
Next week
(be) the anniversary of
the world's worst oil spill.

5
My friends have decided they
(write)
a letter about the environment to the local
droughts.
_.
newspaper.
6
People think that global warming

(cause) lots of problems in the future.
A: Wait! I
(come) with you.
A: Come to my house this evening.

: I can't. I
making our school 'green'.
1L
The temperature may go up by 5C in the next fifty years.
The changes probably w o n ' t be immediate.
Things definitely w o n ' t get better until we do something.
A: Where are you going?

B: To see a documentary about the environment.
Unit 6
(go) to a meeting about
7 b Look at the position of the adverbs definitely and probably

in sentences 1 and 2 and sentences 7 and 8. What do you
notice?
(GRAMMAR REFERENCE page
D i f f e r e n t u s e s of
>EXAM SUCCESS
You are going to do a sentence transformation activity. Read the

instructions. What things are important to check when you finish an
activity like this?
8 Rewrite the sentences keeping the same meaning. Do not change

the word given. Use between t w o and five words, including the
word given.
1 It's possible that the sea level will go up in the next fifty years,
may
The sea level
2
in the next fifty years.
It's 100% certain that some parts of the earth will become deserts,
definitely
Some parts of the earth
deserts.
It's 100% certain life on the planet won't end in the next twenty years,
definitely
Life on the planet
in the next twenty years.
It's quite probable that people won't change their habits,

won't
People
habits.
1 Summers will get hotter.

2
Polar bears will become extinct.
5 One day there will be a terrible nuclear disaster in the USA.

hotter.
10 SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Compare your answers in 9.
/ think summers will definitely get hotter.

I think they may get hotter. I'm not sure.
Last week she got a book about pollution.
What time will you get to the meeting?
Can you get me the pen that's on the desk?
a
b
arrive
bring
become
d
e
obtain or buy
receive
Complete the sentences w i t h these words.

What is the meaning of get in each sentence?
late
ready
red
thin
worse
I can see that you're hot. Your face is

getting
My brother needs to eat more. He's getting

very
Come on! You need to get

for the meeting.
Scientists are very worried because they say the

situation is getting
Come on! It's getting
.Time
for bed.
6
I'll switch the light on. It's got very

in here.
What usually happens in these situations?

Write sentences w i t h get and these words.
home late
4 We will have another ice age.
will definitelyget
Summers are getting very hot.

I got your email yesterday.
an email with news
3 Cars of the future won't use petrol.
/ think summers
1
2
6 The situation might get worse before it gets better,

possible
It's
get worse before it gets better.
9 How certain do you think these predictions are? Write sentences
with the expressions in 8.
Look at get in these sentences and match each

one to the correct meaning (a-e).
dark
3 There's a possibility that the consequences will be catastrophic,

perhaps
catastrophic.
get
angry
paper and a pen
bread
presents
tired
Somebody is saying horrible things to you.

Youget angry.
You run for an hour or more.
It's your birthday tomorrow.
You're out at 11pm and there are no buses.
You're in a supermarket because you want to

make a sandwich for lunch.
Your friend in the USA writes to tell you about

what happened to her last week.
Somebody is talking to you on the phone and

wants to leave a message.
4 a SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Write a story

where you use get as many times as possible.
4 b Tell your story to the class. Who uses get the
most?
Yesterday I got up at 7am
and I got ready for school.
Unit 6
A u s t r a l i a

A u s t r a l i a - People, p l a c e s , l a n g u a g e
1
Work w i t h a partner. Choose the correct answers in the quiz.

If you don't know, guess!
Find the answers on page 159. How many did you get right?
The Australia
What is the most common geographical
feature in Australia?
jungle
rainforest
desert
What is the capital of Australia?
a)
b)
c)
Sydney
Melbourne
Canberra
Who was the first European to make

contact with the east coast of Australia?
a ) C a p t a i n J a m e s Kirk
b) Captain James Cook
c) Magellan
Who were the first British people to go to
live in Australia?
c)
hospital p a t i e n t s
What is the Great Barrier Reef?

a)
a l o n g c o r a l structure n e a r t h e n o r t h e a s t c o a s t of Australia
a b i g rock in t h e m i d d l e of Australia
a d a n g e r o u s b e a c h w i t h sharks n e a r
Sydney
What does the word "kangaroo'

really mean?
a) jumping d o g
b ) wild a n i m a l
c) I don't understand you
What is a 'didgeridoo'?
a ) a n i n d i g e n o u s Australian m u s i c a l
instrument
b ) a n i n d i g e n o u s Australian d a n c e
c ) a n i n d i g e n o u s Australian tribe
All these actors live or lived in Australia
Which of them have won an Oscar?
a ) Nicole Kidman
b ) Russell C r o w e
c ) Mel Gibson
d) Hugh Jackman
quiz
Cross-curricular - Geography
SOS Australia
3 Read the articles and match them w i t h the photos.
I
c. _.
Australians will need to stop singing i n the shower.

Whv To save electricity and water. A company
has discovered that Australians are usually in the
shower for seven minutes a day. This is because
many Australians like singing i n the shower. So the
idea is to sing shorter songs to save water Australia
is the second driest continent in the world. There
are frequent droughts, which is why there are water
restrictions in all parts of the country.
?
Read the articles again and write questions for these

answers.
How long are A ustralians

Seven minutes.
usually m the
shower?
2
Because they like singing in the shower.
3
Because the camels haven't got enough water.
4
Approximately one million.
5
Because a lot of Australians live on or near the coast.
The recent drought in Australia has been terrible

Even Australia's wild camels have suffered. They '
are so thirsty that they are going mad. They are
6
Because they are very dry.
7
Millions of tonnes.
begmnmg to attack other animals and destroy

Plants to get water. Australians imported
thousands of camels from India in the 19th
century. Today, the total wild camel population is

b l y
the biggest m
Global warming is a big problem for

Australia. The sea level is going up
and this may have a very big impact
on cities and towns on the coast.
For Australia, this is very serious
because 8 0 % of the total population
lives on or near the coast. If the ice
cap melts faster than predicted, the
consequences will be disastrous.
What about youl
What information in the texts surprises you? Why?
Do you think Australia has more serious environmental problems

than your country? Why?
The idea of singing short songs
to save water surprises me.
Why?
Because I think it's silly!
J
any parts of rural Australia

are incredibly dry and hot.
Fires, called bushfires, are very
common and dangerous there.
These disasters sometimes begin
by accident, but sometimes they
are the result of arsonists, people
who deliberately start fires. In
February 2009 bushfires in the area
of Victoria killed 173 people and

millions of animals. Some bushfires
have generated the power of more
than 100 atomic bombs and created
millions of tonnes of pollution. In
fact, bushfires are responsible for
more pollution than all of Australia's
industry and cars together. You can
see big bushfires from space.

a needing or wanting to drink
b 1,000 kilos
natural, not controlled by humans
d limits
e how high the sea is
f changes from solid to liquid
g very bad, terrible
Grammar in context
1
SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Look at

the photos. What can you see in each
one? Is the situation good for the
environment or not? Why?
G R A M M A R GUIDE
Zero
conditional
l a Look at the sentences in the zero conditional.

Then choose the correct alternative.
1
If you have very long showers, you waste

water.
You die if you don't drink

We use the zero conditional to talk about
specific situations/things mat are generally true.
l b Look again at the sentences in 1a.

1
What tenses do we use in the zero conditional?

If+
Does the half of the sentence with //always

come first?
When do we use a comma in conditional

sentences?
(GRAMMAR REFERENCE page 80 )
LISTENING @ 2.05 You are going to listen to part of a

meeting at a school. Listen and answer the questions.
1
What is the meeting about?
How many ideas do they write down?
STUDY SKILLS
What is your main objective the first time you listen to a
listening text?
@ Listen again. Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?
The teacher has given the students time to think of ideas.
T/F
The first student, William, wants to separate paper into

different boxes.
T/F
William wants only one person in the class to take paper for
recycling.
T/F
The school has already told students to switch lights off.
T/F
Isabelle's idea is to help people remember to switch the

lights off.
T/F
The last idea, from Jack, is to save water in the school

canteen.
Correct the false sentences. Listen again if necessary.

1
Do you do any of these things in your school?
How 'green' do you think your school is? Why?
Complete these sentences by putting the verb in the

correct f o r m .
1
If it's sunny, people often

beach.
Ifit
(not rain) for months, the result is
usually a drought.
If it rains a lot for months, there.

often floods.
If you don't water plants, they
If it
eyes.
If the sun
goes up.
(be)
(die).
(be) very sunny, it's bad for your

(shine) all day, the temperature
Write sentences to make general statements using

the zero conditional.
1
T/F
(go) to the
If I'm late for school, wyjeachergetsangryw^h.

me __
If you sit too close to the TV,
If you goto bed late,
I feel sad if
I enjoy English classes if
My parents are happy if
SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Compare your

sentences f r o m 3. Are any sentences the same?
I feel sad if I watch a

sad story on the news.
We recycle paper.
Me too. But I wrote that I feel
Yes, and we always switch the
lights off at the end of the day.
Unit 6
sad if I argue with my friends.
GRAMMAR GUIDE
First
conditional
5a Look at these sentences in the first conditional. Then choose

the correct alternative.
1
If you see the poster, you'll remember to switch the lights off.
It won't be so bad if we all help.
We use the first conditional to talk about possible/impossible

situations and their consequences.
5b Look at the sentences again and choose the correct alternative.
1
In the part of the sentence with /f we use the present simple/

wijlorwgn't.
In the other part of the sentence we use the present.simple/

w[ll or won't
6 Choose the correct alternatives.
Put the verbs in the correct tenses using the

first conditional.
I f we (a)
(not do)
something soon, electronic products
1 If we don't/won't recycle
paper, we need/will need
to cut down more trees.
(b)
(create) serious
problems for the environment. We use more

and more energy because we buy more and
more electronic gadgets. If this situation
2 If we cut/will cut down

more trees, the forests
disappear/will disappear.
(c)
(continue), each house
(d)
(need) an incredible
quantity of energy. The popularity of computers

1 i L j J
and games consoles has created an enormous
need for more power. In the 1970s homes

contained, on average, just 17 electronic
products. But now some people think that they
(e)
(not be) able to brush their
teeth if they (f)
(not have)
an electric toothbrush. And if we
3 There are/will be more

deserts if the forests
disappear/will disappear.
(g)
(forget) to switch off all these
electronic gadgets we (h)
(use)
up all of our electricity for nothing.'

8
4 If there are/will be more

deserts, the planet
becomes/will become hotter.
SPEAKING Work in groups. Begin with this

sentence.
if I pass all my exams this year, I'll have a
holiday in the
summer.
Take it in turns to add conditional sentences.

How many sentences can you make?
If I pass all my exams this year, I'll
have a holiday in the summer.
5 Many plants and animals

die/willdie if the planet
becomes/will'become hotter.
If I have a holiday in the

summer, I'll go with my friends.
If I go with my friends, I'll...
Unit 6
\aking
arrangements
Vv
0 ^
SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner and answer the

questions.
1
What places can you see in the photos?
How often do you go to these places?
Which is your favourite place to go at the weekend?
Tick the expressions in the Speaking Bank that appear in the

dialogue.
Why?
LISTENING ( ) 2.06 Listen t o t w o people making

arrangements for the weekend and answer the
questions.
1
Where are they going to go?
When and where are they going to meet?
What are they going to take?
What will they do if it rains?
Useful expressions f o r m a k i n g a r r a n g e m e n t s
Asking about somebody's plans
What are you up to at the weekend?
Are you up to anything at the weekend?

Do you fancy verb + -ing?
Hi, Danny.
DANNY:
Hi, Jamie.
JAMIE:
Listen. Are you up to anything this weekend?
Responding t o plans and arrangements
Sure/Fine/OK/Great/Good idea.
Not really/Sorry, I can't/I prefer...
DANNY: Not really. What about you?

JAMIE:
If the weather's (a)
Remember that we can use the present continuous as well as
, Alex and I are going
to go to the (b)
be going t o to talk about future arrangements.
Do you fancy coming?
Where are we meeting
DANNY: Sure. What time shall we meet?

How about (c)
DANNY:
OK. Why don't we meet at the (d)
JAMIE:
Fine. I know. I'll bring some (e)
and we
What will we do if it (g)
JAMIE:
I'll give you a (h)
?
and we'll go
somewhere else.
OK. Listen. I'll ring (i)
wants to come.
DANNY:
SPEAKING Practise the dialogue in 3 with your partner.
6 a PRONUNCIATION 2 . 0 7 Listen to the start of the dialogue again.

How do the speakers use their voices to show enthusiasm?
DANNY:
JAMIE:
tomorrow?
can (f)
DANNY:
tomorrow?
Where are we going to meet
JAMIE:
Arranging t o meet
What time shall we meet?
Where shall we meet?
Why don't we meet a t . . . ?
Complete the dialogue. Listen again if necessary.

JAMIE:
Speaking Bank
too and see if she
6 b Work w i t h a partner. Practise the first six sentences of the

dialogue again, remembering to show enthusiasm.
Good idea. See you tomorrow at
7a SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Practise the dialogue in 3,

changing the information. Use a different place, time, etc.
(j)
7 b Now change partners and practise again with your book
See vou.
Unit 6
closed.
oping writing
A formal
letter
Read this newspaper article about recycling. What does the writer think
about recycling? What reasons does he give?
The words in bold in the letter are all linkers.

Put t h e m in t h e correct place in the Writing
Bank below.
J *
u
R E C Y C L I N G
IS A
W A S T E
O F
Writing Ban
T I M E
Linkers o f sequence, a d d i t i o n a n d
L Harry Macdonald's Viewpoint
Everybody is always telling us to

recycle. In some countries it is
a crime not to recycle! This just
shows how stupid modern society
has become. The fact is that its
more expensive to recycle paper
and glass than to make them from
new materials. W h y don't we just
contrast
Sequence: Firstly,
b u r n our rubbish? If we b u r n it,

we'll produce lots of energy. A n d
another thing, recycling only
really works if we separate plastic,
paper, a l u m i n i u m etc. Let's be
honest, h o w many people really do
that? Recycling? It's just a waste ...
of our time.
Addition: ,
Contrast: However,
Complete t h e sentences w i t h linkers from the

Writing Bank.
1
I think recycling is easy.
, it
is cheap.
2
Let me explain what I think.
I want to explain my opinions about recycling

paper. Next, I want to tell you what I think
about recycling glass.
I want to talk about plastic.

3
In general, I agree with the article.

j there are some things in it
that I don't agree with.
SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. What do you think? Do you agree or

disagree with Harry Macdonald? Why? Make a list of your ideas.
t
Recycling may be expensive but it $ better than using new
materials.

6 a Look at this topic and make notes.
Here is a letter t o the editor of the newspaper. Does the reader agree or
A newspaper journalist writes:
disagree w i t h Harry Macdonald? Are any of your ideas f r o m 2 here?
' H u m a n s a r e n ' t responsible f o r c l i m a t e

c h a n g e . I t ' s j u s t a n a t u r a l process.'
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
W r i t e a letter t o the newspaper e d i t o r

e x p r e s s i n g y o u r o w n o p i n i o n o n this
Dear Editor,
topic.
I am w r i t i n g i n response to H a r r y Macdonald's article 'Recycling is a

waste o f t i m e ' w h i c h appeared i n your newspaper last week. Personally
I agree w i t h many o f the things that M r Macdonald says.
B e g i n b y e x p l a i n i n g w h y y o u are
writing.
Firstly, recycling is more expensive than we t h i n k . F u r t h e r m o r e , i t is

difficult or impossible to recycle some materials.
Express your o p i n i o n and explain
Next, some people say that burning rubbish is bad for the environment
because o f the fumes. Nevertheless, burning rubbish is a very efficient
way to generate electricity.
G i v e a d d i t i o n a l reasons f o r y o u r
Finally, many people say they recycle their rubbish. H o w e v e r , n o t

many people take the time to separate glass, paper and plastics. W h a t ' s
more, I totally disagree w i t h the idea o f making people recycle.
I will be interested i n hearing other readers' opinions o n this question.
y o u r m a i n reason f o r i t .
opinion.
E n d y o u r letter.
6 b Write your letter using the model in 3, your

notes and the Writing Bank t o help you.
Yours faithfully,
Helen H o r t o n , Manchester
E X A M SUCCESS
STUDY SKILLS
Read the letter again. Why is it important to divide texts into paragraphs
when we write?
STUDY SKILLS p a g e 147
When you write in exam conditions, you cannot *

usually use a dictionary or grammar book. What
can you do if you do not know a word or if you
are not sure how to use a specific grammar
structure?
E X A M SUCCESS p a g e 151
Grammar reference
Be going to
Use
We use be going to to talk about plans and intentions for the
future. We use it for things that we have already decided to do in
the future.
We've decided that we're going tojoin
the
We can also use be going t o to make predictions about the future,

particularly when we have evidence for the prediction.
That car is going very fast. I think it's going to crash.
WWF.
Will
Use
We use will and w o n ' t to make general predictions about the
future. We often use think, hope, expect, imagine, etc. with will
and w o n ' t to express our opinion about the future.
We use will and w o n ' t to talk about the future when we consider it
to be an objective truth.
/ don't think he will win the election.

We also use will and w o n ' t when we decide to do something at
the moment of speaking, for example when we suddenly offer to do
something for someone.
We use definitely, probably, perhaps, it's possible that with will

to say how certain we think something is. Definitely is when we are
very certain, probably when we are quite certain, and perhaps and
it's possible that when we think the situation is 50-50.
A: It's hot in here.
Definitely and probably come just after will but just before won't.
B: I'll open the
window.
It's my birthday
It'll definitely
next week. I'll be 17.
rain. It definitely
won't
rain.
May, might
Form
Use
Affirmative
Negative
subject + may/might + verb in infinitive

Temperatures
may get
higher.
May and m i g h t are used in predictions when we are not sure

about something. They express approximately 50% certainty.
subject + may n o t / m i g h t not (mightn't) +

verb in infinitive
We may not he able to stop it.
Zero
conditional
First
Form
If + present simple,
conditional
Form
present simple
If + present simple,
If you take a fish out of water, it dies.

If we arrive late to school, the teachers get
. will + infinitive
If the situation gets worse, it will be

angry.
terrible.
If we don't recycle, we won't have enough
resources.
The present simple comes in the part of the sentence with if.
Use
Will does not appear in this part of the sentence.
We use the zero conditional to talk about situations that are

generally or always true.
if I will(jo
to the shops, I will buy some bread.
Use
if you don't drink any liquids, you die.

(= This is not just a specific situation - it always happens.)
We use the first conditional to talk about possible and probable

situations in the future and their consequences.
if it doesn't rain, (possible future situation) we won't
have
enough water, (the consequence of this situation)
Vocabulary
1 Geographical features
beach
desert
forest
ice cap
jungle
mountain range
rainforest
80
Unit 6
2 The environment
drought
environment
flood
global warming
greenhouse effect
nuclear disaster
oil spill
ozone layer
pollution
recycle
save
waste
3 Different uses of get

arrive bring become (= a process or
change of state) obtain or buy receive
4 Other words and phrases page 141-2
Grammar revision
Be going to, will
Zero
3
1 Correct the mistakes in these sentences.

1
Scientists think that they'll to find a solution for this problem.
What are your plans? What do you do tomorrow?
Answer these questions w i t h complete sentences.
3 They say it's raining next week.

4
conditional
What happens if you mix blue and yellow?
What happens if you study for an exam?
What happens if you never brush your teeth?
What happens if you eat too much?
I can't meet you tomorrow because I'll do an exam.
WORKBOOK p a g e 4 8
/4
points)
Will, may, might

W O R K B O O K p a g e 51
2 Complete the sentences w i t h these words.

definitely
may
My team will
Paula
perhaps
probably
will
won't
First
4
win tonight. I'm totally sure.

go to see him next week but I don't
the problem will disappear but we aren't
certain.
4
They
won't go out tonight because they have
an exam tomorrow, but it's not impossible.
She definitely
got a broken leg.
run tomorrow because she's
It's possible that I
see him tomorrow.
/6
/4
points)
conditional
Complete the sentences w i t h the correct form of the words.
really know.
3
If the sun
(shine), we'll be able to go out.
We'll go shopping if my mum

early.
If you do the exercise carefully today, you
(finish) work
(get)
all the answers right.

4
It'll be great if she
(come) tonight.
She'll leave hospital today if she
(feel) OK.
(not bring) the dog if you don't want me to.
points)
/6
points)
Vocabulary revision
Geographical
features
1 Look at the names. What are the geographical features?

1 Sahara
2 The Amazon River and
3 The Andes
4
5
6
7
Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro

Costa del Sol
The North Pole
Sherwood
/7
points)
The environment
2 Complete the text with these words.
droughts
(a)
floods
global warming
ozone layer
recycle
is getting worse and worse - the
save
waste
where it hasn't rained for a long time. But in places like the USA
temperatures keep going up and up. That's probably because of
and Europe people (e)
the big hole in the (b)
much, without thinking. It's important to (f)
, which protects us from
water - they use too
the sun. In some parts of the planet there have been terrible
water, for example by having short showers, not baths. There
(c)
are other things we can do to protect the earth. We can
where the water has destroyed towns and
cities. Meanwhile, in Africa there are terrible (d)
(g)
things like bottles or newspapers.
/7
points)
/6
points)

3 Decide on a synonym for get in these sentences.
1
I'm going to get some bread from the supermarket.,
2
3
Did you get home late last night?

The book started off really well but then it got boring in the end.
4
5
6
Don't move. I'll get you a glass of water..

I got my exam marks yesterday.
She got an email from her best friend.....
/40
points)
81
G a t e w a y to exams
Units
5 - 6
Listening
In listening exams where you have to identify the speaker,
remember...
Read the statements before you listen. But don't forget that
the speakers will probably express the same ideas using
different words and expressions. Thinking of synonyms for
the words in the statements can help you to identify the
answers.
Work with a partner and

answer these questions.
1
L o o k at t h e p h o t o . W h y
d o y o u t h i n k this p e r s o n
is f a m o u s ?
W h a t d o y o u t h i n k he's
d o i n g in t h e p h o t o a n d
why?
@ 2 . 0 8 Listen t o a r a d i o p r o g r a m m e . P e o p l e a r e g i v i n g their o p i n i o n s a b o u t f a m o u s p e o p l e w h o s p e a k o n T V about

t h e e n v i r o n m e n t a n d o t h e r w o r l d p r o b l e m s . M a t c h t h e s p e a k e r s a n d their o p i n i o n s .
A
F a m o u s p e o p l e d o a lot o f g o o d f o r e n v i r o n m e n t a l p r o b l e m s .
G e n e r a l l y , t h e p u b l i c isn't v e r y i n t e r e s t e d in e n v i r o n m e n t a l q u e s t i o n s .
Speaker
T h e m o s t i m p o r t a n t t h i n g is f o r p e o p l e t o k n o w w h a t t h e y a r e g o o d at.
Speaker
F a m o u s p e o p l e a r e j u s t i n t e r e s t e d in g e t t i n g a t t e n t i o n f o r t h e m s e l v e s .
It's better f o r f a m o u s p e o p l e t o g i v e a g o o d e x a m p l e t h a n t o tell o t h e r p e o p l e
what to do.
F
3
Speaker
Speaker
F a m o u s p e o p l e d o n ' t really s p e n d m u c h t i m e t a l k i n g a b o u t t h e e n v i r o n m e n t .
What about
you?
D o y o u think it's g o o d or b a d f o r f a m o u s p e o p l e t o talk a b o u t t h e e n v i r o n m e n t or w o r l d p r o b l e m s ? W h y / W h y not?
Writing
Tip for W r i t i n g Exams
When you are writing in exam conditions, remember...
If you don't know a word, think of a more general or
basic word. If you aren't sure how to use a grammatical
structure, change what you are going to say.
82
W r i t e a n email to a f r i e n d . Tell t h e m a b o u t your favourite

celebrity. It c a n b e a n actor, a s i n g e r or a s p o r t s p e r s o n .
Answer these questions:
W h o is it?
W h y are they famous?
D o they d o a n y t h i n g to help the e n v i r o n m e n t or other people?
W h y d o y o u like t h e m ?
Use of English
[ Speaking
> Tip for S p e a k i n g E x a m s
T i p f o r Use o f E n g l i s h E x a m s
I
When negotiating, remember...

If you can't think of something to say, use fillers
like Well, Hmmm, Let me think to give you time to
decide what you can say next. And don't be afraid
to say something that is obvious.
When you finish, check that you haven't changed the meaning of the
original sentence and that you haven't used more than the maximum
number of words permitted.
5 Work with a partner. M a k e a list o f different

ways of m a k i n g a n d r e s p o n d i n g to
suggestions. U s e Why don't we ...?
\ Work with a partner. L o o k a t the s i t u a t i o n
below and act out the c o n v e r s a t i o n . W h e n
you finish, c h a n g e roles.
Your English f r i e n d w a n t s to stay in
and w a t c h a nature d o c u m e n t a r y o n
TV tonight.
In sentence transformation activities, remember...
Reject the idea of w a t c h i n g a

nature d o c u m e n t a r y , g i v i n g y o u r
reasons.
Suggest watching a film, giving

reasons.
A c c e p t y o u r friend's idea o f
w a t c h i n g a different t y p e of
programme.
Rewrite the sentences keeping the same meaning. W h e n y o u

a r e g i v e n a w o r d to u s e , d o not c h a n g e it. U s e b e t w e e n t w o
a n d five w o r d s , i n c l u d i n g t h e w o r d g i v e n .
1
A f r i c a is h o t t e r t h a n India,
India isn't
P r o t e c t i n g t h e e n v i r o n m e n t is m o r e i m p o r t a n t t h a n s p a c e
e x p l o r a t i o n , not
S p a c e e x p l o r a t i o n is
protecting the
environment.
T e m p e r a t u r e s w o n ' t b e w a r m e n o u g h f o r s o m e t y p e s of
a n i m a l s , too
T e m p e r a t u r e s will
f o r s o m e t y p e s of
animals.
T h e situation in E u r o p e isn't a s s e r i o u s a s in A f r i c a , more

T h e s i t u a t i o n in A f r i c a is
in E u r o p e .
It's p o s s i b l e t h a t e n v i r o n m e n t a l p r o b l e m s will b e c o m e
m o r e s e r i o u s , may
Environmental problems
more serious.
It's 1 0 0 % c e r t a i n t h a t s o m e a n i m a l s will die.

S o m e animals
Y o u c a n n o t b e t o o y o u n g t o help p r o t e c t the e n v i r o n m e n t ,
as
Africa.
definitely
never
You're
8
t o help protect t h e e n v i r o n m e n t .
I think t h a t it's quite p r o b a b l e t h a t t h i n g s w o n ' t get better,
probably
I think that
g e t better.

1 How well can you do these things in English now? Give yourself a mark f r o m 1 t o 4.
1
2
3
4
=
=
=
=

I can't do it.
I can compare two or more things using different

structures {more/less than,as... as).
b I can name and describe different types of TV
programme.
I can identify information in a radio programme
about the news,
d I can make and respond to suggestions about what
to do in my free time,
e I can express my opinions in an informal email.
f
g
h
i
j
I can make predictions and talk about future plans and

decisions using will, may, might, be going to.
I can talk about situations and their usual or future
consequences using zero and first conditionals.
I can discuss the environment and pollution.
I can make arrangements for the weekend showing
enthusiasm.
I can write a simple letter to a newspaper, organising
my ideas with linkers and in paragraphs.
2 Now decide what you need t o do to improve.

1
Do more practice exercises. => WORKBOOK pages 38-55
Other:
83
Grammar
Modal verbs of obligation, prohibition and advice (must, hawk

mustn't, don't have to, should, shouldn't) Second conditional
Vocabulary
Hobs Personal qualities Compound adjectives
Speaking
Making polite requests
Writing
A letter of application and CV
Personal qualities
Jobs

ambitious
creative
calm
fit
sociable
1
caring
clever
hard-working
strong
reliable
well-organised
I'm a very well-organised,
person. I always plan
very carefully and I know exactly what I'm doing.

2
You need to be
if you work with
children. They need to know that you like them and

will help them.
3
Police officers are usually
and
because in some situations they

need to run fast and use force.
4
Top scientists are usually very
They
can find the answer to very complicated problems.

They are also
They need lots of
imagination to think of new ideas.

5
Philip works in a bank. He's very
j you
can always depend on him and he always arrives on

time. He's
too - he always puts a lot
of effort into his work.

6
Susan is very good at working in a team. She's very

t
she loves being with other people.
Fire fighters need to stay
because
they might make bad decisions if they get excited or

angry.
8
Charles is really
He won't be happy
until he's the company director!

1
Work w i t h a partner and match the photos w i t h these words.

builder
computer programmer
mechanic
police officer
fashion designer
receptionist
journalist
shop assistant
Think of t w o or three jobs for these different categories. You can

use your dictionary t o help you.
1
People who work with children:
People who work outdoors:
People who do paperwork:
People who do manual work:
People who work with the public:
People who travel a lot:
People who work in a team:
People who work in an office, with numbers or with computers:
Unit 7
LISTENING 2.11 Listen to four people describing

their jobs. What jobs do you think they are?
1
Write four sentences about yourself using the

adjectives in 4.
teachers,.aupairsôchnv,
I'm usually rjuite calm. For example, I don't panic in

exams.
7
SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Guess which

adjectives your partner wrote in 6 and say why.
/ thinkyou put sociable because you're
friendly with everyone in this class.
Yes, you're right!
1 Work with a partner and answer the questions.

1 What are the unusual jobs in the photos?
2 What do you think people do in these jobs?
2 Read a blog about four people w h o have unusual
jobs. What are their jobs? Write a name or simple
explanation for each one.
1
Lily Ann Lloyd
David Singleton
3 Stephen Redmond
4 Louise Perry
r
Do y o u h a v e a n u n u s u a l
We w a n t to hear f r o m
job?
You are going to do a true or false reading activity.
What should you do after reading the text quickly for
the first time to get a general idea?
you!
(4 COMMENTS)
You don't have to be attractive to work on TV. If you

watch any TV drama, you'll see normal people in the
background, behind the main actors. TV or film directors
don't want every scene to be full of George Clooneys
5 or Keira Knightleys. They want things to look real, with
normal people. That's my job. Some people call us
'background artists', but we're usually called 'extras'.
Extras often have to be in the studio for long hours, but
you usually only work for about two hours a day. So
io you should take a good book or a crossword because
most of the time you're just sitting waiting. And if you're
working with famous actors, you mustn't ask them for
an autograph. They just want to do their job in peace.
Read the texts in 2 again and decide if the

statements are true (T) or false (F). Write down
the number(s) of the line(s) where you found the
answer.
Lily A n n Lloyd, Glasgow - 1 M a r 2 0 1 1 , 2 : 3 1 P M
Lily Ann is very attractive and this is why

she works in TV.
Background artists and extras are different

names for the same job.
Extras need to be patient.
Stars don't like signing autographs for
25 David Singleton, L o n d o n - 1 M a r 2 0 1 1 , 2:57 P M
I'm a house sitter. You probably think that I just sit at home
all day. Well, you're right. Except not at my own home. A
house sitter is someone who looks after another person's
house when they go away. Sometimes I stay for just a
30 couple of weeks when someone goes away on holiday. But
sometimes I have to stay for six months, when a family
goes to live for a long time in another country for example.
People say that I'm a 'living burglar alarm'. That's more
or less true. It's an easy job, but you shouldn't do it if you
35 love staying at home ... your own home, that is.
David always enjoys his job.
David thinks that technical knowledge is

not enough to create a computer game.
House sitters protect other people's

property.
Being a house sitter isn't a good job for

people who like being away from their
home.
Louise needs to know about the past,

present and future in her job.
10
My job isn't exactly unusual but I have to work with world

issues, emotions, strange events, family problems, love,
new pop groups, discipline, people who are too excited,
40 people who are bored, lunch, chewing gum, fashion,
pollution, history, sport, literature, A+, C-, all this and the
future of the world ... In my job you have to be reliable,
well-organised, hard-working, creative, clever, sociable,
caring, calm ... I'm a teacher and I love my job.
Louise thinks that she needs a variety of

skills to do her job well.
Match the underlined words in the text w i t h their

definitions.
1
ta kes ca re of, protects
subjects, topics, questions
the place behind the main person or thing that you

are looking at
handsome, beautiful
Stephen R e d m o n d , C o r n w a l l - 1 M a r 2 0 1 1 , 3:17 P M
45 Louise Perry, O x f o r d - 1 M a r 2 0 1 1 , 7:20 P M
J/F ..
extras.
is When I tell people what my job is, they all think I'm {.
I suppose I am. I test computer games, so basically I spend
hours and hours playing them, to see if they're good or
not. Sometimes we have to keep playing the game until
it breaks. It can be fun but it can also get really boring,
20 playing the same game again and again. We often have
to work very fast too. What I really want to do one day is
to design a computer game. I studied to be a computer
programmer so I know about the technical side. But you
have to be very creative to design a game that's original.
looks after
in a good situation, in a situation that other people

want to be in
6
5
but
SPEAKING What about you? Discuss w i t h a partner.

1
Which of the first three jobs in the text do you like the
most? Why?
Would you like to be a teacher? Why/Why not?
Unit 7
Grammar in context
G R A M M A R GUIDE
Modal verbs of obligation,
prohibition
and
advice
l a Look at the sentences.
l b Which sentence(s) express:
You don't have to be attractive to work on TV.
obligation?
Extras often have to work long hours.
no obligation?
You should take a good book with you.
You mustn't ask famous actors for an autograph.
You must wear a uniform.
You shouldn't do this job if you like staying at home.
b, e
prohibition?
advice or recommendation?
1c What t y p e of w o r d comes after must, mustn't,

shouldn't, have to, don't have to?
should,
2 a PRONUNCIATION The letter T is silent in the w o r d 'should' - we do not pronounce it. Look at these sentences. Which letters do
you think are silent in each sentence? Cross the letter(s) out.
1
2
3
Firefighters should be calm.

You mustn't ask actors for autographs.
Discipline can be important.
4
5
6
My science teacher comes to school at half past eight.

Fashion designers shouldn't copy other people's designs.
Window cleaners often clean tall buildings.
2 b 2.12 Listen, check and repeat.

3
Use should and shouldn't t o give advice to these people.
Choose the correct alternative. If you think both alternatives are correct, choose both.
You must/have to learn to play an instrument if you want to be a
professional musician.
People who work in banks must/hayeto do a lot of paperwork.
A fire fighter has to/have to work in a team.
Builders mustn't/don'thaye to, work in an office.
A computer programmer mustn't/doesn't have to be fit to do I

his or her job.
My sister must deal/deals with the public in her job.
Doctors mustn't/don't have to tell secrets about their patients' health.

Do you mustAiayeto wear a uniform in your job?
Unit 7
5 Rewrite each sentence using a modal verb of obligation,
prohibition or advice.
1
Compound adjectives
1
It is not necessary to have experience to do the job.

You aontnAve to nave experience to go the job
2
3
Look at these words. They are compound

adjectives, adjectives made by joining t w o
words. The t w o words are usually connected
It is obligatory for builders to wear hard hats here.
w i t h a hyphen (-).
Builders
well-organised
It is a good idea for Frank to work in the summer.
Complete the compound adjectives in the
Frank
definitions w i t h these words.
_.
4 In our school, teachers are not allowed to wear jeans.

In our school,
5
It isn't a good idea to wear informal clothes for a job interview.

You
It is not obligatory for our receptionists to speak French.
badly
blue/brown/green
good
part
right/left
easy
full
well
when you don't work all day in your job

-time
Our receptionists
7
hard-working
It is essential for Karen to be calm in her job.

Karen
relaxed and calm

.-going
6a SPEAKING Look at the photos and choose a j o b . Make a note of

things you have to/don't have to/must/mustn't/should/shouldn't
do
in this job.
when you don't get much money in your job

-paid
when you work all day in your job

-time
? ' !
P
when you get paid a lot of money in your job

-paid
m" ''
with blue/brown/green eyes

-eyed
when you write with your right/left hand

-handed
attractive
-looking
2.13 Listen and check your answers.
3 a PRONUNCIATION 2.14 Listen again and

repeat. Where is the stress in the compound
adjectives?
3 b Practise saying the words with the correct stress.
4
How many compound adjectives from this

page can you use to describe tennis-player
Rafael Nadal?
STUDY SKILLS
6b Work with a partner. Describe the j o b . Can your partner guess

what it is?
You have to work at the weekend. You have to work in a
team. You should learn other languages in case you go
to play in a different country. You shouldn't eat fast food.
You must be ambitious if you want to win competitions.
Is it a football player?
Yes, it is.
How do you learn new vocabulary? Which do you

think is better: revising for a long time just once
before an exam or revising for a shorter period
more frequently?
W o r k i n g
i n

American teenagers and work
1
Look at the jobs in the photos. How

old do you think you have to be to do
these jobs in the USA? Guess.
Read this information about work in the USA and

answer the questions.
Were your answers in 1 correct?
Do you think the answers are the same in your country?
Does any of the information surprise you?
W h a t
j o b s
c a n y o u n g
Before you are 14 ...
d o ?
When you are 14
When you are 16
Y o u c a n w o r k as a n e w s p a p e r
Y o u can also w o r k i n ... offices,
You can w o r k in any job,
delivery boy/girl.
shops, r e s t a u r a n t s , cinemas,
e x c e p t jobs t h a t are especially
Y o u c a n w o r k as a n a u pair.
t h e m e parks o r petrol stations.
d a n g e r o u s (e.g. w i t h explosives
Y o u c a n w o r k as a n a c t o r .
Y o u can't b e ... a builder,
or radioactive substances).
You can w o r k in your parents'
a driver, a f a c t o r y w o r k e r , o r
Y o u c a n w o r k a n y day, a n y
a miner.
t i m e o f day and f o r any n u m b e r
You can w o r k b e t w e e n 7am

and 7 p m . You can't w o r k m o r e
than three hours o n a
s c h o o l day.
o f hours.
business o r f a r m .
88
p e o p l e
Unit 7
When you are 18

You can w o r k o n any job for
a n y n u m b e r o f hours.
Title:
A m e r i c a n t e e n a g e r s w h o s t u d y o f t e n w o r k as w e l l . One r e p o r t says t h a t
3 Read the article and write a title.
t e e n a g e r s b e t w e e n 14 a n d 18 w o r k a n average o f 16 h o u r s a w e e k . W h a t d o
t e e n a g e r s t h i n k a b o u t t h i s ? We a s k e d t w o a n d t h i s i s w h a t t h e y t o l d u s .
4 Read the article again and complete

the sentences w i t h the correct
information.
Vanessa Hopkins, 1 8
Apart from my studies,
I work about 20 hours
a week. I wash dishes
and serve food at a local
restaurant. There's only
one reason why I work money. I need the money
to pay for my studies. But
the problem is that my studies aren't going so
well at the moment because there are days
when I just don't have time to do my homework.
I have to work from 9 to 1 some nights. How
can I find the time to do my homework after
that? Some people say that working is good for
teenagers because it gives you experience, it
makes you more responsible and independent.
No way! I'll have time to do all that when I'm
older. Right now, I'm young and I'm at college.
I have a great opportunity to learn and improve
myself, but I'm just too tired to do it.
11 Vanessa works because

12 Vanessa's studies aren't going well
because
|3 Sometimes Vanessa doesn't do her
homework because
4 Vanessa thinks that work is bad for her
because
[5
Steve works because
6 Steve thinks that the alternative to work

,
is
1 Steve thinks that the good things about

f o r k i n g are
Make notes with your opinions o n
teenagers and work.
5b Work in small groups. Take it in turns
to present your opinions.
Steve Lacy, 15
I have a job at a fastfood restaurant. I t
isn't very exciting
or creative but it
gives me money.
I'm saving up to buy
a car. Most of my
friends work too.
It's a great way to become independent
and not rely on your parents all the time.
Sometimes it's difficult to find time
to do everything, but I'm young, I can
do it. I f I wasn't working, I'd probably
just be hanging out with my friends and
playing basketball. This way, I'm doing
something useful and making some
money. I'm also learning about the 'real'
world, the world outside the classroom,
and I've met lots of people there and
made some cool friends.
Popular culture
1 need a holiday' by Scouting
for girls
6 Read the words t o a song about somebody

who is tired of working. Can you guess any
of the missing words?
WORD BOOSTER
1 stuck inside
a go slow
2 screen
b with no possibility of
3 drag
4 cheer up
5
home-time
6 hanging out
7 mates
going out
part of the computer

you look at
d friends
e be happy
f
spending time
g time to go home
Put these words in the spaces in the sor

blue day dog five fly hate holiday
mates money slow soon sun Sunday
watch weekend working
Listen t o the song and check your ansv
What about you?
How does this song make you feel?
Do you need a holiday? Why?

I think this song is really
cool. I like the lyrics!
It's a beautiful (a)

, but I'm stuck inside
Staring at this screen, working nine till (b)
How 1(c)
this job (how 1(c)
this job)
Because the days do drag (because the days do drag)
They work me like a (d)
(they work me like a (d)
And the (e)
'shad (and the (e)
'sbad)
CHORUS
Cheer up, cheer up, don't be (f)
Don't forget it's home-time (g)
We'll make it through another (h)
day
I need a holiday (I need a holiday)
I need a holiday with my friends.
I'm working every day (I need a holiday)
I'm working every day for the (i)
Looking at my (j)
-forthe millionth time
The days go (k)
, and then the evenings ( )
When I'm out of this place (when I'm out of this place)
And the day's been won (and the day's been won)
I'm going out with my (m)
(I'm going out with my (m
Hanging out in the (n)
(hanging out in the (n)
CHORUS
I wish it could be (0)
when I wake up every day (x 8)
But I need you, yeah, I need you

Yeah I need you more than I can say
Yeah I need you, yeah, I need you
Yeah I need you more than I can say
More than I can say
Yeah 1 need you, I need you, I need you, I need you,
I need you, more than a ( )
Yeah I need you, I need you, I n-n-n-n-need you,
I need you more than I can say
Unit 7
Grammar in context
1
Look at the photos. They are connected to the
G R A M M A R GUIDE
conversation you are going t o listen to. What do you t h i n k

the conversation is going t o be about? Guess.
Second
conditional
l a Look at these sentences. Then choose the correct

alternative in sentences a-c.
1
If I took the job, they w o u l d pay me.
If I were you I'd take the job.
I'd take the job if it was well-paid.
We use the second conditional for possible and.

/,.^
and
their consequences,
We use the second conditional to talk about the

past/present or future.
I'd... to giveadlvitog^sg^^pb^ffifon.
LISTENING (j)2.16 Listen. Were your predictions correct?
1 b Choose the correct alternative.
E X A M SUCCESS
We can use the expression If I were/was you,
In the part of the sentence with if we use the past

simple/wquld[n't) + infinitive.
You are going to do a multiple-choice listening activity. In

this type of exercise you have to choose one of a number
of statements which corresponds to the information in the
listening text. What should you do if you don't hear the
answer to one of the questions?
In the other part of the sentence we use the past
simple/would(n t) + infinitive.
3
We can/can't use was or were with if l/he/she ...

v) Listen again and choose the correct alternative.

1
Sarah doesn't know what to do because
nobody has offered her a job for the summer.
she doesn't want to go away.
she doesn't know if she likes the job they've offered.
2
a
Sarah is worried because

she doesn't have any experience of working with children,
the last time she worked with children it didn't go very well,
she doesn't like little children.
When Jim worked with kids he was
tired,
Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words.

1
If Mark was taller, he
(play) basketball
professionally.
2
If he
(have) a job, he'd get up early in the
morning.
3
If she didn't work, she
(not be) able to
buy a car.
4
We would get bored if we
(play)
computer games all day.

5
He wouldn't work in a restaurant if he

(not like) cooking.
bored.
angry all the time.
The family will
pay Sarah something.
pay for Sarah to go to New York but not to return,
only give Sarah free food and a room.
Jim thinks Sarah should
think hard before she takes the job.
get experience of working with kids before taking the job.
accept the job now and worry later.
If they
(know) more languages, they'd
find it easier to get a job.

7
Frank
If they needed a professional chocolate tester,

I
Do you think that looking after little children is a difficult job?

Why/Why not?
Have you ever been to New York? Would you like to go?
Why/Why not?
/ don't think looking after little
children is very difficult.
Why not?
Because you can play lots of games with them.
(not do) much work if the boss
wasn't there all the time.

8
SPEAKING What a bout youl
Unit 7
(offer) to do it.
3 a SPEAKING Look at these situations. Think of good advice

to give somebody in these situations. Make notes.
1
I need money.
I want to work in the USA one day.
I want to help to protect the environment.
I'm always tired in the morning.
I've got a toothache.
I can't sleep at night.
I make a lot of spelling mistakes in exams.
I haven't got many friends.
3 b Work w i t h a partner. Take it in turns to ask for and give

advice using IfIwere
you...
I need money.
If I were you, I'd look for a job.
4 Complete the text w i t h the correct f o r m of these verbs,

brush
eat
frighten
meet
talk
want
wear
6 a SPEAKING Look at the situations and t h i n k about what you

w o u l d do in each one and why. Make notes.
1
There are some very unusual jobs. For example, imagine if your
job was to try new products for a fast-food restaurant. It sounds
good at first. But if you (a)
You are in an exotic country staying with some friends. Your

friends prepare a very special meal which is very expensive and
only for people who are considered great friends - fried insects!
What would you do?
hamburgers all
the time you'd soon get fat. Some people have to try new types
of toothpaste all day. At least if you (b)
your
teeth all day they'd be white! Then imagine being an actor in a

House of Horrors at a theme park. If you (c)
people too much, they'd probably turn round and hit you. On
the other hand, if you worked as a Father Christmas, people
(d)
presents from you all the time. A friend

You see a thin old woman stealing some bread from a
supermarket. What would you do?
of mine once dressed up as a giant cheese to sell cheese at a

supermarket. If you (e)
a stupid costume
You and your family are going to buy a new house. It's perfect.
But suddenly you discover that nobody wants the house
because a murderer once lived there. What would you do?
like that, people would laugh at you! I also know someone who
worked in a safari park looking after parrots. I suppose you
(f)
to the parrots if you were lonely and
bored. And, finally, a good job for sports fans - collecting tennis
balls at international championships like Wimbledon. If you did
that job, you (g)
the best tennis players in
the world!
5 Look at the situations and write sentences using the

second conditional.
1
I don't work because I'm still at school.
He isn't a pilot because he can't see very well.
They don't work in that restaurant because they're
A man with a suit and tie says somebody has stolen all his
money. He wants you to give him 20. What would you do?
vegetarians.
You open the door to your house and you find a burglar.
You are walking past your local bank late at night and the door
is open. What would you do?
You see two teenagers having a terrible argument. They start to
fight. What would you do?
What would you do?
She doesn't repair computers because she doesn't know

how to.
I'm not a professional athlete because I'm not fast enough.
I don't work as an interpreter because I only speak two

languages.
8
She can't take part in the concert because she doesn't sing
very well.
We want to leave this company because we aren't happy
You and a friend have just had a great meal in a restaurant.

But you find out that you haven't brought any money.
What would you do?
6 b Work w i t h a partner. Compare your ideas for each situation.
I would eat the insects.
Why?
here.
Because I would want my friends to be
happy. And maybe fried insects taste nice!
Unit 7
91
Developing speaking
Making
SUMMER JOB
S h e r w o o d
polite
requests
OFFERS
T h e m e
We need assistant
gardeners in the summer.
Work outdoors in our
beautiful park and gardens.
We are looking for ride,

operators for the summer.
If you're sociable and
reliable, we want you to j o i n
our team. Good conditions.
Perfect for students.
Phone 0151 897 6543 for
information about how to apply
A U S S I E
questions to get specific information
money that you earn for your work, paid weekly or monthly
ask officially for
documents with a list of questions you answer to get a job
inquiries
a document giving information about your education and

jobs you've done
person who is in charge of an attraction at a theme park
What are the
Speaking Bank
Useful expressions f o r m a k i n g p o l i t e requests
C a m p

6 a SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Do this role-play using the
polite requests from the Speaking Bank.
Y o u are s p e a k i n g t o s o m e b o d y about a s u m m e r job.
F i n d out:
the dates a n d wages
i f the j o b is f u l l - t i m e o r p a r t - t i m e
necessary p e r s o n a l q u a l i t i e s
i f experience is necessary o r not.
wages?
l i s t e n i n g vjj)2.17 Listen to a teenager calling about one

of the adverts. Which advert is she calling about? Does she
ask any of your questions f r o m 2?
P A I R S
C h a m p i o n s
2 b Work w i t h a partner. Choose a j o b and make a list of

questions that you would want to ask to f i n d out more
information about the j o b .
or part-time?
A U
Like sports? Want to meet new

people from different countries?
Then come and work at our
international sports camp this
summer. Phone 0191 121 5533
for information about where to
send your CV.
2 a SPEAKING If you were looking for a j o b , which one would

you be interested in and why? Work w i t h a partner and
compare your answers.
Is thejob pill-time
A love of nature is essential

Phone 0181 754 6022 for
more information about
yyages and conditions.
Ever wanted to visit Australia? Work as an au pair in Australia

this summer. Free flights, food and accommodation! Phone
0121 977 2001 for inquiries and a p p l i c ^ i o n i o r m s .
Look at the adverts for summer jobs. Match the underlined

words in the adverts w i t h their definitions.
Grantham Gardens
P a r k
6 b Student A: Prepare questions to ask about the j o b at

Grantham Gardens.
Student B: You have information about the j o b at
Grantham Gardens on page 159.
Invent any extra information you need.
Can you tell me what the wages are?
Good afternoon. I'm calling about your
Could I ask for some information first?
job offer in the newspaper yesterday.
Could you tell me if the job is full-time or part-time?.

Yes. What would you like to know?
2.18 All the expressions in the Speaking Bank are polite
ways of requesting information. Listen to the dialogue
again and put the requests in the order that you hear t h e m .
SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Take it in turns to use the
table to make polite requests for information.
Could you tell me

Could 1 ask
Can you tell me
Unit 7
if
what
when
how
how much
the job starts?

1 can apply?
we have to do?
you need experience?
the basic wages are?
6c Now change roles.

Student B: Prepare questions to ask about the job at
Champions Camp.
Student A: You have information about the j o b at
Champions Camp on page 159.
Invent any extra information you need.
STUDY SKILLS
What should you do if you notice that you are making
mistakes when you are speaking? STUDY SKILLS p a g e 147
Read this letter of application and CV. Which summer j o b

offer on page 92 do you think this person is replying to?
Why?
CURRICULUM VITAE
Diana Huxley
General i n f o r m a t i o n
Date of b i r t h
Nationality
Permanent address
Telephone (home)
Telephone (mobile)
Email
34 Norton Road
Stoke
S03 6 H T
Ms Sheila Simpson
63 Mason Street
Brighton
ES9 5FN
14 February 2011
th
2/8/1993
British
34 N o r t o n Road, Stoke, S 0 3 6HT
01333 455 3212
632 12 34 56
dhuxley@surfnet.co.uk
E d u c a t i o n a n d qualifications
Green Coat School, Stoke
A levels i n Economics (Grade A ) , Sociology (Grade B)
and English (Grade B)
Dear Ms Simpson,
I am writing in response to your advertisement in The Stoke
Times. I would like to apply for the job which you advertised in
this newspaper on 10 February.
,h
W o r k experience
March 2008 - March 2010
Part-time teaching assistant at Sunnydale Kindergarten,
Stoke
I enclose V with information about myself, including

education and work experience. As you can see, I have
experience of working with children and I also think that I am
caring, patient and very hard-working.
July - August 2007

Helper at Supersport Summer Camp, Brighton
I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,
Interests
Cookery, surfing
Good knowledge of computers - MS Office, PowerPoint,
Excel, W o r d .
Diana Huxley
1 Read the letter and CV again. Where does Diana give the
following information: in her letter, in her CV or in both?
Work w i t h a partner. Look at this j o b advertisement. What

qualities, skills or experience w o u l d be useful for this job?
where and when she saw the job offer
her personal qualities
letter/CV/both
her contact details
letter/CV/both
her age
letter/CV/both
Job
her hobbies
letter/CV/both
information about her experience
letter/CV/both
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snack bar. We're always busy but always friendly!
Join our young and dynamic team!
Send a letter and C V to Gary Daly,
37 Wavertree Road, Southport, L 7 6 3FP
letter/CV/both
3 Read the letter and CV again and f i n d the information

listed in 2.
1
Where and when she saw the job offer

The Stoke Times newspaper
on 14th
THE MERSEY
1 M a r c h 201
MIRROR
Opportunity!
February
\ Write your own CV. Use 1 as a model.

5 Look again at the letter in 1 and complete the information
in the Writing Bank.
You need to be sociable. Experience

restaurant
in another bar or
would be useful.

Useful expressions a n d c o n v e n t i o n s in f o r m a l letters
7a Write a letter of application. Use the letter in 1, your ideas

f r o m 6, and the Writing Bank to help you.
In formal letters, we write our address and the date in

the top right corner.
W r i t e a letter to apply f o r the j o b at the
We write the address of the recipient a little lower on
C o f f e e ' n ' C a k e Snack B a r a n d :
the
We write Mr for men, Mrs for married women and

for women when we do not make any
distinction if they are married or not.
We can use the phrase I

to hearing from you at the end of formal letters.
When we know the name of the person we are writing to

in a formal letter, we end the letter Yours
We do not usually use

We use I would like not I'd like.
in formal letters.
state w h i c h j o b y o u are a p p l y i n g f o r
say w h a t experience y o u have
describe y o u r p e r s o n a l q u a l i t i e s
e n d y o u r letter.
7 b Read letters by other students. Who would you give the

j o b to? Why?
Unit 7
L a n g u a g e reference a n d revision
Grammar reference
Have to, don't have to
Use
Form
Affirmative
Police officers have t o wear a uniform.
Negative
Teachers don't have t o wear a uniform.
Question
Do police officers have t o wear a uniform?
Short answers
Yes, they do./No, they don't.
Must,
We use have t o to talk about things which are

obligatory or necessary.
We use don't have t o to talk about things which are
not obligatory or necessary.
mustn't
Form
Use
Affirmative
Police officers must wear a uniform.
We use must to talk about rules, regulations and obligations.
Negative
You mustn't smoke at school.
We use mustn't to talk about prohibitions.

Must is not very common in the question form.
We usually use have to.
Should,
shouldn't
Form
Use
Affirmative
You should work hard.
We use should and shouldn't to give and ask for
Negative
You shouldn't worry if you make a mistake.
advice and recommendations.
Question
Should you wear formal clothes for an interview?
Short answers
Yes,you should/No,you shouldn't.
Second
conditional
Form
If + past simple,... w o u l d / w o u l d n ' t + infinitive
We can use were instead of was with if.
If I worked outdoors, I'd be really happy.
if I were/was
If we didn't study, we wouldn't

if I was the president,
the
pass our exams.
I would do more to protect
the president,
I would do more to protect
environment.
the
environment.
Use
The past simple comes in the part of the sentence with if.
Would does not appear in this part of the sentence.
We use the second conditional to talk about imaginary or

improbable situations and their consequences.
The imaginary or improbable sentences are in the present
or future, not in the past.
if I would see the director, I wouldyive
him your
message.
The part of the sentence with if can go at the start of the sentence
or at the end. There is no difference in meaning. However, if the
part with if goes at the start of the sentence we must use a comma
before the second half of the sentence.
If we had a crystal ball, we'd know the
We'd know the future
if we had a crystal
If I won an important
I would be famous
competition
(imaginary present situation),
(the consequence of this situation).
We use If I were you, I'd... to give advice and recommendations.
future.
ball.
Vocabulary
1 Jobs
builder
computer programmer
fashion designer
journalist
mechanic
police officer
receptionist
shop assistant
2 Personal qualities
ambitious
calm
caring
clever
creative
fit
hard-working
reliable
sociable
strong
well-organised
3 Compound adjectives
badly-paid
easy-going
part-time
blue/brown/green-eyed
full-time
good-looking
right/left-handed
well-paid
4 Other w o r d s and phrases pages 142-3
94
Unit 7
Grammar revision
Must, mustn't,
have to, don't have to
1 Choose the correct alternative. If t w o alternatives are correct, choose both.

1
You must/mustn't/dgn'thave to smoke at school.
You must/mustn't/have to study a lot to be an architect.
People who work in a bank djgesnXb9yJ9/^QDS.b<^^Wi^0l

a uniform.
You has t(Vhaveto/must know how to use a computer to work in a bank.
Visitors to the museum mustn't/must/don't have to take

photos. It is prohibited.
A professional football player mustnt/doesn'thave to/
don'thgvejo work in an office.
wear
You must/don't have to/mustn't drink and drive.
WORKBOOK p a g e 58
Should, shouldn't,
/7
points)
If I were you

I want to work in the States. Can you give me some advice?
SAM:
TANYA: You should (a) lg^fg^gJogj(fg]ob

SAM:
TANYA: Yes, if I were you I (c) senf/yvoyWsend a letter and a CV by email.
But you (d) should/shouldn't worry if it takes a long time for them
to answer. They probably have hundreds of people writing in
and sending CVs. If I were you, I (e) would be/should be patient.
adverts on the Internet.
(b) Ijhould/Should I send my CV?
WORKBOOK p a g e 58
Second
/5
points)
conditional
3 Write complete sentences in the second conditional.

1
l/see a ghost -take a photo of it
we/not have a TV -talk more
^.ssWA0k^J.'di^.&^siSj^J^
2
the headmaster/be angry-* shout
he/not be very good at football - not play in the first division
my parents/win the lottery -* give me a present
l/live in Italy-* speak Italian
l/not have a pen - ask my friend for one
we/have wings -> be able to fly
WORKBOOK p a g e 61
/8
points)
/6
points)
Vocabulary revision
Personal
Jobs
1 Write definitions of these jobs
Use these words to help you.
Complete the sentences in a logical way.

Alex is very ambitious because
He's very reliable. He
manual work
office
qualities
She's very caring. Do you remember when she
outdoors
paperwork
Irene is very fit because
team
I think he's clever because
travel
When you're creative you
work with the public
a builder
a journalist
Compound
a mechanic
a receptionist
Complete the compound adjectives w i t h the appropriate

word.
a fashion designer
a nurse
with brown eyes: brown-
a shop assistant
when you write with your right hand: right-
a computer programmer
attractive: good-
when you work all day in your job: full-
WORKBOOK p a g e 56
/8
adjectives
a job which gives you a lot of money: well-
relaxed and calm: easy-
points)
/6
points)
95
G o o d friends
Grammar
Past perfect Gerunds and infinitives
Vocabulary
Relationships
Feelings Noun suffixes -ness, -ship, -m
Speaking
Writing
A personal description
Relationships
1
Look at the pictures. Read the story and match

the pictures w i t h an appropriate phrase (a-k).
I've got an older brother called Dylan. Last July he
went to a party and (a) met a girl called Sophie. He
really (b) liked her and he started to (c) chat to her.
They (d) got on really well with each other and at
the end of the party Dylan (e) asked her out. She
said yes and soon she was (f) going out with him.
They (g) fell in love and it was really serious. But
then one weekend they (h) had a big argument and
Sophie (i) split up with my brother. Dylan felt terrible
and stayed in all the time. One night I took him
to a party. I knew Sophie was going to be there.
When they saw each other they started chatting
again and by the end of the party they'd decided
to (j) get back together again. They're going to
(k) get married next July!
1
to start to love somebody^
to make somebody your husband or wife
to have a good relationship with somebody
to end a relationship with somebody
to know somebody for the first time
W o u l d yon.
Lutee t o go,
to the
clvîwca
to start a relationship with somebody again
w i t h wee okv
to talk in a friendly way
Saturday?
to ask somebody to go somewhere with you
to have an angry disagreement with somebody
10
to have a romantic relationship with somebody
Complete these sentences w i t h up, with, to or

out if necessary.
1
John got on well
Kate asked John
John met
Match the words in the story in 1 w i t h their

definitions.
Kate.
Feelings
afraid
Kate at university.
John got married
Kate chatted
John and Kate never split
John and Kate went

for two years.
John and Kate fell in love
angry
excitement
loneliness
John.
with each other
anger
excited
Kate.
Write these words in t w o columns (nouns and adjectives) in your

notebook.
bored
fear
lonely
sad
boredom
happiness
happy
sadness
LISTENING @ 2 . 2 0 Listen. Write d o w n the feeling expressed

by each speaker.
1
2.19 Listen, check and repeat.

8
5a SPEAKING Look at the sentences in 3 again.

What do you think is the logical order? Make a
note of your answers.
5 b Work w i t h a partner. Take it in turns to tell the
story of Kate and John.
Unit 8
SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Ask and answer questions about the

feelings in 6.
When do you feel bored?
When I'm waiting for my friends.
Reading
Zhu Ying Tai was a b e a u t i f u l , y o u n g

girl w h o l i v e d i n a n c i e n t C h i n a .
Zhu really w a n t e d t o study. B u t
tradition said t h a t o n l y b o y s c o u l d
go to s c h o o l . Girls stayed at h o m e
and t h e n g o t m a r r i e d . B u t Z h u was
intelligent a n d d e t e r m i n e d . She
dressed as a b o y a n d w e n t t o t h e
city of H a n g z h o u t o j o i n a s c h o o l
there.
W h e n she was t h e r e , she m e t a
boy called L i a n g Shan Bo. T h e y
got o n w e l l w i t h each o t h e r a n d
became great f r i e n d s . L i a n g h a d
no idea t h a t Z h u was r e a l l y a g i r l .
But Z h u s o o n realised t h a t she h a d
fallen i n l o v e w i t h L i a n g .
The years passed. W h e n Z h u a n d
Liang h a d f i n i s h e d t h e i r studies,
they h a t e d t h e idea o f n o t seeing
each o t h e r a n y m o r e . Z h u h a d
a n idea. L i a n g s h o u l d v i s i t h e r
f a m i l y a n d meet her younger
sister. M a y b e h e c o u l d m a r r y her.
B u t Z h u was r e a l l y t a l k i n g a b o u t
herself. T h e r e was n o y o u n g e r
sister. L i a n g , s t i l l n o t r e a l i s i n g
t h a t Z h u was a g i r l , t h o u g h t t h a t
t h i s was a great idea.
L i a n g i m m e d i a t e l y g o t a j o b so
t h a t he c o u l d m a r r y Z h u ' s 'sister'.
A year later, w h e n h e h a d m a d e
e n o u g h money, he w e n t t o Zhu's
h o u s e t o speak t o h e r father.
W h e n he g o t t h e r e , h e m e t Z h u
a g a i n . Finally, h e realised t h a t
Z h u was a g i r l a n d h e h a d b e e n i n
l o v e w i t h h e r a l l a l o n g . T h e y were
so e x c i t e d a n d h a p p y t o be b a c k
together again.
Read this love story. Do you think the ending of

the story is happy or sad?
why?
Put these events in the story in the correct

order.
1
Liang realised Zhu was a girl.
2 Zhu's father told Liang that he couldn't

marry his daughter.
3
Zhu began a journey to get married.
Zhu and Liang finished their studies.
Liang died because he was so sad and

lonely.
Zhu went to school, dressed as a boy.
Zhu and Liang became friends.
Zhu and Liang became the'butterfly

lovers'.
Liang started work.
10 Liang went to Zhu's house.
N o w Z h u was b r o k e n - h e a r t e d .
She was o n h e r w a y t o get m a r r i e d
w h e n she passed Liang's grave.
S u d d e n l y , t h e r e was a t e r r i b l e s t o r m .
Z h u j u m p e d d o w n o n t o t h e grave.
L i g h t n i n g h i t it and it opened. Z h u
j u m p e d i n . She w a n t e d t o be w i t h
Liang. The next m i n u t e , the storm
stopped. T w o beautiful butterflies
f l e w o u t o f t h e grave a n d d a n c e d
h a p p i l y together. Z h u a n d Liang h a d
become butterflies. N o t h i n g could
separate t h e m n o w .
Read the story again and answer the questions.
STUDY SKILLS
To do the next exercise, you will need to read the
text in a different way from exercise 1. How and
Their happiness d i d n o t last for l o n g .

Zhu's father was angry. He t o l d t h e m
t h a t he h a d already promised t o m a r r y
Z h u t o a w e a l t h y businessman. The
news broke Liang's heart. Lonely a n d
sad, Liang left Zhu's h o m e . But o n the
journey, he became i l l a n d died.
Why wasn't it easy for Zhu to study at school?
What was the relationship between Zhu and Liang at school?
What was Zhu's plan so that Zhu and Liang could continue to see each other?
Why didn't Liang see Zhu for one year?
Why was Liang's reunion happy but then sad?
Where was Zhu going when she passed Liang's grave?
What happened when the storm began?
What happened when the storm ended?
Match the underlined words in the story w i t h their definitions.

1
rich
began to understand
from the start
not letting anything stop you from doing what you want to do
extremely sad
place where a dead body is put in a hole in the ground
bright flashes of light in the sky when there is a storm
What about you?

1
What do you think about this story?
Do you know any other love stories similar to this one?

Unit 8
Grammar In context
Complete these sentences in a logical way using the past
G R A M M A R GUIDE
Past
perfect.
I was lonely because
perfect
l a Look at these sentences. Which actions happened

first, the green or the red?
1 Zhu and Liang had finished their studies before Liang
visited Zhu's family.
2 Zhu's father had promised to marry Zhu to a
businessman so Liang left Zhu's home, broken
hearted.
1 b Choose the correct alternative.
We use the past perfect to talk about an activity in the past
which happened before/after another activity in the past.
everybody had
left
I was feeling ill because

They were very happy because
She was bored because
We were angry because
He was feeling sad because
Yesterday I was excited because
Complete the text w i t h the past perfect.
1c Complete the rule.

To make the past perfect, we use the past of
+ the
GRAMMAR REFERENCE page 106 J
2a
RONUNCIATION The contracted f o r m of had is'd. Look

at these sentences. Some of t h e m should be in the past
perfect. A d d ' d to these sentences.
1
She
He
They
fallen in love.
went to live in another town.
seen each other.
We
gone out.
always known each other.
He
took her flowers.
2 b @ 2.21 Listen and check your answers.

2c 2 . 2 2 Listen again and repeat the sentences w i t h ' d .
3
Match the sentences.
1 The film ended.
a They went out of the canteen.
2 She finished the shopping.
b They left the cinema.
3 They finished their lunch.
I got into bed.
4 He got out of the pool.
d I opened the door.
5 We finished the exam.
e She carried the shopping home.
6 I put my pyjamas on.
7 I found my keys.
g He dried himself with the towel.
We gave it to the teacher.
Rewrite the sentences in 3 as one sentence. Put one verb in

the past perfect and the other in the past simple. Use when
or after.
When the film had ended they left the cinema.
Before Ryan left school, he (a)

Ellie, one of the girls in his class. They (b)
(fall) in love with

(be)
good friends for the last three or four years. The second time Ryan
asked Ellie out she accepted. When he (c)
her the first time, she (d)
(ask)
(be) too surprised to
accept! Five years later, they decided to get married. They had
enough money because they (e)
university studies and they (f)
(finish) their
(find) good jobs.
They got married and were very happy together. When they
(g)
have children. They had a boy and a girl and called them Max and
Holly. They were the names of the best friends that Ryan and Ellie
(h)
Unit 8
(be) married for a few years they decided to
(have) at school.
7a SPEAKING Work with a partner. Find out which of these things
your partner had done by the age of seven.
1
begin to learn English
learn to ski
Noun suffixes
1
3 travel to a different country
Look at these words. Which suffix, -ness, -ship,

or -dom, can we add t o them? Does the spelling
of any of the words change?
learn to read
bored
free
swim in the sea
lonely
mad
start to ride a bike
friend
happy
relation
ill
sad
weak
bored boredom
7 go on holiday without his/her parents

8
-ness, -ship,
use a computer
\$ 2.23 Listen, check and repeat.
Complete the sentences using the noun form

of the appropriate w o r d in 1.
1
That's a crazy idea. It's
is a question of giving and

taking, a question of being there for the other
person when they need you.
To beat the other team we need to find

their
.There must be
something that they aren't very good at.

4
He loves the
of being able to
do what he likes, when he likes.

5
What's the
between Lucas and
Hannah? Are they family or friends?

6
Flu is a very common
The worst thing about being ill is

the
You can't do anything or
go anywhere.
Many people say that money doesn't buy

you
4 a SPEAKING Complete the questions w i t h the

correct noun suffix.
1
What is important for a good friend.
Had you begun to learn
What is your biggest weak
English by the age of seven?
How much
What do you think is the secret of
Yes, I had. And you?

Yes, I had too.
7b Now tell the class about your partner.
By the age of seven Bea had begun
to learn English but she hadn't learnt
to ski. She had used a computer
but she hadn't swum in the sea.
happ(y).
free
do you think you have?
How do you stop bore
Have you ever had a moment of mad.
4 b Think about your answers to these questions.

Make notes.
a good friendship always telling the
truth
4c W o r k w i t h a partner. Ask a n d answer t h e

questions.
What is important for
a good friendship?
I think it's important
to always tell the
truth and be loyal.
<
W h a t h a p p e n e d o n this d a y ... 1 0
t h
December?
1936: THE ABDICATION

OF KING EDWARD VIII
OF ENGLAND.
H O W D I D IT
HAPPEN?
E d w a r d V I I I b e c a m e t h e K i n g o f E n g l a n d o n 2 0 J a n u a r y 1936.
He was n o t m a r r i e d b u t he spent a lot o f time w i t h a w o m a n
c a l l e d M r s Wallis S i m p s o n . M r s S i m p s o n w a s a n A m e r i c a n w h o
h a d b e e n m a r r i e d t w i c e . She h a d d i v o r c e d h e r first h u s b a n d ,
b u t she w a s s t i l l m a r r i e d w h e n she a n d E d w a r d began t h e i r
relationship. N o w that E d w a r d was the King, people often saw
h i m w i t h M r s Simpson. I n the summer, they w e n t o n holiday
together i n the Mediterranean. Newspapers f r o m America and
continental Europe started t o w r i t e about the relationship.
B u t t h e B r i t i s h press w r o t e n o t h i n g because t h e y d i d n o t w a n t
a scandal. A t t h e end o f October M r s Simpson asked f o r a
d i v o r c e f r o m h e r s e c o n d h u s b a n d . T h e A m e r i c a n press said
t h a t E d w a r d a n d Wallis w e r e g o i n g t o g e t m a r r i e d s o o n . T h e
B r i t i s h g o v e r n m e n t w a s n o t happy. O n 1 6 N o v e m b e r , t h e K i n g
s p o k e t o h i s P r i m e M i n i s t e r , Stanley B a l d w i n . H e t o l d h i m t h a t
he w a s g o i n g t o m a r r y Wallis S i m p s o n . B a l d w i n t o l d t h e K i n g
t h a t t h e B r i t i s h p e o p l e w o u l d n o t a l l o w i t . T h e r e w e r e religious
r e a s o n s f o r t h i s , a n d also legal, m o r a l a n d p o l i t i c a l reasons. B u t
K i n g E d w a r d d i d n o t change h i s p l a n s t o m a r r y M r s Simpson.
The only thing that King E d w a r d could d o was t o stop being
t h e K i n g , t o a b d i c a t e . H e d i d t h i s o n 1 0 D e c e m b e r 1936. H e
h a d b e e n K i n g f o r less t h a n a year.
,h
th
Cross-curricular - History
The King a n d Mrs S i m p s o n - A royal love story
1
Work w i t h a partner. Do you know anything

about the t w o people in the photo? If you don't
know, make guesses based on the photo.
th
INSIDE INFORMATION
/ think he was the
King of England.
But I don't think

she's the Queen.
Edward became t h e Duke of Windsor. His younger brother became King

George VI of England. King George VI was t h e father of Queen Elizabeth II.
On June 1937 Edward married Mrs Simpson. They lived mainly in France
Read the text. Why was King Edward Vlll's story
for t h e rest of their lives. Edward died in 1972 a n d Mrs Simpson in 1986.
unusual?
3
Find out what happened:
WORD BOOSTER
on 20"' January 1936:

Edward
VIII became the King of England-
1 abdication (n.)/
abdicate (v.)
generally
on 16 November 1936
on 10"' December 1936
2 press
stop being the king or queen
on 3 June 1937
3 allow
in 1972
newspapers and news

magazines in general
in October 1936
th
,d
mainly
permit, let
Complete these sentences w i t h information from

the text.
It was difficult for Edward and Mrs Simpson to get

married because
Mrs Simpson had already been married
twice.
American and European newspapers started to write

about Edward and Wallis when ...
The British press didn't write about the romance

because...
The British government didn't want Edward and Wallis

to get married because ...
5
1 00
King Edward VII stopped being the king because ...

Unit 8
I PROJECT
5a Work in groups. Choose one of these members of the British royal fa
King Henry VIII
Queen Elizabeth I
King Charles I
Queen Victoria
Queen Elizabeth II
5 b Each member of the group should find information and illustrations
one of these topics:
life
family
important events during their lifetime
5c In your group, decide how to present your information to the rest oft
class. Prepare it and present it.
Cross-curricular - Literature
and Julietby W i l l i a m S h a k e s p e a r e
INSSIDE INFORMATION
lliam Shakespeare lived from 1564 t o 1616.
Shakespeare probably w r o t e his first version o f
There were other versions of the story, and a
Romeo and Juliet in 1595.

poem, before Shakespeare's version.
Look at the pictures. They illustrate the story of

Romeo and Juliet. In which picture(s) can you see
people fighting?
a priest?
two people getting married?
a potion?
poison?
a knife?
somebody killing himself or herself?
7 Work with a partner. Say what you think is
happening in each picture.
8 With your partner, can you put the pictures in
the correct order? If you aren't sure, guess!
1.
9 2.24 Listen t o t w o students telling the story.

What is the correct order of the pictures?
10
Listen again. Are these statements about

the story true or false?
1 Romeo is a Capulet.
2 When Romeo meets Juliet, he knows which family
she's from but it doesn't matter to him.
3 Romeo and Juliet get married almost immediately.
4 Romeo's friends are there with him when he gets married.
5 Romeo has to leave the city because he murdered somebody.
6 Juliet's parents know that Juliet married Romeo.
7 Romeo drinks a special potion.
8 Romeo doesn't know what Juliet and Friar Lawrence have
planned.
11 Work with a partner. Take it in turns t o tell the story
of Romeo and Juliet. Use the pictures t o help you.
There are two
important families.
And they are

always fighting
12 What about you?

1 Have you ever read Romeo and Juliet, or seen the play
or a film version? What did you think of it?
2 Why do you think the story of Romeo and Juliet is still
famous today?
/ saw the film with
Leonardo DiCaprio.
Was it good?
STUDY SKILLS
Readers often come with an audio component

that you can listen to outside the classroom. What
other things can you listen to in English out of class?
Grammar in context
1
Do this questionnaire. When you finish, compare your

results w i t h a partner.
G R A M M A R GUIDE
Gerunds and

1 When I go shopping, I don't buy anything.
2 I love giving presents.
jrnerrts
Section 1
i feel I have to be right all the time.
LZI
If I don't do my best, I get angry with myself.
When I go shopping I don't buy anything if

I'm not 100% happy with it.
infinitives
I enjoy criticising other people but I hate
Understanding other people's opinions isn't easy for

me.
4
5
6
7
I find it easy to talk about my emotions.

I learn by watching.
Nobody wanted to make the decision.
A: Why did you shout at the waiter?
B: To tell him the food was no good.
l b Put rules 1-7 below in the correct column.
people criticising me.

LZI
Understanding other people's opinions isn't
We use t h e g e r u n d ...
easy for me.
We use the infinitive ...
Section 2
I love giving presents to my friends and family.
I'm good at drawing, writing and acting.
LZI
I find it easy to talk about how I feel.
When I feel sad or lonely I feel very sad
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
or lonely.
I hate rules and obligations because my

freedom is the most important thing.
Section 3
My idea of excitement is doing sudokus
and crosswords.
I always think hard before making a decision.
I'm usually very hard-working at school.
LZI
I stay calm in difficult situations.
LZI
I learn by watching and reading more than

by doing.
Section 4
CI
LZI
In a group, I'm the person who

Section 5
I hate being with people who can't
make decisions.
I love having a good argument.
LZI
I'm not afraid of telling people what I think.
I find it hard to say sorry.
Now count how many ticks you have in each section.

Turn to page 159 t o discover what each section means.
Do you agree w i t h the result?
I love making other people feel good.
People often come to me to get advice.
I always want to help my friends and family.
Which section do they talk about?
Does Jessica agree with the results?
Does Jack agree with them?
Section 6
Last week Jessica decided where they went/what they saw.
Jack thinks Jessica isn't very good at waiting/listening.
Jessica and Jack have an argument about why/how long he

waited last week.
Jessica agrees/doesn't agree that she likes arguing.
Jessica didn't like the service/quality of the food last night.
Jessica often/never apologises.
Unit 8
LZI
I hate having arguments
LZI
When I have a problem, I don't fight, I go

running
LZI
I think it's stupid to disagree about small

things
vjj) Listen again and choose the correct alternative.

1
I'm interested in becoming a doctor or a nurse

one day
listening 2 . 2 5 Listen to Jessica talking t o Jack about

1
I find it difficult to say no if someone asks me

to do something
LZI
the questionnaire. Answer the questions.
Look at these statements. Which rule in 1 b explains why

we use the gerund or infinitive in each one?
makes decisions.
LZI
as the subject of a sentence.

to explain why somebody does something.
immediately after adjectives.
after certain verbs like want.
with go to talk about physical activities.
after prepositions.
after verbs of liking or disliking.
LZI
LZI
Shouting is horrible, in my opinion.

I make problems disappear by not
thinking about them
Tick the statements in 2 that are true for you. Where do

you have more ticks, in Section 5 or in Section 6? Now
find out what each section means on the next page.
4 Complete the texts w i t h the gerund or infinitive f o r m of

the verbs.
S e c
* \ o O
Look at these sentences. Then use appropriate words to

complete the sentences below.
âllin^
in Love is
âllin^
in Love is tike
You're warm and caring and you
âllin^
in Love can
think it's easy (a)
^jr-allin^
in love
Personality:
easy,
falling
be
stops
into
an
ocean,
dangerous,
Loneliness.
(make) friends. You do many

things (b)
Ideal j o b s :
(make
your friends' lives better. But
Nurse, Doctor,
(c)
Primary school
(be) helpful
can sometimes get you into
teacher
trouble because you want (d)

(know) what
problems people are having.
Being a student...
Listening to music ...
Spending time with friends...
Walking in the country ...
Doing sport...
Finish these questions using a gerund or an infinitive.
Advice:
Romance:
Learn to say no and
You like (e)
don't be afraid (g)
(show) your emotions but
(make)
you can be possessive.
it clear what you
Don't go (f)
want from life.
(fall) in love too fast!
Personality:
1 Are you interested in
You never want (a

(argue) about anything. You're
2 Do you enjoy
calm and open-minded. You enjoy

(b)
(listen) to other
3 One day do you want
people and you think it's important

(c)
4 Do you ever go
(hear) different
opinions. But (d)
(do
5 Do you f i n d it easy
what other people want all the
6 Is it i m p o r t a n t for you
time can be tiring.

Advice:
7 Do you hate
(g)
(Defend)
your own opinions isn't the

same as being aggressive.
Do it more often. Why?
Romance:
(h)
By(e)
(accept) your partner's
^...
(Get) the
8 Why do you go
9 Do you t h i n k
is a good idea?
10 Are you excited about
'
respect of other people.
ideas, you seem an ideal

partner. But it's important
(spend)
Ideal jobs:
time doing what you want
Social worker,
(f)
Receptionist,
Gardener
8 a SPEAKING Ask your partner your questions from 7.

8 b Tell the class some things you discovered about your
partner.
/ discovered that my partner is interested
Do you agree w i t h the results? Why/Why not?
in collecting old manga comics.
Unit 8
103
Developing speaking
Reporting
a past
event
l a SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Look at the photos. What can you see
in each photo? Which of the t w o types of party do you prefer and why?
Look at the sentences in the Speaking Bank.

Match the verb forms in bold with the correct
name of the tense and the explanation of its use.
Speaking Bank
Using d i f f e r e n t past tenses
1
I went to a great party.
They'd made lots of food.
When I was dancing I met George.
Past perfect
Past continuous
Past simple
An activity in progress at a moment in the

past. We often use it to describe scenes in
the past.
ii
A completed action in the past.
iii
An activity that happened before another

action in the past.
Think of a party w i t h family or friends that you

went to. Prepare to talk about the party by
looking at these questions. Make notes but do
not write complete sentences.
Whose party was it?
1
Why did they have the party?
2
3 Who did you go with?
4
Where was the party?
How many people were there?
Did you know all the people there?
Was there any food? What was it like?
Was there any music? What was it like?
Did you dance?
10
Did you meet anybody?
11
What time did the party end?

6
l b What are typical things that you can do at a party? Make a list w i t h
your partner.
eat, talk with
2
SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Do this task. Use

your notes f r o m 5 and the Speaking Bank to
help you.
jriends...
T e l l y o u r p a r t n e r about a p a r t y y o u went
LISTENING 2.26 Listen to a conversation about a party. Tick any
to. T e l l t h e m :
activities in your list that the t w o people mention.
w h o s e p a r t y it was
SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Can you complete these sentences?
w h a t y o u d i d at the p a r t y
Listen again to the conversation if necessary.

1
Joe had a party because he had
The party was at
There were
y o u r o p i n i o n o f the p a r t y , g i v i n g
reasons.
people there.
had made lots of food.
Lee thought that one of the best things about the party was
At the party Lee met a(n)

Unit 8
E X A M SUCCESS
What language is useful in tasks where you have
to report past events?
Developing writin<
SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Describe the people in the photos
2 Read this email from a boy called Luke and answer the
questions.
1
How and where did Luke meet Ethan?
Which photo in 1 shows Ethan?
Why does Luke get on well with Ethan?
From:
To:
Subject:
Luke Smith (lsmith@anymail.com)

Thomas Ashfield (thomasjashfield@anymail.com)
Hi Thomas!
The email in 2 is answering this exam task. Does it include

all the information?
A few weeks ago you made a new friend. In an email
to another friend write:
your new friend's name and general appearance
how and where you met the person
the person's personality and likes and dislikes.
Look at the useful words and expressions in the Writing

Bank. Circle the ones you can find in the email in 2.
Hi Thomas,
How are things? Are you still doing exams or have
you already finished?
Useful w o r d s a n d expressions of sequence a n d t i m e
Last w e e k e n d I m e t s o m e o n e w h o knows y o u . His
name is Ethan. Does t h e n a m e sound familiar?
He's got short fair hair and he's tall - very t a l l ! He

met you at a basketball camp last summer. You
At first
In the end
First of all
Last weekend
Two weeks ago
Next
Then
I met Ethan on Saturday night w h e n I was o u t
After that
On Friday
bowling w i t h Steve and Jake. At first he was w i t h
Finally
On Saturday night
played t o g e t h e r in t h e same t e a m .
t w o friends. Then his friends left and w e started

chatting. I got on well w i t h h i m . He's really funny.
And he's like us - he loves playing basketball b u t
he hates f o o t b a l l !

5
Do the task in 3. You can write about a real or imaginary
Anyway, Ethan had an idea. He w a n t e d t h e t h r e e
person or event. Use the email in 2 as a model and
of us t o m e e t this w e e k e n d . How a b o u t it? Are
remember to use words and expressions f r o m the Writing
you free? We could go b o w l i n g or do s o m e t h i n g
Bank.
else if you like.

W r i t e back and let me k n o w !
Luke
E X A M SUCCESS
Why is it important to read the question carefully in writing
exams?
EXAM SUCCESS p a g e 152
Unit 8
Grammar reference
Past
perfect
Form
Use
subject + had ('d) + past participle
Affirmative
She had finished
the exam.
subject + had not (hadn't) + past participle
Negative
We use the past perfect to talk about actions that happened

before another action or actions in the past.
/ hadfinished
working
when Jamie
called.
(= First I finished working and then Jamie called.)
They hadn't finished the exam.

Had + subject + past participle
Question
Had you finished
the exam ?
Yes, subject + had. No, subject + hadn't.
Short answers
Yes, 1 had.
No, they
hadn't.
We often use time expressions such as w h e n , after, b y t h e

time, as, as s o o n as with the past perfect.
Gerunds and
infinitives
Use
We use t h e g e r u n d :
We use t h e infinitive:
as the subject of a sentence.
to explain why somebody does something.
Shopping is great.
Why did hego to university?
after prepositions.
I'm interested
To study
art.
immediately after adjectives.
in studying
taw.
It's good to express your
feelings.
after verbs of liking or disliking e.g. like, love, enjoy, can't stand,
don't mind, hate.
after certain verbs e.g. want, learn, agree, decide, expect, hope, seem,
try, would like.
1 enjoy being with
1 want to work for a
friends.
newspaper.
with go to talk about physical activities.

go running,
swimming,
cycling, shopping,
swimming,
fishing
Spelling
We usually add -ing to the verb to form the present participle.
start
starting
If the verb ends in -y, -w, or -x, we add -ing but do not double the
last consonant.
Verbs which end in one -e lose the last -e and add -ing.
play playing, mix mixing, snow snowing
have having
When verbs finish in -ie, we change the -ie to -y and add -ing.
When a verb has only one syllable and ends with one vowel and
lie lying, die dying
one consonant, we double the consonant and add -ing.

put putting,
swim swimming,
run
running
Vocabulary
1 Relationships
I
to ask somebody out

to chat to somebody
to fall in love (with somebody)
to get back together (with somebody)
to get married (to somebody)
to get on well (with somebody)
to go out (with somebody)
to have an argument (with somebody)
to meet somebody
to split up (with somebody)
1 06
Unit 8
2 Feelings
afraid
anger
angry
bored
boredom
excited
excitement
fear
happiness
happy
loneliness
lonely
sad
sadness
3 Noun suffixes -ness,

boredom
happiness
madness
sadness
-ship, -dom
freedom
friendship
illness
loneliness
relationship
weakness
4 Other w o r d s and phrases page 143-4
Grammar revision
Past
perfect
1 Complete the sentences in a logical way. Put one verb in the past perfect and the other in the past simple.
1
2
When I
(brush) my teeth.
(finish) my breakfast, I
When the students
They
she
(do) the exam, the
teacher
(take) her to the hospital because

(have) an accident.
They didn't see the start of the film. When they
(say) they could go.
(arrive) at the cinema it
He
(go) to bed after he
(put) his pyjamas on.
When he
(send) it.
She
(wash) it.
They
they
(dry) her hair after she
(start).
(write) the email, he
(go) into the museum when

(buy) the tickets.
WORKBOOK p a g e 66
Gerunds and
/8
points)
infinitives
2 Choose the correct alternative. Why do we use the gerund or infinitive in each case?
1
I went to the shops buying/to buy food for the weekend.
Richard and Sarah really enjoy nding/tojide their bikes in the park.
Are you interested in seeing/to see that film?
I want listening/tgjisten to that new group in concert.
Smoking/To smoke is bad for your health.
The burglar got into the house by openjnq/tgqpenxhe window.
Why " ' we go fishing/to fish this weekend?
Are you ready hel^mg/p_he)2 me?
WORKBOOK p a g e 69
/8
points)
Vocabulary revision
Noun suffixes
Relationships
3
1 Match words from each column to make expressions about

relationships.
1
to get on
out with somebody
to go
up with somebody
to ask
somebody
to have
well with somebody
to split
an argument with somebody
to like
in love with somebody

back together with somebody
bad:
somebody out
to fall
to get
g
h
to chat
to somebody
to somebody
10 to get married
WORKBOOK p a g e 64
-dom
A relationship between people who are friends:
-ship,
Read the definitions and write words ending with

-ness, -ship, or -dom.
-ness,
The opposite of strength:

w
The feeling when nobody is with you and you feel
Something that affects people and makes them do

crazy things:
/10
points)
5
Feelings
The connection between two people:

r
2 Write the nouns for these adjectives. Is each feeling generally

positive (+), negative (-) or it depends (=)?
1
sad
angry
afraid
excited -
lonely -
happy -
bored -
WORKBOOK p a g e 64
Something which makes you feel bad or unhealthy:

i
Being able to do what you want, with no obligations:

f
/7points)
WORKBOOK p a g e 67
/7points)
/40
points
Unit 8
1 07
Units
7 - 8
Reading
1
W o r k w i t h a partner.
What jobs can teenagers
d o in y o u r c o u n t r y ? H o w
old d o t h e y h a v e to b e to
do them?
R e a d t h e text. H o w h a s F r a s e r D o h e r t y b e c o m e a millionaire?
Y o u a r e g o i n g to r e a d
a text a b o u t a British
t e e n a g e r . First, m a t c h t h e
w o r d s a n d the p i c t u r e s .
1
jam
recipe
grapes
factory
Fraser D o h e r t y is a very h a r d - w o r k i n g , ambitious teenager. In fact, he's so

h a r d - w o r k i n g and ambitious that he's already a m i l l i o n a i r e ! Fraser was 14 when
he started m a k i n g j a m . There had been a special way o f m a k i n g j a m for
generations and generations in the Doherty f a m i l y . One day his grandmother
t o l d Fraser the secret and, w i t h her help, he began to invent his o w n unusual
j a m s , all called SuperJam.
The j a m was o b v i o u s l y good because soon Fraser was m a k i n g it and selling it
to his friends and neighbours after school. W i t h i n f o u r years he was producing
1,000 jars o f j a m a week f r o m his parents' home in Edinburgh. Scotland.
10
15
20
25
30
35
N o w he has j u s t w o n a contract to produce 120,000 jars o f j a m a week f o r a big

B r i t i s h supermarket. That means that he w i l l have to start producing j a m in a
factory, not at home.
Fraser is now 18 and he's studying business at Strathclyde University in
Glasgow. Yesterday he said: ' I f things continue to go w e l l I'll need more people
to w o r k at m y factory. I w o u l d love to have m y j a m s in other supermarkets, too.'
Traditional j a m s are often 80 per cent sugar, but M r Doherty. whose company
is called D o h e r t y ' s Preserves, has created a healthy alternative. He uses
grape j u i c e , not sugar. He said: ' I wanted to make j a m as healthy as possible.
T r a d i t i o n a l j a m is quite unhealthy. It was quite f r i g h t e n i n g to change a product
that people have made the same w a y f o r hundreds o f years, but I wanted to add
a new dimension.' A f o o d expert said: 'Fraser has taken
an o l d product and he has made it y o u n g , e x c i t i n g
and modern.' Fraser has done this by being creative
w i t h new ingredients like k i w i and l i m e .
M r D o h e r t y ' s father, Robert, said that he was sad
that Fraser was m o v i n g to a factory because
he l i k e d w a t c h i n g Fraser m a k i n g the
j a m s at their f a m i l y home in E d i n b u r g h .
'For a l o n g time now, Fraser has used
our kitchen to experiment w i t h new
recipes and to produce j a m
to sell. W h e n he is i n the
k i t c h e n , we can o n l y g o
in there i f we promise to
help. People w h o visit our
home all have to h e l p ! '
- - ^ ^ * ^
,~i
R e a d t h e t e x t a g a i n a n d d e c i d e if t h e s t a t e m e n t s are t r u e or false. Write

d o w n t h e n u m b e r ( s ) of t h e line(s) w h e r e y o u f o u n d t h e answer.
1
F r a s e r D o h e r t y ' s j a m s a r e a m i x t u r e of tradition a n d n e w ideas.
T/F
A t first F r a s e r m a d e a n d s o l d t h e j a m in his f r e e t i m e .
T/F
In true/false activities, remember...
F r a s e r s t a r t e d by p r o d u c i n g 1,000 j a r s of j a m a w e e k .
T/F
Read the sentences that you need to

check and find the section of the text
which includes the information. Read
those sections again in more detail.
F r a s e r will c o n t i n u e to m a k e j a m at h o m e .
T/F
F r a s e r w a n t s to sell his p r o d u c t to m o r e a n d m o r e p e o p l e .
T/F
F r a s e r h a s a totally positive o p i n i o n of t y p i c a l , old j a m .
T/F
F r a s e r w a n t e d to m a k e a n e w t y p e of j a m but he didn't k n o w
T/F
w h a t p e o p l e w o u l d think.
F r a s e r ' s d a d invites p e o p l e to his k i t c h e n to help m a k e j a m .
T/F
What about you?

W o u l d y o u like to b e F r a s e r D o h e r t y ? W h y / W h y not?
Writing
Listening
Tip f o r W r i t i n g E x a m s
In multiple-choice listening activities, remember...
You lose marks if you do not answer the question and include
all the information that appears in it.
If you don't hear the answer to one question, start listening

immediately for the answer to the next question. Don't panic.
You will probably be able to hear the text again.
You s e e an a d v e r t i s e m e n t for a s u m m e r j o b at
Fraser D o h e r t y ' s n e w j a m f a c t o r y . Y o u w a n t t o w r i t e
a letter to a p p l y for t h e j o b . In y o u r letter, s h o u l d y o u
do the t h i n g s b e l o w or n o t ?
1
Write Fraser D o h e r t y ' s a d d r e s s in t h e t o p

right corner.
W r i t e y o u r a d d r e s s in t h e t o p right c o r n e r .
W r i t e t h e date o n t h e right.
B e g i n Dear Mr
W r i t e c o n t r a c t i o n s like I'm, It's, etc.
Say which advertisement you are

writing a b o u t .
Say why you are a good person for the job.
W r i t e e x p r e s s i o n s like / look forward

hearing from you.
Finish Yours
Doherty,
to
faithfully,
Write y o u r letter a n d i n c l u d e this i n f o r m a t i o n . Y o u

can invent it.
W h y you are writing
What other information you are sending with

the letter (CV, p h o t o , o t h e r )
P e r s o n a l qualities y o u h a v e t h a t c o u l d help
y o u to get t h e j o b
W h a t experience you have
2 . 2 7 L i s t e n t o a m a n t a l k i n g a b o u t British t e e n a g e r s
and work. Which jobs do you hear mentioned?
10 L i s t e n a g a i n a n d c h o o s e t h e c o r r e c t alternative.
1
British t e e n a g e r s
A
c a n ' t w o r k legally w h e n t h e y a r e t h i r t e e n .
c a n o n l y w o r k t w o h o u r s a day.
can w o r k more hours on Saturday.
The
A
To b e a n a u pair
A
y o u n e e d different p e r s o n a l qualities.
is e a s y b e c a u s e y o u j u s t w a t c h T V .
y o u n e e d to w o r k in t h e m o r n i n g .
British t e e n a g e r s
A
d o n ' t usually c o o k .
can't prepare food very well.
aren't legally a b l e to w o r k in k i t c h e n s .
m o s t c o m m o n j o b for t e e n a g e r s is
working for a newspaper.
t a k i n g n e w s p a p e r s to w h e r e p e o p l e live.
after s c h o o l .

Give yourself a mark f r o m 1 to 4.
1
2
3
4
Speaking
> Tip f o r S p e a k i n g E x a m s
=
=
=
=

I can't do it.
I can express obligation, prohibition and advice

using modal verbs like must and should.
I can talk about imaginary situations and their
consequences using the second conditional.
I can describe jobs and the personal qualities you
need to do them.
In activities where you report past events, remember...

Use different past tenses (such as the past perfect for activities 1
that happened before another activity in the past) and use
expressions of time and sequence {first, next, then, later).
I can ask about jobs, making polite requests.

I can write a simple job application.
8 Work w i t h a partner. L o o k at this e x a m t a s k . Y o u

have a f e w m i n u t e s to m a k e a note of t h i n g s y o u a r e
going to say or q u e s t i o n s y o u a r e g o i n g to a s k . D o
not w r i t e c o m p l e t e s e n t e n c e s .
I can describe past events using the past perfect.

I can talk about relationships and feelings.
I can understand information in a newspaper story
about a relationship.
I can make nouns using the suffixes -ness, -ship,
and -dom.
I can write about a friend in an informal email.
Yesterday e v e n i n g y o u w o r k e d as an au p a i r
l o o k i n g after y o u r n e i g h b o u r ' s t w o c h i l d r e n
(aged 8 a n d 10). T e l l y o u r partner:
what you d i d
Now decide what you need t o do to improve.

1
w h a t the c h i l d r e n d i d
what the best a n d worst parts o f the
Other:
experience were.
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9 Read o n
Grammar
Reported speech - statements and questions
Vocabulary
Fiction Non-fiction
Phrasal verbs connected with reading and writing
Speaking
Making offers
Writing
A questionnaire
Vocabulary
a l a s t a i r
Fiction
1
r e y n o l d s
Work w i t h a partner and match seven of these

words w i t h the book covers.
comic
crime novel
graphic novel
play
romance
fairytale
fantasy
historical fiction
horror
science fiction
thriller
NEW PENGUIN SHAKESPEARE
Robert
Ludlum
BOURNE
IDENTITY
by
WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE
2
3
5a
SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Ask and answer these

questions.
Do you like reading fiction?
How often do you read fiction?
Which types of fiction do you enjoy reading the most? Why?
Which types of fiction do you dislike? Why?
autobiography
dictionary
newspaper
5 b Look at the words in 1 again. Can you put any of them into
these columns?
5c Q ) 2 . 3 0 Listen, check and repeat.
Match these words w i t h the book titles in 1-10.

atlas
atlas
Non-fiction
4
'RONUNCIATION Practise saying the words in 4 and put them

in the correct column, according to their stress.
biography
encyclopedia
cookbook
guidebook
manual
LISTENING <jf) 2.31 Listen t o the conversations. What types

of book or publication are the people talking about? They
can be fiction or non-fiction.
4
textbook
Discover Venice
How to Get the Most From Your Digital Camera
My Life by Bill Clinton
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
My Grandmother's Chinese Kitchen: 100 Family Recipes
Europe (World in Maps)
The Times
guidebook
7a SPEAKING Think about how often, and in what situations,
you read non-fiction. Make notes.
cookbooks sometimes,
to find new things to make,
enjoy cooking
7 b Work w i t h a partner. Compare your answers.
/ read cookbooks sometimes because I enjoy
cooking. I read them to find new things to make.
Gateway
English-French, French-English
10
Britannica
Unit 9
I never read cookbooks because I

never cook. I prefer reading history.
T o p
*
T e e n
A n t h o n y
A u t h o r :
H o r o w i t z
1
But, like J. K. Rowling and her 'Harry Potter'
novels, his books are so good t h a t people of all ages
read t h e m . Telling stories has always been Horowitz's
passion. He once told an interviewer t h a t he had
wanted to be an author si nee the age of eight. _
He hated living and studying there. Once the headmaster told him to stand up in
front of all the other students. The headmaster said: 'This boy is so stupid he will not be
coming to the Christmas games t o m o r r o w . ' 1 have never totally recovered,' says Horowitz.
To escape f r o m these experiences, Horowitz s t a r t e d mak[ng_up_ his own stories.
3
Since then, he has w r i t t e n m o r e than 3 0 novels, including h o r r o r stories, fantasies, detective stories
and thrillers. His m o s t famous books are almost certainly the Alex Rider series with titles such as Snakehead
and Scorpia. Alex Rider is a teenage super-spy, like a young J a m e s Bond. Rider was the s t a r of the popular
film, Stormbreaker,
based on the first novel in the series. The Alex Rider books have made English t e a c h e r s
very happy because they have helped to get a whole, generation of teenage boys reading, instead .of playing
computer games.
4
He has walked over p a r t of the Andes, been scuba-diving and climbed a 1 5 0 - m e t r e t o w e r in London, all
just to be able to write his novels in sufficient detail.
5
And another place w h e r e he gets inspiration, for his stories is the cinema. He goes to see films t h r e e or
four times a week. His favourite films are thrillers. Perhaps t h a t explains why his own thrillers are so good!
6
EXAM SUCCESS
You are going to do a missing sentences activity with this reading
text. In this type of activity you have to find the best place to
put various sentences taken from a text. How can you check this
activity when you finish?
EXAM SUCCESS p a g e 152
The Alex Rider books are Horowitz's
Match the underlined words in the text w i t h their

1
inventing
in the place of
enough
for fun!
very popular
Anthony Horowitz is a best-seJJing author of books for
complete
teenagers.
new ideas that help you to create something
Anthony's first novel was published in 1979.
He's also worked as a cowboy in Australia, but that was just
books,
definitions.
1-6 in the text.
most famous
They 're about a young spy.
2 Read the article again and put these sentences into gaps
Look at the photos in 1 again. Explain why each one is

significant for Anthony Horowitz.
making up
Horowitz is very serious about investigation for his novels,
For birthdays, he always asked for just notebooks and pens,
Perhaps Horowitz wanted to start writing at the age of
Who is your favourite author?
eight because that was when his parents sent him to a
Would you like to read a book by Anthony Horowitz? Why/
boarding school.
Why not?
Unit 9
Grammar in context
3
G R A M M A R GUIDE
Reported
Look at the examples in 2 and put the tenses and verbs in

the correct places in the table.
speech
statements
could
My favourite films are thrillers.
I go to see films three or four times a week.
3
4
had to
past perfect
l a Look at what Anthony Horowitz said to a journalist.
might
past continuous
past perfect
past simple
would
Direct speech
Reported speech
I hated living and studying there.
present simple -
past
I've w r i t t e n more than 30 novels.
present continuous-*
past simple +
present perfect -
Now look at what the journalist wrote.

a
Horowitz said his favourite films were thrillers.
He told an interviewer he went to see films three or

four times a week.
will-
can -
He said that he had hated living and studying there.
may-
He told them that he had w r i t t e n more than 30

novels.
must/have to -
l b Answer the questions.
simple
There are other words which we often change when we put

statements into reported speech. Look at this example.
What happens to the verbs when they go into

reported speech?
What happens to most pronouns and possessive

adjectives when they go into reported speech?
She said she had read that book the previous
What is the difference between say and re//?
Use these words to complete the table.
After say and tell do we always need to use that?
a (week/month/year) ago
'I read this hook last
week!
last (week/month/year)
GRAMMAR REFERENCE page 120 )
this
today
here
next (week/month/year)
tomorrow
tonight
Direct speech
Reported speech
that
this
week.
Match these sentences in direct and reported speech.
there
One of the reported speech sentences can go w i t h more

than one of the sentences in direct speech.
that day
the day before
yesterday
I write novels,
I'm writing a novel.
the next/following day
I wrote a novel.
that night
I've written a novel.
the following (week/month/year)
I'll write a novel.
the previous (week/month/year)
I can write novels.
a (week/month/year) before
I may write a novel.
I have to write a novel.
Complete the sentences w i t h said or told. Which fictional

character is 'he'?
He said he'd write a novel.
He
me he wasn't very tall.
He said he might write a novel.
He
he had a friend called Sam.
He said he was writing a novel.
He
us that he had a ring.
I le said he wrote novels.
He
that he and Sam had travelled a long way
He said he had written a novel.
He and Sam
He said he could write novels.
He
that Gollum wasn't his friend.
He said he had to write a novel.
He
that he was from Middle Earth.
He
me that he was a hobbit.
Rewrite the sentences in 5 as direct speech.

/
Unit 9
they needed to destroy the ring
Tm not very
tall'
7 Report what this writer said in an interview. Use say and tell.
I
She said that her name was Emma Maree
Urauhart.
Phrasal verbs connected with reading and

writing
1
1 My name is Emma Maree Urquhart
9 My books are for young readers,

but adults have read them too.
8a Write a true sentence about yourself and the summer. It

can be about last summer, next summer, or the summer in
general.
/ went to Brighton
in England
I usually go to the beach in the
last
summer.
summer.
8c When everybody has read out their sentence, write d o w n

what different people said. Can you remember everyone's
sentence?
Mia said that she hadjone
to Brighton
Read these sentences. Can you guess the meaning of

the phrasal verbs in italics?
1
I don't want to stop now. I want to read on to the end.
Can you read out your answer to the next question so

that we can all hear it?
I don't understand some of these words. I'm going to

look them up in my dictionary.
I want you all to turn over the page and continue

reading.
Read the sentences and then fill in the gaps.
He flicked through the book quickly to see if he liked it

before he bought it.
It doesn't look good when you make lots of mistakes

and then you cross them out.
Match the phrasal verbs in 1 w i t h these definitions.

a
Read so that other people can hear you.
Draw an X or a line through some writing to show that

it's not correct.
Write information in empty spaces.
Try to find a particular piece of information in a book.
Continue reading.
Turn a page or piece of paper to see the other side,
Turn the pages of a book quickly, not looking carefully.
Complete the text w i t h these words.

cross
8b Read out your sentences to the other people in your class or

group.
the
previous
flick
French, but I don't believe you!

9d Tell the class your partner's false statements.
Andrei told me he'd read a novel
in French, but it wasn't true.
through
I didn't like the start much. But I decided to read

(b)
There were lots of unusual words that

up in the dictionary. I turned
another page and then another but
I still didn't like it. I told my friend and he asked me to

read (e)
You said you'd read a novel in
over
and take it home. When I started to read it carefully
(d)
9c Report back to your partner and tell him/her which

statements you think are false.
out
it. I didn't really read any of it, but I decided to buy it
Jack told us that he usually went to the beach in the
9b Tell your partner your statements.
on
a new writer and began to (a)
summer.
9a SPEAKING Prepare five personal statements to tell your

partner. Make three of your statements true. Make the
other t w o false.
look
The other day I was in a bookshop. I picked up a novel by
I had to (c)
summer.
a section so that he could hear.
He said that the writer was using too many words to say
something simple and that it was repetitive. He could
(f)
out half the words because they were
unnecessary. In the end I stopped reading the book!
Literature
tterson^
Maximum Ride.- The Angel Experiment by PJaa mes
INSIDE INFORMATION Y~
Maximum
Read t h e prologue t o t h e novel and

What type of novel is it - historical

fiction, crime, fantasy/science fiction or
romance?
What does the prologue tell us about

the'angel experiment'?
Read the text again a n d make

notes about these characters.
Max
Hyears old,...
2
Max's'family'
the'Erasers'
The author of this novel, James

Patterson, is an expert at making
people want t o read on t o f i n d o u t
w h a t happens next in the story. He
does this in different ways. Find a
sentence f r o m t h e t e x t for each of
these techniques.
The character talks directly to you, the
reader.
Yes, you standing there, flicking

through these pages.
2
Generally, the sentences are short and

direct.
Reading the text is like a dangerous

adventure.
The reader is part of the adventure.
The writer introduces the characters in

the story quickly and dramatically.
The language is informal and natural,

like listening to a person talking.
There is intrigue - you want to know

more information.
What about you?

Would you like to continue reading the
book? Why/Why not?
I'd like to read on because I
want to know why Max and
her friends are special.
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Unit 9
Ride: The Angel Experiment
is a
novel by American writer James Patterson.
This text is the prologue to the novel and

starts to explain w h a t the story is about.
P R O L O G U E
Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken
one giant step to surviving till your next birthday. Yes - you standing
there, flicking through these pages. Do not put this book down. I'm
really serious your life could depend on it.
This is my story, the story of my family, but it could easily be your
story too. We're all in this together, believe me.
I've never done anything like this, so I'm just going to jump in, and
you try to keep up.
Okay, I'm Max, I'm fourteen. I live with my family, who are five kids
not related to me by blood, but still totally my family.
We're - well, we're kind of amazing. We're like nothing you've seen
before.
Basically, we're pretty cool, nice, smart - and very special. The six of
us - me, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel - were made by
the worst, most horrible 'scientists'you could possibly imagine. They
created us as an experiment. An experiment where we ended up only
98% human. That other 2% has had a big impact, let me tell you.
We grew up in a science laboratory/prison called the School. There
was one other School experiment that survived. Part human, part
wolf - all predator: they're called Erasers. They're tough, smart and
hard to control. They look human, but when they want to, they can
change into wolf men. The School uses them as guards, police - and
murderers.
This story could be about you - or your children. I f not today, then
soon. So please, please, take this seriously. I'm risking everything that
matters by telling you - but you need to know.
Keep reading - don't let anyone stop you.
Max
WORD BOOSTER
1 jump in
a part of the same genetic family
2 keep up
b finally became
3 related by blood
go as quickly as another person
4 smart
d putting in danger
5 ended up
e strong
6 tough
7 risking
g start quickly
intelligent
5 You are going to listen to a radio programme about

books. They are talking about best-selling author
James Patterson. Before you listen, work w i t h a
partner and answer these questions.
1 Do you think authors who write best-sellers usually write
slowly or quickly?
INSIDE INFORMATION j
3
4
Do you think they usually write only a few novels or a lot of

novels?
Do you think they usually write serious works or not very
serious works?
Do you think they write alone or do they sometimes write
with other people?
James Patterson is the American author

of Maximum
Ride.
In 2007 people called h i m the world's

best-selling author. He has sold more
than 150 million books globally.
In 2006 t w o of James Patterson's books

were in t h e Top 10 books b o r r o w e d f r o m
British Libraries.
Patterson is so famous in the USA that

he once appeared in an episode of The
6 t)2.32 Listen to the programme and choose the

correct alternative.
Simpsons.
1 James Patterson has/hasn't written more than 60 books.

2 James Patterson thinks/doesn't think he writes very serious
literature.
Literature
3 When Patterson works with another writer, he writes a

complete plan/the first version of the story.
4
The Ides of March by Valerio M a s s i m o M a n f r e d i
Patterson has/hasn't written love stories.

Look at this book cover, read the website review and
5 Patterson has created/won a prize called the Page Turner

Prize.
6 The Maximum Ride series is really for young people only/
young people and adults.
7 Listen again and complete the sentences.
1 Patterson has written approximately
novels.
He has
Often his books have his name and
Some of his crime novels and thrillers have become
5 In
ideas for stories.

on the cover.
his books are almost as popular as Harry Potter.
6 Patterson has spent

read more.
What type of book is The Ides ofMarchl
What is the book about?
If you saw this book in a book shop, would you pick it up and buy
it? Why/Why not?
STUDY SKILLS
'Reading for pleasure' is when you read without any questions,
exercises or tasks. The only objective is to enjoy yourself. What
do you think is the best thing to do with new words when you
read for pleasure?
on ideas to get people to

What about you?
Do you ever read best-sellers?
What are the best-sellers in your country?
72 of 102 people found the following review helpful:

Loved this book! 14 February 2011
By J. Smith (UK) - See all mv reviews
"(TOP 500 REVIEWER)"
The new international best-seller from the great Italian writer The Ides of
March is an incredible book. I really enjoyed it! It combines the best elements
of historical fiction with the most exciting features of a political thriller. The
story starts in Rome in 44 . Julius Caesar is 56 years old and is the most
powerful man in the Roman World. But he has enemies and they are working
against him. Something happens that will change Rome, and the whole world,
forever. The author manages to make the story really gripping from beginning
to end and you learn a lot about Roman history along the way. All in all, a very
good read!
Unit 9
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Grammar in context
MODERN CLASSICS
T H E
GRAMMAR GUIDE
LORD
Reported
OF T H E R I N G S
THlULtOWSHIPOf THl RIN<
speech
questions
l a Look at these questions and statements.

Which are direct questions (DQ) and which
are reported questions (RQ)?
1
He asked her what she was reading at that

moment.
He wanted to know if she had seen The Lord

of the Rings films.
How often do you go to the cinema?
Have you seen The Lord of the Rings films?
He asked her how often she went to the

cinema.
6
SPEAKING Look at these questions and make notes. Then work with
What are you reading at the moment?
Do you prefer reading books or watching
a partner and compare your ideas.

1
TV?
Can you think of any books that have become films, like The Lord of
He asked her whether she preferred reading

books or watching TV.
the Ringsl
2
What are the good things about books?
What are the good things about films?
l b Choose the correct alternative.

1
E X A M SUCCESS
In the next activity you will listen to and complete gaps in notes or
a text with the word(s) you hear. Is it possible to predict the type of
words that are missing? How?
2
We use/don't use question marks in

reported questions.
We use/don't use the auxiliary verb do in
reported questions.
LISTENING 2.33 You are going t o hear a w o m a n being

interviewed for a magazine survey on reading, watching films
and film adaptations of books. Listen and complete the notes.
We Qut/dgn'tgut the verb before the

subject in reported questions.
We use/don'tuse if or whether in reported
questions when there is no question
word (who, what, why, etc.) in the original
question.
Magazine
Culture
Vulture
Book vs. Film Survey
Male
Female
We change/don't change tenses, pronouns

and words like this and here in the same
way in reported statements and reported
questions.
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Paul wanted to know

bus or by car.
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necessary.
1
He asked her how often she bought books.
T/F
He wanted to know how often she read historical fiction.
I/F
He asked her what she was reading at that moment.
The man asked the woman how often she went to the cinema.
He asked her if she had seen The Lord of the Rings films.
He asked her whether she preferred reading books or watching T/.F.
Unit 9
Hannah asked me
she wanted to do.

I had come by
I wanted a coffee
and I said yes.
Are these statements true (T) or false (F)? Listen again if
TV.
her favourite
writer was. She said Kafka.
They asked the novelist
I/F
I had brothers or sisters
and i said no.

6
My teacher asked me
I hadn't been at
school the day before.
T/F
I/I
They asked me
Karen's mum asked her

good time.
she had had a
3 Write what the people actually said in each situation.

1
4a
The journalist asked the film director if he was making a film at that moment.
He said that he wasn't but that he was going to start a new one soon.
E N U N C I A T I O N Match the diagrams w i t h the

questions. In which t y p e of questions, Wh- or
Yes/No, does the intonation usually go up?
Journalist:
Diagram A
Film Director:
How often do you read?.
Do you like reading?
Diagram
4 b Do you t h i n k the intonation will go up or down

in reported questions?
4c 2 . 3 4 Listen to these reported questions.
2
The writer asked the man if he had enjoyed her book. He said that he
Check your answer t o 4b and repeat the
thought it was the most beautiful thing he'd ever read.
sentences.
HI
Writer:
Man:
The reporter asked the singer why she wouldn't answer any of his
questions. She told him that she only wanted to talk about her new CD
and that she wasn't going to talk about anything else.
Reporter:
Singer:
She asked me what my name was.
She wanted to know where I was from.
They asked me why I'd come.
I asked her where she'd been.
Write this conversation in reported speech.

Practise reading it aloud w i t h the correct
intonation.
KEIRA:
What did you do last night?
MATTHEW:
I didn't do much. I just watched TV with

my parents.
KEIRA:
Did you study for the literature exam?
MATTHEW:
When do we have the exam?
KEIRA:
We're doing it today.
MATTHEW:
Why didn't you remind me?
KEIRA:
I told you but you weren't listening.

Why do you never pay attention to me?
6 a SPEAKING Try t o remember questions that

people have asked you so far today. Write
d o w n five reported questions.
4
The teacher asked the class whether they could write an essay for the next
day, but they replied that they couldn't because they had to study for an
exam and they wouldn't have enough time.
Teacher:
Students:
Julie wanted to know what my favourite book was. I said it was 1984 by
George Orwell. She asked me how many times I'd read it and I told her
that I'd read it three times.
Julie:
/ My mum asked me what time I would come home.

2 My teacher asked me if I had done my homework.
6 b Compare your sentences w i t h a partner.
Are they similar?
7a SPEAKING As a class, choose a famous person
w h o you w o u l d like to interview. It can be an
actor, politician, sports personality or singer.
7 b Imagine that this famous person is coming to
your school. With your partner, prepare five
questions t o ask t h e m .
7c Choose a student to be the famous person.
Interview them and make a note of their
answers.
7 d Now take it in turns to report the interview.
Me:
First we asked him why he had

decided to come to our school. He
said that he'd been a student here.
Unit 9
Developing speaking
Making
offers
l a SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner.

1
How often do you go to bookshops?
What type of books or other things do you buy there?
l b Look at the photo. Talk about what you can see.
SPEAKING Practise the dialogue in 4 w i t h a partner.

Include the correct information.
Tick the expressions in the Speaking Bank that appear

in the dialogue. Which are more formal ways of offering
help?
WATERSTONE'S
Speaking Bank
Useful expressions f o r m a k i n g offers
Can I help you?
Do you want me to ... ?
Would you like me to ... ?
Shall I... for you?
How about if I ... for you?

7a SPEAKING Student A: Work w i t h a partner. Do the roleplay, using the Conversation Guide to help you.
Student A: you are the shop assistant.
Student B: you are the customer.
C o n v e r s a t i o n Guide
LISTENING 2 . 3 5 Listen to a customer in a bookshop

speaking t o a shop assistant and answer these questions.
1
What type of book does the customer want to buy?
Which section should the book be in?
Where should she go to find this section?
SHOP ASSISTANT:
CUSTOMER:
LISTENING @ 2 . 3 6 Listen to the same customer speaking t o

another shop assistant.
1
In the end, does the customer find the book she wanted?
Does she order any books?
How much does she spend in the bookshop?
CUSTOMER:
SHOP ASSISTANT:
CUSTOMER:
SHOP ASSISTANT:
Yes, can I help you?
CUSTOMER:
Yes, please. I'm looking for a book called

It's a (b)
book.
They told me that it would be in the

(c)
CUSTOMER:
SHOP ASSISTANT:
2.37 Complete this dialogue w i t h the correct information

in 3. Listen again if necessary.
(a)
SHOP ASSISTANT:
SHOP ASSISTANT:
CUSTOMER:
section.
SHOP ASSISTANT:
SHOP ASSISTANT:
Right. Have you looked there?
CUSTOMER:
Yes, I have, but I can't see it.
SHOP ASSISTANT:
OK, I'll just check on the computer. Do you know the
CUSTOMER:
name of the author?
SHOP ASSISTANT:
CUSTOMER:
CUSTOMER:
Yes,
it's (d)
SHOP ASSISTANT:
OK, let's see. Ah, no, I'm sorry, it isn't in stock at the
SHOP ASSISTANT:
It should be here in (e)
CUSTOMER:
That's (f)
Ask the customer what type of book it is.

Tell the shop assistant what type of book it is.
Tell the customer which section to look in.
Tell the shop assistant that you've looked there
but can't find it.
Tell the customer you'll check on the computer
if it is in stock. Ask for the name of the author.
Tell the shop assistant the name of the author.
Spell it if necessary.
Tell the customer that you don't have the
book but offer to order it.
Ask how long it will take and the price.
Tell the customer how long it will take and the
price of the book.
Agree to order the book.
Ask for the customer's name and address.
Tell the shop assistant your name and
want to buy the three books in your hand.
SHOP ASSISTANT:
long will it take?
HOW
Tell the shop assistant what book you are

looking for.
address. Then tell the shop assistant that you
moment. Would you like me to order it for you?

CUSTOMER:
Say hello to the customer and offer to help.
CUSTOMER:
I'll take these two books
SHOP ASSISTANT:
Tell the customer how much the three books

cost.
Ask if you can pay by credit card.
Say
yes.
then.
SHOP ASSISTANT:
Certainly. That's (g)
CUSTOMER:
Can I pay by credit card?
SHOP ASSISTANT:
Of course.
Unit 9
, please.
7 b Now change roles. Cover the Conversation Guide.
Look at these questions and match each one w i t h one of

the rules in the Writing Bank.
1
What are you reading at the moment?
Who gives you money to buy magazines?
What type of magazines do you like?
Writing Bank
Writing questions
In subject questions, the question word (who, what, etc) is
the subject of the verb. The auxiliary verb (do, does, did) is
not necessary.
In object questions, the question word (who, what, etc) is
the object of the verb. The auxiliary verb (do, does, did) is
necessary.
When we have fo be or a modal verb (can, will, should), we
do not need the auxiliary verb do to make questions.
You are going to write a questionnaire about newspapers.

Work w i t h a partner and write down any ideas for things
that you could ask. Look at this example:
ReouJ -from -first

ptxcje. "bo Icbot '
how much
where
1
how often
which
who
why
do you read magazines?

often/sometimes/neyer
magazine(s) do you read?
buys the magazines you read?
do you spend on magazines a month?

at home/on the bus or train/in waiting rooms/other
Refi_cL "fr&m I a i t
-fo - f i a t ?
when
STUDY SKILLS
The activity in is called brainstorming. The idea is to

come up with as many ideas as possible, without stopping
to analyse them. Why is this a good thing to do before
writing?
STUDY SKILLS page 148 1

7a Look at the task.
Prepare a questionnaire about newspapers w i t h 6 - 8

questions.
Use the questions in 2 and 3 as a model and include

the ideas that you brainstormed in 6.
Ask different students the questions i n your

questionnaire.
to relaxAo learn new diings/qther

7
do you usually read magazines?
Put the words in order to make more questions about

magazines.
1
favourite/is/your/which/magazine/?
magazines/you/like/what/do/about/?
reading/long/spend/you/do/how/magazines/day/each/?
buy/magazines/you/where/do/?
Most people said they bought newspapers
read/you/online/do/magazines/?
that he only read the sports section of the newspaper.
Ava
told me she never bought newspapers
read
SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Take it in turns to ask and

answer the questions in 2 and 3.
7 b Write a report about what you discovered f r o m your

questionnaire.
but Leo told me
she always
other people's.
Unit 9
Grammar reference
Reported
speech
statements
Form
When the reporting verb (say, tell) is in the past, the tense of the
verb in reported speech usually changes, going one tense 'back'.
/ like yourjacket.'
D i r e c t speech - tenses
R e p o r t e d speech - tenses
1 w o r k at home.' Present simple
She said she w o r k e d at home.
'I'm w o r k i n g . ' Present continuous
She said she w a s w o r k i n g . Past continuous
1 have w o r k e d . ' Present perfect
She said she h a d w o r k e d . Past perfect
1 worked.'
Pastsimple
In reported speech, pronouns and possessive adjectives also

change.
Pastsimple
' w i l l work.' will
She said she w o u l d work, would
1 can work.' can
She said she c o u l d work, could
1 m a y work.' may
She said she m i g h t work, might
1 m u s t / h a v e to work.' must/have to
She said she h a d t o work, had to
myjacket.
Here are some other words which change from direct to

reported speech.
'1 h a d w o r k e d ' Past perfect
- Mary said she liked
D i r e c t speech
R e p o r t e d speech
this/these
these/those
here
there
today
that day
yesterday
the day before
tomorrow
the next/following day
last night
that night
Could, would, should and might do not change from direct to

reported speech.
next (week/month/year)
the following (week/month/year)
When the reporting verb is in the present simple, the tense of the
a (week/month/year) ago
last (week/month/year)
the previous (week/month/year)
a (week/month/year) before
verb in reported speech usually stays the same.

'/love cycling. - She says she loves cycling.
Use
When the reporting verb is in the past but the statement is
We use reported speech to report the words spoken by another

person.
something which is still true, or is and will always be true, the tense
of the verb in reported speech usually stays the same.
'I came, I saw, I conquered,'said
'I'm from Poland.' -* Monika said she's from Poland.
Caesar said that he'd come, he'd seen and he'd conquered.
Reported
speech
Julius
Caesar.
- Julius
- say and tell
Use
With say you do not need to use a personal object to say who you
are saying something to.
With tell you must use a personal object to say who you are
saying something to.
He said (...) he wanted
He told John he wanted to go.
Reported
speech
to go.
questions
Form
The same changes occur with tenses, pronouns and other words as
with reported statements. We do not use the auxiliary verb do in
reported questions.
like this newspaper?'*
He asked me if I liked
that
newspaper.
There is no inversion of subject and verb in reported questions.
'where is he?'-*
They asked me where he was.
Reported questions are not real questions so they do not need

question marks.
When there is no question word (who, what, how, why, etc.),
we use if or whether.
'Willyou go to the party?'-*
They asked me if I
wouldjo
to the party.
Vocabulary
1 Fiction
comic
graphic novel
crime novel
fairytale
fantasy
historical fiction
horror
play
romance
science fiction
thriller
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Unit 9
2 Non-fiction
atlas
autobiography
biography
cookbook
dictionary
encyclopedia
guidebook
magazine
manual
newspaper
textbook
3 Phrasal verbs connected w i t h reading

and w r i t i n g
cross out
read on
fill in
flick through
read out
turn over
lookup
4 Other words and phrases page 144-5
Grammar revision
Reported speech
statements
1 Write these sentences in reported speech.

1
'I'm going to a conference next week,' my sister said.
There is going to be a concert in this room,' they told the public.
Til be late tomorrow,' Daniel told the teacher.
'The talk will start at 9 o'clock tomorrow,' they said.
'This is my book,' said Holly.
'We haven't read any of your books,'the students told the writer.
I've always wanted to write stories,' said the novelist.
1 wrote the article yesterday,' said the journalist.
WORKBOOK p a g e 76
Reported speech
/8
points)
questions
2 Write these questions in reported speech.

1
'Are you from Manchester?' she asked me.
'Will you help me tomorrow?' Sandra's dad asked her.
'What time are you going to leave?' Joe asked Jessica.
'Did the doctor see Mike yesterday?' Abigail asked her mum.
'Why were you crying?' I asked Katie.
'Do you know the answer to this question?' our teacher asked us.
'Have you read this book?' the teacher asked the students.
'How many pages has that book got?' I asked Stephen.
WORKBOOK p a g e 79
/8
points)
Vocabulary revision
Fiction
Non-fiction
1 Complete the sentences w i t h the correct words.

1
2
A
story is often about elves, dragons, trolls or
other imaginary creatures.
A
You want to find the meaning of a word.
You want to find out about the geography of a country.
You want to read about the life of a person, in his/her own

words.
You want to find new ideas for dinner.
You want to learn how to use your computer well.
You're going to Prague and want to know what to visit.
is an exciting story about spies, murders
and assassinations.
3
You can either read a
or see it at a theatre.
A
witch.
In
fiction, the story takes place at a
particular moment in the past.
A
is a type of book which combines
writing and art, like 'manga' for example.
You want to revise maths for an exam.
You want to find out information about lots of different topics

to write a quiz.
is a story about people who fall in love.

is usually about a prince, a princess or a
story should be frightening.
WORKBOOK p a g e 74

3
Which type of book or publication is best in these situations?
/8
with reading and
points)
You want to know what's happening in the world at the

moment.
/9
points)
/7
points)
writing
Match the sentence halves.

1
I love this book, I want to read
them out to me in a loud voice.
When you finish that page, turn
it out with a big X.
You have to fill
over and read the next one.
Because the text was difficult, I had to look
through it looking at the pictures.
I can't read what he wrote because he crossed
up lots of words.
I looked at the magazine quickly. I flicked
in the answers on your sheet.
I want to hear your answers so please read
on tonight until I get to the end of it.
WORKBOOK p a g e 77
V
/40
points
Unit 9
0
121
O C y b e rs
Grammar
The passive - present simple and other tenses
Vocabulary
Computers and computing The Internet Collocations with emai
Speaking
Talking about photos
Writing
Text messages
Vocabulary
Computers and computing
1
Work w i t h a partner. Match these words w i t h the parts of the computer in the photo.
hard drive
printer
keyboard
screen
laptop
speaker
mouse
USB port
mouse pad
webcam
Read these sentences. Which w o r d in 1 does each sentence describe?

1
You use it to hear things like music.
You move it and click on the buttons to do things on a
computer.
It's the part of the computer where you can see words and
. .
pictures.
You use it to write with a computer.
You move the mouse on this.
speaker
Internet.
,, .
. . .
...
. ,
.
It s the part inside a computer which has the information that
computer needs to work.
You use it to make hard copies of documents that you have
created on a computer,
o
u u s e j t t 0
r e c o r d
i m a
e s
t h a t
n s e e a
s e n d
It's a place on a computer where you can connect a keyboard,

printer camera etc
10 It's a small computer that you can carry with you.
The Internet
4
Read this description by a teenager of how she uses the
Here are some other words which are both nouns and
Internet. Underline any words that you don't understand and
then look t h e m up in your dictionary.
w o r d s
S a
'I've g o t b r o a d b a n d so m y c o n n e c t i o n t o t h e N e t is q u i t e
f a s t . I usually g o o n l i n e in t h e e v e n i n g s , a f t e r I've f i n i s h e d
my h o m e w o r k b u t s o m e t i m e s I use t h e N e t f o r s c h o o l w o r k
t h e
understand the meaning of the
f i r s t
s a
5 a PRONUNCIATION Look at these two sentences. Is download a verb
or a noun in each sentence? Where do we place the stress?
"
do schoolwork
S
,
"
'
u s e a w e D
s a
n o u n
send emails
download music or films
read or write blogs
<
t*.
<
n
\i
n
participate as a member of an online community
5c 2.41 Listen again and choose the correct alternative.
H
T
chat online
cam
I want to download this song.
5 b 2.40 Listen t o the t w o sentences. Is the pronunciation of

j
i J J .
u
*
i
download the same in each sentence?
go online and surf the Net
The download didn't work.
Unit 1 0
.
e V e r
In two-syllable nouns the stress is usually on the first/second syllable.
print documents or photos
'
<.
t
o f t e n . I haven't g o t a blog b u t I chat online w i t h my friends.'
In two-syllable verbs the stress is usually on the first/second syllable.
SPEAKING Work with a partner. How often do you do these
t o o . T h e f i r s t t h i n g I d o is c h e c k m y e m a i l s . I s u r f t h e N e t a n d
l o o k a t m y f a v o u r i t e w e b s i t e s . M y f a v o u r i t e search e n g i n e
is G o o g l e . I s o m e t i m e s d o w n l o a d music a n d f i l m s , b u t n o t
MySpace, Facebook)
j t j n t
Q a
k h
u d
things. Are your answers similar?
j f rent
f
> Reading
2
1 Work with a partner. Discuss these questions.

1
2
Read this text about buying essays for school or university
How often do you have to write essays or prepare
online. Does the text give the:
presentations at school?
teachers' side of the argument? Yes/No
Do you know any websites where you can buy essays
students' side of the argument? Yes/No
arguments of the companies that sell online school work? Yes/No
written by other people?

3
What happens in your school if you cheat in an exam or
You can answer yes more than once.
doing homework?
Internet cheating
D
Millions of pounds are spent each
year on Internet cheating. There are
tens of thousands of websites w h e r e
you can buy essays. W i t h m o s t essayw r i t i n g companies, students pay per
w o r d . Sometimes they pay p e r page.
Some companies offer t o w r i t e a special,
personalised essay, but at an extra cost.
You can also pay extra f o r faster essays.
I Barclay L i t t l e w o o d is t h e o w n e r of one
online essay-writing organisation. 3,500
specialists are e m p l o y e d by his company.
They have w r i t t e n m o r e t h a n 15,000 essays
for students. The c o m p a n y made 90,000
in just one w e e k in May. Thanks t o his
company, L i t t l e w o o d
has a Ferrari and a
af^*^
Lamborghini in
his garage.
I However, Internet cheating

is n o w an e n o r m o u s p r o b l e m
f o r schools and universities.
One education e x p e r t p r e d i c t e d
t h a t schools w o u l d have t o stop
continuous.assessment and
start d o i n g m o r e exams again.
Universities and schools say t h a t
t h e UK's academic r e p u t a t i o n is
g o i n g d o w n because o f online
essay companies.
U Barclay L i t t l e w o o d , o n t h e
o t h e r hand, says he d o e s n ' t
help s t u d e n t s t o cheat. He says
he simply offers t h e m a guide.
'The essays are a s t a r t i n g p o i n t .
Students use t h e m t o create t h e i r
o w n w o r k . Students analyse o u r
answers and t h e n t h e y w r i t e t h e i r
o w n . We're just s h o w i n g t h e m
h o w t o w r i t e a great essay.'
But as one teacher replied:

'The suggestion t h a t these essays
are used by students as " g u i d e s " is
crazy and dishonest. We need t o do
s o m e t h i n g t o stop it.' Many colleges
and universities n o w have software
w h i c h allows teachers t o check if
students are copying f r o m five billion
w e b pages. Many universities have
somebody d o i n g this full-time. 'It's
n o t a question of catching people
and punishing t h e m . It's a question
of helping students t o understand
w h a t education really is. Education
is research and investigation. In the
end, the students w h o are using
these services are just n o t learning
t h e skills they need f o r their studies
or f o r t h e rest of their lives.'
St:
3 Read the text again and choose the best answers.

1
The price of a basic online essay usually depends on
who writes it.
what the subject is.
how long it is.
Barclay Littlewood is
a businessman.
a writer of online essays.
an ex-teacher.
An educational specialist thinks that online cheating will
change the way teachers teach.
change the way teachers assess students.
make it easier for students to pass exams.
Barclay Littlewood says
students shouldn't just give teachers the essay that they buy.
he is helping students to copy work.
his objective is to help students get the best marks.
The text says that teachers
have no way of knowing if students are copying essays,
are using technology to find people who are cheating,
want to make cheats suffer.
Answer these questions using your o w n words.

1
Why does Barclay Littlewood think online essays are good?
Why do teachers think online essays are bad?
Guess the t y p e of w o r d (noun, verb, adjective, preposition, etc)

and the possible meaning. Then use your dictionary to see if
you were correct.
1
per
personalised
preposition
- for each.
owner
continuous assessment
starting point
crazy
punishing
research
STUDY SKILLS
Why is it important and useful to guess difficult words from their
context?
6

1
What do you think about buying online essays?
Would you ever buy an online essay? Why/Why not?

Unit 10
123
Grammar in context
3
G R A M M A R GUIDE
The passive
- present
Put the verbs in the correct form of the present simple passive.
simple
l a Look at these sentences. Which are

active and which are passive?
1
Millions of pounds are spent each

year on Internet cheating.
People spend millions of pounds

on Internet cheating.
His company employs 3,500

specialists.
3,500 specialists are employed by

his company.
1 b Are these statements true (T) or

false (F)?
1
We use the passive when we

are more interested in the
action than in the person who
does it.
I/F
We use the passive when we

don't know who exactly does
the action.
T/F
We use the passive when it is

obvious who does the action.
T/F

1
To make the present simple passive

we use
+ the past
participle.
We use the preposition

to introduce the
agent, the person or thing which
does the action.
The silicon
(refine)
to be 100% pure.
The pure silicon

(heat) and
(make)
into small blocks called ingots.
Complete the sentences w i t h is or are.

1
The Internet
used by
approximately 67% of the British
population.
Every day approximately 183 billion emails

sent around the world.
That means more than 2 million emails

sent every second.
Email
people.
Some people calculate that 56.4% of web

pages
written in English.
A new blog
created each halfsecond of every day.
The ingots
(cut)
into thin slices called wafers.
The wafers
(wash)
in various chemicals and metal
layers
(add).
The wafers
(cut)
into smaller pieces called dies.
The dies
(add)
to a cooling plate to form a
micro-processor. They are then
(send) to computer factories.
used by around 1.3 billion
The biggest percentage of Internet users in

the world
Unit 10
found in Asia.
4 Change these sentences from active to passive, or f r o m passive to
active. Include by plus the agent only when necessary.
Collocations with
1
email
Read the text. The words in italics frequently

go w i t h the w o r d email. Which of these words
match the icons below?
They make a lot of silicon chips in India.
They employ many people in the computer industry.
They invent new technology every day.
Most new games consoles are created by Sony and Nintendo.
Millions of kids play computer games every day.
People do a lot of shopping online nowadays.
had recently changed his email (d) account. He'd
Some governments control the use of the Internet.
sent me a message with his new email address but I
You don't need a password to enter this site.
had accidentally (e) deleted it, so I didn't have it any
The other day I tried to (a) send an email to my

cousin but it (b) bounced back. The email (c) address
wasn't correct. The problem was that my cousin
more. I knew that one of my friends had my cousin's

Wine region
f
4
Bolzano
Milan
' 7
Verona
new email address so I sent my original email to my

friend and asked her to (f) forward it to my cousin.
Olive Oil
The next day I was (g) checking my email and I saw
Lemons
that my cousin had (h) replied to my message.
Tomatoes
Oranges
Pizza
Gtass
Turin *
Parma
Genoa,
San Marino
Plane industry
Car industry
Pisa* Florence ( B ' A n c o n a

Siena
"
Perugia ?*&
Winter sports
Rugby
Corsica
Match these definitions w i t h the correct words
in 1.
1
an arrangement you have with an Internet

company to use email
account
when an email doesn't go to the person you
send it to and it comes back to you
the letters, numbers and symbols you need to
write to send someone an email
to see if you have any email
to send an email on to somebody.
3 a SPEAKING Think about these questions. Make a

note of your answers.
5a SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Look at the map of Italy and
answer these questions.
1
What things are made there?
What things are exported?
Have you got an email address? If so, do you

know how to say it in English?
Do you have a free email account or do you pay?
Who do you send most emails to?
How fast do you usually reply to the emails you

receive?
How often do you delete the emails you receive?
What fruit and vegetables are grown?
What fruit and vegetables are not grown?
What typical food is eaten?
What sports are played?
When do you usually check your email?
What sports are not played?
Have any of your emails ever bounced back? Do

you know why?
How much spam do you get via email?
Cars are made in Italy. They're made

in the north, in Turin and Milan.
3 b Work w i t h a partner. Ask and answer the

Sb Now use the questions to help you prepare a presentation about
your country. Give as many details as possible.
5c Give your presentation to the class.
questions.
3c Now tell another student what you discovered
about your partner.
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t e c h n o l
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Jt it.. I
4 J
Cross-curricular - Science
The i n v e n t o r of t h e World Wide Web
LISTENING 22
Listen t o a radio
programme about Sir Tim BernersLee, the inventor of the WWW. Does
the presenter say anything a b o u t . . .
when Berners-Lee was a child? Yes/No
I was working in a physics laboratory called CERN. CERN is in Geneva,

Switzerland. At CERN, people study High Energy Physics. That is the
physics of really, really small particles - particles much smaller than
atoms. If you want to investigate really, really small things, you need
enormous machines called accelerators. That's what they have at CERN.
Well, things were very frustrating in the past. There was different
information on different computers, but you couldn't get all the
information with just one computer. People at CERN came from
universities all over the world. They brought all types of computers
with different types of software. Sometimes you had to learn a
different program for each computer. So I wrote some programs to take
information from one computer system to put it in another system. And
then I thought "Can't we connect all these different information systems
and make just one imaginary information system? Everybody could read
the same system." And that became the WWW.
when he was at university? Yes/No

his life now? Yes/No
Listen again and choose the
correct alternative.
Actually inventing it was simple. The difficult part was to persuade

everybody to use the same system. It's incredible that so many people
now use it.
Berners-Lee was born in the south-west of

Berners-Lee likedridingon trains/
Berners-Lee's first contact with electronic
gadgets was
mo^^modelJMo/.
making
somethingfgr^
repairing the TV.
Berners-Lee made
9/!.1.
.
when he was at
university.
Berners-Lee studied physics at university
because .!?191.
Well, because it is, basically. I want you to know that you too can make
new programs which create new, fun ways of using computers and using
the Internet. I want you to know that, if you can imagine a computer
doing something, you can program
a computer to do that. The only
limit is your imagination. And
a couple of laws of physics.
Of course, what happens with
computers is that you have a
basic, simple idea. Then you have
to add things on to it to make
it work. But all good computer
programs are simple inside.
than maths/he didn't like maths/his parents

taught physics.
You are going to read some Frequently Asked Questions from the
website of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide
Web. Match the questions w i t h answers 1-4 in the text.
Was it easy to invent the WWW?
Where were you when you invented the WWW?
Why do you always say everything is simple?
What made you think of the WWW?
126
Unit 10
4 Read the text again and answer the questions.

1 What is high energy physics?
2 What is an accelerator?
3 Why did people have to learn different programs for
different computers at CERN?
4 What was Sir Tim Berners-Lee's solution to the
problem with computers at CERN?
5 What was the hardest part about making the World
Wide Web work?
6 How can you create a new computer program, in
Berners-Lee's opinion?
5 What about you?
1 How important are the Internet and the World Wide
Web for you? Why?
2
What information about the inventor of the World

Wide Web did you find interesting?
I think the Internet is really
important for me.
Why?
It's very useful for

finding information for
schoolwork, for example.
Eight facts a b o u t . . . Silicon Valley
The name Silicon Valley is used to describe a geographica

area (its real name is the Santa Clara Valley), but also to
describe all the high-tech companies in this area. Many of
these companies originally designed and made silicon chips.
3 2.43 million people live in Silicon Valley.
4 3 8 % of the population of Silicon Valley was born outside the
USA. These people are usually top engineers and scientists
who have gone there to work.
5
There are 16 different cities in Silicon Valley. The biggest is

San Jose. It is called the capital of Silicon Valley.
The area has had a great reputation for new ideas and
technology. Many rich businessmen have gone there to
invest money in new projects, especially in computers and
the Internet.
Many engineers and scientists went to live in Silicon Valley

because there was a lot of space and prices were relatively
cheap. Now it is one of the most expensive places in the USA
to buy a house.
Silicon Valley is the home of Apple, eBay, Google, Yahoo!, HP,

Intel and many other world-famous computer and Internet
businesses
Cross-curricular - Geography
Silicon Valley
6 Work w i t h a partner. Do you know anything about
Silicon Valley? Make a list w i t h ideas.
kVe think it's in California, USA.
7
Read the facts about Silicon Valley. Did any of your

ideas in 6 appear? Were your ideas correct?
Read the facts again and classify the information into

these categories. Some numbers can go in more t h a n
one category.
Geography
Population
Economy/Industry
Other
1
9
Silicon Valley is in North California, USA, near San Francisco
SILICOK] VALLeV
1
M o o j did
ojorks
Moco
Complete the notes.
10 What about you?

Would you like to live or work in Silicon Valley? Why/Why not?
I'd like to go there because I'm

really interested in computers.
I'd prefer to go
to San Francisco.
i-t qe-t
i-ts
-there?
YtxaCM didldoes
-to live
name?
i CoS-t
-there?
4 bJhere is i-t?
5
Uhcx-t is -the correct
or i-ts \oco\-tiov\?
bJhu\ is i-t Ccmous?
name
Grammar in context
G R A M M A R GUIDE
The passive - other
tenses
l a Look at these passive sentences. Match them with

the correct tenses (a-c).
1
It was started in 2001.
Hundreds of articles are being added every day.
Articles have been written by hundreds of thousands

of people.
present continuous passive
present perfect passive
past simple passive
l b To change the tense in a passive sentence, do we

change the verb be or the past participle?
2
1
SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Can you answer these

questions? If you don't know the answers, guess!
1
What is Wikipedia?
Who is Wikipedia written by?
How many languages does Wikipedia appear in?
LISTENING
2.43 Listen to a radio programme about
Wikipedia and check your answers in 1.
@ Look at this text about Wikipedia. It contains six
Change these sentences from active to passive.

1
Wikipedia has transformed traditional encyclopedias.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee didn't start Wikipedia.
They are changing Wikipedia articles at this moment.
mistakes. Listen again to the radio programme and f i n d

the mistakes.
Wikipedia is the fifth most popular website in the world. It
was started in 2001 by two Australians but it isn't written
Normal people have written most of the articles for

Wikipedia.
by them. Their first encyclopedia was an incredible success.

Then the website became a 'wiki', a website that visitors can
change and add information to. Approximately 170 articles
are being added every day. 'Wiki wiki' is an African expression
which means 'quick', and one of the reasons that Wikipedia
'Vandals' have ruined some Wikipedia articles.
is so popular is that articles can change guickly when things

change in the world. Wikipedia has offices in many countries,
including Poland. One of the five most popular editions of
Wikipedia is the Polish edition.
4
A 14-year-old boy from Puerto Rico is checking many

Wikipedia texts.

1
2
Do you ever use Wikipedia? When and what for?

Would you like to write an article for Wikipedia? What
would you write about?
A famous scientist wrote an article in 2007.
A lot of students have used Wikipedia.
I sometimes use Wikipedia

for projects at school.
Me too. I usually use it to find
out about famous people,
especially for history classes.
5 a SPEAKING Look at these trivia questions. Do you know

the answers?
EXAM SUCCESS
The next exercise is a cloze activity. You have a text
with gaps, but they do not give you words to fill in
the gaps. How do you decide which word is missing?
3 Complete the text by filling in each space w i t h one

word.
Second Life is a virtual world. It (a)
created
was,
in 2003 by a company called Linden Lab. Some people

call it the future of entertainment, social interaction
and business. In fact, business (b)
important in Second Life because you can buy and
sell almost anything. People (c)
for things with Linden dollars. You can buy Linden
dollars with real US dollars. In September 2006 a
(d)
of money (e)
spent in Second Life ($6.6ml), mostly on designer

clothes. Officially there (f)
more
than two million residents in Second Life at the

moment but many of these residents are not active.
People under 18 can't join Second Life because
you (g)
be 18. So now a place
called Teen Second Life has (h)

created (i)
young people (j)
Linden Lab for

13 to 17.
4 Write questions in the passive for these answers.
who was SecondLife createdby?

Second Life was created by Linden Lab.
The first Nobel Prize was given in 1901.
A supercomputer is being created by the University of

California.
The DS Lite is made by Nintendo
Wikipedia has been used by millions of people.
The first computer mouse was made in 1964.
5 b Work w i t h a partner. Write five trivia questions in the passive. You

must know the answers to all your questions.
5c Join another pair and ask t h e m your questions. Who gets the
Brave New World was written by Aldous Huxley.
most correct answers?

Unit 10
eveloping speaking
1
Talking
about
photos
SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Each choose a different photo. Make notes for what you can
say about your photo. Use these questions for ideas: Who? What? Why? Where? When? Take
it in turns to say what you can see in your photo. Speak for t w o or three minutes.
In the second photo I can see a

group of people in a cafe. They
are talking and laughing...
SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Imagine the photos are

from a speaking exam and that you are the examiners.
What questions would you ask about photo b? Make a list.
Where are the people in this
photo?
STUDY SKILLS
What is the best way to improve your speaking?

LISTENING
2.44 Listen to a student talking about photo in an exam. Do they ask any of your questions? Do you think the
student does the exam well or not? Why?
Listen again. Tick the expressions in the Speaking Bank

that you hear. Why are these expressions useful t o talk
about photos and pictures?
Speaking Bank
Useful expressions f o r s p e c u l a t i o n
I think...
I'm not sure, but I think t h a t . . .
It looks as if...
It looks like ...
I imagine t h a t . . .
It may/might/could be ...
It's not clear if...
They're probably ...

5 a SPEAKING Work w i t h a partner. Look at photos and d
above and each choose a different photo. Make notes to
describe your photo.
5 b Prepare questions to ask about your partner's photo and
then take turns t o ask and answer questions.
E X A M SUCCESS
In conversations based on photos, what should you do if

you aren't 100% sure of what you can see in the photos(s)?
Who is in this photo?
It looks as if they are a group of

students in a computer class.
Read the information in the Writing Bank. What do you

think the complete words are?
Writing Bank
w t o w r i t e t e x t messages
We often use abbreviations instead of writing the
complete word.
To make abbreviations, we sometimes take away
vowels from the word (e.g. PLS = please) or we
replace words with symbols (e.g. @ = at) or numbers
(e.g. L8R = later).
Here are some more common examples:
BCZ
L8
MSG
SPK
THX
2 DAY
2MORO
WKND
XLNT
HMWK
Match the words and the abbreviations used in text messages.

1
are
2nite
at
before
YR
great
L8R
later
please
see
PLS
to/too
g
h
tonight
WOT
Remember! It is not correct to use these abbreviations

in other types of writing like essays, formal letters, etc.
We can also use emoticons like or in text
messages to show emotions.
Use abbreviations to make these text messages shorter.

1
WOTR U doing @ the WKNb?
10
what
11
you
B4
12
your
GR8
Read these five text messages. What order were they sent in?
What are you doing at the weekend?
Thanks for helping me with my homework.
Can you come tomorrow to fix my computer?
You should be happy because your exam results are

excellent.
Don't forget to send me a message later tonight.
I want to see you and Peter before I speak to the teacher

tomorrow.

6 a Look at this task and write a text message. Use
abbreviations and the Writing Bank to help you.
You need to use the Internet

tomorrow to do a piece of work for
school, but your connection at home
1
Write out the text messages in 2 as full sentences. Use the

information in 1 to help you.
a
b
QK. See you at 8. N
doesn't work. Write a text message to

a friend asking i f you can go to their
house tomorrow to use the Net.
6 b Now give your message to your partner and write a

reply to their message. Keep sending messages until
you both know exactly w h e n , where and why you are
meeting and what you can do later.
Unit 10
Grammar reference
The
passive
Form - Affirmative/Negative
Tense
Present simple
Present continuous
Present perfect
Past simple
Subject
Be
Past participle
(by + agent)
Silicon
is
used to make computer chips.
Olive oil
is
produced
Computers
are
made in China.
This game
is being
played
by millions of people.
Essays
are being
written
by Internet companies.
Billions of emails
are being
sent every day.
Teen Second Life
hasn't been
created
by Wikipedia.
by Italian farmers.
Many things
have been
invented
by women.
Wikipedia articles
have been
ruined
by vandals.
The Internet
wasn't
invented in 1930.
The last World Cup
was
played in South Africa.
A lot of songs
were
written
by George Gershwin.
We make the passive with the appropriate tense and form of the verb be and the past participle of the verb.
We use the preposition by to introduce the person or thing which does the action.
Form - Questions
Tense
Be
Subject
Present simple
Are
computers
Past participle
(by + agent)
made in the USA?
Present continuous
Is
this game
being
Present perfect
Has
a new console
been
Past simple
Was
that film
played
created?
by millions of people.
made in 1986?
To make object questions in the passive, we put the first auxiliary verb before the subject.
Use
We use t h e passive w h e n :
1
we are more interested in the action than the people who do the action.
The new hospital was opened

2
we do not know exactly who does the action.
My hag has been

3
stolen.
it is obvious or understood who did the action.
The criminal
yesterday.
was arrested
at 5.30pm.
Vocabulary
1 Computers and computing
hard drive
keyboard
laptop
mouse
mouse pad
printer
screen
speaker
USB port
webcam
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unit 10
1
2 The Internet
blog
broadband
chat online
connection
download
online
search engine
surf the Net
website
3 Collocations with email

bounce back
email account
reply to an email
check email
delete an email
email address
forward an email
send an email
4 Other words and phrases page 145
Grammar revision
The passive - present
simple
1 Write sentences in the present simple passive.

1
Computers/use/everywhere.
Portuguese/speak/in Brazil.
Chocolate eggs/eat/at Easter in the UK.
Fish/not sell/at the butcher's.
Christmas/celebrate/in many countries.
Cars/make/by robots in this factory.
Shoes/not wear/in mosgues.
This programme/watch/by thousands of people.
The passive - other
/8 points)
tenses
2 Each sentence contains a mistake. Find the mistake and rewrite the sentence correctly.
1
The song Blue Suede Shoes was sang by Elvis Presley.
Yesterday the eclipse was saw by many people around the world.
The Lord of the Rings is written by J.R.R. Tolkien between 1937

and 1949.
Oh no! His car has stolen.
My friend have been given a computer for her birthday.
London is visited for hundreds of people every day.
The dog was been hit by a car yesterday.
The radio invented Marconi.
Many products made in China nowadays.
10
New types of computers are being invent right now.
/10 points)
/10 points)
Vocabulary revision
Computers
and
computing
2
1 Match to make words or phrases.

1
hard
key
b pad
USB
top
down
d cam
lap
e load
web
mouse
g board
Write the correct names next t o these objects.
a port
drive
WORKBOOK p a g e 82
The
Collocations
Internet
3 Read the definitions. What are the words?

1
2
Complete the sentences w i t h six of these words.
look at various places on the Net one after another

r_
a computer program used for looking
for information on the Internet
r
with email
account
delete
address
forward
bounce
reply
check
send
When somebody sends you an email you should

quite quickly.
to it
a type of diary on a website that changes regularly
When somebody sends you an email that you want to send to another
person, you
it.
connected to the Internet
When you don't want to keep an email, you
move information to your computer from the

Internet _ _ w
When emails don't go to the correct address they
a type of connection to the Internet that allows

you to receive or send a lot of information very
guickly
b
My email
The first thing I do when I go online is to
WORKBOOK p a g e 82
/6 points)
it.
back.
is fredbloggs@bloggs.co.uk.
my email to see
if any new ones have arrived.

/6 points)
,
D133
/40 points
9 - / 0
Units
Reading
In reading activities where you complete a text with missing
sentences, remember...
When you finish, check the activity by reading the text with
your answers in the correct place. Do the sentences go
together logically? Do words like this or it make sense?
W o r k w i t h a partner. D i s c u s s t h e s e q u e s t i o n s .
P u t t h e s e s e n t e n c e s in t h e c o r r e c t place in the text.
H o w often d o y o u r e a d n o v e l s ?
T h e r e is o n e e x t r a s e n t e n c e t h a t y o u d o not n e e d .
D o y o u like r e a d i n g n o v e l s ? W h y / W h y n o t ?
H o w often d o y o u r e a d text m e s s a g e s ?
W h a t t y p e of text m e s s a g e s d o y o u r e c e i v e ?
O n e interesting t h i n g a b o u t this n e w f a s h i o n is
that readers want new, original novels.
R e a d t h e text quickly. W h a t is t h e c o n n e c t i o n
b e t w e e n n o v e l s a n d m o b i l e p h o n e s in t h e t e x t ?
In J a p a n , it's c o m m o n to download and read books

on your mobile phone.
E
4
Some authors' novels are downloaded 260,000 times a

day. A lot of the people downloading these novels never
buy traditional books, maybe because books are too big for
their bags or pockets. And another advantage of mobilephone novels is that you can read them in the dark!
Some publishers have made mobile-phone versions of old,
well-known novels but these haven't been as successful as
new stories. The most popular types of books are thrillers
and romance. Some of the most popular mobile-phone
novels have been made into traditional books. One of these
books, by a writer called Yoshi, sold a million copies. Now
it is being made into a film. Other mobile-phone novels
have also been turned into TV series, films or manga
comics.
4
T h e difficult part of writing a mobile-phone novel is

that each episode or chapter has to be short.
R e a d t h e t e x t a g a i n a n d c h o o s e t h e best a n s w e r s .
1
In the text it says that one day in the future

A
young Japanese people are going to read
mobile-phone novels.
young Japanese people are going to read

traditional books.
people in other countries may read more

mobile-phone novels.
O n e reason w h y these mobile-phone novels are

popular may be because
A
you can carry t h e m and read them easily in
different situations.
traditional books are boring.
you c a n receive t h e m by email.
Classic novels
A
have never b e c o m e mobile-phone novels.
will never b e c o m e mobile-phone novels.
aren't very popular mobile-phone novels.
Mobile-phone novels
A
have been changed into other types of
entertainment.
are only popular with a small part of the

population.
are similar to c o m i c s and films.
Yoshi
A
didn't like writing short paragraphs.
found out what his readers thought of his

story while he w a s writing it.
couldn't write quickly because he didn't have

ideas.
But Yoshi found it easy and it helped him to write in an

exciting, fast, natural way. He also used modern technology
in a different way. Readers sent him emails with their
opinions and ideas and Yoshi used some of these ideas in
future chapters. There was real interaction between the
readers and writer.
S o m e Japanese teachers aren't happy about the

s u c c e s s of mobile-phone novels.
Maybe that situation is going to change soon. It's already

changed in Japan, where thousands and thousands of
people are reading. The only thing is that they aren't
reading books, they're reading mobile-phone novels. They
are older teenagers and young adults, the first generation
to spend their childhood with email.
People often say that teenagers and young adults

don't read.
W h a t a b o u t you?
W o u l d y o u like to r e a d a m o b i l e - p h o n e novel?
W h y / W h y not?
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Speaking
Listening
Tip f o r L i s t e n i n g E x a m s
In conversations based on photos, remember...
In listening activities where you complete notes, remember...
If you aren't 100% sure of what you can see, speculate by
Read the notes before you listen and predict what type of
word (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) goes in each space
using language like I'm not sure but I think, It may/might/could
6 2 . 4 5 Listen to a p r o g r a m m e w i t h i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t
L o o k at this p h o t o for a f e w m i n u t e s a n d think of

but d o not w r i t e c o m p l e t e s e n t e n c e s .
notes.
m e a n s (2)
t h i n g s y o u c a n s a y a b o u t it. M a k e n o t e s if y o u w a n t ,
the history of S M S text m e s s a g e s a n d c o m p l e t e t h e
T h e first S M S w a s s e n t in (1)
be, It looks like...
. SMS
. A n S M S text c a n only
have (3)
c h a r a c t e r s , or letters, f r o m
the R o m a n a l p h a b e t . T h e first S M S w a s s e n t by a
m a n w h o w a s w o r k i n g for V o d a f o n e . H e sent it to
(4)
. T h e first e v e r S M S m e s s a g e
w a s '(5)
'. A t first y o u c o u l d n ' t s e n d
S M S m e s s a g e s to p e o p l e w h o w e r e w i t h a
(6)
(7)
made S M S texts
p o p u l a r b e c a u s e it w a s (8)
to s e n d a
m e s s a g e t h a n to m a k e a p h o n e call.
W o r k w i t h a partner. D e s c r i b e t h e p h o t o a n d t h e n
discuss these two questions.
W h a t a r e t h e g o o d t h i n g s a b o u t b u y i n g in a s h o p like
Use of English
this?
Is it b e t t e r to s h o p o n l i n e ? W h y / W h y n o t ?
Tip f o r Use of E n g l i s h E x a m s
In activities where you have to complete gaps in a text,
remember...
Look carefully at the words just before and after the gap. Do
these words need a special preposition or an article or an
auxiliary verb, for example?
C o m p l e t e t h e text a b o u t t h e m a g a z i n e

1 How well can you do these things in English now?
Give yourself a mark f r o m 1 to 4.
1 = I can do it very well.
2 = I can do it quite well.
National
3 = I have some problems.
U s e o n e w o r d in e a c h g a p .
Geographic.
4 = I can't do it.
I can report what other people have said or asked
Every year their magazines and T V programmes (1)
using reported speech.
read and watched by millions of people around the world.
I can talk about books and reading.
The National Geographic Society began in 1888 w i t h just
I can identify information in an interview about

books and films.
I can ask for things in a bookshop.
a few members and now it is one of the largest scientific

and educational organisations (2)
created (3)
the world. It was
I can write a questionnaire about magazines and

newspapers.
I can describe different stages of a process using
different forms of the passive.
I can talk about computers and the Internet.
I can identify information in a newspaper article
about the Internet.
a group of 33 teachers, explorers, and
businessmen (4)
13 January 1888 in Washington.
D C . They met to talk about their interest in geography.

Later that year the first edition of the National
Geographic-
magazine was published. The articles and reports were

(5)
by professors but they weren't very interesting
for people (6)

then (7)
I can describe and make speculations about photos.
weren't experts in geography. But
I can write a simple text message.
magazine became easier to read and
included more and more photos, especially in colour. Some
Now decide what you need to do t o improve.
amazing photos have (8)
printed i n the magazine
from all corners of the planet. So i f one day you need to
(9)
Other:
up some information about geography for a
school project, why not start by picking up a copy o f the

National
Geographic'?
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(adj) = adjective
(adv) =adverb
(conj) = conjunction
The most common and useful words in English are marked according to the Macmillan Dictionary
'star rating'. This is so that you can easily recognize the vocabulary you need to know especially well.
(n) = noun
(pron) = pronoun
= very common words
* = common words
= fairly common words
If there is no star next to the word, this means that it is not very common.
(v) = verb
invention (n)
movement (n) *
protection (n) * *
Unit 1
Ages a n d stages of life
/in'venf(3)n/
/'muivmant/
/prs'tekffsjn/
adolescence (n)
/,aed3'les(3)ns/
adult (n) *
/'aedAlt/
baby (n)
/'beibi/
birth (n)
child (n) * * *
childhood (n) *
/)9/
/tfaild/
/'tjaild.hod/
death (n) * *
middle-aged (adj)
/de0/
/'mid(3)l ,eid3d/
old age (n) *
/sold 'eid3/
senior citizen (n)

teenager (n)
/,si:nia(r) 'sitizfajn/
/'ti:n,eid33(r)/
computer technician (n)
/'()1/
/ksm'pjmtsir) tek'nif(3)n/
connected (adj)
/kD'nektid/
young adult (n)
/JAn 'aedAlt/
constant (n) *
cost (v) * *
/'konstant/
/kDSt/
cultural values (n)
/'kAltJ(3)ral ,va;lju:z/
dangerous (adj)
decision (n)
/'deind33r3s/
/di'si3(3)n/
The family
Other w o r d s a n d phrases
alone (adj)
/'/
approximately (adv) *
behaviour (n) * * *
/s'proksimatli/
/bi'heivja(r)/
boil (v) *
//
care (n)
celebrity (n) *
/()/
/ss'lebrati/
chance (n) * *
company (n) *
/tjains/
aunt (n)
born (adj) * *
brother (n)
/u:nt/
/:()/
/'()/
brother-in-law (n)
/() in ,1:/
difficult (adj)
discipline (n) *
/'difik(3)lt/
/'dissplin/
cousin (n) *
daughter (n)
/'()/
/'dD:t3(r)/
discuss (v) * *
enter (v)
/di'skAs/
divorced (adj)
/di'vD:(r)st/
e-pal (n)
father-in-law (n)
grandfather/mother (n)
/:() in ,
/'graen(d),fu:d3(r)/, /,()/
experiment (n) * *
grandson/daughter (n) *
/'gran(d),SAn/. /,d3:t3(r)/
explore (v)
husband (n) * * *
mother-in-law (n)
/'tiAzbsnd/
/'() in ,b:/
extra-curricular (adj)
fair (= just) (n) * *
nephew (n)
/'nefju:/
fashion (n)
()/
/'fa;;(3)n/
niece (n)
one-parent family
/ni:s/
/,WAn pearsnt 'faem(3)li/
fast (adv)
/fu:st/
/'fbmeil/
only child (n)
/, 'tjuild/
female (n)
fortunate (adj) *
partner (n) * *
single (adj) * * *
/'pa:(r)tno(r)/
/'sing(3)l/
sister (n) * *
sister-in-law (n)
/'sista(r)/
/'sista(r) in ,b:/
son (n) * *
stepfather/mother (n)
/SAn/
/'step,fu:d3(r)/, /,()/
uncle (n)
/'()1/
/waif/
wife (n)
N o u n suffixes -ment, -ion, -ence
(v)*
/'ent3(r)/
/'i:pael/
/ik'spen,m3nt/
/ik'spen.msnt/
/ik'spb:(r)/
/,ekstr3 k3'nkJ3l3(r)/
free (adj) * *
/'f3:(r)tj3n3t/
/fri:/
fridge (n)
government (n)
/fnd3/
/'gAV3(r)nm3nt/
GPS system (n)

grow up (v)
/,d3i: pi: 'es sistsm/
health (n) * *
helmet (n) *
hide (v) * * *
inform (v)
jacket (n)
late (adj & adv) * *
/, '/
//
/'helmit/
/haid/
/:()/
/'d3aekit/
adolescence (n)
/,aed3'les(3)ns/
difference (n)
/'difrans/
equipment (n)
/I'kwipmant/
improvement (n)
independence (n) * *
/im'pruivmant/
/,indi'pend3ns/
leave (v) * * *
/Teit3(r)/
/li:v/
lie (= not tell the truth) (v)
/lai/
information (n)
/,inf3(r)'mcij(3)n/
limit (n) * * *
/'limit/
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later (adj)
(adv)
/leit/
/'leit3(r)/
look after (v)
'a:ft3(r)/
lyrics (n)
/'links/
male (n)
/meil/
marriage (n)
meal (n)
/'mEendj/
/mid/
message (n)
/'mesidj/
mistake (n) * *
month (n)
/mi'steik/
newspaper (n)
/'nju:z,peip3(r)/
obey (v) * *
/'/
on time (adj)
/Dn 'taim/
online (adj & adv) * *
/nn'lam/
opportunity (n) * *
/,np3(r)'tju:n3ti/
opposite (n)
/'npazit/
/9/
(= true, the opposite of false)

option (n) * *
/'opJ(3)n/
particular (adj) * *
/pa(r)'tikjob(r)/
permanent (adj) * * *
/':()/
place (n)
/pleis/
recent (adj) * *
regularly (adv)
/'ri:s(a)nt/
responsible (adj)
/n'spr)ns3b(3)l/
result (n)
/'/
rule (n) * *
/rud/
service (n)
/'S3:(r)vis/
shout (v)
/Jaut/
specialist (noun) *
/'spejahst/
spy (v)
/spai/
stress (n) *
/stres/
/'regjub(r)li/
Phrasal verbs connected with investigating a n d

finding
come across (v)
/ a'kros/
find out (v)
/fuind 'aot/
look into (v)
/lok 'mts/
look for (v) *
/'luk fa(r)/
turn up (v)
:() '/
work out (v) * *
/w3i(r)k 'aut/
Other w o r d s a n d phrases
afterwards (adv)
/'a:ft3(r)w3(r)dz/
ahead (adv)
/a'hed/
army (n)
/'a:(r)mi/
arrest (v) *
/a'rest/
basic (adj) * * *
/'beisik/
behind (adv)
/bi'haind/
block (v) * *
/bbk/
box (n) *
/bDks/
bunker (n)
/')()/
by accident
/bai 'aeksid(3)nt/
by post
/bai 'paust/
camera (n) * *
/'()/
case (= 'criminal case') (n) * *
/keis/
catch (v)
/ka:tJ7
cheque (n) *
/tfek/
commit (v) *
/ks'mit/
corner (n) * * *
/':()()/
crash (v) *
/kraej/
strict (adj)
/strikt/
crossroads (n)
/'krDs,r3udz/
technology (n) * *
/tek'nDl3d3i/
damage (v)
/'daemid3/
yell (v)
/jel/
/z3on/
destroy (v)
/di'stroi/
detail (n) * *
/'diiteil/
disappear (v)
/,dis3'pi3(r)/
driving mirror (n)
/'draivir) ()/
escape (v)
/i'skeip/
everywhere (adv)
/'evri,we3(r)/
expect (v)
/ik'spekt/
fight (n & v) * *
/fait/
franc (n)
/fraerjk/
gadget (n)
/'gasd3it/
gang (n) * *
/gaer)/
get ready (v)
/get 'redi/
guard (n)
/ga:(r)d/
zone (n) * *
Unit 2
Crimes
burglary (n)
/:()1/
burgle (v)
/:()()1/
kill (v) *
/kil/
mug (v)
//
mugging (n)
murder (n) * *
/'/
/'rri3:(r)d3(r)/
piracy (n)
/'pairasi/
pirate (n & v)
/'pairat/
rob (v) * *
/rob/
robbery (n)
shoplifting (n)
steal (v) * *
theft (n) * *
vandalise (v)
(v) * *
/ga:(r)d/
gun (n) * *
//
handbag (n)
/'haen(d),basg/
handle (n) * *
/'haend(3)l/
/'robari/
happen (v)
/'/
/'Jop.hftirj/
/still/
/8eft/
headlights (n)
/'hed,laits/
headquarters (n)
/hed'kwo:(r)ta(r)z/
identification (n)
/ai.dentifi'kei^n/
/'vaendslaiz/
jump out (v)
/,d3Amp 'aot/
kidnap (v) *
/'kidneep/
Criminals
logic (n) * *
/'tod3ik/
burglar (n) *
/':()1()/
magician (n)
/m3'd3ij(3)n/
mugger (n)
murderer (n) *
/'()/
mission (n) *
/'mij(s)n/
/'m3:(r)dar3(r)/
navy (adj)
/'neivi/
robber (n) *
/'rDbafr)/
shoplifter (n)
/'jDp.hftsfr)/
neck (n) * *
//
thief (n) *
/6i:f/
note (n) * *
/nsot/
vandal (n)
/'vasnd(3)l/
outside (adj, adv & n)
/.aut'said/
(n)
/'neivi/
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pair (n) * *
/()/
Austrian (adj & n)
/'DStrbn/
parcel (n) *
/'pa:(r)s(3)l/
Brazil (n)
/bra'zil/
petrol station (n)
/'petral steij(s)n/
Brazilian (adj & n)
/bra'zilbn/
pocket (n)
/'pDkit/
Dutch (adj & n)
/dAtjy
police force (n)
/ps'lits fD:(r)s/
Egypt (n)
/'i:d ipt/
popular (adj) * *
/'pDpjob(r)/
Egyptian (adj & n)
/i'd3ipj(a)n/
prison (n)
/'pnz(3)n/
English (adj & n)
property (n)
/'()/
French (adj & n)
/'inglij'/
/frentjy
quickly (adv)
/'kwikli/
German (adj & n)
/^/
regular (= common) (adj) * * *
/'regjub(r)/
the Netherlands (n)
/ 'nedabndz/
reply (v) * *
/n'plai/
Italian (adj & n)
/I'taeljan/
revise (v)
/n'vaiz/
Japan (n)
'/
rope (n) * *
//
Japanese (adj & n)
/,d3aep3'ni:z/
/saek/
Poland (n)
/'paubnd/
scene of the crime
/,si:n av 'kraim/
Polish (adj & n)
/'pauhjy
show (v) * * *
/Jau/
Portuguese (adj & n)
/.portja'ghz/
side road (n)
/'said rsod/
Romansh (n)
/'/
software (n)
/'sDf(t),we3(r)/
Russia (n)
soldier (n) * *
/'saold33(r)/
Russian (adj & n)
/'()/
solve (v)
/SDIV/
Spanish (adj & n)
/'spaeniJV
speed (v) * * *
/spitd/
Swiss (adj & n)
/swis/
successful (adj)
/ssk'sesf(3)l/
Switzerland (n)
/'switssbnd/
suddenly (adv) * * *
/'sAd(s)nli/
Wales (n)
/weilz/
sunglasses (n)
/'sAn,gla:siz/
Welsh (adj & n)
/weljy
surprise (n) * *
/sa(r)'praiz/
suspicious (adj) *
/ss'spijss/
Learning a l a n g u a g e
thick (adj)
/6ik/
do an exercise (v)
/du: 'ekss(r)saiz/
try (v) * * *
/trai/
do homework (v)
/du: 'h3om,w3:(r)k/
turn off (= lights) (v) * *
/,t3:(r)n 'Df/
do/study English (v)
/du:/,stAdi 'irjglif/
unexpectedly (adv) *
/.Anik'spektidli/
do/take an exam (v)
/du:/,teik 'igzsem/
uniform (adj & n)
/'ju:nif3:(r)m/
make a mistake (v)
/,meik mis'teik/
urgent (adj)
/'3:(r)d3(3)nt/
memorization (n)
violence (n) * * *
/'vaisbns/
memorize (v) *
/,1'1_()/
/'memaraiz/
walking stick (n)
/'wDikir) stik/
practice (n)
/'prasktis/
/'wArid/
practise (v)
/'praektis/
revision (n) *
/n'vi3(3)n/
student (n) * *
/'stju:d(3)nt/
study (v) * *
/'stAdi/
translate (v)
/traens'leit/
translation (n) *
/traens'leif(3)n/
sack (n) *
worried (adj) * * *
G a t e w a y to exams,
units
1-2
clear (adj) * *
/kliafr)/
conference (n)
/'kDnf(3)rans/
N e g a t i v e prefixes
connection (n) * *
/'/()/
illegal (adj) *
/i'li:gO)l/
cover (v) * * *
/'kAV3(r)/
impossible (adj) * *
/im'pDS3b(3)l/
hood (n)
/hud/
incorrect (adj)
/.inka'rekt/
hoodie (n)
/'hudi/
informal (adj)
/m'fD:(r)m(3)l/
identify (v)
/ai'dentifai/
invisible (adj) * *
/in'VIZ3D(3)l/
incident (n)
/'insid(3)nt/
irregular (adj) *
/i'regjob(r)/
jay-walking (n)
/'d3ei,w3:kin/
unhappy (adj) * *
/An'haepi/
necessary (adj) * *
/'nesas(3)ri/
unofficial (adj)
/.Ana'fiJOil/
professor (n) *
/pr3'fesa(r)/
unusual (adj)
/']:1/
security (n)
/si'kjuarati/
top (= clothes) (n) * *
O t h e r w o r d s a n d p h ases
accommodation (n) *
/3,krjm3'deiJ(3)n/
advice (n)
bd'vais/
airline (n)
/'(),1/
alien (n) *
/'edbn/
annual (n)
/'aenjual/
Countries, nationalities a n d l a n g u a g e s
apart from (phrase)
b'pa:(r)t fram/
Argentina (n)
/,a:(r)d33n'ti:n3/
background (n)
/'baek.graund/
Argentinian (n)
/,a:(r)d33n'tmi3n/
belong to (v)
/bi'lor) ts/
Austria (n)
/'Dstris/
biscuit (n)
/'biskit/
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Wordlists
Unit
break (n & v)
/breik/
tribe (n)
/traib/
building (n)
/'bildin/
Turkish (adj & n)
/'t3:(r)kiJ7
business (= count.) (n)
/'biznas/
version (n) * * *
/':())/
calculate (v) *
/'kaelkjuleit/
vowel (n) *
/'vaual/
career (n)
/'()/
whole (adj & n) * * *
/haul/
channel (= TV) (n)
/'tTaen(a)l/
yoghurt (n)
/'JDga(r)t/
chat(n)
/tjaet/
(v) * *
/tjaet/
confusion (n) *
/kan'fju:3(a)n/
consonant (n)
/'kDnsanant/
contain (v)
/kan'tem/
convention (n) *
/kan'venf(a)n/
Parts o f t h e b o d y
count (v)
/kaunt/
arm (n)
/:()/
credits (end of a film) (n) *
/'kredits/
back (n) * *
/baek/
dessert (n) *
/di'z3:(r)t/
chest (n)
/t/est/
difficulty (n) * *
/'difik(a)lti/
ear (n) * *
/ia(r)/
discourse (n) *
/'diska:(r)s/
elbow (n)
/'elbao/
dub (n)
//
finger (n)
/'finga(r)/
/6/
foot (n)
/fut/
experience (n & v)
/ik'spiarians/
hand (n) * *
/hand/
expression (n)
/ik'sprej~(a)n/
head (n)
/hed/
factor (n)
/'faekta(r)/
knee (n) * *
/ni:/
factory (n)
/'faektri/
leg (n)
/leg/
familiar (adj) * *
/fa'milia(r)/
nose (n)
/nauz/
flirt (v)
/fl3:(r)t/
stomach (n)
/'stAmak/
fuelling stop (n)
/'fjuialin stop/
throat (n)
/6raut/
hamburger (n)
/',:()()/
toe (n) *
/tau/
instead of (adv)
/ i n ' s t e d av/
tooth (n) * *
/tu:0/
interpretation (n)
/in^sif^pn'teij'fatn/
last (v)
/la:st/
H e a l t h p r o b l e m s a n d il I n e s s e s
level (n)
/'lev(3)l/
broken (adj) * *
/'braukan/
linguist (n) *
/'lingwist/
cold (adj & n)
/kauld/
mad about (adj)
/ ' m a d sbaut/
cough (n)
/kDf/
main (n) * *
//
earache (n)
/'iareik/
monument (n)
/'mDnjumant/
flu (n)
/flu:/
mother-tongue (n)
/ , ( ) )/
headache (n)
/'hedeik/
mountain (n) * *
/'maontm/
hurt (v)
/h3:(r)t/
native speaker (n)
/ . n e i t i v 'spi:k3(r)/
pain (n)
neighbour (n) * * *
//
/'neibs(r)/
sore (adj)
/sa:(r)/
occasionally (adv) * *
/'1()/
stomach ache (n)
office (n)
/ ' s t A m a k eik/
/'Dfis/
temperature (n) * *
/'tempntja(r)/
original (adj)
/'^()1/
toothache (n)
/'tu:0eik/
(n)*
/'^()1/
virus (n)
/'vairas/
(v)*
Unit 4
over (= more than) (adv)
/'()/
permission (n)
/()'()/
C o m p o u n d nouns connected with health a n d medicine
picnic (n) *
/'piknik/
first aid (n)
/,f3:(r)st'eid/
politician (n)
/,pDl3'tlJ(3)n/
food poisoning (n)
/ ' f u : d ,paiz(a)nin/
possession (n) *
/p3'zef(3)n/
health centre (n)
/'helG ,senta/
sailing (n)
/'seilin/
heart attack (n) *
/'ha:(r)t a,taek/
sauce (n)
/sots/
set up (= start, establish) (v) * * * / , s e t '/
painkiller (n)
/'pem,kila(r)/
waiting room (n)
/'weitirj ,ru:m/
sign (n) * *
/sain/
simple (adj) * *
/'simp(3)l/
Other words a n d phrases
simplify (v) *
/'simphfai/
accident (n)
/'eeksid(a)nt/
skill (n)
/skil/
admit (v)
/ad'mit/
snow (n)
/snao/
bitterness (n)
/'bita(r)nas/
sound (n) * *
/saund/
blame (n)
/bleim/
summary (n) *
/'sAmsri/
blame (v) * * *
/bleim/
surfing (n)
/'s3:(r)fin/
boat (n) * *
/baut/
theme park (n)
/'Oiim pa:(r)k/
bored (adj) * *
/ba:(r)d/
tomato ketchup (n)
/t3,ma:t3u ' /
borrow (v) * *
/'bDrao/
translator (n)
/tra;nsTeit3(r)/
bright (adj)
/brait/
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^/! .
chemical (n) * *
/'()1/
slip past (v)
/.slip 'pa:st/
congratulations (n) *
/ksn^raetju'leiffsjnz/
solid (adj) * *
/'solid/
cruelty (n) *
/':/
stare (v) * *
/stea(r)/
cure (n) * *
/kjus(r)/
strong (adj)
/stron/
desert (n) *
/'dez3(r)t/
succeed (v)
/ssk'shd/
/di'z3:(r)t/
suffer (v)
/'1()/
drama (n) *
/'draima/
summer (n)
/'sAms(r)/
drug (n) * *
take over (v)
/,teik '()/
emergency (n) * *
/i'm3:(r)d3(3)nsi/
turn (n)
:()/
evil (adj & n) * *
/'i:v(3)l/
twice (adv)
/twais/
fall (v)
/fo:l/
website (n) *
/'web.sait/
fault (n)
/fb:lt/
wicked (adj)
/'wikid/
fear (n) *
/fis(r)/
winter (n)
/'wintafr)/
filled (adj) * *
/fild/
wonder (v)
/'wAnda(r)/
forest (n)
/'fDriSt/
forgive (v)
/fs(r)'giv/
get off (a boat) (v)
/,get
get rid of (v) *
/,get 'rid sv/
get well (v) *
/,get
ghost (n)
/gsust/
grant (v)
/graint/
guess (n) *
/ges/
(v)*
(v)
'Df/
'wel/
/ges/
G a t e w a y
t o
e x a m s ,
units
ability (n)
/s'bibti/
acupuncture (n)
/'ffikjo,pAr)ktj3(r)/
board game (n)
/'bD:(r)d ,geim/
brain (n) * * *
/brein/
chess (n)
/tjes/
crossword (n)
/'krDS,w3:(r)d/
discovery (n) * *
/di'skAv(s)ri/
effective (adj) * *
/I'fektiv/
guilty (adj)
/'gilti/
hard (= solid) (adj)
/ha:(r)d/
human being (n)
/,hju:man /
hygiene (n)
/'haid3i:n/
ice (n) * *
/ais/
innocence (n)
/'in3s(3)ns/
laboratory (n) * *
/b'bDr3t(3)ri/
laptop (n)
/'laep.tDp/
lie, lay (v)
/lai,lei/
lock (v) * *
/Lok/
TV p r o g r a m m e s
lower (your voice) (v) *
/'1()/
advert (ad/advertisement) (n) /'asdv3:(r)t/
mad (adj)
/maed/
cartoon (n) *
/kai(r)'tu:n/
mime (n & v)
/maim/
chat show (n) *
/'tjaet ,/
misery (n) *
/'mizari/
comedy (n)
/'kDmgdi/
/.nDn'stDp/
documentary (n)
/,dDkju'ment(3)ri/
paracetamol (n)
/.paera'sbtairrol/
film (n) * *
/film/
poison (n) *
/'pDIZ(3)n/
game show (n)
/ ' g e i m .Jbu/
politely (adv) *
/ps'laitli/
programme (n) * *
/'/
pray (v) * *
/prei/
reality show (n)
/ri'aslsti J b u /
prize (n) * *
/praiz/
remote control (n) *
/. !/
project (n) *
/'prod3ekt/, /'prsud3ekt/
series (n) * * +
/'siariiz/
/pra'd3ekt/
soap (n)
/saup/
/reiz/
sports programme (n)
/'sp3:(r)ts , /
/rirtJV
the news (n) * * *
/, ' n j u : z /
/ri:tJ7
turn/switch on/off (v)
/,t3:(r)n/,switj W ' D f /
n o n - s t o p (adj)
(v)**
raise (your voice) (v) * *
reach (n) * *
(v) * *
U n i t
recover (v)
/'()/
reduce (v)
/ri'djuis/
A d j e c t i v e s d e s c r i b i n g TV p r o g r a m m e s
remedy (n) *
/'remsdi/
awful (adj) *
/'o:f(3)l/
ride (v) * *
/raid/
boring (adj) *
/'boirm/
rubbish (n)
/'7
cool (adj)
/ku:l/
ruin (n)
/'ruan/
funny (adj) * *
/'fAni/
(v)
/'ruan/
informative (adj) *
/in'fD:(r)m3tiv/
seasick (adj)
/'sii.sik/
scary (adj) *
/'skeari/
seasickness (n)
/'sil.siknss/
separate (adj) * *
/'sep(3)rst/
A d j e c t i v e s e n d i n g in -ing
(v) *
3-4
and
-ed
/'sepsreit/
confusing/ed (adj) * * /
ship (n)
/Jip/
disappointing/ed (adj) /
/.disa'pomtiri/.disa'pDintid/
sick (adj) * * *
/sik/
embarrassing/ed (adj) * / *
/.im'baerasirj/.im'baerast/
/sik/
frightening/ed (adj) /
/'frait(3)nirj/'frait(3)nd/
(n)
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/ksn'fjuizirj/kan'fjuizd/
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interesting/ed (adj) **/**
moving/ed (adj) */*
relaxing/ed (adj) - / *
surprising/ed (adj) ***/*
tiring/ed (adj) - / *
Other words and
/'intrastin/'intrastid/
/'mu:vin/mu:vd/
/n'laeksin/n'laekst/
/S3(r)'praizir)/s3(r)'praizd/
/'tai3nr)/'tai3(r)d/
phrases
a bit (adv)
/, 'bit/
addict (n) *
/'eedikt/
agree (v) * *
/a'gri:/
anatomy (n)
/a'neetami/
archer (n)
/'a:(r)tfo(r)/
/s'traektiv/
attractive (adj) * * *
authentic (adj) *
/o:'6entik/
baddy (n)
/'baedi/
/breiv/
brave (adj) * *
broadcast (n)
/'bn>:d,ka:st/
(v) * *
/'bra:d,ka:st/
cable (n)
/'keib(3)l/
capture (v)
/'()/
century (n) *
/'sentfsri/
cheat (v)
/tfbt/
common (adj) * * *
/'/
critic (n) * * *
/'kntik/
demonstration (n) * *
/,dem3n'streij(3)n/
distant (adj) * *
/'distant/
doll (n) *
/del/
electronic (adj)
/.elek'tronik/
episode (n)
/'episaud/
equally (adj)
/'bkwali/
exotic (adj) *
/ig'zDtik/
fall asleep (v)
/.foil a'sli:p/
far (= far better) (adv)***
/fa:(r)/
fitness (n) * *
/'fitnas/
flat (n) * * *
/fleet/
general election (n)
/,d3en(3)r3l i'lekj"(a)n/
goal (= football) (n) * * *
/1/
gym (n) *
/d3im/
hunger (n) *
/'()/
igloo (n)
/'iglu:/
image (= picture) (n) * * *
/'imid3/
Inuit (n)
/'muit/
iron {= material) (n) *
/'aia(r)n/
laugh (n) * *
/la:f/
(v) ***
/la:f/
lazy (adj) * *
/Teizi/
mechanical (adj) * *
/mi'kasnik(a)l/
melodramatic (adj)
/.mebdra'maetik/
newsreader (n)
/'nju:z,ri:d3(r)/
nowadays (adv) * *
/'naus.deiz/
organiser (n) * *
/'a(r)ga,naiza(r)/
outlaw (n)
/'aot,b:/
palm tree (n)
/'pa:m ,tri:/
parachuting (n)
/'paera,Ju:tir|/
persuade (v) * * *
/p3(r)'sweid/
save (n)
/seiv/
(v) ***
/seiv/
selective (adj) * *
/si'lektiv/
sensation (n) * *
/sen'seij(3)n/
sensationalism (n) *
/sen'seij(3)n3,liz(3)m/
serious (adj) * * *
/'siarias/
silent (adj) * *
/'saibnt/
slightly (adv) * * *
spend (time) (v) * * *
sure (adj) * * *
team (n) * * *
tower (n) * *
transmission (n) * *
transmit (v) * *
TV guide (n)
TV station (n)
without (adv & conj) * * *
/'slaitli/
/.spend 'taim/
:()/
/ti:m/
/'tau3(r)/
/traenz'mij(3)n/
/traenz'mit/
/,ti: vi: 'gaid/
/,ti: vi: 'steif(a)n/
/wid'aut/
Unit 6
beach (n) * * *
desert (n) * *
forest (n) * * *
ice cap (n)
jungle (n) *
mountain range (n)
rainforest(n) *
/bi-.tr/
/'dez3(r)t/
/'forast/
/'ais ,kaep/
/'d3Arig(3)l/
/'mauntm ,remd3/
/'rem.fDnst/
The environment
drought (n)
environment (n) * * *
flood (n) * *
global warming (n) *
greenhouse effect (n)
nuclear disaster (n)
oil spill (n)
ozone layer (n)
pollution (n)
recycle (v) *
save (v) * * *
waste (n & v) * * *
/draut/
/m'vairsnmant/
/fUd/
/,gbub(3)l 'wo:(r)mir)/
/'grhnhaus i.fekt/
/,nju:klb(r) di'zasta(r)/
/'oil ,spil/
/' lei3(r)/
/'1:)/
/ri:'saik(3)l/
/seiv/
/weist/
p

/s'raiv/
arrive (v) * * *
bring (v) * * *
/brir)/
become (v) * * *
/'/
(= a process or change of state)
obtain or buy (v) * * *
//
/rs'siiv/
receive (v) * * *

affect (v) * * *
/3'fekt/
anniversary (n) *
/,aeni'v3:(r)s(3)ri/
arsonist (n)
/'a:(r)s(3)nist/
atmosphere (n) *
/'eetm3s,fi3(r)/
attraction (n) * *
//
burn (v) * * *
/:()/
bushfire (n)
/'boJ,fai3(r)/
canteen (n) *
/kaen'ti:n/
catastrophic (adj)
/.kaets'strofik/
/'seb.breit/
celebrate (v) * * *
cheap (adj) * * *
/tji:p/
close to (adj & adv)
/'kbus ,tu/
/ks'mjuinsti/
community (n) * * *
conseguence (n) * * *
/'konsikwsns/
convict (n) * *
/'kDnvikt/
cut down (v) * *

definitely (adv) *
deliberately (adv) * *
disastrous (adj)
dry (adj) **
(v)**
east (adj & adv)
(n)
efficient (adj)
energy (n)
excursion (n)
fancy (v)
farmer (n) * *
footprint (n)
frequent (adj) * *
fumes (n) *
fume (v)
generate (v) * *
glass (= material) (n) * * *
habit (n) * * *
heat (n)
honest (adj)
increase (n)
(v)
indigenous (adj)
influence (v) * *
lifestyle (n) *
material (n) * * *
melt (v) * *
mix (v) ***
packaging (n)
perhaps (adv) * * *
petrol (n)
population (n) * *
power (n) * * *
(v)
protect (v) * *
reef (n) *
relatively (adv)
restriction (n) *
scientist (n) * *
sea level (n)
shower (n) *
(v)
silly (adj) *
slow down (v)
space (outer space) (n)
suggestion (n) * * *
thirsty (adj)
tonne (n) * *
toothbrush (n)
water (v) **
wild (adj)
(n)
Gateway to exams,
attention (n) * *
environmental (adj) * * *
exploration (n) * *
situation (n) * *
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Unit 7
/,kAt 'daun/
/'def(3)n3tli/
/di'hb(3)r3tli/
/di'zaistrss/
/drai/
/drai/
/i:st/
/i:st/
/i'fij(3)nt/
/'en3(r)d3i/
/ik'sk3:(r)J(3)n/
/'faensi/
/'fa:(r)m3(r)/
/'fut.prmt/
/'frnkwsnt/
/fju:mz/
/fju:m/
/'d3ensreit/
/gla:s/
/'haebit/
/hi:t/
/'Dnist/
/'inkrbs/
/in'krbs/
/m'did33n3s/
/'influans/
/'laif.stail/
/'1/
/melt/
/miks/
/'paekid3irj/
/p3(r)'haeps/
/'petrsl/
/.prjpjo'leiJOin/
/'()/
/'()/
/prs'tekt/
/ri:f/
/'retativli/
/n'stnkj(3)n/
/'saiantist/
/'si: ,levO)l/
/'Jauafr)/
/()/
/'sili/
/,sbo 'daon/
/speis/
/sa'd3estj(3)n/
/'63:(r)sti/
/Un/
/./
/'wD:ta(r)/
/waild/
/wadd/
Jobs
builder (n)
computer programmer (n)
fashion designer (n)
journalist (n)
mechanic (n) *
/'bdd3(r)/
/k3m,pju:t3(r) '() /
/'fasf(3)n di,zairi3/
/'d33:(r)n3list/
/'/
police officer (n)

receptionist (n)
shop assistant (n)
/ps'lus ,nfis3(r)/
/n'sepj(3)nist/
/'Jbp 3,SISt(3)nt/
Personal qualities
ambitious (adj) * *
calm (adj)
caring (adj)
clever (adj) * *
/aem'bijss/
/:/
/')/
/'kleva(r)/
creative (adj) *
fit (adj) ***
hard-working (adj) *
reliable (adj) * *
sociable (adj)
well-organised (adj)
/kri'eitiv/
/fit/
/,ha:(r)d 'w3:(r)kir)/
/'11()1/
/'S30j3b(3)l/
/,wel b:(r)g3naizd/
Compound adjectives describing people or jobs

badly-paid (adj)
blue/brown/green-eyed (adj)
easy-going (adj)
full-time (adj)
good-looking (adj) *
/,baedli 'peid/
/'blu:/'braon/'gri:n,aid/
/.hzi'gaoirj/
/'ful.taim/
/.god'lokirj/
part-time (adj) * *
right/left-handed (adj)
well-paid (adj)
/,pa:t'taim/
/,rait/,left 'haendid/
/,wel 'peid/
units 5 - 6
/3'tenf(3)n/
/m,vair3n'ment(3)l/
/,ekspl3'reij(3)n/
/,sit|u'eif(3)n/
accept (v)
application form (n) *
apply (for) (v) * *
architect (n) *
assistant (n) *
au pair (n)
autograph (n &v)
average (n) * * *
(v)*
cheer up (v)
chewing gum (n)
complicated (adj) *
condition (n) * * *
cookery (n)
CV (n)
delivery boy/girl (n)
depend on (v)
design (v) * *
drag (v)
dress up (v) * *
dynamic (adj) * *
effort (n) * * *
enclose (v) *
essential (adj)
exactly (adv)
except (conj) * * *
/sk'sept/
/aspli'keif(3)n ,fD:(r)m/
/a'plai ,fo:(r)/
/'ci:(r)ki,tekt/
/3'sistO)nt/
/, '()/
/'D:t3,gra:f/
/'aevO)nd3/
/'aEV(3)nd3/
/,tjb(r) '/
/'tfuar) ,/
/'kDmpli.keitid/
/k3n'dij"(3)n/
/'()/
/,si: 'vi:/
/di'liv(3)ri ,boi, ,:()1/
/di'pend ,rm/
/di'zam/
/drag/
/,dres '/
/dai'naemik/
/'efa(r)t/
/in'kboz/
/i'senjO)l/
/ig'zaekmli/
/ik'sept/
Wordlists Unit 8
exotic (adj) *
extra (n) **
factory worker (n)
firefighter (n)
force (n) ***
gardener (n) **
giant (adj) **
hang out (v)
hard hat (n)
hit (n) **
(v) ***
home-time (n)
in response to
inquiries (n) ***
interpreter (n) *
issue (= question) (n) ***
knowledge (n) ***
look forward t o * * *
lottery (n) *
lucky (adj) ***
manual (n) **
mate (= friend) (n) **
miner (n)*
offer (v) ***
outdoors (adv & n)
paperwork (n) *
parrot (n) *
peace (n) ***
rely on (v) ***
report (n) ***
ride operator (n)
screen (n) ***
(v)*
sign (v) ***
smoke (v) **
stuck (adj)
suit (n) ***
suppose (v) ***
take a long time
toothpaste (n)
turn round (v) **
variety (n) ***
vegetarian (n)
wages (n) ***
wing (n) ***
/ig'zDtik/
/'ekstra/
/'faektn ,w3:(r)ka(r)/
/'faia(r),faita(r)/
/fa:(r)s/
/'ga:(r)d(a)na(r)/
/'d3ai3nt/
/,hcEn 'aot/
/'ha:(r)d ,haet/
/hit/
/hit/
/'haum ,taim/
/,in ra'spnns tu/
/m'kwaiarbz/
/in't3:(r)pnta(r)/
/'iju:/
/'nDlid3/
/,luk 'fa:(r)wa(r)d tu/
/'rotari/
/'Uki/
/'maenjoal/
/meit/
/'()/
/'ofa(r)/
/,aot'do:(r)z/
/'peipa(r),w3:(r)k/
/'paerat/
/pi:s/
/n'lai Dn/
/n'pa:(r)t/
/'raid ,Dpareita(r)/
/skriin/
/skri:n/
/sain/
/smauk/
/suk/
/suit/
/sa'pauz/
/,teik a for) 'taim/
/'tu:9,peist/
/,t3:n 'raund/
/va'raiati/
/,ved3a'tearian/
/'weid3iz/
/wir)/
Unit8
Relationships
(to) ask (somebody) out (v)
/,a:sk 'aut/
(to) chat (to somebody) (v) **
/'tjeet tu/
(to) fall in love (with somebody) (v)
/,fa:l in 'IAV/
(to) get back together (with somebody) (v) /,get ,baek ta'geoa(r)/
/,get 'maerid/
(to) get married (to somebody) (v)
(to) get on well (with somebody) (v)
/,get ,on 'wel/
(to) go out (with somebody) (v)
/,gau 'aut/
(to) have an argument (with somebody) (v) /,haev an 'a:(r)gjumant/
(to) meet (somebody) (v) ***
/mi:t/
(to) split up (with somebody) (v)
/.split '/
Feelings
anger (n) **
boredom (n) *
excitement (n) **
happiness (n) *
loneliness (n)
sadness (n) *
/'senga(r)/
/'ba:(r)dam/
/ik'saitmant/
/'haepinas/
/Taunlinas/
/'saednas/
Adjectives
afraid (adj) ***
angry (adj) * * *
excited (adj) **
happy (adj) ***
lonely (adj) **
sad (adj) ***
/a'freid/
/'aerjgri/
/ik'saitid/
/'haepi/
/'launli/
/saed/
Noun suffixes
freedom (n) ***
friendship (n) * *
illness (n) ***
madness (n) *
relationship (n) ***
sadness (n) *
weakness (n) **
/'frbdam/
/'fren(d)Jip/
/'ilnas/
/'maednas/
/nTeif(a)nJip/
/'saednas/
/'wiiknas/

abdicate (v)
/'aebdikeit/
abdication (n)
/,aebdi'keif(a)n/
ancient (adj) * * *
/'emj(a)nt
apologise (v)
/a'pDlad3aiz/
argument (n) **
/'a:(r)gjumant/
balcony (n) *
/'baelkani/
be like somebody
/: Taik ,sAmbadi/
bowling (n) *
/'baulirj/
broken-hearted (adj)
/.braukan 'ha:(r)tid/
camp (n) ***
//
couple (two people) (n) *** /'()1/
criticise (v)
/'kntisaiz/
dry oneself (v)
/'drai WAn.self/
enemy (n) * * *
/'enami/
fair (= beautiful) (adj)
/fea(r)/
flower (n) ***
/'flaua(r)/
(v)
/'flaua(r)/
give up (= relinquish) (v) *** /,giv '/
grave (n) **
/greiv/
happy ending (n)
/,haepi 'endir)/
hold (v) ***
/hauld/
ideal (adj) ***
/ai'dial/
(n) **
/ai'dial/
journey (n) * * *
/'d33:ni/
knife (n) ***
/naif/
light (opposite of heavy) (adj) *** /lait/
/'memli/
mainly (adv) ***
/'maeta(r)/
matter (v) ***
/'moral/
moral (adj) ***
/'naida(r)/, /'ni:da(r)/
neither (conj & pron) ***
/'paesifist/
pacifist (n)
/pa(r)'fekjanist/
perfectionist (n)
/plei/
play (n & v) ***
/'pauf(a)n/
potion (n)
press (n, = newspapers) (n) *** /pres/
priest (n) **
/prhst/
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Prime Minister (n) * *

promise (n & v) *
questionnaire (n) **
respect (n) ***
(v) **
scandal (n)
ski (v)
something else (pron & adv)
soon (adv) * *
stay in (v) **
still (= time) (adv) * * *
stone (n) ***
storm (n)
studies (n)
tolerant (adj)
tradition (n) * *
wealthy (adj)
/,praim 'minista(r)/
/'promts/
/ kwestja'nea(r)/
/n'spekt/
/n'spekt/
/'skaendOJl/
p
/ski:/
/,SAmOirj 'els/
/su:n/
/,stei 'in/
/stil/
/staun/
/stanm/
/stAdiz/
/'tDbrsnt/
/tradif(a)n/
/'wel9i/
Gateway to exams,
au pair (n)
alternative (adj & n)
dimension (n) * *
grape (n) *
ingredient (n)
jam (n)
jar (n)*
kiwi (n)
lime (n)
mixture (n) * *
obviously (adv) * *
positive (adj) *
(n)
product (n)
recipe (n) *
sell (v)
traditional (adj)
cross out (v) **

fill in (v)
flick through (v)*
look up (v)
read on (v) **
read out (v)
turn over (v) **
units 7-8
/, '()/
/::()/
/dai'menf(a)n/
/greip/
/in'grbdiant/
1/
/d a:(r)/
/'kiiwi:/
/laim/
/'mikstfa(r)/
/'Dbvbsli/
/'pDzativ/
/'pDzativ/
/'prodAkt/
/'resapi/
3
/sel/
/tra'dif(a)nal/
/,kDmik/
/'kraim ,nDv(a)l/
/ ,ted/
/'fasntasi/
/.graefik 'nr>v(a)l/
/hi,stDnk(3)l 'fikf(a)n/
/'rrora(r)/
/plei/
/rau'masns/
/.saians 'fikf(a)n/
/'6nb(r)/
Non-fiction
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/,kros 'aut/
/,fil 'in/
/,flik 'Gru:/
/,1 '/
/,ri:d /
/,ri:d 'aut/
/:() 'auva(r)/
Fiction
atlas (n)
autobiography (n)
biography (n)
cookbook (n)
/'dikjan(a)ri/
/m,saikla'pi:dia/
/'gaid.buk/
/,maega'zi:n/
/'maenjoal/
/'njuizêipa^)/
/'teks(t),bok/
Phrasal verbs connected with reading and writing
Unit 9
comic (n)
crime novel (n)
fairy tale (n)
fantasy (n) *
graphic novel (n)
historical fiction (n)
horror (n) *
play (n)
romance (n)
science fiction (n) *
thriller (n)
dictionary (n)
encyclopedia (n)
guidebook (n) *
magazine (n)
manual (n) **
newspaper (n) *
textbook (n)
/'aetbs/
/,a:taubai'Dgrafi/
/bai'Dgrafi/
/'kok.bok/
adaptation (n)*
almost (adv) *
apparent (adj) ***
assassination (n)*
author (n) *
best-selling (adj)
blood (n)
boarding school (n)
carefully (adv)
certainly (adv) * *
climb (n&v)***
combine (v)
cover (= for a book) (n) *
cowboy (n)
credit card (n) *
customer (n)
dragon (n)
elf(n)
end up (v)
floor (= storey) (n) * *
following (adj) **
handsome (adj) *
happily ever after
have an impact (v)
how long
how often
in stock
inspiration (n) *
intrigue (n)
jump in (v)
keep up (v) **
make up (= invent) (v)
mysterious (adj) *
order (v)
/,3edaEp'teif(a)n/
/'admaust/
/a'paerant/
/a,saesi'neir(a)n/
/'a:0a(r)/
/.best'sellir)/
/bUd/
/'bo:(r)dir) ,sku:l/
/'kea(r),f(a)li/
/'S3:(r)t(a)nli/
/klaim/
/'/
/'()/
/'kau.bai/
/'kredit ,ka:(r)d/
/'kAStama(r)/
/'drasgan/
/elf/
/,end '/
/fb:(r)/
/'fnbuir)/
/'ha2ns(a)m/
/'haepili ,eva(r) 'a:fta(r)/
/,haev an 'impaekt/
/,hau /
/,hau 'Df(a)n/
/,in 'stok/
/,inspa'reif(a)n/
/'intri:g/
/,d3Amp 'in/
/, i: p '/
/,meik '/
/mi'stiarias/
/'a:(r)da(r)/
(= ask for something in a shop/restaurant)
passion (n) *
/'paef(a)n/
path (n) *
/:6/
predator (n) *
/'predata(r)/
previous (adj)
/'pri:vbs/
/,pAbli'keif(a)n/
publication (n)
/ri:t.f/
reach (v)
related (adj) *
/n'leitid/
reunion (n)
/ri:'ju:nian/
ring (= wedding ring) (n) *** /nrj/
Wordlists Unit 10
risk (v)
scuba-diving (n)
section (n) **
shock (n)
sinister (adj)
spend (= money) (v) **
sufficient (adj)
survive (v) **
survivor (n) *
though (adv & conj) **
together (adv)
troll (n)
unnecessary (adj) *
whisper (v)
witch (n)
wolf (n)
/risk/
/'skuiba ,daivirj/
/'sekf(3)n/
/Jok/
/'smist3(r)/
/spend/
/S3'flJ(3)nt/
/s3(r)'vaiv/
/S3(r)'vaiv3(r)/
//
'()/
/trrjl/
/An'nes3s(3)ri/
/'wisp3(r)/
/witJV
/wulf/
Unit 10
Computers and com puting
hard drive (n)
/,ha:(r)d 'draiv/
keyboard (n)
/'ki:,b3:(r)d/
mouse (n) *
/maus/
mouse pad (n)
/'maus ,paed/
printer (n) *
/'pnnt3(r)/
speaker (n) ***
/'spi:k3(r)/
USB port (n)
/,ju: es 'bi: ,p3:(r)t/
webcam (n)
/'web,kasm/
The Internet
blog (n & v)
broadband (n)
chat online (v)
download (v)
search engine (n) *
surf the Net (v)
website (n) *
/blog/
/'broid.baend/
/,tjaet Dn'lam/
/.daun'bud/
/'s3:(r)tf ,end3in/
/,S3i(r)f 'net/
/'web.sait/
Collocations with ema/7

bounce back (v) *
/,baons '/
check email (v)
/,tjek 'i:meil/
delete an email (v)
/ds'liit ,i:meil/
email account (n)
/'i:meil 3,kaunt/
email address (n)
/'iimeil 3,dres/
forward an email (v)
/'fo:(r)w3(r)d 'i:meil /
reply to an email (v)
/n,plai tu 'bmeil /
send an email (v)
/,send 'iimeil/
academic (adj) **
/.aeks'demik/
(n)
âska'demik/
accidentally (adv)
/,aeksi'dent(3)li/
analyse (v) **
/'aenalaiz/
assess (v) *
/s'ses/
assessment (n)
/s'sesmsnt/
block (n) *
//
(v) *
//
butcher's (n) *
/'but ()/
button (n)
/'DAt(3)n/
chip (= silicon) (n) **
/tjip/
component (n)
data (n) **
designer clothes (n)
diameter (n) *
dishonest (adj) *
document (n) **
eclipse (n & v)
enormous (adj)
entertainment (n)
export (n)
(v)**
frustrating (adj) *
hard copy (n)
import (n) *
(v) **
ingot (n)
invest (v)
military (adj) **
(n)
model train (n)
mosque (n) *
objective (n) **
owner (n) ***
particle (n)
password (n) *
per (prep) ***
physics (n)
practical (adj)
(n)
product (n) **
protest (n) **
(v)
punish (v) *
record (n)
(v)
refine (n)
reputation (n) ***
research (n)
resident (n)
sand (n) **
(v)
tiny (adj)
transistor (n)
valley (n) * *
various (adj) **
/'/
/'delta/
/di'zainsfr) ,1/
/dai'aemit3(r)/
/dis'Dnist/
/'dDkjumsnt/
/i'klips/
/i'no:(r)m3s/
/,ent3(r)'temm3nt/
/'eksp3:(r)t/
/ik'spo:(r)t/
/frA'streitirj/
/'ha:(r)d ,knpi/
/'imp3:(r)t/
/im'p3:(r)t/
/'irjgst/
/m'vest/
/'milit(3)ri/
/'milit(3)ri/
/,mod(3)l 'trein/
/mDsk/
/3b'd3ektiv/
/'()/
/'pa:(r)tik(3)l/
/'pa:s,w3:(r)d/
/:()/
/'fiziks/
/'()1/
/'praektik(3)l/
/'pmdAkt/
/'prsutest/
/prs'test/
/'7
/'rek3:(r)d/
/n'ko:(r)d/
/n'fam/
/,repju'teij(3)n/
/'ri:s3:(r)tj/
/'rezid(3)nt/
/sasnd/
/saend/
/'tami/
/traen'zist3(r)/
/'vaeli/
/'vesriss/
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interaction (n) *
member (n)
print (v)
publisher (n)
spectacular (adj)
(n)
turn into (v)
(= turn a book into a film)
/^ntsr'aekff^n/
/'()/
/print/
/'pAbliJafr)/
/spek'taskjub(r)/
/spek'taskjub(r)/
/,t3:(r)n 'inta/
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Unit 1
GRAMMAR: Using reference material

When you have problems with grammar, use reference
material to find help.
In this book there are grammar explanations on the
Language Reference page at the end of each unit. These
explanations help you to understand the correct use of the
grammar (when and why to use the grammatical structure)
and also the form (the correct parts of the structure).
After reading about the grammar you can check that
you understand it by doing the practice exercises on the
revision page opposite.
You can also use grammar books, either in English or in
your own language.
Look at the grammar help on
www.macmillanenglish.com/gateway. Other Internet
websites can also provide help with typical grammar
problems.
es checklist
It is normal to make mistakes when you write.That is why it is

important to read your work carefully when you finish. Check for
mistakes with:
punctuation
tenses
capital letters
vocabulary
word order
missing words
spelling
agreement between the subject and verb.
You can learn from your mistakes. Make a list of mistakes that you
make with the correction next to it. Use it as a checklist when you
are checking your writing. Look at this example:
Mistake
Correction
Explanation
In general, 1 think
the money is
important.
In general, 1
think money
is important.
When we talk about things

in general we do not use
the definite article.
Unit 2
VOCABULARY: Using a dictionary
READING: Prediction
Dictionaries are very useful. Here are some ideas forusing them well:
You can't always have a dictionary with you,
for example, in exams. Don't depend on the
dictionary too much. First, guess the word and
then use your dictionary to check.
When you are reading, don't use the dictionary
to look up every word you don't know. You
don't need to understand every word in a text
to do the exercises or to understand the general
meaning. Only look for words which appear
important or appear frequently.
Don't just look at the first definition

for a word. Many English words have
very different meanings. Look at them
all and choose the right one for your
context.
Don't just think about the meaning of
the word that you look up. Think also
about the type of word, the form and
spelling of the word, and the other
words it often goes with.
Before you read a text, look

at the pictures or photos that
go with it. Read the title of
the text too. This can help
you to think about the topic
of the text and to predict
some of the ideas and words
in it. This can help you to
understand more when you
read the text for the first time.
Unit3
Knowing what type of learner you are
It is useful to know what type of learner you are because it can help you to improve. Here are some
things to think about:
Some people like working alone. But
remember that language is usually a question
of communication and working with a partner
can be a great way to start communicating in
English.
Some people don't like learning grammar,

but grammar and vocabulary are the basic
ingredients of any language. They help you
to communicate.
Speaking is quick and spontaneous. So when

you speak, mistakes are normal.The important
thing is that other people understand you.
Some people like studying with a

dictionary, others with a grammar book
or a computer. They can all help you to
learn more outside the classroom. Find out
what is good for you. When you spend a
lot of time doing English, you are always
improving.
Mistakes are an essential part of learning a

language. We can learn a lot from our mistakes.
You can improve your memory. In general,

we learn more with short, frequent revision.
Writing usually gives you time to think and

prepare your message. But writing also needs
to be very precise and correct.
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LISTENING:
Keeping calm
The worst thing that you can
do when listening to English
is panic because you don't
understand something. It
isn't usually necessary to
understand every word. There
is often repetition, and there
are words that you don't need
to understand to be able to
do the activity. Concentrate
on the information you need
to answer the questions.
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Unit 4
VOCABULARY: Keeping vocabulary records
SPEAKING: Words you don't know
To learn vocabulary, it is essential to keep a record of new words.

Write down the meaning of new words. You can write a synonym, a definition,
an example sentence, a translation, or you can draw a picture.
It is also important to write down the type of word (e.g. noun, verb, adjective,
adverb, preposition, pronoun) and any other special information (e.g.
pronunciation, irregular forms).
It is a good idea to learn words in groups. Write down vocabulary in the groups
that appear in this book e.g. parts of the body, health problems, crimes, etc.
Some people write down new vocabulary using diagrams like this:
When you don't know a word, don't stop and

don't use a word in your own language. Here
are some things you can do, using the word
freedom as an example:
use a synonym or similar word like
liberty or independence
use a more basic or general word or
expression, being free
say It's the opposite of
e.g. It's the opposite of captivity.
explain the word using different words,
It's when you can do what you want.
Unit 5
READING: Reading for general information
The first time you read a text, read it quickly. Do not
stop if there are words you do not understand. Just
try to understand the general meaning. Look for
specific information the second time you read. Give
yourself a time limit. It can help you to get a general
understanding and not look at details.
GRAMMAR: Use and form

When we study grammar we need to think about two basic things:
we need to know the meaning and when to use the structure. For
example, with too we need to know that we use it to talk about
people, things or actions that are excessive.
we need to know the form (including spelling). For example, we need
to know that the word too comes before adjectives.
Remember to think about both use and form when you do grammar activities.
Unite
LISTENING: First listening, second listening
WRITING: Organising ideas into paragraphs
The first time you listen to a new text, the idea is to

understand the general meaning, not to understand all the
details. The first listening activity will usually help you to do
this by asking general questions.
The second time you listen you will need to listen for more
specific information.
A paragraph is a number of sentences which talk about one or

two main ideas. When you want to start to talk about a new
main idea, you start a new paragraph. Paragraphs make your
writing clear, organised and easy to understand.
Before you start a piece of writing, make a note of the ideas that
you want to include.Then put your ideas in a logical order and
organise them into paragraphs.
Unit 7
VOCABULARY: Efficient vocabulary revision
Frequent revision is the best way to learn new words. Look at your
vocabulary notebook or list every week and test yourself to see how
much you remember. It is very difficult to learn vocabulary by revising
just once before an exam or test.
There will be some words from your vocabulary list that become very
easy for you to remember. Stop testing yourself on them so that your
revision list isn't too long.
It is easier to learn vocabulary in groups, e.g. parts of the body, crimes,
or adjectives ending in -ing and -ed. One word in a group can help
you remember others in the same group.
SPEAKING: Making mistakes

When you speak in a different language it is normal
to make mistakes. The most important thing is to
communicate with your partner.
If you make small mistakes, either correct them when
you make them or remember to work on them later.
If your partner doesn't understand you, you need
to change what you say so that your partner does
understand.
Remember: mistakes are a natural part of learning. If
you don't say anything, you will never get better.
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Unit 8
READING: Reading for specific information
The first reading activity usually checks that you understand
the general meaning of the text. The next activities check
that you understand specific information. When you read for
specific information, read the question carefully and then
find the exact place where you think the answer comes.
Then read this section carefully, looking for details.
LISTENING: Listening outside the classroom

The best way to improve your listening is by listening to as much
English as possible. Apart from listening in class, try to listen to:
CDs or audio files that come with books or readers
original version films
DVDs in English (with or without subtitles)
songs
the radio or Internet radio.
Unit 9
READING: Reading for pleasure
Usually reading for pleasure means reading a whole book,
magazine or website because you want to read it.There will
probably be many words that you do not understand. It is not a
good idea to stop every time you see a new word because you will
never finish the story/article and you probably won't enjoy reading
it. Only look up words that appear to be essential to understand
the text, and that appear again and again. The main idea is to
understand the general meaning ... and to enjoy reading!
WRITING: Brainstorming
Brainstorming is a good idea before writing because it helps you to have lots of ideas to write about. A common problem for writers is not
knowing what to write about. Brainstorming helps you to think of original and interesting ideas.
We can use diagrams called mind maps to help us to brainstorm ideas. Look at this example:
When you finish brainstorming, choose the best ideas and decide how to organise them in a logical order.
Unit 10
READING: Guessing from context
You cannot usually use dictionaries in reading exams so when
there are words that you do not understand, look carefully at the
context to help you to guess the meaning. Look at the sentences
and words just before and after the word. This can help you to find
out the type of word (noun, verb, adjective, etc) and the meaning.
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SPEAKING: Practice makes perfect

Speaking English is like riding a bike or playing tennis. You can
only get better if you actually do it. The more you speak, the
better you get. Speak as much English as possible in class, and
outside the class.
The third person singular
Verb + - i n g
We usually add s to the verb.
We usually add -ing to the verb to form the present participle.
like likes
jump
walk walks
study studying
sleep sleeping
We add es to verbs that end in -s, -sh, -ch or -x.
When verbs end in one or more consonants + e, we omit the e and

add -ing
watch watches^
wash washes
have having
kiss kisses
make making
We add es to the verbs go and do.
dance dancing
go goes
do does
With verbs that end in a consonant + y, we omit the and add ies.
When a verb has only one syllable and finishes with one vowel and
one consonant (except w, x or y), we double the consonant and add
-ing.
put
go goes
putting
swim swimming
do does
sit sitting
With verbs that end in a vowel + y, we add s.
When verbs end in -ie, we change the -ie to -y and add -ing.
play plays
lie
say says
jumping
lying
die dying
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Vowels
Consonants
/a:/
arm, large
/1/
ear, here
bag, rubbish
Is/
say, this
//
cap, bad
Id
not, watch
Id/
desk, cold
III
town, city
/ai/
ride, fly
//
cold, boat
HI
fill, laugh
/V/
very, live
/aw/ djary, science
/:/
door, talk
igi
girl, big
frrl
water, ayyay
//
point, boy
lb/
hand, home
Izl
zoo, his
//
foot, could
/j/
yes, young
/V
shop, machine
hgw, mouth
// our, shower
Id
bed, head
//
annual
//
cook, back
usually, television
/ei/
day, grey
/:/
two, food
III
like, fill
//
thank, doing
//
hair, there
//
sure, tourist
/ml
mean, climb
Ml
cheese, picture
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give, did
/:/
bird, heard
Id
new, want
/9/
thing, north
that, clothes
Ids/
leans, bridge
HI
happy, honeymoon
//
fun, come
Id
gark, hap_p_y
I'vJ
we, heat
//
mother, actor
Ixl
ring, bonow
Unit 1
READING: Multiple-choice activities
SPEAKING: Information role-plays
In this type of activity you choose the best answer from

three or four different answers.
Step 1: Read the text quickly to get a general
understanding.
Step 2: Read all the answers carefully. Sometimes the
difference between two answers is just one word.
Step 3: Find the section of the text where you think each
answer comes and read it again slowly, in more
detail.
Step 4: If you aren't 100% sure which answer is best, take
away any answers which you know are not correct.
Step 5: When you finish, check that you have an answer
for each question. Never leave answers blank in
an exam.
Find out the situation and the information that you need to ask for
and give.
If you don't understand what the examiner or your partner is
saying, ask them in English to repeat or to speak more slowly. Use
expressions like: Sorry, can you say that again? or, Sorry, could
you speak more slowly?
Listen to your partner and the examiner. In a conversation we speak
and listen.
Show that you're interested in what the other person is saying. Use
expressions like: Really? That's interesting. Do you? Me too.
Use Well,Hmm or Let me think to give you time to think of what
you want to say next.
Use basic question words like Who? What? When? Where?How? Why?
to help you think of more questions to keep the conversation going.
Unit 2
LISTENING: True/false activities
WRITING: Knowing about evaluation
In this type of activity you have to listen and decide if answers are true or false.
You usually hear the text twice. The questions are usually in the same order as you
hear them in the recording.
Step 1: Read the questions before you listen. They can give you ideas about the
topic of the text and the vocabulary you are going to hear.
Step 2: You can usually hear the recording twice. Try not to panic if you do not
understand information the first time. If you don't hear the answer to one
question, start listening immediately for the answer to the next question.
Step 3: Use the second listening to find the answers you didn't hear the first time
and to check the answers you already have.
Step 4: When you finish, check that you have an answer for each question. Never
leave answers blank in an exam.
In exams it is important to know how many

marks there are for different sections and
to know what the examiners want. Usually
examiners in writing exams want to see if you
can:
answer the question and include the
information they ask for
write clearly
organise your ideas logically
use accurate and varied grammar
use accurate and varied vocabulary
use punctuation and capital letters correctly.
Unit3
USE OF ENGLISH: Multiple-choice cloze activities
In this type of activity, you have a text with gaps. You must fill in each gap with one of three
or four answers given.
Step 1: Read the complete text without thinking about the gaps. This helps you to get a
general understanding of the text.
Step 2: Before you look at the answers, think about the type of word you need (noun, verb,
pronoun, article, etc) and the general meaning.
Step 3: Read the answers. Choose the one which you think is best. Look very carefully at
the words which come just before and just after the gap. Do they help you to find
the best answer?
Step 4: If you aren't sure which answer is right, take away any answers which you know are
not correct.
Step 5: Read the sentence again with your answer in the gap to check it.
Step 6: When you finish, check that you have an answer for each question. Never leave
answers blank in an exam.
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SPEAKING: Evaluation
In exams it is important to know how
many marks there are for different
sections and to know what the
examiners want. Usually examiners
in speaking exams want to see if you
can:
communicate successfully
speak fluently
use accurate and varied grammar
use accurate and varied
vocabulary
pronounce words clearly.
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Unit 4
READING: Matching activities
WRITING: Content and style
In this type of activity, you have to say which text or part of a text contains a
specific piece of information.
Step 1: Read all the texts or parts of the text quickly to get a general
understanding.
Step 2: Read the piece(s) of information that you need to find. Look for
key words that help you tofindthe text or part of the text which
contains the information.
Step 3: Read that specific text or part of the text again in more detail.
Step 4: If you are not sure that you have found the correct answer, read
other sections again in more detail.
Step 5: When youfinish,check that you have an answer for each question.
Never leave answers blank in an exam.
When a question tells you to put information in

your text, you lose marks if you do not include
the information. You can use your imagination
but you must remember to include all the
information in the instructions.
When you write letters, messages and notes it
is essential to write in the correct style. When
you write to a friend, use contractions and
informal expressions. When you write a formal or
semi-formal letter, message or note, do not use
contractions or informal language. If your letter is
grammatically correct but not in the correct style,
you lose marks.
Unit 5
LISTENING: Identifying the speaker activities
In this type of activity you match different speakers with the
things they say.
Step 1: Before you listen, think about the topic of the listening.
This will help you to predict ideas and words that
could appear in the recording.
Step 2: Read the questions to know how many speakers there
are and what they may say.
Step 3: When you listen, remember that in the recording the
speakers will probably express the same ideas using
different words and expressions. Thinking of synonyms
for the words in the statements can help you to
identify the answers.
Step 4: Don't worry if you don't understand everything the
first time you listen. Usually you listen twice. Use the
second listening tofindthe answers you didn't hear the
first time and to check the answers you already have.
SPEAKING: Negotiating
In negotiating activities, you usually work with another person.
The examiner explains a situation where you and the other
speaker need to come to a decision. In this type of exercise,
remember that there isn't usually a right or wrong answer.The
examiner wants to hear you speaking English.
If you can't think of something to say:
Ask your partner a question like What do you think?Tr\'\s
gives you time to think of what you can say next.
Use fillers like Well, Hmm or Let me think to give you time to
think of what you want to say next.
Don't be afraid to say something that you think is obvious.
Remember to give full explanations for your opinions and ideas.
Listen to what your partner or the examiner is saying. In a
conversation we speak and listen.
If you don't understand what the examiner or your partner is
saying, ask them in English to repeat or to speak more slowly.
Use expressions like: Sorry, can you say that again? or, Sorry,
could you speak more slowly?
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USE OF ENGLISH: Sentence transformation activities
In this type of activity you have a sentence and you must complete a second
sentence so that it means the same as the original sentence. In some exercises
you must use a word that they give. In this case, you cannot change the
form of this word. Generally you can only use between two andfivewords,
including the word they give you.
Step 1: Read the original sentence carefully. Think about the meaning of the
sentence, the type of structure(s) used, the tense(s) used, etc.
Step 2: If they give you a word, think about its meaning. Think also about the
grammatical function of the word. Does it always or usually go with
another word or tense?
Step 3: Write your sentence.
Step 4: When youfinish,check that you:
a) have not changed the meaning from the original sentence.
b) have not changed the form of the word they gave you.
c) have not written more than the maximum number of words permitted.
When you write in exam conditions, you cannot

usually use a dictionary or grammar book. If you
do not know a word, think of a similar word or a
more basic or general word. Do not leave a gap or
write the word in your own language. If necessary,
change what you were going to say.
If you are not sure how to use a grammatical
structure, think of a different way to say the same
thing.
Answer the question. Sometimes you can get 0
points if you don't answer the question.
Pay attention to the maximum and minimum
number of words in the instructions.
Plan and organise your writing and check it carefully
for mistakes when you have finished.
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Unit 7
READING: True/false activities
In this type of activity you decide if statements
are true or false depending on the information in
the text.
Step 1: Read the text quickly to get a general
understanding.
Step 2: Read the sentences that you need to say
are true or false.
Step 3: Find the parts of the text where the
information comes. Read them again in
more detail.
Step 4: If there is no information to say if a
sentence is true, mark the statement false.
Step 5: When you finish, check that you have an
answer for each question. Never leave
answers blank in an exam.
LISTENING: Multiple-choice activities

In this type of activity you choose the best answer from three or four different
answers.
You usually hear the text twice. The questions are usually in the same order as
you hear them in the recording.
Step 1: Read the different answers before you listen. They can give you ideas
about the topic of the text and the vocabulary you are going to hear in
it. Remember that sometimes the difference between two answers is
just one word.
Step 2: You usually hear the recording twice. Try not to panic if you do not
understand information the first time. If you don't hear the answer to one
question, start listening immediately for the answer to the next question.
Step 3: Use the second listening to find the answers you didn't hear the first
time and to check the answers you already have.
Step 4: When you finish, check that you have an answer for each question.
Never leave answers blank in an exam.
Unit 8
SPEAKING: Reporting past events
In this type of activity you have to talk about something (real or imaginary) that happened in
the past. You may need to speak alone or have a conversation with the examiner or another
student.
Remember to use past tenses correctly. We use the past simple for completed activities in
the past.The past continuous is for activities in progress at a moment in the past. We can use
it to describe scenes in the past.The past perfect is for activities that happened before other
activities in the past.
Use expressions of time and sequence {first, next, then, later, etc.) to make the order of
events clear.
Use basic question words like Who? What? When? Where? How? Why? to help you think
of more things to say.
Use fillers like Well, Hmm or Let me thinkto give you time to think of what you want to say next.
If you don't understand what the examiner or your partner is saying, ask them in English to
repeat or to speak more slowly. Use expressions like: Sorry, can you say that again? or,
Sorry, could you speak more slowly?
WRITING:
Answering the question
Remember that in writing
exams you lose marks if you
do not answer the question.
It is not enough to write
no grammatical mistakes
and with a wide variety of
vocabulary. You must also
include all the information
that appears in the question.
Reading the question carefully
can also help you to decide
which tenses and vocabulary
you need to use in your
writing.
Unit 9
READING: Missing sentence activities
In this type of activity you have to fill gaps in a text with sentences taken
out of the text. The sentences are often the first in each paragraph. There
are sometimes more sentences than gaps.
Step 1: Read the text quickly to get a general idea of what it is about. To
do this type of exercise you do not usually have to understand
every word, so don't panic if you don't understand everything.
Step 2: Read the sentences which go in the text. What does each
sentence talk about?
Step 3: Find the sections of the text which correspond to the
information in the sentences and read them again slowly, in
more detail. Put each sentence in the most probable gap.
Step 4: Check by reading the text with your answers in the correct place.
Do the sentences go together logically? Do words like this or
it make sense? Check also that you have one answer for each
question. Never leave answers blank in an exam.
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LISTENING: Completing notes

Always read the incomplete notes before you listen.
This helps you to know what to listen for. Look
carefully at the words that come just before or after
each space and think about what type of word is
missing (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, etc).
It is not usually necessary to understand every word
that you hear. Listen out for the sections which
correspond to the information in the notes. Then pay
special attention to these sections.
Usually you only need to write one or two words
in each space. Be careful with spelling and your
handwriting.
Don't worry if you don't understand everything the first
time you listen. Usually you listen twice. Use the second
listening to find the answers you didn't hear the first
time and to check the answers you already have.
Exam success Unit 10
Unit 10
USE OF ENGLISH: Cloze activities
In this type of activity, you have a text with gaps. You must fill in
each gap by thinking of a word which is grammatically correct
and is logical.
Step 1: Read the complete text without thinking about the gaps.
This is to get a general understanding of the text.
Step 2: Look again at the gaps and especially the words which
come just before and after the gap. Do those words
need a special preposition? Is an article or auxiliary verb
missing?Think about the type of word you need (noun,
verb, pronoun, article, etc.) and the general meaning.
Step 3: Fill in the gap with the word that you think is best. Read
the sentence again with your answer in the gap to
check it. Check that the meaning is logical, but check
also that the words fit in grammatically. Sometimes
there may be more than one possible answer but you
only need to put one.
Step 4: When youfinish,check that you have one answer for
each question. Never leave answers blank in an exam.
SPEAKING: A conversation based on a photo

In this type of activity you have to talk about one or possibly
two photos. If there are two photos, sometimes you must
say things that are similar and/or different in the photos. You
usually have some time to look at the photo(s) and prepare
what you are going to say. Do not write out a complete
description to read out aloud.
If you cannot think of things to say, remember to use the
questions What? Who? Where? Why? When? etc to give you
ideas.
Think of possible questions that the examiner will ask you
about the photo. If you don't know a word, don't worry. Think
of similar words, more basic or general words, or explain the
word. The examiners want to hear you speaking English.
Use fillers like Well, Hmm or Let me thinkto give yourself
time to think of what you are going to say next.
If you aren't 100% sure of what you can see, speculate using
expressions like It might be, I'm not sure but I think, It
looks like, etc. Don't be afraid of saying simple, obvious
things. The important thing is to say something.
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General
When you don't understand
Filling the conversation
Sorry, can you say that again?
Em...
Sorry, could you speak more slowly?
Well...
The thing is...
Checking understanding
I'm not (really/totally/completely) sure but.
Sorry, did you say...?
Maybe...
Do you mean?
You know...
I think...
Pardon?
I'm not sure I understood.
I imagine...
It looks like...
I imagine that...
Showing interest
Let me think.
Really?
What do you think?
That's interesting.
That's incredible!
When you don't know a word
I see.
It's like/similar to...
Do you?
It's the opposite of...
Me too.
It's when you...

J
Talking a b o u t t h e past
Expressions of sequence and time
At first
In the end
First of all
Then
Finally
Suddenly
Next
After that
A few minutes/hours/days later

The next day
Using different past tenses

1
Past simple = A completed action in the past.
2 Past continuous = An activity in progress at a moment in the

past. We often use it to describe scenes in the past.
3 Past perfect = An activity that happened before another
action in the past.
Starting
Speculation
This is a picture of...
I think...
lean see...
I'm not sure but I think that.
Position
On the right/left
In the middle
At the top
At the bottom
In the background
In the foreground
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Describing a p h o t o
It looks as if...
It looks like...
I imagine that...
It may/might/could be...
It's not clear if...
They're probably...
It might be...
Common situations
Asking for personal information
Responding to suggestions
How old are you?
Great!
Have you got any brothers or sisters ?
Yes, but...
What do you do at the weekend/in the evenings/on Wednesdays? OK.

Do you like... ?
I'm not sure.
What do you think of... ?
Fine.
How often do you... ?
I know what you mean, but...
Asking for opinions

What do you think?
What's your opinion/view?
Do you agree?
What about you?
Giving opinions
Personally,
I think (that)...
I don't think (that)...
I don't really know if...
In my view,
In my opinion,
As I see it,
Agreeing
I agree (with you) that...
That's true.
You're right.
I see what you mean.
Disagreeing
/ disagree (with you) that...
Yes, let's (do something).

No, I prefer...
Good idea.
Why don't we... ?
You're right.
No, I prefer (to do something).
Me too/Me neither.
But what about...?
Asking about somebody's plans
What are you up to at the weekend?
Are you up to anything at the weekend?
Do you fancy (verb + -ing)?
Arranging to meet
What time shall we meet?
Where shall we meet?
Why don't we meet at... ?
Responding to plans and arrangements
Sure./Fine./OK./Great./Good idea.
Not really/Sorry, I cant/Sorry, I'm busy.II prefer....
Making polite requests
I see what you mean, but...
Can you tell me what the wages are?
I'm not sure that's true.
Could I ask for some information first?
Making suggestions
Shall we (do something)?
Why don't we (do something)?
Let's (do something).
How about (doing something)?
Could you tell me if the job is full-time or part-time?

Would you mind... ?
Would you be able to... ?
Making offers
I help you?
Do you want me to... ?
Would you like me to... ?
Shall I... for you?
How about if I... for you?
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Informal emails
page 15 (Unit 1)
page 67 (unit 5)
page 105 (Unit 8)
Start:
Hi
Style:
Informal. Use contractions. We can also use
Notes a n d messages
emoticons (e.g. ).
Useful expressions:
Start:
To begin, ask questions like How are you?, How

are things?, Are you doing exams/on holiday at the
page 53 (Unit 4)
Simply write the name of the person you are

writing to.
Style:
moment?
Write short, direct sentences. Use imperatives like Call

me, rather than Could you call me? Use abbreviations.
Use By the way to change the subject.

End:
_, ,
Useful abbreviations:
PS, e.g., NB, asap, i.e., etc, Tel., St., Rd.
. That's all for now.

Write back soon.
Useful expressions:
All the best, love....
Congratulations! (good news)

/ was really sorry to hear that... (bad news)
Get well soon, (for sickness and accidents)
Informal letters
Start:
page 27 (Unit 2)
Write your address and the date in the top right

corner. Then we write Dear or Hi and the name of the
person you are writing to.
Style:
Informal. Use contractions.
Useful expressions:
Begin Thanks for your letter or I'm writing to tell you
about...
Giving o p i n i o n s /
discursive essays
Start:
Make a general statement to introduce the topic.
Useful expressions:
Ask questions like How are you?, How are things?, Are
To give your opinions, use Personally, I think, As far as
you doing exams/on holiday at the moment?
I'm concerned, In my opinion, I agree/disagree with...
Use By the way to change the subject.

End:
page 67 (unit 5)
page 79 (Unit 6)
To explain and justify your opinions, use This is

because, For example.
Write back soon.
To give a conclusion, use To sum up, In conclusion.
That's all for now.

All the best.
Useful linkers:
To put opinions and ideas in sequence, use Firstly,
Next, Finally.
To add opinions and ideas, use Furthermore, What's
more.
To contrast ideas and opinions, use However,
Nevertheless.
End:
Write a conclusion, restating the most important

point(s).
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Formal letters
page 79 (Unit 6), page 93 (unit 7)
Write your address and the date in the top right corner.
Start:
Useful expressions in letters to a newspaper:
Write the address of the person you are writing to a little
Begin / am writing in response to the article...
lower, on the left. Then write Dear Mr (Smith) (for a man),
Use Personally, I agree/disagree with ...
Dear Mrs (Smith) (for a married woman), or Dear Ms (Smith)
End / will be interested in hearing other readers'opinions on
(when we make no distinction if a woman is married or
this question.
not). When we do not know the name of the person we are

writing to, we write Dear Sir or Madam.
Style:
Useful linkers:
To put opinions and ideas in sequence, use Firstly, Next,
Formal. Do not use contractions.
Finally.
Useful expressions in job applications:
To add opinions and ideas, use Furthermore, What is more.
Begin / am writing in response to the advertisement in ...
To contrast ideas and opinions, use However, Nevertheless.
Use / would like to apply for the job of..., I enclose a CV

with information about myself, I have experience of... End:
End / look forward to hearing from you.
Informal letters
Start:
page 119 (Unit 9)
Give your questionnaire a title.
Useful words:
Who, Which, When, Where, Why, How, How much,
When we know the name of the person we are writing to, use
Yours sincerely. When we don't know the name of the person
we are writing to, use Yours faithfully.
Stories, narratives
a n d anecdotes
Start:
Explain and describe where and when the story began

and who was in the story.
Useful expressions:
To explain the sequence of events, use At first, First of
all, Next, Then, After that, Finally, In the end.
How many, How often ...

Be careful with different types of question.
1
To say when things happened, use, for example, Last

weekend, Two weeks ago, On Friday, On Saturday night.
In subject questions, the question word {who,

what, etc) is the subject of the verb. The
page 105 (unite)
Use different past tenses.
auxiliary verb {do, does, did) is not necessary,
e.g. Who likes reading magazines?
2 Past continuous = An activity in progress at a
Past simple = A completed action in the past.
2 In object questions, the question word {who,
moment in the past. We often use it to describe
what, etc) is the object of the verb. The

auxiliary verb {do, does, did) is necessary, e.g.
What do you like reading?
scenes in the past.

3
Past perfect = An activity that happened before

another action in the past.
3 When we have to be or a modal verb {can, will,

should), we do not need the auxiliary verb do
to make questions, e.g. Should children read
newspapers?
End:
The last question(s) can ask for a general

conclusion.
Text messages
page 131 (Unit 10)
Useful abbreviations:
PLS
L8R
BCZ
L8
MSG
SPK
THX
2 DAY
2MORO WKND
XLNT
2nite
YR
WOT
B4
GR8
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Infinitive
Past simple
Past participle
Infinitive
Past simple
Past participle
be
was/were
been
let
let
let
beat
beat
beaten
lie
lay
lain
become
became
become
lose
lost
lost
begin
began
begun
make
made
made
break
broke
broken
mean
meant
meant
bring
brought
brought
meet
met
met
build
built
built
pay
paid
paid
burn
burnt
burnt
put
put
put
buy
bought
bought
read
read
read
catch
caught
caught
ride
rode
ridden
choose
chose
chosen
ring
rang
rung
come
came
come
run
ran
run
cost
cost
cost
say
said
said
cut
cut
cut
see
saw
seen
do
did
done
sell
sold
sold
draw
drew
drawn
send
sent
sent
drink
drank
drunk
set up
set up
set up
drive
drove
driven
shine
shone
shone
eat
ate
eaten
shoot
shot
shot
fall
fell
fallen
show
showed
shown
feel
felt
felt
sing
sang
sung
find
found
found
sit
sat
sat
fly
flew
flown
sleep
slept
slept
forget
forgot
forgotten
speak
spoke
spoken
forgive
forgave
forgiven
speed
sped
sped
get
got
got
spell
spelt
spelt
give
gave
given
spend
spent
spent
go
went
gone
split up
split up
split up
grow
grew
grown
stand up
stood up
stood up
hang out
hung out
hung out
steal
stole
stolen
have
had
had
swim
swam
swum
hear
heard
heard
take
took
taken
hide
hid
hidden
teach
taught
taught
hit
hit
hit
tell
told
told
hurt
hurt
hurt
think
thought
thought
keep
kept
kept
understand
understood
understood
know
knew
known
wake up
woke up
woken up
lay
laid
laid
wear
wore
worn
leave
left
left
win
won
won
learn
learned/learnt
learned/learnt
write
wrote
written
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Communication activities a n d q u i z answers

Unit 7
Unit 2
Student B: Prepare questions to ask your partner to find
the missing information.
/
Was Bonnie Parker very intelligent?
Then interview your partner.

Student
Bonnie and Clyde w e r e a p a i r o f notorious c r i m i n a l s .
Bonnie P a r k e r w a s b o r n i n 1910 i n Rowena,
Texas. She (a)
v e r y i n t e l l i g e n t . Clyde's f u l l
Grantham
Gardens
No experience necessary.
Job is from 20th June to 20th September
Full-time work only: 38 hours a week
Don't work weekends
Wages: 6.80 an hour
Need to be reliable, hard-working
Don't need to be particularly strong
Send letter and CVto: Janet Doors, Grantham Gardens, POBox372, Lincoln
name w a s Clyde B a r r o w . He w a s b o r n i n 1 9 0 9 i n
( b )
B o n n i e m e t Clyde i n 1 9 3 0 . T h e y
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years. T h e y r o b b e d 15 b a n k s , a l t h o u g h g e n e r a l l y
t h e y p r e f e r r e d s m a l l shops a n d p e t r o l s t a t i o n s . T h e y
often stole cars too. Once Clyde s e n t a l e t t e r t o
to t h a n k h i m . He told h i m t h a t
his cars w e r e h i s f a v o u r i t e c a r s t o s t e a l ! B u t Clyde
( d )
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IT
Unit 3
The Sydney English Centre, Australia

Course begins: 16th August
Course lasts: 12 days
Accommodation organised
Price: 930 Australian dollars
Other activities include:

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1
2
3
4
5
desert
Canberra
Captain James Cook in 1770
prison convicts, beginning in 1788 and ending in 1848
A 2,600 km long structure made of living coral off the north-east
coast of Australia. The big rock in the middle of Australia is called
Uluru (or Ayers Rock). The most famous beach near Sydney is Bondi
Beach, but there are no sharks.
6 A common myth says that Captain Cook asked an indigenous
Australian 'What's that animal?', pointing to a kangaroo. The man
replied 1 don't understand you', or 'kangaroo' in his language.
7 an indigenous Australian musical instrument
8 Russell Crowe, 'Best Actor' for Gladiator and Mel Gibson, 'Best
Director' for Braveheart. Crowe was born in New Zealand but went to
live in Australia as a child and lives there now. Gibson was born in the
USA but lived in Australia when he was young. Later he moved back
to the USA and lives there now.
Personality: You're very hard-working and always want to

do your best, but sometimes you're too serious.
Romance: Your relationships are intense but short. If
your partner isn't perfect you always have
arguments.
Ideal jobs: Fashion designer, TV producer, journalist
Advice:
You should be more relaxed. Not everybody is
as perfect as you.
Mostly Section 2: You are a
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M o s t l y S e c t i o n 1: Y o u a r e a p e r f e c t i o n i s t
romantic.
Personality: You're very caring and get on well with others,

but you can get very sad when people don't
think about you.
Romance: You're a total romantic and believe in true love.
You need your partner to be 100% in love with
you.
Ideal jobs: Artist, novelist, actor.
Advice:
You shouldn't get too unhappy if things go
wrong.
M o s t l y S e c t i o n 3: You're a thinker.
Personality: You're a reliable friend because you're good

at listening to people and helping them with
problems. But sometimes you spend too much
time alone, thinking about things.
Romance: You're very practical about relationships but
you need to relax and enjoy yourself more.
Ideal jobs: Politician, teacher, computer programmer
Advice:
You have to do more and think less. Don't
worry about the consequences of your
actions - just do it!
71
M o s t l y S e c t i o n 4 : You're a leader.
Personality: You have to be in control. You're strong and

ambitious but that can be a weakness too
because some people will think you are too
interested in being the boss.
Romance: You think it's easy to make somebody fall in
love with you. But some people may think you
are frightening!
Ideal jobs: Company director, police officer, bank manager
Advice:
You should think of others. Be more tolerant of
people who aren't as direct as you.
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Vocabulary

Ages and stages of life

What are your parents doing

Present simple and

International cultural knowledge:

The importance of family

Newspaper stories about

The British Police

Cross-curricular- History:The origins

Gateway to Exams 1-2

Countries, nationalities and

Translating the world's best

Pronunciation: Word stress

English words from other

Some, any, much,

The world's language

Parts of the body

News stories on health

Health problems and

DrJekyll and Mr Hyde and

Notes and messages

Learning to speak Klingon

Contrastive word stress

International cultural knowledge:

Present perfect with

Present perfect with

Pronunciation: Word stress

Present perfect and

Gateway to Exams 3-4

Turn off TV week blog

Pronunciation: Word stress

Cross-curricular - History of Science:

Exam success/Study skills

Reading: Multiple-choice activities

Family dinners - radio

Asking for personal

Meeting at a party exchanging personal

Speaking: Information role-plays

Writing: Knowing about evaluation

Reporting a past event

Vocabulary: Using a dictionary

Talking about last

Role-play: last weekend

Information for a summer

Asking for information

Use of English: Multiple-choice cloze

Knowing what type of learner you are

Notes and messages

Asking about experiences

Reading: Matching activities

Descriptions and opinions

Listening: Identifying the speaker activities

Talking about inventions

Reading: Reading for general information

Grammar: Use and form

Protecting the environment

The Australia quiz

Different uses of get

Be going to and will

International cultural knowledge:

Gateway to Exams 5-6

A blog about unusual jobs

Jobs for young people