English We Bl +4 Intermediate Coursebook with e-Portfolio David Rea & Theresa Clementson with Alex Tilbury & Leslie Anne Hendra Course consultant: Adrian Dott Se CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS| acaout hati | express references "8 fal about information media _| 9 evaluate eas ‘make recommendations Aescribe a book oc TV show €@ talk about methods of communication (© express opinions €@ talk about using the Internet 1 speculate about the present and future {© speculate about consequences (© talk about a business idea {© talk about hopes, dreams and ambitions © talkabout abies 1 talk about achiavemants ‘What happened? 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Saying how something happened p31 Natural events p32 Adverbs for tling stores 39 CCemmon verbs in stories p34 | Grammar Narrative vor forme p32 Pronunolation Groups of words 1 p39, @ take notes Across exitures ‘Atudes to success | © relerto an eariar Vocabulary Ustening De supposed, be meant Latked out p38 (0538 Pierre and Murizha tal re chance, no way pA ‘about fate pad (Catehing up pA2 Mi ‘Grommar Future forms p90 Future in the post pt Pronunelation "Speaking Eomman pairs of werds 2909 Aske lend for help p29 (Changes of plan pct tople or eanversation | Aeros oufauras || saying no ortters * orletters “| Spelingan so ExPLOREWNting (9 make offers and promises in emails © refer backin emails ese |4 e Language eS ete VWosabutary “Utenng | Her eso Ung enressons pt Venathnaea opti | | Halionord arb moraing tpn pa | BIPoREoeaking {a abastnonsou manage mony moos Managing meney p50. “| @ say you dont | See teahtintctane aig etlpment ps8 | inden She reson or atic hag reason 58 eae pee Co mmcon Give expert aavice © descrite qualities you need for diferent activities 9 describe personality ‘@ make comparisons Say how a person has influenced yeu (Drawer actty Talk about people who have © talk about attitudes to possessions 1 Gescribe abjects 6 tall about unexpected travel situations ‘lscuss options end decide what todo (© make deductions (@rarvet actny Find something at iost property a 7 4 Dena Orrvet acvy describe problems in the home || @ discuss solutions 6 talk about decision-making {9 discuss the consequences of decisions @ nagotiate @ talk about memory WF) @ ta about what you remember @ talk about complaining 1 complain about goods or services {ask fora relundor replacement Gremmar Verb «ing pas Pronunciation Linking consonants nd owas pa? Vocabulary Personal qualities 255 Matching people to jobs and ‘activities p55 Personality p57 Describing someone’ Influence 958 Grammar Comparing p57 Pronunciation Contrastive stress p87 Vocabulary Maltisword ver: tidying and claaning p83 Describing products pd Travel situations pb Describing objects ps Grammar Modale of deduction anc speculation pi Pronunciation Emphati stress p65 Vocabulary Probiams inthe home p70, Discussing problems and ‘solutions a7? Decision-making 272 > Negotiating 7% Grammar Real and unreal condtionals 373 Pronunciation Groups of words 2673 Vocabulary Remembering an event 978 Pratlams wth things you've bought 0 Softeners p22 Grammar Verb patterns p79 Prosent perect simple and progressive pBi Pronunctation Intonation in questions pBt 6 explain something “Miser ferstandings pA ‘Speaking “hee you good wth money? pd ‘lve instructions pa? Give advice pi? 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Complain about eomathiog you've bought p8iLanguage | Explore fst a cnaraaton By) ok coouaty anes OS eanratse ste peop xy flounder eof fre Ora ecw Cat abau ends or . Be > | Any questions? isi stk ineresot Sa Te ns uc chevelle queens Setede neue © tort activity ‘Deal with questions in tale | Looking hack ‘hice pant actors Suggest alleretves tata acta Ress an about he past © taroot actnvity Discuss what went wrong react the nowe tell someone about a news story ‘evaluate options end choose one ‘Choose astory for anews programme J eross gulteras ‘tudes to fay ‘SPLoREwrting @ umte a factol report Vocabulary Vers of communication p86 Relating conversation 7 Exchanging news p90 Grammar Reporting speech po? Pronunciation Queting p87 Vocabulary Orgarising a talk p75, Polite requests and questions pF Ansiraring questions ata talk p98 Grammar Inirect questions p97 Pronunefation Groups of wards 3 995 © sive yoursel time to think Yocabutary Across cates Brrteinbusiess pin j Roress cam fetseftingnecs and orovery 10s | EIPLOnEiong Evaluating past actions p106 © write 9 summary of information ram | diferant sources © write an ema giving intormation ‘Grarom should have, coud have p10 Unreal conditional: past DIO, Pronunciation ‘Common pairs of words 2 oe mm Se Vocabulary Keyword sce Understanding nes stories oo ‘EIPLOsESpeaking Reacting tothe news ptt Talking sbout news stories pis Evaluating and selecting 9114 Grammar Passives p113. Pronunciation {Groups of words and linking Siscussion erupt politelyEvery unit of this book is divided into sections, with clear, practical goals for learning The first four pages of the unit help you build your, language skills and knowledge. These pages include speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation activities. They are followed by 2 Target activity which will help you put together what you have learned. ‘The Explore section ofthe unt begins with either 2 Keyword page which looks st ane or two ofthe most | Common and useful words in English, oran Across | ealtures page, and then an Explore speaking ar Explore t writing page. The Explore section gives you extra language and skills work, all aiming to help you become a better and more culturally aware communicator in English, @B_—_ The Look again section takes another took atthe target language forthe unit, Bagh booing 04 to reviw and extend your eorin Sometimes you will als find this recyeting symbol with the goals, ta show when 4 particular goa is not new but is recycling language that you have met befare This symbol shows you when you can hear and practise the correct pronunciation of key language, using the audio CD. ‘The e-Portfolio DVD-ROM contains useful reference material for all the units, a5 well as self-assessment to help you test your own learning, and Word cards to help you test your vocabulary learning, You can do more practice by aera yourself using the Self-study Pack, (Ulaitaatieeyel) which includes 2 workbook and interactive DVD-ROM. ‘The DVD-ROM contains Video and over 300 interactive activities.Entertainment and you PEN 1 Look at the TV channel logos below and talk with a partner. 1 What kind of programme do you think each channel shows? 2 What kind of TV or radio programmes do you enjoy? Think about: + reality shows + sport + drama * cookery shows * nature programmes + news 2. @ €EBD Listen to four people talking about TV and radio. Which channels does each person watch? e wisil tent Drs ae a sso NEL Argentina 1b ¢258D Listen again. Who only watches TV on the Internet? 5 loved adrama show as a teenager? 2 can'twatch much TV these days? _Likes learning about things on TV? 3. doesn't like the adverts on TV? 7 watches cookery programmes? 4 enjoys radio more than TV? Where you live, which is the best TV channel or radio station for: + high-quality news? ¢ nature programmes? + the most popular shows? + good dramas? + sports programmes? SEETENTMB 4 Find the hightighted expressions in the script on p14é and answer the questions. jabite.ant = 1. Which group of expressions is used to talk about prefehenees a habits? b things you like? things you don’t tke? : 2 Which expressions in box 3 do the speakers use to talk about, a. currenthabits? b_ past habits? 2. Which expressions can be followed by a anoun?b an-ingform? —¢ aninfinitive? 1 [I'ma bigfan of... |2 | mnota big fan of 3 | | hardly ever \'m really into lean't stand tend to I prefer... to rm not keen on ru drather find .. reallyicritating, |_| | used toSTNUNEEUGEM 5 @ What TV and radio do you like? Write five sentences with expressions from 4. suns I'm a big fan of reality TV shows. I tend ta listen to the news on the radio. b Compare with a partner. 1 Doyou like the same types of TV and radio programmes? 2 Have your habits changed much in the last ten years? Anything good on TV? (BESREESTSUMMM 1 Do you watch TV with other people? What happens if you don’t want to watch the same programmes? b EBD Listen to Paul and Rebecca talking about what's on TV. 1 What does Rebecca want to do? 2 What does Paul want to do? 3 What are their plans for later? aeons 2 Which sentences A-C from the conversation are about: 1 atime up to now? 2 uncompleted activities happening now or around now? things that are atways true or happen all the time? | | APresent simple © Do you read books? © 1 don't Like watching films more than once, © | read magazines. | B Present progressive What are you doing? I'm not reading anything at the moment. © Have you read it? © | haven't looked. © We've seen it before, 2 a Complete the questions with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets. Do_ you prefer TV, radio, books or the Internet? Why? (prefer you anything at the moment? What? (read) you anything interesting recently? What? (read) a TV series at the moment? Which one? (follow) you you watching TV from other countries? Give examples. (tke) you any important news today? What? (hear) you ‘anything good on TV in the last week? What? [see] bb (RED Listen to check, @ Write three more questions about media habits for a partner. a GERD The highlighted words are some of the most commen pairs of words in English, Listen to how you say them. 1 Doyou watch TY in English? Are you reading Snything? Have you heard the néws récentiy? Would you ike me to rectrd it? Can you pass the reméte? b Practise saying the pairs of words on their own. Then practise asking the questions. (REET 5 a Ask and answer all the questions in 3a, and the questions you wrote in 3b. b Tall the class something interesting you found out.1 2 informatién” Fact or fiction? ‘a Which of these do you use when you need to get information? + the Internet + reference books * newspapers + magazines» advertisements + encyclopedias, 1b Which do you tend to trust? Why? Read the article. Match paragraphs 1~4 to subheadings a~« Can we believe what we read on the Internet? Can we believe what we read on paper? The difficulty of knowing what to believe. A surprise online discovery. Read the article again and answer the questions. 1 What did Mike Scott's fan do? Why? 2 What does Terry Millstone think about Wikipedia? Why? 3 What did Stephen Glass do? 4 Do you agree with Terry Millstone or Pete Morley? 5 What do you think the writer's opinion is? Why? Find words and expressions in the article with these meanings: 1 (2adjl which can be trusted or believed = r_ 2 (Zag) not completely correct or exact 3. (adil correct, exact =a. 4 [3nnoun) reports about shocking things that people have done = s__ 5 (Snoun) something which seems reat but isn’t =a f__ & (8 multi-word verb) »invente 7 (verb) believe 8 (noun) belief «t5 tee eee eee PRET PiBvatuating and “recorighenging. Patan It’s a good way to .. 1 How often do you think information in advertisements or magazines is_? 2 Would'you buy 2 designer T-shirt or DVD which was? 3. Doyou ‘what politicians say? Why? Why not? 4% Have there been any about famous people in your country recently? 5 Do you think it's more important for newspapers to be entertaining or _ and__? 6 Have you ever__ something __on your CV? bb Ask and answer the questions in groups. You can use place, way, time, idea with these adjectives to evaluate and recommen things. Which adjectives are they used with in the articte? But, sit a place to get reliable facts? . Wikipedia has become a __ way to do research, good bad popular Thorsenrerbeona Umer aetaccrte | sean gator worse Isita idea to place our trust in what we read . in magazines, newspapers and books? a Look at quite and really In this sentence and answer the questions. Wikipedia seems like a really great idea, but actually it’s quite a dangerous website 1. Which makes the meaning a lot stranger? 2. Which goes before a/an? Which goes after a/an? ‘a Complete these sentences with your own ideas to give recommendations 1 .isagoodidea, 3 ..isaneasywayto.. 5 isa popular place to 2 Lisaterrible idea. 4 \isasafeplaceto.. 6 ...is.a great way to b Choose two or three sentences from 3a. Add quite or really Checking facts in mare than one place is quite a good idea. © Compare your ideas, Ask questions to find out more information. a Think of recommendations for these things. + websites + computers * eating out + physical exercise © finding information * doing homework Think about your own experiences and plan what you want to say. b Talk together. What do you think about each other's ideas? That new Korean restaurant | Yeah, that's true. The best is early evening, befare the rush, and it's quite a good idea to book early.> Tat activity Describe a hook or aT show b HEED Listen to four people talking about them. 1 Were your idede about the books and TV shows correct? 2. Did the people tike what they read or watched? Why?) ‘Would you like te read these books or see the {V shows; a Can you remember what the people said? Complete = ene information in the box. €@22% Then listen to.chi ae a8 Ae 1 It’sbysomeone called & Wsbaseds rs quite a well-known 2%. Weiabout this family whe 8. Ktlooks at FL \People sayit's s a 3 sf found it itsEXPLORE Aeross cultures Intercultural experiences STTIETEINEEEG 1. Have you lived, worked or travelled outside your region or country? Tatk together. 1. Was it an easy or difficult experience? Why? 2. Did you notice any differences from your culture? What? 2 EBD Listen to Federico talking about an experience he had in Egypt. How did he feel during the day? How about at the end of the day? 3 HRD Listen again and discuss these questions. Who did Federica go out for the day with? What language did they speak? What happened at lunchtime? What was the problem for Federico? Why was Manu upset? 4 GED Listen to Federico taking about how he felt six months later. What cultural difference does he talk about? 5 Which sentences, A, B or C, are about: 1a present situation? 2 apast situation? 3. aprocess of change? A Voted Rauteditical attest [wasnt used spencing so much lime n bia [After ving in Eaypt for six months oso, began to understand wnat nad happened, I stowly got used to being with a lot of people “Nowlm OK withit, & a Think about changes in your life or the life of someone you know. Write five sentences with the highlighted expressions in 5. Think about; + moving abroad * visiting another country + moving toa different area ‘= changing jobs» changing schools * learning a language | found it quite difficult when | first went into advertising b Compare your sentences with a partner. Are your experiences similar? 7a Think about these aspects of culture where you come from: eating habits + greetings + personal space + showing emotions + familylife + hospitality * work-life balance * sense of humour Think about relationships between: + older and younger people * menand women + employers and employees Which aspects of culture do you think: 1. visitors can begin to understand quite quickly? | 2. take longer to get used to? 3. you can only understand when you know the culture very well? bb Talk together. Do you have the same or different opinions? 1EXPLOREWriting How do you make decistons about: + where to go on holiday?. ‘= which books to read? ‘+ which TV shows to watch? 2 Look at the cover of The Book Of The Wortd. 1. What do you think you'd find in the book? 2 What information do you think it gives about places? 2 Who do you think might buy it? 3 a Read two online reviews of the book and check your ideas. B The site uses a five-star rating system. How many stars do you think each reviewer gave the book? Check your ideas on p118. Yotnininy My favourite book, 14 jun 2010 | s‘'ryv‘n'y Coffee table book, 14 Aug 2010 By LA Seadan “LASS?” 8 Allya Bakaey 00 al my sevows | sonal my rviews ‘This isan absolutely amazing book. If you are | | This is nothing more than 2 cote table book. tt Ierestean song peopl round the warts ond || cantains some abel string psa their ordinary but colourful lives, then this book | | quick guice to each country, ‘which is probably all Iain for you. is ergataton fs espeesty || Joucan expect ham «boo eatrng Wry county Sever erganises cous om Ato rather tan || nthe wor ‘grouping countries by region, which means that you browsed through it in a shop and was about to add Papeete eee ereerreesre reneneee nee ‘it to my gift list. But when I went to the entry of my fine youu oge tecoes something gute epca | | LY SI: But yen wen 0 heey of my ~ it exactly captures the mood of places I have been ‘see that the main picture (taking over half the page) teams very onsua nny experience Tes Se eer eg eee eee It’s amazing that a travel book ean get this kind of as gaara ere Information completely wrong! It made me doubt all Tes realy nay tread and atl ascrater me. ttve || avons renee boa reading, eapcaly shen tn fang bred oie or nen raining outa. es 9 wonder soure Ct inpratin ou we Aer reading my leet trast pce os tpl The book Gere o Se wens by snare interested inven he [ settsecng teas and meeting te peopes | ‘This book isn't especially helpful if you want to plan a trip, but Its a really nice book to get a snapshot of 2 country. Or you can just get some inspiration fram the photos. They arent your usual postcard shots, | whichis reresning to see, 4 Find the adjectives which go with these adverbs in 6 a Write four sentences recommending one or two the reviews. books. Try and use the language from 4 and §. absolutely amazing /_ It's an absolutely amazing book. The recipes are especially __/__ really easy to follow, which means you can cook lots completely J of dishes straight away. really Look at your sentences tagether. Would you like 5 Look at the which clauses in the second review, toread the books your partner recommended? 1. When is which used to: Saad ears aaa 7a Write a short book review for a website. say what the writer feels or thinks? 1 Choose a book to write about, 2 Find one more of each type of which clause in 2. Think of positive and/or negative things to say the first review. about the book. 3. Where do you put the comma (,] when you use = reais rsiieiyelaese es ee 1b Read some other student: Which book would you most like to read?Look again <>. Review 4. a Look at the game and complete the questions. 2Have you seen any good films recently? Ey Rene anything at the cura Renew eon i Go forward Soo a Riana an Giceyaciess Oey ee Tee eee oe cd 5 9 What /do fat Ceres Gee oy Ea Caecd ees Ea n 10 Rocce anything new at ena iat poten ae Pe’ Pied 'b Play the game in groups. 1. Take turns to toss a coin. For one side of the coin, move one space. Far the other side, move two spaces. 2 When you land on a square, ask the question, ‘Ask more questions to find out more 3. Ifyou land on the same square twice, ask a different player the question. SOON 2. a Make questions to find someone who: 1 used to play the same games as you as a child 2 tends to go ta bed at the same time as you. 3 can’t stand the music you like. 4 hardly ever reads the same books as you. 5 prefers different websites from you. 6 isa big fan of a TV programme you love. b Ask four or five people your questions. Who is similar to you Who isn't? Extension 3. a EID Listen and underline the letters in these ‘words which make a /f/ sound. official different afford off stuff film often after yourself surf telephone pharmacy photagraph laugh cough enough 'b Find words in 3a to match spelling patterns 1-4 and think of another example for each pattern, s/s spelled 1. f, particularly after Lor r and before t 2 ffafter short vowels. 3. ghin these patterns: ough, augh 4 phin some words. € Spellcheck. In pairs, take turns to choose ten words and test your partner's spelling. 4 a Look at the expressions with and. Which add emphasis? Which are verb + and + verb? 1. 501 can fast forward through all the ads ‘and then watch the shows over and over, (RD Juan} 2. [try and follow the news. (3H Aika} 3. Ithas hundreds of names and people and it just goes on and on. |€@E9 Carmen] 4 Idon’t know how you can read books again and again, (23) 5 Come and see the view fram here, I's incredible. b Complete sentences 1-5 with your own ideas. Then compare with a partner. 1 When | watched 2 I saw... and itwent on and on. 3. There are lots and lots of ..on TV these days. 4. has got better and better. 5 Recently | went and saw laughed and laughed. lewas Ree ees Cote Tu eras eee ie ess ere ee talk about information media etalPSN 1 Look at the pictures. How do you keep in touch with your family and friends? i 2 Listen to two conversations. What method of communication is each about? What do the people think about it? ‘EHD Listen again, Which sentences are ‘i Cana true and which are false? =, trom ireland} | [Paula and Megan | | 1) They don't use Facebook very much | | 2. They've made contact with old friends | 3 They often check ole friends’ profiles They have nothing to say to old friends They think you make good friends on i | Graham and Deniz | Deniz always has her phone with her. | 7 She turns it off at night. 7 She returns people's calls in the morning. She doesn’t mind getting work emails on holiday, She finds it easy not ta think about work. Discuss the questions. “pores 1 Doyou agree with Paula and Megan about social networking? etd 2 Doyou think Graham and Deniz have similar lifestyles? Give reasons. 3° Do you know anyone like Deniz? nsSTEUMTAMY 5 a Look at some sentences from the conversations. Who says 1-5? 1. Ud sayit must be impossible to relax, though. 2 Ireckon you must get tired. 3. They say you need to take breaks from work. 4 Some people say you shouldn't take your work on holiday. 5 There's no point in being friends, really. & There's no harm in checking your emails from time to time. Look at the highlighted expressions in Sa 1 Which expressions: a give the speaker's opinion? give other people's opinions? 2. Which expression: ‘introduces an expert's opinion? _b_says it's OK to do something? says there's no reason to do something? EROUNGLGEN 6 a Look at this sentence from Graham and Deniz’ conversation. 722 igentencestress | Listen and notice which words are stressed. Pd sdy it mist be impéssible to relx, though 'b You stress the most important words in a sentence [often nouns, main verbs, adjectives and adverbs}. Look at sentences 2~6 in 5a, Mark the words you think are stressed, (¢ CRED Listen and read the script on p147 to check. Practise saying the sentences. Ear 7a Write one or two sentences giving your opinions about these statements. You can Include other people's opinions too. Use the expressions in 5a. Using mobile hones on Texting is making public transport is impotite. | | our spelling worse. oes Women make better ) [You sould any have bosses than men. | | eitren i youre married 'b Talk about the sentences together. Do you have the same opinions? 1 Use the adjectives to complete the opinions from Graham and Deniz’s conversation. SE) [aneing_aifaat na] Terre Fg 1 W's being on call all the time. it’s + adjective + ing form 2 It's torelax, sometimes. it’s + adjective + infinitive 3 Its. how much | miss the buzz of work, i's + adjective + question word insentences Uke these, es 2. a Putte words in order to make sentences. 1. ts /face to face /to people / better / to talk i's better to talk to people face to face. 2 It’s/seeing / easy to stop / your old friends 3 It’s/in contact / to keep / with your family / important 4 Its/you/ much free time / stressful / when / don't have 5 It’s/a lot of time / spending / boring / alone b Talk together. Do you agree with the sentences in 2a? Why? Why not? ET 3 a Work alone. Tick (V) the things you think are a waste of time. At work: chatting to colleagues, surfing the Internet, having meetings ‘At home: tidying up every day, dressing up to go out, cooking complicated meals, Going out: waiting in queues, window shopping, walking everywher $ bb Add another activity which you think is a waste of time to each list. 4 Discuss all the ideas. Try to agree on three things that are a waste of time,Online friendships 1 “Answer the questions in groups. | 2 2Usingthig, 1 How much time do you spend ontine? ‘ internet: Which sites do you use most? 2 Do you have a blog or web page’? Do you ever read other people's pages? 0 you ever pest a comment after you've watched a video or read a blog online? 4 How often do you look for information online? What search engine do you use? ‘Are you ona social networking site? Do you enjoy socialising online? TSC 2a Read the title of the article. What do people | Use social networking sites for? Can you think of any reasons why these sites could be bad for friendships? b Read the article, Does it mention any of your ideas? Could social networking sites mean the end of lasting friendships? * A GENERATION THATS GROWING UP using socal netwerking webslies, sch as Facebook and MySpace, i less Ikly to form lasting relationships and is more aly o act without thinking, an expert has werned, ® Many people who were Gorn in 1980 oF later have only known a world with the Intemet, 20 they could grow up with an unrealstic view of the world and themselves, the annul meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists hea. * Dr Himanshu Tyag, a psychiatist, sald social networking stes have encouraged the idea that fiendships and relationships can be formed ancl fended quickly and easly He sad, "I's @ world where everthing moves fast and changes all the time, where rlalonships are ended at the cle ot ‘a mouse, Online, you can delete your profile and change who you are in few seconds.” He sald that because everything happens so quickly on social networking sites, people may start to ind the real weed bocng Dr Himanshu Tyagi “He said teenagers who socialise ontine are more Ikely to make quick dec'sions without thinking about the consequences oftheir actions. They might not pay enough attention to their real worl’ selves, and might find i dificult to form relationshins inthe real world because they won't lean about body language, tone of voice anc facial expressions one. He said that if you can't see somaone’s face or body language or hear changesin thel voice, this wilinfuence your understanding of what's going on. He added tha rlendship ‘means something very diferent tothe internet generation’ ® But there are also benefits. When you're online, you often dont know the wealth, race or gender of the person you're communicating with. Dr Tyagi said, “No one isan outsider on the net. t may not be the bast ‘way fo make lasting friendships, but it does make everyone equal.” | 3 Read the article again. In Dr Tyagi’s opinion, why might young people: have an unrealistic view of the world? feel that relationships can be started and ended quickly and easily? find the real world boring? find it more difficult to form relationships in the real world? be equal on the Internet?En 4 Talk together about the questions. 1 Do you agree with Or Tyagi? Why? Why not? 2 How did you meet your closast friends? 3. What's the first thing you notice about people? Ist diferent meeting people online? 4 Read the last paragraph again. What other benefits are there of using the Internet to socialise? an 41. a Look at sentences 1-7 from the article. Which modal verbs mean: “wl 20d ay, 9 ight See a I'msure about this? (x2) b This isa possibility? (x5) modal + infinitive 1. © lfyou can't see someone's face .. this will influence your understanding of what’ going on. 2 © They won't learn about body language, tone of voice and facial expressions online © People may start to find the real werld boring © Ie may not be the best way to make lasting friendships. ‘© They might find it difficult to form relationships. © They might not pay enough attention to their ‘real world’ selves. © They could grow up with an unrealistic view of the world and themselves, fb SEND Listen to check and practise saying the sentences. @ SORCUESER 2 Which hightighted expression(s) A-G in the sentences below can you use: Expressing to emphasise that you're sure? probability i a to say you think there's a good chance of something? (x3] to say you think there's only a small chance? mpare the chances of different things happening? [x2] {ve changed internet provider. |Amay well be connected by the end of the week. ®rU definitely join a social networking site. “Vl probably join Facebook She's Sikely to be at work now. Why don’t you try her mobile? t'm Eunlikely to finish this today. ll email it to you tomorrow. You're Fmore likely to get online atthe café later. I's °less likely to be busy then. How likely are these things in the future? Make sentences with these words about: online relationships /’be/ important 6 1/ have an unexpected email in my inbox newspapers and books / disappear 71 make a close friend online everyone / do their shopping online 8 I / get my dream job most people / speak/ Mandarin 9 1/ move to another country people / stop /writing with pens 10 _1/learn another language Online relationships will probably be more important in the future. ETN 4 Discuss the ideas in 3 together. Do you have the same ideas? 'd say newspapers and books are unlikely to disappear. (Tdon’t know. | think printed newspapers: may well diseppear inthe next ten years, y well disappear inthe next ten year.lt oss TASK REAUING. Target activity ee 2.3 goals = Discuss an issue 1 Answer the questions together. 1 How many emails do you send a day? How many do you receive? 2. How aften do you check your emails at work? What about at hame? 3. Do you have an intranet system at work? Do you find it useful? | 2 _Read his extrac om an aite and alocuss ie guestions i | “de Do you'stres with Paul Johnson? a | | 2. Car you think of ahy solutions to the problem? | | oe | Last year, the world sent five tilion business emails, which works out at 15 i | billion a day, as well as 40 billion personal messages every day. Yet the average office worker fails to respond to more than a quarter of their messages. We are drowning in a sea of email, and its beginning to bother some people, Paul Johnson has written the Email Survival Guide, a handbook to help you take control of your inbox. "People are addicted to email because it makes them feel wanted,” he says, “but its disruptive. People think it's an efficient way of communicating because it only takes 30 seconds to deal with it, but every time a message pings on to your screen, it takes your focus away from the work you're doing." 8 sHED Listento Eric and Graham | @ management decision. h 5 | 1 ‘What hee thelr dete odo? iy? 2. What desEric and Graham-say about the Eonskquences of the fem's decision? b cheek inthe seri on p14? ‘& a Ldok at sentences 1-7 from the conversation. Which aie arguments for the intranet ban? Which are againstit?. ‘We'll have to walk around and talk to people. WlLtake longer todo everything. ‘You'll be able to make decisions immediately. Lust think itl cause problems, It might actually help us to get things done quicker. It might be nice to have a chat sometimes. We might need to give ita chance. SIMD Listen to check @ ae 5 a Your firm js banning mobile phones and MP3 players inthe office, Workin A/B ( Banning mobite phones will eause problems Like what? x Well, people won't eeenstetaan groups. A, you're in favour of the-ban 8, you're against it. Think ofa least three. reasons to support your argument. er " B Think about the language you'need to: * give your opinions. dsay.. There's no harm in. I's important to ‘speculate about consequences “It might help us to... ltl cause .. Work in A/B groups. Discuss the issue with your colleagues. Discuss the ban with the whole class. What are the most convincing reasons: * in favour of the ban? + against the ban?EXPLORE Keywonls so, suci ome HED Listen to Sylvia talking about something that has changed her life 1 What is it? 2 Why does she like it? 3 What does she plan to do next? a Inwhich sentences, 1~4, does so or such: a mean really or very? b_ introduce the result ofa situation? 1 He did it all so quickly that | didn’t have time to make us a cup of tea, 2. It's such an easy and cheap thing ta use that I'm going to get an internet phone as well. 3. And it's so cheap! % It's made such a difference to my life. 'b Answer the questions. Listen again to check 1 Which word, s0 or such, is followed by: 2 an adjective or adverb? » afan +ladjectivel + noun? 2. Which words have a strong stress in sentences Sand 4? «RED Decide together where so or such goes in these sentences 2. Tr saves a lot of time, omit 2 3 So many of us ave wasting mich tine Locking 4 Complete the sentences with your own ideas. Then compare them together. 1 Iwas so... recently that | 2. had such a... day yesterday that | 3. find it so difficult to... that | have to 4 is such a/an... person that 5 [didn't know... was so Iwas so stressed recently that | thought about quitting my job. Expressions with so and such 5 a Replace the underlined words with the expressions in the box. sofer_suchas_orso and soon 1. After living in Egypt for six months approximately, I began to understand what had happened. unt 2 Ageneratian that is growing up using social networking websites, like Facebook and MySpace, is less likely to form lasting relationships. vnit2 3. Onthis site, you can chat with friends, post and comment on photos, and things tike that. 4. She's won all the competition events until now. bb In pairs, cover the box in 5a. Say the sentences and try to remember the expressions. & a You're going to tell a story about something that changed your life. Think about: + amove * an important test * an achievement + meeting someone + seeing something 1b Look at 1-5 and think about how you can use so and such in your story. 1 how you feel about the event now twas such a great haw you felt at the time / was s0 worried .. ome things that happened the result / was so late that / expressions with s0 or such you can use There were ten of us or so. 7 Tell each other your stories. Ask questions to find out more.pees EXPLORESpeaking +HND Listen to three conversations Eric has on the same day. Who's he talking to in each conversation? afriend 2 acolleague 3. astranger 'b VND Listen again, What's each conversation about? ¢ Read conversations 1-3 to check. 2. a Which highlighted expressions do the speakers use to: 1. ask for clarification? 2. clarify what they're saying? b Add these expressions to group 1 or 2 above. What | meant to say was What exactly do you mean? So you're saying ..? No, Iwas trying to say © ¢ GND Listen to check. @ 3. Practise having the conversations together. Replace some of the expressions in the conversations with expressions from 2b. 4 Choose a question and make notes. * Isit possible to get to know someone well online? » Is the use of technology, like satellite navigation systems in cars, making people lazy? + Is ita good idea for children to use the Internet & a Talkin A/B pairs. 1 A.give your opinions about one of the questions in 4 B, listen and ask for clarification. A clarify what you're saying. 2 xe. and then everyone wil be able to get on with ther ‘work and not lose concentration every time they get Do you moan people aron't working hard enough? No, what I'm trying to say is people want to work ‘and they want to work hard but they can't beeause they're always getting emails rom ‘exerinspssroR Will ths ing ig. si @ train's broken down on the line, 30 there are no trains leaving from here. ‘Are you saying can't use my ticker? No, Pm saying thece are no trains going there trom this station, You can use your ticket rent route [don't know how to descr i realy We started exchanging omails and [just niow sho was the one ‘think I fell im love after the fourth or ith emall And then when we met, we know for sure i was love OK. tcan understand hows you can get to now someone's personality abit online and by wat femal. What T don't get is, how can you fallin love ‘when you've never seen the person, never heard their Wl... how can T put it how. [suppose it's ewe just did Ihave no idea bb Then change roles and talk about another topic. © Change pairs and have more conversations. [ Do you mean dating websites should be banned? a No, I'm saying yau should be careful | about who you agree to meet »l Look again <> Review Extension 4. a Make sentences about your family and friends. 4 a s3HED Listen and undertine the letters in these words which make a /t// sound 1. Ws nice when your friends 2. It's important to see chair chance achieve exchange each 3. It's interesting having touch kitchen watch catch question 4 It’s boring suggestion tuna Tuesday cultural future Beane airs, answer the questions. Paes bing: the quest 'b Talk about all the sentences together. Do you u ey a eee agree? Why? Why not? "i 2 Does teh occur after a short or a tong vowel? What patterns after t can make a /t{/ sound? CULES © Can you think of more words with these spelling 2 a What do you think your country will be like in 10, patterns? 20 or 50 years? 1d ¥ED Spolicheck. Close your book. Listen and Whe will govern your country? write ten words. Then check your spelling on p148. 1 3 at lle might poole ws ogi? « Howot people exnmuntcate’ § What ontrtinment be the? 5-2 complete the adjectne-noun calacatons rom bb Talk togather and compare your ideas. ee] 2) urgent CURT aye ae es see _____| eae 1 People may sao fndthe wots Tomoke dene witht hing ri 3 ThoyesTlosia baa oy anauage- tne Monalkea tends. AD 6 What about ___ emails and stuff? #3 b Match up the adjectives and nouns. Then write: ‘questions to ask a partner using the collocations. 3. Complete Paul and Rebecca's conversation with the corract farm of the verbs in brackets. meal online demanding conversation private job messages quick delicious personal_chat_relationship aut What "__ lyou / watch? What are you watching? feaeeca Er, it'sa crime drama pau. Any good? renecea Yeah, but can't concentrate because you 2 tat, ee eas pau Sorry, i's just there's a documentary SERINE een Ere eg abeut Darwin on ina minute, Diéyou see RRS SIN a ee eascca No,|°___ {not / readl the TV guide. el Anyway, |= {watch] this. You could Eta record it rere pau Yeah, OK.$ (ou / see) the remote? Seen esecca No, |* [not / know] where itis. eet Look, can you be quiet? eae rau 17___ {not / makel any noise, Eerie | ©" fjust / took) for the remote. revecca Look, it's over there by the TV guide 'b yD Listen tothe conversation and check your, answers.Success _ (EEE 1 You're going to road about an inventor. Which ofthese facts do you think are about the inventor of + karaoke? the iPod? He never became rich from his invention, He's shy and doesn't usually do interviews. He made people listen to music in a different way. He used his invention to celebrate his 59th birthday. He was a drummer in a band. He has also designed computers. 2 Workin A/B pairs. A, read the article below and B, read the article on p119 to check your ideas. industey bat the msn wha invested Inoue fo play fr him onan overnight thas mado alinost i tony jutof i” wip. molt. nbletoleavo his job, Inoue Daisuke came up with to ldea _ geve him # tape af the backing sausie in 1971. Hp Gould have become one of insta. That might, the businessman ‘he Hohost moitin Japan, bithe didn't gave au omodonal performance and patent bison and doesn't soom Jasaoke (méabing “emps) orchestra) Worried about sho lost ppportunity. was bors on Tino a ear siario, a coll Dox did a4 Maspid by dls succass, [Rous made 5 ious himself only used « karaoke small ampliler to make the karaoke” “71 hoxes with tapos and amplilas, _— miachino for the first time to says thi 65 yor od fi his srl ‘8h Bogan yonting thers to bars collbrat his 54h birthday. These olfice in Osaka." Who would €ousidor Kobe in 1971. 1iis plan was tomako ays, he makes a living selling a ‘atontingsvimething like thar? ‘bio money bit he hover thought pekronch repellent for the machines. Zin the wily 1970s: Indue was a, thou woild be so vopula Infact, “Coekrouéhes gt inside the machines, dramamer ins bar band wth six aranks Was Soon piekod ip by laiyer build nes and oat the wires,” ho collegues, playing Ir [oeal dubs in conipanucs and through the 1980s pnd Say He's very excited about his next Kobe, They played for middle-aged 1990s, tbswapt dross Asta, the US and venioro. My-dream’ he says, ‘is to Ditsinssérner who Wantod s sing = Kurope."Thon'n 1999, Thme Magazine train Japanese pet-owners to take trallional Japendse songs Inoue calf Inoue one ofthe 200 contury’s —helter cate oftheir pots.’ Friends say soys, ‘Out of 108 ahi inusicians inmost flusntal people, savingthe had — hls the ideas man, while his wife, Kobe, Lvias te worst" And the clents completly changed nightlife. Nobody wtio works in the saine Osaka offic, inmy cubwere'the worst singirs!’ was assinprised ase,’ he says. ‘helps bring the ideas to lie 2 a A,complete the summary of this article; B, complete the summary on p119. 1. Inoue Daisuke invented karaoke, but he didn’t 2 He was a drummer in a band which 3. The idea for karaoke started when Inoue gave & 4 Over the next twenty years karaoke became... Inoue was surprised when 5 Now, Inoue... In the future, he | bb Tell each other sbout your articles. How are the two men similar or different?ET “Talkiig about a a a description of the product businessidea b the financial success of an idea ¢ the start of a project or invention 4 Look at the sentences from the articles, Match 1-3 with topics a-c. 1 Inoue Daisuke came up with the idea in 1971 He didn’t patent his idea, S 2 You can use it to store thousands of-songs, Critics said it looked fantastic and was easy to use. see | 3 Theman.... has made almost no money aut afi } He makes a living seling a cockroach repellent. | 5 Complete the questions with verbs from the highlighted expressions in 4 in the correct form, How did Inoue Daisuke up with his idea? Why didn’t he his invention? Do you think Jonathan Ive_a lot of money out of the iPod? ‘What da you think is the easiest way to a living? Is it more important that a gadget is easy fo use or. fantastic? a & Askand answer the questions together. 11 What's Inoue Daisuke’s dream for the future? What do you think of his idea? +3EED Listen to Aminata, Eduardo and Elisa talking about their hopes, dreams and ambitions. Match each speaker to one of the pictures A-C. 3a Listen again. Complete sentences 1-8 with a-b. @ 1 One day, I'd like to taking some lessons. Aminata |2 At some point, 'd absolutely love to |b _be comfortable in the wat [3 tm thinking of ¢_learn to swim. Eduardo |@ '™ considering d bea guitar player | Eduardo | 5 My dream is to doing 2 degree in music. & Myaimisto live in Tokyo for a year, Elisa [7 Myambition is to 9 train at the JKA dojo, 8_Fve always wanted to h_go there next year. 4 Choose five of the highlighted expressions from 3. Write sentences about your hopes reams and ambitions. One aay, ket rave around the wort. | 5 8 GAD Listento sentence 1 above, What kinds of word are usually stressed? What "Schwa fof kinds of word often have a schwa? Bne dy, I'd Like to learn to swim. bb Mark the stressed syllables and schwa sounds in sentences 2-8 above. ¢ ¥2EED Listen and read the script on p148 to check. Practise saying the sentences. SNS & Talk to your partner about your hopes, dreams and ambitions. Do you think you can both achieve your ambitions? 7 Tell the class something interesting your partner wants to do in the future.ERNATSTINRE 1 a Whats an 10 test? Have you ever taken on™ — 3 Lookat the hia @ aninfinitive? b an-ingformi? ¢ ancun? d_an-ing formar anaun? Your abilities 'b Read the article from an educational magazine. Which intelligence types might, help with these activities? + doing your accounts + playing tennis» writing a poem + designing @ building * staying happy * learning a song * resolving an argument What is intelligence? — Szsma7svigswasmase" =» Not just a high 1Q 4 Verbablinguistic People with high verba-linguistic Intelligence have a facliy with words ang languages. ‘The theory of multiple intelligences was proposed They are typically good at reading, writing, teling by Howard Gardner in 1983. He believed that the stories and memorising words along with dates, They traditional intelligence test (known as an 19 test) didn’t acknowledge the wide variety of ablities that people have, Here is a summary of the main types, Of intelligence that he identified 41 Bodily-kinesthetle Peopie \who have bodilykinesthetic intelligence learn best by doing something physically. They are good at building and making things. ‘They may enjoy acting or performing and are generally good at physical activities such as sports or dance. 2 Interpersonal People who have a high interpersonal intelligence learn best by working with others and often enjoy discussion and debate. They are able to co-operate in order to work as part of a group. They ‘communicate effectively and empathise easily with others. tend to learn best by reading, taking notes, listening to lectures, and through discussion and debate, 5 Logica-mathematical This area has, to do with logic, reasoning and numbers. People with this ability ‘excel at scientific thinking and investigation, and have the ability to perform complex calculations. Traditional concepts of intelligence, (FIQ, reflect ability in this area. 6 Musical This area has to do with rhythm, music and hearing, Those ‘who have a high level of musical intelligence are able to sing and play musical instruments. They can also often compose music and may learn best by listening to lectures. 7 Visuat spatial People with strong visual spatial iteligence are typlclly very goad at visualising and mentally manipulating objects. They have 3 Intrapersonal Those who are strong in this 2 good visual memory and are often artistcaly inclined. intelligence are typically intoverts and prefer to work They also generally have a good sense of direction and alone. They are capable of understanding their own ‘may have good hand-eye co-ordination. Alawyer probably needs interpersonal | 2 Read the article again. Which intelli and verbal-linguistic jobs? Why? intelligences, + lawyer * politician * poet + engineer * doctor + singer + DJ « social worker ences do you think are important for these “abe 4 a Which intelligences do you think you have? What about people you know well? Write five sentences. Explain your ideas and give examples, | think I have musical intelligence because /'m able to learn tunes very quickly. bb Talk about your sentences together. What intelligences do most people have? nted expressions in 1-7 in the article. Which can be followed by: SL LES ES PTE ER | " i =Your achievements 1. SEED Listen to interviews with Aminata, Margot and Chartie about their achievements. What are they most proud of? 2 Canyou answer the questions about each person? ¥MIKD Listen again to check. Aminata 1 What did she want to learn? Why? 2 When did she start learning? Margot 3. What's her book about? 4 What's she doing at the moment? Charlie § What did he join? & What do they do together? 3 Deyou think each of them found it easy to do these things? Why? CA Match the sentences fram the listening with functions a or b. 1 I've had the bike for about a year now. 1 2. I've just written a cookery book. aa situation or state which is still true 3. I've learned to ride a bike recently. ba finished action which is important now 4 I've always wanted to write 5 Match the highlighted words in 1-8 with categories a-e I've always wanted to write. I've just written @ cookery book I've never been able to go with them. I've already written a novel actually. I've learned to ride a bike recently Ithasn’t come out yet. I"ve had the bike for about a year now. | haven't written anything since the cookery book the whole of your life until now always / part of your life until now ae something you expect to happen a short time ago___/ something that happened sooner than expected 5 Notice the position of the highlighted time expressions. Then add them to the sentences in the quiz. Find someone who: recently has won a competition 4. What was it? recently has passed a test or an exam. just has learned to drive, Why not? never has done welt in interviews. always has achieved something today, What was it? already has been married over ten years. for hasn't taken a test or an exam they left school. since hasn't done what they needed to do today. yet 1 2 4 6 7 8 CO 7 Ask questions to find who the statements in 1-8 are true for. Find out more about each situation Have you won @ competition recently? | __B In pairs, tell each other what you found out | S —aeaeeecn “ Actually, I've never sor cngt | s(GREE ZSATSTETI 1 Road the advert. Why do people Target activity 3.3 goals EESTI Sell an idea join Connections? My business idea What's new? Connect ontine Contact us Do you have @ great business idea? Do you want ta make money out of it? Connections can help you. We specialise in bringing together entrepreneurs with | suitable investors. We match you with the best investor for you and organise an aa ae EE moe F've worked in design since .. 2 My aim isto .. I'm concerned about the distribu costs. | | interview with them. Interested? Then click an the link below to join our database | > Gick hare to join Connections, * 2. a VHEED Listen to the first part of Olga’sinfetyiew with an investor she met through Connections. Labet the picture with theBe Words: strap handle wheels buggy bag Stpp pocket, side pocket How does the bag work? 'b HED Listen to the restof the interviews 1 What dos ota rom th ila 2 How does eeu the prose Listen again check ine script on p48 3. a Discus the questions. 1 Doyo think’the product wil work? Why? = 2 Doyouthine thelwestor Will support 3 Olgas de? Why? (b VHEHD Listen to'a| hone call between the investor and las Were you righ? 4. 2ho says sentences 1) th interviewer or Olga? *_’an you give us’a it morejnfarmation about your background? 2" We'd like to ask you some’questians about international sales: ‘4. {fh really excited about the product, ‘4 Fin very keen to heagijour thoughts about the business plan. 5 "IF good to see somiBoné.so passionate about their product! & We have sgine dotibts about a few things in the business plan. 2. JNhat (my frlore Cancerhed about is the marketing "8. HeeLety optimistic about its chancés of success. 2 Which hiahiohted exp ssiovis ares adjective + about? noun + about? 5 Youre goigiig have an iterview with an Investor at Connections 41 A, lob on p19: Bitook én p128° Complete the section about you. 2 Thitileabout.the language you can use to describe your product, your experience and your hopes fol-the future, ‘& Work in A/B pairs. A, you're the investor. Ask B questions and decide if you want to invest in his/her idea. B, you've got a great idea. Explain your idea and answer any questions, 7. Now chnge roles. Have another inierview. @ Talk in groups, Which idea do you think will be the most successful? stEXPLORE Across cultures Attitudes to success TEMES 1. HED Listen to Mariama and Remco talking about attitudes to success. 1 How does Mariama feel about talking about her achievements? 2 What two examples does Remco give to explain his attitude to success? 2 Review Extension 41 a Complete the sentences with the best time 4 a SHED Listen and underline the letters in these 3 ede ig ne: Fnoolny satel Tar mantel peter 5 We've (started a family. We've got two small. As/is spelled: SC eee 4 sear ceat the end of words, after long vowels ena “ and usually ce after n. + your interests * travel» f nds and family ¢ Spelicheck. in pairs, take turns to choose ten hee pew for words and test your partner's spelling Fe always Frve - since ve never ve "recently SANE Thaven't..yet_ ve already 5 a Complete the sentences from texts in the unit, eRe ees San imes aa eran 2. a Put the words in order and make sentences about See Se ere your hobbies, interests, hopes and dreams. Fichest _most successful _most import 1 to/dream / My /is 1 He could have become one of the men absolutely / to / Love / in Japan. »2z See pci y AL) 2 He may be one of the __ industrial 3 considering / point / At/1'm/ some designers of our time. ti 4 wanted / always / I've /to Jesigners of ur time. oi 5 thinking /I'm /of 3. ICBisoneof the fi & like/ One /to/'d/ day internationally. «ED b Check your answers, What kind of adjective is ‘My dream is to have my own photography business. reat cateee etait bb Talk in groups. Does anyone have the same hopes, rite a brief description of one of your favourite dreams and ambitions as you? € Write a brief description of f your favour things. CAN YOU REMEMBER? Unit 2 wil, cud, may, might: My parents gave me a pearl necklace t's one ofthe EeenP es y ‘most valuable things own, 3a Look at sentences a-f about Olga’s plans for the a eae to acs other's descriptions. Ask questions evening. Put them in order from the most likely ‘0 find out more information. [1 to the least likely (6) | may go out for a meal tonight. 'm very unlikely to go to bed early, F'Udefinitely have a shower later oo | might not watch television, | won't call my family. | may well see my friends. CeCe Seen eee ae 'b Write five sentences about your evening using the ea highlighted expressions in 3a. a es © Talk together about your evenings. Who knows er exactly what they're going to do? Who isn't sure?Accitlent-prone Ee Safety first 2 I get travel insurance when | 3 [read the instructions before 4. break the speed limit when | answer my phone when I'm b Discuss the questions. 2 Think about people yo 1 unplug everything when I'm away from home, 6 look both ways when I cross a road, listen to the safety instructions before a flight. 1a Do you take a lot of risks? Do the quiz and find out. Then check your score on p118. {90 on holiday use something Vm driving, driving 1. Do you agree with what the answers say about you? 1 know who take risks. Do they have a lot of accidents? [MMMM > o'r sing tren an arte bot why poplar acen-grone How do you think these things can make people have more accidents? + upbringing 1b Read the article to check, clumsy? ‘What makes one person have more accidents than another? Most people would say that it to do with taking risks, Take fewer risks and you'll have fewer accidents, But is taking rsks really a matter of choice? ‘Some experts balove that whether or not you take sks in fe has a lot todo with your upbringing ang, some believe, with your bith order. Parents are ctten stcter and more careful with their frst chid, and so fest-hom chien tend to grow up taking fewer risks and being more cautious. Parents are often more relaxed with a second or hil chio, so these chicken tand to take reve tk. But why do chicren tend to be more accident-prone than adults? During chichood and adolescence, the body grows very quickly, There seem to be periods in these years when ur brain and body are at ctfrent stages of develoorient, + adolescence + watching TV © being left-handed ur arms are longer than the brain thinks they are, so we knock things over; our legs are longer than the brain believes, 80 Ws trip over easly Another explanation has been offered by scientists in Spain \who have found a possible link beteen the number of hours ‘a child watches TV and how accident-prone they are. The research suggests that the more time a chid spends watching TV, the less they are developing their physical co-ortnation sklls. Ifa ld doesn't run around a lot, they don't begin to Underetand thatthe wor is full of physical risk, Watching ‘cartoons and action adventure fms dogsn'thelp ether. ft ‘ges the cid a false sense af how tha world works and ot how much danger it contains. So, what about ackits? Some studias have shown that lat handed people are more accident-prone than right-handed people. Why the cflerence? No ane knows for eure, One theory is that we ve in a right-handed weld. Everything ~ from cars to door handles, from chien’ toys to engnaering tole and.equiément —i made by right-handed peoole for Fight-nafided people. So left-handed chien and aduts are more tkely to have accidents leecause the modeen world is ‘ot designed for them, 5 i | } I3. @ Can you remember what the article says about these things? 1. Parents are usually'stricter with 2 Adolescents are often clumsy because 3° Watching too much TV affects children’s 4 Watching cartoons doesn’t help children to understand 5 The worldis designed for bRi jead the article again to check. Do you agree with these ideas? Why? Why not? I dropped it! PSS 1 65D Listen to five conversations. Match them to pictures A-E. 2a Complete the highlighted expressions with the correct form of these verbs. HED Listen to check. @ Slip _bang trip _fall_break (x2 | v1 your camera. | think I've it. I'm sorry. 21 my head on the cupboard door! Ow! 3 Oh yeah, |__ my wrist. 4 |___ onthe ice and___over 5 é And ve my finger an the glass. |___ aver that stool bb What other parts of the body do people break, cut or bang? What things do people drop or break in the home? What kind of things make people trip, or slip, over? RCETETEE 3 a Complete sentences 1-3 from the conversations. sere tat [1 Iwas on the wayto [a washing upand dropped, | dormalting 5 2 Iwasinthe middle of |B take a photo and it ust sUpped out of my hand, 7 i Iwas trying to work and | slipped on the ice and fell over. + changea light bulb cooking dinner * the shops «© the airport * open abottle + having a shower ¢ Now imagine accidents in these situations. Write a sentence for each. Iwas on the way to the shops when I dropped my keys. ene 4 a When was the Last time you or someorie you know did these things? Can you ramember what happened? ‘= dropped something + tripped over + cut yourself * broke something + fell over * banged your head * slipped 'b Talk together. Who's the most accident-prone? a4.2 goals Have any of these events taken place in your country in the Last 100 years? +@HED You're going to hear Fran and Anténio talking about natural events. Which events in 1a do they talk about? What was the experience like for them? 3 +3HED Listen again and discuss the questions. 1 What does Fran say about: * her street? * the water? » moving? + her family? 2 What does Anténio say about: * the beach? = the time of day? * the sky? = hhis children? 4a Which verb A-C from Fran's story: 1. tells us about a finished action ar event in the past? 2 explains the background to a past action or event? tells us that an event happened earlier than another event? x8, Past simple regular ending -ed past progressive was /were + ing Past perfect had + past participle | was tving4 in Sri Lanka when the tsunami hi ‘We found out there had been® an earthquake bb Match A-C with the three past tenses on the right. | | 5 a Work in A/B pairs. A, circle the correct verb forms in Fran's story. B, do the same in | Anténio's story. i | | asta "Did you have to (Were-vou having just ot thetr workplaces anc they different town’ run No, we *staver/ were avai because the water then subsided very quicdy, and then it was quite s00n that we ound out/ aed found aut what had happened, that there “was ‘immediately "pended / wore heseling down to a ho igh sated bis woh sone sen ots of people on the st sna (ha sole specal sunglasses and tb wach th ecpse tough and peope "were, wk avoue with se its of card thinking that it wes realy odd thatthe whole tow yes ooina/bad gone 0 dhe mide of a wexking day to oe is sng ad been an I earthquake and that i wes asin has sase & \ tsunami | ssvuo ora cbt was ey worse yu rman Well, my parents Swere actually visiting / actually, vied me athe tine LL qmrensneneneiiecninini ‘Grammar reference b In pairs, look at both stories and check your ideas together. Then check in the 5 and practice, p197 script on p150.VOCABULARY ‘Adverbs for telling stories SEEN Groups of words 1 See Describing an experience 1a Look at the sentences from the stories below and discuss the questions. 1 Which group of adverbs, A or B, describes how or when something happened? 2. Which adverb means: ® when you don't expect it, quickly?» without waiting, at once? 3. Which group of adverts, A or 8, tells us how the speaker think: 4 Which adverb introduces a statement which is: * asurprise? * goodnews? * abadthing? » clearly true? feels? 1 They immediately headed down to the sea 2. Suddenly, my landlady came upstairs, shouting “Seawater, seawater!” | 3. The sky just changed colour very stowly. The water then subsided very quickly. Obviously, I'd have liked my kids to see it too, But unfortunately, they were at school so they missed it. The water amazingly didn’t come ta the street | lived in But luckily we were able to contact our family back at home. bb Look at 1-8 again. Which adverbs can goin a different position in the sentence? 2 @ We speak in groups of words. This makes what we say easier to understand ‘SHED Listen to these sentences from Fran's and Anténio's stories. 1 Obviously, // I'd have liked my kids to see it too. 2. But unfortunately, / they were at school // so they missed it. 3. The water // amazingly // didn't come to the street | lived in, b Practise saying the sentences 3 Work in A/B pairs. You're going to read about two natural events that happened in Mexico. A, read Astrid’s story on p121. 8, read Nuria’s story on p129. 2. Answer the questions and make notes. 3. Think about which adverbs from 1a you can use to make the story more dramatic. 4 Cover the stories and tell them to each other. You can use your notes to help you, 5 How do you think you'd feel in these situations? Fywoe Vortniy ~ Common verbs instories "fb o HED Listen to check. Then answer the questions.” a ‘You're going to steno Jane's story about an acedent Look a the pitures. What doyou think happened? Where was Megan? What was she doing? Where was Jane? What was she doing? Why did it suddenly go quiet? Why was Jane scared? Why couldn't Megan move? + HED Listen again. Complete the sentences from the the correct form, with these verbs in 1 A didn’t what they were doing. 2 Solwent to what was going on. 3 limmediately what had happened, ie 4 I can't really what happened next. You're going to describe an experien have experienced. First, think about how to: ‘+ explain the background to the story Iwas living in. explain what you were doing / was on the way to describe the events /went to... saw... E ‘say how you felt about the experience amazingly... luckily. explain your understanding of the events Later, Irealised.... | didn’t know .. Tell your stories in turn. Listen ahd ask questions to find out more. Which story did you find the most interesting? Change groups and tell your new group that story.EXPLORE “Keyword over / a Meanings of over ‘¢3HBD Listen to Tomoko's story about redecorating her home. What improvements did she and her husband want to make? Match the uses of over in sentences 16 from the story to meanings a~t 1. My husband and I redecorated the living room over the summer. It cost over 50,000 yen, ‘We have planes that fly over our house. We decided to put a shelf over the door. 5 went over the road to the local café & I'mso glad it's over. : asfinished b=morethan ¢=across d=during e=[-] f+] 3. a Work together to add over to sentences 1~6 below. Match each use with meaning: Find someone who: over Do you sometimes work 1. sometimes works Athe weekend. 4 has flown a famous place in plane, | over the weekend? 2 can't wait for today to be, 5 goes arriver on the way to work. 3. takesan hourtogettoclass. has picture their bed. estan bb Ask questions for 1-6. Ifthe answer Is yes, find out more about each situation. ‘What kind of| work do you do? Multi-word verbs with over 4 a Match 1-8 with a-h to make sentences. | slipped on the ice My son's so clumsy! | tripped over He came over to me | went over the documents Have you got over Can we turn over? your cold yet? They ran over an animal and fell over. 1h Which of the mutti-word verbs in da are about accidents? Which is about a car accident? your bag on the flocr. and there weren't any mistakes. There's something good on Channel ?. in the middle of the road. He's always knocking things over. and asked what the matter was. a Use the multi-word verbs in 4a to complete these questions. 1 Have you ever __ a drink in someone else's house? What did you do? 2 Doyou usually, them? 3. How often do friends and family 4 What's the best way to relationship? 5 What kinds of TV programme make you ___ immediately? your emails before you send to your home? the end of a 'b Ask and answer questions 1-5 together.{ | | | | EXPLORESpeaking Discuss the questions. 1 2 Do you socialise a lot with people from your work or studies? What are the advantages and disadvantages of socialising with colleagues? 2 a GED Listen to a conversation between two friends, Anténio and Don. Who's Pam? How's she feeling about the next day? 'b IED Now listen to Pam. Did her meeting go well? 3 Complete the expressions from conversations 1 and 2 with these verbs in the correct form, talk (x2 that | think she’s pretty mention Yeah, she nervous actually, Younever her before, I've forgotten what we were _ about. Weren't you ___ about the diagrams? What were you __? Iwas just __ that Pam’s quite nervous, As Iwas. fe really need to b Check in conversations 1 and 2. 4 Complete Don and Pam's conversation with expressions from 3a, Then practise it. on So, how did am Oh, it was avfl go, Pam? iy messed it up, ‘on Roally? Anténio said you were good. Oh, and he am Dinner, hm, yes. Anyway, what "_ ow Em, that Ant asked if we'd like to go round to bis for dinner on Friday, so we need to reply, io inviad us ta dinner. xm No, not about dinner ow Er. sot, pam You wi — that Anténio thougt good, om Oh yes. He ___ that you were a bit nervous, pam Oh ow Anyway, as but he thought you'd be great at the job! that's a rele we need to tall Anténio if we to dinnar on Friday. 5 a You're going to talk about some of these topics: your plans for the weekend your next hotiday anews story how you feel about your job something else Plan what you want to say about two of the topics. b Work in groups of three, A, B and C. ‘A start talking about one of the topics in Sa. B, interrupt A and ask C about one of the ather topics. C, answer B's question, and then ask A to continue, © Now change roles and do 5b again. ‘row axe one nro axronia e Bsinina meeting with ‘Anténle and her new callbagues im, ave you got somebody called Pam start at your otioe tomorrow? ‘Yee, actly, Sho's the new hoad of HR ‘Yeoh that's ight. Well she's my new gilrenat ‘What? You never mentioned her ‘Wel, yu! now. we haven't been seeing each other very one So,whin's she ike? ‘Well I thing e's amazing of course like hee Pmvswe Til Weie having a meoting tomo so.she can get to know everyone. ‘Yeah, she mentioned that, [think she's prety narvous actualy. ‘Wow Look at that ra ‘Yeah, and f didn’t bn twiget soaked Sour. Tveorgatuan what we were talking about, ‘What were you saying? i, was just sayina that ‘about tamozow (Oh, yooK, Pain. Wel, ym, it willbe realy interesting to meer hor bope you'll my. waterproots. ams quito nervous everyone My name's Pam and I'm the new head of HR. Thope I get the chance to meet you all propel late ob. An\Onio mentioned a ie oot together in the café davstais after work, 201 hope you can cameo that. en, So, ust wanted to talk a ‘vy. Now you have a look at these diagrams, ‘Ak, Toant seorn to make this work... 0 forget the ‘des, Lean manage without them. As Twas saying ‘wo telly need w ..91m... soy, ve forgotten ‘what Fwas talling about Ey, weren't you talking about the diagrams? Bh ye. Thanks, Anténio. Sony. Yes, Twas going to show Vou some diagrams to help ilustrate an idea {or reorganising the department. [ don’t know i this wall make any sense without the sideLook again <> ee nee Review Extension 4 a Complete these adverbs with a, ¢, 0, u 4 a 63H Listen to some words with the /k/ sound z from Fran's story. Complete the spelling of these [bys Lek ly m_z_ngly words with ¢, k or ck. |S.dd_nly afr ‘ | SoS ny nin — 1 _outd Sy 9 a_tually 1e adverbs to sentences 1 2 too_ed 6 sary 10 BAdd the adverbs to sentences 3 te 7 be_ause 11 i: five need 4 anals Buy 12 eaten noodles. 2 Iminto music but 1b Read these spelling patterns for /k/. Check your Lean‘t sing or play an onuere instrument. 1 We use ¢ before a, 0 or u. fean, come, cup] 3 love my sister, but we don’t gat on_ 2 We use c before most consonants. (clean, act] very well 3 Weuse k before e, ory. (likely, sky) 4 ‘when I was younger, my parents taught 4 We use k or ke after a long vowel. (break, broke) me to manage money. 5 ise ck after a short vowel, (sick! 5 Sometimes, | feel scared for no reason © HED Spellcheck. Listen and write ten words. © Change the underlined parts of the sentences to ‘Then check your spelling on p150. make them true for you. CUE 2. a Work in pairs. Complete the story with the verbs In the box in the correct form. Poa ressiol ESEin 5 a Read the sentences. Which are about: = now? * the past? o 1 Myparants were actualy visiting me at the time, [nsw hiseras itive tinge gst Eioot e3e) 2 We'didn’t know at that time that there was When my wife |___ to say she?_ the baby, going to be an earthquake. immediately in the car and 3. Iwas going to tell him about the new job, but quickly towards the hospital. was nearly there at that moment my wife rang me. when | oud siren. [*___ the police car 4 I'm studying for some exams at the moment. behind me. 5 Inthose days, people didn't watch TY. They listened to the radio. Add one or two more sentences to finish the story. 4 These days, the Internet is a big part of most ‘Then compare your ideas with another pair, people's daily tives, PAU 'b Write two or three sentences about: + things you're doing now + your childhood 3. a Complete sentences 1-6 to make them true for ue 2 Ps you. € Talk about your sentences together. 1 mexcited about 2. I've always been passionate about 3. I'mhaving doubts about 4 {need some information about 5m optim’ about & F've gata few questions about Ro b Compare your sentences with a partner. Ask Ct ee ecco Ls questions to find out more. ee eee eee im feeling quite optimistic pas cece as about my new job. —_—_1________ ea 27———___{ That's good. What is it? poe eea Fm going to be working oo ed ona conservation project.) Poa 2 aPS 1 2 A_ Jon and Rob B Jonand Amy © Jonand Rob. | 3 i ORT ¢ | iis 5 A helping hand ‘a Talk together: Have you ever done any of these things? * locked yourself out + got on the wrong bus or train * lost yourcar keys * broken down 1b What did you or would you do in these situations? ¥GHED Listen to three phone calls between friends, Jon, Rob and Amy. Answer the questions about each call, 1. Who's visiting Rob this weekend? 2 Why can’t Rob pick her up? 3 Why can’t Jon pick her up? 4 What does Amy offer to do? 5. What's Rob going to do? 6 | What happens to Rob's phone? 1a Tick [VJ the things that are true for Rob. Correct the sentences which are wrong. GD Then listen to the conversations again to check. 1 The battery on his mobile is running out. § He can't get a taxi 2 He can't get into his house. & He'd arranged to go on a bike ride 3 He's lost his car keys. 7 There are no windows open. 4 His car's in the garage, 8 He's late for work. bb How do you think Rob’s going to get back into his house? (¢ ¥35HD Listen to Rob's conversation with Amy and his mum, Maria. Were you right? Complete sentences 1-3 with a-c. 1 I'm supposed to be going on that bike ride today, 2 I'm supposed to be picking my mum up from the train station, 3. Rob’s meant to be picking his mum up frm the train station, 2 but he’s locked himself out of the house. b but my car keys and wallet are in the house. but I'm too tired, Complete sentences 1-4 with your own ideas. Then write two more. 1 I'm supposed to... butI've got a cold, 3. but I've lost my wallet, 2 Im meant to... butt’ raining, 4% but the bus is late. ''m supposed to be going out with an old friend tonight, but I've got a cold, Sorting out arrangements ELUTE Look at the sentences from the conversations. Which future form do the speakers use: 2 todescribe a plan they've already made (before speaking]? b to.express a decision lat the moment of speaking)? € todescribe something they're sure will happen (because it’s been arranged]? FUL calt Amy now, then T'Ulcall you back. OK? —_will + infinitive 2__She's staying this weekend. present progressive I 3__I'm going to find a ladder. be going to + infinitive2 a Read the conversation between Rob and his mum andireiathe best forms. van How can Tel, cing? foe Just down and rly, nd Epa m makina cup of. marta Ob, good. Do you have any plans today? ros Well, |have to buy same food, so °)'t, go /T'm going ta ge shopping at some point today. wana Right. "7 come / ming with you if that’s OK. Ineed a few things at the shops. foe OK Doyou want to do anything er? sarin Well, actually I'm quite tired after the journey. I think ‘]'1.go {I'm going to bed early tonight. toe Good ide, By th way ve gta curs fr your hay, Mam. arta Ob, really? How exciting! What ° will we,/are.we going to do? os Weil, ° we'll go /, we're going out to dinner, then ” we'll go /. we're. going to tk ‘maria That sounds lovely. What ® will we /.are we, going to see? roe made the tea, "11 look / I'm Joolgng for the theat 'b Compare your ideas and explain your choices. +39 Then listen to check. @ GRGKUMGLUEN 3 a vBED Close your books and listen to six sentences. Write the sentences you hear. £32 {Commén pairs, b Check your ideas in the script on p11 of words: ¢ ¥3ERD Each sentence has pairs of words that often go together. Listen agai Practise saying the pairs of words on their own. Then practise saying the sentences. going to war haveto atthe tothe forthe EET! 4 a Work in A/B/C groups. You're three friends. Choose one of these ideas together. ‘A wants to ick up his/her brother from the airport but the car won't start ‘Ahas to go to work but there's ne public transport this morning. A can’t drive. has promised to take his mum to the theatre but he's got an emergency at work. b Work atone. Read the different roles below and think about what you want to say A 8 c Call B’about jour problem, help andgves ? fer to call ©, all Cabout the problem: © > Offer to help. MERE Gr helene Gall A. Explain how you can help, (Oh no. Fm at work, ] but maybe Scatt { could pick him up. > I'm supposed to be picking my brother up from the airport but my car won't start. 7 me 5 a Work in your groups. Have your conversation, 'b Change roles. Choose a different problem and have another conversation,Fate? Protinconenestenvren hl 1 a €EED Listen to Pierre and Munizha — * =e ” taking ebout foe Cirle the core words Tn the summary. Pierre thinks things "happen (/don't happen for a reason, but that people ean gan‘t control how they respond to events in their lives. Munizha believes / doesn't believe thet things happen by chance, but says that people Hike / don't lke believing in fate because it can make certain things seem special [like falling in lovel Do you think things happen for a reason? Talk together. ZINES 2 Work in A/B pairs. Both read the introduction to the True Story competition. Then, A, read the story below and find answers to these questions. B, read the story on p23 and answer the questions there. 1 How did Hans meet Chin Mae? «What happened on January 7th? 2 Why didn’t they get married? 5 What happened to Hans's letter? 3 Howdid he try to contact her later? 6 How did the story end? "OER Yow fects ints tse Newwriting.com Sis menyic cr. Seswiaa ey St tye npn a orston vise neon fer eret fe ae fever na tte sorahan ts thar oem Sa san True Story competition Renbourne from Ireland. | first met Chin Mae when she came to Bonn thirty years ago. She was only supposed to be in Germany fortwo weeks, but then she met me and we fell, {in love, We were going to get married, but then she had to go back to Korea for family reasons. [couldn't go with her and I'm not a good letter-writer, so in the end, we lost touch. I couldn't forget her, though. Some years later, realised theze was no way that I was going to be happy with any other woman, [had to try and find Chin Mae. So I wrote a letter and sent ito her last address - her parents’ home. I didn’t get a reply, which was no surprise really. thought there was no chance that she'd still be single. She probably hhad a husband and children, So I wied to get on with my life. twas three months ago ~ January 7th, 7.00 in the morning - when I was ‘woken by the phone ringing, T@ been dreaming, and in my dream the phone ‘was ringing and itwas Chin Mae, trying to contact me. had that dream ‘many times over the years, When I eventually picked the phone up, Theard Chin Mae's voice, Of course I thought was still dreaming, butthis time t really was her. She said she never got my lets; her parents forgot to give it to her, just recently, she was helping her mother move home and she found it. Ithad fallen behind a bookcase and it had been therefor over twenty years! As soon as she read i, she knew she had to ay tofind me. 'd moved home, but lckiy, I'd kept the same telephone number [immediately lew to Seoul and Chin Mae met me at the airport Itwasa ‘wonderful moment, She hadn't changed abit. I'm so glad my letter ended up where twas supposed to be. I'm fifty this year, and I've just married the woman I've always loved, 3. a Cover the story and think about how to tell it. Use the questions in 2 to help you. 1b In pairs, tell each other your stories. What do you think of the stories? 40SEU no chance, away CIE Futute in, the pai ETSI was supposed to {go to Brazil with my friends in August, but 4 Look at sentences 1-5 from the stories, Match the highlighted expressions to the meanings a-d, 1 There was no chance that she'd still be single 2 There was no way we could have the party. 3. It’sno coincidence that | met him on that day. 4 I didn't get a reply, which was no surprise really. 5 Itwas no use ruining everyone's evening b i expected it. it wasn't possible. (x2) it wasn't by chance. it was pointless 5 a Work in pairs. Choose two topics and write sentences with the highlighted expressions in 4. + sports events + politics * newsstories + social events There's no chance that Marset ithan will win the match tomorrow. b Change partners and compare your ideas. What wen! wrong? 1. a Look at three sentences from Maggie's story. 1. Do they refer ta present or past plans? 2 Which two forms suggest an event didn’t happen? It was supposed to be this great party We were going to have this big dinner. All my friends were coming b Find an example of each form to suggest an event didn’t happen in Hans's story. 2. a It’s Maggie's husband's fortieth birthday. Look at the pictures. What were her plans for the evening? 'b SGEED Listen to the story to check. What went wrong with Maggie's plans? 3 What do you think happened after Maggie's husband arrived home? Write the end of the story. 4320 Then listen to the ending. Were you right? 4. a Think about plans you've had which changed. Use these or your own ideas. + meeting friends + going on holiday» going on a business trip + commuting/travelling + planning an event 1. What were you planning to do? 3 What did you do about it? 2 What went wrong? 4 What happened in the end? b Tell each other your stories. Ask questions to find out more. aTarget activity 5.3 goals Aifend a reunion TE Son Dear Caratine, Wo are organising a ten-year reunion party on ‘th November or al former National University of Singapore students who graduated ten years ago, Would you lke to come? i ied with theit lives? f istén gin Whe says these thing, Carlin o RET oairetobking wall emember yoil alyrays.wanted.tode that. B Write'a word. He »You'rémémber Eath'expression. Then try to remember the “highlighted- expressions in 1-7.in groups =>” : 1 looking i A & a You're going to mest Some old frierids at 4 university or college reunion. You're A. B GF: Read your role card and-complets 1-2 with your own ideas, A, ook on p119; B, {ook on p121;C, ook on p125. Sb TRInK about how to: < tatch up withold fiends [You're woking wet.) {alk about changes of len S_[ You were go * talk about your plans (Westy Talk in’@colips of three. Talk in new groups. Tell each other about the old friends you met.EXPLORE Across cultures Saying no TAA 1.4 Listen to Mark and Victor talking about misunderstandings. Are they talking about work or friends? b ED Listen again and answer the questions. Mark 1 Where was Mark working? 2. Where did he have to go? Why? 3. What did he think had happened? 4 What actually happened? Vitor 1. Where is Victor fram? Where does he live? 2 Who is Sarah? 3. How did Victor upset Sarah? 4 What has he learned from the experience? 2 What do you think was the reason for the misunderstanding in each case? 3. a Look at these extracts from emails and conversations. Which is saying ne to: 1. ajob application? 2 abusiness deal? 5 a suggestion? 2. arequest for help? [x2] 4 an invitation? © hats a great idea, but Pm not sure it will work in this case. We found the discussions very Interesting. However, we feel that, ‘on this occasion, we will not be able to work together. @ Unfortunately, we aren offer you anything at this time, ‘but we will keep your details on file for future reference © Aotuaty, don’ think Pm the ‘best parson to ask. Why don't youtry Sara? 1b Do you say noin sis ilar ways in your language? Give examples. Lim, would you mind tending me 10 dollars? | can pay you back tomorrow. Erm, actually, | haven't got much money on me. Sorry. Maybe Siew can lend you some. 4 a Work atone. Look at the highlighted expressions for saying no ina. Which ones could you use in these situations? I A friend asks you to lend her sore money, but she owes you money already, Acolleague who you don't like much asks you to a party. ‘An acquaintance contacts you to ask you for work. You don't have anything suitable. Someane asks you to help them with a computer problem. You're busy, ‘Anew employee suggests a crazy idea in a big meeting A stranger asks to barrow some money for a taxi in an emergency. bb Take turns to start conversations for situations 1-4, Use expressions from 3a to say no. © What would you really say and do in these situations? Why? 5. a Think about a situation when: 1. you've found it difficult to say no ta a request. 2. you've said yes to something when you didn't mean 'yes' bb Talk together about the situations. Would you do the sare thing as your classmates?au EXPLOREWriting Read the emails between Kyoko, Maya and Melissa. What does Maya promise todo? =» @@.@ Does she do i = 2 Where is Kyoko going to stay? 3 What does Kyoko offer to do? 4 Who's Melissa? What does she recammend? | Hi Kyoko Great to hear from you. ft wll be so nice to catch up after such a long timel ‘About the schools ~ il get back to you on that. 'have a friend who teaches in one ~ ask het about i, By the way, we have a spare room if you need somewhere to stay, Maya x hanks, Maya. That’ great that I can stay with you ~ thanks af The info about the schools would be realy helpful. Speak soon, Kyoko Hi aya Haven't heard from you for a while. “You were going to send me something about schools in the area, Have you heard anything? ‘Dic you manage to talk to your fiend? Don’t worry if not. i there anything you'd like me to bring from Tokyo? wx 1 Kyoko Sint aver been n touch. y sons en iso hngs have Been 2 Sie aeat spote to my faand Male, some ie ago, and asked pects cont you diethyl emind her fo etn ouch, "Abt Dargis something tom Tokyo, co you thnk you cold get me some OS tor met_ fant Ber beers 2. Match ightghted expressions 1-9 inthe malls oe area. Here is some information, as promises, teach Referring back in an email or letter: at Addison’ Language Centre. tre @ toatopic (x3) About... friendly, with excellent teachers. metre & toa promise (x3) "As far as Business English is concerned, the Making offers and promises to: best place is probabi (inf € write back with more information (x1 Pree see at 124). Look forward to meeting you in aprit Best wishes, Melissa d__ ask somebody to do something (x2) 3. a Write three requests for a partner. 'b Read your partner's requests. Respond using language from 2. Could we do our homework together? Scare PeelTUnet dee een 1b Work with a new partner, in A/8 pairs. Use the expressions in 2 € Read the responses. What do you think of them? Talk together. 1. A, write an email te your friend explaining your plans. 2B, read your friend's email. Reply and offer to help in some way. A, remind your friend what he/she promised to do and offer to do something in return, 4 Work in pairs. Imagine: 1 anold friend from another country is going to 3 visit you to do a language course, 2 you're going to visita friend in another country to do a language course What could you offer to do to help? Is there 5 anything your friend could do for you? 4B, reply. Explain what happened and say what you have or haven't done Read another pair's emails. What did each person offer to do? Did they do it?Look again <> Review 1. @ Make sentences with be supposed to and be meant to and these words. go to work now / but car won't start do homework at the moment / but too tired ‘end later on / but not feeling well have a meeting now / but boss late 5 geta bus home / but have to work late ‘'m supposed to be going to work now, but my car won't start b Work together to think of other reasons for not, doing these things. {I'm supposed to be going to work now, but 'd rather watch the tennis. CUMS 2. a Put the words in order to make sentences about past plans. Which two suggest something didn’t happen? abig / have / going to / was / birthday party / twenty-one / was / when 2 supposed to/ I was/ summer / on holiday / last /be going 3 intaly / my /were coming / about / friends / two years ago / to visit me 1b Think of two or three things you planned to do, which didn’t happen, for example: * aparty » aday out + acelebration * a trip or holiday * amove * achange of job ¢ Tell each other what happened. Who was the most disappointed? EUS eR 3. @ Which words and expressions in B can you use ‘with the verbs in A? = 5 GReCpos| oer veurhead cite bang ip | younger someting | au break onsameting bb Which accidents and injuries in 3a are most likely when you're doing these things? running for the bus cycling driving swimming cooking doing the washing up going down stairs © Compare your ideas in groups. Do you agree? Give examples. Extension 4 a 62EED Listen and underline the letters which make a /r/ sound, wrong wrote wrap promises garage ride right research worry borro\ arriving correct 1b Find words in 4a to match spelling patterns 1-4. Ie] is spelled: 2 wrat the beginning of some common words. 3. rafter a shart vowel or schwa /a/. 4 rrbefore -ow or -y. (There are some exceptions, e.g. very, battery.) € Spellcheck. In pairs, take turns to choose ten words and test your partner's spelling, coe mcs j 5 a You can use this instead of a/an when you tell stories informally. Look at two sentences from Maggie's story on p123. Then add this to sentences 1-4. We were going to have this big dinner 1 There was incredible bolt of lightning, 2 My friends and | were preparing everything when suddenly we heard huge crash 3. Iwas walking down the road when | saw man robbing a bank. | 4 I've just bought great new computer game, Itwas supposed to be his great ig party | b Think about something surprising that happened to you recently. Think about how you can use this when you tell the story. € Tell each other your stories. | eee g Can you de these things in English? Piers eee Cress ee ee nro eerieletmeemmiain =i ( “Hm, I'm somry, I don’t get it. What's the objective: ofthe gama? How do you van? _ Ou sony, meant to Say the am et got of allthe tes in your hand fist. So the game ends ‘when one playerhas go id eal of thes, and the winners the person with the hohest score oe? EN, OK So, you collect sets of tiles. "I get that bit. ‘But how do you geta high soars? b Talk together and take turns to explain the rules ofyour game. Use the language in 4 and 5 to ask questions and to explain, until you're sure everyone understands the rules une 7 What do you think of the games? Which ones would you like to play?Look again <3 Review 41a Match 1-5 with a-e to make sentences. LLtcy and avoid travelling by public transport, lve tried making Chinese food a few ti Lean’t face going for a run Pye thought about moving abroad, ‘ve considered working for mysel, but | don’t know if | would earn enough. when i's cold or wet. It's delicious and very easy to cook. but | don’t want to leave my family and friends Incase I catch flu from someone, Complete the underlined sentence beginnings. with your own ideas. | try and avoid travelling overnight, as I can never sleep. ¢ Talk together. Do you have the same ideas? ETAT Cen 2. a Read Laura's email and complete sentences 1~ ave |... rm really proud of my son. He wanted to travel around Chile 0 Ne put§,000 pesos in the bank every week for six months He stopped going tothe fines centre to save more, He had 240,000 by the end of tt wasn'ta lat so he decided on a | budget. think it was 1,500 pesos a day. He managed tis OK he sald, though there were one or wo days wien he spent a bit more, He sad he had a geat time. He didnt buy me ary Presents on his ewes, He sad he didn't have enough money! 1 Hesavedup... 3 He keptto 2 He gave up 4 He only went over 1b Do you know anyone who has saved money for something special? Use the multi-word verbs to talk about them, 3a Work alone. 1 Write a diary for this week with five or six arrangements in it cancelled. Cross them out. 'b Work in pairs. Today is Wednesday. Tell each other about your week so far. Then arrange to meet on Thursday or Friday this week, (On Tuesday, | was supposed to go to the cinema with Howard, but he was il vy oo 2. Imagine twa or three arrangements have been CURT Extension EUS EEE 4. a SEND Listen and underline the letters in these words which make an />:/ sound. orchestra morning door ordinary award resource wardrobe score forty law four drawing warm before poor fb Look at the words in 4a again and complete rules t-4with: our or aw ar ore oor /o:f is usually spelled 1 at the beginning of words. after w. in the middle of words. 2 ce aes 4 or at the end of words © Can you think of more words with the patterns in 4b? d HRD Spellcheck. Listen and write ten words. Then check your spelling on p153. Dee 5a Complete the collocations with the words in the box. Then check your ideas in the article on p47. ‘access friends dramatically present | [ phon ther fruit events | NEN © [A= No [Vp aN [be Av wedding | mobile _ | pick changes, present | internet | free See te fee bb Write five questions with the collocations. ¢ Ask and answer your questions. Have you ever bought somebody v5 Ree Can you da these things in English?Girele'a number ee er reer ed raedPersonal qualities A high achiever 1 Read the 5-minute interview with Carlos Acosta. What kind of person do you think he is? ArtsComment e I danced for many ballet companies including rvi the Royal Ral in London and the National interview Ballet of Cuba, where he was principal Carlos Acosta tm recent years, he has danced all ver the word as an neemational Guest Arist, He has won numerous international prises and i considered by many to be the best male dancer inthe word ‘A phrase I use too The ideal night out is often is. ‘Time spent with normal people, just "You know’ or’You know having a good time and learning. what T mean’.You know what Tmean? You know me as a dancer but in wish people would take more another life fd have been . notice af A musician ora sportsman. Iwanted The importance of art in society. to dea foothaller wien Iwas a child Wo nood to have more support from The hest age tobe is. government. Not justin the UX- Now. {'m mature bat still have youth everywhere. it’ a good balance. ‘The most surprising thing that Tn weak moments I | happened to me was ‘Just have to have feith in myself and | When ay father went to jail:That was trust the people around me. | very surprising. Ina nutshell, my philosophy is this: Tm good at. Do whatever makes you happy, learning things quickly especially however you want it. ‘movement, And I can remember Because life is special things for along time Ym very bad at. Art. Teaa't paint or hhave any talent. raw. [just don't 2. a Read the interview again. Find four facts about Cartos's life and two of his opinions. bb Close your books. Talk together. What can you remember about Carlos Acosta? i EUUOEE 3 Complete the sentences from the interview so they're true for you. SPEAKING phrase |use too often is don’t belive it Fmgped atmaths. | & a Listen to each others sentences, Ask question to find out more deta ee) Paaeenees el ing thing you found out about ir Fayidates’ | Tell the class the most surprising thin you found out about your partner. yi | ; < 5aIts the kind of job that . SHEMMITEM 1. a Read these opinions about success. Do you agree? Why? Why not? Personal” 46 44 quatities You need to have faith in| the people around you, 'You have to have discipline to keep going, mentally as well as physically, a Naoko, Japan ‘Anno, Ghana ‘You can't be successful if 46 You have to have initiative. You can't you don't nave any talont Wal fr pone a nl you What ogy ‘Lucile, Braz Craig, Sootand | W's good to have an open mind about things. ou noed w haveconndones, | | You never know what's going to happen next. wy People lisien to confidént peosl 9 ‘Asim, Egypt Juan, Spain | bb What personal qualities do you need: 1. inthe army? 2 when you work alone? 3. inan emergency? when you fail at something? if you want to be famous? tobea dancer? € Talk together. Do you have the same or different ideas? 4 PEN 2 42RD Listen to Anne talking about “= being a dancer. Put these topics in the order she talks about them: + competition * body shape + motivation + disappointment 3° ¢@ERD Listen again. Which of these things does she say are important? Youneed to 1... really want to be dancer. 2... be pushed by your parents, 3... have discipline 4 be skinny, 5 have confidence in yourselt. & be able to take rejection. 7. have some luck 4 Talk together. Do you agree with the statements? 1. Parents should push their children to be successful. 2 Success is about being in the right place at the right time. STAENIEGNE § — Look at the sentences from Anne's interview. In which other jobs are these qualities important? Make alist. wojoae ane — : — weloteeng se oudeed tone | someone never gives up il 3 (1 [Youneed tobe | trekind of person | Whe | can take rejection wall — ss (© be | the sort of person keeps going. ‘Acting is the kind of i something needs alot of discipine. | [ that tooks easier 2 {te the kind of jb | that _| requires alot of confidence. than it realy is, : the sortofthing |_| peaple don't realty understand. | Z = & — Work alone. Write three or four sentences about your job, and the sort of person it would suit. Use expressions from t and 5 ‘Nursing isthe kind of job that requires a lot of patience, You also need to have discipline. SNe 7a Tell each other about the jobs. Try and find someone who would be suitable for each job. bb Tell the class who you chose and wiv. |A great character GERACE 1 Wy do you thnk people keep pets? What are the advantages and disadvantages of having pets? 2. a You're going to read an article about the personalities of people and their pets. Before you read, do you think these statements are true or false? 1 Married couples become more alike after being together for a long time, 2 Animats don’t have personalities like humans do, 3. Pets become more like their owners aver time. bb Read the article, What does it say about 1-37 NEWSONLINE Can pets and their owners ‘become more alike over time’? Pots and their owners are just ike married couples and they get more alike overtime, a psychologist claimed yesterday. Prof Richard Wiseman asked almost 2,500 people to complete online ‘questionnaires about their characters and those of thelr pets, He found that many dag lovers, cat owners ‘and even reptile keepers said they shared many of the same traits - such as happiness, intelligence, independence and a sense of humour ~ as their pets. But he also discovered that the longer an animal had been with its owner, the more likely it was to have picked up thelr characteristics, Prof Wiseman said: "For years owners have insisted their pets have 2 unique personality. This work suggests they might bbe right, but it also reveals that people's pets are a reflection of themselves.” He went on to say: “t's like with married couples. They grow to look ike each other and to have similar personalities. I's possible ‘we are seeing a similar effect.” | 3 Doyou know anyone who has a pet? Do you think they and their pet are similar? Give examples ‘efor 4 Which photo A-E shows: dog ahamster aparrot a goldfish a lizard 5 a CRD Listen to five people talking about pets. Match the people 1-5 with the pets in photos A-E, eo {— e see ee 'b S3ERD Listen again. Are any of the people similar to their pets? In what way? © Check in the script on p153eT Persone. EE cues & a These adjectives and nouns often-go together Which adjective Is used with each noun 1-3 in the listening? Check in the script on pp153~4. difficult interesting bright 1a great character 2 a/an strange person |3 @ nice guyfwoman miserable calm [charming b Choose expressions from éa to complete, these sentences. My boss is a_____. She's not easy to get on with, Itwas fascinating talking to your sister. She's a very. My new assistant is a He learns things really quickly. That teacher is such a She never smiles at anyone. The new managing director is a____.. | just don’t understand him. My brother finds it easy to get whatever he wants, He's such a 7a Think of people you've met in the Last five years. Think about how to describe them using the expressions in 6a. bb Talk together, Ask questions to find out more. Similarity and difference 1a Complete the sentences from the listening with the words in the are boxed. Then check inthe seript on p153. Comparatives 1 He's much friendlier than a lot of the ones you see. 2 Lam more fussy. calor 3 Watching him is better than watching television.“ Igtg > 4 more intelligent than him. i |B We centainy areas tolerant as we used tobe & Tenjymy foods as much ashe enjoys his. 'b Match meanings 1-3 with A-D in the highlighted expressions above. 1 asmall difference (x2) 2 abigaifference 3 the same 2. a You can stress a word to compare or contrast it with something else. Listen and notice which words have contrastive stress in this sentence: Watching him is far better than watching t2levision, 'b Which words can you stress to make a contrast in these sentences? 41. Tim’s generally a calm person, so she tends to be calm now too. 2. lenjoy my food just as much as he enjoys his. 3. Iftheir owner gets stressed, then they get stressed too. © GEED Listen and look at the script on p153 to check. Practise saying the sentences. 9 Choose a friend or family member and use the highlighted expressions in 1a to write five or six sentences about: 1. the ways you're similar and differént. 2 howyou've both changed over the years. 4 a Discuss your sentences. Ask questions to find out more.’| My brother's a really nice guy, but he’s not 1b Talk together. Who would you most like to meet? early 35 bright as me! Do you get on with him?Target activity Talk about people who i : have influenced you DSSS 1 iscuss the questions. 1 Can you remember-the name of your first: ‘teacher? friend? .= colleague? * boss? What kind of person were they? What do you remember about them? Which kinds of people tend to be role models for young pegple in your country? 2 3 : 2 a SND Listen to Tara talking about two people who have influenced her. Serees ae ‘Who are they? ‘ , Bb sD Listen again. How did each person influence Tara? Make notes. Then read the script on pp183~< to check. roe Meo 3. a Can you remember who Tara is talking about in each sentence? Her confidence made a huge impression on me. She really got me interested in the subject. She really helped me to be myself, l suppose, She made me much mare confident. She encouraged me-to go on to university She really had faith in me, She inspired me todo better b Which highlighted expressions apov are felamed by: + averb? *,anoun? + acompérative adjective? You're going to talk about two or three people whe have influenced you. They can be: + 2 teacher * a friend a colleague * aboyfriend/girittiend + family member + someone famous Influence: in your life your first teacher 1b Think about how to talk about: 1 their personality He wasa great character. She was the sort of person that. 2 now they changed you. He made me much more... He gat me interested in.. ees * “8a Talk about your people in groups. Ask questions to find out more. ee ee My mum encouraged me to learn a musical instrument. } iB : eee Really? Is she a musician then? ) —_ 'b Who has had the biggest influence on each of your lives?EXPLORE Across cultures Roles in life S] 1 a ¥@EMD Listen to Hayes from the USA and Alex from Greece talking about their different roles in life, Listen and write Hor Anext to the roles they say are important to them, friend —* wife teacher father + colleague * son + daughter» businesswoman Listen again and answer the questions. 1 How does Hayes introduce herself to people? Why? 2 How does her dad feel about being retired? 3. InGreece, what does Alex say children are expected to do? 4& Why does Alex's brother live with his parents? € Do you think you have more in common with Hayes or Alex? 2 Discuss the questions about where you tive Work roles 1 Do people introduce themselves by saying thelr job title, like Hayes? 2 At what age do most people retire? Do people generally see retirement as a positive or negative thing? Why? 3 How much holiday do people usually take a year? Family roles 4 Do people usually give priority to their family or their work? 5 Dovery ald people usually live in a care home or with their children? & If someone loses their job, do they rely on their family, or the state for support? Which highlighted expressions are used to tatk about roles? Which are used to talk about opinions? 1 | see myself as a father first. 2 Maybe work isn’t regarded as so important over there. 3. also think of myself as a colleague to people at work Its difficult to say what | define myself as first 'd describe myself as a hard-working person Retirement is perceived as a bit lazy really Work is seen as a big thing here. 4 a What roles do you have in your life? What do you see yourself as first? Why? 1b Compare your ideas in groups How are these people seen where you live? What about other places you know? ‘= working mothers * househusbands + unemployed people « retired peopleEXPLOREWriting Discuss the questions. 1 Do you travel:for work and stay in hatels? 2 What are the most important features of a hotel for you? 2 Katherine and Mauro are organising their company’s annual conference in Buenos Aires. Read Mauro’s email and complete Katherine's list of the pros and cons of each venue. Possible venues | Pros The Excelsior | more facilities The Hotel. good food 208 esGag Hi Katherine T've visited the two hotels we're considering for the conference. They're lovely and would both be fine. However, there are some cifferences that are probably worth thinking about. ‘The Excelsior Is much bigger (24 floors!) so I's got more facilities for guests. although we'l probably be working too hard to use the swimming poals and tennis courts, some people might appreciate the shopping arcade, On top of that, there are plenty of places to eat, Including a buffet Italian restaurant as well as a more formal dining room and a café with Wi-Fi access. ‘The Hotel Arts Is very different in size and style, It’s ‘much smaller but has a large conference room (seating 160) which would be fine for us. The business centre Isn't quite a5 well equipped, though I think it would be sufficient for our needs. There are fewer places to eat but the food sounds good. It's a beautiful place in an art deco building, quite stunning In fac. ‘As for price, the Excelsior offers some pretty good discounts, but the Arts is slightly cheaper. On balance, have to say I'd go for the Arts. The Excelsior is so enormous that it might feel rather impersonal, whereas the Arts feels a bit more special Anyway, let me know what you think, and please pass fon your ideas to Belinda for her final decision, Best wishes Mauro 3 Which highlighted linking expressions in the email a add information? x2) Underline the information hich is added, b contrast two ideas? {x4} Underline the ideas which are contrasted. conélude an argument ba Goals. 4 Complete an email from Katherine to another colleague, Belinda, with the highlighted ‘expressions from the first email Deer Belinda, Mauro and | would like to go ahead and book the Hotel ‘Arts, Buenos Aires for the conference this year. * we fee! t's the best venue. It has really lovely conference rooms? _jnternet facies in every room. 5__it wasn’t the cheapest place, i's perfect for ‘our needs and is close to the airport, We falt thatthe Excelsior was just too big really, “__the Asis actually quite cosy. ®__, you have the last word on this, so have a look at the wabsitas and lat me know if you disagree Best wishes Katherine | 5 a Work in groups. Imagine you work for a large internationat company in Dubai and you have to organise a business trip over a weekend 1 What does your company do? What's the aim of the weekend? 2 Look at the facilities in two different venues on 124, Which would be best for yaur weekend? Why? B Write an email to another colleague comparing and contrasting the hotels and saying which you think would be best. & Read other people's emails. Which Is the most popular venue? Why?é Look again <> Review 1a Add vowels to make personality adjectives. 1 mis_r_pbl 5 br_ght 2 ch_rm_ng 6 dftctt 3 c_im 7 no st_ng ore 8 strng_ bb viEBD Listen to five descriptions of people. Write down the names of people you think fit these descriptions. ¢ Talk in pairs. Tell each other about the people you listed Cae | 2. a Which words or expressions used in comparative | sentences mean: 1 abigdifference? 2 3. exactly the same? ‘a small difference? [Fomparatves asad | taht "eae ate | OE lt b Choose two famous people. Write sentences to Sees eminence + two sportspeople + two singers + two actors: + two politicians © Read your sentences to each other. Do you know the people? De you agree? ‘Ajda Pekkan is a lot more talented than Sertab Erener as ‘CAN YOU REMEMBER? Unit 6 — Multi-word verbs) 3 a Complete these sentences with the correct particle: in to over off down up 1 Inever go 2 haven't saved holiday this year 3 [find it difficult to keep _a daily budget. 4 Lalways shut my computer at night. 5. Inever leave things plugged when I'm away, 6 [don't like walking into a room at night if the lights are switched __. my budget enough money to go on Change the sentences so they're true for you Talk together. Who's the most careful person? Extension \ 4. a SEED Listen to the words and underline the letters which make an /is/ sound. creature meet reason easy complete | believe each between knee these teacher colleague employee seen agree field receive bb Find words in 4a to match spelling patterns 1 Fal is spelled: 1. e+ consonant + @ in many words. 2. ea at the beginning and in the middle of words. 3. ee in the middle of some words and at the end of wards with a stressed syllable. 4 Ie in tha middle of some words, But el after ¢. € Spelicheck. In pairs, take turns to choose ten words and test your partner's spelling, NOTICE Comparing with like, alike 5 a Complete these sentences with like or alike, 1 Pets and their owners are just marries couples, | 2 Theyget more ___ over time. 3 Ws with married couples, 4 They grow to look __each other. bb Check your ideas in the text on p56. Match the highlighted expressions with the ) meanings a-d. a havea similar appearance b- similar to | similar (in personality or appearance: adjective] d_ exactly the same as | Tal d Talk about these questions together. 4. Who do you look like in your family? 2 Do you know anyone who's just like you? 3 Do you know a couple who are very alike in personality? Have they became more alike over time? Rg Cone est eur tnt a Sere ee eco eee een 6 |Lost and found | Clutter, rubbish, stuff (DERE 12 Fea tne introduction oan arte on aes webste, Which word on inet means | ‘ things you throw away? * lots of things ina small space? + things in general? Is clutter a problem in your home? bb Read the rest of the article and the comments. What could be the benefits of decluttering? } renee | rl * = — Clutter, Rubbish. stuff. Call it what you like, we've all got so much of it gts | we're drowning in it. It gradually takes over our houses and our lives. uur life! | All this stuff has become a huge source of stress today, affecting yu NB everything from our lifestyle choices to our personal development. Decluttering ~ clearing out al that clutter and living a cleaner, simpler life is, becoming increasingly popular. Don Aslet isa cleaning specialist. He believes that we're addicted to stuff. "By the | time we become adults, we believe that things make us happy.” he says. “fone little thing gives us pleasure, thea surely more things will increase our pleasure ‘And we think things can change us, make us better. For instance, ‘the kids won't do their homework — Im sure i'l help if we buy a computer’ orm unpopular ~a new shampoo should help.’ * He believes that we buy things to solve all the problems in ‘our lives, and so we keep getting more stuff. And of course, we're wrong Michelle Passot# makes her ving from other people's clutter ~ she's a “clutter consultant’ and author of Lighten Up! Free Yourself From Clutter. "A long time ago, | noticed shat when something big happened in my lif, I would ‘go on a cleaning binge: tidy up the front room; Id put the kids’ toys away in their cupboards; I'd clean up the kitchen." She found that cleaning helped her feel loss stressed about the big problems in har life. “But than one day Thad a thought: suppose | did it the ather way around. If had a big clear-out, would big things happen in my life?” She found that they did. She found that, without so many possessions, she could concentrate on the Important ‘things in her life, like relationships with friends and colleagues Do you hoard things and never throw them away? Go on, declutter your life. Click HERE to find out more, How do you feel about clutter? osreitpeteay somal vichave two hoppy andrea Ks Wen Sane outs hopoy the ngs round you have hep remorse youwone Inmy neighbourhood, there’ one day a month to keep ther. Manuel, Braz | inc seeete wee tunttre ndtv sont Eve year when the weather stars to inpove we the house a |_| Maeaatsatiatenecnmnierooodtowse"” good nn and grid cao of ur ost tet mach fot | ‘way stat you don't need any more. An, Spain does fee! good when you've done i. So maybe they have @ point, but ‘he ides ofa ‘clutter consultants ridiculous, Roger, UK 2 Read the article and comments again. Who believes these things? 1 It’s nice to have possessions that remind you of good times, 2 Cleaning can reduce stress. 3 Noone needs a clutter consultant. 4 People are wrong to think buying new things will make their lives better, It's a good idea to let other people have the things you don't need. 2° What do you think about each of the opinions in 27 Talk together.4 Complete thesé sentences with the words in the box. Then read the article to check, i eee | verbetaung @. Levavbal up (x2) of and cleaning» 1 Doyou hoard things and never throw them 2 'd'tidy the front room. 3. Idelean the kitchen. 4% Fd put the Kids toys in their cupboards. 5 ‘ Every year, we .. got rid alot of our old stuff It's good to give stuff you don’t need any more. GREETS 5 Discuss the questions 1. Doyou find it easy to throw things away? 2. Do you always tidy up before visitors come round? 3. How often do you get rid of old stuff and replace it? Do you usually seltit, give it away or throw it away? Freecycie REEUEEYEE 1 Read the information on the website. 1 Doyou think Freecycle is a good idea? Is there anything like this where you live? 2. Are there any offers you'd be interested in? changing the world one gift at a time mas The global network of people who are giving (and getting) ‘stuff for free in thelr own towns. Freecycle matches people who have things they want to get rid ‘of with people who can use them. (ur goa! is to keep usable things ‘ut of rubbish tips. When you want to OFFER something, whetner Its a chair, piano or an old door, simply send an email to your group. When you need something, post ‘2 WANTED message and 2 group ‘member may have what you went: 2 Two-door wardrobe: We have 2 small two-door wardrobe we ne longer need. Ive already taken it apart so is ready to go. The Instructions are included. My number is: 07754736869. Angela 3 HE-f system: I have an AIWA hi-f system. It n goo working Drder although the CD deck can play up sometimes. Maybe it could do with new speakers. It comes with a remote control. Thanks, Pil © Exercise bike: Ihave an exercise blke, It’s in quite good ‘condition, T don’t need it any more because I've joined a gym. It's ideal for anyone who wants to exercise at home. although the timer can ‘up sometimes. Instructions are not 3 but it comes |___a useful recipe book, Ideal 5____ anyone who doesn’t have mucn time to cook. Thanks, Phi 2. a Look at the highlighted expressions. Which are good points? Which are bad? bb Cover the first three offers. Complete the final offer with words from the highlighted expressions. Cen Betis 3 Think of something you have in your home that you no longer need. Write a short description of it for Freecycle. Read each other's descriptions. Talk together and choose something you need.8.2 goals t A nightmare journey COU aa LISTENING: 1 What can go wrong when you're travelling? Talk together. 2. @EED Alice and Javier are on a journey. Listen to conversations A-F and answer the questions. Did any of the problems you mentioned happen? A 1 Whyare they travelling? 2. What's the problem? 3 What de they have todo? 4 What's the problem? 5. What do you think is going to happen next? é 7 a 9 a WB the poh Isle ane Mac VaeeceaDr What does Javier suggest? ‘What does Alice think they should do? ‘Delthey get to the partyon time? get to the party? Complete Alice’s description of her journey with these expressions in the correct form. getalift geton get off ive us ali reak dawn Qa is iad a nightmare journey. We ! the wrong tran and had to®__ in somo tle avin somewheje. We couldn get eoangciig tain here, 20 we had o go all he way ‘ack but all tha tains ° "there was 4 replacement bus service. And then the bus 4 So we got of and waed for agos, Then we decided to veh ut our} ‘we & in atraffic Jani ot ages, so we tiled to go a different way but then we” | ‘AnywaY, Dona the women who. ‘was really nice and dove us all the way here Biicnow we've missed your nary! ” SREEGSRESISTIEMEME 6 a think about a travel problem you've had. It could be: + atrain or bus you were on was cancelled + you got off atthe wrong sto + you got onthe wrong train or bus > your train, bus or car broke down i + you got lost + You got stuck in a traf b Tall each other what happened.Losi 11. a Look at the sentences from the conversations. Which highlighted modal verbs can you use to say: 2 IMSdBIE DE deduct specitation 1. you're sure something is true? 2 something is possible? (x2) 3 you're sure something is not true? ‘There might be a local ) Oh, no. This can't ) { There coutd be bus that goes past. be our traint one further along, bb Find one more example of each modal verb in the scripts on p154. 2 a During thelr car journey, Alice, Javier and Donna got lost. Complete their conversation with appropriate modal verbs from fa, certainty or less certainty. BD Listen to the sentences from {a again. In which group [1 or 2] does the emphatic stress make the sentence: a more certain? bless certain? 1. The train must go from here. This can’t be our train. 2 There might be a local bus that goes past, There could be one further along. 1g the sentences togeth (REREETIZTGNMNM 4 a Read the situation. Discuss the four choices and decide what to do, Then turn to the appropriate page and continue. That man might be able to help. No, he’s going 100 fast [AYou're on holiday with friends in an area that you don’t know. You've gone out walking in the countryside and have got lost. You need to find your way back to the holiday house that you're staying in. You can see a river to your right, @ house in front of you and fields to your left. There's aman on a bicycle coming towards you ‘along the path. Discuss what to do. §(p132} ask the man for help —_-F (p121] go towards the fields Clp118] go towards thehouse _-K (p125I go towards the river Well, there must ‘be someone in the house : 1b Who got home in the fewest stages? Who took the longest to get home?Target activity Find something al losi property Caen 4 Discuss the questions. 1 Which of your possessions would; ‘you least Like to lose? Why? 2 Have you ever phoned or been toa lost property office? Why? GED Listen to three people phonin a lost property office 1 Look at pictures A-F. Match one item with each conversation, 2-x Does the office have the items? 3a Match sentendis 1-7 from the conversations with the pictures they refer to. 1. Its. small, brown, teather wallet. 2 Its ablack and grey sports bag with shoulder strap 3S got some cash inside 4% Ithaspink stipes of the outside. 229 Italsorhas a litte silver stripe on the bottom & There's 3 heart design on the front. 7. As got packets on the side: 'b Work together to answer the quistions. 1 inwhich order do you say adjectives describing colodi,/material and size? 2 “What other adjectives do'you know describing colour, material and size? 3 What's the opposite of the highlighted expressions in 8 and 6? ‘a Think of one of youl possessions. Write three or four sentences to describe it Don’t saywhatitis. : D Listen to each other's sentences. Can you guess what the things are? Workin A/B pairs. A, you work in alost property officé’B, you've lost something, so you phone A to see ifthe office has it. A, look on p120; B, look on p126. Think about the language you need to: describe objects. ingood condition. ...on the outside... an the top make deductions That sounds like i could be'my bag. These must be your glasses. & aB, call A. Does the office have the thing you lost? bb Change roles. 8, iook on p120; B, look on p26. Then have another conversation © Have two more conversations like this. A, look on p127; B, look on p133. d id you find the things you lost?F EXPLORE Keyword have Uses of have 1.2 #3EB Listen to a conversation between Mani and Salil. 1 What has Mani lost? 2 Where does she think she left it? »b In which sentences 1~4 does have or had: goo sense (Guess what! ve found my coat. It took most ofthe day to find it couldn't get through to lost property on 7 the phone sa! to go there, but nobody handed fein. 1 ‘thought it might be atthe afice so to go all the way town to-check, but it wasn' there elther. | some lunch with Loma, and I then saw an old man wearing my coat! | asked him about it and he said he found itat the bus stop outside the office, | sald he could keep it, 3s Just bought anew one, You found your ahone yt? ‘Anyway, | 0 go now. See you later {ead Mani’s email to Salil Tc naa ¥ describe an action? describe an obligation? make the present per make the past perfect? > 4 1. I've left it somewhere probably. 2 I'd just been to the dry cleaners. 3. Ihad to go into town for a meeting, 4 [had some food at the café eR 1 What happened to her coat? 2 Add have in the correct form in eight more places in the email Causative have 28 Look at the extract from the conversation in Ta and answer the questions. sui Didn'tyou take ito have it cleaned or something? vant Yeah, | hadit dry cleaned 1 Did Mani clean her coat ar did someone else do it? 2 Complete the pattern: have + noun + You'can use get instead of ha “same mesnings [got e dy ele 'b Look at the verb-noun collocations. Prepare questions to ask a partner with causative have. * fix your car + clean your windows + cut your hair + manicure your nails + do your accounts * clean your home Do you have your windows cleaned or do you do it yourself? ¢ Ask and answer your questions. Who is the most self-sufficient? Common expressions with have + noun 3. a Match 1-7 with a-g. Were you talking to someone? ~ Hello, Kuba, you wanted to talk? Have you seen my new phone? 1 Yes, can! have a word with you in private? 2 b Iden’: know. | haven't had a chance to ask him yet 3 ¢ I'm not sure, but | have a feeling i's on Tuesday, 4% Can you fix my computer for me? d__F'Uhave a go, but I'm not very good with PCs. 5 When's the meeting? ~e Well, hada chat with this old lady at the bus stop. & Is Don free on Friday? f Not really, no, but | don’t have a choice. 7 Do you want to go on the business trip? gNo,can havea look? Pi bb Prepare questions to find someone who: 1 had look tthe weather forecast this morning, What diditsay?_[ DidYouhaveatonk atthe 2] 2 always has a word with thelr boss when they havea problem morning 3 hava goat fixing tings inthe home Yes 4 hasn't had a chance todo thelr homework quer & has feeling that something exciting will happen today. [its going tobe hot. ¢ Ask and answer the questions. Try and find out more information. NS1. Look at the pictures. How would you describe each ‘object? Talk together. 2 EBD Listen to three conversations. Which object, A-C do the people talk about in each? 1 Which isa gift? 2 Which is for someone's home? 3. Which has been left at a friend's house? 3 a SHEED Listen again. In what ways are the three ‘objects similar to or different from: 1 apiano? 2 achest of drawers? 3. astring bag? 1b Check your ideas in conversations 1-3. 4 Which group of expressions is used to: a compare? b describe something vaguely? © categorise? it's a sort of chest of drawers. W's kind of instrument, It looks like a chest of drawers. 2. Its sort of like a string bag, suppose it's a bit basket-tike. I'd lke to buy the big thing we saw yesterday, 3. I'Ghave to geta smallish one sort of reddish, brownish colours, 5 a Work alone. 1 Think of an interesting object. t could be * aholiday souvenir» a gift you received * a possession + an ornament 2. Think about how to describe it with the language in 4 1b In groups, listen to the descriptions. You could try to guess what the object is or try to draw it aura Well I'd koto go back to that antiques shop and buy the big thing we sav yeateray san What big thing? rate You know, i ook lke a chest of drawers, but its taller saan” A warasobé? aura No... i's gota special name, but I can't remember the word. It's a sort of chest of drawers, ‘ans Ob: fo ita'tallgornothing’? supa Tallboy. That's it 8 tm” HiGrave, did you have fin lat night? once’ “Yeah, i was grest, "in, think Heft my bag at your ‘house. Could you check for me? sw 2 load of suff hora so you'l have to 1o ma What's it lke? nace Well t's. bem sm What'sa,.. lum? ence Well it's dificul: to descubo t's sort of like a sting bag fiom Papua New Guinea sm String? nace Well: not exactly. I's a bit ble rope, maybe, but ‘much more delicate than cope. Tsuppose i's a bit packet like. And i's all ltterent earthy cojours, sort ofteddish, brownish colours, sm OK, wel if nd it tet you mow 8 swt Do you think an mba is a good thing to bring back What fumiture are we yolng to putin this room? from Mozambique for Paul? ‘A what? What is? Oh ie a kind ofinstrument, a bit lke a piano, but ‘nt neatly. as big of coursa You can hold itn your ‘hands. n fact, thine you can call it @ thumb piano. On realy? Thare ae kinds, but Pd have to get ‘a smallish one to fit in my case, It's made of wood ‘and the koys are made of metal ‘Yeats, [think Paul wi ike that.Look again <3 Review Extension PUM eee EEE PEPE 1. a Read situations 1-5 and make sentences with might, could, can’t and must to explain them. 1 Amanis running down the street, shouting, ‘Get out of the way 2 Yowarrive at work at 9 am, but there's no one there 3. Youare woken up at 4 am by @ knock on the door. 4 Aclose friend stops returning your emails and texts, 5 Your compu He must be late for something. | a J Or he could be a policeman, F suddenly switches itself of bb Work in pairs. Write two more situations and give them to another pair to explain. PRET areeEe 2. a Match the words to make travel expressions. onfoff lift cancelled lost stuck down somebody lft get aive break be b Complete sentences 1-4 with expressions in the right form. 1. You're on the way to a wedding. You fin a traffic jam and haven't moved for half an hour, 2 You're driving to a meeting when you see that fa car has A. Awoman and a child are standing near the car. 3. Your evening flight home A. There isn’t another flight until the morning, 4 You Athe last bus home, Some peaple on the bus are having a fight. © What would you do in these situations? Saeco etree Bence 3 a Complete the sentences about karate using the ‘words in the box, coneere something person thing] 1 Youneed to be who has a good physical memory, 2 You have to be the kind of who has a lot of discipline. 3. it’snot that needs a lot of strength 4 I’sthe sort of __ that requires regular 'b Write similar sentences about these activities, * yoga ¢ Talk about the activities together. Do you agree? + skydiving * chess + boxing 4. HEBD Liston and underline the letters which make an /o:/ sound. dark star argument dance alarm half castle arm large far, article bar example calm halve b Find words in 4a to match spelling patterns 1-3. Tel is spelled 1 arin most words, 2 al before f, m, vin some words 3 a inthe middle of some words. This is pronounced /a/ by some speakers. ¢ ¢EED Spellcheck. Listen and write ten words. Then check your spelling on p155. PoSeenss 5 Writers often use a range of words to describe the same thing {synonyms} in articles, 1. Think of three more words which have a similar meaning to clutter: rubbish st B 2. Write five sentences to show how we use the different words. 3 How many words and expressions can you remember which have a similar meaning to i declutter? Check in the article on p62. | Ce ea Teo is cam do this wel. Ceo rata Goce eee ona eter Pret tuations eer peerPower cut omens READING: 11a Look at the pictures, What do you think has happened? bb Read both stories. Were you right? | remember we were at home and my son was being born. We had decided to have a home birt. t was in the middle of the night and the midwife, who was a fiend of ours, was, ‘there. Anyway, we wore in the middle of everything and suddenly the room went dark. The heating went off too. Tero we wore in tho dark and the cold. There are a lot of power cuts in Sweden because of the weather, so | got the torch and it candies all around the room and got ancther lamp and we just kind of managed. Just after our son was born — his name's Kurt too ~ the lights came back on, It was really nice, asi he was being welcomed Into the world or something. Kurt, from Karlstad, Sweden, ‘his son Jastorm 2the roof | remember there was a big storm in England ln 1987. tt happened in the middle of the right and it caused chaos in many parts of the country. Part of our roof was blown off and there vias a power cut, Some pipes upstairs burst and there was water shooting out everywhere. The thing is, 1 was just a kid and I slept through the whole thing. | woke up and my home locked completely diferent. There was a huge hole in the roof. And when I went into the garden | saw that a tree had blown down in the garden. It was a complete mess. Phillip, from Nottingham, England 2theheating candles 4 the lights water — 4 outside the house 'b Read again to check. How do you think Kurt and Phillip felt afterwards? TE ERT = SRroplemieia. 7 ‘The tap’s leaking. The pipe’s burst The handle's come off The window's stuck BD Uae: 3. a Match problems 1-8 with pictures A-H. The batteries are flat, The washing machine's not working, The bathroom's flooded. There's a power cut.'b Inwhich sentences in 3a does‘s mean: * has? + is?» has oris? Which problems do you'think are the most serious? Which are the least serious? d Cover the two stories and look at the pictures on p70. Which expressions in 3a can you use to describe what happened? © Complete these sentences with expressions from 3a and your own ideas, i 1. We don’t have any clean plates because ... the dishwasher's not working. 2 We had to use candles all evening because 3 We'll have to call e plumber because 4 Don't go in the kitchen because 5 We can't get aut af the front room because Youwon't be able to open that window because 7 That torch won't work because 8 There's no hot water because oi iscuss these questions. 1 Which problems in G2 would you be able to solve yourself? 2. Inwhich situations would you get help? Who would you call? * aplumber * anelectrician + anengineer + afriend * someone else 3. Have you ever had problems like these at home? What happened? What shall we to? (1a 629 Listen to Lidia and Ben. What problems do they have? | b GED Listen again. What ideas do they have ft a lunch? b stopping the flood? ¢ Ben's shirt? REEMITMM 2 Which hightighted expressions from the Se sogcissing= conversation do you use to: probleris and say you't try something? solutions: say what you need to do? € ask for suggestions? What sf we going todo about inch? What shall we do? FU gv ita try. 2 vithave a go, We'll have to call someone, ‘We're going to have to cal @ plumber. PREREGTTZUCNSRENRY 3 2 Work alone. Imagine you're in situations a~c with a partner. Think about what you could do. a You're both working at home inthe evening and there's a power cu. You don't have any candles, and the batteries in your torch are flat Your five-yeer-old soni locked in the bathroom and the door handle’s come off He's starting to pant € You've gotten people coming for dinner and your cooker's not working b In pairs, choose a situation and discuss what to do. Use the highlighted expressions in 2 € Choose a new situation and discuss what to do.Decision-making 1a How do you make decisis * your work? * your home? buying things?» money? about: Which decisions do you find easy to make? Which are more difficult? bb Talk together. How similar are you? 2 Read the introduction to an article about thinking strategies, What does the technique help people to do? Six Thinking Hats™ Bo you find it dificult to make decisions? The Six Thinking Hats™ technique, developed by creative thinking expert Dr Edward de Bono, helps people to make better decisions by changing how they think. The si hats represent sx diferent ways of thinking. Or ‘de Bono believes that rost of us only use one or two ofthese hats when making decsions, solving problems or coming up with ideas. This technique allows you to practise the sx diferent approaches by tying on each of the six hats. 3 Read the rest of the article. Which hat represents someone wha: a thinks positively? thinks creatively? + manages situations? b focuses on challenges? d thinks emotionally? focuses on the facts? Puton the redhat and ist your intuition when you look at situation listen to your heart, not your ead. You don't have to explain your views or . lusty them, ‘Ty tobe optimistic and look fra the benefits of ‘decison. The yellow hat wil help you to kp going when everything looks gloomy and dict ‘When new ideas are needed, ty onthe green hat Balnstorm ideas and don't cise what anyone says, ‘The geen hat il ep you to came up wth new plans and develop creative solution to problem, ‘Look atthe facts you have ae see what you can + Fearn fom them. Use the white hat to identy wat + informations needed ad think about howto get it. | hela hats you trace al he reasons wy a plan might not work. Use to check for i potential problems which could affect your plans ow orin the future Wear theblue hat if you're holding 2 meeting. When new ideas are needed, suggest people ny on the «green hat When you need to evaluate an dea, use ‘the yellow and black has, and so on. 4 Discuss the questions. 1. What do you think of the Six Thinking Hats strategy? 2 Which hat do you think most represents the way you think and make decisions? In pairs, discuss which verbs you think go with 1-9. Then check your ideas in the | 1 make decisions 4 t___toyourheart 7b ideas 2 s___problems 5 at the facts 8 6 solutions 3_t__your intuition ¢ ¢___upwitha new plan_9 _h____ameeting 4 @ Think about a decision you have to make: It could be from one of the topics in ta. 1. Inturn, explain the situation to a group. 2. Each think about the situation from the point of view of all six hats. 3. Start with the blue hat and plan your discussion, bb Talk together: Did the discussion help you with your decision?Problems and solutions | 1. EBD Listen to Simon, Lidia and Yeleria talking about their new business. What kind of business is it? What are they discussing? SSNS 2. a SHED Listen again. Who: 1. isrunning the meeting? 2 suggests opening a terrace? 3. isnothappy about doing more hours? 4 comes up with new ideas? 5 has prepared something? & isa bit nagative about all the ideas? b Which Thinking Hats do you thinkeah —_—_—/ person is using? Why? SRE Ua elesE ENE Tes smear orteal conditisnalsis 3a Look at these extracts from the conversation. In which sentences a~e does the speaker feel a situation: 1. is realistic and possible? 2 _is unrealistic or impossible? Simon | If we open a terrace, we'll be able to serve a Lot more people Lidia | But it's too expensive. And if we did that, it would take a lot longer | to serve people outside, Lidia Hm, that's a problem for me. | mean, if| didn’t have Fd do it, no problem. 8 children, | d_| Yelena Well, | suppose this is impossible, but if we employed another person, we wouldn't have to do so many hours, Lidia That's not 2 bad idea, But if we employ another person, we'll take | home less money. b Complete the patterns for real and unreal conditionals. 1 Realconditional | it ___ + infinitive |_2_Unreal conditional | if+ + infinitive © We can use real and unreal conditionals to make suggestions and discuss consequences. Look at sentences d and ¢ in the grammar box. Which is a suggestion? Which introduces a negative consequence? ‘a GED When you speak, you use groups of words. This makes you easier to understand, Listen to the first sentence in 3a. If we open a terrace // we'll be able to serve a lot more people. Bb Look at sentences b-e in 3a and write // between groups of words. «EB Then listen and read the script on p155 to check. Practise saying all the sentences. Beane 5 a You're going to discuss different ideas. ‘Add a suggestion for your ie and for your country, then complete the notes 2. Think about which conditionals to use. Which ideas are realistic and possible for fe unrealistic or impossible? | Biapeions TPs onewuonaze | Naa consequences eure: howe ouromn bsnss | eheseyourown hrs mood Your country: | reduce the driving age to 15 host the Olympic Games b Discuss the suggestions together. Do you agree about the consequences?Target activity Reach a compromise Look at the dictionary entry and think of situations where you have to compromise, Talk together. /‘kompramatz/ when youagre tosomething | 2 Imagine you lve with friends. What disagreements can you imagine about: ‘whichis notexacty what are nemetea + cleaning?» noise? —_* cooking?» eating? Compromise inthe ond washing up? * the shower? shopping? Tre agreed to work on ‘Monday evening fTcan take Saturday off rapa. we can gt just whatwé need “A Thavontt ga ta tecovkteday as 8 Ido it today? You can cook tomorraw'instéad, | could do the week's shopping now. don’t go taaht, can we please make sure we go tomerrey ALet's get the train on Friday evening. BBut___leaving straight after work. can't face doing that. & a Work in A/B/C groups. You're flatmates, and you need to discuss some proble eracanrns A, look on p21; B, look on p124; C, look on p13. all eat together? ,B Talicin your groups, What sal you find? What compra But that would mean |. %@ make? basing here every nightF EXPLORE Aeross cultures Dealing with conflict 1." What would you do in these situations? + A colleague criticises your work to your boss. * Your flatmate paints the flat a colour you hate. + Aclose friend stops calling you. + Arelative really annoys you when you're out shopping together. (TITER © 2 a HEED Listen to an interview with Cigdem: Match each section 1-4 to topics a~d. a parents and children work issues b dealing with tension d__ talking openly 1b In pairs, choose a or b to complete each sentence, EE Then listen to check. | lifaclient is unhappy, Giadem: [" [a-_talks about the problem with them. B they ignore it 3 adem’ moter 2 doesn't getimvlved ner TGigdem says th Turkey: _ == | [a tendtesaywhat heythink. —~[b dont arguain public.) ils her what © What differences does Cigdem mention between how people deal with conflict in England and Turkey? ©] 3. a Whois Gigdem talking about in 1-77 a 1 They often don’t try to resolve the conflict. contiet >: 2 Lwould still always show him respect. 3. People have a lot more arguments and disagreements. % wouldn't shout or swear at him, but | would argue my case. 5 If someone's done something which causes tension, nobody says anything, Westill have quite angry rows. 7 discuss it with them and usually we'll reach a compromise, bb Test each other in A/B pairs. A, say the nouns; B, try to remember the verbs. Then change rales. Discuss your Ideas in groups. What do you do when you're angry with * acolleague? + arelative? * afriend? » a child? 2 How do you think canflict should be resolved at work or at home? Give an example from your experience. 3. How do you feel about getting angry in public? Is it acceptable in your country? Isitthe same ar different in other cultures you know of? 56 E PLOREWriting 2 Read the postings and the two comments. 4 a Cover the texts. Can you remember how to 5 The flat needs redecorating, You either have to complete expressions 1-77 paint it yourseves iisiaat 4 & She realiy eres with him, I's not hat he Linking ideas Contrasting wo Meas broke the window, Wasweltas [5 novthot 7 swells being ively, 2 notenly. | sither 5 Read anther posting on the site on pte 3 paler —— | ° Wiites comment in response — Brainstorm ess in groups, b Complete the sentences with your own ideas. 2° Organise your own ideas into sentences. Then compare with partner. Use the expressions ind 1 Ofcourse i's important io fi things inyour 8 & Read each other's comments. Choose ane to write home, a rept In your country, do most people you know: * rent their home? What do you think are the pros and cons of buying of renting your home? 1 What's Tomas's problem? 2 Inthe comments, who sympathises with Tomas? Who doesn't? ‘What reasons do they give? Whe do you agree with? Why? ir Yourgat om Rights > rented property > comments ‘Ti lived in avy fat for twenly years. Trent ie Wom someone Who lives abroad and he's always charged a ery low rent. The thing is, I've been here so long, I can¥ inagine living anywhere else: Anyway, t found out | yesterday that my landlord is going to double my reat-tram the beginning of next month. That means I can't ord'to live here any riore, As well as always paying my rent 6n time, I've also looked after this property tas my oun. tt doesn seem fa hat Ive got no | To postaicommentclickhere Comments v Sorry, but I think what the landiora’s doing Is fine, You've not only had a very low rent but you've also stayed in one home for twenty years. The polnt is not that you always paid your rent on time, but that It | was never your property in the first place. The fact that you've lived there for such a long time doesn’t make It yours. To my mind, that’s a good thing ~ It’s neither your property nor your problem. Ican see why you're upset, but I don’t think you appreciate how lucky you've been, Zan ‘What's happened is just plain wrong. You've not only lived there for twenty years, but also been a good tenant. I's clear that the landlord elther wants to sell the property or move into it himself, so he's decided to charge you a rent you can’t afford. OF course it's his property in law, but at the same time he should be grateful to you for looking after his flat allthis time, To be fair, I's both his and yours, and the law shoula recognise that somehow. Amie Spyies epee 2. Their home is neither big 3. He's not only allergic to pets 4 The house belongs to both her brother bb Read the reply to your comment. Does the writer agree or disagree with your opinion? B'Look again <> Review Extension CEE ee PERT 1a Put the words in order to begin conditional sentences. 1. enough money / had /if/1 2 agood film /f/ there's / tonight / on 3. nearby / there was / If / a good pool 4 really needed to / If/a language / learn / 5. time/later/It/ some /1/ have 6 Lwanted /any car /have /If/1/ could b Complete the sentences with your own ideas. Tif had enough money, I'd give up my job. LENE 2 a Use the expressions in the box in the correct form to replace the underlined expressions. burst come off flat _not work be stuck flood a power cut 1 AWhat's happened? 8 The lights have gone out. There's a power cut. 2. The batteries in my torch are dead. 3. Oh no! The bathroom floor is cavered in water. 4 The dishwasher's broken. 5 The water's coming from here. The pipe has.a hole in it. & Tean'topen the door. The handle’s f 7 Opena different window. That one doesn't open. What could you do in situations 1-7? Take turns to start conversations. UNTO ens en eee ery and speculation 3. a Complete the conversations with must, might, could or can’t 1A Shall I throw these old books away? B No, they bbe mine, 2 A Doyou think this is our coach? B It____be ours. It's exactly 5.54, 3. A 'matraid there's no connecting train, B What do you mean? That be true. 4 A Live lost my keys again! B They bbe here somewhere. When did you last use them? 1b Work alone. Write sentences using the underlined expressions in 2-6. Do you think there wil be a train strike this week? © Work in pairs. Listen to your partner's sentences and respond using must, might, could or can't. 10 you think there will be a train strike this week? ) hope pt Thy mest ie abl to apreeby now!) es aS 4 a sHERD Liston and underline the letters which make an /s:/ sound. world burst birth working emergency dirty learn alternative earn first urgent 1b Find words in 4a to match the spelling patterns in ‘and 2, /3:/ Is usually spelled: er, of, ear, ur or ir in the middle of words. 2. ear orurat the beginning of wards. © Spellcheck. Complete the spelling of these words. Then check ina dictionary. 1 tniture 6 _th 7 cont_s 2 th_teen 5 p_pose 8 det_mined 3 hd & reh_se 9 _Lban Poesia 5 a Canyou remember how to complete 1-6 from texts in this unit with on or off? 1. The heating went too. pro 2. Just after our son was born, the lights came back 70 3. Part of cur roof was blown __. p70 4 Thehandle’s come ___. 570 5 Would you mind not having the radio all the time? SD 6 When new ideas are needed, suggest people try__the green hat. rz Check 1-4 on p70; 5 in ¥@EEB; and 6 on p72. © Choose verbs from 16 above to complete these sentences. 1 Could! on that shirt? 2. Blow the candles out. The powers on, 3. I don’t know haw much this eard costs. The price label's __ off. 4 The lights Off five times in the storm. 5 |can'tstand the TV on all the time. Re eee Caer caeumrettal ar ea Goer eee CCC ese eeiretet1 How good do you think your memory is? Think about: + names » places + faces * phone numbers * conversations * song lyrics 2a If you sawa crime, would you be a good witness? Look at this CCTV image for 30 seconds. #32ED Then close your books, listen to the questions and take notes, 'b Compare your notes with a partner. Then look at the picture to check. What did you remember? What things didn’t you notice? 3. a GERD Listen to one of the witnesses, Hiromi, telling her friend what she sam. Do you think she has a good memory of what happened? % bb SEED Listen again and look at the CCTV image. What four things does Hiromi get wrong? Have you or has anyone you know ever witnessed a crime? What happened? ‘a Complete the sentences from Hiromi’s account. Look at the script on p156 to check, I can't remember what, But I can remember th: I've forgotten \ 1 2 3 4 [noticed someone 5 é That reminds me, 7 Did you recognise him? 9 b d t Looking back on it No, no... ve only just moved there. its alla bit worrying, really a lot of what happened. he was wearing a rugby shirt. crossing the street. he looked like. He had a baseball cap on, b Discuss the questions. Try to use the highlighted expressions in 5a 1 Inwhat order did people arrive in class today? 2 What date does your course start and finish? 3 What did you do in the first class of your course? 4 Did you know anyone in the class befo 2 the course started?False memories You're going to read about witnesses in court cases. uss the questions, 1 What do these people in the courtroom do? * the judge * thejury + alawyer + awitness 2 What do you think are the most difficult things they have to do? Read this article from a journal for taw students. According to the article, what is the problem with using witnesses in court? © lll others were anked wha they saw “when the cars ‘smashed’ into each other. People who were questioned using the ‘Word ‘smashed! were more ily recall seeing broken glssin he aiginalplcture The ‘nkoduction’ of flee information clhanges people’ memories: can make us elev something that di bappen that happened but also remember orexist that aldxt happen a ll In one Theproblem armade worneby the loc. ~ of telling a story on out inemeny. When “we tella any, we ale havea particular "aude Yo we change eran deta 3. Read the article again, Find three reasons wy you can't always rely on witnesses. 4 Discuss the questions. 1. What's your opinion about using witnesses in court? 2. What da you think would help to solve the problems discussed in the article? Se 5 _a Verbs are followed by dlferent patterns. Complete the sentences with the correct “|” word from the article or the script, then check your ideas above and on p156, | they said in their account. | fhe was wearing a rugby shirt. pick up the phone i | 4 Iremember-howhe got in there. [1 They tend to remember [2 Lean remember 3 Then | remembered followed by: ~ —— 2} forget fo'get/ eee ee ecueslon an D> verb to be unable to remember a fact, b tointiniive? that? something that happened or how to do 6 a When you learn a verb, it's important to something: I've forgotten his name. know which patterns follow it. Look at the | 1D>[+ that] [forgot that the meeting was \ dictionary entry for forget. Which patterns | today. 2D>[+ question word} Ive forgoten from 5b doe: ave? how this machine works. [> 3 (+ ing] PU wencfet sete amata rte b When patterns an foo hese vers? | Merge inl ‘41> [+ to infinitive] to not remember to do something; Sorry [forgot to post your letter Check your ideas on p130, | remind know understand find out | a Complete these questions with your own ideas. 1 Can you remember what...? 4 When did you first understand ..? 2 Have you ever forgotten ..? 5 Doyou know ..? 3. Canyou remember seeing...? 6 Would you like to find out ..? bb Ask and answer the questions in 7a, RoWs scraiched | STI. 1 a Talk together: What kind of behaviour annoys you? What would you da ifs 1. someone went to the front of a queue without waiting in tine? 2 someone broke the rules on public transport? 3. yau got poor service in restaurant, a café or a shop? 'b What do most people do where you live? ! 2° <@EED Listen to Tarig talking about complaining in the UK and France. What difference does he mention? SEEVIEINEM 3 a Match problems 1-8 with A-H in the pictures. 127 eroildis with 1 Wsthewrong size. 5 it's dented 2 Its faded & itstorn 3 ite chipped 7 Wtscracked & itdoesn't work, Its seratened b Cover 8a. In pairs, take turns to point ata picture and say what's wrong, ‘An old photo can be faded © What other things can be the wrong size, faded, ete.? Think of two more examples for each highlighted expression. So cana T-shirt. ) Sento , 4 Have you ever had a problem with something you've bought? What did you do? } Making a complaint LISTENING 11 Read the email Mariah wrote to Anybooks.com. What complaints did she make? Dear Sir/Madam, {'am writing to complain about the poor service I've received from Anybooks.com. l ordered a book from your website recently. When it arrived, several pages were missing and one page was torn. | wrote to you on 12th June asking for a replacement, but have received no reply. Could you please confirm that you received my earlier ‘email, and that you will send me a new copy af the book? My account number is 1B635PK. Yours faithfully, Mariah Dewey 2 a Mariah doesn’t gat a reply to her email so she phones the customer service department. What do you think witt happen? 'b s3EED Listen to the phone call. Were you right? 3° <2ED Listen again and answer the questions 1 How does Mariah feel? Why? 2 What two things does the customer services person do?‘2 4GEZD Listen to the questions from the phone conversation. Which questions, Aor B, end with a falling ~. intonation? Which end with a rising intonation? A. Fil have to put you on hold. Is that OK? | Is that 95PK7 B What's your order number, please? ‘And when will get the new book? b Complete the rules with: yes/no questions wh questions usually end with a rising - intonation. They're often used to check something. usually end with a falling ~ intonation. They'ré often used to ask for information, Practise asking the questions in 4a. ‘a You work in customer services. A customer phones you to complain about a service or product they've ordered online. Write questions to ask for or check the following informatior name + email + order number: 26490FR * order date: 16 July b Ask and answer the questions together. Try to use the correct intonation. ‘The present perfect simple and progressive ink the past and present. Read the | sentences and discuss the questions Belov. ‘A. The present perfect simpl have/has + past parti I've written two emails but | haven't received a reply. I've just ordered you a replacement copy. B_ The present perfect progressive: have/has + been + -ing {'ve been waiting to speak to someone for ten minutes, I've been trying to contact you for two weeks now. | 1. Inwhich sentences, A or B, does the speaker want to emphasise: *» how long something takes? * the result ofa finished activity? 2 Which form can you use to talk about the number of times something happened? 7a Complete this extract from a complaint to a music website. Which verbs are present perfect simple? Which are present perfect progressive? ordered an MP3 player from your site on February 12 this year: Unfortunately, when it arrived, I found that it didn’t work. Since that time, 1'____(wrlte) three emails asking for a refund, but so far 1?____(nat have) a reply. For the last two days, 1°__(phone) the number given on your website but I*__ not get) through. I’m not at all happy with the service your company *___(provide) on this occasion, In fac, ths isnot the first time 1*____ (have) problems with Musico.com, 17___(buy) CD and DVDs from your site for many years, and fon more than one occasion they *___ (arrive) with the cases cracked. [?__ (not complain) before because b Discuss your choices with a partner: Do you agree? a Work in A/B pairs. AA, you want to complain about something you've bought from a website, Look on pi27 and complete the information on the first role card. B, you work on the helpline. Look on p131 and complete the information 1b A, phone B and have a conversation, € Now change roles and took atthe next rote card. Have another phone conversation. 4 Listen to another pair's conversation and answer the questions. 1. What problem did the customer have? | 2 Has the customer services person solved the problem? beTarget activity Besolve a dispute 10.3 goai Sey ‘1a Make a list of possible problems between neighbours. i loud ndise, parking ete b Talk together. 1. What would you do if you had-a problem with a neighbour? } 2 Would you find it easy to discuss the problem? 3 What do you think you'd say? | ges 2 sERD Listen to two neighbour's, Ian and James, talking. What's the problem? vo 3. a Match 1~6 with a=f. 22) Then listen again to check, Renew an I've been meaning to talk to you, 2 havea bit of peace and quiet, Softeners 2 Itsjust that 1b kicked the ball quite close to our windows, I 3. Itsabie © his ball ruins our plants and flowers. 1 4 Well, tobe honest, we'd like lod you could have a word with hin about i | 5 Well, toe fai, he has © annoying | 6 fd begratefulit <> F actually. | 1h The highlighted expressions help to'Soften the complaint. Look at the script on p187 and find tw more softeners with the same meanings as 1 and 6. In pairs, add the highlighted softening expressions to these complaints 1 als everything OK? How’s your food? B Welt, the Soup is a bit cold. 2 ACould you Lend me some money? 8 OK, but /you haven't paid me back from last week. 3. Your musicis very loud. Ifyou could turn it down, A % You never do the washing up. I's Mirritating 5 You borrowed some baoks from me a few months ago, and I need them. Well, to be honest, the soup is abit cold. 4 a Work in A/B pairs. A, you're going to speak to your neighbour about a problem. Look on p129 and think about what language you need to use. B, look on p130 and prepare to talk to your neighbour about T've been meaning to talk to you, actually, about your | yo b Now change roles. Look at the next role card and have another conversation, roblem, Talk in groups. Did you resolve the disputes with your neighbour? aFr EXPLORE | Keyword of Adjectives with of 1 EDD Listen to a conversation between Hiromi and her new neighbour, Gill. Did they make a good impression on each other? 2 a Some adjectives go with of you. Match 1~3 with | responses a-c from the conversation. | 1. I've made you some: 1 2 Would Toshi like to come round and play? —b_Oh, that was very kind of you. They look delicious, | 3. We've just moved here from Japan. ¢ How thoughtful of you. I'm sure he'd love that. \ kes. 2 Really? That's so brave of you! I 'b Which highlighted expressions are used: 1 taghencomplimene? 2 tosaythanks? — Thatsrieston) (Thatecenrohor) et ee error is ner ea Cement oc) Une tS | 6 32RD Listen to what five people say. Respond with a compliment or thanks, | 3. a Complete each sentence with an appropriate adjective, ' fond capable sick proud afraid 1 Fm____of spiders. | always think they're going to bite me. | | 2 ReaiMadrd are_—_of winning the league. They've gota great team i | 3 Imvery__ of Agata, She's such a nice person. | Tmyvery_— ef what we've achieved, We all worked hard on this project | 5 tm" SoFmyjob atthe moment. ve been doing the same ting forte years. bb Think of sentences about you with the expressions ina. (‘im sical of the Gan | Then talk together. —————— Really? doesn't bother me.) Verbs with of os | 4 Read this extract from an article about first impressions. What four things does it say you can do to give a good first impression? _ Be open and confident. Everybody's heard of the power of Experts ell us that fist ipresiions positive thinking. Get rid of any negative thoughts by thinking ‘can be made in two seconds or less. of al the positive results that could come from the encounter. _Thaj canbe neal mponsible to, ~ Remind youl of ny nervous habe you havo and make | “change, e0 Hf you want to got on sure you avoid them. inlfe; then coating a goad frst Be attentno,stch yourphone off and get rid of al inpranson ic ebiaet Hues We srk clstractions. Anything lets wil instantly gue a bad impression * fe = Prepare for the encounter. Think of some interesting questions * . 4 and find out if you have anything in common. 5 a Some verbs go with of. Cover the article. Can you remember how these sentences continue? Everybody's heard of the power Remind yourself of any nervous Get rid of any negative Think of some interesting bb Read the article again to check. & How many more ways can you think of to make a good first impression?EXPLORESpeaking 1 When was the last time you had a long weekend? What did you do? 2 €B Listen to two conversations between Mariah and Pat and answer the questions. Conversation 1 (Monday! When do they decide to take a day off? Why? Conversation 2 (Friday evening): How much time do they get together in the end? 3 a 69220 Listen again. Are the following statements. true or false? Mariah isn’t worried about writing her essay. She thinks she can finish it before Thursday. Pat thinks it’s better to take Thursday off. Mariah says driving was a bad idea, Pat didn’t enjoy his day off Mariah is looking forward to the rest of the weekend. 'b Read conversations 1 and 2to check your ideas. 4 Look at the highlighted comments 1~7 in the conversations. 1 What is each comment about? 1 Mariah's essay 2 Which express: + positive feelings? + negative feelings? 5 a Add expressions from the box to which was and complete the conversation below. [great excellent important nice tricky [understandable unfortunate _typical_a shame A How was your weekend? 1 Nice Some good friends who I don't se much o 4 Nhat did you 2 Wel, on Saturday Erin wasn't vary wel, ‘on Sunday [cooked a nice meal and later we went for along walk,®__. What about you? A Well, Thad to goin Yo work on Saturday, “_ Decause I was suppased toe going out with an old fend, 8 Ohno. Why dd you ave wo work? ‘Wel, somebody new was starting and they got moss, § but nobody else was around, 80 in toned. 2 but went b Compare with a partner. Did yol! choose the same expressions? € Write four more lines to finish the conversation. Use two expressions with which. d Listen to another pair’s conversation. Which ending do you prefer? & Take turns to start a conversation with the underlined questions in conversations 1 and 2. Make comments about how you feet. ‘Shall;ue do something nice tis week? We could take a day off work ‘Well. 've got that essay to writs "which Tthinicis going to be a bit tricky. ‘Why, when do you have to fins it [t's got to bein on Friday, but I'd ike to Anish it by Wednesday evening at the latest Yeah? 2ynich is probably impossible. Wy? Well, ve: Jot to do— Im waiting fora 0k o arive Look, why don’t we both take the day off on ‘Thussday? ‘Yeah, maybe, or Friday, Take along woekend, Swnich would be better, I suppose ‘Yooh, let's do that. I'ltake my essay into university e morning, and then wo can both retax h. Ibe good to epend some time togetiet ‘So_how was your day? I thought you'd be back eerie. Did you get your essay in on time? ‘oat, ust. [decided to drive to tho univers “which was unfortunate, ‘Why? Was the trafic bad? Yeah, it was awl. Tr took hours to get in. Iwas 80 sessed Swwhich isn’t good inthe cat ‘No, had ta isten tothe radio to calm myself down, ‘So much for the long waekond togother ‘Ye, sony. Did you have a nice day? ‘Yes I didn't do much, which actually was very relaxing, leven fel asleep after lunch. ‘Wel, wove sill got the rest ofthe wookend tre, Twhich is great, ic Ite you my parents rang? They've |mvited Us for lunch on Sunday, s0 I said yes ‘Yes, of course, That’ be nice, Alt wel, wave stiLook again <> Roview (GRAMMAR Present perfact simple ard progressive 4 a Complete Rita and Hasan’s conversation. Use the present perfect simple or progressive. masini fa. You're late again! You“ve missed (miss) dinner. ‘You ve been working (wor) late ll week and you (miss) dinner every day too. i's not good for you ¥ Tinow.ButT* (had) tunch with clients three times, go i's nat so bad. Tm sorry about the late nights. You know [3____ fave} interviews all week. Yes, but what if you don't get another job? This ; 4" (@o on) fr to long now. You need totale to I ‘im about your hou W Thave. 5 (havo) three meetings with hion thie waeke Oh good You didnt No, haven't had time 14 'b ¥3E2D Listen to check. © What advice would you give Rita and Hasan? © Think about the questions. 1. What have you achieved this week? 2 What haven't you managed to do? Why not? d Talk about your week together. What advice can you give your partner? ‘VOCABULARY Problems with things you've bought 2a Complete these sentences with an appropriate word. 1 It’s the wrongs 2 Thecotour's f 3 The cup’s ch. 4 The phone doesn'tw___ 5 Thecar'sd. & Some pages are t__ 7 The window's er. 8 TheTVscreen'ss 1b Describe problems you've had with: * clothes + cars * books * shoes furniture * electronic goods CLUE ee 2a Match the verb-noun collocations. hold solve brainstorm took at trust make come up with adecision problem ameeting the facts ‘anewplan ideas your intuition 'b Which of these things have you done at home, work or college in the last week? Write two or three sentences. We held a meeting to brainstorm ideas for the website, © Talk together about what you've done. Extension 4 a VIED Listen and underline the letters in these words which make an /u:/ sound. balloon afternoon June route threw choose moon include rule super group flew bb Find words in 4a'to match spelling patterns 1-4. Jou] is spelled 00 in the middle of most words. 2. ouin the middle of some words, 3. ewat the end of most words. 4 wafterj,l,r ands in some words. © Can you think of more words with these patterns? d 3220 Spellcheck. Listen and write ten words. Then check your spelling on p157. Seen 5 a Read two sentences from texts in this unit. * In the UK, if someone goes to the front of a queue ... nobody complains. ED * In one study, people were shown a picture of a car accident. p79 b Complete questions 1-6 with these nouns. Fimeresion “picture couple copy” part ont] 1. What's the most boring (of your job? What's the most interesting? 2 Doyou form an instant __ of people? 3 Doyouhavea____ of Cambridge Learner's Dictionary? 4 Doyouhave a_____of anyone in your wallet? Who? Would you ever go straight tot queue? In what situation? 6 Canyoutell mea of things about your childhood? ofa © Ask and answer all the questions. Crone urea ee ee ee ee teen isy talk about what you remember eet vi eet eae eared Se eer be