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te cccal eekeanrnc SECOND EDITION oan oa OUTCOMES Aad tM NESSES * wus Mr Oe d + say mere about yoursot ana atner people ask and answer common questions 1 ask folow-ip questions ond maintein conversions ‘escrde how well you use ferent languages. pay move attention to te language in texts tellbeter stores + tak about how you feet ~ ana wy + respond to good and bad news talk about your fe now + explain why you cantor dont wantto— do things + describe places and explain where they are + ive and respond to suggestions + discuss future plans + tik about the weather recognize end rouse useful chunks oflangusge 1 ask and ak about holcny experiences talk about reo: scities eserbe how often you doer a tings ‘explain how good you ee at things {elk about injures and sports problems ek about tates ‘al out phones and phone companies compere products describe what peopie are wearing ‘discus shopping bits ‘describe souvenks and presents negotiate a good pice + desebe courses schools, teachers and students + show you believe or sympathise wth what pe9ple tellyou tak about cfarent educslon systems ta obout possible future plans or stations ddscuse cterentsoneets of eaveaion form and say different woids fiom the same root + escriveaterentclshes and ways of cooking food ‘pian wnat son a ment ‘dscuss experiences offoreign food ‘make generalisations ese restaurants en ren fo a0 DEVELOPING CONVERSATIONS + Linking verbs + Feelings + Hombtakes Juan + Talking about + Response expressions + Prosantsimpleand + Understanaing “Mann techange the" feetngs agecives : ining ee rc presentcorunuous —" voeabulary-ed/ng worl + dan Mann = School tiond Future pans Paces otinerest, Thingsto see nddo + Vstng Kako onl espord simple Understanding Issaster tours Present pe Injuries and probien secs Noun phrases Clothes and + Talking about it Macias “> Futuetimeciauses + Descrbing courses + Whatworksin. + Taking about a Zeroandtist «+ ‘Eaucaion course = Gonationss —————.Understanaing + Talding aout : = — | waesbulay: Forming education = Contents 3 + deste fats, houses and areas + explain how big places are + escuss soca ans eeanome changes: + compare the pastand now + ask about house rules page 78 + tk about exbitions fin adhe hese + expla enact were places are + leas nts ot * se lms connected atten pets of the Body * desert deren kinds of events “ta bout plane ta ate happen and extn pagess WRITING 5: Forma mais page 188 ‘ell and participa in teting stories si N ee en * Senn pope non ae smi eermcrer oe eaten page 104 VIDEO 6: Greatestjourney page 112 REVIEW 6:page 113 WRITING 6: Reports page 160 1 3 + tak aboutjoumeys + explon ave problems discuss immigration + attect on pastevents + use extreme acectves to moke descritions more intresting + tlk about probiems and whose fou hey are page 114 SS + eeuss sues around computer goming + tak about apps and gadgets page 122 \VIDEO 7: Airpoluton tracking age 130° REVIEW 7: page 121. WRITING 7: Opinion ed essoys page 162 + tak about ypes and sources of news comment on the news so reporting verbs to report news sescrbe famous people al events ascuss ssu0s eround emo \VIDEO 2: Bee therapy page 148 REVIEW: page 149 WRITING 8: Reviews page 164 4 + Present peifect, + Describing homes + Wang forthe Ae oan Sane HERE: simpleend present + Socal sues + Room to rentin Borin + Asking about nes Perlecteontinues > sseribing areas + Comparing now and . + Exhibitions. fims ane + Bigight out + Going tothe cinema + Explaining where places are + The futureinshe past theatre + What gi you do ast + idioms ight? + Understanaing ‘vocabulary: Describing events + Thrdconctionsis + Waysoftraveling + Thelongjoumeytoa + Taking about + How come? + Should have and'vavel pretioms —newite Journeys + Blming people + Prasal veros + Holey probiems. + Understanding vocabulary: Extreme ‘alectves | ances + Computers Style asa gamer + iT helpdesk + Song oi prcbiems + Infinkive and tng + Desesiing games + The geming industry tom + pos end gadgets > Waly gests Reporting weibs + News Peekingiiame and - Taking atoutnews + inodicing wd comming + Defining ete + Expiaining who fortune stories onnews eauses people are + Talking about ferious people ‘Audio scripts pages 194-213, Grammar reference ‘pages 166-186 Information files pages 187- 7 IN THIS UNIT YOU LEARN HOW TO: ft yourself and oth SPEAKING 1 Workin pairs. Discuss the questions. Look at the photo of Where do you thi wi u think they'e learnin uld you like to have a class lke this? Why? 2 Work with a new partner. Discuss the questions, ya _NICE TO MEET YOU | LISTENING 1 ERI Listen to two conversations in which people meet for the first time. Answer the questions for each conversation. 1 Where do they meet? 2 Why are they there? 2 EMEA Work in pairs. Try to answer the questions below. Then listen again and check your answers. Conversation 4 1. How is Alfie feeling? Why? 2 Is Holly a new student? 3 Wen did Alfie start studying French? 4. What does he think his strengths and weaknesses 5 According to Holly, where is French an offical language? Conversation 2 6 How did Noah feel about the talk he attended? 7. Where is Noah from — and where is he living now? 8 When did Noah move to his current home? 9 Has Giuliana visited the city Noah is living ir? 10 What does Noah do far a living? 3 With your partner, take turns to tell each other ‘as much as you can about the last new person you met, VOCABULARY Talking about people 4 Check you understand the words in bold in the sentences below. Then decide which two words / phrases in the box could replace each word / phrase in bold so you are talking about the same subject. The first one is done for you, Portugese Japan an only child. spart achilservant maried teacing a translator Economics Medicine Arable atwin anoffice se) Germany fated a warehouse My friend Marcin is from Poland. My husband's a software engineer. ersity. My mum speaks good French and a bit of Russian. 1 Jopan, Germany 2 4 5 My sisters doing a degree in Law at the moment, 6 ? a My brother works In a ur My parents are really into travelling, My frlend Imke is the youngest of six kids, My aunt Maria is single. 5 Think of one more word or phrase that could Teplace each word / phrase in bold. 6 Work in groups. Use language from Exercises 4 and 5 to say five true things about people you know, GRAMMAR Auxiliary verbs ‘When we make questions and negatives, we use different ‘tuxllry verbs. There are only three: be, do and have. | don't know. (present simple} How's it going? (present continuous) Have you been there? (oesent perfect simple) 7 Look at these questions from the conversations, ‘Then work in pairs and answer the questions below. 2 Do you know it? Did you enjoy 1? Have you studied here before? Where are you based? What are you doing there? Are you working? How long have you been learning French? Which auxiliary goes with the infinitive (without 1)? 2 Which two auxiliaries go with the past participle (often an -ed form) of the verb? 3 Which auxiliary goes with the ~ing form of the verb? Gu a PRONUNCIATION 8 ERE Listen to the questions from Exercise 7 ~ first said slowly and then faster, Notice that in faster speech, the auxiliary verbs are hardly heard at all. 9 ERED Listen again to the faster version. Practise saying the questions as quickly as you can. 10 Complete the questions with the correct auxiliary verbs. 1 Where you live? Who. you live with? How long have you Where you born? How long itusually take you to get to work / school? What Interesting? | 7 Wy living there? you do last weekend? Anything you studying at this school? you ever been to an English-speaking country? 9 —___anyone else in your family speak English? 10 ___anyone you know ever lived abroad? Where? 11 Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions in Exercise 10. = DEVELOPING CONVERSATIONS As So have you studied here before? 1B Yeah, fostierm, “A: Oh realy? OK And did you enjoy It? B: Yeah, it was amazing. 12 Match the questions (1-6) with the pairs of, possible follow-up questions (a-f). 4. What are you studying? Have you studled here before? What do you do when you're not studying? Do you have any brothers or sisters? What did you do at the weekend? What do you do? 8 Whose class were you in? / Where did you leam your English? What year are you in? / What does that involve? Older or younger? / What do they do? mere do you work? / Do you enjoy it? How often do you do that? / Did you get anything How long have you been doing that? / What kind of music are you into? 13. Write one more follow-up question you might ask after someone answers questions 1-6 in Exercise 12. 14 Listen to six short conversations. What follow-up questions do you hear? CONVERSATION PRACTICE 15 Choose six questions from this lesson that you think are good to ask people when you first meet them. Then think of two other questions you could also ask. 16 Choose one of these tasks. Work with the whole class and have conversations to get to know other students. Imagine you are at a party for language students. Look at File 1 on page 187, Choose a person to pretend to be. Then have conversations to get to know other people. Ask and answer questions in the role ofthe person you chase, Unit 1 First class 9 TALKING MY LANGUAGE VOCABULARY Talking about languages 1 Work in pairs. How many of the languages in the picture do you recognise? TRE 2. Complete tse sentences about usiagiree arty oat languages with these words and phrases. race cin 3 accont express fuenly plexed tup accurate getby mastering __stuggled 1m not very _, but can hole a conversation and make myself understood, 2 | know the basies ~ enough to_when fm traveling there. 3 Ireally __wth French when i was at schoo! $0 | just gave up) 4 | get frustrated when I cent __mysett. © [neweg Nent*o class. |Just _—fromtaking'© 7 Work in pairs. Read the comments that follow the article and discuss these questions. + Whicn comments do you agree with and which do you disagree with? Why? ‘+ What dd you find mast interesting about the article? 6 I'ma bit embarrassed to speak sometimes because know I have a strong 7 grew up bilingual so | speak Spanish and Japanese races + Did you read anything about the habits of hypergiots 8 'mnot interested in __ the language, ljust ye Sate be sits SRR Fae 9 aa ee eats een, 3 Work in groups. Use some of the language from Exercise 2 to discuss these questions. ‘Understanding reading texts and Improving yout vocabulary lerstanding reading 5iiiesincurtien mean Involves more than ust leering single words. You also need ‘to notice the connected words and grammar. + What languages do you know at least a few words in? What can you say? + How did you learn? Do you use these languages ‘now? How well do you know each one? 8 Find these words in the article and notice the connected words and grammar. for evidence ‘growing READING allow terms: Spportunities 4 You are going to read an article about ‘hyperglots’ ~ people who speak many languages. Work in pairs, Look at the photos and the title opposite Work in groups. Cover the article and complete the sentences. Then check your ideas, then discuss how these words and numbers might 2 te be connected to the topic. 2 There__evidence __he could use ne many languages. 72 ee eae, hae ei tw we genes mistakes | eee = . 4 Top____ may __genes_ 5 Read the article and check your ideas from ‘alow. get the thelr training. Exercise 4. ears A a ' 5 Theyotten___timtes_____terms 6 According to the article, are the sentences ———_ inalvidual languages. true (Tor false (F)? 6 They opportunites languege 1 Mezzofant spoke 72 languages fet cose to rome. 2 Some people who heard Mezzofanti speak probably 10 Workin pairs. Discuss the questions. Coulcnt know if he was fluent sa . + Think of two examples where there are growin 3. Theres no proof that Mezzofanti really was ri arg ‘numbers of something. Why are they growing? musing + How is your English in terms of vocabulary

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