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WORLD AROUND Teacher’s Book
Maria Cleary
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World Around Teacher's Book

by Maria Cleary
© HELBLING LANGUAGES 2008
www.helblinglanguages.com
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World Around is an up-to-the-minute culture course for teenagers. World Around is based on intercultural
communication and understanding and follows the guidelines set out in the Common European Framework and
Introduction
the European Language Portfolio.

The course is made up of a Student’s Book with 12 self-contained units, each one representing a country or area
of the English-speaking world, with texts chosen and adapted to Common European Framework (CEF) B2 level.
Plus a special CLIL page which ties in with each unit.
Also:
A Student’s Audio CD with original listening tracks, each one with its own specific activity in the Student’s Book.
Tracks are numbered in the book for easy referencing.
A Teacher’s Book with audio script and photocopiable activities for each unit.
A Teacher’s Audio CD with songs and literature chosen from the Student’s Book. Tracks from the Teacher’s CD
are marked with a T and numbered in the Student’s Book. There is a full Track List at the end of this guide and
on the World Around website.
The World Around website www.worldaround.cc with downloadable MP3s, World of People, a selection of
online diaries where students can read about some of the people featured in the course book, suggestions for
using the book at various levels and answer keys. The website also includes lots of additional games, activities
and downloads as well as a complete and updated links directory to all the sites mentioned in the book.
About World Around
World Around is an intercultural journey through the English-speaking world. As you read in my introductory
letter I believe that understanding culture is a fundamental part of language learning and is essential for
successful communication. This belief is backed up by the work carried out by the Council of Europe in its
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
- From the Common European Framework
5.1.1.2 Sociocultural knowledge
Strictly speaking, knowledge of the society and culture of the community or communities in which a language is spoken is one aspect of
knowledge of the world. It is, however, of sufficient importance to the language learner to merit special attention, especially since unlike
many other aspects of knowledge it is likely to lie outside the learner’s previous experience and may well be distorted by stereotypes.
The features distinctively characteristic of a particular European society and its culture may relate, for example, to:
1. Everyday living
food and drink, meal times, table manners;
public holidays;
working hours and practices;
leisure activities (hobbies, sports, reading habits, media).
2. Living conditions
living standards (with regional, class and ethnic variations);
housing conditions;
welfare arrangements.
3. Interpersonal relations (including relations of power and solidarity) e.g. with respect to:
class structure of society and relations between classes;
relations between sexes (gender, intimacy);
family structures and relations;
relations between generations;
relations in work situations;
relations between the public and the police, officials, etc;
race and community relations;
relations among political and religious groupings.
4. Values, beliefs and attitudes in relation to such factors as
social class;
occupational groups;
wealth;
regional cultures;
security;
institutions;
tradition and social change;
history, especially iconic personages and events;
minorities (ethnic, religious)
national identity;
foreign countries, states, peoples;
politics;
arts (music, visual arts, literature, drama, popular music and song);
religion;
humour.
5. Body language
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6. Social conventions with regard to giving and receiving hospitality, such as:
• punctuality;
Introduction
• presents;
• dress;
• refreshments, drinks, meals;
• behavioural and conversational conventions and taboos;
• length of stay;
• leave-taking.
7. Ritual behaviour
• religious observances and rites;
• birth, marriage, death;
• audience and spectator behaviour at public events and ceremonies;
• celebrations, festivals, dances, discos, etc.
The CEF in World Around

The above criteria, outlined in the CEF, have been divided into 5 main sections, which make up the structure of
World Around.
Identity describes the cultural identity of the country or area and covers topics such as geography, history,
language, beliefs and institutions.
Lifestyles takes a look at the habits and customs of the people and describes sports, hobbies, work, family and
the media.
Issues focuses on contemporary discussion topics, highlighting problems which affect teens both in individual
countries and all over the world.
Arts features a piece of literature, song or visual art that ties in with the subject in question.
CLIL allows readers to practise language through another curricular subject. “CLIL refers to situations where
subjects, or parts of subjects, are taught through a foreign language with dual-focussed aims, namely the
learning of content, and the simultaneous learning of a foreign language.”1
CLIL is becoming an increasingly important part of the language class. The familiar content matter helps to make
the language more accessible. It is an excellent way to revise and consolidate content and it also helps to develop
comparative abilities between L1 and L2. You may like to plan your CLIL classes in tandem with the content
teachers. For more CLIL material see the World Around website.
You can choose to work through World Around by working through the units, covering one country or area
at a time, or by following one of the routes above, discovering and contrasting the different identities, lifestyles
or issues that are relevant in different regions. The Arts route is present on most pages of the book. This is
because arts (literature, song and visual art) are an inherent part of all cultures and offer an important insight
into cultural identity and practices.
There are also hyperlinks (Jump to and Link) on all

pages that point you to another section of the book
(Jump to) or to the World Around website (Link).
By following these links you can develop a particular
topic in more detail, discovering how it is treated in
different countries and areas.
Intercultural awareness
World Around is also intercultural in that it encourages students to continuously reflect on their worlds and
cultures as they learn about new ones. Your World boxes on each page get the students to think about what
they have just learned and how it is relevant to their world. This increased intercultural awareness also helps
develop the students’ meta-cognitive awareness, allowing them to create their own strategies for learning and
understanding. Furthermore, making connections between foreign cultures and their own, helps students
develop a positive, tolerant attitude towards the target language allowing them to break down barriers such as
prejudice and misunderstanding.
1 David Marsh, 1994

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- From the Common European Framework

Introduction
5.1.1.3 Intercultural Awareness

Knowledge, awareness and understanding of the relation (similarities and distinctive differences) between the ‘world of origin’ and the
‘world of the target community’ produce an intercultural awareness. It is of course important to note that intercultural awareness also
includes an awareness of regional and social diversity in both worlds. It is also enriched by awareness of a wider range of cultures than
those carried by the learner’s L1 and L2. This wider awareness helps to place both in context. In addition to objective knowledge,
intercultural awareness covers an awareness of how each community appears from the perspective of the other.
Methodology
In order to develop intercultural and meta-cognitive awareness I suggest the following 3-step approach:
1 Think 2 Do 3 Reflect
1 Think. The first stage gets the students thinking about what they are about to learn. They consider what they
already know about the topic (either within the target culture or their own) and make associations with other topics
or issues. Use the pictures in the book to help activate the students’ thinking processes and encourage them to be
as open and creative as possible during this phase. In this guide, we have included a set of questions for each double
page (Talk Around) that you or the language assistant can use to get the class thinking about the lesson.
2 Do. The second stage is the traditional ‘learning’ part of the lesson where the students read and do the
activities proposed in the book. There is a wide variety of activities from single-student language work to group
and co-operative learning activities. The four language skills – reading, writing, speaking and listening – are
tested throughout. The students should learn to notice new information and learn how to discover it for
themselves.
3 Reflect. The final stage involves personal reflection. The students use the Your World boxes to interpret the
differences between the target culture and their own culture. By comparing what they have discovered to their
own experiences they learn more about themselves and develop greater self-awareness. They are more open to
learning and accepting others. Students also get the chance to make their own magazine, My World, where
they talk about their likes and dislikes, lifestyles and hobbies as well as any issues they may have. Photocopy the
special pages in this guide or download the templates from www.worldaround.cc.
Teacher’s Guide
This Teacher’s Guide contains a page-by-page analysis of the text as well as photocopiable worksheets and
skills/exam preparation pages and audio script.
Each unit is dealt with in detail.
Useful Words contains a list of words you may want to pre-teach or use as part of the lesson.
CLIL Subject Links is a list of teaching subjects you may integrate in the lesson.
Talk Around is a list of questions you can use to warm up the class (Stage 1-Think) or to develop the lesson
(Stage 2-Do) or to get students thinking about how the lesson is relevant to them (Stage 3-Reflect).
Portfolio Project is a project they can do either individually, in pairs or in groups to keep as part of their
language portfolio.
Links is a series of links to other pages in the book which you can use as part of the lesson or for further reading
on the subject.
Skills Station is an integrated skills page which also provides exam practice for Cambridge ESOL PET and
Trinity Levels 4 to 6.
My World
My World is a magazine for your students to complete. There is one page per unit. You can choose to do just
one page or all of the pages with the class. The pages are also available on the World Around website for the
students to download.
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World Around Reading List

You can find these extracts used in World Around in the following books/CDs:
Introduction
Unit 1 Great Britain
The Blackboard, from Strictly Private, an anthology of poetry chosen by Roger McGough, (Viking Children’s
Books)
We are Britain, from We are Britain, by Benjamin Zephaniah, (Frances Lincoln Ltd.)
Wherever I Hang, from Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman by Grace Nichols (Virago)
Unit 2 England
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi, (Faber and Faber Ltd)
Kicking Out by Clifford Oliver, (Carel Press)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, (Random House)
Unit 3 Wales
01/01/00 by Lisa Tiplady
The Ball Between Us by Gwyneth Lewis
Unit 4 Scotland
In My Country, from Other Lovers, by Jackie Kay, (Bloodaxe Books)
For the Islands I Sing by George Mackay Brown, (John Murray)
Unit 5 Ireland
I am of Ireland, from The Winding Stair and Other Poems by WB Yeats, (Kessinger Publishing Co.)
Moving On Song, from Whatever tickles your fancy by Christy Moore, (Polydor)
Sunday, Bloody Sunday, from War by U2, (Island)
Unit 6 United States of America

Resumé, from The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker (Penguin)
Unit 7 Canada
Souvenir of Canada by Douglas Coupland, (Douglas & McIntyre)
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein, (Penguin)
Unit 8 The West Indies

A Far Cry From Africa, from Collected Poems 1948-84 by Derek Walcott, (Faber and Faber)
Redemption Song, from Uprising by Bob Marley, (Tuff Gong)
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux LLC)
Unit 9 Australia
Shame, from Inside Black Australia: Anthology of Aboriginal Poetry edited by Kevin Gilbert, (Penguin Books Ltd.)
Unit 10 New Zealand

Journal of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield, (J Middleton Murray)
Unit 11 Asia
One Night @ The Call Centre by Chetan Bhagat, (Black Swan)
Unit 12 Africa
Child Soldier by China Keitetsi, (Souvenir Press)
Nothing’s Changed, from Mad Old Man Under the Morning Star by Tatamkhula Afrika, (Snailpress)
Biko, from Melt by Peter Gabriel, (Geffen Records)
Aids by Alex Michaels (Aids Poetry Project)
My Mother, the Crazy African by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Posse Review)
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CONTENTS
Introduction 3
Contents 4–5
Quiz 6
Great Britain – Introduction 7 7

1 Identity: The UK, Great Britain or the British Isles?, Language,
Law and Order, Devolution Revolution, Princess Diana 8–11
Lifestyles: School, Food 12–15
Issues: Young People’s Parliament, Multicultural Britain 16–19
CLIL Geography 20
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England – Introduction 21
2 Identity: Multilingual London, Spelling 22–23
A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND 24–25
Lifestyles: Football, Racism, Books, Bookcrossing 26–29
Issues: Voluntary Work, Charities, Chicken Shed Theatre, Rory Hoy 30–33
CLIL History 34
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Wales – Introduction 35
3 Identity: Cool Cymru, Stories, Myths and Traditions 36–37
Lifestyles: Vegetarianism, The Eisteddfod 38–39
Issues: Tanni Grey-Thompson, The Paralympics, Rights into Action 40–41
CLIL Sport 42
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Scotland – Introduction 43
4 Identity: Land and Islands, Clans and Kilts, What makes a Scot?, Paolo Nutini 44–45
Lifestyles: Scotland Online, Kelly goes Home, A Ghost Story, An Island Festival 46–47
Issues: Youth Voice, Children’s Rights, Discipline in School 48–49
CLIL Art 50
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Ireland – Introduction 51
5 Identity: About Ireland, Postcards from Ireland 52–55
Lifestyles: On the Road, Francis Barrett, A World of Irish, The Ryanair Revolution 56–59
Issues: Boom!, Asylum Seekers, Northern Ireland, Bloody Sunday 60–63
CLIL Music 64
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The United States of America – Introduction 65
6 Identity: America or the United States?, Who Really Discovered America?, The United States 66–67
‘Black History’ 68–69
Lifestyles: Hollywood, Film Firsts, Film Genres, Who is that with Jeremy? Native Americans and Racism,
Indians and Money 70–71
Issues: Guns at School, US Schools pay informants, E for Energy, The Kyoto Protocol, Black Gold 72–77
CLIL IT 78
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Canada – Introduction 79
7 Identity: Canada is … not the US!, What is a Canadian?, The Inuit 80–81
Lifestyles: Sport, Ice Hockey, Skateboarding 82–83
Issues: Adbusters, Kalle Lasn, Brandalism, Naomi Klein, Disaster Capitalism 84–85
CLIL Science 86
West Indies – Introduction 87

8 Identity: A Colonial Past, Creole, Pirates of the Caribbean, Modern Pirates 88–89
Lifestyles: Reggae, Bob Marley, Redemption Song 90–91
Issues: Life and Debt, Gun Culture, Anti–Globalisation, Ethical Tourism 92–93
CLIL Tourism 94
Australia – Introduction 95
9 Identity: Australia is the Most…, Australia Day, Ned Kelly 96–97
Lifestyles: Flying Doctors, School of the Air, Living in the Outback 98–99
Issues: The Aborigines, The Stolen Generation, Uluru, The Aboriginal Flag 100–101
CLIL Biology 102
New Zealand – Introduction 103

10 Identity: Aotearoa, Lost in Translation, New Zealanders 104–105
Lifestyles: Extreme Sports, Are you a Sensation-Seeker or a Peace-Lover? 106–107
Issues: Bullying, Kia Kaha, With a Little Help from my Friends, School Goals 108–109
CLIL Maths 110
Asia – Introduction 111

11 Identity: How many Indias?, Religion in India, The British in India, Gandhi 112–113
Lifestyles: Long-Distance Tuition, Bangalore and Outsourcing, One Night at the Call Centre 114–115
Issues: Love…, Arranged Marriages, D is for Dowry 116–117
CLIL Religion 118
Africa – Introduction 119

12 Identity: The Oldest Continent 120–121
Lifestyles: Apartheid, Truth and Reconciliation, Steve Biko 122–123
Issues: Aids, Frida’s Story 124–125
CLIL Literature 126
Quiz 127
World Map 128
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1 GREAT BRITAIN
I chose to start the ‘journey’ in Great Britain as it is Rasta Colours (Jamaica), page 90.
probably the English-speaking region that students are most The Aboriginal flag (Australia), page 101.
familiar with.
Identity – pages 10-11
The music introducing the audio tracks is ‘The Norfolk Useful Words
March’ and is played by a traditional brass band. Although government, politicians, prime minister, president,
brass bands were first developed in Prussia they were parliament, political party, leader, minister, election, vote,
quickly adopted in Britain and have become a part of British ballot, campaign, poster, manifesto, rights, laws,
musical culture. Many bands were first created as works devolution, independence, monarchy, republic, king, queen,
bands and were associated with industries such as coal prince, princess, heir, heiress, throne, crown, private, public,
mining and the linen industry (see worksheet on the World paparazzi, image, charity, press, media, pressure
Around website). When many of these industries closed in
the 1970s and 1980s many of the bands lost their CLIL Subject Links
sponsorship and had to disband. Citizenship/History (parliament, institutions, electoral
systems, government) / History (Princess Diana) / Media
The unit colour is a rich Royal Blue, one of the colours of Studies (the press)
the Union Jack.
Talk Around
Introduction – page 7 Who is the prime minister of Britain? What political party is
Get the students to look at the pictures and brainstorm currently in government in England? Why do we need
their ideas and associations. What do they know about politicians? What is a monarchy? What countries still have
them already? What do they notice about them? You can kings or queens? What is the difference between a republic
use this as an opportunity to introduce wider topics such as and a monarchy? Is there a special section in your
the education system in Britain, monarchy, religion (Henry government for children? Do you think young people are
VIII founded the Anglican Church in Britain) or food and well represented by your government? How can young
eating habits. All of these topics are dealt with in more people give their opinions in your country? Who was
detail in Units 1 and 2. Princess Diana? What do you know about her life? Do you
think newspapers should print stories about the private lives
Identity – pages 8-9 of famous people? Would you like to be famous? What are
Useful Words the pros and cons of being famous?
atlas, border, capital, coast, country, island, landscape,
maps, mountains, region, river, sea, globe, nation, Portfolio Project
nationality, language, roots, translation, flags, symbols, In class brainstorm a list of issues that the class feel are
colours, icons, logos important (You are looking for themes such as global warming
/ recycling / exam stress / bullying / vandalism / crime / more
CLIL Subject Links parks / alcohol / refugees / animal rights etc.) Get the students
Geography (maps, map-reading, flags, physical geography) to form groups with each one choosing one of the issues.
L1 (Italian, French, German etc) They should then find a way of expressing how they feel about
Art and Design (flags, interpreting symbols) the issue (written report, poster, interview, video, blog, etc.).
Talk Around Links

Use the following questions as ways to get group or class Youth Parliament, page 16.
discussion going: Gandhi (India, political leaders), page 113.
What is the difference between the British Isles, the United Apartheid (South Africa, system of government), page 122.
Kingdom and Great Britain? What do you associate with
Great Britain? Is Northern Ireland part of Great Britain? Lifestyles – pages 12-13
What languages can you speak? How many words from Useful Words
different languages do you know? What is the first word school, subjects, rules, timetable, tests, exams, homework,
most babies say? (In most cases a variation of ‘mother’) primary, secondary, uniforms, rules, regulations, citizen,
What was the first word you said? (Ask a parent or citizenship, rights, duties, responsibilities, society, laws
guardian.)
CLIL Subject Links
Portfolio Project Education (school systems) / PSHE (Personal, Social and
Choose a word that is meaningful for the whole class, Health Education) / Citizenship (school subjects, school
(love, peace, hope, etc.) Find out its translation in as many environment) / Law (rules and regulations) / Literature
languages as possible. Get each student to draw the word
in the languages they have discovered. Bring all the words Talk Around
together in a class poster. What do you know about schools in Britain? (uniforms,
subjects, timetable, exams, etc.) What different types of
Links schools are there in your country? What choice of schools
Icons (England), page 22 are there in your town? Name 3 things you like about your
The US flag (USA), page 67. school. What subjects do you study?
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GREAT BRITAIN
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Links Portfolio Project
Discipline in School (Scotland), page 49. Have students work in groups and think about their class.
US High School (USA), page 74. Decide 5 things students should have the right to do in
School of the Air (Australia), page 99. class. Decide 5 things teachers should have a right to do.
Bullying in School (New Zealand), page 108. Share with the class and come up with a list of 5 rights for
students and teachers that everyone is satisfied with.
Portfolio Project
Have students find out more about the education system in Links
Britain. They can take a look at the curriculum of some of Rights into Action (Wales, disability), page 41.
the main subjects on the BBC’s learning website: Youth Voice (Scotland, UNICEF), page 48.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/ Black History (US, civil rights), page 68.
Have them choose the subjects they would like to study The Oldest Continent (Africa, child soldiers and child
and explain why. slavery), page 120.
Frida’s Story (Africa, UNICEF), page 125.
Lifestyles – pages 14-15
Useful Words Issues – pages 18-19
diet, food, body image, weight, thin, fat, fit, healthy, sport, Useful Words
gym, work-out, junk food, steroids, snacks, doctors past, history, invasions, peoples, wars, origins, nationality,
national holiday, roots, ethnic minorities, asylum seekers,
CLIL Subject Links refugees, emigration, citizenship, belonging
PSHE (food, nutrition, body image)
CLIL Subject Links
Talk Around History / Citizenship (ethnic groups in contemporary
What do you typically eat? Who decides what you eat? society) / Literature (mother tongue literature that
Do you think you eat healthily? Do you exercise? How describes belonging)
important is diet/exercise in order to keep healthy? What
foods are typical of your country/other countries? Is your Talk Around
country’s cuisine famous? Would you miss your country’s What is the history of your country? What evidence is there
food if you went abroad? Have you ever been on a diet? now of the peoples who lived in your country in the past?
Why? Did it work? Do you think there is pressure on young What do you know about the history of Britain? Who
people to be thin/look good? invaded Britain? What ethnic minorities live in your
country? Are they fairly represented? Does your country
Portfolio Project have a national holiday? Do immigrants have to take a
Have students work in groups and create posters warning citizenship test to become citizens of your country? Where
young people not to take body-building supplements or do you feel you belong? (Your country/town/family.)
diet pills. Choose an image and create a slogan. Write a
short text explaining the issue. Portfolio Project
Where do you feel at home? Write down words and
Links sensations you associate with the place where you feel
Choco-Facts (England, snacks), page 31. most at ease. Write a letter to yourself as an adult
Vegetarianism (Wales), page 38. describing the place where you feel most at ease. Explain
Adbusters (Canada, media and consumer society), page 84. why and the sensations you feel.
Issues – pages 16-17 Links

Useful Words Multilingual London (England), page 22.
parliament, rights, young people, decisions, environment, History of England (England), page 24.
voices, democracy, UNICEF, equality, NGOs (non
governmental organisations), protection, democracy CLIL Geography – The European Union, page 20
The aim of this page is to give some background to the EU
CLIL Subject Links as well as introducing key words and looking at one aspect
Citizenship - History (electoral systems, government) of the EU which is particularly relevant to students (the
Citizenship (rights, duties) Erasmus programme).
Find out more about the European Union on the World
Talk Around Around website www.worldaround.cc
Have young people got rights? What do you know about
your rights? Are you involved in any organisations or
associations? Do you think young people should be part of
decision-making? What important decisions have you made
or participated in? What do you know about UNICEF?
What does UNICEF do? Who does UNICEF protect? (All
young people.)
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GREAT BRITAIN PHOTOCOPIABLE WORKSHEET

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Name and surname: ….…………………………..................….... Class: ………………….......…
Wherever I Hang by Grace Nichols (Page 19)

1 Read the title. Then finish the sentence.
What do you think the poem will be about?
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2 Why does the poet decide to leave home?

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3 What does she leave behind her?

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4 Why does she feel she is living in a dream?

……………………………………………………………………………...............................................………………………..
5 What habits does she lose?

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6 The poet uses Caribbean English.

Write examples from the poem
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7 What is the effect of this?
8 What are the themes of the poem? Give reasons why.

belonging
climate
language
customs
immigration
9 What does the poet mean by the last sentence? Where is her home?
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10 Think of 3 questions you would ask the poet.

a ……………………………………………………………………………… ...........................................……………………..
b ……………………………………………………………………………… ...........................................……………………..
c ………………………………………………………………………………............................................……………………..
12 World Around © Helbling Languages 2008. Please photocopy this page for use in class.
SKILLS STATION GREAT BRITAIN

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Reading (PET) Listening
Look at the sentences below about body image. Go Listen once more to the young people talking about
back to page 14 and reread ‘You are what you eat’ then their eating habits (Track 5).
mark if the sentences are correct ( ) or incorrect ( ). Now write who does the following:
1 More than half of British girls think they are overweight. 1 Eats a banana on the way to school.
2 One in ten British girls is on a diet. .........................................................................
3 Thin girls are more attractive to boys. 2 Has a huge breakfast with his/her dad.
4 One-tenth of British girls are actually overweight. .........................................................................
5 One in five British boys is too light. 3 Has a coffee and a chocolate bar after lunch as a treat.
6 One in three British boys does weight training. .........................................................................
7 25% of boys have tried steroids or supplements. 4 Eats a lot of fruit.

8 More than half of British teens don’t eat breakfast. .........................................................................
9 Most British students eat junk food at lunch. 5 Doesn’t eat with his/her parents during the week.
10 British teens eat six pieces of fruit every day. .........................................................................
6 Has lunch at 12:40.

Writing .........................................................................
7 Is saving for an iPod.
Read pages 16 and 17 once more. Write situations in
.........................................................................
which the following rights are violated.
8 Usually has a takeaway for dinner.
1 No-one has the right to exploit you. .........................................................................
This right is violated if someone forces you to work.
2 You have the right to go to school. Now answer these questions:
......................................................................... 1 Whose diet do you like best?
3 You have the right to live in freedom and safety. .........................................................................
......................................................................... 2 Whose diet is healthiest?

4 You have the right to play. .........................................................................
......................................................................... 3 Whose diet is least healthy?

5 No-one has the right to hurt you. .........................................................................
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6 You have the right to travel as you wish.

......................................................................... Speaking (PET and TRINITY)
Turn to page 12. Look at the two photographs of British
Doing students. Talk about the photographs (2 to 3 minutes).
What have the students in both photographs got in
Imagine that Mark, a 15-year-old British student, is common? Describe the differences in the photographs.
coming to stay with your family. What do you usually wear to school?
Write to him and tell him a little about your school,
and what you study. Describe the school rules and
uniform if you have one. CLIL - Geography
Tell him about the food in your country.
Ask him about himself. The History of the European Union
What happened on each of these dates? Find out
about the EU on the Internet and complete the EU
Time Line in your notebook.
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1979 1986 1990 1995 2002
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The music introducing the audio tracks is ‘Jesu, Joy of Identity – pages 24-25 and CLIL on page 34
Man’s Desiring’ by Johann Sebastian Bach. Although Bach Useful Words
is not English, the piece is typical of sacred music played in prehistoric, Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings,
English churches. Normans, invasions, battles, armies, soldiers, camps,
conquer, defeat, win, lose, king, crown, plague, Europe,
The unit colour is red, the colour of St George’s cross on religion, Catholic, Protestant, church, Shakespeare, British
the English flag, and of the English football team (see Empire, colonies, industrial revolution, World Wars 1 and 2,
Student’s Book, page 27). modern life
Introduction – page 21 CLIL Subject Links

Get the students to look at the pictures. Can they recognise History / Art / Drama (acting out the cartoons)
any of them without reading the captions? When they have
finished the matching exercise ask them to position the Talk Around
places on the map of England on page 8. What aspects of What do you know about English history? Which peoples
English life do the photos represent? (Expect or elicit invaded England in the past? (Beaker people, Celts,
answers such as geography, history, landscape, tourism, Romans, Saxons, Angles, Jutes, Vikings, Normans). What
boundaries, learning, arts, culture, cities, music, modern famous historical figures lived in England? What aspects of
life, millennium celebrations, etc.) history (if any) does their country share with England’s
history? (Possible answers: invasions, plague, monarchy,
Identity – pages 22-23 colonies, social change, World Wars 1 and 2, emigration,
Useful Words immigration).
population, capitals, main cities, stereotypes (cartoon),
icons, images, associations, symbols, languages, ethnic Portfolio Project
groups, multicultural, background, family, roots, belonging, Brainstorm with the class about their own country’s history.
spelling, pronunciation, mobile phones, text messaging, text Together divide it into periods in a similar way to the way
talk, phone card, top up your phone English history has been segmented for the purposes of the
comic strip. Divide the class into groups (one for each
CLIL Subject Links period). In groups they decide on one or more cartoon
Geography (demographics, population) / Language (if the strips to illustrate the important events and people of a
students are learning a second foreign language tie in the period. Get them to write the text for the cartoon, any
activities on page 22) / Art/Design (icons) dialogue and a detailed description of what each sketch
should include. (This is called a storyboard.) If possible work
Talk Around with the art teacher to develop the cartoons.
Use the following questions as ways to get group or class
discussion going: Links
What do you know about England? What things do you Link to the Identity pages in any of the units to compare
associate with England? What things do you associate with and contrast history.
your own country? What symbols would you choose to
represent them? What ethnic groups make up the English Lifestyles – pages 26-27
population? What ethnic groups live in your country? What Useful Words
difficulties may people from other cultures have when they sport, sports people, football, ball, rules, game, players,
move to another country? What English words are used in team, amateur, professional, coach, grounds, training, strip,
their language? What words do they have difficulty in racism, chants, fans, fanatics, red card, women, women’s
spelling? Have you got a mobile phone? Do you use it rights, earnings, young players, talent, deal, sponsor,
mainly to phone or to text? How many text messages do sponsorship, contract, sign, dream
you send every day? How often do you top up your phone?
Do you use abbreviations when you are writing text CLIL Subject Links
messages? Are your text messages to your friends written P.E. (sports) / Citizenship (racism) / Literature (sport and
in a different way to those to your parents? racism in literature) / L1 (newspaper texts)
Portfolio Project Talk Around

Get the students to read the extract from The Buddha of What do you know about football? Where was it invented?
Suburbia. Ask them to write a piece about themselves and What are the rules? What is your favourite team? What is the
their own family history using the extract as a model. national sport in your country? What sports do you do/like? Do
Encourage them to think about what their background you think racism is a problem in football in your country? Why
means to them and what sort of a person it makes them in does racism occur? Do footballers earn too much money?
the eyes of others. How much do you think footballers should earn? Would you
like to be famous? What is your dream? Do you think young
Links people should be allowed to become professional players?
Multicultural Britain, (Great Britain) page 18.
A Short History of England, page 24. Links
The Aboriginal flag (Australia), page 101. Francis Barrett (Ireland, teenage boxing champion), page 57.
Asia, page 111. Ice hockey and skateboarding (Canada), pages 82 and 83.
Extreme Sports (New Zealand), page 106.
Apartheid (South Africa), page 122.
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Portfolio Project Portfolio Project
What sports are done in your area? Get the students to Find out more about a Fairtrade product. Visit a shop or
write a short description of the most popular sports in your look on the internet in order to get your information. Write
area. Where can you do them? Are there any famous local a report on the product in English, including labels and
sports people? When they have gathered all the prices if available. Bring the pieces together in a class
information, get them to create short leaflets about Sports Fairtrade poster: Fairtrade in the World Around.
in Our Town. The following websites all supply information on Fairtrade
products:
Lifestyles – pages 28- 30 www.fairtrade.org.uk / www.fairtrade.net
Useful Words www.maketradefair.com / www.oxfam.org.uk
books, reading, authors, detective stories, graphic novels,
comics, romance, fiction, science-fiction, biography, Links
autobiography, humour, review, language, style, characters, You Are What You Eat (Great Britain, food and diet), page 14.
description, plot, libraries, borrow, lend, trace Life and Debt (The West Indies, trade systems), page 92.
CLIL Subject Links Issues – pages 32-33

Mother tongue language and literature Useful Words
theatre, acting, dancing, singing, music, drama, actor,
Talk Around actress, singer, director, stage, show, disability, blind, deaf,
Do you like reading? What is the last book that you read? cerebral palsy, mental and physical impairments, differently
What is your favourite book? How many books do you abled, autism, video, film, video-camera, media, YouTube,
read a week/month/year? Do you read magazines? Do you prejudice, difficulties
read on the internet? How do you choose a book?
(Friend’s advice, read about it on the internet, because it is CLIL Subject Links
famous, etc.) Do you think bookshops are cool places? Drama / Citizenship (rights, equality) / Art (sculpture)
Have you ever heard of BookCrossing? What does the PSHE (disability, accessibility) / Media studies (filmmaking)
name BookCrossing make you think of? Do you think it is
a good idea? Talk Around
What does the word inclusive mean? What does the word
Portfolio Project exclusive mean? Have you ever felt excluded? When? Why?
Write a review of a book you have recently read (this can be a What does being disabled mean? What is a stereotype? In
school book if you have not read any books for pleasure). what ways may disabled people be stereotyped? What do
Don’t forget to include the following information: you know about autism? Have you made a short film? What
Title and Author do you need to make a film? What issue would you choose
Plot to make a film about? Have you ever watched a video on
Your opinion, explaining why you liked or disliked it. YouTube? What are the pros and cons of YouTube? What
Rating (from 1 to 5) type of communication do you think young people prefer?
(books/TV/cinema/music/Internet/magazines, etc.)
Links
Chicken Shed (England, inclusive theatre), page 32. Portfolio Project
Living in the Outback (Australia, teen web page), page 99. Chicken Shed is an inclusive theatre company. When you
feel included you feel you belong. What does ‘belonging’
Issues – pages 30-31 mean? Write a poem or short text on what belonging
Useful Words means to you.
voluntary work, volunteer, charity, NGOs
(non–governmental organisations), CV, application, job, Links
interview, skills, experience, duties, famine, trade, Fairtrade, Arts (England), page 29.
producer, supplier, profits, campaigns, price, guarantee, Tanni Grey-Thompson (Wales, paralympic athlete), page 40.
protect, social responsibility Redemption Song (The West Indies), page 91.
CLIL Subject Links CLIL History – A short history of England (cont.),

Economics (Fairtrade and trade systems) / Citizenship page 34
(rights, duties) See the Identity section for pages 24-25.
Do the CLIL history worksheet on the World Around
Talk Around website.
Do you have a part-time job? Have you ever worked? Have
you done voluntary work? What types of voluntary work
are available? What type of job would you be good at?
What is Fairtrade? What is the difference between Fairtrade
products and standard products? What are the advantages
and disadvantages of Fairtrade? Do you think about who
makes the products you buy? Name some celebrities who
do charity work.
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Kick It Out! (Page 26)

Write questions to match Hope Powell’s answers.
1 Q: ...………………………………………………………………………………………..……………..................……………
A: “Yes, I’ve suffered a lot of racism throughout my career.”
2 Q: ...………………………………………………………………………………………..……………..................……………
A: “I feel hurt and angry when I hear racist chants.”
3 Q: ...………………………………………………………………………………………..……………..................……………
A: “I try to react by playing as well as I can.”
4 Q: ...………………………………………………………………………………………..……………..................……………
A: “Probably at my very first match in primary school. I remember the coach getting really angry because people were
making comments about the colour of my skin.”
5 Q: ...………………………………………………………………………………………..……………..................……………
A: “People like Arthur Wharton, the world’s first black fully professional footballer. He is a real role model.”
6 Q: ...………………………………………………………………………………………..……………..................……………
A: “I wanted to be part of the Kick It Out! campaign because I want to help stamp out racism for good.”
History of England (Pages 24-25 and 34)

Look at the comic strips on pages 24, 25 and 34. Read the sentences below. Make them into one sentence by
putting one of the verbs in the past perfect tense. You will need to add an adverb such as before or after.
e.g. The Beaker people invaded England. The Celts arrived in England around 600 BC.
The Beaker people had invaded England before the Celts arrived in 600 BC.
1 The Saxons came to England. The Jutes arrived in England.
...………………………………………………………………………………………..……………..................……………
...………………………………………………………………………………………..……………..................……………
2 Saint Augustine converted England to Christianity. The Vikings invaded England.
...………………………………………………………………………………………..……………..................……………
...………………………………………………………………………………………..……………..................……………
3 The Black Death killed one-third of the population of Europe. The Black Death came to England.
...………………………………………………………………………………………..……………..................……………
...………………………………………………………………………………………..……………..................……………
4 James I executed Guy Fawkes. Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
...………………………………………………………………………………………..……………..................……………
...………………………………………………………………………………………..……………..................……………
5 Queen Victoria came to power. The Industrial Revolution started.
...………………………………………………………………………………………..……………..................……………
...………………………………………………………………………………………..……………..................……………
GREAT BRITAIN SKILLS STATION

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Reading (PET) Writing
Choose the correct word to fill each space. Read the piece on Chicken Shed on page 32. Write a
letter to Chicken Shed. You want to take part in one
of the drama courses. Ask for information and details
The Textile Revolution on how to apply. Give information on yourself and
why you think you should be chosen. Give a contact
The Cotton Industry (1) …...…………… in the 1750s. It
address.
became an important industry for Britain, giving work to
350,000 people (2) …...…………… 1812. By the 1830s
more than half of British (3) …...…………… were cotton 5
Listening (PET)
textiles. Listen once more to the extract from ‘Kicking Out’
(Teacher’s CD). Answer true (T) or false (F) below.
T F
New inventions such as the Flying Shuttle in 1738, the
□ □ 1 There are no Asian players on the England team.
Spinning Jenny in 1764 and the Power-Loom in 1802 all □ □ 2 Asian parents do not want their sons to play
increased (4) …...……………. . This meant that cloth could football.
be (5) …...…………… quicker and cheaper than before. □ □ 3 Manchester United has offered Showab a
contract.
□ □ 4 Showab’s father runs a shop.
Thousands of people moved to the towns to find work in
□ □ 5 Showab wants to go to college like his brother.
the (6) …...……………. and mills. One of these towns was □ □ 6 Showab thinks that Asian players are
Bradford, in Lancashire. Bradford was not ready. The roads, discriminated against.
sewers and housing were not (7) …...……………. . The □ □ 7 Laws don’t stop people from committing crimes.
population rose from 26,000 in 1801 to 106,000 in 1861. □ □ 8 The football scouts didn’t pick Showab because
of his name.
There was (8) …...……………. , pollution and ill-health.
Thousands of people died from tuberculosis. The average life
(9) …...……………. was 20. Poverty spread and children
were forced to work in terrible (10) …...……………. . Speaking (PET and Trinity)
Look at the photographs of England on page 21. What
aspects of English life or history do they represent?
1 a developed b has developed c had developed
Which two would you choose to represent England?
2 a for b by c from Why?
3 a imports b emigrants c exports
4 a efficient b efficiency c efficiently
CLIL - History
5 a product b produced c productive
Listen to Eric. Then circle your answers below.
6 a factories b farms c slums
7 a adapt b adept c adequate Working Hours: long normal short
8 a overcrowding b overworking c oversleeping Working Conditions: terrible not bad excellent
Break Times: non-existent short long
9 a expected b expect c expectancy Punishments: harsh OK none
10 a condition b conditions c conditionals Health and Safety: non-existent good excellent
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Do a survey of your class’s favourite sports.
Stick the results here. Stick a photo
1 .................................................................................................
of your favourite
sports person here.
2 .................................................................................................
3 .................................................................................................
4 .................................................................................................
5 .................................................................................................
Number One
I really admire .....................................................................
because .....................................................................................
Sport and me ........................................................................................................
........................................................................................................
I like ........................................................................................ ........................................................................................................
because .................................................................................. ........................................................................................................
I dislike ..................................................................................
because ..................................................................................
I’d like to try ........................................................................
because ..................................................................................
Now write a newspaper report

on a sports match, event,
or your favourite sports person.
Read the article on Theo Walcott on page 27 for ideas.
Stick your article here.
3 WALES
The music introducing the audio tracks is ‘The Bells of Talk Around
Aberdovey’ played on a traditional Welsh harp, one of the Are there any vegetarians in class? Why did you choose to
Eisteddfod competition instruments (page 39). become vegetarian? Why do people become vegetarian?
What is a vegan? What is the difference between a
The unit colour is a soft green, reminiscent of the rolling vegetarian and a vegan? Do you know any famous
Welsh hills and valleys. vegetarians or vegans? What festivals are important in your
country? What is their origin? What way do people
Introduction – page 35 celebrate New Year?
Get the students to look at the pictures and comment on
them. Ask them to come up with a noun or adjective to Portfolio Project
describe each one. Now get them to match them with the Brainstorm festivals. Divide the class into groups of 3 or 4.
facts and find the false ones. In groups get them to make Each group prepares a short presentation of a festival. They
up a similar exercise. (Decide on a place or thing and get must write a description, find photographs or draw pictures.
the students in their groups to write down facts about it. Find out about the origins of the festival and the types of
Make sure at least one of the facts are wrong. Now the events that take place.
groups challenge each other to spot the false facts.)
Links
Identity – pages 36-37 You Are What You Eat (Great Britain, food), page 14.
Useful Words An Island Festival (Scotland), page 47.
landscape, maps, borders, language, identity, history, king, Religion in India (Asia, Diwali: Hindu New Year), page 112.
prince, throne, heir, bilingual, music, cool, bands, stories, Gandhi (Asia), page 113.
myths, fairy tales, fables, once upon a time, they all lived
happily ever after, moral, love, gift, roses, traditions, Issues – pages 40 -41
Valentine’s day Useful Words
disability, movement, difficulty, wheelchair, crutches, blind,
CLIL Subject Links deaf, guide dog, ramps, sport, motivation, dedication,
Geography (demographics, population, landmarks, maps) determination, therapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy,
Music (Super Furry Animals, Catatonia and Stereophonics) poetry, celebration, Poet Laureate, schools, architecture,
Literature (traditional stories and fairy tales) planning, accessibility
Talk Around CLIL Subject Links

Use the following questions as ways to get group or class Citizenship (rights, equality) / PSHE (disability, accessibility) /
discussion going: Where is Wales? What is the capital of L1 (poetry, literature and sport)
Wales? Who is the Prince of Wales? What do you know
about Wales? (Get them to flick through the unit and look Talk Around
at the photos for ideas.) What language do people speak in What qualities does it take to become a champion sports
Wales? What are your favourite stories or fairy tales? Tell a person? Think of some sports and decide what special
partner a fairytale. What is the moral of the fairytale you qualities you need to excel at each specific sport. How many
just told/heard? What presents do lovers give each other in famous people do you know who are/were disabled? (The
your country? late actor Christopher Reeve, scientist Steven Hawking,
model Aimee Mullin.) How accessible is society to people
Portfolio Project with disabilities? Do they have equal access to all areas of
Ask the students to find the music and lyrics to one of society? Is there a neutral way to talk about disabled people
Super Furry Animals’ songs (use another group if they in your language? Can you think of any examples of sport
prefer). Write out the lyrics on a large piece of card and described or celebrated in literature? (See
annotate them as much as possible, writing in meanings, www.worldaround.cc for a list of books and authors.)
allusions and all cultural or other references.
Portfolio Project
Links Have students think of their home. What changes would
Icons (England), page 22. they have to make in order to make it accessible for
A Ghost Story (Scotland), page 47. someone with a wheelchair or for a blind person? Then
Reggae (Jamaica), page 90. have them draw a plan of the changes they make.
Lifestyles – pages 38-39 Links

Useful Words Arts (England), page 29.
food, diet, vegetables, vegetarian, ethics, ethical choice, Chicken Shed (England, inclusive theatre), page 32.
animals, meat is murder, abattoir, animal rights, PETA (anti- The Beautiful Game (England, football), page 26.
fur lobby), environment, sustainable development, health, Ice hockey and skateboarding (Canada), pages 82 and 83.
New Year’s Eve, fireworks, party, toast, Hogmanay, festivals, Extreme Sports (New Zealand), page 106.
competitions, bards, poetry, traditional instruments
CLIL – Sport page 42
CLIL Subject Links This CLIL page focuses on the Welsh national game of
PSHE (food and diet) / Music (Eisteddfod) rugby.
In groups get the students to prepare similar pages on other
sports.
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Rights into Action (Page 41)

Read the text and choose the correct word to fill each space.
Young disabled (1) ................ from across Wales have helped (2) ................ a conference called Rights into Action.
18-year-old Jessica Sutton is a delegate (3) ................ the conference.
“I’m at an age where I want to go to the pub but, because I use a wheelchair, I find (4) ................ difficult because steps
are always in the way,” said Ms Sutton whose disability is cerebral palsy.
“Although things have improved, there are (5) ................ many changes needed to improve the lives of young disabled
people. For example, some people can’t get (6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . college courses to be beauticians or mechanics because of safety
considerations,” she added.
15-year-old Laura Price, (7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . is totally blind, is another delegate. “The changes I want to see are an (8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
in people’s attitudes towards the disabled, as well as better (9) ................ for us.
“People see the disability and not the person. They tend to speak to the people with the disabled person rather
(10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the disabled person themselves which is annoying,” she added.
“My school is brilliant because they put in a raised floor at the top and bottom of the stairs, so I know the stairs are in front
of me and I (11) ................ fall over,” she said. “The school also has hand rails on all stairs but some schools don’t have
these facilities - this (12) ................ to be changed,” she added.
1 a person b persons c people d peoples

2 a organising b organise c organisation d organised
3 a at b in c to d on
4 a- b it c some d very
5 a still b yet c since d just
6 a to b in c under d on
7 a which b whom c who d that
8 a improve b improvement c improving d improvisation
9 a fickleness b faculties c felicities d facilities
10 a of b that c who d than
11 a didn’t b doesn’t c don’t d wouldn’t
12 a must b needs c should d could
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WALES SKILLS STATION
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2
Reread the poem by Lisa Tiplady on page 39. Answer Listen to the conversation about the Eisteddfod’s
the questions below. Welsh-only language rule (Track 15). Which of the
following best summarises the conclusion the boys
1 What does the title tell you about the poem? reach?
......................................................................... 1 The Eisteddfod should not be so strict about
2 What is significant about this date? the Welsh-only rule.
......................................................................... 2 The main purpose of the Eisteddfod is to promote
3 What did the poet do on New Year’s Eve? the Welsh language and sometimes strict rules are
......................................................................... needed to ensure this takes place.
4 Did she enjoy herself? Why/Why not? 3 It is acceptable to have shows in other languages if
......................................................................... there is an interpreter present.
5 What resolutions did she make?
.........................................................................
6 What did she do the following morning? Speaking (TRINITY)

......................................................................... Read pages 40 and 41 once more. Imagine a disabled
person is coming to visit your area. Ask them about
7 Why do you think she repeats the word ‘promising’? their interests and indicate the places they will be able
......................................................................... to visit without difficulty. Give them advice on
8 What does the last line tell us about the poet? accessibility in your area.
(Your conversation should take approximately 4
......................................................................... minutes.)
Writing (PET) Doing

Reread the news article ‘Vegan landlord bans Write a letter to the Eisteddfod committee asking for
meat-eaters’ on page 38. Complete the second sentence information on the festival, dates, recommendations
in each pair so it means the same as the first one. You of events and a list of places to stay. Do not forget to
will need one word for each sentence. include your own contact information.
1 Mr Sosner owns four properties which are rented to

vegans and vegetarians. CLIL – Sport
Mr Sosner ................................. four properties to Write down the names of 5 team sports and 5
vegans and vegetarians. individual sports.
Which type do you think is best?
2 Mr Sosner had been a vegetarian when he decided to With a partner discuss the pros and cons of team
turn vegan. sports and individual sports.
Mr Sosner was a vegetarian ................................. he Then in class debate the following:
“Team sports prepare young people better
became a vegan.
for the world of work.”
3 Vegetarians are less likely to smoke.
Vegetarians smoke less .................................
meat-eaters.
4 “I was unhappy in my previous flat.”
“I was unhappy ................................. I lived before.”
My World 3
This week’s number one single and album. Write the names and colour the stars
according to how much you like them (just one if you’re not convinced, all three if
you think it’s great.)
1 ……………. by ……………. ✩✩✩ I think it’s ……………...........

……………. by ……………. ✩✩✩ I think it’s …………..............
My favourite group
( “
)
I like these lyrics because Stick a picture of your
………………………….................................................... favourite group here.
…………………………....................................................
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roup.
iption of your favourite g
Write a descr
Local Boy In The Photograph

There's no mistake, I smell that smell Something blocks the line again
It's that time of year again, I can taste the air And the train runs late for the first time
The clocks go back, railway track Today
Something blocks the line again
And the train runs late for the first time And all the friends lay down the flowers
Sit on the banks and drink for hours
A pebble beach, we're underneath, a pier Talk of the way they saw him last
that's just been painted red Local boy in the photograph
Where I heard the news for the first time Today
And all the friends lay down the flowers He's gone away
Sit on the banks and drink for hours
Talk of the way they saw him last The Sterephonics
Local boy in the photograph The Stereophonics are another
Today
He'll always be 23, yet the train runs on and on great Welsh band.
Past the place they found his clothing Read these lyrics. Write notes and
There's no mistake, I smell that smell comments.
It's that time of year again, I can taste the air What expressions do you like?
The clocks go back, railway track
What is the song about?
4 SCOTLAND
The music introducing the audio tracks is ‘Bonnie Highland to live in a city or in the country? Why? What jobs can be
Hearts’ played on traditional Scottish bagpipes, which you done via the internet? What would you like to do when
can see on page 43. you grow up? Do you believe in ghosts? What are your first
memories? What do you know about science in the past?
The unit colour is a purply-blue, the same colour as the
heather in the Scottish highlands. Portfolio Project
Have students ask their parents or grandparents about life
Introduction – page 43 in the past. What do they remember about their childhood?
Get the students to look at the pictures and comment on Their first days at school? Festivals or celebrations such as
them. Do they recognise them (Edinburgh castle, Nessie – the Christmas or birthdays? Have students write a short
Loch Ness monster, bagpipes and traditional Scottish dress descriptive account based on what they are told. Use used
and the Highland Games)? Divide them into groups and get to and would to describe past habit.
each group to research one of the topics illustrated. Or get
them to find out about one of the other topics. Links
CLIL IT (USA), page 78.
Identity – pages 44-45 Festival Fun (Wales), page 39.
Useful Words
landscape, islands, highlands, hills, valleys, glens, crofts (the Issues – pages 48-49
white cottage in the third photograph is a croft: a Useful Words
traditional Scottish country farmhouse. Crofters were young people’s rights, issues, raising awareness, advice,
farmers who looked after the land for an absentee helping, young offenders, juvenile crime, juvenile
landlord), kilts, clans, identity, music, racism, ethnic groups delinquents, reprimand, caution, warning, trial, criminal
record, jail, prison sentence, Young Offenders’ Institution,
CLIL Subject Links juvenile jail, boot camps, rehabilitation, community service,
Geography (demographics, population, landmarks) / Art school discipline, punishment
and design (kilts) / Music (Nutini) / Citizenship / PSHE
(racism, identity) CLIL Subject Links
Citizenship (rights, NGOs) / PSHE (discipline, responsibility,
Talk Around punishment)
Use the following questions as ways to get group or class
discussion going: Talk Around
Where is Scotland? What is the capital of Scotland? What is What do you know about UNICEF? What do you know about
the landscape like? What do you know about Scottish children’s rights? What issues would you like to improve for
history? What is a kilt? Who or what are clans? What young people? How would you get young people interested
characteristics do you associate with Scotland and the in their rights (concerts, meetings, talks, posters, etc.)? In
Scottish? Have you ever heard of Paolo Nutini? Do you like what way are juvenile criminals punished in your country?
his music? Have you got a strong sense of belonging to How do you think young people who commit crime should
your country? Where do you feel you belong? (Your be punished? What can be done to prevent it? What way are
family/your town/your class/ your country.) Write a list of all students disciplined in your school? Do you agree with how
the groups you belong to. your school deals with discipline?
Portfolio Project Portfolio Project

Many Scottish surnames start with ‘Mac’. Make a list of the Have students pick one of the following issues that affect
surnames in the class. Can your students trace the names children and find out more about it. How is it relevant in
back to their origins? Write explanations of the names. their country? What can they do to raise awareness and
help solve the problem?
Links Discrimination against girls in education
Multicultural Britain (Great Britain), page 18. Homelessness
Kick it Out (England), page 26. Violence against children
Children working long hours
Lifestyles – pages 46-47 Neglected children
Useful Words The right to play.
work, e-commerce, e-work, internet, online, download, email,
commuting, cities, countryside, salaries, benefits, moving house, Links
location, past, memories, collective memory, how to remember, Rights of the child (Great Britain), page 17
stories, ghosts, scary, horror, nightmare, superstitions, science Bullying (New Zealand, young offenders, discipline in
school), page 108.
CLIL Subject Links Frida’s Story (Africa, UNICEF), page 125.
IT (internet, e-commerce) / Literature (ghost stories) /
Science (Orkney Science Festival) CLIL – Art, page 50
Get the students to write definitions for the Key Words.
Talk Around Ask them to test a partner, matching words and definitions.
Have you ever moved house? Would you like to move? Ask each student to bring in a picture of their favourite
Why/why not? What are the advantages and disadvantages piece of art and present it to the rest of the class.
of moving? Where would you like to live? Would you like Encourage them to describe the style of the painting.
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Relatively speaking (Page 46)

Complete the following sentences about Unit 4 using who, which, whose or where. If who or which are not
necessary don’t write them.
1 Sean Connery is an actor ……………….. is from Scotland.

2 He is an actor ……………….. everyone knows.
3 Paolo Nutini’s great-grandfather opened a fish and chip shop ……………….. his parents still run.
4 Kelly says Orkney is ……………….. she feels best.
5 Freya McDonald, ……………….. case made legal history, has gone back to school.
6 Many Orkney men went to work in Canada ……………….. they met and married native women.
7 Electronic tagging is a method …………….. is used for keeping track of adults ……………….. commit crimes.
8 Clan is a Scottish Gaelic name ……………….. means family.
When I was your age... (Page 47)

Read Arts on page 47 once more. Imagine you are old. Tell your grandchildren what you used to do when you
were a child. Tell them about your school, your friends and what you would do every day.
When I was your age I would ......................................................................................................................

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Paolo Rocks! (Page 45)

Read ‘Paolo Rocks’ on page 45 once more. Paolo talks about his family.
Draw out your family tree. Ask your parents or guardians to help you. What do you know about your
ancestors? Where did they come from? What jobs did they do? Once you have completed your family tree ask
and answer questions with a partner.
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Read the poem ‘In My Country’ (page 45) once more. Listen once more to the Orkney ghost story,
Answer the following questions. ‘The Golden Chain’ (Teacher’s CD). Imagine that you are
going to adapt this story into a film. In pairs decide:
1 What happens in the poem? Choose.
Title
a The poet goes for a walk. She meets a woman.
.........................................................................
The two people know each other.
Characters
b The poet goes for a walk with a friend. They have an
.........................................................................
argument about where they both come from.
Setting
c The poet goes for a walk. She meets a woman.
.........................................................................
The woman speaks to her. The poet answers.
Costumes
d The poet goes for a walk. She meets a woman.
.........................................................................
The woman speaks to her. The poet doesn’t answer.
Music
.........................................................................
2 Read the description of Jackie Kay. Why does the
woman think the poet is not from that area? Write a short advertising slogan to promote your film.
.........................................................................
3 Kay uses vowel rhymes to keep the stanzas together.

Find vowel rhymes for the following words in the poem.
(There may be more than one word some sounds.)
Speaking (PET AND TRINITY)
a walking (AW sound) waters Look at the photographs of Scotland on page 43.
Make a short presentation of Scotland (approximately
b down (OW sound)
3 minutes) based on the photographs.
………………………………
c slow (OH sound)
……………………………… Doing
d circle (ER sound) Write an email to a friend inviting him or her to an
……………………………… art exhibition. Tell them more about it and arrange a
place and time to meet.
e bars (AR sound)
………………………………
CLIL – Art
4 What is the first word that begins with a capital letter? Materials Timeline
What is the significance of this? Find out more about the following art materials. How
many of them have you used? In pairs decide which
ones were used first by man.
5 How does the poet describe the moment when the
woman speaks to her? • Acrylics • Clay
• Egg-based paints (Tempera) • Felt-tip Pens
6 What is the theme of the poem? • Ink • Oil paints
• Papyrus • Pastels
• Pencils • Rubbers
Writing (PET)
Read the article ‘Kelly goes home’ on page 46.
Write a letter from Kelly Jeffries to her friend Rhonda
in Glasgow. In the letter she tells Rhonda about how
her life has changed, she describes what she does
every day and says what she misses about Glasgow.
My World 4
World of Fashion
“ Mirror mirror on the wall
I admire ……………...........’s style because
”
……………………………………...............................................
Cool Words
Draw AWESOME CHIC FUNKY
or stick HAPPENING HIP SUSSED TRENDY
a picture here Write words in your language that mean ‘cool’.
of someone What is your favourite word in English?
What is your favourite word in your language?
you think
is cool.
My favourite things
What are your three favourite things? Draw them. Explain why you love them.
1 3
OK or KO?
Which of these would you wear? Which would you not wear?
Tick (✓) or cross (✗) the boxes.
Kilt Tie
Nose ring Leather
Formal suit Dirty jeans
Hat T-shirt with a rude slogan
5 IRELAND
The music introducing the audio tracks is ‘Irish Medley’, a Why/why not? What would you miss about your home
selection of traditional Irish music arranged by Jerry country? What places in your area would you recommend to
Burnham. You can see a typical Irish music session in a pub a foreign tourist? What can you do in your area?
on page 51 and learn more about Irish music in the CLIL
section on page 64. Portfolio Project
Get the students to collect as many images of Ireland and
The unit colour is emerald green, the Irish national colour. Irish life as they can. Each student chooses one image and
annotates it with a short description or explanation. Paste
Introduction – page 51 the pictures and captions into an Ireland scrapbook or use
Brainstorm what the students know about Ireland. What do them to make a poster for the class.
they associate with Ireland and the Irish? Make a word tree
with all their ideas forming branches, etc. Use shades of Links
green and orange to make it look as ‘Irish’ as possible. Arts (Jamaica, tourism), page 93.
CLIL - Tourism (Jamaica), page 94.
Identity – pages 52-53 The Oldest Continent (Africa, images that sum up an area),
Useful Words page 120.
state, nation, country, province, region, capital, county,
division, border, history, period, events, invasion, rebellion, Lifestyles – pages 56-57
rising, battle, famine, religion, independence, constitution, Useful Words
freedom, rights, equality homes, houses, lifestyles, routines, gypsies, travellers,
nomads, romanies, camp, tent, caravan, cart, beggars, move,
CLIL Subject Links travel, no fixed abode, discrimination, choices
Geography (political divisions, borders) / Law/Citizenship
(constitution) / Art /Design (history symbols) CLIL Subject Links
Music / Geography (nomads)
Talk About
Where is Ireland? What is the capital of Ireland? Is Northern Talk Around
Ireland part of Ireland? What do you know about Ireland/Irish Who are gypsies? What is special about the gypsy way of
history? What is a country’s constitution? Why is the life? What nomads do you know? What are the advantages
constitution important? What do you know about your of living a ‘settled’ life? What are the advantages of leading
country’s constitution? Where does the name of your country a nomadic life? What would you miss about your life if you
come from? Think of other countries, what do their names were to become a nomad? What qualities would you need
make you think of? What do you know about your country’s to be a nomad? Why are nomads discriminated against?
history? Who is discriminated against in your society?
Portfolio Project Links

Carefully read sections of your country’s constitution with the Arts (US, Native American lifestyles), page 72.
students. In groups get the students to choose certain What does…Inuit? (Canada, the Inuit), page 81.
sections. Get them to rewrite (not translate) them in English, Aotearoa (New Zealand, Maori concept of property), page
explaining why they are important and giving practical 104.
examples of how they affect daily life. (You may wish to do School of the Air (Australia), page 99.
this along with a PSHE, Mother tongue or Law teacher.) Bullying in School (New Zealand), page 108.
Links Portfolio Project

Citizenship (Great Britain), page 13. Imagine you are the girl in the left-hand photograph on page
England (England, origin of the name), page 22. 56. Write a short essay explaining who you are; talk about
Icons (England), page 22 your lifestyle, schools, family and friends.
Did you know? (Canada, government of Nunavet), page 81.
The Aboriginal flag (Australia), page 101. Lifestyles – pages 58-59
Useful Words
Identity – pages 54-55 emigration, immigration, emigrant, immigrant, passport,
Useful Words illegal immigrant, refugee, political asylum, melting pot, US,
tourism, landmarks, sites, places, countryside, towns, cities, poverty, travel, planes, no-frills airlines, budget travel,
nature, culture, traditions, study, holiday, trip exploitation, badly paid workers, workers’ rights, baggage,
check-in, baggage reclaim
CLIL Subject Links
Geography (Irish landscape) CLIL Subject Links
History (Irish history, home country history) / CLIL - Tourism
Talk Around (Jamaica), page 94
What is Ireland like? What is the countryside like? What
things can you do there? Would you like to visit Ireland?
Why/why not? Would you like to study English abroad?
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Talk Around Issues – pages 62-63
Why do people choose to emigrate/leave their countries? In Useful Words
the past what countries suffered from emigration? In the the ‘Troubles’ (the name of the conflict in Northern Ireland),
past what countries were ‘built’ by immigrants? Did people conflict, fighting, war, peace, problems, sectarianism, hate,
emigrate from your country? Why? Where did they go? resentment, fear, violence, abuse, protest, disagreement,
What is the trend nowadays? What countries are people argument, difference of opinions, compromise, negotiation,
emigrating from? Where are they immigrating to? resolution, peace, understanding, acceptance, tolerance,
Have you ever travelled by plane? What airline did you fly reflection, politics, politicians, music, songs with political
with? What was the flight like? Why do you think some messages, key events
flights are so cheap? What would you pack to go on a
camping holiday/sun holiday/weekend in Paris/week in New CLIL Subject Links
York, etc.? Law/Politics (conflict) / History (conflicts and wars
throughout the world) / Music (Sunday Bloody Sunday) /
Portfolio Project Citizenship (Amnesty International, civil rights, politics)
On a map of the world get the students to trace emigration
routes of the past and the present. Get them to annotate the Talk Around
map with explanations of why people chose to leave certain What do you know about Northern Ireland? What are the
countries. causes of the conflict in Northern Ireland? What is the
current situation in Northern Ireland? What conflicts are
Links currently going on in the world? What are the causes of
America or the US? (US, US history), pages 65-66. these conflicts? When was the last time you came into
CLIL - Tourism (Jamaica), page 94. conflict with someone (a teacher/friend/parent/family
member)? How did you solve the conflict? Do you think
Issues – pages 60-61 conflict can be avoided? How? Who is your favourite group?
Useful Words Why do you like them? What do you notice most about a
economy, economic growth, boom, Celtic tiger, service song: the music, the words or the ‘look’ of the singer or
sector, industry, emigration, opportunity, asylum seeker, group? What do you know about U2?
refuge, exile, rights, integration, discrimination, acceptance,
tolerance, journey, difficulties, appeal, UNHCR Portfolio Project
Get the students to choose their favourite song. Ask them to
CLIL Subject Links write it out on a piece of paper and annotate it, explaining
Economics (Ryanair, boom) / Citizenship/PSHE (Asylum the message, any difficult words and highlighting their
seekers, refugees, human rights) favourite expressions and key images. Encourage them to
illustrate the song with their own drawings or collages of
Talk Around images.
What do you know about the Irish economy? Have you ever
heard the term ‘Celtic Tiger’? What does it mean to you? Has Links
anyone in your family ever worked in another country? Aborigines (Australia), page 100.
Who? Why did they go to work there? Would you like to Darfur (Africa), page 121.
work in another country? Where? What is a refugee? What
is the UNHCR? Why do people leave their countries and go CLIL – Music, page 64
to live in other countries? Why do some countries not want This CLIL page focuses on Irish traditional music. Get the
to accept people from other countries? students to talk about their own favourite music, traditional
music in their country and instruments and styles of music
Portfolio Project they know.
Extension on Your World on page 61. Imagine you have to If they study music in school or play instruments work with a
leave your home and you have only a small rucksack to put music teacher to talk about music in English.
your most precious things into. Make a poster. Draw your
rucksack in the middle and stick pictures of the things you
take with you all around it. Write a short description of each
thing and say why it means so much to you.
Links
Rights of the Child (Great Britain), page 17.
Darfur (Africa) page 121.
Apartheid (Africa), page 122.
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Sunday Bloody Sunday (Page 63)

Read and listen (Teacher’s CD Track 13) on page 63. Answer the following questions:
1 What does ‘Sunday’ mean to you?

………………………………………………………………………………………………....................................
2 Find words or expressions in the text that mean:

a listen to …………………………….
b road that is closed at one end …………………………….
c spread across …………………………….
d it annoys me …………………………….
e long narrow hole in the ground …………………………….
f dry …………………………….
3 Read the lyrics and describe in your own words ‘the news today’. What has happened?
………………………………………………………………………………………………....................................
………………………………………………………………………………………………....................................
4 Do you think this is the first time something like this has happened? Why/why not?
Use quotations from the song to support your answer.
………………………………………………………………………………………………....................................
………………………………………………………………………………………………....................................
5 Write all the words and expressions associated with violence and fighting.
………………………………………………………………………………………………....................................
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6 What does the singer say about television?

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7 What is the ‘victory Jesus won on Sunday, bloody Sunday’?

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8 Do you like the song? Why/why not?

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Reading and Listening (PET) Writing
Read the sentences below about Travellers in Ireland. Read ‘Ryanair Revolution’ and listen to Caroline
Go back to pages 56-57 and read and listen to the Greene’s story on page 59. Imagine you are Caroline.
texts. Mark if the sentences below are correct (✔), Write a letter of complaint to Ryanair. Describe what
incorrect (✘), or if the information is not given in the happened and how you were treated. Ask for an
article (?). apology and compensation.
□ 1 Nomads travel constantly.

Caroline Green
□ 2 Irish Travellers originally come from Romania. 11 Princess Street
□ 3 In the past Irish Travellers camped by the side of Reading
the road.
Janet Cullen
□ 4 They are called tinkers because their carts are
Customer Service Manager
made of tin. Ryanair
□ 5 Shelta is not a written language.
□ 6 In Ireland nomads cannot get unemployment
Dear Ms Cullen,
benefit because they do not have a fixed address.
I am writing to complain about .............................
□ 7 Travellers are 21% of the Irish population. ..................................................................................
□ 8 Most Travellers want to have a house or live in a ..................................................................................
serviced site.
□ 9 Travellers have a lower life expectancy to that of
settled people.
□ 10 The Traveller community is increasing every year.
Speaking (TRINITY)
The writer and traveller Robert Louis Stevenson said:
“We are all travellers in the wilderness
Listening of this world.”
Do you agree? Explain why or why not.
Listen once more to Annie Moore’s story (Web MP3).
Fill in the form below. Describe journeys you make every day, journeys you
have made in the past and journeys you would like
US ENTRY APPLICATION FORM to make in the future.
PA S S E N G E R NAME:
Doing
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Write a postcard from your town to a friend who has
T R AV E L L I N G WITH:
gone to study in Ireland. Ask them how they are and
|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__| tell them what has happened since they left. Explain
N AT I O N A L I T Y : why you chose that particular postcard.
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ARRIVED ON (SHIP NAME): CLIL – Music
|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__| Match the instruments below to the countries they
come from. What instruments are they like?
AMERICAN C I T Y O F A R R I VA L :
Then choose one and find out more about it. Write a
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ARE Y O U J O I N I N G O T H E R F A M I LY M E M B E R S I N T H E
1 Uilleann Pipes a Nigeria
U S ? Y E S |__| N O |__|
______________________________________________ 2 Sitar b Brazil
3 Cavaquinho c Ireland
I F ‘ Y E S ’, W H O A R E YO U JO I N I N G ?
4 Kemance d India
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My World 5
My room
Draw a picture
of your bedroom.
Stick it here.
Class Survey
How many students in your class:
Have their own bedroom?
Share their bedroom?
Plan your perfect bedroom. Which of these do you have

What would you put in it? in your room?
My perfect room would………............ TV

.............................................................. Stereo
.............................................................. Playstation
.............................................................. Computers
.............................................................. Video
.............................................................. DVD
The Golden Rules

Write five golden rules for your room.
1 ...........................................................................................................................
2 ............................................................................................................................
3 ............................................................................................................................
4 ............................................................................................................................
5 ............................................................................................................................
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Two pieces of music introduce the audio tracks: ‘Slidin’ activist, leaders, influential people, Nobel prize
Blues’ and ‘Cotton Pickin’ Blues’ both by Lenart Paul. Blues
is a fundamental part of American music tradition and is CLIL Subject Links
deeply rooted in black culture (see pages 68 and 69). History / Music (Blues, Jazz) / Literature (black literature)
The unit colour is red, which represents valour and strength Talk Around
in the American flag. How did black people first come to America? What is
slavery? Why is it wrong? Does slavery still exist? What do
Introduction – page 65 you know about black history? Name influential African-
Brainstorm what the students know about the US. How Americans of the past/of the present. What is segregation?
many famous Americans do they know? Write the names Who was Martin Luther King/Malcolm X? Why were they
on the board and get the students to say as much as they assassinated? What other leaders have been assassinated?
know about each one. Divide the class into six groups and Who are the Ku Klux Klan? Why did they hurt and kill black
get each group to find out as much as possible about each people? Are there laws to prevent racism? What famous
of the personalities featured on page 65. African Americans do you know?
Identity – pages 66-67 Portfolio Project

Useful Words Get the students to choose one of the pictures and to find
continent, land, time zones, climate, temperate climate, out as much about it as possible. Get them to write a
humid climate, polar climate, dry climate, highland climate, description of the subject and illustrate it with their own
discovery, explorers, adventure, ships, New World, colony, pictures or with photographs from the internet or
settler, flag, symbol, nationhood, independence, president, magazines.
union, battle, fireworks, spectacular, display, July 4th
Links
CLIL Subject Links The Oldest Continent (Africa, slavery), page 120.
Geography (climate and zones in the US) / History (US Apartheid (Africa), page 122.
history) / Music (national anthems) CLIL – Literature (Africa), page 126.
Talk Around Lifestyles – pages 70-71

What are the most important cities in America? What Useful Words
landmarks do you know? How many states can you name? Hollywood, films, movies, trailers, cinema, multiplex, video,
Who discovered America? Who are America’s native DVD, actor, actress, director, producer, screenplay,
people? What do you know about American history? What adaptation, role, star, star system, films, genres, movies,
does the name ‘United States’ mean? Who was the first flicks, plot, predictable, surprise ending, fame, celebrity,
president of the United States? Who is the current parents, childhood, child stars
president? What are the differences between the systems of
government in the US and your country? What is the CLIL Subject Links
American national anthem? Do you think the Americans are Literature (films that have been adapted from books) /
proud of their anthem? Why/why not? Media Studies (film and cinema) / LI (screenplays/plots)
Portfolio Project Talk Around

Read the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner with the class. Do you like going to the cinema? What is your favourite
The song helps unify the United States by providing a real film? Who is your favourite actor/actress? What type of
context in which people are prepared to fight for their films do you enjoy? What type of films would you never go
country’s freedom and their own personal liberty. Get the to see? Would you like to be an actor/actress? Why/why
students to analyse their own national anthem asking them not? How many film genres can you name? What are the
to write an explanation in English of the language, cultural pros and cons of being famous? How would you define
elements and beliefs represented in the anthem, stating ‘fame’? Why are people obsessed with being famous? Do
why it may have been chosen to represent their country. you buy/read celebrity fan magazines such as Hello or
People? Do you like celebrity gossip?
Links
Fly the flag (Great Britain), page 9. Links
The Aboriginal flag (Australia), page 101. Autism and Me (England), page 33.
A Colonial Past (West Indies), page 88. Adbusters (Canada, advertising) page 84.
Identity – pages 68-69 Portfolio Project

Useful Words Get the students to write a profile of their favourite actor
history, Africa, slavery, blacks, exploitation, master, or actress, saying why they like him/her.
plantations, freedom, law, abolition, escape, freeman, OR get the students to read the extract from My Mother,
segregation, racism, injustice, discrimination, law, apartheid, the Crazy African by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (CLIL –
music, blues, jazz, chants, rap, lynch gangs, Ku Klux Klan Literature (Africa), page 126) on www.worldaround.cc. In
(KKK), civil rights, protest, campaign, march, change, pairs ask them to transform it into a series of sketches in a
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play or film. Get them to describe the surroundings, Links
characters and then write the dialogues. Children’s Rights in Scotland (Scotland), page 48.
Discipline (Scotland), page 49.
Lifestyles – pages 72-73 Bullying (New Zealand), page 108.
Useful Words
discovery, native people, Indians, redskins, savages, Issues – pages 76-77
indigenous, original, citizen, tribe, massacre, reservation, Useful Words
settlers, cowboys, army, Chief, traditions, nature, respect, energy, sustainable energy, unsustainable energy, renewable
ecology, poverty, racism, discrimination energy, resources, fossil fuels, oil/ wind/ nuclear/ solar
power, drilling, rigs, pollution, consumption, capitalism,
CLIL Subject Links environment, greenhouse gases, global warming, carbon
History (native people) / Geography (nature, ecology) trade, economy, crisis

Who are the Native Americans? What tribes do you know? Geography (energy resources/ecology) / Politics (conflict
What famous Indians have you heard of? What do you and energy)
know about Native American history? What image of
Native Americans is portrayed in films? Do you think this is Talk Around
correct? Name some films that portray Indians in a What do we use to get energy? What are fossil fuels? What
sympathetic and non–stereotypical way. What relationship is the difference between renewable and non-renewable
do Native Americans have with nature? Do you think energy? Where are the largest oil deposits in the world?
nature and the natural environment is protected enough? What do we use oil for? Why does the US use so much oil?
What can we do to respect nature more? How can the What can we do to reduce the amount of energy we use?
government help protect the environment?
Portfolio Project
Portfolio Project Make a list of actions you can do every day in order to cut
Get the students to copy out a map of the US (or down on the energy you use (e.g: bring a carrier bag to
download the map on the Real World website). Ask them shops instead of using plastic bags.)
to research Native American tribes and write the tribe Go to www.worldaround.cc for more ideas and
names on the map in the areas where they lived. Get them information.
to add details about each tribe’s traditions and ways of life.
Links
Links Inuit (Canada), page 81.
On the road (Ireland, travellers and nomadic people), page 56. Adbusters (Canada), page 84.
What does . . . Inuit? (Canada, native peoples), page 81.
The Aborigines (Australia, native peoples), page 100. CLIL – IT - page 78
This CLIL page focuses on IT (Information Technology).
Issues – pages 74-75 The US is one of the most technological countries in the
Useful Words world and most of the major computer companies and
gun violence, school shootings, Rifle Association, pistols, research centres are based there. Ask your students to
weapons, handguns, rounds of ammunition, shot gun, brainstorm all the IT words they know in English
bullets, metal detector, teachers, students, danger, tragedy, (email, blog, chat, computer, SMS, video, etc.) Find out if
shock, safety, police, security anyone in class contributes to a website or has his/her own
blog or vlog (video log). Get them to talk about it.
CLIL Subject Links
Citizenship (violence/gun control) / PSHE (safety) / Media
(sensational news reporting)
Talk Around
Have you heard of the shooting at Virginia Tech or at Saint
Columbine’s School? Why do you think school shootings
happen? What can be done to avoid them? Do you think
people should have easy access to guns? What are the pros
and cons of easy access to guns?
Portfolio Project
Some of those responsible for school violence say they felt
left out.
Ask a partner to tell you of a time when they felt left out.
Then together try to find out how the situation could have
been avoided. Then prepare an interview with your partner.
and act it out in front of the others.
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Letter from Chief Seattle to the US President (Page 73)

1 Tick the sentence that best describes Chief Seattle’s attitude
□ a Chief Seattle is willing to sell his land.
□ b Chief Seattle is afraid he won’t get a good price for his land.
□ c Chief Seattle doesn’t believe that land is something that can be sold.
□ d Chief Seattle expects the Government to respect the land if he decides to sell it.
2 Read the text. Tick the best answer (1, 2 or 3) to each question.
a Chief Seattle says that
□ 1 the area where he lives is special for the Indians.
□ 2 all of the earth is special for the Indians.
□ 3 the area which the white man wants to buy is special for the Indians.
b When the Indians die

□ 1 they forget the earth.
□ 2 they live in the rivers.
□ 3 they never forget the earth.
c It will not be easy for the Indians to sell the land because
□ 1 the land is very special for them
□ 2 they want too much money for it.
□ 3 no-one wants to buy it.
d What condition is there before the Indians will sell their land?
□ 1 The land must be used for farming.
□ 2 The land must be treated with respect.
□ 3 The Indians’ families must be allowed to live on the land.
3 Tick true (T), false (F) or doesn’t say (D) below. T F D

a Chief Seattle thinks you can buy and sell land. □ □ □
b The land is special to Chief Seattle’s people. □ □ □
c Chief Seattle’s ancestors were killed in the river. □ □ □
d Chief Seattle’s people believe the land is like a brother. □ □ □
e The White Man will teach his children the Indians’ ways. □ □ □
f The same things happen to man that happen to the earth. □ □ □
g Chief Seattle thinks the white man will destroy the land. □ □ □
4 Match these words from the text with their meanings.

a crests 1 shine
b sacred 2 whisper; low sound
c sparkle 3 when there are small drops of water in the air and it is difficult to see
d shore 4 holy; very special
e mist 5 tops of hills
f murmur 6 where the land meets the water
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6
2
Reading Listening
Choose the correct word to fill each space. Listen once more to the piece on ‘Native Americans and
Racism’ (Track 29). Answer true (T) or false (F) below.
When Michael Zorek (1)………………… two famous
T F
American football players in a New York shop in 2002, he
asked them if they would (2)………………… for a photo □ □ 1 All sports teams have Indian mascots.
with his three-month-old son Jeremy. They said □ □ 2 Using humans as mascots is unacceptable
(3)………………… - and a star was born. to some Indians.
□ □ 3 The word ‘squaw’ can be insulting to
Michael, a (4)………………… actor decided to find
(5)………………… celebs to pose with his son. He started Indians.
(6)………………… Jeremy to as many events as he could. □ □ 4 Major teams avoid using names that are
Soon pictures of Jeremy with stars such as P Diddy, offensive to Indians.
Madonna, Pierce Brosnan and even President Clinton began □ □ 5 Indians are flattered when white people
appearing in newspapers and magazines.
imitate them.
Michael started a website to (7)………………… the □ □ 6 Indians don’t mind when sports teams use
pictures. Soon Jeremy became a star in his own Indian names or images in a respectful way.
(8)…………………, appearing as a guest on US chat shows
and was featured on news channel CNN. He has also
starred in TV commercials and works as a child model and Speaking
actor. Refer to the list of every day actions the students
made for the Portfolio Project (page 34). If you
Michael takes Jeremy to meet a new star once a week. He haven’t done the Project simply brainstorm things we
(9)………………… all the pictures on the site along with a can do every day to cut down on the energy we use.
description (10)………………… written by Jeremy. So far Then ask the students to choose one they would
over 600,000 people have visited the site. definitely do and one they couldn’t imagine
themselves doing. Get them to explain the reasons
Michael insists Jeremy leads a normal childhood, other for their choices in class.
people say he is a pushy parent.
1 a striped b spotted c starred Doing
2 a pose b poise c post
Think of the action you decided to do to help save
3 a so b could c yes energy.
4 a former b previous c prior Imagine you want to persuade as many people as
5 a much b more c very possible to do the same thing. Make a poster,
6 a take b taken c taking advertising a special day when everyone can do the
7 a displace b dismay c display action (See Adbusters/Buy Nothing Day, World
8 a right b rights c write Around Students Book, page 84).
Invent a slogan and give information.
9 a poses b posts c poises
10 a supposing b supposed c supposedly
CLIL – IT
Doing business on the internet is called e-commerce.
Companies provide many different products and
Writing and Speaking services online, including banking, shopping and
Find out more about Rosa Parks (page 69) on travel booking.
www.worldaround.cc. 1 Describe the advantages to the customer and the
Imagine you are making a film about her life. In groups business providing the service of internet trading.
write out the scene where she refuses to give her seat on 2 Describe the disadvantages of internet trading.
the bus. When planning think about the following:
Setting (Place and time of action)
Characters
Extras
Effects (noises/lights, etc)
When it is ready act out the scene in front of the class.
My World 6
World of stars
Write a profile of your favourite
r actor or actress and stick it here.
a pi c tu re of you .
Stick
o r or actress here .................................................................
act
favourite .................................................................
.................................................................
.................................................................
.................................................................
.................................................................
.................................................................
Jobs on screen ck it out!

Che ur
There are lots of jobs in the film industry. w of yo
revie
What do the following people do? Write a ourite film. .
Which job would you like best? fav
y you liked it
wh re.
Actor/actress Explain our review he
Director Stick y
Producer
Screen writer
Camera man
Special effects artist
Editing
M is for Marilyn
Marilyn Monroe is an icon of the cinema. Why
do you think she became so famous? Why does
she still appeal to so many people?
Write three questions you would like to ask her.
1 ............................................................................
2 ............................................................................
3 ............................................................................
7 CANADA
The music introducing the audio tracks is ‘Drum Circle A’ by Talk Around
Ross Don. It is an example of Native Canadian music and is Do you do a sport? What are the most popular sports in your
typical of music that can be heard at large native gatherings country? What sports do you associate with violence (amongst
and pow-wows across Canada and North America (see page the fans/amongst the players)? What can we do to stop
81 for more on the Inuit, Canada’s native people). violence in sports? What makes you angry? What do you do to
stop feeling angry? Are there many skateboarders in your
The unit colour is a deep blue, reminiscent of the vast Canadian town/area? Is there a special area where they go to skateboard?
sky and its reflection in over 2 million lakes.
Portfolio Project
Introduction – page 79 Get the students to write a description of a sport they do or
Get the students to look at the pictures and comment on them. like. Make sure they include details such as any equipment or
Do they recognise what they represent? Ask them to complete gear they need, how often they train and the qualities you
the mind map with other words or concepts they associate with need to be good at that sport.
Canada. Write their suggestions on the board.
Mind maps are a good way of exploring passive and active Links
knowledge as well as being a proven aid to remembering what The Beautiful Game (England, football, racism), page 26.
has been studied. Use mind maps to activate the students’ Extreme Sports (New Zealand, bungee jumping), page 106.
thinking about new subjects or to revise what they remember Children’s Rights (Scotland, discipline and the law), page 48.
about topics that you have already covered.
Issues – pages 84-85
Identity – pages 80-81 Useful Words
Useful Words advertising, marketing, ads, media, brands, commercials,
geography, coast, river, lake, sea, mountain, resources, oil, gas, publicity, merchandise, promotion, slogan, logo, consumerism,
minerals, forests, bilingualism, official languages, age, growing hype, customer, shopping, product, item, goods, purchase,
up, legal ages, cultural stereotypes, identity, image, nationalism, money, resources, needs, excess, luxury, waste
national pride, native people, Inuit, Eskimos, igloos, whales,
traditions, customs, size, diversity, space, expanse CLIL Subject Links
Art and Design (advertising) / L1 (advertising language)
CLIL Subject Links
Geography (demographics, population, landscape) / Talk Around
Citizenship / Philosophy (ownership) / PSHE (stereotypes) What are your favourite advertisements? Why? Are you
influenced by advertising? What adverts are targeted at young
Talk Around people? How much do you spend every week? Do you think
What is the capital of Canada? What do you associate with you/your family/society wastes much? Do you like shopping?
Canada? What languages are spoken in Canada? Why do you What do you do with things you no longer like or use? Do
think Canadians do not want to be confused with Americans? you ever buy something because it is a specific brand? Why
What similarities and differences does your country have with its do you choose that brand? What is consumerism? Can you
neighbouring nations? Who are the Inuit? What do you know name any natural or man-caused disasters in recent years
about them? Think of your country: are there cultural differences (South Asian tsunami, September 11th, etc)? What were the
between the different areas and regions? If so, what are they? effects of Hurricane Katrina?
Do you feel different to people who live in other areas or regions?
Portfolio Project
Portfolio Project Get the students to bring in logos of a number of well-known
Ask the students to imagine they are flying over their country. brands (MacDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Levis, Diesel, Benetton, etc.)
Get them to write a description of what they see. In pairs or groups get them to analyse the image that each
brand is trying to convey. How do they do that? (Through
Links images, words, choice of where they advertise, etc.) Ask them
Icons (England), page 22. to make a ‘brand awareness page’ for each brand describing
What’s in a Name? (US, Native Americans), page 72. the brand image, advertising campaigns and slogans.
The Aborigines (Australia), page 100.
Aoteorea (New Zealand, the Maori), page 104. Links
E for Energy (USA), page 76.
Lifestyles – pages 82-83 Life and Debt (Jamaica), page 92.
Useful Words
sport, national sport, hockey, equipment, gear, professional, CLIL – Science, page 86
amateur, violence, aggressiveness, fighting, rules, ban, brawl, The CLIL page focuses on GM foods. Canada is the world’s
spectator sport, exciting, injury, damage, death, career, anger, 3rd largest producer of GM crops (after the US and
skateboarding, respect, skateboard parks, designated areas, Argentina). The Canadian Health Board considers GM foods
hassles, problems, unwanted, overlooked, facilities. to be the same as non-transgenic foods. Brainstorm the class
on what they know about GM foods and the legislation
CLIL Subject Links concerning GM foods in their country. See
Sport / PSHE (anger, hassles) www.worldaround.cc for more information.
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7
True or False? (Page 80-81)

Decide if the following statements are true (T) or false (F). Correct the statements that are false.
T F
1 Canada is the largest country in the world.
………………………………………………………………..............
2 Canada is bigger than the US.
………………………………………………………………..............
3 Two-thirds of the world’s lakes are in Canada.
………………………………………………………………..............
4 Most Canadians live near the US border.
………………………………………………………………..............
5 The US has a longer coastline than Canada.
………………………………………………………………..............
Naomi Klein (Page 85)

Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the past simple or past continuous tense.
1 When Naomi Klein …………………. (grow up) in Montreal she …………………. (love) designer goods.
2 One day when she …………………. (shopping) in the mall she …………………. (meet) her friend
Alison.
3 At that time Alison …………………. (work) in a shop called Esprit and she …………………. (ask)
Naomi if she …………………. (want) to work there.
4 Naomi …………………. (decide) to start working in Esprit, too.
5 She really …………………. (like) her work and …………………. (earn) enough to buy lots of nice
clothes.
6 One day when she …………………. (have) her break her boss …………………. (tell) her that Esprit
………………….(be) more than a shop, it …………………. (be) a good friend.
7 Naomi …………………. (think) this …………………. (be) a strange thing to say.
8 A few days later she …………………. (be) fired because she …………………. (complain) too much
about the company.
CANADA SKILLS STATION

2
7
Reading (PET) Speaking (TRINITY)
Reread the extract from Douglas Coupland’s ‘Souvenir Listen to the people’s reaction to the Bertuzzi incident
of Canada’ on page 81. Which of the following best (Track 33). Comment on each one and say which one
summarises what Coupland is saying? you most agree with. Give reasons why you agree or
disagree with the speakers (approximately 3 minutes).
1 Canadians don’t enjoy flying for long distances.
2 It’s a pity that the north of Canada is so
underdeveloped. Doing
3 Canada is a huge country with lots of cultural In pairs write a one-page leaflet promoting Buy
differences within the population. Nothing Day. Explain what it is and why people
4 The Inuit prefer not to live near trees. should support it. Use short clear sentences and
simple easy-to-understand language.
5 The best way to check temperature is to go to the
place and see for yourself.
CLIL – Science
Writing Read the comments about GM foods. Write FOR or
AGAINST next to each comment. Explain your reasons
Reread the articles on skateboarding on page 83.
to a partner.
Write a list of recommendations for skaters using
must, have to, mustn’t, needn’t, don’t have to. 1 GM foods are new so we don’t
(Write one recommendation for each modal verb know if they are dangerous to humans
indicated above.) or the environment. Scientists are
1 ........................................................................................ experimenting with our lives.
2 ........................................................................................ 2 Some children and adults are allergic
3 ........................................................................................ to peanuts. Some people believe GM
food crops will start new allergies.
4 ........................................................................................
For example, they want to put fish
5 ........................................................................................ genes into strawberries. People allergic
to fish may then be allergic to the
GM strawberries.
Listening (PET) 3 Farmers use fewer pesticides
Listen to the piece on Kalle Lasn, then fill in the and fertilizers when they produce
form below (Web MP3). GM crops.
4 The bacteria in our stomachs could

Name: pick up antibiotic-resistant genes
which are in a lot of GM foods.
Place of birth: If this happens, diseases that cannot
be treated with antibiotics may spread.
Nationality:
Marital status:
Currently resident:
Education:
Work experience:
Current job:
My World 7
My Money
How much money do you spend?
Ask your friends.
Least money spent.
Most money spent. Which of
Sometimes
Average money spent. these do
Always
Never
you buy for
yourself? Tick.
Dough
Money Dosh Clothes
s
Readie Bread
CDs
Books/Magazines
Cash Snacks/Eating out
Cinema
Can you think of words in your language
for money? Write them here. Mobile phone card
Computer games
…………………………............................…….........
Other
…………………………............................…….........
…………………………............................…….........
…………………………............................…….........
…………………………............................…….........
…………………………............................…….........
Earning Money
How do you get your money?
My parents give it to me.
I have a part-time job.
What is the second most
I do jobs at home.
Other
recognised English word
in the world after ‘OK’?
Ads Yes
Advertisers often aggressively target teens.
Are you influenced by ads?
………………………….........................……
What is your favourite ad?
…………………….........................…………
Do you buy things because of the brand?
GOD
…………………….........................…………
NEW YORK
8 THE WEST INDIES
The music introducing the audio tracks is a piece of typical Bob Marley’s songs? What is your favourite type of music?
Caribbean Calypso music called ‘La Laguna A’ by Erlando What is your favourite song? What type of music do you
Juan. Calypso is one of the music styles that are typical of listen to when you are happy/sad/want to relax? Do you
the Caribbean. You can read about and listen to another know any songs with a social or political message? Artists
type of Caribbean music, reggae, on pages 90 and 91. (visual artists, musicians, writers) often use their art to
express a political idea or to protest against something that
The unit colour is a warm golden yellow, the colour of the is happening in the world. Think of examples of books, art
gold the first European settlers found in the Caribbean and works, music that have a political or social message. What
the colour of the sun and the sand that modern day is freedom? Are we free? If not, what things limit or
tourists go in search of. condition us? How can we become free?
Introduction – page 87 Portfolio Project

Brainstorm what the students know or associate with the Brainstorm the word ‘freedom’ in class (create a mind map).
West Indies. Look at the photos for ideas. Tell them the Ask the students to write a poem entitled ‘I feel free’. Get
photographs can be grouped under three categories: them to illustrate it with a picture or image.
tourism, issues (problems) and history. Ask them to match
the photos to the categories. Links
Cool Cymru (Wales, music), page 36.
Identity – pages 88-89 Black History (US, slavery), page 68.
Useful Words Religion in India (Asia), page 112.
island, archipelago, reef, water, sea, bay, ocean, inlet, colony, The Oldest Continent (Africa, slavery), page 120.
conquistadors, settlers, pioneers, slavery, forced labour,
bonded labour, plantations, Creole, languages, dialects, Issues – pages 92-93
bilingualism, piracy, pirates, buccaneers, corsairs, privateers, Useful Words
stealing, captain, ship, music piracy, online piracy, copying, globalisation, debt, third-world debt, international trade,
internet, download, burn CDs, freeware, shareware, MP3s trade systems, capitalism, Fairtrade, free trade,
multinationals, transnational corporations, factories,
CLIL Subject Links conditions, workers’ rights, sweat shops, dumping,
Geography (landscape, language) / History / Information minimum wages, crime, gangs, criminality, guns, drugs,
Technology (IT) (online piracy) violence, unemployment, poverty, IMF, WTO, G8 summit,
tourism, ethical tourism, resorts, exploitation
Talk Around
Where are the West Indies? How many islands can you CLIL Subject Links
name? What languages are spoken there? What is the Economics (trade systems, globalisation) / Law (work law,
climate like? What is the culture like? What are the main workers’ rights) / Tourism
crops and exports? What is Creole? What is pidgin English?
Who were pirates in the past? Who are modern-day Talk Around
pirates? Have you seen Pirates of the Caribbean? Do you What is a multinational? What is free trade? What is
think it gives an idea of what life as a pirate was like? Have Fairtrade? How does international trade work? What is
you ever downloaded music from the internet? Do you capitalism? How can one country become economically
think this is illegal? dependent on another? Can you imagine living in a place
where gangs rule? How can shoppers make trade fairer?
Portfolio Project Do you ever check where a product was made before you
Ask the students in pairs to create a poster or promotional buy it? What criteria do you use when you buy something?
leaflet warning against online piracy. The poster should be What is the WTO? Why do some people (anti-globalisation
directed at young people and warn that all unauthorised campaigners) protest against the WTO and free trade
downloads are illegal. Get them to create a slogan and systems? Where do you usually go on holiday? Would you
choose or draw an image. like to go on holiday to a tropical country? How can
tourism help developing countries? How can tourism
Links damage developing countries?
Festival Fun (Wales, Notting Hill Carnival), page 39.
Black History (US), page 68. Portfolio Project
What’s in a name? (US, Columbus), page 72. Get the students to work in pairs and carry out research on
a transnational corporation (an influential company that
Lifestyles – pages 90-91 does business in 2 or more countries) of their own choice.
Useful Words
music, culture, social message, protest songs, rhythm, beat, Links
sound, tune, tempo, reggae, rap, relax, laid-back, Fairtrade (England), page 31
Rastafarianism, religion, belief, salvation, saviour, hope, The Ryanair Revolution (Ireland), page 59
Africa, roots, sculpture, art, photography, representation, Adbusters (Canada, consumerism), page 84.
communication, freedom, limitations, divine, spiritual, god
CLIL – Tourism, page 94
CLIL Subject Links The CLIL page focuses on tourism. Ask the class to talk
Music / Art and Design / Philosophy / Religion about holidays. Where they have been, what they have
(Rastafarianism and beliefs) done, etc. How did they help the local economy when they
were on holiday? Then ask them about tourism in their
Talk Around own area. Are there many tourists? What are the local
What is reggae? Who is Bob Marley? Do you know any of attractions? What are their attitudes to the tourists?
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8
Life and Debt (Page 92)

Answer the following questions.
1 When did Jamaica become independent?

……………………………………………………………………..
2 Why did Jamaica borrow money from the IMF?
……………………………………………………………………..
3 When did Jamaica pay back its debt to the IMF?
……………………………………………………………………..
4 What type of companies opened in Jamaica?
……………………………………………………………………..
5 How do many of the clothes factories operate?
……………………………………………………………………..
6 Why did Jamaica become a Free Trade Zone?
……………………………………………………………………..
7 What does this mean for workers?
……………………………………………………………………..
8 What is dumping?
……………………………………………………………………..
Modern Pirates (Page 89)

Rewrite what these young people say about downloading music using the conditional tense.
1 John says he downloads because CDs are too expensive.

If CDs …………………………………................................................................................................................................
2 Anne says CD burners are to blame because they encourage people to download and make their own CDs.
If there were no CD burners …………………………………................................................................................................
3 Jane says that there should be stronger penalties for people who download illegally.
If there were stronger penalties …………………………………..........................................................................................
4 Scott says that more music companies should sell CDs on the internet in order to make it easier for fans
to find the CDs they want.
If music companies …………………………………..............................................................................................................
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THE WEST INDIES SKILLS STATION

2
8
Read the text about Laura Facey-Cooper’s sculpture Listen to the piece on Jamaican music (Track 36). Now
‘Redemption Song’, on page 91. Choose the most write down the characteristics of each of these styles.
appropriate answer to each of the questions below. Ska
1 What was the artist’s main purpose in writing the text? .....................................................................................
a To describe what the sculpture is made of. .....................................................................................
b To explain the meaning of the sculpture. Rocksteady
.....................................................................................
c To explain the link between the sculpture and
the song. .....................................................................................
Roots Reggae
.....................................................................................
2 What was the artist’s purpose in creating the sculpture?
.....................................................................................
a To show the ropes, chains and torture of the Ragga
Jamaican people. .....................................................................................
b To get people to stand outside and feel the .....................................................................................
power within themselves.
c To create a sense of mental freedom which is
inspired by our ancestors.
Speaking (TRINITY)
3 How can people understand freedom? Read pages 92 and 93 again. Divide into groups of three.
Each person in the group must play a different role:
a By connecting with god.
a one is a shopper,
b By standing outside. b one works in a jeans factory,
c By observing the sculpture. c one works for a large company that imports and sells
expensive brand-name jeans.
4 Which of the following sentences best describes Laura Each group must decide on the five most important rules
that a company must follow. Each person in the group
Facey-Cooper?
must try to get the best deal possible for the role s/he is
a A Jamaican sculptress who aims to get people to playing (10 minutes maximum for conversation).
come outside and experience the elements while
looking at her work. Doing
b A Jamaican sculptress whose work encourages
Write an email to a holiday company asking for
her people to think about their present and past information on ethical holidays. Tell them where you
condition. would like to go and what you want (and don’t
c A Jamaican sculptress who aims to heal people want) from your holiday. Add contact information.
through her work.
CLIL – Tourism
You are going to build a new ecotourist development
Writing (PET) in Antigua in the West Indies. First find out about
You get a letter from your Jamaican penfriend saying: Antigua. Then decide:
what kind of accommodation you will build
what tours and activities you will offer
My favourite music is reggae. I love Bob Marley and I
how your development will help local people.
also like Sean Paul. Now write a short paragraph advertising your resort
What about you? What music do you like? for an Internet holiday site. Include some of the key
words above in your advertisement.
Write a letter answering your penfriend’s questions.
My World 8
e
r favourit
Stick you e . Write a caption describing the
hoto her
holiday p photo. Stick it here.
s
Holiday
Where in the World?
Where would you like to visit? Why?
…………………………………………………........…………………………………………
………........…………………………………………………...............……………………
……………………………........…………………………………………………........….…
……………………………........…………………………………………………........….…
Write us a
postcard
from your
favourite
holiday
destination.
New York London

Write adjectives Beijing Rio de Janiero
to describe the Yemen Paris
following places. Rome Tokyo
Bombay Berlin
9 AUSTRALIA
The music introducing the audio tracks is ‘Didgerigroove A’ Talk Around

by Dickson John, an Aboriginal track featuring the Have you ever been in hospital as a patient or visiting
didgeridoo. Didgeridoos are traditional Aborigine wind someone? Describe your sensations. What was it like? What
instruments which are made out of tree trunks and were the medical staff like? What smells and sounds do you
branches that have been naturally hollowed by termite remember? Have you got any cuts, bruise or scars on your
ants. Aborigines say ‘if the earth had a voice it would be body? Explain what happened and how you got them.
the sound of the didgeridoo’. Was it painful? Would you like to be a doctor? What
qualities would you need to become a doctor (list other
The unit colour is a deep blue, the colour of the Australian jobs too)? Imagine living in the outback. What
sky and the waters around the coral reefs. services/facilities would be missing? (Hospitals, schools,
shops, restaurants, etc.) Would you like to live in a remote
Introduction – page 95 place? What would you miss most?
In pairs get the students to choose a photo and make up a
story based on it. Print the pictures from the World Around Portfolio Project
website and makes posters with the stories. Working with the IT teacher get the students to plan their
own web page. What information would they put on the
Identity – pages 96-97 home page? If possible get them to create web pages.
Useful Words Bring them together in a class micro site.
most, least, more, less, size, extremes, primitive, evolution,
isolation, development, animals, marsupials, pouches, Links
monotremes, reptiles, insects, unique, pet, National School (Great Britain), page 12.
holidays, bank holidays (Britain, public holidays), With a Little Help from my Friends (New Zealand, school),
colonization, convicts, penal colony, prison ships, convict page 109.
ships, transportation, land, settlers, bushranger (Australian CLIL – IT (USA), page 78.
outlaw), horse theft, shootout, hero, villain
Issues – pages 100-101
CLIL Subject Links Useful Words
Geography (landscape, language) / Biology (animals) / Aborigines, discovery, native people, original, citizen,
Citizenship (identity, national celebrations) / History (Ned property, property theft, discrimination, neglect,
Kelly) underprivileged, cultural genocide, dispossession,
dislocation, bloodlines, orphanages, foster homes, creation,
Talk Around creation myths, Dreamtime, song lines, ancestors, nature,
What do you know about Australia? What is the climate like? respect
What do you know about the lifestyle? What are the main
cities? Name some Australian animals. What is unique about CLIL Subject Links
them? Why do you think Australia has so many unique History (native people) / Geography (nature, ecology)
animals? (Because they evolved in isolation from other Philosophy (beliefs) / Law / Citizenship (property rights,
animals.) Is there a National holiday in your country? Do you ethnic cleansing)
why the date of the holiday was chosen (has it got any special
significance)? Did you know that during the 18th and 19th Talk Around
centuries the British government sent a large number of Who discovered Australia? Who are the Aborigines? What
convicts (criminals) to Australia? What problems do you think do you know about their lifestyle and traditions? Do you
this caused? Have you ever heard of Ned Kelly? know anything about the ‘stolen generation’? Why do you
think the white settlers treated the Aborigines badly? Can
Portfolio Project you think of any groups or categories of people who are
If possible work with the Geography and Biology teachers discriminated against in your society? Why does this
and find out as much as possible about the variety of happen? What is Ayers Rock? Why is it sacred for the
wildlife in Australia. Get each student to choose an animal Aborigines? What is your religion’s/society’s creation story?
or plant or aspect of natural life. Ask them to prepare a Go to www.worldaround.cc for more creation myths.
detailed description of their chosen topic, illustrating it with
a photograph or drawing and indicating habitat and Portfolio Project
conditions in which it exists. Bring all the descriptions Get the students to learn Kevin Gilbert’s ‘Shame’ by heart.
together in an Australian wildlife exhibition. In class get them to recite it, paying attention to stress and
breathing. Make it as effective as possible. Record them
Links individually as they recite the poem.
What Makes a Scot? (Scotland), page 45.
A World of Irish (Ireland), page 58. Links
Fly the Flag (Great Britain, flags), page 9.
Lifestyles – pages 98-99 The United States (US, US flag), page 67.
Useful Words What’s in a Name? (US, Native Americans), page 72.
medicine, doctor, nurse, hospital, clinic, emergency, first What does . . . Inuit? (Canada, native peoples), page 81.
aid, medicine, bandage, plaster, long distance, aeroplane, Aotearoa (New Zealand, the Maori and land ownership),
helicopter, ambulance, radio, qualities, personality, page 104.
character, skills, job, job application, school, study,
homework, learning, teacher, student, pupil, classroom, CLIL – Biology, page 102
distance learning, e-learning, radio, internet, outback, The CLIL page focuses on evolution. Ask them to describe
isolation, countryside. evolution in their own words. In groups work on the best
definition.
CLIL Subject Links
Science (medicine) / Information Technology (IT) (web
pages, web design)
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Australia is the most… (Page 96)

Work out these ‘comparatively’ difficult puzzles.
1 Sam is twice as old as his cousin Leo. But in five years Leo will be as old as Sam is now.
How old are the two cousins?
Sam is …………………...................
Leo is …………………...................
2 Anya, Steve and Kat are in the same reading group. They have to read 10 books by the
end of the school year. Anya is the fastest reader. She has read twice as many books as Kat. Steve is the slowest reader -
he has read 1 less book than Kat. Anya has only got two books left to read before she finishes her assignment.
How many books have they read now?
Anya has read ……………….......… books.

Kat has read ……………….......… books.
Steve has read …………….......…… books.
Comparative Quiz
Choose the correct comparative or superlative. Then decide if the statement is true or false. Write the
correct answer if it is false.
1 Ayer’s rock is the …………………… mountain in Australia.

a higher
b most high
c highest
True
False ……………………………………………………………………………
2 Australia is the …………………… continent.

a most low
b lowest
c lowwest
True
False ……………………………………………………………………………
3 The …………………… temperature recorded in Australia is 63°C.

a hottest
b most hot
c hotest
True
False ……………………………………………………………………………
4 Lake Eyre is the …………………… place in Australia.

a dryest
b most dry
c driest
True
False ……………………………………………………………………………
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Reading (PET) Listening (PET)
Read this text from page 98, ‘Become a Flying Doctor Listen once more to Molly Kelly’s story (Web MP3).
pilot’ and choose the correct word for each space. Answer true (T) or false (F) below.
Each year hundreds of (1)................. pilots apply T F
(2)................. a position in the Royal Flying Doctor Service 1 Molly had two sisters.
(RFDS), but only a (3)................. make the grade. 2 Molly was living with her mother before she was
Successful applicants have at (4)................. 5,000 hours of taken to the Moore River settlement.
flying experience. More important than the number of 3 Aborigines were encouraged to be proud of their
hours, (5)................. , is the pilot’s ability to deal sensitively culture at Moore River.
with the tragedies they often confront. 4 Their journey from Moore River to Jigalong was
One of the (6)................. difficult parts of the job is very difficult.
knowing what to say to patients and their families in 5 Nobody helped them on their escape journey.
emergencies. We are more (7)................. pilots. We help 6 The rabbit-proof fence is an Aborigine legend.
the nurse and doctor assisting patients on and off the
7 Molly had two daughters.
plane. We also (8)................. to be friendly, patient, flexible
8 When Molly was an adult she was sent back to
and ready for anything.
Moore River with her children.
9 She managed to escape with both her children.
1 a inspiring b aspiring c respiring d perspiring
10 Annabelle doesn’t believe that Molly is her
2 a to b of c for d with
mother.
3 a few b little c small d less
4 a less b much c most d least
5 a however b but c although d because
Doing
6 a more b much c best d most
7 a of b that c than d but Caris has a guest book on her website. Sign it and
leave her a message. Tell her what you think of her
8 a must b need c should d needn’t
site and what you learned from it.
Writing name
Read the text on Ned Kelly on page 97 once more. email
Think of a person who symbolises your country.
message
Write a text like the one in the Student’s Book about
this person, giving their life history and explaining
why they are so famous.
Speaking (PET and TRINITY) send reset
Read pages 100 and 101 once more. What groups of

people are discriminated against in our society (the
homeless, immigrants, gypsies, drug addicts, etc.)?
With a partner choose one of these groups. Think of CLIL – Biology
how they are discriminated against and how we can Use the internet to find out about endangered
stop the discrimination and help them to integrate. animals in your country (see www.worldaround.cc).
(4 minutes approximately.) Write a letter to your Minister for the Environment
telling him or her about the animal and suggesting
ways of helping it to survive.
My World 9
World of Animals This is ……………………….................................................................
Have you got a pet? ……………………………….....................................................................
……………………………….....................................................................
……………………………….....................................................................
……………………………........................................................................
Stick its photo here. ……………………………........................................................................
If not draw
a picture of your
favourite animal.
I’d be a . . .
What animal would you be if you weren’t human? Why? What quality do you associate with
these animals?
Rat ………………………………………………
Ox ………………………………………………
Tiger ………………………………………………
Rabbit ………………………………………………
Each of these animals
Dragon ………………………………………………
represents a year in
Snake ……………………………………………… the Chinese horoscope.
Horse ……………………………………………… Find out more on the
Ram ……………………………………………… World Around website
Monkey ……………………………………………… www.worldaround.cc
Rooster ………………………………………………
Animal Rights
Write an article on animal rights. Outline situations when animals need our protection.
Say what we can do to help them.
10 NEW ZEALAND
The music introducing the audio tracks is ‘Nose Flute B’ by Talk Around
Beamer Kapono. The nose flute is a traditional Maori Would you ever go bungee jumping? Why/why not? What
instrument and is also popular in Tahiti, the Marquesas is the most extreme sport you have ever done? How did
Islands and Hawaii. you feel? What is the most dangerous thing you have ever
done? Why did you do it? How do we decide if a risk is
The unit colour is a rich green, the colour of the extensive worth it? How can we learn to manage risk? Name some
pastures for which New Zealand is famous. risky behaviours (gambling, stealing, not doing homework,
doing an extreme sport, etc.) What risk is involved in each
Introduction – page 103 one? What sports do you like? Why? What sports person
In pairs ask the students to look at the pictures and decide do you admire? Why? What would you never do?
why each one is typical of New Zealand. Get them to write
a caption for each picture. Decide the best captions in class. Portfolio Project
Get each student to choose one of the risky behaviours
Identity – pages 104-105 from before (brainstorm again if necessary). Ask them to
Useful Words carry out an analysis of the behaviour detailing a) the
settlers, island, peaceful, natural, haven, safe, colonial reward if successful, b) the probability of being successful,
power, tribes, war, land, property rights, ownership, c) the consequences if unsuccessful.
confiscate, claim, territory, own, belong, possess, govern,
rule, treaty, agreement, contract, translation, language, Links
national pride, national characteristics, pros and cons, The Beautiful Game (England, football), page 26.
rugby, vlogs (video logs) Tanni Grey-Thompson (Wales, paralympic athlete), page 40.
Sport (Canada, ice hockey and skateboarding), page 82.
CLIL Subject Links
History / Language (translation) / Law / Citizenship Issues – pages 108-109
(property and ownership rights) / IT (video logs) Useful Words
bullying, bully, threaten, gangs, victim, underdog, to pick
Talk Around on someone, confront, stand up to, school, teachers, speak
Who are the Maori? What do you know about New out, scared, lonely, powerless, anti-bullying policy, help,
Zealand? Have you seen or read anything about New look, listen, observe
Zealand? What do you think it is like? What adjectives do
you associate with it? What is a treaty? Have you ever CLIL Subject Links
signed a contract or agreement? Why is a contract legally PSHE (bullying) / Law (criminal aspects of threatening
binding? What does a lawyer do? Have you ever totally behaviour) / IT (websites)
misunderstood someone or something? When? What
happened? What do think about belonging to your Talk Around
country? Are you proud? What are the good things about Why do some people bully others? How widespread is
your country? What things would you change/improve? Do bullying? What types of people bully others? What types of
you ever watch videos on YouTube? Do you know what a people are victims of bullying? Why is bullying harmful to
video log is? both the bullies and their victims? What can we do to stop
bullying? What do you think it feels like to be bullied?
Portfolio Project What do you think it feels like to be a bully? Why do you
Read the descriptions of what it is like to be from New think victims feel that they can’t tell anyone they are being
Zealand on page 105. Get the students to use the texts to bullied? Who would you be most likely to confide in if you
write their own personal reflections on what it is like for were being bullied: a teacher, a parent, a friend, a stranger?
them to be from their own country. Illustrate with a Why?
photograph.
Portfolio Project
Links In groups get the students to write out a series of
Hollywood (US, film industry), page 70. guidelines about bullying in school. Use the following titles:
What’s in a Name? (US, Native Americans), page 72. 5 things I should do if I am bullied; 5 things I shouldn’t do
What does . . . Inuit? (Canada, native peoples), page 81. if I am bullied. If you wish extend the activity by getting
The Aborigines (Australia, native peoples and land the groups to share their guidelines and decide on a
ownership), page 100. common set of rules for the class.
Lifestyles – pages 106-107 Links

Useful Words School (Great Britain), page 12.
sports, danger, safety, extreme sports, risks, thrills, Discipline in School (Scotland), page 49.
excitement, buzz, rush, bungee jumping, white-water
rafting, abseiling, rock climbing, parachuting, fear, afraid, CLIL – Maths, page 110
fright, scared, adrenaline, limits, tourism, active holidays The CLIL page focuses on probability. Go to
www.worldaround.cc for more probability and statistics
CLIL Subject Links puzzles
Sport / PSHE (dangerous and risky behaviour)
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Bullying (Page 108)

In order to avoid and break out of bullying situations young people need to learn essential negotiation skills
which allow both sides to get something positive (a win-win situation). Read the following and decide what
happens in the four situations below.
You are studying for your English exam in the living room. Your little sister comes into the room,
turns on the stereo and starts dancing. You can’t concentrate and start shouting at your sister who
turns the music up even louder…
1 You get what you want but your sister doesn’t (win-lose situation).
……………………………………………………………………………….....................................……
……………………………………………………………………………….....................................……
2 Your sister gets what she wants but you don’t (win-lose situation).
……………………………………………………………………………….....................................……
……………………………………………………………………………….....................................……
3 Neither of you get what you want (lose-lose situation).

……………………………………………………………………………….....................................……
……………………………………………………………………………….....................................……
4 You both get what you want (win-win situation).

……………………………………………………………………………….....................................……
……………………………………………………………………………….....................................……
Lost in Translation (Page 104)

Translate the following passage from the unit into your language.
What problems, if any, did you come across during the translation?
The translation of the Treaty of Waitangi caused problems between the Maori and the British. The treaty granted the
British the right to govern the land. This was translated in Maori as kawanatanga, a neologism that literally means
‘governorship’. At that time the Maori understanding of owning land was different from the British one. Maoris
believed they were the guardians of the land. Many experts think the Maori leaders did not understand fully what
they were signing.
……………………………………………………………………………….....................................……
……………………………………………………………………………….....................................……
……………………………………………………………………………….....................................……
……………………………………………………………………………….....................................……
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2
Reading Listening (PET)
Reread the article ‘New Zealand pushes tourism to the Listen once more to Megan talking about her bungee
extremes’ on page 106. jumping experience (Track 40). Which of the
Now write definitions for the following terms from following describes the correct sequences of events?
the text. Use each of them in another sentence. Tick ().
1 lifeblood □ 1 Megan was initially excited about the jump.
However, when it was her turn to jump, she got
.....................................................................................
scared and decided not to do it. She thinks she
.....................................................................................
would like to try again another time.
2 heart-stopping
□ 2 Megan was initially excited about the jump. On the
..................................................................................... day of the jump she was a little nervous but, as
..................................................................................... soon as it was her turn, she got strapped in and did
3 white-knuckle ride the jump first time.
..................................................................................... □ 3 Megan was initially excited about the jump.
..................................................................................... However, when it was her turn to jump, she got
scared and decided not to do it. After a short while
Read the following sentences. Underline the she tried again and this time she did the jump
metaphor in each one. What do the metaphors have successfully.
in common? □ 4 Megan was initially excited about the jump.
4 450,000 have taken the plunge. However, on the day of the jump she got cold feet
..................................................................................... and decided to pull out at the last minute. Now she
5 Business is up and down. regrets her decision and would like to try again.
.....................................................................................
Speaking (PET and TRINITY)

Writing (PET) Read the articles about bungee jumping and
Reread the Kia Kaha fact sheet on page 108. Complete adventure sports on pages 106 and 107. Talk about
the second sentence in each pair so it means the same as the pros and cons of bungee jumping. Why would
the first one. You will need one word for each sentence. someone want to try bungee jumping? Why would
they not want to try it? Would you like to try it?
1 a I need to behave responsibly to keep me and others safe. Why/Why not? (Approximately 3–4 minutes.)
b I ................................. behave responsibly to keep me
and others safe.
2 a I know that bullying is unacceptable. CLIL – Maths
b It is unacceptable to ................................
In groups solve these problems.
3 a It’s okay for me to think differently.
1 A man drinks a barrel of beer in 14 days. With his
b It’s okay for me to think in a ............................... way. brother they drink a similar barrel in 10 days. How
4 a I need to respect the rights of others. many days does it take the brother to drink it up by
b I need to respect ................................ people’s rights. himself?
2 Four creatures A, B, C and D come to a river at night.

The bridge is very thin and narrow, and can only hold
Doing any two of them at a time. Besides, it is dark and they
A friend has organised a bungee jump for charity. He need to keep their torch on while they are crossing the
has put your name down to jump without asking for bridge. It takes A one minute to cross the bridge, B
your permission first. You don’t want to jump. Write two minutes, C five minutes, and D eight minutes. Can
him an email giving a valid excuse and apologising they all cross to the other side if the batteries in the
for any inconvenience. torch last only 15 minutes?
My World 10
My School
Write a
Stick a photo of your school
friends here. caption for
the photo.
What is your school called?

What do you study?
Write a description of your school life and stick it here.
My school is cool because …………………………………………
My school could improve because ………………….…………
My school isn’t good because ……………………………………
I study
What subjects do you think should be compulsory at school? Why?
1 ………………………………………............ 5 ………………………………………............
2 ………………………………………............ 6 ………………………………………............
3 ………………………………………............ 7 ………………………………………............
4 ………………………………………............ 8 ………………………………………............
School Council …………………............…………………............……………

Write a list of things a school …………………............…………………............……………
council (a group of students and
teachers who decide what is best …………………............…………………............……………
for the school) should decide. …………………............…………………............……………
11 ASIA
The music introducing the audio tracks is ‘Rudhra Talk Around

Thandavam’ by Rethnakumar Lekha, a traditional Indian Do you have a computer at home? Is it on the internet? Do
piece. you use the internet? What do you do on the internet
(email, chat, research, entertainment, role-playing games,
The unit colour is saffron orange, the colour of one of etc.)? Do you use the internet to study? Have you ever had
Asia’s most precious spices. private tuition? Do you think private tuition is a good idea?
What are the pros and cons of private tuition? What is a
Introduction – page 111 call centre? What are the working conditions like in a call
After matching the pictures and descriptions find out how centre?
much the class knows about the British Empire. Brainstorm
all current and former colonies (they have come across Portfolio Project
many of the ex-colonies and territories in the first 10 units Read the excerpt from One Night @ The Call Centre once
of the book). For a full list of present and former colonies more. In pairs invent Ms. Paulson’s side of the dialogue.
go to the World Around website. Then act out the dialogue in class.
Identity – pages 112-113 Links

Useful Words Scotland Online (Scotland, internet and work), page 46.
multiculturalism, languages, plurilingualism, CLIL – IT (USA), page 78.
communication, link, democracy, freedom, freedom of Life and Debt (Jamaica), page 92.
speech, rights, religion, god, belief, spirituality, faith,
thought, philosophy, traditions, rites, church, temple, Issues – pages 116-117
mosque, prayer, meditation, respect, colonialism, British Useful Words
Empire, Gandhi, protest, non-violence, non-cooperation, love, marriage, husband, wife, engagement, boyfriend,
leader, icon, peace girlfriend, fiancé, fiancée, relationship, going out, dating,
to fancy someone, crush, romance, romantic, sweet,
CLIL Subject Links dowries, money, transaction, agreement, greed, victims,
History / Language (word definition) / Religion / crime, murder, conviction, stand up for yourself, example,
Philosophy (religion and beliefs) role model

What do you know about India? What is the capital of India? PSHE (relationships) / Law (marriage law)
Name some famous Indians. What do you associate with
India? What languages are spoken there? What is the food Real Talk
like? What are the main religions? What does the word How do young people meet each other in your country?
‘democracy’ mean? Is your country democratic? Why/why What age do people usually get married? Do you want to
not? What do you know about the British rule in India? Have get married? What is a good age to be married? When
you read any books or seen any films that describe the British should young people start dating? What is love? What
colonial period in India? Who was Gandhi? Why is he attracts you in another person? What are the most
famous? What do you think he was like? important factors in a successful relationship? What are
arranged marriages? Do you think arranged marriages are a
Portfolio Project good or bad thing? Explain why. What is a dowry? Why do
After reading the piece on Gandhi ask the students what you think dowries are given in some countries? Why are
famous people they admire. Write the names on the board. most people against dowries?
Get the students to choose a personality and prepare a
profile of him/her using the profile of Gandhi on page 113 Portfolio Project
as a model. In groups of 3 prepare a short role play on forced
marriages. Student A is a parent who wants their son or
Links daughter to marry someone they have chosen. A must
A Colonial Past (The West Indies, the British Empire), page write at least 3 reasons why it is a good idea for the
88. marriage to happen. Student B is the son or daughter. B
Bob Marley (The West Indies, Rastafarianism), page 90. must write at least 3 reasons explaining why they don’t
want the marriage to happen. Student C is a social worker
Lifestyles – pages 114-115 trying to educate people about forced marriages. They
Useful Words should negotiate between A and B.
globalisation, liberalisation, free trade, education, call Write down the exchanges, including any conclusions that
centres, computer industry, hi-tech, technical support, the group comes to after the role play activity.
internet, communications, tutor, grinds, homework, exams
CLIL – Religion, Page 118
CLIL Subject Links The CLIL page focuses on religion, looking in detail at
IT (websites, blogs) / PSHE (education) / Citizenship Sufism, a mystic branch of Islam. Go to
(globalisation, free trade) www.worldaround.cc for more information.
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Love… (Page 116)

Read the text on arranged marriages on page 116 once more. Then answer true (T) or false (F) below.
If the information is not given in the text choose doesn’t say (D).
T F D
1 Arranged marriages are more common in Asia than in Europe.
2 Many young people know in advance that they will have an arranged marriage.
3 Arranged marriages are important for the link they create between the two families.
4 Couples must go through with the marriage once it has been arranged.
5 Lots of couples refuse to go through with the marriage.
6 Refusing to go through with the marriage is considered to be disrespectful.
7 Couple who refuse to get married cannot marry anyone else.
8 Arranged marriages and forced marriages are the same.
D is for Dowry (Page 117)

Read the text on dowries below. Some of the lines have an extra unneeded word. Write the word at the end
of the line. If the line is correct, write a tick (✔).
A dowry is a sum of the money or valuable possessions that a ……………
bride gives to her future husband before they get to married. ……………
Dowries are not legal in India, but in many areas they are still ……………
expected to have be given. ……………
Finding enough money or gifts (such as jewellery, houses, land ……………
or animals) can be a huge worry for a many parents. The better ……………
the dowry the better the marriage arrangement. Families who with ……………
more than a one girl often have to sell their own possessions or ask ……………
for a loan in order to guarantee a dowry for give their daughters. ……………
But dowry worries do not necessarily can stop once a girl is ……………
married. Every year in India alone there are some times 5,000 ……………
‘dowry deaths’, women who are killed by their husbands or ……………
husbands’ their families because their dowry was not very ……………
considered to have be good enough or because the man wants ……………
to remarry and get him an even better one dowry. ……………
One Night @ The Call Centre (Page 115)

Match the words from the text with their meanings.
1 appliance a strange person
2 fit b written text
3 oddball c look after machinery
4 readymade d electrical product
5 script e already cooked
6 service f be the correct size
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2
Reading Listening (PET)
Complete this Diwali recipe with the correct verbs. Listen once more to the piece on forced marriages
Then put the instructions in order. (Track 45). Tick () true (T) or false (F) below.
□ add □ cut □ divide □ leave T F
□ mix □ put □ sprinkle 1 Rupali’s aunt asked her to go to Pakistan.
2 Rupali thought she was going there for a few
weeks.
3 Rupali flew to Pakistan with her uncle.
Diwali Sweets 4 Someone tried to steal her bag when she
Make some delicious Diwali coconut arrived.
sweets.
5 Her parents came to see her in Pakistan for a few
Ingredients:
1 tin of condensed milk weeks.
450g of grated coconut 6 Rupali could only go back to the UK if she got
Food colouring married.
Icing sugar 7 When she was married she lived with her
husband’s family.
Method: 8 She is in contact with her parents now.
(a)................ together the coconut and
the condensed milk.
Once cool, (b)................ into blocks
(about 2 cm square). Speaking (PET and TRINITY)
(c)................ with icing sugar. Read the ‘Britney in Bangalore’ text on page 115.
(d)................ the mixture and Which of the following statements do you most agree
(e)................ the food colouring - one with?
colour for each bit of mixture. Explain why to a partner. (Approximately 3 minutes.)
(f)................ on a plate, flatten out, and
It’s a good idea for call centre staff to pretend they are
(g)................ in the fridge to cool.
from the same country as their clients.
It is disrespectful to expect people to change their
names and accents.
Writing (PET)
CLIL – Religion
Gandhi was once asked what he thought about
western civilisation. His reply was: “I think it would be a Go to www.worldaround.cc and read the parable
good idea”. Write a response to this quote explaining from Rumi’s Mesnevi.
what you think Gandhi meant. Tick the sentences that are true. Summarize the moral
of the parable in your own words.
Think of examples when the ‘west’ is not civilised in
its behaviour towards a country in the developing 1 A kind man gave some money to a group of men.
world. 2 There was an Iranian, a Turk, an Albanian and a
Greek.
3 The men thought that they were disagreeing about
what to buy with the money.
4 They had a big fight.
5 A shopkeeper stopped the fight.
6 In fact, they all wanted to buy the same thing.
My World 11
What do the following smileys
mean in English?
Which of the
following do you
regularly use? :-) ……………….................................
Computer for study
:-D ……………….................................
Internet
Email I-) …………………..............................
Chatrooms
Computer games :-> ……………….................................
Online games
;-) ………..........................................
:-( ………..........................................
How many of your friends
have a playstation?
Write 5 golden rules for internet users.
have a computer?
1 ..........................................................................................
have an internet connection?
2 ..........................................................................................
have Nintendo?
3 ..........................................................................................
4 ..........................................................................................
5 ..........................................................................................
ome to my website.
elc
….................…., and w
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Hello, I’m…
ur photo here
Stick yo
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ebsite. Stick it h
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introduction to
Write an
12 AFRICA
The music introducing the audio tracks is ‘Ve Mbame’ by Portfolio Project
Bui Yesman, a traditional South Africa celebration song. In groups ask the students to find out as much as they can
about South Africa (you may want to work with the
The unit colour is rich chocolate brown, the colour of the Geography and/or History teacher). Get them to write a
earth and the people in this vast continent. history of South Africa up to the present day, illustrating it
with photographs or drawings. They should also describe
Introduction – page 119 South Africa’s main cities and resources.
After doing the activities on the page see how many
African countries the students can name (see the world Links
map on the inside back cover). What do they know about Sectarian Conflict (Ireland, conflict and resolution), page 62.
each country? Its climate, culture and people? Black History (US racial segregation and civil rights), page 68.
Gandhi (Asia, inspirational leaders), page 113.
Identity – pages 120-121
Useful Words Issues – pages 124-125
history, geography, landscape, archaeology, life, origins, Useful Words
primitive, homo sapiens, bones, skeleton, wildlife, nomads, Aids, HIV, virus, disease, epidemic, pandemic, spread, infect,
animals, famine, thirst, hunger, drought, food, drink, infection, test, staying safe, positive, negative, immune
dryness, crops, aid, aid agencies, NGOs, help, developing system, cure, care, sex, blood, needles, medicine, drugs,
countries, child soldiers, fighting, war, genocide, refugees, die, death, orphan, orphanage, parents
gun, rifle, cigarettes
CLIL Subject Links
CLIL Subject Links PSHE (Aids, illness) / Biology
History / Geography / Citizenship
Talk Around
Talk Around What is Aids? What is HIV? How can you get Aids? Is Aids
What associations do you have with Africa? What famous a big problem? How do you know if you’ve got Aids? Can
Africans do you know? What places do you know? What Aids be cured? How can you find out more about Aids? Do
are the different climate zones in Africa? What different you know any celebrities who are working to raise Aids
lifestyles are there? What animals are native to Africa? awareness? (Nelson Mandela, Bono) What is the symbol of
Where did man originate? What is a safari? Why do so the Aids awareness movement? (A red ribbon) When is
many Africans die of hunger? What can we do to help? World Aids Day? (December 1) What can we do to educate
Why are there so many wars in Africa? Who are the child people about Aids?
soldiers? Does slavery still exist today? Where can you find
out more information about Africa? Portfolio Project
Find out more about Aids and HIV on the World Around
Portfolio Project website. In groups prepare a fact sheet telling young people
Ask each student to pick one of the photographs and to about Aids and giving them advice on how they can stay
find out more about it. Get them to write either a short safe.
story, poem or personal reflection based on the
photograph. Links
Youth Voice (Scotland, UNICEF), page 48.
Links Arts (Australia, illness and the underprivileged), page 101.
Rights of the Child (Great Britain, UNICEF and children’s
rights), page 17. CLIL – Literature, Page 126
About Ireland (Ireland, representative images), page 54. The CLIL page focuses on literature. African writers have won
Black History (The US, African-Americans), page 68. many prizes and awards for their writing. The Nobel Prize for
A Colonial Past (The West Indies, slavery), page 88. Literature has been won by two African writers, the Algerian-
born Albert Camus in 1956 and the Nigerian writer Wole
Lifestyles – pages 122-123 Soyinka in 1986. Go to www.worldaround.cc for more
Useful Words about African writers and download the extract from My
apartheid, prejudice, segregation, racism, blacks, whites, Mother, the Crazy African.
coloureds, separation, civil rights, government, justice,
injustice, ANC, reconciliation, forgiveness, confess, crimes,
police, interrogation, oppression
CLIL Subject Links

Law / Politics (apartheid, systems of government)
Talk Around
What is apartheid? What does apartheid mean? Where was
apartheid the recognised system of government? Who is
Nelson Mandela? Who is Steve Biko? What other countries
have systems that divide their people? Do you think the
system of government in your country is fair to everyone
who lives in the country?
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PHOTOCOPIABLE WORKSHEET AFRICA

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Aids (Page 124)

Choose the correct verb in the following sentences.
1 People with HIV may/must not develop full–blown Aids.
2 Aids can/may not be cured.
3 You can/should not get Aids by sharing the same glass or cup with someone.
4 Scientists hope a vaccine against Aids will/would be found in the future.
5 We must/might do more to educate young people about Aids.
6 If you think you have HIV or Aids you should/mustn’t contact a health worker for advice.
Advice on Aids
Use should, ought to and had better to write out 5 pieces of advice on dealing with Aids.
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Frida’s Story
Frida says “it seems that people with Aids have no right to love or care”.
Why does she say this?
What can we do to improve this situation?
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AFRICA SKILLS STATION

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Reading Speaking (TRINITY)
60 more.
Read ‘Frida’s Story’, on page 125, once Reread the piece on ‘Truth and Reconciliation’ on page 122.
Answer the following questions. Now look at these two reactions. Which one do you
agree with more? Explain why. (Approximately 3
1 Why did Frida go to live with her uncle? minutes.)
........................................................................................
1 “It is difficult to forgive and forget, but in a
........................................................................................ situation like South Africa it is the only way
2 Why did Frida’s cousin refuse to go in the taxi with Frida forward.”
and her mother? 2 “If someone commits a crime they should be
........................................................................................ punished for it, regardless of the circumstances.”
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3 Why did Frida feel that everyone she loved kept leaving
her?
Listening (PET)
........................................................................................ Listen to these people talking about life in South
Africa after apartheid has ended (Track 46). Each of
........................................................................................ the four sentences below summarises what one of
4 Why does Frida want to be a lawyer when she grows up? the people says. Write the number of the speaker in
the relevant box.
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........................................................................................ 1 Nothing practical has changed for country people
in South Africa.
2 People are no longer segregated but racism still
exists.
Writing 3 People now feel they are represented by the
Read ‘Frida’s Story’ on page 125 once again. Imagine government and that their opinions matter.
you are Frida.
4 Education still costs too much for most black
Write a letter to a government minister asking them
to do something to help people with AIDS. Ask them people.
to do something to guarantee some basic rights to
AIDS victims.
CLIL – Literature
Choose two of the characters from the story ‘My
Mother, the Crazy African’ by Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie and write a short dialogue for them. Act out
the sketch dialogue for the class.
Choose from the following settings:
1 A fast-food restaurant
2 At Ralindu’s birthday party
3 At a school play or concert
My World 12
My Life
How important are the following for
you? Rate them from 1 to 6.
Family
Friends AI D S
School Describe the impact of Aids
Success in today’s world. Stick your
report here.
Health
Appearance
Stick a
of your photo
best fri
end here
This is
“ Friendship is “ What makes a good friend?

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Put the following in order of importance. Friends…
Share news. Trust and confide in each other.

Show support to each other. Respect privacy.
Repay favours. Keep secrets.
STUDENT’S AUDIO CD AND WEB MP3S
UNIT 1 GREAT BRITAIN being with ordinary people and the ordinary people of
Britain loved her.
Track 1 Her children William and Harry were the first royal children
Standard English is a general term for a form of written and to go to school with other children. Diana made sure they
spoken English that is considered the model for educated had plenty of fun and laughs and she brought them to fun
people. There are no set rules or vocabulary for ‘standard fairs and adventure parks like any modern mum with her
English’ because, unlike languages such as French, English kids.
does not have a governing body that decides proper usage. She worked with many charities and her actions and
As a result, the concept of ‘standard English’ tends to be gestures, such as shaking hands with Aids patients and
flexible. lepers or walking through minefields, helped to raise public
The issue is particularly complicated because English has awareness about many issues as well as get rid of taboos.
become the most widely used language in the world, and However Diana’s marriage to Prince Charles was unhappy
therefore it is the language most subject to alteration by and the couple separated in 1992 and divorced four years
non-native speakers. I personally don’t believe there is such later. She lost her fairytale image and became a real person
a thing as ‘standard English’, although some people argue when she admitted that she had suffered from real
that old usage guides of the BBC, otherwise known as problems such as depression and the eating disorder
Received Pronunciation or RP, should be recognised as bulimia. But she continued her charity work and the public
‘standard English’. RP is a form of pronunciation of the supported her. Many people blamed the Royal Family for
English language, usually defined as the ‘educated spoken Princess Diana’s problems.
English of south-eastern England’. In the past BBC reporters Diana was killed in 1997 in a tragic car crash in Paris. The
used to have to speak RP, but they don’t have to do that world was shocked and her funeral was an emotional event
now. watched by millions of people. She is still remembered as
the “Queen of people’s hearts”.
Track 2 After her death, a special fund called the Diana, Princess of
Saint George’s Cross is English and is a red cross on a white Wales Memorial Fund was set up. So far it has raised more
background. Saint Andrew’s cross is Scottish and is a white than £100m for charities. In 2007, ten years after Diana’s
diagonal cross on a blue background. Saint Patrick’s cross is death, her sons, William and Harry organised a special
Irish and is a red diagonal cross on a white background. memorial concert for her. The concert raised millions of
pounds for Princess Diana’s favourite charities.
Track 3
Boy 1: I think teenagers need places to hang out! Small Track 4
children have play areas, and older teenagers (18 I was a bit nervous leaving Wellington College. I wasn’t
and 19-year olds) can go to pubs and restaurants! sure if I’d fit into Altwood Comprehensive. But the
But there is nowhere for teenagers like me to go! welcome I got was fantastic. All the kids were really nice
Girl 1: There should be bicycle lanes so we can all cycle to and good fun and the atmosphere was brilliant. They all
school. slagged me off a lot about having gone to Wellington
Boy 2: I think the Government should be more caring, because it’s a private school, but it was good fun. In
and take a greater interest in children and the comparison to Wellington my new schoolmates and
environment. teachers are much more friendly. Most people at Wellington
Girl 2: I think that they should work to stop child poverty used to call me by my surname, Evans. I suppose I had got
in the UK, Europe and Africa. used to it, but now that I think back it wasn’t very friendly.
Boy 3: I think they should publish weekly newsletters for Kids at Wellington were snobbier about things like clothes.
children, provide information, and show us that They would slag you off if you didn’t have designer clothes.
they really care about what we think. We need to Here they make fun of your clothes if you look stupid.
know that we are an important part of their plans. Everyone is into trainers and sports gear and they don’t
Girl 3: I think they should focus on climate change and care about all the famous designers.
global warming so that there will be a world for us We study more or less the same subjects and there’s the
in the future. same amount of work to do in both schools. Wellington
had better sports facilities and it had its own theatre and
MP3 Princess Diana stuff like that, which was cool.
Diana Spencer was born on 1 July 1961. Her father was an The best thing about Altwood are the girls. There were girls
Earl and her family was wealthy and important. She went in Wellington but there were only about 50 to around 700
to private school then moved to London where she worked boys and they kept very much to themselves. At Altwood
as a nanny and kindergarten assistant. When Diana was the ratio is about 50:50. We all hang around together and
just 20 she married Prince Charles, who was 13 years older go to the cinema and stuff at the weekends. My social life
than her. More than a billion people all over the world is much better now.
watched the wedding on television. Diana became a figure
of hope for many people, like a princess in a fairytale. Track 5
As soon as she got married Princess Diana became involved Interviewer: Okay Steve. Can you tell me about your
in the Royal Family’s official duties. She visited schools and eating habits?
charities and opened hospitals and attended events. Steve: Well I rarely have time for breakfast, as I’m always
Princess Diana was warm and affectionate and enjoyed late in the morning. I usually grab a banana and a yoghurt
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drink as I’m running out the door to school at about and encourage people in power to consider some of
twenty to nine. Lunch at school is at 12.30 and I’m starving the issues that will affect the young people in the
by that time. I usually go to the school canteen with my future, such as global warming and the
mates. Typically I have a burger or chicken and chips and a environment.
carton of milk. We only really have dinner together at the Int What is your future career ambition?
weekends because mum and dad both work until late and Alice I would really like to be a politician. I feel that there
Ken, my brother, and I couldn’t be bothered cooking. are so many terrible things happening in the world
Sometimes we cook a frozen pizza or maybe open a tin of that I have a duty to try to put some of them right.
spaghetti or something. But usually we get a takeaway. I Of course, I’ll need a career before politics. I’d like to
eat loads of snacks. I have a packet of crisps and a can of study environmental sciences, but it’s too early to
Cola mid-morning. Then I snack on biscuits or chocolate as say for certain - I’ve only just chosen my GCSE
soon as I get hungry. options. My favourite subject is music, but I’ll keep
that as a hobby.
Interviewer: And what about you, Rachel? Int Have you got a message for the government?
Rachel: I get up around half seven and have breakfast Alice Take a lead on climate change and become a role
with the others. We usually have cereal and milk. Mum model for the rest of the world. The evidence is
makes us a cooked breakfast at the weekend. I love that. I there - we are destroying the planet and we need to
bring a packed lunch to school and I eat it in the canteen do something to stop that now.
at 12:45 with my friends. We all have more or less the
same thing: a tuna or ham sandwich, a juice, some fruit Track 7
and a yoghurt. I usually buy a coffee and a chocolate bar The largest national group of people born outside Britain
after lunch as a treat. In the evenings we usually eat but who live there now are from India. There are 450,000
together again. Mum cooks when she comes in from work. people born in India currently living in Britain.
She usually makes pasta as that’s quick. Sometimes she just Following that is Pakistan with 300,000 people.
heats up a ready meal if she’s tired or late. I eat a lot of Germany and the Caribbean come next, both with 250,000
fruit throughout the day. I don’t have many snacks as I’m people currently resident in Britain but born outside it.
saving my money to buy an iPod! And then surprisingly we have the USA with 150,000
nationals currently living in Britain.
Interviewer: And finally Del…
Del: I have a huge breakfast at about eight o’clock. I take a MP3 CLIL Geography
bowl of cereal and then 3 or 4 slices of toast and a cup of Interviewer: Helen, an archaeology student at Leicester
tea. Dad and I have breakfast together as mum goes out to university in England applied to go on an
work really early. Dad makes my lunch: a cheese roll, fruit Erasmus exchange and she is here to tell us
and biscuits. I usually buy a can and a packet of crisps as about her experience. Good morning,
well. I have lunch in the canteen in school. Lunch break is Helen.
at twenty to one, and we’ve got 40 minutes altogether. In Helen: Hello.
the evening I have dinner with mum. She loves cooking Interviewer: So Helen, where did you go on your
and we always have meat and veg. Sometimes she makes Erasmus exchange?
Italian or Indian food. We always leave a dinner for dad to Helen: I went to the University of Pisa in Italy.
microwave when he comes in from work around eight. Interviewer: And what did your family and friends think
when you decided to go to Italy?
Track 6 Helen: They were very surprised because I was
Int: Hello Alice, what political issues are you most never very good at languages at school. But
passionate about? I explained to them that that was exactly
Alice That’s easy! Global warming. Today’s politicians are why I should go.
not doing enough to stop global warming and soon Interviewer: Could you speak any Italian, then?
it will be too late. If we destroy the earth, we have Helen: No, not a word. I went to Italy in July and
nowhere else to go. We must do everything we can did a one–month intensive language course
to save our planet! before I started at the university. That was
Int: What is the biggest issue for young people in your great fun. I shared a room with a Greek girl
constituency? who spoke very little Italian and even less
Alice Young people want more things to do and more English. And that really motivated us to
places to go. They need better transport to be able learn so that we could speak to each other.
to get places. We live in a very rural area, and often Interviewer: What do you think you gained from your
there is very little to do. But it can be difficult and year in Italy?
expensive for young people to travel to the bigger Helen: Well, I made a lot of good friends and I
towns. experienced living in a different culture
Int What do you hope to achieve while you are a which was great. I also learnt a new
member of the Youth Parliament? language which will be very useful when I
Alice I want to be a good and fair representative for the finish my degree and start applying for jobs.
young people in my constituency. I would also like I’m even thinking of learning some other
to put serious political pressure on the government languages – probably Spanish and French. I
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think it’s a shame that so many people World Cup he fulfilled every young schoolboy’s dream.
around the world (not just in England) have Thanks to his performances with Arsenal and England Theo
the attitude that English is the international was awarded the 2006 BBC Young Sports Personality of
language so why bother learning anything the Year Award.
else.
Interviewer: So would you recommend the Erasmus MP3 Books are cool
exchange to other students? One
Helen: You bet! I’m volunteering to promote the Jake Johnson has nothing special planned for his summer
Erasmus scheme to first–year students in my holidays – until he gets home and discovers that his front
department at university. I hope I’ll door is open and his dad lying on the floor.
encourage them to go and discover Europe It turns out that Jake’s dad is not just a businessman. He
for themselves. also works for the secret service. So when Jake is asked to
Interviewer: Well Helen it sounds like you had a great look after a mysterious map, it leads him on an eventful
time. So all you students out there why not journey across England and Scotland where he meets new
follow Helen’s example and get out there friends and enemies!
and apply for the Erasmus exchange. And You can never guess what is going to happen next and
don’t let your zero language skills stop you there’s lots of suspense, like when Jake spies two men
from applying. nosing around his grandma’s car in the middle of the night.
Two
UNIT 2 ENGLAND Fletcher Moon is a proper, qualified detective – so what if
he is only 12! But he forgets the rules about detectives
Track 8 NOT getting involved with the case when a series of
Hi, I’m Megan. I speak English though I can understand mysterious crimes unfold at his school.
Welsh. My mum is from Wales. She always speaks Welsh to One thing leads to the other – a broken nose, a pierced
my grandmother who moved in with us 3 years ago. I’ve ear, a tattoo, ginger hair, being arrested for arson – and
never really spoken Welsh, though. then escaping from the law! It’s a fast-moving, funny plot
I’m Dan and I mostly speak English. Sometimes when I’m at which keeps you turning over every page!
home I speak Patois, it’s like Jamaican slang. My dad came
from Jamaica and he always talks Patois. It’s cool when Track 10
we’re out together because no-one can understand us. Speaker 1
Hello, I’m Uma. I speak English in school but I always speak Hi this is Kirstie in Alberta, Canada. I really enjoyed this
Punjabi with my family. My grandfather came here from short book. Now where will I leave it?
Pakistan over 50 years ago but he still can’t speak English Speaker 2
properly. I’m Markus in Vienna. I found this in the airport when I
I’m Rachel and I speak English. I’ve always lived in London was leaving Canada. It was short which is good as I find it
but my grandparents were from Austria and they came hard to read in English. I’m going to release it now…
here during the Second World War. My parents want me to Speaker 3
learn Yiddish, that’s a Jewish language. But I don’t see the I’m Anya, I’m Austrian, but I’m studying in Paris. I found
point. All my friends speak English! this book in the train station on my way back from the
Hello, I’m Weibo. My family moved here five years ago Easter holidays.
from Hong Kong. I speak English and Chinese, though I’m Speaker 4
more comfortable in Chinese. I learned English in Hong I’m Jenny from New York. I found this great little book
Kong, but it’s always different when you have to speak it when we were visiting the Louvre. I’m going to leave it in
all the time. Central Park. I wonder who will find it…
Speaker 5
Track 9 Hello. I’m Pete from Oxford, in England. I was over here
Eighteen-year-old Theo Walcott is widely thought to be visiting my sister and guess what? I found this book.
England’s brightest young football talent. Speaker 6
He won a sponsorship deal with Nike when he was just 14. I’m Chanu from Bombay in India. I was in Oxford to do an
Theo went to play for the Southampton senior side when English course and I found a book. It will surely help me
he was 15, and became their youngest-ever player. He then improve my English!
hit the headlines in January 2006 when he was transferred Speaker 7
to Arsenal in a deal worth £12 million, making him the Hi, I’m Sabina from the Netherlands. I’m on my gap year
most expensive 16-year-old in the history of English and I found this book on a train in India.
football. Then on his 17th birthday he signed a professional
contract with Arsenal reputedly worth £1million per Track 11
season. Manager: Hello, Oxfam. Carla speaking.
Walcott was also the youngest-ever player to line-up for Alan: Hello, this is Alan Wilson. Can I speak to the
England when he played against Hungary at just 17 years manager, please?
old. Manager: Speaking. How can I help you Alan?
When he was selected to play for England in the 2006 Alan: Er. Hello, I’m ringing up for information on
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voluntary work in your lungs, and the work was very hard. I
shop. became so unhealthy, that when I lifted the
Manager: Good. We’re always looking for new people. heavy baskets, I pulled my bones out of their
How old are you, Alan? joints.
Alan: 17. Question: And now you are too ill to work.
Manager: And are you still at school? Answer: Yes, I am.
Alan: Yeah, I’m at sixth form college. I’m Question: What age were you when you became ill?
studying for my A-levels next June. Answer: I was about thirteen years old when it started,
Manager: And have you ever done voluntary work and it has got worse since. When my mother
before, Alan? died I had to look after myself.
Alan: No, but I have worked in the local Question: Where are you now?
supermarket. Answer: In the poor house. I cannot work now, so I
Manager: Really? What did you do? cannot look after myself.
Alan: I worked at the checkout, on the till.
Manager: Interesting… Are you still working there?
Alan: No, I left a few weeks ago. I’d like to do some UNIT 3 WALES
voluntary work now that I have some extra
time. Track 13
Manager: That’d be great. When would you be able to Huw: Hey, Rhys, have you heard Super Furry Animals’
work? latest CD?
Alan: Well, I’m free after school, from 4 o’clock on, Rhys: No, I don’t like the Super Furry Animals.
and at the weekends. Huw: What? I don’t believe you. They’re brilliant!
Manager: Okay. Well, can you come in Friday after Rhys: They think they’re brilliant! I think they’re weird.
school, Alan, and we can have a chat? Huw: They’re not weird, they’re original.
Alan: Sure, I’ll drop in at 4. Rhys: If they’re so original why don’t they sing in Welsh?
Manager: Great. Can you leave your phone number just All their songs are in English.
in case there’s a problem? Huw: They sing in English so more people can
Alan: Sure, I’ll give you my mobile: 084-7711453. understand them. They sing in Welsh too
sometimes.
Track 12 Rhys: Yeah, well I still think they’re rubbish!
The English eat more chocolate than any other country.
On average the English spend £1.80 each week on Track 14
chocolate. One, Nat
There are 2 million cocoa producers in Ghana. I became a vegetarian a few years ago after I saw a
Most Ghanaian cocoa farmers get only 1.2% of the price documentary on how animals were treated and killed in
we pay for their chocolate. abattoirs. It disgusted me and I decided not to eat meat
In the last 5 years the demand for Ghanaian chocolate again. I stopped eating fish last year for the same reason. I
went up by 30%. just don’t think we should hurt animals. There’s enough
In the last 5 years the price Ghanaian farmers are paid food for everyone in the world without having to kill living
went down by 30%. creatures.
Is this fair?
Two, Eddie
MP3 CLIL History The earth is going to run out of resources if we keep
Question: What hours did you work? farming the way we are doing now. Parts of the Amazon
Answer: I worked from five in the morning until nine at jungle have been cut in order to farm beef for McDonald’s
night in a linen mill. with serious consequences for the rest of the world. Raising
Question: What time was allowed for meals? animals in order to eat meat uses more than 10 times as
Answer: We were allowed forty minutes at noon. much water as a vegetarian diet. When you consider the
Question: Were there any break times for breakfast, or a water shortage in the world, I think we should all make the
drink? effort to become vegetarian or at least to eat less meat.
Answer: No, there weren’t.
Question: What happened if you worked slowly, or were Three, Sandra
late, what would they do? When my dad had a heart attack last year the doctors told
Answer: They would hit us with a strap. him to cut down on red meat. He decided to become a
Question: What work did you do? vegetarian and my mum and I joined in to encourage him.
Answer: I was a weigher in the card-room. We all decided to stay vegetarian and I feel much healthier.
Question: What is the carding-room like? I’ve got loads more energy and generally feel better.
Answer: It is very dusty. You cannot see each other for
dust. Track 15
Question: Did working in the card-room affect your A: Did you hear what happened at the Eisteddfod?
health? B: What?
Answer: Yes; it was so dusty, the dust got into my A: They stopped a children’s puppet show because it
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was being performed in English. with a local accent could call themselves Scottish. Fewer
B. Well, the Eisteddfod has a rule that Welsh must be than half said they would view someone born in England
spoken. as Scottish even if they had a Scottish accent. Only one in
A. The puppet show had a translator who was ten said they would consider a non-white person, born
translating everything into Welsh. The show was abroad, with a non-Scottish accent Scottish, even if they
bilingual. had been living and working in Scotland for years. That
B: But the whole point of the Eisteddfod is to promote figure rose to fifteen per cent if the person was white.
the Welsh language. Professor David McCrone, one of the authors of the
A: But not everyone in Wales speaks Welsh, and lots of Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, said it showed that identity
people only speak Welsh as a second language. was not a “fixed concept but varied according to context”.
English is their first language.
B: I know, but it is important to have a festival that Track 18
promotes the Welsh language. The Eisteddfod Hi, I’m Brian and I live in Stromness, which is in the Orkney
encourages musicians and writers to perform in islands. I haven’t always lived here. I was born in Edinburgh
Welsh and to use their native language. but my family moved here when I was nine. Both mum and
A.: And if someone doesn’t speak Welsh? dad are from Stromness. They left the Orkneys to get work
B: There are lots of headphones with translations and but they always wanted to go back. I found it really hard to
explanations in English. The Eisteddfod is unique settle at first. All my friends were in Edinburgh and
because it is the only arts festival that is in Welsh and Stromness seemed so small and boring. I just hated being
we should be proud of it. here and I was really horrible to the kids in school, too. I’d
A: I suppose you’re right. say things like “Oh, in Edinburgh we do this... or in
Edinburgh nobody would wear that”.
MP3 CLIL Sport Then I suppose I got bored complaining and I realised there
Speaker 1: was lots to do in Stromness, too. It’s just different. My old
The most popular sport in Wales is not football, it’s rugby. friends from Edinburgh always come up for a few weeks in
The sport has a special place in the culture of Wales, and the summer. They love it here. We can go surfing and seal-
the Six Nations, a rugby tournament between Scotland, spotting. Of course we don’t get all the films and there
England, Ireland, Wales, Italy and France is one of the most aren’t many trendy shops but I don’t really care about
supported events in the nation. Strangely, during the clothes. During the winter I play football and I spend loads
tournament a lot of people suddenly fall ill and have to of time on the Internet. If you want you can check out a
take sick leave from work. They soon recover after the photo of me scoring a goal on the Orkney Youth Football
tournament has finished. website. After school I’d like to go to Edinburgh to
Supporters will do anything to go to the matches. One university, I want to study zoology. Then, I’m definitely
supporter sold the lead tiles off the roof of his house to be coming back to Orkney!
able to buy tickets for the 1999 World Cup. When Wales
won the Rugby Grand Slam in 2005, 40,000 Welsh people MP3 Youth Voice
travelled to Edinburgh to watch the match against My name is Rachel Parker, I’m 15 and from Scotland and
Scotland. This means that 1 in 70 people in Wales went to my role in UNICEF Youth Voice is that of Youth Advisor. I
the match. For the match against Ireland, over 400,000 will be advising on ways in which UNICEF can raise
gathered on Henson Hill to watch it on a big screen. And awareness among young people and ways in which it can
the Welsh National Poet, Gwyneth Lewis, wrote a poem to involve more young people in its work.
celebrate Wales’ victory! I have always been interested in children’s rights and I first
heard about Youth Voice when I was researching UNICEF
and young people for a school assignment. As I read more
UNIT 4 SCOTLAND about Youth Voice, I realised that I wanted to get involved
too, so I could help others who are less fortunate than
Track 16 myself.
One I applied to be a Youth Advisor but I didn’t think I would
Crawford tartan has a red and green check with a fine get the role. I was really surprised when I was asked down
white check on top. to London for an interview. I was very nervous but the
Two UNICEF UK staff were really friendly which gave me a lot
MacDonald tartan has a blue and green check with a fine more confidence.
red check on top. I am excited about becoming a Youth Advisor because I am
Three looking forward to raising funds for UNICEF as well as
Abercrombie tartan has a dark blue and green check with a raising awareness about important issues among other
fine white check on top. young people.
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top. Here at Dundee Council we are considering the possibility
of electronic tagging for young people between 10 and 16
Track 17 who repeatedly commit crimes. Tagging is now used for
Nine out of 10 people said a non-white person who spoke adults who commit crimes and over 550 people have been
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tagged so far. An electronic tag is put on your wrist or UNIT 5 IRELAND

ankle so the police can monitor where you are.
They can also communicate with you via a radio in the tag. Track 21
People who are tagged usually have to stay in a specific Well, Ireland is an island and it’s divided into the Republic
place or area for a period of time each day. By tagging of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The Republic of Ireland is
young people we could make sure they were at school and the official description of the state while Eire and Ireland
could check what they were doing throughout the day. are the official names. Ireland is divided into 32 counties
We also have plans to tag asylum seekers, people coming and Northern Ireland is also known as ‘the Six Counties’.
out of prison and witnesses who don’t want to appear in Some people also call Northern Ireland ‘Ulster’ but this is
court. wrong because Ulster is one of the 4 provinces of Ireland
and it is made up of Northern Ireland and 3 other counties:
Track 20 Donegal, Monaghan and Cavan. Many people, specially in
Woman: What are going to do about Dave Anderson and the North, refer to the Republic of Ireland as ‘the Free
Morag Connolly? State’ because it is free from British rule.
Man: This is the first time Dave’s done something
serious, isn’t it? Track 22
Woman: Yes, but Morag has caused lots of problems One
before. Dublin has a great reputation here in Italy and is far more
Man: Yeah, I know all about Morag. What’s she done popular with our students than the UK. We continually
this time? hear that families are wonderful, the Dubliners are joyous
Woman: They locked Miss Smith, the Chemistry teacher in and friendly people and that the city offers everything.
the cupboard. She was in there for two hours. Students enjoy the atmosphere in Dublin and the main
She was terrified because she’s afraid of the dark activity is the nightlife and pubs. Happy students are the
and she’s claustrophobic. base of our business and Dublin is the city to study in.
Man: When was this? Two
Woman: This morning. They’re with their class now. We send students to Ireland, especially to Dublin. We think
Man: Ok. Well first they both have to apologise. Then that Dublin is safer than London and that’s why we prefer
maybe Dave should do detention with Miss Smith it to London. Students like the atmosphere of the city,
for a couple of weeks. He can clean the lab for Temple Bar in the evenings, the pubs, the people and the
her and things like that. parks. During their spare time, they go sightseeing through
Woman: And Morag? Ireland, and they visit other Irish cities. We can say that
Man: I think we should suspend Morag for a while. none of our students have had difficulties while studying in
She’s done this sort of thing before and Dublin.
detention hasn’t stopped her. Three
Woman: Good idea. I’ll call them both, then we can ring Many Basques claim great affinity with Ireland, as it is a
their parents and inform them, too. small nation that achieved nationhood only 80 years ago.
Students also like the friendliness of the Irish, the fact that
MP3 CLIL Art the Irish are better speakers of English and it is only four
Woman hours away by plane. Students enjoy the social life in and
Hi, I’m Doreen and I work with the Travelling Gallery. The around the pubs, traditional music and dancing, visits to
Travelling Gallery is a unique mobile art gallery on a bus. It the countryside and the monumental and architectural
travels all over Scotland showing contemporary art heritage. One problem that students have encountered is
exhibitions. The Gallery does 2 exhibitions a year, for about the relatively high cost of everything, especially food, drink,
16 weeks at a time, and it usually stops in a different town transport and, amongst smokers, tobacco.
every day.
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It visits schools, high streets, community centres, shopping There are approximately 25,000 Travellers in Ireland. This is
centres, art centres, hospitals and colleges. Everybody is less than 1% of the total population. In view of this,
welcome to the Travelling Gallery and the staff on board providing well-serviced accommodation for all Traveller
are always available to answer any questions about the families is not an unrealistic aim.
artists and their work. However, 24% of Travellers are currently living in
unserviced sites or by the side of the road. Unserviced sites
I work with the Education Programme. Our programme lack basic requirements such as regular rubbish collection,
helps communities get to know real working artists. We running water, toilets, bath and showers, access to
run workshops for students, where artists explain what electricity and fire precautions.
their work means and help students create their own piece Living in these conditions greatly reduces the life
of art. We also give out education packs which are linked expectancy of the Traveller community. Only 5% of
with the school curriculum. Exhibitions include painting, Travellers are 50 years old and a mere 2% of Travellers are
sculpture, photography, installation and film. over 65.
Traveller families live in conditions that no other section of
Irish society would be expected to tolerate. Studies have
shown that there is a critical link between improved
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accommodation for Travellers and better standards of at the desk told me to come back the next day, as my
education, health and employment in the Traveller rucksack would be on the next plane.
community. The weather was very stormy in Ancona, and I spent my
The number of Traveller families awaiting accommodation first 24 hours with no coat or proper footwear. I tried
is in excess of 1207. This rate of accommodation provision ringing Ryanair’s customer service lines, but they were really
will not even keep pace with the projected 4% annual expensive and I soon ran out of phone cards.
increase in Traveller population. When I returned to the airport 24 hours later, I was told
that my baggage still wasn’t there and that the best I could
MP3 Annie Moore do was to hope that it might arrive after a further 24
It was December 1891. Annie Moore stood in line with her hours. I was cold, wet and filthy. I was staying in a cheap
two younger brothers, Philip and Anthony. They were hotel and using up most of the money I had saved for my
waiting to board the SS Nevada, a ship that would take holiday on phone calls. At this stage, all I wanted to do
them from Ireland to New York. Annie’s red hair blew in was to go home.
the wind and tears fell from her green eyes. She could not I asked if Ryanair could arrange to fly me back to the UK.
believe they were leaving Ireland. Eventually a Ryanair controller in England said I could have
Annie wondered if she would ever come back to Ireland a place on the flight, if I paid an extra £160. It was getting
again. Yet, she knew she had to get on the ship. Even late and I had nothing but the wet, filthy light clothing I
though she was sad, she was also excited about seeing her was wearing, so I decided to accept the offer. The situation
parents again. They had gone to America two years earlier was entirely Ryanair’s fault, but I was left helpless and
with her older brother. It would be wonderful to have the desperate. Any decent company would have given me
whole family together. Her parents had jobs in New York. money or free flights! What made me really angry was that
They did not like the big city, but they had an apartment they would see my desperation, caused by their
and enough money for food and clothing. Life was better incompetence, as an opportunity to make even more
than it had been in Ireland. money by charging me £160 for changing my flight.
Annie and her brothers were on the ship for 12 days. They Now I’ve set up a website helping customers who feel they
were in steerage class, which meant they were in a large have been cheated or badly treated by Ryanair. At least I
room with many other people. The ship was crowded, and feel as if my bad experience can help someone else. Oh,
the food was poor. Annie watched her brothers very closely and my rucksack was not lost forever. It turned up at
to make sure they were safe. The people in steerage class Stansted, apparently having been to France
did not get to go on the deck very much. It was very cold
on the ship. Many people got seasick. Track 24
On January 1st, 1892, the ship reached New York. The I was in my third year at high school when the bombing
Statue of Liberty welcomed them as they sailed into the started. We knew it was going to happen sooner or later.
harbour. It was a beautiful sight and everyone cheered and I’d heard my parents talking about it in hushed voices after
cried. Annie was very happy that the trip was almost over. we had all gone to bed. My dad was a doctor in the local
Then the captain announced that the ship would dock at hospital and mum was a teacher on the other side of the
Ellis Island. Everyone who was in good health would fill out city. We were fairly well off, and lived in a nice area. Soon
forms to stay in America. after the Americans started bombing mum stopped work
Annie was the first one off the ship. She was very surprised as it was too dangerous for her to cross town to go to
when an official gave her a $10 gold piece. At first she school. A few weeks after that a bomb fell near our street
didn’t understand. She had never seen so much money, and my parents stopped me and my two younger sisters
and she did not know why he had given it to her. He from going to school. For a while mum taught us at home.
explained that Ellis Island was new, and the $10 was a gift Then, one night, our parents woke us up in a hurry. They
to the first person off the ship. As an extra bonus, Annie told us to put a change of clothes and our favourite things
realized it was her 15th birthday! in a small rucksack as we were leaving Baghdad. I threw a
And so it happened that Annie became the first immigrant photo of my best friend, my favourite book and my first
to land on the newly opened Ellis Island. Now, over 100 doll into the rucksack and ran downstairs. Dad was waiting
years later, a statue of Annie and her brothers stands on in the car behind the house. We all got in and he drove
Ellis Island (which is now a museum). A similar statue can towards Karkuk in the north. We left the car there, at my
be found in Cobh, Ireland, where they began their voyage. uncle’s, and took the first bus in the morning to Mosul.
Since then, over 17 million people have entered the United From there, my dad paid a driver to take us close to the
States through Ellis Island. Turkish border. We walked over the mountains to the next
village. It felt as if we had been walking for days. When we
MP3 Ryanair got to the village my dad asked where we were, and I
I was really looking forward to my holiday. I was a student, could see the relief on his face when the people answered
and had had a difficult year. I hadn’t much money, but I that we were in Turkey. From there, we got buses and lifts
wanted to travel, so I booked a cheap Ryanair flight from or walked as far as the coast where my parents had
Stansted to Ancona in Italy, and I had planned to cross the arranged for smugglers to take us in their boat to Italy. I
Adriatic by boat. I had packed all of my stuff, my tent, will never forget that journey. I didn’t think we would
waterproof clothing, walking boots, in my rucksack. I survive. The sea was rough and we were all sick. When we
checked it in in Stansted. When I arrived in Ancona I got close to the coast we had to hide under a heavy canvas
waited and waited but my rucksack didn’t arrive. The lady blanket. The police were waiting for us on the shore. They
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took us to a centre for asylum seekers where we got food hasn’t she?
and clean clothes and a bed to sleep on. I was so tired. I Clare: Yes, you should listen to her on the
must have slept for days. My dad had studied in Dublin and compilation album, A Woman’s Heart. It’s
his brother was living there. That’s how we got to be here. fantastic!
I really hope we can stay! Interviewer: Yes, we’ll just listen to a little piece from
that album now. And thank you very much
Track 25 Clare for coming on the Traditional Music
Interviewer: You’re a Catholic and you’ve chosen not to Show today and talking to us about Sharon
send your children to Catholic schools but Shannon.
to integrated schools. Why have you sent
them to integrated schools?
Woman: Because I think people need to change. UNIT 6 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
When you put a group of children into a
room, they’re not going to turn round and Track 26
ask each other “Are you Catholic, are you The Everglades in Florida is a huge swamp that was once
Protestant?”. Kids just want to play and the bottom of the sea. It is home to thousands of alligators
have fun. and has its own unique ecosystem.
Interviewer: How do you think people have changed?
Woman: I think most people have realised that we’re The middle of the United States is a flat dry windy area
not different from each other. For years known as the Great Plains. This wheat prairie in Kansas was
Catholics and Protestants thought that the once home to the buffalo. In the 1930s farmers cut the
other community was different when really grass to grow other crops but the earth became dry and
we’re all very alike. We’re just ordinary blew away and nothing would grow. For years the area
people. was known as the Dust Bowl.
Interviewer: What do you feel that we should do for this
peace process to work? Water is scarce in this desert in New Mexico. It’s a good
Woman: I think we should take the leaders from place to go ballooning as the air is so hot and dry.
both sides and put them all somewhere
where they can sit and fight it out, because The Rocky Mountain range is the longest range in North
the majority of people just want to live, get America. The Rocky Mountain Park in Colorado is very high
on with their lives, look after their children, and cold. People go skiing there.
go to their work, come home and have a
normal life. Alaska is the largest (and coldest) state in the United
States. The north of Alaska is inside the Arctic circle. It is
MP3 CLIL Music too cold for trees to grow.
Interviewer: So Clare, tell us about your favourite Irish
musician. Track 27
Clare: My favourite Irish musician is Sharon The 13 red and white stripes represent the original 13
Shannon. She started performing when she states.
was eight years old with Disirt Tola, a band The 50 stars represent the 50 states in the United States
from County Clare – in the West of Ireland - today.
where Sharon comes from. She toured the The colour white is for purity and innocence.
United States with them when she was The colour red is for valour (courage) and strength.
fourteen. The colour blue is for justice and perseverance.
Interviewer: So she always wanted to be a musician?
Clare: Yeah, she did. She was a keen horse rider MP3 Film firsts
too. She was a competitive show jumper, In 1891 the American inventor Thomas Edison made the
but she gave it up when she was sixteen to kinetoscope, a special camera that allowed one person at a
focus on performing music. time to look at ‘moving pictures’ and in 1893 he opened
Interviewer: What instruments can she play? the first film studios near New York. In 1911 the first
Clare: She can play the accordion and the fiddle studios were opened in Hollywood and Hollywood soon
and the tin whistle. became the centre of the American film industry.
Interviewer: She has played with a lot of famous The first films were all silent movies and one of the biggest
musicians, hasn’t she? stars was a British clown called Charlie Chaplin who made
Clare: Yes, she has. Her first world tour was with his first film The Tramp in 1914.
The Waterboys. Shannon joined the band, The next revolution in cinema was sound and the first talkie
The Waterboys, for eighteen months, and was The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, in 1927.
then left when the band wanted to move 1927 was also the year of the very first Oscar ceremony.
back to a rock and roll sound. She also Colour was the next development and Gone with the
worked with Jackson Browne, Kirsty Wind, in 1937, was the first film in technicolour. But colour
MacColl and Sinéad O’Connor. was still very expensive so most films were still made in
Interviewer: And she’s done a lot of solo work too, black and white.
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The 1930s and 1940s are known as The Golden Age of Five
Hollywood. The studios became very important and over I have to say that I love the Bond films. All of them! They’re
500 films were made every year. fast-moving and glamorous and full of suspense and
The first televisions were produced in 1948 and became action. You always know what’s going to happen, but that
popular throughout the US in the 1950s. The popularity of doesn’t really matter. It’s interesting to see the special
television was bad for the film industry. Older people often effects, they can be really spectacular.
preferred to stay at home and watch TV while teens went Six
out to watch films in the local drive-in. Many films were I’m a romantic at heart and I just love a happy ending, so I
made especially for teens and in 1955 James Dean made suppose Pretty Woman has to be one of my all-time
his first film, East of Eden, and became a symbol for favourites. It’s a real Cinderella story, a beautiful poor girl
American teens. meets a handsome rich man, they fall in love, have
The 1960s was a bad time for the film industry and many problems, solve problems and live happily ever after.
television studios opened. Lots of independent cinemas Seven
closed down and in 1963 the first multiplex was opened in My favourite film is Shrek. Shrek’s far more than just a kid’s
the suburbs of Kansas City. cartoon. The plot is simple enough for kids; Shrek’s a
The 1970s saw the start of a new type of film: the grumpy ogre who befriends a talkative donkey and
blockbuster. Steven Spielberg’s Jaws in 1975 and George together they rescue a princess. But there are lots of other
Lucas’ Star Wars in 1977 both earned more than 100 issues, how people judge each other, greed etc. Plus the
million dollars. music is brilliant. Also, it has earned more money than any
Sony produced the first video recorder in 1975, which other animated film.
meant that people could still see films after they had gone
from the cinema. Track 29
Many of the studios were bought by multinationals in the Many popular sports teams use stereotypical pictures of
1980s and Hollywood concentrated on making Native Americans as their mascots. Some Native Americans
blockbusters or sequels of previous hits. find the concept of using humans as mascots spiritually
The cost of making films went up dramatically in the offensive. But most Native People who object to sports
1990s. By 1998 many films cost over $100 million to make teams are doing it because of the racist way in which
and stars had a long list of demands that included private Native Americans are portrayed. Words such as “Redskins”
jets and special food. and “Squaws” are offensive for Native Americans, but
It was 1994 when Steven Spielberg opened Dreamworks, some major professional and college sports teams use them
the first new studio to open in decades. as their names. Other teams with non-offensive names,
such as “Indians” or “Warriors,” still use offensive pictures
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One rituals. These things are hurtful and make Indians feel
I think my favourite film is Hairspray. It’s a remake of an angry, just as mocking pictures and names making fun of
older film and it tells the story of two American teenagers your culture would offend you. Most Native Americans do
who want to take part in a teenage dance show. The song not have a problem with sports teams that have non-
and dance routines throughout the film are great. And the offensive names and do not include rude pictures or
soundtrack went straight to number one in the charts. religious insults. Some Native American tribes have
Two welcomed local sports teams named in their honour, when
I really liked a film I saw quite recently called A Mighty those teams treat them respectfully.
Heart. It told the story of the American journalist Daniel
Pearl who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan, in 2002. I Track 30
think the acting was really good and it felt as if you were One
really watching and understanding what happened. I live in the middle of the country. A few weeks ago, we
Three had to call the sheriff’s office about a dog attack. We were
One of my favourite films is 3:10 to Yuma. It’s a classic told that there was only one officer on duty and that it
cowboy film, set in Arizona in the late 1800s. When the would take him at least 30 minutes to get to our house. It
outlaw Ben Wade is captured, an honest Civil War veteran would have been the same if someone had attacked me or
volunteers to deliver him to the train (the 3:10 to Yuma) my family. That is why I own several firearms.
that will bring him back to the city where his trial is going Two
to take place. The film is about the relationship between I carry a gun for self defence. Europeans don’t understand
the two men, but there are loads of shoot-outs and there’s that crime is everywhere and women need a means of self
fabulous scenery too. defence. I would be afraid to go out without my gun.
Four Three
One of the best films I’ve seen recently is Sunshine. It’s set Guns are fundamental to the American way of life. They
in 2057. The sun is going down and a group of scientists is won us our freedom during the war of independence and
sent on a mission to set off a massive bomb to re-ignite the we’ve had them ever since. The right to keep and bear
sun. The director, Danny Boyle, prepared the actors by arms gives Americans the freedom to protect themselves.
getting them to do space training and scuba diving. Even Four
though the story is a fantasy, it feels quite scientific and When I was a teenager, a friend of mine was accidentally
real. shot at another friend’s house. The father in that house
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owned guns. My friends started playing with one of them, Sue Grady: A search engine is a service which helps you
pretending to shoot at each other. But the gun was loaded find the information you want on the
and went off, and Keith died. He wouldn’t have died if his Internet. Search engines continually scan the
dad hadn’t got a gun at home. Easy access to guns just net for new websites and save the results in
leads to tragedy. an index which they can then access very
Five quickly. The most popular search engines
As a lifeguard, I’ve seen at least a dozen arguments on the are Google, Yahoo and Alta Vista, but there
beach which may have become lethal if someone had a are many others.
hand gun. People stop thinking clearly and react. They Interviewer: And how do you use a search engine?
shoot first and ask questions later. Sue Grady: It’s fairly simple. Search engines have a
search box where you type some key words
MP3 Kyoto Protocol related to the topic you are looking for
I think fighting climate change is really important. Many information on. It’s important, however, that
countries have got together to tackle the problem and you choose your key words well. For
have signed an agreement called the Kyoto Protocol. They example, imagine you are looking for
aim to slow down climate change by reducing their information on the anti-slavery organization,
greenhouse gas emissions by five percent by the year the Underground Railway. If you enter the
2012. They can do this by reducing fumes from things like words Underground Railway you will get
power plants and car exhausts, or by planting forests links to 2,340 000 pages. Some of these
which absorb the gases naturally. Greenhouse gases are pages will be about the London
bad because they are destroying the ozone layer that Underground, others about the New York
protects the earth from the sun’s harmful UVB rays. When Metro and various other metro systems
these rays get into our atmosphere they raise the earth’s around the world. And of course there will
temperature, a bit like being in a greenhouse. This be references to what you are looking for,
phenomenon causes all sorts of problems for our planet - too. So, it’s best to be more specific and
for example rising sea levels and extreme weather search for something like “Underground
conditions. America, the world’s most industrialised Railway black history anti-slavery”. Plus
country, has refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol because most search engines have advanced search
George Bush said the Protocol could damage the options which allow you to be more
American economy. But it’s not just whole countries that specific.
can make a difference - you can also do your bit for our Interviewer: Well, thank you Sue. That was very
planet. Walking or cycling to school instead of getting a interesting and helpful…
lift means less fumes go into the atmosphere. And there’s
lots more you can do…
UNIT 7 CANADA
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The US is one of the world’s top oil producers but it still Track 32
cannot produce enough oil for its own requirements. The Listen and write.
beautiful and remote state of Alaska contains some of the Hi, I’m Brittany and I chose law because I want to become
largest oil reserves in the US. Many people want to start a lawyer or a police officer.
drilling for oil in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In Canada the law changes from state to state. In the state
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is the largest nature where we are, Manitoba, you can’t drink alcohol until you
reserve in the US and it is home to caribou, polar bears and are 18 years old or over.
arctic foxes as well local Inuit tribes. The multinational oil You can drive a car when you’re 16 but you can’t drive
companies say that drilling for oil has become safe and that with anyone under 18 until you’ve reached your eighteenth
there would be minimal effects on the environment. birthday.
Environmentalists disagree and say that the effect of drilling When you’re 18 you can vote, and get married, though
in Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay has been disastrous. The worst oil you can get married if you’re 16 if you’ve got your parents’
spill in US history was in Prudhoe Bay. consent.
You can’t leave school until you’re 16 but you can start
MP3 CLIL IT part-time work once you’re 12.
Interviewer: Welcome, Sue. Can you tell us something At 12, too, you become legally responsible for your own
about finding information on the Internet? actions and can be sent to a Youth Prison or fined.
Sue Grady: Finding the exact information you want on
the web requires skill and practice. There Track 33
are many thousands of pages on each topic, One
so it is unlikely you will know the exact Todd Bertuzzi committed a criminal act and he should be
addresses of all the ones you need! punished. I think he should be sent to jail.
Interviewer: So how can you narrow down your search? Two
Sue Grady: Well, in order to help you narrow down I think Bertuzzi should be suspended for the rest of the
your search, you can use a search engine. season. I think he should also have to take anger-
Interviewer: What is a search engine? management classes.
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Three morning, Professor James.

What Bertuzzi did was horrible and I think he should be Professor: Good morning.
suspended indefinitely. I don’t think he should be allowed Interviewer: Now, I know that a lot of our listeners are
to play again. very worried about eating GM foods and
Four want to avoid eating them. So let me ask
Bertuzzi is being unfairly singled out. Hockey is a violent you professor, are we already eating GM
sport and players hurt each other all the time. I think he foods?
has suffered enough. I don’t think he should be punished. Professor: Yes, we are. Farmers have been growing
GM food crops such as corn, soya beans,
Track 34 and potatoes since the mid-1990s. You
Hi, I’m Nick and I’m a skater. won’t find very many GM fruit or vegetables
The first thing you want to learn is how to start moving on in your supermarket today, but a lot of the
your skateboard. A lot of beginners make the mistake of processed foods like breakfast cereals and
planting their foot on the back of the board when they vegetable oils probably contain GM
push off – this is called Mongo foot. ingredients.
You really want to learn to push off the proper way. Use Interviewer: Why is that?
your front foot to guide the board and the back foot to Professor: It’s because food companies buy soya beans
generate speed. To keep your balance when riding, keep and corn from many different farms and
your feet spread far apart, your shoulders straight and your they mix them together.
chin in line with your belly button. To make a sharp turn, Interviewer: So what are the benefits of GM foods?
shift your weight towards the side of the board you want Professor: In developing countries, malnutrition is a big
to turn towards. problem, because people often only eat the
There are several different ways of stopping your board. crop they can harvest, such as rice. This
The easiest ways are to use your foot to slow down or to means they don’t get the vitamins they
jump off the board. You can also shift your weight to the need. Food scientists want to add vitamins
back of the board and skid on the tail. to crops. A good example of this is the GM
But remember, there’s no right or wrong way to skate. So rice called Golden Rice. Golden Rice can
have fun and happy skating! help our bodies to make vitamin A. In the
developing countries, two million children
MP3 Kalle Lasn die each year because they don’t get
Kalle Lasn was born in Tallinn, Estonia, during the middle of enough vitamin A. And another 500,000
World War II. In 1944, as the Russian army approached become blind.
Tallinn, he escaped with his family to Germany. They lived Interviewer: So Golden Rice will save a lot of lives.
in a displaced persons’ camps for five years, and when Professor: We hope so.
Kalle was seven they emigrated to Australia. Interviewer: I’ve heard that we will be able to eat a
He went to school, then university, graduating with a BSc banana instead of having a vaccine against
in pure and applied mathematics. His first job was with the cholera. Is this true?
Australian Defence Department where he played computer- Professor: Yes, it is. Eventually GM plants will be like
simulated war games in the Pacific Ocean. When he was factories. They will produce useful things
23 he decided to go to Europe. His boat stopped in such as vaccines. At the moment, scientists
Yokohama for two days and he fell in love with Japan and are trying to add vaccines for hepatitis,
decided to stay there for a while. During the ’60s he cholera and malaria to tomatoes and
managed a market research company in Tokyo and made bananas. Vaccines are expensive to produce.
enough money to travel around the world for three years. They are difficult to keep and they are too
Then he returned to Japan, married Masako Tominaga, and expensive for people in developing countries
together they emigrated to Canada where he started a to buy. Edible vaccines will be easier to keep
documentary film-making company. and easier to take. Also, they will be
Over the next 15 years, his documentaries were broadcast cheaper.
on national networks such as PBS and CBC, and he won 15 Interviewer: What are the other health benefits of GM
international awards. In 1989 he produced a 30-second TV foods?
spot about the disappearing old-growth forests of the Professor: Soon you may not need to worry about
Pacific Northwest, but none of the commercial TV stations eating too many chips or too much fried
would broadcast it. He tried to buy television time to food. Scientists are making potatoes that
broadcast it privately, but nobody would sell him any absorb less oil when you fry them. They are
airtime. He realised that there was no democracy on TV also making cooking oils with fewer
airwaves and set up The Media Foundation in order to saturated fats. And that’s not all! They are
educate people about our consumer society and fighting also making low-calorie sugar beets.
for democracy in the media. Interviewer: Good news for all you dieters out there.
MP3 CLIL Science

Interviewer: Professor James, a food scientist, is here
today to talk to us about GM foods. Good
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UNIT 8 THE WEST INDIES Interviewer: OK, so now we’ve done our homework. We
know all about the country and the culture
Track 35 and we’ve learnt a few words of the local
The transportation of Africans to North America and the language. What’s next?
Caribbean formed one side of what has become known as Rosalind: You should not be wasteful with the local
the triangle trade. Ships would load up with guns, resources such as water and electricity. The
ammunition and manufactured goods in Britain and France, locals may only have a limited water supply
then sail for four months to West Africa where the cargo or electricity supply, so don’t take too many
was exchanged for Africans. Then came the middle passage showers and try to use the air conditioning
across the Atlantic, and the sale of the African people in as little as possible.
the Caribbean and in North American colonies. Finally, the Interviewer: And what about eating out?
ships loaded up with the sugar, tobacco and cotton Rosalind: Try and support the local economy. Eat and
produced in the colonies and sailed back to England and drink local produce. Don’t buy imported
France, where the raw produce was refined and re-exported products that you eat at home. Eat in
to other countries. restaurants owned by locals. Don’t head for
the nearest international fast-food
MP3 Music Piracy restaurant.
The best way to get started and get people interested in Interviewer: And lastly, what should we do when we are
your stuff is to give lots of live performances, gigs, festivals, out sightseeing?
parties. It doesn’t matter, man, as long as you’re out there. Rosalind: Try and protect the environment. Keep to
During the concerts sell your own CD: it’s a great way to the footpaths and don’t leave litter. Don’t
beat piracy and you can cut on the costs, too. scare or feed the local wildlife.
People respect you, man, when your music isn’t too Interviewer: That was very interesting. Thank you
expensive. Rosalind for talking to us today.
So, remember that if you don’t want to be pirated, keep
your prices down. People won’t buy a pirated recording if
they can get the real thing at a good price. UNIT 9 AUSTRALIA
Track 36 Track 37
Music is how many Jamaicans choose to define themselves. The Tasmanian Devil is a carnivorous marsupial. It is the
It’s the home of reggae. Jamaicans also invented Ska, a fast, size of a small dog. It hunts at night. It is very aggressive
off-beat reggae sound. Ska developed into rocksteady one and gives off a bad smell when it is scared or angry. It also
summer when it was too hot to dance fast. makes a loud screeching noise.
Rocksteady is a slow vocal style which allows dancers to get Tasmanian Devils eat together and are known for the loud
their energy and breath back after a fast session of Ska. noise they make when eating.
Bob Marley made roots reggae famous. Roots songs are The most famous Tasmanian Devil is the Disney character
more political and have a message of peace and anti- ‘Taz’.
corruption. With the advent of technology reggae
musicians began using computers to make their sounds and Track 38
ragga was born. Ian: I never celebrate Australia Day. Let’s be honest, the
people who arrived were setting up a penal colony where
MP3 CLIL Tourism British convicts could be sent. Australia was basically one
Interviewer: So, you want to be an ecotourist? Rosalind huge prison. I don’t think it’s a great choice for a National
James is here today to tell you a little bit Day. It’s just another day of the year for me.
about how you should behave when you are Sonia: Yeah, I suppose I celebrate Australia Day with my
on holiday. So what’s the first thing on your family. We’ve got the day off school and my parents don’t
list, Rosalind? have to go to work, so we usually go for a picnic on the
Rosalind: The first thing? Well, before you set off, you beach. I don’t think it’s a great choice of a day because
should find out about the country you are Australia’s native people are the Aborigines and Torres
visiting. What are the local customs and Strait Islanders, not the British. If you think about it, the
traditions? What kind of clothes should you arrival of the British meant the end of a peaceful life for
wear? For example, in some countries the the native people.
local people are offended by tourists who Ian: I don’t usually do anything special for Australia Day,
visit a religious building wearing shorts and but I suppose I do celebrate it because we always have a
vest tops. big family meal at my grandmother’s house. I don’t really
Interviewer: So, rule number one, don’t offend the agree with the holiday because Australians come from all
locals. And what about learning the over the world. One in four Australians were born in
language? another country, and most of my friends and family come
Rosalind: Locals really appreciate tourists who try to from different backgrounds. My granddad was Italian. My
learn a little of their language and who best friend’s family is Greek. My brother’s girlfriend’s family
show an interest in their culture. You only come from China. We need to find a day that will include
need to know a few words like: hello, how all Australia’s culture, not just the British one.
much is it and thank you to make local
people very happy.
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MP3 Molly Kelly 10 NEW ZEALAND

Molly Kelly was just 14 in 1931 when she led her eight-
year-old sister, Daisy, and 11-year-old cousin, Gracie, on a Track 40
nine-week journey through some of the harshest country I was going to New Zealand, to visit my cousins who I
on earth to return to their home in Jigalong, in Western hadn’t seen for a while. My uncle had planned a trip for us
Australia. to go to Queenstown. One night before I left, I got a call
Molly, Gracie and Daisy were taken away from their from my cousin to see if I wanted to go bungee jumping.
mothers in 1930 to be trained as domestic servants at the Of course, I said yes. I was really excited about the trip and
Moore River native settlement north of Perth. At the Moore I couldn’t wait to go bungee jumping.
River Native Settlement the girls were forbidden to speak Finally the day of the jump arrived. I was so excited, but my
their native language or eat Aborigine food. cousin had been feeding things into my head, about how I
During their escape from the camp, the girls evaded search might die and stuff. I tried to ignore him, but it didn’t really
parties and Aboriginal trackers, and lived off food they work too well. When it was my turn to go I got all strapped
caught or were given by sympathetic farmers and hunters. in, and went out onto the jumping platform. Then I made
They slept under bushes and in dug-out rabbit warrens, my first mistake... I looked down. I couldn’t let go of the
coped with infected sores and scratches, and took turns bar, and when I did, and I was told to jump, I just froze. I
carrying each other on the long trek. They oriented stood there looking like an idiot.
themselves by following the rabbit-proof fence of the title – Everybody was cheering for me to jump, but I couldn’t.
an important landmark for their clan, the Mardudjara After 10 minutes of just standing there, I went and sat back
people – which had been built to keep the rabbits out of down. I watched two people jump, and then I decided I
Western Australia. wanted to try again. I got out onto the platform for the
Molly was taken back to Moore River, along with her two second time, everybody was still cheering, and this time I
daughters, Doris and Annabelle, ten years after her initial didn’t think. The guy counted down, and I just jumped.
escape. She escaped again, this time carrying her Everybody was cheering, and it was the best feeling in my
18-month-old daughter Annabelle, but leaving the four- whole life. I will never forget the sensation I had once I
year-old Doris at Moore River. Annabelle was taken from jumped. I can’t explain it in words. I’m glad I finally plucked
her mother a year later. up to the courage to do it.
Molly was reunited with her children 20 years after her
second escape. Doris is the author of the book, but Track 41
Annabelle still refuses to believe that her mother was One
Aborigine. Molly Kelly died in 2004. Her story has become I went on a holiday in Australia and my dad wanted to take
symbolic of the sufferings of the stolen generation. us bush-walking. We tried to get him to use a map, but he
wouldn’t listen, and we ended up getting hopelessly lost,
Track 39 and I was chased by a snake. Seriously!
The flag was designed to be an eye-catching rallying Two
symbol for the Aboriginal people, and a symbol of their I did this tightrope walking thingy very high up once! I have
race and identity. The black represents the Aboriginal been climbing, abseiling, canoeing etc! But I
people, the red the earth and their spiritual relationship to bodyboard/surf in Cornwall in very extreme water, which
the land, and the yellow the sun, the giver of life. can be really scary and often you are pulled under water,
and it’s in your way so you can’t get up for breath!!! But
MP3 CLIL Biology it’s great fun as well!
Speaker: Three
Koalas are mammals and they are native to Australia. I’ve been snowboarding 14 times and I love it. I am an
Although they are often called bears they are not members advanced snowboarder and love a challenge. I once went
of the bear family. They are classified as marsupials which snowboarding in Austria and as I tried to turn, my foot
mean that the babies develop in their mothers’ pouches came off the board. I panicked because I was coming to
after birth, like kangaroos and wombats. Koalas live in the ice. I got to the ice and fell forward – I really hurt my
trees. They have very strong arms and legs; rough pads on head and was unconscious for over an hour. It didn’t put
their hands and feet and very sharp claws to help them me off though, and I’m going back to Austria this year for
hold on to branches. a week.
Four
Koalas eat eucalyptus leaves. An average koala eats 500 I’ve been swimming in the sea in Cornwall, which is
grams of eucalyptus leaves each day, chewing them to a freezing.
very fine paste before swallowing. The name koala is Five
thought to come from an Aborigine word which means ‘no A whole day of not talking for charity! That was well
drink.’ Eucalyptus leaves contains 50% water and 5% difficult and extreme because when teachers asked me
sugars and starches, so koalas drink very little extra water. questions, I couldn’t answer! That was hard for me.
This low energy diet means that the koala needs to sleep or Six
rest 18 to 19 hours each day. I went to Florida and I sat on a real live alligator! It was
really quite soft and I felt like I was going to squash it!
Koalas vary in size, and an adult koala can weigh between
5 and 14 kilos. They usually live up to 10 years in the wild
and 14 years in captivity.
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Track 42 UNIT 11 ASIA

It’s amazing how many people don’t stand up to bullies
because they’re scared of getting bullied themselves. People Track 43
should take a stand, because if bullies aren’t stopped they In 1498 the Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama, landed in
can go too far. Goa on the west coast of India. This opened the way for
I used to get called all sorts of names because I’m other Europeans to come to the country. In 1600 Queen
overweight and I’m useless at sport. Elizabeth I founded the East India Company, with the goal
I tried to ignore it at the start, but it was really upsetting. I of establishing trade routes with the east.
kept saying to myself that it was only name-calling, but it In 1608, the East India company set up their first
was really hurtful. permanent trading post in India, and two years later it
I started having bad dreams and my self-esteem was very opened its first factory. The company grew quickly, and by
low. I eventually started avoiding everyone, even my 1647 it owned 23 spice factories throughout India. In 1717
friends, because I thought everyone was laughing at me. the Indian Emperor agreed to let the company operate
I felt lonely and trapped. Thankfully, one of my friends got without paying taxes, and 15% of all goods imported into
worried and spoke to my mum. When mum asked me if I Britain came from India. At this time the company traded
was being bullied I broke down and cried. It was such a silks, tea, spices and cotton. The company was protected by
relief that someone else knew. I didn’t want to make a fuss the British Army, and by 1757 they effectively ruled India
at school, but my friends said they would help me stand up and most of the Indian sub-continent, which included
to the bullies. We told them to grow up and leave me modern-day Pakistan and Bangladesh. In 1857 the Indian
alone. Since I stood up for myself things have really soldiers in the British army rebelled, killing hundreds of
improved. British soldiers and their families. Thousands of British
Now I’m much more confident, and my schoolwork has soldiers were sent to India and the Indian Mutiny failed. In
improved dramatically. No-one bullies me any more and if I 1858 the British crown realised that a commercial company
think someone else is being bullied, I try to help them. could not control such a large area, and Queen Victoria
became the Empress of India. In 1885 the Indian National
MP3 CLIL Maths Congress was founded, in the hope of working towards
It was in fact an argument between gamblers in 1654 that independence for India. Then, in 1914, Mohandas Gandhi
led to the creation of the mathematical theory of came back to India after living in South Africa and became
probability by two famous French mathematicians, Blaise involved in the independence movement.
Pascal and Pierre de Fermat. A friend of theirs, a French
nobleman, Antoine Gombaud, Chevalier de Méré, and a Track 44
gambler, used to play a popular gambling game. The game Dinesh Singh:
consisted of throwing a pair of dice 24 times. At first, Hi! I’m Dinesh Singh, and I work for Microsoft Global
Antoine Gombaud bet that at least once, number six would Research, an IT company, in Bangalore. Why do companies
appear during a total of four rolls of the dice. Tired of this want to come here? Well, India has a highly educated
approach, he decided to change the game. He bet that he young population. Each year, more young people graduate
would get a total of 12, or a double 6, on every 24 rolls of in engineering and technical subjects in India than in the
the two dice. However, he soon realized that his old game USA. And don’t forget they all speak English. There are
gave him more winning rounds. excellent data communications links and since the price of
fibre optic cables went down, all Indian cities have
He asked his friend Blaise Pascal why his new game was high–speed international phone and internet access. Since
not as profitable as the old one. Pascal worked through the the government liberalised the economy, they have actively
problem and found that the probability of winning using encouraged the Information Technology services sector and
the new game was only 49.1 percent compared to 51.8 the government gives new companies grants and low-
percent using the old game. interest loans. This facilitates the setting up of Information
Technology-related companies. But I suppose one of the
This problem and others, posed by de Méré in 1654, led to most important factors for foreign companies is the cost of
an exchange of letters between Pascal and Fermat in which work. Here, in Bangalore, a qualified computer professional
the fundamental principles of the probability theory were earns about one tenth of what the same worker would
formulated for the first time. earn in Europe or the USA.
Because of the popularity of games of chance, the Track 45

probability theory soon became famous, and the subject One day my parents asked me to go to Pakistan to see my
developed rapidly during the 18th century. aunt. They said she was sick.
I trusted my parents and they said it was just for a couple
In 1812 Pierre de Laplace showed that the rules of of weeks.
probability are applicable to many scientific and practical I flew to Pakistan by myself. When I got off the plane my
problems. Today, the study of probability has practical uncle met me. He took my passport – I thought he was
applications in many fields like insurance, health, genetics, trying to protect me, in case someone tried to steal my bag.
physics and quality control. We went to a village and I just tried to enjoy myself. It was
strange. I wasn’t allowed to talk to my parents back in the UK.
Eventually I managed to speak to my parents and they said
it was okay and that they were all coming out. They came
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out and stayed for a few weeks but then they went back to There are new people in power, but the life of farm
the UK, leaving me in Pakistan. dwellers has not changed. If I could ask the government
Then I realised that they were going to get me married off. one thing, it would be please give us land ownership so we
I knew if I didn’t get married I couldn’t come back to the can stop being slaves and beggars. My daughter was born
UK. On the day I got married I just felt like running away. here and worked for 15 years – my wife has been doing
Everyone was celebrating, but I was miserable. the laundry for the white farmer for 20 years. We feel we
When I got back my parents said I couldn’t live with them have worked for this land and have rights. We have been
any more because I was a married woman. They made me to the Government Land Affairs office and they say that
go and live with my in-laws – but my in-laws didn’t treat after the election our problems will be addressed. Based on
me well and I wanted to leave. what the officials there said, we are hopeful that we will be
Then I found out about the children’s charity Barnardos. successful.
They’ve found me somewhere to live, somewhere where Three
no-one can find me. I had to leave all my friends and my I’d like to go to university but my parents can’t afford it. It’s
family behind. I can’t speak to them any more. My parents too expensive to get a good education. If this doesn’t
married me off because they thought it was the best for change, Blacks will never get the qualifications and skills
me, but it wasn’t – it ruined my life. they need to open their own businesses. They will always
have to work for the white man.
MP3 CLIL Religion Four
Jalaladdin Rumi, or Rumi, was born in the city of Balkh, in Ten years ago, black people couldn’t mix with whites – we
modern Afghanistan, on the 30th September, 1207. He is wouldn’t go to the same shop as white people. Now we
also known as Mevlana which means ‘our master’. He was work with white people and can travel to places with them
the son of the Islamic scholar and preacher, Bahâ al-Din. – blacks and whites can marry. My high school was great,
When Rumi was about ten years old, his father took the nothing bad about it. In black schools we now have
family and a small group of friends on a pilgrimage through computers, everything technological. Yet racism still exists.
the Middle East. This pilgrimage saved their lives, as If you go to a shop and it’s a white person serving, when
invaders from Mongolia attacked many cities in Afghanistan you give money you don’t give it hand to hand – you have
in 1221 and destroyed them. One of these cities was Balkh. to put it down on the table.
After travelling to Baghdad and Mecca, the family travelled MP3 Aids
across Syria and Turkey and finally settled in Konya, in One
Turkey, in 1229. The Turks called the area Rum (which As an African I believe that we should speak out about the
means Rome) because it used to be a Roman colony. Rumi problem. In Ethiopia, for example, when someone dies from
means ‘ belonging to Rome’ and this is where the poet’s AIDS no one says he dies from AIDS. They say he got a cold
name Rumi comes from. and that it turned into a fever or pneumonia or something
like that. So no one talks about AIDS and nothing is done
Rumi became a great scientific and religious scholar, and his to solve the problem. We need to call AIDS AIDS and a
talks drew large crowds of people. He saw poetry as a way COLD a COLD. The people will realise that AIDS is a
to preach and pray and today he is known as the greatest problem.
Sufi poet ever. His best-known works are the Divan-i Kabir,
a collection of poems and the Mesnevi which was also Two
written in verse. In the Mesnevi, he retells two hundred AIDS is directly linked to poverty. AIDS thrives in countries
stories from a wide variety of sources and he adds with high poverty levels, illiteracy (as seen among the black
commentaries and prayers. The Mesnevi’s sources include South Africans), war-torn countries, etc. The fact that AIDS
the Koran and traditional stories from Islamic and Jewish has migrated to all parts of the world, but seems to affect
literature and folklore. He turned the stories into verse and mostly the Sub-Saharan countries, helps conclude that it is
he changed them in order to emphasize a moral teaching. intertwined with the economy of a country. It is an
economical disease more than anything else. Developed
He is very popular in Turkey, the Middle East, and India and nations have HIV/AIDS victims, but the rate it affects and
he has also influenced Western authors and thinkers from spreads in these societies is not so alarming because of
Hans Christian Andersen to Goethe. several factors such as diet, working conditions, transport,
housing and a lot of other basic necessities. If the world
needs to control and eventually eradicate AIDS, we need to
UNIT 12 AFRICA improve the standards of living in the most vulnerable
countries.
Track 46
One
In the past ten years we have seen equality. People have a
voice now. There has been no change physically in my life,
but I am optimistic. This government listens to people, not
like the previous one. The best thing they have done is to
B.F.000.110.0
scrap apartheid, which was the shame of this country.

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WORLD AROUND Teacher’s Book

World Around Teacher's Book

First published 2008

the European Language Portfolio.

The CEF in World Around

There are also hyperlinks (Jump to and Link) on all

1 David Marsh, 1994

- From the Common European Framework

5.1.1.3 Intercultural Awareness

Each unit is dealt with in detail.

World Around Reading List

Unit 6 United States of America

Unit 8 The West Indies

Unit 10 New Zealand

Great Britain – Introduction 7 7

West Indies – Introduction 87

New Zealand – Introduction 103

Asia – Introduction 111

Africa – Introduction 119

Talk Around Links

Issues – pages 16-17 Links

GREAT BRITAIN PHOTOCOPIABLE WORKSHEET

Wherever I Hang by Grace Nichols (Page 19)

2 Why does the poet decide to leave home?

3 What does she leave behind her?

4 Why does she feel she is living in a dream?

5 What habits does she lose?

6 The poet uses Caribbean English.

7 What is the effect of this?

8 What are the themes of the poem? Give reasons why.

10 Think of 3 questions you would ask the poet.

SKILLS STATION GREAT BRITAIN

7 25% of boys have tried steroids or supplements. 4 Eats a lot of fruit.

6 Has lunch at 12:40.

......................................................................... 2 Whose diet is healthiest?

......................................................................... 3 Whose diet is least healthy?

6 You have the right to travel as you wish.

1950 1951 1957 1968 1973

DID YOU KNOW? MY LANGUAGE

Introduction – page 21 CLIL Subject Links

Portfolio Project Talk Around

CLIL Subject Links Issues – pages 32-33

CLIL Subject Links CLIL History – A short history of England (cont.),

PHOTOCOPIABLE WORKSHEET ENGLAND

Kick It Out! (Page 26)

History of England (Pages 24-25 and 34)

1 The Saxons came to England. The Jutes arrived in England.

GREAT BRITAIN SKILLS STATION

Now write a newspaper report

Talk Around CLIL Subject Links

Lifestyles – pages 38-39 Links

PHOTOCOPIABLE WORKSHEET WALES

Rights into Action (Page 41)

1 a person b persons c people d peoples

6 What did she do the following morning? Speaking (TRINITY)

Writing (PET) Doing

1 Mr Sosner owns four properties which are rented to

1 ……………. by ……………. ✩✩✩ I think it’s ……………...........

Local Boy In The Photograph

Portfolio Project Portfolio Project

PHOTOCOPIABLE WORKSHEET SCOTLAND