ALASTAIR LANE. AMERICAN BIG PICTURE 3 72a Usa a Workbook Escaneado con CamScannerCONTENTS MBB 11 Sociat Networks page 2 2 Experts page 8 GERM 3 survivat page 14 PROGRESS TEST 1, UNITS 1-3 page 20 GE 4 Reinvention page 22 {BT 5 Foon ror THoucut page 28 GEE 6 That's entertaINmeNT page 34 PROGRESS Test 2, UNITS 4-6 page 40 GE 7 society ano You page 42 GN 8 Crime AND PUNISHMENT page 48 GER 9 Luck ano ForTUNE page 54 PROGRESS TEST 3, UNITS 7-9 page 60 GEM 10 Vatu For Money page 62 GG 11 TecHNotocy page 68 DBE 12. Our oF THe ORDINARY page 74 PROGRESS TEST 4, UNITS 10-12 page 80 TRANSCRIPTS page 82 TRACK LISTING page 88 BIG PICTURE B2 (vpPer INTERMEDIATE ] Workbook Richmond www.americanbigpicture.net Escaneado con CamScannera 1 SOCIAL NETWORKS i VocABULARY Relationships 11 Read the clues and complete the puzzle. What is the hidden word in gray? = 1 Someone who tells you what to doin your job. 2 You play sports on the same side as this person. 3 Your mother or your father. 4 Someone you are ina business or romantic felationship with 5 Someone who you know fairly well but who is ‘ot rally a friend yet. 6 Someone traveling in a vehicle who is net driving 7 Someone who works with you. 8 Someone you know well and get along with (zal et zs 2 Complete the words. 1 Cassandra is my m___ag. tells me what work to do. 2. My wife's mom and dad are really nice. It's great when you get along with your mt _at work. she Peso 3 Ihave three really ¢_ spend all our time together. 4 can't afford to rent an apartment by myself, so! need tofindar__m___e. 5 Megs my b_____friend—we're almost like sisters! 6 'mreally enjoying my Chinese classes. My ¢__s_m_t_ sare lots of fun! 7 Laura and karl have been going out for about two months. They make agreatc__p__! 8 [got lost on the way to the party, so | had to ask ap____r__ for directions. _ friends, and we 3 Complete the sentences with the expressions from the There is one word you don’t need. coworkers ex-boyfriend parents parents-in-law passerby strangers teammate will have very similar DNA to you. 1 Your —we'e stil 2 Iget along well with my — friends, even though we broke up last year. 3 I didn't meet my my husband's mom ang sure. °W__ you to go tothe caer have free WiFi there. oe [e sounds great READING Activating background knowledge 1a Read the title of the text on age 7. Which of the words in the box would you expect to see in the article? acquaintance best friend boss colleague coworker passerby relationships foommate stranger Read the article quickly. ‘Mark (/) the words in Ta that appear in the article students in ulieta's Spanish class. degrees. STRATEGY. The frsttime you hear an auto fist for gst he || main idea) Then listen again more carefully for specific information Escaneado con CamScannerpoose the correct option, a, b orc, nen read the text again to check your .obin Dunbar studied. 4p how teenagers make friends tp some people from very simple tne work that people do in modern +> when they looked at Leilas Facebook friends. they looked at... b only her closest fity friends. « fity fiends selected by chance 4 They agreed that someone was a reat a they frequently e-mailed or spoke b they had been to schoo! together. «they had a lot of acquaintances. «4 They believe that Leila has... ‘a. more Feal friends than Dunbar’s exactly the same number of real friends as Dunbar’s Number. «¢ fewer real friends than Dunbar’s 5 one Facebook friend wasn't Leila’s real = = ey 2 itwasan animal, b he was acelebrity. «he was a fictional character. 6 Lela’ college roommate.. 1 has dropped out of school b used to get along well with her. gets together with her alot. 7 The writer concludes that.. ‘people have more friends because of sites like Facebook. b sites ike Facebook have no effect at allon our relationships. ¢ people use sites like Facebook because they don't lke losing friends from the past. STRATEGY Before you reada new text, look at the ttle. This will give {you a clue to the content. Then try to think of words or vocabulary that you ight expect to see in the article. This ‘can help you understand the content Tight from the beginning. WTI) | Have? Robin Dunbar of Oxford Univesity believes that the human brain can only remember socal groups of up t0 150 people. He discovered “Dunbar’s Number” (150) by studying eveything fiom primitive tribes 10 coworkers. in modern ‘offices. But what of the younger generation? One member of our team, Leila Bilson, fas over 500 Facebook friends, and she volunteered herself fora smal experiment. We wondered if Dunbar’s Number would stil be true in a Facebook world, What percentage of Leila's virtual friends realy were her friends? The Rules We chose fityrendom fiends and then asked Lela questions about ‘them. Depending on the answers, we decided whether the person actually was Leila’s frend, based on: + regular involvement in her life ‘© strong emotional connection * continuous effort to stay in touch Ifthe person didn't meet all those quelifcations, they weren't a friend—ust an acquaintance. The Data Out of fifty random people, we decided that thity-one were not Lela's fiends, suggesting that 38% of the people on her Facebook are real fiends. 190 friends (38% of 500) isn't far of from Dunbar’s 150. Leila knew most of her real frends not through high school but via a social circle, dating or work. Also, anyone that she isa fan of (e.g. a band) is counted by Facebook a5 @ friend, and Leila is certainly not really friends with everyone on her fist, ke superstar singer Nick Cave. We argued over thee people: 1 College Roommate Leila insisted that she and her college roommate were stl good friends, even though they hadn't seen each other for about four years 2 Coworker or Colleague ‘When explaining about a former colleague, Leila mentioned. that they ran into each other all the time and speak every now and again, We decided this was not a friend, but rather @ business contact. 3 Extbest Fiend Despite having grown apart from a good friend in high school, Lela declared they were still friends because of well, history. We refused this one because without Facebook, Leila would have no idea where this person was. Conclusions Dunbar suggests that there is no “Facebook effect” and that social circles do not really expand because of Facebook. What is different though, is that people like Leila have a different definition ofa friend to Dunbar. Lila was always hesitant to say someone wasn't a friend, especially when they once were, Here is the attraction of Facebook: it offers a world where relationships never stop. Sure, old ‘acquaintances may be gone, but rnow they won't be forgotten. ees Escaneado con CamScanner=e i ii@# 2 EXPERTS i VOCABULARY Health 1 Circle the word that doesn't work in each sentence. 1 2 You need a chiropractor / herbalist / specialist 10 look at your back. 3 Aherbalist / pharmacist / surgeon sells cures for various health problems. ‘midwife / surgeon to cure the pain in his neck. 5 My aunt works in the city hospital as a shaman / nurse / surgeon. 2. Complete the patient-doctor conversations with the words from the box. infection injection antibiotics rash vaccination insomnia 1 [BT/Can you give me some. doctor? No, they won't help you because you have avirus. 2 JB) Why did you want to see us, doctor? All the children inthe school are getting ameasles____ including your daughter. 3, [B)) Fm sorry, but | have to give you an Pohnno! Wil tbe painful? [Pim not sleeping well at the moment. I fee! | exhausted all the time! I'm sorry to hear that. | expect you have {eat my foot, and then I went swimming ‘and now look at it. The cut won't heal! Every time you cut yourself, you should wash the cut and cover it to prevent an {started using the pills you prescribed, and now {have a__ ‘on my arm. Look, i's all red. OK, I think we should change that medicine. ‘An acupuncturist A homeopath / A pharmacist Is: ‘an example of an expert in alternative medicine. My dad needed to see a well-known acupuncturist / 4 Complete the words. 1 Yougetab__ka 2. The most popular p. paracetamol. _nk — © BECAUSE YoU have bag 1 — la sare asp tte %pitn ane 3. The surgeons performed a seven-hour heart 9 4 [fell off my bike, and now I have a big black and e ive ~~ b____s_on my elbow. 5 can you buy me some cough s_ drugstore? 6 Oh dear, your forehead feels very hot | think you mig igh _p__—at___- t PifYOU BO tote a, 7 Iwas hit by a golf ball, and now |haveab___p oq ——Ponny tea Choose the correct options to complete the sentences, 1 Have you taken / done your medicine yet? 2 You need to make / do a doctor's appointment. 3 I think you have a fever. I'l make / take your temperatuy fe 44 The doctor wil write / do you a prescription. 5 Gina's gone to bed because she did / felt sick. 6 We can take / treat this illness with antibiotics. 7 Fatima’s not well. She got / took a throat infection ast wee a, 8 Oh dear, you fee! / have all the symptoms ofthe fu Medicine 5 Complete the text with the words from the box. bandage medication nurses paramedic patients room surgeons wards I love my Job becaus ‘So what do you do, Lindsay? rma” local hospital. And Is it a difficult job? That depends, It can be very stressful. Sometimes our workis (on a person's injury or ging the "At other times, we have to get someone | __as quickly as possible, for life and death. Just putting a some to an operating ‘example after an accident. It can be @ matter of Of course. Do you spend time at the hospital, 00? 1 work with the ambulance team atthe I rarely spend time in the hospital ®_ unless visiting someone we've helped. When we get tothe hespal | Job is done. After that, we have to leave the ©. and | other specialists to do what they can. ‘And what’ the best thing about your job? The people. | fee! that | can make a difference tothe Ines OF 0 “which means a fot to me, The doctors and T woul here (9) at tne hospital are great, too. myjpbterenthingintne wort | Escaneado con CamScannervo | ds. 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