Learning Styles WHAT KIND OF LANGUAGE LEARNER ARE YOU? Whiely Student are you more like Paula or Paolo? Paula {im learing Englch beccuse I want t9 pass exa 1 like grammar and I alvays learn the ules by heat. Tevad a fow pages of an Faglien hook avery day, and T look up all she new words in my dictionary When I speak English, I sry to use phrases fromm my coursebook. Ifyou are more like Paula, (ead these statements. ‘Are you more like Mario or Maria? Mario When I Heton to fnalish always want to anderetand every word. 2A miktake fe when yous Freak grammar miles ‘A geod learner of English never makes any nistakes When T speak Enolish, Talways try to remenber the rules Paolo ‘Why am T leaening English? So T can communicate with people. Theser wony much abot grarmar ~ i's boring. 1 dort often ook up words ~ I guess the meaning and Tin usually right! When I speak in dass, I try to say things indifferent was. Maria We Fave Erglish homework the times @ week and 1 always bring it to school on tine. When I do an exercise, ] choose my enswers very carefull It’s best when the whole class does the sae thing = I don't like pair or 3roup work Before I start an activity, I always want to énow exactly wat to do.If you are more like Paulo, ‘ead these statements. Are you more like Alicia or Alex? Alicia Tm semetimes late with yy homework Tim not vey organised! 1 do exercises quickly - I dott spend a long time thinkinc about the arswers. 1 love it when we work in groups or play games, enjoy activities like projects because we can decide nial to do, Alex When T titan, T want to understand what people mean ~ ot every word they say. ‘A mistake f wher people don't understand you. get things wrong in every English lesson ~ all learners do. Ps nothing to worr, about When I speak or write Engish, I say what I feel and forget about the mies! uri Qe Now lank at the Learning Styles below Read about ‘the learning style of the student you are most like. ‘Then read about the other students! learning styles ‘Are you sometimes like them toc? CONSTRUCTION You .. © enjoy grammar practice exercises © ‘lite working with the teacher. © ate 9004 at Homework and “ests ° . eajoy writing more than discussion. n't like games or group work. REFLECTION You ‘always want to know why and find rules for thias. he working hard on your own and getting tines right. pieferlitening reading and writing to speaking, ‘emetimes don't finish work an ate unhappy fit isn't perfect ACTION You ke listering 4nd speaking more than reafing and writ, enjoy fui'acivies ain moving around die dassvomn. te doing lots of different things end working with other peuple ke games more than writing and grammar INTERACTION You realy enoy leaning languages. love group and pair‘hork ard prefer speakiigite wing don't lke exerdises acd rales. ie discussing oersonalthirgs and flings ‘The Revision and Extension section on page 17 hava Your Choice! section with activities for each learning style. It’s good to know your leaming style, but it's also good to try out cther ways of learning too. 7===] TEEN LIFE How are you feeling? Prosont terse roviow Adverbial phrases of frequency 19 about states and routines Talking about what's happening row Talking about future arrangements Questionnaire Teenage Talk Leo Evans is 16 and lives in a suburb of Manchester. What do'you usually do-at weekends? {go skateboarcing. | play the pultar and listen to emusic with my mates. And we go to clubs every Saturday night How often do paugo te the ciggms?, Orce or twice a month What are you reading’at the moment? A brillan: book called Nerthern Lights by Philip Pullman. What are your favourite shoo! subjects? Drama, Spanizh and computer studies What do you and your friends talk about? Football and music Do you have a girlfriend? Ne ~ all she gis like older boys, becatie they have cars end jobs and money, Anyway Im nat looking for apirfiend What are you wearing today? A tesce, jeans and trainers How are you feeling? lm fed up with homework. What are you looking forward to? Haf term — Im spending a week with my cousins in New York | anit wat! What do you care about? | think the environment is realy important. Ware destroying the planet What do you worry about? There's alot of crime round here because of drugs Some peaple are toc scared to go out at night. What's your ambition? [want to be ar actor And fd tke t “Se @ travel round Latin America 1 Opener 3 Comprehensidir Look at the photo of Leu Byars. What dues ne lock True oF fabe? Cortectthe false serene like? Whavs he wearing? What's he deing? Leo lives in the eitf contre He goes to the cinema every Saturday night Hes reading a boring book. Hes learning Spansh. He doesn’t want a girlfriend, Hes feeling happy Ves locking ‘orwa-d to visiting New York, He doesn’t care about the environment. He womtes about crime. 2 Reading @) Read and listen to the questionnaire.4. 125 «Grammar Practice Complete with the past simple or past continuous of the verbs. Tourists in shark attack ‘Simon, Donnell, 17, from Belfast, (escape) from a shark. atlaok yesterday. Simon was on holiday in Florida wil a’grOup of friends. Cne day they all gat together and —2— {go) out in a smal boat to see shark. “The sea was quite calm’ Simon sai, ‘and for the first two hours we <3 (not see) any sharks at all. The boat _4 (pulli-bags/of dead fis1 behind it to attract sharks but none 3 _ (come). We _6 _ (laugh) about our bac luck when suddenly everything (change). | 8 (notice; that four or five small sharks — _"(swim)arpum us. 110 (get) } upand 11 (go) over tothe site of the beat. The boat (move) quite slowly and the water was clear. | 13 (look) into the water wien suidenl a hhuge white shark 14 (aopear;. The shark 13 — (swin) fast and it 18 (crash) intovthe boat. It was like Jaws!1 17 (look) around. Most of my friends —18_ (sc-eam) or 19 ~ [ery). But suddenly the. shark —20_ (disappear) inio the blue water. 4} twas a small boat and wé were reelly hutky’ to set away from such a big shark.” 7 at - 6 Listening ‘4 }) Listen to the radio broadcast and decide: true or false? Connect the fale sentences Shane was kelping his fatherin the garden. He decided to swim in the lake. ‘While he was swinming, he neard a splash, He saw a small crocodile which was swvimming towards him, 5 When Shane shovted ‘Help!’ his father thought he was joking, 6 The crocodile took Shane’ leg and pulled lim under the water. 7 When Shane kicked the crocodile, it closed its {8 When he stood up, be saw the erocodile right behind him 9 When Shane and the crocodile were face to face, he punched it on the mouth, 10 When he punched the crocodile, it turned and swam away, 7 Speaking Student A Ask Student B questions 1-5 Student B Close the book znd arswer the questions. 1 What was Stane doing in the garden? 2 Where did Shane go for a swim? 3 What did Shane hear while he was swimming? 4 What did Shane see when he turned? 3. What did Cive think when Shane shouted ‘Help!"? Now change roles. Ask and answer question: 6-10 6 Where did the crocodile pull Shane? 7 What did he crocodile du when Shire kicked i That slid Shane see after he stood up? What lid Stuur do whist be was face tw face witht the crocodile? 10 What id the erovedile do when Shae paused i? 8 Pronunciation &)) Listen and write the words in the correct column according to the prorunciation of the underlined letters. change che:r compestion fish nnitional ocean professiona’ punch push shark shout splash watch Wp crash ‘ir beach 9 Vocabulary ‘Mateh the phrasal verbs wich thelr meanings. How. ‘many Of the verbs can you Find in this lesson? 1 getaway a. be friends 2 getbace breach 3 geton c-escape 4 getto stand up 5 get together © return 6 gevup F meet 10 Writing. ‘Write a short newspazer article describing what happened to Shane. listen to the radio broadcast in exercise 6 again, and use the questions in exercise 7 to helpyou. 13Martin Scorsese is @ well-known film director: De you know any of his films? He recently made a film about mutic. Look at the pictures and guess what kind of music. Read and “omplete the tex: with, phrases ah. while he was performing b and wrote down the name © ina rock and roll show while ste was domg the dishes when Iwas 16 £ and we wanted to kriow more and found ar old Leadbelly record, 1h from car radios Now lister and check. Which words 1n tne phrases 7elped you to complete the text? Find the highlighted words in the text which mean: feeling 2 where something comes from 1 3 very stiong and clear adj 4 not common or normal adj 5 shop (American English} m 6 flats (American English) n power, strength 8 surprising, hard to believe adj Can you remember the first time you eard a great song? Where were you? Whe: were you doing? What was the song and who was the singerfoand? llow did you feel? 4 Scorsese film director “When Tas growing up there always seemed to be music in the air, It came in from the street, I. from. restaurants and from the windows of apartments. At ‘home my mother often sang = Lhave vivid memories of her singing ‘My father played the mandolin, and my brother Frank played the guitar né at that time e was an incredible range of music en the radio, ‘everything from Italian folk songs to country end One day heard something completly new PL never forget the first tme'T head the sound of that sit. The muse was saying ‘Listen to me!’ Tran fo get 4 pencil and paper, +. The song wes See See Rider the snaer was Leadbelv, Ir uo © the recorestoreon Ferty-ninth Street as fast as [could [isened to itagain and azain, When you listen to Leadbslly’s music you fel insp red by its energy and truth, you really understand what it means 19 be hur. That's the blu ‘and the nar ‘At croun¢ the same time, my friends and [went foe Bo Diddley. That was another great moment for me, He was playing at the Brcobiyn Paramount 6. Hs was great performer and was always moving from side to side of the stage. But Bo Diddley also did something uunwwual he explained the different drumbeats and which parts of Africa they came from. Tt gave us @ sense of the history behind the music, tke root of the music, We all found this very exciting5 -cListening ‘@isten and mater the speakers with the photos, Now listen again and complete texts 1-2. @ i remember theese sme rode roto as en Tas 1 My Wig Hike aged 1d he ad row ‘otortie. One day he was cleaning his motorbike butside hs Fans nel he act ge eA cance nike started the engine and put on the helmet. elt excted and —2__ at the same tine.'Off you go,’ Mke said and | ‘fated dow the ond it was 9 —3 feeling. | wasnt gen fast but felt Mike an et ve, He was shouting something Stop now So| put athe brakes, the bike Stopped suddenly, and fel of | wasn hurt, but | was really @ never forget the fiat ine as costa itl ania IEhappened when Iwas 6 I was ona eamping holidsy Si me ie oer cane ce em ae ‘right and we were sleeping in the open around the fire. suddenly | weke up in the middle of the night. The stars were rally beautfl andl felt so 8. But what woke me? Then I saw a dark shape Something was sitting by the fre only 3 rere away fom uct was a wall wes really ip ‘fact | was terrified. Then the wolf stooc up ard slowly waked. anay. could belive And I cular go tack to sleep. In the moming |was very 10. But when I ld my parents eater er crcl 6 Speal Interview another student about the first time they did something end make notes. Use these questions to help you. Tell me about an important ‘rst ime’ for you What wasit? —_@ How old were you? © What were you and other people doing. atthe time? © What happened? @ How cid you feel? 0 Use your rotes to tell a new partner about the event. ur Qe 7 Writing Write about an important ‘first time’ for you. Use the ‘texts in ths lesson and the questions in exercise 6 to help you Learner Indepenvence 8 Keep a Learning Diary about your English lanquage learning. Use these headings to help you Date: 13 Stptember __ = (thc we did in cass Uni 1 ess a ved, Tilking about the fist tine [___ heard the Hfves. i ficulties |had- in verbs. Diflzulin | had. The past simple of some icresalar verbs. ‘nk plans Learn thelist oficregular verbs om page 27! _ (hit (lid outside dass: found the words fo m jerurite Hives sony on the Internet Lloked up tiie of the ificalt word in the actiory, Word creation: learn zo create English words using prefixes ard suffixes. Add tre pretix dis- or un- to make ‘the opposiies of these wards. and complete the sentence. agree appear comforuble friendly happy lucky popular usual Nel dent enjoy her holiday ~ she was wthappy. ‘At doesn't happen very often —its very Me With Kate wile they were on hold. Py ~L won te lotery but ost ny tet No one wants to be his end why she? We dda realy enjoy the lm because the nema sedis were ‘Where Tain? He —— while 1 was onthe phone Teed al tothe but they were very 10 Phrasebtok! i Liten and repestthese Useful expressions. Then find ‘them in this unit sisee on twice a ment hn fed up with Tean't want! Ital went wrong, Iedidnybother me. twas a great nomen’ ne day’... again and again TT never forget the first ime t Lcoulda't believe 11 which exeression means: Tdlidn care. ? b “Twas very surprised’? ‘Tm really looking forward to it’? d Tm tired of Commun catior Activ ‘Student A page 106 Student B page 116 15TEEN LIFE OTe ede Be! PROJECT Special Day File Make a file about what happened on an e vunussual day. ‘1_Work in a group and make a list of people you know both in and outside your school. For example, think about members of sports teams, musicans, actors or ‘teachers in your school; think about family and other people you know outside your school. Then choose ‘one of two people to interview. ing or 2 Make a list of questions toask: Can you tellus about an extitng or unusual day in; your life? When was if? How ld were you? What happened?» What did you de? Reed aud tater. What happened feat? How did you feel? naw 2 Why ate you looking at me like that? What do you remember most about that cay? nw 2. T wasn't looking at you in any special way. Other questions? naw 2 Oh yes, you were. T saw you. Botn men touch their noses, Now interview the person of pecple you chose, and Saeed step ecstinaie note down the answers, nan 2. T wasn’t copying you. Botn men touch their noses. 3. Work together and make a Special Day Fle. write out wt Lood You did tt again, your questions and the answers. Read it carefully and sun 2. Did what? Correct any mistakes. Draw pictures or use photographs wax Copied me. I touched my nose ard you toucted of tte person or people and what they were doing. ilrfat thelsam Hae shew your special Day File to the other groups. wi 2) Did I? I didn't notice. I was thinking about something else. nwt Plesse stop copying ne. GAME Word Moze Na 2 Lean’t help it. [ma mirror. and I do what you do. aw +Youre not a mirror ~ mirrors dont talk. © Work in pairs to move from BEAUTIFUL to CALM sa eMHelTP a talking mitra © Move from line to line by fnding pairs of opposites. nan 2A talking mirror? No, you're not! You don't repeat For example, the oppaste of BEAUTIFUL in the fist if YSh ga you? line # ugly. Now finda word in the second line which > yy 2 Do you? isthe opposite of one of the words in the fist line a 1 Sone ” © As you meve through the Word Maze, write down all wh,2 Sony? A \ the pairs of opposites sail, Loos. Tim 3 = © the fst two students to get to CALM ore the winners. geting rallf angry nov. Stop looking =o em ef vw 2 Stop looking at tired SS fo hot me Like that! vay + Oh! Sony. a a! - — NaN 2. Sorty. RT! sores wad Beier nan Bye, cee foes aan teetoaated nan 2. Bye, No, wait! ‘Man 2 ctimbs through the frome and follows Man 1. fant Now act out the sketch in pairsREWISION fer more practice LESSON 1 Look at the pro‘ile of Tiffany Bel on page 9 Write a similar prefile of Leo Evans using information from Teenage Talk or page 8 Leo Evanehe Th aed les ina suberb of Manchester AL tweckends he goes skichoarding plays the guitar, and listens to musiowith lus mates. LESSON 2 tog) pao eto reper oxypoge 10. Write questions beginning with W/o ..? and answer the quedtidnsige bre fart Mele Whe hated every minate ofher fay? Mel dd, LESSON 3 Look at Bethany’s story on oage 12. Retell the story of ‘the shark attack from Alana's point of view, Beth and ! were . ur Qe EXTENSION for language development LESSON 1 Look at Tiany’s profile on page 9. Write a similar profile of yourself. LESSON 2 Look at Riary aia teenager an page 10 Write the conversation between Mel and her mother about her holiday LESSON 3 Read Bethany, Simon and Shane's storles on pages 12-13 again. Imagine a shark attacked you when you were surfing and you escaped. A newsoaper interviewed you about the attack. Write the newspaper artide with the headline Teenage surfer escapes shark attack’ a tS CONSTRUCTION Fast simple or past cortinuois? Complete with the corract form of the verbs. In 1958 Martin Scorsese 1 (listen) tothe radio when he Leadbelly forthe fest tims At around the same time Seorsese and his france went te 2 (perform) in a show in Brook. Sccrsese 4 te pley the guitar well but he —3— (be net) very good at ithe 1960s he {6 (dstover 3rtsh bands lke the Roling Stores anc Cream who —7 see Bo Diddley, wro fim) one of blues star Muddy Waters’ greatest performances. of tlugs and rock. One of Scomese's most important musical roments 8 _ (cone) when he 2 (make) a film called The Last Waltz and 10 ~ ACTION Aphabet sertences Work in groups of four. Student & says. letter of the alphabet. Student 6 says a verb beginning with that letter. Student C says the past simple of that verb, Student D says a sentence using the past simple verb {eat (want (ley REFLECTION Spelling rules Complete. Past simple (© Most recular verbs add (example: ___} © Verbs ending ir ¢ add (example: (© When verbs end in a consonant +, the y changes to But we don’t change the y after a vowe (example: —_) Past continuous © We form the tense wih ___j__ + -ing examale © Verbs ending ir -e drop the 2 betore -ing (example: But we don’t mate a change when comes afte" -ee (example: —__). Doubling consorants © For both tenses, most one-slable words ending with a single vowel and a cansonart (example: stop) double the corsonar’ when adding (example: __, But we don't dauble the carsonanis ws, xor y a) (exarple: __), INTERACTION Doingand feeling ‘© Work in 2 smal group. ‘© Ask each other about last weekend. hat were you dang a (ime; on (day? How ds you tee wy? ), What were you daing'at Sam on Sourcay? ‘vas having breeklst inate Kitchen, ot tes becaise | weit to bed ate orMy identity iin my art. studying art t college nov, but thas been my main Interest since was 13. Thinkers ene ofthe best ays express myself, 1 Vocabulary 4) Read wha: young people say about Identity. match jentity /ar'dentati/ ncun 1 the fact of who you are or what your nane is > the qualities that make someone 0 something what they are and dferert from other people ecact fron Macnilan Esentil Dita See cd ak Ro world what the word IDENTITY Creu ue INDIAN ‘Anees Mansour, 18, Palestine Craerpyntsadclon eee eas eisteace sere See ee er eerie Shofar yarenvane ater Senco iedan Abad s ane Takeb, 19, Poland My national identiy isno:as important Dragan, 16, Austria ‘to meas it was | don't fel typically ‘There is noone herein Austia I can identity Polish~1 ive near the Geman border} | with Ny teaciers dent inspire me and are and ny firstname s German. | see only interested in stool marks. love my Imysaf more az a European than a Pole, J parents but | often dt ay ee wit th ideas. When Im older | want to meve to ‘Ameria — that i lady part of my identity. these words and phrases with their de‘initions, 1 inspite v criticise ¥ marks n pl confusing aaj typically adv soul n dignity n national adj express youself v belong tov 18 te do with a country with the usuel qualities of a particular group of people or things rnumbers or leters whict teachers give students for their School work make someone entausiastic about someth ng say or show what you feel or taink part of a person which thinks or fee's dlifficul to understand be a member or a possession of self-respect say what you think is bad about someone or something,ATLANTIC Brahim, 21, Algeria Identity ist a word, but a feeling ‘har someone belongs tc a partcular place or goup of people! believe tha:omeones identity not who. the thnk they ar, or vio they'd like to be, aut who they aly re 18, wosnia ‘Although all Bosnians share the sane [enguace and :ountry many sll identity themselves b thei eligion Religion is lessimporiant tome. My parents have cifleren: reigicns and | ust fee proud to be Bosnian ‘Ayesha, 16, United Kingdom [was bom in Bradford ir Enaland, but my patents ‘are from Pakistan. So I'm English and Pakistani ay English, but my passport says Wish here's tngland, there's Great Britain (that’s Engand, Scotland and ‘Wale, and then there’ she United Kingdom cf Great Brigin anc Norther Ireland, I's —_—— confusing! 2 San Answer the questions we 1 thinks nationality is mere important than religion? 2 already feels partly American? ‘san ort student? finds the dlferent names for her ecuntry confusing? feels part ofa continent, not a country? says that no one can take away her identity? believes tha: iden-ity isa feel ng? says she cones from a county where people ook afier ezch otrer? 9 says no one can make Fer change her mind? 10 doesnt identify himself by religion? SSCA Ue The Hobo-Dyer Equal Area Projection Map PACIFIC OCEAN sawok Yessica, 16, Colombia kinieaty Idertiy? The only thing | am sue of is who 1 am, and nebody can crtise me or change my way of thinking. 1am who | want to be and waaay can ake Ui vay Tn ne PACIFIC OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN 3 “Speakig ‘Ask another student if he/she agrees with these statements land note down the answers. 1 ‘There is no one'in my town I can identify with 2 Hove my parents, but I aften donttagree with their ideas, 3 No one can change the way I -hink + My national identity is important to me 5. Isee myself asa citizen of the world, not of one country. Writing Do you acree with the statements in exercise 3? Write a paragraph comparing your views will those of the student youinterviewed. Hanna thinks there is no one in eur tow she can identi with but! disagree. 19