Whitney Driscoll Quintana OXFORDWelcome hack! @ Read about these young people's free time act . Match the paragraphs with the people. Tom Green, London Paragraph [_] © Musici my hobby! Ive got hundreds of (CDs and | spend all my free ime listening to music in my bedroom, going to concerts ‘or buying music. I like Westlife and Kylie ‘Minogue because they sing good songs. But my favourite band is Travis and my favourite singer is Madonna. I can play the guitar and I can sing quite well, so one day I want to have my own band and be 5 famous as Madonna! © tice enimals and | ice compurerst | spend a lot of time on the Internet and ve alse got my own web page. It's got lots of information on it about animals from all over the world. I'd like to go to ‘Africa one day and work with animals there. think that would be great! At home I’ve got a dog, two cats, a rabbit and fish. I've also got posters of lions and tigers all over my bedroom walls. Gemma Price, York Paragraph [| © Keead the text again. Choose the best answer, A, B or C. 1 ‘Tom uses his computer ‘A when he's in his bedroom. B to write letters to Africa. € very often. When Tom is older, he wants to ‘A work in another part of the world. B_ have his own dogs and cats. spend a lot of time on the Internet. Gemma likes ‘A Travis more than Madonna B Westlife more than Travis. © kylie Minogue and Madonna. When Gemma is older, she wants to A be very famous. B play in a band with Madonna. sing Madonna's songs.Vocabulary TV programmes ‘Complete the sentences with the words in the box. ‘arteen chat show comedy quizshow soap sports programme The Simpsons is a very popular cartoon. 1. Football Focus is my favourite 2. Viewers usually laugh when they watch a BA is about the lives of a group of people 4 Ona = there are interviews with famous people. 5. People answer questions on a Large numbers Write the numbers in words. 25,000 twenty-five thousand 1. 3,000,000,000 2 1107 3 376 4 1,500,000 Time © Put the time words in order from the smallest (1) to the largest (8). century oO dy OO year oO hour [i] millennium [) month [] week o decade [] British and American English © complete the puzzle. Use American words for the British English words. 1 underground 5 chips 2. trousers 6 shop 3. biscuit 7 taxi 4 holiday 8 lift s u b Be a Money Read the sentences and choose the word that best fits each space. 1. How much money do you each week? a buy b sell c spend 2 There's a outside most banks. a cash machine _b cheque book ¢ credit card 31H __ you some of my pocket money. a save blend c sell 4 You can pay with a in most restaurants. a purse b receipt ¢ credit card 5 I'mgoing to my dad. a borrow b lend ¢ save some money from 6 Can you change this coins, please? a wallet b note ¢ receipt for somePresent simple and present continuous @ choose the correct form of the verbs. My brother is working (Works) in a shop at weekends, 8 1 Oh, great! You ‘re wearing / wear your new Tshirt! 2 They ‘re not watching J don’t watch TV on Saturday evenings. 3. My parents are going / go to London once a month. 4 Imnot listening /don't listen to CDs very often. 5 Atthe moment I’m doing /doa grammar exercise. 6 Imnot liking don’t like documentaries very much. 7 Emma is going / goes to the cinema this evening. 8 Fish are living / live in water. 9 Do you meet / Are you meeting your friends tomorrow? 10 We phone /are phoning our grandparents every week Complete the sentences. Use the correct, form of the present simple or present continuous. (not stay) 'm not staying at home this evening. 1. Mysister (do) her homework now. 2 We (not go) ‘to school on Sundays. 3. I (not know) the words of this song, 4 We (visit) our cousins in New York next year. 5 Birds (not sing) at night. 6 At the moment the boys (watch) television, 7 Martin (play) every day. on his computer 8 My cousin (think) soaps are great. © complete the text. Use the correct form of the present simple or present continuous. Sharon (come) comes from New Zealand, but she (1 not live) @live) in Perth, Australia with her mum and dad. ‘My grandparents (3 visit) there now. She ‘us at the moment, and I(4 go) ack to New Zealand to see them next summer’ Sharon (5 go) swimming twice a day, so her friends (6 call) her “Shark’t ‘But I(7 not go) into the sea this afternoon,’ says Sharon. ‘The water is too cold.’ One day she (8 want) to swim for New Zealand in the Olympic Games. Good luck, Sharon! Complete the questions. Use the correct form of the present simple or present continuous. What (you wear) do you wear for schoo! every day? 1 (itrain) alotin summer in your country? 2 (your teacher write) on the blackboard now? 3. When (your friends usually do) their homework? 4 (youuse) pencil at the moment? apenora SoxPast simple and past continuous Complete the sentences. Use the correct. form of the past simple or the past continuous. It (rain) was raining when | got up. 1. The phone (ring) while! was having dinner. 2. (youlisten) when the teacher asked you a question? 3. He (go) Iwas buying some CDs. to another shop while 4. She wasn’t talking when her mum, (come) into the room. 5 I(wait)___for the bus when it started to rain. 6 (youwatch) Vv when I phoned? © complete the story. Use the correct form of the past simple or past continuous. At7 pm.on2 May, Kirsty Brown (sit) home. She (1 write) aletter to her sister, Alice, who was at university in another city. She (2 finish) the letter, and then she (3 put) an envelope. While she (4 write) her sister’s name on the envelope, she suddenly (5 feel) a pain in her left hand. At7 p.m. Alice (6 make) be ahot drink. While she (7 get)__a spoon out of the drawer, she (8 cut) her left hand on a knife. used to @ 100k at the table about Paul's schools. Complete the sentences about Paul. old new school school && start school early 1 do lots of sport 2 wear school uniform 3 have long holidays 4 do homework every day 5 go on lots of school trips 6 finish late KN SSX SSeS At his old school he didn't use to start school early, but he starts school early at his new school. 1. Athis old school he lots of sport, but he lots of sport at his new school. 2. Athis old school he school uniform, but he school uniform at his new school. 3. Athis old school he long holidays, but he ___long holidays at his new school. 4 Athis old school he homework every day, but he homework every day at his new school. 5 Athis old school he on lots of school trips, but he on lots of schoo! trips at his new school. 6 Athis old school he late, but he late at his new school.@ Feas the text and answer the questions. 1 Where is Notting Hill? 2 When does the Notting Hill Carnival take place? 3. How many people go to the carnival? © Kead the text again. Choose the best answer, A, Bor C. 1. People in the past A didn't sing and dance for six weeks before Easter. B ate meat between the carnival and Easter. C wore colourful costumes every day, 2. The largest carnival in the world A is the largest in Europe, too. B is the Notting Hill Carnival. € is four days long. 3 The first Notting Hill Carnival A took place in the 1950s. B_ was very successful was an enormous event. 4 The Notting Hill Carnival A lasts for three days. B is in February every year. € is popular with a few people. © match the words from the text with the correct definitions. 1 parades (line 2) [| 2. costumes (line 2) oO 3. throughout (line 13) {ca 4 tradition (line 19) Oo 5. steel (line 22) oO a something that people have done for a long time b special clothes © akind of metal d_ lines of people who walk together in the street ein every part of a place Parties and celebrations The Notting Hill Carnival Acamival isa big open-air festival which includes musi, dancing, parades and colourful costumes, Carnivals are usually celebrated in February, about six weeks before Easter. Traditionally the carnival was the last 5 opportunity to sing and dance until Easter. The word ‘carnival’ probably comes from the Latin phrase came Jevare, which means to take meat away, because inthe past people didn't eat meat for six woeks after thi time, ‘The biggest and most famous carnival in the world is 410 the carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. The Rio Carnival takes place in February every year and lasts forfour days. ‘There are carnivals in the USA, in the Caribbean and throughout Europe. But which is the second biggest carnival? The answer is the Notting Hill Carnival. 15 Notting Hill isan area of West London, and a carnival takes place there every year on the last weekend in August. In the 1950s, a lot of people came from the Caribbean to live inthe Notting Hil area of London. They brought with them the tradition of carnivals. The 20 Caribbean people in Notting Hill organized their first carnival in 1964, There was a small parade and a few people wore costumes and played steel drums. It was a _great success, and since then the carnival has become an enormous event. Other British cities now have carnivals 25 too, but the one in Notting Hill has become Europe's largest street festival, Now, every year two million people come to watch both the children's and the adult parades. Theylookat the beautiful costumes, listen to reggae music, dance to steel 30 bands and eat Caribbean food The music and dancing go ‘on for three days. It's fantastic, it's exciting, it's for ‘everyone and it's fre!