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    1 Necessities Sie ag ERE Less stuff, more happiness TEDTALKS GRAHAM HILL is 2 modem entrepreneur: by 2007, when his mi 30s, he'd aeady et Up and sold two companies fora staging ten inion dlars each Having orginal studied arcitectre ar! dein, Hil no runs two businesses alongside aor projects dedicatad to sustainably and ‘ways we can five move simply. He decrbos hiro af a webbor a designee ig TED Talon Ivng wt es, he a0 ‘Spoke a TED about consuming ess maa. L tote he'd been a woekiay ‘egetoia foc a year and wert on to write a book about The values noth tals re consistont: consume ess ~ water meat or stuf enjoy more and itl ultimately be better for you and he planet Inaticies ancl on social med, Graham Ha cesebeshis Sarr years ‘when be ovned large propre ard even employed aparsoral shopper “Traveling the word extrait taught him what ec need. He bogan to simply nd ect his ite, and ove thenext 15 years reduced hs belongings toa action of what hed once ha Ho says Ikitvy we krow hat he best st ‘rife nt tut at a and at ratonshps, xperencos and mearingh work ar the stapes oa hap ie. ye was ail only ‘and an environmentalist, AS We Hil claims ‘editing’ isthe Skil ofthe century she persuasive enough to inspire uso edt our homes and Ives too? CAREER PATHWAYS: {8 Complete the ix-word summary (I~) tat conesponds to .each talkin the TED playlist. Use these wares 4 ead the tox. newer the questions 4 Howmery compeneshas Hit stated and sod? stup ow <1 | matter ult ub statistics 2 Wtppbohas he had? acc on! acer Ane Een ™ _ How has he changod a a. consumer ov he yor? 4 Wasteisa etl ottat. “4, What abit dog Hl irk we need most tase days? 2 Who's tokng alte 0 au? 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She walked the rout, mechanical brooms a ven crove a dustbin arta ay, ond whol he angers) werk setynachs about ol ence rots, AUTHENTIC LISTENING SKILLS Relaxed gronunciation 6¢ (BIE You are going to hear a podcast in which a imanbero the Keynote team taks about Dan Pilips's TED Tak, Creative houses from recsimed stuf Listen and unde examples of two-word combinations where f, ave tof isrduced or changod 4 Dan Philips is rot the usual polished TED presenter — tals ido ke a cowiy. 2 Lstering ois ting American accent and easy jokes, ‘wo fee. as if we should have been siting round the canpfrewth hin. 13 We ugat to soe more of the quiky yet functonal wooden nomas ne buds. 4 We ray 0 look again and tstan to Dan's explanation to ‘uly discover why they are so extraordinary. USTENING 7 EVIE Listen to the full podcast, Are these statements: tue Mor false)? 4 OanFritos isnt @ cowboy and he makes jokes. FT) 2 Heist that interested in what matoras he uses.) ‘1 Naty per cent of his builiing materials are recycied. [F) 4 Keron tends to repace broken items with new ones.) 4 Philips chooses to use things that are not perfect. []) 8 BENIN Usten again. Anewer the questions, 1 Wty was Philips pleased about the stakcase he got? 2 Wry and now ci Phitips make ‘bumpy tes"? EX ons Jordan: Turing powortl stats into art The at that Chvis Jordan creates fs designed to increase ‘our understanding of some ofthe staggering statistics ‘associated with mainstream Westem cultures. What do 40 milion paper cups look ie? How can wee iustrate tho 400,000 smokers who dia every year? Jordan hopes that ‘when people engage with these statistics ina visual, artistic Way, they eel them more deeply and ask themselves the ‘most important question: How do we change? [3 ves: aringion: Woarn noting now Je Aringon so clourovng aga dosigner, who, inthis short and snappy tal, shares her pleasure bing ber cots rom anc donating them to = econ hanes shops Hr tak sa ation on conscious consumption are cur strong attachment oor blongings. Aon sugges ha secondhand shopeng can be ain athentr, 2s wo as ecucing the impact he waco has ‘on th envionment and on her bark account 3 In your own words, bow is waste a matter of taste? 4 What, aocarcing to Karen, do you need to have in order to be good at recycling? What does Karen say this tak might inspite us to do? VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT Read in extracts from the podcast. Choose the corect meaning of th words boa 1 the quilt unctenal wooden homes He bul. 2 stich a b cor Qo 26 arange saxgneso (con Sufcchn 2 Ws about being as reSouretul os ou pans 2 modest Gg b organized ( «good at fing sine ee A 2 Typgotan alumi rok 2 x2 smal vegetable garden x ba etn the county o © bg garden a 4 ea beat ead a Paar tars 2 wnlationale yoy ‘eameged 5 hen we tink outside the box nts way 8 tied and tested ways o fn ways & © hthesame maya someonoose —) EEA Luxury or necessity? GRAMMAR The perfect aspect 1 Anewor the quiz questions and compare your answers with the information about people's coffee-crinking habits inthe article 1 How many cups of cote do you dink a day? @o2 bad 2 Whan do you chink your coos? @ inthe moming b Uxoughout the day © ater maals 3. Wy co you eink cotoa, usualy? 2 to fet alert )t0 focus (ier © torelax 4 How do you fle the cotfee experience in your ile? essen optional © ‘hwy “) '2 Road the text. Complete the sentences withthe corect {orm of the verb in brackets. Use the present perfect ast perfect or future pertact, ‘3 Read the interview with & barista. Choose the correct ‘options to complete the questions (a-) ©: (So, how long ad you work (fave you been werking ) here? F A On| ditto .. quess 1! hove wired _ ork here on and of since 2008. (excise geeheek tara eu temwctey fag tiyometna rasta ett crtecnans kn roe ete aay toy re ne: (09) 0 practise {inks in my blood (wat) cotes man befor oven went o school ands kee att (ere hors stn clés Seo con rarest ©: What's te secret 0 making a aly got one 1; Wot, you hav to ars peovtect lt “ra 1h te ‘and gruel gcod beans fest. Then ts the of ompocatico and prose. at (©: Anping ase? x You Rae” ar (he to pers Gia de nn cena corny {4} How many cotoes have you mack yeu ss Fett ry anda = andnot esrany asl ha tro. 2150 haw yo tbo nrg vost 15 otto whan on “bh hea heal ondcan a forbs gg But ut tn canner places wey ato. (0: What are you stuching? A: 1" fave darko (start) a business course to help me ane bres Coffee yesterday, today and tomorrow Ifyou | hou? never ba ‘made by an expert barista, i's time you did. t's one of lie's affordable luxusies. (ave / never) a cup of cattee Europeans enjoy 726 million cups of colfee every day ‘and Americans 400 million. J. (integrate) into our culture to such an extent that takeaway cotfog (almost / tain) fashion accessory status, Americans drink an average of 1.6 cups of coffee a day whereas tea-drinking countries lke Britain and Japan drink about half that, mostly at breakfast time. (Men reportedly drink coffee to focus anid get the job done whereas women «hove (send) to drink it 0 relax.) alent alktned In the 21* century our taste in coffee §_hias Decco (become) mote sophisticated, but coffee drinking ise +d ads gtd arndy gn 2g veto Popularity in the previous eantury. The fist instant coffee was drunk in 1998 and, by 1946, coffee drink * tie _teatod reach) a peak in tho US wih 174 lies beng consumed yearly per person. Interesting 2 2008, consumption dropped to only 90 litres a1 the past few years now we ®ve been olarak ‘range of soft and onoxgy drinks as wol as coffe, BY 2020, who knows? Perhaps we *Lu!l| even Wet oe {oven / fn) a replacement for cote. 4 EN oot covet tom ota ene aban GRAMMAR EXTRAI been or gone lte the sentences with been of gone. 5 compl 3 crkng ale forthe ummer and fam starting university in October 2 customers have 0211 waving mare tps iy We mis be doing a good jab, don't you thik? ‘on holiday for tea wooks 80 4 Stes CM asking about tho overtime she's ‘wed can you check the ime sheets please? sg rive youever be? toacottee-astng event? 6 We arrange! to meet at § pam. byt when |aved a the cao at on past, he'd ateady 3309 {6 Complete the sentences. Use these words and pirases. been there, done that ‘ono to seed been and gone 1 ait seen tim fr ton years at last and was st athow hedchanged. He'd realy —a,tne to seed) 2 Do youremember when we were Ka we used to spend 1 day playeg outside? The days of beng able todo that a 0012 now, aren't thoy? 8 She doesn't seom very enthusiastic abou anything 4 Sho waa aaly great actrass ny har clay. but fem aad hesattota fas been row, booking lckels forthe & By tho tne we got roan Performance, had akeeay _b DICTATION 7 ERIE Usten to someone talking about cottee houses. Complete the paragraph, The Grand Cale in Oxtord was start in 1680 0h, {he rider iqfoe house Pn ery lord mA ghee hu’ over, to Quoen’s Lane Gottee House, (0% sb Po ran eae rae i tholorgoot edabthd cates Reuse n Eland Tenney yorp athe pace open. A 20" had teen eskesheo. fn Oni te Overt eos, ey have osled a3 50 Cones "and "taces, where begin ave had 10 onan fo drink nm pase ea all eared fatal ‘atmo phere enosteg ey tgtan tau Tl us Boon Tonsgorted to anther ore EEE] i'm wide awake READING 4 Match each extract (1-6) witht 2urce (2 1 -sometiesIwako un ru, ctr test 1M ni 5 make the change 7 yqicut to olive yours 1 mo a inatis, el youve had anotor sleeps | arte to sort wi tha 02st UHMOS. a dace gtr cont ae sy Shy, a odor fe sa of ste acacia wood COMES WO SOS 4 racay shows usher onn bed nalts embarassing dv Sar ct pstect or Sundoy afternoon vw. OOF ‘aright whan you can't drop of Title: A B Have you ever suffered from insomnia? Believe me it's ‘awful. 'd boen suffering for about six months when, 1 finally decided, with the help of my doctor, to do something about it.I dida’t want to take any medication 0 I read everything J could find about the problem and tried to solve it myself, Afterall, reading was one of the things Thad time for when { wasn't sleeping. The fist thing I discovered was that I was doing almost everything absolutely wrong. With so many bad habits, it's dificult vo motivate yourself to make the changes; lfficult, that is, until you've bad another sleepless night decided to start with the easiest things, c Basier said than done not to take devices into the bodroom:; [like being connected, checking posts or ‘watching something before sleep. left them in the living room and tried reading books again. It reminded me a little of my childhood when my parents read to me before sleep. With a couple of exceptions I kept i up At fst she just saw © i bobaned ne ceed Jp A T-shirt slogan. A pet ane MY ayy 1? nin, by the Saatchi Galery Oe a as Nest, vy Se oe 5 @ Description of the fim. S 5 in Seattle, in review description. f Furiture catalogu D {tried taking a bath before bed and playing some gente music while Idi 50, It Was certainly calming but {actually prefer a shower inthe morning so I didnt keep it up. But vile looking for different music, Id start Ustening tthe aaio more and discovered some new Intemet channels. E ‘This advice meant I actually had to give myself a fixed time to retire to bed which I didn’t ike at all! I felt ikea teenager again. So, I turned it around and started eating ‘earlier than I had been doing, Actually, it proved not to be too difficult to eat between seven and eight o'cock ‘most days and, if I was eating out, it wasn’t @ problem because I was going to bed later anyway. F I realized I hadn't thought of this before. It was quite full and messy and not exactly restful. I threw away the piles of papers and magazines that were on the flor by ‘my bed, put all the clothes in the wardrobe and bought some new bedding. I discovered that I liked being in ‘and started to look forward to going to bed. G "im nota fan ofthe gym, I tried i two years ago De ian go enough to justly the cost. So, 1 started ge ‘off the bus a stop early and walking a bit - when the ‘Weather was good, that is. And I started taking the Staits at work, all four flights, every day! H ‘This proved to be the most difficult tip! I'd made som? Ghanges and was impatient to see some results, Whee still couldn't get to sleep 1 felt disappointed. But eve ae of nights it worked and that kept me motivated ‘lust like they say: change doesn’t happen overs! ead the biog poston page 8. Match the headings (1-8) ‘nth AH inthe text, VOCABULARY The prefixes over and under {3 Match the words with over or under with the definitions that moan the opposite (a-f, 1 toorerwork © 2 toundenaive 8 3 overspend 1B 4 toorersloop a 5 tooverdo o 6 tounderestimate 6 2 1092 up bofore the alarm b tostay witin budget € t0perorm a task in a moderate way 1 tobe reaistic about what something inwohes ® toconser something tobe worth more than itis {10.0 you job ina proportionate way Complete the sentences with over or unde. 1 Unfortunately the new colection was sightly ~£.2C___priced at the launch ans not any ters ‘ere actualy ot Hs ack of concertrajon during the exam was the resut df sess ana Unde steeping, Tey pthed thor ia for anew business to aboard of ‘nests who were interested the ie bu fk that the francialdetais were _U nd °C developed, The buses are becoring o_O crowded rat We stared eying to werk gtd. 5 The cele was hom —UNGEE sald and ater ‘teen mews they sl had been served WORDBUILDING Negative prefixes 5 Conoco negative words (1-6), Use these preies. ach the meanings (ach) sith the words (1-8). ude time wasting and chaotic ‘iffcut to read controted regenaly Unhappy about service or quaty "ot present or avalable "ot comprehend cotectly "ol pleasant o st. a on or use ‘Complete the hotel review. Use the negative words fram Exorcise 5 To European hotel chan Moss has econ cae out an edonsve suey ater custo von ha bee Luoepetedy poor The suney eveded at nc the hota ‘organization eas 'he<\esirol'ae0 there's been more local ‘aration acoso group, Soro of th foodback wo, Socatons hs shown a nunbor of quest hve boon Pceowetted ean sre ls ere trom the beds bong UNO OHk or at ng +_Jago¥ 42 and unhetltthe maregernrt bg ) . neMattec eens misunderstood Too resteurats her fad any bat. wth ues ‘marking tha the handwritten menus” §NeGRVG ang dog stated ofr ha teatro restora trace s61.9M1= C163 nthe hotel ran is now under on WORD FOCUS sleep ‘7 Mateh the sleep phrasal verbs with the defitions ‘sop in ‘sleep over sleep off sleep trough sleep on 4 to gk a decision or save a provem overnight —ékepon 2 toreutalze the unpleasant eects of oo much focd, i aphyscal compar, te. Sete Of 3 tofave an uninterupted rights Seep despite noise ‘Ske Mhusssh 4 to stay at soteone's house, tan vith several other poopie Sleep utr fe 5 to deep past the alarm cock Sleep fin ‘Complete the sentences withthe correct form of the ‘verbs trom Exercise 7. 1+ He'savey deep sper: hocaua sleep Yhetucl anearhusks! 2 Vim sony sil cart docige what to do 0 fr sleeping 01 the prolem nas heped 3 My daughters trends oten

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