Gold B2 First, unit 3 key

Vocabulary and Listening focus

Cb p.26

Answers
2. Students’ own answers
3. Suggested answers:

1. He doesn’t spend his money wisely.

2. Be prepared to support something you believe in with action or money – not just words.
3. I don’t have enough money.
4. It’s not easy to make money.
5. She can afford to waste some money.
6. He has a lot of money.
7. My mum has a limited amount of money.
8. Money influences everything.
4.
1 within 2 in 3 on 4 away 5 to 6 of

Sentence completion (Part 2) p. 27

5-6 A, B, D
7 A 4, 5, 6, 10 B 3 C7
8-9
1. policeman
2. university
3. risk(s)
4. satisfaction
5. (business) training
6. poverty
7. 1,450
8. (new) hospital
9. Community
10. (greater) freedom

Grammar focus
p.28
Using modifiers for comparison

Grammar reference answers Cb p. 144

Exercise 1
1. isn’t any
2. by far
3. rather
4. slightly
5. a little
Answers Cb p. 28
1

1. emptier, lonelier
2. proudest
3. far more content
4. nearly as difficult as

2 All the sentences are similar in meaning.

3
1. quite as/so high as
2. one of the most
3. far/much less
4. far/much higher than
5. a bit wealthier than
6. not (nearly) as/so easy

Speaking focus Cb p. 29 Long turn (Part 2)

1. A
2. Students’ own answers
3. 1. Both the photographs show an achievement.
2. The man also looks happy.
3. The man looks as if he’s enjoying himself, too.
4. Students’ own answers
5. 1. like 2. like/ as if/ as though 3. like 4. like / as if / as though
5. like / as if / as though
6. 1B 2B 3A

Reading focus
Multiple choice
Cb p.30

1-2 Students’ own answers

3
1. I completely understand their desperate desire to be part of it all.
2. … this inhibits their ability of form real relationships. However, there are also
ordinary people – sensible parents, husbands, employees and employers –
whose interests are much more healthy and straightforward.
3. Passions are deep, full of joy and pain, teaching you how to sob when you feel
hurt, how to react to a disappointment, how to sing with enthusiasm in public.
Because of them you might end up hugging a complete stranger or making
new friends.
4. The birth of your child …
5. Calm, controlled middle-aged women are suddenly prepared to camp
overnight on damp pavements in London and squeal encouragement …
6. This is a global question focusing on the whole text.
4
1D 2C 3A 4B 5C 6D
5
Students’ own answers
6
1. about
2. with
3. by
4. by
5. by

Grammar focus Cb p. 32
Present perfect and past simple

Answers
1
1. since the age of 14
2. no
3. six months ago
4. every weekend
2
1. left, lived
2. used to spend, would drive, would swim, could only surf

3
I’ve been able, we’ve been, I’ve had, I’ve (really) enjoyed, I’ve (never) entered

4
1B 2C 3A

5 since = a point in time

for = a period of time

6
1. the past simple: ago, at lunchtime, in 2010, last month, once
the present perfect: already, just, never, once
2. once is used with both

Grammar focus Cb p. 32
Present perfect simple or continuous?

Grammar Reference answers Cb p. 145

Exercise 2
1 I 2B 3F 4D 5C 6H 7G 8E 9C
Present perfect simple or continuous
Answers Cb p 32
7 1B 2A
8
1. I have been riding/have ridden
2. once witnessed/have witnessed (a crime) once
3. lived
4. had
5. have never been
6. have just won

Open cloze (Part 2)

Cb p 33
Answers
1 Students’ own answers
2
1. It is about being kind to yourself and enjoying simple pleasures.
2. It improves well-being, and stops you feeling guilty about enjoying things like ice cream.
3
1. preposition (=voorzetsel)
2. relative pronoun (=betrekkelijk voornaamwoord; heeft betrekking op/gaat over het
antecedent); the first word in a relative clause = betrekkelijke bijzin.
3. adverb (time)
4. preposition
5. conjunction
6. adverb
7. preposition
8. preposition

4
1. for
2. which
3. ago
4. since
5. why
6. there
7. as
8. like

5 Students’ own answers

6 1. like (+ noun = preposition→all his other ones (replaces ‘films’)

2. like (conjunction + subject + verb→we said yesterday informal speech)
as (conjunction + subject + verb
3. as (+ noun = preposition)
4. like (+ noun = preposition →that one (replaces job)
5. as (+ noun = preposition)
6. like (conjunction + subject + verb → like I asked you informal speech)

Writing focus
p.34
Article (Part 2)
Answers
1
1. informal, because it’s for young people
2. describe a possession and say why it’s important to you
2 A and B both answer the question, but Paragraph A is most effective.
3 Suggested answers:
Paragraph two: B, C, F, G
Paragraph three: A, D, E, H
4-
5 B It is more interesting and less abrupt.
6-8 Students’ own answers

Review
p.35
Answers

1 1D 2B 3A 4C 5D 6B

2
1. has lived/been living here for
2. haven’t seen Mike since
3. time (that) I have been
4. spend hardly any
5. far more expensive than
6. just as friendly as
7. one of the most expensive

3 1. worried
2. interesting
3. exciting
4. embarrassed
5. frightening
6. relieved

4
1. of
2. like
3. much/far
4. as
5. by
6. as
7. been
8. both/each