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Grammar Reference, pages 78–9

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Vocabulary Reference, page 90
Culture: Reading & Listening, page 99
Writing Guide, pages 114–15
Speaking, page 126

Vocabulary
Rooms and furniture
1  Look at the picture and complete the words with vowels.

1
4 3 8 10
7

c
5
b
9

a 2
13
11

d
12
e

1 s o f a 2 b kc s 3 d sk 4 l mp
5 c h r 6 rmch r 7 m rr r 8 c pb rd
9 t bl 10
t l t 11
c k r 12
w rdr b
13
b d

2  Look at the picture in exercise 1 and write the rooms with the words in the box.

bathroom ​
bedroom ​
dining room ​
kitchen ​
living room

a) living room b) c)
d) e)

3  Circle the correct words. 4  Complete the sentences for you.

You cook on a cooker / cupboard. 1 In my kitchen there’s …
1 You sleep in your bedroom / kitchen. .
2 You put your clothes in your toilet / wardrobe. 2 In my bedroom I’ve got …
3 You look at yourself in an armchair / a mirror. .
4 You eat your dinner on a table / desk. 3 In my living room there’s …
5 You sleep in a bed / bookcase. .
6 Three people can sit on a chair / sofa.
7 You put books on a bookcase / lamp.
8 The shower is in the bathroom / living room.
9 You usually eat in the dining room / bedroom.

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Household objects

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6  Circle the correct words.

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clean clothes washing machine /
5  Look at the pictures and complete the
crossword. dishwasher
1 take photos camera / toothbrush
1
W 2 change channels telephone / remote
2
R A control
S 3 cook food dishwasher / microwave
3 4
M A C H I N E H 4 surf the internet laptop / fridge
I 5 listen to music camera / mp3 player
N
5 6 7  Complete the replies with the words in
F D G
the box.
7
T dishwasher ​ laptop ​microwave ​
remote control ​telephone ​toothbrush
8
M

What’s your favourite household object?

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Write and tell us.
L
10
C Lucy I love the (1) telephone . I talk on
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reply it every day with my friends!

Shakeel The (2) in the kitchen

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reply is my favourite. It washes all the
plates and cups for us. I love using it!
Down
1 (and 3 2 and 4 6 7 Paul My favourite thing is my
Across) 11:15
reply
(3)
. I can do my
homework on it and surf the
internet.
8 9
Kayley I love the (4) in our
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reply kitchen. I can cook food fast in it.

Across Justine I’ve got a new electric

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3 (see 1 5 7 8 reply
(5)
. I use it every
Down) morning and evening. It’s fun!

10 Morgan I think the (6) is great.

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reply I can sit on the sofa and change TV
channels with it.

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be: past simple 5  Complete the dialogue with the words in
the box.
1  Complete the table with the correct past was ​was ​Was ​wasn’t ​
simple form of be.
Were ​Were ​were ​weren’t
I was 4 It
Dad Where (1) were you last night?
1 You 5 We
Eva I (2)
was at home.
2 He 6 You
Dad (3)
Tom and Grace with
3 She 7 They you?
Eva No, they (4) .
2  Circle the correct words. Dad (5)
you in the kitchen?
Eva Yes, I (6)
.
Our old house was / were Victorian.
Dad (7)
the cooker on?
1 It was / were very small.
Eva No, it (8)
.
2 The garden was / were big.
3 My bedroom was / were orange and pink.
6  Write questions with the correct past
4 The neighbours was / were very friendly.
simple form of be. Then write short
5 We was / were happy there. answers: affirmative (+) or negative (–).

3  Rewrite the sentences using the negative

past simple of be.
The house wasn’t big.
1 The garden small.
2 My bedroom green.
3 The neighbours horrible.
4 We unhappy.

4  Complete the questions with was or were. the clothes / in the wardrobe? +
Was that your old house, Dad? Were the clothes in the wardrobe?
1 you born there? Yes, they were.
2 Where your bedroom? 1 the lamp / on the desk? –
3 it small?
4 What colour your bedroom?
5 you happy there? 2 the books / on the book shelf? +


3 the bedroom / tidy? +


4 the computer / on the bed? –

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there was / there were Past simple: affirmative regular
verbs
7  Complete the sentences with was or were.
There were three bedrooms. 10  Write the correct past simple form of the
1 There a bed. verbs.
2 There two chairs. verb past simple
3 There a table near my bed. call called
4 There a big bookcase. 1 play
5 There lots of books. 2 want
3 produce
8  Circle the correct words. 4 use
There was / There were a big kitchen in our
(1)   5 stop
house, but (2)there was / there wasn’t a dining
room. The kitchen was always warm because 11  Complete the sentences with the correct
(3)
there was / there were a very big cooker past simple form of the verbs in brackets.
and it was usually on – my mum was a really
They called (call) the baby Eva.
good cook! (4)There was / There were some
1 My friend’s brother (design) a
cupboards in front of the cooker. (5)There was /
new computer.
There were some cakes and biscuits in them,
2 The first portable camera
but (6)there wasn’t / there weren’t any fruit.
(appear) in 1888.
3 Antonio Meucci (invent) the
9  Write questions with Was there / Were
first telephone.
there. Then look at the picture and write
short answers. 4 The first mobile phones
(weigh) a lot.

12  Complete the text with the correct past

simple form of the verbs in brackets.
Percy Spencer (1) invented (invent)
the microwave
oven in 1945. He
(2)

(live) in
America. He
a table (3)
Was there a table? Yes, there was.
(work) for
1 a sofa
the Raytheon

Corporation. One day, he (4)
2 a lamp
(stop) in front of a Magnetron machine. The

chocolate in his pocket (5)
3 any books
(change). After that, he (6)

(design) the microwave oven.
4 any chairs

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Dictation Unit 7 Grammar Check
1 20  Listen and write the sentences. 5  Read the text and circle the correct answers.
1

2

Error Correction
2  Correct the underlined errors. Rewrite the
sentences.
They play tennis yesterday.
They played tennis yesterday.
1 The people in the hotel wasn’t happy.

2 There were a lamp on my desk.

3 My cousins move house last week.
There (1)… a programme on TV last night called
Help my house. What (2)… about? It was about
3  Listen and check your answers. a woman called Sally and her kitchen. A team
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of people (3)… at Sally’s house early in the
morning. She (4)… there, but her boyfriend Chris
Translation was at home. He (5)… them Sally’s kitchen. It (6)…
terrible. There wasn’t a cooker and there (7)…
4  Translate the corrected sentences from any cupboards. Then the team started work.
exercise 2 into your language.
They designed and produced a new kitchen
1 for Sally. Later that day, everyone (8)… working.
Sally (9)… when she walked into her new kitchen
that evening! She was so happy!
2 A B C
1 was is were
2 it was was it it
3 3 arrive arrived arrives
4 isn’t weren’t wasn’t
5 shows was showing showed
6 was were is
7 wasn’t weren’t aren’t
8 stopped stops stop
9 cries is crying cried

6 22  Listen and check your answers.

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Cumulative Grammar
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

1  Circle the correct words to complete the text.

House in the clouds

Thorpeness is a small village in England and
we (1)stay / ’re staying here at the moment. We
(2)
usually stay / ’re usually staying in a hotel
when we’re on holiday, but this time we (3)’s / ’ve
got a house for two weeks. It’s called the ‘House
in the Clouds’ because it’s very high!
At first the house was a water tower. Water
towers (4)is / are tall buildings and they contain
water for the houses around them. The architect
(5)
designs / designed this water tower to look
like a house. There (6)was / were a house under
the water tower in the past, but now the entire
building is a house. It (7)isn’t / wasn’t a water
tower today.
My bedroom’s on the fourth floor and I can
see the beach. The sand on the beach (8)is / are
lovely. Dad (9)runs / ’s running on it every
morning. He likes (10)do / doing exercise.  All Clear Facts
The Queen of England has lots of
different houses, but she normally lives
in Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle.
Buckingham Palace has got 775 rooms!

Tick (✔) the boxes to evaluate your progress.

I can use the past simple of
be to talk about the past.
I can use there was / there were
to describe things in the past.
I can use the past simple
affirmative to talk about the past.

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