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Unit 1 Reading and Writing
1 Read the text and circle the four adjectives
which best describe Kevin.
funny generous sociable
unsociable quiet talkative
hard-working lazy
Kevin Crowther likes being with other people and
he likes telling them about things. He’s very
popular with his friends because he tells a lot of
good jokes. Because he likes his friends’
‘es’
company, he likes team sports, but that doesn’t
mean he’s good at them. For example, he’s
interested in playing basketball because his
friends play a lot, but he’s not very tall and also
he’s very bad at it. He enjoys football too, but he’s
not exactly Figo. He doesn’t mind playing tennis
and he’s quite good at it, but he prefers playing
doubles because there are four people and not
just two. He’s also very good at running but he
doesn’t like it very much because it’s a solitary
sport. He loves cooking, but only when he does it
for his friends. He hates cooking for himself
because there’s no one to talk to! He also hates
working and he prefers watching videos to doing
his homework, but obviously, if his friends are
watching the video too, he loves it!
2 Read the text again and answer these
questions.
1. Why is he popular with his friends?
Because he tells a lot of good jokes.
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3 Write a description of a friend or family
member. Think about these things:
• What is his / her personality?
• What are his / her interests or hobbies?
• Is he / she good at them?
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Unit 2 Reading and Writing

1 Read the texts and decide where each
person is. Write the numbers next to the
correct places.
mountain ..... park ..... city centre .....
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cinema ..... beach .....
Text 1
I’m sitting next to some friends and we’re all
looking at a big screen. I’m drinking orange juice
and my friends are eating popcorn. Some people
behind us are talking very quietly. The man sitting
in front of me is very tall, so I can’t see very well.
This always happens to me when I come here!
Text 2
I’m walking on the grass with my dog. He’s
running between the trees and barking. He usually
barks when we come here. Two old men are
sitting on a bench. They are talking and laughing.
A girl is running and she’s wearing a walkman, but
I don’t now what music she’s listening to.
Text 3
I’m standing at a bus stop, waiting for the bus to
come. Lots of cars are driving past and people on
the pavement are walking very fast. People
always walk fast here, not like in the country. The
shops are open and people are buying different
things. I can see a man in the shop across the
street. I think he’s buying a watch.
2 Read the texts again and answer the
questions.
Text 1
7. Do we know what kind of music the girl is
listening to?
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8. What is she waiting for?
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9. How are the people walking?
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3 Think about a place you go sometimes.
Close your eyes and imagine you are there
now. Describe it. Think about these things:
• What are you doing?
• Who are you with? What are they doing?
• What usually happens when you are there?
• What can you see?
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front of her?
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5. Where is the dog running?
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Unit 3 Reading and Writing
1 Read the texts and match them with the
titles.
a) A Train Journey
b) A Library Visit
c) The Supermarket
1. My mum says I must go once a week because
it’s important for my education and I don’t mind
it. The most important thing is that you should
be quiet because people are studying or
reading. If you want to take books home, you
have to be a member and you have to show
your card, but if you only want to look at
something you don’t have to.
2. Well, obviously, you have to buy a ticket from
the machine or the man in the ticket office.
Then you have to find the right platform and
wait for it to arrive. When you find a seat, you
mustn’t put your feet on the opposite seat
because it makes it dirty. You shouldn’t fall
asleep if you’re on your own or you might miss
your stop!
3. First of all, you should make a list of the things
you want. When you get there you should get a
trolley or a basket. If you need a lot of things,
you should get a trolley and for this, in most
places, you have to have a coin.
2 Read the text again and answer these
questions.
Text 1
1. How often must the girl go there?
Once a week.
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3. What do you have to show to take a book
home?
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4. How many places can you buy your ticket
from?
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7. What’s the first thing you should do?
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8. What should you get if you only want a few
things?
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3 Choose one of these places and describe a
visit, explaining the rules or obligations.
• the cinema
• a restaurant
• the zoo
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Unit 4 Reading and Writing
1 Read the text and decide which sentence
best describes it.
a) Human Taxi are touring and having a holiday.
b) Rick is having a holiday after touring.
c) Rick is recording an album before touring.
My name is Rick Shaw and I’m a singer but I’m not
famous in Europe. I’ve got a band called Human
Taxi, with a keyboard player, a bass player and a
drummer. I play the guitar as well as sing. I don’t
know why but our records are big hits in China
and we’re always in the charts there. That’s why
next month we’re touring China and Japan. We’re
starting in Shanghai and finishing in Tokyo. In total
we’re touring for two months and we’re playing in
38 different places! After all that work I’m having a
holiday. I’m visiting relatives in Australia and I’m
not singing or playing my guitar for three weeks.
I’m resting before I come back to Europe because
when I get back to Britain we’re going into the
studio to start recording a new album. We’re
calling it ‘Pull’. I’m planning to study Chinese too
because a couple of the songs on the new album
are in Chinese and Japanese! Sayonara!
2 Read the text again and answer the
questions.
1. Are Human Taxi famous in Europe?
No, they’re not.
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2. How many people are in the band?
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3. What does Rick play?
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4. Where are their songs in the charts?
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5. Where are they playing their first concert?
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6. How long are they touring for?
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7. Who is Rick visiting in Australia?
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8. Where are they recording the new album?
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9. What are they calling it?
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10. What is Rick planning to study?
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3 Write about your plans for the next few
months. (You can invent it.) Think about
these things:
• Are you doing anything special? What?
• Are you going on holiday? Where are you
going?
• Are you visiting anyone? Who?
Example: Next month I’m visiting my
cousins in France. We’re going by
car to Marseille …
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Unit 5 Reading and Writing
1 Read Steven’s story and circle the mode of
communication described.
telephone mobile phone email
One Saturday morning, when I was bored at
home in my bedroom, I received a message. It
said: ‘C U at 2.00 next to the big tree in the park’.
I thought it was strange because I didn’t
recognise the number. I also didn’t know which
tree, and when I thought about it I also didn’t
know which park, or which city! So I didn’t
answer. It was obviously a wrong number and I
forgot about it. At about quarter past two I heard
another ‘beep’ and I saw that I had another text
message. This time it said ‘I’m at the tree. Where
R U?’ This time I sent a reply: ‘Which park?’ A
minute later the reply came: ‘Finsbury!!’
Incredible! My local park! I made a decision. I
went to the park and looked for a big tree. I
thought, ‘Who sent the message? A boy or a girl?’
Then I found a very big tree and next to it was a
girl with a mobile in her hand. She was beautiful.
But was it her? I phoned her number and
watched. Her mobile rang! It was her!
2 Read the story again and answer the
questions.
1. Where was Steven when he received the first
text message?
In his bedroom.
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2. What did he think about the message?
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3. Did he know who sent the message?
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4. What did he hear when the second message
arrived?
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5. What did he do this time?
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6. What was the name of the park?
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3 What do you think happened next?
Continue the story. Think about these
things:
• Did Steven talk to the girl?
• If not, what did he do? If he did, what
happened?
• Did she know Steven?
• Who did she want to send the messages to?
• Where was this person?
Example: Steven didn’t know what to do,
so he waited for five minutes. The
girl started to walk away, so …
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Unit 6 Reading and Writing

1 Read the story and put the paragraphs in 8. What did Hannah shout?
order. ...........................................................................
a) The sisters were wearing only T-shirts and
9. What did their mum think?
shorts because it was summer and it wasn’t
cold. Then Beth felt a drop of rain on her arm. ...........................................................................
She looked up and she saw that the clouds
were getting darker.
b) Hannah started to run. ‘Come on!’ she Write
shouted to Beth. The rain was falling very
heavily now and the girls were getting wetter 3 Write a story about a problem you had with
and wetter. When they arrived home they were the weather. Think about these things:
completely wet. Their mum said, ‘So you went • What were you doing?
swimming in the end!’
• Where were you?
c) On Saturday, Beth and Hannah decided to go
• What were you wearing?
to the park instead of the swimming pool. The
weather was quite good. The sun was shining • What was the weather like?
at times but there were also some clouds that Example: I was playing football with my
were moving across the sky quickly because friends on the beach. The sun was
the wind was blowing. shining and it was very hot …
d) Then Hannah also felt a drop of rain on her
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2 Read the story again and answer the
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1. Where did the girls decide not to go? ...............................................................................
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Unit 7 Reading and Writing

1 Read the text and decide what sport Liam Write
does. Circle the correct answer.
3 Imagine you can decide some of the rules of
cyclist footballer gymnast golfer your school or at home. Write about what
people must and mustn’t do. Think about
these things:
The first thing is that I must eat well. I mustn’t eat
unhealthy things like chips or hamburgers. I must at school:
eat lots of salad, pasta and fish. This is a bit of a • What must the pupils do?
problem because I’m happier eating fast food,
• What must the teachers do?
but if I want to win I must follow a strict diet.
Obviously I must train every day but before I start at home:
I must make sure I’m ready. I must stretch all my • What must your parents do?
muscles; in my legs and arms, and also in my • What must your brothers / sisters do?
neck, my back and my stomach. I must be very
flexible in my sport and stretching stops me Example: At school the teachers must
hurting myself. make the classes shorter and
Also, I must be very strong in all parts of my body, the breaks longer and we must
so I must spend a lot of time in the weight room, watch more videos …
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you can be at my sport, if you maintain your
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2 Read the text again and answer the
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1. What mustn’t Liam eat?
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Unit 8 Reading and Writing
1 Read the texts and match them with the
pictures.
a b c 8. What day is it?
Text 1 ......
Karl’s parents have just received a postcard from
their son. Karl says he has been taken to Jupiter
by aliens. Karl’s mother said: ‘It’s not the first time
that Karl has told us something like this. He’s got
a lot of imagination and he has just bought a book
about extra-terrestrials. I suppose that’s where he
got the idea from.’
Text 2 ......
Martha and Patricia have just come back from a
weekend in the country. ‘We’ve been to look for
UFOs,’ said Martha, ‘and we’ve had a great time.
We’ve seen some strange lights in the sky and
we’ve heard some mysterious noises.’ ‘We want
to go again,’ added Patricia.
Text 3 ......
‘Chris has a special talent. He’s telepathic – he can
read your mind. It’s incredible. For example, he’s
told me that I’ve had pizza for lunch and that I’ve
just come home from school.’ ‘But Neil, everybody
knows we have pizza at school on Thursdays,
and it’s five o’clock. Of course you’ve just come
home from school.’ ‘Oh. I didn’t think of that.’
2 Read the text again and answer the
questions.
1. Who has just received a postcard from Karl?
His parents.
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3. What has Karl just bought?
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4. Where have Martha and Patricia been this
weekend?
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3 Have you ever experienced anything
strange? Write about it (or invent it). Think
about these things:
• What did you see, hear or experience?
• When did it happen?
• Was it good or bad?
• How do you feel about it now?
Example: I’ve seen a ghost, just once. Last
year I was at my grandmother’s
house when I heard a strange
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Unit 9 Reading and Writing
1 Read the text and choose the best title.
a) How to Get Tickets to a Music Festival
b) A Look at a British Music Festival
c) Different Types of Music Festivals
Since the end of the 1960’s, pop music festivals
have become very popular all over the world.
One of the largest in England is at Glastonbury in
June. It has become very famous and attracts the
best British bands.
This is what Carol says about the festival: ‘I’ve
been to Glastonbury for the last four years and I
love it! The music’s brilliant and the atmosphere is
really good.’
The Glastonbury festival usually lasts three days,
from Friday to Sunday, and you can buy your
ticket at record shops or on the Internet. Many
people buy a three-day ticket and stay in tents at
the festival campsite.
One problem at the campsite is keeping clean.
Another teenager at the festival, James, has told
us why: ‘There are thousands of people here and
I haven’t had a shower since I arrived two days
ago. It’s impossible. You just have to accept that
you’re going to be dirty.’
2 Read the text again and answer the
questions.
1. How long have pop music festivals been
popular?
Since the end of the 1960’s.
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3. How many years has Carol been going to
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3 Would you like to go to a music festival?
Write your opinion. Include these things:
• Why would / wouldn’t you like to go?
• What do you think are the good things and bad
things about a music festival?
Example: I wouldn’t want to go to a music
festival because I don’t like big
crowds …
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Unit 10 Reading and Writing

1 Read the text and circle the best title. Write
A Day at the Sales Helen Finds a Bargain 3 Write about something you bought recently.
How much?! Think about these things:
• What did you buy?
Helen was given some money for her birthday, so • Where did you buy it?
last Saturday she went shopping with her • Why did you buy it?
boyfriend, Steve, in Oxford Street, where all the • How much did it cost?
popular shops are in London. It wasn’t January,
when the big sales are, but in some of the shops Example: Last weekend I went shopping with
the prices were reduced. Helen was looking for a my friends at a big shopping centre.
new top or jacket. Steve wasn’t looking for I wanted to buy some CD’s …
anything in particular, but he was hoping Helen
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she was told the price, she said ‘How much?!’ It
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was 100 pounds and that was too much for Helen.
They were getting tired but it wasn’t long before ...............................................................................
they found a small shop with a big sign in the
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window saying ‘Special Discount Prices’. They
went in and Helen immediately saw a jacket that ...............................................................................
she liked. ‘I’m sure it’s too expensive,’ she said to
Steve, but when she looked at the price she ...............................................................................
couldn’t believe it. Only eight pounds. She bought
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it and was very happy, and so was Steve, because
he was given a CD as a present by Helen. ...............................................................................

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2 Read the text again and answer the ...............................................................................

questions.
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1. Why did Helen have money?
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Unit 11 Reading and Writing
1 Read the texts and decide which plans you
like the most. Circle your answer.
Sam’s Jamie’s Judith’s nobody’s
Sam’s plans
I’m going to have a quiet night on Friday. Some
friends are coming round to my house and we’re
going to watch a video and eat pizza. I think
there’ll probably be about six of us. On Saturday
I’m going to get up early because I have to study
and I want to finish before lunch - I’ve got an
exam on Monday.
Jamie’s plans
Some friends and I are going to the park. We’re
going to play chess. There are special tables and
we play against the people who are there. I don’t
think I’ll win but it’ll be fun. After that we’re going
to a hamburger restaurant to have something to
eat. I really hope Judith will be there.
Judith’s plans
At first the plan was to go to the cinema but now
we’re not going. I think we’re going to a disco. I
imagine we’ll have a good time but I’m not going
to bed late because I want to study with Sam in
the morning. Not because I want to study. I want
to be with Sam!
2 Read the texts again and answer the
questions.
1. What is Sam going to do on Friday night?
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2. How many people will be there?
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3. Why is he going to get up early on Saturday?
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4. What is Jamie going to do in the park?
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5. Is he confident he will win?
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6. Does he think he’ll be hungry afterwards?
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7. Who does he like?
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8. Is Judith going to the cinema?
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10. Who does she like?
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3 Write about some of your plans and your
expectations. Think about these things:
• What are you going to do? Who are you going
to be with?
• Where are you going to be? Will it be fun /
interesting / boring / dangerous, etc?
Example: Tonight I’m going to the cinema
with my girlfriend to see a horror
film. I think it will be good …
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Unit 12 Reading and Writing
1 Read the texts and decide which person is
the most ecological and the least
ecological.
The most ecological is ..........................................
The least ecological is ..........................................
Kim: In my house we do some things to help the
environment. We recycle paper because if we
don’t, they’ll cut down more trees, and we
recycle plastic and glass because there’ll be
more rubbish if we don’t do it. I sometimes
save energy by turning off the lights but I often
forget.
Noel: I know the environment is important, but it
won’t make much difference if I do things or not. I
sometimes recycle things, but the nearest
recycling centre is a long way from my house, so I
usually put everything in the rubbish. If I
remember, I turn off the lights, but I don’t save
water. It rains a lot where I live and I don’t think it’s
necessary.
Nathalie: I’m a member of Friends of the Planet, a
local ecological organisation, and I do as much
as I can to protect nature. I recycle paper, glass,
plastic and batteries and I’m very economical
with electricity in my house. I also go on
demonstrations to protest against companies that
damage the environment. If we don’t do this, our
planet will suffer.
2 Read the texts again and answer the
questions.
1. Who lives a long way from a recycling centre?
Noel.
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2. Who is a member of a ‘green’ organisation?
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3. Who forgets to turn off the lights?
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4. Who lives in an area where it rains a lot?
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5. What does Nathalie recycle that Kim doesn’t?
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6. Why does Kim recycle paper?
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7. Why does Nathalie go on demonstrations?
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8. Does Noel often recycle things?
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Write
3 Write about what you do in your house to
protect the environment. Think about these
things:
• What do you recycle? Where do you take it?
• Do you save water? How?
• Do you save energy? How?
Example: In my house we recycle paper. I
take it to a container in the
street. We don’t recycle glass
but …
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