If you speak three languages, you are trilingual. If you speak two, you are bil ingu lf you speak one, you are English. German joke 2 B=Older and wiser? 1 GRAMMAR adjectives as nouns, adjective order 4 Complete the sentences with the + adjective 1 China The Chinese_won the most gold ‘medals ac the 2012 Olympics. 2 Japan eat ator of fish 3 Ireland celebrate ‘St Patrick's Day on 17th March. 4 Switzerland __ have agood standard of living, 5 Portugal are very kind and friendly to visitors, 6 England _ havea reputation for being polite, 7 Scotland njoy spending time outdoors. ly fond of cycling, b_ Complete the sentences with the noun form of an adjective from the box. blind deaf disabled injured elderly rich unemployed young 1 Thedeaf_usually communicate with each other using sign language 2. The government is offering courses to help find jobs After the accident, to __ were taken to hospital The building has easy access for Do you think, should pay higher taxes than the poor? 6 Insome countries, find their way around. use special dogsto help them: ___always think that they know better than their parents 8 Should the family or the state look after _ ? Right (7 )or wrong (X)? Correct the mistakes in the highlighted phrases 1. Sarah's wearing a denim short skirt. X_ashortdenimskir 2 I'm looking fora sleeveless cotton T-shirt. 3. Lwant to buy some leather white trousers. 4 My sister's bought some purple trendy glasses we his mother a patterned silk scarf for her birthday. 6 Helooksv yy smart in his grey new Armani suit. She was wearing a bright red woollen scarf. 8. You can't wear those old scruffy jeans to the wedding, READING Read the article quickly. Tick (/) the senter cross (X) the ones that are wrong. that are right and Hipsters. always look smart go shopping as often as they can. carea lot about current affairs. love listening to music. cat in fast food restaurants,. b_ Read the article again and choose the right How to be a Hipster answer. 1 The hipster subculture is made up of Today, hipsters can be seen people who want... more frequently than ever before. a tolook cool They are part of a subculture that b tobe different, rejects everything mainstream © toficin, in favour of expressing their own 2 Hipsters don’t tend to wear uniqueness. If this sort of thing 2 sports shoes. appeals to you, you might like b colourful patcerns. to consider becoming a hipster & Kaggpevousers yourself. Read on to find out more. 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They wear independent and foreign films, and a ‘altee i fias become well known, cowboy boots oF Converse trainers they attend independent productions at b until it becomes well known con their feet, and as faras accessories the theatre. Hipsters ako love reading, € when others stop likingit are concerned, they wear sunglasses, especially books about political scence, 6 Hipsters enjoy food... bright belts and they generally have a anthropology and sociology. a fromsupermarkees couple of piercings. ah b they produce themselves EX shopping Eating meat isn't popular with € ‘tress Consumerism s something that hipsters hipsters, and most of them tend to ¢ Find the words or phrases in thetextto can't stand, so they don't go shopping _be vegetarians or vegans. Many grow very often. Instead they prefer to make their own food in their gardens or on ich definitions 1-10: vse of old things and theylove tage ableony: If not, they goto natural 1 adjective referring to ideas and opinions clothing. Female hipsters raid their food markets instead. Fruit, coffee thought to be normal because they are grandmothers’ cupboards looking fr old and Asin food are very popular wth shared by most people (ntraduction) dresses whe the men goin searchof hipsters and they love making meals Geass ores itont (rte ode en 2: ciagebeca] npn ara pelnon pve ‘ear Ofcourse the dates BME 6 s5y ant be mw hlpstar age neve need toe te inmate ten et | ying So now 3 things tac ou wear ay carey wmnch ree about being ‘coo! and find your your clothes, e.g. bag, scarf (paragraph 1) thread, so this isn't a problem, The only shops a hipster will enter are charity shops, craft shops, or their local vintage boutique. Ei Lifestyle Hipsters tend to be very bothered and upset about the way the world works ~ or doesn’t work, in their view. They are usually well-informed because they spend hours every day siting in cafés surfing the internet on their smartphones or tablets ~ the only exceptions to their aversion to consumerism. Hipsters are usualy quite young ~ the age ranges from late teens to mid-30s, Most go to university, and ‘many of them base their career choices around music, art, or fashion. ‘own unique way to fit in with 4 garments from a certain period in the past {paragraph 2) things you use for sewing (paragraph 2) 6 worried about something (paragraph 3) strong feeling of nor liking something (paragraph 3) 8 notinflucnced by anything eke (paragraph) 9. people who don't eat any animal produces atall (paragraph 5) 10 aperson who is very interested in erying different dishes (paragraph 5)3 VOCABULARY clothes and fashion a Order the letters in brackets to make a material. Then complete the sentences, 1 Jack was wearinga blue_denim_ jacket. (NEOIM) 2 Ipreferto wear light __ shirts in the summer. (TCONTO) collar for her birthday. 3 Igave my muma blouse with a (aLce) 4. Areyou sure those boots are made of 2 (EHATELR) 5 Inever buy clothes because they take so long to iron, (ent) 6 They gave mea very expensive _tieasa leaving present uks) Don’t wear your jacket out ~ i's raining. (OESEU) 8 Lreally like your new ___ jacket. Where did you get it? (eTLEw) b Girl the odd one our 1 hooded sleeveless (fight) V-neck 2 longsleeved old-fashioned smart trendy 3 checked sik spotted striped 4 denim fur loose suede 5 fashionable patterned scruffy stylish © Complete the sentences with a verb from the box. get undressed suits ‘get changed match dressup fit gowith hangup 1 That shirt doesn’t _match_ your jacket. It doesn’t look right. 2 The party’s going to be quite formal, so I suppose we'd better - 3 Canyou ve just ironed them. your shirts in the wardrobe, please? 4 [think I must have pur ona bit of weight. These trousers don't 5. You look great in that new dress! Ie really you. 6 I've been working in the garden, so Fl have to before we go out Ruth is looking for atop to 8 Canyoutell the children to please? her new trousers. and jump into the bath, 4 PRONUNCIATION vowel sounds a Gieldthe word witha differen sound. ae 3 a 5 5 ur o ; < I ar el boot bull | fish | bird ike tr [lease “cotton [nen ur it lace [Gut hooded slippers shirt yer. eather shoes put silk shorts | stylish plain suit wool = striped ~— skirt’ «tight Suede b AGTH Listen and check. Then listen and repeat. LISTENING (GTADD Listen to a radio programme about ageing. Is Laura, the guest on the programme, optimistic or pessimistic about getting old? Listen again and mark the sentences T (crue) or F (false) 1 The elderly tend to be miserable 2. Our future health is programmed entirely by our genes. 3. Some people lead busy lives when they reach old age. a 4 Theincrease in the number of old people contributes to overpopulation, —_ The elderly will be lonely inthe future. Listen again with the audioscripr on p.70 and try to guess the meaning of any words, that you don’t know. Then check in your dictionary USEFUL WORDS AND PHRASES Learn these words and phrases. breakdown (and ery) /breik daon deal with (diel wi elderly make up (n) “'metk sp treat (v) (trict trick (9b) fink vulnerable /'vslnorsbl wig vig) wrinkles /rigklz GAL GAO rie 2