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CAMBRIDGE STIMULI Le! Second edition Student's Book 1 Present simple (postive and negative: ‘questions and shor answers) lke + ing Present continuous for actives happening now Present simple vs. preset contimous er eee ee (positive and negative was bom / were born ast simple (eglar and regular verbs ‘questions and shor answers) hhoveto/ don' have to ‘Countable and uncountable nouns ‘far, some and any much and mony Comparative and superlatives Present continuous for future arangements Etetamart wilwon' 100% adjective adverbs ea ‘be going to lntentions and preictons}, must/mustn® Fiat conditional when and if should/shouldet What's ike? Present perfect + ever/never Hobbies and interests, school subjects Vocabulary bank hobbies and interests Housework | Everyeay Erglsh Vocabulary Bank: rooms and housework ae Maltward verb Memory words Vocabulary bank: mult-word verbs (eth up down. on. off) fast time expressions sports Everyday Erglish ‘Vocabulary bank sports equipment and places Jobs, work and money Vocabulary bank: work Food and ink Everyday Erlish Vocabulary bank food / things we use to eat and dine Language learning Futur time expressions, holiday sctvities Everyday English Vocabulary bank holiday activites Expressions to talk about the future, expressions totalkabour fortune telling The weather Everyday English Vocabulary bank: adjectives to talk about the weather Multiword verbs (2), prepositions Vocabulary banks mil-ord verbs (2) (ith go and put) Adjectives of feeling Everyday Exglih Vocabulary bank feelings and actions Personality adjectives, cjectives For expressing opinions Yocabulaty bank: personality adjectives Verb and naun pas. expressions about sleep Everyday English Vocabulary bank: verb and noun Pronunchation » Vocabulary bank + Get ®Right! » Projects + Speaking + lregula yerbs and phonetics h(n) and bong) ‘si (wal) Word ares have to / don't have to “The schwa a! wate) than 1 (hin) and 0 ht) aul as) ‘must end mustn't Stress in conditional Silene consonants have and has inthe present perfect Talking about school ‘An interview about a hobby ‘tcl: An unusual hobby mail about your “Talking about hobbies Calture in mind School clubs hobbies and interests Expeesing likes and dilies Talking about housework ——=SséRadiointerview witha volunteer Article: Helping ata hospital mall about organising Last but act least arangingto meet inNamibia Fhotostory: Let's ve him shang party 4 CAA eS Tang hae he at eienet i be ride Ei roche heaps tk Teta wher herpéole eee ete eee — ‘Asking abour the past Televisionstory ‘Article: The ping pong friendship that Diary entry or email Reteling a story Song: Youve Gor A Friend in Me changed the world about an enjoyabie Last but not least: Albt—a game Photortry: Not anice thing say weakend SES i el hese a hae Talking about obligations “Talng about sucess Article: What does success mean? 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ANCHE ATRESIA AE . me ‘ i Making predictions ‘Future predictions ‘Article: Getting the Future wrong! Tere preening “alan about your fur fe ‘Song: When Tn Suay-four ‘Culture a min: Fortune telling the fare “Taling about fortune teling Deseabing actions © weather forecast ‘articte jung survival ‘Email ving advice en eam cree ua Spal eae Pepe Ree eee = ies a le mat 7 i eas ‘hing eure: Onepabonatiew eastern) _ArikkcinNey tation Yars6re Ena du New tae Scag crt Weld Carer me Regen ae on [i Seendonians Ane Sibweyheo Deaton fai Doane Pusey een Ce ae Se eeepc see ate tne pie Capettiastrememtttts | nbgniee were tee ills Vhecoyaieeracitaned crf eater SWae | Sosecs Sennen ata ee Sedans stron ie ice hoe eae acide tle eatin na ena Te eo eee ee, Secccanostcmed tail seams sinneysvence te orton What retin Ee NOE te ea Ate saR Al eed 84 © creetings and introductions [a] [SIE complete the dialogue with the words in the box. Then listen and check liz: Hi. My" name's Liz. Monica: Hello, Liz,?_____ Monica, liz: Nice to meet you. Excuse me a moment. Hi, jack. How are you? Jack: I'm? » thanks. How about 4 2 Liz: Im OK, thanks. Monica, *___ is my friend, Jack, Monica: © to meet you, Jack. Jack: Nice to meet you too, Monica [B] Work in a group of three. Have conversations like the one in Exercise la. © te verb be [a] Look at the pictures. Fill in the spaces with the cortect form of be (positive or negative). (b] [TAY complete the dialogue with the correct form of the verb be. Then listen and check. Jack: Hi. My name'___'s.___Jack, and this Ts Monica. She?___ from Italy. Marek: Nice to meet you. | * Marek, and those two people? vay friends, Barbara and Adam. ¢ you from Rome, Monica? Monica: No,17_____ from Milan. Where * you from? Marek: We ® from Poland. Adam and | Bitch he from China, ® ___ from Warsaw and Barbara” = wea. | from Gdansk. ® you on holiday in from Turkey!) | Japanese Cambridge? ———<——-_ -—— Monica: No, not. ma student at Work with a partner. Ask and answer a language school here. youll questions about the people in Exercise 2b. Sener ‘A: Is Monica from Poland? Marek: Yes, we®_______. We * ata B: No, she isn't She's from Milan, in Iraly language school too. Are Marek and Adam ... ? eral accra | © possessive adJectives Read Liz's email from her new e-pal, Laura. Fill in the spaces with my, your, his, her, our or their. Hey Liz, ‘Thanks for _your _ last emaill And | loved the photos of ? friends and family ~ | looked at them yesterday, *_.__ mum and dad look really nice in the photo. So now I'l tell you about me and‘ ____. family here in Switzerland, I've got two brothers. *_______ names are Lukas and Andreas and they're 16 and 19, My mother is American and *_______name is Christine. Dad is Swiss German — he’s from Zirich, and 7 name is Dieter. We live in Geneva. * __. house has got four bedrooms and a small garden. We've got a dog and we think he's lovely. * name's Zak. Please tell me some more about ® __ friends. I'd really like to meet more English people! See ya, Laura © haveshas got [2] [QED Listen to the dialogue between Marek and Monica and answer the questions. 1. How many brothers and sisters has Marek got? 2. How many brothers and sisters has Monica got? EDN Listen again and complete the table. Milos | sivia lisa [E] Follow the lines and make sentences with have/has got. My brother hasn't got a computer. oF ie —— 1 Mybrother [—__ 2. My parents 3. Myaunt and uncle -) [4 Mytiends brother | 5. Sid father 6 My ganafther | _~ © & WELCOME SECTION i ROOMS AND HOMES ) © Colours Write the colours. Ban [B) Work in a small group. Find something in your classroom for each colour. The floor's grey. The desks are brown. The wall is yellow. © pooms and Furniture a] Look at the pictures. Write the names of the rooms (A~F). [B] Look at the pictures. Label the furniture. Use the words in the box. armchair bath bed chair cooker cupboard dees fridge shower sink sofa table toilet window fe! WELCOME SECTION There is | There are @] Complete the sentences. Use There's a/an or There are, 1 There’sa__ black table in the dining room. 2 two doors in our living room. = four white chairs in our kitchen. 4 three posters on the wall in my bedroom. ae ted sofa in my sister's room, b] Play a memory game. Look at the picture for 30 seconds. Then make sentences with There's or There are. There are two windows. Prepositions of place @] Look at the picture again and say where things are. Use the prepositions in the box. in on under nextto behind between 1B] Draw a plan of your house/at. Talk about it to your partner. There's a hall, a kitchen, . There are three bedrooms. There's a bathroom next to my parents’ bedroom, In the living room there's a green sofa and there are two brown armchairs. The television is between WELCOMESECTION | 7 Activity verbs Match the verbs with the pictures. open close run swim listen read jump laugh cry write shout smile Imperatives ‘Write what the people are saying. Use the verbs from Exercise | above. 8 | WELCOME SECTION © adverbs of frequency [a] Put the adverbs in the correct places in the diagram. 2 3 often 4 [B] Write sentences that are true for you. Complete the sentences with always, usually, often, sometimes, hardly ever or never. 11 play football after school. 2 My teachers an BME US homework on Friday afternoons See 80 t0 the cinema at the weekend, 4 My best friend house at the weekend, 31 ___ watch TV in the moming, _.comes to my Work with a partner. Tell him/her about your sentences in Exercise 3b. Ak: Isometimes play football after school. B: Really? | never play football after school, but sometimes play at the weekend. © object pronouns Put the object pronouns in the sentences. 1 My mother really likes eggs but | hate them 2. Sara's my best friend. She phones _ every day. 3. My brother's got a poster of Shakira. He really likes | 4 Peter is really nice. really lke 5. Have you got a problem with your homework? Ican help 6 Mysister and I like our uncle. He gives great birthday presents. © canican’t for abiuity Listen to Marek and Liz talking about what they can and can't do. Fill in the first two columns in the table. Vf =Yes. 7 =Yes, but not very well X=No. Write sentences. Use the informatior the table. ‘Marek can't swim. Liz can swim, but not very well. What about you? Fill in the You column in the table. Work with a partner. Ask questions and fill in the Your partner column in the table. ‘A: Can you swim? B: Yes, can, Can you? WELCOME SECTION i BB) IN TOWN AND SHOPPING © places Look at the pictures. Where can you see or buy these things? Write 1-8 in the boxes. © there is/are (negative and) times questions) + a/an/any Write the sentences. [a] Match the beginnings and endings. 1 Ate there \ a _a.good disco in town, 2 Isthere \ b apostoffice here? 3. There aren't “¢ _any good films at the cinerna? 4 There's d_ any people in the bookshop. 1 The Rost. Office opens at eight thirty and closes at five thirty. . b] Complete the questions and short answers. 1 Are there. any discos here? (X)No, there __ aren't 2 a station in your town? W) Yes, there 3 eu 8 post office in this street? ()Yes,___ 4 any nice clothes in the shop? (X) No, [C] Complete the sentences with a or any. 1 There aren't _.any.. good clothes shops here. 2 Isthere ____ post office near here? 3. There’ .». §00d shoe shop in this street. 4 Are there discos in this town? d] What can you say about the place where you live? Use the places in Exercise 1 and the questions and sentences in Exercises 2b and 2c tohelp you kil 10 | weLcomesecTION © Clothes Write the letters in the correct order to make words. Write them under the pictures. @ engoo ® $9.50 £120.00 @ 9500 @ ‘iY ® ® @ @ aie €3999 £8500 $4700 [B] Say what colour the clothes are. The T-shirt’s blue. The trainers are black. [E] Work with a partner. Ask and answer. ‘A: What colour is your favourite shirt? B: Blue. What colour are your favourite shoes? ‘A: They're. o Money and prices [a] Drawa line to match the words and symbols. ioe 2€ abs Work with a partner. Say the prices of the dollar euro pound clothes in Exercise 4a. [B) ESREIBIN Work witha partner Say the The T-shirts twenty-four dollars Preemie tienen deine your ver. The trainers are a hundred and twenty pounds. 1 £1200 4 $125 id] Work with a partner. Ask and answer. 2 €2500 5 €1750 ‘A: How much is the T-shirt? 3 905 6 £15.99 B: It's twenty-four dollars, How much are the trainers? WELCOMESECTION | TI fg Present simple (positive and negativ like + -ing Vocabulary: hobbies and interests, school subjects luestions and short answers) Read andlisten [a] Now read the text again and listen. Answer the questions. @] Look at the pictures. How old do you think the girl is? What is her hobby? Read the text quickly to check your ideas, Where is Claite from? How is Claire different from her friends? Why don't Hannah and Kate go near the hives? What does Claire like doing on Sunday afternoon? Why does she keep the money from the honey she sells? Claire Williams is 15. She's from Wales. Her friends play volleyball and go to the cinema. They like swimming and yl dancing. But Claire doesn’t, She has an unusual hobby: ” ‘beekeeping. She's got four beehives. She isn’t sure, but she thinks she’s got about 40,000 bees. In the spring, this is atypical Sunday for Claire: 7.30 Claire gets up. She has breakfast with her parents. 8.30 Claire puts on her special clothes and goes out into the garden. She feeds the bees with sugar and water. She sometimes takes photos of the bees, too. 11.00 Claire’ friends Hannah and Kate come round. They don't go near the hives.'We enjoy watching Claire with the In the summer, Claire's bees produce about 40 bees/they say. But we're a bit scared of them!'Clairetalks _kilos of honey. Claire takes the honey to alittle toher friends fora while, Then Hannah and Kate say shop and sells it, She doesn't spend the money, goodbye, and Claire goes back to the bees. because she wants to buy more beehives! 1.15 Its lunchtime, Claire likes telling her family about bees. “They fly 80,000 kilometres to make one kilo of honey!" she says.’And they visit about three million flowers!’ 3.00. Inthe afternoon, Claire stays in her room She loves reading about bees onthe internet or in books 2 | unm © crammar ‘& Present simple (positive and negative) @] Look at the examples. Then complete the rule. They play volleyball. Claire gets up at 730. Claire's friends come round. She takes the honey to a little shop. RULE: We use the present simple for things which happen regularly or which are always true. with), we and the base form of the verb. With he, she and it we add b] Complete the sentences. Use the present simple form of the verbs. 3 You (take) good photographs. 4 Mrs Jameson Look at the pictures. Write present simple sentences. (teach) us English 5 Myfather__(fly)to France twice a year. 6 Mymum lot of books. 7 Wee «(g0) to school at 8.30 in the morning, (read) a Use like, love or hate and a word from the box. 5 She... 6 We Look at the examples and complete the table. Claire doesn't spend the money. They don't go near the hives. Vyou/we/they run | V/you/we/they (do not) un _—_ (does not run he/she/it runs hhe/she/i Complete the sentences. Use the present simple form of the verbs. 11 don't like _ (not like) this kind of music 2 We (not eat) a lot of meat at home. 3. My parents (Speak) French, 4 |_________(not know) his phone number. 5. My brother _ __—- (get up) late at the weekend. 6 Myfather___ not drive) to work. una | B i £] Make the sentences negative. 1 My brother spends lots of money on clothes. My brother doesn't spend lots of money on clothes 2 I get up early on Sunday. 3 My sister watches a lot of TV. 4 | buy my CDs in that shop. 5 You know the answer. © vocabutary ‘& Hobbies and interests [a] EREIEED Match the activities with the pictures. Write 1-9 in the boxes. Then listen, check and repeat. going to the cinema reading swimming, painting playing computer games dancing listening to music playing the guitar running bh} Match words from the three sentences. Play. plays dor't play doesn't play Area ] 1 listen to teenth i Myftiends | doesnt listen to | POP music My brother ) £0 See tennis, | Mysister | goes doesn't go read don't read doesn't read to football matches. a newspaper every day. ETE Turn to page m2. UNIT @ crammar % like sing @] Look at the examples and complete the rule. They like swimming and dancing. We enjoy watching Claire with the bees She loves reading about bees. I hate getting up early! (RULE: We often use the form after verbs of liking andnot. tking for example, ike, don ie, love and hare. oN B] Complete the sentences. Use the -ing form of the verbs in the box. 1 Maria hates .. listening... to jazz 2. My brother doesn't like games. 3. Mysister loves her bike, 4 My dad enjoys__on the beach. Move______. to my friends on the phone. 6 Welove to football matches at the weekend, @) Work with a partner. Talk about the hobbies in Exercise 3. Hove... I(don't likeenjoy Ihate.. I'm (not) good at .. B] Make notes and tell other people in your class about your partner's hobbies. o usten 2] [NT Listen to the interview. Which picture shows Mark's hobby? B) (MUI Listen again. write T (true) or F (false). 1 Mark gives shows once a month. oO 2. He learns new tricks on the internet. oO 3 Mark practises every day. Oo 4 Mark’s brother wants to be a magician. Oo Pronunciation [SEALE turn to page no. Grammar ‘¥ Present simple (questions and short answers) 3] Read the examples about Mark's hobby and complete the table. Do your friends know about your hobby? Yes, they do. Does it take a long time to learn? Yes, it does. Do you tell your brother how to do the tricks? No, | don't. Vyou/we/they | Yes /you/we/they do study English? | No, /you/we/they (do not). he/she/it like | Yes, he/she/it __. study English? | No, he/shevit doesn't not [B] complete the questions and short answers. 1A: Does... Jeremy lke swimming? B: Yes, he does wl) 2A’ you study French? 8: Soe — () 3A your friends listen to music? 8: oe A) 4k she go to your school? 6: = oer oe ET unty | 15 & © head and listen @] Nadia, Sarah and Caroline go to the same school. Read the text quickly and find: 1 five subjects that they study during the day 2. three different clubs at the school B] Look at the pictures. Which things are school subjects? Which are clubs? Write 5 (subject) or € (club) in the boxes. eo 16 | UNIT @ cutture in mind Sarah and Nadia are all students at Park |b School, in the north-west of England. it’s anallgiris | fp school - the Park School for boys is not far away in the same town. The three girls are all 14 and they're in year 9. During the school day, they study subjects on the National Curriculum: subjects like English, Maths, History, Geography, PE and ICT (Information and Communication Technology). They also study two or three languages (for example, French or Spanish) and they do Science: Biology, Chemistry and Physics. And they each do two creative subjects: they can choose from Music, Technology and Drama, But there's more. “The school’s got lots of extra-curricular things too ~ especially clubs’ says Nadia. ‘If we want to, we can do all kinds of different activities. For example, there's a horse-riding club and a gymnastics club. Lots of the Clubs meet at lunchtime, but some of them are after- school clubs.” Caroline says, ‘We can choose from lots of things. There's a theatre group, and a school orchestra. I'm in the orchestra ~ I play the trombone’ “My favourite club is the pottery club, says Sarah. ‘I love doing artistic things, But I'm in the sailing club, too. The boys from the boys’ school come to this club too. ‘We learn about sailing during the week, and then some weekends we sail on a lake near here’ Teachers organise some of the clubs at the school. Some clubs get help from parents of children at the school. All of them are free, ‘I think the clubs are a really good idea, says Nadia. ‘We have a lot of fun and we learn different things” Sarah agrees. We can develop our own interests and hobbies in the clubs. | hope that we can start a photography club soon!” Read the text again and listen. Write T (true) or F (false) 1 Sarah, Caroline and Nadia are all 14 years old, 2 They don't study languages. Allthe clubs meet after school. 4. Caroline plays the trombone in the school orchestra. 5 Sarahis ina sailing club. 6 The girls’ parents organise all the school clubs. 7. Their parents have to pay for the girls tobe in a club. 8 There is a photography club at the school. Is this school similar to yours, or very different? Discuss this question with a partner or in small groups. ) write @] Imagine that Lisa is your new e-pal and this is her first message to you. Read her message. What are her hobbies and interests? I'm Lisa Franklin, I'm British and 1 live in Southampton. I'm 15. T love sports. My favourite hobby is painting. I also like taking photographs (I’m in a photography club at school) and I enjoy riding my bike. I love watching sport on Ty, especially tennis! I really like Rafael Nadal. My best friend is Sonia. We listen to music a lot, and we often go to the cinema together too. Her favourite actor is Ben Stiller. I think he’s very funny, but my favourite actor is Johnny Depp. Write soon! Lisa [B] Write an email in reply to Lisa. Include this information: © your name, nationality and age © where you live your hobbies and interests © some information about your friendis). Speak Work with a partner. Think of five questions that you would like to ask Sarah from Park School. [D] Work with your partner: one of you is the interviewer, the other one is Sar answer your questions. //s!10! 20/1009 avhbPut Uppm bak UbRUUSULGY» Zenon pp pees eu wNerny., UAT rs Wf er ery | Helping other people Present continuous for activities happening now Present simple vs. present continuous Vocabulary: housework @ head and usten Give any examples you can of people who do ‘volunteer work (work you do without being paid) @elping En a hospital [B] Look at the photos. How old do you ae i think Mike is? Where is he and what t is he doing? Read the text quickly 4 and check your ideas . Read the text again and * listen. Mark the statements T (true) , or F (false), 1 Mike u 2. Mike is training to becom adoctor ally lives in England, 3. Mike is unhappy because he doesn't get any money. nd h 4 Mike is tving ina house with b t ve other people. Dec r ts to go home ig when he finishes his work [i] Answer the questions. ma 1 Why di doing? Mike like what he is 2. Say three places in the world where you would like to work as a volunt er work : 3 Give an example of: a) volur you would like to do; b) volunteer E work you would not like to do. BOTSWANA SOUTH AFRICE © crammar RULE Weuietiepren | ‘& Present continuous for activities happening now —-—_.._.._ to talk about things ‘that are happening at or around @] Look at the examples. Then complete the rule and the table. the time of speaking. \ He's working in a hospital near Katima Muti. We form the present continuous | 11m living in a small house with five other volunteers. with the present tense of } Jim learning a lot about life in southern Africa. enn # WEED + ing. ao ee Quest fe tim am) working | 'm not working | working? No. not: you/we/theyte | you/we/they aren't you/we/they | Yes, you/we/they (J working | working working? No, you/we/they he/she/it's(s) | he/she/t. hevshevit | Yes, he/shertt working working working? No, he/she/it bb] Complete the sentences, Use the present continuous form of the verbs. 1 Sorry, Eddie isn't here. He 5 taking (take) the dog for a walk 2. Mike and jane are in the living room. They (watch) a film on DVD. 3. Hannah! You __....{net listen) to me! 4 Icant taknow.| (do) my homework 5 A______you________ (watch) this programme? 8: No, m not: Watch a different one if you want. 6 A: Maddy's upstairs in her room. 8: Oh? Really? she (have) a rest? ©] Look at the pictures and complete the sentences with the present continuous. Use the phrases in the box. 1 My grandfather having a. 4 Vcecninenmnnnr 5 It'Sagreat game ~ and 6 Ellie we © pronunciation [CREED tun to page n10. un2 | 19 B @ crammar ] Complete the sentences, Use the present ‘% Present simple vs. present simple or present continuous form of continuous Se @] Look at the examples. Then Gircle) the correct words in the sentences. Present Simple Present Continuous Mike lives in At the moment, he's living ‘Canterbury, England. in.a house in Namibia, ‘Many people work — Mike is working in a as volunteers. hospital at the moment. Itoften snows here. Look outside ~ it's snowing! 1 We / We're always wearing a uniform to school. Paula wears / Paula's wearing black jeans today. ‘Come inside! it rains / tt’ raining, It rains / it’s raining a lot in February. Dad cooks / Dad's cooking at the moment. ‘My mother cooks / My mother's cooking lunch every Sunday. 7. Steve's terriblel He never listens / He's never listening to the teacher! 1. Sarah usually _walks__ (walk) to school, but today she... (go) by bike. [b] We use different time expressions with ae (he aphy le the two tenses. Complete the lists with the = ce arise ° twice a week. We time expressions in the box. le a aad 3 Julia (surf) the net this afternoon. She. (want) to find some information for a project. 4 12 (know) his face, but | Present simple Present continuous (not remember) his name. every day now 5 We... (not dance) tonight because always this morning we (not lke) the music. ee erneee.. aiees 6 What... this word (mean? 1_____ (hot understand) it. a 20 | unir2 © vocabutary ED Listen again and write T (true) or F (false). Mike has breakfast at about eight oidlock Mike and his friends make breakfast, lunch and dinner. Mike uses @ washing machine to do the washing. ‘Mike sometimes cleans the floors and windows at the hospital, Mike is working with boring people. % Housework Match the words with the pictures. Write 1-7 in the boxes. Then listen, check and repeat. do the cooking do the ironing do the washing do the shopping do the washing-up / wash up. | tidy up / tidy a room clean the windows CEE erntopage. Speak Work in a group. Ask and answer questions about housework. Do you help at home? Do you tidy your own room? How often do you do the shopping / the washing-up ..? Which jobs do you like? Which do you hate? In your home, who usually does the housework? You, your brother or sister, your mother, your father? Compare with a partner. ‘My father usually does the cooking, but my mother always does the washing-up unir2 | 21 § rs Let's give him a hand © xom Read and listen a} Lookat the photostory. What do Jess, Joel and Pete do? Why do you think Debbie doesn't help? Read and listen to find the answers, Jess: Hey, look at that ayy. ® | Pete: Yeah, Let's give | him a hand. Come on, Debbie. | Debbie: Not me. It’s not my problem. Let him push his old car Joel: Well, 'm going to help him Pete: Come on! One, two, three ~ push! Jess: Wow, its heavy! Joel: Yes, its. ’s moving, though! Pete: We did it! Joel: But he drove away! And he didn't even say ‘Thank yout Pete: That's right. That's not very nice, is it? Debbie: See? Told youl Youre mad. Jess: Why? Debbie: Oh come on Jess! The man didn't even say ‘Thank you’! Jess: So what? We pushed the car to help him — not to hear him say ‘Thank you. B]_ Match the beginnings and endings to make a summary of the story. Aman ——_ 1 a want to help him. 2 Pete, Joel and Jess b but he doesn't say ‘Thank you’ 3 Debbie thinks ¢ needs help to start his car. 4. The caris heavy, but that Thank you’ isn't important 5 e ‘ ‘ ‘The man drives away they push it and it starts, Jess thinks. that it's the man's problem, not hers. oT 22 | unr2 a Everyday English €) Improvisation Find expressions 1-6 in the o photostory. Who says them? 1. It’snot my problem Come on! , though That's right. See? So what? B] Read the dialogue. Use the © Pressions in Exercise 9a to complete it. Linda: What time does the film start? 8 o'clock? Paul: That's right. Linda: Well, welt late. 2___, Paull Lets go. Paul: Late? No, we aren't late. Look at my watch. t 7's only six thirty. Linda: Oh yes. OK, so we don't need to leave now. | don't want to be late,“ Everyone says it's a really ‘good film! And Ashton Kutcher’ in it Paul: ° Ashton Kutcher isn't very good! Linda: Not very good? You just don't understand acting Well, = you don't have to comel Discussion box 1 Debbie says the others are mad’ because they helped the driver. What is your opinion? In what situations do you find it easy or difficult to ask other people for help? Give your reasons, When did you last help someone who had a problem? Say what happened Work with a partner. Take two minutes to prepare a short role play. Try to use some of the expressions from Exercise 9a. Do not write the text, just agree on your ideas for a short scene. Then act it out. Roles: Debbie and the car driver Situation: In the street ~ the next day Basic idea: Debbie and the driver see each other in the street the next day Use one of these sentences to start the conversation: Debbie: Excuse me, | Man: Hil Can I talk to think | know you. you for a minute? I'd We pushed your car Just like to say I'm yesterday. sory. @) team spirit ex= What's happening in the situation in the photo? What is the teacher going to say? Match the words with their definitions, Then watch Episode 1 and meet Jess, Pete, Debbie and Joel. 1. community a aperson who creates rs sevice beautiful clothes < \ b aperson who comes toa E 2 badge \ place because they are invited es \ apiece of jewellery worn 8 3. award \ around the wrist or arm F d_ work that people do without F 4 guest payment to help other people a prize given to a person for 5. bracelet doing something very well £ assmall piece of metal or 6 fashion plastic that you can pin on designer your clothing unt2 | 23 a m write Read Maggie's email to her friend about a family party. ‘Answer the questions. 1. What is the event and when is it happening? 2. How many people are coming? 3. What is everybody doing to help? [B) Imagine you are helping to prepare for one of these events: © a family party ‘# abirthday celebration for ‘one of your friends © a goodbye party for your teacher Write an email to a friend and tell him/her what is happening. © ast but not least: more speaking @) (SRS Read the phone call between Monique and her friend Tanya. Complete the dialogue using the verbs in the box in their correct form, Then listen and check. Monique: Hi, Tanya. It's Monique . speaking Tanya: Oh, hi, Monique. How are you? Monique: Fine, thanks, and you? Tanya: Yeah, Im OK. A bit busy right now. ‘Monique: Busy? What are you" Tanya: Well, im? __ my brother with his maths homework, but I'm also? Monique: What else? Tanya: Iin* about what | can get James for his birthday. Monique: You know what, Tanya? Let's meet in Parker Square in half an hour and go to the shops together. We can look for a present for James there Tanya: Sorry, Monique, | can't. Hi Joanna, How are things? Hope you're well. This is going to be a quick message because I'm really busy. We're getting ready for my sister's 18th birthday. There's going to be a big party in the garden tonight — about 50 people are coming! So we're all here, cleaning and cooking and things. My mum’s in the kitchen preparing food, and my dad's helping her. My sister Gill and my brother Alex are putting up a big tent and some lights in the garden, and some of my sister's friends are putting out the tables and chairs. My grandparents aren't helping — they're having a rest in their room. Well, sorry, Ihave to go—_my mum's calling me, She needs some help! Have a good weekend! ‘See you soon. Maggie 2 my room D] Look at the dialogue with a partner. Think of some changes to make to the dialogue (names, for example), so that it becomes your dialogue. Monique: No? What a pity! Why's that? Act out the new dialogue in Tanya: Imalso* Monique: Oh no! eal 24 | una for my English test too. It's tomorrow! pairs. (Don't just read it out!) heck your progress ) Grammar © vocabutary Complete the sentences. Use the present simple form of the verbs. ‘You should read more, Jane. You _ watch (watch) too much TV. My uncle. there. live) in that house over : you... like) listening to cos Alex and Sarah games every weekend, My father________(not like) the same music as me. ‘Ourteacher hardly ever __ lot of homework. & __.your mother on Saturdays? 8: Yes, she & they _ (play) computer give) us a (work) (write) a lot of emails? B: No, they 1 (not get up) early at the weekend. ‘Complete the sentences. Use the present simple or present continuous form of the verbs. 1 Annie often _ plays. (play) football, but now she ‘s playing. _ (play) computer games, My mum usually (work) in London, but this week she... (work) in New York, \ (read) a magazine at the moment, I's strange, because | ._ usually (not read) magazines, We (not watch) television very often, but we (watch) an interesting programme at the moment. ioe _ your friends always (swim) in the sea? 8: No, not always. They (owir) in the pool today. ‘ks Karen's not in her room, she {help) Dad in the kitchen? B: No, she __be). She (have) a shower. Ca [a] Put the letters in order to find nine more school subjects. usMci Music marDa sthMa shingle niecSec orthiys mecFh agGyehorp s logonyeToh 10 yesCmtrih OS Write the words and phrases in the lists. ‘Then add three more to each lst. Hobbies and interests Housework listening to music How did you do? ‘Check your score. estan | Vocabulary lessthan 10 E 3 AO Past simple: be and regular verbs (positive and negative); was born / were born Vocabulary: multi-word verbs (1), memory words @ head and tsten @] Look at the photos and the title. Why do you think this woman is a hero for some people? Read the text quickly and check your ideas, Erin : Brockovich Brin Brockovich, an American woman, was born in Kansas. She etudied at a business college for a year, then she moved to southern California and married a restaurant manage, In 1990, when che was thirty years old, she was in a car ‘secident, A law company helped her after the accident, and later she started to work for them, company. The company wasn't happy about this, They didn't agreo that the people were ill Her job was to organise paners. One day Brin realised that ve 2 water but in 1996 the Jud there wore lots of papers about some very sick people reece a ae ina place called Hinkley, She started to look for more: {information about the town. ordered Pacific Gas and Electric to pay the people in Hinkley $600,000 each (there were 00 sick people, so that was $353 million Erin worked very hard mm total). forfve years, Ste vsied yy 9000, mere was a fm about Brin Brockovich. ots of siok people i ‘Julia Roberts played Erin and the film was very Hinkley and listened ‘Suoceseful, Now Brin is famous ~ she has her o to thelr stories. Al ‘company: ks all over’ teeepie wes ompany and she gives talks theworld, | a big Pacific Gas and Hlectric factory and she discovered that there ‘was a chemical called ‘chromium in the loo: ‘water. It was from the factory and Brin believed {thas the people were sick ‘because of the chromium in their drinking water. She planned to help then. ‘Brin and her boss started a law case against the Papifie Gas and lectric 1D] ESMEUNN Now read the text again and listen. Answer the questions. [6] Do you think the people in Hinkley were happy with the result of the id the sick people in Hinkley live? law case? 1 What was Erin’ job at the law company? Why did Erin start to look for more information about Hinkley? Whe What was Erin's theory about why the people were sick? jow much money did Pacific Gas and Electric pay to people in Hinkley? ‘What does Erin Brockovich do now? UNIT Grammar ‘& Past simple: be Look at the text on page 26. Underline exampl Complete the table. Pe ei les of the past simple of the verb be. Short answer Whe/she/it was he/she sit. __.\/he/ Yes, I/he/she/it | | (was not) she/it No,I/be/She/it. was not) you/we/they were | you/we/they. you/we/ ‘Yes, you/we/they _ | (were not) they? No, you/we/they..(werenat) Complete the sentences with was, Reraniste te seca © pronunciation 1 In 1990, Erin..was.. ina car (CELT Turn to page no. accident. 2 Alotof people in Hinkley Z © Grammar ‘sick. % was born / were born 3. The drinking water in Hinkley F at Look at the example. Complete the sentences enc Sane with your information. ‘the water. Erin Brockovich was born in 1960. She was born in 5 The bosses at Pacific Gas and Hlectric happy. ‘Complete the questions with Was or Were. 1 Was... Erin Brockovich British? 2 ither job to drive a car for ‘the law company? there lots of papers about sick people in Hinkley? _.... the water in Hinkley clean? _....8 lot of people in Hinkley sick? _.... the film Erin Brockovich successful? Work with a partner. Ask and answer the questions in Exercise 2d. 4: Was Erin Brockovich British? 8: No, she wasn't. She was American. the USA. 1 Lwas bor in 2. Iwas bom in Ask other students. When were you born? Where were you born? (year). ~- (place). Work with a partner. Ask and answer about family members. Complete the table for your partner's family. ‘A: When was your sister born? B: In 1998, Where were your parents born? ‘A: My mother was born in Rome and my father .. Name Year Place Grandfather UNIT3 © crammar me ‘¥& Past simple: regular verbs @] Look back at the text on page 26. Find the past simple form of these verbs. study studied marry help start realise visit tive believe __ plan order 1b] Look at the verbs in Exercise 6a. Complete the rule. RULE: We use the past simple to talk about finished actions inthe past With regular verbs, we usually add... to the verb (work — worked, start ~ started). IF the verb ends in e (for example, live), we add IF short verb ends in one vowel + consonant (for ‘example, plan), we double the _and add ed. IF the verb ends in consonant +y (For example, study), we change they to____and add UNITS Complete the sentences. Use the past simple form of the verbs. 1. Last night, |_ studied. (study) for today's test. 2. There was no food in the house, so we (order) a pizza 3 |____..._ (want) to go to the cinema, and my friend Alex (agree) to come with me 4 (try) to phone my friend on Saturday, but no-one ____ answer). 5 Last year we_____ (visit) my aunt and uncle in Australia 6 Myfather_____ (stop) watching TV and (help) me with my homework Look at the example and complete the table. The company didn't agree that the people were ill because of the water Véyou/he/she,i/we/they wanted | I/you/he/she/it/we/they .__._. want Complete the sentences. Use the past simple form of the verbs in the box. |_ started _a painting but |_didn't finish. it. 2 They in an expensive hotel, but they the food. 3 tt all day on Saturday. so we tennis. 4 Helena. __TV ast night. She for her test, S| my room, but | the windows. 6 He for a long time, but he anything interesting! | Think of different situations Usten I HERG Pete de bout hi Biers cise presentation DOROTHY Look at the poster and the STANG sentences. How many of the sentences can you complete? Listen to Pete's presentation. Find information to complete the other sentences in the poster. Why is Dorothy Stang Pete's hero? Vocabulary * ¢ Look at the examples from the listening. 1 Dorothy Stang was born in 1 in Dayton, Ohio, USA. 2D She movedto Brazil in _ 3 Poriis inthe of Brazil. Y She was Woman of the Yearin Park in cb 6 “an you come up here please? people wanted to cut down the trees. Think of other verbs you know hat end with up or down. Match the entences with the pictures hen listen, check and repeat. ‘She died on the of. The men who killed her ave in Climb up! 2 Pick it up, please! hem ont 4 Get in! 5 Take it offi me down! Get out! 8 Putitdown! Look at the verbs in Exercise 8b. Match them with their opposites. mb up ~ come down Work with a partner. where you can use the verbs xercise 8b. Turn to page 113.

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