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    7B WHICH IS THE FAKE? Student A a Describe your picture to B, and answer B's questions about the details. Together, find eight differences. b Compare your pictures and decide which one you thinks an original Vincent van Gogh painting and which is a fake. 8A GUESS THE SENTENCE Student A a Look at sentences 1-7 and guess what the missing phrase could be. Remember: 2] = positive verb and] = negative verb. 1 Iwould love jour face when the doctor told you to join a gym. 2 There's no point He never goes to parties. 3 It’sno good snd you some money. She's completely brok 4 We'd rather holiday in August, but we had to because of school holidays. =] 5 don't like todo. | prefer to decide for myself. 5 6 The pool wasn't warm enough for us 7 Ireally hate the truth, 110 Bhas the complete sentences 1-7. Read your sentences to B. Keep trying different possibil until you get each sentence exactly right. jes Now listen to B’s sentences 8-14. Tell him / her to keep guessing until he / she gets it exactly the same as yours. 8 Nursing isa very rewarding job that involves ‘working in a tear, 9 Lucy seems to be seeing Dan a lot recently. Do you think they/re going out together? 10 We hope to have found a new flat by the end of the year. 11 Our plan is to fly to Las Vegas and then hire @ car. 12 There's absolutely nothing to do in this town. There isn't even a cinema. 13. My father was the first person in my family to go. to.university. 14 | really regret not having known my grandfather. He died before | was born. 7A WHAT A RIDICULOUS IDEA! Student A a Read your sentences to B. He / She will respond with an exclamation. ‘© Did you know that you aren't allowed to take soft cheeses in hand luggage? ‘= was fined by a police officer yesterday for talking on my phone while | was parked outside my house. ‘+ My sister got married on Saturday and it rained all day. ‘+ I thought we could go to the cinema and then have dinner at the new Thai place down the road, ‘+ My daughter's goldfish died this morning, + Did you know my parents were both born on exactly the same day? ‘+ You wor't believe it, but my brother has just won €200,000 in the lottery! b_ Respond to B’s sentences with an exclamation beginning with either How...! or What (a/ an)...! Make sure you use expressive intonation and link the words where appropriate. 9A MATCH THE SENTENCES Student A a Read your sentences 1-6 to B. Make sure you stress auxiliaries where appropriate. B will choose a response. 1. Have you seen the latest James Bond film? 2 absolutely hate getting up early. 3 Is Lina coming swimming this afternoon? 4 Your brother lives in Liverpool, doesn't he? 5 Your aunt doesn't eat much, does she? 6 You do like cabbage, don't you? b Now Bwill read you his / her sentences 7-12. Choose a response below. Make sure you stress auxiliaries and to where appropriate. He is! He won the under-18 cup this year. | don't, but my partner does. 'm too lazy! No, and neither does her brother. Maybe they were adopted, No, there weren't. | was the only one. She said she wanted to, but she wasn't sure if she'd be able to. We'd lke to, but we aren't sure if we can afford to In pairs, practise all 12 mini-conversations again, making sure you get the stress right. 9B COOKING EGGS Student B a Read Léper-Alt's recipe for fried eggs. FRIED EGGS a Heath eon men 3 tablespoons olive oll non-stick frying pan over medium (extra-virgin it you prefer) reat until it registers 150°C on a ner aeTEal, estrogen 150°C rena ee Break one egg into a cup and transfer it carefully into the oil, Repeat with the second egg Immediately tit the frying pan so thar the ol collects on one side and spoon the hot ol over the egg whites, taying to avoid the yolks as much as possible, Continue doing this until the egg whites are completely set and crispy on the bottom. b Listen to A’s recipe for scrambled eggs. Make notes as you listen. Then use your notes to tell A the recipe again, to check that it's correct, © Now explain the recipe for fried eggs to A. (he ingredients are. First, you... Then you. d_ How different are the recipes from the way you usually make scrambled or fried eggs? Would you cook them this way in the future? Why (not)? 5A AM1TOO BUSY? Students A+B Between Between Between O anda 5 and7 8 and 10 ‘yes’ answers ‘yes’ answers ‘yes’ answers Amazing! You You are verging Seriously? Did areontheright on‘toobusy’. you really need track. ‘Timetorethink. totake the quiz? Of course, this quiz doesn't give any scientific proof about your level of busyness, but it does ask some important questions about how you are using your timo, and how you are fooling about it. Question 10 is the critical one ~ think carefully about how the people closest to you 2B CHANGING MEANINGS Student B 2 Read the notes about how the meaning of the word awful evolved, and try to remember the information. b Listen to A telling you the ‘story’ of deer. € Cover the notes and tell A as much as you can remember about the ‘story’ of awful. d_ Repeat for naughty and dismantle. Awful ~\ originally meant ‘impressive and frightening’ + In Old English, ‘awful? was partly positive and partly negative. + Ir lescribedl something that was impressive but also frightening, eg. ‘awful mountains. + By the 19th century, the positive meaning had isappeared. + The negative meaning changed to describe something. that was very bad + Now itis only used to describe something very bad. To dismantle \ismen/ originally meant ‘to take off your cloak” In the Middle Ages, a ‘mantle’ was a long cloak, “‘Dismantle’ meant ‘to take off your cloak twas used with this meaning in Shakespeare's play ‘The Winter Tale In the 16th century, its meaning became “to destroy a castle’ (ie. to ‘take off its walls “Dismantle? now means to take apart’ a machine oF 7A WHAT ARIDICULOUS IDEA! > Student B a Respond to A’s sentences with an exclamation beginning with either How... or What (a / an)...! Make sure you use expressive intonation and link the words where appropriate. 4A WHAT HAPPENS IN THE END? Student B a Read an extract from the end of Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl Called by Mary, the police arrive and search the hous, ooking for evidence ofan intruder, and the murder weapon... Sergeant Noonan wandered into the kitchen, came out «quickly and said, ‘Look, Mrs Maloney. You know that oven ‘yours is stil on, and the meat still inside “Oh dear me! she cried. ‘So itis! “Tlytter turn it off for you, hadn't SWill you do that, Jack. Thank you so much When the sergeant returned the second time, she looked at hhim with her larg, dark tearful ees, Jack Noonan, she sui “Yes? “Would you do me a small favour ~ you and these others?” ‘We ean ty, Mrs Maloney? ‘Well; she said. ‘Here you all are, and good friends of dear Patricks too, and helping to catch the man who killed him. ‘You must be terrible hungry by now because i's long past your suppertime, and I know Patrick would never forgive me, ‘God bless his soul, if allowed you to remain in his house ‘without offering you decent hospitality. Why don’t you eat up that amb tha’ in the oven? Il be cooked just right by now Mary knows that once she has cooked the leg of lamb, and the ‘policemen have eaten it, the murder weapon will never be found ‘and there will be no evidence of her crime, b Listen to A tell you what happens at the end of The Adventure of the Speckled Band. ¢ Now tell A what happens at the end of Lamb to the Slaughter. d_ What did you both think of the endings? Now that you know what happens, would you want to read the stories? Read your sentences to A. He / She will respond with an exclamation. * Iwas at home all morning waiting for the electrician to come, and they didn’t turn up. * We're going to New York on Friday for a long weekend. + Jack and Sue are going to the theatre for their anniversary, and then they're having dinner at a new French restaurant. + My parents were burgled last night. They took all my mum's jewellery, * Even though | got 70% in the exam, the teacher refused to pass me. * I really put my foot in it at the party last night. | called Tom's wife ‘Anna’, but that's his ex-wife's name! * Maria's husband collects photos of famous people’s dogs. He has hundreds of them. 3B HISTORICAL INACCURACIES Student B a Read about the film and the series. Then listen to A telling you what is fact and what is fiction in their films. Did you guess what really happened and what didn’t correctly? Mary Queen of Scots In the film In Mary Queen of Scots, there is a dramatic meeting between Mary and Queen Elizabeth | The facts The relationship between Mary (1542-1587, Queen of Scotland) and Elizabeth (1533-1603, Queen of England) dominated the politics of the two countries for 20 years. Some people believed that Mary should have been queen of both countries, and the two were great rivals. The ‘meeting between them is the dramatic heart of the film. However, although the two Queens wrote many letters to teach other, they never actually met: The Crown In the series In The Crown, Jackie Kennedy, the US President's wife, criticizes the Queen after a dinner at Buckingham Palace. The facts John and Jackie Kennedy were invited to Buckingham. Palace for a formal dinner during their first UK visit in 1961, After the dinner, Jackie was reported as saying that the ‘Queen was ‘pretty heavy going’ and that Buckingham Palace was ‘ike a provincial hotel Later inthe episode, dackie goes to visit the Queen on her own and apologizes itis true that she had a one-to-one meeting with the Queen nine months after the original meeting, but nobody knows ifshe actually apologized, and it seems likely that the Netflix series allowed itself some dramatic licence. b Now tell A what is fact and what is fiction in your film and series, and any other information you learn 9A MATCH THE SENTENCES Student B a Awill read you his / her sentences 1-6. Choose a response below. Make sure you stress auxiliaries and to where appropriate. Hove it. I's cauliflower | can’t stand, No, she doesn't, but she drinks like a fish. No, but Id love to. She isn’t, but her children are, She didn't want to So do I. Luckily, | don’t often have to. Yes, and so does my sister, 4B WHAT'S GOING ON? Student B a Look at photo 1 and listen to A making speculations and deductions about it. Then tell him / her what's really going on. ‘This photo was taken in Germany during the Alpine Skiing World Cup. The people up the tree are sports coaches, watching the competitors training. b Now look at photo 2 and make speculations and deductions about it. ‘+ When and where could the photo have been taken? Who could the people be? What do you think they might be doing and why? What might have just happened? How might the people be feeling? ¢ Awill tell you what's going on. Did you guess correctly? b_ Now read your sentences 7-12 to A. Make sure you stress auxiliaries where appropriate. A will choose a response. 7. Are you going to go skiing at Christmas? 8 Katie doesn’t look like her parents, does she? 9 Were there many people waiting at the doctor's? 10 Do you do a lot of gardening? 11. Erica did say she was coming, didn't she? 12 Adam isn’t particularly good at tennis, is he? ¢ In pairs, practise all 12 mini-conversations again, making sure you get the stress right. 6A |NEED SOME HELP Student B a Read your article carefully and try to work out the meaning of any new words and phrases. The secret to. living with adult children If you are one of the many parents whose adult children have returned to the nest, read on! ‘Around a quarter of young adults in the UK are living with Mum and Dad, the highest number since records began in 1996. For parents who were expecting a bit of peace and quiet. it can be a difficult situation. Here are some tips to make living with your adult child a little easier. Get things out in the open. ‘Whether they are returning after living away, or even if they've never left, you need to set rules about how you're going to live. It's your home. What you were happy to do for them ten years ago, and. ‘what you should be doing for them now, are very different. Don't bbe afraid of bringing up difficult subjects. Talk about money, and don't be afraid of charging them what you think is fai. Give them space. Ifyou have the room, allocate them space in the kitchen, or even their own living area. Not to mention their own bedroom, which should not be shared with a sibling, Don't doit all yourself. Get them to do their share of the cleaning, washing, cooking — all of these can lead to resentment ifthe rules aren't established. Don't be amartyr; i's easy to feel like a housekeeper, Be flexible, and ‘expect compromise from them, too. ‘Treat your child as an adult. ‘They will have their own life friends, partners, late nights. But ‘make sure that respect is returned. Don't put up with things that annoy you. You're not obliged to house their friends. Focus on the positives. Perhaps you'd forgotten that they love to cook. Or that i's great to ‘come home to someone. Tell them you love them ~they may be an adult, but they're stil your child. b Listen to A telling you about some tips from an article called How to survive...living with your parents. ¢ Now look at the headings below and remember the tips from your article. Use your own words to explain them to A. Get things out in the open. Give them space. Don't do it all yourself. Treat your child as an adult. Focus on the positives. d__ Are any of the tips from the two articles similar? Which tips do you strongly agree or disagree with? 7A QIQUIZ Student B a Read the answers to questions 7-12 of the quiz on p.66. b Awill tell you the answers to 1-6. Then explain the answers to 7-12 to A in your own words. QI - Everything you think you know is probably wrong... 7 In many people's minds, in London, i is permanent raining, However, other European cties primary associated with ‘sunshine have significantly higher annual rainfall than London, including Baresiona, Imidalso Rowe) witht te wellect of these thee ctles, 8 inthe UK tse, the highest mountain is Ben News, in Scotland, whichis 1.348 metres high. But part of the Antaretie is a British fonftory, and its highest mountain, Mount Hope, measures 3.239 metres, making Ben Nevis seem lke a mere hl 9 Not football or rugby, but billiards. Bi was so popular in the USA that during the American Civil War, iliards resuits ‘Reeve wider coverage than war news. ‘he frst World Championship was held in 169. 40 The 1896 Summer Olympics he ist of thomodemn era, were holdin Atfens, wih 14 participating nations. Winners were given asiiver medal, because gold was Considered too expensive, whle runners- Upreceived a copper one, and there was no medal for thrd place. Ths changed in ‘the 1904 Olympics, in St Louis, USA, to the Current god, sive, and bronze 11 Atough tis named ater Gusta Ete, he didnt design it himself. He owned an engineering company, and was inspired to build the tower after visting the Latting Observatory in New York. But the tower Wes actualy decigned by two of his senior engineers, Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nooguled 42. According to a recent survey, hairdressers and beauticians have the most njty- prone jobs in Britain The most common injury involved people cutting themselves. They are closely followed by electricians, plumbers, and police officers, 7B WHICH IS THE FAKE? Student B a Awill describe his / her picture to you. Ask questions about the details. Together, find eight differences. 8A GUESS THE SENTENCE Student B a Look at sentences 8-14 and guess what the missing phrase could be. Remember: verb and [=]= negative verb. 8 Nursing is a very rewarding job that involves a team. [4] 9 Lucy seems Dan a lot recently Do you think they're going out together 10 We hope ‘anew fat by the end of the year. M1 Ourplan Las Vegas and then hire a ca 12 There's absolutely. in this town There isn't even a cinema. =) 13. My father was the first person in my family university. 2] 14 Ireally regret my grandfather. He died before | was born. EI = positive b Compare your pictures and decide which one you think is an original Vincent van Gogh painting and which is a fake. — Listen to A’s sentences 1-7. Tell him / her to keep guessing until he / she gets it exactly the same as yours. 1 I would love to have seen your face when the doctor told you to join a gym. 2 There's no point inviting him. He never goes to parties. 3 It’sno good asking her to lend you some money. She's completely broke. 4 We'd rather not have gone on holiday in August, but we had to because of school holidays. 5. don't ike being told what to do. | prefer to decide for myself. 6 The pool wasn't warm enough for us to go swimming, 7 |really hate not being told the truth Abhas the complete sentences 8-14. Read your sentences to A. Keep trying different possi until you get each sentence exactly right. ies 116 A job application KEY SUCCESS FACTORS * using appropriate, professional-sounding language * conveying a positive image of yourself without appearing overconfident or arrogant * avoiding basic mistakes which will make you look careless ANALYSING A MODEL TEXT a You see the following job advertisement. on a travel company website. Would you be interested in applying for the job? Why (not)? Receptionist Location: Edinburgh ‘The receptionist isthe first point of contact {or staff and visitors. The role involves a variety of tasks including answering and directing calls, welcoming visitors, scheduling meetings, and general admin support. Core hours are 8 a.m.~6 p.m. and you will need to be available to work earlier shits ‘some days and later shifts other days. ‘About you: ‘The ideal candidate will have a custome: focused personality with a strong can-do attitude. We're looking for someone with ‘proven communication skils for liaising with individuals at al levels ina very fast-moving ‘environment. Interested? The closing date for applications is Wednesday 18th June - click Apply’ before this opportunity ies away! © | am very entusiastic‘on traveling and would welcome the chance b_ Read the first draft of an email written in response to the advertisement. What information does Agata give in the three main paragraphs? From: Agata Beck To: irena foster@besttravel.net ‘Subject: Application Ms Dear Miss Foster, ‘My-name is Agata Beck. | am writing to apply for the post of | feceptionist advertised in your website. {have recently graduated from Humbolat University in Bertin, where | |completed a degree in Business Studies. | have a high level of ‘spoken english (C1 on the CEFR), as | lived in the United States as part of an exchange programm between my school and a high school in Utah. | made many American fiends

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