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would / wouldn’t

1 Ask ‘Would you …?’ questions based on the cues on the cards.

hold a snake eat raw fish spend the night in a haunted house

go on a camping safari in Africa take an older relative to a concert go scuba diving in Australia

go on a date with someone with go rock climbing change your appearance for a
tattoos and piercings dare

have a tattoo or piercing wear a fancy-dress costume to a travel around the world by
football match yourself

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Second conditional
Question cards

feel
fall into freezing get stung by uncomfortable see an angry get lost in a
water? a bee? in a large crowd dog? forest?
of people?

your car falls hear a loud see a volcano lose your mobile
see a bear?
into water? explosion? erupting? phone?


Advice cards

If you haven’t
Try to move
Find the got a mobile
Try to keep from the
wound and Try to move phone, try to
your head centre of
clean it with away slowly. make as much
out of the the crowd
soap. Use an Don’t look noise as you
water and towards the
ice cube or straight into can: shout,
swim slowly edge. Keep
something the dog’s eyes sing or make a
towards the your arms
cold to relieve or smile. fire for other
shore. pressed to

A the pain.
A your body.
A A people to
notice you.
A
Take off your
Try to climb Lie down Put on a Ask a friend
shoes and thick
up a tree or lie immediately protective mask to call your
clothes. As the
down on the and try to and glasses. Try number first. If
car fills up with
ground, and cover your to climb up a you still can’t
water, take a
don’t move. head with hill, because find it, try to
deep breath
Don’t run your hands. volcanic remember
and try to open
away or run Hide under eruptions are where you
the window
towards the a table if often followed used it last, and
bear.
A and escape
through it.
A possible.
A by floods.
A check there.
A
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Body art
1a Work with a partner. Take turns to make sentences about the people in the pictures.
1 2

3 4

5 6

b Why do you think people do each of these things?

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Word formation
1 Read the text about dreams. Match the types of dreams in the box to each description A–E.
There is one type of dream which you do not need.

a chase a fall a snake a test a disaster a tooth

2 Read the text again and complete the gaps with nouns or adjectives formed from the words in brackets.

Why we dream
Scientists still can’t explain why we dream. However, our
dreams tell us something important about ourselves. Here
are the most common dreams and their interpretations.
A D
If you dream about losing one of these, it means that you This is a very common dream. Even people who are
are worried about your appearance or worried that you 8
(luck) enough to get good grades in most
may not be very strong. It isn’t 1 (ease) to get subjects have this dream. In the dream, we feel that people
this dream out of your head and it’s frightening. will be 9 (anger) with us for getting low marks
or for writing the wrong answers. If we have this dream, it
B
usually means we are afraid of not being good enough or
Dreaming of a 2 (danger) animal that can hurt we are worried about how other people see us.
or kill you in real life means that you are worried about a
E
situation which you can’t control. It might also mean that
you feel that you need to be 3 (caution) about This one makes us wake up at night. It is a warning that we
what you say or do. may not be 10 (health). In the dream, you are
in a plane or on a mountain, and then suddenly you are in
C the air, with only the ground below. There is nothing to hold
Dreaming of being in a 4 (hazard) situation, on to, and your brain is trying to give you a message that
such as being near a volcano or hearing a terrible you are in a very 11 (risk) place!
5
(explode), or dreaming of catching an
6
(infection) disease, means you are afraid
of the future. Dreams of 7 (destroy) mean that
you aren’t happy with how things are now and want things
to change.

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Giving warnings and advice

I’m going to go hiking in the I’m going to go on a journey I’m going to buy a crocodile
mountains. around the world in a hot air and a snake and keep them as
balloon. pets.

I’m going to repair this socket I’m going to learn how to cook I’m going to cycle to school
by myself. exotic food. along a busy road.

I’m going to see a football I’m going to travel to another I’m going to try bungee
match with my friends. city to watch my favourite rock jumping.
band.

I’m going to go diving in the I’m going to make a fire and I’m going to sunbathe at the
sea because I want to see a cook these mushrooms I picked pool all day.
shark. in the forest.

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Talking about imaginary situations

START If you could live


If you could be
another person
anywhere in the for a day, who
world, where would you be? If you were an
would you go? animal, what
animal would
you be?

If you won £1
million in a lottery, If you could travel

MISS A
what would you back in time,
If you were a buy?
y what time would
famous person,
who would you
be and why?
TURN you travel to?

If you c
speak a ould If you found
langua foreign
ge
langua , which
If you were a
MISS A somebody’s mobile

TURN
character in phone in the street,
ge w what would you do?
you spe ould a book, who
ak? would you be
and why?

If you didn’t have


If you could
If you could any lessons today,
change your
change what would
name, what
FINISH anything in your
personality,
name would you
choose?
you do?

what would you


change?

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The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
1 04 Listen to a talk about the Duke of Edinburgh Award. Tick (✓) the five ways of winning an award
that the person mentions.

1 Joining a band. 5 Doing a new sport.


2 Climbing a mountain. 6 Writing a book.
3 Meeting the Queen. 7 Going on a journey.
4 Helping people. 8 Learning to play a musical instrument.

2 04 Listen again. Choose the correct answers. 


1 The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme was founded 4 The Duke of Edinburgh meets the award
. winners.
a about sixty years ago a sometimes
b about ninety years ago b never
2 There are different types of Duke of 5 There are over 250,000 people on the Duke of
Edinburgh’s awards. Edinburgh’s Awards scheme .
a two a this year
b three b every year
3 If you want to win a Silver award, you have to be 6 The Duke of Edinburgh Award is .
. a easy to do
a fourteen b fun to do
b fifteen

3 To win a Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award, you have to do voluntary work, learn a new skill, do physical
exercise or go on an expedition. Look at the table and decide which activities you would like to do if you
were trying to win an award.

Possible activities
Voluntary work * Support a local charity
* Work with elderly or disabled people
* Raise funds for a new building
* Help the environment
Skills * Learn to sing or play an instrument
* Design a new website
* Act
* Draw or paint
* Learn how to look after animals
Physical exercise * Do team sports or racquet sports
* Learn to swim or dive
* Dance
* Do extreme sports
* Do martial arts
Expedition * Go walking or hiking
* Go cycling
* Go sailing
* Travel by canoe
* Go on a horse riding holiday

4 Tell your classmates what you would like to do to win the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. Have they chosen
the same activities? Which activity is the most popular?

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Geography: underwater volcanoes
1 05 Read and listen to the text about underwater volcanoes. Choose the correct answers.

1 Where do most volcanic eruptions take place? 4 Where is the top of the Bowie Seamount?
a on land b under the sea a a few metres below the surface of the ocean
2 How many underwater volcanoes are there? b thousands of metres below the surface of the ocean
a about 3,000 b about 30,000 5 When did people first find out about the Kolumbo volcano?
3 Where is the Bowie Seamount? a in 1650 b in 1950
a in the Atlantic b in the Pacific 6 Are underwater volcanoes good places for wildlife to live?
a Yes b No

Underwater volcanoes
We have all seen photos or videos of volcanoes erupting, the surface, so divers often swim down to explore it. Another
throwing red hot magma into the atmosphere. However, did underwater volcano, the Kolumbo volcano, lies under the sea
you know that there are a lot more volcanic eruptions under near the island of Santorini in Greece. Nobody knew it was
the sea than on land? In fact, three quarters of all the magma there until it erupted in 1650, causing a tsunami which killed
released by volcanoes every year never reaches the surface of people and animals on nearby islands. It has steep slopes on
the ocean. its side, and a large crater – a huge hole at the top – which is
Underwater volcanoes rise from the seabed like mountains. 1.5 kilometres across.
They are called seamounts, and there are over 30,000 of them. The summits of underwater volcanoes are good places for
Most of them lie near the edges of the tectonic plates which wildlife to live. When magma erupts into water, it cools
cover our planet. Some of them are three or four thousand and becomes hard very quickly. This is called pillow magma
metres high, but their summits are still under the surface of because it looks like the sort of soft pillow which you put your
the world’s seas and oceans. The Bowie Seamount, which is in head on when you are sleeping in bed. Although the magma
the Pacific Ocean near Canada, is one of the most interesting cools quickly, it also heats up the water, so a lot of small
examples. It is about 3,000 metres high, and its summit is only organisms live there. As a result, lots of fish and larger sea
just under the sea. In fact, it’s only twenty-five metres below creatures come to feed around the tops of the volcanoes.

2 Label the diagram of an underwater volcano. Use the words in bold in the text.
1 the of 4
the sea

2 the of 5
the volcano

3 a 6 the

3 Are there any volcanoes in your country, or do you know about any famous volcanoes?
Find the answers to the questions below and write a short description of the volcano.
1 What is the name of the volcano? Where is it?
2 What does it look like? How big is it?
3 What is special or interesting about the volcano?

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