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7 Going Out and Staying In: Basketball Is A Game That You Play Indoors. Players Try To
7 Going Out and Staying In: Basketball Is A Game That You Play Indoors. Players Try To
song /sɒŋ/ Noun he plays the guitar in a rock band | there’s a live band
a song is a piece of music with words that you can sing at the party (the musicians are there, not a recording of
sitting around the fire and singing songs | a pop song | them) | the band is on tour (travelling around a country
a love song | a song by Lennon and McCartney | I can to different concerts)
remember all the words to that song
cake /keɪk/ Noun
sport /spɔːt/ Noun cake is a sweet food made with flour, eggs and sugar
sport is games like football or basketball or tennis and sometimes also with fruit or chocolate. You cook it
by baking it in an oven
do you like doing sports? | I hate sport | he’s watching
sport on TV | sport is great fun Collocates: make a cake
a piece of cake | chocolate cake | a birthday cake | the
story /ˈstɔːri/ Noun shop sells lovely cakes | would you like some cake?
a story is a description of an event or series of events.
Stories can be real or imaginary (not true) Chinese /ˌʧaɪˈniːz/ Adjective
Collocates: read (someone) a story someone or something that is Chinese is from China
he reads the children a story every evening | a story I like Chinese food | a beautiful Chinese cupboard | she
about a man and his dog | a short story | my dad is very has a Chinese passport
good at making up stories | a true story | a story with a
cook /kʊk/ Verb
happy ending | a bedtime story (that you read to children
when you cook food, you get it ready to eat by making
when they are going to bed)
it hot
team /tiːm/ Noun cook the chicken for an hour | I cook lunch every day |
a team is a group of people who play a sport against we’re cooking a pizza today | he likes to cook
another group of people in a sports event such as a Noun: cooking | Noun: cook
football match, hockey match, etc.
I like cooking | are you a good cook?
who’s your favourite football team? | I’m captain of
the school basketball team | there are 11 players in a cooking /ˈkʊkɪŋ/ Noun uncount
cricket team | my team is winning his cooking is always delicious | Alex loves cooking
Collocates: do exercise | get exercise a modern building | modern furniture | modern history
I don’t do a lot of exercise | you need to do some (the history of the world since about 1600) | the house
exercise | you don’t get enough exercise | I play football looks very modern | modern art
on Sundays for the exercise | swimming is good exercise
news /njuːz/ Noun singular
Verb: exercise news is information about things that have happened
I exercise regularly to stay fit very recently or that are happening at the moment. The
news is a programme on television or radio that regularly
Facebook /ˈfeɪsˌbʊk/ Noun singular gives this information
Facebook is a social media website where you put
the news starts at ten o’clock | the radio has a news
information about yourself, photos, etc. so that you can
bulletin (short programme) every hour | I get my news on
share them with your friends
social media
she’s one of my Facebook friends | click this link to
add a photo to your Facebook page | over 90% of prefer /priˈfɜː/ Verb
businesses are on Facebook the person or thing you prefer is the one you want or
like the most out of a group of them
go out /gəʊ aʊt/ Phrasal verb
Collocates: prefer something to something
if you go out, you go to somewhere like a restaurant or
cinema to have a nice time do you prefer driving to cycling? | do you want some tea,
or would you prefer coffee? | at school I preferred history
do you want to go out? | I can’t afford (don’t have
to maths | shall we go to the theatre or the cinema –
enough money) to go out tonight | let’s go out | we’re
which would you prefer?
going out for a meal tonight
programme /ˈprəʊgræm/ Noun
great /greɪt/ Adjective
a programme is an individual event on radio or television
if you refer to someone as a great player, great singer,
great writer, etc., you mean that they are really very a TV programme about cooking | there was a really
good and one of the best in the world interesting programme on the BBC last night | she
makes documentary programmes for the radio | there
Gareth Bale is a great footballer | Tolstoy, Pushkin and
are lots of sports programmes on TV | that’s my favourite
the other great Russian writers | she’s the greatest tennis
programme
player in history
running /ˈrʌnɪŋ/ Noun
gym /ʤɪm/ Noun
running is an activity in which you run for pleasure, for
a gym is a room or a building with lots of equipment for
sport, or to keep fit
people to do exercise
Collocates: go running
Collocates: go to the gym
I go running every morning before work | running is my
I always go to the gym on Thursdays | it costs more to
favourite form of exercise | I’m too tired to go running
go to the gym at weekends | I joined a gym this year | I
this evening
prefer walking in the park to going to the gym
series /ˈsɪəriːz/ Noun
internet /ˈɪntəˌnet/ Noun singular
a series is several TV shows that tell a story over a
the internet is the system that connects computers all
period of several weeks
over the world and lets them share information, pictures,
etc. a new series on BBC | a drama series | are you watching
that series with Martin Freeman in it?
I use the internet all the time at work | look it up on the
internet | an internet search | do you have access to the singer /ˈsɪŋə/ Noun
internet? (can you connect to the internet?) a singer is someone who sings songs, especially
someone who does this as a job
look /lʊk/ Verb
if you look at someone or something, you use your eyes Ed Sheeran is my favourite singer | there are two singers
to see them in the band | she’s a famous singer
Collocates: look at someone or something video /ˈvɪdɪəʊ/ Noun
look at the photo | look at me | I’m looking at you | don’t a video is a set of moving pictures that you can watch,
look now | she looks at her phone every minute for example on YouTube
watch the video, then answer the questions | we
Mexican /ˈmeksɪkən/ Adjective
watched videos on YouTube | a video showing you how
someone or something that is Mexican is from Mexico
to cook fish | a funny video
a Mexican dance | I have a Mexican friend | she has a
Mexican passport website /ˈwebˌsaɪt/ Noun
a website is a set of pages on the internet where
modern /ˈmɒdən/ Adjective you can get information about a particular subject or
something that is modern is quite new and uses new organisation
ideas or styles
they have a very simple website | this is a useful website your village called? | it’s a place near Manchester, called
for information about Australia | our website gets 2,000 Salford
visits a day | which websites do you look at most often? | Verb: call
can you send the URL for your website? (the address, so
I call my car Aggie
I can find it)
Egyptian /ɪˈʤɪpʃən/ Adjective
writer /ˈraɪtə/ Noun
someone or something that is Egyptian is from Egypt
a writer is someone who writes books, or who writes for
newspapers or magazines he knows a lot about Egyptian history | a museum with a
lot of Egyptian art | an Egyptian passport
the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize | Dickens
is a famous writer | J.K. Rowling is my favourite writer | a Noun: Egyptian
successful writer a group of Egyptians
Verb: write
famous /ˈfeɪməs/ Adjective
she’s writing a novel if lots of people know about someone or something, that
person or thing is famous
Pages 64–65 the Eiffel Tower is very famous | a famous painting in
the Louvre | Glastonbury is a famous music festival | a
about /əˈbaʊt/ Preposition
famous football player
if a book, film, etc. is about someone or something, it
talks about them or shows them as the main subject government /ˈɡʌvə(r)nmənt/ Noun
I’m writing a book about Berlin | a film about Winston the government is the group of people who are in
Churchill | a poem about being in love charge of a country or region
the government is spending too much money at the
after /ˈɑːftə/ Adverb/Preposition
moment | can the government make people happier? |
when something happens later than something else, it
the local government (that works in a town or region, not
happens after, or after it
the whole country) | the government building (where the
I’m going to the cinema after school today | can I see people in the government work)
you after lunch? | what are you doing after?
help /help/ Verb
American /əˈmerɪkən/ Adjective if something helps you, it makes it easier for you to do
someone or something that is American is from the something or succeed in something
United States
drink some warm milk – it will help you sleep | when I
who is the American president? | an American passport | want to relax, listening to music helps
his wife is American
Noun: help
Noun: American
do you need help with your suitcase?
the Americans love baseball
Japanese /ˌʤæpəˈniːz/ Adjective
at the same time /æt ðə seɪm taɪm/ Phrase someone or something that is Japanese is from Japan
if two things happen at the same time, no time passes
Haruki Murakami is a famous Japanese writer | a
between one event and the other
Japanese painting | I like Japanese food | she has a
you shouldn’t listen to music and do your homework at Japanese passport
the same time | there are two films I want to watch on TV
but they’re on at the same time moment /ˈməʊmənt/ Noun
if you talk about something happening at the moment,
British /ˈbrɪtɪʃ/ Adjective you mean it is happening now but won’t be happening
someone or something that is British is from the United after a while
Kingdom
Collocates: at the moment
are you British? | a British passport | he works for a
at the moment (now) it’s 28 degrees outside | he can’t
British company
drive at the moment | I’m not very well at the moment
business /ˈbɪznəs/ Noun uncount | he’s out of work at the moment (doesn’t have a job) |
business is the work people do that involves making, Tom’s out at the moment; he’ll be back at 7 | my car isn’t
selling and buying things working at the moment
Collocates: on business nothing /ˈnʌθɪŋ/ Pronoun
what business are you in? | I’m in the engineering nothing means not anything at all
business | we do a lot of business with a company in there’s nothing in the fridge | he has nothing to say to
Portugal | she travels a lot on business (goes to different me | it costs nothing to walk | I have nothing in my bank
places representing her company) account at the end of the month
called /kɔːld/ Adjective politics /ˈpɒlətɪks/ Noun
if you are called something, that is your name. If politics is the work of getting power and running a
something is called something, that is its name country or a part of a country
my dog is called Felix | the town is called Bootle | what’s
I’m not interested in politics | she’s studying politics shut the window | she looks a bit angry
at university | he wants to go into politics because he
wants to improve people’s lives | we’re always arguing blue /bluː/ Adjective
about politics if something is blue, it is the colour of the sky when there
are no clouds
Adjective: political | Noun: politician
my front door is blue | a blue car | a bunch of blue flowers
the country has political and social problems | our
political system needs to change | people don’t always Noun: blue
like politicians blue is my favourite colour
2 coat P C 4 drive
3 dress P C 5 politics
the internet. G Complete the words with the vowels (a, e, i , o, u).
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