2A Right place, wrong person 1 VOCABULARY vacations a Write the phrases. ‘A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. Robert Orben, American magician and comedy writer 1 gocampjng 2 go at Rent 3 flights on the Internet 4 = oad A 3 Loop skis be 2 ON inahotel 8 go ae Hiecing ec tng, 9 Sunda ‘om the beach 10 go Qevayr for the weekend b Complete the sentences with an adjective. 1 Welordourroom. vast confor. Theneaterwasnamandn2n Etece wf oof people xen whs eV ey Beate 4 Weate very well. The food was deWer oos gree fits hotel was horrible. They were very unh.elpde! and sometimes very rude. pase a It didn’t even have a refrigerator. 7 Thea eopeon deep wee fre We hope to meet some of them 8 The town was nice Allthe houses had lowerson the balcony ad wee pied diferent cl 9 iwasceody sunatall and we didn't see the eat at the hotel again, 2 GRAMMAR simple past: regular and irregular verbs a Write the simple past of these verbs in the correct column, ergue begin arrive ask buy can choose eat feel invite rent say stay _ sunbathe Regular Irregular argued ——_began. Oris ow Ea ceed Invited fase shy it ie b Make the verbs negative. 1 Westayed ata campsite. Wedidn’t stay * Dp : eee ooerea + tanplptpameten ina hotel rds. any souvenirs. very helpful by the pool 5 Were ies — = acar. 6 Hrepeame scat " Hotroen aiy Gor voom wasn’ very clean,© Complete the text with the simple past form of the verbs in the box, arrive ask pook cannot B02) look take want The vacation that wasn't Four years ago. we' decided _ to go away for the weekend. We TQamfektogota Merco.some’ Locited— abeautful apartment online. Aweeblater,we* e0% _ataxitothe airport. Wa? Ci at the airport at two o'clock, and we * wen: tocheckin, are desk’ 85 He us for our passports. We ° leo, your bags. butwe couldnt tnd then Sowe® ect home! _ Read the text in € again. Complete the questions. 1 When dig 4 ae to gp away for the weekend? Four years ago. hi 2 Where watio go? Mexico 3 Howdy I lee Lear the apartment? They booked it online. 4 When Sed Hle_aoot yh geprt? Artwoo%oc 5 What ihe’ ‘oman Sf for? She asked for their passports 6 Where icp_G.2 in the end? They went back home. 3 PRONUNCIATION -ed endings, irregular verbs a §GTRAp Listen and Girl the verb thathas a different ed sound. rated sted, GD aay at doe sane ii sunbuthed >’ rm Listen Again and repeat the words. © Write these irregular simple past forms in the correct circle bought broke called came caught drank drove made rang read said sat went wrote gave train 4 ET Listen and check. Then listen again and repeat the words. 4 LISTENING STEED Listen to five speakers talking about vacations they didn’t enjoy. Which speaker...? a didn'thave avery exciting weekend b wasn’e with the people he / she wanted tobe with € chose a vacation destination because of the weather there Speaker Speaker 5 USEFUL WORDS AND PHRASES Learn these words and phrases. atmosphere /setmasfir disaster /dv'zestar hostels /‘hastlz complain /kam'plein enjoy /in'dsou flirt /flort break up /"breik ap) feel sorry for (somebody) /fil ‘sari for gowrong ‘goo 190 £ 1 3 4 wenton vacation aftera relationship ended © didn't feel well when he | she was on vacation 4Photographs are pictures taken to please ‘the family and bore the neighbors. Edmund Volkart, American sociologist 2B The story behind the photo 1 GRAMMAR past continuous a Complete the sentences with the verbs in parentheses in the past continuous, 1 You _were laughing (laugh) when I took the photo. 2 It_w> Snowing (snow) when our plane landed. 3 We wWerert& dl Funy (not drive) fast when the accident happened, 4 Whar was he doing —” (he /do) when his boss arrived? 5 Why were You CLyhy (you ry) at the party? 6 Iwas Sng (sit) on the bus when I saw my boss. 7 They were lium (ive) in rail nthe fs was born | 8 Hedidn’tcallyou because his cell phone WASH Works (aot work). | > Write sentences with when. Use the simple past c Complete the story with the simple past or | and past continuous past continuous. Pals tewaiee| aN datousiieciie dl” Go lS aNgaRE tay Fy aces argu BAG with my cousin fora few weeks, One afternoon, we the waiter brought the check 2 etre hav™S\have) lynch in a nice restaurant phone and went outside to talk. While she + was 9p ea Ybpeak) to her friend, | suddenly iced’ (notice) amanina black hat who was silly) ener og 8 the actor Johnny Depp! He was alone, and |” Je ¢= (decide) to take my chance.Sol gotupand®_wermf- (go) to hs table, “Excuse me, could | have my photo taken with ou pe He? sas 4G) yn.01 ° epee (top) a waitress who "ws ee) byand gave her my camera She” feoe (ake) the photo of me and ohnry. thanked them both, and then returned tomy table. When my cousin ® Cs back" WES Sy isi) "Why are you looking sShappy?” she asked. ‘had my photo taken with johnny Depp” ‘Johnny Depp? Where ishe?™ 2 He/ fall j offhis bike / ECR AG bs b prin ciiten| ly ven es: auc 4 We/have a barbecue | it/ start to rai Weer bavng coe When cedstoecgent van 5 [| finish {my report | my € _(come) Hes siting over there. Look!” She turned around to look and then started to laugh “That's not Johnny Depp! 18 oye (look) at the man in the black hat - he pty Faesskpflaugh) too.2 VOCABULARY 2ét, in, on time Complete the sentences witha, nor on ‘The results of the election were announced __at__ 11 o'clock. Cellphones were invented 1} the 0ch century. Our flightisleaving 27) Wednesday 9:30 1 the evening and arriving AL 12 o'clock _©27_‘Thursday 4 Wehaveanexam_o ft Monday morning, 5 Inmost countries, banks and offices are closed 0/7 _ New Year's Day 6 Thate driving at night, geting upeatly Ln the ‘morning, and working 2/1 the weekend. ndhedied 977 7 Steve Jobs was born. [11 19: October 5, 2011 8 Wewent to Florida last winter, and we're going again 44 the summer, probably the last two weeks t7 _ July place ‘Complete the sentences with a, in, or on 1 Hetook some great photos at _ the party 2 Ican'treadabook _@" the bus or _¢_acar. 3 WewanttoputsumadhelvesON. thewall_ 1?” heliving room, We're going to putall our old books © the shelves. 4 My family is from Brazil, but we live_/ New York, (On the 11ch floor ofa tall building. thebusstop. chairsand the children sat 5 Tllmeetyou_@ 6 Theadults sat_O77 the floor. on wT eit eT for walk DS the eee 8 Pleasemeetme_?N_ thelibrary by the frontdesk_@£ noon. PRONUNCIATION sentence stress GD Listen and repeat the dialogue. Copy the rhythm. A Where were you at ten oclock last night? B Iwas at home. A What were you doing? B_ Iwas watching a movie. 4 LISTENING & GBT) Listen to.aconversation between ‘Matt and Jenny about a photo. Does Jenny like the photo? _feS b GTR Listen again and choose t! 1 The photo shows. a Matt's parents. e best answers, b Mate’s © Matr's grandparents. 2 The photo was taken. inthe spring ’b inthe summer, ine and uncle, ¢ inthe fall 3 The man wanted to win. b some food. Q some jewelry 4 The other people in the photo were the man's © neighbors bb friends. ¢ colleagues. 5 The man in the stall G2ook the photo. b asked for more money for the photo. © didn't like the photo. USEFUL WORDS AND PHRASES Learn these words and phrases. democracy (di'makrasi j demonstration /demanstreifn lek "fridam, election freedom hold hands /hould hwendz, peace ‘pis! realize /‘rislavz TV screens (ti 'vi skrin: upload /aplood: screen saver /skrin ‘seiva2C One dark October evening 1. GRAMMAR time sequencers and connectors a Gireldthe correct words or phrases. "The summer /@ne summe®, | decided to travel to Peru. few to Lima, and hea traveled to a town near Machu Pichu to spend the right fhe nextday /Afterday,clmbed the mountain to visit the monumnt-Lwas tired (when ? then I reached the top “Sudden (Suddenly.) saw.aman who was in my English class back home.& inutes later’/ Two minutes aftet, he came over to spaak tome, and he was ust as surprised as was. ‘Gfter that) When, we decided to travel together. Wehad a Feat Simmer, and we continued seeing each other back home. Infact, we got marred two years later, and we now have a beautiful daughter named Hannah, b Look ar each group of sentences, Complete each sentence with s, because, bt, o although. 1a Linda ranto the train station_bscause_she was very late b Lindawasverylate,_5.@ _sheranto the gain station ¢ AC{lo 4b Linda ran to the train station, she was tog late and she missed the train 2 a Althoo a wecoulda't go out, we hada really good afteHoon at home le warraining S19" hl Webel illite, © Westayed at home last Sunday beeae ic rasvaiaing. 3 a Thetickets were really expensive, bof they managed to sell them alln an hour b Afbeo qh che tickets were really expensive, th sodshemallinanhour. © They sold the tickets quickly © €CB%3@ the The driver is the most dangerous part of the car. Leo Campion, French actor Rewrite the sentences using the words in parentheses, 1 Ididn’chave any breakfast because I didn't have time. (so) Ididn’thave time, __ so [didn’t have any breakyast 2 Thad a great vacation in Egypt although I can't speak sete) eT : canttspeak Apabic, Dot ¥ had @ Qrea pee We eee 4 I don’t really like Ryan, but I went to lunch with him. (anon, : Teng ipRyon OHhboghe ¥ alo'f yeole lee lien as A caled os polio because dno Boe ope i a: OE eT A _kue ‘plee FARA fees nae (although) Jimspealiycheap, aCthougl 6 Hat conldar’Gasher bogie be clbclod her cal cards, (because) lary cagceled her Atedit cards case he Moor edestne os fe VOCABULARY verb phrases 1 Jakeand Beth met [@] a herto dinner. 2 He played b for her at the door. 4 Hewaited [p] d imeeafe. 5 She gave QW) ec toanew restaurant. 6 Heinvited @ F thecafe very late. 7 Hetook her fa) g her favorite song. 8 They had IC] b him her phone number. Cover the right-hand column. Try to remember the sentences.3 PRONUNCIATION word stress a Write the words in the chart. aeross after again although awful because birthday evelning invite perfect resitaurant selcond, [2 Second sabia stressed | 1 First syllable stressed mar i optics owe ees — b 0 Listen and check. Then ‘again and repeat the words. 4 READING a Read the story. Number the paragraphs in the right order. A lucky escape Ten minutes later, it began to rain. Soon, Liz found it hard to see out of the front jwindshield!. There was a lot of water fon the road, so she drove more slowly. Although Liz was an ‘experienced driver, she felt afrai. [5] An hour later, firefighters cut Liz out of the car. She ‘went to the hospital, but the doctors sent her home because she didn’t have any serious injuries, Her head was fine and she only had a few cuts and Bruises. Her son went to collect the groceries from the car and gave the loaf of bread to his mother. Now, she is going to keep it as a souvenir. [Hone day last November, Liz Douglas decided to go grocery shopping. She drove to the supermarket and spent the morning doing her WeBklyshopping. She paid for her grOGeries, went back to the parking lot, and put the shopping bags on the back seat of the car. Then she started to drive home. Bl However, Liz was lucky, When she braked, a loafiof bread flew out of one of the shopping bags. The car turned over, and the loaf of bread landed between Liz's head and the roof of the car. It stopped her head from hitting the car roof, [ED suddenly, she lost control of the car. She saw a telephone’pole in front of her and braked. She closed her eyes and hoped that the airbags in the car would inflate. Unfortunately, they didn't b_ Look at the ighilight®€ words. What do you think they mean? Check with your dictionary. 5 LISTENING EEE Listen to radio program about ‘people who had lucky escapes. Mark the sentences T (true) or F (false) 1 Maureen Evason was on vacation when the accident happened. 2. She was in the hospital for four months. 3 Joseph Rabadue was sitting on the floor when the accident happened 4 The truck hicthe TV. 5 Barry McRoy was drinking coffee when the fight happened. 6 The DVD wasin his jacket pocket Ha 8 ine Hin USEFUL WORDS AND PHRASES Learn these words and phrases. bretk porfike brake perfect asusual (22 'yususl cross the street /kros 60 strit Bridge Street happy ending justin time /dsast mn ‘taim ‘brids strit hhepi ‘enduy) madly in love /‘medli in lav until the last minute /on'til 09 kest ‘mina Ge Gs rez