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Module 1, page 12 (CD 5, Track 01)
Tim:  Welcome to my podcast, Tim Talks. My guest today
is Leanne Smith, the author of The Happy Student.
Leanne, please tell us about your new book.
Leanne: Gladly, Tim. According to research, today many
students aren’t happy at school. The book is about
solutions to that problem.
Tim: For example?
Leanne: Some schools today focus on student happiness and
not on school subjects. Different things make different
people happy and these schools give students a choice
of activities. Some students do sport and this makes
them happy. Others feel happy when they have lunch
with friends. At these schools, students make snacks
together at school. They also make videos and do other
fun activities together.
Tim:  It sounds fantastic, but my school isn’t like that.
Leanne: There are breaks during the day, aren’t there?
Tim: Yes, of course.
Leanne: Then you can meet your friends outside and do sport,
listen to music or sing songs together. When you do
these things, you feel happy during the school day.
Tim: That’s true. We’ve got two long breaks during the day.
I always do sport with my friends during these breaks
and that makes me feel happy.
Module 1, page 19 (CD 5, Track 03)
1. Alex: 
Excuse me, where is the computer technology
room?
Linda: There are two computer technology classrooms.
The classroom for Year 8 students is over there
next to the art room.
Alex: I’m in Year 8.
Linda: Oh, me too! We’re in the classroom next to the
science room. Come on, our lesson begins in
two minutes!
2. Harry:  Good morning. Where are your school items?
Salesperson: Well, the schoolbags are over there.
Harry: Thanks, but I don’t need a schoolbag.
Salesperson: We’ve also got new pencil cases. This one is
£10 and it comes with pens, pencils, scissors
and a pencil sharpener.
Harry:  I need all those school items – pens, pencils,
scissors and a pencil sharpener, but I don’t need
a pencil case. How much are they?
Salesperson: £12.
Harry:  But the pencil case with the school items in it is
only £10!
Salesperson: Exactly. Do you want it, then?
Harry: Of course!
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3. Teacher: 
Please put your English notebooks and
textbooks on your desks. Yes, Dan?
Dan:  I think my notebook is at home – on my
desk. It isn’t in my schoolbag.
Teacher:  That’s not good. Lisa, give Dan some paper,
please.
Dan: Thanks.
Teacher: Now open your textbooks.
Dan:  Oh! My notebook is inside the textbook.
Teacher: Great!
4. Jack: 
Where are all the students? There’s a music
lesson at 9.00 am. That’s now.
Louise: 
There’s a notice on the school website.
Jack: What does it say?
Louise: 
It says there aren’t any music lessons today.
There’s a break now and then there’s a
science lesson at 9.45 am.
Jack: Oh. Music is my favourite subject.
Louise: 
Well, don’t worry. There’s another music
lesson at 2.00 pm tomorrow.
5. Claire: 
There’s a message from the history teacher
about tomorrow.
Paul: Oh, no. I hope it isn’t another test.
Claire:  Don’t worry. There isn’t a test tomorrow. The
trip is tomorrow.
Paul:  Oh, that’s right! So we only need food and
water.
Claire:  Well, not exactly. According to this message,
we also need our pencil cases. She’s got
some worksheets for us.
Module 2, page 24 (CD 5, Track 04)
 eter: What are you reading, Ellen?
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Ellen: It’s a comic book. It’s really good.
Peter: A comic book? Really?
Ellen: Why are you surprised, Peter?
Peter: Because you’re a clever girl, Ellen.
Ellen:  According to my literature teacher, comics have got lots
of benefits.
Peter: For example?
Ellen:  They teach you to think differently. Regular books have
only got words. But comics tell stories with pictures,
too. When you read them, you process two types of
information at the same time – pictures and words.
Peter: OK, but who reads comics these days?
Ellen:  Lots of people do – especially comics about
superheroes. People love superheroes because they’re
strong and brave. They’re also kind and they help weak
people.
Peter: True. But the stories are usually silly.
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Ellen: I disagree, Peter. They’re often about important topics.
There are also graphic novels – those are books in the
form of comics – like Maus about World War II and
Persepolis about life in Iran. My mother is reading
Persepolis now and she really likes it.
Peter: Persepolis? That’s on our advanced English reading list.
Ellen: See?!
Module 2, page 31 (CD 5, Track 06)
Good news, students! It’s almost time for the Comics and
Animated Film Festival! Students in Year 10 are planning the
activities: some connected to comics and some to animated films.
Of course, they’re making a list of animated films for everyone to
watch. The Year 10 teachers are shopping for prizes, but there’s
still lots of work. So, we’re asking all of you to help. Year 9
students, we’re requesting you make the decorations. There are
lots of creative students in Year 9, so we’re hoping for some great
decorations! Year 9 teachers are organising art supplies: paper,
markers and scissors. Year 8 students, we need people to help at
the food stands. Your teachers have timetables, so talk to them
and choose your time. It’s only thirty minutes for each student at
a food stand. The rest of the time, you can enjoy the activities.
That’s all for today. Have fun!
Module 3, page 36 (CD 5, Track 07)
Hi, I’m Sue and this is my podcast, An App a Day. Today’s app
is called InLine4You. It lets you pay someone to wait in a line
for you. You are probably thinking, “that’s the silliest idea in
the world”, but it’s a successful app! In big cities like New York
City, there are often very long lines. These lines are for tables
at restaurants, theatre tickets and iPhones. When there is a new
model of iPhone, the queues in front of the shops are as long as
a city street – and sometimes longer than that. People often bring
chairs and wait outside the shop for hours – in rain, snow and on
the hottest days of the year. But some people don’t want to do
this. So they use InLine4You and pay people to wait for them.
These people are called “spotters” and they can get hundreds of
dollars – just by waiting in lines! It’s as easy as that! Personally,
I don’t want to wait in long lines – even for money. But the app
is popular, so I guess other people don’t agree!
Module 3, page 43 (CD 5, Track 09)
Greg: What are you reading, Jason?
Jason: It’s an interesting article about an unusual home in Tokyo,
Japan.
Greg: What’s so unusual about it?
Jason: Well, first of all, it’s an IKEA home.
Greg:  An IKEA home? IKEA only sells furniture, not homes!
Jason: Not any more. Now IKEA is also making tiny homes in
Japan for people to live in.
Greg: Aren’t Japanese homes very small already? They’re
usually smaller than most European homes.
Jason: Well, yes, but the IKEA home is cheaper than most
homes. IKEA is asking people to pay 99 Japanese Yen a
month for their home – that’s under one pound a month.
One-room homes in Tokyo are usually hundreds of pounds
a month.
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Greg: Wow! That’s a very big difference!
Jason: Yes, and the IKEA homes are great. Each home is under 10
square metres, but it’s got a living area, a bedroom, a small
kitchen and a bathroom. It’s also got IKEA furniture in it.
Greg:  Is the furniture smaller so it can fit inside these tiny IKEA
homes?
Jason: Of course!
Module 4, page 48 (CD 5, Track 10)
Ella: Steve, I need your help.
Steve: Why? What’s wrong, Ella?
Ella: Do you remember Dad’s favourite
Christmas sweater?
Steve: Of course. It’s hard to forget it. There’s that enormous
picture of Father Christmas on it in his red suit and hat,
and all those bright colours around him …
Ella: I know. It’s so ugly. But Dad loves that sweater, and that’s
the problem.
Steve: Why?
Ella: Look at it!
Steve: Oh no! Why is there blue paint all over it?
Ella: I’m painting my desk blue. The sweater was in the dirty
clothes bin. The blue paint was on a shelf above it, and …
well, you can guess the next part.
Steve: Oh, I can hear Dad now, telling us all about the cultural
importance of Christmas sweaters …
Ella: Yes, the Scandinavian and Icelandic tradition of wearing
big sweaters with different, colourful designs …
Steve: And each design was from a different village –
Oh, Ella. We must do something about this sweater!
Ella: I know. Can you come to the shopping centre with me,
please? We can try to find him a new Christmas sweater
together.
Steve: OK. Should I bring some money with me?
Ella: Yes! I can’t pay for it alone!
Module 4, page 55 (CD 5, Track 12)
1. Dad: Hi, Alice.
Alice: Hi, Dad. Can we go to the shopping centre?
Dad: What do you need? Another pair of jeans?
Alice: No. I need new trainers.
Dad: Why? Your trainers are only a year old!
Alice: I know, but now I need special trainers to wear with my
new basketball uniform. I’m joining the team!
2. Oliver: I’m hungry, Mum. What can I eat?
Mum: You shouldn’t eat anything now! Dinner is in 45
minutes. It’s your favourite – chicken and noodles.
Oliver: I don’t think I can wait. Can I have some of this pie?
Mum: No! That pie is for the party tomorrow. Here – you
can have some salad.
Oliver: Fine - but I want a really big piece of pie at the party
tomorrow!
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3. Mike: Were you on the volleyball team, Claire?
Claire: Yes, but I wasn’t a very good player. It was difficult
for me to hit the ball.
Mike: Oh, so what sport are you good at? Football? Tennis?
Claire: Well, I can play tennis, but not as well as I play
football. I can kick the ball really far!
4. Louise: Hey, Jared! Are you making an apple pie?
Jared: No. We haven’t got any apples.
Louise: We’ve got chocolate. Maybe you should make one of
your amazing chocolate pies!
Jared: Louise, I’m not making a pie for dessert – it’s for
dinner! It’s got chicken in it.
Louise: Oh. Well, I hope it’s as tasty as your chocolate pie!
5. Emma: Are you ready to leave?
Glenda: Almost – should I wear a coat?
Emma: I don’t think so. It isn’t very cold outside. Maybe you
should take a sweater.
Glenda: But my sweater isn’t warm.
Emma: Then take a jacket. Where is your jacket?
Glenda: I’m not sure.
Emma: Here – you can wear mine. Now let’s go!
Glenda: OK, OK!
Module 5, page 60 (CD 5, Track 13)
Lisa: Hi, Max. How was your geography lesson?
Max: It was good. We gave presentations about explorers
today. Everyone spoke about explorers like Marco Polo
or Christopher Columbus and how they discovered new
countries. But I didn’t want to talk about an explorer from a
long time ago.
Lisa: So who did you speak about?
Max: Levison Wood. He’s a modern British explorer. In 2015,
there was a TV programme about him called Walking the
Nile. Did you see it?
Lisa: No, I didn’t, but I heard about it. Did Levison really walk
from one end of the Nile to the other?
Max: Yes, he did! He began his expedition in 2013 in the
Nyungwe Forest in Rwanda. The River Nile is the longest
river in the world – 6,650 kilometres – so it took him nine
months to complete the expedition!
Lisa: Wow! Did he explore any other places?
Max: Yes, he did. In 2016, he completed an expedition to
the Himalaya mountains. He walked 1,700 kilometres
through five countries, and he met the Dalai Lama on the
way! Then, in 2020, he walked 1,046 kilometres across
Botswana.
Lisa: What did he do there?
Max: He walked with the elephants. Botswana has got
the world’s biggest elephant migration every year.
Lisa: That’s amazing! I love elephants.
Max: Well, there’s a TV programme about this expedition as well.
We can watch it together!
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Module 5, page 67 (CD 5, Track 15)
1. Julia: Hi, Tim. Did you have fun at the beach?
Tim: Not really. It wasn’t sunny at all!
Julia: I’m sorry to hear that. Did it rain?
Tim:  No, but there were clouds in the sky all day. It wasn’t
nice weather.
2. Mum: How was your class trip to the zoo today, Lisa?
Lisa: It was great, Mum. We saw lots of different animals.
Mum: Which was your favourite?
Lisa: Well, my friends all liked the elephants, but I preferred
the reptiles. I especially loved watching the turtles.
There were also crocodiles, but I didn’t like those. They
were very frightening!
3. Tina: 
Scott, did you visit the coast on your trip to
Italy last summer?
Scott: No, I didn’t. Why do you ask?
Tina:  I’m planning a trip to Italy and I’m thinking
about where to visit.
Scott: Oh. You should go to the mountains. I didn’t
have time to go there, but I saw them from the lake
I visited. They looked beautiful!
4. Leo: Hi, Kate. Where did you and your family go
last weekend?
Kate: We stayed at a house in the forest.
Leo:  Did you see any bears? Last time I went to the forest,
I saw a big bear!
Kate: No, I didn’t see any bears, but there were lots
of frogs. My brother also says he saw an enormous
snake. I’m happy I wasn’t with him!
5. Ann: Dave, we can’t go to the safari today! It’s 1 o’clock
now, and the safari is only open until 2.00.
Dave: What? I thought it closes at 5.00.
Ann:  Yes, it usually does. But today they changed it to 2.00.
Module 6, page 72 (CD 5, Track 16)
Charles: Welcome to the Travel Museum. I’m Charles, your
tour guide for today. We’re going to begin our tour
with one of my favourite exhibits. This is Driftscape,
the hotel of the future.
Student A: That’s a hotel? It looks so strange! Will people really
stay in that one day?
Charles:  Oh, yes – and they’ll have a great time. The rooms
in Driftscape aren’t ordinary rooms – they’re called
pods. These pods can separate from the hotel. Guests
will choose a destination and the pods will fly there.
Student B: That sounds amazing!
Charles: It will be! It’ll be an easy way to visit special
attractions – you won’t need taxis, trains or ferries.
Some attractions are far from cities and it can be very
difficult to travel to them. Driftscape will make it
possible for tourists to visit these places, too.
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Student A: And you can probably see everything from the pods,
thanks to those glass walls. They’re like enormous
windows!
Charles:  Exactly. The pod will also have a camera, so guests
can take pictures of their trip.
Student C: I see there’s a bed in the pod. But what about meals?
Charles: There will be a restaurant at the hotel. Guests will
order meals and have them at the tables in their pods.
Imagine eating your morning cereal or toast while
flying over the Great Wall of China!
Student B: Cool! I’m going to be one of Driftscape’s
first guests!

Module 6, page 79 (CD 5, Track 18)

John:  Far World Travel. John speaking. How can I help you?
Lucy: Hi. My name is Lucy Smith. I’m looking for a group tour
to the USA in September. It must include Chicago because
I want to visit my cousin there.
John:  Let me see … .Yes, one of our groups is going to Chicago,
Boston and New York in September.
Lucy: Sounds great.
John: We’re leaving London on September 6th and returning
on September 13th. How many people are travelling with
you?
Lucy: We’re two people – my mother and me. What activities
does the trip include?
John:  To begin, we’re going to go on a food tour. Chicago has
got some great food.
Lucy: For example?
John: The deep-dish pizza. It’s a pizza, but it’s like a pie with lots
of tomato sauce and cheese. Then there are the pork and
beef sausages. They’re my favourite street food.
Lucy: Yum.
John:  Yes. We’re also going to visit some of Chicago’s famous
museums, like the Field Museum of Natural History and
the Art Institute.
Lucy: My mother will love that. How much is the trip?
John: It’s £1,600 per person. That includes £900 for the aeroplane
ticket and £700 for the hotel and tours. You’ll need extra
money for food and the underground. Should I keep two
places for you?
Lucy: Yes, please!

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