G comparative adjectives V high numbers P 0, sentence stress QC Quiz night 1 VOCABULARY high numbers _ a Read three questions from a radio quiz. show. Choose the rightanswer for each question 1 What isthe approximate population of the UK? 3 42,000,000 5 52,000,000 62,000,000 2. How many calories are there in a Big Mac? aero b 485 c 305 3. How Faris it from New York City to Los Angeles? a about 4,000 km bb about 2.500 km about §,000km 1b @aa}) Listen and check. How do you say the three answers? © > p.148 Vocabulary Bank Days and numbers. Do part 4. d_ Look at the numbers below. Correct the mistakes. 75 a hundred seventy:five 2,150 two thousand and cone hundred and fifty 3009 three thousand nine 20,000 twenty thousands 3,000,000 three millions € (4/44) Listen and write the ten numbers you hear. £ Answer the questions with a partner. 1 Whar’s the population of your town / city? 2. What's the population of Your country? 3 How faris it from your town / city to...? a London b New York 1s Scotland bigger ‘than Wales? Yes, it's three times bigger. 2 LISTENING a’ 45) Whar quiz shows are popular in your country? Listen to the introduction to a quiz show called Quiz Night. Answer the quest 1 How long do the contestants have to say ifthe sentences are true or false? 2. How much do they win ifthey get a the first answer right ¢ thethird answer tight 4 alleightanswers right 3 Ifthey getan answer wrong, how much do they lose? 'b the second answer right 4 Wharcan a contestant do ifthey are norsure of the answer? b_ In pairs, look at the sentences from Quiz Night. Write (truc) or F (false) ¢ 4 46)) Listen to.a contestant on Quiz Night. Check your answers tb. How much does she win? Listen again for why the answers are true or false. Write down numbers you hear.3 GRAMMAR comparative adjectives a Look at the adjectives in the quiz sentences. In Who Wants to Bea Millionaire? pairs, answer the questions, ‘Aquiz show where contestants Using adjectives to compare two things: CALNE: ate eof 1 What two lettersdo you purarthe end of one one millon ponede rey ipflable adjectives (g-colay? can answer multiple choice 2 Why is big different questions which become 3 What happens when an adjective ends in -y? moreand more difficult 4 What word do you put in front of long adjectives Contestants have three > possibilities of getting help: they can ask the audience, reduce the four choices to two, or they can phone friend. (e.g. dangerous) 5 What's the comparative form of good and by What's the missing word? Chinas bigger Japan. eae b> p.140 Grammar Bank 9C. Learn more about Mastermind comparative adjectives and practise them. Aguiz programme where contestants answer questions ona specialist subject which 4 PRONUNCIATION they choose, and then answer , sentence stress generat knowledge questions a 4/48) Listen to theej How is than pronoune at the end of a word? re a peer eames ng Q Who is the best quiz contestant in the country? A Pat Gibson Last night Pat Gibson ‘had a big party after winning ght quiz sentences from 2 ? How is -er pronounced 5 SPEAKING > Communication Quiz Night A p.105B p.110, Play Quiz Night Mastermind on BBC TV. But it? not his first RI celebration party. Last April Mr Gibson * fy READING £1 million in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and a Read about two quiz shows, Do you have the 4 the first person in Britain to win both quizzes. same or similar shows in your country? Do you enjoy them? In the Mastermind final Pat, a 43-year-old computer programmer who is obsessed with trivia, beat five other b_ Now read about Pat Gibson. Why is he the best contestants, including a university lecturer. During quiz contestant in the country’? the competition he °__questions on several specialist subjects, for example film director Quentin © Read the article again and complete it with a verb Tarantino and science fiction author lain M Banks. from the list in the past simple. Ih Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? he & to the final question and still had the possibility of phoning a friend for help. He was sure that he z the answer, but he ® Mark Kerr, a friend, to double-check it. Mark was happy to heip him —six weeks before, Pat ® Mark to win £250,000 on the same show as his phone-a-friend! riod 73 answer be become get have help know phone wit 4. With a parmer, look at the highlighted words in the rexts related to quiz shows and guess their meaning. Would you like to bea contestant on a quiz show? Which one?