8A Grammar

Reported speech

will are do were can have did was

Person A Person B Person C

1 What you enjoy doing

most when you a child?

2  you enjoy school when

you were younger? Why / Why not?

3 Who your best friend

when you were a child?

4 What a typical day for you

when you were younger?

5 What you do in your free

time now?

6  you like your job/studies

at the moment? Why / Why not?

7 Who you spent most time

with recently?

8 What you do in a typical

day now?

9 What you planning to do

in the next year?

10 Where do you think you

be in five years’ time?

11  you going to do anything

special next weekend?

12  you do something that

many other people find difficult
(e.g., play the piano, draw)?

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8B Grammar
Verb patterns

enjoy try warn

start advise

continue remind agree

remember invite

promise recommend refuse

worry about need

suggest ask don’t mind

plan tell

threaten admit forget

want begin

hope think about let

offer keep

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8A Vocabulary
The news

Activity A
Are the sentences true or false? Rewrite the false sentences to make them true.

THE NEWS
1 An article is a piece of writing on a particular
subject in a newspaper or magazine.
2 Breaking news is bad news. 
3 A headline is the title of a newspaper story
written in large letters at the top of the story. 
4 Gossip is a story or report about someone’s
private life that is not true. 
5 A blogger is someone who writes about
topics in a newspaper. 
6 If news spreads, nobody knows about it. 
7 Entertainment news is about TV, films,
music, etc. 
8 A reporter collects news stories and describes
them on TV, radio or in a newspaper. 
9 If you post a comment, you delete or remove
a comment from a website. 
10 A celebrity is a famous person, often from
the world of entertainment. 
11 Current affairs are events of political or
social importance that happened in the past. 
12 An editor is the person who owns a newspaper
or magazine. 

Activity B
Think of recent examples of the kinds of news in the table. Make notes of what happened and where you
found it.

What? Where?
foreign news
business news
current affairs
breaking news
celebrity gossip
something by a blogger
entertainment news

Compare the information you found with other students.

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8B Vocabulary
Shopping; Reporting verbs

Activity A
Read out one of your sentences (1–6). Your partner will say a word/phrase from the box.

get a refund recommend bargain refuse browsing remind 
can’t afford admit come out guarantee in stock warn

Student A Student B
1 1
I haven't got enough money for it. It was very cheap – 50% off on sale.

2
It’s a new mobile phone. It was on 2
They gave me my money back.
sale for the first time yesterday.

3
3 No, I won’t help you.
I’m just looking, thanks.

4
He agreed that he was bad at choosing clothes.
4
I asked him not to forget.

5
They always have it in the shop.
5
She said the restaurant was very good.

6
6 If it breaks in the first year,
Don’t go near the city centre on a Saturday. they’ll give me a new one.

Activity B
Complete each sentence in a logical way.
1 I agreed to lend my friend the money because .
2 I threatened to write a bad review of the restaurant because .
3 Someone suggested complaining to the shop manager because .
4 Someone warned me not to buy anything in that shop because .
5 I offered to help the old woman because .
6 I advised my friend to buy a new computer because .
7 I recommend looking for bargains online because .
8 The store manager promised to give me a discount because .

Take turns reading the second part of your sentences.

Can other students tell you the correct sentence beginning?

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Unit 8 Wordpower
in / on + noun

Write down something ...

1 you can hang on a wall. 7 you can see printed in a newspaper.
2 you often see in the centre of town. 8 you can see on a concert ticket.
3 you can see on TV every day. 9 you can buy in different sizes.
4 you can look up on a website. 10 you see on a restaurant menu.
5 you usually pay for in cash rather 11 people often send in an email attachment.
than by card.
12 you can see on your computer/
6 people put on social media sites for phone screen.
others to see.

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8A Pronunciation
Sound and spelling: /g/ and /k/

Activity A
Move through the maze from square one to finish using words with the /k/ sound only. You can only move
one square at a time, horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

SQUARE ONE clue packet back ghost

current exist stomach guess degree

anger comments green girlfriend blogger

organise class frog ankle glass

clean glue good chicken dogs

clue dug quiet again queen

monkey circus bigger ignore ache

colour cost gold duck goat

hockey gossip grass called exhausted

bag cold angle pick FINISH

Activity B
Now make your own maze using words from A. This time, make a maze where your partner can only move
using words with the /g/ sound.

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8B Pronunciation
Sound and spelling: /h/ and /w/

Activity A
Look at the pairs of words below. Each pair of words has a /h/ sound (e.g., whole) and a /w/ sound (e.g., well).
Underline the words with a /w/ sound.
what – whole
wheel – heal
who – when
why – whose
well – hen
white – high

Activity B
Work on your own. Add the words with /h/ sounds to the left column of each grid. Add the words with /w/
sounds to the bottom row. The words must be in the same order in each grid.

Activity C
Play battleships. Your teacher will give you your instructions.

You

whole
/h/
➔

/w/➔ advise

Your partner

well
/h/
➔

/w/➔ advise

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