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Richmond
Authors:
Elizabeth Walter
Kate Woodford
Vocabulary
Builder 04/ Emotions Putting words together...
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Words you need... ˘ If you are in a good mood, you are feeling happy and if ˘ If you feel excited/angry, etc. you are excited/angry,
you are in a bad mood, you are feeling angry. etc.
˘ amazed very surprised ˘ nervous worried, often about something that is ˘ If you start crying, you begin to cry and if you start ˘ If someone or something makes you happy/angry/
annoyed angry going to happen
Listen and read, then use the words from the box to complete the dialogues.
of every book provides access to the Richmond Asking about someone’s mood
To ask someone if they are upset, say:
▶ Are you okay? or Are you all right?
more practice activities and teachers can assign Pronunciation 4.2 Exercise 5
Match the things that have happened (1–6) with the emotions (a–f).
Exercise 2
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in the price of the book useful phrases that are exercises have been encouraged to is given where this is
Plenty of dialogues showing the words in
used in conversation recorded and are progress from learning helpful
their real context with a mix of accents in the available to download single words to
audio recordings 5 A chance for
from the Richmond learning how to put
Extra functional tips boxes throughout students to practise
Leaning Platform them with other words
“Use the words you´ve learned” section at what they have learnt
to make useful, natural
the end of every unit allows students to in the unit
sentences
personalise the new vocabulary
Notes on main US/UK differences
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Review B. Free time 44–45 49. Phrasal verbs: relationships and work 116–117
50. Idioms 118–119
Review F. Language 120–121
The world 18. Natural world 46–47
19. Weather 48–49
around us 20. Environment 50–51 Irregular verbs 122
21. Animals 52–53 Phrasal verbs 123
22. Describing things 54–55 Track listing 124
23. How things are made 56–57 Word list with phonetic transcription 125–135
Phonetic chart 136
Review C. The world around us 58–59 Answer key 137–144
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03/ Personality
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Putting words together...
3.1
Words you need... ˘ People who like to say and hear funny things have ˘ If people are happy to do things, you can say that
a good sense of humour (UK)/humor (US). If they are willing to do them.
˘ cheerful Cheerful people are usually happy. ˘ polite Polite people are careful to be pleasant, say you enjoy being with someone like this, you can say ˘ If someone has a lot of energy, you can say that they
nice things, and not upset people. that they are good fun. If you make a joke, you say are full of energy.
˘ friendly Friendly people are pleasant and easy to
something to make people laugh.
talk to. ˘ quiet Quiet people do not say much.
˘ helpful Helpful people are always willing to help ˘ rude Rude people do not care about other people’s
others. feelings and often do or say things that upset them. Exercise 3
˘ kind Kind people help others and care about other ˘ serious Serious people do not laugh much. Complete the second sentence so it has the opposite meaning to the first.
people. ˘ shy Shy people find it difficult to talk to people and 1 Max has a good sense of humour. 3 My sister likes making jokes.
˘ lazy Lazy people do not like working or making an make friends.
effort. Max is always very serious . My sister doesn't have .
˘ sporty Sporty people are good at sport.
˘ lively Lively people have a lot of energy and like to do 2 Her students were sometimes rude to her. 4 My neighbours were always very helpful.
˘ strict Strict people want everyone to follow rules.
a lot of things. Her students were always . My neighbours were never help.
˘ unfriendly not friendly
˘ unkind not kind
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Describing people’s personality
Exercise 1
To ask about someone’s personality, you can say: He’s/She’s always … is used for describing
Choose a word from the box to describe how each person behaves. ▶ What’s he/she like? what someone often does, often something
To describe someone’s personality, you can say: bad:
rude shy kind lazy strict sporty friendly cheerful
▶ He’s quite a friendly/lazy person. ▶ He’s always late! She’s always complaining!
1 He never gets up before midday, and he spends 5 When I gave him the present, he didn’t even say To talk about something bad in someone’s personality, He/She never … is used for complaining about
hours every day sitting watching TV. lazy thank you! you can say: things that people do not do:
2 My friend is always smiling. Even if she has 6 Eva’s dad makes her do two hours of homework ▶ She can be a bit rude/unfriendly. ▶ He never listens. She never stops talking.
problems, she doesn’t let them make her sad. every day, and she has to be home by nine o’clock.
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Exercise 4
3 While her neighbour was in hospital, she visited him 7 He plays baseball for his college team, and swims Listen to and read what Bella and Anna say about their university friends. Are the following sentences (1–5)
every day and took him things to eat. several times a week. true (T) or false (F)?
4 She loves meeting people. She will talk to anyone! 8 She finds it very difficult to talk to people she
doesn’t know very well.
Bella Anna
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Exercise 2 ‘I met Adam on my first ‘I love spending time
Laura and Rick have had very different experiences of starting a new job. Use the words day at university. He with Lisa because she’s
from the box to complete what they say. Listen and check. helped me carry my such good fun. She’s a
bags to my room, and we very lively person, really
shy unkind serious unfriendly quiet helpful lively polite became friends straight full of energy – she
away, although he’s quite loves parties and she
‘I’m finding it very difficult to make ‘I started my new job last week, and a shy person and didn’t never stops talking! Our
friends here. My new colleagues are I’m loving it. Everyone has been really say much. He’s always teachers don’t like her
really 1 unfriendly – nobody ever 5
, showing me what to do kind to me, and now I much though, and she
know him better, I know can be a bit lazy about
speaks to me. Sometimes I think that and helping me learn the systems. One
that he has a good sense of humour. If I feel upset work. We have a strict English teacher who
I should try to start a conversation, thing I’ve noticed is how 6
about something, I always call him.’ gets very angry because Lisa never does her
but I’m too 2 . On my everyone is – people always speak to
homework, but it doesn’t make any difference!’
first day, I was late because I didn’t each other in a very pleasant way. At
know which bus to get. My boss first, I thought that my colleagues were 1 On the day they met, Adam was very lively,
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shouted at me, which I thought quite 7 , because they and talked a lot to Bella. F
was really 3 . He’s don’t chat much. Then they invited me 2 Adam is always very serious.
so 4 all the time – he out one evening, and I discovered that Use the words you’ve learned...
3 Lisa is a rather boring person.
spends all day checking everyone’s when they’re not in the office, they’re
4 Lisa makes a lot of effort with her university work. Describe the personality of some of your friends
work, and he never seems to smile.’ much more 8 !’
5 Lisa’s English teacher is not happy with her work. or family.
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16.3
Putting words together...
16.1
Words you need... ˘ The centre of a town or city, where most of the shops ˘ A large building with a lot of offices is an office block
and offices are, is the town/city centre (UK)/town/ and a large building with a lot of apartments is an
city center (US). A place with a lot of shops is a apartment block.
a roof shopping centre (UK)/a shopping center (US).
traffic lights ▼ ˘ The time in the morning and evening when a lot
▼ ˘ A main road is a big, important road, and in the UK, of people are coming to or leaving the town is the
a pavement (UK) the large road in a town with the most shops is the rush hour. We talk about rush-hour traffic.
a sidewalk (US) high street.
▼
a balcony 16.4
Exercise 4 Exercise 5
Put the words in the correct order to make sentences. Use the sentences (a–f) to complete the dialogues.
▼
1 second floor of/I live on the/an apartment block Listen and check.
▼ a streetlamp a fence a gate
▼ ▼ I live on the second floor of an apartment block. Vicki: Do you live in a city, Jess?
a pedestrian crossing b
2 centre during the rush hour/very bad in the city/ Jess: 1
˘ a library a place with a lot of books that you can with buildings around the sides
borrow ˘ a town hall a building that has the offices of local 4 a new shopping centre in/the downtown area/
officials they are building Max: Where do you work, Stefan?
˘ a mall a covered area with a lot of shops
Stefan: 4
5 onto their balconies to/people came out/ Max: Oh yes, I know where you mean. Which
Exercise 1 Exercise 3
watch the carnival building is your office in?
Are the sentences (1–6) true (T) or false (F)? Complete the sentences.
Stefan: 5
1 Streetlamps help people to see when it is dark. T 1 The museum has huge iron gates that
6 queue of rush-hour/the high street/traffic along/ Max: Is it a good place to work?
2 You shouldn’t stop when a traffic light is red. are closed every night.
there was a Stefan: 6
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Putting words together...
31.1
Words you need... ˘ If you take an exam, you do an exam. If you pass an ˘ If you get good grades, teachers write numbers
exam, you have a good result and have reached the or marks on your work that show that the work is
necessary standard and if you fail an exam, you do good.
badly and have not reached the standard. ˘ If you are good at a subject, you know a lot about
˘ If a child goes to a particular school, that is the school it or can do it well.
where they go every day. ˘ If you do your homework, you do the work that your
˘ If you do a course in a particular subject (UK) or take a teacher gives you to do at home.
course in a subject (US), you do a set of classes in that
subject.
Exercise 3
Complete the sentences. Asking about someone’s
˘ a classmate someone who is in the same class as you ˘ a lecture a talk about a subject to a group of 31.3
at school or college people, usually at a college or university 1 If she doesn’t work a bit harder, she’ll fail education
˘ a degree 1 a course of study at a university or college ˘ a professor 1 (UK) the most important teacher her exams. To ask about when someone was a child, you can
2 the document that you get when you finish the course in one part of a university 2 (US) an important 2 I’m interested in taking a in English. say:
˘ an essay a piece of writing about a subject, done by teacher in a college or university ˘ Where did you go to school? Did you work hard?
3 My younger sister still to school.
a student ˘ a pupil a child at a school Were you a good pupil? What subjects were you
4 Mark is going to study Spanish at university – he’s
˘ an exam an official test of how good you are at a subject ˘ research when you study a subject in order really at languages. good at? What subjects did you like?
˘ an exercise a piece of written work that helps you to find out new facts
5 Lisa is doing into the effects of the drug. To ask about someone’s university education, you
to practice and learn something ˘ a school 1 a place where children go to learn can say:
2 (US) a college or university 6 At the end of the course, you an exam.
˘ a grade 1 a number or letter that shows how good a ˘ What’s your degree in?
piece of work is 2 (US) a level in school that lasts for one ˘ your studies the work that you do at a school,
year university or college To ask about someone’s plans for the future, you
can say:
UK/US ˘ What do you plan to study? Where will you go to
There are some important differences between UK and US English in the area of education. college?
One important difference is that in UK English, school only means ‘the place where children go to learn’. Exercise 4
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In US English, school means this too, but is also used informally to mean ‘a college or university’:
Listen to and read the following dialogues. Are the following sentences (1–6) true (T) or false (F)?
˘ (US) At 18, I left home and went to school in Texas.
Paul: Where did you go to school, Daniel? Emma: You want to go to university, don’t you,
Daniel: I went to my local school in Sydney. Rosa? What do you plan to study?
Exercise 1 Rosa: I’m hoping to study History, if I pass my
Paul: Were you a good pupil?
Use the words from the box to complete the sentences. exams.
Daniel: Not really – I was quite lazy. I was often in
trouble for not writing essays or doing my Emma: I’m sure you will – you work so hard! Where
pupils professor exam studies classmates lecture school (x2)
homework. will you study?
1 There are over 500 pupils in the school. 5 Will you leave school or continue your ? Paul: What subjects were you good at? Rosa: Probably in my home town in Oregon, so
I can live with my parents. What’s your
2 Cassie left when she was 16. 6 I’m having a party on Saturday. I’ve invited all Daniel: Well, I got good grades in Art. I really liked
degree in, Emma?
3 I went to an interesting on French art. my . Art. In fact, it was the only class I worked
hard in! Emma: I studied French and Russian at Cornell
4 Ben and Tyler were in together at the 7 Ellie’s father is a university .
University.
University of Pennsylvania. 8 I need to do some work because I have an
on Friday. 1 Daniel went to a school that was a long way 5 Rosa wants to go to university in Oregon.
from his home. F 6 Emma has a degree in French and Spanish.
Exercise 2
2 Daniel always did the work that his teacher
Choose the correct word to complete each sentence.
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Making arrangements
Words you need...
Inviting someone To say the time or place that you have decided, use
˘ an appointment a time that you have arranged to ˘ to fix something to decide a date or time to do To invite someone to do something with you, say: phrases such as:
see someone, such as a doctor something ˘ Would you like to meet up for a drink? Would you ˘ Let’s make it seven o’clock. Let’s say seven o’clock.
˘ to arrange something to make plans with other ˘ free If you are free at a particular time, you have not like to join us at Café Brazil on Saturday?
Saying yes
people to do something planned to do anything then. Suggesting a place/time To accept an offer, use phrases such as:
˘ busy If you are busy at a particular time, you have ˘ an invitation an offer to go somewhere with To suggest a place/an activity/a time, etc., use phrases ˘ That would be great. I’d love to.
already planned to do something then. someone or do something with them such as:
To agree with a time or place, say:
˘ to cancel something to say that something that has ˘ to meet up to meet someone else so you can do ˘ How about going out for dinner? How about six
been planned will now not happen something with them ˘ Eight o’clock is fine for me. Mario’s is fine for me.
o’clock after class?
˘ a diary (UK)/a datebook (US) a book with the ˘ a plan something that you have arranged to do To ask if someone can do something at a particular Saying no
days of the year in it. You write things that you must ˘ to postpone to decide that something will happen time, use phrases such as: To say that you cannot do something, use phrases
remember to do in it. at a later time ˘ Are you free on Friday evening? Are you doing such as:
anything on Friday evening? ˘ I’m afraid I can’t do Saturday night. I’m afraid
To ask if a time/place, etc. is possible for someone, say: I’m busy that evening.
Exercise 1 Exercise 2
˘ Is Monday evening any good for you? Does Saturday
Complete the sentences. Make sure you use the According to Rachel’s diary, are the sentences (1–6)
suit you better?
correct form of the words. true (T) or false (F)?
1 Danny can’t come to the meeting this Thursday so 1 Rachel is meeting up with friends on Saturday
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we’re going to postpone it till next Thursday. morning. T Exercise 3
2 I’ll just look in my and see if I’m free that 2 Rachel is busy on the morning of June 19th. Use the words from the box to complete the three dialogues. Listen and check.
afternoon. 3 Rachel has an appointment on Friday
do date make good meet up about
3 We arranged to have a picnic in the park but it afternoon.
rained so we it. 4 Rachel is free on Saturday afternoon.
1 A: How about Monday afternoon for the 2 A: Have you fixed a to see Susannah
4 I got an to Paul’s birthday party this 5 Rachel has fixed a time to see Simon on meeting? and Joe?
morning! Saturday. B: I’m afraid I can’t the 17th. I’m busy B: Yes, we’ve arranged to on June the 5th.
5 Do you have any for the weekend? 6 Rachel’s plans for Sunday have been cancelled. all day. 3 A: 7.30 is a little early for me.
6 Philip can’t join us for dinner on Tuesday because A: OK, no problem. How about Tuesday afternoon? B: Let’s it eight o’clock at the restaurant
he’s . Is that any for you? then.
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Exercise 4
Use the sentences (a–g) to complete the dialogues. Listen and check.
June Thursday 16
class Emma: Sally, are you doing anything on Saturday a I’d love to, thanks. What time?
Monday 13 9.00-12.00 English afternoon? b No, I’m free then.
2.30 de nt ist ’s
Sally: 1 b c Actually, a bit later would suit me better.
Emma: Well, would you like to join Mia and me for d Perfect!
Friday 17 a picnic in Green Park?
class e Wednesday is fine for me!
Tuesday 14 9.00-12.00 Engitlish hTanya Sally: 2
f That would be great. Which night?
12.00 lunch w
Emma: Around 1p.m.?
g I’m afraid I can’t do Thursday. I’m busy that
Sally: 3
evening.
Saturday 18 Emma: OK, let’s say 2p.m. in Green Park.
C
e and Kate in Café
Wednesday 15 10.00 see CharRloiott’s!!! (time?) Sally: 4
7.00 Simon @
Lucas: Would you like to go to the movies next week?
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Review A/ People
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08 Health
01 Describing people’s appearance
Match the words (1–8) with the definitions (a–h).
These four pairs of pictures show words that mean the opposite. Write the correct words under the pictures. 1 a cold a a common illness that makes you sneeze and cough
2 a pain b when a doctor cuts into the body in order to repair something that is
3 a heart attack not working well or to remove something
4 an operation c when the heart suddenly stops working in the correct way
5 cancer d an unpleasant feeling in a part of your body often caused by illness or
an injury
6 medicine
e something that you swallow when you are ill to make you get better
7 flu
f a serious disease that happens when cells grow in a way that is not
8 an appointment
normal
1 2 3 4 g an illness which feels like a bad cold
h when you arrange to go and see a doctor or a nurse because you are ill
5 6 7
skin 8
skin
02 Clothes
Write the correct words under the pictures.
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