Get ideas (Q Which is your favourite festival? Why? Time to read © Match the photos (A-D) with these festival words. competition trad tume tion © Read the webpage on page 17 quickly. At which festivals can you see these? 1 food 2 enimels 6 © Read the webpage again a choose which sentence (A-F) fits each gap (1-4) in the text. You do not need all the sentences. ‘A People are getting hurt because they are going so fast! B Some special quests are looking at them and choosing the best costume. C They are cooking some food and then givingiit to the people in the competition! D They aren't eating them, they're throwing them! E Some of the visitors are ru ing along with them, F Students are marching through the town with flavoured rice and fruit2 time out | Reading ate | , A vero | Wow! This is an amazing festival! 'm at the Battle of the oranges! It's a very old tradition here at Ivrea, Italy, andl it lasis for three days. People in the town have got into teams and they've got lots of oranges. 1) .2.. And tonight we are watching fireworks! ome + OFF Quen irom Que GIS stan) (55) B Alien festival This is a really spooky festival! I'm in New Mexico in the USA. Every year in July there is an alien festival here for three days. People believe aliens visited this place many years ago 0 now they celebrate this. Lots of people dress Up in alien costumes and now they are walking in a parade. 2) ..... |ean see some very strange ones! C Mo The town of Lopbur' in Thailand is famous for its monkeys. Every year the town has an cutdoor food festival and they invite all the monkeys! I'm here today and there are over 600 monkeys all eating a special feast. 3) ..... Lots of people are dancing and taking photographs. The monkeys are jumping everywhere. Ew! A monkey is eating my ice cream! D Cheese rolling I'm in Gloucestershire in the UK. It's famous for its cheese. Every year they have a cheese-rolling festival. Its over 200 years old. I'm watching the races and people are chasing cheese down a very high hilll 4) .... I's very exciting! Next thoy are giving the prizes. | can't wait! fegll Doyou needto BE understand a word SE in aiexi? BY tyto quess/ Use ‘the situation and words before and after to help you sg <3) Coming up DVD clip. See page 130.Vocabulary | time ou 2 Celebrations @ Make words from the letters. B stensrpe E vnailrca © Choose the correct word to complete each ohrase, 1 celebrate a ina show 2 have fun b guests 2 invite © ina parade 4 perform \ data restval 5 merch Ne my birthday © Complete these sentences with the correct form of the phrases in Exercise 2. 1 lalways.celebrate.wny.birtheny. by having a party 21m in town on Saturday and I'm at the front! 3 We are not many because our house is small 4 Iwant to at the festival woul lke to sing some songs 5 You can always there are so many things to do because Some adjectives alvays go with the same preposition afiaid of different from interested in teen on > Vocabulary File, page 130 8 © Complete the blog with one word for each space. Ulrite-my-blag.com b> Cay 22 P This week I'm at the balloon festival in Bristol, Bristol is famous 1).......far...... this festival. ts fantastic! Lots of balloons 2 flying into the air. They are all different colours. There is 3). competition to see how far they can g This festival is different 4) other festivals because you can goin the balloons! And ifyou get bored 5) watching balloons, there a parade you can watch and lots of food to eat. Socome and 6) ....nenonnfunat the festival. I's on tomorrow as well See you there! y. me SURG Time to talk GG Your culture © Think of a colebration or festival in your country. When isit? Where is it? What do you eat? What happens? ‘What can you do?Talking about now or the near future GRAMMARZONE Present continuous to be + verb + -ing A to talk about something happening now A monkey is eating my ice cream! B to talk about temporary situations with time words and phrases like ow, right now or at the mament She's celebrating hor birthday today. He's working in London at the moment. Present continuous for future € to telk about things in the near future Tonight we're watching fireworks! Grammar File, page 136 Areyou sure about the future? Thenuse the present continucus, eg Were meeting at six odock @ Complete the sentences with the present continuous form of tho verbs. 1 Atthe moment we ve. talking. tll) about our holidays. 2 This summer! (prepare) for the competition £ al «(not watch) TV! | (do| my homework! 4 He (cun) infront of the parade! 5 She.... .~{shop] in town, 6 They (not pay) fctball now. The | game is ver! | PUTT tle © Complete the email with the present simple or the present continuous form of these verbs, See O98 dl Ge Siem SSIS ae a Hi Tom, How are you? I'm really bored with everything! My mum 1) ..28.serhieg..in her shop and my dad is out. He 2) _.. My aunt. My brother 3 +e. games 07 his Xbox! | 4) _-... Computer games, but not all the time! It's my birthday on Friday so | 6) my party! ‘At the moment | 6) ‘down the guests | went to invite, My mum always 7)... cake for me. I’m going to tell some jokes at party! | hope you can come. Love, Sarah Time to wri © Write sentences about: © what you are doing now. ‘what you are doing this weekGet ideas @ Do you often tell jokes? Q Match these jokes with their answers. ae a 1 seats 7 2 \ sieanserooat the North Polet 3 something with RS T2legs, heads and 2 wings? - : 2 sheep covered in chocolate? _» ‘© Complete the sentences with these phrases. 1 Ifyou don't know then you can the answer. 2 loften ‘ticks on my brother He hates it! 3 Can you me a joke? Do youneed to choose between a lot of answers? Read them all carefuly first and listen for similar information, Time to listen a @ Listen. What happens on April Fool's Day? a © Listen again. What is each person doing? Write letter (A-H) next to ich person. You do not need all the letters. People What are they doing? 1 Gavin A running 2 Tom B putting saltin the sugar 3 Kevin walking through a coor 4 Am D shoting 5 tin E eating F rawing on someone's face G laughing H waiting How something happens add -lyor -lyto say how something happens | noisily. Adverbs | > Grammer File, page 137 © Complete the sentences with adverbs. 1. He's running.....qiekly..... quick) 2 She plays. (good 3 He's working lavie!) 4 Itfell (sudden). 5 Theyare talking (noisy)Get ideas Fy] O Usten wom @ Do the quiz. Then check your answers. iced || = : At a party do you like to dance? i es © Work with parner. Take tin turns o say what is happening in this photo. Use these ideas to Who do you talk to at a party? help you. ony, Who can you see? just people | know conly the person who invited me It there is anus at the party, do you tylo play fora shoe? make sure everyone knows the rules? Are they telking/dancing/singing? oes the celebration look fun or boring? Useful language i Describing activities e's singing loudly Time to speak a ) @ Look atthe picture and listen to Anna talking about her party. Complete the sentences with two orthree words. 1 Sally.’s singing body. into a hairbrush. 2 Jemma...neo-----.0nthe table, 3 Aboy some juice... a 4 Two boys: --nf0 each other and:Ce TelTtea Tae AW (aldol coca Get ideas ’ ; | Useful language © Do you read anybody's blog? Why/Why not? . 2 . ‘Saying where things are — i © What do you think a blog should be about? Tm [nextte_|tho tabi ‘| Ea * Yor schoo sibjeeis “= whatyeuthinbout something behind [Selly | a * your daly life * the history of your country ee __ ain | © your family history (es yr | eT | Find the right words i ©) Tara is at a festival. Read her blog and write names for the people in the picture. Write-my-blog.com D> Tara: day | Wow! Imhavinga fantastic timehere. Mr Larkin is in the middle of the room. He's 'm ata magiciar's festival so there are alot offunny holding a cup and looking worried! There's a things happening! There's a competition for the best. _stage at the back and Mrs Jones is in front of ick. 'm standing next 10 Tom. He's doing a card trick. _that. She's giving drinks to everyone. Tim is His hands are moving very quickly. Sally is opposite him between her and the door and he’s holding a and she's got a black hat with a rabbit init. There's a glass of water up-side down, but it's not going long table with food on itand behind thatis Chris. Hes on the floor! They're stopping the competition got a big knife — | don’t know what hes doing soon and we're voting for who we want to win. © Complete the sentences with these words. © Look atthe short forms of verbs from Tara's blog. Write the full forms. 1 mheving a fantastic time. Lim 1 Tara is....n2xt.te..... the boy dong a card trick. 2m standing next to Tom. 2 Theairl Tom is holding a hat 3. He doing a card tick 3 Theman with the cupis the room, 4 She's got ablack hat. 4 The teacher with dnNKS eet see. 5 There's a long table, 5 The boy with the water is. tho teacher and the door. 6 They'e stopping the compatition. 6 Chis iS ene the table with the food 7 We're voting for who we want 10 win.Plan ahead © Read Tom's blog. Match the paragraphs (A-D) with (1-4). 1 howe feels b 2 people he is with 3 the place 4 whatis happening Sas OAS dies Give Gum GIS Sa a a Oe Om Urite=my-blog.con A Im having biillant fun today! ts my birthday and all my friends have come to see me. Lateron my family is coming, too! & Wiereallinthe garden because m having a barbecue. At the moment its sunny and we're Sitting on the grass. My two dogsare sitting next to Us waiting for some food! Behind my house thereis a swimming pool so we're going swimming later. G Some of us are chatting and my brother is playing tricks on my friends, 'm opening some of my presents. Ive got some really good ones, like a new ‘game for my Xbox. D tm eally happy because lke it when everybody is here and were having fun. But also Im feeling nervous because don’t know what trickmy brother Is going to play on me! © Make sentences using these notes. 11 /-with / my friends / my dad Tan nit my Friends ded voy da We /have / paity / garden We /watch / fireworks / next to / bonfire Mum / cock / some food, / then /we / have / cake I/ happy / excited 2 Time out | Rea ree TOA Time to write a blog © Make notes for a blog about your day. COFCO TETECHECHOOECE who (ane with: where | ana: what te happening what 7m doing: how | feel: i eee eel © Write your blog. Write about 100 words. Beall Do you need to describe asituation? ae Remember to say + whno' there in with ny mun? + where you are: Wee atthe festival. in rent ofthe otage. + whatis happening: There are lots of people marching in a big parade. Everybody ‘5 laughing. + how you feet: i's great?” Time to watch The monkey festival Watch the DVD clip and do the acti ip page 130.page & basketball (n) chess (n) computer games (n} dann iootbali(n) shopping (n) writing (n) Talent and hobbies page 10 act (n) audience (n) contestant (n) dream (n} entertainment (n) judge (n) ive (ad) perform (v) show (n) stage (n) take part (v) talent (n) winner (n) Talent and hobbies other pages break dancing collecting comics juggling karate magic tricks making models painting pictures riding a bike singing skateboarding telling jokes tennis Wordzone Noun and verb forms page 10 Noun Verb act act dream ream judge judge performance perform show show Wordzone EXTRA entertainment entertain winner win Celebrations pave '6 competition (n) costume (n| festival (n) fireworks (n) parade (n) ‘tradition (n) Celebrations pege 18 carnival (n} celebrate v) decorations (n) feast (n| guest (n) invite (v) march (v) present (n) Phrases 2g: 19 celebrate my birthday have fun ata festival invite quests march in a parade perform in a show Phrases EXTRA guess the answer play a trick Wordzone ‘Adjectives and prepositions page 18 afraid of bored offwith cifferent from interested in ‘keen on Wordzone EXTRA believe in famous for good at prepare for DVD Activities Britain’s got talent! Words you mightneed the final - the last part of a competition when the judges choose the winner @ Predict! Then watch and check. George wins Britains got talent. Yes / No Who says each sentence? Kate (K) or George (G). 1 it’s miles away from what I normelly do every day. K/G 2 I'mraturally 2 shy person. K/G 3. It's the biggest moment inboth our vos. K/G 4 Notoniy will it change my life, it will save my life. K/ 6 Time to talk Which dance do you like best? 9 ee y The monkey festival Words you might need steal — take something from somecne without their permission chef —a person whose jod is to cook meals, usually ina restaurant @ Predict! Then watch and check. People n toon Bhur think menkeys are very bad for the Yes/No city. © Circle the food the monkoys like to eat. Time to talk © Would you like to goto the monkey festival? Why/Why not?Unit 2 Present Present co Positive Positive WWeNYourThey dance. 1 am (m) Tooking. He/She __|dances. He/She/lt is (3) Negative WeNYou/They | are re) VweNYourThey don’t dance. Nogative 2 He/She/It doesn’t dance \ am(‘m)not | looking Questions e/She/tt is not (is) D Do | lAve/yousthay dance? ofvouThey _ 5 || aroinet (area) Does _ha/she/it dance? Questions Short answers [am : a kn? = = —— he/she/it does. a No, | I/jou/we/they don’. Short answers he/shot doosn’t Yes, 1 We use the present simple to talk about h/she/it is. something that is always tue or usually tue. we/you/they | are. She sings classical music. No, 1 aaa © ahatit or routine ‘Sho plas football every week he/shefit isn't * fixed timetables. wehoultiey | aren't The show starts ai 8 p.m. Time expressions We use adverbs of frequercy with the present simple to say how often something happens. always usvaly/normaly ofter/fraquently sometimes never 0% Advetbs of frequency come: * before main verbs. We always have singing lessons on Fridays. * after be We are normally tired afterschool. after auxiliary verts. Theyve never heen on stage after modal verbs. You should always practise before you perform. We can use other time phrases to say how often something happens. Time phrases come: © atthe begining of a sentence. ‘On Mondays fe goes to chess class. © atthe end of a sentence. J have dance lessons every week 100% Notice the speling changes: * sit2 siting, make > moking We use the present continuous to tak about: ‘something happening now. \Whet are you eating? © temporary situations. Hes studying tobe a doctor We often use the present continuous with time words and phrases like now, right now or atthe moment. She's working at the moment. Present continuous for future We use the present continuous to talk about '* something thatis about to happen. ‘Next they're walking in the parade. ‘© things we have arranged to doin the near future. We're leaving forthe pienie at 10.00 tomorrow morning. We often use the present continuous with future time words ard phrases like this evening, next week, at the weekend, on Friday in the summer They're having a party on Saturday.