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Smart Choice 4th Edition 2

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USEFUL CLASSROOM
LANGUAGE

1. Can I ask you something?


Can you explain it again, please?
2. How did you answer the first one?
3. Do you want to speak for the group?
4. Did you do your homework?
What does “popular” mean?

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UNIT 1 2
1. J
2. T
3. T, J
Vocabulary
4. J, T
1
5. T, J
1. a
6. J, T
2. c
7. J
3. d
8. J
4. b
9. T
5. h
6. i
3
7. f
1. Languages.
8. e
2. San Francisco.
9. g
3. He went to acting classes.
4. He put on a show (at the Comedy
2
Theater).
Answers will vary.
5. They both worked hard during their
vacation.
Conversation
1 4
1. d 2. b 3. c 4. a 1. True 2. False 3. False 4. False 5. True

Language Practice Reading


1 2
1. e 2. f 3. d 4. c 5. a 6. b 1. About three months ago.
2. No.
2 3. He wanted to go on a beach vacation
1. So do I (and do nothing).
2. Neither am I 4. It is the longest zip line in Latin
3. Really, I don’t America. It is 1,590 meters long. Some
4. Really, I do parts of it are more than 400 meters
high. There are 14 platforms. You attach
3 yourself to a cable and zip down the line
Answers will vary. over the trees.
5. It was frightening but great, and he
Listening recommends it to everyone.
1
Answers will vary. 3
Answers will vary.

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UNIT 2 C. record a song


D. act in a movie
Vocabulary 2
1 A. 1 B. 3 C. 4 D. 2
1. i
2. e
3. h 3
4. d 1. b
5. f 2. a
6. a 3. b
7. b 4. a
8. g 5. a
9. c 6. b
7. a
Conversation 8. b
1
4
1. d 2. a 3. c 4. b
1. In one of the scenes, two actors run
down the beach and scream. Someone on
Language Practice the beach got scared and called the
1 police.
1. amazing, amazed 2. They enjoyed the experience. They
2. excited, exciting were very excited about it.
3. disappointing, disappointed 3. He thought that his performance was
4. boring, bored terrible.
4. They didn’t have enough time, so they
2 only recorded three songs.
1. relaxing 5. All of them.
2. tired
Reading
3. interesting
1
4. interested
Possible Answer
5. amazing
A stunt performer does dangerous scenes
in place of an actor.
Pronunciation
1
1. /d/ 2. /t/ 3. /ɪd/ 4. /d/ 5. /ɪd/

Listening
1
A. direct a movie
B. play in a band

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2
1. No. One day she wants to work in
movies in Hollywood.
2. No. Now she is on a cop show. Her first
job was on a comedy show.
3. No. If the planning is good, it’s not
dangerous. It’s dangerous if the stunt
performers don’t concentrate.
4. No. Every job is different.
5. No. Because she hit the window frame
and fell 30 meters to the ground.

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UNIT 3 Listening
Vocabulary 1
1 Answers will vary.
1. a
2. e 2
3. d B
4. b
5. c 3
6. h 1. False 2. False 3. True 4. False 5. True
7. f
8. g 4
1. He got the job.
2 2. He doesn’t go swimming very often, so
Answers will vary he’s out of practice.
3. Find a swimming pool and practice
Conversation again.
1 4. He doesn’t have a driver’s license.
1. b 2. c 3. d 4. a 5. Her confidence. (She believes in him.)

Language Practice Reading


1 1
1. eaten, have, tried Possible answers
2. been, have, went El Capitan is a very high vertical rock
3. met, haven’t, saw formation in Yosemite
4. run, ran National Park, in the US.
Alex Honnold is a climber.
2
Possible Answers 2
1. I’ve never ridden a horse. / I rode a 1. Only 1% of climbers try free solo
horse ... climbing.
2. I’ve never been to Europe. / I went to 2. Honnold practiced for at least two
Europe ... years before doing
3. I’ve never seen an elephant. / I saw an the free solo climb of El Capitan.
elephant ... 3. Free Solo won the Oscar for best
4. I’ve never flown in an airplane. / I flew documentary in 2019.
in an airplane... 4. The camera operators couldn’t use
drones for the
3 filming.
Answers will vary. 5. Honnold didn’t want to wear a
microphone on his back.

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BONUS UNITS 1-3

Video
2
cooking, driving, eating, hiking, riding a
bike, rowing

3
1. 2014
2. van
3. happy
4. photography
5. website
6. shop
7. interview

Reading
1
Answers will vary.

2
1. Lauren is going to the US for three
months.
2. She mentions kayaking, sailing,
snowboarding, and bungee jumping.
3. She is interested in history and art.
4. She worked as a server in a restaurant
in Queenstown, New Zealand.
5. She prefers traveling alone because she
can do what she wants when she wants.

3
Answers will vary.

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UNIT 4 2. the hottest, the most colorful


3. the longest, the tallest
4. the most important.
Vocabulary 5. the clearest, the highest
1
1. e Listening
2. j 1
3. i A. Antarctica B. Africa C. North America
4. d
5. h 2
6. f 1. b 2. a 3. c 4. b 5. c
7. a
8. g 3
9. c 1. Over 4 billion
10. b 2. More than 50
3. In Africa
2 4. About 22 million
Possible answers
Oceans: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian 4
Lakes: Superior, Titicaca, Victoria 1. b 2. b 3. b 4. a
Rainforests: Amazon, Congo, Madagascar
Mountain ranges: Himalayas, Alps, Reading
Rockies 1
Waterfalls: Niagara, Angel, Victoria Answers will vary.
Deserts: Sahara, Gobi, Atacama
Islands: Hawaii, Bali, Jeju 2
Rivers: Amazon, Congo, Mississippi 1. d 2. a 3. b 4. c

Conversation Speaking
1 2
1. b 2. c 3. a 1. f
2. g
Language Practice 3. a
1 4. e
1. the deepest 5. b
2. the largest 6. h
3. the coldest 7. c
4. the driest 8. d

2
1. the biggest

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UNIT 5 3
1. False 2. True 3. True 4. True 5. False

Vocabulary 4
1 Brendan: Sydney, Australia; his brother
Events may vary. and friends;
1. e; New Year’s, Spring Festival He went to a dinner party and then to the
2. c; New Year’s, wedding, Valentine’s waterfront to
Day, birthday watch fireworks.
3. h; wedding, Valentine’s Day (if getting Yang-hee: San Francisco, US; cousin;
engaged) They went on a boat
4. b; wedding, birthday cruise and then watched fireworks.
5. f; birthday Andrea: London, UK; friend; She went to
6. a; Spring Festival, wedding, Valentine’s a party and then
day, birthday watched fireworks on TV.
7. g; birthday, Spring Festival, Valentine’s
Day 5
8. d; New Year’s, wedding, Valentine’s Answers will vary.
Day, birthday
Reading
2 1
Answers will vary. Answers will vary.

Conversation 2
1 1. Songkran Water Festival
1. c 2. b 3. a 4. d 2. Bali Kite Festival
3. Songkran Water Festival
Language Practice 4. Bali Kite Festival
1 5. Bali Kite Festival
1. When 2. When 3. before 4. After 6. Pingxi Lantern Festival
2
1. e 2. a 3. b 4. f 5. c 6. d

Listening
1
Answers will vary.

2
1. B 2. K 3. I 4. B 5. I

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Unit 6 2
1. True
2. False
Vocabulary 3. False
1 4. False
1. f 5. False
2. a 6. False
3. h
4. e 3
5. c 1. should; B
6. d 2. shouldn’t; B
7. b 3. shouldn’t; BO
8. g 4. should; BO
5. shouldn’t; E
2
Answers will vary. 4
1. b 2. b 3. a 4. a 5. b 6. a
3
Answers will vary. 5
Answers will vary.
Conversation
1 Reading
1. b 2. a 3. c 1
Answers will vary.
Language Practice
1 2
1. e 2. a 3. d 4. c 5. b 2. d 3. a 4. e 5. b c. Take a vacation is not
used.
2
1. should 3
2. don’t have to 1. A list of the good things that you do,
3. shouldn’t that happen to you,
4. don’t have to or that people say about you
5. has to 2. Doing something new is difficult.
3. Following famous people on social
Listening media
1 4. A mistake
Possible answers
Meditation can help you relax. 4
Ping pong can be a fun way to exercise. Answers will vary.
T’ai chi can help your balance.

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BONUS UNITS 4-6

Video
2
1. c 2. a 3. f 4. d 5. b 6. e

3
1. True
2. False. Two hundred years ago, ...
3. False. Siti’s brother-in-law ...
4. False. The supermarket doesn’t have
much food ...
5. True
6. False. The women cook ...
7. False. After the wedding, ...
8. True

Reading
1
It is about questions and concerns people
have about
weddings.

2
1. Oliver 2. Emma 3. Jake 4. Emma 5.
Oliver

3
Answers will vary..

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UNIT 7 3
1. Sometimes there are too many people,
and he never has enough time.
Vocabulary
2. Someone got his credit card details and
1
spent a lot of money with it.
1. b 2. c 3. e 4. d 5. a
3. His best friend thinks he buys too much
stuff online.
Conversation
1
4
1. a 2. c 3. b 4. d
1. False
2. True
Language Practice 3. False
1 4. False
1. too many 5. False
2. too
3. too Reading
4. too much 1
5. too many Answers will vary.
2 2
1. not enough 1. e 2. d 3. a 4. b 5. f 6. c
2. not enough
3. too many
3
4. too much
1. It’s the world’s first mall for
5. too many,
secondhand goods.
not ... enough
2. No, it isn’t. It is in Eskilstuna, a town
100 kilometers west from Stockholm, the
3
capital.
Answers will vary.
3. They sell clothes, furniture, bicycles,
books, pottery, toys, and other things.
Listening
4. Less than 1 percent.
1
1. c 2. a 3. b

2
1. Sofia
2. James
3. Sofia
4. Gok
5. James

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Unit 8 1. b 2. a 3. b 4. a 5. b

Reading
Vocabulary 1
1 b. a magazine
1. generous
2. outgoing 2
3. smart Answers will vary.
4. helpful
5. amusing 3
The words patient, polite, and serious 1. impressed
were not used. 2. crucial
3. passionate
Conversation 4. ambitious
1 5. punctual
1. c 2. a 3. d 4. b 6. avoid
7. pastime
Language Practice
1
1. d 2. c 3. a 4. b

2
1. He’s a very generous person who/that
gives his time to everyone.
2. We met at the new café that/which has
paintings by local artists on the walls.
3. I interviewed two people for the job
who/that were very smart.
4. It’s a summer camp that/which has
classes for very young children.

Listening
1
energetic, knowledgeable, reliable

2
1. L 2. C 3. A 4. A 5. C 6. L
3
1. False 2. True 3. False 4. False 5. False

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UNIT 9 4
Ana: a doctor; arm hurts; get an X-ray
Max: a manager; wrist hurts; go home
Vocabulary and rest
1 Amy: canoeing instructor; is a little
1. c scared of going into the canoe; go with
2. g someone more experienced
3. e
4. h Reading
5. b 1
6. d Possible answer
7. f The story is about a six-year-old boy who
8. a drove a car to school.

Conversation 2
1 1. b 2. d 3. e 4. f 5. a 6. c
1. c 2. d 3. a 4. b
3
Language Practice 1. False 2. True 3. False 4. False 5. False
1
1. e 2. a 3. d 4. b 5. c

2
1. burned, was lighting
2. was running, bit
3. were crossing, hit
4. fell, was walking

3
Answers will vary.

Listening
1
A. waterskiing B. canoeing C. jet-skiing

2
A. 2 B. 3 C. 1

3
1. c 2. c 3. c 4. b 5. a 6. a

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BONUS Units 7-9

Video
2
b. What Sophie learned from the
experience of making a costume

3
1. c 2. b 3. a 4. c 5. b 6. c 7. b

Reading
1
Possible Answers
The story is about a race where everyone
dresses up like an animal.

2
1. No, they didn’t. They met in elementary
school.
2. No, he doesn’t. He hates dressing up.
3. Yes, he was. He didn’t have enough time
to make a costume.
4. Yes, he did. He loves pandas, and the
costume was the right size and a
reasonable price.
5. No, he wasn’t. The monkey and the
zebra in front of him fell over first.
6. No, they didn’t. There was just a
sprained ankle and some cuts and
bruises.

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UNIT 10 4
1. False. They met when they were
children. They lived in the same village.
Vocabulary 2. False. Silvana didn’t use to walk to
1 school with boys when she was a child.
Answers will vary. 3. True
4. False. She was the only girl in the
2 family. She had three brothers.
1. d 2. e 3. c 4. a 5. f 6. b 5. False. Girls used to leave school at 13 or
14 in those days.
3 6. True
Answers will vary.
Reading
Conversation 1
1 Answers will vary.
1. b 2. a 3. d 4. c
2
Language Practice Her stage name was inspired by “Radio Ga
1 Ga”, which is a song by the British band
1. use to play, didn’t use to have, use to Queen.
do/play, used to 2. She used to work as a waitress in a
spend diner.
2. use to play, didn’t use to play, use to do, 3. She donated money to earthquake
used to sing victims in Haiti.
4. She had to cancel the concert because
2 she had a cold.
1. take piano lessons She bought pizza for some of her fans.
2. ride our bikes around the 5. She always takes a purple cup and
neighborhood saucer with her on tour.
3. eat vegetables
4. classical music, love it

Listening
1
Answers will vary.

2
1. in Italy 2. 49 years 3. 52 and 79

3
1. b 2. b 3. c 4. b 5. c

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UNIT 11 2
1. People are creating mountains of
garbage.
Vocabulary 2. If you eat fish, you probably eat plastic.
1 3. There will be eight million metric tons
1. b 2. f 3. e 4. g 5. c 6. d 7. a 8. h of plastic in our
oceans by 2025.
Conversation 4. In the US, people buy one million
1 plastic water bottles
1. c 2. d 3. b 4. a every minute.
5. Plastic is useful; the biggest problem is
Language Practice single-use plastic.
1 6. The average American uses more than
1. d 2. c 3. a 4. b 500 sandwich
bags a year.
2
1. won’t catch 2. won’t need 3. will get 4. 3
will buy 1. problem
2. problem
3 3. simple
1. ask, might/will agree 4. plastic
2. continue, may/might destroy 5. recycle
3. will/might/may, improve, agree 6. message
4. don’t do, might/may/will not survive 7. message
8. clear
Pronunciation 9. buy
1 10. everywhere
1. If you don’t take an umbrella, you’ll get 11. oceans
wet.
2. If class starts on time, we’ll miss the 4
beginning. reusable shopping bags, stainless steel
3. You’ll catch the bus if you leave now. straws, reusable
4. I might see my sister if I go home water bottles
tomorrow.
Reading
Listening 1
1 Answers will vary.
1. b 2. a 3. c
2
The phrase recyclable plastic refers to 1. You take two photos.
something green. 2. You ask friends to take the challenge.

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3. If someone asks you to take the


challenge, you have to
do it.
4. Trees provide a home for some
animals, clean the air, and
produce oxygen.
5. Choosing a location with no people.

3
Answers will vary.

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UNIT 12 4. He can’t be a lifeguard. He can’t swim at


all I always fart boss you’re the worst
aren’t you
Vocabulary
1 Listening
1. e 1
2. g Answers will vary.
3. a
4. d 2
5. b 1. Jim: engineering / space technology;
6. f Russia or China
7. h 2. Megan: information technology / audio
8. c production;
England or the US
Conversation 3. Richard: fashion design; Italy or France
1
1. d 2. c 3. a 4. b 3
1. False
Language Practice 2. True
1 3. True
1. He could get a job as a lifeguard. 4. False
2. She could become a translator. 5. False
3. He could get a job as a chef. 6. True
4. She could become a bus driver.
5. He could be a tour guide. 4
1. She lives in Boston. She’s studying
2 space technology.
1. can’t be 2. must be 3. might be 4. can’t 2. Her college organized it.
be 3. He studied audio production in London.
4. The music scene in London is awesome.
3 5. She works in a fashion house in San
Possible answers Francisco.
1. It can’t be after midnight. The sun is 6. There are great fashion designers in
still out! Japan.
2. He can’t be the bus driver. I saw him
working at the
coffee shop.
3. She can’t be a student. She was teaching
a class.

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Reading
1
Answers will vary.

2
1. Fiji
2. Partly because of tourism.
3. Because of pollution and global
warming. Sharks eat
plastic waste and swim in water that is
warmer than
normal.
4. To help build more schools and
libraries.

3
1. a ticket
2. the Galapagos Islands
3. the plants and animals in the Galapagos
Islands that are
in danger
4. the scientists working on ways to
protect reef sharks
5. tagging sharks
6. people in Ghana

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BONUS Units 10-12

Video
1
Answers will vary.

2
1. factory 2. cooking oil 3. drives 4.
Cambodia

3
1. Stories about green issues and green
technology
2. They come from renewable sources, are
easier to make,
are cheaper, and create much less
pollution.
3. Two hours
4. 2,500 / Over 2,000 kilometers
5. A list of steps / instructions

Reading
1
Possible Answers
The article gives advice about how to
travel in a more green,
eco-friendly way.

2
1. where you go
2. how you travel
3. when you travel
4. what you take
5. where you stay
The two phrases not used: why you travel,
who you take

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