Collaborate, Student’s Book 4, Answer key

UNIT 2: CHANGES

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WATCH VIDEO 2.1

Possible answers for video questions
1 Student’s own answers
2 Hosting the Olympic Games and the football World Cup
3 Student’s own answers

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VOCABULARY
Phrasal verbs: changes
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Picture 1: f move out of a house
Picture 2: k do without the internet

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2k 3i 4j 5f 6d 7a 8h 9c 10l 11e 12g

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1 sign up 2 is looking forward to, turns down the invitation 3 going through a hard
time, has settled down at his 4 go back 5 try out a new 6 turned out well

Explore it!

b China

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READING
A brochure

1The photos on the left shown Finland. The photos on the right show Mexico.

Student’s own answers

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1L 2B 3L 4L 5B 6B
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1 adventurous 2 local 3 outgoing 4 ups and downs 5 homesick

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2 DS 3 T (‘I’ve been going ice-swimming every Saturday’) 4 F (‘I used to dream of
living in a different country’) 5 T (‘We would finish at 8 pm’) 6 DS

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GRAMMAR IN ACTION
Used to, would and past simple
Watch video 2.2

a typewriter
She used to ride her bike and play.

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1 used to and would
2 the past simple

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2 used to have 3 used to love 4 used to play 5 used to go 6 used to come
7 used to be

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1 used to 2 both 3 both 4 used to

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2 didn’t use to like 3 ended up 4 used to turn down 5 saw

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2 Did they / your parents study / use to study English at school? 3 How did they / your
parents meet? 4 When did they / your parents get married?

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VOCABULARY AND LISTENING

Parts of objects
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The video camera is used to film.
The fax machine is used to send printed messages.
The typewriter is used to write printed text.
The digital watch is used to tell the time.
The encyclopaedia is used to find information.
The lava lamp is used for decoration.
The radio is used to listen to music and the news.
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2 button 3 key 4 display 5 plug 6 cable 7 strap 8 cover 9 lid 10 handle

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1 strap 2 lid 3 lens 4 cover 5 button 6 cable
4
Student’s own answers
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a digital watch, a fax machine, a lava lamp

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2 first object / correctly / seen … before / heard … before
3 fax machines / houses / workplaces
4 used lava lamps / instead … lightbulbs / because … attractive
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2a3b4b

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GRAMMAR IN ACTION

Past perfect with never, already, by (then), by the time

WATCH VIDEO 2.3

to a science lab at a university
in the 1980s
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1 before
2 before
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2 Because I’d never been there before. 3 by the time I had gone online they had sold
out. 4 It had already finished when we got there. 5 I’d never heard of it before.

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2 had never travelled 3 felt 4 went 5 had already learned 6 hadn’t practised 7 left 8
had improved 9 was 10 wasn’t 11 hadn’t packed 12 arrived 13 hadn’t expected 14 got
15 did

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2 Had you ever seen a picture of 3-D printed clothes (before)?
3 Had you ever heard of ice-swimming (before)?
4 Had you ever seen a picture of the Northern Lights (before)?
5 Had you ever heard about lava lamps (before)?

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SPEAKING
Explaining how to use something

1 ink, keys

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1 Is it some kind of 2 What you do is, you … 3 Like this you mean? 4 I've messed it
up 5 You'll have to
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1 I’m not surprised 2 That's it 3 old-school 4 all over again

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WRITING

An opinion essay

Student’s own answers

Student’s own answers

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teenagers of today: people of my generation, young people, people of my age
previous generations: teenagers in the past, young people twenty or thirty years ago

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Order of ideas: in conclusion, secondly
Connection between ideas: in addition, therefore, this means that

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2 Secondly 3 In addition 4 Therefore / This means that 5 This means that / Therefore
6 In conclusion

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The History Project

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1970’s and 80’s
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Student’s own answers
3
Student’s own answers
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Period 1970s 1970s
Examples few computers, people used to go
were bigger, slower, to shops to buy
had less memory music, record
than modern covers were
computers, important,
computers on Apollo many were famous
spaceships had less
memory than some
modern toasters,
companies started to
use computers in
offices
Changes over time (by implication) CDs became more
computers have popular than
become smaller, records in 1990s,
faster and have more records have come
memory back into fashion
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2 REVIEW

VOCABULARY

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1 try out 2 ended up 3 turned out 4 go back 5 was looking forward 6 turn (them)
down
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1 lids 2 display 3 button 4 handle 5 key

GRAMMAR
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1 didn’t use to be 2 used to be 3 used to move / would move / moved 4 lived 5
moved 6 didn’t know 7 was 8 used to eat / would eat 9 started 10 made

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1 had/’d never driven 2 had thought 3 hadn’t taken off 4 had closed 5 had already
sold out

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2 FINISHED?

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2 Mrs Jones turned down three invitations because she was busy. 3 Simon went
through a hard time at his school. 4 Sandra went back to her primary school to visit an
old teacher. 5 Linda moved out of her student flat. 6 Tommy went without his phone
for a week because it was broken.
Phrasal verb not used: end up

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Possible answers:
… he used to … live in the city / have hair / be poor / play football (every day).
… he didn’t use to … have much money / have a beard / wear glasses.
… he would play football every day.
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2 sandal handle 3 brother cover 4 hug plug 5 Swiss play display 6 table cable 7 pens
lens 8 map strap