FREERIDE p90 SORRY I'MLATE p92 SPEAKING 91 Talk about transport in different cities 9.2 Talk about types of transport OC oe oe ncaa MN Mee CCE e ate a eee Tee eens LUNI aN pete Can ere Nees ECS preter a een eas OC r ne nee et keel 9.3 Write astory using linkers 9.4 Write a website entry about your eee ers AIRPORT p94 1B] BIC] TLE eres amie9.1 CITYBIKES 1 Work in pairs and discuss. 1 Is there a lot of traffic where you live? 2 When is the worst time to travel? 3 Doyou prefer to travel around your town/city by car by public transport, by bike or on foot? Why? VOCABULARY ADJECTIVES 2 A Circle three adjectives to complete the sentence: Cyeling in the city is C=] Cae ae] potting — | E healthy =] green} inconvenient - LE B Match each adjective with its opposite. fast- slow C [9.1 Listen and check. D woro stress Listen again and underline the stressed syllable. speakout TIP Look in your dictionary to find the pronunciation of new words. Longman WordWise Dictionary shows the word stress with a before the main stress, e.g, fdtfrkalt/ dificult Find dangerous in your dictionary. How does it show stress? E Work in pairs, Student A: you like cycling in the city. Student 8: you like driving. Discuss which is better and why. A: Driving is faster B: It depends. In the mornings cycling is often faster because of the trafic jams! © can/can', have to/don'thave to > ees tsa qulet Sunday morning on the citys Avenida Reforma:Qn there are tens of thousands of cars here, but today there's nt on Im 2007, Mexico City closed its main road to cars on Sundays. That ¥ the fist big step towards becoming a bike-friendly city, and three years Inter, in 2010, it started a new bike sharing system, the ‘EcoBici Now. with over 4,000 bikes, 276 cycle stations, and 87,000 users, Mexico City has ane of the most successful bike share systems in the ‘Americas. Cyclists can take a bike from one cycle station and leave stat any other station in the city between the hours of 6.00e.m. and (00,30a.m. Users have to be over sixteen and pay 300 pesos by credit or debit card for a year’s use. They don't have to pay anything for the frst forty-five minutes of each journey. Forty-nine-yearold businessman Mateo Reyes likes the scheme. ‘only use my car when Tim too tired to cyele, but I go by bike when the traffic is bad. And the traffic is almost always bad.’ But he thinks i will, take some time before cyclists and drivers learn to be happy sharing Mexico City's roads, 3 A Look at the photo of EcoBici, the bike share system in Mexico City. Write four questions with how much, how many, Who and where. 3 Who ? 4 Where 2 1 How much does it cost? 2 Howmany ? B Read the article. Did you find the answers to your four questions? C Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)? Change the false sentences so that they are true, The Avenida Reforma has no cars on Sunday afternoons. You always take and leave the bicycle in the same place. You can't get an EcoBici bike at 2a.m. It costs nothing for one hour's cycling, Mateo Reyes always uses a bike. 6 Rafael thinks driving a taxi is more difficult now. 1D Work in pairs and discuss. Is this kind of bike system a good idea for your town/city? Why/Why not?‘Not everyone likes the EcoBicls. ‘There are more and more cyelists on the road, and that's not sa good, says Rafael, a taxi driver. We have to be extra-careful now. They ride {in the middle of the traffic, they go too fast. I's dangerous for everyone. CLAN CAN/CAN'T, HAVE TO/DON'T HAVE TO 4 A Underline the correct alternative. Then check your answers in the article. 1 You can/can't leave the bike at any cycle station in the city 2. Afifteen-year-old kid can/can't use the bikes. 3. Users have to/don't have to pay by debit or credit car. 4 Users have to/don't have to pay forthe first forty-five minutes B Match sentences 1-4 above with meanings a)-d). a) Its necessary 6) Its OK b) It's not necessary. ) It's not OK. C Complete the table below. Adults [_con use | the bikes Children the bikes, Users |_have give | their credit card details You have to forthe first forty-five minutes D[B)92 weak sound /a/ Listen to sentences 1-4, Circle the correct pronunciation. When do we use the weak sound /a/? 1 kan fkaen/ 3 /heeftu/ /heefta/ 2 /kont/ Jka:nt/ /daunthaettu:/ /dauntheetta/ E Listen again and check. Then listen and repeat. 5 A complete the sentences with can/can't, have to/don't have to. 1 You go by car, bus or taxi to get to the airport. 2 You____drive on the left in the UK. 3 You drive in the town centre, so come by bus. You usually find a free seat on the bus. 4 You be seventeen or over to drive in Spain 5 You___use your mobile when you drive. It’s dangerous! 6 You ‘wear a seatbelt in your car~ the driver and all the passengers. 7 You ‘wear a helmet on bikes, but it’s safer if you wear one 8 You park here for free between eleven and three. Other times you pay. B Work in pairs. Which sentences are true for your town/city? D> page 144 LANGUAGEBANK 6 A Work in groups. Student A: look at page 164. Student B: look at page 162. Student C: look at page 167. Complete the table below with information about each city’s tourist card. A vA iP Price Transport Entry to museums, etc Other B Work in groups. Ask and answer questions to complete the information about the other cities. Which city has got the best tourist card system? | think Prague has got the best system because it’s the cheapest. C Work in pairs. Talk about travelling in two or three towns/cities you know. Which one has got the best transport system? ‘A: How is the transport system in your city? B: Well, you can buy a travel card forthe metro and. buses, but sometimes it’s faster to walk! A: Why's that?9.2 )) FREE RIDE VOCABULARY TRANSPORT COLLOCATIONS L.A Work in pairs. Cover the word webs below and look at the photos. What types of transport can you see? B Write alist of eight more types of transport. Then check in the photo bank D> page 160 PHOTOBANK 2 A Lookat the word webs below and cross out the type of transport that does not go with the verb. ‘Then add a correct type of transport to each word web. atrain abike x a \ atain train B Workin pairs and take turns, Student A: say a type of transport. Student B: say the verbs that can go with it. A bike B: goby bil Work in pairs and discuss. 1 How do you usually get to work/school? 2 What's your favourite type of transport? Why? 3 Which types of transport don't you like using? Why not? D Choose one of the questions and ask other students, How many gave the same answer as you? get ona bike, ride a bike (cee ee er eee (eee n 3A Workin pairs and discuss. 1 How many different ways can you travel by road in, your country? 2 Which is the most expensive, travelling by road, by rail or by water? 3 sit possible to travel for free? B )93° Listen to the conversation and answer the questions. 1 Which types of transport do the people talk about? 2 How did the man travel for free? € Listen again. Write one good thing and one bad thing about each way of travelling for free. 1D Work in pairs and discuss. Which of the two ways of travelling would you like to try? Why?TAY ARTICLES: A/AN, THE, NO ARTICLE 4-4 B)94 Listen to an extract from the conversation and complete the text with a/an, the, - (no article). But they needed their car in’__Los Angeles. So they went by?___ plane, and I drove their carto Los Angeles, to their hotelin®___city centre. Thad‘ ___week to get there. [stopped in’ Grand anyon on®__way. It was »_~ pest journey ever —I love driving and 1 love® cars, B Find examples for rules a)-g) from the text above. 2 eee oer cey nouns: B! vegotacar. 4 b) Usually use no article before plural nouns: I don't lke buses. _ ©) Usually use no article before cities and countries: Madrid is in Spain, _ d) Use no article in some phrases: ‘by bus, on foot, at work, on holiday €) Usually use the before nouns when there's, only one: the moon, the Eifel Tower _ f) Use the in some phrases: in the morning, on the right, on the metro_ 8) Use the in superiatives: the most beautiful, the worst _ C1195 WEAK FORMS: a, an, the We usually pronounce a /a/,an /an/ and the /6a/ in phrases/ sentences. Listen and write the four sentences ‘you hear. Then listen again and repeat. a 2 3 4 5 A Work in pairs and complete the sentences. Use a/an, the or - (no article). 1 like travelling by _- _ train and I love going. by car 2 Last year was on holiday in us, 3 There was family in New York. 4 Ihad ‘week, 50 I stopped in a few places. 5 Ihave friends there. 6 Is that longest journey? 7 Ws cityin Kenya, 8 In evenings | loved watching sun go down, B check your answers in audio script 93 on page 17 6 A Look at questions 1-5. choose one of the ‘endings and write a short answer. 1 How do you get to school/to work/home? By car 2 What are three things you lke/you don ike/you liked when you were a child? What's a famous city in India/China/Africa? 4 When do you check your emails/do your homewerk/relax? 5 What's the name of the President of the USA/the student next to you/the teacher? B Work in pairs and take turns. Student A: read your answers to the questions above. Student B: close your book and guess the question. A By car B: How do you get to school? A: No, B: How do you get to work? A: Yes! speakout TIP When you write a noun in your notebook, put it ina short phrase. Ths shows how to use the word withthe articles ca/an, the or no article. For example: in the city centre, he's doctor, like cats D page 144 LANGUAGEBANK ? A Read the information about transport in different places. Circle the ones that are the same in your ‘country. Tick the ones you think are good ideas. iL ee 1 In Cubs hitchhikers. 2 There is no speed limit on autobahns (motorways) in Germany. 3 In Milan, ttaly, you have to pay to drive in te city centre 4 In Zermatt, Switerland, you can't drive a petrol cer, only electric. 5 You cant sleep in your carin some cites in the USA. 5 On some airines you can use your mobile phone on the fight, 7 In Japan, there are women-only carriages on some trains. 8 In Bangladesh passengers often travel on the ouside of the trains. Re B Work in groups and discuss your ideas. A This is interesting about Cuba. | think it’ a good idea. B: Yeah, some places don’t have cheap transport G Inmy country you can't hitchhike. It's ilegal. B: Do you hitchhike? A: Yes, but not very often. When Iwas eighteen | ll government cars, vans and lorries have to pick up9.3 )) SORRY I’M LATE VOCABULARY EXCUSES L.A Workin pairs and discuss. Are you often late for work, school or meetings? Why/Why not? B Work in pars and match 1-5 with a)-e) below. 1 Host a) broke down, 2 Imissed b) the alarm clock 3 Mycar ©) the train. 4 The traffic d) my keys 5 I didn't hear ) was bad. € Look at the collocations above and write five more excuses with the words in the box. the bus my ticket was terrible my phone didn't start APOLOGISING 2 A Look at these reasons for being late. Which one is the best reason? Which one is the worst? Amazing excuses | We asked managers around the country what reasons their workers give for being late. Here are some of our favourites. 1 I'm very sorry 'm late. | thought today was Sunday, 80 | stayed in bed, 2 Sorry to be late. There was a long queue at the coffee shop. | brought you one ~ here, 3 I'm terribly sorry 'm late. My train hit a cow, 4 I'm really sorry I'm late, My son took my car keys to school, 80 I took the bus to his school to get them: 5 I'm 60 sorry | missed the meeting. | feel awful about it. | drove to my old office by mistake. 6 I'm afraid | didn’t hear my alarm clock because I had ear plugs in, Ce @ intonation in apok B Look at reasons 1-6 again. Underline seven expressions for saying sorry and how you feel. C [B)9.6 ITONATION IN APOLOGIES Listen and check. Does the voice sound high or low? Then. listen and repeat. D Look at the responses below. Is the manager happy (¥) or unhappy (x) about the situation? 1 I don't believe you 2 It's half past nine! 3 Don't worry about it. 4 That's OK. No problem. 5 Don't let it happen again D> page 144 LANGUAGEBANK 3A Workin pairs. Complete the conversation between a student and a teacher. Student Sorry /late. 'm afraid (say the reason) Teacher Jaa And then ... (say what happened next) a eel B Work in pairs and have another conversation. Apologise for being late and give a reason. Choose cone of the pairs below. a student ~a teacher a worker —a boss a husband -awife a friend ~a friend a child ~ a parent C Listen to other students’ conversations. Guess their roles.LEARN TO TELL A LONG STORY 4 A Look at the online diary extracts below. Why was the woman late each day? Monday: Tuesday. Wednesday Monday. The train left fifteen minutes late. But that wasn’t the problem —it simply didn't go very fast. We really knew there was a problem when a man ona bike went faster than us! |iwas an hour late for work. The boss wasn't happy ... but she doesn’t take the train Tuesday OK I didn’t hear my alarm so | woke up late and missed my train. | got the next one, but then the train stopped in the middle of nowhere ... for twenty minutes! The guard said there was e signal problem and then the air-conditioning stopped working! Imagine, no air-conditioning in the middle of summer! was two and a half hours late for work and really hot and sweaty, My boss was very unhappy. Wednesday Service: 0 points, Originality: 10 points. We stopped again, for no reason, but then there was a reason — not the signals, not the engine but cow on the line! Poor thing, we didn't stop in time. This time, | was two hours late for work and my boss didn't believe me B [)97 Listen to the woman talk to a colleague. Which two days does she talk about? EC Listen again, Which two things are different from the online diary above? 5 A Look at the linkers in the box and circle them in the listening extract below. firstefal and but so finally because then after that (GisOFADD got up late because I didnt hear my ler [goon eae teeta ae train station — usually I walk—but I missed the Deena emia ee eae ate ee unt we just stopped — just stopped — in the middle ee ae eee eal pee Arentiat tierce coe working. Iwas ike an oven-atleast a thousand See Ta atest rare ere a a B Workin pairs and discuss. 1 Which linkers do you use for the beginning and end of the story? 2 Which two linkers mean next in the story? 6 A EITHER: Imagine you are late for an important event, e.g. a wedding, a date with a boy/girlfriend, a job interview. OR: Think of a real situation when you were late. Make notes about five things that happened, Use these questions to help. + Whenwasit? * Whatdid you do? + Where were you? + What happened finaly? ‘+ What happened? B Work in pairs and take turns. Student A: tell your story. Student B: show interest and ask follow-up questions. AA: This happened last year. I was on the way to Latvia and my plane was lat. C Write your story using your notes from Exercise 6A, Remember to use linkers. This happened last week. was inWork in pairs and discuss. What are the good and bad things about airports and flying? Put the actions below in the correct order. a) check in 1 b) the plane takes off ©) go through security ) wait in the departure lounge @) get on the plane f) goto the departure gate 8) do some tax-free shopping hy) go through passport control Listen and check. Then listen and repeat. Work in pairs and take turns. Student A: say one of the actions in Exercise 2A. Student B: say the next action: A: You check in and then you ...? B: Go through security and then you ...? Read the programme information and underline the correct alternative. 1 There's a computer/weather problem, 2. The programme is about the activities of airline workers/passengers. Airport ES Airportis a'TV series about day-to-day life at one of the busiest international airports in the world, London Heathrow. In tonight's programme, there's a computer problem in air traffic control and flights are delayed for hours or cancelled. Hundreds of passengers have to wait in the crowded terminal, so the programme looks at how people are feeling and how they spend their time waiting. Work in pairs and discuss. Which things 1-8 below do you do when you have to wait a long time at an airport? Which do you never do? What other things do you do? 1 stand in a queue 2 make phone calls 3 watch a film 4 have a snack 5 gooutside 6 argue with airline workers 7 play a board game 8 sleep on the floor Watch the DVD. Tick the activities above you see. Watch again and match the person with the activity/activities. Tame? | ihe aS Women } fant ith her grandmother id parents, Man 2 [ans everyting 107 | calm, very Zen: | E os———EEee es | out deal witha problem Work in pairs. Read problems 1-6 below and discuss. What are two solutions for each problem? At the airport: 1 Your baggage is too heavy, but you don't want to pay the €200 fee. 2. Your flight is delayed by twenty-four hours, and theres no place to sleep in the airport 3. You arrive and go to get your luggage. Another passenger is walking out with your bag, On the plane: 4 There's a screaming child in the seat behind you. 5 You ordered a vegetarian meal, but when you food arrives it's chicken curry 6 You can't sleep because a) you'r cold and 6) there's too much light. Listen to the conversation. Which problem does the passenger have? What solution does the person give? Listen again and tick the key phrases you hear. (COPHRASES There's a small problem here. But it’s very important that [I arive on time! You don't understand, see/understand, but plain one more time t's your job to [bring mea m Can speak to the person in charge, please? Workin pairs. Choose a problem from 5A and role-play the situation, Use the key phrases to help. back a website entry Read the website about problems when flying. Which thing do you dislike the most? What do you hate about flying? Thate it when ... kids run around and scream. Why don’ thelr parents them? fm in the mile seat, and the people on my right {and left have a conversation, Why don't they together? people stand up before the plane stops atthe g Why don’t they in ther seats? Work in pairs and complete the questions in the text. Workin pairs and write three more things for the website list. Use these topics to help you with ideas. .,. noise Kids food/drink electronics couples luggage music/movies smells ‘Add a question to each of your three ideas. Read the other students’ lists and make a class list together,9.5 (( LOOKBACK Wen LA what are the adjectives? Add the vowels, Then match them with their opposites. 1 slw comfortable 2piltng — easy 3dngris fast 4dfictt green 5 _nh__Ithy healthy 6 Cnvn__nt — inconvenient 7 _nc_mf_rt_bl_ safe B Work in pairs. Which adjectives from Exercise 1A could you use to talk about 1-5? 1 Asupermarket and a small local shop 2 Watching a film at home or atacinema 3. Atrain and a car 4 Mineral water and tap water 5 Texting and phoning C Work in pairs and discuss the topics above. Which of the two things do you like better? ‘A | ike going to small shops because they're more convenient. B: Really? | think a supermarket is ‘more convenient because 2 A complete the rules with the correct alternatives. Inalibrary .. 1 you can't/don't have to talk on your mobile phone. 2 you can't/don't have to pay for ‘book before you take it out. Onaplane.. 3. you can/have to wear a seatbelt when the plane takes off 4 you cam't/don't have to smoke. At home ... 5 you can/have to relax. 6 you camt/don’t have to pay to eat. B Choose three of the places below and write two sentences for each place. Use can/can't, have to/don't have to. Oe restaurant a classroom acinema a friend's house ahospital € Workin pairs and take turns, Student A: read out your sentences, Student B: guess the place. COLLOCATIONS: 3A Write three types of transport that: 1 you can ride a bike, 2 you can take 3 you can get on and off 4 you can get into and out of 5 you can go by B Workin groups. One student: write down a phrase from Exercise 3A that you did yesterday. Tell the other students where you travelled from and to, Other students: ask ‘questions and guess the type of transport. AA: From my lat to my offic. B: Did you get into a taxi? : Did you get off« train? TS pr oR isi a 4A complete the sentences with a/an, the or no article (). 1 Most of us have to use alarm clock to wake up in morning. 2 Two of us didnt have breakfast this morning. 3. Three of us live in centre/city centre. 4 Allof us think___ikes are better than cars for travelling in the town/city centre 5 One of us has got motorbike. 6 Half of us took taxi home last weekend 7 None of us goes home by train, town B Work in pairs. Write the questions and ask other students. ‘A: Do you have to use an alarm clock to wake up in the ‘morning? B: Yes, do. | have to use two ‘because I can't wake upl C Was the information in Exercise 4A true or false? ARTS 5 A write out the conversations. Monday A 1/ sorry /1/late.1/ not / hear / alarm clock. B: That / OK. No problem. Tuesday A: |/terribly / sorry /late.1/ miss / train /and / next train / be /late, B: Not / worry / it. Wednesday A: 1/50 / sorry /late./ lose / car keys / and then / car / not / start B: Not /let / happen / again! B Work in pairs. Write two key words for each line of the conversations. Then close your book and practise the conversations.