LESSON 01 - PRONUNCIATION OVERVIEW 4

PRACTICE 4
HOMEWORK 4

LESSON 02- DIPHTHONGS 7

PRACTICE 7
HOMEWORK 7

LESSON 03- CONSONANTS 8

PRACTICE 8
HOMEWORK 9

LESSON 04- GRAMMAR 1 10

PRACTICE 10
HOMEWORK 10

LESSON 05- GRAMMAR 02 11

HOMEWORK 11

LESSON 06- PERSONAL INFORMATION AND FAMILY 19

PREPARATION 19
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 21

LESSON 07 - WORLD POPULATION & CONFERENCE 23

PREPARATION 23
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 23

LESSON 08 - HOME & POSSESSIONS 25

PREPARATION 25
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 26

LESSON 09 - GLOBAL OBJECTS & AT THE SHOP 29

PREPARATION 29
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 30

LESSON 10- CITIES & WORKPLACE 33

PREPARATION 33
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 34

LESSON 11- PLACES & LANGUAGES 37

 PREPARATION 37
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 38

LESSON 12- FAVORITE PLACES 40

PREPARATION 40
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 40

LESSON 13- INTERESTS 42

PREPARATION 42
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 43

LESSON 14- EXTREME SPORTS 45

PREPARATION 45
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 45

LESSON 15- EMAILS & FREE TIME 48

PREPARATION 48
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 49

LESSON 16- MIDCOURSE REVISION 51

PREPARATION 51
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 54

LESSON 18- PEOPLE & FOOD 58

PREPARATION 58
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 59
HOMEWORK 60

LESSON 19- FOOD LABELS & RESTAURANT 61

PREPARATION 61
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 61

LESSON 20 - INSTRUCTION & FOOD QUIZ 63

PREPARATION 63
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 64

LESSON 21 - THE PAST 66

PREPARATION 66
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 67
HOMEWORK 69

LESSON 22 - HOW WAS YOUR EVENING? 70

 PREPARATION 70
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 71

LESSON 23 - Thanks! 73
PREPARATION 73
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 74
HOMEWORK 75

LESSON 24 - JOURNEYS 77
PREPARATION 77
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 78

LESSON 25 - TRAVEL MONEY 81

PREPARATION 81
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 82
HOMEWORK 83

LESSON 26 - TRAVEL BLOG 84

PREPARATION 84
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 85
HOMEWORK 86

LESSON 27 - FASHION & FESTIVALS 88

PREPARATION 88
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 89

LESSON 28 - COLORS & PICTURE DESCRIPTION 91

PREPARATION 91
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 92

LESSON 29- FINAL REVISION 94

PREPARATION 94
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 96
 LESSON 01 - PRONUNCIATION OVERVIEW
Answer Keys

PRACTICE
Exercise 1: Match the beginnings and endings of the sentences.

1d 3f 5a

2e 4b 6c

Exercise 2: Put the /u:/ words in the sentences

2 school 4 news 6 spoon, soup

3 Tuesday, June 5 room

Exercise 3: Listen and write the words in the correct column

words with /ʌ/ words with other vowel sounds

country business
fun home
money lots
mother push

Exercise 4: Write these words

1 hand 3 egg 5 men 7 have

2 best 4 man 6 many 8 next

Exercise 5: 🔊 Listen and write the numbers you hear. (Audio 1.16)
1 34 2 12 3 1st 4 30

5 3rd 6 21st 7 14 8 37

HOMEWORK
Exercise 1: 🔊 Listen and write the missing /ɒ/ and /a:/ words. (Audio 1.17)
This is our kitchen. On the table there's a big box full of shopping, a bottle of wine and

some salt and pepper. There's a ball on the floor and the dog 's asleep in the corner behind

the door.

Exercise 2: Write these words

1 clock 2 gone 3 want

4 wanted 5 sorry 6 what

Exercise 3: 🔊 Listen and put the words in the correct groups (Audio 1.19)
words with /ɜː/ words with /ɔː/ words with /ɑː/ words with other
sounds

1 church 1 door 1 car 1 beard

2 curtain 2 floor 2 large 2 chair

3 dirty 3 four 3 March 3 near

4 girl 4 horse 4 parked 4 pair

5 nurse 5 short 5 star 5 wearing

6 purse 6 warm

7 shirt

8 third

9 surfer

Exercise 4: Look at the picture and complete the sentences, using the words from

Exercise 3.

1 The nurse is sitting on a chair next to the girl.

2 The boy's wearing a pair of shorts and a dirty shirt.

3 There's a man with a beard standing near the door.

4 The girl's purse is on the floor next to the bed.

5 It's warm in the room.

6 The date is the third of March.

7 There's a picture of a surfer, and a picture of four horses.

8 There are flowers on the curtains.

9 Through the windows, you can see a church, with a large car parked outside. There are

some stars in the sky.

 LESSON 02- DIPHTHONGS
Answer Keys

PRACTICE
Exercise 2: These verbs are in the past tense. Write the infinitive. They all have /aɪ/.

1 write 2 try 3 find

4 buy 5 fly

Exercise 3: Look at the pictures and find six things with /eɪ/, three things with /aɪ/ and
three things with /ɔɪ/.

1 radio 5 plane 9 ice

2 table 6 suitcase 10 boy

3 cake 7 light 11 coins

4 train 8 wine 12 toys

Exercise 4: Circle the word with a different vowel sound.

1 gone 2 snow 3 lost 4 some

HOMEWORK

Exercise 1: Read this note and find four words /ɪə/ and four words /eə/

/ɪə/ 1 Dear 2 really 3 theatre 4 near

/eə/ 1 Mary 2 upstairs 3 there 4 Sarah

Exercise 2: Complete the text with some of the words from Exercise 1. All the missing
words have /əʊ/ or /aʊ/

It's an old town on the coast. The houses are built with brown stone. You can get there by

train, coach or boat. In winter there's a lot of snow and sometimes the road over the

mountains is closed.
 LESSON 03- CONSONANTS
Answer Keys

PRACTICE

Exercise 1: Write these words

1 month 3 thin 5 with

2 then 4 they 6 birthday

Exercise 2: Listen and complete the sentences.

1 weather, the, 2 theatre, both, 3 thirsty, thanks 4 these, mother,

three, then, together father, thirty, this,
Thursday, there, three, the, that, that,
north, south, with, thumb, mouth
thirteen.

Exercise 3: Write these words

1 fish 3 finish 5 short

2 station 4 shout 6 dish

Exercise 4: Listen and circle the odd one out.

1 get 3 give

2 Christmas 4 picture

Exercise 5: Listen and put these words into two groups.

teacher chair chicken cheap Dutch chips cheese

lounge bridge large juice language orange dangerous

Exercise 6: Fill the gaps with words from Exercise 5.

1 orange juice 3 A cheap chair 5 chicken and chips

4 a language teacher
2 Dutch cheese 6 A dangerous bridge
 7 a large lounge

HOMEWORK

Exercise 1: Listen. Which words have /θ/, and which words have /ð/?

1, thinking maths bathroom things tooth teeth fourth fifth

2, another the those there

Exercise 2: Listen and complete the text

Take your cash.

Go to the shop.

Buy some fresh fish and some fresh mushrooms.

Take them home.

Wash them.

Cook them for a short time.

Put them in a dish.

Eat them.

Shout, 'Delicious!'

Exercise 3: Write these words.

1 watch 3 chips 5 juice 7 chair

2 job 4 large 6 jazz 8 age

 LESSON 04- GRAMMAR 1
Answer Keys

PRACTICE
Exercise 1. Identify the parts of speech
1. They told me about it.
Pronoun - verb - pronoun - preposition - pronoun
2. Look in the big cupboard.
Verb - preposition - article - adj - noun
3. Put it there, but carefully.
Verb - pronoun - preposition - conjunction - adverb
4. I’m staying in this evening.
Pronoun - verb - preposition - pronoun - noun
Exercise 2. Choose the correct option to name the part of speech in BOLD.
1b 3b 5c 7a
2c 4a 6c 8a

HOMEWORK
Exercise 2. Each sentence given below contains an underlined word. You have to find

out what part of speech that word belongs to.

1. Adjective 4. Verb 7. Conjunction 10. Verb

(modifies the noun 5. Preposition (connects the two 11. Adjective

temperature) 6. Adverb (modifies clauses) 12. Adjective

2. Adjective the verb goes) 8. Preposition

(modifies the noun 9. Preposition

woman)

3. Noun
 LESSON 05- GRAMMAR 02
Answer Keys

HOMEWORK
Exercise 1: Put the words in their correct places

2. we - had - on the terrace - last Sunday - lunch

Last Sunday we had lunch on the terrace.

3. in Vienna - mum - thirty-five years ago - was born

Mum was born in Vienna thirty-five years ago.

4. sell - next year - we - our car - will

We will sell our car next year.

5. watched - all - TV - evening - they

They watched TV all evening.

6. does - speak - French - not - mum - very well - my

My mum does not speak French very well.

7. brother - my - little - can - read - only - slowly

My little brother can only read slowly.

8. teacher - our - last - times - missed - the - three - train - week

Our teacher missed the train three times last week.

9. evening - I do not - stay - at home - want - to - in the

I do not want to stay at home in the evening.

10. hardly - we - in - winter - go - swimming

We hardly go swimming in winter.

11. Tony - my sister's party - early - too - arrived - at

Tony arrived too early at my sister’s party.

12. to Africa - my - have - parents - many times - already been

My parents have already been to Africa many times.

13. before - most - six o'clock - close - shops - do not

Most shops do not close before six o’clock.

14. in - exam - will have - I - an - two weeks - important

I will have an important exam in two weeks.

15. the children - their - homework - now - in - rooms - their - doing - are

The children are doing their homework in their rooms now.

16. does not - my - go - dad - to school - more - any

My dad does not go to school any more.

17. easily - can - our - understand - we - English - teacher's

We can easily understand our teacher’s English.

18. we - will meet - outside the station - tomorrow - Joe - at three o'clock

We will meet Joe outside the station at three o’clock tomorrow.

19. my dad - likes - coffee - in the morning

My dad likes coffee in the morning.

20, all day - he - stays - in his garden - in summer

He stays in his garden all day in summer.

22. dinner - usually - at eight o'clock - have - they

They usually have dinner at eight o’clock.

23. to the cinema - want to - tonight - go - do - you - ?

Do you want to go to the cinema?

24. last week - watch TV - did you - how often?

How often did you watch TV last week?

25, goes to bed - ten o'clock - never - he - before

He never goes to bed before ten o’clock.

26. French songs - her - did not understand - he

He did not understand her French songs.

27. me - help - my homework - can you - with - , Dad ?

Can you help me with my homework, Dad?

28. never - I - seen - have - before - that

I have never seen that before?

29. since - known - we - have - kindergarten - Susan

We have known Susan since kindergarten.

30. is running - the dog - the cat - after

The dog is running after the cat.

Exercise 2:

1. I ride my bike (home, after school, always, slowly).

→ (After school) I ride my bike home slowly after school.

2. The children play their radio (never, in the classroom, too loudly).

The children never play their radio too loudly in the classroom.
3. You played (last night, perfectly, in the school concert).

You played perfectly in the school concert last night.

4. Mary smiles (usually, when she sees me, happily).

Mary usually smiles happily when she sees me.

5. Mr. Reading spoke to us (this morning, in class, angrily).

Mr. Reading spoke to us angrily in class

6. Mark studied (all day, before the exam, hard).

Mark studied hard before the exam all day.

7. We left the house (quickly, after breakfast).

We left the house quickly after breakfast.

8. I get up (in the morning, never, easily).

I never get up easily in the morning.

9. Kenny reads (every day, a book).

Kenny reads a book every day.

10. Mum does not like (very much, football).

Mum does not like football very much.

11. My sister wants to play (the guitar, soon, again).

My sister wants to play the guitar again soon.

12. I wear (to school, the same jeans, always).

I always wear the same jeans to school.

13. My parents meet their friends (often, at the opera).

My parents often meet their friends at the opera.

14. I did (in the gym, yesterday, a lot of exercises).

I did a lot of exercise in the gym yesterday.

15. My brother drinks (ice tea, every day).

My brother drinks ice tea everyday.

16. I speak with my mother (my dreams, about, always).

I always speak with my mother about my dreams.

17. We watched (the last rock concert, on TV).

We watched the last rock concert on TV.

18. Mr. Albert put (into his bag, the two bottles, quickly).

Mr. Albert put the two bottles into his bag quickly.

19. I like (don't, my old paintings, much, very).

I don’t like my old paintings very much.

20. My grandparents watch (the same programmes, every day, nearly).

My grandparents nearly watch the same programmes everyday.

21. I meet (my friends, in the shopping centre, sometimes).

I sometimes meet my friends in the shopping centre.

22. My sister and I enjoyed (Freddy's party, last weekend, very much).

My sister and I enjoyed Freddy’s party last week very much.

23. Old people should cross (always, busy streets, carefully).

Old people should always cross busy streets carefully.

24. I bought (last summer, my red sweater, in London).

I bought my red sweater

25. Dad eats (every morning, his breakfast, very slowly).

Dad eats his breakfast very slowly every morning.

26. My mum does not go (every morning, to work).

My mum does not go to work every morning.

27. We have lived (for ten years, in the same house, in Salzburg).

We have lived in the same house in Salzburg for ten years.

28. Our neighbours called (in the middle of the night, suddenly, us).

Our neighbours suddenly called us in the middle of the night.

29. The children play (often, in the living room, noisily).

The children often play noisily in the living room.

30. Jack swims (in the lake, naked, sometimes).

Jack sometimes swims naked in the lake.

31. Sandy eats his breakfast (in a hurry, always).

Sandy always eats his breakfast in a hurry.

32. Dad starts working (usually, at 8 o'clock).

Dad usually starts working at 8 o’clock.

33. I want to do things (perfectly, always).

I always want to do things perfectly.

34. Mum decorated my birthday cake (beautifully, yesterday)

Mum decorated my birthday cake beautifully yesterday.

35. You look (today, beautiful).

You look beautiful today.

36. My dog looks at me (so sadly, sometimes).

My dog sometimes looks so sadly at me.

37. I see Douglas (every day, usually, in town).

I usually see Douglas every day in town.

38. Josie knew what she should say (this morning, hardly).

Josie hardly knew what she would say this morning.

39. Norman watches TV (in the afternoon, rarely).

Norman rarely watches TV in the afternoon.

40. The bus arrived (this morning, late).

The bus arrived late this morning.

41. It is cold (in Austria, sometimes, in winter, very).

It is sometimes very cold in winter in Austria.

42. Jackie had an accident (on the way to school, nearly, this morning).

Jackie nearly had an accident on the way to school this moỏning.

Exercise 3. Tenses

Fill the gaps using: present simple/ present continuous/ past simple. Match the pictures.

1-She didn’t be at the cinema yesterday.

2-I am playing tennis now.

3-Look! It is snowing

4-It often rains in Scotland.

5-Mary went to the park yesterday.

6-Carol doesn’t like coffee.

7-Tim didn’t read a book last month.

8-I ate a sandwich last night.

9-Listen!Somebody is singing

10-We are drinking tea. Try some!

11-Mum makes a cake every Sunday.

12-Tina didn’t like peas.

13-I am not smiling. I'm crying.

14-He phoned me two days ago.

15-That woman never watches TV.

16-They are dancing now.

17- We didn't take the bus yesterday.

18-Rob missed the train last night.

Exercise 4: Fill the gaps with the verbs in brackets. Put them in the correct tense.

I don't usually go to the cinema but yesterday I went to see a film. It was fantastic. I

cried a little because the film was very romantic. Melissa was with me. She never cries

at the cinema so she didn't cry yesterday but she also enjoyed the film very much. Now

I am writing to my friend Peter to tell him about it. Peter usually lives here in London,

like me but this week he is living in Bristol with his aunt because his parents are in

Italy. They went there last week on business. Peter is one of my best friends. He is

fourteen years old and we go to the same school. Last summer Melissa, Peter and I

went to Amsterdam on holiday for a week. We really had a nice time there. We visited

lots of interesting places. We didn't stay in a hotel. We stayed at my uncle's house. His

name is george. He is an engineer. He is always very busy but that week he was on

holiday and he took good care of us. He showed us the city and we liked it very much. I

must study now. I am going to learn French this year as I would like to visit Paris next

summer.
 LESSON 06- PERSONAL INFORMATION AND FAMILY
Answer Keys

PREPARATION

A. LISTENING

1, 🔊Listen to an interview with the photographer. Match the answers with the
questions. (Audio 6.1)

Answer: 1 d 2 a 3 b 4 c

2, What can you see in the photo?

Answer: A man and a woman in Africa, and an elephant. Other possibilities: trees, hat,
binoculars

3, 🔊 Listen to an interview with Beverley Joubert. Choose the correct option (Audio
6.2)

1 Beverley Joubert is a photographer / doctor, explorer and filmmaker.

2 Dereck Joubert is her brother / husband.

3 They are from Africa / Australia.

4, Complete this table with information from Exercise 3 about Beverley and Dereck.

1 Joubert 4 Africa 6 married

2 Joubert 5 Africa 7 husband

3 photographer, explorer
and filmmaker

B. GRAMMAR- be: am/is/are

Exercise 1: Complete the sentences with the correct affirmative (+) or negative (-) form
of be.
1 I ______’m_____ a doctor. (+)

2 She_____isn’t______ a student. (-)

3 He_____’s________ from Sweden. (+)

4 I ____’m not_______married. (-)

5 They_____’re________ on holiday. (+)

6 We _____aren’t________from France. (-)

Exercise 2: Complete the conversations. Use contractions when possible.

1 A: How old_____are______ you?

B: I _____’m______28 years old.

2 A: Where______’s_____ she from?

B: She _____’s______from the UK.

3 A:______Are_______ they at home now?

B: Yes, they______are_______.

4 A: _____Is________he at school?

B: No, he____isn’t_________.

5 A: ______Are_______you a nurse?

B: No, I_____am not________.

6 A: What______’s_______ your name?

B: My name_______’s______ Katie.

C. READING
1. Read about the Leakey family. Answer the questions.

1 Kenya (and England)

2 Yes, they are.

 3 He’s a conservationist.

4 He’s retired.

5 Yes, his wife is Katy.

6 No, she and Phillip have an international company.

2. Read the article again and complete the family tree.

1. Mary 3. Richard 5. Katy

2. Collin 4. Meave 6. Samira

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
VOCABULARY

1. Look at these family words. Which are men (M)? Which are women (W)? Which
are both (B)?

Answer:

M: father, half-brother, nephew, stepbrother, uncle

W: aunt, mother, mother-in-law, niece

B: cousin, grandparent, parent

2. Write the correct words from Exercise 1.

1 uncle, aunt 4 half-brother 6 parent

2 niece, nephew 5 mother-in-law 7 grandparent

3 cousin

GRAMMAR

Exercise: Choose the correct word to complete the sentences.

1 I / My parents are Spanish.

2 I / My am the only boy in my family.

3 What’s you / your name?

4 Where are you / your from?

5 She / Her is a photographer.

6 He / His uncle is in the USA.

7 We / Our family is from Asia.

8 They / Their cousins are both girls.

 LESSON 07 - WORLD POPULATION & CONFERENCE
Answer Keys

PREPARATION

A. READING

Exercise 1: Read the text about the people in the world and match the numbers in
Exercise 1 with the information (1-8).

Answer:

1 7 billion 3 1 billion 5 38% 7 3.5 billion

2 1.3 billion 4 23% 6 51% 8 5.5 billion

Exercise 2: Read the text again. What type of text is it? Choose the correct option (a-c).

Answer: a

B. LISTENING

1, 🔊 Listen to some information about Malaysia. Tick the facts (1-8) you hear. (Audio
7.1)

Answer: 1 3 4 6 8

2, 🔊 Listen again and complete the fact file (Audio 7.1)

Answer:

1 28 3 27 5 English

2 1.6 4 60 6 60

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES

WORD FOCUS IN

1. Match the sentences (1-4) with the uses of in (a-c).

Answer: 1b 2a 3c 4b

A. LISTENING

REAL LIFE MEETING PEOPLE FOR THE FIRST TIME

1. 🔊 Listen to a people at a conference. Complete their name badges with their

surname and country. (Audio 7.4)

Answer:

Name: Doctor Zull Country: Australia

Name: Beata Polit Country: Poland

2. 🔊 Complete the conversation with these phrases. Then listen again and check.
(Audio 7.4)

1 I'm from 3 Nice to 5 My name's 7 Nice

meet you talking to
2 Nice to 6 where are
too.
meet you you from? 8 See you
4 this is later.

B. SPEAKING & WRITING

Read Brendan’s plan for a personal description. Write his introduction.

Example answer:

Hi! My name’s Brendan and I’m 22. I’m single and I’m a student at university. I’m from
Australia, but I live in Italy. I speak English and Italian. I have two brothers but no sisters.
 LESSON 08 - HOME & POSSESSIONS
Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. READING
1. Read the article about the homes in the photos. Are these things (a-e) the same
(S) or different (D) in the four homes?

a-S b -S c -S d-D e-D

VOCABULARY FURNITURE

2. Look at the photos of apartments 2, 3 and 4 and complete the table. Then work
in pairs. Which furniture is in your living room at home? Tell your partner.

1 2 3 4

sofa ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

armchair ✓

chair ✓ ✓

television (TV) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

desk ✓

lamp ✓

computer ✓ ✓

pictures ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

blinds ✓

curtains ✓ ✓ ✓

cupboards and drawers ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

rug ✓

plant ✓

carpet ✓

B. GRAMMAR
 1. Choose the correct options to complete the conversation.

A: How is your new house?

B: It's nice. There 1 are / is four rooms - a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom and a
bedroom.

A: Is there a garden?

B: No, there 2 isn't / aren't. But there a park 3 next to / in the house.

A: And how is your bedroom?

B: It's OK. There's a big bed. There aren't 4 any / no pictures on the wall

A: 5 There is / Is there a TV in your bedroom?

B: Yes, there is. There is a cupboard 6 opposite / under the bed, and the TV is 7 on /
between the cupboard.

A: Are there any windows?

B: Yes, there is a window 8 above / in the cupboard.

2. Look at the picture. Complete the sentences with these words and phrases.

1 - in front of 3 - on 5 - between

2 - on the right 4 - on the left 6- under

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
A. LEAD IN

Exercise 2: 🔊 Match the numbers with the words. Then listen to someone talking about
the photo. Check your answers. (Audio 8.2)

22 balls 50 shoes and boots 1 sofa

3 TVs 7 people

Exercise 3: Work in pairs. Find these objects in the photo. What colour are they?

Suggested answers:
balls: yellow; black and white

boots: black; grey; white

a chair: black

roller blades: white; black

a sofa: brown

shelves: white

shoes: white; blue; pink

a toy car: red and yellow

TVs: black

B. GRAMMAR

Exercise 2: Complete the description of apartment 1 with prepositions of place.

1 - in the middle 3 - on 5 - on

2 - between 4 - under 6 - next to

C. VOCABULARY - Useful objects

1. Look at the objects from an explorer's rucksack. Match the words with the
objects.

1 first-aid kit 4 pens 7 hat 10 torch

2 bottle 5 boots 8 knife 11 map
3 camera 6 mobile phone 9 gloves

D. LISTENING

Exercise 1: The photos in Exercise 1 are Andy Torbet's rucksack and possessions. Look
at Andy's website. Match these activities to the photos on the website.

A - kayaking B - diving C - climbing

Exercise 2: 🔊 Listen to an interview with Andy. Choose the correct answers. (Audio 8.3)
1-a 2-d 3 - a hat, a first-aid kit, a camera, gloves
 LESSON 09 - GLOBAL OBJECTS & AT THE SHOP
Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. READING

Exercise: Read the article about the Mini. Choose the correct answer (a-c) for each
question (1-3).

1-a 2-c 3-b

CRITICAL THINKING CLOSE READING

Exercise: Read sentences 1-8. Choose the correct option (A-C) for each sentence.

1 A (a British car until 2000)

2 B (from many different countries in Europe and North America)

3 A (It’s a global product.)

4 C (It doesn’t say that the car is famous there.)

5 A (The petrol engine is English and the diesel engine is Austrian.)

6 B (It’s an American company [but] they make the car seats in a factory in Britain.)

7 B (The glass is French, but the factory is Belgian.)

8 C (It doesn’t say this.)

B. VOCABULARY

Exercise 1: Look at the wordbuilding box. Complete the table with the countries and
nationalities in the article.

1 Britain 2 German 3 Austrian 4 the Netherlands 5 Canadian 6 Italian

7 Belgium 8 England 9 Spanish 10 France 11 Brazil

C. GRAMMAR

Exercise 1: Correct the mistakes in the plural forms in these sentences.

 1 people 3 babies 5 women

2 boxes 4 sandwiches 6 scarves

7 train stations

Exercise 2: Complete the questions with this, that, these or those. Then complete the
answers with one word.

1 What’s this? It’s a camera.

2 What’s that? It’s my mobile phone.

3 What are these? They’re my boots.

4 What are those? They’re keys.

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
A. VOCABULARY

VOCABULARY PRICES AND CURRENCIES

Exercise 2: What are these currencies? Which countries are they from?

Answer:

1 $ = dollars (USA)

2 € = euros (EU countries)

3 ¥ = the symbol for yen (in Japan) and yuan (in China)

Exercise 3: 🔊 Listen to three sentences and write the prices. Then work in pairs.
Practice saying the prices. (Audio 9.3)

1 $3.25 2 €499 3 ¥280.50

B. REAL LIFE

REAL LIFE SHOPPING

1. 🔊 Listen to conversations in three shops. Write what the person buys and the
 price. (Audio 9.4)

1 (red) bag, $19.35 2 (large) coffee, £3.50 3 a football, €21

2. 🔊 Look at the expressions for shopping. Who says them: the customer (C) or
the shop assistant (S)? Listen again and check. (Audio 9.4)

Can I help you? S

I’d like a coffee, please. C

Large or small? S

A large one, please. C

These ones are large.

Is there a medium size? C

Are there other colours? C

These ones are red. S

Those are nice! C

How much are they?

Are they all black and white? C

This one is red and blue. S

OK, that one, please. C

How much is it? C

WORD FOCUS ONE/ONES

Exercise: Work in pairs. Underline one or ones in the expressions for shopping in
Exercise 2. Then complete these sentences with one or ones.

1 one 2 ones 3 one 4 ones

 C. PRONUNCIATION
1. Pronunciation word stress

a, 🔊 Listen to the countries and nationalities in Exercise 1. Underline the main stress in
each word. (Audio 9.5)

Britain, British

Germany, German

Austria, Australian

the Netherlands, Dutch

Canada, Canadian

Italy, Italian

Belgium, Belgian

England, English

Spain, Spanish

France, French

Brazil, Brazilian

2. Work in pairs. Answer the questions about the regions and continents in the
box.

1 Europe, North America

2 Students’ own ideas

Possibilities: Ghana, Morocco (Africa); China, Japan (Asia); Germany, Spain (Europe); Syria,
Saudi Arabia (the Middle East); Canada, Mexico (North America); Brazil, Argentina (South
America)
 LESSON 10- CITIES & WORKPLACE
Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. READING

Exercise 1: Read the article and match the cities with the photos (1-4).

1 Melbourne 2 London 3 Tokyo 4 Bogotá

Exercise 2: Read the article again and complete the table.

1 for free music 3 shopping 5 to work 7 great shops

concerts
4 the city centre 6 Bourke Street 8 to eat
2 Ginza

B. VOCABULARY

Exercise 1: Underline all the adjectives in the article. Which adjective means:

1 free 2 popular 3 crowded 4 polluted 5 great

6 noisy 7 beautiful 8 modern 9 clean 1 0 expensive 11 small

C. GRAMMAR

Exercise 1: Put the words in order to make affirmative and negative present simple
sentences.

1 I live in an apartment.

2 They don’t have a pet.

3 We go to work by train.

4 I don’t like swimming.

5 Julia and Carlo eat lunch in that restaurant.

6 We don’t meet our friends at the weekend.

Exercise 2: Read the sentences and write questions with you or your.

1 Do you like going to the city centre?

2 Are you 32 years old?

3 Do you watch TV after work?

4 Is your city polluted?

5 Do you like that café?

6 Do you live in a small town?

Exercise 3: Complete the dialogue with the present simple form of the verb.

1 Do ... go 3 don’t live 5 do ... do 7 go

2 don’t have 4 do ... finish 6 like 8 ’m

D. LISTENING

1. 🔊 Listen to three people talking about their jobs. Match the people with their place
of work. (Audio 10.2)

1b 2c 3a

2. 🔊 Listen again and underline the correct words.(Audio 10.2)

1 an archaeologist 3 at school 5 at the weekend 7 three

2 under the sea 4 the world 6 tour guide 8 France and Japan

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
A. TELLING THE TIME
Exercise 1: Look at the photo and caption. What is the place in the photo? Where is it?

It’s a railway/train station in Melbourne, Australia.

Exercise 2: 🔊 Listen to a description of the photo and answer the questions. (Audio
10.3)

1 The clocks show the times of the next trains.

2 Because everyone knows where it is.

Exercise 3: 🔊 Complete the times with these words. Then listen, check and repeat.
(Audio 10.4)

1 o’clock 2 half 3 past

4 to 5 minutes 6 twelve

B. LISTENING

🔊 Listen to an interview with a student in London. Complete the interviewer's notes

with adjectives. (Audio 10.5)

1 expensive 2 free 3 great

4 popular 5 crowded 6 quiet

C. VOCABULARY

VOCABULARY PLACES OF WORK

Match these jobs with the places of work (1-7).

1 an accountant 4 a doctor 6 a teacher

2 a sailor 5 a waiter 7 a sales assistant

3 a pilot

D. SPEAKING
Exercise 1: Complete the text about Beverly Goodman with the correct form of the
verbs.

1 studies 3 doesn’t work 5 gets up 7 starts

2 has 4 works 6 meets 8 doesn’t finish

Exercise 2: Read about another archaeologist. Complete the text with the correct form
of these verbs.

1 lives 2 works 3 doesn’t have

4 travels 5 studies 6 speaks

Exercise 3: Look at the grammar box. Write questions with do and these ideas.

1 What do you do?

2 Where do you live?

3 Do you like shopping?

4 What time do you finish work?

5 Do you have a car?

6 Do you eat in cafés at lunchtime?

7 What time do you eat dinner?

8 Do you meet (your) friends after work?

E. PRONUNCIATION

PRONUNCIATION -S ENDINGS

🔊 Listen to the third person form of the verbs. Do you hear the sound /s/, /z/ or /iz/?
Listen again and repeat. (Audio 10.6)

1/s/ 2/z/ 3/ɪz/ 4/z/ 5/s/

6/s/ 7/s/ 8/ɪz/ 9/z/ 10/z/

 LESSON 11- PLACES & LANGUAGES
Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. READING

Exercise 3: Read the article again and answer these questions.

1 Latin America

2 second language

3 business, reading the news or studying / official language for government in some
countries or official language in universities and schools

4 109

5 1

CRITICAL THINKING MAIN IDEAS AND SUPPORTING INFORMATION

Exercise: A paragraph often has a sentence with the main idea, and sentences with
supporting information. Look at the example. Then find sentences 1-6 in the article and
decide if they are main ideas (M) or supporting information (S).

1 M 2 S 3 S 4 S 5 M 6 S

B. VOCABULARY

VOCABULARY ORDINAL AND CARDINAL NUMBERS

Exercise 1: Look at the words in bold in this sentence from the article. Which say the
order (ordinal numbers)? Which say 'how many (cardinal numbers)?

first (order: ordinal number)

one billion (how many: cardinal number)

Exercise 2: Underline the ordinal and circle the cardinal numbers in the article. Can you
say them?
Exercise 3: Work in pairs. Complete the sequence of ordinal numbers.

1 1st, 2nd, 4th 3 61st, 71st, 81st

2 23rd, 33rd 4 120th, 121st

C. WORDBUILDING - collocations

Exercise 1: Match these nouns with the group of adjectives (1-8) that form collocations.

1 language 3 park 5 café 7 transport

6 friends 8 work
2 hotel 4 city

Exercise 2: Complete these sentences with words from Exercise 1.

1 first 3 local 5 popular 7 public

8 full-time.
2 friendly 4 crowded 6 old

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
A. DISCUSSION
B. VOCABULARY- places in a city

Exercise 2: Look at the map of Atlanta, in the USA. Where do you do these things?

1 visitor centre 3 Centennial 5 car park 7 business district

Olympic park (or possibly also
2 children’s 6 library
hotel or university)
museum 4 theatre
8 aquarium

9 hotel

C. REAL LIFE- giving directions

Exercise 1: 🔊 Listen to a conversation at the visitor centre. What places on the map do
they talk about? (Audio 11.3)
Answers: Aquarium, Centennial Olympic Park, World of Coca-Cola

Exercise 2: 🔊 Look at the expressions for giving directions. Complete the conversation
at the visitor centre. Then listen again and check. (Audio 11.3)

1 near here 2 about, away 3 straight up

4 Go across 5 on the right 6 Go past

D. SPEAKING

Exercise 2: Answer these questions with the name of a country or city. Then check your
answers.

1 Melbourne 3 Bogotá 5 China 7 Australia

6 Vanuatu 8 Moscow
2 Tokyo 4 Atlanta
 LESSON 12- FAVORITE PLACES
Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. WRITING

WRITING A DESCRIPTION OF A PLACE

Exercise 2: Bella Potachouck writes for a travel website. Read about her favourite city.
Tick (✓) the items she mentions (1-6).

Bella mentions 1, 2, 3 and 4.

WRITING SKILL CAPITAL LETTERS

Exercise 1: Read the description in Exercise 2 again. Which of these things (1-7) do not
have a capital letter?

5 and 7 don’t have a capital letter.

Exercise 2: Look at this description by a student. Which words need a capital letter?
Look at the examples and circle all the incorrect letters.

I’m from Australia and I love Sydney! There are over four million people here, but it’s never
crowded. That’s because there’s a harbour with the famous Sydney Opera House and there
are beautiful beaches. On Saturdays I go with my friends to Narrabeen Beach. It’s quiet and
relaxed. In the evening, we go to the city centre. There are over three thousand restaurants.
My favourites are Japanese andLebanese.

B. VOCABULARY

KEY VOCABULARY

Read the sentences (1-6). The words in bold are used in the video. Match the words
with the definitions (a-f).

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

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
 A. DISCUSSION
B. VIDEO

Exercise 1: Watch the video about a road in Oxford. Tick (✓) the places you see.

Answer: Tick 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11 and 13

Exercise 2: Work in pairs. Make questions with the words. Then watch the video again
and check.

1 Is there a post office near here?

2 Is there a good place to eat near here?

3 Is there a park round here?

4 How do I get to the supermarket from here?

C. SPEAKING

Exercise 3: Watch the video again. Choose the correct answers to the questions.

1 c 2 a 3 b

4 b, c, e, f

5 b 6 c

7 a, b, d, f
 LESSON 13- INTERESTS
Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. READING

🔊 100% IDENTICAL? (Audio 13.1)

Exercise 2: Read the article about identical twins. Is the article about their work, their
free time or both?

Answer: both

Exercise 3: Read the article again and complete the table with information about the
twins.

The Mulgray twins The Kitt twins The Phelps twins

Jobs? writers
musicians and actors
actors

Free-time play golf

activities? do gardening do Taekwondo
play computer
go walking go swimming games

watch football

B. VOCABULARY

Exercise: Match the verbs (1-8) with the nouns (a-h) to make collocations.

1e 3f 5b 7d

2a/g/h 4g/a/h 6h/a/g 8c

 C. GRAMMAR

Exercise 1: Write the -ing form of the verbs.

1 making 3 going 5 swimming 7 playing

2 watching 4 coming 6 shopping 8 writing

Exercise 2: Complete the sentences with the -ing form of these verbs

1 writing 3 swimming 5 coming 7 playing

2 watching 4 listening 6 doing

D. LISTENING

Exercise 2: 🔊 Listen to part of a documentary about Norbert Rosing. Answer the

questions with yes, no, or we don't know (because there is no information). (Audio 13.2)

1 yes 3 no 5 yes 7 yes 9 yes

2 don’t know 4 no 6 don’t know 8 no 10 no

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
A. LEAD IN

Exercise 1: 🔊 Look at the photo and listen to three people talking about their
free-time activities. Which person (1, 2 or 3) is in the photo? (Audio 13.3)

Answer: Person 3

Exercise 2: 🔊 Listen again and complete this table. (Audio 13.3)

1 shopping 2 friends 3 gym

4 good for you 5 morning 6 relaxing

 B. VOCABULARY
C. SPEAKING
D. GRAMMAR

Exercise 1: Put the adverb of frequency in the correct place in the sentence.

​ 1 I sometimes do online shopping.

​ 2 She always has a coffee after lunch.

​ 3 Michael is usually in the gym after work.

​ 4 I never play online games.

​ 5 The students are often late for the lesson.

​ 6 He isn’t often hungry in the morning.

Exercise 2: Put the words in order to make sentences

​ 1 We go for a walk once a day.

​ 2 They go on holiday twice a year.

​ 3 I use social media every day.

​ 4 She meets her friends every weekend.

​ 5 I visit my parents once or twice a month.

​ 6 I go to the gym three or four times a week.

Exercise 3: Write questions for the sentences in Exercise 2. Use how often.

​ 1 How often do you go for a walk?

​ 2 How often do they go on holiday?

​ 3 How often do you use social media?

​ 4 How often does she meet her friends?

​ 5 How often do you visit your parents?

​ 6 How often do you go to the gym?

 LESSON 14- EXTREME SPORTS
Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. READING

Exercise 1: Read the article. Match the sentences (1-4) with the sports (A-D) in the
article. More than one answer is possible for some sentences.

1D 2 B and C

3A 4 All of them, to varying degrees!

Exercise 2: Find these adjectives in the article. Which sports in Exercise 1 do these
adjectives also describe?

exciting – skiing popular – football relaxing – swimming

B. GRAMMAR

Exercise 1: Look at the grammar box again. Complete these sentences with can or can't.
Which sentences contain adverbs?

1, 2, 4 and 6 contain
1 can 3 Can,can’t 5 can adverbs.

2 can 4 can 6 can’t,can

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
A. VOCABULARY

VOCABULARY SPORTS

Exercise 1: Match these sports (1-8) with the equipment (a-h).

1 b 3 a 5 h 7 f
2 c 4 d 6 e 8 g
Exercise 2: Vocabulary extra sports equipment Match the name of the sports equipment
(1-8) with the pictures (a-h) from Exercise 1.

1 h 3 a 5 b 7 f
4 c
2 g 6 e 8 d

B. SPEAKING

Exercise 1: Work in pairs. Look at these sports and answer the questions.

1 Students’ own experiences

a baseball, basketball, cricket, football, tennis, (ice hockey uses a flat type of ball called a
puck)

b sailing, surfing, swimming

c skiing (you play ice hockey on ice)

d baseball, basketball, cricket, football, ice hockey (however, although the other sports are
individual sports, they can be between two teams sometimes)

e baseball, basketball, cricket, football, ice hockey, tennis

f go cycling, running, sailing, skiing, surfing, swimming (note that we say do boxing)

C. LISTENING

LISTENING INTERVIEW FOR A SUMMER JOB

Exercise 1: 🔊 Hailey Gould has an interview for a job in the summer. Listen to the
interview and complete the interviewer's form. (Audio 14.3)

1 22 2 Irish and Italian

3 English, Italian and French 4 Tennis and Basketball

5 Playing the guitar

REAL LIFE TALKING ABOUT ABILITIES AND INTERESTS

Exercise 2: Complete the extract from the interview with these phrases (a-h).

1 d 3 f 5 c 7 e
4 b
2 g 6 h 8 a
 LESSON 15- EMAILS & FREE TIME
Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. WRITING

Exercise 1: Read these short emails. Which are about work and which are about
freetime?

Work: 2, 5 and 6 Free time: 1, 3 and 4

Exercise 2: Writing skill reference words

a the new Spielberg film

​ 2 her = the receptionist

​ 3 it = the party; him = Omar

​ 4 it = sushi; there = to the new restaurant

​ 5 one = the photocopier

​ 6 it = the email from Paris; them = the two customers in Paris

Exercise 3: These sentences repeat the same information. Change the underlined words
to these words.

​ 1 I like Joe’s café. Can we meet there?

​ 2 I have your letter. Can you come and get it?

​ 3 Do you like Mexican food? The café downstairs does it at lunchtime.

​ 4 I’m in my office, so meet me here.

​ 5 Olav can’t finish his work. Can you help him?

​ 6 Matt and Suki are late. Please call them.

​ 7 I like the new nightclub. Can we go there?

​ 8 Can you buy a new computer? This one is very old.

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
A. READING

READING PLANS TO MEET

Exercise 1: Number these emails in the correct order (1-8)

1G 2C 3D 4A 5E 6H 7B 8F

Exercise 2: Writing skill reference words

Read these sentences from the emails. Who or what does the underlined word refer to?

1 at work 2 the cycling race 3 Sandy's cousin

4 Sandy 5 Alex's place of work 6 the cyclists

Exercise 3: Match sentences (1-6) with follow-up sentences (a-f)

1c 3d 5b

4a 6f
2e

B. VIDEO

BEFORE YOU WATCH

Exercise: Key vocabulary

1f 3a 5d

2e 4b 6c

WHILE YOU WATCH

Exercise 1: Watch the video. What three questions do the people answer? (Video 15.1)

1 What do you do in your free time?

2 How often do you do it?

3 Why do you enjoy doing it?

Exercise 2: Watch the video again. Answer the three questions from Exercise 1. Write
words and phrases in the tables. Don't write full sentences. (Video 15.1)

Question 1

Caroline: going to concerts; playing the ukulele Maureen: gardening

Ben: going snowboarding; playing disc golf

Question 2

Caroline: every day for about 10 or 15 minutes; every week on a Monday

Maureen: quite often in the spring; less often in the summer and autumn

Ben: snowboarding for two weeks; disc golf once a week; competitions some weekends

Question 3

Caroline: loves making music; getting together with friends

Maureen: fresh air; eating fresh vegetables

Ben: beautiful mountain scenery; hang out with friends; visit some interesting locations
 LESSON 16- MIDCOURSE REVISION
Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. TOPIC 1- FAMILY

Exercise 1: Complete the text with these words.

1 My 5 She 8 work 11 husband

2 thirty-four 6 explorer 9 holiday 12 Their

3 wife 7 moment 10 Adela’s 13 our

4I

Exercise 2: Complete the New Zealand immigration form for Ivor.

1 Ivor 4 The USA / America 6 married

7 holiday
2 Nash 5 explorer
3 34/thirty-four

Exercise 3: What questions does the customs officer ask for each part of the
immigration form 1-7 in Exercise 2?

1 What’s your first name?

2 What’s your surname?

3 How old are you?

4 Where are you from? / What is your place of birth?

5 What do you do? / What’s your job?

6 Are you married? / Are you single or married?

7 Are you here for work or a holiday? / What is the purpose of your trip?
GRAMMAR BE (AM/IS/ARE)

Complete the sentences with these auxiliary verbs. Put them in the correct place.

2 No, Steve isn’t American. He’s from Oxford in the UK.

3 We’re explorers. It’s an interesting job.

4 They aren’t the same age. He’s 24 and she’s 27.

5 I’m from Ireland but I’m not there at the moment.

GRAMMAR POSSESSIVE ’S AND POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES

Circle the correct option to complete the sentences.

6 My
2 wife’s 4 Their
3 We
5 Kathryn’s

B. TOPIC 2- HOME & POSSESSIONS

Exercise: Read the description of an apartment and answer the questions.

1 five 2 on your left 3 a lamp

4 a desk 5 d) a rug

C. TOPIC 3- CITIES (Unit 3- Extension)

Exercise 1: Read the description of New York City. Replace the words in brackets (1-7)
with an adjective. Then complete 8-14 with the words in the box.

1 beautiful 5 polluted 9 weekend 12 dancing

2 popular 6 crowded 10 sit 13 pollution

3 relaxing 7 dirty 11 walk 14 clean

4 noisy 8 idea
Exercise 2: Vocabulary places of work.

Complete the sentences with these words. There are two extra words.

2 a shop 3 a classroom

4 an office 5 a restaurant

Exercise 3: Vocabulary places in a city.

Circle the correct option.

2 park 3 an aquarium

4 museum 5 visitor centre

Exercise 4: Vocabulary telling the time.

Complete the times with these words.

2 quarter 3 to

4 minutes 5 half

Exercise 5: Grammar present simple (I/you/we/they).

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb.

2 don’t eat 4 don’t speak 6 don’t like 8 don’t have

3 have 5 meet 7 read

Exercise 6: Grammar present simple (he/she/it).

Write the third person form of the verbs.

2 finishes 4 goes 6 loves 8 studies

3 teaches 5 lives 7 has

Exercise 7: Grammar present simple questions.

Match the questions (1-6) with the answers (a-f).

2c 3a 4e

5b 6d
 D. TOPIC 4 - INTERESTS

Exercise 1: Vocabulary everyday activities. Wordbuilding verb + noun collocations

Complete the table with these everyday activities.

1 play: computer games, golf, the guitar

2 go: cycling, for a walk, running

3 do: online shopping, taekwondo, yoga

4 watch: films, television, videos

Exercise 2: Grammar expressions of frequency.

Number the phrases in order of frequency.

a3 b4 c5

d2 f6

Exercise 3: Grammar can/can't.

Read the sentences and look at the table. Then write the name.

1 Simon 2 Alex 3 Yoshi

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
A. TOPIC 1
B. TOPIC 2

Exercise 1: Vocabulary furniture.

Find the two words.

2 carpet, television 3 cupboard, computer

4 picture, blind 5 curtain, armchair

Exercise 2: Vocabulary adjectives, countries and nationalities.

Answer the questions.

2 useful 3 slow 4 the Netherlands

5 cheap 6 German

Exercise 3: Grammar there is/are.

Write sentences with the affirmative (+), negative (-) or question (?) form of there is/are.

2 Is there an orange rug on the floor?

3 There aren’t any plants on the desk.

4 Are there any cupboards in the bathroom?

5 There isn’t a sofa in the kitchen.

Exercise 4: Grammar prepositions of place.

Look at the first sentence. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar
meaning

2 is behind 3 are between 4 is opposite

5 is above 6 are in front of

C. TOPIC 3

Exercise 1: Vocabulary describing cities.

Correct the word in bold in the sentences. Use a bold word from a different sentence.

2 crowded 3 expensive 4 popular

5 polluted 6 modern

Exercise 2: Vocabulary ordinal numbers.

Complete the sentences with ordinal numbers.

1 second 2 fourth 3 third

4 first 5 tenth 6 twenty-first

Exercise 3: Vocabulary telling the time.

Write the times.

2 quarter past four / four fifteen

3 twenty-five to ten / nine thirty-five

4 four minutes to eight / seven fifty-six

5 half past eleven / eleven thirty

6 twenty-five past five / five twenty-five

D. TOPIC 4 - INTERESTS

Exercise 1: Vocabulary everyday activities. Wordbuilding verb + noun collocations.

Circle the odd one out. Then write the verb.

2 ice hockey; do 3 films; go

4 a musical instrument; read 5 the internet; meet

Exercise 2: Vocabulary sports. Complete the crossword.

2 swimming 3 football 4 boxing

5 cricket 6 sailing 7 cycling

Exercise 3: Grammar /ike/love + -ing. Vocabulary everyday activities

Write sentences with these prompts.

2 We don’t like making phone calls.

3 She doesn’t like shopping online.

4 He loves browsing the internet.

5 I don’t like going to the gym.

Exercise 4: Grammar adverbs and expressions of frequency

Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.

2 I am not often late for work. (also possible: I am not late for work often.)

3 They play basketball at the gym every Thursday. (also possible: Every Thursday they play
basket- ball at the gym.)
4 Kevin usually plays football on Sundays. (also possible: On Sundays Kevin usually plays

football.)

5 She meets her family on the third Sunday of every month. (also possible: On the third
Sunday of every month she meets her family.)

Exercise 6: Grammar can/can't

Underline the mistake in each sentence and then correct it.

2 How many languages can you speak?

3 She can’t swim very well.

4 I can sing, but not very well.

 LESSON 18- PEOPLE & FOOD
Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. VOCABULARY

Exercise: Match the words with the pictures (1-20).

1 rice 5 pasta 9 raisins 13 oranges 17 lemons

2 peppers 6 chicken 10 juice 14 salt 18 lentils

3 potatoes 7 lamb 11 prawns 15 nuts 19 cheese

4 chips 8 fish 12 onions 16 eggs 20 pepper

B. LISTENING

Exercise 1: 🔊 Listen to three people describing a dish from their country. Match the
speakers (1-3) with the photos (A-C) on page 59. (Audio 18.1)

1B 2C 3A

Exercise 2: 🔊 Listen again. Match the three dishes (1-3) with the sentences (a-h). More
than one answer is possible. (Audio 18.1)

a 1, 2, 3 d 1, 2, 3 g2

b 1, 3 e 1, 3 h 1, 3

c 2 (1: some people use f1

fish)

LISTENING AND SPEAKING FAMOUS FOR FOOD

Exercise 3: Work in pairs. Match the dishes (1-6) with the countries (a-f). Then check

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

C. GRAMMAR

Exercise 1: Complete the sentences with a/an or some.

1a 2some 3a 4some 5some 6an 7some

Exercise 2: Choose the best word to complete the sentences.

1some 2any 3any 4some 5any 6any

D. READING

Exercise: Read the article about markets around the world. Answer the questions.

1 200 years old 2 meat and seafood

3 the local sauce 4 a great restaurant

5 live music / musicians 6 every day

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
A. VOCABULARY

Complete the diagram with these food words.

1,2 onions/peppers 3,4 lemons/raisins

5,6 butter/milk 7 rice

8,9 chicken/lamb 10 salt

B. SPEAKING
C. LISTENING

LISTENING AND VOCABULARY QUANTITIES AND CONTAINERS

Exercise 1: 🔊 Listen to a shopper at one of the markets from the article. Which market
is it? (Audio 18.2)

Castries Market, St Lucia

Exercise 2: 🔊 Listen again. Answer the questions. (Audio 18.2)

1six 2one 3two

Exercise 3: Look at the pictures and complete the descriptions (1-8) with these words.

1 a bottle of sauce 3 a slice of pizza 5 a packet of pasta 7 a kilo of flour

2 a piece of 4 a glass of water 6 a tin of tuna 8 a bag of rice

chocolate

D. GRAMMAR

Exercise 1: Choose the correct option to complete the sentences. Sometimes both
options are possible.

1 lots of / a lot of 3 many / lots of 5 a lot of/much 7 many

2 many 4 much 6 much/a lot of 8 a lot of

Exercise 2: Complete the conversation with these words and phrases.

1a 3 How much 5 much 7 an

2some 4 any 6 some 8 how many

HOMEWORK

Exercise 1: Complete the questionnaire with a lot of, much or many. In some sentences,

two options are possible. Then tick the sentences which are healthy.

1 a lot of 3 a lot of / many 5 a lot of 7 a lot of

2 a lot of 4 a lot of / much 6 a lot of / many

8 a lot of / much

Tick 1, 3, 5, 7
 LESSON 19- FOOD LABELS & RESTAURANT
Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. READING

Exercise 1: Look at the photos of food labels on page 63. Answer the questions.

Labels show the name of a product, where it comes from, what it weighs, what ingredients
are in it, how healthy it is (calories, fat, additives, etc.), its sell by or use by date, its bar code.

Exercise 2: Read the blog about food labels and choose the correct option (a-b).

1b 2a 3a 4b

CRITICAL THINKING WAYS OF GIVING ADVICE

Exercise: The writer's main aim in the blog is to give the reader advice. Match the
sentences with the ways of giving advice (A-C). Underline the key words.

3 A (Make sure) 4 B (can) 5 C (don’t need to)

6 A (Remember that) 7 A (be careful)

B. VOCABULARY

VOCABULARY MENUS

Exercise: Complete the restaurant menu with these headings.

1 Starters 2 Main courses

3 Desserts 4 Drinks

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
A. DISCUSSION

B. SPEAKING - At the restaurant

REAL LIFE ORDERING A MEAL

Exercise 1: 🔊 Listen to three parts of a conversation in the restaurant. Notice the

waiter's mistake (bottle, not glass). Circle five more mistakes. (Audio 19.2)

Table 2

1 glass of still water → bottle, sparkling

Onion soup → tomato

Chicken kabsa

Large green salad → small

Cheesecake → no dessert

A cup of tea → coffee

Exercise 2: Put these words in order to make phrases. Then complete the conversation
with the phrases.

a Can I get you anything? b Here is the menu.

c I'd like some water. d I'll have a small green salad.

e Could I have the bill? f I'd like a cup of coffee.

g That was delicious. h Are you ready to order?

1b 3c 5d 7f
2a 4h 6g 8e
 LESSON 20 - INSTRUCTION & FOOD QUIZ
Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. WRITING

WRITING INSTRUCTIONS

Exercise 1: Read the three texts with instructions. Match the texts (1-3) with the places
(a-c).

1b 2a 3c

Exercise 2: Writing skill punctuation

b Match the punctuation with these uses and find an example in the instructions.

​ 1 comma (milk, eggs, butter and salt)

​ 2 full stop (... in about fifteen minutes.)

​ 3 comma (a cool, dry place)

​ 4 colon (Please follow these instructions:)

​ 5 comma (First of all,)

​ 6 comma (After you open the bottle, use the sauce within three months.)

c Read the instructions in this part of A recipe. Add the missing punctuation.

Fortune cookies are nice at the end of a meal in a Chinese restaurant and they’re easy to
make.

You need the following: pieces of paper, three eggs, sugar, salt and flour.

First of all, write your messages on the pieces of paper. Next, mix the eggs, sugar, salt and
flour, and pour the mixture onto a tray.

B. VOCABULARY
Exercise 1: Vocabulary extra cooking verbs

Complete the cooking instructions with these verbs.

1 Mix 2 Chop 3 Pour

4 Put 5 Spread 6 Slice

Exercise 2: 🔊 Dictation cooling instructions

Listen to some instructions for making pasta with a pasta machine. Write the missing
words. (Audio 20.1)

7 cut the pasta into

1 shop, but you can 3 Put the flour 5 Next, you need a long
also make 4 mix the egg and pasta machine.
2 You need the olive oil 6 Put the pasta
following food: an
egg, some

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
A. WRITING

WRITING INSTRUCTIONS

Exercise: The pictures show how to make scrambled eggs. Use these words to write the
instruction for each picture.

Example answer:

1 Put the eggs into a bowl.

2 Pour the milk into the bowl.

3 Mix the eggs and milk.

4 Pour the mixture into a frying pan and cook.

5 Put the eggs on a plate.

B. VIDEO

BEFORE YOU WATCH

Exercise 1: Work in pairs. Look at the photo and read the caption. Which are fruit and
which are vegetables? Do you know any of the names in English?

Vegetables: carrots, cucumbers, potatoes, sweet potatoes

Fruit: bananas, apples, sugar cane

Exercise 2: Key vocabulary

Read the sentences. The words in bold are used in the video. Match the words with the
definitions (a-f).

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

WHILE YOU WATCH

Exercise 1: You are going to do a video quiz with questions about different pictures on
the screen. Before you watch, read the questions and get ready to start.

Exercise 2: Watch the video quiz and answer the questions. (Video 20.1)

Exercise 3: Watch and check your answers. Count your points and find out your final
score. (Video 20.1)

1 flour, bread, pasta 3 stem 5 root 7 orange and lemon

2 (b) Peru 4 leaf 6 tomatoes, 8 peppers (or

aubergine/eggplant chillies)

9 coffee
 LESSON 21 - THE PAST
Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. READING

Exercise 1: Read the article about faces and places on money. Match the paragraphs
(1-3) with the pictures (a-c).

Answer: 1c 2b 3a

Exercise 2: Read the article again. Are these statements true (T) or false (F)?

1T

2 F (Now, his face is on the US one-dollar note ...)

3 F (... there weren’t any famous people on the notes.)

4 F (... there were pictures of different types of building.)

5T

6 F (... Frida and Diego’s faces are on the Mexican 500- peso note.)

B. GRAMMAR

Exercise 1: Write the past simple form of the verbs.

1 lived 3 travelled 5 started 7 wanted 9 stopped

2 worked 4 finished 6 played 8 liked 10 watched

Exercise 2: Write the past simple form of the verbs. Write R after the verb if it is regular,
and I if it is irregular.

1 went, I 4 did, I 7 bought, I 10 wrote, I 13 had, I

2 grew, I 5 found, I 8 saw, I 11 read, I 14 met, I

 3 made, I 6 talked, R 9 painted, R 12 moved, R 15 listened, R

Exercise 3: Complete the sentences with the past simple form of the verbs.

1 lived 3 painted 5 travelled 7 finished

2 studied 4 died 6 worked 8 started

C. LISTENING

Exercise 1: Look at the two photos. Why do you think the caves are important to the
woman?

She lives there; She loves visiting them; She is studying/ exploring/protecting them.

Exercise 2: 🔊 Listen to part of a TV documentary and check your answer from Exercise
1 (Audio 21.2).

She grew up in the cave with her family.

Exercise 3: 🔊 Listen again and complete these sentences with a word from the
documentary. (Audio 21.2)

1 Nepal 2 thousand 3 fifteenth

4 dry 5 born 6 better

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
A. LEAD IN

Exercise 1: 🔊 There is a connection between the two photos. What do you think it is?
Listen and find out. (Audio 21.3)

It’s a photo of the same two people, sister and brother Donna and Steven.

Exercise 2: 🔊 Listen again and underline the correct option. (Audio 21.3)
1 seventies and eighties 2 1981 3 2015

Exercise 3: 🔊 Match the phrases for talking about periods in time (1-5) with the years.
Then listen, check and repeat. (Audio 21.4)

1 1970–1979 2 1789–1799 3 2002

4 1960 to 1969 5 1800 to 1899

Exercise 4: Match these people and events with the periods of time (1-5) in Exercise 3.

a5 b3 c1 d4 e2

B. GRAMMAR

Exercise 2: Choose the correct options to complete the text about Queen Elizabeth.

1was 2was 3were

4wasn’t 5weren’t 6was

VOCABULARY TIME EXPRESSIONS

Exercise 1: Number these time expressions in order from past to present.

1f 4d 7i 10b

2g 5a 8k 11h

3c 6j 9e

(This order assumes your students were children sometime between 1970 and 2000.)

Exercise 2: Write was/were questions with these words. Then work in pairs. Ask your
questions and use time expressions in your answers.

​ 1 When were your grandparents born?

​ 2 When was your last holiday?

​ 3 Where were you on January 1st this year?

​ 4 What month were you born in?

​ 5 Who were some famous people in the twentieth century?

C. PRONUNCIATION

PRONUNCIATION -ED ENDINGS

🔊 Sometimes -ed adds an extra syllable to verbs in the past simple. Listen to these
regular verbs and write the number of syllables. (Audio 21.5)

​ 3 like = 1; liked = 1

​ 4 want = 1; wanted = 2

​ 5 work = 1; worked = 1

​ 6 start = 1; started = 2

​ 7 play = 1; played = 1

​ 8 visit = 2; visited = 3

9 travel = 2; travelled = 2

D. SPEAKING

Exercise: 🔊 Complete this conversation with did or didn't. Then listen and check. (Audio
21.6)

1did 2did 3didn’t

4did 5Did 6didn’t

HOMEWORK
LISTENING
Dictation my past life

Exercise: 🔊 Someone is talking about their past life. Listen and write their words.
(Audio 21.7)

In 2001 I lived in France. I studied French at university. After university I wanted to live in

France so I returned in 2003. I worked in a currency exchange office in Paris. I liked the job

and I travelled all over the country at weekends. Last year I started a job in a bank and I

married a Frenchwoman.
 LESSON 22 - HOW WAS YOUR EVENING?
Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. READING

Exercise 1: Read the article and match the paragraphs (1-4) to the topics (a-d).

1b 2c 3a 4d

Exercise 2: Read the article again and answer the questions.

​ 1 in the 1660s / in the seventeenth century

​ 2 important events, the lives of famous people, everyday lives

​ 3 23%

​ 4 women

​ 5 Gordon Bell

​ 6 every 30 seconds

​ 7 on social media

​ 8 to learn about our lives in the twenty-first century

WORD FOCUS WRITE

Exercise: Look at these expressions with write. What type of word comes after write in

each expression? Is it a preposition or an article + noun?

1 preposition 2 article + noun 3 preposition 4 preposition

B. LISTENING

Exercise 1: 🔊 Listen to three conversations. Write the conversation number (1-3) next
to the activity. (Audio 22.2)

a1 b3 c2 d2 e1 f3 g3

Exercise 2: 🔊 Listen again and fill in the blanks. (Audio 22.2)

 1 How was 3 Who were 5 Were there 7 Did you
2 Where did 4 Was it 6 What did

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
A. LEAD IN

Exercise 2: Complete the sentences with one word

1 down 2 about 3 to 4 a

B. VOCABULARY - Opinion adjectives

Exercise 1: The speakers use opinion adjectives. Write these words and phrases in the
correct place in the table.

Fantastic It was fun OK boring

Great! nice Fine Terrible!
It was funny not bad not very good

Exercise 2: Complete the sentences with opinion adjectives.

7 fun/fantastic
1 funny 3 bad 5 boring
2 good 4 terrible 6 fine

C. PRONUNCIATION

Exercise 1: 🔊 Listen and repeat these phrases from the conversations. (Audio 22.3)
1 It was great fun! 3 It was boring. 5 Fine, thanks.
2 Not bad. 4 It was terrible. 6 It was fantastic!

D. SPEAKING
REAL LIFE ASKING WHAT PEOPLE DID

Exercise 1: Complete the questions with these question words.

7 Were
1 How 3 Was 5 Where
2 Did 4 What 6 Who
 LESSON 23 - Thanks!
Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. WRITING

Exercise 1: Read the card, email and letter. Why does the writer say ‘thank you’ each
time?

A thanks someone for coming to her party

B thanks someone for their work (probably in organizing a visit)

C thanks a customer for attending a course

Exercise 2: Writing skill formal and informal expressions

a. Complete the table with expressions from the thank you messages in Exercise 1.

introduction: thank the person: talk about future end the writing:
contact:
A Hi! A Thanks A Love
A See you again
B Dear Nadia B Thank you B Best regards
soon.

C Dear Mr Keeping C Thank you very C Yours sincerely

B See you again
much for ...
next year.

C I look forward to
hearing from you ...

b. Which message (A-C) uses very formal expressions? Which message uses very
informal expressions?

Answer: C very formal A very informal

 B. VOCABULARY

KEY VOCABULARY

Read the sentences. The words and phrases in bold are used in the video. Match the
words with the definitions (a-g).

1g 2d 3c 4b 5a 6e 7f

C. VIDEO

Exercise 1: You are going to watch a video with three people talking about objects from
their past. Before you watch, match these sentences (a-f) with the objects (1-3).

1 c, e 2 a, f 3 b, d

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
A. LEAD IN

WRITING SKILL FORMAL AND INFORMAL EXPRESSIONS

Complete the thank you messages with these words and phrases.

1 Hi 4 Thank you for 7 Dear Mrs 9 I look forward to

8 Thank you very 10 Yours sincerely
2 Thanks 5 See you much
3 Love 6 Best regards

PRACTICE

Write thank you messages. Read the situation and use the correct formal and informal
expressions.

You were in another country for work and spent two days with a work colleague. Write a
thank you email.

Dear Barbara

Thank you for my time in Cologne. I was pleased with our work and I enjoyed our meal at
the restaurant. See you again next year.
Best regards

B. VIDEO - OBJECTS FROM THE PAST

Exercise 1: Look at the photo and read the caption. Why do you think this object is
important? Why do people like looking at this type of object in a museum?

It looks like a helmet and is made of gold.

The object is important because it’s rare, valuable, reminds us of our past, and informs us of
what happened in the past – what people wore and what they could make.

People admire the beauty and skill and love learning about history.

Exercise 2: Watch the video again and match the time expressions with the events.
(Video 23.1)

1j 3e 5f 7a 9d

2b 4c 6g 8i 10 h

HOMEWORK
WRITING

Write thank you messages. Read the situation and use the correct formal and informal
expressions.

1. A friend lent you some money. Return the money as a cheque. Write a short

thank you message.

Hi!

Thanks for the money! Here's a cheque.

It was very useful!

See you soon

Love
 2. You work for a holiday company. Someone wants information about your

holidays. Write a letter and send a brochure.

Dear Mr Smith

Thank you very much for your interest in our holidays

Please find enclosed the brochure for our holidays.

I look forward to hearing from you in the future,

Yours sincerely
 LESSON 24 - JOURNEYS
Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. READING

Exercise 1: You are going to read an article about the journeys three animals make.
Before you read, look at the photos and match the animals (1-3) with the distances
(a-c).

1c 2a 3b

Exercise 2: Read the article and check your answers from Exercise 1.

Exercise 3: Read the article again and complete the table.

Saigas: spring / higher places / dangerous

Turtles: when they’re babies / – / long

Frogs: spring / water / short, difficult

B. GRAMMAR

Exercise 1: Correct the mistakes in these sentences.

​ 1 My car journey was longer than your bus journey.

​ 2 My sister is taller than me.

​ 3 She feels happier in the summer.

​ 4 Today is hotter than yesterday.

​ 5 Cars are more dangerous than planes.

​ 6 He’s a better cook than me.

Exercise 2: Write comparative sentences using these ideas.

​ 1 The new restaurant in town is better than the old restaurant.

​ 2 German is more difficult to learn than English.

​ 3 The book is more interesting than the film.

 ​ 4 The weather today is worse than the weather yesterday.

​ 5 She is busier than her husband.

​ 6 Travelling by train is nicer than travelling by bus.

​ 7 Josh’s house is bigger than my house.

Exercise 3: Look at the information and complete the sentences using comparative and
superlative forms of the adjectives.

1 heavier than 2 lighter than 3 the lightest

C. LISTENING

Exercise: 🔊 Look at the photo of filmmaker James Cameron with his submarine
Deepsea Challenger. Listen to a documentary about his journey to the deepest place on
earth and complete the information. (Audio 24.1)

1 The Mariana Trench 2 11 km 3 two hours

4 (one-man) submarine 5 fangtooth 6 68

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
A. LEAD IN

Exercise 1: Look at the photo of a ladybird. Why is the photo called ‘The long journey’?

It’s a long journey because the ladybird is small and moves slowly. It also looks difficult to
balance on the plant.

Exercise 2: 🔊 Listen to a description of the photo. Tick (✓) the five adjectives you hear.
(Audio 24.2)

tiny, hot, long, slow, difficult (note that red and green are other adjectives in the audio)

Exercise 3: Find seven pairs of opposite adjectives in Exercise 2.

Answer: clean – dirty; cold – hot; dangerous – safe; difficult – easy; fast – slow; huge – tiny;

long – short

Exercise 4: Which adjectives in Exercise 2 can you use to describe:

1 long, difficult 2 slow 3 tiny 4 hot

B. GRAMMAR

Exercise 1: Make sentences comparing these things. Use a comparative adjective + than.

​ 1 Australia is hotter than Antarctica.

​ 2 A car is safer than a bicycle.

​ 3 Rock-climbing is more dangerous than surfing.

​ 4 Travel by air is faster than travel by sea.

​ 5 An elephant is bigger than a lion.

​ 6 A holiday in the city is more expensive than camping in the countryside.

​ 7 Paris is better/cheaper/safer than New York.

​ 8 Train journeys are slower than plane journeys.

Exercise 2: Compare these sentences from Exercise 1. Which sentence is a fact and
which is an opinion?

Fact: Australia is hotter than Antarctica.

Opinion: Rock-climbing is more dangerous than surfing.

Exercise 3: Which other sentences in Exercise 1 are opinions?

​ 1 Australia is hotter than Antarctica. F

​ 2 A car is safer than a bicycle. O

​ 3 Rock-climbing is more dangerous than surfing. O

​ 4 Travel by air is faster than travel by sea. F

​ 5 An elephant is bigger than a lion. F

​ 6 A holiday in the city is more expensive than camping in the countryside. F

​ 7 Paris is better than New York. O

​ 8 Train journeys are slower than plane journeys. F

 C. WORDBUIDLING - COLLOCATIONS

Exercise 1: Choose the correct option to complete the sentences. In two sentences both
verbs are correct.

1 take 3 drive 5 travel by/ go by 7 sails

2 go by 4 travel 6 take / have 8 ride

Exercise 3: 🔊 Work in pairs. Complete the conversation about Ireland with the
superlative or comparative form of these adjectives. Then listen and check. (Audio 24.3)

1 the most famous 3 the most beautiful 5 the hottest 7 the cheapest

2 the most popular 4 smaller 6 the best 8 better

 LESSON 25 - TRAVEL MONEY
Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. READING

Exercise 1: Now read the article. Can you find the topics?

Topics: food, friendly people, sculptures, squares, museums, music and dancing, festivals,
trekking in jungles

Exercise 2: Read the article again. Match these sentences to the cities, according to the
information in the text.

1 Cali 4 Cali 6 Medellín

2 Medellín 5 Cartagena 7 Ciudad Perdida

3 Ciudad Perdida

Exercise 3: Find words in the article to match these definitions.

1 port 3 sculptor 5 cable car 7 festival

2 chat 4 sculptures 6 8 ancient

nightclubs/concerts

Exercise 4: Word focus time

Find these phrases with time in the article. Then use the phrases to complete the
sentences.

1 spend time 2 have time for

3 Save time 4 have a good time

B. VOCABULARY

VOCABULARY MONEY

Exercise: Complete the sentences with these pairs of words.

 1 change, dollars 4 pay, credit card 6 borrow, cash

2 spend, money 5 lend, coins 7 buy, ticket

3 take out, money

REAL LIFE REQUESTING

Exercise 1: 🔊 Listen to four requests. Does the other person respond with Yes or No?
(Audio 25.2)

Request 1 No Request 2 Yes Request 3 No Request 4 Yes

Exercise 2: 🔊 Complete the four conversations (1-8) with these requests and responses
(a-h). Then listen again and check. (Audio 25.2)

1d 3a 5b 7c
2e 4h 6g 8f

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
A. SPEAKING

Exercise 1: Match the beginnings of the sentences (1-4) with the endings (a-d).

1d 2b 3c 4a

B. REAL LIFE - REQUESTING

Exercise 1: Complete the sentences with a verb.

7 buy
1 change 3 lend 5 pay
2 borrow 4 spend 6 take out

Exercise 2: 🔊 Listen to three conversations about money. Match the conversations (1-3)
with the places (a-g). (Audio 25.3)

1a 2c 3f
Exercise 3: 🔊 Complete the conversations from Exercise 2. Use the expressions for
requesting to help you. Then listen and check. (Audio 25.3)

1 course 3 Sure 5 Certainly 7 Could

2 can 4 could 6 sorry 8 afraid

HOMEWORK
Exercise 1: Pronunciation polite intonation

🔊 Listen to the requests. Does the intonation sound friendly and polite, or unfriendly and
a,

Impolite? (Audio 25.4)

1 polite 2 unfriendly 3 polite 4 impolite

b, 🔊 Listen and repeat the four requests from. Part a with friendly and polite intonation.
(Audio 25.5)
 LESSON 26 - TRAVEL BLOG
Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. WRITING

Exercise: Read a travel blog about a bus journey and answer the questions.

​ 1 on a bus journey from Lhasa to Kodari / in the Himalayas

​ 2 three

​ 3 the north side of Everest

​ 4 it stopped

​ 5 the driver

​ 6 some of them were angry

​ 7 he looked sad and lonely

​ 8 he wanted a good hotel and a hot meal

B. WRITING SKILLS

Exercise 1: Writing skill so and because

a, Look at these sentences and answer the questions

​ 1 sentence b (the reason is that he wanted a hotel and a meal, the action is that he
left the bus)
​ 2 sentence a (the action is that he felt sorry for the driver, the reason is that the
driver looked sad)
​ 3 You use so to introduce a result. You use because to introduce a reason.

b Complete the sentences with so or because.

1 because 3 because 5 so 7 so

2 so 4 so 6 because 8 because
Exercise 2: Choose the correct options to complete this travel blog.

7 and
1 and 3 because 5 because

2 so 4 but 6 so

C. VOCABULARY

Exercise 1: Key vocabulary

Read the sentences. The words in bold are used in the video. Match the words with the
definitions (a-f).

1 e, f 2d 3c 4a 5b

Exercise 2: You are going to watch a video about the final journey of the sockeye
salmon. In what order do you think a-g happen? Number them from 1 to 7.

7g
1b 3d 5f

2a 4c 6e

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
A. WRITING

Exercise 1: Dictation my favourite journey

🔊 Listen to a description of a journey. Write the missing words. (Audio 26.1)

1 a bicycle ride 4 very busy 7 other animals 10 hotter

2 fifteen kilometres 5 lots of cars 8 trees and flowers 11 hot and tired

3 faster 6 quieter 9 in the summer

12 grandmother

13 cold drinks

Exercise 2: Writing skill so, because

Join the sentences with so or because.

1 The bus was cancelled, so we waited for the next one.

2 The flight was cancelled because the weather was terrible.

3 The food was hot and spicy, so we drank a litre of water with our meal.

4 The meeting was long and boring because the managing director spoke for two hours!

5 The restaurant didn't take credit cards, so I paid with cash.

6 The hotel restaurant was closed, so we went into the centre of town for a meal.

B. VIDEO

Exercise 1: Look at the photo and read the caption. Why do you think it is a difficult
journey for the sockeye salmon?

It’s dangerous because the bears are trying to eat them, the river is fast and they are
swimming up river, and there may be rocks and other obstacles.

Exercise 2: Watch the video again and answer the questions. (Video 26.1)

​ 1 Alaska
​ 2 in the river
​ 3 one in every thousand
​ 4 the head turns green, the mouth grows longer, the skin turns red and becomes
smooth
​ 5 no
​ 6 in the shallow water
​ 7 fight over the females
​ 8 lay their eggs
​ 9 They become food for the baby salmon.

HOMEWORK
WRITING

Writing a description of a journey

Imagine you write a travel blog. Write a short blog post (80-100 words) about the
journey in these pictures.

Example answer:

I took a train across the country. We went past mountains and there was snow. Suddenly

we stopped. The train couldn't move because there was snow on the line. It was night. We

spent hours on the train and it was very cold. Fortunately, a man on the train had a guitar

and he played songs. Everyone sang to the music. In the morning it was sunny and finally

the train started moving again.

 LESSON 27 - FASHION & FESTIVALS
Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. VOCABULARY

Exercise: Vocabulary clothes. Match these words with the photos.

1 T-shirt 8 bag 15 dress

2 jeans 9 socks 16 uniform

3 top 10 trousers 17 trainers

4 sunglasses 11 shorts 18 scarf

5 jacket 12 skirt 19 leggings

6 shoes 13 belt 20 shirt

7 coat 14 suit 21 tie

B. READING

Exercise 1: Read the article about a fashion company. Answer the questions.

1 the Philippines 2 all over the world

Exercise 2: Read the text again and complete the sentences with these people.

1 Reese 2 Local workers

3 Local workers 4 Fashion designers

C. GRAMMAR

Exercise 1: Write present continuous sentences using these ideas.

​ 1 I’m wearing my favourite shirt today.

 ​ 2 Are you staying at a hotel in the city centre?

​ 3 She isn’t working this morning.

​ 4 We’re waiting for our train now.

​ 5 Are Claudia and Martin watching TV?

​ 6 I’m not going to my lessons at the moment.

​ 7 They aren’t staying here for long.

​ 8 Is he learning a new language?

Exercise 2: Complete the sentences with the present continuous form of these phrases.

​ 1 ‘s raining outside

​ 2 ’m wearing a T-shirt

​ 3 ’s talking to someone else

​ 4 ’m browsing the internet

​ 5 ‘s waiting for her

​ 6 ’m living with my parents

​ 7 ’s staying at home today

​ 8 computer isn’t working

D. LISTENING

Exercise 1: 🔊 Listen to a conversation about the two photos. Number the photos (1-2)
in the order the people talk about them. (Audio 27.2)

1 the human tower 2 the dancers in costumes and masks

Exercise 2: 🔊 Words for parts of the face and the body are missing from these
sentences. Try to remember the words. Then listen again and check. (Audio 27.2)

7 beard
1 arms 3 feet, shoulders 5 heads

2 hands 4 legs 6 mouths

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
 A. LEAD IN

Exercise 1: Look at the photo and read the caption. Where is the festival? Which
adjectives describe it?

1 in the Philippines

2 colourful, crowded, exciting, fun, loud, noisy, popular

Exercise 2: 🔊Listen to a visitor at the Dinagyang Festival. Are these sentences true (T)
or false (F)? (Audio 27.3)

1 F (I was in ... Iloilo ... I wanted to see the city’s annual Dinagyang Festival.)

2T 3T

4 F (You can hear music everywhere ...)

5 F (I also ate lots of local food – it was delicious!)

B. SPEAKING
C. VOCABULARY - FACE & BODY

Exercise 1: Write these words in the correct place on the picture.

1 hair 3 eyes 5 beard 7 arm 9 leg

2 head 4 mouth 6 shoulder 8 hand 10 foot

Exercise 2: Complete the sentences with these pairs of words.

1 hair, eyes 2 beard, mouth

3 head, ears 4 hands, neck 5 arms/legs, legs/arms

D. GRAMMAR - HAVE GOT

Exercise 1: Complete this description of dancers at a festival with the correct form of be
or have got.

1 are 2 ’ve got 3 ’ve got

4 has got 5 ’s got

 LESSON 28 - COLORS & PICTURE DESCRIPTION
Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. READING

Exercise 1: Read the article and match these headings with the paragraphs (1-5).

1c 2a 3d 4b 5e

Exercise 2: Look at these words from the article. Match the words (1-8) with the
definitions (a-h).

1b 3a 5d 7g

2e 4f 6h 8c

WORD FOCUS LIKE

Exercise: Read the sentences with the word like.

Replace like in each sentence (1-3) with the words which have a similar meaning (a-c).

1c 2a 3b

B. LISTENING

Exercise 1: Look at the photo. Discuss the questions.

​ 1 They are on the subway/underground. One woman is listening to music / checking

her phone while another woman is looking at what she is doing. One woman is
reading. A couple are holding each other close. They feel tired and/or bored (it
seems to be either the start or the end of the day). A woman is looking at the
photographer; the woman feels very interested in what is on the other woman’s
phone.
​ 2 Students’ own answers. It’s interesting because it tells stories – different people
doing different things; it is interesting because we wonder what the woman on the
 left is looking at; the woman on the right is moving away from the woman on the
left; it captures the tiredness of commuters, and the space between them.

Exercise 2: 🔊 The photo is by Reinier Gerritsen. Listen to someone talking about him
and his photography. Answer the questions. (Audio 28.1)

1 His photos are very interesting and the speaker likes them because normally she doesn’t
look at people in their everyday life very closely, but the photographer does.

2 on the New York subway

3 First: The man and woman on the right

Second: The woman in the middle reading her book.

Third: The woman with blonde hair listening to music.

Fourth: Then the other blonde woman on the left watching her.

Fifth: The other woman at the back looking at the photographer.

Exercise 3: 🔊 Listen again and match the beginnings of the sentences (1-10) with the
endings (a-j). (Audio 28.1)

1b 3j 5f 7d 9i

2a 4c 6h 8e 10 g

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
A. LEAD IN

REAL LIFE TALKING ABOUT PICTURES AND PHOTOS

Exercise 1: 🔊 Listen to a student. She is describing this photo for an English exam.
Answer the questions. (Audio 28.2)

1 A family 2 Dinner 3 The boy

4 Serious (and perhaps they are hungry)

5 Because of the women’s hats and clothes

Exercise 2: Complete the description with these phrases.

1 This photo 2 On the right 3 In the middle 4 In front of her

5 The family looks 6 They are wearing

7 I think 8 The photo is interesting

B. PRONUNCIATION

Exercise: Pronunciation silent letters

🔊 These letters are silent in some words. Listen to the words (1-8). Which letter is
silent? (Audio 28.3)

1 t 3 d 5 h 7 e
2 w 4 b 6 k 8 n

C. SPEAKING

Look at 2 pictures. Describe them and spot 10 differences.

1 In A, the man's got a beard, but in B, he hasn't got a beard.

2 In A, the man isn't wearing a tie, but in B, he's wearing a tie.

3 In A, the woman's wearing a belt, but in B, she isn't wearing a belt.

4 In A, the woman's got sunglasses on her head, but in B, she's wearing sunglasses.

5 In A, the girl has got long hair, but in B, she's got short hair.

6 In A, the girl's wearing shorts, but in B, she's wearing a skirt.

7 In A, the monster on the boy's T-shirt has two legs, but in B, it's got four legs.

8 In A, the monster on the boy's T-shirt has got four arms, but in B, it's got three arms.

9 In A, the babies have got blond hair, but in B, they've got dark hair.

10 In A, the babies aren't wearing shoes, but in B, they're wearing shoes.

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Answer Keys

PREPARATION
A. TOPIC 5- FOOD & DRINKS

Exercise 1: Vocabulary food

Find ten food words

Exercise 2: Vocabulary quantities and containers

Circle the correct option

2 slice 3 glass 4 packet 5 tin 6 bag

Exercise 3: Vocabulary food verbs

Find five cooking verbs

mix, chop, pour, spread, put, slice

Exercise 6: Grammar a lot of and much/many

Circle the correct words to complete the text.

2 are 3 a lot of 4 much 5 aren’t 6 much

B. TOPIC 6

Grammar past simple questions, Vocabulary opinion adjectives

Complete the questions and answers with one word and choose the correct opinion
adjectives.

2 did 7 fun 13 terrible

3 great 8 What 14 was

15 good
4 Were 9 go

5 was 10 didn’t

6 did
11 was

12 Did

C. TOPIC 7

Exercise 1: Vocabulary journey adjectives

Replace the adjectives in italics with their opposite

2 slow 3 difficult 4 long

Exercise 2: Vocabulary ways of travelling

Rewrite the sentences with the verb in brackets.

2 We cycled around the island. 3 We flew to Nairobi.

4 We walked to work. 5 We took a/the train to Scotland.

6 We sailed to France.
Exercise 3: Vocabulary money

Match the two parts of the sentences.

2a 3g 4d 5b 6f 7e

D. TOPIC 8

Exercise 1: Vocabulary face and body

a arm, foot, leg, head, hand, neck

b eye, mouth, nose, hair, beard, ear

Exercise 2: Vocabulary clothes

Match the two halves to make clothes words. Then write the words.

1 dress 2 skirt 3 uniform 4 shoes 5 trousers

Exercise 3: Circle the correct option.

2 neck 3 hands 4 mouth 5 shoulder

Exercise 4: Grammar have got / has got

Complete the text with these words. Then complete the questions and short answers
below.

2 ’s got 3 hasn’t got 4 haven’t got 5 ’ve got

6 Has; got; has 7 Have; got; haven’t

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
A. TOPIC 5

Exercise 1: Vocabulary food

Write the foods.

8 cheese
2 salt; pepper 4 lemon 6 eggs
3 chips 5 onions 7 lamb

Exercise 2: Vocabulary quantities and containers

Complete the conversations with the words for quantities or containers.

2 slices; tin 3 glass 4 bag/packet 5 piece

Exercise 3: Vocabulary food

Complete the instructions with cooking verbs.

2 Chop 3 Spread (also possible: Put)

4 Put 5 Pour (also possible: Put) 6 Slice

Exercise 4: Grammar how many/much

Complete the questions with How much or How many. Then match the questions with
the answers.

2 How much; a 3 How many; how many; c

4 How much; e 5 How much; f 6 How many; b

Exercise 5: Now look at the restaurant menu. Complete it with these words

1 peppers 2 Lamb 3 Potatoes

4 Water 5 Smoothie

Exercise 6: Put these questions and sentences in order to complete the conversation
between a waiter (W) and customer (C) in the restaurant.

Before the meal ...

W: 1 Here is the menu.

C: Thanks.

W: 2 Can I get you anything to drink first?

C: 3 I’d just like some water, please.

W: 4 A bottle? Still or sparkling?

C: 5 Just some tap water, please.

W: 6 OK. Are you ready to order?

C: 7 Yes, I’ll have the vegetarian pasta dish, please.

W: Anything else?

C: 8 Yes, a small green salad. Thank you.

15 minutes later ...

W: 9 Here’s your lasagne, and the salad.

C: 10 Thanks. And can I have my water, please?

W: 11 Oh, sorry. Yes, I’ll get it now.

After the meal ...

W: How was your meal?

C: 12 It was delicious.

W: 13 Can I get you a dessert?

C: 14 No, thanks. Could I have the bill, please?

W: That’s fourteen pounds, please.

B. TOPIC 6

Grammar past simple regular, irregular verbs and negatives

Complete this paragraph from a diary with the correct form of the verbs.

2 left 5 wasn’t 8 found 11 sat

12 looked
3 didn’t sleep 6 saw 9 had

4 took 7 brought 10 didn’t go

C. TOPIC 7

Exercise 1: Vocabulary revision

Answer the questions.

2 clean 3 by 4 cash
5 cheap 6 b) course, c) Certainly

Exercise 3: Grammar superlative adjectives

Write superlative questions using the prompts. Then answer them so they are true for
you.

2 Where is the most dangerous place on Earth?

3 Who is the best film actor these days?

4 What is the most expensive object (that) you bought last year?

5 Who is the richest person in your country?

Student’s own answers to the questions

D. TOPIC 8

Exercise 1: Complete the descriptions of the famous paintings with these words.

2 dark 10 jacket 18 hats

3 neck 11 glasses 19 woman

4 dress 12 look 20 face

5 mouth 13 afternoon 21 left

6 sad 14 shows 22 eyes

7 daughter 15 crowded 23 nose

24 make-up
8 hair 16 relaxing
9 jewellery 17 beautiful