English: Student's Book 1
English: Student's Book 1
English: Student's Book 1
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Student’s Book 1
PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
4 Contents
10 Eating around the 36 13 Chanel 45 Revision 1 Units 1–15 54
world
Listening Listening
Favourite food Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel – inventor
Grammar of the fashion industry
Comparative and superlative Grammar
adjectives The past simple
Pronunciation Pronunciation
Weak stress 1 Past simple verbs
Speaking Speaking
Comparing Your life and background
Contents 5
16 Project Stockholm 56 19 Living in Hong Kong 65 22 Working for 74
Rolls Royce
Listening Listening Listening
What project are you working on at Chinese culture Work is like a second home
the moment? Grammar Grammar
Grammar Should and have to Many, much, a few, a little
The present continuous 1 Pronunciation Pronunciation
Pronunciation Word stress Saying numbers and prices
Sentence stress Speaking Speaking
Speaking Organising a visit to another country Numbers and quantity
Describing temporary situations
6 Contents
25 Driving to Romania 83 28 Perfect planning 92 Revision 2 Units 16–30 101
Listening Listening
A job everyone wants to do Have you organised everything?
Grammar Grammar
The present continuous 2 The present perfect
Pronunciation Pronunciation
Weak stress 2 Spelling and pronunciation
Speaking Speaking
Future plans Organising things at work / Making
small talk
Contents 7
On the agenda
Speaking
Meeting people Meet Susie Smith.
Grammar She works for
The present simple 1
Skateline. Her
Pronunciation
Reply questions company sells
inline skates.
Listen to this
Say who you are
1 Susie is on the Skateline stand at Expo – the
International Sportex Show. She makes notes about all
the people she meets. Listen to her talking at the stand.
Tick (✓) the correct details about her visitor. 1.1
Paula Visconti
■
Name:
Olga Novotna
■
Lena Molnar
■
Inline skates
Hungary
■
Visitor from:
Russia
■ 2 Listen again. Are these sentences about Susie’s visitor
Italy
■ true or false? 1.1
Sportswear
■ 1 It is her first visit to Expo T ■ F ■
Company activity: ■
Skiing equipment
■ 2 Her home is 100 kilometres
Bicycles from Moscow. T ■ F ■
Send email
■
Action:
■ 3 Technosport is in Moscow. T ■ F ■
Arrange meeting
No action
■ 4 She doesn’t want a brochure. T ■ F ■
Unit one 9
Check your grammar
The present simple 1
We can use the present simple to ask and answer questions when we meet people.
Complete the questions and answers below.
Now look at two different ways you can use the verb to have.
Do you (6) ........................ a brochure? Yes, I (7) ........................ . No, I don’t.
(8) ........................ you got a brochure? Yes, I have. No, I haven’t. Grammar reference page 111
Do it yourself
1 Correct the mistakes in these sentences. 4 Complete the conversation
you between Susie and Maria,
1 Do he working for IBM? Do you work for IBM?
another visitor at the
2 Has you children? International Sportex
show.
3 I doesn’t work in Paris.
SUSIE: So, where
4 We working near Milan.
(1) ....................... you
from, Maria?
2 Match the beginnings and endings.
MARIA: (2) ....................... from
1 I work for … … the north of England originally. Italy.
2 I come from … … a personal assistant.
SUSIE: Really? Are you
3 I live in … … about six times a year on
(3) ....................... Rome?
business.
from
4 I’m … … a British company. MARIA: No, I’m not. I’m from Milan.
5 I go to the US … … Croydon, about 20 kilometres (4) ....................... you know Milan? work
from London. sell
SUSIE: Yes, I went there on holiday last
Do
year. It’s a lovely place.
3 Match each question below (a–e) with one of don’t
the sentences above (1–5). MARIA: Yes, it’s beautiful. Do you I’m
(5) ....................... to Italy often?
a Do you travel much in your job? make
b What do you do? SUSIE: No, I (6) ....................... travel much, do
c Who do you work for? maybe two or three times a year come
d Where do you live? for business.
are
e Where are you from? MARIA: Which company do you
(7) ....................... for?
Now ask your partner the same questions.
SUSIE: I work for Skateline.
MARIA: Skateline? Yes, I know the name.
What (8) ....................... you do exactly?
SUSIE: We (9) ....................... inline skates. And you? What
do you do?
MARIA: We (10) ....................... bicycles.
1 Listen to Susie pronounce the you in this conversation. Then practise the conversation with a partner. 1.3
MARIA : What do you do exactly?
SUSIE: We make inline skates. And you? What do you do?
MARIA : We sell bicycles.
2 Make similar conversations with these questions. Practise with your partner.
1 Where do you live?
2 What do you do?
3 Do you travel much in your job?
4 Do you play tennis?
5 Which company do you work for?
Organisation
Unit one 11
On the agenda
Speaking
Your job
Vocabulary
Job responsibilities
Communicating at
work Meet Bonnie Bernström.
Telephoning 1: Getting
information
She works for Språngbrädan,
a consulting company with
a difference.
Read on
A new future
1 We interviewed Bonnie about her job. Match our questions to Bonnie’s answers.
A
1 Which organisation
do you work for?
2 What do you do?
3 Tell me about a
I think the best thing about my job is meeting people
because it’s nice to make new friends. I also like the
email communication with the women I work with in
Eastern Europe. We write every week just to say hello.
C
Well, I’m part of a consulting company in Sweden called
Språngbrädan, that’s ‘springboard’ in English. We are
active in eight countries and we work with money we get
from the European Union for our projects. We are small
typical day at work. That’s really nice. One thing I don’t like is writing reports. at the moment, with four employees, who are all women.
4 What do you like I work a lot on projects so I write a lot of project reports,
about your job? which is very boring!
D
Well, I’m a consultant and I give training to women and
men in the former Soviet Union countries about politics.
B
What don’t you like?
Every day is different. There is no typical day! But I’m responsible for helping women to begin in politics,
I travel a lot to places like Moldova or Ukraine where I both locally and nationally. We discuss problems a lot
usually meet people and talk about political problems for and think about how to make a new future. My target is to
women in these countries – that kind of thing. But this help 100% more women into politics in these countries.
week is good – I have no business trips!
2 Read the text again and answer these questions about Bonnie.
1 What is Bonnie’s main responsibility? 3 How many people work for Språngbrädan?
2 Where does Bonnie travel for her job? 4 What does Bonnie like most about her job?
What do you think? Would you like to do Bonnie’s job? What do you like about your job? What don’t you like?
12 Unit two
The words you need … to talk about your job
1 Choose the correct prepositions in these sentences about Bonnie.
1 I’m part of / for a consulting company.
2 I work on / for Språngbrädan.
3 I work in / at training.
4 I’m responsible of / for developing democracy.
5 I work closely with / for three female colleagues.
6 I’m in charge for / of Eastern Europe.
7 An important part of / at my job is email contact.
8 I work at / in the former Soviet Union.
Now listen and check your answers. Then make similar sentences about yourself. 2.1
Work Company/organisation
Job title Name
Main responsibility Activity
One thing I like in my job Number of employees
Other information Other information
Unit two 13
Communicating at work
Telephoning 1: Getting information
1 Listen to two telephone calls Peter Blake gets about a
training course. Write the number of the call next to
the information below. Write ✘ if the information
isn’t in either call. 2.2
3 Are you good on the phone? Look at this plan for making good phone calls.
➔
Your partner
➔ ➔ ➔ ➔
Your partner Your You give
Introduce gives
answers the partner says the reason
yourself you some
phone hello for your call
information
Remember
Practise making two phone calls with your partner. When you talk on the phone in English:
Use the plan to help you make your calls. Student A
• Speak your name slowly and clearly: My name is …
should look at page 104, and Student B at page 106.
• Say clearly the reason for your call: I’m calling to …
• End positively: Thanks.
14 Unit two
On the agenda
Speaking
Weekends
Social phrases
At the office
Vocabulary
Your free time
Warm up
When does your weekend begin?
When does it finish?
8 9 10 11
15 16 17 18
22 23 24 25
aa Shall
Shall we
we eat
eat out
out e Fine, thanks. And you Have a go
Cover the
Cover the dialogues
dialogues above
above and
and make
make your
your own,
own
bb Yes,
Yes, good
good idea
idea f OK, see you starting and ending with the words below.
starting with the words below.
cc Never mind
See you later g Have a good time Arrivingatatthe
theoffice
office A A weekend
weekend away
away
Arriving
dd You
You too
too h Where does he live Hi …
… Do you
you have
have any
any plans
plans for
for …
… ??
Hi Do
… See you later. … Thanks. I will.
Going for lunch Going home
2 Now listen and check. 3.1
3.1 Ready for …lunch
Going for Going
I’m home
going. See you …
3 Practise reading the dialogues with a partner.
Unit three 15