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Student’s Book 1
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First published 2004

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ISBN 0 521 75362 7 Student’s Book 1


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ISBN 0 521 75363 5 Teacher’s Book 1
ISBN 0 521 75364 3 Personal Study Book 1 with Audio CD
ISBN 0 521 75365 1 Student’s Book 1 Audio Cassette Set
ISBN 0 521 75366 X Student’s Book 1 Audio CD Set
Contents
To the student 8

1 Nice to meet you 9 4 North and south 18 7 Changing workspace 27


Listening Listening Listening
Say who you are A working day in the north … and in This is where I work
Grammar the south of Europe Grammar
The present simple 1 Grammar There is/are …
Pronunciation The present simple 2 Countable and uncountable nouns
Reply questions Pronunciation Some and any; a lot of
Speaking The present simple third person Pronunciation
Meeting people Speaking Linking
Work routines Speaking
Where you work

2 Helping people to 12 5 Health care – public 21 8 The A team 30


learn or private?
Reading Reading Reading
A new future Working at Växjö Hospital We’re a great team
Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
Job responsibilities People and organisations Describing people at work
Speaking Speaking Speaking
Your job Introducing your organisation The people you work with
Communicating at work Communicating at work Communicating at work
Telephoning 1: Getting information Telephoning 2: Taking messages Meeting a visitor at the airport

3 Have a good weekend 15 6 Downtown Barcelona 24 9 I love Chicago 33


Social phrases Social phrases Social phrases
At the office Shopping Getting around
Listening Listening Listening
Enjoying your weekend A shoppers’ paradise It’s my kind of town
Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
Your free time Location and shopping City life
Speaking Speaking Speaking
Weekends Where you live Where you live

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

11 Nice work 39 14 Médecins Sans 48


Frontières
Reading Reading
Homeworking Médecins Sans Frontières –
Vocabulary working to help people
Work Vocabulary
Speaking Organisational structure
What you want from your job Speaking
Communicating at work Your organisation
Emails 1: Giving your emails a clear Communicating at work
structure Welcoming visitors to your
organisation

12 Do you salsa? 42 15 Trekking in Nepal 51


Social phrases Social phrases
Responding to news Air travel
Listening Listening
I hate watching TV Walking at 5,000 metres
Vocabulary Vocabulary
Verbs and nouns for sport and Holidays and travel
physical activities Speaking
Speaking Holidays
Sport and physical exercise

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

17 Workplace 59 20 Online 68 23 Start up 77


communication
Reading Reading Reading
Communication of the future Computer heaven or hell? Managing a small business
Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
Communication verbs Computers and the Internet Money and business finance
Speaking Speaking Speaking
Managerial qualities People and their computers Solving a business problem
Communicating at work Communicating at work Communicating at work
Emails 2: Replying to emails Telephoning 3: Arranging meetings Helping visitors

18 Slow food 62 21 Beirut 71 24 I buy money 80


Intercontinental
Social phrases Social phrases Social phrases
At the restaurant Staying in a hotel Money talk
Listening Listening Listening
A great place to eat It’s a great place to stay Hey, big spender
Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary
Food and drink Hotels and hotel service Money and shopping
Speaking Speaking Speaking
Eating out Hotels Spending

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

26 Out of order 85 29 A changing world 95 File cards 104


Reading Reading Grammar reference 110
Problems in Pennsylvania A year in Germany Tapescripts 121
Vocabulary Vocabulary
Words and expressions for problem Describing change
Answer key 135
solving Speaking Thanks and acknowledgements 144
Speaking Change
Solving work problems Communicating at work
Communicating at work Emails 3: Arranging meetings by
Telephoning 4: Solving problems by email
phone

27 Teaching T’ai Chi 89 30 Jets and pets 98


Social phrases Social phrases
Inviting Saying goodbye
Listening Listening
T’ai Chi can improve your life Working with animals
Vocabulary Vocabulary
Health Learning for life
Speaking Speaking
Decision making Continuing your learning

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.

1 Nice to meet you


Warm up
Read these two introductions:
1 Which introduction is more formal?
A: Hi, I’m Susie.
2 What do you say when you welcome visitors at work?
B: Hi, I’m Masahiko Kamiya, from Japan. 3 Introduce yourself to the other people in your group.

C: Hello. My name’s Françoise, Françoise Duroc from


FranceCom. Nice to meet you.
D: Good morning. Herr Wollmann from KV Bonn.

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.

Question Positive Negative


Where (1) ........................ you live? I live in Rome. I don’t live in Barcelona.

Look at the verb to be.


Where (2) ........................ you from? I’m from Spain. I’m not from Italy.
What (3) ........................ your job? I’m a personal assistant. I (4) ........................ not responsible
for sales.
Are you from Rome? Yes, I (5) ........................ . No, I’m not.

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.

Now listen and check. 1.2


10 Unit one
Sounds good
Reply questions
When someone asks you a question in conversation, you can ask the same question back to show interest in
the other person. When you do this, it’s important to stress the you in your question.

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?

It’s time to talk


Get to know the other people in the room, asking and answering questions
about their job, organisation, family and home.

Organisation

Job You Family


Remember
When you meet someone for the first time:
• Begin with Nice to meet you or Hello.
• Ask questions about their job, organisation, home,
city, etc.
Home • Use words like Really or Interesting as you listen.
• Stress the you when you ask a reply question.
• End the conversation with Nice to meet you or
Good to meet you.

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.

2 Helping people to learn


Warm up
Read what some people say about their work. I like working for a small company. It’s more friendly.
Do you think the same?
I love writing and receiving emails. I like communicating!

I want to travel in my job. Work with no travel is boring.

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

2 It is important to use nouns and verbs correctly.


Example: Verb – train I train women.
Noun – training I do a lot of training.
Choose the correct noun or verb in these sentences.
1 I meet / meeting a lot of people in my job.
2 I work for a small organise / organisation.
3 I communicate / communication a lot by email.
4 I manage / management a small team of three women.
5 I have a lot of political discuss / discussions in my job.

3 Make questions with the verbs and nouns above.


Ask your partner your questions.

Question: Do you meet a lot of people in your job?

Answer: Yes, I do. / No, I don’t.

It’s time to talk


Ask your partner about his/her job and organisation. Look back at
some of the questions in this unit and in Unit 1 to help you. Note
down your partner’s answers in the table.

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

Caller Reason Result


Jake Roberts ■ Cancel training ■ Call back in ten minutes ■
Jane Dawson ■ Discuss a problem ■ No action – talk next week ■
Julie Simpson ■ Give help ■ Send email with information ■

2 Listen again. Which of these sentences do you hear? 2.2

A Answering a phone call C Giving a reason for the call


Good morning. How can I help you? ■ Could I speak to … (+ name)? ■
Who’s calling, please? ■ I’m just calling to … (+ reason for call) ■
Connecting you now. ■ Could you … (+ reason for call) ■
I’ll put you through. ■

B Introducing yourself D Finish the call


My name’s … (+name) ■ Thanks for calling. ■
It’s … (+ name) ■ Talk to you next week. Bye. ■
Which do you prefer – call 1 or call 2? Why?

3 Are you good on the phone? Look at this plan for making good phone calls.

Dial the Finish


number
How to make a good phone call the
call


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?

3 Have a good weekend


It’s almost the weekend
1 Complete the dialogues with phrases (a–h) below.
from
the box.

Arriving at the office on Friday Going for lunch AA weekend


weekend away
away Going home
A: Hi, John. A: Ready for some lunch? A:
A: DoDo you
you have
have any
any plans
plans for
for the
the A: I’m going. See you next week.
B: Morning. How are you? B: (3) ……… . weekend?
weekend? B: (7) ……… .
A: (1) ……… ? A: Where do you want to eat? B:
B: I’m
I’m going
going toto visit
visit my
my brother.
brother. A: Have a good weekend.
B: Not bad. A bit tired. B: (4)
(4)………
………?? A:
A: (5)(5)………
………? ? B: Thanks. (8) ……… . Bye.
A: (2)
Never
………
mind. .It’s
It’salmost
almostthe
the A: Yes, it’s Friday. The new Italian B:
B: InIn Stratford-upon-Avon.
Stratford-upon-Avon. (8) ……… . Bye.
weekend. place? A:
A: Stratford?
Stratford? It’s
It’s aa lovely
lovely place.
place.
B: You’re right! I’ve got to go. B: Great. Let’s go. (6)
(6) ……………… !!
(2) ……… . B:
B: Thanks.
Thanks. II will!
will!
WED THURS FRI SAT
1 2 3 4

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

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