CuttingEdge Starter Student
CuttingEdge Starter Student
CuttingEdge Starter Student
NICE TO
MEET
YOU
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IN THIS UNIT
• Grammar: I and you (I’m … / Are
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you …?); my and your (What’s your
name? / My name’s …); a/an with
jobs (I’m a student. / Are you an
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actor?)
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3 1.3 Look at the pictures and listen. b 1.4 Listen and check.
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My name's PRONUNCIATION
Amelia.
1 Listen again to sentences 5–8 in exercise 4.
What’s your name?
N 2 Practise saying the sentences.
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5a Complete the conversations with I, my, you
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or your.
1 A: Hello, name’s Harry.
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3 A: What’s name?
B: name’s Simon Dodds.
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4 A: Hi, ’m Julia.
B: Hello, Julia. name’s Jenny.
5 A: Are Kim Watson?
B: No, ’m Kim Watts.
6 A: What’s name?
B: name’s Mike.
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Vocabulary a/an with jobs
PRONUNCIATION a an
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2 Listen again and practise saying the jobs. 1 A: What’s your job?
B: I’m teacher.
2 A: Are you engineer?
B: No, I’m architect.
3 A: Are you shop assistant?
Grammar focus 2 B: Yes, that’s right.
a/an with jobs 4 A: Are you student?
B: No, I’m accountant.
Vocabulary
The alphabet and How do you
spell …?
1 1.9 Listen and say the alphabet.
Aa Bb Cc Airport code
1___ Dubai International Airport, UAE
Gg Hh Ii
3___ Zürich Airport, Switzerland
Jj Kk Ll
5___ Los Angeles International
Airport, USA
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6___ Vancouver International Airport,
Mm Nn
Canada
Oo Pp Qq
7___
N London Gatwick Airport, UK
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8___ Atatürk International Airport,
Istanbul, Turkey
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Rr Ss Tt
9___ Galeão International Airport, Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil
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Uu Vv Ww
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Xx Yy Zz
How do you spell ‘Dubai’?
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D-U-B-A-I
c Work in pairs and say the airport codes. Unit 1, Study & Practice 3, page 99
5 five 9 nine
Ask for and give
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two
three
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six
seven
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ten
eleven
personal information
4 four 8 eight 12 twelve Preparation Listening
b 1.14 Listen and write the numbers you hear. 1 1.19 Listen to four conversations. Tick the
information they give.
c Write the numbers from exercise 1b in words. • first name • email address • job
• phone number • surname
2 Work in pairs. Write a number (0–12). Your partner
says the number. 2 Listen again and complete the information.
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3a 1.15 Listen and say the numbers.
First name Irina
13 thirteen 17 seventeen
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Surname 1
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Email address tara12@global.com
16 sixteen 20 twenty B
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First name James
b 1.16 Listen and write the numbers you hear. Surname White
Phone number 2
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PRONUNCIATION Email address white.j20@ tmail.com
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2 Listen again and practise saying the numbers. Phone number 07404 772698
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Email address 4
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Yes, that’s right. I’m (Yasir).
Surname
My phone number is (07456 141698).
Phone number
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Email address
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First name
Surname
Phone number
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Email address
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First name
Surname
Phone number
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Email address
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Speaking PRONUNCIATION
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Saying hello and goodbye 1 Watch and listen to the key phrases.
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Watch the video and tick the phrases you hear.
How are you? N
2 Practise saying them.
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2 Hi, I’m Mark.
3 Nice to meet you. 3 Choose the correct answer (a, b or c).
4 What’s your name?
1 How are you?
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5 How do you spell it?
a I’m fine.
6 This is Andrew.
b My name’s John.
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1 Circle the full stops and underline the question • at the beginning of a sentence.
marks in the conversation. Hello, my name’s Michael.
Nice to meet you!
A: Hello. What’s your name?
B: My name’s Jan.
A: How do you spell it? b Write capital letters in the correct places.
B: J-A-N.
A: Hello, Jan. 1 my name’s andrew.
2 are you a teacher?
3 My name is tom woods. i’m an actor.
2a Read the information about full stops and question 4 hello, tom. nice to meet you.
marks. 5 how do you spell your first name?
• We use a full stop (.) at the end of a sentence. 6 i’m anna. i’m a student.
Nice to meet you. 7 are you david?
8 what’s your name?
• We use a question mark (?) at the end of a question.
How are you?
5a Complete the information with the words in the box.
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b Tick the correct sentences and cross the incorrect a email address is my name phone number
sentences.
What’s your name. x
What’s your name? ✓ N
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My first 1 ’s Ewa and
1 a My name’s Tom. 2
surname 3
b My name’s Tom? Krupka. I’m 4 businesswoman.
2 a Are you Frida Jonsson.
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My 5 is ewa@solutions.com
b Are you Frida Jonsson? and my 6 is 09399 375292.
3 a No, I’m Maria Jonsson.
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IN THIS UNIT
• Grammar: this/that, these/those;
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be with wean d they
• Vocabulary: Plural nouns; Vocabulary
Adjectives–opposites; Food
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and drink
Plural nouns
• Task: Talk about your favourite
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1 Look at the photos. Which things in the box can you see?
food
• Language live: In a café; Holiday taxi/taxis car/cars bus/buses shop/shops city/cities
man/men woman/women person/people child/children
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messages
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PRONUNCIATION
1 3.1 Listen to the plural nouns in exercises 1 and 2.
3 Work in pairs and take turns. Student A say a singular noun from
exercise 1 or 2. Student B say a number and the plural noun.
A person
Fifteen people
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PRONUNCIATION
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1 Listen again to the sentences in exercise 2a. Notice the
pronunciation of th- in this, that, these and those.
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2 Practise saying this, that, these and those.
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Grammar focus 1
this/that, these/those
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correct answers.
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Amanda Foster
We’re in New York! The people
here are friendly and our hotel is in
the city centre. It’s fantastic!
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Comments
Jack Rose Is the hotel expensive?
Amanda Foster No, it isn’t. It’s really
cheap.
Jack Rose What about the
restaurants? Are they expensive?
Amanda Foster No! The restaurants
aren’t expensive either! They’re really
good … . Italian food, Chinese food,
Japanese food … . everything!
Reading and vocabulary Nicola Jameson What about things
Common adjectives to do?
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Amanda Foster Lots of things to
1 Look at the photos and read the text. do … . parks, shops, restaurants,
museums! New York is one of my
1 Where are they?
2 Are they on holiday or on business?
N favourite cities. It’s a fantastic holiday
and we’re all very happy!
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2a 3.5 Look at the pictures below. Listen and
repeat the adjectives
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Grammar focus 2
be with we and they
1 Choose the correct answers. Look at the text in
exercise 1 on page 22 to help you.
1 We is / are all very happy.
2 The people here is / are friendly.
3 The hotel isn’t / aren’t expensive.
4 The restaurants isn’t / aren’t expensive.
GRAMMAR
be with we and they
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Remember: He’s in New York. It isn’te xpensive. Australia for a conference. Alex and Kim
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also engineers. They 6 f rom
Japan – they 7 from Brazil. Sydney
2a Choose the correct answers.
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a great city and the conference
fantastic. But the restaurant in the
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hotel 10 good – the food 11
awful and the waiters 12 un friendly.
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apples
milk
bread
pasta
cheese
potatoes
chicken
rice
coffee
tea
eggs
water
favourite food
A B C
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H I
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b Write the words from 1a in the correct place.
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1 Drink: tea, , ,
2 Meat and fish:
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3 Fruit:
4 Vegetables:
5 Other food: bread, , , Preparation Listening
,
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the photos?
2a Look again at the food and drink in exercise 1a. Write rice vegetables chicken bread
1, 2 or 3 next to each item. pasta coffee milk cheese
ice cream tea orange banana
1 =h orrible 2 =O K 3 = delicious
apple fish tomato potatoes
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a Questions
What’s your favourite food?
What’s your favourite fruit or vegetable?
What’s your favourite drink?
What’s a typical drink in (Italy)?
What about you?
b Answers
My favourite food is (Japanese food).
My favourite food isn’t (English).
Japanese food is my favourite.
Pasta is very popular in Italy.
Tea is a popular drink in England.
My favourite drink is coffee, I think.
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Task Speaking
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PRONUNCIATION
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1 Watch and listen to the key phrases.
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2 Practise saying them.
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4a Complete the conversation with the words in the
box.
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1 Watch the video and choose the correct answers. CUSTOMER A: Can I have 4 , p lease?
CUSTOMER B: 5
for me, please. With milk.
1 The man and the woman are at home / on holiday. WAITER: Anything else?
2 It is breakfast time / lunchtime. CUSTOMER B: No, thank you.
3 To eat, the couple order something different /
the same thing.
4 To drink, the couple order something different / b Work in groups of three. Practise saying the
the same thing. conversation.
2 Watch again. Write P (Peter) or M (Mary) next to the 5 Work in groups of three. Prepare and practise a
food and drink they order. similar conversation. Change the information in the
gaps with the words in the box or your own ideas.
Food Drink
• cheese • apple juice cheese fish madam orange juice pasta tea
• eggs • coffee (black)
• fish • coffee (with milk)
• fruit • orange juice
• sandwich • tea (black)
• toast • tea (with milk)
• water
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Writing
Holiday messages N
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1 Read the postcard and answer the questions.
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1 Who is it from?
2 Who is she with?
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IN THIS UNIT
• Grammar: Possessive ’s;P resent Vocabulary N
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simple (I, you, we, they);P resent
Family
simple questions (I, you, we, they)
• Vocabulary: Family; Verbs with
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1a 5.1 Look at the photos and listen
noun phrases to the family words.
• Task: Present your personal profile
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PRONUNCIATION
1 Listen again to the words in exercise 1a and mark the stress.
•
brother •
sister
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2a Read the sentences in exercise 1 again. Rewrite the
false sentences to make them true.
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5.2 Listen to the correct sentences and check
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your answers.
PRONUNCIATION
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1 Look at the family tree and read the sentences. 2 Practise saying the sentences.
Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)?
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N
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Reading 2a Complete the sentences with the words and phrases
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in the box.
Life in another country
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David Ellie Harry Holly Sophie 2 David and Sophie in London now.
3 David and Sophie English to university
students.
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2 Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)? 4 David and Sophie at Shanghai
1 Ellie is Chinese. University.
2 She’s a teacher. 5 Harry and Holly Chinese with their
3 She is in London now. friends.
4 David and Sophie are English. 6 Harry and Holly to school in England.
5 They are happy in China. 7 Ellie and her friends at London
6 They are students. University.
7 Their daughter is 11 years old. 8 David and Sophie three children.
8 Their children are at school in London.
b 5.3 Listen and check.
Grammar focus 2 GRAMMAR
Present simple (I, you, we, they)
Present simple (I, you, we, they)
1 Who says these sentences? Read the text again and + I study medicine at London University.
write the names. You teach Chinese at university.
We live in Shanghai in China.
1 ‘I study in London.’ They go to the International School.
2 ‘My husband and I teach English.’
– I don’t live in China now. (= do not)
3 ‘We live with our parents.’ You don’t work in an office.
4 ‘My sister and I don’t live in England now.’ We don’t have a house.
5 ‘Our children don’t go to university.’ They don’t study medicine.
6 ‘I don’t have a big flat in London.’
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Vocabulary
Verbs with noun phrases
1a Write the phrases in the box next to the correct verb.
to school children
go have
in a flat
live
medicine in an office
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study work
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b 5.4 Listen and check.
3a Write four sentences about you. Use the verb
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phrases in the box. Write two true sentences and two
false sentences. PRONUNCIATION
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I live in … I don’t live in … I have … 1 5.5 Listen to ten sentences. Is each sentence
I don’t have any … I study … I don’t study … positive (+) or negative (–)?
I work in/with/for … I don’t work in/with/for …
2 Listen again and repeat the sentences.
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I work in an office.
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Unit 5, Study & Practice 2, page 106 b Work in pairs and compare your sentences.
'S A FACT 3a Think of two people you know (e.g. your parents, two
IT ! friends. Write five sentences about them using the
Approximately verb phrases in exercise 1.
one billion people
in the world Denise is my friend. She has three children and …
speak Chinese.
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1 a in a big city 4 a with my family
b in a small town b with my wife
2 a
b
3 a
Yes, I do.
No, I don’t.
in a house
5 a
b
Yes, I do.
No, I don’t.
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b in a flat
Preparation
GRAMMAR
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Listening
Present simple questions Short answers
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Do you work near home? Yes, I do. (NOT Yes, I work.) 1 5.9 Listen to Talya talking. Tick the things she
Do they have any children? No, I don’t. (NOT No, I don’t talks about.
Where do you live? work.) • her country
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• her city
• her house/flat
• her job
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3 Write questions with you using the ideas in the box. • her favourite food
• her brothers/sisters
live alone go to work or school at the weekend • her parents
work in an office go to work or school by bus • her grandparents
have a car work for a big company
study after work have a big family 2a Complete the table with information about Talya.
4 Work in pairs and take turns. Choose eight questions b Listen again and check.
from exercises 1 and 3. Ask and answer the questions.
3 Listen again and tick the phrases you hear in the
Unit 5, Study & Practice 3, page 106 Useful language box.
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I go to work by (bus/car).
c Talking about your family / important people
N My (brother’s/sister’s/father’s/mother’s) name is …
He’s/She’s (a student).
They’re (teachers).
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They work for a big company.
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