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Grammar 3 Write questions that match the answers in Exercise 2

a) \Alhat is aout besl {tiend's naue?
Find examples in the text of the tenses below. b) What kind of
I grew up in England, but l:gbeen-[]riag in
Belgium for about ten years. My wile !g Belgian
and I've known her for a long time. Belore we came
c) Where
here, we were livine in London. We sDeak French at
home. h the evenines, l'm learnine Flemish. d) How many times
Present simple
a) How long
b)
Preselt continuous 0 Vvhere

c)

Present perfect
g) What

d)
P resent perfect continuols Arswer the questions in Exercise 3.
e) a)

Past sim?le b)
c)
0
d)
8)
e)
Past continuous
h) 0
8)
Put the verbs in brackets into the tense that is
stated. Complete the short answers.
a) Present sitnple a) Is your best friend the same age as you?

My best Iriend's name (be) Roger. No, he rsz'l

b) Present simple b) Does he/she come from your town?
Yes, he/she
I _ [ike) reggae and hip hop music. .

c) Present continuous Were your parents friends of his,/her parents?

I (sit) at the desk in my No, they _ .

bedroom right now. d) Is helshe studying Englistr, too?

d) Present perfect No, helshe --
I (visit) England three e) Has helshe been helping you with your
times. homework?
e) Presmt perfect continuous Yes, he,/she
(live) in this iown for Did you see him/her yesterday?
eight years. No,I-.
f) Past simple
8) Was he,/she working yesterday?
I (go) to Switzerland on Yes, helshe
holiday last year.
h) Have you ever been on holiday together?
g) Past continuous
No, we
I (wear) jeans and a T-shirt
yesterday.

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Wdte true short aflswers to the questions in d) We normally go for a walk together in the
Exercfue 5 about your best friend. aftemoon.
a)
b) e) We enioy often the same things.

c)
d) f) I buy him now and again clothes.

e)
0 g) I take him always on holiday with me.

c)
h) h) However, he's occasionally more interested in
other women.
Write questions that match the answers.
a) I use my computer mostly for playifig games.
Whal do gou use kout conpuler {of
b) I conhde i^ my sister.
Who
c) l'm Eood at playing the guitar.
l rhat
d) I spend my money onholidnys and going out.
What
e) I worry dboutfnding a job and aboul money.
What kind of things
f) I usually have dirmer wlthmy parents.
l^/ho
g) lbelong lo a sports club.

What clubs or groups

h) I'm interested in lots of dffirent things. 10 Write the words in order to make sentences.
What a) a am hurry I in usually
I an usuallu ih a huffa.
Underline the correct verb form.
b) buy ever hardly I online things
a) Who does live /
liygs next door to you?
b) IMhat do they do ,/ they do for a living?
c) all friends I my text the time
c) What kind of films do you like / like you?
d) VVhat does make / makes you sad?
d) do from housework I the time time
e) Which friends do you see / see you most often?
to
f) Who does know / knows you best?
g) l,ty'ho does send / sends you the most text
e) a go I month once the theatre to
messages?
h) I /hat do they write / write they about?
f) am classes English for I late rarely
Write true answers to the questions.
c) about don't I often things worry
Correct the grammatical mistakes in four of the
sentences below. Tick (/) the sentences that are
correct.
h) always dreams I my remember

a) Fido and I usually get on very well together.

i) alone be I often prefer to

b) We have never arguments.

Change the sentences to make them true for you.

c) He regularly wakes me up in the morning.

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 Vocabulary Match the questions (a-g) to the responses (1-2.
a) Do you have a lot in common with him/her?
1 Complete the text with the phrases in the box. b) Are your close friends the same as his/hers?

a lot in common always bethere click c) Did you hit it off immediately?
close friends drifted apart fell out
d) Are there any times when you don't get on
well?
got on really well hi+j+-etr
e) l,t[hat kinds of things do you disagree about?
our separate ways ups and downs
f) Do you think you will drift apart or become
closer as you get older?
Charlotte and I fust met when we were at college
and we (1) hit it o{l irnmediately. g) How sure are you that he,/she will always be
there for you?
We were at a party and we spent the whole evening
laughing and talking. Very soon, we became 1 No. At fust, I didn't think she was interested in
(2) . We had the same me at all. It was a long time before we clicked.
interests and the same tastes in music so we had Not at all. She has her social life and I have

(3)
mine.
. We did lots of things
One hundred per cent. I believe that marriage is
together and we (4) . At the
for life.
time, I was going out with a girl called Mandy from
4 Politics. So we try not to talk about it.
my home town. But we didn't see each other oftery
5 We'1l never go our separate ways. Every day, the
and slowly we (5) . 144:ren love between us gets stronger
we finally decided to go (6) Yes, we have our ups and downs. Especially
it was no surprise to our friends when Charlotte and when one of us is under stress.
I started going out as a couple. But our relatioruhip fn some ways, we're very different, but we share
changed and we didn't (7) the same interests.
in the same way. Everyone has their
(8) , Charlotte said to me,
a b c d e t
but I knew somethhg was wrong. We argued about 7
little things and we finally (9)
completely after one argument. I can't even Write true answers for questions a-g in Exercise 2
remember what it was aboui. The funny thing is about your par:tner (husband / wife / girlfriend /
boyfriend).
that we're now the best of friends and we have
a)
been for more than ten years. We know we'll
(10) for each other.
b)

c)

d)

e)

8)

S 01 Listen and check.

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Insert the missing letters to comPlete the Complete the conversation with the phrases in the
conversation, box.

Hey, Joe! Hi! How's better busy PrettY good

keeping
Not (2) b_
- . What
it (L\ so i q? (3) a vou, Mel? See you thin8s uP to
^
Nick Hi, Sonya. How are (1) lhinos ?

Sonya: Oh" (2) . And you?

Nick: Yeah, fine. What have you been
(3) lately?
Sonya: Oh, (4) , you know.
Work, work, work.
Nick: Yeah, me too.
Sonya: Good to hear it. Anyway,
(5) get back to the
office. (6)

That (8) w- be great.

out for a drink ---
Look, I must (9) d- - - -
I'll give you a (10) c- -
S 04 Listen and check.

Pronunciation
1 S 05 Listen to the recording and Practise saying
the different sounds'

(short) /i/ (long)

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fill feel
6 02 Listen and check. his he's
live leave
Put the lines in order to make a conversation.
sit seat
a) Alex: No worries, Take care.
this these
b) Alex Hi, Ruth. How's life?
will we'11
c) Alex: Fine, just taking it easy, you know.
d) Ruth: You too. BYe.
e) Ruth: Great, thanks. What about You? S 06 Listen and write the words you hear.
f1 Ruth: Look, I'm afraid I can't stoP. a)-
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b)--
1 3 4 5 6
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b d)
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Reading
1 Read the article opposite and choose the best title.
a) Friends stars lall out in plals for new movie
b) Nobody wants the new Frlerds movie
c) Real life friends get together one more time

2 Put the paragraph summaries in the correct order.

a) The relationship between the stars :-.]
b) The stars'lives after the end of the series i

c) The TV show ard the movje 11'

d) lAtrat happens in Friends 1__,.

The article contains one sentence that should not

be there. Find the sentence and cross it out.

Q 07 Listen and check. -1t'agrcix*Ifq:*-x*t

Read the article again and say if the senlences are The TV series Friends was one of the most
true (T) or false (D. popular TV shows of all time. More than 50 million
a) The stars of Friends are planning to iri Americans watched the final episode of the show
in 2004 and the six main stars were all household
make a new TV series.
names. Now it seems, they will soon be back.
b) Ross is in love with Rachel.
il According to some reports, filming of a Friends
a_,__.1

c) Ross and Chandler knew each other

movie will sta rt soon.
when they were students.
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d) The six stars clicked at the beginning t; i

The show followed the ups and downs in the

of the fust series.
lives of six New York friends. Monica and Ross are
e) Some of the stars wanted a higher ai brother and sister. Rachel, Monicat best friend at
salary. high school, is the love of Ross's life. Phoebe lived
0 Some of the starc have appeared
together on other TV shows.
i: for a time with Monica, and Chandler shared a
room with Ross at college. Finally, there is Joey, an
8) Lisa Kudrow is going out with L] actor who is looking for work and loves his food.
Matthew Perry. The six regularly meet, drink coffee and talk about
their lives.
Choose the best concluding paragraph for the
article. The six stars oI Friends worked closely together
a) Jennifer Aniston and her new boyfriend, and got on well. According to David Schwimmer
John Mayer, went to Punta Mita in Meico (Ross), the six hit it off {rom the start. 'We were
last weekend to stay at a friend's house. The really lucky,' he says. When they talked to the
previous week, the couple had dinner in a Los show's producers about their salaries, they did it
Angeles restauralt with Aniston's close friend, together. ln real life, they became close friends
Courteney Cox Arquette. and, in an interview at the end of the series, they
b) Of the six stars, Jennifer Aniston has been the said that they were like a family. Jennifer Aniston
most succesftrl since the show ended. Until described the end of the show as a divorce that
recently, she was not sure that a Frlends movie nobody wanted. Brad Pitt later married Angelina
was a good idea, but, if the reports are hue, J o lie.
she has changed her mind. Good news for all
Friends tans everywhercl Since the show ended, Jennifer has appeared in
Dirt, a ry show starring Courteney Cox Arquette
(Monica). When Courteney had a baby daughter,
Jennifer became the child's godmother. Lisa
Kudrow (Phoebe) and Matthew Peny (Chandler)
are also very close. He always talks to her about
his girlfriends and, he says, she gives him 'amazing
advice'. David Schwimmer worked with Matt
LeBlanc (Joey) on N4att's new TV show.

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Writing

[email protected] Hi, Philip. How are things? I got yo Today 9:43 pm

f--l Confirmation Thank you for your or Today 8.07 pm
LJ [email protected]
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[email protected] Holidays for !l Today 6.55 pm
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[email protected] (2) Next week Good to hear from you Today 11.25 am

I [email protected] (no subject) Give me a call when yo Today 11.09 am

i--l b.wragg@fnebank Loan request Re: Account No.017 Today 9.01 pm

i: [email protected] FW: Holiday photos Got them thnx Jul 22

fl [email protected] YOUR URGENT RESPONSE NEE Jul 22

rl [email protected] Re: yr order ref no KY7342 Jul 21
-': [email protected] (2) No prohlem Just a quick note to sa Jul L9

i:) [email protected] Dinner H i, Philip. See you on Friday Jul 18

Look at the inbox of emails above. Which of these 4 Rewrite the email using the punctuation narks in
are probably Exercise 3 and capital letters where necessary.
a) personal messages?
b) business messages?
c) spam?
Dear Katy and Paul
':
havent written for ages so I thought ld drop you a line
I
Which underlined hlperlink on the left or at the I are you on holiday now Im at the seaside with my family
top of the email inbox do you click if you want to: , but the weather is teryible rain rain rain I hope its better
a) read your emalls labox , where you are let me know how things are going I hope
: youre well
b) end your email session
: With best wishes
c) write an email
d) find a friend's email address
, PS A Belgian friend of mine is going to be in London next
e) look at an email that you started writing but did : month he doesn't know anyone there is there any chance
not finish : you could look after him for one day Id be really grateful

0 report an email that you did not want to receive

5 Read Katy and Pauls's rePly to the email in
g) send an email to the rubbish bur Exercise 4. Write Philip's reply.

3 Match the punctuation marks to the rYords.

a) question mark
b) apostrophe : Hi Philip,
c) exclamation mark , Just a quick note to say yes - no problem. We'd be really
colluna happy to look after your friend when he comes to London.
d) 7
wha his name?
him? What's
: Can you tell us a bit more about himT
e) dash When's he coming?
What sort of things does he like to do? Wh
0 I tull stop Has he been here before?

, Love,

: Kaiy & Paul

PS Could you send us a Ohoto of him? Q

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