It’s awonderful world! od > TEST YOUR GRAMMAR 1 Make questions sentences. 1 | come from Scotland. (Where?) you from the 2. | was hom in London in 1984 (Where? When?) 3. Ive in Milan. (Where?) 4 Ive got two brothers and a sister. (How many?) 5 im studying English because I need it for iy job. (Why?) 6 Ive been studying English for three years. (How long?) 7. Ive been to the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia. (Which countries?) 8. | went to Canada three years ago. (When?) 2. Ask and answer the questions with a partner. (Where do you come from? —— (From Mexico. re were you born? In Puebla, a city near Mexico City. 3. Tell the class about your partner. Enrique comes from Mexico. He was born in Puebla i 1986, but now he ives in Mexico City. 6 Unit? + I’sa wonderful world! (eae WHAT DO YOU KNOW? Tenses and auxiliary verbs 1 Answer'the questions in the quiz. Listen and check. 7 Niel | When did the modern Olympic Games start? @ 1806 b 1896 © 1922 How long does it take for the sun’s rays to reach the Earth? 8 minutes b 8 hours © 8 days What was Neil Armstrong doing when he said in 1969, ‘That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind? Gusts ity Pefnowledge = ord? » Social expressions b the Pacific Ocean ¢ the Indian Ocean What doesn’t a vegetarian eat? What does www. stand for? Where were glasses invented? a Mexico b Italy © China How many times has Brazil won the World Cup?Occ Which questions inthe quiz contain the following tenses? Present |Past Simple _ Simple Present Past Continuous __| Continuous Present Simple | Past Simple passive passive Present Perfect | Simple Present Perfect Continuous Which tenses use the auxiliary verbs do/does/did to make the negative and question? Which tenses use the auxiliary verb have? Which tenses use the auxiliary verb be? D>P> Grammar Reference 11-13 pp134-135, 2. In groups, write some general knowledge questions. Ask the other groups. performing on stage. recording an album returning to his apartment fT) Which language is spoken by the most people in the world? Spanish b Chinese ¢ English EE] Why didn’t Nelson Mandela become President of South Africa until he was fF] How long have people been sending emails? since the 1990s PRACTICE Negatives and pronunciation 1 Correct the information in the sentences. 1 The sun rises in the west. 2. Cows eat meat. 3° Mercedes-Benz cars are made in Canada, 4 Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in 1989. 5 John Lennon was performing on stage when he ‘was assassinated. 6 The Pyramids were built by the Chinese. 7 We've been in class for five hours. 8 We're studying Italian, Listen and compare. Notice the stress and intonation. Practise saying the sentences. ‘The sun doesn't rise in the ‘west! It rises in the east! Talking about you 2 Complete the questions. 1 A What do last night? B I stayed at home and watched television. 2 A What kind of books like reading? B Horror stories and science fiction. 3A ‘ever been to the United States? B Yes, I have. I went there last year. A like if B Yes, I really enjoyed it. 4A What the teacher 2 B He's helping Maria with this exercise. 5A your mother do? B She works in a bank, 6 A Why_____ do your homework last night? B Because I didn't feel well. 7 A What doing next weekend? B I'm going toa party. eA you a TV in your bedroom? B No, I haven't, Just a CD player. Listen and check. With a partner, ask and answer the questions about you. is or has? 3 Listen to the sentences. They all contain 's ‘Write is or has, 1 is 3 i 4 5 6 7 8 Unit + It’s a wonderful world! 7MAKING CONVERSATIO Short answers Listen to the breakfast conversation. How does Emma feel? Dad Good morning! Did you have a nice time last night? Emma_ Yes. Dad Do you want breakfast? Emma_No. Dad Have you had any coffee? Emma Yes. Dad 1s Bill coming round tonight? Emma_No. Dad OK. Are you leaving for school soon? Emma Yes. Bye! 2 HED Listen to a simitar conversation. ‘What are the differences? 3. Complete the conversation. Dad Good morning! Did you have a nice time last night? Emma Yes, __. T went round to Bill’s hous Dad Do you want breakfast? Emma » thanks, 'm not Dad Have you had any coffee? Emma Yes, I don’t want any more, thanks. Dad Is Bill coming round tonight? CyWnroes Emma No, - He's going out 11 We use short answers in English conversation because yes or no on its for dinner with his family ‘own can sound impolite. tt helps if you can add some information, Dad OK. Are you leaving for school soon? Did you watch the match last nigh now. Bye! Listen again and check Close your books. ‘Try to remember ihetanvecdtion Do you like cooking? No, dont. But ike eating! Have you got any brothers or sisters? Isit cold out today? ‘Are you working hard? Did you go out last night? Have you ever been to Singapore? D> Grammar Reference 1.4 p135 2 Reply to these questions using a short answer. Add some information. 5 Listen to the questions, Answer using a short answer, and add some information 8 Unit? + It'sa wonderful world!PRACTICE € 7 Match a question in A with a short answer in B and a line in C. sations 1 2 3 4 5 A 2 € ‘Do you like studying English? No,thaven't. | Its freezing. Is ita nice day today? ‘NN Yes Lam its my favourite subject, Have you seen my pen? ‘Yes, I do. | couldn't afford to. Are you staying at home this evening? No, dint Do you want to come round? Did you go on holiday last summer? No, it isn’t. | You can borrow mine if you want EAED Listen and check. Practise the conversations with a partner. P: 2. Read the class survey and add two questions of your own. Stand up! Ask three students the questions and complete the chart. Remember to add some information in your reply. Getti 3. The United Nations invites celebrities from all over the world to be Goodwill Ambassadors. Work with a partner. You each have different information about Kaori Sato, who works for the UN. Ask and answer questions. Student A Lookat p151. Student B-— Look at p52. ing information St 1 Have you got a computer at home? Oo 2. Are you going out tonight? oO 3 Do you play a musical instrument? O° 4 Did you watch TV last night? Oo 5 Have you seen any good films lately? Oo 6 Are you going to have a coffee after the lessan? C) 7, oO 8 ° OO00C0C000 & Unit 1 + Its a wonderful world!READING AND SPEAKING Wonders of the modern world 1 Match each topic in A with two items in B. i 5 temic ia | ser ‘tne Medea xiewe | campetion one The tenet be pane on raed penal spre tae five yrves Theolmpc anes | teed weite Read the text about the wonders fs of the world. Write a topic from A in the paragraph headings 1-6. r 3. Answer the questions. 1 What has changed because of the Internet? What will happen with the Internet? 2. What has happened in space exploration since 19692 | don’t believe that today’s wonders are similar in kind to the wonders of the Ancient World. They were 3. What is the most noticeable result of all buildings, such as the Pyramids in Egypt, or other better health care? architectural structures. Over the past 100 years, 4 X= the number of people who we have seen amazing technological and scientific tiaellbd abtoad ln theainesecttty achievements. These are surely our modern wonders. century. What does X also equal? 5. What are the good and bad things about the Olympics? 1 6 What point was Jonathan Swift making about farmers and politicians? 7 ‘Weare:stil here!” Why is this a wonder? 8 What do these numbers refer to? {tis everywhere. More than halfa billion people use it, and the number cf people who are online increases by 100 million every year. In 1994 there were only a few hundred web pages. Today there are billions. {thas revolutionized the way we live and work. But we are still in the | 100 million afew hundred 1969 ‘early days. Soon there will be more and more interactivity between the [ milionscf people 47 four 70950 user and the website, and we willbe able to give instructions using speech, Talking about you 2 In 1969, Nell Armstrong stepped out of his space capsule onto the Iingpertiavclecies one hea PEO ‘surface of the moon and made his famous statement: ‘That's one small “+ What are your favourite websites? ‘step fora man, one glant leap for mankind”. Since then, there have been * When did you last travel by plane? Where ‘space probes to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and even to the sun. One day, 2 were you going? space observatory will study how the first stars and galaxies began. + Are there any stories about health care in the news at the moment? + What sporting events are taking place now or in the near future? So far, it seems that we are alone in the universe. There are no signs yet that there is intelligent life outside our own solar system. But who knows what the future holds? 10 Unit? + It's a wonderful world!Surely nothing has done more for the comfort and happiness of the human race than the advances in health care! How many millions of people have benefited from the humble aspirin? How many lives has penicillin saved? Average life expectancy worldwide has risen dramatically cover the past 100 years, from about 47 years in 1900 to about 77 years today. 4 We are a world on the move. Airlines carry more than 3.5 billion people to their destinations every year. It is estimated that, at any one time these days, there are as many people travelling in aeroplanes as the total number of people who travelled abroad in the whole of the nineteenth century (but | have no idea how they worked this out). 5 tis true that they are now commercialized, and there is, greed and drug abuse. However, itis a competition in which almost every country in the world takes part. Every four years, fora brief moment, we see the world come together in peace and friendship. We feel hope again for the future of mankind. Ly cu Dey 6 11724, Jonathan Swift wrote, ‘Whoever makes two blades of grass or two ears of com grow where only one grew before serves mankind better than the whole race of politicians’. In Europe our farmers have done this. In 3709, whole villages in France died of hunger. Now in Europe, we can’t eat all the food we produce. IFonly politicians could find a way to shafe itwith those parts of the world where there is famine. - ne i 7 Weare still here!’ } 4 The last wonder of the modern world is simply that we are still her We have had nuclear weapons for over 50 years that could destroy the world, but we haven't used them to do it. Thisis surely the greatest wonder of allLISTENING AND SPEAKING My wonders 1 GBD Listen to three people from the same family saying what they think are the wonders of the modern world. Complete the chart. Whats good | Are there any problems? Sam | dishwasher Kelly Peter 2 Work with a partner. Which of these inventions do you think is the most important? Mark them [1] for the most important to [&] for the least important. i the computer Oi nuclear weapons: OO the car the space rocket Ci thetelevision 1] the mobile phone CH the aeroplane —_[] the space satelite 3. Work in groups of four. Work together to agree on the three most important inventions. Which has changed the world the most? 4 Talk together as a class. What other machines, inventions, or discoveries would you add to the list? 12 Unit + tsa wonderful world! VOCABULARY What's in a word? ‘These exercises will help you with your vocabulary learning Parts of speech and meaning 1 These sentences all contain the nonsense word ugey. Ts uggy used as a verb, an adjective, a noun, or an adverb? How do you know? 1 Tcouldn't hear the film because the man next to ‘me was eating his uggy so loudly. 2. There was a lot of snow on the road. Unfortunately, I uggied on some ice and crashed into a tree. 3. When Pierre and Madeleine met, they fell uggily in love and got married one month later. 4 After an uggy day at work, with meetings and phone calls all day, Iwas ready for a quiet evening. Can you guess what uggy means in the four sentences? ‘Which real English word goes in each sentence? + passionately + skidded + hectic + popcorn Spelling and pronunciation 2 In these groups three words rhyme, but one is different. Work with a partner and read them aloud. ‘Underline the word in each group which has a different vowel sound. DP Phonetic symbols p159 1 /o/ or Au good food wood stood 2 fis or fe bread head read (present) read (past) 3 /et/ or fe? paid made played said 4 /N/or [a0 done phone sun won 5 /ea/ or /to/? dear hear bear near 6 /3:/ or /o:? work fork walk pork Listen and check. What do you notice about English spelling? 3 Here are some of the words from exercise 2 in phonetic symbols, Read them aloud, then write them. 1 fwd 2 /na/ 3 stud! 4 iperd/ Listen and check. 8 worksWord formation 4 Write different forms of the word act using the suffixes from the box. 1 Mybrother’s an act___. He's making an advert now. 2. My grandmother is 89, but she's stil very act__. 3 This is not a time to do nothing. It is a time for act, 4 Act____isnot usually a well-paid job. 5 Wedo alot of act_____ in class to Jearn English, Words that go together 5. Match a word in A with a word in B. o strong carefully full-time coffee film in love drive a jumper fall star try on job Keeping vocabulary records 6 Do you have a vocabulary notebook? Discuss with your teacher and other students how you record new vocabulary. Which of these do you use? + the translation + the part of speech (verb, noun, etc) + the meaning (using other words) + the pronunciation + an example sentence ect Cad) /ektik/ = very busy Uhad a hectic day at he office, WRITING: Correcting mistakes (1) PP Goto pi03 EVERYDAY ENGLISH Social expressions 1 When we're talking with friends we use a lot of idiomatic expressions. ‘Hang on a sec! Teed to go the loo! Match a line in A with a line in B. A B 1 Sorry I'm late. | got stuck in trafic. 2. Bye, Mum! 'm off to school now. 5. Have you heard that Jennys going ‘That sounds like a good idea. The break will do you good. Soam |. cant stand allthis cout with Pete? "Never mind. Youre here now. 4 How long didi take you to do the Come in and sit down, homework? ‘Ages! How about you? 5. don't know about you, but 'm sick | Yes, it cost a fortune! and tied of this weather. Really? I don't know what she sees in him! I'm sorry. | can't make it then What about abit later? ‘Take care, my love. Have a {6 Who was that | saw you with lastnight? 7 Imtired.'m taking next week oft. 8 Let’ go fora run inthe park! 9 Canwe get together this afternoon at3.007 nice day! 10. What a gorgeous coat Was it Me? Run? You must be joking! | expensive? Mind your own business! EEBED Listen and check. Practise the conversations with a partner. 2 Listen to the sentences, Reply using a line from B in exercise 1 Make any necessary changes. 3 Choose some of the conversations from exercise | and continue them. ‘A. What a gorgeous coat! Was it expensive? B Yes, it cost ¢ fortune. But the material’s beautiful, don’t you think? ‘A. Wow! Where did you get it? B I saw it in the window of that new shop in the High Street, you know, it’s called ‘Chic A Yes, I know it. They have some really nice stuff. Unit 1 + Ita wonderful world! 1B14 Unit2 + Get happy! WHAT MAKES PEOPLE HAPPY? > TEST YOUR GRAMMAR Present tenses Look at the pars of sentences, Which one is correct? Why? 1 They havea teenage son. They‘ having a tenage son 1 Look at the ingredients for happiness. How important is each one to you? I= very important; 6 = not important. D g00d health in mind and body CO abig house L job satisfaction regular holidays LD aloving marriage 1 a supportive family C2 hobbies and leisure activities C1 lots of friends C nomoney worries Compare your answers with a partner. 2 What do you think is the happiest time of a person's life ~ when they are young or when they are old? Why? 2. She speaks five languages. She's speaking five languages. 3. Don't tum off the TV! watch it Don't turnoff the TV1'm watching it. 4 Ohno! trains. ‘Oh nol ts raining. 5. Were thinking opera is boring. We think operas boring. 6 English speaks all over the world, English is spoken all over the world.3 Read and listen to the text about Sidney Fisk. Answer the questions. 1 What do you think are the good and bad things about Sidney's life? 2 Do you think his life is exciting or boring? Would you like to have a life like Sidney's? 3. Do you know any people with similar lives? Are they happy? if I’m happ Sidney Fisk, 45 Work Sidney Fisk is a lawyer. He's paid very well, but he usually has to work long hours. He works for an international company in Dallas, Texas, so he travels allot in his job. At the moment he's ‘working in Mexico, and next week he’s ‘travelling to France. Free time Home life If he’s at home at the weekend, he and Sa CO his wife sometimes play golf, but that Sidney is married and he's got two doesn't happen very ofvens They never children, aged 12 and 14, lle rarely sees have much time to relax together, his children because so much of his a time is spent away from home. He's got 2 Tresiromeiesimue ao tee, ee eDBYS ls {t's very big, with eight bedrooms. His He says he doesn’t know if he's happy. wife is an interior designer. He's too busy to think about it. Corns 4 Complete the questions about Sidney. Then ask and answer them with a partner. Find these words in the text about Sidney Fisk usually, often rarely, never. + ..smaried? Find two examples each in the text of the Present Continuous and the Has... any children? Present Simple passive. Which auniliary verb is used to form these? What... his wife do? Complete the questions and answers with the correct auxiliary verbs. Which sports... play? Beg cr vale Whee wig athe meen? she work in a bank? No, she __ tachi they play golf? Yes,they isten and check. you play tennis? No,1__ 5. Ask and answer similar questions with _hepaidatot? Yes,he your partner. he working in France at the moment? No, he DP Grammar Reference 21 and 2.2 ppl35-136 Unit 2 + Get happy! 15PRAC Listening and spe: 1 Look at the photos and listen to Jeff Norman, Whats unusual about his lifestyle? What does he like about it? Extra! Extra! Read all about it! 45-year-old college graduate makes $60,000 a year as a paperboy! 2. What di Jeff say? Complete the sentences, 3. Write notes about Sidney and Jef 1 Tm _paid_ good money ~ $60,000 a year. And I often Seda $50 a week in tips. Sidey Fak 21 at 2.00 a.m, The first newspaper work at2.30am, 3 1___ared Chevy Blazer and the newspapers into the back 4 1___ the peace and quiet Home 5 Occasionally, a jogger. and family 6 [usually home by 7.00 am, 7 Mywife at the University of Iowa. 8 Some days my kids’ baseball team, other daysI___golf,__| Freetime 9 1 also for my masters degree at the moment. 1 be a marriage counselor. 10 Some people it’ not much of a job, but, hey, when they inanoffice,1_____ golf. ‘Work with a partner. Compare Sidney’s Tiencend check life with Jes, How old are they? How many things do they have in common? ‘Who do you think is happier? Why? 16 Unit2 + Get happy!