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Authors’ Acknowledgments
A great number of people contributed to the development of Passages Third Edition. Particular thanks are owed to the following
reviewers and institutions, as their insights and suggestions have helped define the content and format of the third edition:

Paulo A. Machado, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Simone C. Wanguestel, Niterói, Brazil; Athiná Arcadinos Leite, ACBEU, Salvador,
Brazil; Lauren Osowski, Adult Learning Center, Nashua, NH, USA; Brenda Victoria, AIF System, Santiago, Dominican
Republic; Alicia Mitchell-Boncquet, ALPS Language School, Seattle, WA, USA; Scott C. Welsh, Arizona State University,
Tempe, AZ, USA; Silvia Corrêa, Associação Alumni, São Paulo, Brazil; Henrick Oprea, Atlantic Idiomas, Brasília, Brazil;
Márcia Lima, B.A. English School, Goiânia, Brazil; Carlos Andrés Mejía Gómez, BNC Centro Colombo Americano
Pereira, Pereira, Colombia; Tanja Jakimoska, Brava Training, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Paulo Henrique Gomes de Abreu,
Britannia International English, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Gema Kuri Rodríguez, Business & English, Puebla, Mexico;
Isabela Villas Boas, Casa Thomas Jefferson, Brasília, Brazil; Inara Lúcia Castillo Couto, CEL-LEP, São Paulo, Brazil;
Ana Cristina Hebling Meira, Centro Cultural Brasil-Estados Unidos, Campinas, Brazil; Juliana Costa da Silva, Centro de
Cultura Anglo Americana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Heriberto Díaz Vázquez, Centro de Investigación y Docencia
Económicas, Mexico City, Mexico; D. L. Dorantes-Salas, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, La Paz,
Mexico; Elizabeth Carolina Llatas Castillo, Centro Peruano Americano El Cultural, Trujillo-La Libertad, Peru; Márcia M. A.
de Brito, Chance Language Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Rosalinda Heredia, Colegio Motolinia, San Juan del Río,
Mexico; Maria Regina Pereira Filgueiras, College Language Center, Londrina, Brazil; Lino Mendoza Rodriguez,
Compummunicate, Izúcar de Matamoros, Mexico; Maria Lucia Sciamarelli, Cultura Inglesa, Campinas, Brazil; Elisabete
Thess, Cultura Inglesa, Petrópolis, Brazil; Catarina M. B. Pontes Kruppa, Cultura Inglesa, São Paulo, Brazil; Sheila Lima,
Curso Oxford, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Elaine Florencio, Beth Vasconcelos, English House Corporate, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil; Vasti Rodrigues e Silva, Fox Idiomas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Ricardo Ramos Miguel Cézar, Walter Júnior Ribeiro
Silva, Friends Language Center, Itapaci, Brazil; Márcia Maria Pedrosa Sá Freire de Souza, IBEU, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
Jerusa Rafael, IBEUV, Vitória, Brazil; Lilianne de Souza Oliveira, ICBEU, Manaus, Brazil; Liviane Santana Paulino de
Carvalho, ICBEU, São Luís, Brazil; Manuel Marrufo Vásquez, iempac Instituto de Enseñanza del Idioma Ingles, Tequila,
Mexico; Nora Aquino, Instituto de Ciencias y Humanidades Tabasco, Villahermosa, Mexico; Andrea Grimaldo, Instituto
Laurens, Monterrey, Mexico; Cenk Aykut, Staci Jenkins, Kristen Okada, Interactive College of Technology, Chamblee,
GA, USA; Imeen Manahan-Vasquez, Zuania Serrano, Interactive Learning Systems, Pasadena, TX, USA; Nicholas J.
Jackson, Jackson English School, Uruapan, Mexico; Marc L. Cummings, Jefferson Community and Technical College,
Louisville, KY, USA; Solange Nery Veloso, Nery e Filho Idiomas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Tomas Sparano Martins,
Phil Young’s English School, Curitiba, Brazil; Paulo Cezar Lira Torres, PRIME Language Center, Vitória, Brazil;
Angie Vasconcellos, Robin English School, Petrópolis, Brazil; Barbara Raifsnider, San Diego Community College District,
San Diego, CA, USA; James Drury de Matos Fonseca, SENAC, Fortaleza, Brazil; Manoel Fialho da Silva Neto, SENAC,
Recife, Brazil; Marilyn Ponder, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Irapuato, Mexico; Linda M. Holden, The College of Lake County,
Grayslake, IL, USA; Janaína da Silva Cardoso, UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Gustavo Reges Ferreira, Sandlei Moraes de
Oliveira, UFES, Vitória, Brazil; Nancy Alarcón Mendoza, UNAM, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza, Mexico City,
Mexico; Rosa Awilda López Fernández, UNAPEC, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Vera Lúcia Ratide, Unilínguas,
São Leopoldo, Brazil; Elsa Yolanda Cruz Maldonado, Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, Tapachula, Mexico; Deida Perea,
Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico; Gabriela Ladrón de Guevara de León, Universidad
Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico; Juan Manuel Ardila Prada, Universidad Autónoma de
Occidente, Cali, Colombia; Lizzete G. Acosta Cruz, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Fresnillo, Mexico; Ary Guel,
Fausto Noriega, Areli Martínez Suaste, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico; Gabriela Cortés
Sánchez, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Azcapotzalco, Mexico City, Mexico; Secundino Isabeles Flores,
Guillermo Guadalupe Duran Garcia, Maria Magdalena Cass Zubiria, Universidad de Colima, Colima, Mexico;
Alejandro Rodríguez Sánchez, Universidad del Golfo de México Norte, Orizaba, Mexico; Fabiola Meneses Argüello,
Universidad La Salle Cancún, Cancún, Mexico; Claudia Isabel Fierro Castillo, Universidad Politécnica de Chiapas,
Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico; Eduardo Aguirre Rodríguez, M.A. Carolina Labastida Villa, Universidad Politécnica de
Quintana Roo, Cancún, Mexico; Gabriela de Jesús Aubry González, Universidad TecMilenio Campus Veracruz,
Boca del Rio, Mexico; Frank Ramírez Marín, Universidad Veracruzana, Boca del Río, Mexico.

Additional thanks are owed to Alex Tilbury for revising the Self-assessment charts, Paul MacIntyre for revising the Grammar
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Welcome to Passages!
Congratulations! You have learned the basics; now Along the way, you will encounter frequent
it’s time to raise your English to a whole new level. communication reviews and progress checks that
will systematically consolidate your learning,
Your journey through each unit of Passages Third
while additional grammar and vocabulary
Edition will include a range of activities that will
practice is available whenever you need it in the
progressively expand your language ability in
Grammar Plus and Vocabulary Plus sections in the
a variety of contexts, including formal and informal
back of this book.
communication.

RAISING YOUR ENGLISH TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL

Unique features to boost your English proficiency!
GRAMMAR

1 1
FRIENDS AND FAMILY
LESSON A

STARTING POINT
Personality survey
What kind of person are you?
is explored in context and builds on
previously encountered structures.
Grammar Plus:
extra grammar explanations and practice
when you need it!
A Do you agree with these statements? Complete the survey.
3 GRAMMAR
Verbs followed by gerunds
Personality Survey Definitely
agree
Somewhat
agree
Definitely
disagree
Use the gerund form after these verbs. Use the gerund or infinitive form after these verbs.
1. I’m not afraid of giving speeches in front of the class. I enjoy going to parties where I don’t know everyone. I can’t stand being / to be in a messy room.
I avoid expressing my feelings and ideas in public. I love taking / to take my friends to cool new clubs.
2. I enjoy going to parties where I don’t know everyone.
I don’t mind giving up my time to help other people. I hate getting up / to get up for early morning classes.
3. I avoid expressing my feelings and ideas in public.
Use the gerund form after these expressions containing prepositions.
4. I insist on making my own decisions. I insist on making my own decisions.
5. I don’t mind giving up my time to help other people. I always feel like going dancing!
6. I never worry about getting places on time. I’m into going out to new foreign restaurants.
GRAMMAR PLUS see page 106
7. I always feel like going dancing!
8. I can’t stand being in a messy, disorganized room.
A Look at the Starting Point on page 2 again. Can you find other expressions that are
9. I prefer telling people how I feel, even if it’s embarrassing. followed by gerunds? Which of them can also be followed by infinitives?
STARTING POINT
B Pair work How do you feel about these things? Discuss your answers using
B Pair work Compare your responses to the survey. Find two ways you and
your partner are different.
presents new grammar verbs or expressions followed by gerunds and infinitives.
1. tell people that I’m angry with them 4. eat a full meal late at night
“I’m not afraid of giving speeches in front of the class. How about you?” in a variety of real-world 2. help with chores around the house 5. start conversations with people I don’t know
“Oh, I’m definitely afraid of doing that!”
contexts. 3. listen to people’s personal problems 6. go to places where I have to use English

“I usually avoid telling people that I’m angry with them. I guess I’m just afraid of making

2 VOCABULARY & SPEAKING

How would you describe yourself?
them angry at me.”

A Which statement from the survey best matches these personality traits?
Write the correct number. Then compare answers with a partner. 4 SPEAKING
Personal profiles
2 a. friendly and outgoing d. kind and generous g. wild and crazy
A Look at the information about these people. Which person is most similar to you? Why?
b. strong and independent e. honest and sincere h. calm and cool
c. laid-back and relaxed f. shy and reserved i. neat and tidy
Meet Your Neighbors
B Pair work Choose another partner.
Find two traits you have in common. Useful expressions
Find one way that you’re different. Same traits Different traits
So am I. (I am, too.) I’m not like that.
“So, how would you describe yourself?”
I’m the same way. I’d say I’m more . . .
“Well, I’d say I’m pretty laid-back and relaxed.” So do I. (I do, too.) Really? I don’t. Emily Carlos Linda Chris
“Me, too. I never worry about getting places on time.” Neither do I. (I don’t either.) That’s not true for me.
Job college student ar tist lawyer teacher
“I don’t either. I like taking it easy and . . .”
Personality friendly and outgoing wild and crazy shy and reserved laid-back
VOCABULARY PLUS see page 130 and relaxed

2 UNIT 1
VOCABULARY
Friends and family
Lifestyle • loves playing • loves to dance • into watching old • enjoys cooking
spor ts • can’t stand going movies meals for friends
expands upon prior knowledge • into traveling home early • loves to tell jokes

and improves vocabulary

B Class activity Write a similar profile for yourself. Don’t write your name.
building skills. Your teacher will take your profile and give you the profile of another student.
Ask questions around the class to find the other student.
NEW Vocabulary Plus:
extra vocabulary practice when SPEAKING LESSON A What kind of person are you? 3
you need it! activities spark lively
discussions focusing
on interesting and
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5 LISTENING
Life in Sydney
A Listen to Maria and Ian talk about life in Sydney. Who seems to enjoy living there more?

Passages Third Edition is a two-level course

that will open the door to communicating with
greater fluency and proficiency, with:
B Listen again. Which person has these opinions? Choose Maria, Ian, or both.
Maria Ian Both • more sophisticated real-world grammar
1. It’s easy to get around Sydney.
2. The beaches are great.
LISTENING and vocabulary,
3. The rents are expensive. activities sharpen
4. It’s a fun place to live.
5. The restaurants are all expensive. essential listening • thought-provoking discussions and
6. Life is better in a smaller town. comprehension skills. academic writing activities,

6 DISCUSSION • more challenging listening and reading

Quality of life
A Rate these quality-of-life issues as very important (2), important (1),
comprehension topics.
or not important (0). Can you add one more to the list?

Quality of Life
affordable housing
a variety of restaurants
exciting nightlife
first-class health care
7 WRITING
pleasant weather
Brainstorming
varied retail shops
beautiful parks historic neighborhoods wireless hot spots
convenient public transportation low crime rates Brainstorming means making a list of ideas about a topic. Then you can use this
list to come up with a topic sentence and ideas to support it.
READING
passages drawn from
A Group work Brainstorm as many ideas as you can to add to the dos and don’ts
for living on a budget.
B Pair work Which three issues are the most important to you personally when authentic sources
considering where to live? Explain why.
promote critical thinking
“I guess affordable housing and exciting nightlife are the most important to me. I’d love to
Living on a Tight Budget and analysis.
find a place I could afford that was near someplace fun.”
“I know what you mean. But for me, I guess low crime rates are probably the most important.
I want to live somewhere where I feel safe. I don’t mind if it’s a little boring.” Do Don’t
7 READING
Cyber-begging

• compare prices • buy the first thing you see A Pair work Imagine that a stranger asked you for money to help pay off a
C Class activity Share your answers with your classmates. Which issues were frivolous debt. Would you help? Tell your partner. Then read the article.
• look for sales • buy brand names
mentioned most often?
• check ads for used items • use credit cards

24 UNIT 3 Exploring new cities

B Group work Brainstorm dos and don’ts for one of these topics. Write your ideas.
Can you spare a dime
• getting over a bad cold • staying safe in a big city • preparing for entrance exams
for my
C Read this paragraph about living on a tight budget. Then write a topic
sentence and a similar paragraph about your topic using your ideas.
Gucci bills?
here was a time when Karyn Bosnak couldn’t
A B i u 1
2
3
A T
ab pay a $59.00 bill at the grocery store. She was
officially broke. She didn’t have enough money to
get on the subway, but she looked rich. She was a
Living on a tight budget is easy if you follow some simple rules when you go She’s received teddy bears, subscriptions to Vogue,
television producer, earned $900 a week, and had
shopping. First of all, you should never buy something at the first store youa visit. Youof designer labels like Gucci and Louis
closetful Dunkin’ Donuts coupons, backpacks, jewelry, cat
Vuitton. But she also had a $20,221.40 credit card food, and candles.
need to check at least a few other stores and go online to compare prices. Second,
bill and an empty bank account. Karyn decided It’s hard to understand why so many people helped
don’t be in a hurry! If you take your time, you might find a sale. If there are that
no sales
it wasright
time for a change. She built a website a total stranger pay off her huge credit card bill.
now, ask a salesperson if there’s going to be one soon. Third, consider buying and simply
used, asked
or people to help her out by sending Why did they do it? Karyn explains, “I was just
her a buck or two. honest about what happened; I didn’t make up
secondhand, items. You can check in the newspaper or online to find whatOn you’re looking
the site, Karyn honestly explained her some sob story about saving the world.” Her donors
for. Finally, you might get a better price at some stores by paying cash insteadsituation, Gucci
of using a shoes and all. “If 20,000 people think it’s funny and original, she argues, and view
gave me just $1, I’d be home free, and I’m sure it less as a charity than as an entertainment site.
credit card, so be sure to ask about cash discounts. there are 20,000 people out there who can afford Imitators have sprung up all over the Internet,
to give me $1.” Amazingly, it worked. Her website some with outrageously selfish requests like a
was visited by more than a million people. BMW or a house. Actually, Karyn was not the first
D Pair work Exchange brainstorming lists and paragraphs with a partner. Although most donors just gave a few dollars, one person to put up a website asking strangers for
Then answer the questions. generous donor sent $1,000. She was on TV and in money. The practice has a name: “cyber-begging.”
newspapers and magazines. She was offered a book Most sites receive little traffic and even less cash.
1. How many brainstorming ideas did your partner use? Do you think he ordeal sheand a movie contract. And of course, she was
Karyn also had thousands of enemies and critics.
chose the best ones?
WRITING 2. Do you have any questions about your partner’s paragraph? Is there anything
able to pay off her credit card debt.
She also sold her designer clothes on eBay. In her
People sent her hate mail and scolded her on
websites. Karyn says she never let this anger
you disagree with? closet, where the Gucci purses once sat, Karyn bother her. “They are probably jealous they didn’t
tasks build academic keeps all the letters that people have sent her.
3. Can you think of a good title for your partner’s paragraph? Explain your choice.
think of it,” she explains.

writing skills through Source: “Brother, can you spare a dime for my Gucci bills?” by Janelle Brown, Salon.com

step-by-step activities. LESSON A Life lessons 13

B Read the article again and answer the questions. Then compare your answers
with a partner.
1. Why was Karyn in financial trouble?
2. What was her main solution to her problem? What else did she do?
3. Why did so many people respond positively to her website?

C Group work Discuss these questions. Then share your answers with the class.
1. Do you think Karyn was unethical, or was she simply clever?
2. What would you have done if you were Karyn?

LESSON B Information overload 61

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Plan of BOOK 1
FUNCTIONS GRAMMAR VOCABULARY
UNIT 1 Friends and family pages 2–9

A What kind of ■ Describing personalities ■ Verbs followed by gerunds ■ Personality collocations

person are you? ■ Expressing likes and dislikes ■ Noun clauses after be ■ Compound family terms
■ Describing personal change
B Every family is
■ Stating advantages and disadvantages
different.

UNIT 2 Mistakes and mysteries pages 10–17

A Life lessons ■ Describing rules and obligations in ■ Past modals and phrasal modals ■ Collocations with problem
the past of obligation ■ Verbs of belief
B I can’t explain it! ■ Giving advice about the past ■ Modals with multiple uses
■ Speculating about past events
■ Offering explanations about past events

UNIT 3 Exploring new cities pages 18–25

A Popular ■ Describing and giving information ■ Defining and non-defining ■ Features of cities
destinations about places relative clauses ■ Compound terms for towns
■ Stating preferences ■ Order of modifiers
B My kind of town ■ Presenting contrasting information ■ Connecting contrasting ideas
■ Categorizing and evaluating issues

UNITS 1–3 Communication review pages 26–27

UNIT 4 Early birds and night owls pages 28–35

A It’s about time! ■ Describing routines and habits ■ Reduced time clauses ■ Phrasal verbs related to energy
■ Giving advice ■ Clauses stating reasons and and sleep
B Tossing and conditions Expressions related to sleep
■ Explaining reasons and conditions ■
turning
■ Giving interpretations of meaning

UNIT 5 Communication pages 36–43

A Making ■ Describing types of conversationalists ■ Infinitive and gerund phrases ■ Terms to describe behavior
conversation ■ Talking about appropriate behavior ■ Reported speech ■ Expressions for reported speech
■ Starting a conversation
B It’s personal.
■ Making small talk
■ Reporting what someone else has said

UNIT 6 What’s the real story? pages 44–51

A That’s some story! ■ Presenting information in ■ Present perfect vs. simple past ■ News events
chronological order ■ Present perfect vs. present perfect ■ Storytelling expressions
B Storytelling ■ Narrating news events continuous
■ Organizing and presenting information ■ Adverbs with the simple past and
past perfect

UNITS 4–6 Communication review pages 52–53

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SPEAKING LISTENING WRITING READING

■ Finding out what personality traits you have in common ■ Two people describe how they have ■ Identifying the topic ■ “From Circle of
with your classmates changed sentence in a Friends to Modern
■ Comparing personal profiles ■ Two people compare similarities and paragraph Tribe”: A group of
■ Talking about how you have changed or how you would differences between their families ■ Writing a paragraph friends can function
like to change ■ A young man describes his recent family about your most as a family
■ Comparing families reunion positive or negative
quality

■ Talking about past mistakes ■ A man talks about a bad decision ■ Brainstorming topic ■ “Amnesia Spoils
■ Comparing reactions to a news story he made sentences and Newlyweds’ Bliss”:
■ Discussing what might have caused three mysterious events ■ Three people talk about how they dealt supporting ideas A man loses his
with their problems ■ Writing a paragraph memory after his
■ Making guesses about unusual questions wedding
■ Two people talk about everyday with dos and don’ts
■ Comparing opinions about a real-life unexplained event
mysteries

■ Explaining why you’d like to visit a particular city ■ A TV show introduces two exciting cities ■ Organizing ideas with ■ “Rivals with a Lot in
■ Choosing the right city for a particular purpose ■ Two foreign students explain what they a mind map Common”: The rivalry
■ Deciding which city is best to live in like about their host city ■ Writing a paragraph between two major
Two Sydney residents talk about the city about a place you Australian cities
■ Describing your hometown ■
know
■ Discussing quality-of-life issues

■ Discussing personal energy levels ■ Three people describe methods they use ■ Choosing the best ■ “To Sleep or
■ Talking about how to deal with stress to lower stress topic sentence Not to Sleep?”:
■ Giving advice on sleep and energy levels ■ Two people describe their dreams and ■ Writing a paragraph People are sleeping
try to interpret them giving advice on fewer hours than
■ Talking about sleeping habits ever before
good habits
■ Interpreting dreams

■ Discussing conversational styles ■ People make small talk at parties ■ Making an outline ■ “Cell Phone
■ Discussing awkward social situations ■ Two people tell some interesting news ■ Writing about a Personality Types”:
■ Determining appropriate topics for small talk cultural rule What kind of cell
phone user are you?
■ Comparing who you confide in
■ Recounting an interesting conversation

■ Determining if a story is true or false ■ A radio news broadcast ■ Putting events in ■ “It Happened to
■ Presenting a recent news story ■ Two people describe complicated chronological order Me!”: Two comical
■ Discussing how you follow the news experiences ■ Writing a narrative personal anecdotes
■ Telling stories about uncomfortable situations ■ An actor describes some paragraph
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UNIT 7 The information age pages 54–61

A A weird, wired world ■ Talking about trends ■ Passive of present continuous, ■ Technology buzzwords
■ Participating in a debate present perfect, future ■ Expressions for connecting
B Information overload Negative and tag questions for ideas formally
■ Giving opinions ■
giving opinions ■ Words for forms of communication

UNIT 8 Putting the mind to work pages 62–69

A Exploring creativity ■ Describing job qualifications ■ Reduced relative clauses ■ Qualities of creative people
■ Offering solutions to problems ■ Non-defining relative clauses as ■ Collocations for problem solving
B Ideas that work sentence modifiers
■ Commenting on facts
■ Analyzing reasons

UNIT 9 Generally speaking pages 70–77

A How typical ■ Comparing customs and habits ■ Clauses and phrases showing ■ Expressions related to
are you? ■ Presenting contrasting information contrast and exception accepting or changing things
■ Making generalizations ■ Past habitual with used to and ■ Expressions with keep
B Problems and would and stay
■ Talking about past habits
solutions

UNITS 7–9 Communication review pages 78–79

UNIT 10 The art of complaining pages 80–87

A That really bugs me! ■ Describing everyday annoyances ■ Relative clauses and noun clauses ■ Expressions with drive, get,
■ Describing complaining styles ■ Simple and complex indirect and make
B Let’s do something questions -ed words that describe feelings
■ Making and responding to complaints ■
about it!
■ Identifying ways to avoid problems
■ Discussing advice

UNIT 11 Values pages 88–95

A How honest ■ Discussing hypothetical situations ■ Present unreal conditional with ■ Forming antonyms with prefixes
are you? ■ Talking about values unless, only if, and even if Adjectives that describe ethics
■ Expressing wishes and regrets ■ Wishes and regrets and attitudes
B Taking stock ■ Adjectives and nouns referring
to personal values

UNIT 12 Moving around pages 96–103

A Culture shock ■ Predicting the future ■ Future perfect and future perfect ■ Expressions ending with
■ Comparing and contrasting customs continuous prepositions
B Traveler or tourist? Mixed conditionals Compound adjectives
■ Making hypotheses ■ ■

■ Giving advice
■ Describing preferences

UNITS 10–12 Communication review pages 104–105

GRAMMAR PLUS: Additional grammar practice and explanation pages 106–129
VOCABULARY PLUS: Additional vocabulary practice pages 130–141

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978-1-009-04061-7 — Passages Level 1 Student's Book with eBook
Jack C. Richards
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■ Talking about Internet trends ■ Three people talk about ■ Writing a product or ■ “Can you spare a dime
■ Debating whether social networking is a positive or social networking service review for my Gucci bills?”: A
negative influence ■ A news report describes woman uses the Internet
■ Giving opinions on modern information technology health problems caused by to get money to pay off a
technology frivolous debt
■ Discussing potential future technologies

■ Discussing jobs that require creativity ■ Three employees explain ■ Choosing when to begin a ■ “The Man Who Taught
■ Taking a creativity quiz how their jobs are creative new paragraph the World to Sing”: A
■ Suggesting new uses for everyday items ■ Two descriptions of ■ Writing a composition about profile of the man who
important business and a creative or unique person invented karaoke
■ Talking about creative thinking habits
product ideas
■ Choosing the inventions that have had the greatest impact
on modern life
■ Explaining why new products are invented

■ Talking about what is typical ■ Three people discuss how ■ Identifying supporting ■ “Painting and Problem
■ Discussing what makes you typical or not they’re unique or typical statements Solving: Four Lessons”:
■ Discussing the effect of major life changes ■ Three people describe how ■ Writing a paragraph with How problem solving and
they solved a problem supporting statements the dynamics of painting
■ Giving advice in a role play are alike

■ Discussing how to handle irritating situations ■ Two people describe ■ Writing a message of ■ “Dave Carroll Airs a
■ Comparing styles of complaining irritating situations complaint Complaint”: A musician
■ Role-playing complaints ■ A man uses an automated posts music videos to
phone menu complain about an airline
■ Describing how difficult situations make you feel
■ Stating consumer complaints

■ Discussing the results of a survey on ethical behavior ■ Two people describe being ■ Writing a thesis statement ■ “New York Honors a
■ Comparing what you would do about different ethical dilemmas confronted by an ethical ■ Writing a four-paragraph Hero”: How a
■ Discussing your experiences with unreliable people or services dilemma composition about a happy construction worker
■ Three people talk about memory or a regret became a hero
■ Talking about values that are important to you
the values that are most
■ Explaining what you’d choose if you were given three wishes important to them

■ Describing the benefits and challenges of living abroad ■ Three people talk about ■ Writing conclusions ■ “Get Yourself Lost”: The
■ Comparing customs between Canada and your country their experiences living ■ Writing a composition about best way to experience a
■ Sharing bad travel experiences abroad living or traveling abroad foreign destination
■ Planning a trip with your group ■ Two people describe travel
mishaps

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