ADJECTIVES 1A Work in pairs. Use adjectives to describe how you feelin the feliowing situations 1 You lose your bus/train ticket. 2 You get ost at nightina foreign ciy 3 Youwait fora delayed fight 4 You forget someone's name (when you should know it) B Wiite situations for the adjectives in the box. annoying worried boring embarrassing relaxing confusing exhausted frightening satisfied annoying: When you discover your phone has run out of power. it's worried: My exams are tomorrow. Workin pairs. Take turns to read your situations. Don't say the adjectives they describe. Can your partner guess the adjective? ION. 2 A Match 1-7 with a)-g) to make sentences. 1 IF you drink too much coffee, 2 Ifyou go to bed early, 3 IFyou always go to bed late, 4 Fyou listen to loud music when you study, You won't get fit iF you Ifyou don't like your job, 7 You'll have problems at work if you a) drive everywhere in your car. +b) you won't sleep tonight. it's difficult to concentrate. ) you'll exhaust yourself ) don't finish that report on time. f) you'll feel better in the ‘morning. ) look for a new one. BB Look at the sentences in Exercise 2A. Can you think of ‘other ways to complete them? ‘Compare your ideas with a partner. 3 Work in pairs and take turns. Student &: write down three things you would like to achieve this year. Student B: look at Student As list and make Iffwhen sentences to give advice. ‘A: one: find a new job, two: get fi B: one: find anew job If anew job (eee Nile) 4 Rearrange the letters in bold to complete the sentences with collocations of watch/hold/raise/ dofget/cut. 1 We should goto the concert carly so we can est gates. 2 They are going to heal toads toll their old clothes. 3 The schoolchildren decided to ease my iron for cancer research 4, Im going home early because | want to grammar two peach on Tv. 5 He gave up his job because he didn't want to opened term sixon animal. {6 My cousin shut car fora living aa CONDITION: 5 workin pairs Student Asuse tar use with he phrases lo yout box. stent 6: respond Wath the correct would louse from your box i Wbefich there/be/na war there/be/more hours inthe day Vhave/more/eneray nobody/smoke can/pain/well Valve up/coffee 8 dlanceall right sleep/better people/be/heatthier do/a portrait of you give/money/charity people/work/more | the worl/oe/peaceul ae If was rch 2: I'd give some money to 6 A Each conversation has two ‘words missing, Write in the missing words. You may have to change the punctuation, What's the matter? 1 A: Bad ‘The computers aren't working. jot again! Annoying, 2 A: Youll never what. What? {A | got the job. B: Congratulations! That's 3 A: Ivegot some good news you vhat is it? A: Ie been promoted. B: Well Thats great news. 4 A:limtohave to tell you, but Im leaving the company. B: What? Why? ‘As The company has got problems so they'e reducing the number of managers B: im sory to that 5 A: You that exam Idi last, week Bi Yes? ‘A Well passe. £8: Congratulations! m so for you. 1B Work in pairs and practise the conversations.GHGs LA Undertine the correct alternative to complete the ‘quotes. Which quotes do you think could be important for ‘you? Why? 11 ‘When you are not believing/ practising. remember someone else is believing/practising, and when you meet him he will 2 ‘Iwas seldom able to see an ‘opportunity/a talent until it had ceased to be one: 3 Focus on/in where you want to g0, not on what you fear ‘4 ‘Some people dream of success, while other people ‘wake up and work hard on/at tt B Work in pairs and discuss. 11 Do you know anyone who is @ high achiever? What have they done? 2 What are you focusing on at the moment in your work/ studies? 3 Howdo you think you can get better at speaking English? ay (NES 2 A complete the sentences with the present perfect continuous form of the verbs in brackets, a (practise) my tines. Rehearsals start next week 21 (uisit) patients in their homes, 3 (mark) homework for hours. 4 \___ (try) some newideas for a recipe. 5 |____ (esearch) anews stony. B Think of ajob to go with each sentence above. Write two or three sentences that this person could say at the end of a busy day, Use the present perfect continuous. {ve been reoding ol day. ve been saying my ines out loud. Work n pais. Take turns to say your sentences. Can your partner guess the job? 3 complete the text with the ‘words in the box. hopeless gifted skiful useless expert ability have ‘Asacchild, [was hopeless at school. [was?___at maths, English, science, everything, because 1 just didn't ® ‘an aptitude for that kind of stad ‘One day we were playing football ‘and the ball gor stuck in a wee | Iclimbed the tree to gett, and ‘one of my teachers, John Marston, looking out of the staffroom window, noticed that Twas a talented climber. He was an‘ inclimbing—hed been in the Alps and up Mount Kilimanjaro — and he invited me totryit one weekend. I really enjoyed it After a month, he rol melwasavery* climber for my age. I eft school three years later with no qualifications, but kept climbing regularly un Thecame very’ __atit. In my early twenties, I became ‘professional climber. il always ‘remember Mr Marston because hheshowed me Thad an?___ which no one ese, including me, knew about. ase Swe 4A Underline the correct alternative, 1 cam to/am can/ean type fast 2 When | frst heard English ‘not able/not could/couldn't ‘understand anything. 3 Even when I'm stressed. fm usually able to/can/able sleep. 4 I recently had a problem but {can able tofwas able to ‘managed solve it 5 | mnotableywos able not wasn't able to do the job of my dreams (not yet. anyway). 6 Last weekend | managed to/ ‘managed/am managed to relax. B Tick the sentences that are true for you. Compare your answers with other students. I cant type fst because don't hove tolookat the letters when Itype Saran TTT 5 A Read opinions 1-4. Find two mistakes in each. 1 In the my opinion, if you want ‘tobe a successful parent, you eed to be very patient. The zason for | say this is that parenting isa long process. 2 By my views If you want to be 2 world-class athlete, it isn't enough to rely on natural talent. For the one thing, other people will be as gifted as you For another, you need to focus ‘on your weaknesses 3 Fido think some people have an aptitude for learning. Let me give you example: my cousin doesn’t work hard, but he gets As in every subject. He's just a gifted student. 4 | must to say, learning an instrument is good for children, For the example, my friend's daughter has been learning the violin since she was three, and she has ‘amazing discipline and focus B Work with a partner. Give your opinions on two of the ‘topics below, Include examples ‘of what you mean. Being. successful parent Becoming good at a sport Being a successful student Learning an instrument