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Reading and vocabulary Everyday life
SPEAKING Which of these things are most important
to you? Which are least important? Number them
1 (most important) to 7 (least important).
education family free time friends happiness
Life in a Day
health success
What do you love? What do you fear? What’s in
2 Read the article about a film called Life in a Day. your pocket? These are the questions from the film Life
What things are important to people in the film? in a Day. Director Kevin Macdonald asked people around
the world to answer the questions and send in a video
strategy 5 clip from a typical day. He was interested in creating a
Scanning for specific information picture of the world, a digital time capsule for the future.
On 24 July 2010, people from Africa, Europe, America,
If you need to find specific information in a text, like
Antarctica and Asia recorded events on their mobile
a name or a number, you do not need to read every
phones and digital cameras and uploaded the results
word. You can quickly scan the text for key words.
10 onto YouTube. Altogether there were 81,000 video clips,
To scan a text: or 4,500 hours of footage. It took Macdonald and a team
decide what information you want to find: a number, of researchers seven weeks to make them into a film.
a date, a time, a name.
move your eyes quickly down the page until you find The film starts at midnight. The moon is high in the sky,
the information. elephants are bathing in a river in Africa and a baby is
do not read whole sentences until you have found 15 sleeping. At the same time, in other parts of the world,
your answer. people are getting up, brushing their teeth and making
breakfast. In the next minutes of the film, which is one and
3 Read the strategy. Scan the article to complete a half hours long, we watch everyday routines from more
sentences 1–7. You will find the information in than 140 different countries and see the connections
paragraphs 1 and 2. 20 between them. In one scene an American girl is playing
1 The film is by a director called . with her hula hoop, in another a child is working as a
2 People recorded their day on shoeshine in Peru. One looks privileged, the other is poor,
July 2010. but then the shoeshine boy shows us his favourite thing –
3 They sent in video clips. his laptop. He’s very proud of it because he earned the
4 There were hours of footage. 25 money to pay for it.
5 It took weeks to make the film.
‘We all care about the same things,’ says the director and
6 The film is minutes long.
in some ways he’s right. Family and friends are the things
7 There are countries in the film.
most people love and many of them are keen on sports,
like football. But then one man says he loves his cat and
4 Read the article. Are the sentences true (T), false (F)
30 another loves his fridge because it doesn’t talk back!
or not given (NG)? Correct the false ones.
1 People recorded short video clips of a special day. Monsters, dogs and death are the things most people fear.
2 The film begins at the start of a new day. One young girl is anxious about growing up and a man
3 People in the film have friends in other countries. in Antarctica says, ‘I’m afraid of losing this place.’ But when
4 The director thinks we worry about different things. asked, ‘What’s in your pocket?’, the answers are surprising.
5 People in the film don’t have typical things in their 35 We don’t see an ID card, a shopping list, or a bus ticket.
pockets. Instead, one person has a gun, then another shows us
6 The man with empty pockets feels ashamed because car keys for his Lamborghini. A poorer man says he has
he hasn’t got any money. nothing. He’s not ashamed of his poverty because he
7 The young woman is happy with her life. adds, ‘But we are alive.’
8 Most people want to be rich and famous. 40 The film ends just before midnight, with a young woman
in her car. It’s raining outside and she’s fed up with her
life. She was excited about Life in a Day, but her day was
too boring to film. ‘I just want people to know that I’m
here,’ she says. ‘What she really wants is to be different, to
45 matter,’ says Macdonald. In Life in a Day, that’s what most
people want.

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 Vocabulary: adjectives + prepositions: feelings; compound nouns: everyday Speaking: discussing everyday life, travel and immigration;
objects; collocations: make and do; phrasal verbs: get persuading; asking for personal information 1A
Grammar: present simple and continuous; articles Writing: an informal letter

5 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Discuss the questions

from the film.
What do you love?
What do you fear?
What’s in your pocket?
Work with another pair and compare your answers.
The director of Life in a Day thinks people are very
similar. Is he right? Are your answers similar or
different?

v insight Adjectives + prepositions: feelings

6 Study the highlighted adjectives in questions 1–8.
Scan the article to find the missing prepositions.
Complete the questions. Then work in pairs and
answer the questions.
1 Which sports are you interested ?
2 Which possessions or achievements are you
proud ?
3 Which school subjects are you keen ?
4 What do you get anxious ?
5 What are you afraid ?
6 What things might people feel ashamed ?
7 What do you get fed up ?
8 What do you get excited ?

v insight Compound nouns: everyday objects

7 A compound noun is a word or phrase that has two or
more parts that combine to make a single meaning,
for example, car park. Find compound nouns in the
article to match definitions 1–6.
1 a portable machine with a keyboard
2 a thing you use to open the door of a car
3 a piece of paper that lets you travel from one place
to another
4 a note of the things you want to buy
5 a document that shows who you are
6 a portable machine that lets you call people

8 Make ten compound nouns with the words below.

ring
computer game
parking credit
shopping concert
birthday
+ centre card
ticket bag
program
key board

9 SPEAKING Work in groups. Imagine you are filming

a video clip for Life in a Day. What part of your day
are you filming and why?
Vocabulary bank Routines page 134

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