LANGUAGE IN USE

Reading Skills & Language Practice

with Keys
(elementary, pre-intermediate)
 Unit 1 Answer key

Exercise 1 Exercise 5
1 It 2 She 3 They 4 I 5 He 6 You 7 We 1
A Hello. What's your name?
Exercise 2 B My name's Paula.
1 Keiko's from Japan.
A Where are you from?
2 Jodie's from Australia.
B I'm from Brazil.
3 Tom and Karen are from the USA.
2
4 Filipe is from Brazil.
A Oh, hi Tina. How are you?
5 Jose and Christina are from Spain.
B I'm ®ne. How are you?
6 Lucy is from Great Britain.
A Oh, I'm OK.
Exercise 3 3
1 car's 2 I'm 3 you're 4 we're 5 she's
A Hello. My name's Ben.
6 they're 7 Brad Pitt's
B Hi. My name's Sally. I'm a teacher here.
A Really? Where are you from?
Exercise 4
B I'm from London.
1 Where is she from?
2 Where are they from?
3 How are you?
4 What's your name?
5 Where are you from?

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 Language Practice
Unit 1 . pronouns
. present tense of to be . I'm from . . .

1 Gap ®ll 3 Gap ®ll

Fill the gaps using the words in the box. Fill the gaps using 'm, 's, or 're.
1 My car's a Peugeot.
I you we she they he it
2 I ............ a teacher.
1 This is my ¯at. It's very small. 3 You ............ my friend.
2 This is my friend, Pilar. ............'s from Spain. 4 We ............ students.
3 Paul and Sam are students here. ............ come from 5 She ............ four years old.
the USA. 6 They ............ from Berlin.
4 Where are you from? ............'m from Russia. 7 Brad Pitt ............ from the USA.
5 This is my boyfriend. ............'s a student.
6 How are ............? I'm ®ne, thanks.
4 Making questions
7 Camilla and I are old friends. ............'re from Britain.
Write questions for these answers.
1 Where is she from?
2 Making sentences She's from Australia.
Where are these people from? Look at the pictures and 2 ...................................................................................
write sentences.
They're from Spain.
3 ...................................................................................
We're ®ne, thanks.
1 Keiko
4 ...................................................................................
Keiko's from Japan
My name's Maria.
5 ...................................................................................

2 Jodie We're from London.

...................................................................................
5 Complete the dialogues
Complete the dialogues with the correct word or
phrase.
3 Tom and Karen
1
................................................................................... A Hello. What's your name?
B My name's Paula.
A Where are you from?
4 Filipe B .................... Brazil.
................................................................................... 2
A Oh, hi, Tina. How are you?
B .................... ®ne. ....................?
5 Jose and Christina A Oh, .................... OK.
................................................................................... 3
A Hello. .................... Ben.
B Hi. .................... Sally. I'm a teacher here.
6 Lucy A Really? Where are you from?
................................................................................... B .................... London.

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 Unit 2 Answer key

Exercise 1 Exercise 4
1 Ann 2 Ruth 3 Jane 4 Alex 5 Rob Possible answer:
6 Michael 7 Robert Dear Anna,
Thank you for your letter. I'll tell you about my family.
Exercise 2 I have a small family. I have one brother. His name is
Carlos. He is 24 and he's a doctor. He is tall and has
1 England black hair and brown eyes. My mother is Maria and my
2 big father is Juan. My mother is a teacher. She teaches
mathematics. My father is a doctor. We have one dog.
3 brothers His name is Sam and he likes going for walks.
4 two Please write again soon,
Love
5 three
Sebastian

Exercise 3
1 Anna
2 Anna's sisters
3 Daniel
4 Daniel
5 Harry
6 Jennifer and Louise
7 Helen and Michael
8 Pierre

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 Reading skills
Unit 2 Families

1 2 3 = 4 5
.......................... .......................... .......................... .......................... ..........................

Sophie
........................... 6
........................... 7
..........................

1 Read the text and complete the family tree above.
Hello. My name's Sophie.
I have two brothers. Their names are Michael and Robert.
Michael is ten and Robert is twelve.
My mother's name is Jane and my father's name is Alex.
Mum's a doctor and Dad's a teacher. I have two aunts,
Ann and Ruth. They are my mother's sisters. And I have
one uncle, called Rob. He's my father's brother.
2 Read Anna's letter and complete the text below.
21 Abbey View Road
St Albans
AL3 2PH
26th April
Dear Pierre,
My name is Anna. I'm from England. I'm seventeen
years old and I'm a student. I have a big family. I
have two brothers, Daniel and Harry, and two sisters,
Jennifer and Louise. Daniel is married. He's a waiter.
Harry is twenty years old and he's a student. He
wants to be a teacher. My two sisters are at school.
They're both fourteen years old. They're twins. They
have black hair and green eyes. My mother is Helen
and my father is Michael. They are doctors. We also
have three cats and a dog. Please write to me and tell
me about your family in France.
Love,
Anna
Anna's family is from 1England. She has a 2....................
family. Anna has two 3.................... and
4
....................sisters. She also has 5.................... cats.
3 Answer the questions.
Who . . .
1 . . . is seventeen years old?
Anna
2 . . . are Jennifer and Louise?
...................................................................................
3 . . . is married?
...................................................................................
4 . . . is a waiter?
...................................................................................
5 . . . is twenty years old?
...................................................................................
6 . . . has black hair?
...................................................................................
7 . . . are doctors?
...................................................................................
8 . . . is from France?
...................................................................................
4 Write a letter to Anna telling her about your family.
Dear Anna,
Thank you for your letter. I'll tell you about my family.
I have ............................................................................
.......................................................................................
.......................................................................................
.......................................................................................
.......................................................................................
.......................................................................................
.......................................................................................

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 Unit 3 Answer key

Exercise 1 Exercise 3
1 your 6 Where 1 What, c 6 What, a
2 My 7 town 2 Where, a 7 When, a
3 daughter 8 do 3 Who, a 8 Where, b
4 you 9 they 4 What, c 9 What, b
5 We're 10 is 5 When, b 10 What, b

Exercise 2
1 a 2 a 3 b 4 b 5 a
6 a 7 b 8 b 9 a 10 a

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 Language Practice
Unit 3 . pronouns . to be . articles
. possessive pronouns
. questions with who, what, where

1 Gap ®ll 3 Quiz

Read the conversation. Fill in gaps with a word from Fill the gaps with the correct question word. Then
the box. choose the correct answer.
1 What colour is the German ¯ag?
is they town my you where
a blue and white
do daughter we're your
b green, red and white
A Hi, I'm Mary. What's 1your name?
*c black, yellow and red
2 ............ is Glasgow?
B Oh, 2............ name's Jack Dawson and this is my a In Scotland
3 b In Ireland
............ Debbie.
c In Wales
A Are 4............ English? 3 ............ is Madonna?
B Actually, we're not English. 5............ from America. a a pop singer
b an actress
A 6............ are you from in America? c a politician
B Rocksville, a small 7............ in Texas. What 4 ............ are London, Tokyo and Washington?
a countries
about you?
b villages
A I'm from Frankfurt in Germany. c capital cities
B And 8............ you have any children? 5 ............ is St Patrick's Day?
a 6th June
A Yes, I have a son and a daughter. b 17th March
B How old are 9............? c 9th July
6 ............ is a radish?
A Matthew is 11 and Sara 10............ four.
a a vegetable
b a drink
2 Choosing sentences c a job
Tick (3) the correct sentence. 7 ............ is Thanksgiving Day?
a November
1 a What's his name? 3 b May
b What's he name? c July
2 a Where are they from? 8 ............ are the Maldives?
b Where they are from? a Indian Ocean
3 a She has ®fteen years. b Paci®c Ocean
b She's ®fteen. c Atlantic Ocean
4 a I have two brothers, Paul and Louise. 9 ............ is an octogenarian?
b I have a brother and a sister, Paul and Louise. a a person who is hundred years old
5 a My eyes are blue. b a person who is eighty years old
b My eyes they are blue. c a person who is eight years old
6 a My husband's a teacher. 10 ............ nationality is Ricky Martin?
b My husbands teacher. a Spanish
7 a Who's that? Is my sister. b Puerto Rican
c American
b Who's that? It's my sister.
8 a My sons is nine.
b My son is nine.
9 a These are my glasses.
b This is my glasses.
10 a Look! What's that?
b Look! What's those?

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 Unit 4 Answer key

Exercise 1
Name Age Job Nationality Languages

Matthew 17 Student Portuguese English and Portuguese

Isabelle 42 Doctor French French and English

Ahmed ± Student Tunisian French, Arabic and English

Angela ± Secretary Spanish English and Spanish

Lin Hu 29 Waiter Chinese Chinese

Yuriko ± Housewife Japanese Japanese and English

Paul / Brigitte ± Retired German German

Exercise 2 Exercise 3
1 Paul and Brigitte live in the USA. Possible answer:
2 Matthew lives in Portugal. My name is Paolo and I am from Rome in Italy. I am 21
years old and I am a student. I live in Scotland and I
3 Angela lives in Wales.
study English at Edinburgh University. I am not married.
4 Lin Hu lives in China. In Scotland I speak English, but in Italy I speak Italian.
5 Isabelle lives in France.
6 Yuriko lives in Japan.
7 Ahmed lives in England.

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 Reading skills
Unit 4 What languages do you speak?

Hi. I'm Matthew and I'm seventeen. I live in a small town

near Lisbon. I was born in Portugal but my parents are
British. My mum's from Wales and my dad's from
England. I speak English at home and Portuguese at school!

Hello! My name's Isabelle and I'm a doctor. I'm 42
years old. I'm from Grenoble in France but I live in
Nice on the south coast. I have a daughter, Juliette. I
speak French and English.
Hi, I'm Ahmed from Tunisia and I'm a student. I study
medicine at Turin University. I live in a ¯at with four
other students ± an American, an Iranian and two
Englishmen. In my country I speak French and Arabic,
but here in England I speak English.
Hello! My name's Angela and I'm Spanish. I'm from
Santander in the north of Spain, but I live in Wales. I'm
a secretary for an international company in Cardiff. I
live with my husband, Dave ± he's English. We speak
English at home, but I speak Spanish with my Spanish
friends!
1 Read the texts and complete the chart.
Hi! My name's Lin Hu and I'm 29. We come from
Shanghai in China. My sister's husband is French. They
have a Chinese restaurant in the centre of the city. I'm a
waiter in the restaurant. At home we speak Chinese.
My sister and her children are bilingual ± they speak
French and Chinese.
Hello, I'm Yuriko and I'm Japanese. I'm a housewife.
I'm married to Michael, an American, and we have
three children. We live in Tokyo. I speak Japanese to my
children, and English to my husband. My children
speak English and Japanese and . . . they study German
at school!
We're Paul and Brigitte. We're from Hanover in
Germany. We live in a beautiful house in San Francisco.
We're retired! Our three children and six grandchildren
still live in Germany ± they visit us every summer! At
home we speak German.

Name Age Job Nationality Languages

Matthew 17 Student Portuguese English and Portuguese

Isabelle

Ahmed

Angela

Lin Hu

Yuriko

Paul / Brigitte

2 Who lives in . . .
1 the USA? Paul and Brigitte live in the USA.
2 Portugal? ..................................................................
3 Wales? ..................................................................
4 China? ..................................................................
5 France? ..................................................................
6 Japan? ..................................................................
7 England? ..................................................................
3 Write a small paragraph about yourself. Use the above
texts to help you.
My name is ..................... and I am from .....................
I ....................................................................................
.......................................................................................
.......................................................................................
.......................................................................................
.......................................................................................

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 Unit 5 Answer key

Exercise 1 Exercise 3
1 There's 6 She's 1 Ronaldo and Beckham are football players.
2 There are 7 He's 2 There are lots of cinemas in my town.
3 He's 8 There are 3 There are some birthday presents for you.
4 It's 9 There's 4 Is that your computer on the table?
5 They're 10 It's 5 How many books are there in your house?
6 Where are my shoes? I can't see them.
Exercise 2 7 My brother is a student at Cambridge University.
1 There isn't a computer shop at the airport.
Is there a computer shop at the airport? Exercise 4
2 There aren't ten students in the class. Possible answer:
Are there ten students in the class? My school has about nine hundred students and forty-six
teachers. There are eight drinks machines in the school
3 There aren't any shops in the village.
but there isn't a cafeÂ. There are video recorders in the
Are there any shops in the village? classrooms but there aren't hi-® systems. There is a very
big library, but there isn't a swimming pool. There are a
4 There isn't a dog in the road.
lot of computers in my school.
Is there a dog in the road?
5 There isn't a bottle of water in the fridge.
Is there a bottle of water in the fridge?
6 There aren't three lamps in the living room.
Are there three lamps in the living room?
7 There isn't a banana on the table.
Is there a banana on the table?

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 Language Practice
Unit 5 . There is/There are
. some and any
. adjective order . to be

1 Gap ®ll 3 Correcting sentences

Fill the gaps. Use the words in the box. Correct the mistakes.
1 Ronaldo and Beckham is football players.
there's there are it's he's she's they're
Ronaldo and Beckham are football players.
1 There's a library in the city centre. 2 They're lots of cinemas in my town.

2 ............ lots of books in my ¯at. ...................................................................................

3 I like Van Gogh. ............ my favourite painter. 3 There aren't some birthday presents for you.
4 Their house is yellow. ............ a horrible colour. ...................................................................................

5 Look at those people! ............ Italian students. 4 Are that your computer on the table?

6 My girlfriend's from Brazil. ............ really beautiful. ...................................................................................

7 That's my father. ............ a journalist. 5 How many books is there in your house?
8 ............ a lot of Matisse paintings in Paris. ...................................................................................

9 ............ a CD on the table. 6 What are my shoes? I can't see them.

10 This is a birthday present from my boyfriend. ............ ...................................................................................
a diamond ring. 7 My brother are a student at Cambridge University.
...................................................................................
2 Making sentences
Make these sentences negative. Then make them into 4 Writing
questions. Write a short paragraph about your school.
1 There's a computer shop at the airport. Use there is/there are and the words in the box.
There isn't a computer shop at the airport.
Is there a computer shop at the airport? computers swimming pools drinks machines
libraries hi-® systems cafeÂs video recorders
2 There are ten students in the class.
................................................................................... My school has .......................... students and
................................................................................... .......................... teachers. There are ...............................
3 There are some shops in the village. ................................................................ ........................
................................................................................... .......................................................... ..............................
................................................................................... .......................................................... ..............................
4 There's a dog in the road. .......................................................... ..............................
................................................................................... .......................................................... ..............................
...................................................................................
5 There's a bottle of water in the fridge.
...................................................................................
...................................................................................
6 There are three lamps in the living room.
...................................................................................
...................................................................................
7 There's a banana on the table.
...................................................................................
...................................................................................

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 Unit 6 Answer key

Exercise 1
1 The British Isles
2 Great Britain
3 The United Kingdom

Exercise 2
1 a 2 c 3 c 4 a 5 b 6 b 7 b 8 a

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 Reading skills
Unit 6 The United Kingdom or Great Britain?

1 Read the sentences and write the correct name for

each of the maps ± United Kingdom, Great Britain
or the British Isles.
Great Britain is the term used for the island that contains
England, Scotland and Wales.
The United Kingdom includes England, Scotland, Wales
and Northern Ireland.
The British Isles is the geographical term used to describe
all the islands above France including the Republic of
Ireland.
Remember that someone from Scotland, Wales or Ireland
is Scottish, Welsh, Irish or British, not English!

1 ...................................................................................

2 ...................................................................................
3 ...................................................................................
2 Quiz ± how many of these questions can you
answer?
1 Which of these places is a famous University town? 5 Where did the Beatles come from?
*a Cambridge a Edinburgh
b Manchester b Liverpool
c Swansea c Belfast
2 Which country has a vegetable as its national symbol? 6 Which island is called the Emerald Isle?
a England a Guernsey
b Ireland b Ireland
c Wales c Anglesey
3 Where does the drink Guinness come from? 7 Who lives at 10 Downing Street, London?
a Scotland a Prince Charles
b Isle of Man b the Prime Minister
c Ireland c Madonna
4 Which national ¯ag has a dragon on it? 8 Which ®lm about Scotland starred Mel Gibson?
a the Welsh ¯ag a Braveheart
b the Union Jack b Star Wars
c the Irish ¯ag c Notting Hill

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