ADVANCED yst[sug Teo, EF Workbook with key 10} : Antonia Clare and JJ Wilson AUDIOCD TPCT PEARSONA@royebr-valr-) a LESSON 1.1 (as) Feeling on top of the world Vocabulary: learning languages Grammar: verbs/adjectives/nouns with prepositions Listening: polygiots 067 Grammar: passives: distancing Listening: news stories, Pronunciation: word sivess LESSON 1.3 8-9) Reading: Nerves of steel Vocabulary: achievement Grammar: perfect aspect How ta. ‘atk about your achievements Writing: paragraph about achievement Review and consolidation unit + (p. 10-11) 2 re LESSON 2.1 29) Listening: embarrassing moments abroad ‘Grammar: verb patterns (2) How to... give advice /make recommendations about places Vocabulary: communities LESSON 2.2 (0. 24-15) Grammar: comparatives (review) How to... recognise features of informal language Reading: Internet millionaires LESSON 2.3, (p.16-7) istening: community ting Vocabulary: adjectives to describe places Grammar: introductory it Review and consolidation unit 2 (p. 18-19) 3: eee LESSON 3.1. (p. 20-24) Reading: The old-age hoax Grammar: narrative tenses (review) Pronunciation: differentiating tenses LESSON 3.2, (p. 22-23) Reading and listening: Biréwatcher Vocabulary: books How to... describe people Vocabulary: compound words LESSON 3.3, (©. 24-25) Listening: joes Pronunciation: intonation Grammar: participle clauses Review and consolidation unit 3 (p. 26-27) 2 ee LESSON 4.1 {p. 28-29) Vocabulary: progress Reading: superheroes Grammar: future probability Listening: Real-life superheroes LESSON 4.2, (p.3e-3) Vocabulary: arrangements Grammar: future forms Reading: The Slow Movement How to... be vague/imprecise LESSON 4.3, (32-33) Vocabutary: special abilities Reading: Nine-year old calls the shots Grammar: inversion Review and consolidation unit 4 (p.34-35) LESSON 5.1 (9.36-37) Vocabulary: fortunes Vocabulary: business Grammar: emphasis Pronunciation: emphasis Reading and listening: Child of the incarcerated LESSON 5.2 (9.38-39) Vocabulary: finance and philanthropy Grammar: conditional (review) Vocabulary: words that are verbs ond nouns Reading: instant millionaires need help LESSON 5.3 (9-40-49) Vocabulaty: describing a job How to... express priorities Pronunciation: siress Grammar: sentence averbials, Vocabulary: expressing quantity Review and consolidation units (p. 42-43)o ee LESSON 6.1 (9. 44-45) Listening: New wonders of the world Pronunciation: speed and rhythm in connected speech Grammar: articles, How to... describe architecture writing: an essay LESSON 6.2 (0.4647) Reading: Student power Grammar: whatever, whoever, whenever Vocabulary: fashions and fads, LESSON 6.3 (p.48-49) Listening: charisma ink words of time and contrast ssonal characteristics Review and consolidation unit 6 (p. 50-53) 7 LESSON 7.2 (p. 52-53) Reading: The dog with the golden nose Grammar: relative clauses Vocabulary: coltocations How to... explain procedures LESSON 7.2 (©5459) Reading and listening: Nature's extremes, Grammar: verb patterns (2) Listening: descriptive language Grammar: link words of time and contrast LESSON 7.3 (p. 56-57) Grammar: describing quantity Pronunciation: as Vor uying and selling Writing: an advertisement Listening: working with animals Review and consolidation unit? (p. 58-59) LESSON 8.1 (p. 60-61) Listening: Future word Voesbatarys contrasting opinions Grammar: vegatted speech How to... stall for time LESSON 8.2 (p. 62-63) Grammar: continuous forms Vocabulary: lifestyles Reading: Twenty ways to beat stress LESSON 8.3, (9. 64-65) Listening: phone messages Grammar: fronting How to... describe problems Vocabulary: cause and eftect Writing: linking and sequencing expressions Review and consolidation unit & (p. 66-67) » EG Gees LESSON 9.1 (p. 68-69) Vocabulary: the arts Grammar: dependent prepositions How to... express certainty/uncertainty Reading: Stephen Rawking LESSON 9.2 (p.70-79) Vocabulary: describing art say what vou like/ slike Grammar: discourse markers LESSON 9.3 (0-72-73) Reading: vision Grammar: unreal past How to... respond to hypothetical questions Listening: interview with 2 photographer Review and consolidation unit 9 (. 74-75) 10 ee LESSON 10.1, 0.767) Listening: feelings Grammar: modals (and words with similar meanings) Vocabulary: outlook/attitude LESSON 10.2 (9-78-79) Grammar: modals of deduction Vocabulary: strong feelings Reading: What I've learned about husbands LESSON 10.3 (p. 80-81) Reading: Paddy Clarke, Ma, Ho, Ha Grammar: uses of would How to... talk about memories/experiences Listening: a memory Review and consolidation unit 0 (p. 82-83) Answer key eaerates Sees Reading Read the article. Write true (1) or false (F). 4. Mark Inglis had both his legs amputated after a climbing accident in 1982. a 2 He never found the courage to return to climb the mountain where the accident happened, C] 3. On eaching the top of Everest, Mark found he was hardly able to speak. oO 4 Sir Edmund Hillay and the prime minister of New Zealand were among the people to congratulate ‘Mark on his achievement. a 5 Mark broke one of his artificial legs when climbing down the mountain. Oo 6 Mark had taken several replacement legs with him an the climb, ] 7, Mark's main problem during the climb was that he needed to go very siowiy a Before his legs were amputated, Mark had also won a silver medal for cycling in the Olympics. I 9 The New Zealane prime minister feels that Mark is setting @ good example to people with disabilities. oO reached the summit and ale hs wif by satelite phone. Mark Inglis, 47 at the time, who had lost both legs, ina climbing accident 24 years earlier, was suffering an attack of laryngitis and managed only to croak: "did it? Sir Edmund Hillary, who had conquered the world's highest peak in May 1953, was among the first to offer his congratulations. “I's a remarkable effort. He's done a pretty good job,’ he said. According to members of his party his short conversation with his wife Anne when he spoke from the Summit were among the few words he was able to utter. Asked by New Zealand television how the climb had been, he managed to say only: ‘Bloody har His wife said one of his carbon-fibre artificial legs sapped on the ascent, but was quickly replaced from a bundle of spare legs and parts taken with him. ‘Wayne Alexander, one of three cli companions up the 29,035-feet summit, said: ‘What Mark did was EBB a complete the questions. make daunting ambition face rising attitude 4 How did Mark achievable goals? What challenges cid he Did Mark succeed in challenge? How did he What couldn't Mark have done it 2 What advice does the New Zealand prime minister give to people with a burning tothe his dream come true? Do you think Mark had the right ____ ‘What would you consider most about his challenge? Answer the questions (1-8) from exercise 2a. the Wountaln be added: He ld sam. wes abt like chasing a greyhound he was gone.” The New Zeatand prime minister, said: the summit of Everest is a once-in-a-ifet ment, but for Mark Inglis it will be even more satisfying. He has said it was a childhood dream to stand on the roof ofthe world, but he thought he had lost it when he lost his legs.” Inglis had his legs amputated below the knees due to frostbite, suffered in 2982 while he was trapped for 1u days by blizzards on Mount Cook, the highest peak in New Zealand. He went on to became the frst double amputee te reach the mguntain’s summit, and followed this chievement by conauering 26,906-foot Mount Cho Oyu in Tibet, the world's sixth-highest peak. He also wan 2 silver medal for cling in the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games. The New Zealand prime minister added that Mr Inglis ac sent 2 signal to others with disabilities “that your ambitions should never be limited’.Grammar | verbs/adjectives/nouns with prepositions EBB choose the correct words in italics. 4 We finally opted f0/forlon the sitver colour. 2 Itis a method of distinguishing cancer cells from|between [of normal tissue. 3. Very few people succeed on losing/to lose! in losing weight and keeping it off! 4 His headaches stemmed from/with/to vision problems, 5 It is most ikely to appeal at/to/with the younger generation 6 | wouldn't bother in/to/about calling him now. 7 We all carne to rely on/in/with her judgement. We want him to get the maximum benefit offfrom|with the course. 9° Cam you lend me a few dollars? I'm a bit short cnfoffwith money at the moment 10 The walt of the prison was riddied offin/with bullet holes. 44 She seems to be lacking with{an/in confidence. 42 They weren't at all nervous about/with{far asking for aise. Vocabulary | learning languages Complete the dialogues using words from the box. ialect slide ball overload garbled babbling picked master 1A: How is your German nowadays? B: [t's terrible, 've really let it 2. A: I didn't know you could speak Thail 8: | cav't really. |just__upa few words hile Iwas there on holiday. 3. A: How long did it take youto___the grammar? 8: Years! | used to spend a lot of time cramming. information from grammar books until | had complete information 4 As Have you heard from Simon? B: Helefta message which | can’t understand, 5 A: What do you enjoy most about living abroad? B: Everything is great, although | think I'm starting t0 lose my original 1 6 A: |car't believe how quickly she’s learnt to speak, B: Yes, it only seems a short while ago that she ‘was _unintelligibly, lke all babies 60. Listening > Cover the audioscript. Listen to a radio programme and answer the questions. 4. What is diferent about a polyglot’s brain? 2. What do scientists hope to achieve through doing the new research? 3 What did people have to distinguish between during the trial? 4 How did the researchers decide who was a ‘good’ language learner? 5 What isthe function of fitzes in the brain’s white matter? 6 What can you tel from the brain scans? AUDIOSCRIPT Polyalats ‘have different brains’, New research has shown that people wit agit fr other languages could actually have different tyes of brains from other people. Neuroscientsts at University College London say that polygiots have more ‘white brain matter ina part oF the brain which processes sound. It is hoped that the research, published in a medical journal, could be used to help identify reasons for language difficulties. During a trial involving native French speakers, people ‘were asked to distinguish between two similar sounds from different languages. The fist was the‘ sound found in French. The second was a'd" found in Hindi, which is pronounced ina diferent way. Researchers tested the speed at which participants could process the information about the different sounds, People who were successful on this task were asked ta listen to other similar sounds. Some ofthe fastest learners were able to tell the sounds ‘apart within afew minutes, while the slowest learners were only able to make random guesses after 20 minutes of taining, Dr Narly Golestani from UCU Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience said the brain's white matter was involved in the efficient processing of sound informatio. Its fibres are involved in connecting brain regions together Fast language learners had a greater volume of white matter and that may mean they have more, or perhaps thicker fibres. “We are starting to understand that brain shape and structure can be informative about people's abilities ~ why people are good at some things and not others is evident from these scans,’ she said White brain matters involved in connecting sifferent parts ofthe brain together, and greater amounts ofthis Could indicate an increased ability to process sound. Previous research suggested that having a talent for music was linked to the structure of grey matter in the brain “This atest researc could be used in other ways,’ Dr arly aid.“ can stars to make predictions regarding. whether eople will be good at something or not based on their brain structure, or even to diagnose clinical problems.”7 Vocabulary | knowledge Match the sentence beginnings (1-10) to the endings (@-). We had to learn poems by doubt thar his was where she wanted to be head Id say there were about 5. are concerned, a fot of our hotels are below standard of my hanc, David Marshall? neart when | was at schoot wnat time the show stats? sure hel say yes. nathing about antiques, inside out 2 | grew up here. | know it ike the back 3. iknow next to 4 She knew without a 5 Just off the top of my 6 Vm pretty 7 8 9 AAs far as the Americans Have you ever heard of kson knew the game 10 Do you know offhand Reading and Grammar | passives: distancing EAB Read the article. Underline examples of passives used for distancing Notable lasts 1 Lillian Asplund, who died aged 99, was the last American survivor of the Titanic, and the only living person with any memory of the events of 15 April 1912, She was five years old when the ship went down in the freezing waters of the north Adantic, taking with it her father and three cof her brothers, As she was winched to safety in a lifeboat, she saw them peering at her over the ship’s railing, The image is said to have haunted hher for the rest of her life, and despite the world’s ongoing fascination with the Titanic, it seems she rarely spoke of the tragedy. Martha is thought to have been the last surviving carrier pigeon. Carrier pigeons were probably once the most common birds in the world. [1 is estimated that there were as many as five billion carrier pigeons in the United States. They lived in enormous flocks, sometimes up to a ile wide and 300 miles long, taking several days to pass and probably containing two billion birds. They were hunted to extinction by humans. ‘Martha, the last of her species, died in Cincinnati Zoo in 1914, She was then frozen in a block of ice and her body was sent to The Smithsonian Institution, where she can still be seen. 3 Ishi’ was the name given to the last member of the Yahi tribe of California, and means ‘man’ in the Yahi language. Ishi is believed to have been the last native American in Northern California to have lived the bulk of his life completely outside the European American culture. He ‘was thought to have left his homeland in the foothills near Lassen Peak, California, and was found when he emerged from the wild on 29 August 1911. His real name was never known, because in his society it was taboo to say one’s own name. Since he was the last member of his tribe, his real name died with him.Complete the sentences (1-10) using words from the article. 4 Two men were ‘out of the sinking boat by an RAF helicopter. (para 1) 2 fimmy was through the wet windscreen atthe cars ahead. (para 1) 3. Clare was by the fear that her husband was having an affair. (para 2) Police knew of his with guns. (para) 5 We glanced up in surprise asa of wild geese flew noisily overhead. (para 2) 6 The nearest hotel might be_____ away. (ara 7 This rare breed was on the verge of {para 2) 8 The of our clients are young, professionals. (para 3) 9 We went skiing in the (para 3) 10 There were cheers as the sun __ from behind the clouds. (para 3) of the Alps. Complete the texts with the correct form of the verbs in brackets, Add extta words if necessary. na (say) Thomas Edison, the famous inventor, believed that taking off one’s clothing ‘caused insomnia. it (2) _____ (seem) he often slept in his clothes on newspapers beneath the Stairs in his laboratory. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, o. (Claim) to have first answered the device by saying ‘hoy, hoy’ instead of ‘hello't Joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper in +857, and (4) (think) to have had his name printed on each sheet Charles Goodyear, who (5) _ (Say) to have been instrumental in establishing the rubber industry in the US, (6) (think) to have cartied out his first experiments in jail It a (seem) as though he had been imprisoned for failure to pay his debts. Leonardo da Vinci (@) (think) to have designed a military tank in the 15th century. Remarkably, he (9) (believe) to have also worked on designs for hot-air balloons and deep-sea diving suits. Joseph Merlin, a Belgian musician, invented raller skates in 1760. He (10) (appear) to have first demonstrated them at a ball by skating across the room playing a violin. ib 4 Listening GMB ©» cover the ausioscript. Listen tothe news stories, For each story, do the tasks (1-4). 4 Write down the key words. 2 Listen again. 3. Choose one of the stories and try to write down the story exactly as you hear it, (Listen as many times as you need to.) 4 Check by reading the audiascrint, AUDIOSCRIPT 1. Auge hurricane has reached the east coast of the United States, forcing millions of people to flee their homes, as towns and cities have had to be evacuated. The tropical storm has been travelling north causing oth damage and devastation, Thirteen states have now declared a state of emergency and flights from many US cities have had to be cancelled. 2. Officials in the Seychelles have admitted that more should have been done to warn tourists ahout the danger of shark attacks in the area after reports of several attacks in recent weeks. One man, Tony Felito, ded from his injuries after being bitten by a large shark, whilst out swimming with his flancée. Experts believe the shark isa Great White, which had been spotted in the waters near to where the fatal attack happened. Peaple have now been warned not {0 swim in the area until the killer shark is captured. 3. Fire-fightess were called to a multi-storey car park in Manchester yesterday afer a car crashed through the ‘wall on the fourth figor. The driver lost control af the vehicle and drove through the metal barriers so that the front wheels of the car were hanging partly out of the building, The driver managed to escape with only minor injuries and no other vehicles were involved In the accident, Police close off the road below the ‘rash site until the car could be safely removed 4 Awoman has survived a skydive fll of over 1000m. Doctors were amazed when a female skydiver survived the huge fall, escaping with ust bruises, a broken leg and concussion. Mother of one, Sam Cavendish plummeted to the ground when her parachute became entangled during a skyaive. Pronunciation | word stress GBB a ©» Read and listen to the news stories. Underline the words which carry the main stress. Are these the key words you chose in exercise 5? 1b Practise reading the news stories. Try to imitate the chythm of the speaker.Reading Read the interview and answer the questions. 1 What kinds of racesdoes Annie compete in? What is her ambition? How did her parents influence her? What injuries fas she suffered? 5. How does she cope when she is hurt? Bb Match the definitions (a words from the interviews, 1. long for/strongly desire (para 1) 2 do on your own (para) 3 onlyjust (para 3) 4 satisfy her desire for doing well (para 2) _ 5 something she really wants to achieve (para 2) __ 6 an equally strong competitor (para 7 inspired impressed (para 3) be very keen to do something (oara a} 9 giveup (para 5) 20 self-determination (paras) 21 continued despite difficulties (para 5) © Complete the sentences (s-7). Use the correct form of wards from exercise ab. 2 He is extremely ambitious. His is o take over the whole company. 2 Ellen MacArthur sailed around the world 3. My job ts getting so stressful, Im thinking about 4 Theyhad left the office when the police arrived. 5 The New Zealand team are very ft, and will prove to be a for the Irish, 6 Iwas____ adventure, 50 signed up for a trip across Attica. determined, Ifyou only judge Annie Seel by her looks, you're infor the greatest of surprises. There are other women, in such a way, and how many take on single-handedly all the toughest rallies the world has to offer? Addicted early on to speed and adrenaline, the desert princess switched from hhorse to motorcycle races when she was barely 26. continues to try to quench her thirst for success and for new records to break, as much at hame in Sweden, or up Mount Everest as on Aftican rallies, on tarmac races as on Mexican bbajas. Can you guess the ultimate quest for this woman of, lone metre 632 To be a true match in the toughest of races, the Dakar Rally, “I grew up next toa horse racecourse. | quickly got addicted to speed, and then at 16, !saw a motorcycle stuntman at a show. | was awed. | bought myself a motorcycle, but none of my friends iked speed the same asime. Then when | was 18 (r19, | started to compete in road racing and finished eighth in the Snedish Championships...” “I went to Morocco on a motorcycle tour end fell in love with the desert I was desperate to do a desert rally | ordered a Div Husaberg 600 motorcycle and assembled it barely ten days before the start. { rode on my ovin and made straight for the sand dunes. On the last day | gota fractured foot but | still otto the finish in goth place. Since then, 've now raced 20 cross-country rallies, including five Dakar rallies, and t have finished all of them which is very unique, since only 50% ofthe starters actually reach the finish line. This is how dificult the rallies are, My biggest victory was in the 2030 Dakar rally when | ‘won the Women's Trophy. But already in 2004 | had been ‘crowned the Women’s 450 Champion? (5) What's most impressive about you is your determination. You've broken your bones more than 2o times, yet you've never given up. "No, I never quit, My Father, who died when I was 26, gave me “ataste for mechanical things, and my mother gave me fairly ‘exceptionally strong will power. When | broke my hand on ensVocabulary | achievement Complete the sentences (1-10) using words from the box. potential greatest persevered pushing faces pursue heading deal triumphs believes 1 She in herself— that’s why she’s so successful 2 You need to keep your priorities in order if you want to your dream: 3. The president the difficult task of putting the economy back on its feet. My tutor wes always ‘me to do better. This is not the only probleen Heinz (7) (have) 10 deal wit, Since 1962 — when he (8) (give up) his job as a tookmaker in a smal awn in Germany and (9) (sec off) on his odyssey — Stucke (10) __ (be attacked) twice by swarms of bees, and (11) (shoot) inthe foot by Zambian guerillas He (12) often (be) hungry (he makes a living by selling 2 bbook about his experiences) and exhausted. At one point is bieycle (13) {rust) because ofthe sweat dripping off his nose And then there’ the Toneliness.‘I (14) (have) many litle affairs he says. “But now it's more complicated: I'm 66 and ‘ona bicycle and I sleep ina rent. 5. Winning the championship 1s ore of our __ How to... | talk about your achievements 6 He has the tobe a great politi \Wehove hadta with a ot of Complete the blog withthe extcacts (2-0. unnecessary criticism. really feet | have accomplished something 8 She____inher claim for insurance, and in bb Iinever been involved in catering before the end it paid off © exactly the kind of environment | wanted to 9 Its clear that he's for the top. achieve. 4 maybe ina couple of year’s time Grammar | perfect aspect One of my greatest achievements opened Café Mundo six months ago Complete the article with the correct form of the g and I've had to learn a lot very quickly verbs in brackets. h_sowe decided to buy it Fd always dreamed of Round:-the-world cyclist Heine Stucke has an aura of calm about him. By the end of this year he () {be) on the road for over 44 years. The German cyclist, who (2) (Gavel) a third of ‘million miles, through 211 territories, arrived in Portsmouth last week. Within hours of getting off the ferry from France, the bicycle that (3) (be) his constant companion since 1962 was (i) ___ts finally to have set up my ‘own business with a friend. (2) running a small café, with a bookshop inside. | wanted it to be a place where people can come to enjoy a coffee, read ‘a book, listen to music, or chat to friends. had a very clear vision in my head of stolen, But he's not bitter @ Last year, found the perfect “C urusc everybody’ he sald, “because if you didn’, location for the café, (4) __.Itwas a you just would’ go around the world. You take 3 big gamble as (5) » but we spent caleulated risk everywhere you go: 2 few months renovating the building In fact, his bike a unique astefact which and (6) _. It's been an incredibly (4) already (be requested) by hard year, (7)_____, but it's been a a museum of cycling back in Germany — was great experience and (8) We're returned to him little more than 36 hours after its thinking of opening a second café, theft. Heine was expecting it Before this, the bike oO. (5) already (8) stolen on five previous occasions. The last cime (6) (be) in 1997 ~ almost every ten years it has been stolen, That's not bad in 150,000 kilometres’ Writing Use the model in exercise 4 to write a paragraph about a personal achievement, or about an achievement which you particularly admire,Passives: distancing Choose the correct option (A-D) to complete the sentences. 2 Itis widely heart disease. A believing B to be believed of believed that D believed to be 2 The notes from last month’s meeting A ace appeared B seem tohave be appear that they are D seem to have been 3. Itseems (Mr Klein was wrong about the Figures. Aasthough Bif Casto Das 4 Is the shipment this afternoon? A be delivered B being delivered C deliver D to deliver 5. Smoking ___ allowed on planes for years. Alisn’t being B isn’t C hasn’tbeen D doesn’t 6 The governing body decided that the postponed game next week. ‘A must be played 8 must have been played € will play D will be being played 7 It____by various journalists that the scandal was ‘caused by government corruption. A is being asserted 8 has being said C was suggest D did assert a in the past that the world was flat? A Vlas there assumed 8 Did itassume Was assumed D Wasit assumed 9 Reuben the most handsome man in London society, ‘A has said tobe B was said to be C was to be D was said 20 The company gone bankrupt because of increased competition, Ais thought B is said to be C said to have D is thought to have eating too many fatty foods causes lost QB match the sentence beginnings (1-8) to the endings (a-h). 1 She is said to 2 made by now, 2 It was widely b_ ifyou'vejust seen a 3 Therobberswerethougnt ghost. 4 Judging by this map, © to have escaped we appear to have d_ bea genius. 5 It'seems as though be submitted 6 You look as tomorrow. 7 The competition f the weather wil get entry must better. 8 The wedding cake got completely lost. will have been hh assumed that Dobson would inherit his, father’s money, _|Review and consolidation Perfect aspect Complete the sentences with the perfect aspect. 2 Bythis time next week, we ____school and I'll be on holiday! 2 Itwas only when Mariana told me her name that! met before. 3. The children were all sunburned. They football in the sun all day. 4 She looks exhausted because she well recently. She needs a new bed. 5 Even by next july, Kazunari probably —__ writing his thesis 6 ohn the key in the car and it's locked! 7 Yesterday, Mr Jones finally received his visa, He to get one for years. 8 Wow! Fantastic new: by the university 9 We went to a Mowgli concert. |___ of them before, but they were very ood. 40 By tomorrow, Don here for over 50 years! He started as an office boy. 11 a scholars Which statement (A or 8) do the underlined sentences reply to? +A We haven't been feeding the cat enough food. We haven't fed the cat enough food. L know: He's started catching mice again recently, o 2 A How many countries will you have visited after tis trip? 8 How many countries will you visit on this trip? Eighteen if you include the one where |Lwas born! a 3. A We haven't been told the itinerary. B We hadn't been told the itinerary. Well, | think the conference starts at 9.00 and you're speaking at 11.00. a 4A Tve been sitting quietly, minding my own business. B I'd been sitting quietly, minding my own business. And then what happened? a 5. A Where heve you put the money? B_ Where wil you have put the money? | put it where you told me to. o 6 A Id always wanted a place of my own. Bye alnays wanted a place of my own. Well, congratulations! sa really nice house. oVerbs/adjectives/nouns with prepositions EBD complete the advert with the correct form of words from the box and a preposition. opt succeed bother nervous reminiscent subject short appeal rely beneiit ‘Holiday Challenge is guaranteed to (1) your adventurous spirit. We provide a choice of ‘parachute jumps, hang gliding, rock climbing and kayaking. You can (2) ‘two sports plus board and luxury lodging for just $300 a week! If you're @) ‘ash, you can choose the economy ‘camping option at $175. What if you are (4) ‘Don't worry. You can (5) ——— trying a new sport? us to provide the best training available to ensure that you're sale. And we won't (6) you any 5.00 a.m. starts or boot camp horrors! Read what our customers have said about us “L really (7), ny two weeks with Holiday Challenge. [t was an amazing experience!” (Cal Jones, New York) “twas (8) my childhood: running around, learning new stuff, without a care in the world. The best holiday I've ever had.” (Jill Healey, UK) “Don't (9) checking the competitors, ‘Holiday Challenge is the one.” (Sanath Kuppara, Sri Lanka) ‘T(10) living my dreams! Thank you, Holiday Challenge” (Macarena Duval, Chile) GBB concer the sentences by adding or cutting one word 1 Paulo Freire? Who's he? Ive never heard him 2. The Whort Sapir hypothesis? know cf my rand 3. Wendy’ phone number? don’t know ity offhand Shakespeare's love poems? We spent years leaning them by the heat 5's Ronaldinho the best footballer inthe word? Without buta doubt, 6 The Highway Code? Ask Susie instructor She knows it inside, 7 International banking? | know next nothing about it. 8 Was Matisse the greatest painter in history? As far as Vin he was ke in the back she's a driving Prefixes GHB iis 2 protic to each word, She couldn't finish the race because she’s totally ft. | read an article recently about _pald bosses wha earn millions for doing virtually nothing | just couldn't do any work because | was feeling so motivated. Only a fool would __estimate Thomson; she has the potential to be a great leader. The warkers are all __-smokers so no one has ever asked far a smoking area, He's a__-professional footballer. He does it part-time for about £100 a week, The problem was that they had __understood the instructions, which is, why the mistake occurred. I'm totally worked. | have to organise a conference and write seven reports in two days Your excuses are completely relevant to me! You should have done your homework. on time! Davies was __aware of the plan to fire him, which is why it was such a shock when ithappened, How to... talk about your achievements EBB Put the story in order, Climber Rheinhold Messner always knew that he had the @ challenge. Most doctors and scientists suggested that this was not an achievatle Oo come true with a successful three-day ascent, Oo all expectations, After a few months! preparation, Messner pursued his dream [] something truly amazing in the mountains. However, in 1980 he exceeded a of risk about climbing Everest, but Messner’ attemptto take oO Cf being the first man to ascend Everest without oxygen supplies. There is always an element o potential to accomplish oO (on the world’s highest mountain with the [ goal. Against all expectatiens, on 20th August he made his dream constraint of no oxygen was @ truly daunting o0gListening a @+ Cover the audioscript. Listen to three speakers describing embarrassing moments abroad, Complete the table. [Speakers [Speaker2 | Speaker 3 Nationality of pele ®__ © __ [Country where | embarrassing ‘ oe ® © 0) happened Main problem G) o @ Speakers final thoughts about | (4) ® — | the situation AUDIOSCRIPT After a ten-hour journey frorr condon I was really happy to have arrived at my host family’s house in Colombia. They were extremely friendly, even though | spoke ony alittle Spanish, and they plied me with lemonade and made me feel comfortable. After a while, the mother asked me: "Estas casado” | thought she was asking me if| was tired, 50 | said: ‘Si, un poco,’ which means "ys a lite’ Suddenly everyone laughed. Later | found out that ‘casadat ‘means marrieg, and ‘cansady’ means tired, So she'd asked -me if was married and I'd said: ‘Oh, alte’! That was just the frst of many linguistic blunders | made! Actually, looking back, | wish I'd learned mote of the language before moving there, but atthe time | thought I'd just muddle through. Bad idea. ''m from Colamaia but I've lived in the US for ten years. itnen | frst gota car, | needed to buy gas $0! drove to a 828 station and sat there waiting to be served. And } sat there, and | sat there, and no one came. Eventually, a bit perplexed, | went into the store and asked fora full ark of gas. The gil took my money, and | went back to the car and waited again. Still no ore came. So | thought maybe someone had done it for me while l was in the store, So | drove off. But then | looked at the gasometer and the tank was completely empty. | drove back to the £5 station and suddenly | realised | had to fil ehe car ‘myself. ve never done this befare Because in Colombia the people who werk atthe gas station do It for you ‘Wo, (felt a bit stupid, 25 you can imagine. 3 This was befare | could speak English properly, Iwas flying back to Italy and | was at Heathrow. Now, for ‘some reason or other, | didn't have my glasses and t'm very shortsighted so | couldn't see the information on. the screen. So! asked someone offcial-looking: ‘Which gate for Milan” and he said: it’s too early. There's no gate,’ Now | gota bit confused because | thought that ‘early’ meant ‘late’, $0 | began to panic, thinking rd missed my flight. So | asked someone else, an again: “You're 00 early. No gate assigned. You'll have to wait” [And | was tearing my hai out and wondering why these English peapie were so calm when Id just missed ny dignt. Eventually, a nice English man explained, very pleasantly, that the gate number would appear very soon and that | hadn't missed my ght. He was probably thinking: ‘Dum tourist. So the moral of the story is: learn the basics. And don’t ose vou" glasses! D Listen again and check. © Match the definitions (2-6) to phrases from the audioscript. 4 give someone large amaunts of food or drink (speaker 3) 2. stupid mistakes (Speaker a) 3. continue doing something even though you aren't very good at it (speaker 1) 4 confused by something (speaker 2) 5 6 formal word for given, e.g. a task or a seat (speaker 3) idiom for going crazy/getting angry (speaker 3)Grammar | verb pattems (2) How to... | give advice/make recommendations about places Choose the correct words in italics. 1 The agency advises tourists (0 take/taking/take traveller's Match the sentence beginnings (1-10) ceneques rather than cash, with the endings (2. 7 \would urge to reconsider/you to reconsider! you reconsider the offer beforeit’s too late. 8 We've avoided fo do/that we do/doing anything too dangerous so far. for mosquitoes and take your malaria 9 Vobject / have to/to having to/! have to pay for my own pills. travel to these conferences. backpacking because it's cheap, 10 Chiara persuaded us that we go/us gous togo on a boat of s the number of pickpockets. trip with her. see because it’s so beautiful all it’s cracked up to be. g0 in April when isn’t too hot ss market. One thing to be wary 10 Whatever you do, don’t We iook forward to meet/meeting/have met you in une. 1 The Taj Mahal reallyis a must: ‘My parents always encouraged me that/write/writing! 2 Disney World is superb value = to write down my thoughts. 3 The hotel is nice, but it's a 4 After graduating, Louise thought of travel/of travelling/ ‘4 Everyone says the museum is to travel for a year, but decided against it. amazing, but in my view it's not (] 5 Mark recommended ride/her to ride/riding a bicycle as a 5. Iflwere you, Id a s00d way to get fit. 6 You should try Qa 6 They couldn't afford to waste/that they waste/wasting time 7. Make sure o on trivial matters. & Watch out oa 9 o o EBB complete the article below with the correct form of verbs from the box. Add extra words where necessary. miss the te abit overpriced. ‘you g0 to the Eiffel Tower. for money. change hear make find object take k afford Vocabulary | communities EBD complete the paragraph below with words from the box. cluding communication difficulties and settling in to a new community. But pertans the biggest challenge is culture shock. You may find yourse (2) ___to everything about the host culture: the way the people dr ‘queue, greet you, their habits and attitudes towards everything around you such as iter and personal space. This is common. People cannot traffic cosmopolitan rate vibrant areas standard infrastructure levels life mild ‘The best thing about my city is the high 2d 6) —_—__thet the wn elie deo Oings the ht way O____of ving. i's atheving community: | Everything ele is therefore wrong. We urge you (4) your ming tee aerthigh (2) of unemployment | There are no cultal ght or wrongs, only ferences. Whats mor, sta the crime )_-_—— slow. Another good | if you're commited to staying in a foreign country for more than afew things the cultural @) __—. Tere are lots of | aj, you cat @) be cal of everyting and ys kllmake |g, ciemes and eas andtheres | your fe miserable. Slsoguitea 6) nightie with several good | “Te greatest divider of nations i ignorance, and so the frst solution nightclubs and bars. | is knowledge. We recommend that you (6) _ as much as you can The city cente is very busy and thereis some | about the host culture before you artve ~ is customs, people, pores {6 congestion during the day. The | ‘and manners. When you've done your homework, if you really can't transport (7) ‘hasimprovedbutalotof | imagine 7) anew if there, go somewhere ese. people sil use cars. t's safe to walk around, We also encourage you (@) the aitude that versity is though there are one or two no-go(@) —_—_- I | Interesting, No one woul realy watt lve in a word in wich every the suburbs. The (@) climate means you | culture isthe same, so we'd (9) ___to observe and enjoy the canst acuné and see people inthe steet | ‘fences. Eventually you wil come to accept them. css forte months ofthe ea Tere ae pele | Da Lik owiehe WO Mc Yo CTS, from all over the weitd~itsavety (a) 0. | :Grammar | comparatives D Find the EBB a Read the article and complete the @ take in each sentence and correct it. 1 Text 28 nothing near as complimentary about a Read Wikipedia asthe other text o Part tis positive about Wikipedia 2 It suggests that Wikipedia is nowhere lke as reliable part 2. as other encyclopaedias. o 3 Itis more considerably positive about Wikipedia than Wikipedia has revolutionised the way the other text a cencyclopaedias are compiled. Its open 4 The author ofthe text had rather let each generation nature has led to a democratising ‘question the views of the preceding generation. Bo process; knowledge is now not only ding tothe text, theless we know about the Trike iepd of prdesa ACE 5 According to he text, the ess we know about th the ordinary man or woman who has contributors, less we can trust Wikipedi o the interest, time and dedication 6 The author of text 1 is definitely not as critical of to research and document facts. Wikipedia to the author of the other text. o ‘No wonder the establishment feels chewatn sinks thot rater threatened. "it's not authoritative 7 The author probably thinks that rather for using they cry. ‘it's too left-wing! “It Wikipedia for all research, you should only use it for doesn’t represent the whole range of simple facts. o cattle hae 8 The text implies that it's a mile better te let everyone ‘contemporary comment on the world. s With time, today’s contributors’ views contribute to encyclopaedias. will be challenged and edited by anew generation. How to... | recognise features of informal language —_ —_ . a Replace the underlined words with words from the box. You doa’t need all of them. Wher in due course don't hesitate to contact me Wikipedia a valuable resource for would like concerning Dear be grateful the amateur researcher in abu Yours sincerely of your attendance You want to find out wien the following a previous arrangement Crimean War started, or what quarks | look forward to hearing take place are when Passo painted Gemia, | ikipedia will tell you, with 99.96% | ccuragy eae es 4 We hope to hear from you soon, ao complex, Wikipedia s full of potenti Please get in ouch if you have any quetes. Oo or real misinformation. It's not the © HiMrs Dormer, a Contributors’ fault; they genuinely want toeiittigh But forelnee ie, 4 Technics Solutions wants to invite you to our annual the contributors could be five-year. “rvestors meeting a Olds. Wikipedia's open-source system inform us whether you willbe able to come by 4 June. CI means th - ins that anyone ~ young children, which wil be at The Atrium on Rose Street at 5.00 p.m. Obsessives and the lunatic fringe — can edit it, Because of this, no serious on Weenesday 8 aly a academic should trust Wikipedia. g We would like it if you could o h Best wishes, o Bb Put the sentences (a-h) in order to make a formal letterReading a Read the article, Which community did each website target? Fashionable people Readers, oO People who have goods to sell C] i Pierre Omidyar, the son of French-lranian immigrants, was already a milionaire before launching eBay. Omidyat's electronics site, e-shop, was bought out by Microgat in 1996, making him a millionaire before he had tumed 30. With this ‘money, he set up an online auction company whieh allwed geople to show items they wished to sell other users then made a bid. Omidyar wanted to name the site Echo Bay Technology Group, but this name was already owned by @ Canadian mining company, so he shortened the name to ‘eBay’, and a legend ‘was torn. Almost immediately, @Bay made a profit: The site sold goods ranging from computers to posters to underwear. The growth of eBay was phenomenal. ‘ts nO the word's most suocessful online business and its users consider themselves part ofa distinct community. 150 mition registered users buy and sell goods worth $1,050 every second. The website is used by big companies such 25 \Vodaphone and IBM to sal off excess stock, but the rajorty of goods sti sel for less than $50, 2 ‘twas the early 1990s, the internet boom was just beginning, and Jeff Bez0s wanted tobe a part of tis brave, new, forward-thinking community. After leaving his job on Wal Street, Bezos decided to set up an online bookselling business. Using his garage in Seattle as an office, Bezos created Amazon.com. The idea ‘was to make the buying of books cheap and easy, with more choice than the traditional bookshop could provide, The site had a number of features which ‘made it attractive to potential users: fast service, search capabilites, low costs {or users, tools for comparing prices of books, and personalisation inthe form of customer-witen book reviews, As 24-hour virtual bookshop, Amazon Was ‘corwenient, cheap and reliable. Gradually, through word-of-mouth, the compariy ‘ew in popularity. Bezos had orginally handed customer orders himself, but soon he realised thatthe company was growing too fast for one man. By 1998, the net sales were $540 milion and a whole generation of book buyers was hooked. 3 Etnst Maitnsten, an events organiser, and Kajsa Leander, a supermodel, grew Up in Lund, Sweden. n the late 1990s, they decided to taunch boo.com, a website that ‘would create a global fasion community by seling designe clothes allover the World From the beginning, there were difficulties, Catng companies cit trust the internet and were reluctant to sel onine, Aso, no one was sure that people would buy clothes without trying them on first. On 3 November 1999, the day boo.com was launched, the website had 25,000 hits, but these resulted in only eight actual Orders for coe, Worse, @. well-known joumalist wrote @ negative article about boo. com, explaining how it had taken him 81 minutes to order a product. Other problems included viuses and a fraud detacton system that rejected customers’ orders. By March 2000, half of boo.com’s workforce ad fst thor jobs. While most intemet start-ups are run from garages or bedrooms, boo.com had luxurious offices in sik of the worlds most glamorous and expensive cities. Fresh fut and flowers were delivered daly, Maimston and Leander, who alwaVS travelled first-class, caimed that Companies in he fasion industry needed this image. But boo.com wes spending, faster than it was earing and the company was doomed. ‘by Read the statements (2-8), Write eBay (©, ‘Amazon.com (A) or boo.com (8). e The founder originally wanted a diferent name for the website a “he company had a high class stylishimage. Users ofthe site cul post ther own opinions ofthe things being sole. C2 The site sold range of goods fram the besioning a The type of goods for sale werert ideal for enline shopping, The founder /founders ovignaly ran the website alone q The founder founders, was/were already rch before launching the website The company had same technical problems, Match the definitions (1-7) to words in the article. offer of price for something (part 1) extraordinary or remarkable (part a) a store of goods ready for sale (part 3) uunwilling/not wanting to do something (part 3) new company (especially internet companies) (part 3} extremely comfortable and expensive (part 3) destined to end badly or in failure (part 3)Listening 5 Cover the audioscript. Listen to three speakers talking about their communities. ‘What positive aspects of each community do they talk about? Speaker Speaker 2 Speaker 3 AUDIOSCRIPT a People might think tat because the community is poor, the people are incredibiy unhappy or maybe there's nothing to do. But that's realy not the case at all. Alt kinds of things go on within che townships, so you'd say it was a real hive of activity. For example, one of the ays we entertain ourselves is through music, and if you think about it, you'll understand that musie brings. peaple together and of course it's free. There are so many choirs here Ive lost count, and they don't ust sing ‘our traditional songs; they do alt sorts of other things like pop and classical music. A traveler once left us a tape of Robbie Wiliams and we learned these songs and sang the harmonies. Another activity that's important here is football. Again, the beauty of itis that i's free and anyane can play. The giris have a team, and there's, ‘an over-60s Yeam. The main pitch used 10 be covered with broken glass and animals grazing, but we fixed it ‘and now it's very good. And whenever Bafana Bafana plays, we all sit around one television and cheer and sing, So, life in a township Is hard, ofcourse, but we have a way of making the best out of the things we have. ‘No one sits around feeling sorry for himself. My grandfather once told me a saying, He said that the land doesn’t belong to the people; the people belong to the land. | think tis idea is one ofthe reasons why Vanuatu is special. The people are clase to nature, and the nature here really is wonderful. Vanuatu is made up of lots of small islands, and we have beautiful coastlines ané rainforests. The land is so fertile that we grow most ‘of our ows food, and this means that even the many oor people here won't starve. We are a close-knit community. People tend to help each ather perhaps more than in built-up, developed commurities, | remember a few years ago, an Englishman was stranded on one of the islands with his ten-year-old son because of a problem with the airline. [think he was a researcher, There were no shops ar hotels, but the people here fed them and looked after them for three weeks until they could fly aut, This is quite ‘normal in Vanuatu. We are a spiritual people, not very ‘materialistic. We enjoy what we have and dont realy ‘seek material things. | hope that is how the world sees us, although I'm told that we are more famous for Inventing bungee jumping! 3 We were fed up ofthe... guess you could call them ‘annoyances’ of living in aregulas community, so we decided to set up our own. Four years 280, a group of 28 of us, all retired and all over 65, bought up some real ‘estate and had the whole community designed and laid ‘out for us. And this isthe result. We have nothing at alt against young people. Infact, mast of us have children and grandchildren, But asa place to live, we just wanted 2 quiet neighbourhood without the noise and the trash, and it works incredibly wel. We are al old friends and we have complementary skills, like Jack down the road knows how to service an automobile, and | used to work in praperty law so I deal with those issues. Reuben Bartios next door was a gardener, sae tells everyone how to grow flowers. It's everything we wanted from our ‘old age. The grandchiren visit us on the weekend and ‘we have alot of fun, but Come Monday they'e gone and its back to a quiet life‘b Write true (1) or false (F). Listen Vocabulary | adjectives to describe places again to check. Speakers Complete the article with words from the box. 1 The speakers froma rich area. [1] 2 The hobbies they do don’t cost anything 3 The people ofthe community are probably close and they do many things together. unspoilt diverse tranquil side by side vast, oO run-down stunning packed off the beaten track Tallinn, capital of Estonia. I'm glad we Speaker 2 ‘id, The heat of the itis the Old Town. 4a Vanuatu sa place of natural Sia epaibe 2 ener beauty F @___ wit cobbled streets and 5 Most ofthe people of Vanuatu \Gacitien pocten oat brent are wealthy. Oo ancient buildings standing (3) 6 The speaker thinks thatthe We wandered fra whie before stopping people of Vanuatu are becoming forlunch in alocal restaurant. atea RY more materialist [5] superb cod and potato dish while Wemer soe eam vis pr i 3 best ting to doin Tlinnis see the 7 The speseris robs cute Hepeienne Maal hall, which seems to stretch for miles, 8 The community is made up of re esti meade Revs fiends. Cathedral's a great ct to stl around because evrything is 9. The speaker wishes there were fairy close together andthe srets are pedestian-tendiy more young people in the We were slaying in avery cheap hott near the cente. The ‘community, o building was old and slightly (5) ‘and the room wasn’t € Choose the best definition for the biggest, but it as clean and somforabe Inte evening we cach expression (a, bord. Checkin went out to sample the nigtife | was fold that the dubbing scene the audloscript is prety (6) with ect, jaz, fk and dso music all available every night of the week. Tallin is also popular with 2 areal hive of ae the stag-party crowd and apparently some ofthe nighttubs — 2 full of action and productivity Hollywood and Decolte in particular ~ are usually (7) with » a place where people meet tourists. But when we were there, the town seemed completely «an appropriate time to do something 6) by tourism, Werner and | went fr a quiet drink in a 2+ Bafana Bafana bar called Guitar Safari, and ended up listening to excellent live a an African game musical evening, Overal after the excitement of some ofthe b a football team other cities, we found our experience of Tallinn extremely ca type of music (9). ‘but by no means boring, 3 fertile — ‘beautiful and full of colour b free for everyone to use Grammar | introductory it a gone or arouing piznts/food EBB Make sentences using it and the words in brackets. a very hungry 1 There's no point handing inthe paper now. You've missed the b in trouble with the police deadline. (no/use) « couldn’ get out ee 5 realestate 2. TU be grateful if you could call me on o982 654726, (appreciate) 2 property such as houses or land b a very large house 3. im not surprised that Marie won the competition. She's a € applan made by an architect genius. (no/wonder) 6 complementary (adjective) a saying how good something is 4 You have to sign the contract by 12 September. (essential) bb (things) go well together, though they are different What a pity you can't come to the show. (shame) € the best 5 py 6 Itannoys me to see people throw liter. (hate/when)Communities Choose the correct words in italics. 1. The price/cost/rate of living is high in Monaco. 2 The transport structure/facility/infrastructure 1s good in London 3. Germany has a mild/calm) normal climate. 4 The health/medicaljhealthcare system in Cuba used to be excellent, with many top hospitals. 5 Arguably, the highest standard/rate/style of living is found in Scandinavian countries. 6 For several years the crime level/statistics/rate in New York has been falling, 7 Job opportunities job-seeking/ Unemployment among unqualified immigrants is a problem. 8 The party life/night action/nightife in Poland is fantastic. 9° Hong Kong is becoming increasingly cosmopolitan /diverse/ varied. 20 The best thing about Brazil is the sense of Liberty] freeing/freedom as you walk around. 11 Egypt has possibly the world’s most amazing ‘monuments fartefacts/ buildings 12 In most city centres there’s a lat of traffic pollution congestion|excess. Adjectives to describe places ut the underlined letters in order. The town where | grew up used to be absolutely @) heraginm. The scenery was (2) ratlual: there were large rolling hills and a small forest fof het nebaet rktac. | used to (4) sirtol there for hours on end, and (6) azge at the trees. | went back there recently and was surprised at how muchit had changed. Right in the (© thea of the town there was a car park which stood (7) dise yb edis with a new shopping mall. | went inside the malt and it was (8) ecakpd. Then | drove to my old school, which was still © guttbsin with children, though the buildings looked a litle (10) nru nwod. ! went in, hoping to see some of my old teachers, when suddenly a security guard approached, asked who | was, and promptiy kicked me out. So | drove towards the forest, assuming that some things would remain (11) poutnlsi Unfortunately, the forest idn't exist any more: they/d built a (a2) asvt block of fats there. Phrasal verbs EB complete the phrasal verbs with the correct words. Alexandra cycles so fast that she’s extremely hard to keep in b upto © up with The work was tough but we were able to carry it 2 out b by cin A solution to this problem won't be easy, but we'll see what we manage to come a roundfor into © up with ‘The house was run-down so we had to do it around b up © over Hannah has just started at a new school, so | hope she fits ain b up © on It'll be a great party if he turns au © out There was a crash on the motorway so the traffic was held ain bon b up con The salary is terrible. They barely pay you enough money to get a through boon © by Verb patterns (1) GBB complete the sentences with words from the box. Not all the words are necessary. 10 recommend entering being us to use todo afford going stand to go avoids. ususing topass is urge doing to watch of watching: us to enter Vm thinking of to France, What's it like in April? Dave can't to take a holiday, so he's ‘camping in his garden this year! Can you imagine an astronaut? You could g0 into space! Mario's so lazy. He always __ doing the washing up. | tried to persuade Gail but she didn't want to. 2 DVD tonight, leant smoking. The smake makes me ill They advised traveller's cheques because they'e safer, wouldn't spending long in the museum, Its a bit dull, ‘My teachers always encouraged me my best. Libby urged the competition. She was right - we won!Comparatives (review) Complete the article with eight words. The online community is predicting that blogs will soon replace print journalism, While publishing news and views on the web is far easiefgetting into print, | have ‘my doubts about this prediction. Firstly, blogs are nowhere as reliable as print journalism. There are checks and balances for print journalists, and newspapers are far likely than websites to be prosecuted if they get the facts wrong. Reading a blog is much the same reading a diary: itis full of ies and exaggeration, there's not a lot you can do. The advantage of blogs is that they are personal and usually unedited, But than using them as formal carriers of news, | think we'd be better having them as an alternative source of opinion. Basically, they act as a voice that cannot be silenced. The easier the web becomes to use, more diverse voices it will contain, ‘and that’s a great thing. As for me, | sooner read a newspaper any day! GHB do the pai meanings? It's much the same whether you buy your ticket con the internet or at the station. Buying the ticket on the internet is marginally ‘cheaper but there’s hardly any difference. [1] 'd soaner tive in 2 quiet community than one with lots of nightie. In my view, the more nightlife, the better. [] ‘Sao Paulo is much the biggest city "ve ever been in. ‘Sao Paulo is by far the biggest city "ve ever been in. C1] The less we ria with that community, the less. trouble we'll have, ‘We're much better off mixing with that community. [1] Togo is nowhere near as expensive as South Arica South Africa is nothing like as cheap as Togo. [] Lugano is considerably prettier than my home town, ‘My hame town isn’t quite as pretty as Lugano. [] Bristol is nothing like as exciting as the own where. I grew up, Bristol is miles more exciting than the town where grew up. I'd prefer to live in the countryside, think wed be better off ivng in the countryside, CJ How to... give advice/make recommendations Complete the crossword with the missing words. T of sentences have similar (S) or different (0) accass 1 That jacket you bought ten years ago was, good for money. It stil looks nice. 2 When you go to the market be of pickpockets. They are notorious. 3 Everyone said the film was great but ‘thought it was a bit 4 That state isnt all i's up to be. | thought it would be much more beautiful than itis, Down 3. Youshould watch ___ for the mosquitoes. There are a lot of them at this, Xime of year, 5 The drinks are _in this nightclub, They shouldn't be this expensive! 7 You can’t miss the Picasso exhil Isa fl 8 The filmwas really _. 1 found it so boring that I fell asleep.Reading MB a Read the article and choose the best summary. 2 Some communities claim they have a secret way to stay young and healthy. The article describes how they manage to do it 2. Same communities claim that many of their people live until they are over a hundred. The article disputes these claims. 3. Some researchers believe that ancient ‘communities are healthier than modern societies. The article lists the problems of modern living. A little old man walks the fields of Viicabamba, Ecuador, His skin is wrinkled from exposure tothe sun, and nis legs ‘move slomty, steadily. As the sky tums red, he puts down his ancient tools and walks across the valley tothe mud ‘mut that he calls home. He is 140 years old Hard to believe? Wel, Methuselah lived to be 969, according ‘to the Bible, And, according to some, there are communities he people of Wicabamba the Abknazians of Georgia, ‘he Hunza of Pakistan - which contain large numivers of ‘centenarians, those lucky people who lve tobe 100. Let's take a trip back in time. January 1973. Dr Alexander ‘eat of Harvard University publishes a report inthe ‘National Geographic magazine that describes his journeys ‘a study the Hunza Abkhazians and the Vileabambas, He calls his repart Every Day Over 100 is a Gift According to Leat, there are ten times the number of centenarians found in these areas than is normal in modern Western civilisations. The atcie caused a minor stir in anthropology circles and one or two commercial ones too: an American entrepreneur makes pins to invest in botted water from Viteabamba, and a Japanese company discusses building @ hotel therefor eldery tourists. ‘But then, as further studies followed Leaf’, the evidence ‘began 10 point not to mythical communities with ancient youth-preserving lifestyles, but rather to les, ‘exaggeration and the creation of a sensational myth Although Leat's report sounded plausibie enough at fist, a number of questions arose fate. When Dr Lea retuned to Vlcabamba four years after his first visit, one ofthe villagers, Miguel Carpio, had miraculously become eleven years older. Lea asked to see Carpio’ birth certificate, ‘but was told that it had been destroyed in a church fre 1b Read the article again. Write questions for these answers. 1 Iwas an academic paper about the peoples he studied 2 Alocal man whose stated age changed by 11 years in only four years 3) Itwas lost when a church caught fire 4 Because in these societies, the older you are, the more respected you are. 5 The condition of the people's bones, and official documents. 6 Because they were afraid of being caught. Indeed, birth records were one of the main problems: societies with low levels of literacy usually don’t have them, And in Vilcabamba names were used repeatedly ‘within the family so that grandtathers, fathers and sons may have exactly the same name, adding to the confusion. Furthermore, old age is revered in societies ‘uch as Abkhazian, and so people exaggerate to improve thelr social status. When the exaggeration also brings about increased attention and tourism, there is even further temptation to add a few years to your age. ‘tex Leaf's report, two researchers, Mazess and Forman, ‘went to Vilcatemba and checked skeletal conditions as well as existing records. They found enormous inaccuracies everywhere, Miguel Carpio, who had claimed to be 121, was actualy 87. His mother was bom five years after he'd claimed to be born! Another researcher, a Russian geneticist named Zhores Medvedev, studied the people of Abkrazia, who had also claimed to have many centenarians. He discovered that many of them had assumed the identities of their parents. Some ‘of these people were World War I deserters, and they had used their dead garents’ names in order to avoid detection So, myth or realty? We don't know for sure. Roger ‘Maupin, an anthropologist, says of these peoples: Theit lifestyle i certainly heathy. They have constant steady ‘work, a good diet and a small community untroubled by such things as war, technology and the stresses these bring, But we just have no reliable evidence about their real age. Utimately, | don't think it matters. I's not the age you live to, is the quality of your life trat counts,’vawnne Match the definitions (1-8) to words in the article. people who are stil alive at 100 (r) (line 10) attracted alot of attention (V) (ine 18) believable (ad) (line 27) deeply respected (adp (ine 38) ‘Importance (how much a person is respacted) within a community (n) (tine 40) causes (0) (ine 40) soldiers who run away from battle (r) (ine 53) being found (7) (line 55) Grammar | narrative tenses (review) Tick the sentence (@ or b) that describes each picture. @ a At midnight, when we got back, she had already put the baby to bed. b At midnight, when we got back, she was putting the baby o bed. 1 The game was cancelled because it had been snowing. bb The game was cancelled because it was snowing, a Juan had painted the bathroom. b Juan had been painting the bathroom. 1 got home and discovered that my flat had been burgled. I got home and discovered that my Nat was being burgled 2 Junichi told us he had been Waring forthe Olympics. b Junichi told us he was training for the Olympics. C] a When | saw Joan she was going to the hairdresser’s. 1] b When I saw Joan she had been to the hairdresser's. [] Oo oO oooo0o0 ‘Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. 4 Who ___ to on the phone? (alk) 2 We could tell from his fithy clothes that he in the garden for hours. (work) 3! knew something was wrong because the dog constantly. (bark) 4 How ___ me? | thought I was safe. (find) 5 Once! her property, i knew she was, the girl for me, (meet) 6 The maid obviously hadn’t come because my room _.. (clean) 7 _____of him before you saw the film? hear) 8 Later, realised that we different people! (talk) 9 ‘couldn't pick him up because my car In the garage. (fx) about to Itwas clear that he _ anything during the lecture. (understand) Pronunciation | differentiating tenses @ @& Listen and tick the sentences you ‘She'd stopped smoking, ‘she stopped smoking, {prefer vegetables to meat. 1'd prefer vegetables to meat. hadn't run for ages. | didn’t run for ages. hear. 1a Ihave helped you everytime.) I've helped you every time. o 2 @ Why did you it him o Why had ye hit hie a 3. a Have we paid already? a Had we paid already? a 4 @ Would you like to play chess? [1 10 you like to play chess? oO I'd run ten miles. o "ve run ten miles. Go Qo a o o o o b a b a b > 5a b a b b b B Listen again and repeat the sentences.Reading and listening EBB 2 > Read and listen toa short story, Answer the questions. 1. Who do you think had the idea to go birdwatching? 2 What type of town do Thomas and Rosie live in? 3 |s Thomas good at spelling? How do we know? 4 What type of person is Rosie? How do we know? 5. What does the father think of Thomas's description of the birdwatching trip? 6 Why was Rosie ‘disgraced’? 7 How does the father feel about his children? 8 Which of these words would you use to describe the story? surreal funny surprising traditional shocking ‘Db Match the definitions (1-8) to words in the story. a ready and waiting (line 9) 2 high-pitched shout (line 20) 3 walking with short steps, body moving from side to side (line 32) 4 walking vigorously (usually through something) (line 34) 5 preserved in some kind of (solid) farm, but no longer living/growing/used (line 35) 6 thrown away/abandoned (line 42) 7 made something uneven/messy by rubbing it Uline 43) 8 looking at something, angrily (line 49) © Find the object or person in the story that words (1-8) refer to. it ine 4) ‘on which (line 10) this same sound (line 25) it ine 27) it (line 33) it ine 33) _ he (line 47) its (ine 49) 5 25 3s 45 ‘A 2.32.0n the afternoon of 10th July, eight-year ‘ol Thomas Smith saw a large yellow-beaked eagle rise from the roof of the local post office. His sister, ten-year-old Rose, didnt sce it because she was busy applying her mother’ lipstick to her small, but very precry, mouth, and in any case she wasnt all that keen on birdwatching. “Rosie? said Thomas. ‘How do you spell “eagle”? His pencil was poised above a norebook which had a picture ofan owl on the front and on which “Thomas had writen “Burds. Beu-r-d-s. “Eagle said Rosie. : "Very funny” Eeghe’ ‘Thomas wrote it down. Eepl. 2.32, 10th July. Kingston Road Post Office. They crossed che seer, slipping berween the fat cars all stopped still in the summer heat fingers tapping outside windows. It was at this point that ‘Thomas heard the distan shrck of seagulls and. recognised the sound at once. The previous summer they had spent a week with their parents ata seaside town eating huge sausages in pools of grease and gesting red-faced in the sun, and had been woken every morning by chis same sound. “Rosie, how do you spell “seagull”? “Same as engle but it stares with an s ‘Ar 2.58 Thomas and Rosie paused for a minute while Rosie searched her handbag forthe blue eye- shadow that she had removed from her mothers drawer. It was called Aquamarine Dream. At this moment, Thomas noriced a penguin wadding owen the High Street. Thomas watched it go by, che penguin mertily traipsing through che cigarette buts and chewing gum stains osslsed on the pavement, and Thomas wrote “Pen Win" in his notebook, Later, while the disgraced Rosie was shut up in her room, her mothers makeup returned, Thomas sat at his fathers Feet andl explained about the eagle on the post office roof, the ostich ouside the library, the vulture in Rosemary Gardens snacking on a discarded bag of popcorn. And his father ruffed the boy's hair and laughed to himself and thought abour the wonders ofthe child's ‘imagination. And the man felt a peace wich the world and with his two naughty children, at least ‘until 3.1] aum, the following morning when he was ‘woken by an enormous white swan sitting at the end of his bed, is yellow eyes glaring.Vocabulary | books EAB complete the book review below with words from the box. depicts one-dimensional down base found hooked best-seller bookworm gripping avid Meredith Johnson's new book, Feather Man, like her four previous novels, is @ page-turner and destined to bea (a) Unusually for Johnson, she doesn’t 2 her plot on a true story (her last book was a fictionalised account of a failed bank robbery), though ‘once again she brilliantly (3) Edinburgh's criminal underworld, where a wrong word can earn you a slashing with a razor blade and a wrong move can get you injected with something very nasty indeed. She soon has the reader (q)__. The hero, Paul ‘Schroeder, detective and (5) who spends half his, life in a ibrary, finds himself investigating a writer called Max Dowling when Schroeder realises that Dowling leaves clues to unsolved crimes in his books. 1© the story totaly (7) + and ifsome of the characters are a little (®) for example, a rather unrealistic group of street gangsters all seem to wear raincoats, smoke a lot and have particularly unpleasant domestic pets ~ the pace and action more than make up for it. Frankly, | couldn't put Feather Man () ___..| recommend it highly not only for (0) readers of Johnson's work, but for new comets, too. How to... | describe people Read what these people say about their partners. Choose the correct word in italics. 1. She comes across/over/around as very Kind and gentle when you first meet her. 2 Once you become to know /get to know/seem to know her, you realise she's really funny, 3 The thing that strikes/ hits you/strikes you about Colin is that he's so intelligent. 4 What | really think about/tike for/ike absut Susana is her sense of humour 5 Matthew is such a/so/a such talented guy that you have to admire him. 6 He can be a bit offa bit/bit mean sometimes, especially when he's in a bad mood. Vocabulary | compound words @ Match words 1-8 to words a-h to make compound words. a single a minded 2 self b minded 3 thick: © offish 4 Kind: orientated 5 stand hearted 6 career f skinned 7 level: sufficient 8 absent- h headed 1b Match the compound words in exercise 4a to the people in extracts 2-5. You may match more than compound word to each person. Two compound words are not needed. 41 Bradbury was determined to claw his way 10 the top of the company, trampling on who: ever got in his way, He had only been in the business six months when he decided that the quickest way to get promoted would be to murder William DeFris. 2. Delilah sat in the corner for the whole party, Whenever a young man approached, she immediately feigned boredom and continued sipping from her slim glass of iced water, eyes raised to the ceiling. 3, Mymother was the type of person who regularly left home in her slippers. She frequently forgot to turn off ovens, lights, televisions and radios, She was known to ‘make phone calls and, on being answered, ymediately forget nt only why she was calling, but who she was calling. 4 Being short, skinny and ugly, | have been called names since | was old enough to walk. “Stick insect, creepy-crawly witch, ratface, alien, £7, izard."I answer the name-callers with a wink and a smile, You see, | just don't care. 5. Mr Trimble had watery grey eyes and a pocket permanently stuffed full of sweets for any children he came across. He walked with the slowness of a snail, leaving no slime but atral of happiness wherever he went.Ri Listening @ @e Cover the audioscript. Listen to three jokes and match them to the pictures. — AUDIOSCRIPT 1 Complete the sentences from the audioscript. Listen again to check. 1 Joke x ‘A policeman stops a car because itis speeding. He asks the driver for his licence. I don’t have one,’ says the driver. "And the car’s nt mine. | stole it. But think | saw a driver's licence in the glove box. — 1 The driver was stopped because he was | when | put my gun in there" 2 There wasn'ta gun in the ora | “You stole it?! You have a gun inthe glove box?” body inthe. | "Yes," says the driver. “| put it there just before | threw the car Joke 2 | ‘owner's body inthe boot.’ The policeman calls for backup and Five 3 Aman wanted to ofacat | minutes late four police cas arrive, The captain says, "Si, may 4 The man needed to.get home. see your licence? "Sure, says the driver. He opens the glove box slowly and gives him Joke 3 the licence. The police captain says, So, no gun inthe glove box?” 5 The second note said everything “Gur? Of course not!" on me’ “And no body inthe boot?” 6 The manger’ final proslem was that the “what2” says the driver And the captain says: “My police officer tl workers were on _ me you had a gun in the glove box and a body inthe boot, ‘© Mark the sentences that are sarcastic “Yeah, and | bet the liar tol6 you | was speeding too.” (GA), show surprise (S) and those which 2 are said calmly (©). ‘Acouple owned a ca, but the man hated it, So one day, he decided to get ri oft. He drove ten blocks and threw the cat out ofthe car glove bow?” window. But when he got home, there the cat was, vingon the 5 - ‘doormat. So the next day he drove 20 blocks and threw the cat into a 2 “Tput it there just before | threw the ‘iver. But, on entering his criveway the cat was there again, fast asleep car owner's body into the boot.” by the door, 5 the next day he drove 35 blocks, took a lef, tookaa right, "Sir, may | see your licence?” went down the motorway, crossed a couple of bridges and threw the cat "So no gun in the glove box?” into a large hole inthe ground. After driving a while, he called his wife. ‘Gun? Of course not?" 7 » “My police officer told me you had a ‘Yes,’ she sald. “Why do you ask : gun in the glove box and a body in ; ‘on the desk. Nuriner one says ‘Open me first’. Sa he opens it and " Ce ee ee eet | promunetation | monaten months ater, he companys in big trouble and the manage: may lose & @P Listen again and answer the 2 "You stole it?! You have a gun in the ooo00 bo 4 Which sentences are said loudly? recovers. ut sit months afte this, the company isin ttouble aguin and 2. Inwhich sentences does the voice losing money fast. He opens the third envelope and reads the message. rise and fall a lot? Which words are It says, ‘Blame everything on the government, He does this and ‘emphasised? everyone agrees and he keeps his [ob Six months later the company is 3. Inwhich sentences does the tone of in even bigger trouble, and the workers are on strike, So he opens the voice stay the same? fourth envelope. The message says: Prepare fous envelopes. D Listen again and repeat. \Grammar | participle clauses Six of these sentences contain mistakes, Find the mistakes and correct them. 4 Not having heard the music, ! can’t really judge tt 2 On been arrested by the police, Teresa admitted that she was guilty of fraud, ‘She broke her leg while to play hockey. He stood there in front of us, desolate, robbed of everything he'd ever owned, 5 To help other people wasn't something that usually made Mrs Davies happy. 6 Having been given the car just the day before, Lucas promptly crashed it. 7 Alo the beys, hoped to be football stars, trained for six hours every day. B Told by his teacher that he had the ability to pass his exam, Bill finally achieved his goal. 9 Having wake up at 4.00 a.m... we were exhausted by 11.00. 10 After being listening to the speech for four hours, Bianca eventually fell asleep. Complete the stories with the correct form of yerbs from the bux. have/catch ask play celebrate call cheat In the wild old days of cowboys and saloons, @ ‘at cards was likely to get you killed, ©) ____ cheating in 2 saloon in 1857, Donaid Blewett was shot dead. The men (3) sil have/place tell involve bet have/make know (@) ___-should never have been easier (8) elaborate plans to cheat, horse owner and politician Horatio Bottomley placed ‘the perfect bet’ on a horse race in Belgium. He owned all six of the horses (6) —__ in the race and he employed the six English jockeys. After (10) the jockeys the order in which they should finish, Bottomley thought he couldn't lose. However, (11) his bet, he got a surprise. Halfway through the race, a thick fog descended on the course. AAS a result, the race was declared null and void, with no winner, Bottomley, (12) for his money-making ability lost 2 fortune, Vocabulary | humour EBB complete the crossword. wanted to finish their game, however, and they needed :nother playex, s0 they asked a stranger to join them. This stranger then proceeded to win over $4,000. (4) __to the scene a bit later, the police decided to try and find Donald Blewett’ nearest relative, After (5) around to find out the dead man’s name, they discovered that the stranger (6) his $4,000 jackpot was Blewett’s son, who hadn't sse2n his father for over ten years. 4 give the impression that something is greater or larger than it really is 2 afunny drawing 3, humorous use of words that sound the same but have different meanings 4 comic moments connected to very serious subjects, 5 when you say the opposite of what you mean, for a fumorous effect 6 comic drama using unlikely situations and people acting stupidly 7 make something/someone seem ridiculous (often in ‘order to laugh at people who have power)Review and consolida Narrative tenses (review) Complete the sentences using the correct form of verbs from the box. read leave face write mem borrow turn into get up make drive 1 By midday | was really tired, because | on the motorway since 5 a.m. 2 She said all the noise was because the building next door ‘a shopping mall, The work wouldn't be completed until the following May. 3, They desperately wanted to see Francesca, but the janitor told them that she already. 4 One ofthe children recited the whole story. Apparently, he it for weeks. When | got home, the fridge noise, so called the engineer. 6 He his autobiography in the months before he died, so although it wasn't finished, we had a good idea of his life story 7 Myfriends knew the film had a twist in the tail, but | didn’t because | the book. 8 Rob tried to take a photo of Lily, but she _ the wrong way. 9 Yevgeny was searching for a book in the library, but it already. 10 you early this morning? | thought | heard you scampering around! aweird Participle clauses Choose the correct words in italics. Sometimes, more than one answer is possible. 1 To hope! Hoping|Hoped to find a new wife, Davies seitled in Paris. 2. Restored/Having been restored|Ajter restored to its former glory, the painting was re-hung. 3. Ran/To run} Running marathons is what she does, best. | know the man having sat/sat/siting in the blue ca. White driving Driven|Having driven in the tunnel, keep your lights on. 6 On hearing/Heard/Having heard the news, he rushed over to the hospital. 7 Buried Being buried/ Burying in the cemetery is a famous scientist ofthe early 20th cemury, 8 After catching] After being caught/Having been caught, the robber put down his gun. 9. The photos taken/being taken/having been token today will urn out fine. The ight is perfect. 10 After being treated|Treating/ Treated by experts, the dog began to recover. Tales Complete the sentences 1-8) wih the covet word. In order to avoid hurting people, | think it's OK to tell A afeeble excuse. B a white lie, Advertising writers aren't exactly lias, but they tend to be a bit__ A of agossip. B exaggerated € prone to exaggeration The yet is probably just a A tale, B myth. C tall story, We heard the fire alarm, but it turned out to be an elaborate A rumour. 8 false. C hoax. ‘Whenever his results were bad, Peter made A excuses. B alie. C atrick. Joanne first told me about it, and then the C arumour. A went. B passed araund. C spread. He's always telling stories about other people— he’s, sucha A hoaxer, B bareface. C gossip. | should never have trusted her. She played a ____ on me and stupidly | was taken in, A joke. 8 hoax. C punch line. Humour Match the review extracts (1-5) to types of humour fom the box, Two are not used, rony exaggeration Comedian John Weeding spent an hour of his brilliant show doing impressions of Tony Blair ‘and other politicians, and the audience lapped Up bis hilarious take on modern society. We see the usual tricks of the genre in this. tedious play: mistresses hiding in wardrobes, husbands caught with their trousers down, and a plot that goes from the silly to the ridiculous. What animal will always keep you warm? A kangaroo, because it's a good jumper. If you like this type of humour ~ and most children do~ The Bumper Book of Kids" Jokes is for you. He goes way beyond what you usually find in the back pages of the newspaper. The writing and drawing are so exquisite that he’s been called 2 mix between Leonardo and Woody Allen. The whole play revolves around a search for a dead body. Somehow Lara Williams manages to ‘wring humour out of a very dark situation.