GRAMMAR 3 ★★ ★ Look at the pictures.

W hat has just

happened? W rite sentences using the verbs in
Present perfect with just, already A and the words in B.
and yet E3SSQ
A В
1 ★ Complete the sentences with just, already
or yet. wake «Р
fall a goal
My little sister is really smart.
have an accident
1 She's __ learned to walk. She took her score over
start the trophy
first steps last week.
win to rain
2 She hasn't learned to read_________ , but she likes
the pictures.
3 She's_________ learned to count from one to five
and she's only one year o ld !

2 ★★ Look at Jake's to-do list for tidying his

bedroom. W rite sentences using already and yet.

• tidy desk / 0 He has just ______ 1 They

woken up. ____
• put CDs on shelf X
• pick up towels and put them
in bathroom x
• make bed /
• take bin downstairs X
• hang up clothes /

2 They______________ 3 She

Jake has already tidied h is d esk _________

Jake hasn't

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Present perfect vs. past simple ВШИ 6 ★★★ Complete the text. Use the present
perfect or past simple of the verbs in the list.
4 ★ '• -• Match the questions and answers. You can use some verbs more than once.
Have you played volleyball? de j have work | not finish | not learn
d Where did you play? stop | be | buy | live get j look
f Did you enjoy it?
My grandmother is 65 and °has done a lot of things
a Were you good at it? was
in her life. She 1________ born in the country and
c Has your team won anything? lived
2________ on a small farm until she was sixteen.
e Has your team been to different countries? has looked many different places, but she
She 3_________in
a No, I wasn't, is_
always says the farm 4_ _ _ the best place of all.
b Yes, I have.
hasnt finished
She5_________school because she started working
c Yes, we’ve already won three competitions, has worked
when she was fifteen. She 6________ many different
was
jobs in her life - she 7________ a children’s nurse, a
d At school.
e No, we haven't - not yet. dressmaker and a shop assistant among other things.
has workeda very expensive shop in London
She8_________in
f No, not very much.
stoped
for several years. She 9__ ____ working after she
5 ★★ Complete the conversation. Use got
10_________married. She 11_ had
_ _ five children
the present perfect or past simple and the looked
and she 12_____ after the house.
information in brackets. Grandma loves new things. She 13 has just
It's Sunday afternoon. ___ _ a laptop, but she 14hasnt learned
bought how to send

PETER Mum, I'm bored. W hat can I do?

emails yet. I'm going to her house to help her now.

MUM (finish your homework?)

0 Have you. flu Lshedvour homework?
PETER (last night). GET IT R IG H T !
Yes, I finished it all last night. Present perfect with just, already
MUM (tidy your room?) and yet
1 Have you tidied
_________your room?
__ i Learners often make word order errors with just,
PETER (yesterday) I already and yet.
2
Yes,I tidied it yesterday I / I have ju s t finished my homework.
: X Ijust have finished my homework.
MUM (take the dog out?)
Have you taken the dog out? j / He has not passed his exam yet.
i X He has not passed yet his exam.
PETER (before lunch)
I / We have already finished our project.
Yes,
4 I took the dog out before lunch• X We already have finished our project.
MUM (wash your bike?) Correct the following sentences.
Have you washed your bike? 0 I already have finished my application.
PETER (on Friday)

Yes, I washed my bike on Friday1 My brother has yet not had a summer job.
MUM (phonejim ?)

Have you phoned Jim? 2 I already have le

PETER (this morning / no answer)
Yes, I phoned him this morning
MUM (watch your new DVD?)
9 Have you watched
________ your
_ new DVD?
PETER (last night)
10 Yes, I watchet new DVD last night
MUM Well, I don't know. What about helping me
with the washing up?
PETER Erm ... maybe not!

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Word list

positive
talented
popular active

brave
laid-back

caring
intelligent
charming
funny

cheerful
friendly

confident

easy-going creative cool

Collocations just
do a degree / an interview It was just a joke.
make a cake / friends Tom's just arrived.
miss the bus / your family The book was just fantastic!
sign a contract / an autograph
win a competition / a prize
write a novel / a song

Key words in context

admire She never gives up, and I admire her for that.
attract The Eiffel Tower attracts thousands o f visitors every year.
complain The food was horrible, so we decided to complain to the waiter.
decorate I'm going to decorate my bedroom with pictures and posters.
genius He wrote music when he was only five years old! He was a genius
hero She helped the country to become independent, and now she’s a national hero
organise I'm going to organise a party for him.
original No one else paints like him - he has very original ideas.
poem I gave her a book of poems for her birthday.
round of applause The audience loved the music, and they gave the musicians a big round o f applause at the end.
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Personality adjectives ШЗЕ1

1 ★★ (^TrcjeSthe correct option: A, В or C.
0 An active person A loves theatre. (в)is always doing something. C sleeps a lo t
1 A brave person A takes risks when it's necessary. В is often angry. C doesn’t like talking.
2 A creative person A often makes mistakes. В has original ideas. C works very hard.
3 A charming person A is very good-looking. В has a lot o f money. C is easy to talk to.
4 A cheerful person A often feels sad. В enjoys life. C often gets angry.
5 A laid-back person A is very relaxed. В can't wake up in the morning. C never goes out.
6 A confident person A doesn't work hard. В believes in him-/herself. C will keep a secret.
7 A positive person A sees the good in everything. В is frightened o f the future. C is often bored.
8 A talented person A has got a lot o f money. В isn't good at sports. C is good at something.

2 ★★ Read the text. Complete the adjectives.
The first and last letters are given.
My ideal friend is very °ac tiv e - that's important
because I play a lot of sports and I want him to play
5 Complete the text. Use the correct forms
of the verbs in A and the words in B.
A have make (x2) sign do
В a party albums a degree a cake his autograph

basketball in my team. He’s ’ I_________-_________к
and knows how to have fun, so he’s a good person
to hang out with. I need a friend who's really
2t_________d with computers, because I'm not good
at IT and he could help me. Maybe it would be
good if he was 3c_________g too - I'm not very
4c_________t, so he can help me talk to girls! (I know -
I need to be more 5p e, right?)
The members of Jason's band 0 arc having a p a rty
to celebrate. Jason's mum has 1____________________
Some of the band's friends are asking Jason to
2________ ____________ on their T-shirts. Cherie, the
singer, is still planning to 3 _______________ in
music at university next year, but says she can still
4____________________ with the band.

3 ★★★ Write one or two sentences about people

you know (friends or family). Use adjectives from WordWise ШШ
Exercises 1 and 2. Phrases with just
6 Tick ( / ) the five sentences that can
be completed by addingjust.
0 I've ... cleaned the floor. 0
1 That horror film, The Blob, is ... terrifying. □
Collocations И Ш
2 He can't tell you if you d o n 't... ask. □
3 This dress is almost... perfect. □
4 ★ -Vk Complete the text with the words in 4 The flower show was... amazing. □
the list.
5 He's... a child, but he's a talented artist. □
won | write | do | signed | missed | have
6 No problem, it was... a thought. □
7 Gemma has ... phoned. She's on her way. □
Last year, Jason's band were on TV - they 0 vuovi
7 Match the sentences in Exercise 6
a talent show. Jason was a bit unhappy because
with the meanings of ju st.
his mum 1_________the show (she was ill). But the
band members are very excited because they’ve 1 a short time ago [ 0] [
just2_________a contract with a record company. 2 only

The band members are talented musicians - they 3 really О Q

3_________all their own songs. They're hoping
to 4_________a lot of success on the music scene.
Tomorrow morning, Jason is going t o 5_________
an interview on TV.

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R E A D IN G 2 Read the article. Tick ( / ) four jobs that it mentions.

REMEMBER AND CHECK Match the people with 1 comedian □

the statements. Then check your answers in the 2 film star □
online survey on page 13 o f the Student's Book. 3 songwriter □
1 Bias mum 4 novelist □
2 Mr Donaldson 5 singer □
3 Alex's grandmother, Gwen 6 translator □
4 Unclejack
3 Read the article again. Mark the sentences T (true)
a spends a lot of time away from home. or F (false).
□
□ b has just done a parachute jum p for charity. 0 Joseph Conrad started to learn English when
c is very laid-back. he was twenty. m
□
□ d devotes all his time to his family. 1 Conrad spoke English like an English person. □
□ e is a wildlife photographer. 2 Conrad's novels aren't very good. □
f is a seriously talented guitarist. 3 Victor Borge was a talented musician as
□

□ □ □ □
a child.
□ g has three children.

□ h
i
has been on TV.
is 78 years old.
4
5
Borge learned English at school.
Borge was a comedian on TV in the USA.
□
6 ABBA were from Switzerland.
□ j never complains.

□ к is a music teacher. 4 Do you know any other people who do things

□ i thinks life is for living. incredibly well in a language that isn't their first
language? Who?

* 4:v и
ZING LEARNERS OF ENGLISH
We all know that a lot of people - and I mean a lo t of people - learn
another language and get really good at it. I'm not including bilingual
people whose parents speak different languages to them from when
they're born. (They're lucky - they don't even have to try, right?)
No, I mean people who learn at school or even later and then get so
good at their second language that they become famous in it.
Here's an example: a Polish man Another example? OK. Barge
called Joseph Conrad. Well, his 'real' Rosenbaum was born in Denmark
name was Jozef Teodor Konrad in 1909. He was an extremely good
Korzeniowski and he was born in pianist - he gave his first concert
1857. When he was in his twenties, when he was just eight years old!
he became a sailor and Later, he started to tell
started to learn English. jokes when he played the
Then he went to live in piano and he became a
England. He stayed there piano-playing comedian -
name to Victor Borge, started doing
for the rest of his life and in Danish, o f course. Then,
his own comedy acts and became a
he always spoke English when the Second World
famous TV com edian-m aking jokes I
with an accent. So what? War started, he managed to
in his second language!
Well, he changed his escape from Denmark and
name to Joseph Conrad he went to the USA. He was Then perhaps you can add the
and he wrote novels in 31, he had $20 in his pocket Swedish group ABBA, who became
English. He wrote about and he spoke no English at incredibly famous writing and singing I
twenty novels that a lot o f people all. So, to learn English, he watched songs in English. There must be
think are some o f the greatest novels films and went to watch American others, but I don't know any more.
in English. comedians. Then he changed his Do you?
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DEVELOPING WRITING

A person I know well

1 Read the text that Emily wrote about her friend Patrick. Match the pictures with three of the paragraphs.

A I'm going to write about one o f my friends, Patrick. We met when he moved into a house in my street three
years ago.
В He's a little older than me, but I always feel like he’s much older! I think that's because he's a very confident person -
he's only fourteen, but he's very sure of himself. When Patrick talks to adults, he talks to them like he's an adult too.
He isn't afraid to disagree with adults, for example. I've never said 'No, I don't agree' to an adult, but Patrick has! I
think that's a good point about him.
C Another good point is that he's very honest. If he doesn't like something, he says so. He never says ’Oh yes, it's great',
just to be the same as everyone else. In fact, this is why some people at school don't like him very much, I think.
D Does he have bad points? Yes! He's forgetful. I remember a few times when he promised to do something, and he
just forgot! Once he promised to come to my house and help me with something. He didn't come, so I phoned
him. Like I said, he’s honest, so he said, 'Oh, no. I forgot. I’ll come right now.’ And he did. He arrived with a big smile,
saying, 'I'm awful, aren't I? I always forget. Sorry.’ I couldn't be angry with him!
E I hope we're going to be friends for a long time.

2 How many good things and how many bad things 5 Read the text again. Match the paragraphs A-E
does Emily write about? with the topics.
0 A not-so-good thing about Patrick 0
1 First good thing about Patrick □
3 Which adjectives describe Patrick? Tick ( / ) 2 Closing □
three. 3 W ho the person is □
1 polite Q 4 confident 4 Another good thing about Patrick □
2 honest 5 forgetful Write about someone you know, perhaps
3 intelligent □ 6 talented a friend or a family member (150-200 words).
• Think about the person you're going to write
4 Look at the three boxes you ticked in Exercise 3. about. How will you introduce them to your
What examples does Emily give to show that reader?
these adjectives describe Patrick?
• What are the good things and what are the
12 not-so-good things about them? In what order
will you write about them?
• What adjectives are you going to use? What
2
examples can you use to show what you mean
by each adjective?
3 • How will you close your writing?
L IS T E N IN G D IA L O G U E
L »)iin Listen to the 1 Put the conversations in the correct order.
conversation.Circle) CONVERSATION 1
the correct words. О We can put a football match together
1 They're discussing last between our street and Nelson Street.
weekend / going to 0» I've got an idea for the weekend.
a film / their parents. A Let's speak to some people about it now.
2 They both like an В I’ll come with you. We can do it together.
actor / a film / London.
В A football match? That's a great idea.
2 С. Ж * Listen again. Mark the sentences T (true) Ш В Yeah? W hat is it?
or F (false).
CONVERSATION 2
0 Maggie thinks last weekend was exciting. В | A Thanks, but I'm not sure if we can do
1 A film premiere is the first time a new film everything before Saturday.
is shown. □ |~7~| A Julie, why don’t we have a party?
2 Maggie wants to go the premiere o f Liam A I don’t know. Can people come on Sunday?
Hemsworth's new film. □ | | A Well, the next day's Monday - that's why.
3 Maggie thinks her parents will be happy You know, homework to do, that sort of thing,
for her to go. □ j В A party? Wow, yes! I’ll help you if you want.
4 Jason has an aunt and uncle who live Let’s have it this weekend.
in London. □ [ В OK, so forget Saturday. But you should
definitely do it. It could be Sunday.
5 Jason doesn't want to go to the film
with Maggie. □ В Oh, don't worry about homework, Sue.
6 Jason doesn't like Liam Hemsworth. □ j
Come o n ! You've got to make this happen!
| В Yes, I think they can. W hy not?
7 Jason and Maggie are going to talk to
Maggie's parents. □
3 L м м Listen again. Complete the conversations.
PHRASES FO R FLU EN C Y Ш Ш
1 MAGGIE W ell, you know that Liam Hem sworth is 1 Put the words in order to make expressions.
my absolute film hero?
0 what / know Know w h a t? ______
JASON Yes, 0 o f course I know that.
1 sure / you / are / ? ____________________
So 1 ______________?
2 it / let's / face____________________ _
2 MAGGIE W ell, I’m going to the prem iere!
JASON Oh, that's a 2_______________ ! 3 that / and / that's_____________________

MAGGIE Oh? Do you really think so? 4 s o /d o n 't/th in k /1 __________________ -

JASON Yes, you 3________________ d o it. You've 5 o f / s o r t/th in g /th a t_____________________
always w anted to meet him.
2 Complete the conversations with the expressions
3 MAGGIE W ow, that's great! Thank you. I'm ju st
w o rrie d that my p a re n ts ...
in Exercise 1.
4 ______ , they w on’t like 0 A Hurry up. The film starts at 8.30.
the idea. В A re yon, sure? I heard it starts at 9.00.
JASON I know what you mean. But, hey, you 1 A How did the tennis match go?
know what? You've got to В I lost. ______________ , I’m awful at tennis!
5 _______________!
2 A So what did you do over the weekend?
В Not much - read, watched TV, ______
3 A Oh, Dad! Can I please watch The Voice?
Pronunciation
В No, you can't. I said no T V ________________
Sentence stress 4 A I know it's raining, but let’s go for a walk.
Go t o page 118. ______ E l j В ____ ________? I'm staying right here!
5 A This song's just fantastic.
В W e ll,________ _______ It's terrible.
W riting part 1
1 For each question, complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first.
Use no more than three words.
0 Tennis is my hobby. 3 I’ve just spoken to my mum on the phone.
I really like playing tennis. I __________________ my mum on the phone a few
1 There are more than 100 people in my Facebook minutes ago.
friends list. 4 Nigel's only two, but he can ride a bike.
I've__________________ than 100 friends on Nigel has_____ _____________ to ride a bike and
Facebook. he’s only two.
2 Tom is a friend o f my brother's. 5 I'm always really interested when my granddad tells
T om __________________ friend. stories o f the past.
My granddad's stories of the past are always

Exam guide: sentence transformations

In this section there are five questions about a certain topic. Each question contains a pair o f sentences.
The first sentence is complete. The second sentence says the same thing as the first sentence, but
some words are missing. You have to write between one and three words to complete the gap in the
second sentence.
• This question tests how well you know grammar. • Does your answer mean exactly the same as the
When you read through each pair o f sentences, first sentence?
see if you can identify what the grammatical area • Sometimes there may be more than one answer.
is. This will help you focus on the answer. Common Don't worry about this. W rite in the answer you
areas include for vs. since, comparatives and feel more confident about.
superlatives, too vs. enough, adverbs and adjectives
• Be careful with your spelling - you'll get no marks
and their opposites, there is vs. have got, etc.
if you misspell a word.
• When you've written in your answer, read it 'out
• Make sure you write no more than three words or
loud’ in your head. Does it sound right? If not,
you’ll get no points for the question, even if your
rethink your answer.2
answer completes the sentence correctly.

______________________________

2 For each question, complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first.
Use no more than three words.
0 Tennis is my hobby. 3 I've got a flight to Milan in the morning.
I really like playing tennis. I'm _______________ _ t o Milan in the morning.
1 This is my first time on a plane. 4 No car is more expensive than this one.
I've__________________ on a plane before. This is__________________ car in the world.
2 Buy your ticket today. It will be more expensive 5 You can buy your ticket on the train.
tomorrow. You _ buy your ticket before you get on
If you your ticket today, it will the train.
be more expensive tomorrow.