GOING ONLINE

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X.X I love meeting new people
E Reading Part 1 • Speaking Part 1 | V hobbies and interests | L verbs of like and dislike

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Read the online profile and match it to the correct picture above.

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Hi, I’m Zita and I love making new friends. I like books, fashion and playing the
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guitar. I hate Mondays and I can’t stand going to the gym but I enjoy athletics,
but I’m not keen on team sports. I want to be a journalist.

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Listen to two students, Corey and Miki, talking together on their first
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day at college. Match the speakers to their pictures above.

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Listen again and complete Corey’s online profile.
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Hi, I’m Corey and I’m from (1) . In the winter I play ice
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(2) . In the summer I like mountain (3) and playing

(4) . I enjoy playing (5) games but I hate
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(6) . If you want to look for me online type in (7) .

Vocabulary: hobbies and interests

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Language booster Read the profiles again and put the words connected to interests
and free-time activities into the table.
be keen on, be good at
interests sport computers social activities
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These adjective + fashion making new friends
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-ing form.
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I’m not keen on computer Read the sentences. Draw , , , or next to each one
games. to show the meaning.
Are you good at winter 0 I hate Mondays. 3 I enjoy playing computer games.
sports? 1 I can’t stand going to the gym. 4 We love going shopping.
I’m interested in acting. 2 I quite like playing tennis. 5 I don’t mind music stores.

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Complete the rule with two of the phrases from the box.
the infinitive without to the -ing form a noun

After verbs of like and dislike we usually use or .

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How do you feel about these activities? Make sentences.
chat online play computer games with friends play sports
meet new people at parties spend time on the computer
talk about myself wear fashionable clothes

I am really keen on playing sports, especially volleyball.

Exam practice: Reading Part 1

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For each question, choose the correct answer.

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A the film they see.

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at a time as they are Tuesday’s half-price day at
B the cinema they go to.

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not connected to each the cinema. Let’s go then

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purpose of the showing. OK? – Marc
the
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message. Is it an
cs, invitation, a request or 2 What should Dan do?
a suggestion?
A take Mel’s phone to her at
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I can’t open my emails. I know college

relationship between you’re going out, and Mel’s B explain Mum’s computer
the writer and the forgotten her phone, so when she
problem to Mel
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gets in from college, can you ask

reader of the message. her to take a look at my laptop? C help Mel to sort out
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3 From: Luke A Luke is thinking of

To: Izzie becoming a member of
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You enjoy keeping fit don’t you? My B Luke’s sister has free gym
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sister’s got two tickets for a free session tickets for Luke and Izzie.
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at Green’s Gym. I’ve joined already. Are C Luke wants Izzie to go

you interested in going with her?
to Green’s Gym with his
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sister.

Exam practice: Speaking Part 1

95 Exam tip 9
In the first part of the Speaking Test the examiner will ask you some
questions about your daily life and your likes and dislikes.
• Don’t just answer Ask your partner questions to complete the profile.
with one word — give
reasons or examples. First name:
• Try to avoid long Last name:
silences. Say things Home town:
like well while you are Hobbies:
thinking. Other interests:
Dislikes:

Writing
10 Write an online profile for your partner’s webpage based on the

information from Activity 9.

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X.X Keeping in touch
E Listening Part 2 | V communication and technology | L present tenses

Vocabulary: communication and technology
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How are these people keeping in touch? Match the words to the
pictures.
email phone postcard text (message) webcam

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Ask and answer the questions with a partner. I think texts or
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Give reasons for your answers.

emails are best
Which is the best way to ... because it’s easy
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0 tell your friends a funny joke you’ve just heard? to send the joke to
1 find your friends at a crowded concert?
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several people.
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2 tell all your friends about an interesting website?

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3 warn your friends you’re going to be late?

4 tell your friends you’re having a great holiday?
5 5 find out all your friends’ news?
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1 Ben’s computer suddenly stopped working during the thunderstorm.
2 As soon as I’ve read my emails I remove them from the mailbox.
3 If you don’t store the changes you make to a document, you will lose them.
4 To start the program press on the mouse here.
5 You can spend hours looking at different websites on the internet.

Exam practice: Listening Part 2

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Match the verbs to the sentences they describe.
1 remind A Sorry I forgot to text you last night.
B You can borrow my old laptop until yours is mended
2 apologise if you like.
C I can’t talk with you now because I’m finishing an
3 suggest
essay.

4 offer D Don’t forget to switch off the computer when you’ve

finished.
5 explain E Would you like to come over to my house to watch
a film?
6 invite F Why not join a social network if you want to chat?

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For each question, choose the correct answer.
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Exam tip 1 You will hear two friends

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talking about a blogger.
Some questions ask What surprises the boy about
about agreement, the blogger?
so listen carefully to A how young she is
understand which B how much she does in a day
of the three possible C how she gets ideas for the blog
answers the two

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speakers agree on. 2 You will hear two friends talking about
a computer game. They agree that the

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3 You will hear two friends talking on

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the phone. Why did the girl call the boy?
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A to offer help
B to refuse an invitation
C to apologise
4 You will hear two friends talking about a chat group.
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What does the girl say about the chat group?

A You can’t have real conversations on it.
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C She doesn’t think it’s necessary.
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101 Language focus: present tenses

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Look at the example sentences from the listening. Are the
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http://www.chatlink.com underlined verbs in the present simple or the present continuous?

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I (1) (spend) 1 It’s the kind of game that needs practice.

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about 25 hours a month on the 2 Everyone at school is talking about it.

internet. Group chats are really 3 She often works late into the night.
popular but I (2) 4 Right now I want to spend my free time doing sport.
(not understand) why. The
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Match the verbs in Activity 6 to the uses of the present tenses.
conversations people
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A present continuous for an activity happening now
them are usually really boring.
B present simple for something that is generally true
I mainly (4) (use)
C present simple for something that happens repeatedly
the internet for games.
D present simple for a verb not usually used in continuous form, e.g.
I (5) (play) a
hate, have (got), hear, know, like, remember, see, understand, want.
fantastic game at the moment,
called Free Rider.
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I (6) (try) very Complete the forum post with the correct forms of the verbs in
brackets.
hard to reach the next level.
What about you? How much do
you use technology? Writing
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Look at the question at the end of Ben’s forum post. Write a reply
to him.

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1 –3 Review 1

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Unscramble the underlined letters in the Match the nouns to the verbs.
first half of this article to make words for
a bath the bed breakfast a chat
members of the family.
the cooking the dinner fun your homework

An ancient tennis ball the housework a mess a mistake

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the shopping the washing-up

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Nobody knew that there was a tennis ball on the roof ha
of Lincoln Cathedral except the family of the boys who
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put it there. a bath

More than 100 years ago Gilbert Bell and his
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(0) brerhto brother used to play outside the cathedral,

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near their (1) frahet’s bread shop. One day the ball
landed on the cathedral roof and was never
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seen again. 4
When you were ten years old, which of these
The story became part of the Bell family history. did you use to do? Which do you do now? Ask
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Gilbert’s (2) neweph David told his (3) crihlned and

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(4) drangcrihlned about it. Whenever they visited

buy comics eat a lot of sweets
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Lincoln they used to check to see if the ball was still go on holiday with your friends
there. When David’s (5) nso, Christopher, got married have a mobile phone have your own bedroom
he even took his new (6) fiew to see it. play computer games support a football team

A: Did you use to buy comics, Wiktor?

B: Yes, I did. I used to buy one every week.
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Put the verbs in the second half of the A: Do you still buy comics?
article in the active or passive form of the B: No, I don’t. Now I buy football magazines.
present or past simple.
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Then one day Christopher (0) visited (visit) the Make six sentences about yourself and your
Christmas Market in Lincoln and (1) (see) partner.
workers repairing the roof. As a joke, he Wiktor used to buy comics but now he buys
(2) (write) a letter to the cathedral staff football magazines.
and (3) (ask) to have the ball back. ‘If it I didn’t use to have a mobile phone, but now I
(4) (find), you can have it,’ they replied. have one.
So far, however, there has been no sign of it.
The ball (5) (believe) to be one of the
oldest in the UK. The earliest tennis ball in the London
Tennis Museum (6) (make) in 1916, so
Gilbert Bell’s is probably even older.

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Read this information posted on the internet
by Li Chen and choose the correct words.
Hi! My name is
Li Chen and I (0)
am living / live in
Beijing. Beijing is
Complete these mini-conversations using
so, such, too or enough.
1 A: Have you tidied your room yet?
B: Sorry, I’ve been too busy.
A: Well, will you do it tomorrow?
B: I won’t have time tomorrow
either.
2 A: It’s lovely weather. Shall we have

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the capital of China lunch in the garden?

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and it (1) changes B: I don’t think it’s warm yet to eat

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mother was young,
B: It’s expensive. The bus is

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(2) travelled / 4 A: I like your new room. I didn’t know you
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travels around had many posters.
by bicycle, and there was far (3) less / little B: I’ve got many really. There isn’t
traffic. Now the traffic is very (4) heavier / space on the walls for them all.
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heavy. Also, people used to (5) live / living in

single-storey houses but most of these (6) are
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/ were pulled down and replaced by (7) much

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/ more taller apartment blocks, office buildings,

and department stores. This city (8) grows / is
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growing very fast, but there are still

(9) many / more historic places to visit, such as
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the Forbidden City, and the Temple of Heaven.
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I think living in Beijing is (10) most / much more

exciting now than it used to be.
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On Target?

How well can you do these things? ✩ ✩✩ ✩✩✩

E use grammar knowledge to complete a text
E understand the connections between sentences
E find and understand information in a text
E listen for key information and the main ideas
E describe a photograph and discuss a connected topic
V talk about myself, my family and my home
L use the present simple and present continuous tenses
L use adverbs with adjectives to compare and contrast things
L use the past simple tense and used to
L understand and use the passive voice

E Exam skills V Vocabulary skills L Language skills

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