Unit 3 Places 3a City life Vocabulary telling the time 1 Match the clocks with the times (1-8). Ws three ‘clock, It’s quarter past three, Is half past three. It’s twenty-five minutes past three. I's twenty-five minutes to three It’s five minutes past three. It’s five minutes to three. Ie’s quarter to three, 2. Write the times. 5.00 _It's fine o'clock 7.08 95 1.25 430 os 3.5 845 1055 Listening the time in different places 3 1.22 Listen and number the places in order (1-4). > (a train station [1] tendon 4 6 1.22 Listen again and draw the time on the clocks. Songdo is a big city. It's over six kn? and is on an artificial island in South Korea. But the streets of Songdo are very quiet and the air is clean because there are only one or two cars The roofs of houses and offices are beautiful because there are plants and gardens. So why isn't this modem city crowded with people? Why isn* there a lot of traffic and ait pollution? At the moment only 22,000 people live in Songdo, but about 65,000 people plan to live hhere in the future. That's because Songdo is anew and very ‘intelligent’ city. I's only ten ‘years old and has state-of-the-art technology. For example, the Intermet is in everything: in people's homes, their cars and in the roads. At the centre of the city is a ‘control centre’. It receives information from the Internet about buildings, traffic and the weather. With this information, the control centre can ‘change the city. For example, if there aren't people on a street at night, the control centre can switch the streetlights off. If there are a lot of cars on ‘one street, drivers receive information ftom the control centre, Songdo is called a ‘smart city’ and its architects think itis the cty of the future, Glossary architec rusk. person whe designs buildings ‘and tes anifiial (a) at, not cea or natural, made by humans control centre (n) anu sent a place which manages ‘everything smart (ad) sma very inteligent state-of the-art (ad) /stextovdo't! the most modernReading a city 5 Read the article about Songglo. Answer the questions with Yes, No or Don't knoe (because the information isn't in the article, 1 Vocabulary adje Is there a lot of traffic in Songdo? Are there plants on the top of ‘buildings? Are there popular shopping areas in Songdo? Are there any old parts of the city? Isthe Internet important in the city? ‘Are there people in the control centre? Do car drivers send information to the control centre? ‘Do people like living in Songdo? es, about cities 5 Write the opposites of these adjectives. Find the answers in the article about Songdo. i small roky dirty ugly old 2) uncrowded stupid bie is 7 Read these comments about cities and places. Match an adjective from Exercise 6 with each comment. “Only a 1,000 people live here. “They never clean the streets.” Te dost is Inner ance cone eae, ee ‘because there aren't many people.’ “This part ofthe city is {from the fifteenth century’ Grammar present simple (i/you/we/they) 8 Complete the sentences withthe affirmative or negative form ofthese verbs. eat go have ike live meet study — work ce __ to work at half past eight every morning. 21 _a car so T go to work on the bus. 3. They shop online because they di shopping in the city. It’s very crowded. aq in that office building over there. 5 We________at the university in Berlin. I's great city! 6 We ________in cafés at lunchtime because they are very expensive. 7 They friends here in the evenings because the food is very good. 8. Most people in the city centre because it’s very polluted. They are in the suburbs. Glossary suburbs (n)sababz/ area of houses not in the city centre Grammar present simple questions 9 Use the prompis to write questions for these answers 1 what / do? What do you do? Tima student a the university 2 where / live? In Singapore. 3. do / gotoworkby car? No, [don’t. I go by bicycle 4 what time / eat lunch ? At midday. 5 like shopping? Yes, Ido, With friends. 10 Listen and respond questions about your life 4 1.23 Listen tothe questions in Exercise 9 and respond. with an answer for you3b Places of work 1. Vocabulary extra jobs Write the job. f talking about work 2 4 1.24 Listen to eight people. Match each person with a job (a-h) from Exercise 1 Person 1 Person 2 Person 3 Person 4 Person 5 Person 6 Person 7 Person 8 Vocabulary places of work 3 6 1.24 Complete the places of work, then listen again and check your answers 1. Photographer: [havea s. but alot of my photos are of animals in different places.” 2. Doctor: ‘I work in the centre ofthe ci k - 3. Waiter: 'Talso work in an expensive B in the centre of Paris at night.’ 4. Sailor: ‘I spencl more time on the b. than in my house’ zg bh 5. Accountant: ‘I work for alarge firm inan ° 6 Student: ‘My classes are three days 2 week sol goto thew ‘on Mondays Wednesdays and Thursdays 7 Pilot: Larriveat thea early ‘because I fly from London to New York” 8 Teacher: ‘Idon’t work ina normal e Thave an office and I teal my students through my computer and the Internet. Reading where you work 4 Read the article. Are these sentences trae (T} Ge false (F)? 1 Wedon’t often understand the importance al ‘workplace. 2. I’sabad idea to put your desk mext to= window It’s difficult to find a comfortable office chai ‘Spend more money on a good chair Plants and lamps are a good idea and they aren‘t expensive. lean your desk at the beginning of the working dayUnit 3 Places 's your place of work a good place to work? Lots of people don't understand how their place of work can affect their work. Here are some simple ideas, + Put your desk near at window because natural light makes people feel better. And you can enjoy a nice view. Is your chair comfortable? This is very important for people in offices with desks, Nowcidays, a lot of designers make modem chats for people who use computers cot. Sometimes they are more expensive, but they're c good idea. + Plants are a cheap way to improve the office. They make office life nicer and scientists say plants make us happy at ‘work, Lighting also makes a big difference nd you don't have to spend clot on good lamps. * At the end of every day, tidy your dest. Put your books and papers away on the shelf $0 everything is realy for tomorrow. Word focus work 5 Complete the sentences with for or with. ‘There are ten people in my office and T work allof them. We're a team! 2 work a large company in the United States. 1's a good job. 3. They work their father. He's the boss, 4 Do you work 1 group of people? Grammar present simple (he/she/it) 6 Complete the article with the correct form of these verbs. come go like not spend work not work sail study Brad Mardell from New| Zealand and he’s a marine biologist. He? __. nan office at his university, bute * alt oft there. He <___being under the water because he animals in the sea, Brad is married and his wife, Gina, ‘ vt him on expeditions But she” under the water because she ee the boat. "Were a good team says Brad 7 Complete these questions about the article. 1 Where 7 New Zealand. 2 Where. 2 In an office. 3. Does __ __allot of time there? No, he doesn’t 4 Does under the water? Yes, he does. 5 What 2 Animals in the sea. 6 Gina with him on expeditions? Yes, she does. 7 she under the water? No, because she sails the boat. 8 Pronunciation -s endings 1.25 Listen to the -s endings in these verbs. Complete the table with the verbs. comes dances finishes goes likes. spends starts teaches works id ial rm]3c Languages Listening places and languages 1. $1.26 Listen to three parts ofa lecture about languages. Match the parts with the charts (AC). Parti: Part 2: Part3: ‘Top five languages on the Internet English '540 milion users _ miion Spanish @ Japanese 100 milion Portuguese rillon| Speakers of English in the world 0) [Non-speakers, “Europe “The Americas) "M0" 2-41.26 Listen again. Complete the charts with the missing suambers Vocabulary cardinal and ordinal numbers 3 Complete the sentences with these numbers. Write the numbers as words. jer Sd 5 8 7 20 s00th ‘Ten, nine, eight, six, New Year's Day is on the : ‘of January. ‘Three and three is ‘There are three daughters in my family and I'm the This book costs -five dollars, Youare our _ customer! 4 Pronunciation saying numbers a 1.27 Listen to these sentences, Tick the number you hear, 133 2 2 Sth 15th 3 66 166 43rd 33rd 5 18 80 b 4 1.28 Listen and repeat b numbers.Unit 3 Places 3d In anew city Vocabulary places in a city 1 Read these comments from different tourists in a city. Which places do they talk about? hotel theatre aquarium car park library ‘tourist museum park 1. ‘Ineed information about the city’ tourist information centre 2. ‘Where can [learn about the history of this felyaeecanats 3. “Lets relax outside on the grass. 4 ‘Where can we leave the car?” 5. ‘This isan old building. It’s full of books!” 6 ‘What’son tonight? Is therea play or a musical?” 7 ‘Tneed.a room for the night.’ 8 ‘Let's go here. The children love looking at sea life” Real life giving directions 2 % 1.29 Listen to a tourist asking for directions to three places. In each conversation, where does the tourist want to go? 1. 2 3 3 1.29 Listen again and tick the correct place (A, BorC)on each map. The tourist ison X 4 6 1.29 Complete the conversations. Then listen again and check. ‘T= Tourist, L= Local person 1 Te Excuse me. [need a bank. Is there one 1 here? L: Yes, it'snear. Go. this street and take right, Then? left and it’s there. 2 T: Hello. _.is the theatre? The play starts in ten minutes. L: That's OK. It's about two minutes Go across this road and go ‘car park on. your right. Then? the first street on the left. IV's on the comer. Hello. Is the tourist information centre near Err t'sabout ten minutes away. straight up this street and turn leftat the end. Go" a small park and the information centre is on the other side fita 1 Writing skill capital letters Each sentence needs one capital etter: Circle the tmistake and rewste he word 1 vein the ity of Barachi._ Karachi 2. Let me introduce you tomy husband george 2 tape the langage orn my vou, Isit monday today? Inthe USA, july ath isan important day. this sa besutifl ety in the south ofthe county 7 I’ cold inthe winter but love this ime of — 8 love travelling with just a backpackin 9. Hehasa small house and his addres is21 haversam Stet 10 Mr gran comes from the next own tome. 3e Describing a place Travel Guidle exes TRPRLAWER ACTMTES _HoTEs Maui ‘Andrew McCarthy is a writer for a travel magazine. He describes his favourite places on the Hawaiian Island of Maui. * thas beautiful sand and a view ofthe West ‘Maui Mountains, Inthe evening, the sun sets in front of you 2 Marisa Samuels makes a great lunch on the island. Buy the chicken kebab and eat it under the kiawe tree. 2__ So for a good cup of coffee, go to Grandma's Coffee House. Sit outside and talk to the local peopl. + __ Isa hard walk but there's the Haleakala volcano and it has a great view of the Pacific Ocean, , There are no electric lights so, at night, watch the Moon. Writing a travel website 2_ Complete the description of Maui with these sentences (a-2). @ Tlovea good cup of coffee in the morning. bb Thebest place to eat is Makena Grill. © My favourite beach is Keawakapu Beach. 4. Stay ata cabin near Haleakala voleano © My favourite walk is in the Polipoli Spring State Recreation Area, 3 Thinkabout your favourite place, Complete this description about i My favourite place is _Unit 3 Places Wordbuilding collocations ‘4 collocation isa combination of words that happens very often. A lot of nouns have adjective and noun collocations: large city (adjective + noun) capital city (noun + noun) 1. Match these nouns with the groups of words (1-8) centre hotel park time language office transport work 1 first / foreign / oficial five-star / comfortable / friendly 3. car / local / wildlife head / small / government 5 boarding / good / dosing 6 city / town / shopping 7 public / private / air 8 fulltime / office / hard 2 Complete these sentences with words from Exercise 1 1 English is my language. All my family is from the UK 2 Thisisa hotel. A family owns it and everyone says ‘Hello’ 3 Let's visit this park. There are some beautiful animals here, 4 The office for our ‘company isin Atlanta. 5. This shop's time is at six o'clock, 6 You can buy everything you need at this - centte, 7 The_ transport system is very good in this city. There are a lot of trains and buses. 8 Idon‘t like work. I want a job outside, Learning skills test a friend 3 Learning English with friends is useful and more fun! For example, choose five new words from today’s English lesson. Write five sentences with the words. Read them to your partner but don't say the word. Say beep instead. Your partner ‘guesses the missing word. English is my BEEP language. Second? Correct! English is my second language. Check! 4 Answer these questions withthe name of a country or city. Then check your answers in Unit Sof the Students Book. 1. Where isthe Midnight Sun Restaurant? N : 2. Which city in Japan has crowded shopping centres bust aroas with no cars? eae 3. Which city in Colombia was polluted inthe past but naw the aris clean? 8 4 Which city has Centennial Olympic Park? An aa 5. Which country has the number one language inthe world? C 6 Which islands have 109 languages? v 7. Whereis the language of Amurdag from? A 8 Which city has Krasnaya Presnaya Park? M