Unit 1 Time: B1 Workbook Audioscript
Unit 1 Time: B1 Workbook Audioscript
3 lively lights?
4 market B That’s right. It takes about ten minutes.
5 pavement A Thanks.
6 pedestrian
7 performer Unit 3 Going up, going down
8 rubbish
Page 19, Exercises 5b & c
9 souvenir
10 statue Audio 3.1
1 dived dropped jumped landed
Page 11, Exercises 5b & c 2 booked climbed lifted walked
1 We’re tired. We’re having an early night. 4 asked looked waited worked
2 My husband is late for work. He’s running out of 5 called painted played listened
Audio 2.3
Four syllables:
1 It’s something that you have in your house.
disappointed
2 It’s something that you turn on and off.
3 It’s something that has water in it.
Page 23, Exercise 1b
Page 15, Exercise 1b Audio 3.3
Conversation 1
Audio 2.4
A We had a bad experience when we were on
A Please could you tell us how to get to the town
holiday a few years ago. We hired a car and went
hall?
exploring on the coast.
B Yes, go straight down here, cross the road at the
B Where were you?
lights and take the second left.
A In the Canary Islands – in Fuerteventura, to be
A Can you show us on the map?
exact. So, anyway, we were in this hired car and
B Yes, here it is. You can’t miss it.
we decided to leave the main road. We were
A OK, so it’s down here and second left after the
5
A How often do you use social media?
B A lot. But you don’t need to update your Facebook
page every day – you can add photos and
comments when you like.
A Are you doing anything at the weekend? factories in China to recycle the waste.
B I’m working on Saturday, but I’m free on Sunday. P So the houses are green as well as cheap and
A Do you fancy going to the Renoir exhibition at the easy to build. Amy, what does a printed house
B Yeah, I’d love to. A Well, these houses are much smaller than normal
A Shall we meet outside the museum when it ones and they only have one floor. But you can
opens? have a window if you want, and you can divide the
B I’m afraid I can’t go that early, because I’m playing house into two rooms. It depends on the design,
A Sure. Is two o’clock OK for you? P And what about the price? How much does one of
B Two o’clock is perfect. See you there. these printed houses cost?
A Each one costs around 3,650 euros. But you have
Page 30, Exercises 2 & 3 to go to China to buy one. Actually, the houses
aren’t really for people like you and me. They are
Audio 4.4
really for people without a home. Perhaps they
P = Presenter, A = Amy
are too poor to buy a house or maybe they have
P It takes a long time to build a house, and the end
lost their home in a natural disaster. The company
result is usually very expensive, as you know if
that makes them, the WinSun Decoration Design
you’re trying to buy one. But a Chinese company
Engineering Company, has spent years working
has found a fantastic new way to make houses
on the houses – and the printer.
that are cheap AND take less time to build. Amy
P Well, I think it’s a great idea! Amy Chang, thank
Chang is here to tell us all about them. Amy, how
you for joining us.
are the houses made?
Speaker 7
Speaker 3
I was very frightened about six weeks ago when my
I was in a hotel once and I couldn’t sleep. I got up to
six-year-old son had problems while he was eating.
look out of the window, and I saw some big black
He had been eating steak and put a large piece into
clouds in the sky. Only they weren’t clouds, and I
his mouth and then tried to eat it but it was stuck and
suddenly realized that there was a fire – in my hotel! I
he couldn’t breathe! His face became red and he
didn’t know what to do. Luckily, the emergency
didn’t know what to do and neither did I. Fortunately
services were already there, and somebody came to
my sister was in the house and she hit him on the
take me outside. What a nightmare!
back, then the piece of meat came out. But we were
all very frightened and we cried a lot.
Speaker 4
I’ve never been very keen on flying, but my last trip
was worse than ever. The weather was awful, and it
Unit 9 Body and mind
was really cloudy, so the pilot was having problems Page 61, Exercises 6a & b
landing. The plane was moving all over the place,
Audio 9.1
and everybody was holding on to their seats. We
1 I’ll
tried to land three times before we actually stopped
2 You’ll
going up in the air again. It was very frightening, I can
3 It’ll
tell you.
4 He’ll favourite
5 She’ll
raspberry
6 We’ll
restaurant
7 They’ll
several
Page 62, Exercises 4b & c
strawberry
Audio 9.2
1 eat read Three-syllable words:
2 bread meat
interesting
3 disease dream
4 easy weather temperature
5 health leather vegetable
6 already instead
7 breakfast team Page 68, Exercise 2b
8 cleaner pleased
Audio 10.2
four tins of chicken soup
Page 65, Exercise 2b
six packets of sausages
Audio 9.3
A Morning. How can I help you? two bottles of ketchup
B Hello. Have you got anything for a cold? two tubes of tomato paste
A Well, there isn’t much I can do really. I think you
three jars of olives
should go home and get lots of rest.
B Can you give me something for my cough? It’s two boxes of strawberries
very annoying.
four cartons of cream
A Yes, you could try this medicine. Take it every six
sixteen cans of drinks
hours until the cough goes away.
B Right.
Page 71, Exercise 2b
A It’s a good idea to drink lots of water, too. And
keep warm. You mustn’t go out. Audio 10.3
B OK. Thank you very much. Conversation 1
A Excuse me? I’m afraid I can’t eat this steak. It’s
Unit 10 Food raw.
B Really? I’ll take it back to the kitchen for you.
Page 67, Exercises 4b & c A No, I’d like to order something else, please.
Audio 10.1 B Of course. What would you like?
Two-syllable words: A I’m not sure. Would you mind bringing me the
menu again?
chocolate
B Of course not. I’m terribly sorry about your steak.
different A Don’t worry about it. Erm, I’ll have a salad, please.
2 I wouldn’t be happy if I lost my job. 1 My father has had his car for too long.
3 What would you do if you could go back in time? 2 Those children have studied English since last
5 Where would you live if you had the choice? 3 My wife has liked the same music since she was a
6 It’s impossible not to worry when your children the sea in large wooden boats. At the time, the island
come home late. was covered with very tall trees, and it was the
7 Remember not to call me when I’m in the meeting. perfect place to live. They used the wood from the
8 Do you use your phone to take photos? trees to build houses and new boats to go fishing.
There was more than enough food for everybody and
Page 85, Exercise 3b the population grew. Soon, some people went to live
Audio 12.3 in different parts of the island. Then, the Rapa Nui
A Robert, what qualifications have you got for this started to make statues. Nobody is sure of the
job? reason for these statues, but some people say that
B Well, I’ve got a university degree in Sports one was made each time an important leader died.
Management. The statues were all made in the same place, and
A Oh good, and how much experience have you then they were transported across the island. Trees
B I’ve worked as a sports centre manager for three statues were made, more trees were cut down. In the
years and I’m currently working for Pinto Sports end, the Rapa Nui cut down all of the trees on the
near Madrid. island. This was a disaster. Now, there were no trees
A Right. So why do you want to work for this to protect the land, so they could not grow any plants,
B I’m enjoying my job right now, but I’d really like to Soon, there was not enough food for everybody.
get into community sports. People started fighting, and the Rapa Nui began to
A Sure. And what are your strengths and die of hunger. The population fell from 15,000 to
public, and I can work well in a team. As for Today, the only thing that remains of the Rapa Nui on
weaknesses, I find it hard to switch off at the end Easter Island is the moai. But their story can teach us
of the day. But I’m working on that. a valuable lesson. On such a small island, it was
easy to see what was happening as the trees
Page 86, Exercise 2b disappeared. But the people carried on cutting them
down. The rest of us can learn from the Rapa Nui.
Audio 12.4
We have already seen the natural disasters that
There is an island in the South Pacific, about 3,600
happen when we don’t look after the planet. But there
km from the coast of Chile, called Easter Island. It
is still time to save it. If we start taking more interest
isn’t huge, and it doesn’t have any tall trees, but it
in the environment, the same thing that happened to
has a lot of massive stone statues on it called moai.
the Rapa Nui may not happen to us.
Most of the moai are over nine metres tall, and there
are 887 of them in total. They were created between
the years 1250 and 1,500 by the people who lived
there: the Rapa Nui.