ELEMENTARY UDENT’S BOOKRe Eri rel p EO Pp L E AN D + describe people and places + introduce yourself + explain where you are from p LAC ES + talk about jobs and where you work + ask and answer common questions + say more about your town / city page 6 talk about free-time activities discuss what you like — and don't like arrange to meet describe your dally life talk about how often — and when — you do things use more English in class page 14 VIDEO 1:A famous city page 22 REVIEW 1 page 23 WRITING 1: Forms page 150 | H + talk about the area you live in name things you often buy and de explain where things are explain what you need to do + describe your house / fiat + ask people to do things : page 24 + talk about what you did in the past + comment on what people tell you + talk about dates and months ¥ + ask and answer questions about holidays = page 32 : VIDEO 2: Alex the parrot page 40 REVIEW 2:page41 WRITING 2: Pen friends page 152 + describe what you want + talk to a shop assistant + understand prices + talk about department stores + talk about things happening now ~ give excuses follow directions in a store describe classmates and teachers name school and university subjects talk about courses you're doing talk about languages and education give opinions about what's better VIDEO 3: Photo camp page 58 REVIEW 3:page59 WRITING 3: Cards page 154 + talk about your family + express surprise + give opinions about family life + talk about things that are necessary or not necessary talk about people you know talk about people's plans make simple suggestions * talk about things you'd like to do. discuss government plans 7 give basic opinions and reasons 7 VIDEO 4: Two Kenyan guys in Texas page 76 REVIEW 4: page 77 WRITING 4: Making arrangements page 156 2DEVELOPING CONVERSATIONS VOCABULARY READING LISTENING Countries + My home town Language schoo! + Which part? 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Superlatives. recommendations “ i oe too, epee! i ee + My eating habits + In arestaurant * Ordering food and drink 7 ae quart ne maine + Talking about food vocabulary: Forming negatives by adding un- Ss + Inthenews + Weather * Sixreasonsnotto.. - What's the forecast? + Short questions: + The countryside and + Talking about animals _ the city = Animals a % i 7: + will wont for - Desaribing films, - Comments on the » Talking about films + What's it like? predictions plays and musicals news and musicals » Adjective + verb + Life and society + Anew life » Anews report "+ bethinking of+-ing + Machines and : « Talking about + Adverbs technology ‘ technology = + Computers and the + Technology can + Aqguestionnaire internet ‘save US. about computers and + Whattechnology technology. y does E i marriage + Poems about + News about + Did Heil you ial cet promises relationships —_ Love at first sight | Contents 5IN THIS UNIT YOU LEARN HOW To: describe people and places introduce yourself + explain where you are from + talk about jobs and where you work ask and answer common questions Say more about your town / city SPEAKING 1 Talk to other students. Tell each other your names. WORDS FOR UNIT 1 2 Work in pairs. Match the words to the photos. airport government river beach 7 mosque shop assistant businesswoman museum traffic hurch nurse university uintryside office waiter factory police officer EEE Listen. Check your answers. Listen again. Repeat the words. Work in pairs. Test each other. Cover the words. Student A: point to a photo. Student B: say the word. Do you know the English words for anything else in the photos? Unit 1 People and places _7SPEAKING 1 Work in pairs. Try to say the names of everyone in your class. That's Yuki. What's his name? What's her name? LISTENING 2 [EXE] Listen to a teacher and a student at an English-language school. Tick () the sentences that are true. 1 The dent’s surname is Miguel. He's from Spain He works ina city called Chihuahua The city is in the east. s hot in the ty now, 3 busi sman. EMEA Listen again. Correct the sentences in Exercise 2 that aren’t true Work in pairs. Look at the audio script on page 197. Practise reading out the conversation VOCABULARY Countries 5 Work in pairs. Match the countries in A to the parts of the world in B. A B Costa Rica Aftica Brazil North America Italy Central America Canada South America China the Middle East Saudi Arabia Europe Kenya Asia Write one more country in each part of the world. Use a dictionary if you need to. Then work in pairs. 9 Student A: say the country. Student B: say the part of the world Look at the photos on pages 6 and 7. Say what country or part of the world you think they are in. For example: [ think the beach in the photo is i This photo is in Turkey. It’s starit ‘DEVELOPING CONVERSATIONS Look at the map below. Complete these sentences with places on the map. 4 I'm from ____—- the capital. 2 I'm from _______— in the north. _ 3 They're from — inthe south. 4 I'm from _____— in the east. 5 My mum's from —in the west. Z 6 My dad’s from —in the middle. 8 Use countries from Exercises 5 and 6 — or Use cities / areas in your country — to have Conversations like this: A: Where are you from? 8: Brazil, A! Which part? 8: Recife, © Where are you from? 5: 1'm trom Rome. ©: Which part? D: Morena — in the south. GRAMMAR late. a teacher. OK. a good student. at the airport. from Moscow. _] in te OK? 11 Complete the sentences with the words in brackets and the correct form of be. 1 How ____? (you) 2 Where ____ from? (your granddad) 3 _____ from Spain. (my parents) 4 a receptionist in a hotel. (I) 5 It____a good job. (not) 6 a very big city. (Tokyo) 7 How old___? (Miguel), 8 late? (we) 9 cold? (you) 0 4 a boring place. (it) 12 Listen and check your answers. Repeat the sentences. 13 Work in groups. Ask students where their parents / grandparents are from. G _For further practice, oe es CONVERSATION PRACTICE 14 Look at the questions. Write one more question to ask. Then use all the questions and have conversations with other students. And where are you from? Oh, OK. Which part? + Hi. How are you? + What's your name? Cenk kk a men ee een Unit 1 People and places 9VOCABULARY Jobs and workplaces How many jobs can you write in English in one minute? Find out what jobs people in your class do, Ask: What do you do? Match the jobs (1-8) to the places people work (a-h). 4 areceptionist 5 apolice officer 2 ateacher 6 a waiter 3 ashop assistant 7 adesigner 4 anurse 8 a civil servant a ina clothes shop / in Harrods b ina clinic /in a hospital ¢ ina tax office / ina local government office d at home/ ina studio € ina big hotel / in a small company f inaschool/ in a university g ata local police station / in the traffic department h ina café / ina restauran’ We use a/ an with jobs I'ma teacher. My sister's a designer My dad’s anal Work in pairs. Use the ideas in Exercise 3. Have three different conversations. Use this model: A: What do you do? B: I’m a waiter. A: Oh, yes? Where do you work? B: In. coté in town. What do you do? A: I'm a designer. B: Where do you work? A: Ina studio in Berlin. LISTENING EXE4 Listen to four conversations. Circle the words you hear. 1 Jan is a doctor/ a nurse in a clinic / a hospite Warsaw. 2 Lara is a designer / a teacher in a schoo! /.an of in Bristol. She enjoys / doesn’t enjoy it a receptionist. She 3 Marta is a civil serv an office | a comp: great/ OK ny in the north of Brazil. He He doesn waiter > in the centre of tow He wants to become a police officer / ani Work in pairs. Look at the audio script on page 197. Choose one of the conversations practise reading it out. nf 10 Me oo a-7 Read these sentences. Do the people like their job? Write ¥ ork. 4 | want different job. 5 It’s interesting. 2 It's great. 6 Ido very long hours. 3 The people are 7 W's boring, reallyinice: 8 work at night. It’s not 4 The money's bad. good. g Ask different students these questions. . What do you do? . Where do you work? + Doyou enjoy it? GRAMMAR Present simple Look at these examples of the present simple. in Rio Branco. She works in an office. _|idon’t speak French. He doesn’t like it. Where do you work? Do you enjoy it? 9 Complete the table with -s, do, does, don’t and doesn't. |/ You / We / They live there. He / She / it live’ there. Negatives I/you/ we/ they + + infinitive he/she /it +? + infinitive EE ———————— Questions 4 +1 / you / we / they + infinitive? E + he/she / it + infinitive? G . Check your ideas on page 166 and do Exercise 1. 10 Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. SS My wife's a journalist. She ‘ (work) for a local Newspaper. | © (not see) her a lot because she ‘___(do) very long hours. She * (get Up) early and she sometimes works all night. When she : (have) free time, we ° (not go out), (not (be) very because she only wants to sleep! But she 7 Want) a different job because her job * (like) it a lot. interesting and she ® 11 12 13 14 15 Write about three people you know. Then tell a partner. For example: My friend Juan is a teacher. He works in a school. He likes his job because the people are nice, / He doesn’t like his job because the pay is bad. Put the words in the correct order to complete the questions. The first one is done for you. 1 What do /you/in/ free time / do / your /?. What do you do in your free time? 2 Where live do /you/? 3 Who with / you /do/ live /? 4 How go / do /there / you /? 5 What time you/do/get/up/? 6 When to bed / you /go/do/? 7 Howmany languages / you /speak/do/? 8 Do you /to go / out / want / ? Match the answers (a-h) to questions 1-8 in Exercise 12. I live on my own. At about twelve o'clock most nights. 1. go swimming, | play football, | read. In Belvaros, near the river. Itake the bus. Two — French and Spanish. Sure. Where do you want to go? s@>7 of) aos At half past seven PRONUNCIATION (ENGI Listen to ‘do you’ — first fast, then slow. Then listen to five questions from Exercise 12 - first fast and then slow. Repeat them. Work in pairs. Student A: ask the questions in Exercise 12. Student B: say the answers in Exercise 13 (ej For further practice, see Exercises 2 and 3 on page 167. SPEAKING 16 Choose five questions from these pages. Write one more question, Then work in pairs. Ask and answer your questions.A NICE PLACE TO LIVE 6 VOCABULARY Describing places 1 Work in pairs. The first page of this unit has ten words for places. How many do you remember? 7 2 Look at page 7 and check. Say the plural of the words, Which word has an irregular plural? Which two words have no plural? ROTATES ASS Choose the correct words. wo 1 It's a small / big city. Ten million people live there. 2 | don't go swimming there because the beaches are very quiet / dirty 3 It's very hot / cold in the summer: 35 or 40. It's a very expensive / famous town. Everyone knows it. a It doesn’t have any shops. It’s busy / boring! 6 It's very cheap / safe. My house is only 400 euros a month 7 A lot of people visit in the summer. It’s very busy / quiet. 8 I really like it. It's a great / boring place to live 9 The countryside is very nice. It's a dirty / beautifull area 10 It’s very famous / safe. | walk everywhete — day ahd night. 4 Work in pairs. Say places you know using the ideas below. Do you agree? is. a very big city. is very quiet. is very cold in the winter. is very expensive isa beautiful area. is a very famous town. READING 5 Work in pairs. Describe the places in the photos. Use words from Exercise 3.Read the four texts. Match the texts to the : : photos on page 12. Then decide which person is: With plural nouns 4 adesigner. 3 a businessman. cinemas. 2 anurse. 4 a teacher. some parks near here. 7 Work in pairs. Answer these questions. alot of | shops in town. 4 Is each place nice? Why? / Why not? 2. Which place is best / worst for you? Why? 3 Which job is best / worst for you? Why? 9 Complete the sentences with words from the table in Exercise 8. 1 There are a lot of nice shops near my house: 2 a university in your town? 3 a beautiful old mosque in the town centre. 4 any hospitals in the area. 5 _____an expensive restaurant near here. I's famous! 6 _____ some beautiful houses in the old part of the city. 7 ____ some nice little places to eat on the beach. 8 _____ an airport outside town. 9 _____ any cinemas in your town? 10 any schools in the village. We go to the next town. aa PRONUNCIATION 10 [EMG Listen to the sentences from Exercise 9 said slowly and then faster. Listen again, Practise saying them. 11 Workin groups. Discuss these questions. Try to use there’s / there are. + Which sentences in Exercise 9 describe the place you are from? + What's the best thing about the place you are from? + Which places in your country are very goed / bad to live in? Why? s/ there are tio ta lot of jobs now. SOUNDS AND VOCABULARY REVIEW 8 ¢ . _. 12 Listen and repeat the sounds with /I/, /r/, /w/ ‘omplete the table with the missing words. and /j/. Are any of them difficult for you to hear or say? 13 [EME Work in groups. Listen to eight sentences using these words. Together, try to write them greatimuseum. down. Then listen again and finish writing them. a/an | oid church near here. $$$ << ———_—_——_—_— cinema. 2 eafeinearhere? oe airport? ] isn't park near here. | TT —— Unit 1 People andplaces 13IN THIS UNIT YOU LEARN HOW TO: talk about free-time activities uss what you like — and don't like + atfange to meet describe your daily life talk about how often — and when — you do things use more English in class WORDS FOR UNIT 2 Work in pairs. Match the activities to the photos cooking meeting new people dancing playing computer games doing sport playing the guitar drawing reading going out for dinner singing going to a concert swimming going to the cinema walking listening to music watching TV EJ Listen. Check your answers. Listen again. Repeat the words. Work in pairs, Test each other. Cover the words Student A: point to a photo. Student B: say the activity. Do you know the English words for anything else in the photos?SPEAKING 1 Complete the sentences with activities from page 15. 1 ___is boring. 4 is great. 2 ____isinteresting. 5 I'mbad at 3 ____is expensive. 6 I'm good at 2 Work in pairs. Tell your partner your ideas. Does your partner agree? LISTENING 3 Look at the people in the pictures. What activities do you think they like / don’t like? 4 Listen to the two people talking, Complete the table with doesn’t like, thinks it’s OK and loves. Woman Man doing sport walking doesn't like playing computer games going to the cinema loves 5 Work in pairs. Look at the audio script on Page 198. Practise reading out the conversation. 16 DO YOU WANT TO COME? SPEAKING 6 GRAMMAR li ras Si | 10 11 G)) For farther pract Work in groups. Ask Do you like ...? questions, Reply with J love it, It’s OK or No, not really, A: Do you like cooking? B: Yes, | do. [ love it. What about you? A: It’s OK, but I'm not very good at it. Verb patterns a After some verbs, we often use -ing. | ove playing tennis. b After some verbs, we often use fo + infinitive. Do you want to see Love Train? Which sentences are the same as pattern a above, and which are the same as pattern b? He really likes swimming. | need to go now. | enjoy working on my own. q 2 3 4 | want to learn to drive. 5 Try to use the words you learn. 6 | hate living in the city. Check your ideas on page 168 and do Exercise 1. Write full sentences from the notes. 1 My daughter / want / get / a new phone. My sister / love / play / tennis. you / like / dance? |/ try / study English / every day. |/ not / enjoy / shop: We/ need / buy / some things later. \/ really hate / cook. \/really want / learn / draw. / V f E - E f E 12 OYORTARWN PRONUNCIATION EAEEE Listen and repeat six sentences with 0 + infinitive. Notice how we often say to as to Complete the sentences so they are true for y" | love | don’t really like 1 2 3 This WeekI need 4 | want to learn 5 | don’t really enjoy Work in pairs. Tell your partner your ideas SmarrDEVELOPING CONVERSATIONS Arrangements We can make future arrangements using the present simple. A: Do you want to go shopping on Saturday? B: OK. Where do you want to meet? A: Outside Harrods — the big department store. B: OK. What time? A: Isten OK? B: Yeah, Fine: 12 Match the questions in the box to the pairs of possible answers in 1-5. Do you like going to the cinema? ou want to see Monsters 6 on Sunday? What time do you want to meet? Where? What time does the film end? 1A: a B: Is four good? / Is seven OK? The film starts at eight. sure. About seven, | think. / About 11.30. long film I > BOK. That sounds nice. / Sorry. I’m busy then. 4A _ & Yes, it's OK. / No, not really A B: Outside the train station. / Outside the cinema EAEF Listen to two conversations where people make arrangements. Choose the correct words in the notes. Watch ‘match / film with Jack Meet outside “café / Green Street siation at four / five Lunch with Tina Frenci Meet °one restaurant / Italian restaurant two o'clock outside the °cat Work in pairs. Which day in the conversations do you think sounds best — Saturday or Sunday? Why? CONVERSATION PRACTICE Decide two things you want to do at the weekend (on Friday night, Saturday or Sunday) Decide where you want to meet and what time Work in pairs. Have conversations like the ones in the box in Developing Conversations. PERI eee en ee Unit 2 Freetime 17' | VOCABULARY Daily life 1 When do people usually do the activities below? Put them in the three groups in the table. do homework have a coffee finish school have a shower t home from work have lunch t up leave work ‘0 bed watch the news go to the theatre write emails in the morning | in the afternoon 2 Work in pairs and compare your answers. Do you always agree? If not, why not? 3 Look at the words in Exercise 1 for two minutes. Close your books. Work in pairs. See how many words you remember. GRAMMAR Adverbs of frequency We use some adverbs to show how often we do something, Notice their position in the sentence. ! always have a shower in the morning / usually go to bed at midnight. 18 in the evening A oe : - \ wa - dda = USUALLY FINISH AT FIVE 4 Complete the table below with the adverbs in the box. Then translate all the adverbs into you language. J always never often sometime: occasionally hardly ever on VSS SCC eRe Cn eee 5 Tick (/) the sentences that are true for you Change the adverbs in the other sentences to make them true for you, lalways watch the news in the evening 1 2 usually have a coffee after my lunch. w I never drink beer or wine 4 hardly ever read novels. 5 loften listen to music when | go to sleep. & loccasionally go to rock concerts 7 lalways do my homework for my English cle 8 Isometimes go swimming at the weekend 6 Work in groups. Take turns saying your sentences. Who is most similar to you? te i < im et ec wks oes — Rwy-—-— eee write four true sentences using the phrases 10 in the box and an adverb. Then say them to a partner. cook dinner for friends sleep in the afternoon use English outside class work at the weekend a READING g Read an article about how three people spend their free time. Answer these questions. 4 Who is most similar to you? Why? 2 Who do you think is the happiest person? Why? 9 Read the article again. Decide which person: { does sport or exercise. 2 spends a lot of money, 3 is tired at the weekend 11 4 likes TV. 5 seems quiet. 6 has a busy social life. 7 goes to bed quite early. 8 works long hours. aS BIRGIT FROM GERMANY Complete the sentences with the prepositions in bold in the article. I'm always very busy —_ __ Mondays, 2 | always go running ______ Sunday mornings. 3 | don't usually work _____ Fridays. It’s great. | get up _—______ nine or ten. 4 Our school day finishes — four. 5 The film starts 10.30. eight and ends 6 We don’t usually do very much the weekend — just relax. 7 | sometimes have a short sleep _ the afternoon. 8 I'm usually very tired ___ the morning. | need to have a coffee! SPEAKING Work in groups. Ask each other these questions. + What do you normally do on Friday nights? + What do you normally do on Saturdays? + What do you normally do on Sundays? + Do you go out in the evening during the week? When? What do you do? Which person in the group has the best social life? 1do something most nights. On Mondays and Wednesdays, I go to my English cle id on Tuesdays, | usually go to the cinema with friends, because the tickets are cheap then. On Thursdays, | always go to the gym. L ustally go out dancing on Sauurday nights, | often get home at four or five in the morning, so on Sundays, I sleep! 1 sometimes get FRANKIE FROM THE UK Fiee time? | don't have any free time because I have my own business. | occasionally go to a rock concert — about once or twice a year’ 20 shopping at the weekend. I like buying expensive things with the money I cam. Thave avery nice car and avery big TV, 1 like watching sport but 1 hardly SVETLANA FROM RUSSIA 1 don't go out much during the week. | usually study for two hours: in the evening, | meyer watch TV really, 1 usually play the piano every day, It helps me to relax. Then | go to bed at nine or ten nd read Av the weekend, | go out with my family to a park or the countryside and we go for a walk, sometimes yo loa shopping centre with friends, ever buy anything! at thtee in the afternoon. and | sometimes Unit 2 Freetime 19A LOT OF HOMEWORK! = SPEAKING 1 Work in pairs. Discuss these questions. : + Do you like doing courses in your free time? + ts this your first English course? + Do you like learning English? + Do you like... . doing homework? ... watching films or TV shows in English? .. listening to songs in English? ... reading in English? ... finding new words in a dictionary? .. practising your pronunciation? VOCABULARY In an English class 2 Match 1-5 with a-e and 6-10 with fj. 1 listen a a break / notes 2 take b the text / the questions 3 turnoff ¢ in pencil / the words in your notebook 4 write d to the conversation / and write what you hear 5 read e your mobile phones / the light 6 do f the words / what you think 7 check g afilm/the video and take notes on what you see 8 close h Exercise 1 / alot of homework 9 say i your book / the window 10 watch j_ the answers / the meaning in your dictionary wit 3 Work in pairs. _ 1 Student A: close your book. ’ Student B: say a verb. write 3 E Jf Student A: say a phrase. write the answers ne 4 Do you need these things for your English clas.) ‘ Explain why / why not. 5 | —~ 6 a dictionary paper scissors a mobile phone apen tissues 8 We money a rubber water 3 For example: . always need a pen because | need to take notes. . I don't need scissors because / don’t cut things in clas: GRA LISTENING 5 [REE Listen to three conversations in an Englis; Cc class. Decide which conversation (1-3) happens o ee Wet a atthe beginning of the class. a ofw b in the middle of the class. Nou ¢ atthe end of the class. calle 6 Listen again. Decide if the sentences are true (T) or false (F). 4 Camilla has money for two coffees 2 The break is 25 minutes long. 3 They need to do two exercises for homework and learn some words 4 Simon wants a lot of homework. 5 Simon sits next to Camilla. E 6 Camilla gives him her dictionary. ‘Son The We Hei COL