VOCABULARY GETTING ON ut the pars of words in the box into the correct places in sentences 1-10 below. onmy usover enwell my own disturb me friendswith to myself anuisance nosy about _toknow 1 Joachim gets { with his mother but he's always arguing with his father. 2 Lam really interested in other people actually my mum says | am too other people's lives 3 Whenever they/te arguing, | prefer tomind business. dorit get involved. 4 Hayley has invited for dinner at her house. Can we go? 5 Those neighbours are - they're always playing loud music and making a mess. 6 She got her neighbours immediately. They were really friendly and chatty. 7 Please don't. trying to do some work, 8 One thing that gets nerves is when the neighbours have noisy parties! Xun hasn't made her neighbours yet but she only moved in last week. 10 | keep myself. | hate chatting about nothing ~ ita waste of time. GRAMMAR ARTICLES AND QUANTIFIERS Add a, an or the where necessary. Do you want / drink? Have you received letter I sent you? Dogs are wonderful pets. Do you have pen I can borrow? She went to Paris on Wednesday. Is there airport in the city? I'm going to Germany in morning, We live by Pacific Ocean. My brother is actor. 10 Nurses aren‘t paid enough 11 He doesn’t have children. 12 Did you see film | told you about? 13 | live in United States. 14 She's nicest woman I know. 15 Doyou lke apples? weoervaununn Make sentences with one word or phrase from each section. 1 Wewent- a) of uslovethis i) of friends in this therefora b) of good community, 2 There are restaurants in i) in Poland when | was plenty the town, younger. 3 Idon't know /¢) manycars iii) | like the architecture, 4 All inmost iv) june test year 5 IFyouhave @) fewdaysin v) place because it’s so enough —_e) lots friendly. 6 There are —|f) much about vi) especially if you like too this city, but French food. 7 Ivegot |g) time,go—_vii) to the museum ~its 8 spent abit h) oftime great. vii) big cities ~| hate trafic loom (al Read the text. Which lines are correct? Which have an extra word? In the past, a small English village called the Lanreath, in Cornwal, |” had three pubs, two shops and a post office. Now it doesnit have but any of these. The post office the last shop and the last pub | > were al of recently closed down. Now the council wants to close the primary school. The school has had excellent results and is very popular with children and parents. The . problem is thatthe school doesn't have enough students and the council say it costs too much to money to keep it open for | # only a small few children. The villagers decided to ight the : ‘ound ruling. The whole vilage packed up, including sheepand | cows, and travelled a five hours to London. They went to a u park and created a miniature Lanreath, They showed the more | best of village ife playing traditional games, doinga traditional | dance and holding cake sal. Some of all the teachers also taught | ™ lesson for Lanveath Primary School pupil = The BBC made @ TV programme about the story: ower ToThe | ™ People: The Invasion of sngton, presented by a Tim Samuels "LISTENING 5 A (D)8.1 Listen to interviews with Elise and Marc about neighbours and answer the questions for each person. 1 Who are their neighbours? Elise: Weole VOW NATE COMPOUND NOUNS A Match the words in box A with the words in box B ‘to make compound nouns. A Marc: 2 Why do they like the situation with their Ca neighbours? super language shopping one-way terraced aie outdoor gift primary Marc: B 3 How often do they see their neighbours? houses lights shop school (2) centre (x2) Elise: street (x2) park market (x2) estate (x2) Marc: 4 How long have the people lived there? 1 __ traffic tights a Elise: 2 9 Marc: 3 10 4 un B Complete the summaries with one word in each EEE space. Then listen again and check. 7" a 6 3 1 uw Elise says she has the | neighbours. She sees them a lot because she works in the business. Her extended family consists of ° people. They eat together every * She thinks this situation is 5 in manjy countries. She has never asked her é ithe likes living 50 close to her family Marc's nearest neighbours are two cows that live 1 rmiles away! Mare and his wife used to lve in I but they dd lke the crowds, the noise and using public” They bought a ten years ago. Mare and his wile work Mare says the interviewer's the = person they've seen this year! C Circle the best alternative way of saying these extracts from the interviews. 1 If need a babysitter for my kids ... a) If need someone to look after my children ) If my children need to sit still... 2 You never get fed up with the family? a) You never eat with the family? b) You never get tired of the family? 3 We always wanted to live side by side. a) We always wanted to live in the same town, b) We always wanted to live next to each other 4 We really are completely isolated. a) We really like to be close to nature. b) There are no other people near us 5 It not a functioning farm. a) The farm doesn't make much money. b) The place isn’t actually used as a farm, 6 Were a bit antisocial a) We don't like mixing with other people. b) We don't like working for big companies. 5 (D)82 Listen and check. Then listen and repeat. Concentrate on the stress patterns. ? Complete the sentences with a compound noun from Exercise 6A. 1 My best friend lives in a house on a big new in Bristol 2m studying English for six weeks in a in Bath 3. My son will be old enough to go to next year 4 You can't drive your car down there ~ its a 5 | use the gym in the 6 We livein a row of small Road. 7 Drive along the High Street and turn left at the in Barton 8 We left the car in the shopping, 9 I buy my food in the because it’s more convenient than going to lots of small shops. 10 Theresa inthe art gallery where you can buy postcards oF some of the paintings. 11. Our town has an every Thursday behind the bus station - | buy all my vegetables there, 12. Ben's new company has an office on an just outside Coventry. 13. There’s an internet café in the > between the cinema and the book shop. 14 My daughter and her friends spend most Saturdays in the although I don't think they buy much! while we went