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Pea. OBJECTIVES you have and haven't done; offering encouragement corammaan: present perfect with just, olready and yet; present perfect vs past simple Yocanutate: personality adjectives a great mum, Jacob, 16 One of my heroes is Mr Donaldson, our teacher. First of all e's a billant teacher. He's, laid-back but we all espect him, and no one messes about in his class. He's so creative and lferant ways to get us interested in hs lessons. also a really amazing guitar player - | mean he is <=-ousiy talented, He's in a band. They haven't made y recordings yet, but they've already attracted lots of ‘est and I'm sure they're going to be famous one day. 52 really happy for him, but | hope it doesn’t happen soon. | don't want to lose my teacher! Alex, 15 The person | admire more than anyone is randtnother Gwen. She's 78 and looks just amazing, xy people think she's my mother when they see us her. But she doesn't just look young, she is youna 's one of the most active people | know. She spends 2 ct of her time doing things for charity. For example, Just done a parachute jump to raise money for a dren's charity in India. A parachute jump! At her age! = such a positive person, always seeing the good in + people. ‘Life Is for ving,” she talls me. | hope | have uch life in me when I'm her age. Oliver, 17 s& The greatest person | know is my uncle ack. He and my aunt Alice had the perfect lite: good , a lovely house and three young children. Then one thelr fe changed forever. My aunt had a terrble car dnt. It left erin a wheelchair. From that day on, 4 uncle has devoted his time to looking after her and ‘amily, But | have never heard him complain, Hes still same lovely person he always was. | know life is hard ‘m but he's always so cheerful with a huge smile on ‘ace, He's such a warm person - someone you want © spend time with, 6 There are eight words in 1. AMAZING PEOPLE bold in the texts. Match the words these meanings. Write the words. 0 isalways doing things active 1 isusually happy — 2 isvery easy-going 3 has very original ideas 4 looks for the good inal situations is very good at doing something doesn't get scared easily 7 isvery easy to like _ Complete the sentences with the words from Exercise 6. 0 Whyare you so cheerful today? Have you had some good news? 1. He stood up in the front of the whole school and read out his poem. He was really 2 She's very and it's easy to see why she's got so many friends. 3. He'sso that some people think he's a bit lazy 4. Have you seen him doing ballet? He really isa dancer. 5 Ifyou want to work in advertising, you needtobe and come up with really good ideas, & My dads really around the house. He's always cooking or fixing things ‘or working in the garden, 7 He's had a really difficult life but he's really about the future. B 4 GRAMMAR Present perfect with just, already and yet 1 Complete the example sentences with just, ‘already and yet. Then complete the rules with the missing words. 1 She's 2 They haven't made any recordings they've attracted a lot of interest. ULL Inthe present perfect, we often use ‘come back from Papua New Guinea. but eo! in negative sentences and questions to. talk about something that hasnt happened but that ‘we expect to happen soon. Itcomes at the end of the sentence. oo to emphasise that something happened very recently goes before the past participle. o3 to show that something has been done ‘or finshed sooner then expected It usually goes before the past participle in the boxes. 1 He's just finished his painting. 2 He'salready sold the painting 3. He hasnt finished his painting yet. Match the pictures and the sentences. Write 1-3 3. Look at Mike's list of things to do for his party. Write sentences with already and yet. Party list ~ things to do 1 make cake, FZ send, out invitations 3 organise music 4 choose what to wear 5 decorate room 46 buy drinks 1 Hehasn't made the cake yet. Use your imagination to answer the questions. Use the present perfect and just in each one. 1. Why is Mum so angry? Because Dad's just crashed her car. Why is Colin so sad? Why is your face so dirty? What's Liam so scared about? Why is Dana so excited? Why are you smiling? anew 1 AMAZING PEOPLE GRAMMAR VOCABULARY Present perfect vs. past simple Collocations 1. Circle all the correct answers. 1 Which of these can you sign? a acontract_ b anautograph¢ alesson 2 Which of these things can you write? aanovel —_b aparty © asong 3 Which of these things can you do? a agoodtime b adegree something 4. Which of these things can you win? a aprire b acompetition ¢ an exhibition PULE: When we talk abouta specific point in Pantera! time in the past, we use the a friends b acake « homework When we dont refer toa specific pointin time, 5 Which of the yu miss? we often use the of these can you a afuture —b yourfamily —_¢ the bus 2 Complete the pairs of sentences. Use the past. simple and the present perfect of the verbs. © visit a | have visited _Greece more than 20 times. b Ifirst visited Greece in 1998. 1 win a He already three gold medals, and he hopes to win more. b He a gold medal in the 2012 Olympics 2 meet a Mymum alot of interesting people inher life b My mum: Prince Harry ten years ago. ' 3 do a Mum,1 ‘my homework, Can | go out? b I all the things on my to-do list before lunch! 4 record a They their last album two years ago. b They more than 20 albums so far 5 live a We in Samoa for three years when | was a teenager. b_ We're living in Austria now, but we inmany different countries. 6 sign a She just a contract with ‘anew e-publishing company. b She the contract for her first book on her 16th birthday. I> Pre 4 sRAMMAR © 3% Look at the pictures. What has just ue happened? Write sentences using the verbs in resent perfect with just, already Pee erine werden E: nd yet ETH ~ Complete the sentences with just, already a E oryet. wake wp cle sisters r i fall agoal Sereda aT i have: amaccident 1 She's learned to walk. She took her i score over : 3 rst steps last week. start ‘The trophy 2 Shehasn'tlearned to read ut she likes a ae ‘the pictures. 3 3 She's learned to count from one to five and she's only one year old *% Look at Jake's to-do list for tidying his bedroom. Write sentences using already and yet. + tidy desk v * put CDs on shelf x + pick up towels and. put trem in bathroom x © make bed v + take bin downstairs x + hang up clothes v Jake has already tidied his desk. Jake hasn't LTTE Present perfect vs. past simple = Match the questions and answers. Have you played volleyball? Where did you play? Did you enjoy it? Were you good at it? Has your team won anything? = __ Has your team been to different countries? co, I wasn't. Ihave. 2s, we've already won three competitions. At school fo, we haven't not yet. = No, not very much. =* Complete the conversation. Use resent perfect or past simple and the mation in brackets. © Sunday ofternoon. *=TER Mum, Im bored, What can | do? (nish your homework?) ° Have you finished your homework? PETER (lastnight) Yes, finished itall lastnight MOM (tidy your room?) wom PETER (yesterday) 2 MOM (take the dog out?) SETER (before lunch) MOM (wash your bike?) 5 ER (on Friday) ‘ (phone Jim?) 7 “um PETER (this morning /no answer) ‘ (watch your new DVD2) : wom PETER (lastnight) 0 SM Well, don'tknow. What about helping me with the washing up? PETER Erm... maybe not! GET IT RIGHT! 1 AMAZING PEOPL tk Complete the text. Use the present perfect or past simple of the verbs in the list. You can use some verbs more than once. do | have | work not finish stop be buy live get not learn look My grandmother is 65 and °has done alot of things inher life. She ' bornin the country and a ‘ona small farm until she was sixteen. She? in many different places, but she always says the farm # the best place of all She® school because she started working when she was fifteen. She ® many different Jobs in her life she? a children’s nurse, a dressmaker and a shop assistant among other things. She® ina very expensive shop in London for several years. She® ‘working after she 0 married. She " five children and she after the house. Grandma loves new things. She ® just a laptop, but she how to send emails yet. 'm going to her house to help her now. oO Present perfect with just, already and yet Learners often make word order errors with just, | already and yet. ¥ have just finished my homework X I just have finished my homework. | He has not passed his exam yet. X He has not passed yet his exam EV We have already finished our project. ! X We alreadyhave finished our project. Correct the following sentences. ° Talready have finished my application [have already finished my application, My brother has yet not had a summer job. Jalready have learned to drive. My friends and | have been just on holiday. Haye you yet bought your mum a birthday present? The singer has released already five albums. Ijust have finished writing my blog for this week. positive serious talented active brave laid-back = __— caring intelligent —_ —— => > femersonalityean pe funny ————— adjectives 2 ona ~~ cheerful om confident See creative cool Collocations just doa degree /an interview Itwas just ajoke make a cake / friends Tom's just arrived. miss the bus / your family The book was just fantastic! sign a contract/an autograph win a competition /a prize write a novel / a song Key words in context admire She never gives up, and! admire her for that. attract The Eiffel Tower attracts thousands of visitors every year. complain The food was horrible, so we decided to complain to the water, decorate tim going to decorate my bedroom with pictures and posters genius He wrote music when he was only five years old! He was a genius. hero She helped the country to become independent, anc now she's a national hero. organise \'m going to organise a party for him. original No one else paints like him—he has very original ideas, poem I gave her a book of poems for her birthday round ofapplause The audience loved the music, and they gave the musicians a big round of applause at the end nality adjectives == Circlethe correct option: A, B or C. AA loves theatre, 4 brave person ‘A takes risks when it’s necessary. ‘A often makes mistakes. A isvery good-looking, A often feels sad. A isvery relaxed. A doesn't work hard. A sees the good in everything. 1 has gota lot of money. active person A creative person 4 charming person A cheerful person A Isid-back person A confident person A positive person Aralented person ore whee ‘== _ Read the text. Complete the adjectives. ‘The first and last letters are given. “se deal friend is very “active ~ that's important ‘secsuse | playa lot of sports and | want him to play ‘Sssketball in my team. He's" 5 k 22 knows how to have fun, so he's a good person serang out with. I need a friend who's really a with computers, because I'm not good ‘= T and he could help me. Maybe it would be Sedithe was? gtoo-l'mnot very a +, sohe can help me talk to girls! (| know ~ “szed tobe more Sp right?) ‘= *x Write one or two sentences about people eu know (friends or family). Use adjectives from Exercises 1 and 2. locations ~ Complete the text with the words in the list. wen write | do | signed | missed | have Last year, Jason's band were on TV -they® won talent show. Jason was a bit unhappy because Ssmum" the show (she wasil). But the cand members are very excited because they've = ‘contract with a record company. The band members are talented musicians — they - all their own songs. They're hoping im‘ alot of success on the music scene. Tomorrow morning, Jason is going to $ sninterview on TV. :;, WordWise | Phrases with just £1 AMAZING PEOPLE is always doing something, _C sleepsalot. B is often angry. doesnt ike talking, B hascoriginalideas. C works very hard B hasalot of money. € iseasy to talkto. B enjoys life. often gets angry. B cant wake up inthe morning. C never goes out. B believes in him- herself € will keep a secret. B isfrightened of thefuture. __€ isoften bored. B isn't good at sports. € is good at something. 5 %% Complete the text. Use the correct forms of the verbs in A and the words in B. ‘A have make (2) sign do B_ apparty albums adegree a cake his autograph The members of Jason's band ° are having a party to celebrate. Jason's mum has? Some of the band's friends are asking Jason to 2 ‘ontheir T-shirts. Cherie, the singer, is stil planning to? in music at university next year, but says she can still 4 ____with the band. 6 ee Tick (/) the five sentences that can be completed by adding just. Ive ... cleaned the floor. Wy That horror film, The Blob, is... terrifying, |_| He can't tell you ifyou don't... ask This dress s almost... perfect. ‘The flower show was ... amazing. He's... child, buthe'sa talented artist. No problem, it was... athought Gemma has ... phoned. She's on her way. [| 7 3k — Match the sentences in Exercise 6 : with the meanings of just. : 1 ashorttimeago [0] 2 only { 3. really fe (at

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