INTERMEDIATE COURSE BOOK - PART 2 pdf

Mark each one in this way: Match the statements I[-8 to the pictures A~H ⁄ | really like it.. Now have conversations like this with a different partner.. There’s some With a partner, dec

Which two words commonly occur in time

expressions that follow the present perfect

continuous?

5 | Free practice Make statements that are true for you using

these sentence starters

1 [ve been learning English

2 I've been playing 0 cc cece cece eee eee

3 ]ve been doing ky Huy kh kh rà :

4 I've been going (tO) cv

5 I've been collecting ¬ c eee eens "¬

6 lused to do when Ì

7 | used to play quite a lot when Ì

8 lused togo quite a lot when Ì "

With a partner, ask each other as many

questions as possible about each activity

6 | Talking about recent activities

We often use the present perfect continuous to

explain why we haven’t seen much of people

recently For example:

A: Hi, how are you? | haven’t seen you for a while What

have you been up to?

B: Oh, I’ve been looking for a new place to live for the

last few weeks How about you? What've you been

up to?

2 Free time

Now make answers using the words below

1 |/ work / a lot of overtime / recently

6 |/ try / find / new job / recently

Now have six short conversations with your partner using the ideas above

Real English: I’ve been busy -ing ¬ tF

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You can use the common structure I’ve been busy working/revising/ travelling in similar situations to

the ones in the exercise

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For more information on using the present perfect \ continuous and past simple, see G2 ¿

Us} rg) YoCao fy 2 | Holiday activities

you go on holiday? Mark each one in this way:

Match the statements I[-8 to the pictures A~H ⁄ | really like it X | don't really like ir

lying on the beach all day, sunbathing

1 We went camping

going sightseeing

we went backpacking walking in the hills or in the countryside :

We went on a skiing holiday going fo marscess ane 86108 3 opping sitting around the pool with a drink

meeting the locals

We had a week in Paris

reading and just having some time to myself

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_z.} sitring in the bar all day

—

We rented a cottage

Have you ever been on any of these kinds of -.} going clubbing every night

holiday? Where do you think the pictures are? `] driving around the country

Use these structures to make guesses: _] Jus taking it easy and relaxing

It looks like it could be , or somewhere like that

Compare your answers with a partner Do you think you would enjoy going on holiday together? Now have conversations like this with a different partner

I think it must be because

A: [really like lying on the = A: I don't really like beach all day sightseeing

B: So dol, OR B: Neither do | OR

Oh, I'm afraid | don't Oh, don’t you? Why not?

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3 | Vocabulary practice

Complete the texts below with the words in the boxes The first one is done for you

We went on a family holiday to the south of France lt was me and my wife and all the kids We (a) Stayed in a little cottage and went out on shopping

(>) to the market We ate (c) quite a bit and one day we all

2 camping campsite tent went

We went (a) in the south-west of England It was great! We stayed at a small (b) and the weather was lovely for the whole two weeks We

2 walking quite a lot — and for once the (d) didn’t end up full of water!

VWWe (a) backpacking (b) : Thailand We started off in Bangkok, ( the train to Chiang Mai and then went down to Nan Phuket It was really fun, but | got a bit tired of living out of a (d) all the time!

4 cooking cottage fire self-catering

We went ona (a) holiday in the Scottish Highlands We rented a lictle '(:) up in the mountains with a real open (c) In the evenings, after skiing, we all helped with the (d) It was really nice and cosy!

5 flight package sitting value

We went on a (a) holiday to St Lucia It was really good (b)

for money We got the (c) , the hotel, and all the food for about seven hundred pounds each | spent the whole week (d) round the pool, taking it easy

again bored cruise scenery [

We went ona (a) - round Norway The boat was lovely — swimming pool, gym, bar, four different restaurants The (b} was incredible, but | got a bit (C) being stuck on board ship day after day It was great, but | wouldn’t do Ít(đ)

Tell your partner about your last holiday Spend two minutes preparing what you will say Try to use some of the expressions from above

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Listening _2 | While you listen

are chatting about their plans for the summer

Cover the conversation below As you listen, try

to answer these questions

In pairs, fill in this questionnaire about your

partner

1 Where are they going on holiday this year?

How often do you go on holiday?

2 Have they been to these places before?

a.once a year

c more than twice a year

2 What kind of holidays do you most

Steve: Yes, we're going to Portugal

Rose Oh, really? (l) ? Steve: We're not sure exactly We're going camping,

so we've just booked the flight We're going to

| suppose we'll probably go north of Lisbon ~

up the coast

4 What is the best place you have ever

been on holiday? Why?

5 What is the worst place you have ever Rose: That sounds great Íts (3)

lovely there Have you ever been there before?

been on holiday? Why?

Steve: No, but my girlfriend’s wanted to go for ages,

so we thought we'd (4) ere What about you? Are you doing anything

special?

Report what you have found out about your Rose: We haven't really decided yet There’s some

With a partner, decide the best holiday for the again

four people in the pictures Which of the four

would you most like to go on holiday with?

Why? This structure might help you:

Steve: Oh, yes, Cornwall It’s really nice down there

We went a few years ago and had a great time

He/she looks like the kind of person who'd last year, But you never know what the

Steve: No, ! suppose not But Ibiza? Really? Are you

serious?

Rose: Well, maybe Why? Have you ever been there?

Steve: No, but I’ve never really wanted to go,

from what I've heard It’s supposed to be full of British tourists getting sunburnt and drunk

Rose: Yes, | know, but at least we'd

() ,and it’s not all like that A friend of ours went last year and said there were lots of places where you can get away from all the clubbers

Steve: Oh, right

Rose: And there are (9) "— ee ee there

for a hundred and fifty pounds for a week And it’s really cheap when you get there

Steve: Oh, well, ic might be (10) voce ee eee Hà hs ,

then

3 | Vocabulary Complete these sentences with a word from the conversation on page 22

1 Are you abroad this year?

2 We're not exactly when the train leaves

3 We're " camping in France

4 lve jUust my flight to New York for Christmas

5 We're going to a car when we get there

6 StLuciais to be a lovely place for a holiday

We thought we'd Malta a try

What do you think the weather's going to be

?

9 You can get a(n) holiday for two hundred pounds

10 It might be a try

Discuss these questions with a partner

* - Have you ever been to any of the places Rose and

Steve mention?

* What did you think of them? Can you think of an

adjective to describe each place?

+ What problems do you think tourism can cause?

You can rent a car,a house, a flat, a villa, or a ie cottage You can also hire a car, but you can’t hirea |

4 | Speaking

Have you ever rented/hired any of these things

on holiday?

L] a bike

L] a boat L] a car

[_] a cottage

a moped

a motorbike

a villa

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5 | Odd one out

Here are five groups of places to go on holiday

Which is the odd one out in each group? Why?

| Texas Mexico California NewYork Florida

2 Rome Paris Tokyo Shanghai Buenos Aires

3 York Bath Cambridge Edinburgh Oxford

4 Victoria Michigan Garda Nile Geneva

5 TheAlps Kilimanjaro The Andes The Pyrenees The Himalayas Mark where the strong stress comes in these piace names

Are there any place names which you are not sure how to pronounce? Have you ever been to any of the places mentioned above? When? What were they like?

6 | Expressions with place

house, a flat or any other kind of building

With a partner, discuss what kind of place you think is being discussed in these statements

1 There's a nice little Italian place near my office which does great pasta

2 I'm going round to Nick’s place for dinner tonight

3 It’s a great place to go skiing

4 Can you save my place? I'll be back in a moment

5 If it’s valuable, you'd better keep it in a safe place

6 We're going to rent this little place in the countryside

7 | couldn’t find a place to park

8 Are you still looking for a place to live?

9 He's always leaving his clothes lying around all over the place

10 It’s a great place for the kids to play in

Tell your partner about somewhere you think

is

* a great place fora * a great place to get

* a great place for a * a great place to eat

picnic * a great place to go

* a great place fora shopping

day-trip * a great place to live

* a great place for old * a horrible place to live people * a fairly boring place to

visit

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with Yes or No

1 | Present perfect: the best rule

Read these examples which use the present 2 , but I’ve always wanted to

I've just had some great news! 4 , it’s brilliant You'll love it

Have you ever been to Sri Lanka?

ri , but it rained the whole time

Read these explanations All are true, but only 8 but I've never really wanted to

one describes all three examples above Which : ,and it was horrible!

a The present perfect is often used with just

%; Listen and check your answers

b The present perfect looks back from the present

c The present perfect describes something in the Ask your partner if they have ever been to these

above

Now read this and see if you were right

| The present perfect has the auxiliary verb have/has in * Australia * Thailand

the present tense This is followed by a past © France © Hawaii

2 It looks back on a period in the past and connects © Scotland s lai

3 Although the present perfect looks back on the past,

it is not a past tense The past simple is used to express past events without reference to the present

In the same way, we never use the present perfect with a finished past expression like yesterday, last week, twenty years ago Here are some pairs of 3 | Free practice sentences which show the difference:

I've known Jim for ten years | met him ten years ago Look at this example:

Try to find three countries you and your partner have both been to Which did you enjoy most?

We've lived here for ages We moved here just after A: Have you ever been on a cruise!

we got married

B: Yes, we went on one to Norway a few years ago The

My father’s been dead for ten years He died when | scenery was fantastic and the food on the boat was

Can you think of some more examples? Which tense was used in the answer? With a

partner, have similar conversations about these

2 | Asking questions

* a backpacking holiday Look at these questions and answers: * a package holiday

A: Have you ever been to [biza before? * a camping holiday

B: No, but I’ve never really wanted to go

A: Have you ever been camping?

B: Yes, and I'd never do it again! We got soaked!

4 | Position of adverbs

Rewrite these sentences Put the words in brackets in the most natural place

| I’ve been to the south of Italy (never) c eee e cence ese see eeeenennnnees

2 We've heard the news (just) © knee ence eee e eens eesenurevevesenas

3 We've been good friends (always) ¬— nent anes

5 Have you seen their new baby? (yet) cee cece cece nse eeeetensanenaes

6 Has she been married? (ever) eee cece ene tence eee eneeseaeeeeaes How many of the following are true about you?

I've never been to Canada

;} 've never eaten squid,

I've always liked the British

iis] Pve always wanted to go to India

Make a list of the following things, then tell a partner about your list

Places you ve never been to, bục would like to ViSÍt cv

Do you remember the sentence from the beginning of this unit? i

i don’t reaily like it Really is a very common adverb in English

Discuss in class the difference in meaning between: L

! really don’t like it

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i

Which is stronger? Why?

5 | Pronunciation: contrastive stress

% Listen to these short dialogues Notice how have is stressed

A: Have you ever been to Singapore?

If the answer is no:

B: No, never, but | have been to Hong Kong

If the answer is yes:

B: Yes, | have, actually

With a partner, have similar conversations using these pairs of places or any others you can think of yourself:

Glasgow / Edinburgh Tunisia / Morocco Ankara / Istanbul

> For more information on how to use the present perfect simple, see G3.)

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Reaching

1 | How’s it going?

Sentences |-4 are answers to the question ‘How’s

it going?’ Match the answers |-4 to the follow-up

comments a—d

| Actually, I'm feeling a bit ill |

3 To be honest, I’m a bit fed up |

4 I'm ina really good mood, actually

a I met this really nice guy/woman the other day

b Ive had really bad food poisoning

c | got woken up at about two and couldn’ get

back to sleep

d It’s this weather! I’m sick of it!

With a partner, see if you can think of two more

follow-up comments for the answers I-4 The

pictures below might help you Compare answers

with another pair of students Did you think of

anything they didn’t?

With a partner, use your ideas to have

conversations like this:

A: Hi, how's it going?

B: I’m in a really good mood, actually

A: Really? How come?

B: | met this really nice guy in a club last night

7» Now read this text and see how the couple

¥¢@ met Do you think they will stay together?

Why/why not?

When I saw Jim on the news, I didn’t recognise him to begin with He looked really thin and his hair was falling out When | heard the reporter say his name, though, |

looked a bit more closely and then | realised it was him I

just burst out crying | was really surprised, because we were never really friends when we were at school together

He came from quite a poor family and his dad had been in prison Maybe it was just because he was looking for attention, but 1 remember that he could be a bit loud sometimes in class and we were just very different, I suppose But to see him there, looking so lost and alone, begging on the street! Well, it was just so upsetting It

broke my heart, it really did!

The next thing I knew, I was ringing the TV station which had run the report 1 don’t really know why — I just did it

on impulse Anyway, they gave me the address of a hostel

for homeless people 1 went down there the following day and it was really depressing It was filthy and the whole

place stank! Half the people there were either drunk or mad — or both! One of the workers showed me to where Jim was sleeping What amazed me was that he recognised me at once and said, ‘Oh, Andrea It’s you.’

His voice sounded so sad, but, at the same time — and I can’t explain this very well — it was like I could feel something pulling us together I felt like it was destiny

Id like to say that things have been easy for us since then and that love has run its true course, but life doesn’t work like that, does it? What happened to Jim when he became homeless was incredibly painful and he’s had to fight to

overcome his addictions To begin with, my parents were

very unhappy about our relationship My father is a very

successful businessman and I know he wanted me to

marry someone with money Still, they are slowly starting

to accept my decision and now that they’ve met Jim a few times they can see that he is a good man

We've had a lot of support from people who’ve seen our story in the papers, but we've also had a lot of negative comments too and we've both lost some friends The media have also put a lot of pressure on us 1 know Jim

doesn’t see it this way, but even now it still makes me angry the way the papers and the TV producers treat

people I just think back to that first story Here was this completely broken man, living on the streets They came along and did their story on him, and do you know what

they gave him? Ten pounds and a cup of tea! That’s it!

And then they got back into their big cars and drove off, leaving him to go back to that awhul hostel They clo these stories, but none of them really care about people | can’t

forgive them for that

Anyway, despite all that, we've managed to survive

together He’s a wonderful person, and I love him with all

my heart

Now go back and underline any expressions which are new to you Underline only whole expressions

~ not single words! Compare what you have underlined with what your partner has underlined

2 True or false?

Are these statements true or false? Why do you think so?

| Jim was living on the streets when he

2 Andrea thought carefully before ringing

4 Andrea’s parents wanted her to have

5 Jim and Andrea agree that the media

3 | Speaking Discuss these questions with a partner

| ls there much homelessness in your hometown? Why?

How do you feel about it?

Do you ever give money to people who are begging?

Do you agree with Andrea that the media sometimes exploits people?

4 Why do you think some people made negative comments about Andrea and Jim’s relationship?

5 Have you heard of any other love stories involving people from very different backgrounds?

4 Expressions with get

Make sentences by matching the beginnings I-8

to the endings a-h All the sentences contain expressions with get They are all connected with how Jim came to be homeless Use your

dictionary to help you if necessary

| They got married a to drugs

2 She got killed b with his work and

3 He got sacked couldn't catch up

4 He got behind c from his job

5 He got addicted d in a car crash

6 She got pregnant e and was due to give birth

7 He got very in December

depressed f in a registry office

8 He got evicted g from his house because

he couldn't pay the rent

h after his wife’s death

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Real English: get / become

in spoken English get is much more common than become in many expressions, such as get married, get angry, or get sick, get is almost exclusively used

We can use get with many adjectives Become is used with nouns

I became a teacher after | left university

I gave up my job in the bank and decided to become

a doctor

She became a Muslim when she got married

Discuss these questions with a partner

i Jim and his wife got married in a registry office

Where else do people typically get married?

2 What was the last wedding you went to? Where was it?

3 What would you say if someone told you they were pregnant? What questions might you ask?

4 Can you think of any other reasons why someone might get evicted?

6 | Free practice With a partner, tell the story of how Jim became homeless Use all of the expressions with get from Exercise 4 in any order you like, and add as much extra information as you can You can start like this:

Things started going wrong for Jim a few years ago when

he met a woman called Jan

Compare your stories with another group

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Using yocaoulary

1 | Adjectives with two different forms

In the article, Andrea said:‘! was really surprised’

and ‘It was really depressing’ The pairs

surprised/surprising and depressed/depressing are

different in meaning Some adjectives can end in

either -ed or -ing Do you know the rules for

when we use each ending? Compare your

thoughts with a partner and then read these

rules

a There is only a small group of adjectives which end in

either -ed or -ing, but many of them are very

Common,

b We use the -ed form of the adjectives to describe

people’s feelings People are surprised, bored, excited,

etc

c We use the -ing form of the adjectives to describe

things or situations They are depressing, boring,

exciting, etc We often use the pattern | find + noun

+ -ing adjective For example:

| found the party really boring

Complete the pairs of sentences below with the

pairs of adjectives in the box

frustrated / frustrating surprised / surprising terrified / terrifying worried / worrying

annoyed / annoying

bored / boring

confused / confusing

depressed / depressing

la Sorry, can you explain that again? I’m still a bit

ences about it

[b.1 find English grammar really , especially

the present perfect

2a He's got this really habit.of tapping his

foot all the time!

2b l'm a bit that he didn’t phone me! He

promised me he would!

3a | wish it would stop raining! This weather is really

3b His wife left him last year, and he's been really

severe es since then

4a That film was really | jumped out of my

seat about five times!

4b Sorry, but | can’t look down I’m absolutely

of heights!

5a Don’t you think they should be here by now? Isn’t it

abit that they haven't even phoned?

5b.Ïmabit about my exams next week

6a | was really when | arrived in Chicago

{ thought it'd be much cleaner than it is!

6b | thought the end of the film was really

| mean, | wasn’t expecting him to really be a woman

7a Ì get really when | can’t say what | want

to say It drives me mad!

7b | find talking to her very She never listens to anything | say!

Ba Ít was sO that | fell asleep halfway through!

8b m really with this! Can’t we do something else?

LH ma -¬- —“.- an —= ỐỐ - 5a.¬a.-

with two different forms.Write one sentence for each to show the difference Use your dictionary

to help you if necessary Compare your sentences with a partner’s

excited / exciting stressed-out / stressful

disappointed / disappointing scared / scary

upset / upsetting

2 | Speaking Discuss these questions with a partner

1 What kinds of things do you get worried about?

Have you got any annoying habits?

is there anything that you're terrified of?

What things about English do you still find confusing?

What makes you depressed?