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p32 Past simple of verb to be Past adverbial ph rases Past simple of irregular verbs Adverbial phrases with ago apologies 4 Language round-up p38 4 Skills practice p39 SKILLS FOCUS:

Rod Fricker

Phrases with have

Money Everyday things

Shopping

1 c Are there any

mushrooms? p12

Countable and uncountable nouns with

some, any and no

Food and drink

1 Language round-it P P"I4 1 Skills practice p15

Must/Mustn't for rules

Parts of the body

2 Language round-u p p22 2 Skills practice p23

Countable and uncountable nouns with

much, many, a lot of, a few, a little

Common uncountable nouns Ask permission and

o 3 Language round-u p p30 3 Skills practice p31

co

4a What was the

date? p32

Past simple of verb to be

Past adverbial ph rases

Past simple of irregular verbs

Adverbial phrases with ago

apologies

4 Language round-up p38 4 Skills practice p39

SKILLS FOCUS: READING, LISTENING AND WRITING

2

Past continuous and past simple with

while and when

Prepositions of place and motion

O

10 5c A dog which

bends p44

Defining relative clauses with who,

which and where

cinema

5 Language round-up p46 5 Skills practice p47

SKILLS FOCUS: READING M vID WRITING

6a The sea isn't

6 Language round-u p p54 6 Skills practice p55

7 Language round-u P P62 7 Skills practice p63

SKILLS FOCUS: READING Ah JD WRITING

00 8 Language round-u P P70 8 Skills practice p71

9a Which ones are

best? p72

Which + indefinite pronoun one/ones Clothes, accessories and

styles

Choosi ng clothes to wear

Language round-up p78 9 Skills practice p79

SKILLS FOCUS: READING AND WRITING

3

l'm Sadik

l'm Turkish

6 Sadik is from

Family w o r d s

2 WtíM Complete the texts with the words

from the box

• atifrt • wife • daughter • cousins

• nephew • Unele • niece • son

John 1 comes from Scotland, but he

U É I U s e the prompts to write questions and answers

their two children, Mark and Anne Mark and

My brother is married Kylie is his

3 A: you/go to a big school?

the sentences with the correct form of have

got or has got

My sister: long hair / , straight hair / , blue eyes / ,

glasses X, a boyfriend X

My parents: grey hair X, brown eyes / , blue car / ,

long hair (mum / , dad X)

2 She curly hair

She straight hair

3 She blue eyes

long hair, but my

Regular a n d irregular noun plurals

3 Write the plural form of the words in brackets

2 My favourite (city) are Venice and Seville

3 There are two (bus) every hour

4 My mum has got blue (eye)

5 Poland and Russia are interesting (country)

6 There are three (man)

7 Here are some (photo) _ friend

8 l've got íour (sandwich)

in my family _ of my

9 There are twenty-four (child) this class

There is/are

4 Complete the questions and answers

.for lunch

in

Yes, there is

T h e t i m e

1 Look at the d o c k s and s a y the times

's twenty-five to three in the morning

D T : 3 0 | 1 IM = E D M Mark: sometimes 4x a year

Daily routines

2 Complete the text about routines with one

word from the box in each s p a c e

• have • watch • go (x2) • go to

• play • listen • wake • do • read

• phone • brush • get (x2)

11 wake up at half past six, but I don't

school at eight o'clock

8 have a maths I (eonss)

5 is your favourite singer?

go to bed? At about ten o'clock

9 is your phone? The red one

or the blue one? The red one

Can (ability)

2 8 2 3 Complete the questions and answers

1 Amy: Hi, Jack Do you want to come horse

riding with us?

4 Teresa: Tve got a car

Pattie: Really? (you/drive) ?

Teresa: (X) , but l'm having lessons

3 My friends on the phone now

4 I my homework at the moment

6 My mum is in the garden She photos

7 you a sculpture?

Yes, I am

8 We a barbecue today

9 Be quiet Class 8b a test

10 Tom his new computer game? No, he isn't He's working

4 i i l Use the prompts to make questions Then look at the pictures and write the answers

1a I love this job!

LL

_

Grammar: Present simple and present continuous

1 _¡É M a t c h the questions (1-10) to the answers

9 What game are you playing at the moment? We usually go to a café

7 Does your mum usually drive to work? g) I usually play horror games

Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets

works at a school, but today she 2 (teach)

a boy at his house She

a week

a plañe today Today, he and

visit my aunt

S Ü I Make questions and statements

1 How/you/usually/spend/your free time?

How do vou usually spend vour free time?

2 What/you/do/at the moment?

4 BU Complete the dialogue with the correct form of the verbs from the box

3 The televisión is on, but l/not/watch/it

l/read

4 How often/you/eat/pizza?

• he give • write • teek • not do

• help • talk • you do • you want

Ben: Hi, Laura How are you?

summer job

Ben: My únele has got a restaurant

about work there for you?

Laura: Great Thanks What about you? What

Ben: Me? At the moment, I

He's a journalist Right now he

school holidays and what students

do in their free time It's great

5 I can't go out l/wait/for an important email

6 My dad/not usually/work/at night

I take their photos

moment

Questions Short answers

Do you often have Yes, I do

Does he often go to Yes, he does

Are you playing Yes, we are

Is she having a Yes, she is

N o t e Usage

• We use the present simple to talk about routines habits and faets which are always true

/ often go to the cinema

• We use the present continuous to talk about things that are happening now or around now

My dad is sleeping at the moment

• We don't usually use state verbs in the present

continuous e.g like, love, hate, understand,

know want, believe

I don Y understand this exercise NOT l'm not understanding this exercise

Form

• ln present simple affirmative sentences, we add

-sto the verb for he, she, it forms

He likes school

• ln negatives and questions, we use the auxiliary

verb do/does + infinitive without to

Does he speak Italian?

He doesn 't play football

• ln present continuous sentences we use the

correct form of the verb to be + verb + ~ing

ln questions, we put the verb to be before the

subject

What are you writing? NOT What you are writing?

1b Whose radio is this?

1 ÜS Complete the prices (a-f) and match

them to the labels (1-6)

2 lili Label the picture

s', possessive adjectives, possessive pronouns

3 H H C h o o s e the correct options

1 This is my mums /(mum's)book

2 Those are my goggles / goggles'

3 Hey! That towel is my / mine

4 Where are Heather and Sally? These towels are their / theirs

5 Where's Fiona? This is her / she belt

6 Who's / Whose is this radio?

4 u Complete the second sentence s o that

it has the s a m e meaning a s the first Use the word in capitals

1 Who is the owner of this wallet? (WHOSE)

Whose wallet is this?

2 Those are my sunglasses (MINE) Those

3 Is this your radio? (YOURS)

Anna: (X - my dad) No, it isn't It's

3 Lisa: (Cathy/sunglasses?) Are

Donna: (X - my) No, they aren't

Lisa: (You!) Donna: ( / - new) Yes They're

sunglasses

10

1b

Use your English: Shopping

a) Can I help you?

b) How much are they?

c) £39.99! I'll leave them, thanks I'll just take the belt

d) Yes, please Have you got any belts?

e) Sunglasses are £39.99

f) These are £3.99 and those are £6.99

g) OK I'll take this black one Can I get some sunglasses

too, please?

h) Sure Try one of these

Customer: Oh, OK Just the batteries

Shop assistant: That's £5, please Thank you

G r a m m a r s u m m a r y

Whose ? genitive 's and s '

Whose belt is this?

• We use 's/s'to show possession

• We use whose to ask about possession

Whose pen is this? It's Helen's

Form

• We use s with singular nouns and plural nouns which do not end in -s

It's my brother's bike

They are the children 's books

• We use s'with plural nouns which end in -s

The students' books

Possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns

N o t e Gruí tff»j Usage

• We use possessive adjectives before

a noun

It's my book

• We use possessive pronouns without

a noun or after a noun

It's ours

The book is ours

11

1 C Are there any mushrooms?

Vocabulary: Food and drink

1 H Look at the clues and complete the

crosswords with the words from the box

1 It isn't dairy, but sometimes

it's got cream on it

5 They are vegetables

7 It's a big yellow fruit

2 8 3 Look at the pictures and complete the

3 A: Quick, bring the food inside It's raining! B: What? You're j i ! A: No, l'm not Look

4 A: We've got melons, strawberries and

peaches

B: x I n I love summer fruit

Grammar: Countable and uncountable

nouns with some, any and no

4 l í l Complete the sentences with There is, There isn't, There are or There aren't

1 There are some bananas

no nuts

m¡M C h o o s e t h e correct options Sometimes more than one answer is correct

2 Are there no / some / any pears?

3 There is no / some / any cake

4 I haven't got some / any / no yoghurt

5 There is some / no / any lettuce

6 There isn't no / any / some cream

7 We've got some / any / no olive oil

8 I want a / s o m e / any vinegar

1c

at the picture and write short answers

G r a m m a r s u m m a r y

1 melons/on the table?

Are there anv melons on the table?

Yes, there are

2 cream/on the table?

3 strawberries/on the table?

4 olive oil/on the table?

5 nuts/on the table?

6 meat/on the table?

7 mushrooms/on the table?

Countable and uncountable

nouns with some, any and no

There is no olive oil

There aren't any

mushrooms

There are no

mushrooms

Questions Short answers

Is there any meat?

Are there any nuts?

Yes, there is

No, there isn't

Yes, there are

No, there aren't

Nc>-re Usage

• ln affirmative sentences, we use some +

uncountable nouns or plural countable nouns

There is some vinegar There are some peas

• We can a!so use a/an + singular countable noun We can't use a/an or numbers with

uncountable nouns

There is a melón / There is an olive oil X

• ln negative sentences, we use any + noun with a negative verb We can also use no +

noun with an affirmative verb We don't use any with an affirmative verb or no with a negative verb

There isn 't any lamb There is no lamb

I haven 't got any peaches Tve got no peaches

X

There aren't no mushrooms X

• We use any with questions

Are there any mushrooms?

Have you got any meat?

4 How often do you

5 What are you

2 Complete the sentences with the correct form

of the words in brackets

• works • working • ate • some • cooking

• pence • no • cooks • many • doesn't

• much • isn't • any

Jo: l'm going to the shops My dad's cooking

vegetables

1 I want to be a (BEAUTY) beautician

2 My sister is a (CASH) in a bank

3 John is (HOPE) with money

4 He's a ski (INSTRUCT) in France

5 I like talking to people Maybe I can be a TV

(PRESENT) _

6 Harry wants to be a (POLITICS)

7 My dad (TEACH) Maths in a

Shop assistant: Yes, of course

in a hotel

.11

3 Look at the pictures Complete the sentences

with the correct words

1 P a c h s a r e e 2'5°

two pounds fifty a kilo

El 30 are

A: There are 4 any / no / not people at this party

A: 1 6 don't / am not / aren't like them!

A: Is this y o u r7 mums / mum's / mums' phone?

9 B i l l / Bills / B i l l ' s phone

A: I 1 0 want / am wanting / wanting to watch TV

/10

./8

days a week My favourite subjects are Maths and

Science I don't like RE., but w e only have RE once

a week

2

I go to French classes on Mondays and

Wednesdays On Saturdays and Sundays I meet my

friends Tve got a computer in my b e d r o o m I send

emails to my friends and I write this b l o g !

We always go to France for t w o weeks w i t h my

m u m and dad My brother and I always go to my

grandparents' house for three weeks, too It's very

beautiful there and they've got some animáis

Philippa

2 Read the blog again and match

beginnings (1-8) to the endings

1 At school, Philippa always

2 Philippa gets homework

3 Her favourite subjects

4 She doesn't

5 On Mondays and

Wednesdays she

6 She's got a computer

7 Philippa's family always

8 Philippa and her brother

always

the sentence

a) like RE

b) in her bedroom

c) has French classes

d) gets good marks

e) go to their grandparents' house for three weeks

f) four days a week

g) go to France in the holidays

h) are Science and Maths

go to tennis lessons, l'm not very good

a) and b) but

4 I want to be a pilot

but I don't know which

a) but b) and

5 I eat a lot of vegetables

I don't like meat

Hov/ are you? l ' m doing exams at the

have to v/ear" a uniform and v/e can

v/rite me a letter %yith a\\ your news Bye for nov/

2a I hate falling over

2

1L

P h r a s e s

1 C h o o s e the correct options

A: l'm not going running with you today

like running I prefer swimming

money for swimming

A: I can pay for you

you're tired

A: Well, not if we're going swimming Come on

Vocabulary: Sports and places

pictures

tennis • karate • snowboarding • cycling

• swimming • athletics • golf • windsurfing

• gymnastics • rugby • volleyball • judo

4 - * » Write the ñames of the people

doing each activity

Tom is at the pool Melanie is on the court Jack is on the pitch Stephanie is

at the rink Paul is in the ring Keith is on the track Neil is on the course

2 a

Grammar: Verbs of emotion + gerund

form (-ing)

5 WLM Look at the survey Complete the

sentences with the correct form of the verbs

in brackets

SPORTS SURVEY

Ñame and class: Mark Pre.¿.-t-on, VTIft

A sport y o u love: i gogb^ i vbiiexjba.il

A sport yOU like: Swimming

A sport y o u d o n ' t m i n d : Cycling

A sport y o u d o n ' t enjoy: íocrfoaw

A sport y o u d o n ' t like: Srou)boa.rding

A sport y o u hate: fín^nn&js-tic*

Thank you for your timo!

2 He prefers (play) rugby to (play)

volleyball

3 He likes (go)

4 He doesn't mind (go)

5 He doesn't enjoy (play)

6 He doesn't like (go)

Do you like playing tennis?

No I don 't I hate playing tennis

You enjoy running

My dad doesn't mind cycling

My mum doesn't like watching sport

I hate playing rugby

I prefer swimming (to ice-skating)

Mote Usage

• We use the gerund {-ing) form after certain verbs of emotion {like, love, hate, etc)

/ love playing computer games

• We use don't mind + gerund to say that we think

something is OK

/ don t mind doing homework

• We use prefer + gerund form + to+ gerund form to

say that we like one thing more than another

/ prefer staying in bed to getting up

I don't mind cooking /

i prefer swimming than running X / prefer swimming to running /

2b Don't look at the ground

V o c a b u l a r y : Parts of the body

t h e box

• head • neck • ear • eye • mouth

• teeth • hair • face

Please remember that there is no eating drinking

or talking during lessons In addition, the school

is a no running and no playing área

B: I won't Bye, Mum

5 S E b C o m p l e t e the imperative sentences with the verbs f r o m t h e box

• eat • have • not go • listen • stay

• ptey • talk • not have • not do

6 in the bathroom all morning

7 to friends on the phone all day

8 to Rihanna CDs

9 pink hair!

18

A

2b

Grammar: Must/Mustn't for rules

Alison must and mustn't do

Ho\y to change my life!

%/ s t u d y h a r d , brush my teeth three times a

d a y , do some exercise, leafn ío cooK, relax

to my friends all evening

my teeth three times

1 Go home at eleven o'clock

You must go home at eleven o'clock

2 Don't fall over

Have a good time

Don't worry

Don't be late

Mote Usage

• We use imperatives to tell people what to do or not to do

• We often use please with the imperative to be more

polite

Please come in

Please don't touch

Form

• To make the imperative, we use the infinitive of the

verb without to and without a subject

Go away NOT You go away

• To make negative imperatives, we add dont before the imperative without to

You must work hard

You mustn't talk

We mustn't be late

Usage

• We use must/mustn'tXo say what rules are and what

we can and can't do

You mustn 't eat in the classroom

I must phone my mum

Form

• We use must/mustn't + infinitive without to

I must wake up early tomorrow

Common mistakes

I mustn't to be late, x

I mustn't be late / You mustn 't eating here X You mustn't eat here /

1 9

2 c We're all going to hold hands

intentions and predictions

1 O Look at the plans and complete the

sentences

1 l'm going to write emails tonight

2 I 'm not going to do homework tonight

w3M Complete the dialogue with the verbs in

brackets Use the correct form of going to

Sam: Do you want to play tennis?

today?

Sam: I can help you E r where are you going?

Phil: I want to look at my emails

l/get up/at seven o'clock

What time are vou going to

get ud tomorrow? l'm going

to get up at seven o'clock

2 you/cycle/to school?

X l/walk/to school

3 What/do/in the evening?

l/do/my homework

4 What time/you/go to bed?

l/go/to bed at ten o'clock

next year

Use y o u r English Ask for, make and

respond to suggestions

4 B B Match the beginnings (1-10) to the

endings (a-j)

1 What about a) go shopping

from the box

• let's • why • feel • joking • shall

• idea • know • faney • about

house this afternoon?

like doing any exercise today

and Simón?

have a quiet afternoon? Just you and me

Tanya: OK Great See you later

G r a m m a r s u m m a r y

Going to for future plans, intentions ánd

predictions Affirmative Negative

Yes, you are

No, you aren't

• We use going to to talk about plans and intentions

for the future or to make predictions about a present situation

It's going to rain

• We often use future time phrases when we talk about

the future with going to

l'm going to finish this homework later

Form

• We use going to + infinitive without to

He's going to tell us a story

• We make negative sentences by adding not befare

going to

He isn 't (is not) going to tell us a story

• To make questions we use verb to be + subject +

going to + infinitive without to Are you going to play football tomorrow?

2 Language round-up

1 Rearrange the letters and match the words

(1-12) to the clues (a-l)

b) They are in your mouth

c) You play tennis here

d) It's at the bottom of your leg

e) It helps you to bend your arm

f) You go karting here

g) You have one on each hand

h) You have ten on your feet

i) You play rugby here

j) You play golf here

k) It's where you put your belt

I) You go ice-skating here

./11

2 Complete the dialogue with the correct form

of the verbs in brackets

school sports day next week?

any exercise for six weeks I don't

A: The sports day starts at two o'clock, but

B: OK Why not?

3 C h o o s e the correct options

2 Do you fancy go / going / to go out?

3 I hate fall / falling / to fall over

4 Please not go / don't go / not going

5 I don't enjoy go / going / to go to the dentist

6 What shall we do / doing / to do this evening?

7 How about meet / meeting / to meet at six?

8 We're not going finish / finishing / to finish

this tonight

9 Let's have / having / to have a party

10 We mustn't be / being / to be late for school

4 Complete the text with the words from the box There are four extra words

• lose • touch • love • feel • ¡n

• own • don't • fall • at • going

• hate • mind • hurts • prefer • bends

swimming to tennis

this evening I can read or watch a film I

It's Melanie here l'm at a basketball match

I know, I know I hate basketball, but l'm

very happy Angie is playing very well

Fiona isn't playing She's got a bad ankle

She's sitting here with Mark and me We're ¡

eating sandwiches Here's Mark

L i s t e n

3 Before you listen, predict the correct words

1 Mark and Melanie are going to go to a disco /

a pizza restaurant / the cinema

2 They are going to talk about Mr Green / football /

2 What sport does Mark prefer?

3 What is not on a Sicily special pizza? Meat, onions

or mushrooms?

4 Is Melanie going to have a Sicily special, too?

5 What food does Melanie not like?

Hi, Jackie,

How are you? Are you having a good time

at the beach? The basketball is great

We're going to get a pizza after the game

Oh, no Mr Green is going to fall over

6 What does Mark suggest they talk about?

Hi, Jackie,

Mark is with Mr Green on the basketball

court Mr Green can't stand up Oh dear

I don't think they're going to finish the

match Poor Mr Green OK, l'm going to

send this and then l'm going to help Mark

Melanie

iend sends you an email suggesting that you play tennis together on Saturday Complete the reply with one word in each s p a c e

2 Read the email again and complete the

summary with one word or ñame in each gap

to playing

on Sunday? Write back and let me know

The best thing is the balcony I Vocabulary: House and furniture

1 WÍM Label the picture with the words

from the box

• balcony • gate • feof • basement

• stairs • study • landing • fence

2 It's the room at the top of a house I t

3 It keeps food cold f e

4 You can look at yourself in this

m r

5 You put your clothes in this

w e

6 Two or three people can sit on it s a

7 Bedrooms are often here

u s

8 You cióse these in the evening and open

them in the morning c s

9 ln some rooms, people have this on the

3 K B C o m p l e t e the text w i t h the correct

form of the adjectives in b r a c k e t s

bedroom in the house, but I love it because of the balcony

The house has got a basement and a loft

house is that it is cold in the winter The

the winter, I do my homework in the kitchen

bedroom

4 l i l Use the p r o m p t s to write sentences

1 My bedroom/big/bedroom in the house

My bedroom is the biggest bedroom in the house

2 It/big/my parents' room

3 The armchair/comfortable/chair in the living room

4 It/comfortable/the sofá

5 The loft/dark/the basement

6 The basement/cold/the loft

7 The washing machine/useful/the dishwasher

8 The/useful thing l've got is my computer

l i l i Look at the information and write

sentences with the correct form of the

adjectives from the box S o m e adjectives c a n

be used more than once

expensive • bad

good • small

• btg • cheap

1 The living room/room in the house

The living room is the biggest room in the house

2 The bedroom/the kitchen

77?e bedroom is bigger than the kitchen

3 The kitchen/the bedroom

Fridge £250 Cooker £420 Dishwasher £370

4 The cooker/the dishwasher

5 The cooker/fitting in the house

6 The fridge/the dishwasher

DVD player - good Computer - great!

CD player - not good

7 The computer/the DVD player

8 The CD player/the DVD player

G r a m m a r s u m m a r y

Comparative and superlative of adjectives

The kitchen is colder than the bathroom

The desk is heavier than the table

Computers are more expensive than DVD

players

This is the oldest house in our street

Simón is the laziest boy in the class

This is the most difficult exam I can remember

Usage

• We use comparatives to compare two people or things

Mike is younger than Sophie

• We use superlatives to compare three or more people

or things or a whole group

Sue is the oldest girl in my class

Spelling rules

• To make comparatives, we add -erto the adjective

To make superlatives, we add -esíto the adjective

cold - colder - the coldest

• For adjectives ending in one vowel plus one consonant,

we usually double the final consonant

big - bigger - the biggest

• For adjectives ending in -e, we add -ror -st

nice - nicer - the nicest

• For adjectives ending in -y we usually change the -y

to an -/

easy - easier - the easiest

• For long adjectives, we use more + adjective to make comparatives and most + adjective to make

9 The computer/thing in my bedroom

3b There's a lot of luggage!

nouns

Match the uncountable nouns (1-10) to

the examples (a-j)

Complete the sentences with some of

the uncountable nouns from Exercise 1

1 There's some food in the fridge

2 Lots of cars créate lots of

3 Hurry! We haven't got much !

4 Throw your in the bin

5 I need a sofá and other for my

house

6 I love , but I haven't got many CDs

7 My teacher gave me a lot of

8 I can't carry this ; it's heavy

nouns with much, many, a lot of, a few, a

titile

1 We haven't got many homework to do

We haven 't aot much homework to do

2 How much bedrooms are there?

3 Tve only got a few space in my bedroom

4 We haven't got many furniture

4 l i l Write two sentences about each picture

U s e the prompts and the words in capitals

CHAIRS/FURNITURE

1 There/not/much/in the room

There isn 't much furniture in the room

3 There/is/lot/on the píate

4 There are/lot/on the

píate

TIME/MINUTES

5 There/only/few/before the train leaves

5 l've only got a little CDs

6 He hasn't got much friends

2 6

Use your English Ask permission and

respond

it has the s a m e meaning a s the first U s e the

word in capitals

1 A: Can I use your computer? (MAY)

May I use your computer?

B: Actually, I need to use it (BUT)

A: M u m 1 Can I stay out a bit later tonight?

and you need to study

Countable and uncountable nouns with

much, many, a lot of, a few, a little

Countable

There are a lot of cars on the road

There aren't many eggs in the fridge

There are a few CDs on the shelf

How many brothers have you got?

Uncountable

There is a lot of traffic on the road

There isn't much food in the fridge

There is a little rubbish in the wastepaper bin How much money have you got?

Usage

• We use a lot with both countable and uncountable

nouns in affirmative sentences

There are a lot of people here

There is a lot of space in my bedroom

• We use a few and a little in affirmative sentences

We use a few with countable nouns and a little with

uncountable nouns

Tve got a few books

He's got a little time

• We use much and many in negative sentences and questions We use many with countable nouns and

muchwWh uncountable nouns

There aren 't many potatoes

How many days are there in July?

We haven 't got much homework to do

How much time have we got left?

Common mistakes

I've got much money X Tve got a lot of money / How many money have you got? X How much money have you got? /

3 c How wide ¡s it?

P h r a s e s

Complete the words with one letter in

each space

A: Did you know that the deepest part of the

ocean is over 10,000 metres deep? It's called

The Mariana Trench

8.848 metres high Where is this Mariana

Trench?

A: I love Kynance Cove

B: What's that?

it's really beautiful and never crowded There's

a little café where you can buy cakes and ice

creams and

there now, but we've got a Maths test!

Vocabulary: Large numbers

2 %ÍM Complete the text Write the numbers in

brackets in words

Uluru is in Australia It is a large rock that stands

metres above the desert The rock is

from Alice Springs No one knows exactly

how oíd it is, but experts believe it is between

climb it Fewer people climb it now than

in the past because they understand

how important the rock is to Australia's

a) How high is it?

b) How deep is it?

c) How long is it?

d) How far is it?

e) How wide is it?

Ij n u w ion is i i c r

g) How heavy is it?

h) How much does it weigh?

How tall is he?

3

Aborigines

2 8

A: They are 51 metres high and

A: The deepest part is 52 metres Now, the

Niágara Fails are on the Niágara River

It i s n ' t

A: it isn't very long Just 58 kilometres from

Lake Erie to Lake Ontario Please ask any more

questions later There are two waterfalls here

The widest one is called The Horseshoe Falls

and i t

A: it is 790 metres wide Niágara Falls are

very popular because they are easy to get to

Toronto is o n l y

A: 120 kilometres away Please be quiet

B: E r When are we going to go to the hotel?

My bag is very heavy

How heavy is it?

How much does it weigh?

It weighs

How big is it?

I t ' s

Usage

• We use How + adjective of dimensión to ask about

size, weight or distance

How big is your house?

How far away is the hotel?

• We generally use tall with people and high with

objects Sometimes we can also use te//with objects

How tall are you?

How high/tall is tire Empire State Buiiding?

• The answer to How big is ? can be It's quite/very big

or an exact measurement

How big is your house? It's not very big

How big is your bedroom? It's 4 metres long and

3 metres wide

Common mistakes

The hotel is ten kilometres far from here X The hotel is ten kilometres from here / How high is your dad? X

How tall is your dad? /

B: About 35 kilograms

A: Well, perhaps you should stop asking

questions and save your energy for the walk!

2 9

3 Language round-up

1 C h o o s e the correct options

room

2 There's a wardrobe / chimney / fence for my

clothes

3 Tve got a lot / little / few CDs on my desk

4 My bed is only 50cm deep / wide / far

5 There isn't much / many / lot of space for a

2 l've got one hundred ten CDs

3 How much it weigh?

4 How meat do you eat?

5 I want a plants for my room

6 The loft is cleaner my room

7 l've got a new of drawers

8 How eggs do you want?

9 Paris is

10 How

expensive than Rome

is the station? About

beautiful place in the

3 Match the questions (1-9) to the answers (a-i)

1 How much money a) About eight million have you got?

2 How far is it?

3 How much time is there?

4 How many people live in London?

5 How big is it?

6 How much do you weigh?

7 How tall are you?

8 How much music have you got?

9 How much luggage has he got?

b) Ten kilometres away

• far • many • highest • luggage

• balcony • much • heavy • worse • time

• loft • suitcases • space • ceiling • weigh

hotel?

B: About 2 kilometres I hope it's nice

I can sit outside, and a fan on the

o'clock Let's hurry We haven't got much

3 Skills practice

SKILLS FOCUS: READING AND WRITING

Read the text and find these things

• great shops • cold for July

• restaurant • Edinburgh Castle

• sausages • raining • Scottish dancing

It isn't the tallest building

in New York City, but it is

one of the most famous The Flatiron Building is

on Fifth Avenue It is thirty years older than the

Empire State Building and a popular attraction

The building is almost one hundred metres high

At the front, it is only two metres wide The

offices at this end have great views of the cit

and the Empire State Building

You can go to the top of the building, but the

isn't a special place to look at the view Most

visitors just look at the photographs and visit the

shops on the ground floor

It is easy to get to the building The nearest

subway station is Twenty-Third Street It isn't

very far to walk from there There are also a lo

buses which go past the building Next time you

are in New York City, come and see it

2 Read the text again and answer true (T), false

(F) or doesn't say (DS)

1 The Flatiron Building is the tallest building in

New York F

2 It is the oldest skyscraper in New York

3 Some rooms are not very wide

4 You can't go to the top of the building now

5 It's a long way from the subway station to

the building

Helio frows bdiwbow*^ T W we*H\ev \ s very

• cold for Julv\ 1+ \ s 2 - y ^ ^ ^ f • f M 1

\v\ FViv\ces S-hreef TWve

- o

are lo+3 cÁ veally 4

SWeef flvsd 1 cav\ see +ke c*3+le up o* A tu 1V> eáhv^ Scot+.3k & i >;fVtf • ~^*y *re

delic»ou3 TV»3 «3 a p i c í w e crf 6

l t \ s a very *v\+eres+**$ place to vi3i+ tow cav\ see

-i -rVeve flv\d y¿*+e a lo+ o-f + 1 ^ 3

-fvO*v> ScO++i3k V\Í3+Ovry

See yot» soov\

Jode

Match the questions (1-5) to the possible

a n s w e r s (a-j) There are two answers for each question

2 Where are you sitting? •

-3 What are you doing?

4 What's in the picture?

5 What's the place like?

atching the people

b) A museum

c) It's very sunny

d) It's quite interesting

e) On the beach

f) Eating an ice cream

g) ln a café

h) A famous building

i) It's really oíd

j) It's a bit cold

Write a postcard to a friend Use some of the phrases from Exercise 4

Dear

Helio from

31

What was the date?

P h r a s e s

1 O Complete the words with one letter

in each s p a c e

1 A: What's the time?

B: Dunno. I haven't got a watch

2 A: Can I have some more cake?

B: Of c r Here you are

3 A: Do you want to come to the cinema

today?

B: M e What's on?

4 A: l'm going to get 100% in the English

test

B: H a! No one ever gets more

than 8 0 % in Mr Blair's tests

twelve

of sixteen

Grammar: Past simple of verb to be

3 BU Complete the text with was, wasn't,

were or weren't

in London Unfortunately, the weather

a lot of traffic in the any noise in

one night, but we

only there for

in London from early Saturday morning until late Sunday evening

restaurant near the river and Daniel Radcliffe

with some friends but, unfortunately, Emma

4 Look at the information and write questions and answers

Yesterday at 9 p.m.:

Paul - in bed Paul's parents - in the living room lan and Jane - at the theatre Craig - at his friend's house Sally - in her bedroom Jenny and Fiona - at a restaurant

1 Paul at the cinema?

Was Paul at the cinema? No he wasn't He was in bed

2 Paul's parents in the living room?

thirteen

4 a

3 lan and Jane at a nightclub?

4 Craig at his friends house?

5 Sally in the kitchen?

6 Jenny and Fiona at school?

5 y ¿ i Use the prompts to complete the

B: V

Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Cárter, Anne

Hathaway and more were in it

Grammar: Past adverbial phrases

6 Complete the sentences with yesterday or

last

2 Where were you

He/She/lt w a s very nice

We/They were in the

Yes they were

No, they weren't

Wh- questions

Where were you born?

Who w a s he with?

There was/were

There was a competition

Were there ten teams?

There wasn't a prize

Yes, there were

No, there weren't

Mote Usage

• We use the past simple of the verb to be to talk about

• ln questions, we reverse the word order of the subject

and the verb to be

You were late - Were you late?

Past adverbial phrases

We were at school yesterday morning

He was at the cinema last night

Mo+e Usage

• We use past adverbial phrases to say when something happened

We were on holiday last month

I was with my friends yesterday afternoon

Common mistakes

They were here yesterday night X They were here last night /

3 3

[ 4b A strange thing happened

v o c a b u l a r y : Common regular verbs

1 IDi C o m p l e t e the sentences w i t h the w o r d s

f r o m the box

• started • asked • hated • waiked

• smiled • iistened • arrived • played

• finished • visited

2 I my friend for help with my

5 When I was young, I peas

6 The lesson at nine o'clock and

4 up! We're late

5 -*• Oh, great! I ice cream

6 My parents go to work at eight o'clock and

home at 5 p.m

7 Don't It's not that bad

Grammar: Past simple of regular verbs

3 0 Complete the story with the correct form

of the verbs in brackets

It was four o'clock and

the door open

Emily what ice cream she wanted She

; / r have chocolate and vanilla

eat the ice cream There was

a man in the shop Emily

at her

the ice cream

Oh, no! It was on the man's shoe!

4 i t f Complete the story ending with the correct form of the verbs from the box

r \

• remember • phone • hurry • stay

• laugh • not want • talk • ask (x2)

assistant for two more ice creams He and Emily

s u d d e n l y6

that it was her mum's her for her phone

friend and told her all about her exciting day

3 4

Use the prompts to complete the dialogues

at it when I returned home

A: Nothing important I was just bored

6 QD Complete the dialogue Use the correct

form of the verbs from the box or short answers

• he love • ask • he study • he decide (x2)

• appear • he return • he live

A: Your dad speaks great French.1 Did he study

B: The headmistress of his oíd school

there She's now my mum, of course

• We use the past simple to talk about actions and situations that started and finished in the past We often use the past simple with past time adverbials

/ talked to her yesterday

wanted - didn't want

• To form questions, we use Did + subject + infinitive without to

Did you like the film?

toan -/aftera vowel

cry - cried play - played

• When a verb ends in one vowel + one consonant,

we double the last consonant

drop - dropped

i • *;, • *:--/^^MSJSwiHftw.?

4 c I only had a £ 2 0 note

Grammar: Past simple of irregular verbs

1 0 1 Complete the puzzle with the past

simple form of the verbs (1-14)

2 WkhB Complete the text with the correct form

of the verbs in brackets

Hi Steve,

back until late on Sunday

anything very interesting

A: you any computer

games at the weekend?

B: Yes, I did I three

3 SEE

A: you Amy or Kathy

yesterday?

B: I Kathy at school, but I

Amy because she wasn't there

B: I a new bike - it's awesome!

Grammar: Adverbial phrases with ago

the sentences with ago

1 It's now May My birthday was in February

2 It's now seven o'clock We had dinner at five o'clock

We had dinner

3 It's now October We were in Italy in August

We were in Italy

4 It's now 2014 My sister left school in 2 0 1 1

My sister left school

5 It's now Tuesday We went shopping on Saturday

We went shopping

3 6

4 c

5 WLM Choose the c o r r e c t options

G r a m m a r s u m m a r y

1 I did /(madeja cake for my dad's birthday

2 Did you make / do the washing-up today?

3 I didn't make / have a shower this morning

4 l'm sorry l'm late I missed / lost the bus

5 l'm not hungry I had / did lunch at school

6 I didn't make / do my homework

7 I didn't say / tell you a lie I said / told you the

truth

8 Bob's really good at telling / saying stories

9 I lost / missed my wallet on the train

B: It doesn't6 m Come in

A: I can't l'm going to meet Dave We've got

some new computer games

Past simple of irregular verbs Affirmative Negative

emails We/They didn't drive to

(See Past simple of regular verbs p 35.)

Adverbial phrases with ago

We went to London three w e e k s ago

No-re Usage

• We use ago with a past time expression to talk about

the number of days, months, years, etc since a past event happened

/ went to Rome two months ago

A: Can you believe it? 11 11 the wrong

bus It was a 15 not a 16

3 7

4 Language round-up

Match the beginnings (1-11) to the endings

(a - k )

2 We had an exam last b) bus

3 We made —c) shower today

5 He left three weeks e) were at home

6 John and Lisa f) t h e t r u t h

7 I left g) week

8 You didn't tell us h) the washing-up

9 My brother did i) was at work

10 I missed the j) dinner yesterday

11 We met yesterday k) my money at home

/10

Complete the text with the correct form of the

verbs in brackets

1975 When he was a teenager, his mother

acting work

him a star, ln 2013, he and Leonardo

Great Gatsby This time, Tobey 1 1 (not need)

his friend's help

/10

Correct the sentences

1 Where you went yesterday?

Where did you go vesterdav?

2 Did you wrote any emails?

3 I did be late for school twice last week

4 The weather were great

5 Did you make your homework?

6 Where you did lose your money?

7 What you did on Sunday?

8 We wasn't very tired

9 I didn't saw Simón

/ met her three months ago

2 When/your parents/buy/their new car?

4 Skills practice 4

Marie Antoinette got married

SKILLS FOCUS: READING, LISTENING AND WRITIN4

webpage where you see what happened in

history on every day of the year I found some

interesting things Marie Antoinette got married

her husband was fifteen

1929 in Hollywood That's a bit more exciting!

The whole thing took fifteen minutes! The best

picture winner in 1929 was called Wings

in 1986 and, in 1957, Eliot Ness died He was a

detective I saw a film about him It was called

The Untouchables and it was really good Kevin

Costner was Eliot Ness and Sean Connery and

Robert De Niro were also in the film

Now my brother wants to look at what happened

more exciting than his He always wants to be the

best!

2 Read the text again and complete the

sentences

2 Marie Antoinette's husband was

when they got married

3 The first Oscar ceremony lasted

4 The winner of the first Best Film Oscar was

called

5 ln the film The Untouchables

played Eliot Ness

L i s t e n

Listen to the news story and choose the best headline

a) Eleven-year-old travels to Rome with no ticket

b) Eleven-year-old gets lost at Manchester Airport c) Eleven-year-old disappears in Rome

Listen again and choose the correct options

2 This happened on 24/7/2012 / 25/6/2012 /

24/8/2012

3 When Liam got on the plañe, he sat on the

floor / went straight to the toilet / sat in an empty seat

4 Liam carne home the same day / the next day /

with his mum

5 The people at the airport asked him questions /

shouted / smiled

Write

S Complete the email with the words from the

last • were • didn't • saw

• had • quite • meet • was

flames and lots

of people ran out of the shops It was OK It