It’s awonderful world! Leen > TEST YOUR GRAMMAR 1 Make questions with you from the sentences 1 come from Scotland. (Where?) 2 | was bom in London in 1984 (Where? When?) 3 live in Milan. (Where?) 4. ve got two brothers anda sister. How many?) 5. Yim studying English because | need it for my job. (Why?) 6 Ive been studying English for three years (How long?) 7. Ive been to the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia. (Which countries?) 8 went to Canada three years ago. (When?) 2 Ask and answer the questions with a partner. ( From Mexico. tere were you born? In Puebla, a city near Mexico City. 3 Tell the class about your partner. Enrique comes from Mexico. He was born in Puebla in 1485, but now he lves in Mexico City. 6 Unit + Its wonderful world! ee WHAT DO YOU KNOW? Tenses and auxiliary verbs 1 Answer the questions in the quiz, GED Listen and check. Gene sit pi knowled ge ¢ the Indian Ocean What doesn’t a When did the modern vegetarian eat? Olympic Games start? 2 1806 b 1896 ¢ 1922 How long does it take for the sun’s rays to reach the Earth? What does www. stand for? Where were glasses invented? 2 8 minutes @ Mexico b 8 hours b Italy £,8idage © China What was Neil How many times Armstrong doing when has Brazil won the he said in 1969, ‘That's one World Cup? small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind’?Gee PRACTICE 11 Which questions in the quiz contain the following tenses? fF Negatives and pronunciation Present | ast Present Perfect | | 1 Correct the information in the sentences. ‘The sun doesn’t rise in the west! It rises in the east! Simple Simple Simple 1. The sun rises Present Past Present Perfect fonthe wee Continuous | Continuous __| Continuous 2 Consent neat Present Simple | Past Simple + Masierenan ips __i pee are made in Canada. 2. Which tenses use the auxiliary verbs do/does/ald to 4 Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in 1989, make the negative and question? 5. John Lennon was performing on stage when he Which tenses use the auxiliary verb have? was assassinated, Which tenses use the auxiliary verb be? 6 The Pyramids were built by the Chinese. PP c Reference 11-13 ppl34-135 7 We've been in class for five hours. 8 We're studying Italian. Listen and compare. Notice the stress and intonation. Practise saying the sentences, 2. In groups, write some general knowledge questions. Ask the other groups. Talking about you 2 Complete the questions. 1 A What do last night? B I stayed at home and watched television. 2A What kind of books like reading? B Horror stories and science fiction. 3A ever been to the United States? B Yes, Thave. [went there last year. A like it? B Yes, I really enjoyed it. 4A What the teacher 2 B He’ helping Maria with this exercise. 5A ‘your mother do? B She works in a bank. 6 A Why do your homework last night? A B Because I didn't feel well. performing on stage 7A What doing next weekend? recording an album B Tm going toa party. returning to his apartment . ¥ E 8 A_____you__a TV in your bedroom? 0) ae rae spoke by the most B No, I haven't. Just a CD player. people in the world? : spanish ob chifelet sé! Sabian Listen and check. With a partner, ask and answer the questions about you. FE] Why didn't Nelson Mandela become £5 President of South Africa until he was is or has? 6 years old? , FF] How long have people hen sending 3 Hise ote sestenc. They lant emails? rite is or has, “@ since the 1960s Lif Hoe Reo Fe since the 1970s 2 4 6 8 since the 1990s Unit 1 + It’s a wonderful world! 7MAKING CONVERSATION Short answers 1 Listen to the breakfast conversation, How does Emma feel? Dad Good morning! Did you have a nice time last night? Emma Yes. Dad Do you want breakfast? Emma_No. Dad Have you had any coffee? Emma_ Yes Dad Is Bill coming round tonight? Emma No. Dad OK. Are you leaving for school soon? Emma_ Yes. Bye! 2 Listen to a similar com What are the differences? 3. Complete the conversation. Dad Good morning! Did you have a nice time last night? Emma Yes, Twent round to Bills house. Dad Do you want breakfast? Emma N , thanks, I'm not hunge Dad Have you had any coffee? Emma Yes, — Tdon't want any more, thanks. Dad Is Bill coming round tonight? EU Emma No, He's going out fo dimer with His family. We use short answers in English conversation because yes or no on its Dad OK; Ave-youleaving for achool ‘own can sound impolite, It helps if you can add some information. soon? Did you watch the match last night? Emma Yes, Pm going right Listen again and check, 4 Close your books. ‘ry to remember the conversation. Do you like cooking? No, I dont. But Ike eating! Have you got any brothers or sisters? Isit cold out today? ‘Are you working hard? Did you go out lastnight? Have you ever been to Singapore? DP Grammar Reference 1.4 p35 Reply to these questions using a short answer. Add some information. 5 Listen to the questions. Answer using a short answer, and add some information, 8 Unit + Itsa wonderful world!PRACTICE Conversations 1. Match a question in A with a short answer in B and a line in C. 7 1 Te you the studying English? No,thavent. | iS freeing. 2 sit anice day today? = Yes Lam. “A It’s my favourite subject. 3 Have you seen my pe? Yes do I could afford. 4 ve you staying etheme this evening? | no did Do you want to cone round? 5. Did you goon holiday lst summer? | novicant. | Youeanbortow mine you want Listen and check. Practise the conversations with a partner. 2 Read the class survey and add two questions of your own. Stand up! Ask three students the questions and complete the chart. Remember to add some information in your reply. OF Have you got a computer at home? Are you going out tonight? Do you play a musical instrument? Did you watch TV last night? Have you seen any good films lately? Are you going to have a coffee after the lesson? C00 Oo O0000000s ) @Naurune OOO0000CO0O £ OO Getting information 3. The United Nations invites celebrities from all over the world to be Goodwill Ambassadors. Work with a partner. You each have different information about Kaori Sato, who works for the UN. Ask and answer questions. Student A Look at p15 Student B Look at pls Unit] - Its a wonderful world! 9EADING AND SPEAKING Wonders of the modern world 1 Match each topic in A with two items in B. A B | International travel solar system airlines | Medical science competition online The Internet corn health care Agricuture drug abuse penici Space travel famine salaxies The Olympic Games | abroad website — ; 2. Read the text about the wonders of the world. Write a topic from A in the paragraph headings 1-6. r 3. Answer the questions. 1 What has changed because of the Internet? What will happen with the Internet? 2 What has happened in space exploration since 19692 | don’t believe that today’s wonders are similar in kind to the wonders of the Ancient World. They were 3. Whats the most noticeable result of all buildings, such as the Pyramids in Egypt, or other better health caret architectural structures. Over the past 100 years, 4. X= the number of people who we have seen amazing technological and scientific travelled abroad in the nineteenth achievements. These are surely our modern wonders. century. What does X also equal? What are the good and bad things about the Olympics? 1 eoeee eee iret end paicians? It} €¥erymhere. More than alfa bition people use it, and the number We are stil here!’ ‘Why is this a wondes? of people who are online increases by 100 million every year. In 1994 8 What dathidee trenierd eter to? there were only a few hundred web pages. Today there are billions. It has revolutionized the way we live and work. But we are still in the 100 million afew hundred 1969 early days. Soon there will be more and more interactivity between the [mimscfneople: af four a SU user and the website, and we will be able to give instructions using speech. [king about you 2 In 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped out of his space capsule onto the 4 In groups, discuss one of these questions. ian ae surface of the moon and made his famous statement: ‘That's one small 4 “Witte yor fevoorke wabstea? step fora man, one giant leap for mankind’. Since then, there have been ‘+ When did you last travel by plane? Where ‘space probes to Mars, Jupiter, Satum, and even to the sun. One day, a ere you going? space observatory will study how the fist stars and galaxies began, + Are there any stories about healthcare in the news atthe moment? ‘+ What sporting events are taking place now or in the near future? So far, it seems that we are alone in the universe. There are no signs, yet that there Is intelligent life outside our own solar system. But who knows what the future holds? 10 Unit? + It’s a wonderful world!3 Surely nothing has done more forthe comfort and happiness of the human race than the advances in health care] How many millions of people have benefited from the humble aspirin? How many lives has penicillin saved? ‘Average life expectancy worldwide has risen dramatically cover the past 100 years, from about 47 years in 1900 to about 77 years today. 4 We are a world on the move. Airlines cary more than 1.5, billion people to their destinations every year. Its estimated that, at any one time these days, there are as many people travelling in aeroplanes as the total number of people who travelled abroad in the whole of the nineteenth century (but | have no idea how they worked this out). 5 itis true that they are now commercialized, and there is greed and drug abuse. However, itis a competition in which almost every country in the world takes part. Every four years, fora brief moment, we see the world come together in peace and friendship. We feel hope again for the future of mankind. Ly rT rey 6 In 1724, Jonathan Swift wrote, ‘Whoever makes two blades of grass of two ears of corn grow where only one grew before serves mankind better than the whole race of politicians’. In Europe our farmers have done this. In 1709, ‘whole villages in France died of hunger. Now in Europe, we can’t eat all the food we produce. only politicians could find a way to shafe itwith those parts of the world where. iui there is famine. ge A i 7 We are still here!) Bp / The last wonder of the modem 9 world is simply that we are still heres We have had nuclear weapons fof cover 0 years that could destroy the world, but we haven't used them to do it. This is surely the greatest wonder ofallLISTENING AND SPEAKING VOCABULARY My wonders What's in a word? 1 Listen to three people from the same family These exercises will help you with your vocabulary saying what they think are the wonders of the modern learning, world. Complete the chart. Parts of speech and meaning 1. These sentences all contain the nonsense word uggy. 1s uggy used as a verb, an adjective, a noun, or an adverb? How do you know? 1 1 couldn’t hear the film because the man next to ‘me was eating his uggy so loudly. 2. There was a lot of snow on the road. Unfortunately, I uggied on some ice and crashed into a tree, 3 When Pierre and Madeleine met, they fell uggily in Jove and got married one month later. 4 After an uggy day at work, with meetings and phone calls all day, I was ready for a quiet evening. Can you guess what uggy means in the four sentences? Which real English word goes in each sentence? «+ passionately + skidded + hectic + popcorn What isthe | Whats good | Are there any | wonder? | about it? | problems? Spelling and pronunciation Sam | dishwasher | 2 In these groups three words rhyme, but one is | | different. Work with a partner and read them aloud. Inderline the word in each group which has a Kelly different vowel sound, | > P Phonetic symbols p159 ates; | 1 fol or Sus? good food wood stood 2 fil or /e? bread head read (present) read (past 3 /ei/ or /e? paid made played said 4 IN or fa07? done phone sun won 5 6 2. Work with a partner. Which of these inventions do you think is the most important? Mark them [1] for the ‘most important to [8] for the least important. feal of fio? dear hear bear near fail or 0: work fork walk pork Listen and check. What do you notice about the computer) nuclear weapons English spelling? : Othe car the space rocket 3. Here are some of the words from exercise 2 in p as eet es mobile ba phonetic symbols, Read them aloud, then write them. the aeroplane the space satel " spa 1 /fu:d¢ ___ 5 Irisd! 3. Work in groups of four. Work together to agree on the 2 /a/ 6 Iwak/ three most important inventions. Which has changed 3 istodl 7 ffean! the world the most dee sae 4 Talk together as a class. What other machines, inventions, or discoveries would you add to the list? es 12 Unit + It's a wonderful world!Word formation 4 Write different forms of the word act using the suffixes from the box. cor ion ing “ive ities 1 Mybrother’s an act__. He's making an advert now. 2. My grandmother is 89, but she's still very act___. 3 This isnot a time to do nothing. It isa time for act___. 4 Act____ isnot usually a well-paid job. 5 Wedo alot of act____ in class to learn English. Words that go together 5 Match a word in A with a word in B. strong carefully full-time coffee film in love drive a jumper fall star try on job Keeping vocabulary records 6 Do you have a vocabulary notebook? Discuss with your teacher and other students how you record new vocabulary. Which of these do you use? «the translation + the part of speech (verb, noun, etc) + the meaning (using other words) + the pronunciation + an example sentence hectic (adj) /hektik/ = very busy had a hectic day at the office. WRITING: Correcting mistakes (I) BP Goto p03 EVERYDAY ENGLISH Social expressions 1 When we're talking with friends we use a lot of idiomatic expressions, ‘Hang on a sec! T need to go the foo! ‘Match a line in A with a line in B. A 1 Sorry Im late. | got stuck in traffic. 2. Bye, Muml I'm off to school now. 3. Have you heard that Jenny's going cout with Pete? 4 How long did it take you to do the homework? 5. Idon't know about you, but I'm sick and tired of this weather, {6 Who was that | saw you with lastnight? 7m tired. im taking next week off 8 Lets gofora run inthe park! 9 Canwe get together this afternoon at 300? 10. What a gorgeous coat! Was it expensive? That sounds lke @ good idea The break will éo you good Soam | cant stand allthis rain, "Never mind. Youte here now. Come in and sit down, ‘Ages! How about you? Yes, it cost a fortune! Really? | don’t know what she sees in him! I'm sorry. can't make it then, What about a bit later? Take care, my love. Have a nice day! Me? Run? You must be joking! Mind your own business! GREED Listen and check. Practise the conversations with a partner. 2 Listen to the sentences. Reply using a line from B in exercise 1 Make any necessary changes. 3 Choose some of the conversations from exercise 1 and continue them. ‘A. What a gorgeous coat! Was it expensive? ‘Yes, it cost a fortune. But the material’s beautiful, don’t you think? Wow! Where did you get it? knows, it's called ‘Chic: B A B [saw it in the window of that new shop in the High Street, you A Yes, I know it. They have some really nice stuff, Unit 1 + Its a wonderful world! 13