4 Growing up

In this unit you can

talk about permission and obligation describe feelings
talk about plans and decisions give thanks, apologise and respond

1 Read and listen

a Look at the pictures in the
quiz and discuss age limits in
Switzerland. What are they? How old do you
have to be?
What do you think of them?
b Read and do the quiz.
Then discuss your answers.

Are you counting the days until you come of age

and you can call yourself an adult? OK, so you’re
pretty normal. But did you know that age limits
vary in different countries? Try our quiz and you
might be surprised at some of the facts!

In Britain
1 You can drive a car from the age of:
a 16 b 17 c 18

2 You can get married whe you are:

n
a 16 b 17 c 18

3 You can’t vote until you are:

a 16 b 18 c 21

In the USA
from the age of ...,
4 In most American states you can vote
but you don’t have to.
a 16 b 17 c 18
e a car when you’re:
5 In most American states you can driv
a 16 b 17 c 18
the age of:
6 In New York you can get married from
a 16 b 17 c 18

Around the world

7 In Brazil you can vote when you are:
a 21 b 18 c 16
get married when they are:
8 In Japan girls can
a 16 b 17 c 18
get married when they are:
9 Japanese boys can
c CD1 T28 Listen to Adam and a 16 b 17 c 18
Chloe doing their homework have to vote in every election when
10 In Australia you
and check your answers. you reach the age of:
a 16 b 18 c 21
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2 Focus on language
Permission and obligation Modal verbs
a Read the examples and answer the questions. Which modal verb means that ...
In Britain you can drive a car when you’re 17. 1 something is an obligation?
You can’t vote until you’re 18. 2 you can choose to do something
In Australia you have to vote when you’re over 18. or not?
In Britain we don’t have to vote. 3 it is very important not to do
something?
I mustn’t be long! I’ve got a match at six.
4 something is permitted?
Pronunciation: can/can’t 5 something isn’t permitted?
Grammar reference pages 82–84
b CD1 T29 Listen and repeat the dialogue.
Is the pronunciation of can and can’t
weak or strong in each sentence?

I can stay out later than you! No, you can’t!

Yes, I can! No, you can’t! Can you see?
You can’t stay out later than me!

c Order the stages of life from the youngest to the oldest.

Then talk about the different ages using the modal verbs.

a teenager a baby a young adult a child elderly a toddler middle-aged

A baby has to do everything that When you’re elderly, LB pages 32–33 and 36
his or her parents want. you don’t have to work. WB pages 29–30

Vocabulary bank page 95

3 Listen and speak

a Look at the signs. Where might you see them? It means that you mustn’t use
your mobile phone.
What do they mean?
A B C D

b CD1 T30 Listen and match the dialogues with the signs. Check your ideas.

c Communication in mind Work in groups. Turn to page 68 and play the game.

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 4 Read and speak
a What are the people in the picture doing? Why? Scan the article and check.

WHEN
The ideal jump is for the diver to
25 land with his shoulders brushing
the ground. Everyone in the village

BOYS watches the dives and the mothers

hold a favourite childhood object

BECOME
belonging to their sons. After each
30 boy completes the dive, his mother
throws the object away to show that

MEN
When does a teenager become an 35
the boy is now a man.
According to a legend, a man called
Tamalie treated his wife very badly
and she decided to run away. She
adult? In many countries it happens was terrified of him, so she climbed
automatically on your eighteenth a tall tree to hide, but he saw her and
birthday. However, in some countries climbed up after her. Tamalie’s wife
5 around the world, there are ancient tied lianas around her ankles. At the
rites of passage that teenagers have 40 moment that he reached her, she
to complete before they become jumped from the tree. She survived
adults. One such ritual still exists on because of the lianas. Tamalie
Pentecost Island, Vanuatu, where jumped after her without any lianas,
10 boys have to do a terrifying jump to hit the ground and died. The men of
demonstrate that they are men. 45 the tribe started the land diving ritual
Pentecost is a small island in the to show the women that they could
South Pacific, and every year in survive the terrifying jump too.
April and May, there’s an important People in the West first found
15 ceremony there. It’s called Nanggol, out about Nanggol in an article in
or land diving. In the land diving 50 the National Geographic magazine
Papua New Guinea
ritual, teenage boys jump off in 1955. However, it took nearly
wooden towers, which are 20 to 30 25 years before a small group of
Pentecost
Island metres high, with two tree vines people from a sports club in England,
Pacific Ocean
Vanuatu 20 (or lianas) around their ankles. inspired by the Nanggol divers,
They make their dives without any 55 jumped from a bridge with ropes
Australia safety equipment and can reach tied around their ankles and bungee
speeds of up to 70 km/h. jumping was born.

b Read the article again. Decide whether these sentences are true, false, or the text
doesn’t say.
1 Boys from Pentecost Island have to take part in a special ceremony when they are 18.
2 In the land diving ritual, men and women dive 20 to 30 metres off a wooden tower.
3 Before they dive, they sing songs on the platform at the top of the tower.
4 When a boy dives from the tower, he mustn’t touch the ground.
5 The ritual started after a woman jumped out of a tree with lianas around her ankles.
6 The first bungee jumpers got the idea from the Nanggol land divers of Pentecost Island.

c Is Nanggol more dangerous than bungee jumping? Why? Do you know any other
ceremonies like this?

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5 Focus on language
Describing feelings
a Read the examples. Which adjective describes how a person feels?
Which adjective describes the cause of the feeling?
Tamalie was terrifying. Tamalie’s wife was terrified of him.

b CD1 T31 Listen. How do the people feel? Why?

annoyed excited exhausted surprised terrified worried

annoying exciting exhausting surprising terrifying worrying

She’s annoyed with her sister. Her sister is annoying.

c Make true sentences about you using the adjectives in the box. LB page 34 WB page 31

6 Listen and speak

a CD1 T32 Listen to Jake talking to his grandmother about an international volunteer
programme. Take notes to complete his application form.

TeenPlanetOrg Summer Volunteer Programme

Name: Jake Shackleton Age: 1 …

Destination: 2 … When / start: 3 …

Means of transport: 4 … and 5 …

How long / stay: 6 … Volunteer work: 7 …

b Do you do any volunteer work? What do you do? PER Niveau 2 Discovery: had better

Would you like to work as a volunteer? Where? Why? LB page 38 WB page 32

7 Focus on language
Plans and decisions
will and going to
a Find the verb forms in the examples 1 We use … to talk about predictions.
and complete the rules. 2 We use … to make offers.
We’re going to fly to Beijing. 3 We use … to talk about plans and intentions.
I’ll check on the website. 4 We use … to talk about decisions that
It won’t be very comfortable. we make at the moment of speaking.
I’ll give you some money to buy a pair. 5 We use … to make promises.
I’ll send you a postcard. Grammar reference page 74

b Read the situation then act out a dialogue using will and going to.
You’re very excited. Your flight to New York leaves in two hours. It’s your first time on a plane.
Call a friend on your mobile from the airport. LB pages 37–38 WB pages 31–32

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 Team Spirit
8 Speak and listen
a CD1 T33 Look at the photostory. What do you think Pete and Joel are saying in
the pictures? Brainstorm words and phrases. Then listen and compare your ideas.

1
All over the place
2

Pete makes a suggestion.

Pete and Joel are revising for a test.

4 5

Joel is grateful to Pete.

Joel is looking for something. Pete doesn’t believe it.

b Complete the sentences about the story.

1 Joel is worried because ... 4 Pete thinks Joel’s room ...
2 Pete suggests to Joel that ... 5 Pete doesn’t believe ...
3 Joel is grateful because ...

c CD1 T33 Listen again and complete the expressions. Who says them?
1 2 3
There’s no point ... I’m just ... There’s nothing wrong ...

4 5
Why don’t ... ? But I think ...

6 7 8
Anything else ...? Your things are all ... I know ...

30 UNIT 4
9 Everyday English
a Read the situations. In which ones would you give thanks? In which
ones would you apologise? Think about what to say in each situation.
A B
C
You are walking down a busy
One of your friends ph
street and you bump into ones You are a member
you to invite you to a co
someone by mistake. ncert of a tennis club and there
at the weekend.
is a match tomorrow.
D You aren’t feeling well
F
One of your classmates offers to lend and you can’t play.
you his English notes for you to copy. You are at a Tourist Phone the club
Information Centre. secretary.
E
You asked for help finding
As you walk into your classroom, you
swing your school bag off your shoulder your way to the Wax Museum
and it hits one of your classmates. and the woman has been
extremely helpful.

b CD1 T34 Listen and match the exchanges with the situations.

c CD1 T35 Listen and repeat. Then respond with the expressions in the box.

Don’t worry! It doesn’t matter. Never mind. No problem.

That’s OK. You’re welcome. It was a pleasure.

d Act out the scenes with a partner. WB page 32

10 Improvisation
Work with a partner. Prepare and act out a role play.

Roles: Joel and Pete

Place: At school
Situation: It’s a few days later. Pete and Joel have done the Maths test.

11 DVD Episode 2
a Look at the picture and guess. How does Joel feel? Why?
Watch the beginning of Episode 2 and check your ideas.
b Copy the table below and make notes as you watch
Episode 2. Then talk about the people and their feelings.

People How they feel Why

Joel’s mum angry Joel is untidy

DVD-ROM Exercises Units 3–4 Video

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 Units 3–4 Round up
1 Song
a CD1 T36 Listen to the song.
Then discuss in groups.
1 Have you ever heard this song before?
2 What genre of music is it?
3 How does it make you feel?

b CD1 T36 Listen again. Which of the

Jimmy Cliff
words and phrases are in the song?
Use them to note down phrases from
the song lyrics.

beautiful better die everybody Wonderful

World
fight free hating I am sure
I know live love maybe nobody
pretty secret today tomorrow
truth ugly worse

c CD1 T36 Work in groups to write d Discuss.

the song lyrics. Then listen again and 1 What is the singer worried about?
check your answers. 2 What kind of ‘better way’ does he want
for the world?

2 Speak
a Make notes about the changes that there will be next year.
Think about the topics in the box.

family free time friends home possessions school and studies

family – my sister is going to study in Lausanne

– my mum wants to find a new job
b Talk about next year. When you find someone who shares one of your ideas,
add their name to your notes.
Is anything exciting going to
happen in your family next year?

My sister is going to get married and

maybe my mum will get a new job.

c Report your findings to the class.

My sister and Luc’s brother are
both going to get married.

32 UNITS 3–4 ROUND UP

 Participants
Show title
• two – same age
This is my country! and gender
Setting • live in different
untries countries
on location in two co

Show s
ts sw ap ho m es an d lives for three month
• participan ols, etc.
th em w ith th ei r ne w friends, families, scho
• film
uages and cultures
• funny – different lang es
io na l – le ar n ab ou t life in different countri
• educat

3 Project
a Work in groups. Make a list of TV reality shows in the categories below.
Which ones do you like watching? Why?
• shows about people living or working with different people
• reality competitions and game shows
• shows filmed in dangerous situations
• shows which change something in people’s lives (appearance, car, house, etc.)

b Your group is going to plan a new reality TV show. Discuss and take notes.
• Is it going to be funny, serious or educational?
• Where is it going to take place: in a studio or on location?
• Who are the participants going to be?
• What is going to happen in each programme?
• Is it going to be a competition? Who is going to choose the winner?
• Why are people going to want to watch the show?

c Present your shows to the class. Take notes about the other shows.
d Discuss the things you like and dislike about each show. Decide which one
you think will be the most successful and why.

Self assessment Check your progress WB pages 36–39

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