mu, VOCABULARY places and buildings a Complete these famous tourist sights in the UK and the USA with a word from the list Bridge Castle Gallery Park Square Street 1 The Brooklyn connects Manhattan and Brooklyn, 2 Downing is where the British Prime Minister lives. 3 Windsor is the Royal Family's weekend home and the largest inhabited castle in the world, 4 Central is a green space in the middle of New York. 5 The National is London's most famous art museum. 6 Times is the centre of New York's theatre district. b Listen and check. ¢ @p.164 Vocabulary Bank Places and buildings GRAMMAR superlative adjectives a Look at the photos. What countries do you think they are in? b With a partner, complete 1-6 with a phrase from the lis. The biggest The busiest The most dangerous The longest The oldest The tallest station in the world is Grand Central Terminal. shopping street in Europe is Oxford Street. in the worldto cross the road is Ho Chi Minh City. What's the oldest building in your tovn? c Listen and check your answers to aand b. d_ Complete the chart with the correct form. ‘Adjective | Comparative old older taller the tallest long the longest big bigger busier the busiest dangerous _| more dangerous How are superlative adjectives different in form from comparative adjectives? 142 Grammar Bank 10A fo 9 Listen and write six superlative questions. h In groups, ask and answer the questions in g. Choose from the cities below. Atlanta Brussels Milan New York La Paz Tokyo bridge in Europe is ‘the Ponte Fabricio. ‘cathedral in the “| world is Ulm Minster.3 PRONUNCIATION & SPEAKING — Read the article again, Complete the paragraphs with consonant groups sentences A-E. A All you need to do is smile and wave to them. PD Consonant groups B The only thing that saved me was a student who shouted, Two or three consonants together can ‘Don't stop, keep walking!” be difficult to pronounce, e.g. fastest, C So if you really can’t cross the road, you can get a taxi to take most dangerous. you to the ather side. D When | heard this | thought, ‘Maybe it’s better to just stay in my hotel and read! E The second time | chose a woman selling vegetables with baskets full of sweet potatoes, and again | survived a @10.6 Listen and repeat. ‘beautiful the most beautiful the most beautiful square What's the most beautiful square? f © Cover the article. Can you remember seven words for vehicles? Work in groups and answer the questions. b @10.7 Now listen and repeat the same 1 What's the most popular form of transport in your town or city? pattern with 1-4. 2 In what part of town and at what time of day isthe traffic the worst? 1 eld foulding) 2 How do you normaly get around? lating brace) 10 cars always stop at zebra crossings i, eed agstic vest) 5 Are there any streets that are really dificult to cross? 4 aie (laed 6 Is there any town or city you visited where you had problems crossing the road, or where you found the traffic realy frightening? © @Communication I'm a tourist. Help! Ap.l07 B p.112 Role-play being atourst. 5 WRITING Imagine you want to advertise your town or city for tourists. Write 4 READING ‘an advert using superlative adjectives. Add photos if you can. a Read the article. Which suggestion do Come to Kilea, ofthe ne boaucial you think is the most useful? Poland, but it has the cleanest air and the most delicious cheesecake The most dangerous place in the world to cross the road I you want to cross the road in Keep walking. The receptionist at my hotel Cross ina group. | met some American most countries, you wait for a gap told me, ‘When it fels right, walk into the _ students who were happy to walk across inthe traffic, and then you cross, ‘2d. The most important thing to remember the street with me. But this time when is to keep walking. Don't stop. Don't run. I saw a car coming straight at me, | But not in Ho Chi Minh City, where there's never a gap in the trafic. Apart from the cars, lorries, bikes, Don't look left o right. And don't walkin front stopped and put up my arm (lke a traffic of a bus, because they can't stop easily policeman). This was a big mistake. and buses, there ae milions of Tyre ing, and tists te stet way for poltemenin geen unforms; a th tmotorbikes and scooters, whlch Feehmes, ood fra middle-aged lal obs toe fnghened tour o cose ere the most popular form man and | crossed the road with him. | made the road. transport in Vietnam. Crossing sure that he was between me and the trafic, the road is an adventure, and and | prayed as | walked next to him. ‘many tourists find it impossible, And | got tothe other side! So what can you do? ‘Take a taxi For one or two dollars they take you anywhere you want to go.Places and buildings NOGREUEARY BANK a Match the words and photos. a chemist’s kemt (or pharmacy ) a church a department store 2 hospital a market a park 2 police station a postoffice shopping centre a supermarket /su:pomarki ‘own hall an art gallery acastle a theatre a bridge a road ‘roud a square astreet a bus station a car park a railway station 7 D Other places of worship (= religious buildings) a cathedral a mosque a synagogue atemple b @10.2 Listen and check. © Cover the words and look at the photos. Test yourself or a partner. ACTIVATION Ask and answer about places with a partner. is there a rear where you live / near this school? Opze1 0 GRAMMAR BANK 410A superlative adjectives Is the oldest bridge in the world. 10.4 (adjacive) "|| Eemiparative| | superative’ Speling 1s the most popular shopping cold colder thecoldest_one-sllabe adjectives: + st ‘street in Europe. high higher ‘the highest She's the best student in the cass bi thebiggest _jectives ending one vowel + one Monel a iaors oof eo i |e ee ee, + We use the + superlative adjective tosay dry dior the driest ‘one or two-alable adjectives whichis the (biggest, etc) in a group. funny sunnier the sunniost_——_ ending consonant + y+ est ce ete eae (nt bored more bored the most bored one-ayllable ajectives ending -et places, e.g. the longest roadin the world, stressed morestressed the most stressed the most + adjective. the tallest building in New York dangerous more the most ‘wo: or more alable dangerous dangerous ——_ adjectives the moat + acjective geod better the bost ‘regular bad the worst for the furthest 10B be going to (plans), future time expressions I'm going to have a holiday 109 next month fall form contraction ’m not going to study English ‘Are you going to fly to Paris? am tm neue hak have a holiday next summer + We use be going to + verb infinitive) to. He/She itis He/She/i's going to : talk about future plans. Weare We're study English tonight. + We often use future time expressions They are Theyre with going to, eg. tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, ete. a full form contraction Lam not maot Sera ioreeny have a holiday next summer. He/She /Itisnot_ He/She /IRisn't going to an ees study Engh tonight. They are not ‘They aren't a B Am! tam. tmnot. have a hl Are you eee | ieee you aren't Ishe/she /it_ going to Yes, he/she itis. No, he/she /itisn’t ‘Arewe 20N9'? study Enoish weare. we aren't Are they bea they are. they aren't 40€ be going to (predictions) eee es eee ee eee reacts tosay wat you tink orca ses ee eerie ati I think its going to rain. 10.20 You're going to be very happy. 1m ure they're going to win 14210A a Write the opposite. b Complete the sentences with a superlative adjective. the smallest the biggest. ‘The tigers are the most dangerous_animals in the zoo. (dangerous) 1 the coldest 1 Ourhouse is house in the street. (big) 2 the most expensive 2 For me, Saturday is, day of the week. (good) 3 the best 3. My bedroom is room in our house. (smal) 4 the most difficult 4 Sithere—it's chair in the room. (comfortable) 5 the driest 5. My neighbours upstairs are people in the world. (noisy) 6 the shortest 6 My bossis| person | know. (stressed) 7 the nearest 7 Sophie is student in our English class. (young) 8 the cleanest 8 building in my town is the castle. (beautifull Op7s 10B a Complete the sentences with the correct form of be going to and the verb in brackets. 1 2 She doesn't have a car. She's going to go by train. (go) We need a holiday. We b Complete the sentences with be going to + a verb. not buy call not come get have live sleep watch a hotel near the beach. (book) Tomorrow is Saturday. | in bed until 10.00! (tay) My sister medicine. She wants to be a doctor. (study) Laura and David married soon. (get) Jack's office is very busy at the moment. He late tonight. (work) Myson ‘to university — he wants to get a job. (not go) We ‘any museums, because the children think they're boring. (not visit) \'m at a friend's house. I’m going to sleep on her sofa, Ineed to talk to my mum. | her tonight. 2 What we for dinner this evening? 3. My mother isn't feeling very well, so she to the concert with us. 4 There's a lot of snow! How you to work? 5 They love their old car. They 6 The Force Awakens is on TV tonight. you ie Orso 10C a Wr rite predictions for the pictures. ‘Complete the predict ins with be going to and a verb. be get have make play send notpass sleep snow win dinner. anice day. the bus. ‘an omelette. an email be buy notfinish forget have (x2) not like It's very cold, Do you think it's going to snow ? You're driving very fast! We {an accident! She isn’t a very good student. She the exam. ‘Their new album is great! A lot of people iw have a lot of homework. it tonight. They're playing very well. | think they the match Look at the time. We Oh no, it's a horror film. I'm sure | He didn’t write down her address. He ‘The baby's very tired. She Venice is a wonderful city. You 2 great time there, late. it it well tonight. OrasK The most dangerous place. om2 GRAMMAR supeiatne aecsves Bristol, UK 2 PRONUNCIATION consonant groups