3A

Complete rules 1-6 with a, the, or (=no article). find an example a of each rule in the article.

Article (1)

Use__the_______ when there’s only one, or when it’s clear exactly which one it is
use____a__ the first time something is mentioned
also use____a__ to mean “one example of”
use ___-______ for countable our uncountable nouns in general
use___the_____+ superlative adjectives
Usually names of people and places use__-_however, a few places/names always
need___the__e.g., newspapers, states.

Examples:
1. The U.S. presidential election
2. A poster
3. A white male
4. In newspapers
5. The most successful
6. The New York subway

LISTENING

 Listen to part 1 of a conversation. How do Ricardo and

Susan know each other
Linus is a swiss foreign exange student and susannah is hosting him

 Listen to part 2 and look at the photo. How does Ricardo

look different from this now/ when he’s at work?
Now: piercing, jewelry curly hair boots
Work: long sleeves, formal shoes, shaved head, suit and tie
  In pairs, complete the chart with as much as you can remember. Then listen again
to check. Do you know anyone like Ricardo?

Name Ricardo Garcia

Not given specifically

but could be taking
From Cali, Colombia hobbies
photos

Father’s job Works as a lawyer Clothes at work Suit and ties, long
sleeves, watch

Doctor, works in local Boots, leather, watch,

Mother’s job hospital whith the Clothes is free time eyebrow piercing
elderly

Ricardo’s job accountant Current location Chicago

Remember?

The difference between remind and remember:

you remember something. Something reminds you of the past.
3B
MAN- FU
Speaking
What do you do when you have a cold or the flu? Go to word bank 11, p. 70.

I go to bed as soon as I feel it coming on, to stop it from

getting worse

Word bank 10

CARS AND DRIVING

1. - math the words to numbers 1-14. Listen and cheek

1. Tires 8. Parking brake

2. Handicapped parking space 9. Steering wheel
3. Sidewalk 10. Gears/ gearshift
4. One- way street 11. Tum signal
5. Clutch 12. GPS
6. Accelerator 13. Trunk
7. Brake 14. Engine
 Word bank 11
ILLNESSES

1.- listen and number the verbs 1-3

Cough sneeze sniff

1. Sniff
2. Cough
3. sneeze

2.- listen to the story. Then math the words to pictures 1-11.

10.- Admit someone (to the hospital)

4.- A cold
2.- Feel stiff
5.- A fever
8.- The flu
7.- A headache
6.- A high temperature
1.- A hypochondriac
9.- A nurse
11.- A patient
3.- Sore throat
LISTENING

Listen to four short conversations between Kevin and Fran. Answer the questions.
1.- what symptoms does Kevin have?
 Sniffing, sore throat, temperature

2.- is Fran sympathetic in all of the conversations

 Not in conversation 1, but she gets progressively more concerned

3.- which other people do they talk about

 Doctor, boss

READING

In pairs, quickly read paragraph 1 of the article, read paragraph, share what you
remember, do you think the article will be scientific/ informative, or funny?
3.- a.- they seek conflict where women try to create harmony.
5.- b.- the situation isn’t helped by the male enthusiasm for red meat and fried food
1.- c.- what’s more important: watching soccer or cleaning the bathroom floor?

6.- d.- men, by contrast, often avoid seeking professional medical advice ‘until the last minute,
which is not to be advised

4.- e.- surely, we’re not just victims of biology, forced to play out a script that has already been
written?
2.- f.- men have more of the former and women more of the latter
3C
THE ART OF THE STREET

Speaking
When was the last time you complained to someone about something?
Go to word bank 12, p.71

Word bank 12 WORD+ PREPOSITION

1.- listen and circle the adjective in pictures 1-6.

1.- complain - special - worried - about

2.- grateful - ready - responsible - for
3.- allergic - desperate – married - to
4.- based - hooked – right - on
5.- available – interested - involved - in
6.- full – jealous - terrified - of

2.- Match pictures 7-11 to a collocation. Listen and check

7.- suffer from / member of
8.- list of / invite to
9.- expert in/ specialize
10.- dream of / advice for
11.- brother with

Word bank 13
THE FACE AND APPEARANCE
1.- match the words with pictures 1-5. Then listen and check

4.- contact lens(es) 1.- stubble

5.- gray hair 2.- a tattoo
3.- sidebums

2.- Match features 1-11 with these words. Then listen and check
1.- pierced ears
2.- a beard
3.- a piercing
4.- dyed hair
5.- eyebrows
6.- eyelashes
7.- a part
8.- a mustache
9.- a scar
10.- wig
11.- bangs

3D

CHANGING TIMES

LISTENING
1.- listen to three conversation about photos a-c. do the speakers like or dislike the photos

1.- dan 😊 ☹ lucy 😊 ☹

2.- chris 😊 ☹ Julie 😊 ☹

3.- Tim 😊 ☹ Charlie 😊 ☹

2.- which of the six people can you identify in the photos. Listen again and check. Do you
have any similarly embarrassing photos of your own?

My Passport photo makes me look about

50!
 - Picture a: dad, dan and lucy

- Picture b: saxophone Tim

- Picture c: yellow polo shirt = chris, purple

- Pants = Julie, plaind shirt = luke, no.80

- Jersey= rick

3E
GADGET MANIA?

Speaking
In fours, describe all the inventions on this page in as much detail as your cam. Guess what
they’re used for. Go to word bank 14, p.72.
Remember

Three phrases for describing objects:

It’s used for- ing. It looks like
It looks like o cone
It mign be…
It looks on ice- cream cone

Word bank 14
Describing objects

1.- mach the materials with photos 1-9. Then think of another objects made of the same
material.

Pajamas and scarf-both can be

site
8.- Aluminum
7.- Cardboard
3.- Cotton
1.- Leather
9.- Plastic
4.- Rubber
6.- Silk
2.- steel
5.- wool

2.- in pairs, name something that you a) own and b) use a lot each material.
Dull hard heavy light
Rough shart smooth soft

10.- dull, sharp

11.- soft, hard
12.- light, heavy
13.- rough, smooth

Word bank 15
DESCRIBING PICTURES
1.- match the phrases with positions 1-9 on the photo. Then listen and check.
1.- At the top
4.- At the bottom
9.- In the front
5.- In the bottom left-hand comer
2.- In the upper right-hand comer
7.- In the background
8.- In the middle
6.- On the left
3.- On the right

3F

ARTIST AT
WORK

1.- In pairs, do you want to change any of your answers now? Listen to part 2 of the
podcast and check.
1.- f 5.- f
2.- f 6.- f
3.- t 7.- t
4.- f
2.- match the words in the box with their past simple/ past participles in audio script
3.21 and 3.22 on p.109.

1.- beat; beat; beat 5.- hang; hung; hung

2.- choose; chose; chosen 6.- seek; sought; sought
3.- draw; drew; drawn 7.- spread; spread; spread
4.- feed; fed; fed 8.- teach, taught; taught

3.- complete the chart with the verb from exercise 5.

1.- bet, bet, bet _____beat_____ _____spread____
2.- buy, bought, bought ____teach ____ _____seek____
3.- know, knew, known ____draw_____
4.- read. Read, read ____feed_____
5.- sting, stung, stung ___hang______
6.- freeze, froze, frozen ____choose____

4.- think of four more irregular verbs that you could add to 1-6 in the grammar box.
1.- set 4.- lead
2.- think 5.- stick
3.- grew 6.- speak
REVIEW
1.- look at p.70. find words that rhyme whith these. Listen and check. Do any of the
rhymes or spellings surprise you?

1.- Believer / fever 6.- Off/ cough

2.- Do/ flu 7.- Please/ sneeze
3.- More/ sore 8.- rolled / cold
4.- Literature/ temperature 9 vacant/ patient
5.- Note/ throat 10.- Worse/ nurse
 2.- in pairs, read five folk cures. Do you believe they all works? Listen and check.

1.- t
2.- t
3.- t
4.- f
5.- t

3.- Circle the odd one out. Why is it different?

1.- crew police society team
2.- coin expenses fee jewelery
3.- beak forehead nails skin
4.- hilarious forehead nasty scary
5.- average fraction percentage serving
6.- dishwasher gimmick radio monitor
7.- attractive convenient excessive handy

4A
LIVE: TONIGHT
SPEAKING
1.- in threes, do the web survey. Then go to word blank 16, p. 73

Word bank 16 GOING TO A SHOW?

1.- Match the words to the web page, 1-6. Listen and check.
6. - Encore 5.- Playlist
1.- Show 3.-Opening acts
2.- Headlining 4.- Venue

Word bank 17
U.S. AND U.K. ENGLISH
1.- match the words and pictures. Listen and check which can have you heard/ used more often?
Listen and check. Know any others? Add there in the margin.

7.- Cook whith some eggplant aubergine

3.- Go back to school in the fall autumn
10.- Bake some cookies biscuits
1.- By some aspirin at the drugstore chemist’s
11.- Get some money oust at the zucchini courgettes
2.- Take the elevator sift
8.- Call someone on your cell phone mobile( phone)
5.- Change some (dollar) bills (pound) notes
6.- Walk on the sidewalk pavement
9.- Put on a band- aid plaster
10.- Wait in / wait in a line queue
14.- Turn on the faucet tap
4.- Go to work on the subway underground

LISTENING
1.- listen to phil, sandra, and judy describe the first show they ever went to. Complete the
chart

Phil Sandra Judy

Nirvana Cousin’s band Coldplay
Who/ see? brother Friend Luis friends
 Who? Go with? Amazing no Yes

Very few people The sound was

Any good? Why Awesome atmosphere better live than on
(not)? Were there the CD

TIP

2.- Circle the rule. In pairs, practice saying the sentences in exercise 6.
Use falling / rising intonations to give good news and falling/ rising for bad news.

4B
HOW TECHNOLOGY CAN CHANGE YOU LIFE

1.- find seven British English words I the Fortum. Go to word bank 17, p.73
1.- autumn: fall 5.- biscuits: cookies
2.- films: movies 6.- auberge: eggplant
3.- garden: yard 7.- courgettis: zucchini
4.- lift: elevator

2.- listen to two friends, jomg kyu and Hannah, talking about a computer game.
- Jong- kyu’s been playing musical instruments
for a long time
Not given
- he only had one game when he got his game
system
false
- he’s one of the best guitar hero players in the
world
Not given
- the other people in his band live in another country
true
- Hannah also spends a lot of time from off she computer
Not given (she used to spend a lot of time front of the computer, but it doesn’t say she still
does)

3.- Which phrases in the grammar box cam you use with?
a. C nous? ______________A large number of; a few, serval
b. U nous? _______________ a bit of; a little
c. Both C and U nous? _______plenty of; loads of; hardly any

4c
ANY VOULNTEERS?
Speaking

1.- what are volunteers a-c doing? Which would you prefer to do? Word bank 18. P. 74

Word bank 18
 CHARITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
1.- listen and match the eords and pictures 1-6.

1.- To cut down trees 3.- minerais

4.- a hunter 6.- to rescue
2.- a mine 5.- to shoot

2.- listen and match the words and pictures

11.- In captivity/ in the wild 8.- To raise awareness

9.- In danger of extinction 7.- To reducate
12.- To do fundraising
10.- Habitat

Word bank 19
INTERNET SERVICES
1.- match the words and pictures. Listen and check. Which have/ haven’t you used?

1.- An etailer 7.- a social networking sites

4.- an online auction site 8.- a video sharing website
5.- an online encyclopedia 9.- a virtual world
6.- a search engine 3.- voice over Ip

LISTENING
1.- listen and match part 1 of an interview to the correct photo, A-C on p.50. In pairs, what do
remember about James ‘job and his family? Did he enjoy volunteering?
Photo a

2.- guess if 1-7 are true ( t ) or false(f). listen to part 2

- James mostly taught teenagers. ___F___
- Before arriving, James knew that the schools didn’t have many resources ___T___
- there are many dangerous animals in Botswana ___T___
- he took the snake out of the classroom ___F___
- His house was quite comfortable ___F__
- He tries to get money for African schools ___T___
- He thinks Botswana has a very similar culture to the U.S. ___F____

4D
REALITY TV RUINED MY LIFE!
Speaking
1.- in there, match four program types to photos A-d, have you ever been hooked on a tv
show? Any you hate? Tell the class one interesting you learned about each other
 A cartoon
a talk shows
a documentary
A drama the news
a reality shows
A game show
a sitcom
a soap opera

a) A soap opera c) Cartoon

b) Drama d) Reality show

LISTENING
1.- Listen to four people, In pairs, match each spekers to his/ her favorite TV show from
exercise 1. What else did you understand about each one?
Heinz__________ C
Natalie_________ A
Bethany________ D
Alberto_________ B
2.- Complete what ecah person said. Check your answers in 4.14 on page 110. Noticie the
schwa /a/.
1.- if I hand’t been a simpsons fan, I wouldn’t be a cartoonist today
2.- if I had been born in australia, I love to live somewhere like that
3.- if I’d applled for the show, I could be on TV now too, living in paradise
4.- in I’d never watched mad men, I wouldn’t be getting married now

4E
MY AVATAR AND ME
1. Read and completed the interview wich five of the questions from exercise.

A____5 C____6
B____1 D____2
 E____3

LISTENING

1.- Listen to four second lifers describing their avatar for a survey. Mach each speaker (1-4) to
his/her avatar(A-D)
1_____d 3_____a
2_____b 4_____c

2.- match the phrases to the speakers 1-4. Listen again to check. Who was the easiest to
understand?
a) most of my friends have avatars that are just as ridiculous as this? 4
b) using the virtual world isn’t quite as easy as l’d expected. 3
c) he’s slightly better looking than 4 a.m. 2
d) it’s far more exciting than real life 1
 4F
THE INTERNET GENERATION

Word bank 5
ADJECTIVE SUFFIXES

1.- circle the adjectives in pictures 1-9. Listen and check

- addictive, imaginative, repetitive - greensish, helish, selfish

- endiess, hopeless, useless - environmental, optional, professional
- be… careful, newsworthy, trustworthy - edible, flexible, invisible

2.- match the adjectives with pictures 10-17. Listen and check
17.- Adaptable 16.- effective 14.- incomprehensible 13.- resourceful
10.- Talkative 11.- generous 12.- initial 15.- snobbish
3.- before, listening to the rest the interview, guess how these sentences end. Listen and
check

1.- children are very resourceful at_______ getting what they want
2.- like most teenagers, he spends most of his time______ on sites like Facebook, sending
messages or chatting to his friends.
3.- some people say modem children cannot communicate because______ because they use
computers so much
4.- I think teenagers today are better________ informed than ever because they get so much
information from the internet
5.- we shouldn0t be snobbish about online_________ sources and pretend that books are so
perfect
6.- we shouldn’t be snobbish about online__________ almost everything we read or hear
 REVIEW

1.-LISTEN TO FOUR DIALOGS AND CIRCLE A OR B.

- The woman didn’t enjoy the party because

a) She didn’t know anybody the party because

b) There were only a few people there

- The woman complains about her phone because

a) It has a large number of complicated functions
b) The design is too modern and trendy

- The problem with the cookies is that they

a) Are too sweet.
b) Contain too much said

- Ricky
a) Is goin out with a girl he met online
b) Isn’t going out whit anyone at he moment

2.- LISTEN AGAIN AND COMPLETE SENTENCES.

1.- we were in this hunge club with______ just half a dozen of us talking
2.- give it to me, I know ___________ all about this sort of thing
3.- yeah, they’re ready! Do you _______ want to try one
4.- give it a little time and __________ you’ll meet someone else

3.- LOOK AT 4.28 ON P.110. FIND FOUR WORDS THAT HAVE BEEN CHANGED
FROM U.S. TO U.K. ENGLISH

Elevator / lift
Cell(phone) / mobile
Cookies / biscuits
Line/ queue
4.- IN PAIRS, READ THE SENTENCES AND COMPLETE THE MIXED
CONDITIONAL.

1.- we were late getting to the airport, and they’ve bumped us off our flight!
If we’d arrived a little Carlie, we’d be sitting on the plane by now
2.- I’ve eaten eight courses, and I don’t fell well at all now. If
I hadn’t eaten so much, I would feel ok now
3.- I met Jimena when I was in Colombia, and now we’re engaged. If
I hadn’t been to Colombia, I wouldn’t be engaged now
4.- I broker my leg, in a skiing accident, and I have to stay hospital for three weeks. If
I hadn’t broken my leg, I wouldn’t be in hospital now
5.- I saw the job in the newspaper last week, and now I have an interview. If
I hasn’t seen the help wanted ad, I wouldn’t have an interview
6.- we’re at the hotel, but there are no vacancies, so we can’t stay here. If
We had made a reservation, we would have a room now