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CONTENT VOCABULARY / READING WRITING GRAMMAR THEME • skimming: reading the • writing a topic • adjectives describe topic sentence of a sentence Unit 1 people paragraph Celebrities • comparatives • comparing famous people p. 3 - 14 Unit 2 • types of parties • scanning - looking • writing an invitation and celebrations for dates and times Parties and Celebrations • things at a party • talking about the last party you went to p. 15 - 28 Unit 3 • types of movies • identifying supporting • writing a film review Movies And Music • types of music ideas • superlatives • talking about your • writing a story p. 29 - 40 favourite type of music - / narrative • countries and giving reasons why you • writing an Unit 4 nationalities like it informal letter (to Countries • comparing - the same • stereotypes an old friend) p. 41 - 54 as, similar to..., different discussion • writing a formal from, etc letter (complaint / Unit 5 • people at school • talking about your refund) School Day school days p. 55 - 68 • vocabulary - principal, • talking about the head teacher, best friend, last Unit 6 group of friend, etc. • thing your bought • irregular verbs in past Shopping and Money from recap of past simple p. 69 - 82 • clothes • money vocabulary - credit card, cash, etc. Unit 7 • health problems • scanning: looking for • writing Health • imperatives numbers and amounts instructions p. 83 - 96 discussing health • brainstorming Unit 8 • jobs probles • organising My Future • talking about the • identifying types of p. 97 - 108 future: I want to..., I texts information Unit 9 hope to... world events • using mind maps to (planning) World Events quiz take notes • writing a travel blog p. 109 - 122 • adjectives: traditional, • talking about future about a different Unit 10 memorable, significant, dreams culture Different Cultures etc. • summarising p. 123 - 136 • different kinds of • discussing a housing memorable event in • travel / culture your country • vocabulary • linking words • giving tips for travelling to foreign countries

UNIT 1 CELEBRITIES 3

1A CELEBRITIES WARM UP A Work in groups. Look at the pictures and discuss the following questions. 1 What do the people look like? 2 What are the people like? ab cd B Discuss your friends and family with your group. 1 What do your parents look like? Master Tip 2 What is your brother/sister like? 3 What is your best friend like? We use the question “What do/does someone 4 look like?” to ask about appearance. We use the question “What is/ are someone like?” to ask about personality.

1A CELEBRITIES VOCABULARY adjectives describing people A Match the adjectives with the correct pictures below. a thin b lazy c nice d strong e attractive f friendly c1 2 3 ,, 456 B Put the adjectives from exercise A into the correct column. adjectives describing appearance adjectives describing personality thin C Work in pairs. Add more adjectives to the table in exercise B. 5

1A CELEBRITIES PRE-READING A Work in pairs and complete the celebrities quiz. Celebrities Quiz 1 What is Johnny Depp’s job? 4 Who acted in the movie The Titanic? 2 Who sings the song Skyfall? 5 Who are these famous people? 3 Who sings the song Let it Be? abc B Compare your answers for the celebrities quiz with your partner. Then answer the question. 1 Do you have the same answers? C Work in groups and discuss the following questions. 1 Who is your favourite actor? Why? 2 Who is your favourite singer or musician? Why? 3 Who is your favourite sports person? Why? READING A Work in pairs. Look at the pictures of celebrities. 1 Who are they? a b c 2 What are their jobs? 6

1A CELEBRITIES READING – DETAILED A Read the texts about celebrities. Match them with the photos from the previous exercise. Text 1 I love listening to pop music, so my favourite celebrity is Lady Gaga. She is a very famous singer and she is really unique. She is thin and blonde and she wears interesting clothes. Her music is fun and I love dancing to it. Some people don’t like Lady Gaga because she is different, but I think she is really cool. Text 2 My favourite celebrity is David Beckham. David Beckham is very sporty and muscular. He is an amazing football player. David Beckham comes from the UK and he is married to Victoria Beckham who was in a famous music group called the Spice Girls. I think David Beckham is really attractive and he is very friendly, too. Text 3 watching action movies because they are really exciting. Tom Cruise is my favourite I love actor because he is in a lot of great action movies like Mission Impossible. He is a really talented actor and he is very rich. He is quite tall and he is thin. I think he is very handsome. B Match the adjectives in bold with the definitions. 1 very good at 4 different / unusual 2 strong 5 enjoys sport or is good at sport 3 has a lot of money C Read the texts again and decide if the sentences are true or false. 1 Lady Gaga's fashion is very different. 4 David Beckham's wife was a singer. 2 Everyone likes Lady Gaga's music. 5 Tom Cruise acts in action movies. 3 David Beckham is from the USA. 6 Tom Cruise has a lot of money. 7

1A CELEBRITIES READING SKILL/TIP reading the topic sentence of a paragraph Skimming means reading a text quickly to understand the main idea. When you skim a text or article you should read the title and predict what the text is about. Then you should read the first sentence of each paragraph. The first sentence of a paragraph is usually the topic sentence. The topic sentence gives the main idea of the paragraph. A Work in pairs. Read the topic sentences and predict what the paragraph is about. 1 Beyoncé sings songs about love and relationships. 2 Today, Beyoncé lives in Los Angeles in California. 3 Beyoncé is a famous American singer and songwriter. B Read the article about Beyoncé. Match the topic sentences in exercise A with the following paragraphs. a _______________________________________. She was born in Texas in the USA in 1981. She has one sister and one step-sister. Beyoncé started singing in the 1990s and now she is famous all around the world. b _______________________________________. She was in a famous group called Destiny’s Child. In 2006 she released her first album called B’Day which has one of her most famous songs on it called Irreplaceable. _____c__________________________________. She is married to Jay-Z who is also a famous singer. They have a daughter called Blue Ivy. Beyoncé is still singing and writing new songs and she travels around the world on tours every year. 8

1B CELEBRITIES VOCABULARY comparatives A Read the comparative sentences and complete the rules. 1 Joseph is stronger than his brother. 2 My sister is thinner than me. 3 Michelle is friendlier than Sophie. 4 Who acted in the movie The Titanic? 5 Holly is more attractive than Amy. We use the comparative form to compare two people, places or things. • For adjectives with one syllable we add _________. e.g. stronger • For adjectives with one syllable ending in consonant + vowel + consonant we double the last __________________ and add -er. e.g. thinner • For adjectives ending in y, we change the y to an _________ and add -er. e.g. friendlier • For adjectives with two or more syllables we add _________ before the adjective. e.g. more attractive • We also use _________ after the comparative adjective. B Correct the mistakes in the sentences. Master Tip 1 Angelina Jolie is beautifuler more beautiful than There are some Lady Gaga. irregular comparatives. 2 My brother is lazyer than me. Study the table below. 3 Dennis is fater than Arnold. 4 I am more intelligent them Josie. adjective comparative 5 Danny DeVito is shorter than Arnold good better Shwarzenegger. bad worse 6 She is more happy than him. far further 9

1B CELEBRITIES C Look at the pictures and write sentences about the people using comparatives. Jason and Mitchell e.g. Mitchell is taller than Jason. ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Pauline and Amita ____________________________________ ____________________________________ John and Toby ____________________________________ ____________________________________ PRE-READING A Work in pairs. Look at the picture and answer the following questions. 1 Do you know this person? 2 What is he famous for? B Work in groups and discuss the following questions. 1 Do you know these social media websites? 2 What do you use these websites for? 3 How often do you use them? 10

1B CELEBRITIES READING A Skim the article about Mark Zuckerberg and answer the questions. 1 Where is Mark Zuckerberg from? 2 What can you do on Facebook? 3 Why is Facebook different than other social media websites? Mark Zuckerberg is a very well-known American computer programmer. Zuckerberg went to Harvard in the USA and studied computer science. He is famous for starting Facebook in 2004. He started Facebook in his college when he was 20 years old with four of his college friends. Facebook is a social media website where you can chat with friends, write on your friend’s wall and share interesting and funny articles and videos. At the beginning, Facebook was only available at Harvard, but it quickly became popular in other universities in the USA and later all around the world. Facebook is very popular because it is unique and people enjoy socialising on the internet. Facebook is different to other social media websites because you can communicate with people in lots of different ways. For example, you can use Twitter to send short messages or pieces of information, but you can share stories and lots of information on Facebook. Facebook is more social than Twitter because you communicate better with your friends. On Twitter, you can send short texts about something that is happening at the moment. Twitter is instant and is great for news. READING – DETAILED A Match the words in bold with the definitions. 1 spending time with other people 2 famous 3 someone who writes programs for computers 4 share information 5 immediate, prompt B Read the article again and decide if the sentences are true or false. 1 Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook 20 years ago. 2 Zuckerberg started Facebook with some friends. 3 People like socialising on the internet. 4 You can share stories on Twitter. 5 Twitter is more social than Facebook. 6 Twitter is good for sharing and reading about the news. 11

1B CELEBRITIES DISCUSSION comparing famous people A Match the famous people with the pictures. a Barack Obama b Serena Williams c Madonna d Arnold Schwarzenegger 12 34 B Write adjectives to describe the famous people in exercise A. 1 ________________________ 2 ________________________ 3 ________________________ 4 ________________________ C Work in groups and discuss the following questions about the celebrities in exercise A. 1 Who is thinner? 2 Who is richer? 3 Who is stronger? 4 Who do you think is more attractive? 5 Who do you think is more intelligent? 12

1B CELEBRITIES WRITING writing a topic sentence A topic sentence is the first sentence of a paragraph that introduces the main idea. Remember that we always start a sentence with a capital letter. A Put the topic sentences in the correct order. 1 favorite / is / Madonna / my / celebrity My favorite celebrity is Madonna. 2 enjoy / movies / really / comedy / watching / I _______________________________________________ 3 social / website / Facebook / easy-to-use / because / is / a / media / great / is / it _______________________________________________ 4 famous / singer / Michael Jackson / a / American / was _______________________________________________ B Work in pairs. Read the paragraphs and write a topic sentence. 1 ________________________________________ He is also very handsome and I think he is really friendly. Johnny Depp is my favourite actor because I love all of his films. I really like the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. They are fantasy movies about pirates. They are really exciting. 2 ________________________________________ You can share photos with lots of different people on Instagram. It is easy-to-use because you can take photos with your smartphone and share them instantly. 3 ________________________________________ It is an amazing movie because the actors are great. Leonard DiCaprio and Kate Winslet act in The Titanic. It is a story about a well-known ship that sank in 1912. I really love this movie because it is romantic and sad. 13

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UNIT 2 PARTIES AND CELEBRATIONS 15

2A PARTIES AND CELEBRATIONS WARM UP A Work in groups. Look at the pictures and discuss the following questions. 1 What do all the photos have in common? 2 What is different about the events in the photos? 3 Do you usually go to events like the ones in the photos? B Complete the sentences so that they are true for you. 1 My favourite type of party is.........(birthday party / halloween party etc.) 2 I usually go to parties...... (every week / once a month etc.) 3 I always celebrate my birthday...... (at a restaurant / at home / with friends etc.) C Compare your sentences from Exercise B with your partner and answer the question. 1 Are your answers the same or different? 16

2A PARTIES AND CELEBRATIONS VOCABULARY types of parties and celebrations A Match the pictures with the types of parties and celebrations. a Birthday party d Eid e Wedding b New Year’s Eve f Graduation party c Halloween party 2 1 3 45 6 B Match the parts of the phrases about parties and celebrations. 1 go a someone to a party 2 give b to a party 3 invite c a special occasion 4 celebrate d someone a gift C Work in pairs. Complete the following questions and then ask and answer them together. 1 How often do you ___________ to parties? 2 Do you always give someone a ___________ on their birthday? 3 How many people do you usually ___________ to your birthday party? 4 What special occasions do you usually ___________? 17

2A PARTIES AND CELEBRATIONS PRE-READING A Work in pairs. Look at the photos of celebrations and match them with the countries. a China b India c Spain 1 2 Holi Festival Tomatina Festival 3 Chinese New Year B Work in groups. Discuss the following questions. 1 Do you have celebrations like the ones in exercise A in your country? 2 What are the biggest celebrations in your country? 3 What is your favourite holiday or celebration in your country? Why? 18

2A PARTIES AND CELEBRATIONS READING A Read the texts and match them with the celebrations in the pre-reading section. Text 1 favourite festival is the Chinese New Year. It starts in January or February every year My we celebrate it for 15 days. There are always lots of fireworks and all the family and comes together to celebrate. On the 15th day of the festival we have the Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival is a wonderful celebration when all the children fly lanterns in the evening. It is a beautiful thing to see. Text 2 from a small town on the east coast of Spain called Buñol. It is a quiet little town, I come except in August every year when we celebrate the tomato festival. The celebration lasts for one hour and everyone comes into the town square and throws tomatoes at each other. The festival started in 1945 and every year we celebrate as a community on the last Wednesday of August. After the festival, we clean the streets and then we have a big dinner party. Text 3 spring in my country, we celebrate the festival of colours. We celebrate during the Every full moon in March every year. It is a Hindu festival to celebrate love and the beginning of spring. First, we celebrate with a bonfire and the next day is the festival of colours. During the festival of colours we throw coloured powder on everyone in the streets. Everyone sings and dances together. It is a beautiful day! 19

2A PARTIES AND CELEBRATIONS READING – DETAILED A Match the words in bold with the pictures. 123 4567 B Read the texts and complete the sentences with Chinese New Year, Tomatina Festival or Holi Festival. 1 The ____________________ is to celebrate love and the beginning of spring. 2 The Lantern Festival is on the last day of ____________________. 3 The ____________________ started in 1945. 4 Everyone sings and dances together during the ____________________. 5 Children fly lanterns during ____________________. 6 After the ____________________ the community cleans the streets. C Read the texts again and answer the following questions. 1 When is the Chinese New Year? 2 How long does the Chinese New Year last? 3 When is the Tomatina Festival? 4 How long does the Tomatina festival last? 5 When is the Holi Festival? 20

2A PARTIES AND CELEBRATIONS READING SKILL/TIP looking for dates and times Scanning means looking for key information in a text or article. When you scan a text, you do not read every word; you only look for the information you need. A Read the questions below and write the type of information you need to find in the text near them. 1 Where is the festival? Place – city or country 2 When does the festival start? 3 When does the festival end? 4 How long does the festival last? 5 What time is the party on Thursday? B Scan the text and find the answers for the questions in exercise A. The Running of the Bulls is a very famous festival in Spain but many people also believe that the festival is bad for the animals. Every year, many Spanish people and foreigners celebrate the festival in Pamplona, a small town in the north of Spain. The festival starts on 6th July and finishes on 14th July. It goes on for 8 days in total. On the last day, there is a big party where everyone in the town comes together to celebrate. The party starts on Thursday evening at 7 p.m. and goes all night. 21

2B PARTIES AND CELEBRATIONS VOCABULARY things at a party A Match the pictures with the things at a party. a snacks b cake c present d costume e party hat f candle 123 456 B Work in groups and discuss the following questions. 1 Do you always take presents to a birthday party? Why or why not? 2 What is your favourite type of cake? 3 Do you usually wear party hats at birthday parties? 4 What types of snacks do you like to have at your parties? 5 Do you usually have candles on a birthday cake in your country? 22

2B PARTIES AND CELEBRATIONS PRE-READING A Work in pairs. Discuss the following questions. 1 What is the last party invitation you received? 2 How do you invite people to your parties? a Do you send an invitation card? b Do you call your friends and family? c Do you send a text message? B Work in pairs and answer the question. 1 What information do you need to include in a party invitation? e.g. The date of the party C Compare your ideas from exercise B with your partner. Discuss the following questions. 1 Do you have the same information? 2 What is the most important information to include in a party invitation? 23

2B PARTIES AND CELEBRATIONS READING A Read the invitations and match them with the pictures. a bc Text 1 You are invited to my 30th birthday party! Come and join us at the Regent Restaurant on Saturday 23rd May at 7 pm. We will have a wonderful Italian dinner together and then go to the theatre! Please wear smart casual clothes. RSVP by 15 May Text 2 Come and celebrate Emily’s graduation! When: Sunday 12th March, 4 pm to 9 pm Where: Brunswick Park, Melbourne Bring: Snacks and something to drink Dress code: Casual Looking forward to seeing you there! Text 3 It’s our wedding anniversary! We got married 50 years ago and we want to celebrate with all our friends and family. Come and join us for dinner on Friday 9th June at the French Palace. Dinner is at 8pm and dancing at 11pm! Please wear formal clothes. RSVP by 25 May 24

2B PARTIES AND CELEBRATIONS READING – DETAILED A Read the invitations and complete the table. Date Time Location Birthday party Graduation party Wedding anniversary B Work in pairs. Find the following words and phrases in the text, then try to guess their meanings. 1 RSVP 2 Dress code C Match the dress codes with the pictures. 1 casual 2 smart casual 3 formal a bc 25

2B PARTIES AND CELEBRATIONS DISCUSSION A Think about the last party you went to and answer the questions. 1 What type of party was it? 2 When was it? 3 What did you wear? 4 What did you take to the party? 5 Did you enjoy it? B Work in groups and talk about the last party you went to. e.g. Master Tip A : What was the last party you went to? Remember to use the B : The last party I went to was my past simple to talk about friend’s birthday party. It was an action or event that really fun! happened in the past. A : When was it? We add -ed to regular B : It was last weekend. verbs to make the past simple. e.g. I attended my friend’s graduation party. I really enjoyed the party. There are some irregular verbs. Study the table below. be was / were go went have had take took wear wore see saw meet met 26

2B PARTIES AND CELEBRATIONS WRITING invitation card A Imagine you are planning a party next month. Complete the table with notes about the party. Type of party Date and time Location Things to bring Dress code RSVP date B Write an invitation card to your friend to invite them to your party. Remember to include the information from exercise A. Master Tip You can start your invitation with one of the phrases below. • You are invited to my ____________ party! • Come and celebrate my ____________! • It’s my ____________! 27

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