Grammar Hub 1.1. Present simple and present continuous a (sie ney) He gets up eaty. It doesn't look goo Do you take the bus? ae tm taking a sti. ‘She isn't watching 1V. Arethey smiling? err ‘She's not watching WV. + Weuse the present simple to takabout actions that alays? usually/neverhappen I don’t always get up early + Weuse the present continuous totakabout action hat are in progressat the moment of speaking or wii, “Thay arent working this week + Weakouse the present continuous to describe ationsin a photo o video, What i he doing in tis photo? + Weako use the present continuous to describe trends More and more peple are getting worried about money. * Weuse the present simple. not the present continuous to talk about our evenday rates, Do you write many emily at work? Not Areyourwriting-mem-cmtnitytwork? 1.2 subject and object questions ieee creed i} Bima What 6 Pe ey your fist language? + Weoten ue these adverbs of frequency withthe present simple abays ner oer rarely sometimes usualy De you often past photos of yourself on Social media? + We sestative verbs to describe feelings and ideas. We use the present simple (not the reset continuous) with stave verbs. Hove taking sles! + Some verbs (ave, ook, se think canbe used as bth «yma and state verb, depending onthe stuatin. have Shea. perfect life / Are you having fun? lcok: Yur new kitchen looks really good! / I'm looking fora new job. + Inject questions, the question wor isthe object ofthe sentence, We use object questions when we want toknow ‘more information about sorsethang/somneane: We always use an unary verb in object questions. Inthe answer, we use the normal word ore fora sentence Where did he learn to speak English? GRAMMAR Verb tenses and structures [A Choose the correct verb forms to complete the onwvorsation. ‘+ bxcuse me.I look ookingfor room 14.|have an English esson today, but ”don'tknow /m not knowing where togo, 1 Room 147ItSrght here: took ke we're being / going fo bein the same croup. My name's ego. by the way. ‘Hi Diego Yulla So “did haveyou sted at this school before? 1B Yes | was/ Ye been he samme group ast yea ‘The teaches, Helena, steal rice. “You/ You hehe, Tim sie So. why id you decide / were you deciding to oan ths school, Ya? ‘Wl, about two weeks ago. ®ve triad/ was tying to help my son with is Engish homewot, but couldnt remember anything! So decided come back to setoo\ afer al these yeas! ' Find and correct the mistakes in four ofthe sentences oF uestions. Collocations B Choose the correct words to complete the cllocations. 1 bitbetterif somebody helps you by /for/to/ withyour homework orshould you aays work alone? 22 When was he ast time you d/ made/ 100k/ went 3 o3VoMT schook or Werk? 2 Ave you good at /in/from on cooking? 4 it bette 0 borrow? earn /Tend /pay money fom your ‘tends or rom the bank? 5 it possible to have keep /make /ply it without spending alot of te or money? {6 Doyou prefer to pay by/on/for/ with your shopping bycardorincash? 7 wat ihe Dest way 1 al /get/ meet /win 2 good Job inyour county? SPEAK Workin pals. Ask and answer the questions in Exorese 8. Ask Your partner to explain his/her answers. A: thik it's better te da your homerk with someone, B: Really? Why do you think so?6 7 How 86% tne do you spend dng homework evey at Inmy Enos clas, we speak bof Eas ey lesson butwe dathave to speaenglsn a he re itsanonine couse soa he annersarecheckby 2 Campa vat kd hing oyu want to tak about your tnotshlesonst Eveybodymakemisates wen ney seat nosh - even Engh speak Ibeter to sea qth aloof mistakes Som wth no mises Isimporunt oem bt tne words bute realy enya vasa C SPEAK Workin pairs and discuss the questions. Why did you decide to Join this class? Use the eas rom, the conversation n Exercise Ato help You What isthe best way to lear English? Use the ideas in Exercise B 0 help you, VOCABULARY Describing places, illnesses and transport [A Complete the table withthe words in the Box. altace coach eld ity headache helicopter modem nosy pine temperature toothache tram ro Alek, we WELCOME have /of this/ these cap! cup PRONUNCIATION @ tisten ana choos the words youeat. where /were 5 cant cont ‘ wou wat 7 mouth mouse 1 2 2 4 FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE ‘Match the sentences (1-9) withthe responses (2-1, My name's Adam, by the way, What a nice surpese Long time, no seal What do you think should do? Would youtke me to checkitfor you? ‘kre you doing anything thisevening? Do you fancy watching ln this weekend? ect really today and ve got an exam later. Inmy opinion, young people these days are Incredbiy rude twas really nice to see youagain ® Why dont you ty to find anew job? ‘Sounds great lust check that fee ‘You, too. See you late. Take care. Nice to meet you. ‘Someare, but then some ‘dts are, toa, No. Why? Shall we go out? (Oh, no Poor you! That sounds tril. Yeah, know What are you doing these days? Yes please, Tal would be realy helpfulOMMUNICATION something to say; fools because Ua eCoy oe ALK ator eoCean ev balog PN Eat ete od plan and conduct an interview tse rhetorical questions in a presentation Deemer cd RUS ue oesD 1.1 Communication today bresentsinoleandpresentcentnuous @Q-seengandhening@Q=shwa/n’ _Glseninatocheckpedtons > Read aga and answerthe auestons a ‘Workin groups and discuss the questions. 1 How do Katia and Elisa know each other? + Doyo ever se social mada ses? Which ones? 2 ny nasacort 2, What sort of information do people usually post on a When did Katia go to the top of the mountain? socal medial 4 How does Katia fee! about her new kitchen? Nw)» atch the pitts 1-2) wth thesodal mei 5 How doesltelabother born Me NAP? © Stusupaites (0 How dovoutinkthe people inthe an pictures ae feling? What can you guess about their ives? onholkiay? 2 On my way to the top! Looking forward to an amazing b Can't beleve wete on holiday again Wetehaving a wonderful timel lovely new kitchen! Looks good, doestt it? c Read the social media posts quickly to check your predictions from Exercise 8. Make notes about ‘the true stories behind the pictures. @Katia ... is feeling confused 6 hours ago Hada very strange expeionce today. met my ld schoo fiend @Eisafor theft time neon years You'e so lucky! she sid You nave suc erect ie so ieaoust ‘A porisct io? Ma? have avery nara: got up early everyday ako tha busto ‘work watch TV.and thats. in fact, Esa seems o havea perecife-her cures ‘ways shod her wonderful family relaxing inthe sunshine ona beaut beach But now im writing this pos think understand what happened: on social msi ures ook parte, but he ral is vary erent For example last week posted see rom the top of @ mountain. Inthe picture, you can see im smiing. But infact et absolutely exhusted and just wanted to go home as quick as possbie! Butyou cane thin the picturel ‘Ar id you soe th pote of our naw kitchen af weeks 290? Well ye I's vty, but ddr mention that took ix months to finish Sixmanth without a ktchen! And foetus mes 35 much as we expected, 9 now wee gating worried about money But no one eve aks about money problems on social medi, do they? (mnatcomriainig, though. tm very happy with mye! | being neal. ane {dont mind that my fe is becoming abt boring! in fact, im thrking of staying at home this evening —just me, my husband a takeaway pizal Perfect @ 2 Repiy from @Elisa 4 hours ago Hey, @katia! Great to se you this morring nowy what youmean about ur ‘perfect ives. guess nok to expan about al hooe beach pitures. You 09 ork realy hada yer, and the only tno us soil media a when Tm onlay. Thats why tm siting onthe bach nly pictures! usualy ais for most af he wook wae er oly, but of course We ony ake pictues when the suis shining! |jslous (ad) unhappy because sean has something tat you woul ke ran co emehing Thatyou woud tketodoE SPEAK Workin pairs and discuss the questions. 1 Does your life look perfect on social media? What about your fiends’ Iives? 2. Doyau ever feel eslous when you see other people's status updates? GRAMMAR Present simple and present continuous >) A tookat the undertined verbs in the socal media posts. Which verbs arein the present simple? Which are in the present continuous? B WORKIT OUT Match the sentences (a-f with the rules (2-5), 1 Inthe picture, you can see fm smiling. know what you mean about our ‘perfect Ines Butnow tmuunting this post, 4 You have such a perfect ie! © |geLup early every day. £ Sonow wette geting worried about money. 1 Dynamic verbs (talk, go) usually describe actions 2. Weuse the present simple with dynamic verbs total about actions that ahvays usualy or never happen, '3 Weuuse the present continuous with dynamic vets: 1 totalkabout actions that are in progessat the moment of speaking or writing 1b todescrbe actions in picture, video, te € todescrbe tends eg, something is happening more and more these day) 4 Statve vets (ant, sem) often describe fetings and ideas Weuse the present simple with tative verbs 5 Rlew vets (have, oo, speak dink have tio or more ‘meanings They are scretimes cya verte and somtimes eave vert FM ) € Find atest one more example of each ule 2-5)in AB) © theposs: D Gotothe Grammar Hub on page 122. E Arethe verbs stative verbs (5) or dynamic verbs (D)? 1 contain $ 7 Include 2 cost @ mean 3 depend 8 own 4 deserve 10 telax 5 enjoy 11 seem © happen 12 shine F SPEAK Work in groups and discuss the questions. 1 Why are you studying English? Why do youneed English? 2. Howis this week diferent from your normal weekly routine? What are you doing afferent his week? \What do you normally do? 23. What are people doing more and more these days? \What are some trends in your own life? SPEAKING |A. Work in groups. I you have some pictures on your phone, choose tWo oF three to discuss with your aroup. Ifyou do ‘ot, think about some of your favourite pictures of you and your fiends or family. 8B Tell your group: + Whats happening in the pictures? + Does your if seem perfect or exciting in the pictures? What's the eal stoy behind the pictures? + Do you have any pictures of you doing normal things, 29, watching 1V? Why/Why not? © Writea short social media status update for one or two ‘of your pictures, Decide whether to make your life seem perfect or normal ‘We often leave out the subject andbe from the beainnina of status updates when fs as fer the reader to guess the missing words + WLooks good does? + (WH avery range eperience today + tes) reat to 22 you this morning 1D Read some of your classmates’ social media status ‘updates. Do their lives look perfect or normal?“ “ “ “ LISTENING |A SPEAK Workin pairs and discuss the questions. 1 What do you use your mobile phone for? 2 How aid people do those things betore they nad ‘mobile phones? What problems did they have? B PREDICT Workin paits.You ae going to listen to ‘Aweek without phones! Look at the pictures and discuss the questions Use the strategies in the box to help you. Before you ston to something in Englshi's aways a 00d idea to predict what you wile. Ifthe’ ttle and pictures, you can try t predic the Connection between them. Then you can ste to check your predictions. 1 Who aethe people n picture a? What ate they doing? 2. Whats the device n picture b? 3 What does the title mean? What’ the connection withthe people and the device? LISTEN FOR GIST Listen to Pat 1 ofthe podcast and check your answers to Exercise 8 PREDICT Workin pairs and discuss the questions. “Then listen to Part 2 and check your answers, 11 What went wrong when Ovi and Jackson ted to meetup on Monday? 2. How aid tney solve the problem? E PREDICT Workin paltsand discuss what you think Ova and Jackson da aiferently on Tuesday when they met. Then listen to Part 3 and check your answer. F PREDICT Workin pairs and discuss the questions. Thon listen to Part 4 and check your answers. 1 Doyou think Olivia and Jackson ae enjoying the ‘experiment? 2. What do you think theyte doing more ot ess of than usual? « 1s G LISTEN FOR DETAIL Listen again. Choose the correct answers, adore. 11 When ste last day ofthe experiment Tuesday b Thursday € Sunday 2. Why does Olivia decide to stop waiting outside on Monday? 1 She doesnt want to get wet. she thinks Jackson isnt coming, «She knows the university closes at four ottock 13 How does Sebastian know Jackson and Olivia? a They study together at university, bb Oliva met Sebastian outside the cake shop. «Sebastian has seen them before in pictures and videos. ‘4 Wnty is Olvia enjoying the concert more than usualon Tuesay? 1 Sheisrt recording ton her phone, bb Theaudience ist having as much fun, «lackson sit there wath 5. On Thursday, why is Ova surprised at the end ofthe podcast? 2 The university bullngs are amazing. bb lackson doosnt usualy talk so much «© Shecanit beleve Jackson forgo hiscamera, H SPEAK Workin groups and discuss the questions. 1 What problems id Ova and lackson have during the experiment? 2. What good things happened asa result? 3. Doyouthink Olviaand Jackson's experiment asa ‘good idea? 4 Would youtke to tya sil experiment? Why/ny not?VOCABULARY Seeing and hearing @ A choose the correct verbs to complete the sentences from 1.6 Aweek without phones! Then listen again and check your 1. Inthisweek’ podcast, we're ooking at / seeing / watching phones 2 Rooks /ees/ watches ike ne st coming, and fm not sure what odo 3m ooking/ seeing watchin fr Cita, but cant look ‘at see/ watch he 4 hear sten to /sound your podcast every wet, and look at see /watch at your videos 5 Yeah, that hears/ listens /sounds lke a great ideo. Thanks alo ‘6 Maybe you can hear/lstento/soundthe music inthe backround 7 He plays the guitar inthe band, and he heas/ fstens sounds aly goo. 8. Idoesnt 00k /see/ watch teat, but t's good for teling the time! 'B WORK IT OUT Complete the rues withthe correct form of hear, stn, look se, sound or watch. (are ee 1 When you # a something itjust happens, not because you're tying to doit 2 Whenyou ® ator to something you doit because youdecide to doit 3 Whenyou ® something, you look atitfora period oftime, peshaps because its moving, 4 When something © good.or ‘90044 t probably fs good, but you tert se 5 Whenit © like or lke something is happening, it probably happening, but you arent sure. € Gotothe Vocabulary Hub on page 142. Complete the questions with the verbs in the box. ‘There are two extra verbs. notice observe recognise spot stare 1. Doyou eversitin acaféand the people through the window? Why do people enjoy doing this? 2. Axe you qood at remembering people's faces? Do you always People when you meet them the second time? 3. When youte traveling around (e9, by bus), do you usually the buildings around you? E SPEAK Workin groups. Ask and answer the questions in Exercise D. W PRONUNCIATION Schwa /af Schwa the most common sound n English, We use for ‘most unstressed vowel sounds, especialy words ikea, the, ta and and but @ A Listen to the sentences from A week without phones! 47 Underline al chras. The numbers in brackets ell you how ‘many schwas fo find. The rst one hasbeen done for you. 1 Wete not looking at our phones fa whole week) 2 We arranged to meet ere, outside the university, at four oiclock (5) 3 Its Monday afternoon and Im late meeting Ova 2) 4 Ill buy you cake to ay thankyou, and you can tell us ‘what you think of our podcasts. (6) Yes Im wearing a watch today ~ anokd one rom wen Iwasa teenager. (7) B SPEAK Workin pairs. Practise saying the sentences. Listen and check your partner's pronunciation. O>sPEAKING HUB SI A Workin group. You te going to make a short podcast about an experiment. Choose one of the Ideas nthe box ruse yur own eas. a week of doing something completely new every day eatery ees} peetenetereare) vector the leet Mele atweckothoat pening any money oi ea 8 PLAN Plana short podcast (about two minutes). Imagine you are in the mide of your experiment, Make notes on: ‘+ what you can see and hear during your podcast. + whats going well and/or badly with your experiment, + what you'te doing more or less as result of your ‘experiment (C SPEAK Record your podcast and presentit tothe cass. D SHARE After listening to the podcasts, discuss the questions. + Which group’s experiment worked well? + Which podcast did you enjoy most? E REFLECT Workin new groups and discuss the questions + Willyou ty any of the experiments in ea ie? WhyAWhry not? + Would you tke to make a real podcast? What would your podcast be about? Do you think other people ‘would want tolisten tom? O- Update your status on social media O> Make a short podcast COMMUNICATION 5Cent Cree ae Poe oat rae a ae What do you want tostuiy? + Wee these question wordt asker infrmation: who and whose for people here x places when forties), why or reasons), what for things), which fortwo or more ferent choices), how Jr the way something i done) and how fong/may macht for ime, quan, tc Whose big is this? + Wectten usean aan vet (be, can door have) to form questions We put the aula verb before the main ver ‘re they prastiing their English? Gan Laik you a qucstion? Why do you want to learn English? How long have yo now Lint? + Insubject questions the question word isthe subject ofthe sentence We use subject questions when we don't know what iwhofuhichvwhosesomethingysomeone We dri we anauallary verb in subject questions and we dont change the ‘word oderin the answer Whe interviewed him? Mona interviewed him. 12 GRAMMAR HUB Net What do you want to study? I want to study Modern language. \With subject questions the answers the subject. Whe told you? Someone Held you. With object questions, the answers the object. Whe did you tell? You told Someone With questions using do. does ordi we dent change the form oftheman vet, oe she speak Enlsh? NOT \When aquestion wordisthe object of prepestion, the prepostion usualy comes atthe end ofthe sentence What did you have problems with? Grammar Hub (>) 1.1 Present simple and present continuous crenata comec oon 1 SonGshowin shows mene hold pots weet 2 Aretheyworing /Do they work'o9? > frye amayrgeting Doyo aaysOeUP hs 4 hevre nang etter he bin ts pee $ Womenotantnydontuunisteh svete wate ge «6 lomacoing cane reo say 8 pate ‘Complete the email with the correct form of the verb in brackets. Use contractions where possible. Hisarahl Wet (havea great ume here mn Spaint The sun (shine and the ‘countrys beautiful We? rave) lovely oom ina tle hotel wth a view ofthe beach. “ (si) on the balcony to wate this cemall and | can see Paul down on the beach. He . (lay) football wth the boys on the sand. The chilten® (ke) it here — they say they 7 (ot want) to go home! Hope you® (901 word too hart See you next week! Lowe, Mary > Go backto page3.B Put the words in order to make questions. 1 you/ want / about / to tak / do / what /? What do you want te talk about? 2am pronouncing / ght this word /? 3 please /say/you/ that again / can /? 4 often /do/ at wotk/ use English /you/? 5 this/phone whose /is/? 6 the graph / what /does show /? 7 you/ me /belp this attice / with /can/? 8 hours / how /you/ English study / week / do / many / each /? 6 How many people do they speak Enalish in the world? 7 How long It takes you to get to work? 8 Who you met yesterday? 9 Where they are learning English? 10 Does he uses the app to practise his pronunciation? > Gobackto page7. GRAMMAR HUB 123