OC and figures EE WE PE ‘1 VOCABULARY high numbers 2 LISTENING a Read three questions from a radio quiz a @9.16 Listen to the introduction to a show called Quiz show. Choose a, b, or Night. Answer the questions. 1 Whats the population ofthe UK? 1 How long do the contestants have to say ifthe sentences are a 47,000,000 true or false? b 57,000,000 2. How much do they win f they get..? ¢ 67,000,000 athe fist answer right 2. How frist from New York City in the east b the second answer right to Los Angeles in the west? € the third answer ight 2 2500km a all eight answers right & 4.000km 3 they get an answer wrong, how much do they lose? © 5000km 4 What can a contestant do if they ae not sure of the answer? 3: How pany poliitane ae therein the In pairs, look at sentences 1-8 from Quiz Night. Write i T (true) or F (false). b 650 © 750 QUIZ NIGHT ‘Awhale can make a louder noise than ation. ‘The First World War was shorter than the Second World War. The American film industry is bigger than the Indian film industry. 4 In July, Edinburgh is hotter than Sydney. 5 _Silveris heavier than gold. 6 The mountain 2s more difficult to climb than Mount. Everest. 7 Driving in taly is more dangerous than driving in Belgium. 8 It's better to do exercise in the morning than in the afternoon. b @9.13 Listen and check. Were you right? How do you say the three answers? ¢ @p.148 Vocabulary Bank Days and numbers Do Part 4. d_ @9.15 Listen and write the ten numbers you hear. 1199 Answer the questions with a partner. 1. What's the population of your town or city? 2 What's the population of your country? 3. How far st from your town or city to...? @ London b New York 4, How many politicians are there in your country's parliament? 9.17 Listen to a contestant on Quiz Night. Check your answers to b. How much money does he win? Listen again for why the answers are true or false. Write down all the important numbers in each answerAnswer the que GRAMMAR comparative adjectives ions with a partner. Look at the adjectives in the Quiz Night sentences. In pairs, answer the questions. Using adjectives to compare two things: 1. What two letters do you put at the end of one-syllable adjectives, e.g, loud? 2 Why is big different? 3. What happens when an adjective ends in consonant + y, e.g. heavy? 4 What word do you put in front of long adjectives, e.g. dangerous? What's the comparative form of good? 6 What's the missing word? China is bigger Japan. @p.140 Grammar Bank 9C PRONUNCIATION & SPEAKING ‘|, sentence stress @9.19 Listen to the sentence. How is -er pronounced at the end of a comparative adjective? How is than pronounced? ‘A.whale can make a louder noise than a lion 9.20 Listen and write six comparative sentences. Listen again and copy the rhythm. Are the sentences true or false? @ Communication Quiz Night A p.107 B p.112 Play Quiz Night. READING Read the first part of the article about pub quizzes. Do you have something similar in your country? s for how to win and th A-G. Now read the complete them ‘A Choose your team carefully. B Don't be a bad loser. C Don't cheat! B-Enjoy yourself! E Keep your eyes open. F Know about current affairs. G Learn the big names. Look at these words from the article to do with quizzes. What do they mean? How do you pronounce them? ateam aquizmaster an expert to cheat to memorize tobe abadloser to win 1 Do you play any games or do quizzes with general knowledge questions, e.g. Trivial Pursuit? 2 Are you a good or bad loser? Do you ever cheat? 3. What TV quiz shows are popular in your country? Do you watch any of them? Why (not)? 4 Do you know anyone who loves a particular quiz show? Which one? Why? 5 Would you like to be a contestant on a quiz show? Which one? THE RED LION QUIZ ound + (Culture) 1 [Madonna v a: x 3 | Nesnon Derma [a] Daniel Craig Tv [5 Amadovar 22 | ¢ € iL [a [Maren Freeman 7) 4A Brannled 7 Pub Quizzes jaz=: ina pub or bar. They started in the UK in the x) 1970, and there are now more than 22,000 ‘weekly quizzes in pubs all over the country. Friends form teams, usually of about five or six people, and they decide on a name for their team. The person who asks the questions is called the ‘quizmaster’, and the teams write thelr answers on a piece of paper. You can’t use your phone to look for the answers! In some pubs, teams pay to be inthe quiz from about sop to £5 per person ———s and the winning team gets the money. But a lat of pub quizzes are free because pubs want people to come on nights which aren’t usually busy, like Mondays and Tuesdays. Tips for how to win 1D That's really whatit’s all about. And don't take it too seriously. 2 Make sure you have friends who are experts at different subjects. Mobile phones, reference books, newspapers, etc. are not permitted 3 4 1 Find out about events in the news, especially politics. 5 ‘Memorize the winners of recent and past sporting events, Oscars, Grammys, reality TV shows, political elections, etc. as well as the latest singles and album charts. Always look out for new facts, wherever you are. 7 WH ifyou don't win the quiz, remember, there is always next time, act) 9 GRAMMAR BANK 9A countable / uncountable nouns, a /an, some / any Uncountable ‘an apple ‘+ English nouns can be countable and uncountable. countable = things you can count, e.g. apples. Countable nouns can be singular (an apple) or plural (apples). uncountable = things you can't count, eg, rice, meat NOT tworices-three-meats Uncountable nouns are normally singular. ‘= Some nouns can be countable or uncountable, @.9. ice cream. e ¢ an ice cream (countable) some ice cream (uncountable) a/an, some /any countable uncountable v2 an apple. wansed some apples. some butter, veneeg 2 0mH0 ElWedontineed SYM. angen bo weneed — MONG any sugar? ‘+ We use 2 / an with singular countable nouns. a/ an = one. + We use some in with plural countable nouns and with uncountable nouns. + We use any in and with plural countable nouns and with uncountable nouns. D some ina We use some into ask for and offer things. Can | have some sugar, please? Would you lke some coffee? 9B quantifiers ‘uncountable short fullanswers 9.8 (singular) answers How much sugardo A lot. leat a lot of sugar. you eat? Quite alot. | eat quite alot of sugar. litte eat little sugar. Not much, I don't eat much sugar. None. | don't eat any sugar countable (plural) How many sweets Alot leat a lt of eweets, do you eat? Quite alot. | eat quite alot of sweets, Afew. leat a few sweets, Not many. I don't eat many sweets. None. I don't eat any sweets. D alot of and lots of ‘Alot ofand lots of mean the same thing, eg. He eats alt of cheese / lots of cheese, + We use How much...? with uncountable nouns and How mary...? with plural countable nouns. + We use: 2 lot(of) with countable and uncountable nouns for @ big quantity. quite 2 lot (of for @ medium quantity a little / not..much with uncountable nouns for @ small quantity. 2 few/ not...many with countable plural nouns fora small quantity, ‘ot..any (none in short answers) for zero quantity. a lot of and much / many + Ingasentences we usually use alot of. + Incisentences and ai we usually use much and many. I don't drink much water. Do you drink much coffee? + Itis also possible to use a lot ofin Sand. I don't eat a lot of vegetables. Do you drink alot of coffee? 9C comparative adjectives adjective old ‘Awhale is louder than a lion. O18 fice Canadas bigger than the USA. 5 is more aifficult to climb than Mount Everest. bo ‘My new job is better than my old one. The trafic i always worse inthe evening. Ce + We use comparative adjectives + than to compare | ted two things, people, etc ra! ‘expensive good tad fe spelling one-sylable adjectives: + er (oc-ritthe adjective ends in e) adjectives ending one vowel + one consonant double consonant + -er one- or two-sylabe adjectives ending consonant tyr ier ‘one-sylable adjectives ending ect more + adjective ‘wo- or more sylable adjectives: more + adjectiveoA a Write a, an, or some + a food or drink word. b Complete the conversation with a, an, some, or any. ‘A What can we cook for your brother and his girlfriend? t 2 B Let’s make @_ pizza, A Good idea. Are there ! tomatoes? B Yes. And there are? ‘mushrooms, too. - s A Great! B Ohno! There isn't? cheese! ‘A Ob. Wait a minute. | bought * steak yesterday. 7 Ae there ® potatoes? Ee BED SB ‘A Good. So we can have steak and chips. Do we have some bread *___ fruit? 1 5 B | think we have coranges. Yes, and there's 3 2 . ‘pple and? bananas, too. 3 ; A OK. You can make ® fruit salad for dessert 7 7 B OK. Let's start cooking. ax 9B ‘a Complete the questions with How much orb Circla the correct word or phrase. How many. | don't put(fnuchy many salt on my food. How much sugar do you put in your tea? 1 We don't eat a lot of /a lot sweets. 1 butter do you use for this cake? 2 A How much chocolate do you eat? B A little. / A few. 2 cans of Coke did she drink? 3. My husband doesn’t drink much / many coffee. 3 cil do | need? 4A How much fruit did you buy? 4 chocolates were in that box? B Quite a lot. / Quite a lot of. 5_ “tice do you want? 5 We eat a lot of / much fish. We love it! 6 coffee does he drink? 6 A Do your children drink any milk? 7 bottles of water did you buy? B No, not much / not many. 8 tins of tuna do we have? 7 Donna ate her hamburger, but she didn't eat much / many chips 9 orange juice is there in that carton? 8 A How many vegetables do you eat? 10 biscuits did you eat? B Any-/ None. | don’ lke them. 9 Ihave a cup of tea and a few/a litle cereal for breakfast. 10 A Do you eat much / many meat? B No, | don't eat no/ any meat. I'ma vegetarian, @p.72 9c a Write the comparative form of |b Complete with a comparative adjective + than. the adjectives My sister is younger than_me. She's only 18. (young) big bigger 1 The markets. the supermarket for vegetables. cheap) 1 high 2 lalian is for Spanish people itistor 2 dirty English people. (easy) 3 important 3 always feel in the afternoon in the 4 late morning, (tired) 5 low 4 This estaurantis__when it fist opened. (busy) 6 bored 5 Come in the summer. The weather is in the spring. 7 wet (good) 8 modern 6 Hove science. Ifind it__ history. (interesting) Seeanteretl 7 Milanis_______ fromthe sea_______Rome. (ar) 10 happy 8 tm _______my brother, He's very tal (short) 9 The economic situation is it was last year. (bad) 10 Skingis__I thought it was. (difficul) gp. 75 141rr Days and numbers 1 DAYS OF THE WEEK a Complete the days of the week with the letters. WF S$ thT MS M_onday mandeu iday ("rardeu uuesday /ju:zdeu aturday /'swioder ednesday wenzder unday /'sandeu ursday /Os:zdeu b @1.11 Listen and check. © @1.12 Listen and repeat the bold phrases. the weekend (~ Saturday and Sunday) a weekday (= Monday-Friday) What day is it today? It's Friday. Have a good weekend. See you later. See you tomorrow. See you on Monday. You too. ACTIVATION Cover the days. Say them in order. 2 Capital letters Days of the week begi Tuesdey NOT tuesday with a capital letter, 2 NUMBERS 0-20 a Match the words and numbers. twelve twenty eleven three eighteen five fi 5 0 zer0 "210100" 1 one an) " leva 2 two us 2 wel 3 three __ ri 13 thirteen (isn 4 four (fou 14 fourteen fun 5 anv 18 {fait 6 six (sks) 16 sixteen siks'tan 7 Psevnl 17 seventeen /sevn'tizn 8 eight (ex 18 letisw 9 nine inain) 49 nineteen naun'tizn 10 ten fien 20 /wenti b @1.13 Listen and check. ACTIVATION Cover the words. Say the numbers. 2 Phone numbers 794 1938 = seven nine four, one nine three eight 44 = four four OR double four = zero OR oh (ou! Op7 VOCABULARY BANK 3 NUMBERS 21-100 a Write the numbers. 21 twenty-one /twenti ‘wan shiny (0st thirty-five (Poti far forty ft forty-three (foi Gr fifty Pt fifty-nine ty Pstksti sixty-seven /siksti'Sevn seventy /sevnti seventy-two /sevnti "tu: sighty fet ceighty-eight (est ‘et ninety “navnti ninety-four (aint fs: a hundred 19 ‘handrod sft ‘naun b @1.27 Listen and check. ‘D Pronunciation 13 and 30, 14 and 40, etc. are similar, but the stress is different, e.g thirteen, thirty, fourteen, forty, ete .en is a long sound, but -yis a short sound. AcTIVATION Cover the words. Say the numbers. Ops q O 4 HIGH NUMBERS OOO 2 White the missing numbers orwords. (>) 105 a iansrdtund thn ON, two hundred YYZ 350 three hundred and 875, ‘eight hundred seventy-five 1,000 a thousand /Wauznd/ one thousand five hundred 20% twothousand and 5420 fe thousand four and twenty twenty-five thousand 100000 ahuncred 1,000,000 milion ln 2/300,000 two milion Janine tomes b @9.14 Listen and check. AcTIVATION Cover the words. Say the numbers. Op