UNIT 5
A
1 How much do you know about the recommended amount of different food groups you should
eat each day?
2 How do you decide what is the right size of a portion of food?
3 Does everyone need to eat the same amounts?
4 How much attention do you pay to your diet?
In what ways can food and diet influence your health?
B
1 What are the traditional dishes of your country or region?
2 How often do you eat or make these dishes?
3 How often do you eat or make dishes from other countries? Which ones?
4 What’s your favourite pizza? What’s on it?
C
List at least two ideas for each topic.
1 rules you had to follow when you were in primary school
2 information that should be on food labels
3 places where you’re not allowed to eat hot food
4 table manners
5 things you’re only allowed to do when you’re eighteen
6 questions you shouldn’t ask someone you don’t know well
D
1 Is your lifestyle very different to that of your parents’ generation? In what way(s)?
2 Do you often hear comments about modern life? What kind of comments?
3 How much tea/coffee or other drinks do you have in a normal day?
UNIT 6
A
1. What are false eyelashes?
2. What do you understand by the expression ‘flexible thinker’?
3. When might you get a reward?
4. Name two activities you could do all day long.
5. How many shapes can you name?
6. Are lines always straight?
7. Give examples of how to use record as a noun and as a verb.
8. Is a hoax a person?
9. What’s the difference between a trick and a puzzle?
10. What do you use a spade for?
11. something it took you a long time to do
12. a place a long way away you have visited
13. something you could do all day long
14. something you found too long
I found looking for a lover too long.
Studying at
UNIT 7
A
1 Which room do you spend most time in at home?
2 How do different family members use different rooms?
3 Do you consider your home a private place, just for family? Or do you often have friends
round?
B
What advice would you give someone who wanted to do each one?
1 learn English more quickly
2 do better in exams
3 live more cheaply
4 eat more healthily
5 spend more wisely
6 shop more sensibly
C
Choose a place that you know well and that is attractive to tourists. Prepare a small talk to
persuade people to visit the destination.
Unit 8
A
1. Why did you choose the destination of your most recent holiday?
2. Do many tourists come to your country or region? From which countries?
3. What do these tourists do? Activity holidays, backpacking, cultural sightseeing, ecotourism, or
other holiday activities?
4. What are the advantages of this tourism? Are there any disadvantages?
SITUATIONS:
1. A friend of yours does not know where to go to eat cheap, good and preferably traditional
food in your city. Give him/her some suggestions. Make a short conversation with your
partner on the given situation.
2. Your friend is concerned about food safety for his/her family. Give him/her some
suggestions on where to buy their own food. Make a short conversation with your partner on
the given situation.
3. A foreign friend of yours is going to visit your family soon and does not know how to behave
properly among local people. Give him/her a few tips/suggestions. Make a short conversation
with your partner on the given situation.
4. Make a conversation to discuss the possible consequences you would face in these situations.
1 giving up junk food
2 changing your job/studies
3 sharing a flat with friends
4 taking up extreme sports
5. These things are typical of a 24-hour society.
24-hour shopping Difficulty sleeping
Eating takeaway food Smartphone addiction
Make a conversation to discuss these things by using the following questions:
Are the things positive or negative?
Which ones affect you? In what way?
What are some of the consequences for you or for other people?
6. Make a conversation to persuade your partner to visit a place that you know well and that
is attractive to tourists.
You should discuss the following things:
• the best things to see
• the best things to do
• the best places to eat
Writing
1. Write a letter with your reaction to one of these situations.
• Your college is going to close the student cafeteria.
• Your favourite TV show is being scrapped.
• Your employer/school has banned junk food and drink machines.
• Your local swimming pool is being closed.
Use these questions to guide you.
What two actions are you writing about?
Who is affected by the actions?
What question do you have?
What alternatives do you suggest?
Use these questions to check your letter.
Is the style correct for a formal letter?
Is the purpose of the letter clear?
Is it clear what action the person who the letter is addressed to needs to take?
2. You are going to write an April Fools’story or a news story that is not true. This can be
invented or it can be a story you have heard. First, make notes about the main events and the
background details of the story. Think about what? who? where? and also why? and how?
Write an introductory sentence to summarize the story. Then number your notes in the order you
will write about them. Include at least three adverbs where appropriate.
Write your story in about 150–200 words. Write an interesting headline.
3. Write a paragraph (120-150 words) about your neighborhood.
Write a letter with your reaction to one of these situations.
Your landlord has raised the rent.
Use these questions to guide you.
What two actions are you writing about?
Who is affected by the actions?
What question do you have?
What alternatives do you suggest?
Use these questions to check your letter.
Is the style correct for a formal letter?
Is the purpose of the letter clear?
Is it clear what action the person who the letter is addressed to needs to take?
