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— STUDI Je eroey FEATURES 10 Explorers Husband and wife explorers 12. A family in Kenya The story of a famous family 14. The face of seven billion people Facts and figures about the world’s population 18 World party A video about a world party PERSONALINFORMATION my life personas pescririon Unit 1 People 1 Look at the photo and the caption. Where is Dinah? What’ her job? 2 REE Listen to an interview with the photographer. Match the answers with the questions. 1 What's yourname? a The USA. 2 Where are you from? ber name's Dinah Halstead. 3. What's her name? © She's from Papua New Guinea 4 Where'sshe from? David Doubilet. 3 Work in pairs. Ask and answer these questions. A: Hello, What's your name? B: My name's ‘A; Where are you from? i Tape 4 Work with another pair. Ask and answer these questions. A: What's hisfter name C: Where’ from? D: He listening interview with an explorer + vocabulary personal information * grammar be (amis/are) © pronunciation contracted forms * speaking asking questions Talis Listening Vocabulary personal information 1 Work in pairs. What can you 3 Complete this table with information from Exercise 2 about Beverley see in the photo? and Dereck 2 [HE Listen toan interview First name | Beverley Dereck with Beverley Joubert. Choose Surname i the corsict opti Job/Occupation |? explorer and filmmaker 1. Beverley Joubert isa ee 4 photographer / doctor, explorer ince | Gace and filmmaker. bis 2 Dereklouberisher trier [pions —_| we , 3 They are from Africa / 4 Ada information about you tothe table in Exercise 3 Australia 10 Unit 1 People Grammar be (amiistare) 7 Pronunciation contracted forms 2 ERED Listen to eight sentences, Tick (7) the form you heat. 1 ‘my am a 2 ‘re are 3 ‘mnot am not 4's is 5 aren't are not 6 ‘re are 7 isn't isnot a 5 is bb EX Listen again and repeat the sentences. 8 [XEI Complete this conversation at an airport with the correct form of be. Use a contracted form 5 Look at the grammar box. Complete the information with the forms ofthe verb be a affirmative: 1____, you__,he__ negative: 1 ywe she © questions: __you...? he...? short answers: Yes, I Yes, it No, you No, he 6 TREX Choose the correct options to complete the conversation, Then listen and check, : Hello, What are /is your name? ‘My name's Mike Burney. 2 Are /Is you married? Yes,*I'm /Lam, My wife's name is Sally. She 4 aren’ / isn't here today. ‘What's her job? 5 She're / She's a teacher.* 'n/ I's also a teacher. : Are you both from the United Kingdom? ‘No, west /aren’. I'm from the UK, but Sally is from Canada. ind how old *are /is you? Ym thirty-six 1s Sally also thirty-six? No, she ant not / isn, she's thiety-five Pree BESE Sree "1 ‘where possible. Then listen and check. AL SPeee Se Good afternoon. ’__ you in New Zealand for work or a holiday? For work.I? a photographer : Tsee. What? your address in Auckland? We* at 106a Eglinton Road. we? ‘Yes, I'm with my wife and two children. They 3 here © your wife also a photographer? Yes, she is, but she? ____in Auckland for work,She' __here fora holiday. Speaking EEESNNMMGENMINI > rriewos ano ramuey FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES. » IWTRODUCE YOURSELF > APERSONAL DESCRIPTION a family of explorers + family * ‘word roots * possessives + the same or different sounds * friends and family A family in Kenya A family in Is your family big or small? Where are all the people in your family? Read about the Leakey family. es Re caeere rae ‘The Leakey family lives in Kenyc. Louise Leakey is an explorer, but for her family that's normal! Lonise’s mother is Meave and she o's father is Richard Leakey. Richard is also in Kenya and he’ a conservationist Richard's half-brother 1 Where are the Leakey family? Are Louise and Meave explorers? What is Richard's job? n explorer: Lou 4 Whatis Colin’s job? is Colin Leakey. Colin isnt in Africa. He's retired and he lives 5. IsPhilip married? in England, Louise's grandparents (Louis and Mary) are dead, 6 2? but they were also famous explorers. Louise's sister is Samira Their uncle and aunt are Phillip Leakey and his wife Katy. They have an international company: Read the article again and complete the family tree half-brother (n) hos beaBo(" brother with one different parent Louis Leakey akey conservationist (n) /kons(")veuso)nst (1903-1972) (1913-1996) someone who looks after nature retied (an) /tar(nd no longer working Leakey Leakey Phillip Leakey Leakey 1942) Louise Leakey Leakey 1972) (974 Unit 1 People Vocabulary family 4 Look at these family words. Which are men (M)? Which are women (W)? Which are both (B)? aunt cousin father grandparent half-brother mother mother-in-law nephew niece parent stepbrother uncle. 5 Write the correct words from Exercise 4. 1 your father’s brother and sister: ‘ 2 your brother's daughter and son: 3. your uncle and aust’s son or daughter: 4a brother, but from one different patent: 5. your husband’s or wife's mother: 6 your mother or father: 7 your parent's mother or father: | You ean make more words from a root word. For example: mother - grandmother = stepmother =» mmothernlaw For further practice, see Workbook page 11. 6 Look atthe wordbuilding box and the words in Exercise 5. Make six more words with the root words sister and father Grammar possessive ‘s and possessive adjectives Possessives Mike's wife is a teacher. Mike and Sally's home isin Canad. Note: ‘si also the contracted form of is. Possessive adjectives subject | possessive |subject | possessive pronoun | adjective | pronoun _| adjective i my we our you your you your he bis she her they their it She's my sister. What's your name? His name is Charli. For further information and practice, ee page 158. 7 Look atthe grammar bot. Then find five examples of the possessive $ and three possessive adjectives in the antile on page 12. 8 Choose the correct word to complete the sentences. 1/ My parents are Spanish. 1/My am the only boy in my family. What's you / your name? Where are you / your from? 2 ‘She / Her isa photographer. He / itis uncle isin the USA. We / Our family is from Asia They / Their cousins are both girls. 9 Pronunciation the same or different sounds Listen to these pairs of words s the pronunciation the same (/) or different (X72 they're / their he's / his its /iws are / our you're / your 10 LXEY Rewrite these sentences. Use the words in brackels. Then listen and check. 1 Tm Fabien, (my name) My name's Fabien. 2 Annie's sister is Claire. (her) 3. Francis and Antony’s cousins are Juliet and. Jane, (their) 4 rit’s grandparents are dead. (his) 5 Are you Sylvain? (your name) 6 We havea niece. Her name is Helen. (ou) 11 EXER Complete the description ofa person's family and friends with these words: Then listen and check her her his my their My family lives in Australia. * ‘mother is from Ireland and? three sisters (my aunts) ive there. My father is from ‘Australia and he's a businessman. My sister's name is Orla and she's a teacher. She's married and? husband is Tim. He's also a teacher. © children are Rory and Jack. My bestfriend is Peter. © father and my father have a company together. Speaking 12 Waite five names of friends or people in your family. Introduce them to yous partner. Karina is my best friend. She's from Argentina Stein and llona are my to cousins in Germany They’ my mother’s nephew and nice PERSONAL INFORMATION. > EETEIEEEMERZNNINA > Facts ABOUT COUNTRIES > INTRODUCE YOURSELF >> A PERSONAL DESCRIPTION pronunciation saying numbers and percentages * reading world population * Critical thinking types of text + vocabulary everyday verbs » word focus in + speaking facts about countries, 1c The face of seven billion people Speaking 1 Pronunciation saying numbers and percentages CRED Listen and repeat these numbers and, percentages. {billion 1.3billion 3.5 billion 5.5 lion 7 billion 23% 38% 51% Reading 2 Read the text about the people in the world and match Critical thin! 3 4 the numbers in Exercise 1 with the information (1-8), the number of people in the world ‘he population of India the number of speakers of English as a second language the percentage of Muslims the percentage of workers in agriculture the percentage of people in cities the number of people with the internet the number of people with a mobile phone g types of text Read the text again. What type of text i it? Choose the correct option (a-c) a atext with facts a text with opinions © astory Which information in the text is new or surprising for you? Tell the class, The information about the city and the couninyside is new for me. Vocabulary everyday verbs FFind these verbs in the text. Then complete the factfile about China with the verbs. have live speak use work China inchina, the language of 1.4 billion people ' 70% of the population? Mandarin Chinese Over 1.3 billion Chinese people * phone. 25% of the population 55% of the Chinese® a mobile in agriculture, the internet. 6 Match the sentences (1-4) with the uses of 1 21 milllion people live in Mexico City 2. There are 65 million people in the United Kingdom, 3. 40% of the population work in the service industry 4 49% live in the countrys a ita country b iin-+acity or region in-+a type of work or industry | ! ] } Word focus in | | | 7. Write three sentences about people in your country using in Speaking 8 Workin pairs Student A: Tum to page 154 Student Bs Turn to page 156, Read the information in your table and prepare {questions to find out the missing information, Then ask and answer your questions and ‘complete the tables. 9 Work in pairs. How many people arein your + country? + family? # town orcity? + school / place ‘English class? of work? A: There are fie people in my family. B: There are sixty-five milion people in my country. Unit 1 People SEVEN BILLION PEOPLE There are seven billion people in the world and there are seven thousand people in this photo. Each person in the photo is equal to one million people. That's seven billion in total! The average age of all the people in the world is 28 er oe we Be rosrteen percentofthe worlds ee cee eee ore ee eee Be par cacepenk Engish aetna are Oe scpesce ot ceo te sece BP ianguage for one bition people, See ee caer eee reat Forty percent of people work ina : service industry (hotels, banks, ete), | ‘hirty-eight pe cent are in agriculture and twenty-two per centare in ‘manufacturing and production ETS Fifty-one per cent ofthe world’s population tive in 3.Sillion people in the world use the internet cities and forty-nine per cent lve in the countryside and 5S billion people have a mobile phone. | 38 average (ad) evar / usual typical (Gs) equal (to (phn) i-kval the same as (2+ 2=4, two and two equals four) PERSONAL INFORMATION > FRIENDS AND FAMLY > [EXERENTCURSSINTETES > wrRoouce YOURSELF ® |APERSONAL DESCRIPTION my life pronunciation spelling * real life meeting people for the first time 1d The first day Real life meeting people for the first time 3 ERRED I's the first day for students at a university in the USA. Listen to two conversations with Rita, Matt and Valérie. + Which two people are new students? * Which person works at the university? 4 EREET Listen again. Choose the correct option to complete the sentences, Conversation one 1. This is their frst /second meeting, | 2 Matt's surname is L Conversation two 3 Valérie's surname is Moore / Morea 4 Valérie / Matt says goodbye to Rita 5. Valérie is from France / New Caledonia. 5 ERED Look at the expressions for meeting people for the first time Then listen again and Eck () the expressions you heat, > MEETING PEOPLE Introducing yourself Introducing another person Hello... Hi isis Myname's.. /I'm... He's/She's from Egcinomy Saying goodbye | Nice to meet you. ‘ater Nice tomeetyou, ew too. ean nice meeting you bye. Bye 6 Work in groups of three: A, Band C. Practise 2 the conversation. Then change roles and repeat a the conversation two more times, Speaking aes 1 Pronunciation spelling | [REE Listen and repeat the letters ofthe alphabet. | ABCDEFGHIJKLMN net ag OPQRSTUVWXYZ 2 Work in pairs. Take tums to spel these words. Listen and write the words. Check your partners spelling CasisAandBa question your country your jab Cant you spell your first name? It's Pablo. P-A-B-L-O. |: Cam you repeat that? Sure, P-A-B-L-O. Boe PERSONALINFORMATION > FRIENDS AND FAMILY [A PERSONAL DESCRIPTION | ap my life writing a personal description * writing skill and and but Unit 1 People 1e Introduce yourself _ Writing a personal description 2. Writing skill and and but | 4. Read the personal descriptions of Matt and Valétie. Look atthe @ Lookat the words and and but | table an ick (7) the information they writ, in the personal descriptions in i Exercise 1. Which word is for extra [ Matt Valerie information? Which word is for a [Firstname difference? surname b Rewrite the two sentences as one Job/Occupation sentence. Use and of but Home country _ 1 live in Spain. 'm from Language ‘Argentina H framity I ioe in Spain, but Um from } Argentina 2 Y'm21. My sister is 21 m5 Tin 21 and my sister is 21 MATT LAURENS 3. I'm British, Hindi is my first a language. Hi My name’s Matt and ma One student. m from England, but 4 Be oot Gamma. rie wok I study at a university in the USA. 'm single and I have two brothers My friend is 30. He's single. Live in Spain. I work in France. She's a student. She's at Oxford University. 8 My family isin the countryside. Ym in the city. 3 Write personal description for VALERIE MOREAU you Use the table in Exercise 1 t0 Hello. Im Valérie Moreau and betpyou, Usenet end teh i'm from New Caledonia. It's 2 4 Work in pairs. Exchange your ‘beautiful island inthe Pacific descriptions. Use these questions to Ocean. We speak French in check your partner's description New Caledonia, but | also speak Eyaleh ane creck * Does the description include all the information from Exercise 1? © Does it use and and but correctly? 5 Display your descriptions around the classroom. Walk around and read about the other students in your English class. fi > PERSONAL INFORMATION > FRIENDS AND FAMILY > FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES > INTRODUCE YOURSELF rl “ee UF 4 | = pr i ate Unit 1 People 4 Watch the video again. Number these sentences from the video in the correct order (1-7) Before you watch 4 Look at the photo of a party in Singapore and There are seven billion stars. 1 ete ee b_ Orthere’s the state of Rhode Island 1 When do you have parties in your country? © One person needs about threg square feet. 2. Where are the parties? (eg. in youir house, in i Smilet the street, ina restaurant, at your college) People send seven billion texts every 30 hours in the USA. 2. Key vocabulary So everyone needs about six square feet. {The Juneau Icefield in Alaska is the correct size In the USA they use fet and miles, not centimetres But itsa bit cold and kilometres. Match the US phrases (1-5) with the metric phrases (-e) that mean the same. Practise ee After you watch 1 Loot 4 200 kilometres — 2 Sequarene\ 800 kilometres 5 Vesvuley n ontant 3 1mile € 30centimetres (CEE Watch the clips from the video. Choose 44500 miles 4 16kilometres the correct menning of the words and phrases. 5 1,500 miles © 0.27 square metres 6 Interview everyone in your elas, using this questionnaire While you watch 3 CORBI Watch the video. Match the things in the ‘video (1-8) with the numbers (a-h). 1 number of years to count from one to seven, billion 2. number of stars you can see at night 3. number of times around the Barth with seven billion steps ‘number of text messages in the USA every second, the area for one person to stand the area for one person at a party the area for seven billion people at a party the area for seven billion people ina photo a thousand sbx square feet 1,500 square miles three square feet 200 133 65,000 500 square miles 1 bit (=) Pt a small amount ‘compare (kom pea! to talk about the differences and similarities between one thing and another thing How many people ... are in your lass? are male? are female? are under 202 are over 207 are students? have a job? speak two or more languages? are from this country (the cauntry you are in now)? have a mobile phone 7 Write short report about your class. Fifteen people are in my class, Eight are mate and seven are female, Everyose is under 20 UNIT 1 REVIEW AND MEMORY BOOSTER Grammar 1 Wiite the words in order to make questions, Then work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions. 1._your / name? /’s / what 2. from / are / England? / you 3 are / you / where / from? 4 married? / you / are / single or 5 you / are /'a teacher? 2 Complete the conversation with ‘5, isn't, are or arent. A: What! his name? B: Hisname* Felipe A: What? her name? B: Camila, A: Are they from Mexico? B: No, they* They're from Brazil ‘A: What Felipe's job? B: He* a conservationist. A: Is Camila an explorer? B: No, she” -She* a conservationist too! 3 Write a similar conversation about these two ‘people from Unit 1. Use the language from Exercise 2. 4. Choose the correct option to complete the sentences What's you /your name? He / His aunt is French. They / Their are my cousins. ‘The photographer's / photographer is wife is my /1 best friend. She / Her mother is from Germany, but her /she is from Switzerland, Vocabulary 5 Match the words 1-5 with -e. 1 surname a 38 2 relationship, —_-b Stephenson 3 age © brother 4 job 4 China 5 country © teacher 6 Complete the sentences with verbs. 1 90% of families h in their house 2. 80% of the population s English 3. Alot of people not houses. 4 How many people w. in agriculture? a computer in apartments, 7 ESE Write the opposite word single brother aincle hello 8 BXXMEY Write three sentences (two true and ‘one false) with information about you. Then ‘work in pairs and read your sentences. Guess ‘your partner's false sentence. Real life 9 Number the lines of the conversation in the correct order (1-5). Sonia: Amold is, but 'm not. I'm from Scotland. Amold: Nice to meet you too, Rosa. 'm ‘Amold and this is my wife, Sonia Rosa: I'm from Italy, but [live in France. Are you and Arnold from England? Rosa: Hi, My name's Rosa. Nice to meet you. Sonia: Hello, Rosa. Where are you from? 10 ESXNEI Work in groups of three. Practise a similar conversation to Exercise 9 using your real information,

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