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1A. Vocabulary
1. Speaking: Work in pairs. Can you answer this famous riddle from Sophocles’s play Oedipus the King? Explain your answer. 2. VOCABULARY Number the stages of life in order that people reach them. Then listen and check. 3. Match some of the phrases in exercise 2 with the pictures below of the woman at different stages of her life. 4. VOCABULARY Check the meaning of the life events below. At what age are they most likely to happen, do you think? Put them in groups A – E. Compare your answers with
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1B. Grammar
1. Look at the photo. How old do you think the woman is? Why do you think she is famous? 2. Read the text and check your ideas. 3. Complete the Learn this! box with the tenses below. Then underline an example of each of the rules (a-d) in the text in exercise 2. 4. Complete this sentence in three different ways using the three tenses in the Learn this! box. Use the verb learn. How does the meaning change? 5. Complete the sentences with the correct past simple, past continuous or past perfect for
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1C. Listening
1. SPEAKING Work in pairs. Look at the photo. What do you think this app does? Why might some people need it? 2. SPEAKING Read the text and check your answer to exercise 1. Do you think the app would increase or decrease the number of arguments in your family? Why? 3. VOCABULARY Work In pairs. Check the meaning of the adjectives below. Which describe a positive attitude? Which describe a negative attitude? 4. Read the Listening Strategy. Then listen and underline the adjective which best matches
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1D. Grammar
1. Read and listen to the dialogue between a teenager and his grandfather. Which adjective best sums up the grandfather's attitude: miserable or nostalgic? 2. Read the learn this! box. Underline an affirmative, a negative and an interrogative example of used to in the dialogue in exercise 1. 3. Complete the dialogue with the correct form of used to and the verbs below. 4. PRONUNCIATION Listen and check your answers to exercise 3. How is used to pronounced? 5. Complete these sentences with the co
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1E. Words Skills
1. Read the article about a film. Explain in your own words what is unusual about the main character. 2. Match the highlighted phrasal verbs in the article with their definitions below. 3. Circle the correct words to complete the Learn this! box. Use the examples in the article to help you. 4. DICTIONARY WORK Read the Dictionary tip. Then find these phrasal verbs in a dictionary and check the difference in meaning between the two- and three-part phrasal verbs. 5. Complete the sentences with two-
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1F. Reading
1. SPEAKING Do you sometimes argue with your parents? What do you argue about, and why? Use the ideas below to help you. 2. Read the text quickly, ignoring the gaps. Choose the best summary of the text: a, b or c. 3. Read the Reading Strategy. Then read the sentences below and the highlighted words in the text. Say which sentence links to which highlighted word and underline the part of the sentence which helped you to decide. 4. Use your answers to exercise 3 to match sentences A-G with gaps 1-
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1G. Speaking
1. SPEAKING Work in pairs. Look at the advert below. In your opinion, what would be the best and worst things about spending a year with a family abroad? Use the prompts below and your own ideas. 2. Read the Speaking Strategy and the task above. Then match one or two of the ideas below with each topic. 3. Listen to a student doing the task from exercise 2. Does she discuss all the topics? Which ideas from the exercise does she mention? 4. Read the Learn this! box. Then complete sentences 1-3 usi
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1H. Writing
1. SPEAKING Work in pairs. What is a penfriend? Think of three reasons why somebody might want a penfriend in a different country. 2. Read the advertisement from a website for international penfriends above. What information does Adam ask for? 3. Read the task and the message below. Does Vinh provide all of the information that Adam asks for? What does Vinh ask for more information about? 4. KEY PHRASES Look at the polite requests. Which one does Adam use in his advertisement? Which one does Vin
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