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• present simple • work Keeping monologues • recommending • a short text Get a job!
1 • present
continuous
• job skills
• phrasal verbs:
people
posted
(multiple
matching;
a person for
a job
about a job
for a careers
(multiple-choice
cloze)
• stative verbs give (multiple sentence • pronunciation: advice website
A Hard • present perfect • prepositions choice) completion) \œ\, \A…\, \ø\ • an email giving
Day’s Work • present perfect a reference
continuous • writing tip:
(pp. 4-11)
formal language
2 • past continuous
• past perfect
activities
• weather
to the city
of Gold
(multiple
choice; note
dealing with a
complaint
advertising a
place
Tis-sa-ack
(T/F/DS
• past perfect • holiday (multiple taking) • intonation: • a story (3rd statements)
continuous problems matching) expressing person)
Places to • phrasal verbs:
• used to/would – feelings • writing tip:
Visit take
be/get used to ending a story;
(pp. 12-19) • prepositions rubric analysis
• will – going to • types/places of A Whole monologues/ • making plans/ • adverts for an The West
3 • present simple/
present
entertainment
• feelings
Lotta Fun
in Ottawa
dialogues
(multiple
expressing
(un)certainty
online magazine End (multiple
• a leaflet about choice)
continuous related to (multiple choice) • pronunciation: a place of
(future meaning) entertainment matching) linking entertainment
Fun Time
• future perfect/ (-ed/-ing) consonants • writing tip:
(pp. 20-27) future perfect • phrasal verbs: writing leaflets;
continuous run participle
• time clauses • prepositions clauses
• C/U nouns • food products Don’t Waste a dialogue • asking about/ • a leaflet Funcy a
6 • singular/plural
nouns
• tastes
• eating habits
Your Bread! (T/F
(multiple statements)
expressing
preference
• an essay
providing
cuppa? (open
cloze)
• quantifiers • phrasal verbs: choice) • pronunciation: solutions to a
Eating • partitives turn elision problem
Habits • some/any/ • prepositions • writing tip:
no/every & topic/supporting
(pp. 46-53)
compounds sentences
• articles
• reported speech • everyday The Bio a presentation • a debate • a product review Isaac
9 • modals in technology Hackers (multiple • explaining a • writing tip: Newton
reported speech • inventions & (missing choice) process descriptive The Force
• special gadgets sentences) • pronunciation: language of Genius
Eureka! introductory • phrasal verbs: geminates (multiple-
(pp. 72-79) verbs get choice
• question tags • prepositions cloze)
11 • -ing form
• expressing
spending
• financial
was King
(multiple
(multiple
matching)
money
• reduced
place
• writing tip:
Boot
(T/F/DS
preference services choice) pronunciation: using powerful statements)
Money • reflexive/ • phrasal verbs: modals language
Matters emphatic go
(pp. 90-97) pronouns • prepositions
• determiners • environmental Keep the a monologue • a presentation • a letter to the The Great
• emphatic problems noise down! (sentence • expressing editor making British
12 structures • effects – (multiple completion) concern/making suggestions Beach
• plural nouns solutions choice) suggestions • writing tip: Clean
• phrasal verbs: • pronunciation: paraphrasing (missing
Earth: SOS put silent letters sentences)
(pp. 98-105) • prepositions
6
singular/plural nouns, quantifiers
& partitives; some/any/no/every & solutions to a problem
compounds; articles
Eating Habits
Listening & Reading
fruit & v
egetable
s bakery
meat Don’t Waste Your Bread!
The App Fighting Food Waste in Italy
pastry s
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fish
pizzeria
take aw
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M atteo Pincella looks out the window of his bakery as the sun
slowly sets over the Palazzo Carignano, one of Turin’s most
recognisable buildings. It’s been a long day. Matteo and his son,
food wouldn’t go to waste. Obviously, Francesco didn’t want to fill
the cobbled streets of Turin with screaming bakers, but he thought
that smartphones could do the same job. The ‘Last Minute Sotto
Giovanni, have been baking and selling bread and pies since 6 am, Casa**’ app was born!
but now at 8:30 pm, there is still a lot of food on the shelves ... and The LMSC app that Francesco developed is very user-friendly.
no customers in sight. “È ora*,” Matteo says smiling. So, Giovanni Customers download it to their smartphones for free and receive
rubs his hands on his stained white apron, takes his smartphone updates when shops near their homes have food for sale at
out of his pocket, and opens an app. Then, five minutes later, a discount prices just before closing time. Businesses pay a small
large group of customers turn up, eager to buy the bakery’s monthly fee for the service and earn some money from food that
remaining goods. How has this happened? Well, Matteo’s bakery they would have thrown out. What businesses like most, though, is
is part of a scheme that has had a huge impact on food businesses that the app brings people into their shops for the first time, and
and food waste in Turin. these people often return regularly.
It all started when a local businessman, Francesco Ardito, was Francesco’s main concern has always been the environment, and
strolling through the city one evening in 2014. While passing a he’s hugely proud of the impact LMSC is having on food waste.
pizzeria at closing time, he noticed the owner throwing away two In 2015, a year after it was developed, the app had 32,000 users
pieces of pizza that hadn’t been sold. Francesco thought this was a and was saving around 3.5 tonnes of food from ending up in
waste of food and, after chatting to bakers and fruit vendors in his the rubbish dumps outside Turin each month! And today, LMSC
neighbourhood, discovered that it was a common problem. In Italy, schemes are running in other cities in Italy, such as Naples and
most people choose fresh food from bakeries and greengrocer’s Palermo. As Francesco says, LMSC is a ‘win-win-win scheme’: for
over processed foods from the supermarket. It’s a lot healthier, but customers, businesses, and most importantly, the planet. The less
more fresh food means more food waste, because it goes off faster. food we waste, the less energy and water we need to produce it –
In fact, Italy wastes about 5.1 million tonnes of food a year – much and that helps save our planet for future generations.
of this from food businesses that don’t sell all their fresh goods.
Francesco, though, soon developed an idea to solve this problem. * ‘È ora’ means ‘It’s time’ in Italian
One evening, while looking up at the tall apartment buildings in his ** ‘sotto casa’ means ‘under your house’ in Italian
neighbourhood, he imagined a baker leaving his bakery just before
closing time and shouting up at the residents inside, “Loaves of Check these words
bread for 10 cents!” No doubt, someone would be interested in the
cheap bread, the owner would earn some cash, and perfectly good app, apron, scheme, impact, vendor, cobbled, generation
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3 inCOLLOCATIONS
3 Ken baked/cooked a delicious cake for us.
Find and complete the words
the text that describe the following. Then 4 Pam grows/produces vegetables in her back garden.
make sentences.
1 . ........................... prices 4 ............................... time 8 PHRASAL VERBS Fill in the correct particle.
4 Make
PREPOSITIONS Choose the correct preposition.
sentences using the prepositional phrases.
turn down: 1) to decrease volume, etc; 2) to refuse an
invitation/offer
turn out: to have an end result, especially a surprising one
1 to be on/in sight 4 to fill sth with/of sth
2 to have an impact with/ 5 to be by/for free
1 Steve turned ........... at the cooking class one hour late.
on sth 6 to be proud with/of sth
2 Ann always turns ............... her mother for advice.
3 to be interested in/of sth
3 Turn ................. the cooker when the cake is ready.
4 Pierre turned ............... to be a talented chef in the end.
Vocabulary 5 The cook turned ................. the job offer.
Food products
Speaking & Writing
5 Look at the smartphone app on p. 46. Which
Countable Uncountable
5 Fill in: packet, bar, bottle, box, tin, carton, jar, slice,
tube. Add one more item for each.
beans fibre 1) a ...................... of chocolate; 2) a ...................... of
jam; 3) a ...................... of toothpaste; 4) a ......................
Do the same with the words below. of mineral water; 5) a ...................... of sardines;
6) a .................... of chocolates; 7) a ...................... of
• advice • weather • sheep • furniture • child biscuits; 8) a ...................... of bread; 9) a ......................
• progress • bus • box • information • tennis of milk
• luggage • knife • news • tooth • brush
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6 a) cartons,
Complete the gaps. Use: few, cans, no, couple,
jar, packet, some, enough, any, plenty, bit.
9 a) Use
Complete the exchanges.
some/any/no/every
and their compounds.
J: Paul, what do we need?
1 A: Do you know .....................
P: OK, Jane. Well, first, we need 1) .................... milk – we
good Chinese restaurants?
don’t have 2) .................... left.
B: No, unfortunately, there is
J: OK, how many 3) .................... should we get?
........................... that serves
P: Two, I think. Also, let’s get a(n) 4) .................. apples –
ethnic food around here.
I’m not eating 5) .................... fruit these days.
2 A: Did you know .....................
J: OK, let’s get a(n) 6) .................... of bananas then, too.
at the dinner party?
There are 7) .................... of pears in the fridge if you
B: No, but I met .....................
want fruit.
who knows my sister.
P: You’re right! What else? There’s a(n) 8) ....................
3 A: Would you like ................... to eat before you leave?
of cheese in the fridge, but we should get another
9) .................... . Let’s get some cola, too. B: No, we plan to stop ..................... and get a take-
away on the way home.
J: No, there are several 10) .................... in the cupboard.
There’s 11) .................... honey left, though, so we 4 A: Did you go ..................... last night?
need a(n) 12) .................... of that. B: No, we just stayed in and ordered ....................
P: OK, I guess that’s everything, then. pizza.
5 A: ..................... we ate at Dino’s was really delicious.
B: They’ve got ..................... vegetarian dishes, though.
b) SPEAKING In pairs, discuss a
shopping list for this week. Use quantifiers/ b) SPEAKING Choose an exchange
partitives. Act out a dialogue like the one in from Ex. 9a and continue the dialogue.
Ex. 6a.
2 friends,
You will hear a conversation between two
Keith and Wendy, about following a
Intonation: elision
healthy diet. For questions 1-8, decide if the Elision is when a sound disappears when it is preceded
statements are T (True) or F (False). or followed by another stronger or similar sound. This can
happen within a word or when words meet each other.
1 Keith only bought fruit and vegetables. .......... Often \t\ or \d\ sounds disappear in this way.
2 Keith has been on his new diet for three weeks. ..........
3 Keith used to spend £10 for a pizza every Friday. ..........
4 Wendy advises Keith to contact Dino’s Pizzeria. ..........
5 Keith is going to try to avoid fast food completely. .......... 5 examples
Listen to the sentences and underline
of elision. Listen again and repeat.
6 Keith avoids eating when he watches TV. ..........
7 Keith believes that he gets enough exercise. .......... 1 I don’t know why he asked to leave.
8 Wendy had to stop playing tennis because of 2 Do you want to sit down while we’re waiting?
an injury. .......... 3 We store our vegetables at room temperature.
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9 a) will
Read the task and find the key words. Who
read your piece of writing?
Writing Tip
Topic/Supporting sentences
VALUES
ibility om
In essays, each main body paragraph should begin with a
Respons fo o d is li ke stealing fr ngry.
topic sentence that introduces or summarises its main idea. way d hu
Throwing a ose who are poor an e Francis
A topic sentence should be followed by supporting sentences, o f th P o p
which further develop the main idea of the paragraph.
the table
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‘Fancy a cuppa?’ It’s a phrase you often hear in the UK. In fact, the UK is one of
the countries 0) in the world where people consume lots of tea – with the average
British adult drinking 876 cups a year!
Obviously, because of its climate, the UK doesn’t grow its own tea – but tea leaves
from Asia were first brought to British shores 1) .................. Dutch traders in the
early 17th century. Back then, people mainly drank tea as a medicine. Years later,
in the middle of the 18th century, British trading companies moved 2) ..................
parts of India. Tea became much more affordable, and Brits have been drinking it
3) .................. since.
So, what’s the secret to the perfect British cup of tea? The British usually drink
black tea 4) .................. of green or white tea. Sometimes, especially on formal
occasions, people use loose tea leaves and pour it from a teapot – but for a quick
and easy ‘cuppa’ most people simply toss a tea bag into a mug and add boiling
water from a kettle ... and, of course, milk!
Unlike in the Middle East, 5) .................. people drink their tea without it, the
British like tea with milk. Originally, they used to put milk into their cups to protect
their porcelain cups from cracking from the heat. Nowadays, 93% of tea is taken
with milk in the UK. People’s personal tastes differ, though – some people leave the
bag in the mug longer and add less milk to make strong tea, whereas others prefer
weak tea. You can 6) .................. the difference by the colour – strong tea has a
darker shade of brown. Those with a sweet tooth can add sugar.
It’s common for British people to have ‘afternoon tea’ with sandwiches, cakes,
biscuits, or scones topped with cream and jam - but in the UK, tea 7) ..................
drunk throughout the day and with every meal. In fact, Brits often call their main
evening meal ‘tea’ because the drink is an important part of it. Along 8) ..................
fish and chips, strawberries and cream, and baked beans on toast, tea is an essential
part of the food culture of the UK.
Until Victorian times, tea was very expensive so only the rich could afford it. It was
kept locked away in a tea caddy and rich ladies carried the key around their necks.
3 Choose the correct item. your taste buds! With salads from all over 4) .............. world,
you’ll be spoiled for choice! And if you have 5) .............. special
1 Kate was very proud of/at the cake she baked. request, we make salads to order. See you soon!
2 Peter turned out/up at the restaurant an hour late.
3 Jim never likes to see food go in/to waste.
4 Laura turned down/out the job offer at the café. (5 x 2 = 10)
5 Mary filled the bowls with/in fresh fruit.
Everyday English
(5 x 3 = 15)
Grammar
7 Match the exchanges.
1 Which do you like a Yes, but only a little.
Competences
Lexical Reading Competence Writing Competence
Competence • understanding texts related to food (read for • prepare a leaflet
✓GOOD understand
words/phrases
specific information – multiple choice; open cloze)
Listening Competence
about reducing food
waste at home
OD ✓✓
related to: • listen to and understand dialogues related to • write an essay
VERY GO • food products healthy eating (listen for detail – T/F statements) providing solutions to
• tastes Speaking Competence a problem
EXCELLENT
✓✓✓ • eating habits • ask about/express preference
• give a presentation about a food/drink
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A
CLIL: Geography
Reading & Listening
I
1998, affecting parts of Ontario, New
ce storms are extreme weather events which regularly occur in the
York State and Quebec.
winter months of December and January. 1 However, ice storms
E Problems are caused by the weight of
the ice. have also been recorded in other territories and even other parts of
F Thunderstorms, on the other hand, can the world, such as Britain and Russia.
occur at any time of year. Ice storms are caused by freezing rain. This forms when there are three
G This coats everything with a thick smooth layers of air – cold, warm and cold – one on top of the other above the
layer of ice.
ground. Falling snow in the top cold air layer meets the warmer layer
Listen and check. Then and turns into rain. As the rain falls through the third layer, the air
explain the words in bold. cools the rain to a temperature below zero without it freezing. This
process is known as ‘supercooling’. When the supercooled raindrops
hit the ground, they freeze, provided the surface they meet is also
3 What do the highlighted items in
the text refer to?
below zero. 2 It is this icy covering that is known as an ice storm.
There are three categories of ice storm, all depending on the amount
of ice. ‘Nuisance’ storms have ice up to a quarter of an inch thick,
Speaking & Writing
making travel on roads difficult. ‘Disruptive’ means that the ice is
4 diagram again. Which
THINK
THINK
Look at the between a quarter and half an inch thick. 3 Tree branches can
of these become thirty times heavier and electricity wires between two poles
weather phenomena are most may gain 500 pounds. Fallen trees and electricity poles can cause
THINK
common in your country? At what serious accidents. ‘Crippling’ ice storms cover surfaces in half an
time of year? Discuss.
inch of ice or more, often causing whole towns and cities to stop
functioning. 4 It lasted for six days with up to five inches of
5 another
ICT Collect information about
extreme weather event.
ice, causing billions of dollars’ worth of damage. People were without
electricity for weeks, plunging them into freezing temperatures.
Write about: where it occurs, how it
is caused, damage it causes and any
other interesting facts. Present Did you know?
the weather event to the class. • Black ice is so called because it is clear, not white, and shows the colour of the
road surface underneath. 5
• Ice jams happen when a thaw causes the ice on frozen rivers to break into
Check these words pieces. The pieces then block the normal flow of water and can cause flooding.
• The thickest ice ever recorded in an ice storm was in northern Idaho, USA in
layer, category, nuisance, inch, disruptive,
1961. The ice measured eight inches in places.
pound, crippling, thaw
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1 For questions 1-8, read the text below. Use the 3 For questions 1-7, choose which answer (A, B, C
or D) best fits each gap.
words given in capitals to form words that fit in
the gaps in the same lines.
1 Sam ordered his roast beef ...........; he doesn’t like it
when the meat is pink.
Becoming vegetarian A
B
overcooked
raw
C medium
D well done
As people become more and more 0) concerned CONCERN
about following a 1) ........................ diet, and also HEALTH 2 Let’s leave a 10% .......... for the waiter.
about the protection of animals, vegetarianism A bill B tip C cheque D note
continues to increase in 2) .................................. . POPULAR 3 Jack was so hungry that he decided to have a second
Although meat is extremely 3) ................................, NUTRITION .......... of pie.
it can also be very fattening, so eating a lot of it A share B part C helping D course
can lead to 4) .................................. problems WEIGH 4 This soup tastes quite ..........; you should add more
and related 5) ........................ such as heart ILL herbs and spices to it.
disease. On the other hand, vegetables, grains A sour B bland C stale D sweet
and dairy 6) .............................. can provide all PRODUCE
5 The canteen serves a variety of .......... such as tea,
the nutrients necessary to build up and maintain a
coffee and hot chocolate.
strong, fit body. Experts, though, stress that being
A meals C beverages
a vegetarian requires a lot of effort. First, you need
B snacks D leftovers
to be 7) ........................ about which foods you eat CARE
to get the nutrients you need for a balanced diet 6 When I took a .......... of the steak, I realised that the chef
– and then you need to make sure to eat enough hadn’t cooked it properly.
of them. Many vegetarians, for example, may be A swallow B bite C chew D nibble
8) ........................ that they lack B vitamins, which AWARE 7 Dairy .......... like milk and cheese have a lot of protein.
are often found in meat and fish. A products B goods C items D crops
Open cloze
Key word transformation
4 For questions 1-8, read the text below and think
The information you hear in the recording has the same When answering questions about pictures, remember to
meaning as the true statements in the task, but not the same justify your answer with reasons and/or examples. When
words. The false statements in the task may sound similar to asked about two photos, try to answer the question fully by
what you hear, but have a different meaning. While reading referring briefly to both.
the statements, think of different ways of saying the same
thing. Preparing for the task
Preparing for the task 7 Look at the pictures (A and B) showing people
doing different kitchen jobs. Then match
5 Look at the pairs of sentences (1-4). Which of
the pairs have the same meaning?
questions 1-4 to their answers (a-d). Which two
answers are the best? Why?
1 a “I’m happy to say Sunday’s barbecue went really A B
well,” said Don.
b Don was pleased because Sunday’s barbecue was
a success.
2 a “Let’s skip the dessert,” says Myra.
b Myra would like something sweet at the end of her
meal.
3 a “I could tell the customer was annoyed with me,” 1 Do you enjoy cooking?
said the waiter. 2 What are the pros and cons of these jobs?
b The waiter realised he had upset the customer. 3 Which job do you think is easier?
4 a “It really doesn’t take long to do the supermarket 4 Would you like to work in either of these jobs?
shopping,” says Ted.
a No, I wouldn’t.
b Ted complains that it’s a long way to the supermarket.
b Yes, I do. I find it a creative and relaxing way to spend
my free time. I often invite friends around to my house
and cook for them, or we cook together, so it can be a
6 flatmates,
You will hear a conversation between two
Eric and Fran, who are arranging a
social occasion, too.
c Definitely the one in picture B.
dinner party. For questions 1-10, decide if the d Being a chef is a very creative job and top chefs can
statements are T (True) or F (False). earn good salaries. It can be very hot and tiring work,
though, and you may have to work late shifts. A kitchen
porter has less responsibility but the work is physically
hard. You don’t earn that much either.