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Michael TL. Su Ei. Bruh Alves. Noha Shaat. Piero Sotomayor Navarro. Show More. Views Total views. Actions Shares. Jenny What a idea! Copy the rhythm b Watch or listen again and answer the questions. Why not? I don't believe it. Can you remember any of That's great news! What a great idea! What a pity. Harry How do you your career? Never mind.
Rob Not. I'm more of a writer. Rob Oh, you know, interviews, reviews, like that Harry How! How interesting! How awful! How amazing! What a pity! What a good idea! What terrible news! Harry Go , son! How e Watch or listen again and repeat the phrases. How do you say fantastic! Can you? D react to good news, bad news, unexpected news, and interesting news D introduce yourself and other people - D use phrases that give you time to think, e.
Fill in the blanks with phrases A-G. All situations I rich 'Cause he pays for everything 2 cash or credit cards 3 you have to pay for it Girls don't like boys, girls like cars and fflOf e ', Do you think it is?
Put them in the correct column. You can worry about the bill next month. How is or b go straight to a shopping mall and spend it all. Which two are c put all of it in your bank account until you know what different? I'm vt;ry organized and know exactly what I have f Practice saying these sentences. Let's go shopping for clothes.
I have no idea. When I have money, I usually just Can I borrow some money? They can't afford to pay the mortgage. I work in a store. Hopefully your friend will forget about it, too! You speak to your friend and explain the b Compare your answers with a partner. Say why. Find out if installments. He I She I you a spender or a saver? How many are savers? You can afford it, and it b Listen again and match speakers l-6withA-F.
What are they arguing about? Then listen and check. Are they new? I 2 Uust buy them. Do you like them? O They're OK. K Oh, not much. That isn't cheap for a pair of shoes. Anyway, we can't afford to buy new clothes right now. K Why not? What is it?
D The phone bill. D What about it? D But 1 1 1 need the new model. K well,1 12 need some new shoes. Have you ever bou gh! Learn more about the present perfect and simple past, and practice them.
Give as much information as you can. Think oftwo people you know personally or John DeJoria, an American billionaire businessman, owns several companies, including John Paul Mitchell Systems, a successful have heard ofwho are very rich. Did they? However, DeJoria was not always wealthy. He was the second son of immigrant parents and grew up in a b inherit their money who from? Before forming his hair c win it bow? DeJoria's selfmade rise is an inspiring story. How did door. At 10 years old, my brother and I had paper routes.
We got he become so rich? Why is his success surprising? As you got older, you continued to work. Is that right? Doors literally A D He was homeless again. C D An investor didn't give him the money he You've been homeless, haven't you? Once, when I was about 22 years old. The other time was D D He sold encyclopedias from door-to-door.
I wasn't E D He left his wife. So I had left and had F D He was homeless. We had a backer for John Paul Mitchell Systems putting in a half-million dollars. That money was G []] He sold Christmas cards from door-to-door. I never got a penny.
So we started with humble beginnings. Do memories of the streets motivate you? It sure makes you very appreciative of what you have in your e Look at the highlighted words and phrases life. Those who are homeless-like people with kids who are related co money and business.
With a partner, homeless-I really have a heart for. So I participate in a lot of try to figure out the meanings from context. What are the biggest problems you've faced in business? Any business you start, be highlighted words and phrases. Then ask and ready for it. The difference between successful people and answer the questions with a partner. How things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors long have you used it? And we said, "Man 3 If you needed a to lend you money to we made it; it's all downhill now.
It took a couple years. How did you feel? What was the first thing you bought yourself at e that point? This is the first time I said I'm going to order off the left ja. That, to me, was a pretty big deal. Correct the wrong information in these sentences.
Where do you think they were taken? What can you see in 1 Jane's son chose the name Adelante Africa, which means each photo? Listen to Part 1. Where did she children's English. What did she decide to do after the trip? What does Jane say about: 6 Two of Jane's children have been helping in Uganda.
Then listen again to check. Glossary f Do you know anybody like Jane who does a lot of work for a holiday BritE for vacation charity?
What do they do? A Since B For about 22 years. C For four years. Are the three questions and answers in a about? How lona learnina French? Ask your partner at least three 6 questions about the things he or she has written. One question must be How lona haveyou Do you write things on it or do Y? U ' c Listen again and repeat the sentences. Copy the just read other people's tweet:!
Have you ever taken part in one? Helen Skelton hopes to become the first What did you do? How much money did you raise? She has never been afraid of a who agreed to kayak down the Amazon for charity. Last year, she became the second woman to Read the introduction and answer the questions.
But when Blue Peter decided to do something to 2 What is she hoping to do this year? So they suggested that she kayak 1, miles down the Amazon from Nauta in Peru to c Before you read the texts of Helen's first three phone Almeirim in Brazil.
There are no roads and no towns, had on her trip. Then read and check. Were you right? Did she manage to finish? Phone call l ,, Everything went wrong. I only managed half f Listen again. Then answer the questions. I've been suffering from the heat. I went the wrong way, and I had to paddle against 3 Why didn't she celebrate reaching the halfway point? There e pink 4 What have been driving her crazy this week?
I think that if I can do 62 miles a day, t n 6 Why is she starting to feel a little sad? I can make it. The news 7 How many miles did she do altogether? Was it a positive experience? I was exhausted! It's absolutely boiling. NOT ooilir,g.
A Was Lisa's father angcy about the car? B Yes, he was furious! Helen has only been kayaking once before in B Yes, it's really tiny-just a bedroom and a living room. Last week, she arrived at the Amazon in B Yes, I'm terrified! I never fly anywhere. After two days of kayaking, she made the first of her phone calls.
B Yes, it was delicious. B I'm starving! I haven't eaten all day. B It's enormous. It has seven bedrooms. B It was freezing! Minus 20 degrees. B It was filthy. It took us three hours to clean it. B They're excited.
In fact, they want to pay for everything! B It was hilarious. We laughed all the way through. I remember turning the key. I never thought it would happen. How are the strong adjectives paddle once it goes under the surface. It pronounced? Practice the dialogues in pairs. My hands have been giving d Ask and answer with a partner. I now 1 Have you ever been swimming in a place where the water was have them bandaged in white tape. I listen riders in your country?
The problem is heat exhaustion. I've been traveling 62 miles a day, which is my target. But yesterday after ,,, p. I don't feel like cooking. My wife is unemployed. When bad Luck becomes good Luck!
You've had a lot of bad luck in the past-a bad accident and some frightening health problems. Does that keep you from doing things in the future that involve luck, like Max Andrew Samantha Zenobia Skylar buying a lottery ticket? In are also feeling down case you've never heard of Bill Morgan, his story actually c hasn't eaten brownies in a long time begins with some very bad luck. The accident did not a he doesn't like cooking kill him, but it did leave Bill with a heart condition.
When he was given medication for the heart condition, Bill had an b it's cheaper than eating at home allergic reaction that caused a powerful heart attack, which c he can't cook that type of food at home left him clinically dead for 14 minutes. During this a talk to each other a lot b don't like each other at all time, his family was advised to unplug his life support system c don't like each other as much after spending a lot of not once, but twice.
Bill's bad luck was ending and his heartwarming a if it's cheaper than usual b every three months story was just beginning. Lisa said yes. A week later, Morgan a when she was 15 b for people who are sick with cancer bought a scratch-off lottery ticket at his local newsstand.
The news crew thought it Do the tasks with a partner. No one could have predicted what Can you And the best part is, it all 1 D describe your diet and the typical diet in your happened on live TV almost causing another heart attack.
Mark the sentences T true , liked when we were children. F false , or DS doesn't say. Bill was in a coma for 14 days. How much did you re-enactment. What did you do with it? Where did you first start learning? Check their meaning and pronunciation, and try to learn them.
Read the public transportation in towns and cities in your introduction and answer the questions. Where to? Listen and repeat. On Top Gear, a very popular TV series about cars and driving, b Write three words from the list in each column. Practice saying the words. Three possible forms of transportation were chosen: a motorboat, a car, and a combination of d Look at the words in the columns.
What are the transportation. One of the show's hosts, Rutledge Wood, took typical spellings for these sounds? Go to the the motorboat and his colleague Adam Ferrera took the car Sound Bank p. Can you hear transportation. His trip involved getting a taxi to the airport the difference? Practice saying them. Then he rented a scooter. Do you still think your predictions in 3a are right? His trip began in the Miami River. For the first hour there 1 Dwent much faster in the later part of his trip was a speed limit of 7 miles an hour because of the 2 Ddid something illegal enforced no-wake zone in the river.
Once the boat passed through Biscayne Bay and went under the Rickenbacker 3 Dwent more slowly in the later part of his trip Bridge, he entered open water. Rutledge increased the 4 Dhad to stop for more gas boat's speed to over 90 miles an hour and made up the time 5 Dcouldn't understand the directions spoken by he lost on the Miami River.
Approximately 60 miles from theGPS the finish line, Rutledge was ahead of Adam and Tanner, 6 Dwas in the lead for most of the race but he had to stop for gas if he wanted to reach the finish line in Key West.
In the 15 minutes it took to refuel the boat, d Look at the highlighted verbs and verb phrases. Adam passed Rutledge in the car and took the lead.
Once With a partner, figure out their meaning from Rutledge was back on the open water, there were a lot of big waves, but he was able to pass Adam near Seven Mile Bridge just outside of Key West. Unfortunately for both Rutledge and Adam, Tanner flew over both of them in the seaplane at about the same time. Now Tanner was in the best position to win.
Each racer was only miles from the finish line in Key West. Who would win? Follow his route on the map. Adam started off OK. He wasn't driving fast because he was going the speed limit. However, after an hour, Adam decided that he was going too slowly. He increased his speed to 75 miles an hour miles an hour over the speed limit. As Adam passed through a small town, he was stopped by the police! They were angry that Adam was speeding, and it meant that Adam lost many valuable minutes!
This made finding his way to Key West difficult. As Adam finally approached Key West, the traffic was getting worse. He was worried about getting stuck so close to the finish line. Only three miles to go Now listen to what happened.
What order did they arrive in? Are the highlighted phrases right or wrong? I D What's the quicker way to get around Miami? Were your top a. Learn more about comparatives and each activity and why it is dangerous. We link words: 1 when a word ends in a consonant sound and the next word begins with a vowel sound, e.
Try to link the marked words and copy the rhythm. For each group of three things compare them using the bold adjective, i. Riding a motorcycle is more dangerous than driving. Check I' the ones you agree with and put an X next to the ones you disagree with. Think about your reasons. Slow drivers cause more accidents than fast drivers.
A car magazine tested drivers in a driving People who drink and drive should lose simulator. The drivers had to drive in the their driver's license for life.
Speed cameras do not stop accidents. Try to use expressions from the box. Do you agree? I with Juan. I think I don't think j you're right. Write a magazine article about transportation in your town or city. Arizona has shown that the stereotype that 4 What topics do In a men talk about more than women the study, hundreds of college students were fitted b women talk about more than men with recorders, and the total number of words they used during the day was then counted.
Then A read the article The results, published in the New Scientist, showed that Men talkjust as much as women and Bread the article women speak about 16, words a day and men speak Gossip with the girls? Find answers to questions In fact, the four most talkative people stereotype stcri;n"'IP' noun a fixed idea about a particular type in the study were all men. Match them with definitions Men tend to talk about fewer 1 more credible 3 more surprising subjects, the most popular being work, 2 more important sports, jokes, cars, and women.
We don't serve food here. Learn more about articles and common belief that women use three times as practice them. Then practice saying. Professor Boynton interviewed over 1, women for her study.
She also found that women 4 The Woman in the kitchen is very talkative. W hy does the pronunciation change? Professor Boynton also says that men and women talk for different reasons. In social situations, the movies the end the other day the world the sun women use conversation to solve problems and the Internet the kitchen the answer the Earth reduce stress, while men talk to each other to laugh or to exchange opinions.
Work in pairs or small groups. Do you know any men who stay at home and take care of their children? How do they manage? Can you name some of the things in the picture? Why only better than men when the baby is small. In what way is it different e Listen again and correct the wrong information. When he left the army, Sinclair and his wife agreed that somebody needed to write such a manual, that he would stay at home and take care of the baby, and who better to write it than me?
I had been a while his wife went back to work. I was "I have done a lot of crazy things, but when I put the man for the Job. What does he want? What does he need? I did of instructions that explains with military precision not know. It was one of the most difficult days of my and diagrams how new fathers should approach the life. But I think that in men phones and tablets. Can you remember the missing prepositions? J When are prepositions stressed? Prepositions are usually only stressed when they are the last word, e.
Compare: We need to talk about our vacation. What are you talking about? Freddie is afraid of flying. What are you afraid of? Then ask and answer the questions with a partner. What do they disagree about? Answer the questions. What does Kerri th ink about? Who disagrees? What do they think? What about? Mark the sentences T true or F false. Why is Kerri surprised? London's just not as hectic as New York.
Don Sure, we all like peace and quiet. But in my New York is possibly Don't you? Kerri To be I definitely prefer London. Don Come on, Rob. You've lived in both. What do you? The whole world is here!
Kerri But that's the problem. It's too big. There are too many people. Everybody's so stressed out. And nobody has any time for you. Jenny I don't think that's Kerri. New Yorkers are very friendly. Kerri Oh they can sound friendly with all that "Have a nice day" stuff. Copy the rhythm and intonation. Discuss the following sentences.
Can you remember any of - Riding a bike is the most practical way to the missing words? Social English phrases - You only get good service in expensive restaurants.
Jenny It's that How do you say them in your language? What does it mean? I've been ble to Which one do you like best? If at first you don't succeed, What other verb is it similar to? Maybe it was because of that F I've always wanted to be able to scene In one of the very first James Bond movies, where a G we would never be able to beautiful actress comes out of the ocean looking fabulous, with oxygen tanks on her back - I could see myself looking e Read the article again.
Why did they have problems? So, two years ago I booked a vacation that Have they completely given up trying? Have you ever included a week-long Intensive course. On the first day of tried to learn something and given up? Show related SlideShares at end. WordPress Shortcode. Next SlideShares. Download Now Download to read offline and view in fullscreen. Download Now Download Download to read offline. Muse Follow. Solutions pre intermediate-sb.
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Empath Up! Noe Dessens. Esmeralda Lopez Moreno. Claudia Navarrete. Isabela Costa. Lyubov Trunkina. Mayla Hellen. Dw Han. Ana Carolina. Paula Alvino Peixoto. Show More. Views Total views. Actions Shares. No notes for slide. Grammar Vocabulary Pronunciation 1 4 A Questions and answers question formation figuring out meaning from context friendly intonation, showing interest 8 B Do you believe in it?
On the street 4 34 A Eco-guilt future perfect and future continuous the environment, the weather vowel sounds 38 B Are you a risk taker? Have you seen any o f the TV shows or movies that they have been in?
W hat did you think o f them? A IIow do you relax? D What m akes you unhappy? E If you could edit your past, what do you think you would change? F What was your most embarrassing moment? G Who would you most like to say sorry to?
The actor Benedict Cumberbatch was bom in London in Sitting with the sun on my face the morning after I had been in a carjacking in South Africa. A woman rubbed an onion on my bottom. People say I look like Sid from Ice Age. I enjoyed wearing bandages around my face as the Invisible Man at the last one I went to. People got to know me without recognizing me. Better time management. The actress Elisabeth Moss was born in California in I must have been five.
This is kind of cheesy, but my mom. Jasm ine. I grew up in Los Angeles, in the hills, and there was always jasm ine growing.
I would love to see her again. To a s jazz club in New York City. I love the art deco period - the jewelry, the clothes, the music. When I was little, 1 was on a lake in the US and got caught underneath a rowing boat. That was pretty scary. Glossary carjacking the crime of forcing the driver of a car to take you somewhere or give you their car Emmy an award similar to the Oscars, but for TV cheesy informal too emotional or romantic in a way that is embarrassing, e.
Learn more about question formation, and practice it. Who sounds friendlier and more interested each time, a or b? Focus on sentence stress and linking. O Reacting to what someone says When you ask someone a question and they answer, it is normal to show interest by saying, e.
Complete the expressions or questions that the m an or woman use to react to the answers. We could play a game one day. How long have you been a vegan? I can't think of anything worse!
Copy the intonation. W hat do you think is happening? Do you think the question is one that someone might really ask in this situation? Why not? How would yon answer the question? Think also about what part of speech the unknown word is e. Comment So, what kind of dinosaur would you be? The idea is to see how quicklyjob seekers think on their feet and, at a time when 25 percent of recent graduates are unemployed, it offers employers io a new way of separating the brilliant candidates from the merely very good.
This new approach to selecting candidates comes from Silicon Valley in California — where else? You have 60 seconds to choose people of 10 professions to come with you. Who do you choose? Faced once with a candidate he considered boring,Jobs suddenly pretended to be a chicken, flapping his arms and making clucking noises around the unfortunate applicant, waiting to see what he would do.
In fact, the secret to extreme interviewing is neither in the question nor the answer. We are trying to give them an opportunity to show their personality, rather than just showing how they perform in an interview. In the modern business world, survival will depend on what kind 30 of dinosaur you realiv are. With a partner, try to figure out what the highlighted words and phrases might mean and how you think they are pronounced. Underline the stressed syllables.
Which o f the questions below used in real interviews do you think would work well? W hat kind o f questions did they ask you? Did you get the job? Complete the questions in the first column. What strange question were they asked? How did they answer? What happened in the end?
How much vou? Ask your partner extreme interview questions. Which TV character are you most like? Room, desk, or ca r- which do you dean first? If you were a car, what car would you be? Can you name three Lady Gaga songs? Does life fascinate you? G auxiliary verbs; the A read Noises in the Night on p. What do you think they might have in common? Would you have been happy for Fatos to read your coffee cup? I went to Turkey a few years ago with a colleague named Chris.
We'd been sent there to train secondary school teachers in a school on the outskirts of Istanbul. I called her and we agreed to meet in a hotel in the center of Istanbul. Chris came too, and the three of us had a very nice dinner together. After dinner we ordered Turkish coffee and we talked for a while, until Fatos suddenly asked me, "would you like me to read your coffee cup? But Chris immediately said he would be happy for her to read his coffee cup Adam Do you believe in it?
Our house is the middle one of three row houses and it's more than a hundred years old. A young couple lives in the house on our right, but the house on our left was empty and for sale. T his happened when I was 16, and I can still remember it vividly.
It was a clear morning, sunny but with a breeze. I was going to meet a school friend to go walking in the hills where there were some wonderful views. I'd agreed to meet him at the top of one of the hills. Have you ever experienced a paranormal happening? Write and tell us about it. Were they accurate? Try to figure out what they mean. Which of the three stories do you find the spookiest? Can you think of any possible explanation for what happened in each story?
Have you or anybody you know? What kind of noise? It was really interesting! In pairs, decide which auxiliary is used Learn more about using auxiliary verbs, and practice them.
Notice the stressed auxiliary verbs. So did I. How spooky! A read your sentences to B. B respond with a reply question and then say whether you are the same or different. Then switch roles. Is do stressed in the highlighted phrases? B I do like them. Make guesses about your partner.
Then sign your name underneath and give the piece o f paper to your partner. Can you identify any o f them? Do you believe that our signature might say something about our personality? W hat your tUJftdfyw e says about you Your signature is the part of your handwriting that says the most about your personality. It is common for your signature to change during your life because it reflects how you develop and evolve as a person. You may have more than one signature, for example a more formal signature name and last name when you sign a credit card or your passport, and an informal signature just your first name when you sign a birthday card.
Our signature is very much part of the way in which we present ourselves to the world, so it can give some im portant clues about the kind of person we are and how we feel about ourselves. Do any o f the interpretations coincide with what you already thought? Taking notes We often need to take notes when we are listening, for example, to somebody giving a lecture. Afterward you could expand your notes into full sentences. Complete the notes on the right.
The more illegible your signature is, the less assertive you probably are as a person. Can you remember what words go in the blanks? Do the compound adjectives have a positive or negative meaning? O Compound adjectives Compound adjectives are adjectives that have two parts. The second part often ends in -ed or -ing, e. The words are usually linked by hyphens. The main stress is on the second word.
Use the two parts o f the word to try to figure out their meaning, and say if they are positive or negative characteristics.
P Modifiers We often use modifiers with adjectives of personality. With positive characteristics pretty My mom is very good-tempered. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. Give examples o f their behavior. Do you know somebody who is? One of my cousins is a little two-faced. She says one thing to me, and then I find out she said the exact opposite to somebody else in the family How do you think his previous experience helps him in his present job?
Hisjob involves helping peopie to discover the right career options for them, and then to heip them actually get a job, by advising them on their resumes and on interview techniques.
His specialty is helping people who are making career transitions, e. Before setting up his company, he worked for seven years as an HR Human Resources director. I I Checking what there is about you on the Internet. LH Choosing what photos to send with your resume.
EZ] Thinking out the skills and abilities a job needs. LI] Writing a good resume c Now listen again. Take notes about the advice he gives in the three areas you checked. Now watch or listen to P art 2, where Jeff talks about the day o f the interview.
Are they T true or F false? Correct the F ones. Do you agree with all the tips? Complete the advice he gives.
Jeff uses several expressions with make and do. These verbs are very common in expressions related to work, and are sometimes confused by learners of English often because they just have one verb in their LI. Listen and check. How many of them say they definitely got the job? What do you think they mean? What was it for? How did you prepare for it? How did it go? What for?
Online Practice 13 With a partner, decide what the highlighted words might mean. Use the pictures to help you. Read the answers to half o f the quiz and the reasons why, and tell each other. I lf someone is choking, you should Write the words from the list in the correct column. Practice saying the words.
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