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Grammar
1 Write questions about Marty’s schedule.

1 What time / When does he start work again??

At half past one.

2 What time does he go to work?

At half past eight.

3 When does he start work?

At half past nine.

4 What time does he get up?

At half past seven.

5 What time / When does he have lunch??

At half past twelve.

6 What time / When does he finish work??

At half past five.

7 What time / When does he go to bed??

At eleven o’clock.
2 Complete the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in the box. Use each verb only once.

Raisa (1) is a student. She (2) gets up at 7:30. She (3) doesn't usually have breakfast because she doesn’t feel
hungry in the morning. She (4) has her first class at 8:30. After that, she (5) goes to the library and (6) studies
until lunchtime. At lunchtime, she often (7) meets her friends and they (8) have lunch together. After lunch,
Raisa (9) does some exercise: she usually (10) swims in the pool or (11) plays volleyball with her friends. Raisa
doesn’t like studying in the afternoon. In the evening, she studies in the library again. When the library
(12) 
closes at nine o’clock, she goes home and (13) relaxes. She usually (14) watches TV or reads.

3 Write questions for the answers.

1 When / What year was she born?

She was born in 1990.

2 Where were they born?

They were born in Ankara.

3 Where were you born?

I was born in Colombia.

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4 When / What year was he born?

He was born in 1966.

5 Where was she born?

She was born in Mexico City.

6 Were you born in the UK?

No, I was born in Morocco.
4 Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.

1 Her aunts weren’t / wasn’t there when she was born.

2 Was / Were your brothers and sisters there when you were born?

3 She wasn’t / weren’t born on a train.

4 There was / were a storm when she was born.

5 Complete these sentences with the correct form of be.

It (1) wasn’t / was a good time for us when I (2) was young.

There (3) wasn’t a lot of food when Alicia and José (4) were children. They were often hungry.

Ahmet’s first teachers (5) weren’t/were very friendly. They (6) were/weren’t unfriendly.

Vocabulary
6 Write the adverbs in the box in the correct order.

always
usually
often
sometimes
hardly ever
never

7 Find nine words for transportation.

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8 Write the name of the sports under the pictures.

1 badminton 2 darts 3 soccer

4 skiing 5 archery 6 hockey

7 boxing 8 gymnastics 9 volleyball

10 horseback riding 11 running 12 baseball

9 Complete the adjectives.

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1 quiet

2 independent

3 social

4 fantastic

5 lucky

6 warm

7 friendlly

8 funny

9 technical

10 natural

Skills
10 Read part of a webchat about routines, then answer T (True) or F (False) to the sentences below.

T F
1 Emma is always very busy.

2 She never jogs in winter.

3 She has breakfast and then takes a bath or a shower.

4 She walks to work.

5 She is a cook.

6 She works with four people in her kitchen.

7 She sleeps in the afternoon.

8 She works at the weekend.

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9 She never sees her parents.

10 She lives outside the city.

11 Listen to the interviews and complete the questionnaires with the adverbs.  4

Interview 1 Interview 2
(1)  (2) 
take the bus always sometimes
(3)  (4) 
take the train never hardly ever
(5)  (6) 
drive a car never never
(7)  (8) 
take a taxi sometimes hardly ever
(9)  (10) 
take a plane usually often

12 Write a webchat.

Students’ own answers

13 Read the two articles and choose the correct name for the notes below.

1 Jesse Owen / Amelia Earheart was born in Alabama in the US

2 Jesse Owen / Amelia Earheart was the winner of four gold medals

3 Jesse Owen / Amelia Earheart was born in Kansas in the US

4 Jesse Owen / Amelia Earheart was very poor

5 Jesse Owen / Amelia Earheart was the first person to fly across the Atlantic twice

6 Jesse Owen / Amelia Earheart was born in 1913

7 Jesse Owen / Amelia Earheart was on the US team in the 1936 Olympics

8 Jesse Owen / Amelia Earheart was born in 1897

9 Jesse Owen / Amelia Earheart was one of the first pilots

10 Jesse Owen / Amelia Earheart was very rich

Listen to William and Angela talking about five pictures. Write P (positive) if you think the
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speaker likes the picture, or N (negative) if you think the speaker doesn’t like it.

William Angela

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(1)  (2) 
Picture 1 N P
(3)  (4) 
Picture 2 N P
(5)  (6) 
Picture 3 P P
(7)  (8) 
Picture 4 N N
(9)  (10) 
Picture 5 P N

15 Use these notes to write a short essay about the first FIFA World Cup.

Students’ own answers

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