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1 How are you feeling?

1 Grammar: present simple questions and short answers
Complete the interviewer’s questions. Then write the answers.
Do you ________
INTERVIEWER (1) ________ go (go) to clubs on Saturday?
LEO Yes, ________________ .
INTERVIEWER (2) ________ you ________ (speak) Spanish?
LEO Yes, ________________ .
INTERVIEWER (3) ________ you ________ (live) in the centre of Manchester?
LEO No, ________________ .
INTERVIEWER (4) ________ your sister ________ (play) the drums?
LEO No, ________________ .
INTERVIEWER (5) ________ your friends ________ (talk) about football?
LEO Yes, ________________ .
INTERVIEWER (6) ________ all the girls ________ (like) younger boys?
LEO No, ________________ .
INTERVIEWER (7) ________ crime ________ (worry) you?
LEO Yes, ________________ .
INTERVIEWER (8) ________ you ________ (want) to be a teacher?
LEO No, ________________ .

2 Grammar: present 3 Grammar: present simple and present continuous

continuous questions Complete Leo’s email with the present simple or present
and short answers continuous of these verbs.
Write questions and short
eat go have help live love
answers using the present
visit want work write
continuous.
1 Tiffany/read anything at the
moment? ✘
Is Tiffany reading anything at the moment? No, she isn’t.
_______________________________________________________
Hi!
2 she/feel excited? ✔ I (1) __________________ my cousins in Greenwich
_______________________________________________________ Village for a week. They (2) __________________ close
_______________________________________________________ to the park and (3) __________________ a great
3 she/wear a black top? ✔ apartment. My cousin Alice (4) __________________ to
_______________________________________________________ be a doctor, but at the moment she
_______________________________________________________ (5) __________________ in a restaurant. Alex, my other
4 Tiffany’s friends/wait for her? ✘ cousin, (6) __________________ to school during the
_______________________________________________________ week and (7) __________________ his father in his
_______________________________________________________ shop at the weekend. I (8) __________________ this in
5 Tiffany’s parents buy/her a birthday present? ✔
a café in Washington Square and I
(9) __________________ an ice cream at the same
_______________________________________________________
time. I (10) __________________ New York!
_______________________________________________________
Best wishes
6 her boyfriend/study music? ✘
Leo
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________

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UNIT

4 Grammar: present simple and present 6 Grammar: adverbial phrases of frequency

continuous Match the words in list A with the words in list B.
Complete the questions with the present simple or
A B
present continuous. Then answer the questions for
yourself. 1 every day 52 times a year
2 twice a week six times a day
do you usually _____
1 What _____ do (do) on Saturday nights?
3 every two weeks every 24 hours
I go to the cinema with my friends.
______________________________________________________
4 every four months 12 times a year
2 How often _____________________ (watch) TV each week?
5 every week eight times a month
______________________________________________________
6 every month three times a year
3 Where ______ you _____________________ (sit) at the
7 every four hours twice a month
moment?
______________________________________________________
4 Who ______ you usually _____________________ (talk) to 7 Vocabulary: clothes
Find seven words for things you wear in the word
at school?
square.
______________________________________________________
5 What colour shoes ______ you _____________________ T R A I N E R S
(wear) today?
______________________________________________________ Z B F G I D S C
6 What ______ you _____________________ (look) forward to B R L C H N K M
doing this weekend?
______________________________________________________ O F E Y S D I O

O A E S H I R T
5 Grammar: present continuous
T T C U W E T O
for future arrangements
Tiffany is talking to her boyfriend, S J E A N S L P
Jake, on the phone. Complete the
conversation with these verbs.

buy come eat go have 8 Vocabulary: compound nouns

help meet watch Match the words in list A with the words in list B and
write eight compound nouns.
JAKE Hi Tiff! My mate Dave (1) _________________ to see A B
me tomorrow. Let’s have coffee or a meal art college
1 art friend ______________________________
together.
2 birthday term ______________________________
TIFFANY Great idea – but I’m quite busy. I
3 computer end ______________________________
(2) _________________ my mother until 11 o’clock
4 girl board ______________________________
and then I (3) _________________ to the
5 half college ______________________________
hairdresser’s.
6 home studies ______________________________
JAKE Cool. We can meet after the hairdresser’s.
7 skate party ______________________________
TIFFANY No, I’m sorry, but I (4) _________________ my
8 week work ______________________________
friend Mary at 12 in the shopping centre. She
(5) _________________ clothes for her holiday and
wants me to help her.
9 Pronunciation
Do they rhyme or not?
JAKE And after that?
TIFFANY We (6) ________________ lunch together, but we 1 care hair ✔ 6 mate wait
don’t know when or where we 2 crime time 7 scared hard
(7) ________________ . How about the afternoon? 3 fed said 8 term worm
JAKE Sure. We (8) ________________ the football match 4 fleece nice 9 worry hurry
on TV at three but after that is fine. 5 half laugh

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2 I wanted to go home
1 Grammar: past simple of be
Complete with was/were or wasn’t/weren’t.
1 Kate and Mel ________________ on holiday in London – they ________________ on
holiday in Brighton.
2 ________________ Kate pleased to hear her mother’s voice? Yes, she ________________ .
3 Mel’s parents ________________ on holiday with her.
4 Kate and Mel ________________ both excited before the start of the holiday.
5 It ________________ a great place for a holiday but Mel ________________ happy.
6 Kate and Mel ________________ together at all – they ________________ with their new
friends all the time.
7 ________________ Kate miserable too? Yes, she ________________ .
8 ________________ Kate on the phone to Mel’s parents? No, she ________________ .

2 Grammar: past simple regular and irregular 3 Grammar: past simple questions, negative and
verbs short answers
Complete Kate’s letter with the past simple of these Write questions and answers.
verbs.
1 Mel/go on holiday in June/July
ask dance do have laugh like make Did Mel go on holiday in June?
_______________________________________________________
meet phone see spend think
No, she didn’t. She went on holiday in July.
_______________________________________________________
2 Mel’s mum/apologise for writing/phoning
Dear Sue ______________________________________________________
It’s the third day of our holiday in Brighton but I’m afraid ______________________________________________________
things aren’t going very well. I (1) ________________ some 3 Mel/miss her little brother/sister
great people on the first day and we (2) _________________ ______________________________________________________
friends at once. But Mel (3) (not) ________________ my new ______________________________________________________
friends at all. She (4) ________________ new friends too and 4 Mel/want to stay in Brighton/go home
(5) ________________ all her time with them. To tell you the ______________________________________________________
truth, I (6) ________________ her friends were really boring. ______________________________________________________
I don’t know what’s the matter with Mel. She thought my 5 the parties/last all day/all night
friends (7) ________________ at her accent but I know they ______________________________________________________
(8) (not) ________________ that. Then yesterday evening I ______________________________________________________
(9) ________________ her to come to the cinema with us but 6 Mel/nearly cry when she heard her father’s voice/mother
she (10) ________________ at a party for five hours instead. I ______________________________________________________
think her mother (11) ________________ her this morning – I ______________________________________________________
(12) ________________ her on the phone. Perhaps she’s going 7 Mel/fall asleep at the party/on the beach
home early – that doesn’t bother me at all. ______________________________________________________
More later. ______________________________________________________
Love 8 Mel/visit a doctor/fortune teller
Kate ______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
9 Mel/have a picnic with Kate/some friends
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
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UNIT

4 Grammar: past simple 6 Vocabulary

Write questions about last weekend and answer them Complete with these words and phrases.
for yourself.
a picnic all night angry asleep at a joke
1 make a new friend
for a swim hello someone
Did you make a new friend?
______________________________________________________
Yes, I did. He/She … /No, I didn’t.
______________________________________________________ 1 fall ______________________
2 phone someone 2 feel ______________________
______________________________________________________ 3 go ______________________
______________________________________________________ 4 have ______________________
3 go to a party 5 last ______________________
______________________________________________________ 6 laugh ______________________
______________________________________________________
7 miss ______________________
4 laugh at a joke
8 say ______________________
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
5 spend time with your friends 7 Vocabulary
______________________________________________________ Match the verbs in list A with the words and phrases in
list B.
______________________________________________________
6 go for a swim A B
______________________________________________________ 1 apologise round
______________________________________________________ 2 have for doing something
7 have a picnic 3 make something to someone
______________________________________________________ 4 mean a good time
______________________________________________________ 5 sound new friends
8 help your parents 6 spend depressed
______________________________________________________
7 turn time
______________________________________________________

8 Vocabulary: spelling
5 Vocabulary: feelings
The same letter is missing in each line. Write the
Complete the sentences with these words. complete words.
bored cheerful embarrassed excited 1 acent fantasti exited
lonely miserable pleased scared
______________________________________________________
2 apologis somone frindship
1 What’s the matter? You look frightened. What are you
______________________________________________________
_____________________ of?
2 There was no one interesting to talk to at the party, so I 3 boter togeter eiter

was _____________________ . ______________________________________________________

3 Mel was very _____________________ about her first 4 funfir plesed miserble
holiday without parents. ______________________________________________________
4 Don’t look so sad! Why can’t you be more 5 embarassed feedom cheeful
_____________________? _____________________________________________________
5 She was very _____________________ to hear her mother’s 6 tredy differet loely
voice – it made her very happy. ______________________________________________________
6 I felt so _____________________ when I couldn’t remember
his name.
7 When I moved to a new school I was very
9 Pronunciation
Say the words and mark the stressed syllable.
_____________________ for the first few weeks because I
didn’t know anyone. ■
accent apologise cheerful depressed embarrassed
8 What’s the matter? You look so unhappy! Why are you
feeling _____________________? excited fantastic friendship miserable together
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3 Everyone was cheering

1 Grammar: past continuous
Complete with the past continuous.
The shark attacked Bethany when she and her best friend Alana
(1) ____________________ (surf) together. The two girls (2) __________________
(hope) for a big wave. They certainly (3) ____________________ (not think)
about a shark attack. Bethany (4) ____________________ (wait) on her board
with her left hand in the water when the shark attacked. After the attack
she saw that she (5) ____________________ (lose) a lot of blood. Alana, her
brother and her father helped Bethany to the beach. It took 15 minutes and
all the time Bethany (6) ____________________ (say) to herself ‘Get to the
beach’. She (7) ____________________ (not try) to escape from the shark –
she just wanted to get to the beach. Alana’s father talked to her all the way
to the beach. ‘I (8) ____________________ (answer) all his questions’, Bethany
said afterwards, ‘but I can’t remember now what I said’.

2 Grammar: past simple and past continuous

What were they doing when the balloon landed? Write What did they do when the balloon landed? Write
questions and answers using these phrases. sentences using these phrases.

eat an ice cream play football sunbathe fall off not notice phone a friend
read a newspaper skateboard say hello take a photo wave

What was Anna doing when the balloon landed?

__________________________________________________________ When the balloon landed, Anna took a photo.
__________________________________________________________
She was reading a newspaper.
__________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________

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UNIT

3 Grammar: past simple and past continuous 4 Vocabulary: phrasal verbs with get.
Complete with these phrases using the past simple or Complete the sentences with these prepositions.
past continuous.
away back on to together up
bring her some flowers come to see him
cross the road dance go to sleep 1 At weekends, Leo and his friends get ________________
paint a picture phone read shout ‘Look out!’ and listen to music.
sit in the park start to rain take a photo
talk to her friends watch football on TV 2 Do you get ________________ well with your parents?
3 Shane was lucky to get _________ from the crocodile.
4 You can’t sit watching TV all day – get ________________
1 Tiffany was dancing when
__________________________
and do something useful!
Jake took a photo.
__________________________
5 We must get ________________ home in time for supper.
6 How do you get _______________ school in the morning?

5 Vocabulary: water
2 __________________________ Complete the puzzle and find this word

➜
.

➜
__________________________
__________________________ 1

__________________________ 2

3 __________________________ 4
__________________________
5
__________________________
__________________________ 6

4 __________________________ 8

__________________________ 9
__________________________
__________________________
1 Move in water using arms and legs.
2 Use waves and a board to move in water.
5 __________________________ 3 The Thames is London’s … .
__________________________ 4 A shark is a kind of … .
__________________________ 5 You travel on water in it.
__________________________ 6 You can swim in a swimming … .
7 What happens when you dive or jump into 6.
8 You can see into water when it is … .
6 __________________________ 9 It has lots of teeth and lives in water in hot countries.
__________________________
__________________________
6 Pronunciation
__________________________
Circle the two rhyming words in each line.
1 bright white eight
7 __________________________ 2 cheer clear chair
__________________________ 3 hour four jaw
__________________________ 4 thought shout caught
__________________________ 5 water daughter later
6 turning morning warning
7 seem scream same
8 splash wash trash 7
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4 Integrated Skills Describing ‘first times’

Reading and Writing
1 Read and complete the text with these words.
carried ended ending filled included
performed played started starting took
was watched watching went

On 2nd July, 2005, huge music concerts (1) _______________

place around the world for Live 8. These concerts The largest concert was in the USA. At one point, up to a
(2) ________________ a message to the leaders of the eight million people were (8) __________________ Live 8 on the
richest countries: ‘Help people in poor countries’. Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, where performers
(9) ________________ Stevie Wonder, Destiny’s Child, and the
Nearly two million people (3) ________________ to the
Black Eyed Peas.
concerts in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the USA,
Canada, South Africa and Russia. From Johannesburg to In London, over 200,000 people (10) ____________ Hyde Park
Berlin and from Rome to Moscow, musicians and bands to hear musicians and singers such as Madonna, Coldplay,
sang and (4) __________________ through the afternoon and Robbie Williams, Scissor Sisters and The Cure. Paul
evening. The plan was for all the concerts to take place McCartney and U2 (11) __________________ the concert with
between noon and 10pm local time, so while the first Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – it
concert – in Tokyo – was (5) __________________ , the one in (12) ___________________ the first time McCartney ever
Paris was just (6) __________________ . And millions more (13) ___________________ the song live. The concert
(7) ________________ the events on TV – up to five and a half (14) ________________ just before midnight with all the
billion people worldwide. performers singing together on the stage.

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UNIT

2 True or false? Correct the false sentences. 5 Crossword

1 The Live 8 concerts raised money for eight poor Complete.
countries.
1 2 3 4
______________________________________________________
2 Nearly two million people went to the concert in 5
London.
6 7 8 9
______________________________________________________
3 The concerts started at midday in all the countries. 10

______________________________________________________ 11 12
4 About 5,500,000 people watched Live 8 on TV.
13 14
______________________________________________________
5 The London concert took place in a park. 15 16
______________________________________________________
17
6 Paul McCartney performed Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely
Hearts Club Band for the first time at Live 8. 18
______________________________________________________

Across ➜
3 Learner Independence 1 Like a bicycle with an engine. (9)
Study Plan 5 Plural of I. (2)
Make a study plan for this week. Use this example to 6 Scorsese’s mother often … . (4)
help you.
7 In the morning. (2)
9 Scorsese went to … Bo Diddley. (3)
Things to do before my Vocabulary 10 You need a pair of …s for ice hockey. (5)
English lessons Make a word map for 11 Bo Diddley was playing in a … and roll show. (4)
Finish the homework and Music. 12 … - The Extra-Terrestrial is a famous Spielberg movie. (2)
remember to take my Using my English 14 To be … is to be a person. (5)
dictionary. Phone Anita and have a 15 Nothing … me – nothing makes me feel worried or
Reviewing my learning five-minute conversation frightened. (7)
Look back through Unit 1 in English. Send an email 18 Something that happens to you. (10)
and read all the texts in English to my friend in
Down
➜

again. Iceland.
1 Very unhappy. (9)
Grammar 2 Five and five make … (3)
Read the Grammar 3 You use the … to stop a car, for example. (5)
Summary for Unit 1. 4 depressed and nervous are both words for … (8)
5 See 5 across. (2)
4 Extensive Reading 8 Short for mathematics. (5)
Read The Princess Diaries: Book 3. 9 Appears to be. (5)
Now imagine you are a film director making a film of 13 Sorry, I can’t … you. What did you say? (4)
the book. Write notes saying which actors you will 16 Highest part of something. (3)
choose to play the main characters, and why. Then 17 He put … the helmet. (2)
compare your choices with another student.

Mia Thermopolis is the Princess of

Genovia, a small country in Europe.
But she’s also an ordinary teenage
schoolgirl living in New York – and
she’s secretly in love with her best
friend’s brother, Michael. But Kenny
thinks he’s Mia’s boyfriend, so she
must be Kenny’s girlfriend … or must
she? How can Mia tell Kenny the
truth? And how can she tell Michael?

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Inspiration Extra!

R E V I S I O N for more practice Lesson 3

Write sentences using the past continuous + when +
past simple.
Lesson 1 1 the girls/surf/the shark/attack
Complete with the present simple or present
continuous of the verbs in brackets.
The girls were surfing when the shark attacked.
______________________________________________________
2 the boys/look for sharks/they/see a huge white one
1 Tiffany and her friends ____________________ (meet) in
______________________________________________________
town at weekends.
______________________________________________________
2 She ____________________ (talk) to her friends about
3 Shane/help his father/he/decide to go for a swim
clothes, TV and boys.
______________________________________________________
3 Today she ____________________ (wear) a red shirt.
______________________________________________________
4 She ____________________ (look) forward to her party.
4 Shane/swim/he/come face to face with a crocodile
5 Tiffany and her friends ____________________ (go) to the
______________________________________________________
cinema once a week.
______________________________________________________
6 She ____________________ (read) a book called The Life of
5 the crocodile/look at Shane/he/punch it
Pi at the moment.
______________________________________________________
7 She ____________________ (feel) very cheerful today.
______________________________________________________
8 She ____________________ (think) most school lessons are
interesting.
Lesson 4
9 She ____________________ (not want) to go to Australia. Write questions for these answers about Martin
Scorsese – film director.

Lesson 2 1 What did his father play?

_____________________________________________________
Write questions and answers using the past simple. The mandolin.
1 Kate/go for a swim in the morning/afternoon 2 ______________________________________________________
Did Kate go for a swim in the morning?
______________________________________________________ The guitar.

No, she didn’t. She went for a swim in the afternoon.

______________________________________________________ 3 ______________________________________________________

2 Kate’s friends/meet her on the pier/beach The song was See See Rider.

______________________________________________________ 4 ______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________ Leadbelly.

3 Kate/visit a museum/the funfair 5 ______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________ Again and again.

______________________________________________________
4 Kate/write to her mother/her best friend Spelling
______________________________________________________ Fill in the missing letters of these words from Unit 1.
______________________________________________________ ac ent at ack b ots che rful depres ed
5 Kate’s boyfriend/come to see her/phone her embar as ed fe ling fre dom hap y happines
______________________________________________________ mis profes ional rub ish ter ified wor ied
______________________________________________________
6 Kate/hate the holiday/enjoy the holiday
Brainteaser
______________________________________________________
Why is an island like the letter T?
______________________________________________________
Answer on page 25.

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UNIT

E X T E N S I O N for language development Lesson 3

Write sentences about what you were doing at these
times last Saturday.
Lesson 1
1 At 8am _____________________________________________
Write questions and answer them for yourself.
_______________________________________________________
1 wear a skirt today?
2 At 11am _____________________________________________
Are you wearing a skirt today?
______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
Yes, I am./No, I’m not.
______________________________________________________
3 At 1pm _____________________________________________
2 usually wear a skirt to school?
_______________________________________________________
Do you usually wear a skirt to school?
______________________________________________________ 4 At 5pm _____________________________________________
Yes, I do./ No, I don’t.
______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________
3 go to the cinema every week? 5 At 8pm _____________________________________________
______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________ 6 At 11pm _____________________________________________
4 read a book at the moment? _______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
Lesson 4
5 feel hungry in the morning?
Use the notes you made in the interview with another
______________________________________________________
student in exercise 6 on page 15 to write about that
______________________________________________________ student’s ‘first time’.
6 listen to music now?
______________________________________________________
Web Watch
_____________________________________________________
Look up Bethany Hamilton on a search engine and find
7 care about the environment? out more about her life. Note down new words, check
______________________________________________________ them in the dictionary, and add them to your
______________________________________________________ vocabulary notebook.

Lesson 2 Spelling
Write questions about yesterday and answer them for Read and complete the words from Unit 1.
yourself.
● When we hear the sound /i/ at the end of words of
1 what time/get up?
two or more syllables, the usual spelling is -y.
What time did you get up?
______________________________________________________
angry happy (1) memor__ (2) suddenl__
I got up at seven o’clock.
______________________________________________________
(3) trend__ (4) universit__
2 what/have for breakfast?
● But a few words end in -ey.
______________________________________________________
journey monkey (5) hock__ (6) mon__
______________________________________________________
But note: movie
3 what/do after breakfast?
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________ Brainteaser
4 who/talk to in the morning? What often falls but never gets hurt?
______________________________________________________ Answer on page 25.
______________________________________________________
5 when/have lunch?
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
6 what/do in the evening?
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
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Identity 3 Paula and Lee Holloway live with their son Alfie, 11,
and their identical twin girls Tommy and Nikita, 8, in
east London.
FA M I LY L I F E Paula is a receptionist and Lee is a gardener. Nikita has a
problem with her eyes and Alfie spent the first year of his

T here are 17 million families in the UK, and in 7 out of

10 of them there is a married couple. But the shape of
the British family is changing. People live together without
life in Great Ormond Street
Children’s Hospital because
of a heart problem.
marrying, and divorce is more and more common. People At their happiest when:
marry again after divorce so children from different We are all sitting together
relationships grow up together. One in four children now on the sofa watching a fun
lives in a single-parent family. family film and eating a
take-away.
1 Sari and Bill Irving live in Clacton-on-Sea with Robert, 9, Most likely to argue about:
and Mikey, 8, who are Bill’s children from another Doing the tidying up.
relationship, and their own children, Nicolette, 6, and Family motto: Honesty.
Genevieve, 3.
Bill is white and Robert and Mikey’s mother is African- 4 Sarah Evans lives with her son Jacob, 9, in Warrington.
Caribbean. The boys don’t have contact with their mother. Sarah’s relationship with Jacob’s father ended when he was
Bill works in an office in London and Sari, who grew up in 11 months old. After that, Sarah trained as a lawyer. While
the United States, gave up her job last she was studying she lived with her mother, who
year to be at home with the looked after Jacob.
children. At their happiest
At their happiest when: when: On Jacob’s first
Genevieve is singing and foreign holiday in
dancing after dinner. Corfu.
Most likely to argue Most likely to argue
about: Who sits in the about: Football, spelling
middle of the people and why the English
carrier. language is ‘stupid’.
Family motto: All for Family motto: Are we nearly there yet?
one and one for all.
5 Ellen and Don Kitson live with their children Lydia, 16,
2 Kate Watkins lives with her children Alice, 11, Ella, 9, and Nathaniel, 8, in south London.
Lucy, 7, and James, 2, in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. Ellen and Don are both social workers and help with their
She is in the middle of a divorce with her husband of 15 local church. Lydia is starting AS levels at college and
years who no longer lives at home. Kate works as an Nathaniel likes swimming and jujitsu. Don feels that life for
editor for BBC news. children growing up today is different from his childhood
At their happiest when: in Jamaica.
We’re having fish and chips At their happiest when:
in Whitby. Getting together once a
Most likely to argue month to talk about any
about: Leaving the house problems.
and getting anywhere on Most likely to argue about:
time. Putting things in the
Family motto: We’re dishwasher and cleaning the
proud to be loud – we table after dinner.
may be noisy but that Family motto: Expect from
means that we are living others what you expect from
life to the full! yourself.

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1 Reading 3 Vocabulary
Read Family Life and answer the questions. Complete the sentences with these words.

Who … divorce expect honesty identical twins

1 is a gardener? ___________________________ motto people carrier receptionist
social worker sofa take-away
2 works for the BBC? ___________________________
3 grew up in Jamaica? ___________________________ 1 A __________________ is a good car for a big family
4 grew up in the USA? ___________________________ because there is lots of room.
5 is a lawyer? ___________________________ 2 After a __________________ a husband and wife aren’t
6 are social workers? ___________________________ married any more.
7 is a full-time mother? ___________________________ 3 Indian and Chinese __________________ meals are
8 spent a year in hospital? ___________________________ popular because you don’t cook them yourself.
9 is studying at college? ___________________________ 4 A __________________ helps people with problems like
10 likes jujitsu? ___________________________ housing and relationships.
11 live in London? ___________________________ 5 __________________ are two children from the same
12 went to Corfu with his mother? parents born at the same time who look exactly the
___________________________ same.
6 A __________________ is the first person you meet when

2 Reading you go to an office or hotel.

Read the text again and match the beginnings with 7 Two or three people can sit side by side on a
the endings. __________________ .
1 25% of children in Britain 8 __________________ means always telling the truth.
2 One of the Holloway twins 9 A __________________ is a short sentence saying what
3 The family which loves fish and chips you believe in or try to do.
4 Sara and Bill have four children, two of Bill’s 10 When you __________________ something, you think it’s
5 The family with two children often likely to happen.
6 The largest family has a big car and they like it when
the youngest child 4 Writing
7 The smallest family is most likely to Write a similar description of your family or of an
8 The boy whose parents go to church imaginary family.
9 The family who think it is important to be honest __________________________________________________________
10 30% of families in Britain are one-parent families or __________________________________________________________
families where the parents __________________________________________________________

a sings and dances. __________________________________________________________

b and two of their own. __________________________________________________________

c enjoy watching films together. At their happiest when:

d has an eye problem. __________________________________________________________

e aren’t married. __________________________________________________________

f likes swimming. __________________________________________________________

g argue about cleaning up after meals. Most likely to argue about:

h live in one-parent families. __________________________________________________________

i argue about English. __________________________________________________________

j is very noisy. __________________________________________________________

Family motto:
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________

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