3 How do you cope? LANGUAGE FOCUS Overco sul A [AEE] Look at the ideas for reducing stress. Do you do any of these things? Discuss with a partner. | Cee) Se id Te eee s aos eed S e e (2B TSEB Listen to two people talking about the information above, What does the woman do to reduce her stress at exam time? Complete the sentences, 1 Belore the exam, she. 2. After the exam, she © (CIEE] Listen and study the language in the chart. Describing sequence When | get stressed, I go for a walk Before the exam starts, | look over my notes one last time. ‘After | finish the exam, | try not to think about it | feel more confident when I'm prepared for an exam. | fisten to relaxing music belore | take an exarn, | always give myself a reward after | take my last exam. First, get a good night's sleep. Before you take an exam, you can do saveral things. lerceqoe ree After that, sit alone and relax. For mers infomution cr te clauses, soo Cesena Ben page 158,(2D Combine the sentences using the words in parentheses. 1 | face any challenge / | try to think of how to solve it before) 2 leelebrate with my friends / finish an exarn (after) 3 | feel stressed out / my heart starts beating faster (when) 4 usually ask for help / I don’t know how to solve 4 problem (when), 5 | take three deep breaths / | start any exam (before) 6 | frish a long, stressful day at work / | relax by playing video games (after) (2 & [ee complete the information. Circle the comect word in each sentence. Listen and check your answers. ‘You're sitting in the exam room waiting for your paper. Here are some tips to help you get ‘through the big exam. 1 (First/Before) you start writing, read all the. instructions carefully and slowly. Highlight any important detals. 2 (Then/When), check the back of the paper. ‘Are there any more questions? Mary people forget to do this. 3. When you're ready to start, answer the easiast questions (first/next). 4 (Before /When) you find a dificut question, don't spend too much time thinking ~2bout it. Move on to the next question and come back to it at the end. 5 (After/ Before) you finish, don’t leave the room early—check your answers carefully. F Complete the sentences with your own ideas. Compare with a partner, 1 Belore take a dificult exam, 2 When | don't know the answer to an exam question, 8 After | finish an exam, 4 When | get my exam results, SPEAKING Dealing with exam stress Work in pairs. You are going to teach each other some techniques for dealing with exam stress. ‘Student A: Tum to page 142, Student B: Tum to page 145.a Living without fear PRE-READING Look at the lesson title and photo, What do you think the text is mainly about? 8 how a bind man gets around how new technology is helping bind people 866 why bind people have good hearing Read the passage. Check your prediction, 1 vveryone faces challenges in thet if, but some are more [Siete Daniel Kish was bom with 3 type a eyo cancer" and doctors removed both his eyes before he was 14 months old. «Soon afer, however, he started to do an amazing thing, He started to make dicking sounds with his tongue to help him move around. Much like a bat." he now moves about using sonar He is:50 good at It that he can ide a bleycis by himsalfon public roads. He and his charity, World Aocess for the Blind, teach +o others how to use sonar. in this interview with National ‘Geographic, Kish explains how the process works. 1 “When | make a cick sound, it makes sound waves.* These waves reflect off surfaces all around and retum to my ears. * NQQrain then processes the sound into images, It's ke havig a conversation with the environment." 2 When you click, what do you see in your mind? “Each click is tke a camera flash. | make 4 2-D image of my ‘surroundings for hundreds of fet in every direction,” 2 "t's theling but requires a lot of focus. I click up to two times par second, much more than | usualy do.” 4 Is it dangerous to move around the world in this way? "Much of the world fves in fear of things that we mostly 1. Imagine. | have a habit of clmbing anything and everything, bt | never broke a bone as a ki.” 5 _ ———— a= eke aa “Many students are suprised how quickly results come. PTE RS iaeLA Seding isn't in the eyes; t's in the mind.”UNDERSTANDING MAIN IDEAS ‘Add these questions to the correct blanks in the Interview. Write a, b, ore. ‘a_ How challenging ist to teach people to use sonar? Whats it ko riding a bike using sonar? ¢ How does human sonar work? UNDERSTANDING A PROCESS How does flash sonar work? Look at the diagram on the fight. Number the sentences 1-5. The sound waves reflect off surfaces. ____The parson makes a clicking sound. ‘The brain tums the sounds into images. —— The sound waves reach the person's ears. ‘The sound waves travel away from the person. UNDERSTANDING DETAILS Circle T for true or F for false. 1 When Kish clicks, he can "see" for more than a hundred feet. 2 When Kish rides a bicycle, he cfcks lass than usual 3 Asa child, Kish broke his arm when climbing a tree. 4 Kish’s students are usually surprised they can leam 80 fast, 4444 BUILDING VOCABULARY ‘A Match the words in blue from the passage to their definitions, 1 remove © © the special attention you give to something 2 reflect © © to take away 3 brain © to send back light, sound, etc., from a surface 4 suroundings © ‘©: the part of your body that controls you 6 focus) © > the things around you 8 CRITICAL THINKING Applying How easy do you think the following things are for Daniel Kish to “see” in his ‘surroundings? Discuss with a partner. closed door amad — amovingcar atree | think a tree is easy for him to sae because ‘the sound waves reflect off i. “Yeah, You're probably right.TRSTHUCTIN = ‘Macchthewordsinbli em se passages thar defimns Then lek Check AL | eparcotvourboey mar conel yu To sen back 2008 romasurtace| the paca attention you gato someting Totkeaway Tre chings around youConfidence 4 é£é When is it suddenly not OK to love the way that we look? Because apparently (eos oman ure) e=c- UAL people every month google, we aed DOE See MSc UNIT GOALS WARM UP In this unit, you will . ) [SERB Watch part of Meaghan Ramsey's TED Talk. Answer the questions with a partne 11 How important 2 Atwhat age do nl think about their appearayHe’s kind of shy. VOCABULARY Appearance and personality (2 A. Read the descriptions and add the bold words to the correct column, 44 Hi My namo’s Kylo. 'm 17 years old and a ittle short for my age, But people say I'm handsome, | agree! | have two close ftends—Nate and Amanda, Nate is kind of shy and not vey talkative, But he can be realy funny. Aranda is tall and thin. think she looks like a model. Some people say she can be selfish, but | don't think so, 77 attractive heavy easygong smart beaut pretty honest uniiendly Q B Look at the words in the chart. Which words have a positive meaning? Which have a negative meaning? Discuss with a partner, Are there any words that you don't agree on? © _ W | Lookat the image on this page. Work with a partner. Talk about some ofthe people, {think this person is realy prety, ‘Yeah, And she looks fiend.LISTENING Like mother, like daughter Qa FJ Bonnie Kim is talking about herself and her mother. Watch and circle the words you hear. talkative quiet shy funny easygoing tall Listening for similarities ‘The folowing phrases are used to describe similarities. We're both short. Both of us jike eating out. Neither of us is very tal We book the same. @ BCMA Watch again. Circe T tor true or F for false 1 Kirn and her mother are both quite tall, 2. Kim is talkative, but her mother is very quiet, 8. Kim and her mother both ike aports, 4 Kim and her mother both enjoy cocking aaaad aa.43 87 Ce ec elles od © CRITICAL THINKING Personalizing In what ways are you similar to your parents? Discuss with a partner. SPEAKING Talking about family @ —& [IEZ I How are speaker B and his father similar? ‘A: Wow, that's a great photo! Is that your dad? B: Yeah. ‘A: You look just like him. exactly /a lot B: Do youthink 30? ‘A: Yeah, you have the same nose. eyes / mouth I guess so, But we have really different personales, A; Really? What's he like? Bi Well he's realy talkatve, but I'm alte quiet abit / faty ‘As And | quass that's your mom. She looks really nice. happy /tisndly Bi Yeah, sheis. Everyone loves my mom. B Practice the conversation with a partner, Practice again using the words on the right. @ © Write below the names of four members of your family. Work with a partner. Ask each other about the people on your lists. What's your sister lke’? ‘She's really easygoing and fun,He thinks he’s too tall. LANGUAGE FOCUS Describing appearance and personality A [SEE] Read the information. Is yaur country mentioned? If not, how do you think it compares? HAPPY iT) Tens of thousands of people from around the world recently answered this question. See eee un mace (QB (AEE) An expert is talking about the survey. Watch and circle the correct option. 1 In the survey, responses from men and women were very (similar/ different). 2 12% of both men and women said they were (extremely fairly) happy with the way they look. 3. 14% of women sald they were (not very happy/not happy at all) with the way they look, © (EE) Watch and study the language in the chart. Describing people extremely talkative, : “ vg very/Tealy ——irlendly, What's she tke? Sre's ty - quite shy, Kind of / sort of short. ern He's abit/aliitle heavy. ret very tal. He doesn't look old at al Her thinks he's too shart, Ha thinks he's not tall enough. For mond information an modifying adwedhs, soe Grammar Surimary 7 on page 157.