1.4 Communication I can ask for and give personal information.

Where do you live?

Receptionist: Good morning.
Tom: Good morning.
R: Hello. Can I help you?
all
Tom: Yes, I’d like to join the basketb
club, plea se.
R: Of course. What’s your name?
Tom: Tom Flynn.
R: How do you spell Flynn?
Tom: F-L-Y-N-N.
R: Where do you live, Tom?
Tom: 25 Star Street, Kingston.
R: What’s your email address?
Tom: It’s tom.flynn@mymail.com.
R: And what’s your phone number?
Tom: It’s 08976 335214.
When does the club meet?
R: On Mondays, from 5.30 to 7.00.
Tom: That’s now, isn’t it?
R: Yes, hurry up!

1 6 1.28 Watch or listen and read.

Answer the questions.
L K! Email addresses
@ = “at” .com = “dot com”
1 Where is Tom?
Telephone numbers
2 Why is he there? 0 = “oh” or “zero”
33 = “double three”
2 6 1.28 Watch or listen and read
again. Complete the table.
4 In your notebook, write questions to these answers.
Name 1
Tom Flynn
Flyn 1 Diego Alvarez
2 What's your name?
Address
3
2 D-I-E-G-O A-L-V-A-R-E-Z
Email address
3 17 North Road, Oxford
4
Phone number 4 It’s diego@xnet.com
5 It’s 06657 241682
3 1.29 Listen
ten and repea
repeat.
HD

5 1.30 Listen and check.

Communication
mmunication
6 Exam Spot 1.31 Listen and complete
Asking
king for personal information
i
Kate’s information.
What’s your nam
name?
How do you spe
spell that? Name of student: Kate
1

W
Where do you live? AFTER
Art Club L
Name of Club: SCHOO
What’s your email address? Day: 2
CL U B
What’s your phone number? Time: 3
4
Where: Room

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 I can understand a text about a school day. Reading
1.5
1 1.32 Look at the photos and read the title.
What do you think the text is about? Boarding School –
Read or listen to the text and check.

2 Read the text again and answer the questions.

What’s it really like?
1


What type of school does Laura go to???
2 What time does she wake up?
3 What is her favourite lesson?
4 When does she play badminton?
5 Does Laura miss her parents?

3 1.33 Listen and repeat. Which of the

places are there in your school?

Vocabulary Places in a school

canteen classroom computer room gym In films, boarding schools are exciting places, often
hall library playground staff room with magic or monsters. But what is a real British
boarding school like? Thirteen-year-old Laura
Henderson describes a typical day at her school.
4 Complete the sentences with words in the
Vocabulary box so they are true for you. “We wake up at 6.30 in the morning and have
1 We have assembly in the . breakfast in the school canteen. At 8.00, the bell
2 We have lessons in our . rings for assembly in the hall. The great thing about
boarding school is that we’re never late for school!
ool!
3 We have lunch in the .
4 After lunch, we play in the . Lessons start at 9.00 and finish at 3.30. My favourite
5 We do P.E. in the . erime
lesson is Science because we often do experiments.
In the afternoon, we sometimes go to the library to
6 I sometimes do my homework in the .
read, or we do P.E. in the gym. In the evening,
I often play badminton or go to a cookery class.
5 Exam Spot Read the questions to Laura. Circle
the best answer a, b or c. ecause my parents liv
I go to a boarding school because live in
France. Do I miss them? Yes, but I’ve got some good
1 A: What do you do at the weekend, Laura? friends here.
B: a Yes, I do. b I usually go sailing.
And no, we don’t have any magic or
c No, I don’t have lessons at the weekend.
monsters!”
2 A: Where do you have breakfast?
B: a Every morning. b I have toast and cereal. boarding school – a school where students
live as well as study
c In the canteen.
3 A: Who is your best friend?
B: a She’s very well, thank you. b Her name is Ruby.
c She’s fourteen.

Fun
Spot
6 Imagine a day in a Crazy
School. Who can think
of the funniest sentences?
We wake up at 2.00 in the afternoon.
We play basketball in the library.

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 1.6
I can understand and write short
Listening and Writing texts about my day.

1 Complete the days of the week. Which 5 Read the blog entry from a school website.
are weekdays? Which two days are at the Which is Daisy’s favourite day? Why?
weekend?
1 Mo
_n_d
_a y
__ 5 _r____
2 _u _ _ _ _ _ 6 S_______ My favourite day
3

@
_n _
@
@
@

@ 7 _u _ _ _ _
On my favourite day I get up
4 _ _ _ _s _ _ _
at 7 a.m. and listen to music.
I meet my friends at 8.15 and
2 1.34 Listen to four children. Which are we walk to school. We often talk
their favourite weekdays? about our plans for the weekend.
1 Peter Wednesday 3 Freya Lessons start at 9 a.m., with Music, then Art – my
2 Theo Theo – Friday 4 Hannah Hannah - favourite subjects! At lunchtime, I sometimes play
Thursday table tennis.

3 Exam Spot 1.34 Listen again. Match In the afternoon, I usually go skateboarding in the
park with my friends. In the evening, we often watch
the children to the activities they do on their
music videos!
favourite days. There are two extra pictures. Guess what my favourite day is. Yes, it’s Friday!
1 d
a
Writing Time expressions at, in, on
AT at 9 o’clock, at the weekend, at lunchtime
IN in the morning
Peter
b ON on Monday, on Friday morning, on a weekday
2
6 Find time expressions in the text in Exercise 5.
RQ
c 7 i Writing Time Write about your favourite
weekday.

7 Find ideas
Theo

3 Make notes about your favourite weekday.

Write what you do in the morning/afternoon/
d evening, how many lessons you have on that
day, what school subjects you do, etc.

Freya
eya
h Draft
Write about your favourite weekday.
e My favourite weekday is …
4
In the morning, I …
On … I have … lessons. I do …
In the afternoon/evening, I …

f
o Check and write
Hannah Check the time expressions and write the
final version of your text.
4 What’s
W your favourite weekday? Why? Tell the
class.

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 Language Revision
1.7
5 In your notebook, write five sentences about your
Vocabulary weekend. Use adverbs of frequency and the words in
1 Look at the photos and complete the the box.
names of school subjects.
get up meet friends do homework
go to the cinema have a pizza

I usually get up at 10 a.m.

6 Complete the interview with Big Al

1 M aths 2 G with do, don’t, does and doesn’t.

Interviewer: 1 Do Do you paint every day?

Big Al: Yes, I 2
. But I 3
do
don’t paint
in the morning. I sleep in the morning.
Interviewer: 4
Does
you friend Rocco paint?
Big Al: No, he 5
. He does karate.
Interviewer: 6
he like your paintings?
3 S 4 C
Big Al: Yes, he 7 . He loves them … I think.
S
gro u n
ay Pronunciation
d

gy mpl

7 1.35 Listen and repeat: /s/, /z/ or /ɪz/?

ry

a He never gets up late.

5 H s
cla sroomlibr He goes to school at eight.
l
hal

2 Find and circle He finishes school at five.

five places He plays football outside!
in a school.

Communication
3 Match the words in the box to the correct 8 Complete the receptionist’s questions.
verb. Which activities do you do? Then act out the dialogue in pairs.
Receptionist: 1What’s your name?
ballet basketball chess the drums
judo karate the piano pottery tennis Paula: Paula Krantz.
Receptionist: How do you 2 that?
play: basketball, Paula: K-R-A-N-T-Z.Z.
do: Receptionist: What’s your phone 3
ur ph ?
Paula: 038622 451957.
Grammar Receptionist: hat’s your 4
What’s address?
4 Complete the text with the correct form of Paula: paula@net.com
D

the verbs in the box. Receptionist: Where do you 5 ?

Paula: Road Oxford.
17 Park Road,
walk have send start get up talk
lf! 
3H

Check yourse
On weekdays Elena 1 gets up at 7.30 a.m. m.
She 2 y.
breakfast with her family. t I can talk about
abou school.
Then she 3 to school with her t I can use the Present Simple to talk about
sister. On the way to school, the girls my daily routine.
4
about their day, listen to music t I can ask and answer questions about hobbies.
and 5 text messages. School t I can
c ask for and give personal information.
6
at 9 a.m.
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Geture!
Cult
Schools in the UK

School Uniforms in the UK

Schoolchildren in Britain usually wear a school uniform.
We talk to two students about their uniform.
Josh Sara
Hi, I’m Josh and I’m twelve. At my school, Hi, I’m Sara and I’m thirteen. I wear a green
we wear a light blue shirt with a blue and and purple skirt and a cream shirt.
yellow tie, and a dark There’s also a green jacket,
blue jumper. We also but I don’t always wear it.
wear grey trousers With the skirt, I wear
1 blue and
and black shoes. yellow tie black tights and black
Girls wear the same shoes. I think school
clothes. I don’t like uniform is good
my uniform. because it’s 4
It’s expensive, comfortable,
and the shirt and and because
tie aren’t very we think about
comfortable. our lessons,
not our clothes.
2
2

3
3

6 7

1 1.36 Read and listen to the texts 3 1.37 Listen to two more children. What clothes
about school uniforms in the UK. do they wear to school? Are they for or against school
Label Josh’s and Sara’s uniforms with uniforms?
the words in bold.
4DIPPM
VOJGPSN

School uniform –
Name
Name $MPUIFT
Clothes 
GPS
PS
BHBJOTU
for or against
2 Who says these things? Read the
sentences and write J (Josh), Martha,
Martha, Australia
Australia aa white shirt, …
white shirt,
S (Sara), or J and S (Josh and Sara). Ivan, America
1 My uniform isn’t comfortable. J Ivan, America
2 I sometimes wear a jacket.
3 Boys and girls wear trousers. 4 Discuss the questions in pairs.
4 I wear a shirt. 1 What do you wear to school?
5 I like wearing a uniform. 2 What do you wear at the weekend?
6 I don’t like wearing a uniform. 3 Do you think school uniforms are good or not?

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 Secondary schools in the UK

A 7 Watch the video and answer the presenter’s questions. Which topics does the video
talk about?

school uniform after-school clubs school rules school subjects

B 7 Watch the video again. Circle T (true) or F (false). Correct the false sentences.

1 Lessons usually start at eight o’clock. T/F

2 Students go home for lunch. T/F
3 Lessons finish at five o’clock. T/F
4 After school, students can go to clubs. T/F
5 The school holidays are from June to October. T/F

C Which things are the same in your country? Which things are different? Discuss your
answers as a class.

Our Ideal School

chool Uniform

PR JECT
t The boys wear
ear … and
a …
t The girls
s wear …
DU
t The shoes are …
ť Work in groups. Make a digital presentation t The
he uniforms are
ool/great/comforta
cool/great/comfortable.
rrtable.
table
about an ideal school uniform.
ť Write a description of the ideal uniform. Use
these questions to help you.
What do the girls and boys wear?
What are the colours?
What shoes do they wear?
Are the uniforms cool and comfortable? ť Put the text and the drawings/photos/
3

ť Use a computer programme to draw the uniform, videos together.

or take photos/videos of your friends in the uniform, ť Share your presentation with the class.
using clothes from home. Which is your favourite uniform? Why?

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