8 A

Things
Portobello Market
C
8.1 goal
ask about and buy things

LISTENING 1 Look at the photos of stalls in Portobello Market, London. Ask and answer the
questions together.
1 Do you like shopping in markets? Why? / Why not?
2 Do you usually just pay the full price at market stalls, or do you bargain?
3 What do markets in your town sell? (food, antiques, second-hand clothes …)
4 Are there any famous markets in your country? Have you ever visited them?
2 2.33 Carolina is from Spain but lives and works in London. Listen to her shopping

in Portobello Market. What thing in each photo does she ask about?
Carolina lives in
London. 3 2.33 Listen again. What does Carolina buy? How much does she pay?

VOCABULARY 4 a Complete the highlighted expressions from Carolina’s conversations with the
Buying things stallholders with verbs from the box.

give have (x2) is leave looking see take (x2) try want

Looking Bargaining Buying clothes

1 S Do you need any help? 4 C I could you eighty. 7 C What size it?
C No, thanks, I’m just looking . S I’ll do it for eighty-five. S It’s a medium.
C Well … OK, I’ll it.
2 C Can I a look at those 8 C Can I it on?
ones there? 5 C Would you twenty? S Yes, of course.
S These big ones? S I can take thirty.
9 C Do you any other colours?
C No, the smaller ones. C Thanks, but I’ll them.
S I’m afraid not, no.
3 C Can I the big rug at the top? 6 C How much do you for
S The orange one? them?
C No, the white one. S These ones are thirty-five.

b Look at the script on p150 to check.

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PRONUNCIATION 5 a 2.34 Listen to 2 and 4 from 4a. Notice that two of the words have strong stress.
Contrastive C Can I have a look at those ones there? C I could give you eighty.
stress
S These big ones? S I’ll do it for eighty-five.
C No, the smaller ones. C Well … OK, I’ll take it.
Can I see that
jacket, please? b Now look at 3 in 4a. Which two words have strong stress? What about in 5?
The blue one? c 2.35 Listen to check. P Practise saying 2–5 in 4a.

No, the 6 In pairs, take turns to start the conversations from 4a. Answer with your own ideas.
black one.

Do you have any … ?

GRAMMAR 1 Look at the examples in the table. Then complete 1–4 with some and any.
some, any

There are some second-hand stalls just C Excuse me?

over there. S Yeah, do you need some help?
I might have some other sizes.
Do you have any silver candlesticks?
Do you have any other colours?
We don’t have any second-hand clothes. S Do you need any help?
C No thanks, I’m just looking.
1 In positive sentences, we usually use .
2 In negative sentences, we usually use .
3 In questions, we use when we don’t know the answer.
4 In questions, we use when we expect the answer ‘yes’ (offers, requests, etc.).
2 a Add some or any to sentences 1–5 in the conversation.
some
1 STALLHOLDER Hello. Do you need help?
2 CAROLINA Yes. Do you have bookcases?
3 S Yes, we do. We’ve got nice bookcases over here.
C Oh, right. How much is the big one?
4 S It’s 110, but we’ve got cheaper ones. This black one’s just 80.
5 C Hm. Do you think you’ll get more?
S Yes, I get them in quite often, so you could try again in a few weeks.

Grammar reference b 2.36 Listen to a conversation with possible answers. Are your answers the same?
and practice, p138
c In pairs, change the underlined expressions and have more conversations.

SPEAKING 3 a Work in A/B pairs. Choose the rug, antique or jacket stall in the photos on p66.
A, you’re the stallholder. Decide on prices for things in the photo.
B, you want to buy something for a good price. Choose something.
b Role play together.

4 Change roles and choose another stall. Role play again.

5 Tell the class what you bought and how much you paid.

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8.2 goal
Mystery objects describe objects

A B C

READING 1 a Look at the three objects. What do you think they are?
b Read the webpage and check your ideas.

http://www.mysteries.com/sar.htm v

Mysteries.com
The Voynich Manuscript This strange book was discovered in 1912 in Frascati, near Rome,
by Wilfred Voynich, an antique book collector. It’s small, 25 by 18 cm, but thick, with 235
pages. The pages are illustrated with strange coloured pictures of different things, including
unknown plants and herbs. The book uses a kind of writing which no one can understand.
Some people think it’s written in an unknown, secret language. Others think the whole
manuscript must be a very complicated (and expensive) joke. No one knows for sure where it
came from, but many experts believe it was made in Europe, sometime between the ifteenth
and seventeenth centuries.
The Baghdad Battery This small pot, about 15 cm tall, was probably discovered in a village
near Baghdad in the 1930s. It’s about 2000 years old and is made of light yellow clay but also
has two pieces of metal inside. In 1940, an article was written suggesting that the pot was
in fact a very old electric battery. In the 1970s, a copy of the ‘Baghdad battery’ was made
and illed with grape juice. It produced a small amount of electricity – 0.87 volts – so it seems
possible that electric batteries were used in the ancient world, nearly 2000 years before their
‘invention’ by Alessandro Volta in 1800.
The Saqqara Bird This object, made of wood, was found in 1898 in Saqqara, Egypt. It’s about
18 cm across and weighs about 40 g. At irst it was thought to be a model of a bird, made
in about 200 BC, and it was put in a box in the basement of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Then, in 1969, it was rediscovered by Dr Khalil Messiha. He believed that the object looked
very similar to a modern aeroplane – for example, it has wings like an aeroplane, not a bird.
The ancient Egyptians often made small models of things they planned to build, so could this
be a model of a simple aeroplane that was built over 2000 years ago?

2 Read again and complete the table.

Voynich Manuscript Baghdad Battery Saqqara Bird

place found Frascati, near Rome
when found
size
age

3 Which ideas about each object do you think are correct or incorrect? Talk together.

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VOCABULARY 4 a Match the descriptions, 1–6, with pictures A–C.
Describing 1 It’s light yellow. 4 It’s made of clay.
objects 2 It’s small but thick, with 235 pages. 5 It has wings like an aeroplane.
3 It’s 25 by 18 cm. 6 It weighs about 40 g.
b Answer the questions in groups, then compare your ideas.
1 What’s the opposite of light in sentence 1?
2 How many more colours can you think of?
3 Find things in your classroom which are made of these materials.

cotton glass leather metal paper plastic stone wood

c Choose some things in your classroom and write two or three sentences about
each one.

SPEAKING 5 Listen to each other’s sentences. It’s blue with white letters.
Can you guess the objects? It’s about 20 by 12 cm.
A dictionary?

It was made in …
v
GRAMMAR 1 a Which sentence, 1 or 2, is used in the paragraph about the Voynich Manuscript?
Passives
1 Wilfred Voynich discovered this strange book. (active)
D 2 This strange book was discovered by Wilfred Voynich. (passive)
b Why does the writer use the passive? Is the writer more interested in the book or
Wilfred Voynich?

2 a Complete the sentences in the table with the correct form of be.

present simple passive past simple passive

am / is / are + past participle was / were + past participle
Some people think it written in Many experts believe it made in
an unknown, secret language. Europe.
The pages illustrated with It seems possible that electric batteries
strange coloured pictures. used in the ancient world.

b Find and underline nine more examples of the passive in the text.

3 Work in two groups, Group A and Group B.

A, turn to p125 and complete the information about the object in picture D.
B, turn to p129 and complete the information about the objects in picture E.
Grammar reference Use the active or passive. You can look up irregular past participles on p160,
and practice, p138
Irregular verbs.

SPEAKING 4 a Prepare to tell someone from the other group about your object.
E Use these expressions to help you remember.

Group A Group B
Istanbul, 1929 animal skin 300 Costa Rica, 1930s
Piri Reis, 1513 Africa America people in Central America why?
Antarctica? 1820? a bad drawing? 2 cm 2 m how old? Las Bolas

b Work in A/B pairs. Tell each other about your objects.

5 Which of the five objects, A–E, do you think is the most interesting? Why?

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8.3 goals
Talk about a favourite describe objects
talk about possessions
possession
A

C
D

Anna from the USA Alba from Venezuela Claudia from Austria Eren from Turkey

TASK LISTENING 1 2.37 Listen to four people talking about their favourite possessions. Match the

people and possessions.

TASK 2 a Can you remember who uses these sentences?

VOCABULARY
1 I think my favourite thing is my TV.
Talking about a 2 I need it for work.
possession 3 It helps me relax after a long day at work.
4 I’ve had some of them since I was five.
5 They were given to me by my mother.
6 It just reminds me of those days, the sunny summer days.
7 I just like it because it means I can do a lot of different things.
8 I absolutely love it because it is like a mosaic.
b 2.37 Listen again to check.

TASK 3 a Think of one of your favourite possessions. Think about how to describe:
1 what it looks like. It’s made of …
2 how long you’ve had it. I’ve had it …
3 how you got it. It was given to me by …
4 how you feel about it. I like it because …
5 any other details.
b Tell each other about your favourite possessions. Ask questions to find out more.

4 As a class, make a list of everyone’s favourite possession. Which are the oldest?
Which are the smallest? Which are the most unusual?

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Keyword by
1 Add the underlined expressions from previous units to the correct groups in the table.

1 This strange book was discovered in 1912 by Wilfred Voynich. Unit 8

2 It was drawn in 1513 by an admiral in the Turkish navy, Piri Reis. Unit 8
3 The house is by the canal, just here. Unit 7
4 Can I pay by card? Unit 5
5 I’ll be at home by the time you arrive. Unit 5
6 No one really talks. Everyone’s a bit tired by Friday. Unit 3
7 Supermarkets bring a lot of their stuff here by plane and that’s bad for the environment. Unit 3
8 You have to stop the luge by putting your feet on the ice. Unit 1

A who? B how? C no later than D next to

by a person by (noun / -ing) by a time by a place
by Alessandro Volta by taxi by two o’clock by the park

2 a Add by to these questions.

1 Do you have to do anything important the end of this week?
2 What things do you keep your cooker at home?
3 How often do you contact people letter?
4 Were any of the things in your home made your family or friends?
5 When you’re on holiday, do you prefer to travel car or use public transport?
6 Would you prefer to live the sea or in the mountains?
7 Do you think you’ll still live in the same place the end of next year?
8 What do you hope to have done 2020?
b Ask and answer the questions together.

Independent learning Ways of reading

1 Which of these do you usually read on a computer?
Which do you usually read on paper? Why?
bank statements dictionaries essays
newspaper and magazine articles recipes
stories and poems transport timetables
TV and film listings work documents
2 a Think about how you read the things in 1. Which do you:
a read quickly to get a general idea of what it’s about?
b read quickly to find information (e.g. a price)?
c read slowly and carefully so you can understand everything?
d read slowly and carefully because you enjoy it?
b Compare your ideas in groups. Do you read things in the
same way?

3 Talk about your reading in English.

1 What kinds of English texts do you read?
2 What ways of reading in 2a do you use for each one?
3 What ways of reading do you use the most often and the
least often?
4 Look again at the article Mysteries.com on p68. Which ways
of reading do you think tasks 1b and 2 practise?

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8 EXPLORESpeaking Goal
explain words you don’t know

A C E

Monthly Plan
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B D

1 a Listen to three conversations. In each

2.38 1
conversation: AGNIESZKA So, what are we having to eat?
BRENDA I don’t know. Is there a menu in English?
1 Where are the people?
AGNIESZKA I don’t think so. Can I help?
a classroom an office a restaurant
BRENDA Yeah … barszcz I know, placek I know … what’s
2 Which thing in pictures A–E do they talk about?
‘kluski ’?
b Read the scripts to check. In which conversation AGNIESZKA Kluski. 1They’re made of potato.
does someone: BRENDA Potato?
AGNIESZKA Yeah, 2they’re like little balls. Sometimes
a describe something in other words because 3
they have meat inside them.
they can’t remember an English word?
BRENDA OK. What about this?
b help someone by explaining an English word?
c explain a word in their language that doesn’t
have an English translation? 2
NAZIF Hi, Helen.
2 Look at the highlighted expressions 1–9 in the HELEN Afternoon. Have you lost something?
scripts. Which are for: NAZIF Yes, I’m looking for my blue … erm … 4What’s it
1 saying you don’t know a word? called?
2 describing size, shape, material, HELEN Your pen?
similar things? NAZIF No. 5I don’t remember the word in English. 6It’s
3 describing use, location? a kind of book. 7You write in it, you know, times,
things to do …
3 a In pairs, think about how to describe the things in HELEN You mean your diary?
pictures A and D. Use expressions from 2.
NAZIF That’s it, a diary.
b Compare your descriptions with another pair. HELEN Is that it over there?

4 a Work alone. In your first language, write down 3

the names of four things in your home or HAE-WON Manuel, what’s a ‘kettle’?
workplace. Choose things you don’t know the MANUEL A what?
English words for. HAE-WON A ‘kettle’.
b Work in groups. Don’t show your words but take MANUEL Where’s that?
turns to describe your things to your group. HAE-WON Erm … it’s in paragraph two.
Can anyone tell you the English word? MANUEL Hang on. Oh, it’s a … 8you usually find it in the
kitchen.
HAE-WON OK …
I don’t know what you call it MANUEL
9
You use it to make water hot.
in English. It’s a kind of … HAE-WON Right …
MANUEL When you make tea or coffee, for example.
c Check each word in a bilingual dictionary. HAE-WON Oh, I see. Thanks.

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Review Extension
VOCABULARY Describing objects SPELLING AND SOUNDS ow

1 a Listen to Sandra describing an object that’s

2.39 4 a 2.41 You say ow in two ways. Listen and repeat.
important to her. Guess what it is.
/aυ/ /əυ/
b Think of an important object you have at home.
Plan how to describe it without saying what it is. now down shower show yellow known
It’s made of plastic and …
b Add these words to the correct group.
c Listen to each other’s descriptions. Can you guess
the objects? borrow brown crowded flower flown follow
how snow tomorrow town vowel window
GRAMMAR The passive c 2.42 Spellcheck. Close your book. Listen to ten

words with ow and write them down.

2 a Complete the quiz questions with the correct form
of the passive, present or past. d Look at the script on p151 to check your spelling.

NOTICE Describing opinions and beliefs

1 Farsi (speak) in
a Turkey b Iran c Iraq. 5 a Which of these sentences are about the Voynich
Manuscript? Which are about the Piri Reis map?
2 The first colour photographs (take) in the
a 1860s b 1890s c 1920s. 1 No one knows for sure where it came from.
3 The Yellow River (locate) in 2 Many experts believe it was made in Europe.
3 Some people think it shows the coast of
a Cambodia b China c Korea.
Antarctica.
4 In 1867, Alaska (sell) to the USA by 4 Other people say it’s really just a bad drawing
a Russia b Britain c Canada. of part of South America.
5 Ulysses, by James Joyce, (write) in the b What else can you remember about these mystery
a 18th century b 19th century c 20th century. objects?
6 The 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature (give) to • the Baghdad Battery • the Saqqara Bird
a V S Naipaul b Kenzaburo Oe • the Stone Balls of Costa Rica
c Harold Pinter.
Use the expressions in 5a. Some people
7 In English, baby elephants (call)
a ‘kids’ b ‘calves’ c ‘cubs’. say it’s a model
aeroplane.
8 The first football World Cup (win) in 1930 by
a Argentina b Brazil c Uruguay.

b 2.40 Do the quiz and then listen to check.

c In groups, write four more quiz questions.
d Exchange quizzes with another group. Do the quiz
and then check your answers together.

CAN YOU REMEMBER? Unit 7 – will, might

3 a What do you think will happen in your life in the

next five years? Complete the sentences. Think
Self-assessment
about these topics:
Can you do these things in English? Circle a number
• family • work • studies • travel
on each line. 1 = I can’t do this, 5 = I can do this well.
• free time • possessions
ask about and buy things 1 2 3 4 5
1 I’ll … 4 I hope I’ll …
describe objects 1 2 3 4 5
2 I’ll probably … 5 I think I’ll …
talk about possessions 1 2 3 4 5
3 I might … 6 I don’t think I’ll …
explain words you don’t know 1 2 3 4 5
I might get married.
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