READINGVOCABULARY /

GRAMMARLISTENING SPEAKING WRITING

Crazy English

page 5

A Unique Method

multiple choice

• Word building

• Expressions: make, do

• Expressions: learning a new language

• Present Simple and Present Continuous

Learning a language

multiple matching

Talking about yourself

Informal email / letter

Fit and Healthy

page 15

Stand Better, Feel Better!

multiple choice

• Word building

• Expressions: health and fitness

• Past Simple and Past Continuous

• used to / would

Choosing the correct picture

Talking about sports

comparing pictures

Story

That’s Entertainment

page 25

Looking the Part

gapped text

• Collocations

• Word building

• Suffixes

• Phrasal verbs: put, take

• Present Perfect Simple and Present Perfect Continuous

A film festival

multiple choice

Talking about films

deciding which film to see

Film review

You’ve Got a Friend

page 35

The New Student

multiple choice

• Word building

• Expressions: friendship and making decisions

• Past Perfect Simple andPast Perfect Continuous

Asking for advice

multiple choice

Saying goodbye

choosing an option

Informal letter

Making Music

page 45

Music Piracy

multiple choice

• Word building

• Preposition + noun

• The Future

An interview with Sarbel Michael

sentence completion

Talking about music

comparing pictures

Article

The Inventive Mind

page 55

A Remarkable Man

gapped text

• Word building

• Everyday situations

• Modals and Semi-modals

• Modal Perfect

Different situations

multiple choice

Where to take a visitor

deciding where to go

Informal Letter

All About You

page 65

Your Pen Personality

gapped text

• Word building

• Expressions: tell

• Relative clauses

The PlayStation

sentence completion

Doing things together

comparing pictures

Article

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Survival Instinct

page 75

A Happy Ending

multiple matching

• Word building

• Phrasal verbs: up, down

• The Passive

Forest fires

sentence completion

Protecting the forest

comparing pictures

Letter

Crime Time

page 85

Believe It or Not!

multiple matching

multiple choice

• Word building: prefixes: in-, im-, un-, dis-, il-

• Words connected to crime

• Reported speech

The world of crime

multiple matching

Help to solve a problem

offering advice

Story

Special Days

page 95

Growing Up

multiple matching

• Word building

• Phrasal verbs: go, get

• Adjective + preposition

• The Causative

Two Festivals

multiple choice

Celebrating holidays

comparing pictures

Article

Back to Nature

page 105

A Helping Hand

multiple matching

multiple choice

• Collocations

• Word building

• Expressions: hand

• The prefix: re-

• Conditionals and temporals

An environmentally friendly school multiple choice

Saving energydeciding how to save energy

Report

The Best Choice?

page 115

A Close Match

multiple choice

• Word building: suffixes: -hood, -ness, -ship

• Expressions: sport

• Phrasal verbs: out, on • wish

• Quantifiers; some, any, every, no

Choosing the correct picture

Activities for summer camp

choosing an option

Essay

Have a Laugh!

page 125

April Fool’s Day

gapped text

• Word building

• Useful expressions: … and …

• Phrasal verbs with three words

• Gerunds and infinitives

• Special structures: had better / would rather, let / make, get / be used to

Different situations

multiple choice

Telling a joke

expressing an opinion

Story

Taking the Lead

page 135

A Legendary Leader

gapped text

• Idioms: time

• Word building

• Adjectives and adverbs

• so / such

Martin Luther King

multiple choice

Which biography to read

choosing an option

Article

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Have you ever thought it strange that there is one day in the year – 1st April or as it is often called, April Fool’s Day – when people are actually encouraged to play jokes on each other? In fact, this custom is so common that we often spend the whole day just waiting for someone to trick us! 1

Tricking people is certainly an unusual holiday custom. How did it come about? One popular theory has to do with the calendar. 2 Then, in 1582 the Pope decided to introduce a new calendar. This calendar established 1st

January as the beginning of the year. But in those days news didn’t travel fast. There was no

television, radio or newspapers, so people learned about the Pope’s decision at different times.

As time went by, an increasing number of people in Europe began using the revised calendar. 3 Eventually, those who still celebrated New Year’s on 1st April were thought to be backward or foolish. People would ridicule them and even found it amusing to play practical jokes on them when 1st April came along. This custom of playing pranks

A ReadthreestatementsaboutAprilFool’sDay.Whichdoyouthinkaretrue?

1. OnAprilFool’sDaythemediaoftentakespartinplayingpranksonpeople.

2. Inthepast,peoplecelebratedtheNewYearon1stApril.

3. AprilFool’sDayisonlycelebratedinEurope.

B Nowreadthetexttofindoutwhichofthefactsaretrue.Sixsentenceshavebeenremovedfromit.Chooseonesentenceforeachgap(1-6)fromthesentencesA-G.Thereisoneextrasentenceyoudonotneedtouse.

ReadingReading

HaveyoueverplayedaprankononeofyourfriendsonAprilFool’sDay?Whatdidyoudo?Howdidtheyfeel?

ConneCt to the teXt

tiptipGappedTextWhenyouread,payattentiontopronounslikewe

andtheyandtotheuseoftenses.Forexample;

beforegap1thetextsays:weoftenspendthe

day….Whichmissingsentenceincludesthe

pronounweandusesthePresentSimple?

was so popular that it soon became widespread. Nowadays, April Fool’s Day is celebrated in countries all over the world, from America to Japan.

April Fool’s Day pranks come in all shapes and sizes. Some jokes are simple – like fooling a friend into believing that he has a cockroach on his back and watching him jump up and down to shake off the insect. Others are far more sophisticated. For instance, does the idea of phoning a friend and disguising your voice as Matt Damon or Angelina Jolie appeal to you? No problem. 4 They’ve invented special equipment that transforms your voice over the telephone to sound like the celebrity of your choice. But you had better hope that your friend has a sense of humour when he finds out that you were pulling his leg!

5 On 1st April, 1957, a BBC programme about different world cultures showed women picking spaghetti off trees with the explanation that this was a typical spaghetti harvest scene. Thousands of viewers were convinced that spaghetti grew on trees! Luckily most of them laughed when they found out they had been taken in by a hoax!

Incredibly, even the person who is the butt of the joke doesn’t seem to mind. On the contrary, people actually look forward to April Fool’s Day. 6 You don’t have to spend days looking for the perfect gift. There are no huge family dinners where you must be friendly to relatives you haven’t seen for years. Instead, April Fool’s Day lets us see the funny side of life – even if it’s at our own expense!

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after you read

A ExpRESSioNSFRomTHETExTFindexpressionsinthetextthatmeanthesameasthewordsinbold.

1. Howdidithappen?(lines5-10)

2. Onetheoryinvolvesthecalendar.(lines5-10)

3. Doestheideaofdisguisingyourvoiceseemattractivetoyou?(lines30-35)

4. Theylaughedwhentheyrealisedtheyhadbeentrickedbythehoax.(lines40-45)

5. Mostpeopledon’tmindpracticaljokes.Quitetheopposite,theylookforwardtoit.(lines40-45)

6. itmakesnodifferencehowmuchweexpecttheprank,wearealwayssurprised.(SentenceD)

B Circlethecorrectanswers.

1. Acustomthatiswidespreadiscommon/modern.

2. WeenjoyAprilFool’sDayprankseventhoughtheymaybeatourownsurprise/expense.

3. Duringtheharvest/hoax,peoplepickfruit.

4. Theschooltimetablehasbeenrevised/disguised.Youshouldcheckit.

5. Iwishbadnewsdidn’ttrick/travelsoquickly.

6. Typically/Eventually,theteammanagedtosolvetheproblem.

7. Laurahasredhairunlike/insteadhertwinbrotherJohn,whohasdarkhair.

8. Weencouraged/establishedSallytotakeuptheguitar.

C pRACTiSENEWWoRDSWorkwithapartnerandgiveoneexampleofthethingsbelow.includethewordinboldinyouranswer.

Giveatleastoneexampleof:

•acommoninsectinyourcountry

•somethingthatisfoolishforanathletetodo

•atypicalactivityteensdoattheweekend

•amachinethatissimpletouse

•somethingyouwillcertainlydowhenyouareanadult

D WoRDbuilDiNG:suffixes:-ful,-lessCirclethecorrectanswers.

1. Idon’tknowwhattodowiththismachine.It’suseful/useless.

2. MyparentswishIweremorehelpful/helplessaroundthehouse.

3. You’realwaysbreakingthings.Youshouldbemorecareful/careless.

4. I’mhopeful/hopelessatlearningnewnames.Ialwaysforgetthem.

5. Smokingisharmful/harmlesstoyourhealth.

Vocabulary 2Vocabulary 2

april f l’s dayTechnologyexpertshaverecently

comeupwithabrilliantinvention.

Maybeit’sbecause,unlikeother

holidays, AprilFool’sDayisa silly

occasion.

Forcenturies,peopleinEurope

celebratedtheNewYearinspring,at

thebeginningofApril.

And,nomatterhowmuchweare

expectingit,somehowtheprank

alwaystakesusbysurprise.

Forexample,AprilFool’sDayisan

idealopportunityforstudentstoplay

jokesontheirteachers.

Sometimesthemediagetsinvolved

inthefun.

Butsomepeoplejustcouldn’tget

usedtoitandkepttheolddatefor

NewYear’s.

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