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Say each of them in two other ways.
15.7 WHEN DID YOU LAST...? Practice
When did you last oversleep ?
How long is it since you last overslept?
I last overslept about three weeks ago.
It’s six months since I last overslept.
| 1 haven’t overslept | for ages. since March. |
Work in groups. Ask each other about the following, as in the example.
| going swimming visiting your aunt having a temperature going out to dinner cleaning your windows | crying losing your temper going abroad going to a wedding playing cowboys and indians |
15.8 LAZY DAYS Reading
1. According to the writer, how are unexpected guests ‘good for you’ ? (line i)
2. In general, in what ways is the writer:
a) lazy?
b) not lazy?
3. Write T(true) or F(false) by each of the following statements.
a) The writer lives next door to a museum and an art gallery.
b) He hasn’t been to the theatre for six months.
c) He’s got hair over his ears.
d) Flared jeans were fashionable in the sixties.
e) He hasn’t bought any records since the sixties.
f) He doesn’t like the current clothes and music.
4. Explain the meaning of the following.
a) thrilled (line 17)
b) first nights (line Z4)
c) The Mousetrap (line 31)
d) by heart (line 44)
e) scratchy (line 46)
f) keep in touch with (line 61)
5. For what reasons did the writer last go to:
a) the theatre?
b) the cinema ?
In what way are these two reasons similar ?
6. a) Why does the writer ‘feel like a clock that stopped several hours ago’ ? (line 36)
b) Explain ‘even a stopped clock is right twice a day: the sixties will be back some
time’, (line 53)
7. a) Why didn’t the writer finish the personality quiz?
b) Why does he say ‘luckily’ ? (line 69)
8. Do you think the writer is lazy ?
9. Write five questions for a personality quiz called ‘How lazy are you ?’
15.9 PERSONALITY QUIZ
Free practice
Work in pairs.
Pair A: You are going to find out from pair  how careful they are with their possessions. Work out together what questions you will ask them.
Pair Â: You are going to find out from pair A how fashionable they are. Work out together what questions you will ask them.
Tell the rest of the class what conclusions you came to about the personalities of the other pair, and give some of your reasons.
Writing
Write a paragraph about yourself, showing that you are (or aren’t) either lazy or careful or fashionable.
Unit 15 Summary of language
In this unit you have learnt how to:
- talk about the origin of present situations
- talk about the duration of present situations
- say how long it is since things happened
key points
1 ‘Origin’ structures
How long ago did you become a teacher?
When did he start playing the guitar?
How long ago did you buy your cooker ?
2 ‘Duration’ structures How long have you been a teacher?
How long has he been playing the guitar ?
How long have you had your cooker?
3. ‘Since’ with clauses He started playing the guitar when he got one for his birthday. He’s been playing the guitar (ever) since he got one for his birthday.
4. Negative origin and duration When did you last have a meal ? How long is it since you last had a meal?
I last had a meal two days ago.
It’s two days sinceI last had a meal.
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Unit 16 Location
16.1 IN, ON & AT
Presentation
Look at the five sets of sentences below.
When do we use (a) in? (b) on? (c) at?
| in There are thousands of fish in the lake. My coat is in the wardrobe. There aren’t enough chairs in the dining room. | on There are pleasure steamers on the lake. The coffeepot is on the table. There are pictures on the wall. on There’s a town on the lake. Canterbury is on the road to Dover. There are customs posts on the frontier. |
| in There are two islands in the lake. There are some cows in that field. There’s a fountain in the square. | |
| at There are crowds of people at the lake today. There’s a policeman standing at the corner. You have to get off at the next stop. There are new traffic lights at the crossroads. |
Practice
Decide what you might find ...
1. in/on a river 5. in/on the grass
2. in/on a bottle 6. in/at a swimming pool
3. in/on a bed 7. in/at the corner
4. on/at a door
Now fill the gaps with in, on or at.
1 Have you got an electric blanket........ your bed ? I’ve only got a hot-water bottle mine.
2 There’s a ticket machine......... the entrance to the car park.
3 Finchley Road tube station is........ the Bakerloo Line.
4 In summer, there are always flies....... the kitchen ceiling.
5 She spent the day sunbathing........ the swimming pool.
6 My favourite pub is......... the river bank.
7 There’s a newspaper shop......... my way to the office.
8 Scott found a Norwegian flag....... the South Pole.
9 There is snow.......... Kilimanjaro throughout the year.
10 Tickets must be shown.......... the barrier.
16.2 WHOLE AND PARTS Presentation and practice
| at the front of | at the side of |
| at the back of | at the end of |
| at the top of | at the corner of |
| at the bottom of | in the middle of |
Work in groups. Use the expressions in the box to say where the following are in relation to the house itself.
1. the study 4. the bathroom 7. the chimney
2. the attic 5. the tap 8. the hall
3. the garage 6. the gardens 9. the sitting room
Example The study is at the front of the house.
Now talk about them in relation to other parts of the house.
Example The study is above the sitting room.
The study is between the two bedrooms.
16.3 PRECISE LOCATION Practice
There’s a swimming pool on the roof of the hotel.
The hotel’s got a swimming pool on the roof.
There’s a fire escape at the side of the hotel.
The hotel’s got a fire escape at the side.
There’s a flower on the side of the jug.
The jug’s got a flower on the side.
There’s a crack in the handle of the jug.
The jug’s got a crack in the handle.
Look at the pictures below. Talk about each in the same way.
16.4 LOCATION QUIZ Practice
How many of these questions can you answer ?
1 What is special about:
a) a unicorn?
b) a centaur?
2 What happens when there is an eclipse of the sun ?
3 Describe the flags of:
a) Japan
b) America
4 Where would you see the following?
a) b) c) d)
5 Where would you find:
a) a stage door?
b) numberplates?
c) a filter tip?
d) a skylight?
e) a full stop?
6 What is:
a) a hot dog?
b) Irish coffee?
7 How do you arrange the 16 men on a chessboard at the beginning of a game of chess?
16.5 DESCRIBING PLACES AND THINGS Free practice
Work in groups. Describe:
1 the arrangement of rooms and other features in your house or flat
2 an interesting street or park near where you live
3 an interesting ornament or picture that you have at home
16.6 GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION
Presentation and practice
Look at the maps below, and read the information about Alexandria and Merthyr Tydfil.
Map 1
Alexandria is in North Africa.
It’s on the southern shore of the Mediterranean.
It’s on the north coast of Egypt.
It’s at the mouth of the river Nile.
It’s northwest of Cairo
Map 2
Merthyr Tydfil is in South Wales.
It’s on the southern edge of the Brecon Beacons.
It’s about 30 miles
northeast of Swansea, on the A465.
It’s about 25 miles north of Cardiff, on the A470.
It’s on the way to Brecon from Cardiff.
In the same way, describe in as much detail as you can where the following places are:
| Map 1 1 Lake Victoria 2 Khartoum 3 Canary Islands 4 Timbuktu | 5 Rostov 6 Abadan | Map 2 Brecon Bridgend Flatholm Pontypool |
Practice
Work in groups. Write down the names of three places whose location you know. Ask the other people in the group to tell you exactly where they are. If they can’t tell you, you will have to tell them.
16.7 DESCRIBING COUNTRIES
Free practice
Work in groups. Talk about your own country. Use the checklist below to help you.
| Where it is Which continent is it in ? Which part? Northern, southern, eastern, western ? Is it on a sea or ocean ? Which countries does it border on ? Climate Where is it hotter ? cooler ? wetter? drier? Regions Where are there mountains? plains? deserts? Where are there agricultural areas, mining areas, industrial areas, tourist areas ? | Features What important rivers and lakes are there? Where? Other natural features? Towns Where is the capital ? Other major towns ? |
Writing
Write a brief geographical description of your country. Include only important and interesting information.
16.8 SKIING IN SCOTLAND Listening
Listen to the conversation between Susan and Stephen, and answer the questions.
1 What do Susan and Stephen do during the year ?
2 How does Susan feel about Stephen’s holiday (a) when he first mentions it? (b) at the end?
3 Why isn’t Stephen going to Austria or Switzerland ?
4 On the map, mark:
a) Aviemore
b) the ski slopes
c) the whisky distilleries
5 How many days will Stephen actually be in Aviemore?
6 What problems might there be with the weather?
7 What will Stephen do if he can’t ski?
8 What does he do at the end of the conversation ?
9 Write T(true) or F(false) against these statements:
a) Stephen thinks skiing in Scotland is better than skiing in the Alps.
b) You can’t get a suntan at a Scottish skiing resort in winter.
c) Stephen has been planning this trip for a long time.
d) Stephen has been to Aviemore before.
e) Stephen needn’t go to Inverness on his way to Aviemore.
f) Stephen will be staying in a big hotel.
| Unit 16 Summary of language In this unit you have learnt how to: — say where things and places are — describe the position of features — describe countries and regions key points 1 ‘In’,’on’ and ‘at’ He was hiding in the cupboard. I left my carin the car park. There was a label on the bottle. The house is on the main road. He was standing atthe window. 2 Phrases indicating precise location My bedroom is at the back of the house. There’s a letter box at the corner of our street. The freezer is at the top of the fridge. There was a picture of Elvis Presley on the cover of the book. Our garden’s got trees at the end. There’s a hole in the knee of my jeans. 3 Geographical location Beirut is on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean. St Helens is about 12 miles northeast of Liverpool, on the A57. New Orleans is on the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the Mississippi. 4 Vocabulary features of objects geographical features |
Activities
HOLIDAY PICTURES
Work in groups. Bring in either a set of postcards from somewhere you’ve been on holiday or some holiday photographs which show some interesting places. Show them to the others in your group, giving them any interesting information about each one. Talk about:
1. where each place is
2. what you did there
3. the tourist attractions and their history
4. the people and what they’re doing
Imagine you’re on holiday in one of the places you’ve seen. Write a postcard home.
COMPOSITION
Write 150-200 words on one of the following topics.
1 Tell the story of a time when you had a narrow escape.
2 Write a story beginning ‘It was 3 o’clock in the morning when the phone woke me up’.
3 Write a story ending ‘I never saw her again’.
SITUATIONS
1 During a job interview, the interviewer asks you about your sporting activities. What do you say?
2 A friend’s got hiccups. Give her some advice.
3 A friend asks you how long it is since you last had a holiday. What do you say?
4 You’re going to the King’s Theatre and you’ve got lost. Ask for directions.
5 A friend invites you to come mountain climbing. Refuse, saying why.
6 While you’re in England, someone asks you where you come from. Tell him the name of your town, explaining exactly where it is.
7 Someone’s going out with you in a small boat. Advise him to wear a life jacket, explaining why.
Unit 17 Similarities and differences
17.1 DISCOVERING SIMILARITIES Presentation and practice
In the same way, make two responses to each of the following remarks:
Work in threes. Use the prompts below to have conversations as in the example.
Example: breakfast A: I had a boiled egg for breakfast.
B: So did I.
Ñ: I had one too.
1 breakfast
2 this evening
3 my dog
4 Brussels
5 three times a day
6 mountain climbing
17.2 SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES Practice
A: I do a lot of reading.
Â: Do you ? So do I — I read at least two books a week.
Ñ: Oh, I don’t -1 never have enough time to read.
Work in groups. Have similar conversations, starting with the remarks below. Each time, add a reason or an explanation, as in the example.
1. I’ve never eaten caviare. 6. Our neighbours make a lot of noise.
2. My landlord’s very nice. 7. I’ll have another beer.
3. I’d like to see that film again. 8. I prefer driving to being driven.
4. I didn’t sleep very well last night. 9. I want to leave here as soon as possible.
5. I’m not very good at skiing. 10. I love doing exercises in groups.
17.3 THE SAME THING IN A DIFFERENT WAY Practice
A: I’m so lazy.
| B: | Yes, I’m rather lazy myself. Mm, I’m not particularly active myself. Well, I don’t work very hard myself. |
How many replies ending withmyself can you think of for each of these remarks ?
1. I spend all my time at home. 5. I’m hopeless at English.
2. God, I feel awful. 6. I walk a lot.
3. I usually get up late. 7. I’m always broke.
4. I’m a very careless driver. 8. I don’t know anything about wine.
17.4 BOTH & NEITHER Presentation and practice
Work in pairs. Fill in the table below both for yourself and your partner.
Do you:
1 do a lot of skiing?
2 know how to drive ?
3 get up early in the morning ?
4 spend a lot of time watching TV ?
5 smoke?
Have you ever:
1 .been abroad?
2 seen your name in print?
3 been horse riding ?
4 been arrested ?
5 had a long conversation with an Englishman ?
Using the table, tell someone else about yourself and your partner. Tell him/her:
a) whatboth of you do/have done; b) what neither of you does/has done.
Find out what things you all do in your class, and what things none of you do.
What things do a few of you do ? What things do most of you do ?
17.5 IDENTIFYING FEATURES Presentation and practice
Work in pairs.
| Student A: Your partner will choose two of the houses below. Try to guess which two he/she has chosen by asking questions like this: Has either of the houses got chimneys ? Does eitherof them have a flat roof? | Student Â: Choose two of the houses below. Your partner will try to guess which two you have chosen. Answer his/her questions like this: Yes, one of them has got chimneys. Yes, both of them have chimneys. No, neither of them has got chimneys. |
17.6 TASTES IN COMMON Free practice
You will hear two women and a man talking about their taste in places for a holiday. Listen to the tape, and answer the questions.
1 Which of the people have similar tastes in holidays ?
2 What kind of places:
a) does the first woman dislike ? Why ?
b) does the man like? Why ?
c) does the second woman like ? Why ?
Work in groups. Find out:
1 what you have in common with each other
2 who you have most in common with
3 who you have least in common with
Talk about:
taste in places for a holiday taste in restaurants taste in clothes taste in men/women
17.7 CLASSIFYING Presentation and practice
Which member of this set is the odd man out ? Why ?
spider ant butterfly
Spider
Both ants and butterflies are insects, whereas spiders aren’t. Also, neither ants norbutterflies trap their food, whereas spiders do.
Ant
Neither spidersnor butterflies live in colonies, whereas ants do.
Butterfly
Both ants and spiders are carnivorous, whereas butterflies aren’t.
Look at these other sets. Say why each member can be the odd man out.
1 camera television set tape recorder
2 coal wood iron
3 Rome Amsterdam Venice
4 piano violin piano accordion
5 bicycle train ship
6 skiing chess football
7 coffee lettuce tobacco
17.8 SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT
Free practice
Read this passage about Scotland and Wales, and answer the questions.
Scots and the Welsh regard themselves as having a separate nationality and identity, which is certainly not ‘English’. Both countries have their own cultural traditions, and also their own language - Welsh in Wales and Gaelic in Scotland. Of the two languages, Welsh is considerably more important: it is spoken by a large number of people and taught in schools all over Wales, whereas Gaelic is spoken by far fewer people, mainly on the West Coast of Scotland.
1 In what ways are Scotland and Wales similar ?
2 In what ways are they different?
Work in groups. Choose either two areas of your own country
or your own country and a neighbouring country
In what ways are they similar? In what ways are they different?
Writing
Write a paragraph summarising the similarities and differences you have talked about.
17.9 COLLOQUIAL AND WRITTEN ARABIC
Reading
Read this passage, which is from the introduction to an Arabic textbook, and answer the questions.
It is generally thought that Arabic is a single language, spoken, written and understood by people in countries as widely separated as Iraq, Egypt and Morocco, but this is not so. It is only written Arabic (that is, the Classical Arabic of the Koran and the Modern Arabic of contemporary literature, journalism and broadcasting), that is more or less common to the whole of the Arab world. The colloquial Arabic which is spoken in the different Arab societies today differs as widely between Arab countries as do Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. In the Arab world, written Arabic acts as a kind of Esperanto, providing a means of communication between educated people of different Arab nationalities. Written Arabic is, paradoxically, spoken too: on the radio and television, in public speeches, as well as between Arabs from different countries. We could call it pan-Arabic. It is used in rather the same way as Latin was used by educated people in Europe in the Middle Ages.
Even in English, of course, there are differences of grammar and vocabulary between the written and spoken language, but this difference is far less than that between the artificial pan-Arabic and the living colloquial language of any Arab country. Moreover, both written and spoken English are recognised in English-speaking countries as belonging to one living language, and both are taught in schools. Colloquial Arabic, on the other hand, is not regarded by the people who speak it as ‘proper’ Arabic. Unlike colloquial English, it is not taught in schools, and it is not written; indeed, there is a strong feeling in Arab societies that it should not be used in a written form.
The educated Egyptian, then, uses pan-Arabic to talk to equally educated Iraqis, Saudis and Moroccans. No reasonable man, however, wishes to talk like a book or a newspaper, and the language that the same educated Egyptian uses with his family and with other Egyptians is quite different. This language is wholly Egyptian, and it is only spoken.
(adapted from Teach Yourself Colloquial Arabic by T. F. Mitchell, Hodder and Stoughton, 1962)
1 What mistaken view do most people hold about Arabic ?
2 The writer mentions written Arabic, Classical Arabic, Modern Arabic, pan-Arabic, and colloquial Arabic.
a) Which of these terms mean the same ?
b) What are the differences between them ?
3 How is pan-Arabic similar to Esperanto and Latin ?
4 What kind of Arabic would an educated Egyptian use for:
a) making a speech? c) talking to an Iraqi?
b) talking to his friends? d) writing a letter?
5 How are attitudes to colloquial Arabic different from attitudes to colloquial English ?
Discussion
1 Why do you think colloquial Arabic is so different from written Arabic?
2 What do you think are (a) the advantages and (b) the disadvantages for Arabs of their language system ?
3 In what ways is the Arabic language system similar to/different from the language system in your own country ?
| Unit 17Summary of language In this unit you have learnt how to: — talk about similarities and differences - say what you have in common with other people — say how you are different from other people - classify things according to similarities and differences key points 1 Positive and negative ‘agreement’ structures I’ve got a dog. I’ve got one too. So have I. I enjoyed the film. I did too. So did I. I don’t like spiders. I don’t like them either. Nor/Neither do I. I can’t sing. I can’t either. Nor/Neither can I. 2 ‘Myself’ I don’t like spiders. No, I’m not very fond of them myself. I enjoyed the film. Yes, I quite liked it myself. 3 ‘Both’, ‘neither’, ‘either’ We’ve both been to Canada. Both of us have been to Canada. Neither of them knows how to read. Does either of the rooms have a bath ? 4 ‘Both ... and ...’ and ‘Neither ... nor ...’ Both Iceland and Norway are famous for fishing. Neither teanor coffee is good for you in large quantities. 5 ‘Whereas’ In Mexico they speak Spanish, whereas in Brazil they speak Portuguese. |
Unit 18 Obligation
18.1 OBLIGATION AND PERMISSION Presentation
Read the two paragraphs below, and answer the questions
| A ‘Your temperature has gone down now, so you needn’t stay in bed any longer. You can eat whatever you like, but you mustn’t drink any alcohol until you’ve finished taking the tablets. And you must stay indoors for at least three days. After that you can go out for short walks, but you mustn’t do anything too energetic.’ | Â ‘We’re allowed to have guests in our rooms, but they have to leave by nine o’clock. And we aren’t allowed to have parties — in fact, we can’t even have the radio on after seven p.m. At least we don’t have to clean our own rooms - there are cleaning ladies who come and do it for us. And we can stay in bed as long as we like, only if we get up after nine o’clock we have to make our own beds.’ |
Complete these sentences from the two paragraphs:
| Obligation 1. A: You............... stay indoors. Â: We................ make our own beds. 2. A: You............... drink any alcohol. Â: We................ have parties. | Permission 1. A: You.................... eat whatever you like. Â: We.................... have guests in our rooms. 2. A: You.................... stay in bed any longer. Â: We.................... clean our own rooms. |
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