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My day
2.1 A day in the life of a GRAMMAR REFERENCE ANSWERS
Exercise 1
scientist p16 1 work 5 relaxes
2 love 6 read
Exercise 1
3 takes 7 watches
ANSWERS 4 have 8 wash
1 Bird Island is in the southern Atlantic Ocean, near South Exercise 2
Georgia, north of the Antarctic. 1 We often go to the beach.
2 Seals and penguins live there. 2 He always makes a big dinner.
3 They sometimes visit other islands. (OR They visit other
Exercise 2
islands, sometimes.)
ANSWERS 4 You usually work in the lab. (OR You work in the lab,
1  ✓   ​2  ✓   ​3    ​4  ✓   ​5  ✓   ​6  ✓   ​7  ✓   ​8  ✓    usually.)
​9    ​10  ✓   ​11  ✓   ​12  5 We never have enough sleep.
6 I never listen to music at work.
Exercise 3 7 It hardly ever rains on the island.
ANSWERS 8 It is never cold in my city.
1  get up; go   2  visit; take   3  have 9 I am hardly ever worried.
10 The houses are sometimes cold in winter. (OR The
Exercise 4a houses are cold in winter, sometimes.)
SUGGESTED ANSWERS Exercise 3
Melanie works there all year; watches penguins; works 1  studies  2  goes  ​3  usually  ​4  works  ​5  enjoy  ​
alone on the beaches. Sven studies seals and never works 6  finishes  ​7  has  ​8  listen  ​9  never  ​10  hardly
alone on the beaches.

Exercise 5 2.2 Spending time p18

ANSWERS Exercise 1b
1  We  2  He  3  -es  4  has
ANSWERS
Exercise 6c  1 False. The basic training takes about two years. Then,
before each trip into space, they need to do another
ANSWERS
two−three years of training.
1  /z/  ​2  /iz/  ​3  /s/  ​4  /iz/  ​5  /s/  ​6  /z/
2 True. Valeri Polyakov stayed in space for 437.7 days in
Exercise 7b 1994–5. Sergei Avdeyev stayed in space for 379.6 days
in 1998–9.
ANSWERS 3 True. Astronauts can wear glasses.
1  always  ​2  usually  ​3  often  ​4  sometimes  ​
5  hardly ever   ​6  never Exercise 2
Exercise 8a ANSWERS
1 It’s hard, but interesting. She loves it.
ANSWERS 2 Engineering and physics, Russian
1 gets up, arrives 3 returns, has
2 is, works 4 relaxes, goes, goes Exercise 3
Exercise 8b ANSWERS
1  b  ​2  a  ​3  f  ​4  e  ​5  c  ​6  d
ANSWERS
1 always gets up; usually arrives Exercise 4b 
2 is sometimes dangerous; never works
ANSWERS/AUDIOSCRIPT 2.8
3 usually returns; always has
1  three o’clock   ​2  five past three   ​3  ten past three  ​
4 usually relaxes; hardly ever goes; often goes
4  quarter past three   ​5  twenty past three   ​
Exercise 9b  6  twenty-five past three   ​7  half past three   ​
8  twenty-five to four   ​9  twenty to four   ​
ANSWERS/AUDIOSCRIPT 2.6 10  quarter to four  ​11  ten to four   ​12  five to four
1  get up   ​2  have a shower   ​3  make breakfast   ​
4  go to work/college   ​5  have lunch/dinner   ​ Exercise 5b 
6  go home   7  watch TV/a film   ​8  read a book   ​
ANSWERS
9  listen to music   10  play video games   ​11  go to bed   ​
1  half  ​2  to  ​3  to  ​4  five  ​5  past  ​6  twenty-five
12  see friends

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 Exercise 8a 2.3 Vocabulary and skills
POSSIBLE ANSWERS
Daytime and night-time: The sun rises every 45 minutes,
development p20
so it is hard to know what time it is. Exercise 2a
Washing: Astronauts wash with a cloth; they don’t have
ANSWERS
showers.
1  and  2  but  3  because  4  or
Sleeping: They don’t sleep in beds, they sleep in special
sleeping bags on the walls. Exercise 3b 
Exercise 8b ANSWERS
1  d  ​2  a  ​3  c  ​4  b
ANSWERS
doesn’t have  don’t have  don’t sleep   Exercise 4a
doesn’t rise   doesn’t want
ANSWERS
Exercise 9b  1  but  ​2  or  ​3  and  ​4  because
ANSWERS/AUDIOSCRIPT 2.10 Exercise 5a
1 They don’t have a lot of free time.
2 I don’t go to classes in the evening. ANSWERS
3 Chris doesn’t have a shower in the morning. 1 We can feel tired and hungry during the day.
4 Sanaa doesn’t sleep in a sleeping bag. 2 No, because everyone’s body clock is different.
5 They don’t speak to their families every day. 3 He thinks six hours at night and two hours in the
6 He doesn’t work eight hours a day. afternoon is best. This is often difficult because a lot of
people are at work in the afternoon.
Exercise 10b  4 It is best to eat breakfast two hours after you wake up
and eat dinner three hours before you go to sleep.
ANSWERS/AUDIOSCRIPT 2.11
5 If you pay attention to your natural sleeping and eating
1 Most astronauts don’t feel well when they first go into
patterns you will be happy and healthy.
space. Space sickness is very common.
2 Astronauts don’t wear special clothes in the space Exercise 6a
station. They only need a space suit when they go on a
space walk. ANSWERS
3 Astronauts don’t change their clothes every day. It isn’t 1  about  2  to
possible to wash clothes in space.
Exercise 7a
4 Astronauts usually exercise for two hours a day.
5 Usually, an astronaut doesn’t go on a space walk more ANSWERS
than once a week. 1  b  ​2  d  ​3  e  ​4  h  ​5  c  ​6  a  ​7  f  ​8  g
6 Most astronauts sleep for less time in space but they
don’t feel very tired. Exercise 8b 
ANSWERS
1  talks to   ​2  laughs at   ​3  waits for   ​4  agree with   ​
GRAMMAR REFERENCE ANSWERS 5  listens to   ​6  thinks about   ​7  pay for   ​8  asks for
Exercise 1
1  doesn’t  2  doesn’t  ​3  close  ​4  don’t  ​5  have  ​
6  always eat   ​7  never go   ​8  doesn’t often 2.4 Speaking and writing p22
Exercise 2 Exercise 1
1 You don’t need perfect eyesight.
2 He doesn’t work hard. POSSIBLE ANSWER
3 She doesn’t stop for a break at lunchtime. 2 A 24-hour city is a city that never sleeps; where many
4 They don’t watch films on Fridays. businesses, shops and restaurants are open through the
5 You don’t agree with me. day and night.
6 I don’t exercise a lot.
Exercise 2a 
7 It doesn’t rain every day.
8 We don’t change our clothes every day. ANSWERS
9 She doesn’t feel good in the morning. 1  c  ​2  b  ​3  b  ​4  a
10 They don’t sleep for eight hours a night.
Exercise 2d 
Exercise 3
1  don’t  2  am  ​3  doesn’t  ​4  don’t  ​5  eat  ​6  like  ​ ANSWERS
7  likes  ​8  doesn’t 1  e  2  c  3  a  4  d  5  b

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Exercise 3 Review p25
POSSIBLE ANSWER ANSWERS
A Are you free tonight?
B I’m sorry, but I am having dinner with my family. Exercise 1a
A Are you free tomorrow night? 1  like  ​2  go  ​3  works  ​4  study  ​5  have  ​6  lives
B Yes, I am. They never have fish for breakfast.
A Would you like to go to the cinema? They are hardly ever late for meetings.
B Yes, I’d love to. What time do you want to meet? They sometimes go to a different city to study.
A Let’s meet at half past seven. They often have more than one TV at home.
B OK. Where shall we meet? They usually eat lunch at work.
A Outside the cinema. They always talk about the weather.
B Yes, that sounds good.
Exercise 3a
Exercise 5 get up, have a shower, go to work, have lunch, go home,
POSSIBLE ANSWER have dinner, watch TV, go to bed
In the town: The buses and trains are frequent, so it’s easy
Exercise 3b
to get around. There are more jobs. There are lots of things
to do. House prices are high. Life is expensive. There is POSSIBLE ANSWERS
often a lot of traffic and noise. have/make breakfast, read a book, listen to music, play
In the country: There is a lot of fresh air. There isn’t a lot of computer games, see/meet friends
traffic. There aren’t a lot of jobs, so people often work in
the town. The buses and trains don’t come often and don’t
Exercise 5a
1  e  ​2  c  ​3  f  ​4  a  ​5  d  ​6  b
run late at night.

Exercise 6a Exercises 6a & 6b

1  free  ​2  busy  ​3  plans  ​4  like  ​5  love  ​6  shall  ​
ANSWERS 7  want  ​8  let’s
1  c  ​2  b  ​3  a

Exercise 7b
ANSWERS
1  but  ​2  and  ​3  because  ​4  but  ​5  or  ​6  because  ​
7  but  ​8  or  ​9  and

2.5 Video p24
VIDEO ANSWERS

Exercises 1 & 2
Students’ own answers

Exercise 3
a Roberto works for a television network.
b Gabriela goes to work at 6.30 a.m.
c Milagros and Julieta go to the same school.
d The girls get up at 9 a.m. / 10 a.m. on Saturdays.
e Gabriela drinks coffee.
f After breakfast the girls play board games / video
games.
g They go to the park in the afternoon.
h The family usually visits the girls’ grandparents on
Sundays.
i They eat salad / bread with their barbecue.
j On Sundays they go to bed early.

Exercises 4a & b
Students’ own answers

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