Unit 3 Keys also noticed that some arrows were

missing.
Thirdly, Holmes spoke to Mrs Ferguson
pages 32–33 • Reading and saw that she loved her child and
husband very much. She didn’t want to
Getting started hurt either of them.
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private Lastly, when they were discussing the
detective created by British writer, Sir Fergusons’ baby, Holmes saw that the
Arthur Conan Doyle in 1886. Holmes is elder son Jack’s expression became
famous for using observation, forensic jealous and angry.
science and logical reasoning when
KEY
investigating cases. The picture shows Students’ own answers
Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes, and
Martin Freeman as his friend, Dr John
Watson, in the BBC TV series Sherlock.
Ex.6
Students’ own answers
Students’ own answers
Ex.7
Ex.1 Transcript T1.16
1 the daughter of a rich Peruvian When he had completed his
2 two investigation, Holmes was able to solve
3 She hit him (with her bare hand). the case with ease. Jack was extremely
4 a nurse jealous of his new half-brother. He had
5 The wife is a vampire. stolen the poisoned arrows and tested
an arrow on the dog first. Then he had
tried to poison his baby half- brother.
Ex.2
Mrs Ferguson knew what Jack was doing
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and had tried to punish him. She had
been sucking the poison out of the
Ex.3 wound in the baby’s neck when Mr
1 suspects 4 leaning Ferguson found her. She knew that her
2 strain 5 affectionate husband would be heart-broken if he
3 not to breathe a word 6 undergo knew the truth about his son Jack, so
she had tried to keep it a secret.
Ex.4
1 undergo 4 leaning KEY
2 strain 5 suspected Students’ own answers
3 not to breathe a word 6 affectionate
Ex.8
Ex.5 Students’ own answers
Transcript T1.15
Dr Holmes decided to solve the pages 34–35 • Language
Fergusons’ mystery. As he was visiting
them, he noticed several important Check
clues. Firstly, when Holmes arrived at
the Ferguson home, he saw that the pet Ex.1a
dog was not well, and he was told that it 1 married (Past simple)
had suddenly become ill some weeks 2 had been working (Past perfect
earlier. The Fergusons did not know continuous)
what had been wrong with the dog, but 3 had been (Past perfect)
he was slowly recovering. 4 were talking (Past continuous)
Secondly, Holmes saw that Mr
Ferguson’s home was decorated with a Ex.1b
collection of South American weapons, a Past continuous b Past simple c Past
including arrows with poisoned tips. He perfect
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Ex.2 3 Someone who writes articles for a
1 had not been feeling newspaper is a journalist.
2 had been trying 4 Someone who writes plays is a
3 had been living playwright.
4 had been raining 5 Someone who writes screenplays for
films or TV is a screenwriter.
Ex.3 6 Someone who writes history books is a
1 was cleaning found had lost historian.
2 were watching recognised had not 7 Someone who writes jokes and funny
seen stories is a comedian.
3 came was checking had done 8 Someone who writes the life story of
4 had not phoned was waiting called another person is a biographer.
5 liked Had you read
Ex.8
Ex.4 1 passages 2 series 3 setting 4 critics 5
1 didn’t always think 6 agreed plot 6 bookshop 7 ending
2 showed 7 hadn’t changed
3 had taken 8 believed Ex.9
4 had been playing 9 were a -ed b -ing
5 had met 10 spent
Ex.10
Ex.5 1 interested amusing
1 revealed 4 had copied 2 entertaining
2 had altered 5 had not expected 3 frustrated
3 had been looking 4 loving
5 astonished disappointing
Ex.6 6 charming
1 When we arrived at the cinema, the
film had already started. Ex.11 & 12
2 As soon as we had finished dinner, we Transcript and key T1.18 T1.19
went out for ice cream. 1 When we got back home, we were
3 I had studied / had been studying horrified to find that…
Italian for two years 2 By the time she had finished talking, I
before I went to work in Italy. was so embarrassed because…
4 Did you drive straight home after you 3 It was absolutely astonishing! We
had done the shopping? were just leaving the zoo when…
5 While I was doing my homework, I 4 I hadn’t been that excited since…
received a call on my mobile. 5 My best friend had been telling us a
6 Not long after I had eaten the fish, I ghost story when suddenly…
began to feel ill.
7 As I was getting ready to go out, there Ex.13
was a knock at the door. Students’ own answers
8 I did not leave the flat until I had
made sure the burglar alarm was set.
9 Dexter had been engaged to someone page 36 • Listening
else before he eventually decided to
marry Eve. Getting started
10 By the time I left my job in Paris, I Students’ own answers
had lived / had been living in the city for
seven years. Ex.1
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Ex.7
Transcript and key T1.17 Ex.2
1 Someone who writes novels is a A Good writers, able, write about
novelist. anything
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C best stories, based, fact to show how you can solve the problem,
D Writing, different purposes, different and get the man down from the tree –
skills safely.
E Good stories, difficult situation,
resolved Speaker 4
F Writers, always finish, dramatic ending What I can’t stand are writers who
G reader, not get lost produce those idiotic novels based on
H Romantic, best fiction romantic fantasies. They all follow the
same boring pattern – boy meets girl –
Ex.3 they decide they hate each other – they
Transcript T1.20 end up marrying each other. No, what I
Speaker 1 think makes writers stand out from the
I’m often disappointed when I read a rest are those who write novels with
fantastic book then go to see the film some historical background, where the
based on it. You can’t blame the original writers have obviously done a bit of
author – but the writer of the screenplay research.
is very often a novelist. However, there’s And you can believe that what you’re
a huge difference between writing a reading could or did actually happen. It
book and writing a screenplay for a film. seems worth spending a few hours
And just because you’re good at one reading a book like this – rather than
thing it doesn’t mean you’ll be good at filling your head with nonsense.
another. A story that’s written for the
cinema can leave out all sorts of details Speaker 5
that novels can’t because you’ve got the Don’t get me wrong – I’m not criticising
visual images to help you understand great writers like Dickens – but my
what’s going on. theory about writing is that it should be
digestible. Sentences, paragraphs and
Speaker 2 chapters should be short enough for the
Have you ever tried to write something reader to navigate easily through the
amusing? I did once and it was a writing. And it should be clear where the
disaster. Mind you, I’m hopeless at writing is going. Too often readers are
telling jokes too, but I thought it would confused about people, locations and
be easier to write something times. Some novels almost need a
entertaining than tell a joke. The point is family tree to help the reader work out
that it’s actually really challenging to who is who. I don’t think there has to be
write something that makes people a surprising ending either. The story just
laugh. The jokes we told at school are so needs to have arrived somewhere when
silly and embarrassing to me now. They it ends.
were based on a rather stupid story and
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went on for ages and there was one
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punchline at the end that was supposed
to be hilarious, but that actually wasn’t,
and made everybody groan. I honestly Ex.4
think that being good at comedy is a Transcript and key T1.20 See transcript
for Ex.3
very special kind of talent.

Speaker 3 Ex.5
I always try to teach my students to Students’ own answers
think of writing a short story in this way
– put a man up a tree, throw stones at page 37 • Speaking
him, then get him down again. And
believe me, it’s a good strategy. You
start with a situation, like the man in the
Getting started
tree. Then you present problems he has Students’ own answers
to deal with, for example
misunderstandings, mistaken identity, Ex.1
lost opportunities. Then the final step is Transcript T1.21

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Examiner Here are your photographs. pages 38–39 • Use of
They show people communicating in
different situations. I’d like you to
English
compare the photographs and say how
these ways of communicating are Ex.1
different. KEY
Female student Well, the first picture 1b2a3f4c5e6d
shows a girl and an old man. He’s
probably her grandfather, I think. Ex.2
They’re talking together. Perhaps he’s Students’ own answers
telling her a story. What we’ve got in the
second picture is quite different, as Ex.3
there’s a group of people looking at their say
phones, actually just communicating hi yes/no something nice
through their phones, and not talking to speak
each other at all. In the first picture, highly of your mind for yourself
they look very happy and engaged, talk
whereas in the second picture everyone nonsense back (to someone) someone
seems to be very disconnected. To be into
honest, it’s normal for us to use our tell
phones to communicate these days, and the time a lie/the truth the difference
I believe we’ll do it more and more in
the future. But that said, I think it’s very Ex.4
useful, actually very important, to talk 1 talking 2 speaks 3 tell 4 tell 5 talk 6
face-to-face like these two do, especially say 7 talked
between older and younger people.

KEY
Ex.5
face-to-face and using a phone 1 has 2 up 3 speak 4 Although 5 for 6
put 7 difference 8 majority
Ex.2
Ex.6
Transcript and key T1.22
a can’t b must c might
1 Well, the first picture shows a girl
and an old man.
2 He’s probably her grandfather. Ex.7
3 Perhaps he’s telling her a story. 1 can’t 2 must 3 may / might 4 can’t 5
4 What we’ve got in the second picture must 6 may not / might not 7 must
is quite different, as there’s a group of
people looking at their phones. Ex.8
5 In the first picture, they look very a can’t have b must have c might (not)
happy and engaged, whereas in the have
second picture, everyone seems to be
very disconnected. Ex.9
1 might not have heard 3 must have
Ex.3a been 2 may have left 4 can’t have
Students’ own answers
Ex.10
Ex.3b Students’ own answers
Students’ own answers
Ex.11
1 up after he had / he’d eaten
2 must have been
3 had (already) started by the
4 might be difficult / might not be easy
5 to put up with
6 was fascinated by

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pages 40–41 • Writing 3 a difficult problem and a surprising
ending
Getting started
Students’ own answers Ex.6
Students’ own answers
Ex.1
Transcript T1.23 Ex.7
Monkey madness Students’ own answers
A few years ago, I went to a tropical
island with my friends. When we arrived, Ex.8
everything seemed perfect. We could Students’ own answers
feel a gentle breeze blowing through the
palm trees, and the crystal-clear sea Ex.9
was sparkling in the sunshine. There was Students’ own answers
a jungle at the end of the beach, so
while my friends were unpacking, I went
to explore the island. Summative Revision
I was walking along a path when I heard
pages 42–43
a strange sound coming from a tree
ahead of me. I looked up and saw an
angry-looking monkey. It was staring Unit 1
directly at me and I could hear it making Ex.1
an awful noise. All of a sudden, the 1 get on 6 more exciting
monkey jumped out of the tree and ran 2 has already got 7 higher
towards me. 3 is doing 8 has not sold
I turned and ran back to the beach as 4 has always wanted 9 is working
fast as I could. My friends saw me racing 5 says 10 most clear-headed
out of the jungle with the monkey
behind me. I managed to run into the
sea, leaving the monkey on the beach. Unit 2
I was white with fear, but my friends, Ex.2
who had seen everything, found it 1 was 6 did not (use to) mind
hilarious. I can laugh about it now, but 2 would go 7 saw / would see
at the time, it was the most frightening 3 would buy 8 gave
thing that had ever happened to me. 4 would break down 9 got used to
5 would return
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Unit 3
Ex.2 Ex.3OF LONDON
a1b4c2d3 The City of London is a city and county
in central London, and is also known as
the Square Mile. It is the oldest and
Ex.3
most historic part of London, and one of
1 hear 2 see 3 smell 4 feel 5 taste
the most important business and
financial centres in the world. Some of
Ex.4 its laws are different to those for the rest
1 could hear strange noises coming from of the United Kingdom. It is also home
outside to some of London’s most popular tourist
2 could see the sun setting and the attractions, including St Paul’s Cathedral
street lights coming on and the Tower of London.
3 could feel the whole building shaking
4 could smell bacon frying KEY
1 took 6 took
Ex.5 2 broke 7 had been ringing
1 the judges of a short story competition 3 made 8 had been watching
2 at the beginning 4 had done 9 had paid

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5 knew 10 must have spent

Units 1–3
Ex.4
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Ex.5
1 have 5 In
2 are 6 than
3 from 7 used
4 as 8 such

Ex.6
1 choose 5 creative
2 scientist 6 irresponsible
3 disorganised 7 unpleasant
4 Apparently 8 suitable

Ex.7
1 have a lot in common
2 were not / weren’t as fast as
3 are the least interesting
4 did not/didn’t turn up
5 put up with
6 cannot/can’t have been

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