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Page 9 name /neɪm/ Noun

look /lʊk/ Verb your name is the word people use when they
talk about you
if you look at someone or something, you use
your eyes to see them first name
look at someone or something What’s your name? | my name is Fernando |
her name is Margaret, but everyone calls her
look at the photo | look at me | I’m looking at
Meg | Mrs. Merkel’s first name is Angela
you | don’t look now
Noun: look work /wɜrk/ Verb
if you work, you do something as part of a
have a look | take a look
lesson
have a look at this | Can I take a look at your
work on something
new car?
work in pairs | you can work at home or in the
photo /ˈfoʊtoʊ/ Noun classroom | we’re working on pronunciation
a photo is a picture from a camera today
a photo of something | take a photo Noun: work
look at the photo | what a lovely photo | a a lot of work | you can do this work at home
photo of my brother | take a photo of your
house and put it on your Facebook page in pairs /ɪn ˈpeərz/ Phrase
if you do something in pairs, you work
listen /ˈlɪsən/ Verb together with one other person
if you listen to someone or something, you use
work in pairs | do this exercise in pairs | in
your ears to hear them
pairs, ask questions about the weather
listen to someone or something
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I like to listen to music | listen to a new song |
listen to me when I’m talking to you | listen to hi /haɪ/ Exclamation
your teacher carefully you say “hi” when you see a friend as a way of
saying “hello”
read /rid/ Verb
hi Danny, good to see you | hi everyone. Sorry
if you read something, you look at words on a
I’m late
page or a screen and understand them
read the instructions | I’m reading a book | Can nice to meet you /nis tu mit ju/ Phrase
you read? | read it out loud (say the words at you say “nice to meet you” when you are
the same time as you look at them) being polite and meeting someone for the first
time
repeat /rɪˈpit/ Verb
“I’m Sheila.” – “I’m Gerry, nice to meet you.” |
if you repeat something, you say it again
“Nice to meet you, Alan.”
Can you repeat that, please? | listen, then
repeat | repeat what I say | repeat after me letter /ˈlɛtər/ Noun
(listen, then say what I said) a letter is a shape we use to write words

say /seɪ/ Verb A is the first letter of the alphabet | there are
26 letters in the English alphabet | Russian
if you say something, you use your voice to
letters are different from English letters | a
make the sounds of words that people can
capital letter (A, B, or G instead of a, b, or g)
hear and understand
say your name | she says it is cold in here | my
sister says you are nice

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write /raɪt/ Verb Russia is the biggest country in the world |
there are students from 23 countries at my
if you write, you make marks on paper to form
university | we live in the north of the country |
words, or you use a keyboard to put words
What country are you from?
onto a computer screen
write your name at the top | I’m writing an nationality /ˌnæʃəˈnæləti/ Noun
email to my aunt | she’s learning to read and your nationality is the country that you come
write | write down my telephone number from

word /wɜrd/ Noun What nationality is she? | I have German

nationality | people from different nationalities
a word is a group of letters that have a
meaning check /tʃɛk/ Verb
Do you know the word “believe”? | What’s the if you check something, you look to see if it is
French word for “bread”? | I try and learn a correct
new word every day
check your answers | Can you check my
spell /spɛl/ Verb spelling? | let me check your answer sheet
if you spell something, you put letters in the Egyptian /iˈdʒɪpʃən/ Adjective
right order to make a word
someone or something that is Egyptian is from
How do you spell your name? | do you spell Egypt
Alan with one “l” or two? (Alan or Allan) | I
don’t know how to spell her name Brazilian /brəˈzɪliən/ Adjective
someone or something that is Brazilian is from
Noun: spelling Brazil
I’m not very good at spelling
my wife is Brazilian | the Brazilian soccer team
speak /spik/ Verb | she has a Brazilian passport
when you speak, you say words that people Italian /ɪˈtæljən/ Adjective
can hear and understand someone or something that is Italian is from
speak to someone Italy
please don’t talk while I am speaking | speak to Italian coffee | her husband is Italian | he has
your teacher if you have a question | please an Italian passport
speak slowly and clearly
Mexican /ˈmɛksɪkən/ Adjective
student /ˈstudənt/ Noun someone or something that is Mexican is from
a student is someone who is learning things at Mexico
school or university a Mexican dance | I have a Mexican friend |
I’m a student at Nottingham University | I live she has a Mexican passport
in a house with three other students | there are
lots of students in this area | the city is very Russian /ˈrʌʃən/ Adjective
quiet when the students have their exams someone or something that is Russian is from
Russia
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a cold Russian winter | a famous Russian writer
chart /tʃɑrt/ Noun | his grandfather is Russian
a chart is a box on a piece of paper or a
computer screen that has information, or that South African /saʊθ ˈæfrɪkən/ Adjective
you can write in someone or something that is South African is
from South Africa
write the names in the chart | this chart shows
the size of every country in Europe | look at the a South African flag | the South African rugby
chart on the next page team | his family is South African

country /ˈkʌntri/ Noun British /ˈbrɪtɪʃ/ Adjective

a country is an area that has its own someone or something that is British is from
government, like France, China, or Brazil Britain

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 Are you British? | a British passport | he works pasta /ˈpɑstə/ Noun uncount
for a British company pasta is a food made from flour and water that
American /əˈmɛrɪkən/ Adjective you cook and eat
someone or something that is American is Do you want more pasta? | a pasta sauce | a
from the USA bowl of pasta | boil the pasta for five minutes
Who is the American president? | an American Jaguar /ˈdʒægˌwɑr/ Noun
passport | his wife is American a Jaguar is an expensive kind of car made in
Vietnamese /ˌviɛtnəˈmiz/ Adjective Britain
someone or something that is Vietnamese is my dad drives a Jaguar | I can’t afford a Jaguar
from Vietnam | Do you like Jaguar cars?
a Vietnamese restaurant | my teacher is Flamenco /fləˈmɛŋkoʊ/ Noun uncount
Vietnamese | Hanoi is the Vietnamese capital
Flamenco is a Spanish dance and the music
copy /ˈkɑpi/ Verb that it uses
if you copy something, you do it in the same a Flamenco dancer | Flamenco music | a
way someone else just did it Flamenco singer
say the words and copy the stress | copy these quiz /kwɪz/ Noun
letters into your books | copy the poem and
a quiz is a set of questions that you have to
learn it
answer in a competition or a game
Noun: copy an online quiz | a quiz about capital cities of
they want a copy of my passport the world | an interactive quiz (one which you
do on the internet) | a general knowledge quiz
stress /strɛs/ Noun
the stress in a word is the part of it that you sentence /ˈsɛntəns/ Noun
say with the most force a sentence is a group of words that make a unit
of a piece of writing
the stress in the word “Vietnamese” is at the
end | Where does the stress fall in the word a sentence usually has a subject and a verb |
“photograph”? write three sentences about your house or flat
| short sentences are easier to understand
place /pleɪs/ Noun
a place is a town or city, or an area or building test /tɛst/ Verb
in a town or city if you test someone, you ask them questions to
check how much they know about something
my town is a really boring place | this is a good
place to live | What sort of place is Cardiff? | test your partner | Can you test me on my
Greece is a nice place for a vacation English verbs? | Mr. Williams is going to test us
on Tuesday
number /ˈnʌmbər/ Noun
Noun: test
a number is a word like three, six, or nine
an English test | I hope you pass the test (get
a million is a big number | the lake is in the
the answers right)
shape of the number seven | our house number
is on the front door class /klæs/ Noun
baseball /ˈbeɪsˌbɔl/ Noun uncount a class is a group of students
baseball is a game played outdoors, especially there are 30 people in my class | we are both in
in North America and Japan. Players try to hit a the same class at school | my best friend is in a
ball and run around a field different class | What class are you in?
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player (who gets money for playing baseball) |
baseball is one of the most popular sports in underline /ˈʌndərˌlaɪn/ Verb
Canada | Do you enjoy playing baseball? if you underline a word, you draw a line
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 underline all the names of countries in the text good afternoon /gʊd ˌæftərˈnun/ Exclamation
| the exercise is to underline all the verbs
you say good afternoon when you see
teacher /ˈtitʃər/ Noun someone during the afternoon
a teacher is someone who works in a school good afternoon Mrs. Thomson | good
and gives information to students afternoon, sir
my teacher is really nice | Miss Jenkins is a very good evening /gʊd ˈivnɪŋ/ Exclamation
popular teacher | an English teacher | you
you say good evening when you see someone
should show respect to your teacher
during the evening
Verb: teach
good evening, everyone | Mr Watson walks in
she teaches science at the local school and says “Good evening”.

phone number /foʊn ˈnʌmbər/ Noun good night /gʊd naɪt/ Exclamation
your phone number is the set of numbers that you say good night before you go to bed
people need to know in order to call you
good night, Mom. Good night, Dad | good
What’s your phone number? | I can’t night everyone. I’m going home
remember his phone number | write your
phone number on this piece of paper goodbye /ˌgʊdˈbaɪ/ Exclamation
you say goodbye when you leave someone
home phone number /hoʊm foʊn ˈnʌmbər/ Noun
I must go now. Goodbye | Goodbye everyone.
your home phone number is the number for
See you tomorrow
the telephone in your home, not the one at
work or your mobile number see you later /si ju ˈleɪtər/ Phrase
my home phone number is 555-760-7101 | you say see you later to someone when you
What’s your home phone number? | don’t call leave them for a while
me at work. Use my home phone number in the I have a French class now. See you later | see
evening you later, Zara
thanks /θæŋks/ Exclamation conversation /ˌkɑnvərˈseɪʃən/ Noun
you say thanks to someone to show that you a conversation is when two or more people are
are grateful for something they just gave you talking to each other about something
or told you about
a conversation about something | a
"Here's your coffee." – "Thanks." | "Let me help conversation with someone
you with your suitcase." – "Thanks." | thanks
for your help this morning a long conversation about soccer | this
cell /sɛl/ Noun conversation is really boring | a short
telephone conversation | an interesting
a cell or a cell phone is a telephone that you
conversation with Jeremy
can carry around with you
Is this your cell? | you can’t take your cell into doctor /ˈdɑktər/ Noun
the exam room | What’s your cell number? | a a doctor is someone whose job is to look at
brand new cell (very new) people who are ill and tell them what medicine
they need
bye /baɪ/ Exclamation
a hospital doctor | she’s studying to be a
you say bye when you leave someone
doctor | both my parents are doctors | the
“See you tomorrow.” – “OK, bye” | Bye doctor says I must do more exercise | Is there a
everyone! Have a good weekend doctor on the plane?

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you say good morning when you see someone classroom /ˈklæsˌrum/ Noun
during the morning a classroom is a room where you have lessons
good morning, Mr. Alexander | good morning,
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 it’s very cold in the classroom this morning | a late for something
big classroom | Where is your classroom? | my
don’t be late for school again | hurry up or
classroom is at the end of the corridor
you’ll be late | I’m sorry I’m late | we are ten
question /ˈkwɛstʃən/ Noun minutes late for school
a question is something you ask someone Opposite – Adjective: early
ask a question | answer a question early for something
Does anyone have any questions for me? | Can try and be at the airport an hour early | she is
I ask you a question? | I will try and answer five minutes early for the meeting
your question | that’s a very difficult question
understand /ˌʌndərˈstænd/ Verb
everyone /ˈɛvriˌwʌn/ Pronoun if you understand something, you know what it
everyone means every person means or how it works
hello everyone | everyone in my class likes our Can you understand Italian? | I don’t
teacher | is everyone here today? | Is everyone understand this word | I don’t understand how
ready? Then let’s begin cell phones work

sit down /sɪt daʊn/ Phrasal verb ID card /aɪdi kɑrd/ Noun
if you sit down, you rest on your bottom an ID card is a card that you carry around with
you, that says who you are
Come in and sit down | the train is full and
there is nowhere to sit down | let’s sit down my ID card has my photograph on it | don’t
outside this café | Can I sit down here? lose your ID card | you need an ID card to get
into the building
open /ˈoʊpən/ Verb
if you open a book, you move it so that you can company /ˈkʌmpəni/ Noun
see the page you want to read a company is a business organization
open your books to page 24 | she opened her Microsoft is a big company | she runs a small
book and started reading company in Paris | a company that employs
300 people (has 300 people working for it) | he
Adjective: open
works for a German company
the book is open to page 73
visitor /ˈvɪzɪtər/ Noun
book /bʊk/ Noun a visitor is someone who goes to a place and
a book is a lot of pieces of paper with writing spends some time there
printed on them that are held together in a
the city gets lots of visitors | visitors must show
cover so that you can read them one page after
their ID cards at the door | it’s nice to have lots
another
of visitors when you are in the hospital
read a book
Verb: visit | Noun: visit
she’s reading a book | I always take a book to
we plan to visit the cathedral this afternoon |
read on the train | my school books | a book by
we’re going to visit friends in New York | my
Joël Dicker
grandparents come to visit every Christmas | a
sorry /ˈsɑri/ Adjective short visit to see my aunt
you say sorry after you do something wrong capital letter /ˈkæpətəl ˈlɛtər/ Noun
sorry for doing something a capital letter is a big letter that you use for
the beginning of the first word in a sentence.
sorry I’m late | I’m sorry I can’t come to your
Some capital letters are a different shape from
class tomorrow | I want to say sorry for
small letters, for example, G (and g), R (and r)
breaking your pen
don’t forget to begin each sentence with a
late /leɪt/ Adjective capital letter | the names of countries have a
if you are late, you arrive somewhere after you capital letter at the beginning | write your
are meant to be there, or after something has name in capital letters
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city /ˈsɪti/ Noun favorite /ˈfeɪvərɪt/ Adjective
a city is a big town where a lot of people live your favorite thing or person is the one you
and work like the most out of a group of them
I don’t like living in a city | London is the Which is your favorite restaurant in Bristol? |
biggest city in England | Paris is a very old city Who’s your favorite singer? | my favorite color
| St. Petersburg is a beautiful city | Beijing is is red | Jaguar is her favorite sort of car
the capital city of China (it is the most
Noun: favorite
important city, where the government is)
I like lots of singers, but Ed Sheeran is my
language /ˈlæŋgwɪdʒ/ Noun favorite
a language is the words that people use when
they speak to each other and when they write man /mæn/ Noun
things. English, German, Russian, and Japanese a man is an adult male. Your father is a man.
are all languages The plural of man is men
How many languages can you speak? | Russian two men are looking at the car | he’s an
is a difficult language to learn | English and interesting man | my father is a very tall man |
German belong to the same family of two of my teachers are men, all the others are
languages women

partner /ˈpɑrtnər/ Noun woman /ˈwʊmən/ Noun

your partner is the other person you are a woman is an adult female. Your mother is a
working with when you are working in pairs woman. The plural of woman is women
ask your partner to check your answers | my a woman in a blue coat | Victoria Beckham is a
partner in the English exercise is Jenny | show very rich woman | her mother is a very
your partner what you are writing interesting woman | most of my teachers are
women
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people /ˈpipəl/ Noun plural
photographer /fəˈtɑgrəfər/ Noun
people is the plural of person
a photographer is someone who takes
photographs, especially when it is their job two people are sitting in the restaurant | the
street is full of people | How many people are
a photographer for Time magazine | a
there in your class?
professional photographer (someone whose job
is to take photographs) | a wedding animal /ˈænɪməl/ Noun
photographer (someone who takes
an animal is a living thing such as a dog, cow,
photographs of people’s weddings)
mouse, etc.
Noun: photograph | Verb: photograph
wild animals (that do not live with people) |
take a photograph animals in a zoo | I want a dog but my dad
doesn’t want animals in the house | there’s
there are lots of photographs on the wall | she
some kind of animal in the garden
takes photographs of churches | I like to
photograph birds

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