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UNIT 1 UNIT 3
1.1 3.1

1 P = Philippe N = Nicole
H = Hamid Z = Zoe P: Hi, Nicole. What are your favourite things?
H: Hello. I’m Hamid. N: Um, well, my camera. It isn’t a new camera,
but it’s very good. It’s from Japan. And this pink
Z: Hello Hamid. Are you Moroccan?
notepad. It’s from a friend. How about you?
H: No, I’m not. I’m Brazilian.
P: Well, I love my new bag. It isn’t very big, but it’s
Z: What’s your job? my favourite colour – blue.
H: I’m a writer. N: What’s in it?
Z: OK. And what’s your address? P: Not much. Just my water bottle, my bank cards
and my phone.
H: It’s 9 South Road.
N: So your bag is your favourite thing?
Z: 5 South Road …
P: Well no … my bag isn’t my favourite thing. My
H: No, 9 South Road.
favourite thing is this T-shirt.
Z: And your phone number?
N: That T-shirt?
H: 645 2685.
P: Yes. It’s purple and orange and green and … I love
Z: Thank you. it!
2 N: OK …
S = Stella A = Alex
S: Hi, I’m Stella. I’m a new student. I’m from UNIT 4
Germany.
4.1
A: Hi Stella. What’s your student number?
S: Um, it’s 8422056. M = Man W = Woman

A: 8422056 …. ah yes. So, your classroom number is M: What do you do at the weekend, Amy? Do you
Room 155. And what’s your address? get up early?

S: It’s 11375 Main Street. W: No, I never get up early! I get up late, at ten,
and then on Saturdays I meet my friends at the
A: Great! Well, I’m Alex and I’m your teacher. shopping centre at eleven.
S: Hi Alex. Are you Australian? M: And what about in the afternoon?
A: No, I’m not, I’m American. W: I always go to my yoga class at three and then I
go home. Sometimes I study in the evening and
sometimes I go out to a restaurant.
UNIT 2 M: Do you see your family?
2.1
W: Yes, I do. I always go to my parents’ house on
Sundays. We watch a film and then we walk to
My name is Eymen. I’m an actor and my wife is a
the park.
teacher. She’s German and I’m from Turkey. We live in a
small apartment in Hamburg, in Germany. Hamburg is a
big city. It has many things – museums, parks and good
restaurants. I live in Germany now, but my hometown,
my childhood home, is in Camlihemsin. Camlihemsin
is a very small town in Turkey. It’s very beautiful. It has
some schools and it’s near the forest.

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UNIT 5 UNITS 1–6 MID-COURSE

5.1 MC.1

I usually stay indoors in the winter. After work on I usually wake up at seven o’clock, have a shower and
Mondays, I sometimes go to the library. On Wednesday then make a big breakfast with eggs, fruit and a cup
evenings I always join an online exercise class. of tea. Then, at nine, I go to the library, choose a book
and walk to the park. I like sitting in the park, reading
I go to the supermarket on Saturdays because my
my book and just watching people. I don’t really like
friends usually come to my house on Sundays. We cook
staying indoors in the mornings – I love being outside.
lots of food in the morning and then we all have lunch
In the afternoon, I sometimes meet my friends and we
together. In the afternoon, we play games or listen to
play a sport. I don’t like football, so we always play
music.
basketball. Before dinner, I always go for a walk. I love
In the summer, when it’s very hot, I love being outdoors. taking photographs and drawing pictures, so I always
I like cycling and hiking. But I never go camping. I don’t have my camera and a notebook, and pencil in my bag.
like sleeping outside – I prefer sleeping in my own bed
at home!
UNIT 7
7.1
UNIT 6
6.1 M = Man W = Woman
W: Look! Here’s a photo of my family in our garden.
J = Julio M = Mia
M: Is that your sister?
J: How much fruit do you eat?
W: The woman with the short blonde hair? No, that’s
M: Oh, I eat a lot of fruit! I love fruit. I usually eat one
my mother!
or two apples a day and I always have a banana
for breakfast. Do you have fruit for breakfast? M: Wow! She looks very young.
J: No, I don’t. I usually have an egg or sometimes W: Yes. This is my sister – she has long dark hair. She’s
some fish. And I always have coffee in the very quiet and she’s also very clever. She’s a doctor.
morning. Sometimes, I have an apple after lunch. And this is my brother. He’s also very clever and
he’s funny.
M: And what do you have for lunch?
M: Is he a doctor too?
J: I usually have spicy noodles with vegetables. How
about you? W: No, he isn’t. He’s a pilot.
M: I don’t like spicy food. I sometimes have pasta M: He looks like you.
with chicken, but my favourite lunch is bread with
W: Yes, we’re both tall and we have dark hair. But he
cheese.
has brown eyes and I have blue eyes.

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UNIT 8 UNIT 10
8.1 10.1

A = Anders B = Bae S = Simon C = Christina

B: Hi, Anders. I have a new pet. Do you want to S: Do you exercise a lot?
meet it?
C: Yes, I do. I don’t really like football or basketball,
A: Oh, is it a cat? I love cats. but I love cycling, so I often go for bike rides with
my friends at the weekend. But right now, I’m
B: No, it’s a spider. She’s called Fluffy. Look! She’s
staying with my aunt in the city and I don’t have
beautiful.
my bike. So I’m going to a gym at the moment.
A: Beautiful? Not really. I like small spiders but she’s But I don’t like it. I prefer being outside.
big!
S: Yeah, I usually go swimming in the sea in the
B: Yes, she is. She’s 15 cm long and she weighs 18 summer, but it’s winter now, so I’m using the
grams. And she can live for 25 years. swimming pool near the library. It’s OK, but I don’t
like the warm water.
A: How old is she?
B: She’s 12.
A: And … can she run fast? UNIT 11
B: Yes, she can! She can run at 29 kilometres per 11.1
hour.
H = Host A = Amelie
A: Really? Is she from Australia?
H: In today’s Tech Show we’re talking about mobile
B: No, she’s from Mexico. Do you want to hold her? phones. Amelie – when were the first mobile
A: No! phones?
A: Well, the first call on a mobile phone was in April
1973. And the phone was heavy … it was 2
UNIT 9 kilogrammes!
9.1 H: And the first text message?
A: That was on the 3rd of December 1992 – nearly
This winter, come to Norway. Stay in a hotel made of
twenty years later. It was just two words long. The
snow and look at the beautiful Northern lights from
first text messages were 160 letters or fewer. So
your window. Go outside – take a 90-minute dog
really only three or four sentences.
sled ride through the forests. Or take the train from
Myrdal to Flam. The one-hour journey is only twenty H: And today, over 7 billion people – that’s 7
kilometres, but from the train you can see beautiful thousand million people, or 91% of the world –
mountains and waterfalls. Don’t forget to go to Oslo. has a mobile phone. And 80% of those phones
You can buy a cheap ticket and take a two-day bus are smartphones – so people can use them to go
tour of the city and visit some of the museums, great online.
restaurants and interesting buildings. Or you can take
a two-hour boat trip. The views of the sea and the city
from the boat are amazing.

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UNIT 12 UNITS 7–12 END OF COURSE

12.1 EOC.1

M = Man W = Woman M = Man W = Woman

M: How was the restaurant last night? M: Is that a picture of your brother?
W: Well … something really funny happened. I W: Yes, it is. It’s my brother Max.
booked the table a month ago, because it’s a
M: He looks like you! Tall, with short dark hair.
really famous place and very popular.
W: Yes, but he’s very quiet … and I’m not!
M: Yes, I know. It was your friend’s birthday.
M: What does he do?
W: That’s right. We were really excited. But when we
arrived, they didn’t have our details. W: He studied photography at university here in
Vienna, and then he moved to Madrid, in Spain,
M: What?
in 2005. He works for a magazine there. His wife
W: I got very angry and showed them the booking is Spanish. She’s a teacher.
on my phone. But then I looked again. The table
M: That’s cool. Do they have any children?
I booked was at a restaurant with the same name
in a different city! W: Yes, they have two sons – Javier and Ruben. In
fact, Ruben’s staying with me in Vienna at the
M: Oh no! What did you do?
moment. He’s spending a year in Austria as part of
W: Well, fortunately, the restaurant thought it was his university course.
very funny and they found us a special table, so it
was fine. And the food was amazing.

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