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UNIT

Lesson 1

Living abroad

Reading An extract from the novel The Secret

OBJECTIVES

Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Writing A diary entry by a student who is living
abroad
Listening Voice messages from students who
are studying abroad
Speaking Discussing the pros and cons of
working abroad
Language Present continuous; Stative verbs
Life skills Critical thinking; Showing respect for
people from different cultures

Before you start

Discuss the questions in pairs.
OCABULARY
FOCUS ON

● Would you like to study abroad? Why/Why not? Check the meaning of these words and
● Tell your partner the differences you think you
phrases in a dictionary.
would notice between life in this new country
and life in your country.

Vocabulary
2.1 1 Complete the conversation with the words and phrases from the Focus on Vocabulary
box. Then listen and check.

Ahmed: I hope you have a great time in England. Don’t worry if you 1 .struggle ....................................................................
with the course in the beginning. After a few weeks you’ll 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
the lessons.
Adam:  I’ll just do my best in the lessons. That’s all I can do. Did I tell you that the mother from my
3 ............... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . is going to come and 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
from the airport when I arrive?
Ahmed: That’s great! So, you won’t be alone when you get there.
Adam:  Exactly. But I don’t want them to take me everywhere and do everything for me. I want to be
5 ............... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . while I’m in England.
Ahmed: Yes, that’s understandable. But it will be good to get some 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
if you feel like your English isn’t good enough or anything like that.
Adam: You’re right. I know that living and studying in England won’t be easy, but with a little bit of
7 ............... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I can do it.

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Reading The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson
2 Read the extract from The Secret Garden.
Who is the main character and how does
Burnett. It was published in Britain in 1911. At the
beginning of the book, we meet the main character,
she spend her first day in England? Mary Lennox. Mary was born in India and her
parents were rich. When Mary is nine years old, her
3 Read the extract again. Answer the questions. parents die and Mary moves to England to live with
1 Which two people does Mary talk to? her uncle. It is cold and very different from India,
2 What creature wants to be Mary’s friend? and Mary is unhappy at first.
3 How do you think Mary is feeling? Why? Mary opened her eyes on that first morning because
a maid had come into her room.
4 What big differences do you think Mary finds
between life in India and life in England? “Are you my servant?” she asked.
“I’m Mrs Medlock’s servant, and she is Mr Craven’s
4 Read the extract again. Which underlined
sentence or question is used for:
servant,” replied Martha, the maid. “Are you going
outside today?”
a an activity that people do all the time? Mary looked around her. There was nothing to do in
My..................................
brother is always . . . . . . . . . .exploring.
........................................................... the bedroom.
b a temporary activity that is happening now? “Who will go with me?” Mary asked.
.................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “You can be independent and go out by yourself.
................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. My brother is always exploring on his own,” said
c a plan to do something at a specific time in Martha. “There are some gardens, but it is winter so
the future? nothing is growing now. Oh, now Mrs Medlock’s
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bell is ringing. I must go!”
d a current situation which is different to the past? A short time later, Mary was in the gardens when
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she came across a small bird singing in some trees
behind a wall. When she asked an old gardener
Speaking about the bird, he whistled and the bird flew to him.
“He was lonely and we became friends,” the old
man explained.
5 Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions. “I’m lonely,” said Mary. “I don’t know anyone in
● What are you doing now?
England.”
● What are you doing on Friday this week?
“I’m sure you will struggle at first, but you will get
● What are you doing this evening? used to the people here soon,” said the gardener.
● What do you always do that annoys other Suddenly, the small bird started singing.
people? “Why is he doing that?” she asked.
● What are you having for dinner? “I think he’s decided to be your friend, too,”
answered the gardener.
ANGUAGE LANGUAGE REVIEW
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Present continuous
We use the present continuous (am/is/are + present participle) to talk about:
● temporary situations that are happening now, for example:
I’m staying in London for three weeks in July..
● a current situation which is different to a past situation:
Young people aren’t reading newspapers these days.
● an action happening at a specific time in the future:
We’re having dinner at seven o’clock today.
● an action that people do: again and again
Why is he always playing his guitar?
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Before you start

● What do you think are the biggest challenges about studying abroad?
● What do you think are the best things about studying abroad?

Listening
2.2 1 Listen to three voice messages from students who are studying abroad. Write the number
next to the descriptions.
a This student feels quite confused and stressed.
b This student gets distracted by other things.
c This student is becoming more confident with the language.

2.3 2 Listen to the messages again. Answer the questions.

Message 1: Why does the speaker find it hard to concentrate in class?
. . . . ................................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Message 2: What two things is the speaker finding difficult?

. . . . ................................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Message 3: Why was today a good day for the speaker?

. . . . ................................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3 Match the sentence halves to make sentences about the students’ thoughts, feelings
and experiences.
Message 1
1 I’m having … a seems to be shining.
2 The sun always … b going to the beach afterwards.
3 I’m thinking about c a great time in Sydney.
Message 2
4 I’m finding it difficult to … d get used to life in Tokyo.
5 I don’t know enough … e a little bit.
6 I only understand … f Japanese at the moment.
Message 3
7 I miss you and g to buy some lunch.
8 I feel so happy h everyone at home.
9 I remembered enough i to be here.

Language
4 Write the verbs from Exercise 3 in the correct column in the table.
How students feel What students think or know How students see their new city
have

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Speaking
5 Work in pairs.
Student A: Imagine you’re studying abroad Student B: Imagine you’re studying abroad
in Hawaii in the USA. in Paris, France.

Make notes on the following things in your notebook:

● How you feel

● What the people there are like

● The experiences you’ve had

● What you think about the place

● What you can hear, smell or what you are looking at right now

LANGUAGE REVIEW
ANGUAGE PAGE 78
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Stative verbs
Stative verbs describe a state rather than an action. Stative verbs are often used to talk about:
● thoughts and opinions: think, know, mean, imagine, believe
● feelings and emotions: like, love, miss, wish, want
● how you see the world: hear, see, look, smell, taste
● possessions and measurements: belong, have, measure, weigh
We cannot use stative verbs in the continuous form.
I want to visit Paris. That bag belongs to my mother.
Note: Some verbs can refer to states or actions depending on context. For example:
I have a pen. (describes a state)
We are seeing Injy and Hoda later. (describes an action, we are meeting them)

6 Use your notes from Exercise 5 to tell your partner about your experience of
studying abroad. Ask your partner at least one question about their experience.
talking
I’m having a lot of fun here in Hawaii! Everyone’s being really nice to me. head of a
I’m looking out of my bedroom window right now, and I can see and smell 16-17-year-
the sea air. It’s amazing! old boy

Video
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Before you start

Work in pairs. Look at the photos. Discuss the
pros and cons of living or working abroad for
each job.

Listening pilot English teacher

2.4 1 Listen to a presentation about the pros and cons of working abroad. Tick (✓) the pro and the
con that the speaker does not mention.
Pros Cons
a You can learn about another culture. a Your job might be more difficult.
b You will come to love your family more. b You will be far away from your family.
c You will become more independent. c You don’t know if you will like the place
d You can learn useful skills. you move to.
d You might find it hard to make new friends.

2.5 2 Complete the sentences with the verbs in the box. Then listen again and check your answers.
believe  feel  forget  imagine  miss  think  wish

1 When you first .think . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . about working abroad, it sounds very exciting.

2 I .............................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . that the best thing about working abroad is probably that …
3 .................................. . . . . . . . . . . trying new food every day …

4 Perhaps you ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . that you’re independent at home, but …

5 … you will probably be a long way from home and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . your family.
6 And let’s not ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . that you may not like the country or city that you move to if it’s
different from your home.
7 … you might ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . you could just go back home and spend time with your old friends.

3 Work in groups. Complete with three pros

and three cons of living abroad.
5 Find another group to work with. Take it in
turns to give your presentations and give
PROS CONS each other feedback. Use the checklist
below to help you.
Learn about another
country's culture Pros and cons presentation checklist:
● Did the group include three pros and
three cons?
Living abroad ● Did the group use phrases for talking
about pros and cons?
● How easy was it to understand the
presentation?
● How well did the group use vocabulary
for the topic?
● How well did the group use grammar,

4 Use your ideas to prepare a presentation

about the pros and cons of living abroad.
especially stative verbs?

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Before you start
Work in pairs. Discuss the questions.
1 Do you write a diary? How do you write it (in a notebook or online)?
2 Do people write about different things in their diaries when nobody else will read it?
3 Do you think it’s ever OK to read someone else’s diary? Why? Why not?
4 Do you know about anyone who is famous for writing a diary?

Reading 28th November 2020

I’ve been in London for six weeks now. It’s
been a great experience so far, but it hasn’t
1 Read the diary entry. Are the sentences true (T) or
false (F)?
always been easy.
When I first arrived, I struggled to
1 Heba’s time in London has been quite easy from understand people. But I’m getting better
the beginning. F at understanding their accents now. I enjoy
2 Heba likes talking to her host family more than listening to Londoners and trying to have
talking to local people. conversations with them. You won’t believe
3 The family Heba is staying with cooks dinner for what happened to me today! I was talking to
her in the evening. a woman in a shop and she asked me if I’m
from London! Isn’t that amazing?
4 Heba talks to her family on the phone every day. Everyone I’ve met has been very kind to me,
5 Heba needs to get better at doing things so I feel really at home here. The host family
independently. that I’m staying with are really nice. They
really look after me! There’s always a hot meal
2 Read the diary entry again and find the expressions
in it that Heba uses to:
waiting on the table when I get home in the
evening and I’m getting used to English food!
a Introduce what happened to her today: All in all, I’m really glad that I decided to
.................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . study in London. I miss my family, but we
b Ask a question: keep in touch by text message. I’ve become
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more independent since I’ve been away. I
have to organise a lot of things on my own
c Summarise what she thought of the experience:
and make sure I have enough money, for
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example. I’m still learning how to do that, but
d End her diary entry: I’m enjoying it.
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Heba
Writing
3 Work in pairs. You’re going to write a diary entry about a day in your life while you’re living
in a new place or abroad. Discuss the questions:
1 Which city or country would you like to live in? 2 How long are you going to stay there for?
3 What are you going to do while you’re there? 4 How do you think you will feel?

4 Plan your diary entry. Write about each of

the following: SKILLS FOR LIFE
● The city/country where you are living
● How long you have been there
● How you feel at the end of the day you are writing about
● What happened on the day you are writing about
● If today was different or similar to the days before it

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 7 Lesson 5 Before you read
● In Chapter 6 (ACT III, Scene iii),
what does Gloucester tell his
son Edmund?
Act III, Scene v
[In Gloucester’s Castle. Cornwall enters with
Edmund.]
CORNWALL: Listen, Edmund. I’ll have my revenge
before I leave Gloucester’s house.
EDMUND: I’m sorry, Cornwall, because the truth
is so sad. This is the letter that my father
Gloucester told me about. It proves that he’s a
spy, and that he’s writing to the King of France.
Oh, I wish he weren’t guilty! It’s very difficult for
me to discover this terrible truth.
CORNWALL: We’ll go and see Regan.
EDMUND: If the letter is true, you have work to do
to stop him.

Act III, Scene vii

CORNWALL: If it is true or false, it has made you the
next Duke of Gloucester. Find your father and
then we can arrest him. [In Gloucester’s Castle. Cornwall, Regan, Goneril,
EDMUND: [To himself.] If I find him helping the King, Edmund and Servants enter.]
Cornwall will think he is even more guilty. CORNWALL: Goneril, send a message to your
[To Cornwall.] I’ll continue to show you my husband Albany and show him this letter. The
loyalty, although it hurts me to do this to my French army has arrived in England.
father. [To the Servants.] Find the traitor, Gloucester.
CORNWALL: I trust you, Edmund, and you’ll find me REGAN: Arrest him now!
to be a better father than he is.
[Some of the Servants exit.]
[They exit.]
CORNWALL: Leave him to me. Edmund, stay with

Act III, Scene vi Goneril. You shouldn’t see what we’ll do to your
father, the traitor. Goodbye, my dear Goneril.
[Gloucester enters.] Goodbye, Edmund, the new Duke of Gloucester.
GLOUCESTER: My friend, where's the King? [Oswald enters.]
KENT: He’s here, sir; but be quiet, he’s sleeping. Where’s the King?
GLOUCESTER: Good friend, I’ve heard that there’s OSWALD: The Duke of Gloucester has taken him
a plan to get rid of him. There’s a carriage away, sir. About thirty-five of his soldiers have
waiting for you; help the King into it and drive to gone with him. They’re going to Dover, where
Dover, where you’ll find people to help you. Go they say they have some powerful friends.
now. If you wait half an hour, you may both be CORNWALL: Get horses for Regan. Goodbye
killed. Follow me. Edmund.
KENT: [To Lear.] You’re sleeping now. This rest might [Goneril exits with Edmund, and Oswald.]
help you, although it will be difficult to cure your
madness. Go and find that traitor, Gloucester. Bring him to
us like a thief.
[To the Fool.] Come, help me to carry the King.
[The other Servants exit.]
GLOUCESTER: Hurry up! We must leave now.
I can’t kill Gloucester because I don’t have the
[They all exit except for Edgar.] authority, but I can punish him. And although
EDGAR: The poor King! His children have done to people won’t like this, they can’t stop us.
him what my father has done to me! [Gloucester enters, brought in by two or three
[He exits.] men.]
Who’s there? Is that the traitor, Gloucester?

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REGAN: It’s him. GLOUCESTER: Listen, I got a letter that explained

CORNWALL: Make him kneel in front of me. what is happening. It came from someone who
is neither a friend nor an enemy.
GLOUCESTER: What are you doing? Good friends,
you’re in my house. Don’t do this. CORNWALL: That’s clever.
CORNWALL: Make him kneel, I said! REGAN: And untrue.
[The Servants make him kneel.] CORNWALL: Where have you sent the King?
REGAN: You cruel man. You’ve deceived your son GLOUCESTER: To Dover.
Edmund. REGAN: Why have you sent him to Dover? I told you
GLOUCESTER: You, my lady, are the one who’s cruel, not to help him …
not me. CORNWALL: [He interrupts Regan.] Why Dover?
REGAN: You are a traitor! Let him answer that first.
GLOUCESTER: Cruel lady, what are you saying? GLOUCESTER: Because I didn’t want to see his
daughters continue to be so cruel to him.
CORNWALL: What letters have you recently received
from France? CORNWALL: You will never see that! [Picks up a
sword.] Come! Fight me!
REGAN: Give us your answer. We know the truth.
[Gloucester tries to fight, but Cornwall hits his
CORNWALL: And what have you planned with
face with his sword.]
the traitors who have recently arrived in the
kingdom? GLOUCESTER: Oh, help me! My eyes!
REGAN: Who have you sent the mad King to? Tell us
everything.

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SERVANT 1: Stop, my lord! Stop now. REGAN: Don’t call for your son Edmund. He hates
CORNWALL: Stop? Never! You can fight me too. you. Edmund told us that you betrayed us. He
will not help you.
SERVANT 1: Very well, come on.
GLOUCESTER: Oh, I’ve been so stupid! Edgar is the
[They fight and the servant badly wounds
one I should trust, not Edmund!
Cornwall.]
REGAN: Throw him out of the palace, and let him
REGAN: [To a soldier.] Give me your sword. A
find his way to Dover.
servant will not fight my husband like this!
I won’t stand for it! [Two Servants help the now blind Gloucester
from the stage.]
[She takes a sword and kills the servant.]
[To Cornwall.] What’s the matter, my lord?
SERVANT 1: Oh, I’m going to die!
CORNWALL: I’ve been hurt. Regan! Look at all this
[He dies.]
blood! Give me your arm.
GLOUCESTER: Everything is black now and I can’t
[Regan helps Cornwall off the stage. They exit.]
see! Where’s my son Edmund? You must take
revenge for this terrible thing.

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Before you start Reading
Work in pairs. Discuss the questions.
● Do you think most people disagree with friends 2 Match the characters with the events.
and family sometimes? a Edmund 1 This character is injured after
attacking someone.
● What can help people to stop disagreeing and be
friendly again? b Gloucester 2 This character’s new title is
used for the first time.
Vocabulary c Cornwall 3 This character is travelling
towards Dover in a carriage.

1 Choose the correct answer from a, b, c, or d. d The King 4 This character has killed a
servant to protect someone.
1 If one of your friends helps your enemies, you
can call this person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e Regan 5 This character is injured and
can’t see anything.
a cruel b a servant
c mad d a traitor
2 One of my friends was very ill, but this 3 Are the sentences true (T) or false (F).
Correct the false sentences.
medicine helped to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . him.
1 Edmund decides to help Cornwall find the
a get rid of b rest King so that Cornwall will think his father is
c cure d stand even more guilty.
3 If you ................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . rid of someone, ........................................................................................................
you kill this person. 2 Gloucester tells Kent to drive the King to
a get b make c take d give Gloucester’s castle because the King’s life
4 When the police found the stolen phone at is in danger.
the man’s home, it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . that ........................................................................................................

he was the thief. 3 Cornwall and Edmund try to find and

a discovered b arrested punish Gloucester for being a traitor.
c deceived d proved ........................................................................................................

5 The head of the police asked the government 4 Gloucester tells Cornwall that he arranged
for the .................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . to change the law. for the King to be taken somewhere.
........................................................................................................
a authority b punishment
c powerful d revenge 5 The servant tries to stop Cornwall attacking
Gloucester, but Regan kills the servant.
6 If someone doesn’t like you and wants to hurt
........................................................................................................
you, this person is your . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6 Gloucester feels stupid and says he should
a spy b duke c enemy d relative
have trusted Cornwall instead of Edmund.
7 Instead of .......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . someone while ........................................................................................................
they’re talking, you should stay quiet.
7 Cornwall orders Gloucester to be thrown
a kneeling b interrupting out of the palace.
c punishing d deceiving ........................................................................................................
8 Your behaviour is totally unacceptable and I
won’t ................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . for it!
Writing
a stand b do c kneel d wait
9 They tried to ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . us by saying
they had lots of money when they didn’t.
4 Write sentences for each character to
explain how they’re feeling at the end of
a spy on b deceive this part of the play and why.
c punish d take revenge for a Gloucester b Edmund c Cornwall
10 An old-fashioned vehicle which is usually pulled Gloucester: I am feeling happy that I punished a
by horses is called a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . traitor because …
a carriage b palace c servant d sword
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UNIT

Lesson 1

High-tech
transport
Reading A notice about the expansion of the

OBJECTIVES
Cairo metro network
Writing A speech for or against an argument;
An email to the local government about public
transport
Listening A talk show debate about the future
of transport
Speaking A discussion about the advantages and
disadvantages of using public transport; Asking
and answering questions about a schedule
Language Future perfect
Life Skills Critical thinking; Problem solving;
Respect for diversity

Before you start

● Work in pairs. Look at the
pictures and tell your partner
Reading
how often you use these
types of transport. 2 You’re going to read a notice from the
Cairo Metro network. Work in pairs. Before
you read, guess which of these statements
about the metro network are true. Then,
Vocabulary read and tick (✓).
1 The Cairo Metro is a type of underground
1 Complete the definitions with the words
in the box. Use a dictionary to help you
train network. ✓
2 It was the first metro network in Africa.
if necessary.
3 It was opened in 1977.
expansion facilities high-tech 4 It has four different lines: Line 1, Line 2, Line
network public transport 3 and Line 4.
1 describing something that uses a lot of new
high-tech
technology. ....... ......................................
3 Read the notice quickly. Which sentence
best summarises the information in it?
2 any system that has a lot of connected parts a The Cairo Metro network is now a lot bigger,
.................................. . . . . . . . . . . . and the expansion work is complete.
3 buses, trains or trams that anyone can use to b Some work on the Cairo Metro network is
travel around .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . now complete, and there will be further
4 places, buildings or equipment that are used expansion work in the future.
for an activity ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . c Expansion work on four lines of the Cairo
5 an increase in the size or length of something Metro network is planned for in the future,
.................................. . . . . . . . . . . . and this work will begin soon.

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Cairo Metro network: Expansion work
We hope that all our passengers will enjoy using our new Line 3. This expansion of the Cairo
Metro adds seven kilometres and six new stations to our underground network. Line 3 will help
people in the east of the city to get to work faster and more easily because it connects Heliopolis
and the central station of Adly Mansour. We expect that 1.5 million passengers will use the new
line this year.

High-tech systems were used to build this 21st Century public transport system, and more
expansion work is planned for in the future. By 2030, we expect to have built three more new
lines to bring the total number to six. We are already building Line 4 and we will have completed
it by 2024. Line 4 will connect the east and west of Cairo and make it easier for people to travel
around the city. However, due to the expansion work on Line 4, some trains will be late and we
may have to close some stations for short periods of time.

Although we don’t have a precise schedule for the building

work on Line 5 and 6 at the moment, we expect to have started
building Line 5 by the end of next year.

We would like to thank all Cairo Metro passengers for your

understanding while the building work is taking place. We hope
that you will enjoy using the improved underground network.

4 Read the notice again. Answer the questions.

1 How much longer is the network with the addition of Line 3?
2 How many lines will the Cairo metro have by 2030?
3 Which line are people building at the moment?
4 What isn’t known at the moment?
5 What does this notice tell you about the Cairo Metro Authority?

Speaking
5 Work in pairs. Follow the instructions below. Then present your ideas to your partner.
Student A: Think about and make notes on the advantages of using the metro.

Student B: Think about and make notes on the disadvantages of using the metro.

6 Work in groups. Prepare for and have a discussion about the advantages and disadvantages
of public transport.

Student A: You think that using public transport has more advantages than disadvantages, it improves
people’s lives and everyone should use it.

Student B: You think that using public transport has more disadvantages than advantages, and people
should only use it when they have to.

Student C: You’re going to listen to the discussion and decide which student has persuaded you to
agree with their point of view.

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Before you start

● How can using public transport help the environment?

Listening
2.8 1 Listen to a talk show in which two people are
having a debate and answer the questions.
1 Which problem do both Karima and Nadiya want
to solve?
a Improving our public transport networks so more
people can use them.
b Making vehicles and public transport more affordable in the future.
c Getting people to travel in a more environmentally-friendly way.
2 Which solution does Karima suggest?
a Driving cars less often and using public transport more often.
b Stopping people from driving cars so they only use public transport.
c Stopping the production of cars because it’s bad for the environment.
3 Which solution does Nadiya suggest?
a Continuing to drive cars, but using environmentally-friendly cars instead.
b Only driving environmentally-friendly cars when we need to.
c Driving our own vehicles instead of buying driverless cars.

2.9 2 Listen to the talk show again. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)? Correct the false sentences.
1 Nadiya works for a company that makes electric cars. T
................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2 Karima says that car production is bad for the environment.

................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3 Nadiya thinks that the price of electric cars will be lower by 2030.
................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4 The talk show host suggests that where people travel and the vehicles they use will change in the future.
................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5 Karima isn’t sure if everyone will understand the importance of protecting the environment in the future.
................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Language
3 Read the sentences from the talk show below and answer the questions.
● Why do you think more people will have decided to use public transport in twenty years’ time?
● Experts believe that by 2030 most people will have bought an electric vehicle.
● I think that by 2050 the price of electric cars won’t have gone down so much that everyone
can buy one.
● Whatever happens in the future, in ten years we won’t have given up on driving our own vehicles
1 Do we know exactly when the actions will happen in the future? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 Which words can introduce the time when we expect an action to be completed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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4 Complete the sentences with the future
perfect form of the verbs in brackets and by,
ANGUAGE
LANGUAGE REVIEW
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FOCUS ON
before or in. The future perfect
will have read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (read) all of the books on
1 I ..............................
before . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the end of the year.
the list ................. Use the future perfect (will/won't + past
participle) for
2 Mahmoud ........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (get) a good job
● actions that will or will not be
in Cairo .............. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the time he’s
twenty-five years old. completed before a specific time in the
future: You will have finished your
3 We ......................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (not watch) all of this project by the end of this term. I won't
television series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the end of have gone to sleep before 8pm.
the weekend.
● actions that will or will not be
4 .................................. . . . . . . . . . . one year, I completed before another action in
.................................. . . . . . . . . . . (improve) my English
the future: I will have read the book
enough to have a longer conversation before I return it to the library.
with someone.
Note:
5 Do you think you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (learn) to
drive ..................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . five years’ time? Use by or by the time or before to mean
at some point before: We will have taken
6 I think they ........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (not finish) all the test by/before June. I won’t have
of their homework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . school done all of my homework by the time/
starts tomorrow. before you get home.
Use in or in (3 days') time to mean
Speaking at the end of this time: In five years, I
will have started work. How much will
5 Work in pairs. Nour is a student. Look at
her schedule for next month. Use the future
you have done on your project in two
months’ time?
perfect to ask and answer questions about
Nour’s schedule.
❮ ❯ September
1 Do a cooking 2 3 4 Finish science 5 6 7 Play tennis
course project

8 9 Start studying for 10 11 12 13 Visit my 14

maths exam grandparents

15 Take first aid 16 17 Make a cake 18 Go to Heba’s 19 20 21

test for Heba’s birthday birthday party
party (afternoon)
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Visit my brother
Omar

29 30 Take maths
exam

talking head of a What will Nour have done by She'll have finished talking head of a
13-14-year-old boy the fourth of September? her science project. 13-14-year-old
boy

6 Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions about what you expect to have done by the time
you are:
● 20 years old ● 40 years old ● 60 years old

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Before you start

Work in pairs. Some people say that we will have
stopped driving cars in fifty years. Discuss the
questions with your partner.
a What reasons to stop driving cars can you think of?
b What alternatives to cars can you imagine?

Listening
2.10 1 Listen to a speaker presenting his opinion about driving in the future. Look at the statements
below and tick (✓) the points that the speaker thinks are important.
1 Cars are everywhere and people drive them every day. ✓
2 There are no good alternatives to cars at the moment.
3 Some people believe that there will be alternatives to cars by 2030.
4 There are problems with alternatives to cars, like flying vehicles.
5 More and more cars are environmentally-friendly today.

2.11 2 Read the sentences and listen to the speaker again. Underline the words he stresses and put
a cross (✗) when he pauses.
1 I’m here today to talk to you about cars and tell you why we will not have stopped driving them
by 2050.
2 Most people drive their cars every day. It’s hard, perhaps impossible, to imagine that people will have
changed the way they travel so much that by 2050, nobody will be driving.

2.12 3 Listen to the speaker again. Complete the phrases he uses to show that he’s going to say
something important.
1 The first argument I would like to make, and something we should . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
................................. . . . . . . . . . . . , is that cars are everywhere, everywhere. Just look around.

2 Another ............... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . significant . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . that I’d like to make is that it’s hard to
imagine a good alternative to the car at the moment.
3 It’s important to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . in . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . that more and more of the cars we’re
making today are environmentally-friendly.
......................................

Speaking
People will have
4 Work in groups. Brainstorm three arguments explaining why
you think people will have stopped driving cars by 2050.
stopped driving cars by
2050 because …

5 Think about the most important information in your three

arguments and how you can show that this is important ...................................... ......................................

when you present the arguments. Make some notes in your notebook.

6 Work in pairs. Read the information below. Then present your arguments to your partner
stressing the most important information. Listen to your partner and make notes on what
you think is the most important information in their arguments.
Student A: You believe that people will have stopped driving cars by 2050.
Student B: You believe that people will still drive cars in 2050.

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Before you start
Work in pairs. Discuss your answers to the questions.
1 Which facilities in your area are helpful for people?
2 Which one change would improve the facilities in your area?

Reading
1 Read the email that a student wrote to her local governorate and answer the questions.
1 Who is going to read Sara’s email? 2 What does the greeting tell you about the style of Sara’s email?

2 Read the email again. Which paragraph ...

1 mentions possible future discussions between
Dear Sir or Madam,
the writer and the reader? E
A I am writing on behalf of myself and the
2 asks the reader to think about doing something other students in my class at school.
to solve a problem?
B We would be very grateful if the governorate
3 includes a possible solution for the problem? would consider organising the expansion
4 tries to persuade the reader to believe that to our town’s public transport network. The
there is a problem? current network is not satisfactory because
there are not enough buses to take children to
5 says who the suggestion for improving public
school early in the morning.
transport comes from?
C I have done some research and some children
arrive at school much earlier than they need
3 Match the formal phrases 1–8 from the
email with the informal phrases a–h with
to, and the buses are very crowded.
the same meaning. D I would suggest that the Governate office
either provides more buses at the time when
1 Dear Sir or Madam D students travel to school or it changes the bus
2 We would be very grateful if ... could … timetable so that the buses arrive at our school
twenty or thirty minutes earlier.
3 The ... is not satisfactory …
E I would be very happy to discuss this
4 As a result, … issue further at any time that would be
5 I would suggest that … convenient. Then we could discuss which
6 I would be very happy to … solution(s) would be possible for our city.
Should you have any further questions about
7 Should you have any further questions …, the public transport students need, please
please respond to this email. respond to this email.
8 Yours faithfully Yours faithfully,
Sara Abdelaziz   
a This isn’t good enough
b One idea is …
c Write to me if you need to know 4 Think of a problem in your area which your
governorate could help to solve and plan
anything else
an email. Make notes on:
d Hello / Hi
● What the problem is
e Bye
● What effects the problem has on local people
f Because of that …
● At least two possible solutions for the problem
g It would be no problem to …
● What you would like the governorate to do
h Please could you … ?
● How to include phrases from the email

5 Write an email based on your notes for

Exercise 4.
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● Who is Poor Tom? Who does
The Duke of Gloucester think
he is?

Act IV, Scene i

[In the countryside. Edgar enters.] [To Gloucester, his father.] Hello, sir!
EDGAR: When you have nothing, there’s nothing left GLOUCESTER: Is that the mad beggar?
to lose. OLD MAN: Yes, it is, my lord.
[Gloucester enters led by an Old Man.] GLOUCESTER: If you really want to help me, bring
But what’s happened? Are my father’s eyes some clothes for this poor beggar. I’ll ask him to
bleeding? take me to Dover.
GLOUCESTER: Go away, good friend. You can’t help OLD MAN: He can’t help you, sir. He’s mad!
me now. GLOUCESTER: Please help him.
OLD MAN: But I want to help you, sir. You can’t see. OLD MAN: OK, I’ll bring him the best clothes that I
You can’t find your way. can find, sir.
GLOUCESTER: I don’t need any eyes. When I had [He exits.]
eyes, I couldn’t see what I most needed to see.
GLOUCESTER: Come here, my friend
Oh, my dear son Edgar. I wish I could hold you,
then I would say that I needed eyes again! EDGAR: Are your eyes OK? They’re bleeding.

OLD MAN: Who’s there? GLOUCESTER: Do you know the way to Dover?

EDGAR: [To himself.] Oh, now I feel worse than I EDGAR: Yes, sir.
ever did before. GLOUCESTER: Here, take this money. All men should
OLD MAN: Look, it’s poor, mad Tom. Where are you help each other. The rich especially should help
going, Tom? the poor. There is a very high cliff in Dover. Take
me to the top of it. You don’t need to take me
GLOUCESTER: Is it a beggar in front of us?
anywhere else.
OLD MAN: Yes, he’s a mad man and a beggar.
EDGAR: Of course. Poor
GLOUCESTER: I saw a beggar in last night’s storm. Tom will take you
He reminded me of my son, but I had no good there.
thoughts about my son then. Now, however, I
[They exit.]
know the truth.
EDGAR: [To himself.] My father is so sad, he has
fallen apart. I wish I didn’t have to pretend to
be a beggar.

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Act IV, Scene ii
[In front of the Duke of Albany’s Palace. Goneril
enters with Edmund.]
GONERIL: Welcome, Edmund.
[Oswald enters.]
Where’s my husband, Oswald? I haven’t seen
him.
OSWALD: Madam, he’s inside, but he’s changed. I
told him that the French army had arrived. He
smiled. Then I told him you were coming. His
answer was, “That is not good.”
GONERIL: I told him that Gloucester had deceived
us and that Edmund had been good to us. Then
he told me that I had got everything wrong.
[To Edmund.] You shouldn’t come in. My
[A messenger enters.]
husband is angry with you. Go back to Cornwall.
Get his army together and help him. ALBANY: What is the news?
[Edmund exits.] MESSENGER: Oh, my lord, the Duke of Cornwall was
killed by his servant after he fought Gloucester,
GONERIL: [To herself.] Edmund, Duke of Gloucester,
and now Gloucester can’t see.
is hungry for power. Perhaps I should use him
to help me. ALBANY: Gloucester can’t see! Poor Gloucester!
OSWALD: Madam, here comes your husband. MESSENGER: Regan wants a quick answer to this
letter.
[The Duke of Albany enters.]
GONERIL: [To herself.] In one way, this is good
ALBANY: Oh Goneril, I’m starting to feel frightened
news. Without Cornwall, it’s more likely that I
of you. You are evil!
can rule over all the kingdom. But now Edmund
GONERIL: Be quiet! Don’t say anything more. has gone to my sister’s. I don’t want him to help
ALBANY: What have you done? You and Regan are her soldiers. I’ll read the letter and send her an
tigers, not daughters. You’ve been cruel to your answer.
father, a kind old man. How could Cornwall allow [Goneril exits.]
you to do this? He has had so much from your
ALBANY: Where was Gloucester’s son Edmund
father!
when he fought with Cornwall?
GONERIL: Soldiers are here from France, but all you
MESSENGER: He was travelling here with my lady.
do is sit here and cry, “Oh, why is he doing this?”
Where is your sword? ALBANY: But he’s not here.
ALBANY: Look at yourself, Goneril! Evil hides MESSENGER: No, my lord. I met him travelling back
inside you. again.
ALBANY: Does he know what has happened?
MESSENGER: Yes, my lord. Edmund told us about
his father. Edmund left the house so that the
Duke of Cornwall could punish Gloucester.
ALBANY: [To himself.] Gloucester, I thank you for
the love you have shown the King, and I’ll take
revenge for what has happened to you.
[To the Messenger.] Come here, friend. Tell me
what else you know.
[They exit together.]

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Act IV, Scene iii

[The French camp near Dover. Kent enters with KENT: Have you spoken to her since then?
a Gentleman.] GENTLEMAN: No.
KENT: Tell me sir, why has the King of France KENT: Well, sir, the poor unhappy King is here, but
returned so suddenly to his country? he does not want to see his daughter.
GENTLEMAN: He had something important to do GENTLEMAN: Why, sir?
there.
KENT: Because he was so unkind to her before. He
KENT: Did the letters make Queen Cordelia very sent Cordelia to France and gave everything to
sad? her cruel sisters. This has made him mad.
GENTLEMAN: Yes, sir. She read them while I was GENTLEMAN: The poor man!
there, and I saw that she was crying. But she was
KENT: Do you have any news of Albany and
not angry.
Cornwall’s armies?
KENT: Did she say anything?
GENTLEMAN: They are nearby.
GENTLEMAN: Yes, once or twice she called out her
KENT: Well, sir, I will take you to King Lear.
father’s name. She said, “Sisters, sisters! You left
your father outside in the storm! In the night! [They exit.]
What have you done?” And after that, she left
the room because she wanted to be alone.

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Before you start 3 Answer the questions about what happens
in this part of the play.
Work in pairs. Tell your partner about a time 1 Why does Albany feel frightened of Goneril?
when … ........................................................................................................
1 you helped someone who asked you for help. 2 What name does Edgar call himself while he’s
2 you realised that someone you knew had pretending to be a beggar?
changed. ........................................................................................................

3 What does Goneril tell Edmund to do?

Vocabulary What does she plan to do?
........................................................................................................

1 Choose the correct answer from a, b, c, or d. 4 Why does Goneril think it will be easier for her
to rule over the whole kingdom now?
1 If someone is cruel to you, you might want to
take ...................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . on him or her. ........................................................................................................

a revenge b rule 5 Why has the King of France returned to his

c a kingdom d a storm country?
........................................................................................................
2 A king or queen has the power to
6 Where are Cornwall and Albany’s armies?
.................................. . . . . . over a country.
........................................................................................................
a pretend b rule c deceive d hold
3 Someone who really wants to lead a country
is ............................. . . . . . . . . . . for power.
4 What do we learn about the characters in
this part of the play?
a hungry b thirsty c angry d worry 1 Gloucester a pretended to be
4 If someone is finding life very difficult because ....................................... someone else but
something bad has happened, you might say 2 Edgar hated it.
that he/she has . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . apart. ....................................... b is angry because
a spoken b broken c fallen d taken 3 Goneril someone isn’t
.......................................
doing something.
Reading 4 Albany c misses his son.
....................................... d thinks that King
2 Complete the summaries of each scene
with the words in the box.
5 The Gentleman Lear is a poor man.
....................................... e feels that another
bleeding camp cliff fallen apart character is evil.
revenge tigers
Act 4, Scene i
Writing
Gloucester is 1 ........... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . when he meets his
son, who is pretending to be a mad beggar. Gloucester 5 Write six more lines for one of the
following conversations:
asks the beggar to take him to the top of a high
2 . . . . . . ................................. .
1 The start of the conversation between Edgar
and Gloucester as they start their journey to
Act 4, Scene ii a very high cliff in Dover at the end of Act 4,
Albany says that Goneril and her sister are like Scene i.
3 . . . . . . ................................. . He finds out that Gloucester
2 The next part of the conversation between
was attacked and Albany promises to take Albany and the messenger at the end of Act
4 . . . . . . ................................. because Gloucester was hurt. 4, Scene ii
Act 4, Scene iii 3 The conversation between Kent and the
There is a conversation between Kent and a Gentleman as Kent takes the Gentleman to
gentleman at the French 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . near King Lear at the end of Act 4, Scene iii.
Dover. They talk about how the king has
6 . . . . . . ................................. .
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UNIT

Lesson 1

Conservation

Reading An online advertisement for volunteer

OBJECTIVES
conservation trips
Writing An email on the best solution to a local
problem; An opinion essay about the benefits of
Before you start volunteering
Listening A news report about the protection of the
● Which of the following are you most environment
interested in learning more about? Speaking Discussing the benefits of volunteering;
Discussing problems and choosing the best solution
A plants and trees B animals in the sea
Language Comparative phrases; Used to / didn’t
C land animals use to
Life skills Problem-solving; Negotiation and
decision-making; Collaboration

OCABULARY
FOCUS ON

Guess the meanings of these words.

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comparative phrases
Use exactly the same as to say that there is
no difference between two things:
Your bag is exactly the same as my bag.
My father does exactly the same job as
your father.
Reading Use almost as … as or slightly … than to
say that there is a small difference between
1 Work in pairs. Read the advert for
volunteer conservation projects quickly.
two things:
I’m almost as tall as my brother.
Which of the projects (A-C) should you
We’re almost as good at maths as you.
choose if you …
The trip to New Zealand is slightly more
1 want to learn about a native communities’
expensive than the trip to Brazil.
culture?
Use far … than to say that there is a big
2 want to help to fight pollution?
difference between two things:
3 want to spend time with animals?
In my opinion, working on a farm is far
more interesting than counting plants.

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Book your conservation volunteer trip today!
Are you interested in conservation? Are you ready for a new
challenge? If your answer to both of these questions is ‘yes’,
we have some excellent volunteer programmes for you.
A – New Zealand B – Thailand
Come to New Zealand and Here in Thailand, we’re involved
help us preserve the country’s in caring for elephants who used
unique biodiversity. You’ll plant C – Brazil
to take tourists on rides around
trees so that endangered birds big cities. You’ll monitor these Brazil is well-known for its
have a far better environment elephants’ progress as they start amazing biodiversity. However,
to live in. You’ll also help us to their new lives in the forest to the native inhabitants of the
monitor changes in a variety of make sure that they’re healthy Amazon face exactly the same
plant species in different areas. and happy. These unique and threat as the rainforests – they are
Another slightly more challenging beautiful creatures love to play also fighting for their survival. You
task is cleaning beaches and with our volunteers almost as can help the native inhabitants
helping to run recycling centres much as they love having a bath to preserve their languages in
where local people can bring in the river with them! digital form for future generations.
their waste. Fourteen days / Prices with What is more, you can apply for
Twenty-one days / Prices with flights from $2,599 a scholarship for the costs of this
flights from $3,799 rewarding trip.
Sixteen days / Prices with flights
from $2,599

2 Read the advert again. Are these sentences true (T) or false (F).
1 In New Zealand, you’ll help to protect trees and plants that can only be found there.
2 In New Zealand you can help to ensure that local people won’t leave waste on the beach.
3 The aim of the project in Thailand is to help elephants be healthy again.
4 The elephants that you can help in Thailand have to work in the tourist industry.
5 In Brazil, you can help local people to preserve the rainforests they live in.
6 There is money available to help you pay for the trip to Brazil.

Speaking 4 Work in pairs. Complete the mind-map

with the possible benefits and problems of
conservation volunteer trips.
3 Work in pairs. Tell your partner which trip
you’re most interested in and why. The cost The volunteers

The money can Conservation

I’d like to go on the trip to help the local volunteer trips
Thailand because I really talking
community.
head of a
like elephants and I’d like 13-14-year-
to look after them. The environment
old girl

5 In pairs, discuss how helpful you think

conservation volunteer trips are. Then
compare your ideas with another pair.

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Before you start

Work in pairs. Look at the photos of Naama Bay in the
past and now. What are the differences between the
two photos?

Listening
2.14 1 Listen to a news report about conservation on the
Red Sea Coast in Egypt. Have the changes been a
success? How do you know? Discuss your answers
with a partner.

2.16 2 Listen again and answer the questions.

1 When did people realise that tourism was causing a Naama Bay near Sharm el-Sheikh, 1983
problem for the town?
2 Before the new rule, how many divers were usually
allowed to dive to one reef in the summer months?
3 What is the money that divers pay used for?
4 What buildings were removed to make space
for hotels?
5 How do local people feel about tourism in their
town now? Why?

Language
3 Read the statements. Write P (Past) for the
statements about what happened in the past
and N (Now) for the statements about what
is happening today.
Naama Bay today

1 Too many tourists used to visit one reef at the same time.
2 There are rules about how many divers can visit a reef at the same time.
3 Divers didn’t use to pay money to support local conservation projects.
4 Divers pay a small amount of money to support local conservation projects.
5 Building hotels used to be more important than keeping facilities for local people.
6 There are rules about how much land hotel companies can build on.

4 Complete the sentences with used to and the verb in brackets. In which sentences
can you use used to or would?
1 Tourists ............... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (come) to dive in this area.
2 At first, the tourists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (eat) in the hotel restaurants rather than local restaurants.
3 There ................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (not / be) enough facilities for local people.
4 A lot of local people . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (come) to the beach every weekend but it’s much
quieter now..
5 We ......................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (have) a lot of trees near to the sea, but now they’re gone.
6 Every evening local people . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (go out) onto the streets and sell souvenirs.

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5 Read about each situation in the past and now. Complete the sentences comparing the
past and the present.
Situation 1 Situation 2:
In the past: Students left rubbish in the school In the past: Students had homework every
grounds every day. week.
Now: Students tidy up the rubbish and keep the Now: Students have homework every day.
school grounds clean. 2 Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , but now
used to
1 Students .............. . . . . .leave
. . . . . . . . . . . .rubbish
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , but now .................................................
they tidy up and. . .keep
................................... . . . . . . . . . . .the
. . . . . . . . .school
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . clean
..............

Situation 3: Situation 4:
In the past: Students spent a lot of time at the In the past: Students played football after school.
park. Now: They choose sports they’re interested in.
Now: Students spend a lot of time at the new 4 Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , but now
shopping centre. .................................................
3 Students .............. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , but now
................................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LANGUAGE REVIEW
L ANGUAGE PAGE 79

Speaking
FOCUS ON

Past habits
● Use used to / didn’t use to to talk about
6 Work in pairs. Write five questions to find
out about your partner’s life when he/she
situations and regular habits in the past:
was eight years old. Tourism used to damage the coral reefs.
There didn’t use to be a limit on the
When you were eight, did you use to …?
number of divers.
Where did you used to …?
We often use used to to compare the past and
What would you do on …? the present: Local people used to complain
about tourism in their town, but they don’t
7 In pairs, take it in turns to ask your
questions. Make notes on your partner’s
complain now.
● Use would + infinitive to talk about past
answers and then tell another pair about
your partner. habits and typical behaviour. We don’t use
would to talk about past situations:
talking head of Hotel companies would buy the best
When you were eight, did a 13-14-year- land in the town.
you use to go to any old girl Too many tourists would visit the diving
sports clubs? centres.
There used to be a lot of tourists. (NOT:
There would be a lot of tourists.)

8 Work in pairs. Think of a change that has

happened in your town. Make notes on
the following:
● the situation in the past before the
change happened
● what people did before the change

● the situation now and what people do now

9 Find another pair to work with. Take it in

turns to present the change you made
notes on in Exercise 8.

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Before you start

Work in pairs. Think of the last time you tried to solve
a problem and answer the questions.
1 What was the problem?
2 What did you do when you were trying to solve the problem?
3 Did you solve the problem? What helped you to solved it or
stopped you from solving it?

Speaking
2.16 1 Listen to two students trying to solve a problem and answer the questions.
1 What is the problem?
2 Make notes about the pros and cons of the two possible solutions in the table below.
Solution 1: Skatepark Solution 2: Youth club
PROS CONS PROS CONS
● ● ● ●

● ● ● ●

2.17 2 Listen again. What do the two students

learn from their discussion about what
SKILLS FOR LIFE
type of solution they need to solve their
problem?

Speaking
3 Work in pairs. Read the problem and the
five possible solutions. Discuss the pros
and cons of each solution. What did you
learn from your discussion about what the
right solution for the problem is?
Problem: A lot of people visit your town to relax
on the beach or go diving. They often leave their
rubbish behind, which means going to the beach
isn’t very nice now.

Solutions:

1 Make and put up signs on the beach in several different languages which tell people to pick up their
rubbish and put it in the bins when they’re on the beach.
2 Organise teams of local people to go to the beach every day and pick up the rubbish so that the
beach is clean.
3 Make a rule for the beach which says that people cannot take any food or drinks onto the beach.
4 Put a lot more bins on the beach and put them in more visible places.

4 Think of a problem that exists in your town and a possible solution for it. In pairs, take turns
to say two pros and two cons of your solution and then discuss what you’ve learned from
your discussion about the right solution for the problem.
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Before you start
Work in pairs. Discuss the questions.
Have you ever been a volunteer?
● If you have, what did you do? What were the
benefits of being a volunteer for you?
● If you haven’t, what might inspire you to volunteer
for the first time?

Reading
1 Work in pairs. Read the opinion essay and
answer the questions. Can volunteering benefit young
1 Does the writer agree or disagree with the people today?
question in the title?
Several research studies have proven that
2 How do you know that this is the writer’s
significant psychological benefits that can
opinion?
arise from volunteering, for people of
any age. For young people though, there
2 Read the essay again. Answer the
questions. are many reasons why volunteering would
1 What 3 reasons does the writer give for his/ benefit them. In my opinion, the most
her opinion? important benefit is that it simply makes
2 What is the aim of each paragraph?
them feel good about themselves.
3 How is an opinion essay different to an essay I believe that a further important benefit is
about the pros and cons of something? that young people can develop useful skills
and valuable experience. These can prove
3 Answer the questions about the words
in bold in the essay. Which words and
extremely useful not only at school, but also
in their careers. For example, a volunteer
phrases are used to … job with an organisation may lead to paid
1 show a contrast between this sentence and work. Volunteering could also provide the
the sentence before it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . opportunity to find out if working in a certain
2 give the reason why people do area would be enjoyable and suitable.
something or why something happens?
.................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The third and final benefit of volunteering
is that it gives young people the opportunity
3 say that two related things are true or
happened? ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , to make useful contacts. A majority of
… ........................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . volunteers work together in order to achieve
a specific goal. Consequently, they often
4 give the results of something that happens?
get to know each other very well and team
.................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
leaders may then put volunteers into contact
5 talk about the purpose of something?
with people who can offer them other
.................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
interesting opportunities.

4 Choose one of the titles below. Plan an

opinion essay.
In conclusion, it is clear that volunteering
brings several important benefits for the
a How can volunteer work benefit a volunteers involved. However, as I explained
community? above, the most important benefit is the
b What would be a good volunteer project for positive effects that volunteering has on the
your local area? volunteers’ mental health.

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 9 Lesson 5 Before you read
● Does Gloucester still think that
his son Edgar has been cruel to
him? Why / Why not?

Act IV, Scene iv

[In the French camp. Cordelia, a Doctor and REGAN: Listen! My husband is dead and I’m
Soldiers enter.] worried that Goneril wants to rule over all of the
CORDELIA: I’ve heard that my father is now mad. kingdom. Without a husband, I need the help of
Look for him in every field and bring him to me. a clever man like Edmund. When you see him,
give him this.
[An Officer exits.]
[She gives him a letter.]
Can anyone cure him? I wish I could make him
feel better again. If you see the blind traitor, remember this: There
will be a reward for the man who kills him.
DOCTOR: There is a cure, madam. He needs lots of
rest. OSWALD: If I meet old Gloucester, madam, I’ll show
you which lady I follow.
CORDELIA: Find him quickly! I don’t want him to
hurt himself first. [They exit.]
[A Messenger enters.]
MESSENGER: I have some news, madam. The
Act IV, Scene vi
[In the countryside near Dover. Gloucester
British army is coming here.
enters with Edgar. Edgar is dressed as a beggar
CORDELIA: Our French army is ready for war. Oh but speaks as himself, not as Poor Tom.]
dear father, I haven’t returned to England to
GLOUCESTER: When will I get to the top of this hill?
take power for myself. I only fight for love, and
as a duty to my father. EDGAR: You’re climbing up the hill now.

[They exit.] GLOUCESTER: But I’m sure the ground is flat here.

Act IV, Scene v

EDGAR: No, it’s very steep. Listen, can you hear the
sea?
[In Gloucester’s Castle. Regan enters with GLOUCESTER: No, I can’t. But I think your voice has
Oswald. Oswald has a letter.] changed. You don’t speak like a poor beggar
REGAN: Oswald, what do you think is in my sister’s now.
letter to Edmund? EDGAR: You’re wrong. Nothing has changed.
OSWALD: I don’t know, madam. GLOUCESTER: I think that you speak like an
REGAN: [To herself.] It was foolish to let Gloucester important person.
live, although he’s blind. Wherever he goes, EDGAR: Come on, sir; here’s the place. Be careful.
people feel sorry for him and angry with us. It’s very high here. The fishermen that walk along
OSWALD: I must give this letter to Edmund. the beach look like mice from up here; I can’t
look down any more, because my blood runs
REGAN: Our army is going tomorrow. Stay with us.
cold, I’m scared that I might fall.
OSWALD: I can’t stay, madam. My lady Goneril has
GLOUCESTER: Is it very high? Then put me where
told me to return to her.
you are standing now.
REGAN: Why would Goneril write to Edmund? Let
EDGAR: Give me your hand. You are now very close
me open the letter.
to the edge of the cliff.
OSWALD: Madam, you can’t …
[They are on flat ground.]

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GLOUCESTER: Let go of my hand. Here’s a purse for GLOUCESTER: Go away and let me die.
you, my friend. Inside the purse is a valuable EDGAR: You aren’t bleeding and you can talk. But
jewel. Leave me here; say goodbye to me and you’ve fallen from the top of a high cliff. It’s
let me hear you walk away. amazing that you are alive. Say something.
EDGAR: Goodbye, sir. GLOUCESTER: But have I fallen or not?
[To himself.] I hope this will help to cure him of EDGAR: Yes, you fell from the top of this white cliff.
his madness. Look how high it is. Look up.
GLOUCESTER: I say goodbye to this world, and I only GLOUCESTER: Sadly, I can’t. I’m blind.
hope that Edgar is alive. So, goodbye, my friend.
EDGAR: Give me your arm. Stand up. Can you feel
[He falls forward onto the ground.] your legs?
EDGAR: Goodbye. sir. GLOUCESTER: I can.
[To himself.] If he had been where he thought EDGAR: This is very strange. Who was that man that
he was, he would be dead now. left you on the top of the cliff?
[To Gloucester in a different voice.] Hello, sir, are GLOUCESTER: He was a poor beggar.
you alive or dead? Can you hear me, sir?
[To himself.] He may be dead. No, he’s waking
up. Who are you, sir?

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EDGAR: As I stood here below, I thought I saw a EDGAR: Oh, what a terrible sight!
mad man. Perhaps he wanted to kill you. You’re KING LEAR: Life is more terrible than art is. Here’s
lucky to be alive. You’ve been saved. your money.
GLOUCESTER: I remember now. I thought the beggar [He gives Edgar some flowers.]
was a good man. He took me to that cliff top
GLOUCESTER: Do I know that voice?
because I wanted him to.
KING LEAR: Ha! Is this Goneril or Regan? They
EDGAR: Don’t feel guilty or sad now.
pretended to be kind to me and told me how
[King Lear enters. He is mad and he is wearing wise I was. But when the rain and wind came
strange things. He is wearing wild flowers in his and the lightning wouldn’t stop, I learnt the truth.
hair.] My daughters are not women who I can trust!
But who is this man? Only a mad person would They told me I was everything to them. It was a
dress like that. lie.
KING LEAR: I am the King. GLOUCESTER: I know that voice. It is the King!

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 Lesson 6
9
Before you read Reading
Work in pairs. Discuss the questions.
1 Do think that Gloucester still believes his son 2 Read this part of the play again. Answer
the questions with the name of the correct
Edgar has been cruel to him? Why / Why not?
character.
2 Do you think that the relationship between
Gloucester and Edgar will improve or get Cordelia Edgar Gloucester
worse in this part of the play? Why? King Lear Oswald Regan

Vocabulary 1 Who wants to find someone because they’re

worried that he’s gone mad?
1 Choose the correct answer from a, b, c or d. ................................................
1 If something is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , it 2 Who says that it was a mistake to hurt
is either worth a lot of money or it is very someone? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
important to someone.
3 Who stops someone from opening a letter
a terrible b steep c valuable d cheap which is for someone else?
2 When his mother died the prince was very ................................................
sad but had to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . power 4 Who stops pretending to be someone else by
and run the country. using his own voice? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
a make b take c have d do 5 Who thinks that he has fallen over the edge of
3 If you are at the furthest point of something, the cliff when he hasn’t? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
you are on the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Who is wearing wild flowers in his hair?
a plate b jewel c sand d edge ................................................

4 Areas that don’t have any hills are

.................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F).
Correct the false sentences.
a flat b steep c high d cliffs
1 Cordelia finds her father in a field.
5 When a sight or sound frightens you, your
........................................................................................................
blood runs ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 Oswald now knows that he will be rewarded
a high b up c away d cold for killing Gloucester.
6 A ............................ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . is a shiny stone that is ........................................................................................................
often used in necklaces or bracelets. 3 Gloucester is cured of his madness and can
a cure b cliff c jewel d rule now see again.
7 When you are trying to make someone well ........................................................................................................

again when they have an illness, you are 4 Edgar tries to make Gloucester believe that
trying to find .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . someone tried to kill him.
a a purse b a cure c bleeding d a voice ........................................................................................................

8 When a hill is rising or falling at a sharp angle, 5 Gloucester is able to recognise King Lear’s
it’s ......................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . voice.
a strange b edge c flat d steep ........................................................................................................

Writing
4 What do you think will happen in the rest
of the play? Make predictions about each
of the following characters:
● Cordelia

● Gloucester

● King Lear

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REVISION

Lesson 1

Before you start Costa Rica

Work in pairs. Choose the correct answer. Expedition: Day 1
1 Where is Costa Rica? Hi! My name’s Amira.
And I’m currently in
A Africa B Central America Costa Rica where I’m
C South-East Asia going on a tour for
2 What’s the official language of Costa Rica? young people. Today is only my second day here,
A Spanish B Portuguese C French but by the end of my time here, I will have visited
every corner of this amazing country, seen a lot of its
3 Which of the following can you see in Costa Rica? incredible biodiversity and spent some time staying
A rainforests B monkeys C castles with a family of native inhabitants in the rainforest.
D pyramids E beaches F exotic birds I’m so excited to get started!
Costa Rica is located in Central America and I had
Reading to fly for about 24 hours to get here. When I arrived
at the airport, I was so pleased to see that Emilia,
our guide, had come to pick me up and take me to
1 Read the blog post and check your answers. the hotel. We travelled by public transport to the
hotel together. Emilia said it would be far quicker
2 Read again. Are the sentences true (T) or
false (F)? than driving because there was so much traffic on
the roads. Everyone speaks Spanish here because
1 Amira arrived in Costa Rica today and will it’s the country’s official language. I’m finding it a bit
start her tour tomorrow. F difficult to understand the type of Spanish they speak
2 Amira was driven to her hotel from the here because it’s different to the Spanish I’ve learned,
airport and got stuck in traffic. but I’m sure I’ll get used to it.
3 Amira isn’t used to the type of Spanish Tomorrow we’re going to head out into the rainforest
people speak in Costa Rica. for the first time. We don’t have any high-tech
4 Amira is just taking basic equipment and equipment with us – just our walking boots, tents
and sleeping bags and, of course, water bottles and
food and water into the rainforest.
dried food. Costa Rica isn’t a country that tourists
5 Exotic birds sometimes come to see the come to in order to see impressive castles or ancient
tourists on the beaches in Costa Rica. pyramids. Instead it’s known for its exotic birds and
it’s almost as famous for the cute monkeys that
Vocabulary sometimes come to see what the tourists on the
beach are doing!

3 Complete the sentences with these words

and phrases from the text.
biodiversity get used to high-tech native inhabitants public transport

1 Sometimes taking . public

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . transport
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . is far faster and easier than driving.

2 When you travel to another country, you’ll usually find that the local people do things differently to the
people in your country, but you’ll soon . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . it.
3 It’s interesting to spend time with the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . from a country that you visit because they
usually know the country’s ancient traditions.
4 You can find a lot of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . in your own back garden because there’s likely to be
thousands of different types of insects living there.
5 You don’t need a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . camera in order to take good photographs: you just need
lots of practice.

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R3
Before you start
Look at the photos. What do you think
the people in the photographs are doing?
How do you think they are feeling?

Listening
1 Read this sentence from a conversation
between Ali, who has just got married and Language
left home, and his friend. In pairs, discuss
how you think he feels.
4 Complete these sentences from the
recording with used to, would or the
When I was living at home, my parents used
correct comparative phrase.
to wash my clothes, cook my meals and tidy
up after me. But now my wife and I have to 1 Well, the first week was . .more . . . . . . . . . . . . .difficult
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .than
...............

do all of those things ourselves (difficult) I expected.

2 When I was living at home my parents
2.22 2 Now listen to the conversation and answer
the questions.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (wash) my clothes.

3 When I lived in my hometown, I

1 What was difficult for Ali when he first . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (ride) my bike to school

left home? and back every day.

2 What has changed since then? 4 I met a couple of nice people who are
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (do) college course

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . me.

2.23 3 Listen to the conversation again and

answer the questions. Speaking
1 How did Ali describe his first week of living
away from home?
He said that it was more difficult than he expected.
5 Work in pairs. Do you agree or disagree
with the statements below about leaving
.................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2 What does he have to do by himself for the home? Give your reasons.
first time? 1 Everyone finds it difficult to leave home and
.................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . live by themselves for the first time.
3 What has he learned from living away from 2 The most difficult thing about leaving home is
home? having to do the housework.
.................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Living on your own in a big city is far more
4 How does he travel in his new city? difficult than living on your own in a small
.................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . town.
5 How did he feel when he first took public 4 If you’re not sure how to do something, like
transport in his new city? using the public transport network, just keep
.................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trying and in the end you will.
6 How long did it take him to start making 5 You can only be good friends with people if
friends? they like doing the same free time activities as
.................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . you.
7 How did he meet his new friends?
.................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I agree that it will be difficult to
8 What do they like to do together? leave home, because I will miss
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my family!

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R3 Lesson 3
Before you start
Work in pairs. Discuss the questions.
1 When you have a problem, who do you
usually talk to about it? Who gives you the
best advice?
2 Do other people talk to you about their
problems? What do you usually do or say
when this happens?

Reading
1 Read the letters to an online problem page
from young people. Answer the questions.
Which writer (A or B) …
1 has had their problem for the longest?
2 only has their problem at school?
3 has done something to try to solve their
problem?
A
4 is feeling lonely because of their problem?
I’m really struggling to understand everything
5 has changed what they usually do because
in our maths lessons at the moment. I didn’t
of their problem?
use to have any problems, but for the last few
weeks we’ve been doing far more complicated
2 Work in pairs. Read the problems again
and think of a possible solution for
things and I can’t keep up. Everyone else in
the class seems to understand everything the
each one.
teacher says, so I feel like I’m the one who’s
finding it difficult. I know that telling my teacher
3 Make a list of two pros and two cons for
the two solutions you chose in Exercise 2.
about the problem would help, but there never
seems to be enough time to ask questions at
Solutions to problem 1 the end of the lesson, because we all have to
Pros Cons leave quickly to get to our next lesson in time.
Can you help me?

B
I moved to a new town three months ago and
I’m finding it really hard to make new friends.
When I’m at school, it seems like everyone
Solutions to problem 2
already knows each other and nobody is
Pros Cons interested in making new friends. I have started
going swimming in the evenings because I
hoped that I would meet other people, but
nobody wants to talk to me there either. I used
to have lots of friends in the town where I used
to live and I would go to see them almost every
day after school, but now I spend most of my
4 Find another pair to work with. Take it in
turns to present your two solutions and
time at home. What can I do to make new
friends?
their pros and cons. Discuss and decide on
the best solution for each problem.

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 Lesson 4
R3
Before you start
Work in pairs. Discuss the questions.
1 What kind of projects do people volunteer to do in Egypt and in other countries?
2 Which kind of projects do you think would be most interesting to volunteer for?

Writing 2 Read the opinion essay again, then answer

the questions.

1 Read the opinion essay. Divide the essay

into four paragraphs. Mark where the
1 How many reasons does the essay give for
teaching about conservation?
paragraphs begin and end with a line (|). 2 What is the most important reason?
‘Schools should spend more time teaching students 3 Why does the writer think conservation will
about conservation.’ – Do you agree or disagree? become more important in the future?
In my opinion schools should spend more time
teaching students about the importance of 3 You are going to plan an opinion essay. The
title of the essay is:
conservation. It is far easier to persuade people ‘Young people should volunteer in their
to get involved in new projects when they are own community rather than travelling
children and teenagers than when they are adults. abroad to volunteer.’ Do you agree or
Learning about conservation at a young age may disagree? Make notes.
lead to a life-long interest in it which will be very
● What’s your opinion: Is it better for young
beneficial for the environment. A further important
benefit of spending a significant amount of time on people to volunteer in their community or
the topic conservation in schools is that it shows volunteer abroad?
students that their teachers and their school see ● The first reason why you believe this …

conservation as an important activity. Indeed, ● The second reason why you believe this …
conservation will become increasingly important in ● The third reason why you believe this …
the future as global temperatures continue to rise
● Finish your conclusion by stating your point
and there is even less of the rainforest left on Earth.
The third and final benefit of teaching students about of view. .
conservation is that they can develop useful skills
and gain useful knowledge while they are doing 4 Use your notes to write your essay. .

this. They can not only learn about the biology of

eco-systems, for example, but they can also develop Speaking
practical skills for growing fruit and vegetables in
an environmentally-friendly way and teamwork skills
by doing these activities together. In conclusion, it is
5 Work in pairs. Tell your partner your
opinion about whether it’s better to
clear that teaching students about conservation can volunteer in your community or volunteer
have a very positive effect on them. However, as I somewhere else. Give reasons for
explained above, the most important benefit is that your opinion.
it will help students to develop a life-long interest in
conservation and give them the skills to protect the
environment.
6 Research online or in a library to find out
about current volunteer opportunities
in your community. Decide which one
interests you the most.

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R3 King Lear: Acts 3-4
Vocabulary
1 Choose the correct answer from
a, b, c, or d.
1 We are going to ....................... revenge on them for
the problems they have caused us.
a say b make c take d give
2 It’s never all right to be nasty to people online
and we won’t ....................... for it.
a stand b hold c hand d run
3 I was so scared while I was looking over the
edge of the cliff that my blood ran ........................
a hot b cold c wild d through 7 It isn’t polite to start talking when someone
4 We used to be friends, but since he tried to else is speaking. You shouldn’t .......................... people.
make me look stupid, we’ve become ............................... a get rid of b betray c deceive d interrupt
a enemies b traitors c interrupters d camps 8 All of our soldiers are going to sleep at the
5 She was so ............................ for power that she did ................... in Calais tonight.

everything she could to become queen. a camp b Dover c steep d army

a early b angry c thirsty d hungry 9 This hill is so ......................., I’m not sure if I can climb
6 He gained power in some parts of the country, to the top of it.
but he wanted to .......................................... over all of it. a cliff b evil c steep d flat
a interrupt b kingdom c rule d power 10 Don’t leave any ........................ items, like jewellery or
mobile phones, in this room. Please take them
with you.
a valuable b enemy c guilty d stupid
11 My father has a lot of pain in his eyes and
cannot see. Can anyone .......................... him?
a rule b run c edge d cure
12 Everyone is calling her a .......................... because
she shared some secret information with our
enemies.
a servant b traitor c beggar d messenger

Reading
2 Read this part of the play. Match the characters with the things they do in Acts 3 and 4.
1 Cornwall a asks someone to take him to the top of a cliff
2 Regan b makes someone kneel in front of him and asks questions
3 Edgar c throws someone out of their palace
4 Gloucester d tells someone to take up their sword against the French
5 Goneril e says he’s unhappy because his daughters have lied to him
6 Albany f admits that he pretended to be someone else
6 King Lear g promises to get revenge on a person who attacked someone

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R3
4 Read the quotations and choose the
correct answer.
Cornwall: I can’t kill Gloucester because I don’t
have the authority, but I can punish him. And
although people won’t like this, they can’t stop us.
1 Why does Cornwall decide not to kill
Gloucester?
a He doesn’t want to do it
b He doesn’t have the power to do it

3 Answer the questions. Albany: What have you done? You and Regan are
tigers, not daughters. You’ve been cruel to your
1 In Act III Scene v, what does the letter that
Edmund shows Cornwall prove? father, a kind old man.
.............................................................................................................................................................
2 Why does Albany compare Goneril and Regan
to tigers?
2 In Act III Scene vi, who is told to take King Lear
to Dover in a carriage? a He thinks they’re wild and dangerous
b He thinks they don’t want other people to
.............................................................................................................................................................
come near to them
3 In Act III Scene vii, what does Cornwall decide
to do to Gloucester? Gloucester: Let go of my hand. Here’s a purse
.............................................................................................................................................................
for you, my friend. Inside the purse is a valuable
jewel. Leave me here; say goodbye to me and let
4 In Act III Scene vii, which part of Gloucester’s
me hear you walk away.
body does Cornwall hit with his sword and
injure? 3 Why does Gloucester say this to Edgar?
.............................................................................................................................................................
a He thinks he’s going to fall to his death
b He thinks that Edgar wants to steal from
5 In Act IV Scene i, what does Edgar wish he
him
didn’t have to pretend to be?
.............................................................................................................................................................

6 In Act IV Scene i, where does Edgar promise to

Writing
take Gloucester?
.............................................................................................................................................................
5 Imagine that you are a newspaper reporter.
Write a clear and easy to understand
7 In Act IV Scene ii, who decides to take revenge summary of what happened in these three
for what has happened to Gloucester? excerpts from King Lear. Include the most
.............................................................................................................................................................
important events and the reasons why they
happened. Write about 200 words.
8 In Act IV Scene iv, who does Cordelia want to
find and see again?
.............................................................................................................................................................

9 In Act IV Scene vi, why does Edgar want to

make Gloucester think that he has fallen from
a cliff and survived?
.............................................................................................................................................................

10 At the end of Act IV Scene vi, who did Edgar

and Gloucester meet?
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10The news
UNIT

Lesson 1

OBJECTIVES Reading Online news stories

Before you start Writing A news report
Discuss the questions in pairs. Listening News stories
Speaking Presenting news stories
● How often do you read or watch the news?
Language Past perfect and past perfect passive
● Where do you get your news from? Life skills Critical thinking; Recognising facts
● Where do your parents get their news from? and opinions

Vocabulary
1 Match the words to the definitions.
1 reporter a a computer program that searches the internet for information
2 photographer b the place something comes from or starts at
3 interview c a person who collects and tells the news for newspapers, radio or TV
4 newsreader d a person who is in charge of a newspaper or magazine
5 broadcast e someone who reads reports on a TV news programme
6 source f a person who takes photographs, as a job or hobby
7 search engine g to send out a programme on TV or radio
8 editor h to ask someone questions

A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Reading
It seems that today less than 50% of us get our
2 Read the three news
stories quickly.
news from traditional sources like newspapers
and television. Everyone is turning to the internet
Match the headings to and social media for news, and some experts
the stories. fear that we might accept some unreliable news
1 Facts – do they matter? stories as fact because we read social media sites
which share our opinions. But is this true? Search engines lead us
2 School Report
to a wider range of sources which means we can read the news from
3 Where do you get your news? many different places. However, we should always question what we
read and never just accept it as true.

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B . . . . . . . .................................... . . . . . C ................................................
Lesson 1
10
Secondary school students Saeed Yousuf is a fact checker. He
in the UK have had the checks the facts in reports before
chance to become news they are sent to the editor.
reporters for the day. Saeed explains that news
Students created a news stories can use both facts and
website and produced a opinions, but it must be clear
news report. They selected which is which. Facts can be
reporters and photographers who went out to checked, but opinions
look for interesting news in their community. are the points of view held by the writer. He believes
When they had interviewed people and had that it’s very important for the public to trust the
written their stories the reporters gave their work information in the story, but some newspapers, he
to the newsreaders who then recorded the news. admits are better at checking facts than others. It can
The videos were uploaded to the news website cause serious problems if newspapers print stories
and some were broadcast on local television. without checking the information carefully first.

3 Read the news stories again. Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?
1 Most people still get their news from the TV and newspapers. F
2 The writer of text A doesn’t think that we should believe everything we read.
3 Students learned to create a news story together.
4 It was possible to watch the students’ news reports on TV and online.
5 News stories should only have facts in them.
6 Saeed says that not all newspapers care about the truth.

4 Read the stories again and answer the questions.

1 What did the School Report project want students to do?
It wanted them to create a school news website and a news report.
2 Where did the student reporters get their stories from?.
3 What happened to some of the videos the students made?.
4 Why are some experts worried about where we get our
news from?
5 What is the difference between facts and opinions?
6 Why does Saeed think facts should be checked?

Speaking
5 Discuss these questions in pairs.
1 Do you often share news stories with your friends
and family?
2 Have you ever shared a story that you later found SKILLS FOR LIFE
out to be untrue?
3 How can you check the facts in an article?

Research
6 Research a news article online. Check other
websites to be sure that the facts in the article
are true. Identify facts and opinions in the article.
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10 Lesson 2

Before you start

Look at the photos from news stories and discuss
the questions.
● What do you think the news story might be
for each photo?
● What do you think a ‘digital nomad’ is?

Listening
2.xx 1 Listen to the news stories and check
your answers.

2.xx 2 Listen again and answer the questions.

1 When did the fire start?
It started late on Sunday night.
2 What do the police think happened?
3 Who phoned the police the second time?
4 What did Marwan use to take his winning photograph?
5 How did Marwan feel when he looked at his photo
of the sunrise?
6 Who has been offered the chance to live on the
island of Antigua for two years?
7 Why are fewer tourists going to Antigua now than
in the past?

2.xx 3 Listen to the first news story again and put the
events in the correct order.
a The fire moved to the front of the shop.
b The police were called.
c The fire started. 1
d The police were called a second time.
e The firefighters arrived.

Vocabulary
4 Complete the sentences with these words from the news stories.
channel correspondent headlines investigator journalist scene

1 My brother is a . .journalist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . for a local newspaper.

2 Did you read the news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . this morning? There’s been another fire.
3 Which TV ........... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . is the film on?
4 Police finally arrived at the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . of the crime.
5 The newspaper’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . for North Africa lives in Cairo.
6 An .......................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . is trying to discover who caused the accident.

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 Lesson 2
10
Language LANGUAGE REVIEW
ANGUAGE PAGE 80

FOCUS ON
5 Look at these sentences from the news
stories. Underline the events which came
Past perfect
first in each sentence. ● Use the past perfect (had + past
1 By the time the fire fighters arrived participle) to talk about things that
the fire had moved to the front of the shop. happened before another action in
2 Marwan entered his first photo competition the past.
when he was only eight years old after he At midnight, a woman phoned again
had been given a book about photography by and said she had seen flames at the
his uncle. back of the supermarket.
3 Until Covid-19 arrived, the country’s main When I arrived at school, the lesson
income had been tourism. had already started.
● Note: The past perfect is often used
with verbs like think or say, to talk
about thoughts or conversations in
the past.
I thought I had finished my
homework, but I realised I had
forgotten the last page.
● Use the past perfect passive (had
been + past participle) to talk about
things that happened before another
action in the past when the agent is
unknown or unimportant.
The police and fire services had been
6 Complete the sentences with the past simple
or past perfect form of the verb in brackets. called earlier in the evening.
1 The woman ...... had . . . . .phoned
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (phone)
for a taxi before her friends . .arrived . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (arrive).
)
2 The boy .............. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (take) photos, after the police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (leave) the scene.
3 Robert ................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (be) hungry because he . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (not eat) anything all day.
4 The facts ........... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (check) by the reporter before he . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (write) his report.
5 The children .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (swim) in the pool after they . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (finish) their
homework.
6 Dina ...................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (not speak) to Nadia all day and she . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (be) very sad.

Speaking
7 Look at the pictures. Read the questions
and ask and answer in pairs.
1 Yesterday I was doing my homework.
I suddenly heard a loud noise. I ran to look.
What had happened?

2 My cousin called me at 7 o’clock yesterday

morning. I was very surprised. What had
happened?

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10 Lesson 3

Before you start

What is your favourite website? Why do you like it?

Reading
1 Read this news report about a new website and answer the questions.
1 What is the website called? . .Our . . . . . . . . .World
..................

2 Who is the website for? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3 Who created the website? Why? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 What can you find on the website? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . A teenage world!
5 What do two readers think of the website? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A new website has just been launched
by teenagers for teenagers. Our World is
Writing the creation of Jake and Amy Hope who
wanted a news website that other teenagers

2 Look at the news report again. Complete the

sentences.
would enjoy. ‘Adults think teenagers are only
interested in music and sport,’ explained Amy,
1 Our World / A teenage world! is the headline ‘but that isn’t true!’
of the report. Our World has news, technology, education,
2 ‘Adults think teenagers are only interested in music,’ music and sport, but what makes it different is
is a fact / an opinion. that all the reporters are teenagers.
3 The reporter uses direct speech to share people’s ‘Teenagers sometimes see the world differently
facts / opinions. to adults,’ Jake told us and it seems he’s right.
4 All the reports are written by teenagers is a fact / ‘It’s brilliant,’ said 13-year-old Henry, ‘it’s much
an opinion. more interesting than most websites.’ His sister
● Important: agrees, ‘I really like the fact that all the reports
are by teenagers who are keen on the same
● Write an interesting headline.
things as me.’
● Use paragraphs.
● Use direct speech to share opinions.
● Check your facts.

3 Write a news report for Our World. Use the photo, these notes and your own ideas.
15 teenagers – 10 hours
REMEMBER!
volunteers collecting The five W's in journalism
rubbish help newspaper reporters
beaches dirty – tourists to cover the important
information in their story.
leave bottles/bags etc.
What happened?
Who was involved?
Speaking When did it happen?
Where did it happen?
4 Work in pairs. Why did it happen?
1 Compare your news reports.
2 Who has written the best headline?

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 Before you start
Lesson 4
10
Look at the photos from two news stories and discuss the question.
● Which story do you think might be less serious?

Listening
2.xx 1 Listen to the news stories and check your answers.
2.xx 2 Listen again and answer the questions.
1 How many people were involved in the accident? SKILLS FOR LIFE
2 What happened earlier in the evening?
3 Why did neighbours call the police?
5 What was Leila’s problem?
6 Does the speaker report the two stories in a
different way? Why?

Speaking
3 In pairs, look at the photos and decide what each story might be about.

4 Choose one of the photos and plan a news report. Make notes to help you.
5 Practise presenting your news report using your notes from Exercise 4. Think about:
● tone: Is your story serious or funny?
● speed: Don’t talk too quickly.
● pronunciation: Check pronunciation of difficult words before you start your presentation.

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10 Lesson 5 Before you read
● In Chapter 9, what does Regan
tell Oswald to do if he sees
Gloucester?

Act IV , Scene vi, continued

[In the countryside near Dover. Edgar is with GLOUCESTER: Yes, sir.
Gloucester and King Lear.] KING LEAR: Rich men are not punished for the
KING LEAR: Did you say that you know my voice, oh same crimes as a poor man is punished for. Why
man without eyes! Yes, I am the King! But look don’t you get some glass eyes and pretend to
at you, what have you done? see things that others do not, like a bad judge!
GLOUCESTER: Your majesty, let me kiss your hand! EDGAR: The King is talking both sense and
KING LEAR: I must clean it first. nonsense!
GLOUCESTER: Do you not know me, sir? [Gloucester cries.]
KING LEAR: I don’t know your eyes. Read this letter KING LEAR: Wait. I know you: your name is
for me, please. Gloucester. You must be patient.
GLOUCESTER: But I can’t see it. GLOUCESTER: Oh, what a sad day this is!
EDGAR: [To himself.] If I read about this in a story, KING LEAR: [He stands on a rock.] This rock is like
I wouldn’t believe it was true. It is so sad. a stage in a theatre. I’ll pretend to creep up on
my daughters’ husbands and kill them!
KING LEAR: Read it!
[A Gentleman enters with Attendants.]
GLOUCESTER: But look at my eyes!
GENTLEMAN: Ah, there he is! Quick, get him!
KING LEAR: Oh, I understand. You want some
money first. You have no eyes in your head and [To King Lear.]
no money in your purse. But you understand Sorry, sir, your dear daughter …
how things work in this world. KING LEAR: What? Am I a prisoner now? Be good
GLOUCESTER: I feel my way. to me and I’ll reward you. But I need a doctor.
KING LEAR: But you can see with your ears. We My head is not right.
now know that a judge will punish a poor man’s GENTLEMAN: You shall have anything you want,
crime before a rich man’s crime. your majesty. You are the King and we’ll do what
you say.

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10
KING LEAR: I may still live, then. But you’ll need to OSWALD: Oh, I’m dying! Before you take my purse,
run to get the reward. give the letters that I’m carrying to Edmund,
[He exits running. The Attendants run after him. the Duke of Gloucester. You’ll find him with the
The Gentleman exits.] British army. Oh, goodbye world!
GLOUCESTER: Oh, someone kill me before I am [He dies.]
tempted to kill myself! GLOUCESTER: Is he dead?
EDGAR: Give me your hand, sir. I’ll take you to a EDGAR: Yes. Sit down, sir, and rest. Let’s look in his
place where you’ll be safe. pockets; these letters may be useful. Let’s read
GLOUCESTER: Thank you. them.
[Oswald enters.] [He finds a letter and reads it.]
OSWALD: Look, here’s the prize! This man without ‘Remember, Edmund. Do not let Albany win
eyes will make me rich! the battle. If you help me, I will give you more
power and riches.
[He takes out his sword.] Get ready to die, you
old traitor! Yours
GLOUCESTER: I want to die. I hope you’re strong Goneril.’
enough to do it. That evil woman! She wants Edmund to kill her
[Edgar stands between them.] good husband. I will show this letter to the Duke
of Albany. It’s lucky that I can tell him of their
OSWALD: Who are you? Why are you helping a
plan to kill him.
traitor? Let go of his arm.
[The sound of a drum.]
EDGAR: I will not let go.
EDGAR: [To Gloucester, his father.] Come, give me
OSWALD: Let go of this man or you’ll die too!
your hand. I’ll take you to a friend’s house.
EDGAR: Don’t come near the old man.
[They exit together.]
OSWALD: Then take out your sword!
[They fight. Oswald falls.]

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Act IV, Scene vii

[A tent in the French camp. Cordelia enters with [Cordelia and the doctor are standing together
Kent, a Doctor and a Gentleman.] in a tent in the French camp. Two servants carry
CORDELIA: Please put on some better clothes, Kent. King Lear in on a chair. He’s wearing a clean
shirt and trousers. He is sleeping.]
KENT: I’m sorry, madam, but I must stay in this
disguise. You must pretend that you don’t know DOCTOR: Please, play some music.
me until I tell you. CORDELIA: Oh, my dear father, let my kisses help to
CORDELIA: I understand, my lord. make you feel better. My sisters have done you
[To the Doctor.] How’s the King? so much damage!
DOCTOR: Madam, he’s still sleeping. KENT: Kind and dear princess!
CORDELIA: My father has become like a child. CORDELIA: How could they send your kind face
Please, doctor, try to cure my father, whose out into a storm? I would even keep an animal
children have made him mad. inside on a night like that, but you, poor father,
had to stay with beggars in old straw. I can’t
DOCTOR: If you like, we can wake up the King. He’s
believe you are still alive after all that.
slept for a long time.
[To the Doctor.] He’s waking up. How are you,
CORDELIA: You know what’s best for him.
father? Do you recognise me?

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Before you start Reading
Go back and skim the play. Discuss these
questions in pairs. 3 Who is the speaker of each quotation?
Who are they speaking to and why do they
1 How does Lear think Gloucester can see without
say it?
his eyes?
2 Who tries to help Gloucester? Cordelia Doctor Edgar Gloucester
3 What does Cordelia think about her sisters’ King Lear Oswald
behaviour?
1 “I must clean it first.” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vocabulary 2 “Oh, what a sad day this is!”
........................................................................................................

3 “Why are you helping a traitor?”

1 Match the words and phrases to their
definitions. ........................................................................................................

1 sense a a musical instrument you play 4 “I’ll take you to a friend’s house.”
2 battle by hitting it ........................................................................................................

3 stage b an area where actors perform 5 “He’s slept for a long time.”
........................................................................................................
4 drum c something that people can
understand 6 “You know what’s best for him.”
5 creep up
........................................................................................................
d come close to someone,
secretly
e a fight between two armies 4 Answer these questions.
1 What does King Lear want Gloucester to read
for him?
2 Complete the sentences using the words
and phrases in the box. ........................................................................................................

2 Why does King Lear want a doctor?

judge nonsense prisoner recognise
........................................................................................................
take out tempted
3 Who is Oswald carrying letters for?
........................................................................................................
1 The ........................ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . escaped from the
police station and disappeared! 4 Who are the letters from?
........................................................................................................
2 Please .................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . your books and
read page 10. 5 What does Cordelia ask Kent to do?
........................................................................................................
3 I can’t understand this story. It’s
.................................. . . . . . . . . . . .

4 He was ............... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . to eat the last Speaking

piece of cake, but he didn’t.
5 The ........................ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . decided to send the 5 Discuss these question in pairs.
criminals to prison for their crime. 1 Why do you think Edgar says that King Lear is
talking both ‘sense and nonsense’?
6 I hadn’t seen her for years and so I didn’t
2 How do you feel about the death of Oswald?
.................................. . . . . . . . . . . her.
Why do you feel like this?

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UNIT

Lesson 1

performance!

Reading Online film reviews

OBJECTIVES
Before you start Writing Two film reviews
Listening Interview with a film critic
Discuss these questions in pairs.
Speaking Explain how a film affects you
● How often do you watch films?
Language Tag questions, adjectives
● What kinds of films do you and adverbs
like watching? Life skills Critical thinking; listening to others’
● Do you have a favourite film? opinions, recognising differences in opinion

Vocabulary
1 In pairs, match the words to the pictures.
action animation comedy historical horror musical romantic science fiction

A B C D

E F G H

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Listening
2.xx 2 Listen and tick the types of films Seleem
mentions.
musicals action films
science fiction historical films
romantic animation
comedy

2.xx 3 Listen again. Choose the correct word or

phrase to complete the sentences.
1 The interviewer likes action / animation
films.
2 Black Panther was / wasn’t liked by
everyone.
3 Seleem rarely watches films about history /
true life. ANGUAGE LANGUAGE REVIEW
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FOCUS ON

4 Two / Three of the films Seleem mentions Tag questions

are true stories.
5 Seleem says that Tom Hanks makes A tag question is a short phrase at the
marvellous / different films. end of a statement that turns it into a
6 Seleem thinks the interviewer’s choice of film question. A positive statement has a
is surprising / not surprising. negative tag and a negative statement has
a positive tag.

4 Complete the sentences with the correct

tag question.
We make tag questions with auxiliaries,
e.g. do, be, have or a modal.
1 My brother isn’t here, . .is . . . . .he?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . You like horror films, don’t you?
2 Karim and Ali love comedy films, She hasn’t got a brother, has she?
...................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ? They should start now, shouldn’t they?
3 The children haven’t finished yet, Intonation
...................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?
When the speaker is sure that the
4 Alice arrived late, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ? statement is correct, the intonation falls.
5 He can’t swim, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ? ● He’s your brother, isn’t he?
6 The film will start soon, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . ?
When the speaker is asking a genuine
question, the intonation rises.
2.xx 5 Listen to these sentences. Does the
intonation rise or fall ? Draw an arrow. ● You eat meat, don’t you?
1 You don’t want to see this film, do you?
2 Your test won’t be difficult, will it?
3 His parents aren’t coming, are they?
4 They played well, didn’t they? I love comedy
5 You were scared, weren’t you? films, don’t you?

Speaking Yes, I do. I like watching

comedy films with my family.
6 Work in groups. Talk about the kinds of films you enjoy
watching and why. Use tag questions where possible.
We can all laugh together.

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Before you start

● Do you ever read film reviews? Why/Why not?
● How often do you watch a film because it has been recommended?

Reading
1 Read the two film reviews. Which one is more positive?
www.filmreviews.com

The Martian The Lion King

Clever, exciting, and surprisingly funny, The Although the visuals in the 2019 version of The
Martian is a brilliant film, adapted from the Lion King are quite brilliant, this remake lacks the
bestselling book of the same name, and warmth and energy of the original cartoon film.
demonstrates the talents of actor Matt Damon and This is even more surprising when you look at the
director Ridley Scott. list of talented actors involved. The storyline is the
When astronauts take off from the planet Mars, same and the music and songs are great, but it
they leave behind Mark Watney (Damon), who just isn’t as much fun and it’s difficult to know why.
they believe had died in a storm. Watney is left Like the 1994 film, the story is about the young
with little food or water and has to find a way to lion Simba, his unkind uncle who kills Simba’s
survive on the empty planet. Meanwhile, back on father, and Simba’s life in the desert with his
Earth, NASA and a team of international scientists new friends Timon and Pumbaa. The director Jon
work constantly to bring him home. At the same Favreau has created an animation which looks
time his crew mates plan a brave rescue mission. incredibly real and maybe that’s the problem – it
Unlike most sci-fi films, The Martian has no fight doesn’t look like an enjoyable film, more like a
scenes. Instead, it is a clever and powerful film wildlife documentary!
and perhaps the best science fiction film that I've
seen in a long time.

2 Are these statements true (T) or false (F)? Correct the false sentences
1 The Martian was a book before it became 2 The film The Martian is about working
a film. together to help a colleague.
............... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .......

3 The Martian is a typical science fiction film. 4 The second version of The Lion King is
............... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
better than the first.
5 The new The Lion King is very similar to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .......

the original. 6 The Lion King is about African wildlife.

............... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........

3 What can we learn from films? Discuss with a partner.

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Vocabulary
ANGUAGE LANGUAGE REVIEW
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4 Match the words in the box with their definitions.

FOCUS ON
Adjectives and adverbs
brilliant constantly enjoyable incredibly
hostile talented surprisingly unkind ● We use adjectives to describe a
noun. We put the adjective before
1 very good . .brilliant
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the noun.
2 in an unexpected way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
We watched a frightening film
last night.
3 in a way that is difficult
to believe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
● We use adverbs to describe the
verb. We usually put the adverb
4 cruel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
after the verb.
5 not friendly ............................................ The children talked loudly during
6 all the time ............................................ the film.
7 fun ............................................
The firefighters fought the fire
8 very good at doing something . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bravely.
● Many adverbs end in -ly but not all,
5 Underline the adjectives and circle the adverbs
in this sentence from the review.
e.g. back, still, first, just.
Shaimaa played very well in the
tennis match.
Clever, exciting, and surprisingly funny, ● We can also use adverbs to modify
The Martian is a brilliant film, adapted from adjectives.
It’s not very cold today.
the bestselling book of the same name and
It’s quite cold today.
clearly demonstrates the talents of actor Matt It’s extremely cold today.
Damon and director Ridley Scott.

6 Complete the sentences with these words.

brave fast hostile loudly quietly really terrible well

1 Our teacher shouted . .loudly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. at the class.

2 Shaimaa can run very . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . She always wins races.

3 My brother is a firefighter. He’s very . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 That was a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . film – what a waste of money!
5 Open the door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ! The children are asleep.
6 I ................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . like musicals. They always make me feel happy.
7 There is a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . crowd outside the police station.
8 My mum can swim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . She goes to the pool every day.

Writing
7 Write three positive sentences and three negative sentences about a film you have seen
recently. Ensure each sentence correctly uses an adjective or an adverb. Use these words.

boring good interesting powerful sad terrible

Video
a bit quite really so too totally very

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11 Lesson 3

Before you start

● Do you enjoy the same kinds of films as your family and friends?
● How do you decide what to watch if you don’t agree?

Listening
2.xx 1 Listen to three people giving their opinions
on films. Write the names, Ramy, Dareen
or Tamer.
Who …
1 doesn’t think romantic films are
very good? Dareen
............................................

2 enjoys comedy films? ............................................

3 prefers action films? ............................................

4 thinks science fiction films are OK? ............................................

5 loves horror films? ............................................

2.xx 2 Listen again and answer the questions.

1 How do comedies make Dareen feel? They make her feel happy.
2 What does Tamer think about action films?
3 What do Dareen and Tamer both agree is true about action films?
4 What do Dareen and Ramy think about action films?
5 How do horror films make Ramy feel?

Speaking
3 In groups, discuss your opinions about films and how they make you feel. Include both
positive and negative feelings.

I love historical films, although

some of them make me feel sad.
REMEMBER!
I agree with you, and I think you can
learn a lot of interesting things When you are sharing your opinions with
from them. people listen carefully to what they say. Say
if you agree or disagree. If you disagree tell
them politely and give your reasons. Ask them
4 Report your findings back to the class. questions to find out more about their views.
Use expressions like:
● I agree with you
● I disagree, because …
● I’m not sure
● Why do you think …?
● Personally, I like …
● What do you prefer?

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Before you start
Discuss these questions in groups.
1 Which films are popular at the moment?
2 What film have you seen recently?
3 What did you think about it?

Reading
1 Read this paragraph that a student has
written about two films they watched.
Are these statements true (T) or false (F)?
I saw a great film last night. It was
1 The writer liked both the films.
2 The first film told an important story about
called ‘The Boy who Harnessed the
life in Asia. Wind’. It was about a boy in Malawi
3 The writer said that the second film was who built a windmill and helped his
a comedy.
4 The writer thinks that all animation films village get water. I thought it had a
are good. really powerful message about positive
thinking and never giving up.
2 Put the adjectives in the box into the
correct column. I also saw ‘Toy Story 4’, which was
amazing annoying awful cheerful great fun. It’s a brilliant animated
hilarious powerful stupid upset
film, and personally, I think that these
Positive Negative kinds of films always make people
amazing feel good. They’re not too long and the
stories always have a happy ending.

3 Complete the sentences with the words from Exercise 2.

1 The best films are ones which have a . .powerful . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . story to tell.

2 That film was the best comedy I’ve ever seen. It was . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3 My brother is always using my phone. It’s so . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 My friend was . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . yesterday because I didn’t to go to the cinema with her.
5 It was an . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . film. The story, the actors and scenes were brilliant.

Writing
4 Write two paragraphs about two films that SKILLS FOR LIFE
you have strong opinions about. They can
be positive or negative opinions.

5 Give your paragraphs to your partner to

read. Does your partner know the films
you described? Does he/she share your
opinions about the films?
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11 Lesson 5 Before you read
● Where is King Lear at the end of
Chapter 10?

Act IV, Scene vii, continued

[A tent in the French camp. Cordelia talks with CORDELIA: It’s true! Yes, I am! I am!
Kent, a Doctor and a Gentleman.] KING LEAR: Are you crying? Yes, you are. Please
KING LEAR: What are you doing? You shouldn’t help don’t cry. If you have some poison for me, I’ll
me to live. You may be happy, but I feel like I’m drink it. Your sisters have been cruel to me. You
on a wheel of fire. have a good reason to be cruel to me, but they
CORDELIA: Sir, do you know who I am? do not.
KING LEAR: Where am I? Is it day or night? CORDELIA: I’ll never be cruel to you, father.
CORDELIA: Look at me, please. No, you don’t have KING LEAR: Am I in France?
to kneel before me. KENT: No, your majesty. You’re in your own
KING LEAR: Lady. I’m a very foolish old man, more kingdom.
than eighty years old, and I think I’m a little bit KING LEAR: This can’t be true.
mad. I think I should know you, and also this DOCTOR: I think it’s better to leave now. He needs
man … to sleep.
[He points to Kent.] KING LEAR: [To Cordelia.] Please, can you forgive
… but I’m not sure. I can’t remember putting on me? I’m old and foolish. It’s better to forget me
these clothes and I don’t know where I stayed now.
last night. Don’t laugh at me, but is it possible
that you’re my daughter, Cordelia?

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Act V, Scene i
[In the British camp near Dover. Edmund enters
with Regan.]
REGAN: Now, Edmund. Tell me honestly, are you
working for my sister, Goneril?
EDMUND: I am not, madam.
REGAN: So, you’re not helping her to take my lands
from me?
EDMUND: No, you mustn’t think these things.
REGAN: I don’t trust my sister. Edmund, please
don’t work with her.
EDMUND: Don’t worry. She and her husband the
Duke of Albany …
[The Duke of Albany enters with Goneril and
some soldiers.]
GONERIL: [To herself.] I must not let Edmund work
for my sister.
ALBANY: Regan, have you heard the news? The EDMUND: I’ve told both the sisters that I’ll help
King is with his daughter, Cordelia, and others them to win more power. Now they do not trust
who are helping him. We must be ready to fight each other. So, who should I help the most?
now because the French army have invaded. Regan? Goneril? Both of them? Or perhaps
But the French are not here to help Lear. I think neither of them. I can’t take power if both sisters
we have been too cruel to the King. are living.
REGAN: Why are you telling me this now? Let me think … Goneril still has a husband.
I’ll use his help to win the battle. But I know
GONERIL: We must join together against the enemy.
that her husband feels sorry for King Lear and
ALBANY: Let’s plan what to do with the officers. Cordelia, so when the battle is over, he must
Then we can go into battle. die. Then King Lear and Cordelia will be my
EDMUND: I can help you. I’ll join you in your tent prisoners! Now it is time for me to start to take
soon. control of the kingdom!
REGAN: Are you coming with us, Goneril? [He exits.]
GONERIL: No.
REGAN: Please, come with us.
Act V, Scene ii
[In a field between the British and the French.
GONERIL: [To herself.] Oh, I know why you want
There are sounds of a battle. Edgar and
me to go. You don’t want me to stay here with
Gloucester enter.]
Edmund.
EDGAR: King Lear has lost the battle, and he’s now
[To Regan.] I’ll come soon.
a prisoner with his daughter Cordelia. This is a
[As they exit, Edgar enters. He is still disguised bitter pill to swallow. Quick, we must leave.
as Poor Tom. ]
GLOUCESTER: I can’t go on. Leave me. I can die
EDGAR: [To Albany.] I’m a poor man, but please here.
listen to me. Before you fight the battle with the
EDGAR: No. Remember that we can’t choose the
French, read this letter. If you win the battle, blow
time of our death, just as we can’t choose the
your trumpet so I know what has happened. I
time of our birth.
can prove what is written there. Good luck!
GLOUCESTER: You’re right.
[Edgar exits. Albany reads the letter and then
exits. Then Edmund enters. ] EDGAR: Let’s go.
[They exit.]

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Act V, Scene iii

[In the British camp, near Dover. Edmund enters ALBANY: Edmund, you were very brave in battle
with King Lear and Cordelia, some soldiers and today and we did well to win. Do you have the
a Captain. Lear and Cordelia are prisoners.] prisoners? Bring them to me so I can decide
EDMUND: Guard them carefully until we know what what is best for the future of our kingdom.
Goneril and Regan want to do with them. EDMUND: Albany, I have sent the old King to a
CORDELIA: I’m not worried about myself. I only feel prison with a guard. We can’t let people see him.
sad for the King because he has suffered so He’s old, and his age will make the soldiers who
much. Father, do you want to see my sisters? see him feel sorry for him. They might want to
support him. I’ve sent Queen Cordelia to prison
KING LEAR: No, I do not! I’d prefer to go to prison.
with him. You can see them tomorrow.
There we can be together. We’ll sing like birds in
a cage! ALBANY: Listen, Edmund. You’re a good soldier, but
you aren’t my equal. You shouldn’t make these
EDMUND: Take them away from me.
decisions.
KING LEAR: I’m so happy that you’re with me,
REGAN: I see kind Edmund as an equal. He led our
Cordelia. We won’t be apart again. Dry your eyes,
soldiers well today in battle. I think he can call
daughter. Our enemies will starve before they
himself equal to you.
make us cry! Let us go.
GONERIL: Wait, sister. I understand what you’re
[King Lear and Cordelia exit with the guards.]
planning. You want Edmund to help you to take
EDMUND: Come here, Captain. Follow the prisoners power from me and my husband. But this won’t
to the prison. Read this message and do as it happen, because first, Edmund will help me to
says. If you do this, I’ll reward you. take power from you!
[Edmund gives the Captain a note.] REGAN: [To Edmund.] Edmund, help me to take
CAPTAIN: I’ll do what the message says, my lord. power from my evil sister. If you say yes, you
[The Captain and the soldiers exit. Albany enters won’t be the equal of Albany and Goneril, but
with Goneril, Regan and some soldiers.] you’ll be their lord and ruler!

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Before you start Reading
Go back and skim read the scene. Discuss
these questions in pairs? 3 Arrange
timeline.
these events in order on the
1 Why is Goneril unhappy about Edmund
working for Regan? 1 2 3 4 5 6
2 How does King Lear feel when he B
meets Cordelia?
A King Lear loses the battle against the French.
B Cordelia asks her father if he knows her.
Vocabulary C Regan asks Edmund to help her take power
from Goneril.
1 Complete the sentences with these words
from the play. D Edgar gives Albany a letter.
E Regan tells Edmund that she doesn’t trust
cage equal invaded officers her sister.
starve suffered trumpet trust
F Edmund sends Lear and Cordelia to prison.
1 I don’t ....... trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . him, he stole
some money from our teacher. 4 Are these statements true (T) or false (F)?
Correct the false sentences.
2 My brother is learning to play the
...................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1 Lear finally realises that Cordelia is
his daughter.
3 Men and women earn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .
pay when they do the same job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

4 The ............ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . told the soliders 2 Lear tells Cordelia to drink poison with him.
where to go. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

5 If you don’t get anything to eat you’ll 3 Edmund tells both Regan and Goneril that
...................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . he will help them.
6 The French army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Britain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

7 The children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . from the 4 Cordelia isn’t worried about herself, only
cold in winter. about her father.
8 It’s unkind to keep an animal in a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

...................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Edmund tells Albany that nobody likes

the king.
2 Find these phrases in the text and choose
the correct answer.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

6 Albany says that Edmund is his equal.

1 When Edmund says, “Now it is time for me
to start to take control of the kingdom! ” he . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

means that …
A he wants to manage the situation. Speaking
B he is now the king.
C he will have power. 5 Discuss these questions in pairs.
1 Do you think Albany trusts Edmund?
2 When Edgar says, “This is a bitter pill to Give your reasons.
swallow.” he means that …
2 What do you think will happen to the two
A he needs to take some medicine. sisters, Regan and Goneril?
B the situation is difficult, but he has to
accept it.
C he needs to leave immediately.

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UNIT

Lesson 1

Achievements
and goals

OBJECTIVES Reading An article about a young

entrepeneur
Writing A report about an experience
Listening A talk about SMART goals
Speaking Discussing goals and how
to achieve them
Language Defining and non-defining
relative clauses
Life skills Resilience

Before you start

Discuss these questions in pairs.
● How important is it to set goals? Why?
2 Read this short article quickly. Was your
answer to Exercise 1 correct?
● What kind of goals have you set yourself?
Did you achieve them? Setting goals for success
To succeed in life, it’s important to have
Reading specific aims or goals. How often have you
started something and then given up because
1 Look at the picture. In pairs, discuss what
the letters SMART might stand for. What
it was either too difficult or took too long to
complete? It’s very easy to give up when things
are SMART goals? get hard, so how can we make sure we achieve
the goals we set ourselves? One way, often
mentioned by managers, is to have SMART
goals. These are five different things you need
to consider if you want to meet your goal.
Whenever you plan to set a goal, you need
to ask yourself these questions: Is my goal
specific? Is it measurable? Is it achievable? Is
it relevant? and finally Is it time bound? If you
answer ‘no’ to any of these questions, then you
are unlikely to reach your goal.

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Listening
2.xx 3 Now listen to a talk about SMART goals.
Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?
Correct the false sentences.
1 The speaker says that sensible goals are important.
.............................................................................................................................

2 All goals need to be small.

.............................................................................................................................

3 Your family should help you choose your goals.

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4 A goal needs to have an end date.

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Vocabulary
4 Complete the sentences with these words from the listening.
achievable measurable relevant specific set one goal time-bound

1 Are you just looking around or are you looking for something . .specific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . today?

2 The new coach has made a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . difference to the teams’ results. They’ve won every
game this year.
3 That information is very . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . to our discussion. We were just talking about it.
4 I’m sure you can get what you want. It’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . if you keep working hard.
5 I’ve only ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . this year. It’s to pass my driving test.
6 This project is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . so we only have two weeks to complete it.

5 When you set a goal it’s important to ask yourself some questions. Read these questions and
complete the table.
What do I want to achieve? When will I reach my goal? Why is this goal important?
How can I check my progress? Can I complete this goal?
Specific What do I want to achieve?
Measurable
Achievable
Relevant
Time-bound

Writing Speaking
6 Think of one long-term goal. Are there
short-term goals you can set to work
7 Work in pairs. Tell your partner what your
goals are and how you plan to achieve
towards it? Answer the SMART goal them. Are your partner’s goals possible?
questions from Exercise 5 for each of your
short-term goals. That’s a good goal, but I think you
why don’t you …? should …

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Before you start

● Have you heard of any successful young
OCABULARY

FOCUS ON
business people? Check the meaning of these words in a
● Do you think teenagers can manage their dictionary.
own companies?

Reading
1 Read the article quickly. What two things
does Andy want to achieve?

A passion for apples

Andy Robson, who is still a teenager, is the
president of Green and Red, which is a small,
but successful apple juice business in Maine.
What is incredible is that Andy was only eight
years old when he started selling apple juice
outside his home in Auburn, where he still lives
with his family.
Andy adapted a 1920s recipe that he got
from his grandmother, but he added honey to
the juice to make it a little different from his
grandmother’s. The reason he decided to add
But that’s not all. Andy has started his own
honey was because he is passionate about
charity with Jessica Webb, whom he met at
helping bees and wants to help protect them.
school. Jessica keeps her own bees and is
His company now donates 15% of its profits to
also a young entrepreneur – she sells her own
bee conservation groups who are fighting to
honey locally. The two teenagers want to teach
save the honeybee.
children about how to look after bees and about
Andy, whose picture is on every bottle of apple how to become an entrepreneur. They plan to
juice, has become very well-known in Maine. go into schools and share their experiences
And Green and Red, which has been sold in a as well as educating the children about the
range of shops across Maine for years, is now importance of bees and why we need to look
selling in some restaurants and is very popular. after them.

2 Read the article again and answer Language

the questions.
1 What is Green and Red? 3 Look at the highlighted words in the text
and answer the questions.
............... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1 Which words do we use to refer to people?
2 Why does the journalist mention Auburn?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..........
............... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 Which words do we use to refer to things or
3 What are bee conservation groups trying to do?
places? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..........
............... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3 Which word do we use to refer to possession?
4 What can you see on Green and Red bottles?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..........
............... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 Which word do we use to refer to places?
5 Where can you buy Green and Red apple juice?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..........
............... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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4 Complete the defining relative clauses with who, which,
whose, whom or where.
1 Miami is a city . .which. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . has a lot of tourists.

2 An entrepreneur is someone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . starts their

own business.
3 Auburn, Maine is the town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andy Robson
was born.
4 We need to buy food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . is
environmentally friendly .
5 He’s the boy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . apple juice is very popular.
6 Fatima is the girl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I spoke to last week.

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Defining relative clauses

Defining relative clauses

● We use defining relative clauses to give essential information about something or someone.
● We must use a relative pronoun (who, whom, which, that) to introduce a defining relative
clause if we are defining the subject.
● In defining relative clauses we can replace who, whom and which with that.
Andy is the teenager who / that started his own apple juice company.
Bees are small insects which / that make honey.
● We can leave out the relative pronoun if it is defining the object.
Andy adapted a 1920s recipe (that) he got from his grandmother.
Non-defining relative clauses
● We use non-defining relative clauses to give extra information about something or someone. It
is not essential information.
● We cannot use that to replace who, whom or which.
● We must use a relative pronoun in a non-defining relative clause.
● We use commas in non-defining relative clauses.
Andy, whose photo is on every bottle of Red and Green, is still young.
Jessica, Andy met at school, is also a teenager.

5 Write one word under each heading. Then work in pairs to start and finish each
others’ sentences.
Mohamed Salah, who
a person a city an animal [Photo: is a footballer, …
head of
Mohamed Salah teenager]
… is from Egypt. [Photo: head
of teenager]
a building an object

6 In pairs, think of small businesses in your town. Why is it good to have small businesses?
Would you rather buy from a big company or a local business? How do you you think we can
help local businesses?
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12 Lesson 3

Before you start

Would you like to start your own business? Why/Why not?

Reading
1 Read about two young entrepreneurs and answer the questions.
1 Who has built something that aims to keep people well?
2 Whose invention can be used for a variety of different things?

Pedal-powered washing machine Corn cob water filter

A 14-year girl from 11-year-old Lalita knew
India has created that many families in her
her first own village in Odisha, India
invention. When couldn’t get clean water
her mother became and they couldn’t afford
ill, Remya had to to buy expensive filters.
wash the clothes for In Odisha, farmers grow
the family. She thought that washing a lot of corn, but they
everything by hand took too much only sell part of the plant. The rest of the
time, so she recycled some bicycle corn cob isn’t used.
parts and built a pedal-powered When she saw all the dried corn cobs on the
washing machine which saves time side of the road, she wondered if they could
and keeps you fit! Her invention will help filter water. Her corn-cob filter removes
help families whose homes don’t have 80% of all pollution in the water. The water
electricity. can then be boiled to make it safe to drink.
Her next goal is to make a simple Her goal is to sell the cheap device to
device that can create electricity to use farmers so they can stay healthy.
at home.

Speaking Young Inventors’ Prize

We’ve chosen our two finalists for
2 Read about a Young Inventor’s Prize. Then
work in groups and decide which of the girls’
the Young Inventor’s Prize. Now it’s
your turn to vote for the one you think
inventions should win the prize. Why? should win the $5,000 prize and get the
chance to start their own company.
Think about:
((talking head)) I think Remya should How Ho
win because … useful enviro w
nment
r ally
it will be fo friendly
it is.
u n it ie s.
comm
3 Present your ideas to the class. Do they agree? How
How
much it
will
easy it is to
4 Discuss these questions in pairs. make.
cost.
1 What kind of problems do you think inventors have How
when they are developing an invention? How can easy it will
they solve these problems? if it
be to repair
2 Do you think it is easy for entrepreneurs to sell a breaks .
new invention? What do they need to do?

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Before you start Young ’s
tor
● Have you ever entered a competition? Inven ition
et
● Do you think competitions are a good way to find the Comp
best inventors, writers, photographers, etc? Why/Why not?
Are you motivated and

Reading hard-working?
Have you designed a
1 Read the advert about a competition. How might
this competition help a young entrepenuer?
life-changing invention?
Are you aged between 13 and 18?

2 Now read the report by a young inventor and

answer the questions.
Then why not enter the Young
Inventor’s Competition?
1 What is the report about?
All entries to be received by 12th July.
The Young Inventor’s competition.
...................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Finalists will be invited to Toronto
2 What did the writer invent? on 30th January to display their
...................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
inventions.
Good luck!
3 How does he think the competition could be better?
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4 Does the writer think it’s a good competition Report on the Young Inventor’s
to be involved in? What reasons does he give? Competition
......................................................................................................... Introduction
......................................................................................................... The purpose of this report is to describe my
experience at the Young Inventor’s competition and
Writing recommend any changes that could improve how
it worked.

3 Imagine that you attended a three-day

course about how to become a young
The organisation
I live in Montreal in Canada, and the competition
entreprenuer. The organisers have asked finalists were invited to go to Toronto to present their
you to write a report on your experience. inventions. The competition organisers were very
Plan your report. Your report should: good at sending me information and helping me to
● outline what the course involved and how it sort out travel arrangements. They also organised for
was organised. my invention to be sent to the competition venue.
● explain what was good for you. The competition
The competition was very well organised and there
● make recommendations for how the course
was plenty of time for the finalists to display and
could be improved.
talk about their inventions. Lots of companies were
● say if you would recommend the course
invited to attend, so I was lucky to get lots of interest
or not. in my invention.
Suggested improvements
4 Write your report. Write about 200 words. Although it was great to meet so many other
young inventors from my country, I think that
the competition should be expanded to include
REMEMBER! teenagers from other countries too.
Conclusion
Read your report again. Check you have
Overall, I had a really positive experience and I
included all the necessary information.
would really recommend entering the competition.

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12 Lesson 5 Before you read
● What do you think will happen
next in King Lear?

Act V, Scene iii

[In the British camp, near Dover.] EDMUND: I’m happy to fight anyone who calls me
GONERIL: My sister Regan, do you really want a traitor or a liar. Come then, who wants to fight
Edmund to help you to take my lands? me?
ALBANY: You can’t do this, Edmund. REGAN: Help me. I feel worse.
EDMUND: You can’t tell me what to do, Albany. ALBANY: Regan isn’t well. Take her to my tent.
ALBANY: Yes I can! [Regan is helped offstage.]
REGAN: [To Edmund.] Prove that you want to help Now, if any man here will fight Edmund the
me, Edmund, by fighting Albany! traitor, come now, or I’ll fight him myself.
ALBANY: Listen to me. Edmund, I arrest you for [Edgar enters.]
treason. Who are you?
[He points to Goneril.] And you, my wife. Were EDGAR: I have lost my name and title to a traitor;
you planning to take Regan’s land from her? With but I’m a brave soldier. Where’s Edmund, who
Edmund’s help? It’s not your land to take. It was calls himself the Duke of Gloucester?
given equally to you and Regan by your father! EDMUND: I’m here.
GONERIL: But we could have more power, husband! EDGAR: Then take out your sword. You’re a traitor to
REGAN: I feel ill. My stomach hurts! your brother and your father. I’m ready to fight
GONERIL: [To herself.] Good. If you aren’t ill, I will you to prove you are a liar to everyone you work
never trust poison again. for.
ALBANY: You have a sword, Edmund. I’m ready to [They fight. Edmund falls.]
fight you, unless anyone else wants to fight you ALBANY: Edmund is hurt, can you save him? I want
first! to find out what he knows!

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GONERIL: They tricked you into fighting, Edmund. EDGAR: Here is Kent.
ALBANY: Be quiet, madam, or I will make you be KENT: I have come to see the King. Is he here?
quiet by reading this letter that you wrote to ALBANY: Tell us, Edmund, where is the King? And
Edmund. where is Cordelia?
[He gives Goneril the letter she wrote to [The bodies of Goneril and Regan are carried in
Edmund.] on stretchers by soldiers.]
[To Goneril.] No, don’t try to tear up the letter! KENT: Oh, no! What’s happened?
You know what you wrote.
ALBANY: Cover their faces.
GONERIL: Husband, it’s true that I wanted Edmund
EDMUND: I must do one good thing before I die.
to help me take Regan’s land. The laws of the
Quickly, go to the castle; I wrote a message
kingdom are mine, not yours. Who can punish
asking for the deaths of King Lear and Cordelia.
me for it?
EDGAR: Who did you write this message to? We
ALBANY: You’re an evil woman!
must stop it!
[Goneril exits.]
EDMUND: [To the Officer.] Take my sword. Give it
EDMUND: Albany, I’m guilty of wanting to help both the Captain and he’ll know that I have changed
Goneril and Regan, and more, much more. This the order.
is the end for me now. [To Edgar.] But who are
ALBANY: Run! Quickly!
you? If you’re a good man, I forgive you.
[The Officer exits.]
EDGAR: Let us forgive each other. My name’s Edgar
and I’m your brother. Our father has lost his eyes EDMUND: The message tells the Captain to kill
because of you! Cordelia in the prison. We wanted people to
think that she killed herself.
EDMUND: I was wrong. I thought that I could be the
best man in the kingdom, but now I’m the worst. ALBANY: Please let her be safe! Take him away.
The wheel has come full circle. [Edmund is carried off. King Lear enters with
ALBANY: [To Edgar.] I thought that you were an Cordelia dead in his arms. Edgar and the
important man. I promise you, I never hated you, Captain follow.]
or your father! KING LEAR: Oh, this is terrible. She is gone forever!
EDGAR: I know that, Albany. KENT: Oh, your majesty!
ALBANY: Where have you been hiding? How did KING LEAR: You’re all murderers and traitors! We
you know what happened to your father? should have saved her; now she’s gone forever!
EDGAR: I’ve been helping him, my lord. I disguised Her voice was always soft and gentle.
myself as a beggar, then I met my father, who’s [He sees Kent.] Aren’t you Kent?
now blind. I became his guide, and stopped him KENT: Yes, I am. And I’ve followed you since your
from killing himself. I never told him who I was. madness began.
That was a big mistake. Just an hour ago, I told KING LEAR: You’re welcome here.
him everything, but his heart was too weak. He
KENT: My heart is heavy. Your eldest daughters
died smiling.
have died too.
[An officer enters with a knife covered in blood.]
[The Captain enters.]
OFFICER: Help! Oh, help me!
CAPTAIN: Edmund is dead, my lord.
EDGAR: What is it? Why is there blood on that knife?
ALBANY: He isn’t important now. My friends, these
OFFICER: It came from the heart of … Oh, she’s
are my plans. We’ll do everything to help King
dead! Lear feel better. I will resign and give my power
ALBANY: Who’s dead? Tell us. back to the old King. Edgar and Kent, return to
OFFICER: Goneril, your wife, sir! And her sister your homes and I’ll make sure that my friends
Regan. Goneril has killed herself, and she are rewarded and my enemies punished.
poisoned Regan before she died.
[Kent enters.]

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KING LEAR: [To Cordelia.] Why should a rat have EDGAR: We must remember this sad day.
life, and you have no life at all? I’ll never see you [He puts on the crown.]
again.
The oldest man has suffered the most; we
[King Lear dies.] young people will never see as much as Lear,
KENT: Oh, my heart will break! nor live as long as this good King.
EDGAR: He’s gone. [They exit.]
KENT: He was very ill. I’m surprised that he lived for THE END
so long.
ALBANY: Carry him out carefully.
[To Kent and Edgar.] My friends, without the
King, you two will rule this kingdom.

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12
Before you start Reading
Go back and skim the scene. Discuss these
questions in pairs. 3 Answer the questions with the names of
the characters in the box.
1 What does Edmund think about his actions?
2 How many people are dead at the end of Albany Edgar Goneril Kent Regan
the scene?
1 Who wants Edmund to fight?
Vocabulary 2 Who believes they are a brave soldier?
3 Who does Albany call ‘evil’?
1 Replace the words or phrases in bold with
the words and phrases in the box.
4 Who tells the Officer to hurry to stop the
death of Lear and Cordelia?
a liar laws resign stretchers 5 Who does Lear finally recognise?
tear up treason tricked

1 Edmund says he will fight anyone who says 4 Answer these questions.
1 What does Albany say he will do to Edmund?
he is an untruthful person
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

2 Albany tells Edmund that he will arrest him for 2 Why does Regan feel ill?
wanting to kill the king . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

...................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Whose blood is on the knife that the officer

3 Goneril says that the rules is carrying?
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4 The soldiers used carrying beds 4 How will the Captain know that Edmund has
...................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . to move Goneril and changed his mind?
Regan’s bodies.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
5 Albany offers to give up his job
5 Why does Lear say everyone is a traitor and
...................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and support the king.
a murderer?
6 Goneril tells Edmund that he was fooled
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
...................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . into fighting.
6 What does Albany promise to do for his
7 Albany tells Goneril not to destroy
friends?
...................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the letter.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

2 Find these two phrases in the text. What

do they mean?
7 Who rules the kingdom when Lear dies?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
1 Edmund says that, ‘The wheel has come full
circle’ because Speaking
A he believes he started with no power, then
had power and then lost it.
B his brother was rich and then dressed as a
5 Discuss these questions in groups.
1 Did you expect Regan and Goneril to die?
poor person. Why/Why not?
C Edgar calls him a traitor and says he’s 2 How did you feel at the end of the play? Why?
happy to work for everyone. 3 Who was your favourite character in the play?
2 Kent says, ‘My heart is heavy’ because Give reasons.
A the king recognises him.
B King Lear is mad.
C he is very sad.

WORKBOOK
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REVISION

Lesson 1
Nowadays, so many people write ‘news’
stories and blogs we decided to interview
three professionals involved in the world of
news to find out what they think.

Anya: I’m a news reporter

Before you start for a national television
● Do you believe everything you read in the news? channel and my job is really
Why/Why not? interesting, but it can also be
difficult to find real stories. I believe that
● Would you like to work in the media? Why/Why not? it is very important to have good sources
which you can trust. Nowadays there is
Reading so much news on the internet it’s difficult
to know which facts are true, and which
are not true which is why all facts must be
1 Read the article. Where do you think it’s from? checked carefully.
A An advertisment B A blog post C A text book

2 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F). Haruki: As the editor of a local
1 The writer believes only professionals should newspaper, it is essential that
write the news. T all my journalists write stories
2 Anya works for a national newspaper. that interest our readers. The
3 Anya says that not everything written on national newspapers have stories which
the internet is true. are about the whole country, but we like
to focus on happier news happening in
4 Haruki believes that his readers enjoy
our area.
reading about local events.
5 Haruki likes to have stories about good things.
6 Nina likes to work alone. Nina: I’m a photographer
and I work with a reporter
who writes about crime. We
Vocabulary usually travel together so I
can take photos and he can talk to the
3 Complete the sentences with these words
from the article.
police and people who saw anything.
When he has finished his article, he
sends it to the newspaper with my
channel editor headline interview
pictures which go under the headline.
journalist photographer sources

1 A new children’s TV . .channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . has been launched. It’s very good.

2 My brother is the. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . of our school newspaper.

3 Why don’t you ask that . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . to take a picture of us?
4 The presenter’s going to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . my favourite actor on TV tonight.
5 Have you seen this headline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . in today’s paper?
6 You must be careful which . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . you use. Make sure you can check them.
7 The ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . asked me a lot of questions about the accident.

Speaking
4 Discuss these questions in pairs.
1 What would happen if journalists never checked their facts?
2 Do you think the way the news is reported now is better than in the past? Why/Why not?
3 How do you think reporting the news may change in the future?

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 Lesson 2
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Before you start
Look at the photos. What kinds of
businesses can you see?
● How have these types of businesses
changed?
● Do you think they were better in the
past? Why/Why not?

Listening Language
2.45 1 Listen to an
interview with
2.47 3 Listen again. Choose the words you hear.
1 You haven’t always wanted to to run your own
a successful business, have / did you?
business 2 I hadn’t / haven’t done very well in my
woman. What exams.
is the name of
her company? 3 The manager, who’s / who’d worked there
for years, taught me all about buying good
A Sustain Lives quality clothes.
B Sustain Life 4 We needed a brilliant website which / that
C Sustainable People we spent a lot of money on.
5 When we started we had / we’d had lots of
2.46 2 Listen again and choose the correct answer. ideas.
1 How long has Amal owned her business for?
A for five years. 4 Tick (✓) the sentences which are correct.
Rewrite the incorrect ones.
B since she left school.
2 What does Amal’s company do? 1 My bike was wet yesterday because I have
washed it.
A It sells sustainable products to people.
My bike was wet yesterday because I had washed it.
.........................................................................................................
B It tells people about companies that sell
sustainable products. 2 This is the man that I told you about.
3 What did Amal think about her first job? .........................................................................................................

A she didn’t enjoy it, but it was helpful for her 3 The children ate all the apples, haven’t they?
future. .........................................................................................................

B she enjoyed it because it helped her in the 4 Mohamed Elneny is a well footballer.
future. .........................................................................................................
4 What does Amal say you need to do to be 5 Cardiff where I was born is the capital of
successful? Wales.
A You can ask other people to help you .........................................................................................................
achieve. 6 Fatima always speaks very quietly.
B You need to have plans.
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5 What did Amal and her sister have to pay for?
A a good website B a large building Speaking
6 What piece of advice does Amal give?
A You must have have lots of ideas. 5 Discuss these questions in pairs.
B You must make sure you can reach your 1 What kind of businesses will be the most
goals. successful in the future? Why?
2 Does it matter if only large, global companies
sell everything and there are no small shops?
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R4 Lesson 3
Before you start
● How often do you watch TV?
● Do you watch the same programmes as you
did when you were a child? Why/Why not?

Reading
1 Read the article. What does the writer think about television?
Square eyes; Are we watching too much TV; Is TV good or bad?
Nowadays, many parents are worried about the amount of time their children spend watching
television, but in fact the amount of time children actually sit in front of the TV is less than it used
to be. A recent survey in the UK found that children watch TV for about thirteen hours a week.
However, they spend more than fifteen hours a week on the internet, and this is increasing. It
seems that most children connect to the media from their tablets and phones, which is where they
get their entertainment, news and music.
However, sitting watching television together can be a very positive way of spending time with
your family. There are a lot of channels on TV nowadays, so there are plenty of different kinds of
programmes to choose from. As well as the usual programmes, such as comedies and dramas,
there are a huge number of reality shows, which have become very popular. These are shows
where ordinary people appear in real-life or everyday situations, or in situations or competitions
which the programme makers have created.
Television also offers people the opportunity to learn new things, not just about the news, but
about the world around them. Documentaries about animals, the environment, history or culture
are an excellent way to teach both children and adults things they may not have learnt at school.
And if everyone is finding out new information together, it’s a great way to discuss new ideas and
share opinions.

2 Read the article again and answer the questions.

1 How often do children watch TV? 4 What are reality TV shows?
Children
............... . . . . .watch
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . TV
. . . . . . .for
. . . . . . . .about
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .thirteen
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..hours
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a week.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
............... 5 What shows can viewers learn from?
2 Where do children find most of their news? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .......

............... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Why does the author believe watching TV

3 Why is it possible to watch a wide variety of together can be useful?
shows now? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .......

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Speaking
3 Discuss these questions in pairs.
● Which are the most popular shows on television at the moment?
● What do you think are the best shows? Why?
● What kind of shows would you like to see more of?

4 Use the internet to find out which are the most popular TV shows in Egypt now and in the
past. Make notes about how shows have changed since your parents were children. Present
your findings to the class.

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 Lesson 4
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Before you start
● Do you think educational programmes on TV are interesting? Why/Why not?
● Should educational programmes be introduced by celebrities or journalists? Why/Why not?

Reading
1 Read this TV review. Underline one fact and
one opinion.

2 Complete the table with as much

information as possible from the text.
Name of show Green World Green World is a new television series about
some of the most amazing and beautiful places
Introduced by around the world. I loved the first programme,
which was about the Kalahari desert in southern
Topic of show Africa and the people and animals that live there.
The programme was introduced by Marcus
Writer’s opinion of
the show Thompson, a journalist who had lived in the
Kalahari for years, and it was obvious that he
Suitable for
loves the place. I’m glad they used someone who
Topic of next show really knew about the place and not a famous
celebrity. The photography was outstanding with
Other things linked
brilliant photos of the desert, which were taken
to the show
during the day and at night.

Writing I watched the programme with my two children,

and we all learnt a lot of things we hadn’t known
3 Research an educational programme you
have watched and make notes about it.
about the Kalahari desert. We also enjoyed
discussing the programme afterwards, and my
Use the headings from exercise 2 to help
son looked up more information on the internet.
you. Write your review in about 150 words.
I’m pleased that there are going to be some
magazines to go with the series too. I’d certainly
Name of show
recommend this series to anyone interested in
Introduced by
the natural world.
The next programme is about the Rocky
Mountains in Canada, and I hope it’s as good as
the first one.

Speaking
4 Work in small groups. Read your review to the
group and discuss these questions.
I think Rashida’s
review is really helpful.
1 Were the reviews helpful and interesting? I’ll definitely watch
2 Would your friends follow your recommendations? that programme. Talking head

3 Would you follow their recommendations?

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R4 King Lear: Acts 4–5
Vocabulary
1 Choose the correct answer from a, b, c or d.
1 Some people put birds in . .cages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and keep them as pets.

a cages b trees c boxes d tents

2 The French soldiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . in England in 1066.
a crept up b suffered c arrived d tempted
3 He’s a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . He never tells the truth.
a liar b thief c prisoner d soldier
4 He’s blowing that . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . too loudly. I can’t hear the other instruments.
a drums b trumpet c guitar d piano
5 The patients were carried to the hospital on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
a tents b chairs c stretchers d floor
6 Can you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . all the old paper and put it on the fire?
a put up b tear up c give up d creep up
7 If you don’t have anything to eat, you’ll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
a sleep b hungry c resign d starve
8 He’s talking a lot of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . , you should listen to him.
a rubbish b sense c things d nonsense
9 Do you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the man in the photo? I don’t know who he is.
a tell b believe c recognise d look
10 Here everyone is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . Nobody is better than anyone else.
a same b different c similar d equal
11 All the actors are standing on the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
a theatre b stage c cage d camp
12 The men listened to their . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , who gave them instructions.
a officers b soldiers c prisoners d enemies

Reading
2 Answer the questions with the names of the characters in the box.
Albany Cordelia Edgar Edmund
Gloucester Goneril Oswald Regan

Who …?
1 tries to kill Gloucester? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 dies of poison? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3 wears the crown at the end of the play? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 cannot read the letter Lear gives him? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5 kills herself? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6 admits he is wrong? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7 is the king happy to be with? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8 decides to resign and help Lear? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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3 Answer these questions.
1 Why does Lear tell Gloucester to get some glass eyes?
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2 Where does Edgar offer to take Gloucester?

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3 What does Cordelia ask her father when he first wakes up in the tent?
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4 What does Lear ask Cordelia to do?

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5 Why does Albany tell everyone they must get ready to fight?
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6 What does Edmund tell the captain to do?

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7 Why does Albany call Goneril ‘an evil woman’?

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8 What was the message Edmund had sent to the captain?

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9 What does Kent say he is surprised about?

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4 Read the quotations and answer the questions.

1 Rich men are not punished for the same crimes as a poor man is punished for. Why don’t
you get some glass eyes and pretend to see things that others do not, like a bad judge!
a Who says this? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b What do they mean? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 The King is with his daughter, Cordelia, and others who are helping him. We must be ready to fight
now because the French army have invaded. But the French are not here to help Lear. I think we
have been too cruel to the King.
a Who is Albany talking to? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
b Albany thinks they have been too cruel. Does he change the way he behaves after this?
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3 Just an hour ago, I told him everything, but his heart was to weak. He died smiling.
a Who died smiling? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
b What does it mean to die smiling? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Speaking
5 Discuss these questions in groups.
1 What are the main themes in King Lear?
2 Which of these themes can be found in stories and plays written today?

Writing
6 Write a paragraph about the relevance of King Lear in today’s world. Give examples of films
which include some of the themes from the play. WORKBOOK
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