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MARY STEPHENS LONGMAN Addison Wesley Longman Limited Edinburgh Gate, Harlow, Essex CM20 2JE England and Associated Companies throughout the world © Addison Wesley Longman Limited 1996 All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Publishers First published 1996 Designed by Ann Samuel Cover design by Claire Sleven Printed in Spain by Mateu Cromo ISBN 582 25603 Printed and bound in Spain Illustrated by Peter Byatt, Maggie Downer, Steve Gibson and Maggie Ling Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material: ‘ Ewan MacNaughton Associates for adapted extracts from the article “The Fall Guy’ in Young Telegraph August 1995; the author's agent for adapted extracts from Brave Heart by Joanne Gillespie (Century, Hutchinson, 1989) copyright (c) Joanne Gillespie 1989 and Well, I’m Still Here! by Joanne Gillespie (Pan Macmillan 1993) copyright (c) Joanne ‘Gillespie 1993; The We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright photographs: @Addison Wesley Longman/Trevor Clifford for page 30; Corbis-Bettmann/UPI for page 52; The Environmental Picture Library/Mike Jackson for page 19bl; Evening Gazette Guardian for an extract from the article ‘Wogdstars’ by Mark Middlesborough for page 57; Robert Harding Picture Library/©Richard Shock for page 9; Hulton Deutsch for page 26; Dave Willis/Idols for page 28; The Image Bank/Stuart Dee for page 4, /©Peter Frey for page 24, /Regine M for page Dempsey Ltd 1986; Penguin Books Ltd for the extract adapted from “The Most Unsuccessful Attempt to Wark Through a Library/Benelux Press for page 19tl; Universal Pictorial Press & Agency for page 27 1991; Piccadilly Press Ltd for adapted extracts from Chapter Cover Photo by ©Addison Wesley Longman/Gareth Boden Honigsbaum in Young Guardian (c) 25/2/92; Larousse Ple for the article ‘The World in Danger’ from Superbook - Amazing Facts by G Beale (Kingfisher) copyright (c) Grisewood & Lunch Hour’ (p.30) from The Puffin Book of Heroic Failures by Stephen Pile (Puffin Book, 1991) copyright (c) Stephen Pile, “The Parents Evening’ in Staying Cool, Surviving School by Rosie Rushton; Random House UK Ltd for adapted extracts from Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee (Chatto & Windus); Solo Syndication Ltd for adapted extracts from the article ‘Star Pupil who was an Old Boy’ by Nigel Duncan in Daily Mail 19/9/95; Wayland Publishers Ltd for adapted extracts from ‘No one Cheered for the Indians’ by Gordon Bryce in We Live in Canada by Jack Brickendon Inside Story - Teen Magazine by T Merrison; Zoe Books Ltd for adapted extracts from Making -Music/Singing by Alyn Shipton (c) 1993 Zoe Books Ltd 11, /Patricia Ann Tesman for page 17; The Kobal Collection for pages 34, 55; Rex Features Ltd for page 19br, ‘The Sun for page 53; ‘Tony Stone Images for page 50; Telegraph Colour Unit | Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit - 16 Unit 20 Unit 8ˆ 22 Unit 24 Unit 10 26 Unit 11 28 Unit 12 30 Unit 13 34 Unit 14 37 Unit 15 39 Unit 16 4i Unit 17 43 Unit 18 46 Unit 19 50 Unit 20 53 Unit 21 55 Unit 22 57 Unit 23 59 Unit 24 61 Reading ] Where did your father grow up? Read the text quickly and mark the following statements True (T) or False (F) Why did he feel different from the Christopher Columbus first named Native Americans ‘Indians’ [] E1 Cree Indians lived in Canada Indians were always heroes in the old Hollywood films Some Indians still live on reservations [ ] Read the text again carefully Then imagine you are one of Gordon's children and answer the questions on the right other children in his town? Why didn’t he want to play an Indian when all the kids played cowboys and Indians? [] Why are Native Americans called ‘Indians’? Outsiders Gordon Byce Indian As a man’s world, outsider was experience, is a Canadian child in the white he found being an a lonely My mother was a Cree Indian whose family moved across Canada to Ontario around the turn of the century My father worked on the railroad which passed through Ontario, which is how he met my mother When I was growing up, I always felt that there was something wrong with me If we were playing cowboys and Indians, I never wanted to be Sitting Bull or Crazy Horse; I'd rather be Roy Rogers Hollywood movies had something to with that — no one cheered for the Indians ‘Indian’ was a name used in error by Christopher Columbus because he believed he had sailed, not to North America, but around the world to India There are about 300,000 Indians registered in Canada today Tracts of land called reserves have been set aside for them to live on if they choose But the Indian is caught up in a no-man’s land when he tries to adjust to the white man’s society, He finds he belongs in neither that world nor his own He comes from a culture where people cooperate rather than compete and he is just too vulnerable I guess I made it in the white man’s world because I went away to college and never let anyone know I was an Indian It took me a long time to feel how I now about the Indian part of me “His children have never had to suffer the same sort of treatment as he did ‘No, we don’t have any hang ups,’ they told me ‘Dad's been telling us about our heritage and for us it’s interesting ~ a romantic sort of thing We are proud of our dad.’ When your dad was at college, why did people treat him the same as a white man? How people treat you? Does it worry you that your grandmother was a Cree Indian? Why (not)? Write questions for these answers using information from the text Working on the railroad That there was something wrong with him ? Christopher Columbus About 300,000 Because he never let anyone know he was an Indian No, they aren’t embarrassed They're proud of him ? Grammar Vocabulary Underline the correct verb from each of the pairs given The first one has been done for you Match the words or phrases which have a similar meaning 1- emigrate Some of the Cree Indians bad given up / gave up their nomadic tw life and moved to Ontario before the railroads came / bad come a) fill with admiration [[] - b) finda solution In the past, Hollywood movies portrayed / have portrayed the Indians as ‘villains’ When Gordon bas grown up / was growing up in Ontario, the white kids were treating/ treated him very badly When he went / has gone to college, he basn’t told / didn't tell anyone that he was an Indian Up until now, Gordon's children never suffered / have never suffered from discrimination Christopher Columbus called / was calling American natives ‘Indians’ because he thought he had sailed'/ sailed right round interpret workout [] impress [] The government set aside / has set aside reserves for registered Indians many years ago, and thousands of Indians came / have come to settle there since then For many years now, Gordon tries / has been trying to help his fellow Indians and to stop discrimination against them Read the letter your class received from the:people you spoke to during your Global Schoolhouse project In your notebook, write a paragraph on one aspect of life in your country to the world to India ˆ , Tara and her family left their old way of life with the Inuit people of the Arctic to settle in America In writing about her new life she has made errors with negative forms Write the sentences again correctly, without changing the words underlined [Ff] When we arrived in America two years ago, we didn’t know nobody When we arrived in America tivo years ago, we knew nobody We emigrated because my father couldn't no longer earn ` enough from trapping seals and selling furs People worry about cruelty to animals so no one doesn’t want to buy-fur products any more I hadn’t never been to a large'city before I came here Many Amierican kids never learn nothing about the Inuit people in school ˆ*They re always surprised when J tell them we live in houses ‘Do you not all live in igloos then?’ they always ask Nobody doesn’t believe that a 15-year-old like me can set 3-coopbrate d) try to win e) move abroad ) change words into another language Writing send back to Teresa and her class From our ‘classroom California in Great talking to you on the network ‘last week! We really enjoyed hearing about different |) aspects of life in your coun- try, like sport and pop music and what life is like’ for kids our age over there What about keeping a project folder about it all? If you © send us a paragraph or two about your country on the sort of topics we'll even not fax too I’ve the them listed same tricky! to us, You , Ệ l below, if could that's Do hope you want to take part Look forward to in the project! hearing from, you soon Everyone sends their regards! Best wishes, Teresa Martinez P.S These were topics - please want to! Everyday Fashion When I described all the things I used to in my village, The they told me not talk rubbish! c) work together compete [] traps, skin seals, drive a snowmobile and boat, and shoot a rifle! [] life School Being a teenager Pop music environment our add ideas for more if ‘you § H Vocabulary I Solve the clues and complete the puzzle on the right _— a WOON AW Aw NH ¬ Planet where Martians live You see these twinkling in the sky at night Person who is an expert at physics, chemistry, etc We live on this planet ‘The sun shines by day; the _ shines by night The Earth is one A spaceman wears this An empty space The New Explorers Man can travel through space in this vehicle _Another word for a spaceman One solution might be to lengthen the life of space of travellers, maybe by ‘freezing’ them fora period preat le possib many years Of course, this is not sent, However, in just seventy years we have made amazing progress in technology - from the first simple aeroplanes to landing astronauts on the Moon What will happen in the twenty-first century? We shall just have to wait and see Reading 2ttis human nature to want to explore and to make new discoveries With few of the Earth's great wildernesses left unexplored, space is the next great frontier, This text on the right is about the conquest of space but the paragraphs are jumbled Read and put them in a logical order 189 50 20 6g 30 49 Here Read the text again carefully and mark the following statements True (T) or False (F) ss from the Earth -[[] There is no air of any kind ina vacuum [(] People on the Moon-will probably live and work in domes filled with air D [7] People on Mars would have to wear spacesuits when they go inside pressurized domes [[] E At the moment, humans cannot travel to the stars because their lives are too short [J] Scientists are now able to make people live longer by freezing them [7] Progress in technology has been very rapid | , finally, will people ever rocket beyond the [i Fifty years ago, the idea of humans exploring and ce ficeven living on other planets was just:scien tion But space scientists are working on ideas and it is a real possibility for the twenty-first century In spite of th ese may be not just and [7] the the Earth, Moon and Mars to the stars? The stars are light years away and-humans not normally live much beyond seventy to eighty, so age is a-pro blem Space scientists believe that people may be able to live on other planets in the future [ ] It becomes easier to breathe as you travel away on The problems re great from the harsh cont atmosphere protec ts us space When we fy av which exist in outer e e rn the air becomes re the Earth’s surface, the y all to breathe Eventu m jt gets more difficult reach empty space ~ no ait at all and we Tee ee B | is very e , one day th er harsh condititiions iinhab 0Ÿ but colonies astro nauts se it has no atmosphere by day, t and co hot 11 probably houses and wo inflatable domes After the Moon, people will probably travel to Mars There, colonists will probably need to wear- spacesuits all the time, or to stay inside pressurized domes very ˆ = + - be by o¢ inside | |#E |: |; : : Grammar Rewrite the sentences with the correct form of be used to, not be used.to and get used to Join the ideas to make sentences using the words in brackets The explorers made good progress Freezing temperatures (Despite) ca Despite freezing temperatures, the explorers made good progress We often hear predictions about life in the future They’re not new to us nw We're used to hearing predictions about the future Tom is living abroad It still seems strange to him ‘ Tom The children had to sleep in tents last year They were not accustomed to it The children Itisn’t usual for human beings.to live in extremely cold conditions Human beings The mountaineers were exhausted They reached the peak (Even though) Fiennes managed to walk He had frostbite (Despite) Bad weather They were in good spirits (Despite) The Moon has no atmosphere People may live wn there in the future (Even though) We have become accustomed to the idea of travelling in space We Martin never saw Fletch He often talked to him (Despite) Astronauts are weightless in space It is new to them Astronauts Complete the sentences with despite or even though Despite all our warnings, he set off to climb the mountain alone They camped in the forest it was a bit spooky He stayed up to watch the comet being very tired she took medication, the explorer still got frostbite He still suffers from altitude sickness he has been in Antarctica for three months ` Itseems probable that people will one day be living on the Moon, problems In space, humans can sleep in any position, even upside down, This is new and strange for them Humans , all the Pronunciation Match the verbs with the words'in 200 ghostly adapt Mog money and time Om nLin (looo TG a discovery the.unknown lose _ weight tell AN (lo ML fun ae we SH mO > m "tơ — œ oN pm nO ¬ FZ xO tM OU O0 Ge wer-o go RK Ob > Wind — Oo mm Zee 24 CO oH Bos GQ Neo Fx =