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Katherine Stannett with Ingrid Wisniewska NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LEARNING Australia + Brazil + Canada + Mexico » Singapore « United Kingdom + United States Contents Reading Vocabulary Grammar Listening reading for main ideas; | count listening to instruction: ‘multiple choice with gap fil fone text identifying the correct All dressed Live well, study well: making friends; be yourself ‘answer; multiple choice up p17 finding specific information; multiple with five conversations | matching Getting | thinking about context; | technology; present continuous for future | choosing the correct ‘multiple choice with six | compound nouns; | plans and arrangements picture; multiple choice technical |toxts doze ng with picture options Lid = |reading for det nnaging screen time; how social media makes us feel ` food |be going to; will understanding what Eat it up | multiple choice with to listen for; multiple |one text ‘choice with one p4! ‘ ‘conversation Home sweet answering negative | houses and parts | present perfect simple; already, identifying details; questions; multiple | of ahouse just; (not) yet; ever, never; for matching home matching ‘and since; identifying what type ‘of word is missing: open cloze | ps3 Live well, study welleat wall: food fort : improve your diet | the purpose of a te places in a town | demonstratives; one and ones | listening for days, time: City life multiple choice with six | and numbers: gap fil |texts pé5 Time to looking for phrases free-time activities | zero conditional; listening for examples; |with the same meaning; | first conditional ‘matching relax || multiple matching | p77 study wel: get fit, feel well; exerciasned the brain 2 answer port; sports Is of obligation and istening for numbers, Ready, multiple choice ‘equipment; sports necessity people dates and prices; gap fi steady, go! |dealing with unfamiliar | jobs; choosing relative pronouns p89 of happiness Good work! ‘words; multiple |the correct verb; the passive: present simple words that show a matching, multiple-choice change; multiple choice p101 4 doze listening for clues; Live well, study well: finding happiness; multiple choice with five Getting ‘finding words with transport(nouns) conversations | opposite meaning; therel multiple choice with pH ‘comparing words in Right as rain the texts and option: multiple choice with six | p125 texts Live well, study well: problem solving: learn from your mi ‘answers summarising places ‘ordering adjectives listening to how What a parts of a text; multiple | countryside and speakers respond; wonderful choice with one text | points of the ‘multiple choice with ‘compass ‘one conversation world! 137 Review units 1-12 pp149-160 Communication activities pp171-172 Grammar reference pp161-170 Vocabulary reference pp173-181 Speakin: g Vocabulary Grammar Writin g giving details about yourself; |family present continuous; writing the focusing on accuracy; completing interview missing words; open cloze a form — | giving a descriptioofna friend;; adjectivetso describe people [pest continuous ‘writing about personality; interview including all the points; writing jan email talking about technology; adjectives to describe Prepositions; choostheicnorrgect _| important information; checking discussion with a partner; ‘technology preposition; open cloze your work; writing a note picture discussion | cooankd meiasunremgents | countable and uncountable nouns; _| using adjectives; using short s ‘quantifiers forms, punctuation and greetings; writing an email ‘ordering food in a restaurant; describing a picture; picture description and questions describing your room; interview | furniture; verbs with possessives reasons and results; planning prepositions; multiple-choice how to connect your ideas; doze writing a story giving directions; picture tourism, sightseeing and articles discussion; answering questions | entertainment; prepositionosf from the examiner movement talking about free-time activiti ‘music; using prepositions: _| verb patterns; writing the correct | exp % choosing a topic; topic discussion deciwhdichiannswgers are |verbform;opencloze ‘your ideas; writing an email wrong; multiple-choice cloze i + talking about sport; giving your _| parts of the body; health ‘can, could and may; should / shouldn't | descriabn ievnengt; using the ‘opinion; opinion task problems correct tense; making notes; writing an article talking about jobs; using tenses advantages and disadvantages; correctly; interview planning your time; writing 2 short essay : travel; talking about advantages | transport (verbs) || the passive: past simple ‘conjunctions: before, after and disadvantages; advantages and disadvantages task and while; adding extra detai ‘writing a story | talking about weather and ‘extreme weather; weather ‘superlatives; writing the correct describing atrip; using different seasons; answering yes/no _| collocations; recognising questions and giving more common phrasal verbs; ‘grammar words; open cloze tenses; ordering events and | details; conversation task multiple-choice cloze adding interest; writing an article ‘animals; the environment adjectives ending -ing and -ed helping the environment; structuring an essay; organising _ RS eS RE er your ideas; writinga short essay Irregular verbs p182 Speaking reference pp189-190 TE Writing reference pp183-188 DEE eg Who am |? ÁN) eae ea HUẾ dai The people in this photo are all from one family Can you find a mother, a father, a grandfather, a grandmother, a son and a daughter? Is your family big or small? How many people are in your family? fl Resdling se —_— Work in pairs Look at the photos on page 7 and 5 Read the Exam Tip Then read the questions discuss the questions in the Exam Task Find the part of the text you need to read for each question 1 Where are the people? 2 Do you think they are in a cold place or a warm 6 Now complete the Exam Task place? Why? Ak —- Reading for main ideas Look at the photos Which of these activities do * It’s easier to understand a text if you can find the most important information you think the people do on their boat? * Read eaclt paragraph for the main idea b * Underline key words in each paragraph that P— refer to the main idea dive watch TV Multiple choice with one text For each question, choose the correct answer swim 1 What do Ghislain and Emmanuelle study? paint pictures take photos A people B boats 3 Read the article on page 7 and check your C the sea answers to Exercise 2 2 Under the Pole is the name of A anew film B a group of people € ascientific project 3 Why do Ghislain and Emmanuelle visit school A to learn about new ideas B to find people for their team © to share information 4 The boat is their sons’ home because A they travaellot B they love swimming C they are with their parents 5 Whats their dog's special job? A to find food B to look for danger © todo research your 4 Which is the best description of the Bardout family? 1 Ghislain, Emmanuelle, Robin and Thomas live in France, but they have got a boat in Greenland, 2 Ghislain, Emmanuelle, Robin and Thomas are from France, but they live on a boat 3 Ghislain and Emmanuelle live on a boat and their children stay at home in France ERED Ghislain Bardout and Emmanuelle Périé-Bardout are explorers and divers They are French and they have got a home in France They are hardly ever Cố CO cố ốc 6 0 00 en ona Casati leaders of a team called Under the Pole There are more than one hundred peopl ees m ~ some people are scuba divers, some are scientists and some are sailors Ghislain and Emmanuelle want to explore the sea They usually travel to cold seas and icy lands in parts of the world like Greenland and Antarctica, but sometimes they go to warm places like Hawaii and Tahiti 10 The Bardouts make films, take photos and write books about their adventures Sometimes they go diving under the sea ice and swim underwater, and sometimes they travel across the land When they return to France, they often visit schools They like telling students about their work Ghislain and Emmanuelle are also parents and their children always travel with them They have got two so~nRosbin, who is seven, and Thomas, who is three ‘The boat is their home,’ says their mum, Emmanuelle ‘Our children are happy to be where we are.” Of course, the boys are very good Seem Og neue aur eed ed eee eee) one more very important member of their team - their dog Kayak Kayak TA sa Pree neat) "Sa cic arene eee ee te anor) eee relarm to (9: go bxklo m3 1): Jsi5:¡e10I 5 tse: eereon sn dim Countries and nationalities 5 EED Listen and complete the table 11 Complete the sentences Use the words in brackets 1 The Bardout family are from _ They 1 Greenland | 21 June 2 Australia area_— family (French / France) 3 Bolivia 2 Crete isin _ ttsa _ island 4 China (Greek / Greece) 3 Beijing isin _.ttsa 5 Egypt (Chinese / China) 4 Spaghetti isan _ dish It’s from 6 Ghana (Italian / Italy) L7 Indonesia 5 Flamenco is a ————— danee lts from 8 Kazakhstan (Spanish / Spain) & Tolyoisin ——_.ltsa 9 Poland Japanese / Japan) 7 Samba is music It’s from - (Brazilian / Brazil) 8 Manchester isin tsa city (British / Britain) In American English, we say and write the date i this order: month - day ~ year 2 Look at the nationality adjectives in brackets in We say: ‘I was born on June ninth, 2005." Exercise 1 Write the words in the table ‘We write: 06/09/2005 or June 9th / June 9 In British English, we say and write the date in thi order: day - month - year We say: ‘I was born on the ninth of June, 2005." We write: 09/06/2005 or 9th June / 9 June 3 Work in pairs Can you think of any other 6 Write the twelve months of the year order nationality adjectives? Which months are not in Exercise 5? Numbers and dates 7 Look at the information in the online profile 4 GED Listen to some facts about Greenland Complete the text Choose the correct options to complete the information PENPAL CLUB Greenland Six factss about Name: Aisha Khan Nationality: Malaysian @ 80% / 18% of Greenland is ice Date of Birth: 30/10/07 @ The ice here is 17/ 7%% of world, Today's PENPAL CLUB member is Aisha! Hit My name's Aisha and I'm from ! _ 'm ? _years old and my birthday is on There are * people in my family: me, m brothers Ashraf and Hilmi, my mum and my dad, 1 sailing, polar bears and ice cream! every year '® 220007 12/000