1 Complete the words with vowels.
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2iUyf.sh 6 .lÍ..g..t..f 2
Dsb./g:. 7 |e 3
4b 4
ù 5
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E NATURAL WORLD 3 Label the pictures.
=e Total | / 40 points
2 Choose the correct alternative.
At the top of Everest it’s very ice/icy.
Today, there were a lot of white clouds/cloudy.
In the Sahara, it's very dry/wet.
They couldn't see anything because it was really windy/foggy.
Last night, there was a terrible storm/stormy.
It rains/rainy a lot in Britain in the winter.
40°C is really warm/hot.
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Vocabulary
Feelings
la Work with a partner and answer the questions. Use the words in the box to help you.
angry ° bored ô confused ằ disappointed ằ excited ằ frightened * happy
interested ô relaxed ô sad stressed = surprised ô tired * worried
1 How do the people in the photos feel?
I 2 What reason(s) could they have for feeling this way?
1b @ 75 Listen and repeat. Personality
1e Look at all the words in the box. Decide
! if each feeling is good (G), bad (B) or if it
depends (D).
4 Complete the sentences with these words.
cheerful * hard-working = intelligent * kind ô lazy * quiet
responsible * serious
2_ LISIWUM @ 76 Listen to five dialogues. How
do the people feel? Choose one adjective TA person helps other people and is good to
from 1 for each person. them.
1 4 2 An person understands and learns things
2 quickly.
3 A person doesn't like working or making an
3 effort.
4A person is usually happy and friendly.
3a Think about when you have the feelings in diand wiite-contenees: A person is reliable and does all the things
d x: that they should do.
I feel confuse when Im in a maths class. A person doesn't talk much.
7A person thinks carefully about things and 3b SPEAKING Read your sentences to your
partner in a different order, but don’t say the adjective. Can your partner guess it? 8A
does not laugh much.
person puts a lot of effort into their work.
5a Write three sentences about yourself using adjectives in 4.
| feel ... when they don't pick me for the
basketball team. 1 I think I'm a cheerful person because I’m usually happy.
2 Lean be lazy sometimes because I like sleeping and relaxing.
No.}| NY 3 I'm not quiet because I talk a lot.
Disappointed?
Yes! NY
5b Give your piece of paper to your teacher. Your teacher will read out sentences. Can you guess which person wrote the sentences?
In 2013, UNICEF wanted to find out if children and teenagers in rich countries are happy. They discovered that youngsters in the Netherlands are top for general well-being. Then come four Nordic countries. Out of 29 countries, the UK was only 16" and the US 26".
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I don't care if Dutch children are happier than British kids or if American teenagers are sadder than Swedish teenagers. What about all the young people who live in poorer countries? That’s what we should be worried about. In richer countries, kids feel bad if their mobile phone is older than their friend's. It’s easy to forget that a lot of kids in the world haven't got
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We usually think that the US and the UK are super-rich countries. But there are a lot of very poor families there as well as rich ones. And education isn’t always better there. The results in tests were worse in the US and in the UK than a lot of other countries like Switzerland and Poland. And some kids are more unhealthy in the US than in other poorer countries. Reports like this are useful because they show that things aren't always what they seem.
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[m 15 and I'm from the Netherlands. It's true that we're generally very happy here. Family is really important. | find it easy to speak to my Parents. In my opinion, that’s more important than money if you want to be happy. My mum and dad are quite relaxed about what | do. And at schoo! we don’t feel particularly stressed. Maybe one problem is that in the UK and the US, television and newspapers make kids feel disappointed because their lives aren't perfect. But here we're more positive about life.
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Being a British teenager, | find this quite strange. | think that young people here are healthier now than in the past. We learn in school about
here in the UK, but they could also be a lot worse. | think the report is tne, but then newspapers make the results sound so negative. The reality is different.
1a Work with a partner. Answer the questio:
and give reasons for your answers.
1 How happy do you think teenagers are in your country? Give a number from 1 (very sad) to 5 (very happy).
2 Which country or countries do you think ar the best for teenagers? Why?
1b READING Read the introduction to the Internet forum and answer the questions.
1 Are you surprised by any of this informatio!
2 Why do you think young people in the Netherlands are happier than in other countries?
1c Read the text. Does it mention any of yo ideas in 1b?
2 Read the forum messages again. Who say what?
1 Not everything is bad in their country.
2 There are important, basic problems in the UK and the US.
3 Journalists are perhaps responsible for son teenagers being sad or unhappy.
4 They aren't interested in the report.
5 The report makes it clear that we have the wrong idea about some countries.
6 They agree with the conclusions of the report because of their personal experienc 7 Some teenagers worry about things that
have no real importance.
8 Other people are making things sound worse than they are.
Think! Then compare ideas with your class.
= Write one or two sentences to summarise what each person thinks about the question of teenage happiness in different countries. Are they giving facts or opinions?
4 What do the underlined words in the text mean? Guess and then check in your dictionary.
5 SPEAKING What about you?
Which statements in the text do you agree wit Why?
| agree that we should think about poor countrie
ie
Me too. But | also agree that we should remember that there are poor people here too
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Grammar in context
la Read the sentences and complete the table with the words in blue.
1 Dutch children are happier than British kids.
2 Things could be better but they could also be worse.
3 My mobile phone is older than yours.
4 American teenagers are sadder than Swedish
teenagers.
5 Family is more important than money.
Adjective | Comparative Rule
adjective
old (a) 1_ One-syllable
adjectives - add -er.
sad | (b) 2 One-syllable
adjectives ending in one vowel and one consonant — double the consonant and add -er.
happy (c) 3_ One-ortwo-
syllable adjectives ending in -y — omit -y and add -ier.
important | (d) 4 Adjectives with two
syllables or more
— put more before the adjective.
good (e) 5 irregular
bad (f)
far farther, further
1b Look at sentences 1, 3, 4 and 5 in 1a. Which word do we use after the comparative
adjective when we compare two things?
GRAMMAR REFERENCE > PAGE 114
2 Look at these adjectives. Think about the rules in the table in 1 and write the correct comparative form.
1 easy easier 5 hard-working
2 beautiful 6 lazy
3 high 7 friendly
4 kind 8 thin
3œ PRONUNCIATION G) 77 Look at the sentences and listen.
1 Mike is older than John.
Steve and Paul are lazier than Chris.
wn Your sister is better at maths than Helen.
+ Learning Japanese is harder than learning English.
œ Jenny is friendlier than Sarah.
3b @ 77 Listen again and repeat each sentence.
Put more stress on the words in red.
4a Make the two sentences into one using the comparative form of the adjective.
1 Charlotte is angry. Sophie is very angry.
Sophie is angrier than Charlotte.
Jake is worried. Luke is very worried.
Amy is happy. Holly is very happy.
Max is confused. Ben is very confused.
Jack is relaxed. Harry is very relaxed.
Emma is intelligent. Isabelle is very intelligent.
Adam is bad at French. Charlie is very bad at French.
NO wu && WD
4b PRONUNCIATION Now practise saying the sentences with the correct stress.
5a Do you know these facts? Choose the correct adjective and use its comparative form to complete the sentence.
1 Turkey is Mexico.
2 The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is (tall/short) than the Empire State Building.
.. (big/small) than
3 InJuly,itis... (hot/cold) in Kiev than in London.
4 lts... (cheap/expensive) to live in Trondheim, Norway than to live in London, UK.
5 The Great Pyramid of Giza is (modern/old) than the pyramid at Chichén Itza.
6 Mexico City is ....
(old/modern) than Istanbul.
7 Egyptis (big/small) than Spain.
5b © 78 Listen and check. How many sentences in 5a did you get right?
6a Put the adjectives in the comparative form. Then write sentences that are true for you.
1 | think is
(good) than
2 is
(difficult) than 3 In my opinion,
is (bad) than
4 is (big)
than
5 | think is
(easy) than
6 is (funny)
than
6b SPEAKING Work in small groups. Compare your sentences. Do you agree or disagree with other people's ideas?
7a Work with a partner. Write sentences comparing life in New York and in Ljubljana. How do you think the people living there feel? Look at these adjectives for ideas. Use them in the comparative form.
angry * bad ô easy ô exciting ô fast | friendly ô good s happy s healthy s quiet
relaxed ằ slow ằ stressful s worried |
| think life in New York is more stressful than in Ljubljana.
7b Read some of your sentences in 7a to the class. Have you got similar ideas?
Work with a partner. Match some of these words to the photos.
crime * homelessness * hunger ô pollution poverty * unemployment ô violence
187
@ 79 Listen and repeat.
SPEAKING Work with a partner. Choose three problems which you think are really important now. Say why you think they are more important than the other problems.
| think unemployment is more important
than pollution at the moment.
l agree. A lot of people haven't got jobs now.
Social skills and citizenship
Helping a
KEY CONCEP .
support a charity [phrase]: You can support a charity by giving them money or helping them to do something.
raise money [phrase]: You could raise money for a charity by selling something and giving the money to the charity.
volunteer [n]: They don’t pay him for
1 Look at the names of three different charities. Work with a
partner. Talk about what you think each charity does.
1 Make-A-Wish Foundation 2 PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) 3 Get Schooled