Toby Are you wearing trainers?

Pre-Intermediate Student’s Leia Yes, I am – with jeans and a T-shirt.

Book audio scripts Toby That’s fine. You don’t need sports clothes. See
you soon!

Introduction
1.02 Lesson IA, Exercise 2
Ryan Hi, Izzy. Can I sit here?
Izzy Yes, of course. This is Becky. She’s new.
Ryan Hi Becky. I’m Ryan, Izzy’s brother.
Becky Hi. Nice to meet you!
Ryan Where are you from, Becky?
Becky I’m from London. I moved here two weeks ago.
Ryan I love London. I’ve got friends there. I
sometimes visit them and we go skateboarding.
Izzy Do you like skateboarding, Becky?
Becky Not really. But I like ice skating.
Izzy Me too! Let’s go ice skating after school.
Becky Great idea!
Ryan I’m not very keen on ice skating. What do you
think of bowling?
Becky Bowling? I hate it.
Ryan Oh. Actually, I don’t mind ice skating…
Izzy There’s the bell. I’ve got maths, then history.
Becky I’ve got PE now. I love PE! See you after
school, Izzy!
Izzy Bye, Becky!
Ryan Yeah … Bye …

1.03 Lesson IB, Exercise 6

Toby Hi!
Leia Hi, Toby. What are you doing?
Toby I’m at the sports centre. I’m waiting for Tom.
Leia Are you going swimming?
Toby No, we’re playing table tennis. We play every
Saturday morning. But he’s really late!
Leia What’s he doing?
Toby I don’t know. He isn’t answering his phone.
Anyway, where are you?
Leia I’m at the shopping centre, but I’m not buying
anything today. I’m just looking.
Toby Do you like table tennis? Do you want to play?
Leia Sure! But I’m not wearing sports clothes.

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 home soon? … Yes, Mum’s here, but I think she’s asleep. …
Pre-Intermediate Student’s No, they’re still there. I don’t like it … Yes, they could be
Book audio scripts next door, I suppose. I don’t know. Are you coming home
soon?

1.06 Lesson 1B, Exercise 5

Unit 1
In 2002, nineteen-year-old British refuse collector Michael
Carroll and his family were delighted when he won £9.7
1.04 Lesson 1A, Exercise 2
million in the lottery. He gave millions of pounds to charity
anxious ashamed bored confused cross and to friends and relatives. He also spent thousands on
delighted disappointed embarrassed envious loud, all-night parties, and over the next few years, he got
excited frightened proud relieved shocked into trouble with the police several times. His wife Sandra
suspicious upset was cross and upset and decided to leave. Soon, he had no
money left, and in 2010, he began work as a refuse collector
1.05 Lesson 1A, Exercises 6 and 7 again. ‘I’m just glad it’s over,’ he said.

Speaker 1
1.07 Lesson 1C, Exercise 3
Guess what? You know there’s a big charity concert at
Wembley Stadium next week? Well, I’ve got a ticket! … I Tom Hi, Zak. Do you fancy going into town?
know! It’s great, isn’t it? … Who’s playing? Loads of Zak I’m sorry, Tom, I can’t. I need to do some
bands. … Well, for a start, the Black Eyed Peas. … I know! revision.
And Lady Gaga. And Katy Perry. … I know, amazing! I can’t Tom Revision? For what?
wait. …
Zak The exams next month.
Speaker 2 Tom But they’re six weeks away!
Hi. What are you up to? … Oh, really? Sounds good. … Zak I know. That’s only two weeks for each subject.
Me? I’m baking! … You know it’s Matt’s birthday on Look, I’m making a plan. This week, it’s maths.
Saturday? … Yes, it’s a birthday cake. … Chocolate and Next week …
Brazil nut. … He doesn’t eat nuts? Oh, I didn’t know that. Oh Tom OK, OK. Calm down!
dear. That’s bad news! But the nuts are big; he can leave
Zak I can’t! I always do badly in exams. I want these
them. … What? … He doesn’t like chocolate? Are you sure?
ones to go well. I need to study … See you
Oh. That’s really bad news.
later.
Speaker 3 Tom Hang on. Why do you do badly in exams? You
Hello, Nicky? Yes, I’m at the bus stop. … Sorry! … But always study a lot.
listen … No, but listen … Just listen a moment! … I know, Zak I don’t know. I panic, I suppose.
but I got here nearly an hour ago. There aren’t any buses! Tom Exactly! You panic. You need to stay calm.
… I don’t know why. It’s really strange. … Yes, they’re Take a break from your revision. Come with me
usually every ten minutes. … No, I really don’t understand. into town. Then you can get back to your
Very strange … revision tomorrow.
Speaker 4 Zak Well, I don’t know … Maybe you’re right, Tom.

Hi, Anna! I got a text from your brother about your exam. Tom Great! Come on, then.
Con-grat-u-LA-tions! Brilliant news! … What? … Sorry? Oh, Zak But actually … I really want to finish this
you failed? Really? … Hang on, let me read it again. … Oh revision plan. Let’s go out tomorrow.
yes. I’m so sorry, I didn’t read it properly. … Yes, yes … I’m Tom I’m busy tomorrow.
sure you’re feeling really bad. … Actually, so am I, now. Red
Zak Well, maybe at the weekend.
face! Silly me.
Tom I really think you should stop working for a bit.
Speaker 5
Zak I’m sorry. Look, let’s speak soon.
Hello, Dad? … Yes, I know it’s late. … Yes. I am in bed. But Tom OK. It’s your decision.
I can hear voices outside. … In the garden, I think. …
They’re men’s voices. … Where are you? Are you coming

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1.08 Lesson 1C, Exercise 5 Zoe Sure, go ahead.
Ryan Well, I saw Brandon yesterday, and he told me
A
about this girl – Amy, she’s called.
Madison Hi, Louis. Are you going to watch the match? Zoe Go on.
Louis Yes, I am. But I’ve also got this history project Ryan Well, he really likes her. He wants to ask her
to finish! out. He talked about her for ages.
Madison Oh, the history project. Yes, I finished mine this Zoe So, what’s the problem?
morning.
Ryan I asked her out last week, and she said yes!
Louis Well done. I’m having a few problems with
Zoe Did you say that to Brandon?
mine. I can’t think what to write. And the match
starts in twenty minutes! Ryan No, I didn’t. I couldn’t … I don’t know … I’m
embarrassed. He really likes her … I don’t want
Madison I know! I can record the match. Then we can
him to get cross with me.
watch it together when you finish your project.
Zoe But you can’t keep it a secret!
Louis Hmm. I’m not sure. I think I need to take a
break. We can watch the football together here. Ryan I know. What can I do?
Madison But you have to do the project some time. Why Zoe You have to tell the truth!
don’t we look at it together now? We can make Ryan Hmm. But it’s difficult …
a plan for it – then you can finish it fairly quickly. Zoe Do you want me to have a word with him?
Louis That’s not a bad idea … but to be honest, I’m a Ryan Yes. Yes, please. Can you do that?
bit bored with it. Come on, let’s go in the living
Zoe OK. I suppose so.
room and turn the TV on.
Madison Are you sure? I always like to finish my school D
work before I relax … Alex Hi, Marcus.
Louis I know. But we’re different! Come on … Marcus Hi, Alex. Can I ask your advice about
Madison Well, OK. It’s your project … something?
B Alex Of course you can.
Marcus Well, it’s Jack’s birthday tomorrow and he’s
Matt Hi, Emma. Can I ask your advice about
going out for dinner at a pizza restaurant. About
something?
ten of his friends are going.
Emma Sure, Matt. What is it?
Alex OK. So what’s the problem?
Matt You know my friend Toby?
Marcus I can’t go. I haven’t got any money.
Emma Yes.
Alex Oh. Does Jack know that?
Matt Well, he’s really angry with me.
Marcus No, he doesn’t. When he invited me, I just said,
Emma Oh dear. Why’s that? ‘Thanks! It sounds great!’
Matt Well, I wrote something on his Facebook Alex So he thinks you’re going.
page … and he didn’t like it.
Marcus Yes! Well, I’m not sure. Maybe.
Emma Oh no! What did you write?
Alex Well, you need to make it clear.
Matt I’m not telling you. It was just a silly joke.
Marcus I know, but it’s embarrassing. All my other
Emma And he didn’t find it funny. friends can afford it.
Matt Exactly. In fact, he really took offence. I said Alex Do you want some money? I can lend you £10.
sorry and deleted the comment – but he’s still
Marcus Thanks, Alex, but I don’t like borrowing money
angry. What should I do? I feel so bad about it!
from friends. And anyway, £10 isn’t enough.
Emma Why don’t you give him a call and chat about it?
Alex Why don’t you ask your mum and dad for some
Matt I tried that. He didn’t answer. money?
Emma Well, why don’t you text him? You have to keep Marcus I asked them, but they said no.
trying!
Alex Well, you need to speak to Jack again. Make an
Matt I know. You’re right. I can’t give up. Thanks for excuse. Tell him you’ve got a family party the
your advice. same evening.
C Marcus What, tell a lie?
Zoe Hi, Ryan. You don’t look very happy. Is Alex It’s only a little lie. That’s my advice, anyway.
something wrong?
Ryan Well, yes, it is, actually. Can I tell you about it?

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1.09 Lesson 1C, Exercise 6 Marcus Hi, Alex. Can I ask your advice about
something?
B
Alex Of course you can.
Matt Hi, Emma. Can I ask your advice about Marcus Well, it’s Jack’s birthday tomorrow and he’s
something? going out for dinner at a pizza restaurant. About
Emma Sure, Matt. What is it? ten of his friends are going.
Matt You know my friend Toby? … Alex OK. So what’s the problem?
Emma Yes. Marcus I can’t go. I haven’t got any money.
Matt Well, he’s really angry with me. Alex Oh. Does Jack know that?
Emma Oh dear. Why’s that? Marcus No, he doesn’t. When he invited me, I just said,
Matt Well, I wrote something on his Facebook ‘Thanks! It sounds great!’
page … and he didn’t like it. Alex So he thinks you’re going.
Emma Oh no! What did you write? Marcus Yes! Well, I’m not sure. Maybe.
Matt I’m not telling you. It was just a silly joke. Alex Well, you need to make it clear.
Emma And he didn’t find it funny. Marcus I know, but it’s embarrassing. All my other
Matt Exactly. In fact, he really took offence. I said friends can afford it.
sorry and deleted the comment – but he’s still Alex Do you want some money? I can lend you £10.
angry. What should I do? I feel so bad about it! Marcus Thanks, Alex, but I don’t like borrowing money
Emma Why don’t you give him a call and chat about it? from friends. And anyway, £10 isn’t enough.
Matt I tried that. He didn’t answer. Alex Why don’t you ask your mum and dad for some
Emma Well, why don’t you text him? You have to keep money?
trying! Marcus I asked them, but they said no.
Matt I know. You’re right. I can’t give up. Thanks for Alex Well, you need to speak to Jack again. Make an
your advice. excuse. Tell him you’ve got a family party the
same evening.
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Marcus What, tell a lie?
Zoe Hi, Ryan. You don’t look very happy. Is
Alex It’s only a little lie. That’s my advice, anyway.
something wrong?
Ryan Well, yes, it is, actually. Can I tell you about it?
1.10 Lesson 1D, Exercise 2
Zoe Sure, go ahead.
Sam Hi, Emma! Did you go out last night?
Ryan Well, I saw Brandon yesterday, and he told me
about this girl – Amy, she’s called. Emma Yes, I went to the cinema.
Zoe Go on. Sam Oh, really? Who did you go with?
Ryan Well, he really likes her. He wants to ask her Emma My sister.
out. He talked about her for ages. Sam What did you see?
Zoe So, what’s the problem? Emma The new Jennifer Lawrence film.
Ryan I asked her out last week, and she said yes! Sam Did you enjoy it?
Zoe Did you say that to Brandon? Emma No, it wasn’t great. And I couldn’t see the
Ryan No, I didn’t. I couldn’t … I don’t know … I’m screen very well. The man in front of me was
embarrassed. He really likes her … I don’t want really tall, and he didn’t stop talking to his
him to get cross with me. girlfriend!
Zoe But you can’t keep it a secret! Sam I hate that!
Ryan I know. What can I do? Emma And that’s not all. I lost my mobile! I think I
dropped it in the cinema.
Zoe You have to tell the truth!
Ryan Hmm. But it’s difficult …
1.11 Lesson 1D, Exercise 5
Zoe Do you want me to have a word with him?
Sam You didn’t leave your mobile at the cinema. You
Ryan Yes. Yes, please. Can you do that?
lent it to me, remember? I didn’t give it back to
Zoe OK. I suppose so. you.
D Anna Yes, of course! Can you bring it to school
tomorrow?
Alex Hi, Marcus.

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Sam I’m really sorry but… I left it on the bus
yesterday evening.
Anna Oh no! What did you do? Did you ring the bus
company?
Sam Yes, I did but they couldn’t find it. It wasn’t on
the bus. Don’t worry – I phoned your number…
Anna Did anyone answer?
Sam Yes! Lucy, from our class.
Anna Why did she have my phone? Was she on the
bus with you?
Sam Yes, she picked it up by mistake. She’s bringing
it to school tomorrow!
1.12 Lesson 1F
A life without pain
All children hurt themselves from time to time. But when
thirteen-year-old Ashlyn Blocker was younger, she had more
accidents and injuries than her friends. For example, she
once put her hands on a very hot engine and got a serious
burn. She only knew about it when she looked at her skin.
She showed her parents and they took her straight to
hospital. Ashlyn simply did not know when she
injured herself.
When Ashlyn was a baby, her parents knew she was
different: she didn’t cry. Then, when she was eight months
old, they noticed there was some blood in her eye, so they
took her to see a doctor. The doctor was shocked and
confused when he looked at Ashlyn’s eye: there was a
serious cut. So why wasn’t the baby girl upset? Why didn’t
she cry? The eye injury soon got better, but doctors realised
that Ashlyn had a very unusual medical condition: she
couldn’t feel any pain.
This condition is very rare. Only about a hundred people a
year in the USA are born with it and many of them die
because of it. Pain is a natural warning: when you’re ill or
injured, your body hurts and this tells you there’s a problem.
People who can’t feel pain often die young because, when
they break a bone or have a problem with their heart, they
just don’t realise.
The first few years of Ashlyn’s life were very difficult. She
often tripped and injured herself. Once, she broke her ankle
and didn’t know, so she didn’t stop running. At school,
Ashlyn needed a lot of attention to keep her safe. For
example, in the playground, one teacher watched Ashlyn all
the time. When other children fell over, the teachers could
ask, ‘Does it hurt?’ But of course, with Ashlyn, it was not so
simple, and the teachers had to search for cuts, bruises or
other injuries.
When she was five, Ashlyn’s story appeared in newspapers.
Then she had invitations to appear on TV shows and
became well known. Scientists studied the causes of her
condition and found it was a genetic disorder. For some
reason, pain signals do not reach her brain. Unfortunately,
at the moment, there is no hope of a cure. And as Ashlyn
knows, a life without pain is both difficult and dangerous.
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1.13 Lesson 1G, Exercise 3
Kirstie Hi, Laurie. How are you? Tell me about your
summer holiday!
Laurie Well, for the first three weeks, I was at a
summer camp in Cornwall.
Kirstie Really? That sounds like fun!
Laurie Yes, it was. I learned a new sport –
bodyboarding.
Kirstie Wow! That sounds great!
Laurie Yes, I loved it. It was really exciting – and a bit
frightening too!
Kirstie I bet! What else did you get up to over the
summer?
Laurie Well, the second half of the holiday wasn’t so
good. I got a stomach bug and spent nearly a
week on the sofa.
Kirstie Oh dear! How awful!
Laurie I didn’t leave the house for days. I just watched
DVDs. I was so bored!
1.14 Lesson 1G, Exercises 4 and 5
Speaker 1
I spent the last two weeks of the summer holiday with my
cousins in Newcastle. While I was there, I took part in the
Great North Run – a half marathon. I’m not a keen runner,
but two of my cousins are, so I ran with them. Twenty-one
kilometres! The amazing thing is, I actually didn’t feel
exhausted at the end. I couldn’t understand it. OK, so my
time wasn’t very good. But I didn’t really care about that. I
was just amazed I finished it!
Speaker 2
I was in Cornwall for two weeks with my family. We stayed in
a cottage near the sea. The weather was great – hot and
sunny every day. In fact, I got burned quite badly on my
shoulders. My brother really laughed at me, but I didn’t think
it was amusing at all. In fact, I was quite anxious about it.
After all, sunburn can cause serious problems with your skin
when you’re older. In fact, I went to see my doctor about it
when I got back. She said I had to be more careful next
time.
Speaker 3
In August, there was a dance competition in the sports
centre. It was ballroom dancing, like on that TV show Strictly
Come Dancing. Well, I go to dance class every week and
I’m not bad – so I entered the competition. I danced really
well, I think. But I didn’t win. Later, I found out some
information about the winners. They’re brother and sister,
and guess where their dad works … At the sports centre! I
don’t think it was a fair competition. I mean, I saw them and
they weren’t very good.
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Speaker 4
At the beginning of the summer, I spent a week on the south
coast of England with my dad. I went to visit my friend
Macey, who moved there last year. She’s got an amazing
house! It’s got about seven bedrooms and a cinema room.
And the garden is enormous. There’s a swimming pool and
a tennis court. I wish I lived in a place like that, I really do.
She’s so lucky!

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 Speaker 3
Pre-Intermediate Student’s
On this seven-day walking holiday in the Philippines, you’ll
Book audio scripts see mountains and valleys, lakes and forests. But the
highlight of the week is the chance to stand beside Lake
Pinatubo, a lake inside a volcano. Thirty years ago, this lake
Unit 2 didn’t exist at all. But when Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991,
the top of the volcano blew off. A shallow lake formed, which
soon became deep because of all the rain. Take a break
1.15 Lesson 2A, Exercise 2 from the tropical heat by enjoying a swim in this beautiful
A and exotic natural feature!

There are two people on a bridge near a forest. There’s a Speaker 4

waterfall and some rocks below them. The bridge goes
Join Forest Trekkers on a Canadian adventure you’ll never
across a river.
forget. We offer a two-week journey through the spectacular
B scenery of Canada. See the parts of the country that most
tourists never reach: kayak down narrow rivers under the
There is a man standing on some rocks at the top of a hill.
trees or walk across narrow, wooden bridges. Find dark
He’s looking out over a valley.
caves behind tall waterfalls. We promise you’ll fall in love
C with this exciting and magical landscape, with its tall trees,
clean waters and clear blue skies.
This man is climbing up a cliff. You can see the ocean and
the rocks below.
1.17 Lesson 2C, Exercise 3
D
Fred
This diver is inside an underwater cave in the ocean. He’s
looking between the rocks. I like BASE jumping because it allows me to get away from
the city, to remote places where you hardly see anyone.
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Sally
This person is in a small boat – it’s a kayak. The kayak is on
a lake, near the shore. In the background, there are BASE jumping is really a sport for young people. There
mountains. aren’t many BASE jumpers who are over 30.
Chris
1.16 Lesson 2A, Exercises 5 and 6 I love the outdoors, but I’m not particularly brave, so I
Speaker 1 haven’t considered BASE jumping as a hobby.

Bored with the beach? Hungry for adventure? Why not Celina
spend seven days in a remote and beautiful landscape in
BASE jumping certainly isn’t a sport to try if you are unfit.
Alaska? Kayak across icy lakes and shallow rivers. See
eagles, bears and other fascinating wildlife. Or just enjoy the Shelley
amazing scenery on your journey through tall mountains and
BASE jumping is a great sport and you get to do it in such
deep valleys. The view of the mountains as you kayak
spectacular surroundings.
across the lake is unforgettable.
Martin
Speaker 2
My friend asked me to go BASE jumping with him, and I
For experienced divers only, this holiday offers an amazing
hated it.
chance to explore the rocky caves along the coast of
Mexico. You can only reach some of these areas by boat –
a boat that will be your home for five days. After three days 1.18 Lesson 2C, Exercises 5 and 6
near the caves, the boat leaves the steep cliffs and heads Interviewer Good afternoon, and welcome to the
for the ocean for two days – a chance to see some of programme. Today, I’m talking to BASE
Mexico’s amazing marine wildlife. jumper Tanya Marks. Tanya, thanks for
joining us.
Tanya My pleasure.

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Interviewer Now, Tanya, my first question to you is
basically … why? Why choose a sport with so
many dangers? Why not something nice and
safe, like table tennis?
Tanya Well, I can answer that in one word:
adrenaline. Extreme sports aren't safe! That’s
precisely why I enjoy them so much. I’m the
kind of person who loves to feel that thrill of
risk and adventure.
Interviewer Do you do any others?
Tanya Well, I like sky-diving – and hang-gliding too.
But BASE jumping is my new sport – and my
obsession! I’m totally addicted.
Interviewer How did you first get into it?
Tanya It was one of my sky-diving friends who
suggested it. He had the equipment and
invited me to join him. My first jump was
terrifying – but I loved it!
Interviewer What’s your favourite place for BASE
jumping?
Tanya Well, it keeps changing because I’m always
looking for somewhere new. But at the
moment, I love the cliffs in Tonsai, in
Thailand. Though it isn't an ideal place to do it
as there are no hospitals nearby!
Interviewer So, is danger always in your mind when
you’re jumping?
Tanya Oh yes. That’s not just me, that’s all BASE
jumpers. We know the dangers.
Interviewer Do you think that’s why there aren’t many
women who do BASE jumping? Do the risks
put them off?
Tanya I’m not sure … I don’t really agree. More
women are joining the sport every year.
Interviewer Who are the big names?
Tanya Well, I guess Roberta Mancino is the new star
of BASE jumping. She also does sky-diving
and wingsuit-flying. The media love her
because of the way she looks, but she’s also
brilliant at her sports. She’s a great role-model
and, hopefully, she’ll encourage more girls to
take up extreme sports.
Interviewer Tanya Marks, thank you.
1.19 Lesson 2D, Exercise 4
Still underwater, he swam close to the boat, then came up
silently. Three people were arguing loudly. While he was
listening to their argument, the boat’s engines started.
Before it started moving, Harry quickly climbed onto the
back of the boat and hid. The boat began to move away. As
he was deciding what to do, he heard a scream. Someone
fell into the water. Harry realised who it was and jumped
in too.
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1.20 Lesson 2D, Exercise 9
The woman in the water was Sophie. She and Harry were
both police officers. They were investigating a diamond
robbery. Sophie wasn’t moving so Harry held her head
above the water and swam with her back to the shore.
When they reached the shore, Sophie opened her eyes
again.
‘What happened?’ asked Harry.
‘I told the robbers that I wanted to buy the diamonds,’ replied
Sophie. ‘One of them believed me, but the other didn’t. He
tried to kill me!’
Harry looked out to the sea. The boat was turning round.
‘Why are they coming back?’ he said.
‘They want the diamonds,’ said Sophie. ‘Look. I’ve got them!
I was holding them when he pushed me into the sea!’
1.21 Lesson 2F
Tourists’ fishing trip disaster
A dream holiday turned into a nightmare for an American
brother and sister called Dan and Kate Suski. They were
enjoying a fishing trip in the Caribbean, near the stunning
island of St Lucia, when their boat sank, leaving them and
their captain to fight for their lives.
The fishing trip began well enough. The weather wasn’t
brilliant, but Dan wasn’t complaining: he had a huge fish on
his line! He was trying to pull it onto the boat and Kate was
helping him. But then, the captain realised there was a
problem. Water was coming into the cabin and the boat was
sinking fast. The captain used his radio to send a message
for help. Then he shouted to the Suskis, ‘Jump out! Jump
out!’ So they did, and a few minutes later, the boat
disappeared under the waves. They were about 15 km from
land.
The captain told the Suskis to wait with him in the water.
Help was coming. The weather was now awful, but they
were wearing life jackets. After an hour, the captain and the
Suskis lost each other, and there was no sign of rescue. So
Dan and Kate started to swim as fast as they could towards
land. They were both thinking the same terrifying thought:
sharks!
A plane and a helicopter appeared in the sky, but nobody
saw Dan and Kate in the water. Hours passed and night
came. The Suskis swam for fourteen hours. Then, in the
moonlight, they saw some cliffs. They were only a few
metres from land! But they couldn’t get out of the water
here. The waves were breaking against sharp rocks; it was
too dangerous. So Kate and Dan swam past the cliffs. By
now, they were exhausted. Eventually, they reached a
sandy beach. Out of the water at last, they lay down and
rested.
Then they started to look for a town or village. On the way,
they picked and ate green bananas. Dan said later that it
was the worst – and best – food of his life! After three hours,
they met a young farm worker. He gave them water and
food, and stayed with them until the police arrived. He also
gave them some tragic news: the captain was lost at sea.
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Dan and Kate Suski spent a few days in hospital. Their story
appeared in news programmes around the world. And there
was one final piece of astonishing news: the captain also
survived. A rescue boat found him after 23 hours in the
water!
1.22 Lesson 2G, Exercises 2 and 3
Student 1
Teacher Please describe the photo.
Student Well, on the left, there are some trees. And in
the centre, there’s a woman walking along.
She’s hiking somewhere – it looks like a forest.
She’s holding a pole in each hand – and she’s
wearing a rucksack, I think. At the bottom of the
picture, you can see that it’s a really muddy
path. But the woman doesn’t look worried. She
seems to be having a good time.
Teacher Thank you.
Student 2
Teacher Please describe the photo.
Student The photo shows five people in a dinghy.
They’re white-water rafting on a river. In the top
left corner of the photo, there is a man leaning
out of the boat. In the foreground, there’s a lot
of water. The man at the back of the dinghy is
trying to guide the dinghy with his paddle. The
other four people aren’t helping very much. It
looks as if they’re new to it. They’re all wearing
the same life jackets and helmets. I imagine
they’re doing this as a holiday activity.
Teacher Thank you.
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Teacher Do you think the people are enjoying
themselves?
Student Yes, I think they are.
Teacher Why do you think that?
Student Well, basically, you can see it in their faces.
They don’t look scared at all. They’re smiling
and they seem really excited.
Teacher Is it something that you would like to try?
Student To be honest, no, I wouldn’t.
Teacher Oh? Why not?
Student I think I’d be really scared. For me, the worst
thing would be that I couldn’t stop or get out of
the dinghy. I’d have to keep going right to the
end, even if I was having a bad time.
Teacher Yes, I see what you mean. Now, can you tell
me about the last time you did an outdoor
activity?
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Student A while ago, I went on a bike ride with a friend
of mine. We headed out of town and through
some woods. We took food and water with us.
We stayed out for about six hours, but we didn’t
get bored at all. In fact, it was a really good day
out. I suppose that’s the last time I did an
outdoor activity.
Teacher OK. Thank you.
1.24 Exam Skills Trainer 1, Exercise 4
1
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our website. You can take flying lessons or a helicopter
flight. You can drive a Ferrari or go quad biking for a day. Do
you like being outdoors? Then why not try rock climbing or
canoeing? And if you’re really adventurous, you could go
skydiving. There’s something for everyone at Extreme
Elements – so visit our website now!
2
Welcome to Water World! First, a few practical details about
the timetable ... Breakfast is from seven to eight. Activities
begin at nine, and lunch is at one o’clock. Activities begin
again at two, and then at five o’clock there is free time until
dinner. You all have personal timetables, so you should
know what groups you are in, but please see me with any
problems. There is a welcome lunch in one hour, and I look
forward to seeing you all then.
3
Thank you for inviting me to Careers Week. Let me start by
telling you how I got started. At school, I enjoyed sport and
was in the football and basketball teams. One day, our
teacher told us about a new course at the local swimming
pool – scuba diving. I wasn’t interested, but my friend
wanted to go so I decided to go with him. Well, my friend
didn’t enjoy scuba diving, but I loved it! I finished the course,
and then I did more. I did my teaching qualification, and now
I’m an instructor.
4
Snowboarding is one of the most popular extreme sports,
and people do it all over the world. There are snowboarding
competitions at the Winter Olympics too. But it’s a very
young sport. In 1964 an American surfer called Sherman
Poppen dreamed about ‘surfing’ in the mountains. So he
built a surfboard for the snow – he tied two skis together and
gave it to his daughter, Wendy. People saw it and liked the
idea, and a year later, Poppen made wide boards and sold
them in toy shops. It was the beginning of the snowboard,
and the sport as we know it today.
5
We all know that exercise helps you to lose or to control
your weight. It also helps you sleep better and look better
too. But don’t forget that exercise can also be fun. You don’t
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have to do a sport you don’t enjoy. There’s no need to go
running if you find it boring, or swim for hours if you hate
water. Why don’t you choose a team game such as football
or basketball? You can join a club, have fun and meet other
people who enjoy that sport too. There are hundreds of
different sports and exercise classes to choose from.
6
Do you love sport and meeting people? Then come and see
local celebrity and Olympic winner Amelia Green at
Brightside Leisure this Saturday at 2 p.m. She is opening
the new Olympic pool that we’ve all been waiting for. As you
know, building work started two years ago and the result is
fantastic. There is a free swim for the first fifty people. Then,
tickets are half-price for the next six weeks.

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 Woman Is it inhabited?
Pre-Intermediate Student’s Computer Yes, but the inhabitants are primitive. They
Book audio scripts have no advanced technology.
Woman Activate shields! Their technology seems pretty
advanced to me!
Unit 3 5
Host So, here comes your first question. Remember,
1.25 Lesson 3A, Exercise 2 this is for £20. What is the past form of the verb
action film – picture A animation – picture C chat show ‘run’? OK, let’s try it another way. Today, I run.
comedy documentary fantasy film – picture B game Yesterday, I …
show horror film musical news bulletin period Man Walked?
drama reality show romantic comedy science fiction
Host No, I’m sorry. I can’t give you that.
film sitcom – picture D soap opera talent show
thriller war film weather forecast western 6
Anchor Good evening. Two more factories in Scotland
1.26 Lesson 3A, Exercise 3 are to close, with the loss of nearly a thousand
1 jobs. Is the government doing enough? And in
sport, Chelsea lose four-nil to Manchester
Doc What you doing in this town, Jud? United. But first, the president of the United …
Jud It’s my home town, Doc. I can come here if I
want, can’t I? 1.27 Lesson 3A, Exercises 5 and 6
Doc I think you should stay away. It’s a dangerous
1
town – for people like you. Get on your horse
and ride. Boy What did you think of that?

2 Girl It was OK. The ending was quite moving.

Boy I know. I was crying at an animated film. How
Ann Good day, sir.
embarrassing!
Joseph Good day, Miss Willerby. Did you and your
Girl Me too. Oh well …
sisters enjoy the dance?
Boy Animations don’t usually make me laugh, but
Ann I assume you are referring to the ball at Lord
there were some really funny scenes.
Blackstone’s palace.
Girl Yes. Like the one on the boat. I loved that!
Joseph Indeed.
Boy So did I.
Ann I’m sorry to say that I did not enjoy it. As for my
sisters, you must ask them yourself. Good day, 2
sir!
Girl Did you like that?
3 Boy No, I didn’t! And I usually enjoy thrillers.
Boy Suzie? Is that you? Girl Oh, why didn’t you like it?
Suzie It’s me. Boy I found the plot really confusing. It just didn’t
Boy But I thought … I thought you died. make sense.

Suzie Hold my hand. Girl Well, it did – in a way. I know what you mean,
but it didn’t bother me. I thought the story was
Boy It’s so cold.
interesting.
Suzie Come with me!
Boy I didn’t understand it.
Boy Argh! Let go! Let go of my hand!
Girl And it was amazing to look at. The special
4 effects were spectacular.

Woman Ship’s computer, what is that planet? Boy I suppose so. But I’m just not very interested in
special effects.
Computer Zircon 5.

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3 Mum Just try it.
Boy Did you enjoy that? Boy Do I have to? OK, just one bite …
Girl Yes, I loved it. The acting was totally Boy Mmm!
convincing. Boy Not bad. It tastes like white bread!
Boy It was a bit boring though. I mean, not much Mum I know. But it’s 100% organic wholemeal.
happened. Boy Really? Well, it tastes great!
Girl What do you mean? Lots of things happened. Do you want the goodness of brown bread but the taste of
They argued, they fell in love, they split up … white bread? Why not try Hathaway’s new organic bread?
Boy Maybe I just don’t like romantic comedies. It’s baked from 100% wholemeal flour, with a delicious
Girl Why not? Because there are no car chases? natural taste. It’s perfect for sandwiches and toast. And it
This film had so many other things to offer. I’m gives kids the energy they need for a busy day.
amazed you didn’t like it. I’m not a fan of Ask for Hathaway’s organic wholemeal – a delicious and
romantic comedies, but I found the characters convenient food for all the family. Start the day with
really interesting. Hathaway.
Boy I just found it … boring. Sorry!
1.30 Lesson 3C, Exercises 6 and 7
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1
Boy Well … What did you think?
Girl I was terrified! Man So, how did it go?

Boy Yes, you screamed when that teacher came Woman Not very well. For a start, I arrived late.
back to life. Man Oh no! Why?
Girl Did I? How embarrassing! The soundwas really Woman My taxi broke down. Can you believe it?
cool. Man How awful! That’s really bad luck.
Boy I know. I want to buy it. Woman So I had to run to the interview. I looked a mess
Girl The script was really unnatural in places, when I arrived!
though. Man How annoying!
Boy Horror films always have unnatural scripts. Woman And I answered the questions really badly.
Girl I know. Still, it was really good. Man Maybe you did OK. It’s difficult to know …
Boy Yeah! Woman Not this time.
Man But you’re great at your job.
1.28 Lesson 3B, Exercise 6 Woman Thanks … but I’m disappointed because I did
Jack Look, there’s a building with some people badly in the interview! It’s a shame. Good jobs
outside. Turn left just before you get there. in advertising are very hard to find.
Evie I can’t see any people. There isn’t much light. Man Well, never mind. You’ll get another chance.
Evie Hey! What’s that noise? Sometimes, when one door closes, another
opens …
Jack Nothing. There was some rubbish in the road.
Evie I hate this part of town. There aren’t many nice 2
areas. Let’s go north. Satnav At the traffic lights, go straight on.
Jack How much fuel have we got? Only a few litres. Man Traffic lights? What traffic lights? There aren’t
Evie Oh no, listen. The police are chasing us now. any traffic lights!
Jack Let me drive. I know a few tricks. Satnav Turn left.
Mum Jack, are you doing any homework in there? Man Oh, OK.
Jack Er … Yes. We’re doing a little IT homework. Satnav Turn right.
Evie Jack! That’s not true … Man Right? You said left!
Jack Well, we’re spending a lot of time on the Satnav In fifty metres, turn right.
computer! Man Fifty metres, fifty metres. But there isn’t a road!
Evie But we aren’t doing any work! This is so confusing!
Satnav Turn right now.
1.29 Lesson 3C, Exercise 3 Man How can I turn right when there isn’t a road?
Mum Your toast’s ready! How can I? I don’t understand!
Boy But I hate brown bread!

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Satnav Error. You have followed an incorrect route. Man That’s shocking. You have to give a refund if
Recalculating … the product doesn’t work. I know my rights!
Man This is impossible. I’m exhausted. I’m turning Now, can I have my money back? Or do I need
the satnav off. to speak to the manager?
Satnav Goodbye. Assistant I’ll get the manager.

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1.31 Lesson 3D, Exercise 2
Executive So this is the slogan for the new online advert –
Host This question is for £125,000. Jill, in the sitcom
Yoga holidays. Put your feet up. And the picture
How I Met your Mother, what is Ted Mosby’s
shows a woman standing on her head in a yoga
job? Is it A, lawyer, B, designer, C, architect, or
position.
D, reporter?
Client 1 Mmm.
Jill Um … I’d like to ask the audience, please.
Executive Do you see? It’s a play on words. Put your feet
Host OK. Audience, you must answer A, B, C or D on
up … as in, relax. But her feet are in the air. I’m
your keypads … now! …OK, 30% think it’s B
really happy with that slogan.
and 50% think it’s C. But you needn’t take their
Client 1 Hmm. I’m not very keen on it. She looks a bit advice.
uncomfortable to me. Have you got any other
Jill Mmm, I think I’ll phone my friend Danny.
ideas?
Host OK, let’s ring Danny. … Hello, Danny. Jill has a
Executive Well, we thought of a few others – but we
question worth £125,000. You must answer
rejected them. Some were inappropriate –
within thirty seconds. OK?
others were just a bit boring.
Jill Hi, Danny. In the sitcom How I Met your Mother,
Client 2 Can you tell us what they were?
what is Ted Mosby’s job? Is it A, lawyer, B,
Executive Yes, of course. Our first idea was just Yoga: designer, C, architect, or D, reporter?
learn to relax.
Danny Um, I think it’s B … or maybe C … No, it’s D. …
Client 1 Ooh, I like that. I don’t think it’s boring. It’s clear,
Host Sorry, you’re out of time. But you don’t have to
it’s simple …
answer the question. You can walk away with
Client 2 I think you’re right. It’s perfect. £64,000.
Executive Don’t you think the new one is more amusing? Jill I’m going to answer C.
Client 1 No, definitely not. Host Final answer?
Executive Well, of course, it’s your decision … Jill No. Yes. No.
4 Host You don’t have to change your mind!

Assistant Hello. Can I help you? Jill The answer is B. Final answer.

Customer Yes, I bought this games console here last Host Oh, Jill, the answer is C, architect. You’ve just
week and it doesn’t work. lost £32,000!

Assistant Oh, I’m sorry about that. So, what’s the problem
with it? 1.32 Lesson 3F
Customer I’m not very satisfied with the sound quality. Why video games are good for your health
There’s a strange noise when I turn it on. Like Many people assume that video games have a negative
this: BEEEEP. effect on young people. A lot of time in front of a screen is
Assistant Can I hear? bad for the mind and the body, they believe. Newspaper
Customer Yes. Listen. headlines often express the same opinion – and combat
games cause the most concern because of the violence. But
Assistant Oooh, that’s an unbearable noise, isn’t it?
is there any evidence for this view? According to a report in
Man Pardon? American Psychologist, the truth is not so simple. Playing
Assistant I said, that’s an unbearable noise. Can you video games is sometimes good for children’s education,
switch it off? health and social skills.
Man I can’t hear you. I’ll switch it off. Research shows that video games can actually improve
Assistant Maybe you can phone the manufacturer. They certain mental skills. This is especially true for combat
usually have a customer help desk … games. These games teach players to think about objects in
three dimensions and this makes them better at studying
Man I don’t want to phone anybody. I want my
science, technology, engineering and maths. Other types of
money back!
video game do not usually provide these benefits.
Assistant I’m afraid we don’t give refunds.
However, other types of video game can have other positive
effects. In 2013, scientists did some research into the effect

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of role-playing games (RPGs) on children. The research
showed that when children spend a lot of time playing
RPGs, they get better grades at school than children who do
not play them. Other research showed that playing any kind
of video game, including violent games, improves children’s
creativity. But using a computer or smartphone for emails or
other tasks does not provide this benefit.
Quick and simple games like Angry Birds can improve
players’ mood and prevent them from feeling anxious. This
emotional benefit is important, the report suggests. Feeling
relaxed and happy is good for your health. The report also
describes another emotional benefit of video games: they
teach children how to react well to failure. In video games,
players continually fail and try again. This makes them
emotionally strong in real life.
Video games can improve social skills too, the report says.
More than 70% of gamers play with a friend, not alone, and
millions of people take part in huge online games like
Minecraft and Farmville. The players learn useful social
skills: how to lead a group, how to work together and how to
make decisions. Overall, the report does not deny that some
video games can have negative effects; but it is important to
think about the benefits too. And remember: you mustn’t
believe everything you read in the newspapers!

1.33 Lesson 3G, Exercises 3 and 5

Examiner So, which film shall we see? I quite fancy the
romantic comedy. They are usually very funny
and I think it’ll be easy to follow.
Student Sorry, but I’m not a big fan of romantic
comedies. The stories are always so silly! I’d
prefer the horror film. As you can see in the
poster, someone is trying to escape and it looks
really exciting.
Examiner Oh, I don’t agree. I’m not keen on scary films.
Student Oh, OK. What about the period drama?
Examiner Yes, I quite like them.
Student Shall we settle on that, then? It starts at seven.
What time shall we meet up?
Student I can come to your house at six, if you like, and
we can take the bus into town.
Examiner I’ll already be in town so I’d rather meet at the
cinema. Let’s meet there at 6.15.
Student 6.15 is a bit too early. What about 6.30?
Examiner OK. 6.30.
Student That’s agreed then. Shall we invite anyone
else? I think Donna likes period dramas.
Examiner To be honest, I don’t get on very well with
Donna. Can we invite someone else?
Student How about Tom?
Examiner Yes, that’s a great idea. I’ll text him and see if
he wants to come.

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Pre-Intermediate Student’s 1.35 Lesson 4C, Exercise 1
There are two people in the doorway of a house. They are
Book audio scripts cleaning up after a flood. They are wearing trousers and
hoodies. The boy on the left has a blue T-shirt and red
shorts. He’s crying. Next to him there’s a man with a blue
Unit 4 bucket. He is emptying the water into a container. The water
in the street is brown and muddy. Behind them, there is a
woman. She looks very unhappy.
1.34 Lesson 4A, Exercises 4 and 5
1 1.36 Lesson 4C, Exercise 2
It’s minus ten degrees Celsius and there’s a lot of ice 1
everywhere – on cars, on trees, on houses. The ice is 10 cm
thick in some places! In a strange way, it’s beautiful to look Boy Bye, Mum! I’m off to school now. See you about
at. But icy roads are dangerous for drivers and pedestrians. four.
And there are many homes in the area without electricity. Mum Don’t forget your coat. It might rain this
We’re expecting a little snow this afternoon. afternoon.
2 Boy OK. I’ve got it.

There is some snow on the ground, and already, it’s 2

impossible to see more than a few metres ahead. There isn’t Man I can just see the tornado on the horizon. But
any fog, but the wind is blowing the snow into my face. It’s it’s very dark out there.
difficult just to open my eyes! It’s very cold, it’s very windy
Woman It’s the storm clouds. Shall we go out and take a
and this reporter is very glad to be going inside now.
closer look?
3 Man I feel safer here because we can take cover in
It’s early in the morning – just after six o’clock. There’s a the cellar. And what about your lunch?
little frost on the grass after a cold night. But it’s sunny, and Woman I’ll finish it later. I’m going out to take a look.
temperatures are starting to rise, so it won’t be frosty for Bye, darling!
long. There aren’t many clouds in the sky, so I don’t think
3
any rain is on the way. But of course, conditions can change
quickly. Boy The sun’s so hot! Shall we get an ice cream?
  Girl Not yet. I’m still full from breakfast.
4 Boy Well, I’m going to. Where’s the money mum
gave you?
For residents of this town, it’s another cold, grey winter day.
Girl Oh no, I left it on the kitchen table!
Temperatures are around zero, but because of the icy wind,
it feels like minus five. There’s a lot of snow in people’s Boy Oh, well done. Shall we go for a swim?
gardens, but the roads are clear now. However, there’s a Girl OK. Can we leave our bags here?
little ice on the pavements, so pedestrians have to be Boy Yes, they’ll be OK. We can see them from the
careful. It isn’t snowing at the moment, but they say more water.
snow is on the way.
5 1.37 Lesson 4C, Exercises 3 and 4
It began this morning. The sky became very cloudy and the 1
air felt stormy. There were a few showers and it was windy
Journalist Can you tell me what happened?
too. Everyone knew what was happening, and many people
left their homes and went inland, away from the coast. Now Man It was terrifying. It was in the middle of the night
there’s a lot of rain and the wind is extremely strong. so we were in bed. Everything started to shake.
Nobody is outside; it isn’t safe. A few moments later, the back of the house
collapsed. We all rushed outside and stood in
the street. Luckily, we all survived and no one
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Journalist And this place is now your home?
Man Yes, we came here yesterday. The church has
been very helpful. We have food and water and
a roof over our heads, so it’s better than
nothing. But we've lost everything.
2
There’s been virtually no rain in the region for the past two
years. Normally it’s very rainy at this time of year, but the
last rain was two months ago. My organisation back home
raises a lot of money and sends it out to us. My job is to
spend it on food and drinking water, but we urgently need
more. The government here provides some food and water,
but it isn’t enough. Politicians make a lot of promises, but
they often break them. Hopefully the rain will come
before long.
3 climate change.
Boy Did you see that fire on the news last night?
Girl No. Where was it?
Boy In California.
Girl Was anyone killed?
Boy I don’t think so. But it destroyed a lot of houses.
The pictures were shocking. The fire moved so
fast!
Girl How did it start? Was it lightning from that storm
yesterday?
Boy No, there weren’t any storms in California.
Somebody lit a fire in the forest.
Girl So it wasn’t an accident?
Boy Well, it was, actually. They were going to have
a barbecue.
Girl That was a bit stupid, in the middle of a heat-
wave! Did they find the people who started it?
Boy Yes, they were the ones who phoned the
emergency services.
4
Scientists said last year that it was going to erupt. Well, it
finally erupted a couple of days ago and lava poured down
the mountain. It destroyed a village and sadly a number of
people lost their lives. And the eruption continues – you can
still see lava coming out of the ground high up on the
mountain, and clouds of smoke are still pouring from the top.
But it isn’t as bad as it was yesterday.
5 about -40°C and there was very little oxygen. Death
During the fishing trip, the weather was fine – mostly sunny
and warm. The sea was quite calm and we were about to
return to the port when we saw a wave on the horizon. We
were quite close to the shore, maybe only a kilometre away.
But instead of returning home, we decided to sail out to sea,
towards the wave. This sounds mad, but waves like this are
actually quite low when they are far out to sea and only
become big as they reach shallow water near the coast. It
was a wise decision, as the boat rode easily over the wave.
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The wave caused a lot of damage when it reached the
shore, but luckily no one was killed.
1.38 Lesson 4E, Exercise 2
Global warming fact file
The Earth is heating up. The average surface temperature is
0.75 degrees Celsius higher now than it was 100 years ago.
When we burn fossil fuels, they give off greenhouse gases
like carbon dioxide (CO2). This causes global warming.
We have cut down over 50% of the Earth’s rainforests in the
last 60 years. These are important because they remove
CO2 from the atmosphere and add oxygen. They are also
home to over half of the world’s plant and animal species.
Some scientists believe that by 2050, about 35% of all plant
and animal species could die out because of
Sea levels are rising and the polar ice caps are melting.
Scientists say that fossil fuels like coal and gas may run out
by the year 3000. So we need to develop alternatives, such
as renewable energy and nuclear energy.
1.39 Lesson 4F
A bumpy ride
In February 2007, about two hundred paragliders were in
Australia for a few days to prepare for the World
Championship. They included Ewa Wiśnierska, a German
paragliding champion. One morning, as the competitors
were getting ready to take off, they noticed that a
thunderstorm was approaching. However, they decided to
carry on. After all, these were the best paragliders in the
world; they were certainly skilful enough to keep away from
some dark clouds. Or so they thought.
Unfortunately, as the competitors took off, the weather
quickly became worse. Ewa tried to get away from the
storm, but two enormous clouds came together and trapped
her. That was the start of the most terrifying and dangerous
experience of her life.
The clouds pulled Ewa up inside the storm like a leaf in the
wind. She flew higher and higher, with lightning and hail all
around her. ‘I was shaking,’ she told reporters afterwards.
‘The last thing I remember, it was dark. I could hear lightning
all around me.’ She rose to an altitude of nearly 10,000 m –
that’s higher than the top of Mount Everest – and then she
lost consciousness. At that height, the temperature was
seemed certain.
For forty minutes, Ewa was unconscious. When she woke
up, she was still inside the storm. It was dark and hail stones
were flying past. They were as big as tennis balls. Her glider
was spinning above her head, but it was still in one piece.
Eventually, Ewa came out of the storm cloud and saw a
small farm on the ground. She headed towards it and landed
safely. She fell to the ground and rolled over, too weak and
confused to call for help. When her team reached her, she
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was 60 km away from the place where she took off. She
was covered in ice – but alive!
Godfrey Wenness, the organiser of the championships,
described Ewa as the luckiest woman in the world. ‘This is
like winning the lottery ten times in a row. That’s how lucky
this woman is. There’s no logical reason why she got away
with it,’ he said. Sadly, a Chinese competitor was not as
lucky as Ewa. He flew into the same storm and died.
Ewa had frostbite on her ears and legs and went to hospital
for treatment, but a few days later, she competed in the
World Championship. ‘Flying is too fantastic to stop because
of an accident,’ she said.
2.02 Lesson 4G, Exercises 3 and 4
Student 1
The first photo shows three teenage girls and a boy. I think
they're at a music festival. They are walking down a muddy
path. In the second photo, I can see a street market at night.
It can’t be in Britain because some of the shop signs aren’t
in English. In the foreground, a young man and woman are
walking along the street. In the background, there are a few
other people. Both photos show people in their free time.
One obvious difference is that the first photo is taken during
the day and the second photo is taken at night. In the first
photo, it must be a rainy day because they are wearing
raincoats. In the second photo, it must be a cold night
because the people are wearing winter coats and scarves.
In the first photo the people don’t look very happy, especially
the girl in the middle and the boy in the background.
Perhaps they’re feeling fed up because of the weather. In
the second photo, the man and woman are probably feeling
cold, but not unhappy.
Student 2
In the first photo, I can see a big crowd of people in a very
wide street. They're standing on the pavement and they’re
watching a parade. There are lots of flags.
The second photo shows a group of four people. I think they
are in a field. They are walking towards us. They're wearing
raincoats and boots.
The common theme in the photos is festivals. The people in
the second photo are at a music festival and the people in
the first photo are at a street festival, I think. One obvious
difference is the weather. In the first photo, it’s warm and
dry, but in the second photo it’s rainy.
The people in the second photo don’t look very happy –
probably because of the bad weather. I can’t really see the
expressions on the faces of the people in the first photo, but
I imagine they’re happy as they are at a festival and the
weather is fine.
2.03 Lesson 4G, Exercise 6
In the first photo, I can see a big crowd of people in a very
wide street. They're standing on the pavement and they’re
watching a parade. There are lots of flags.
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The second photo shows a group of four people. I think they
are in a field. They are walking towards us. They're wearing
raincoats and boots.
The common theme in the photos is festivals. The people in
the second photo are at a music festival and the people in
the first photo are at a street festival, I think. One obvious
difference is the weather. In the first photo, it’s warm and
dry, but in the second photo it’s rainy.
The people in the second photo don’t look very happy –
probably because of the bad weather. I can’t really see the
expressions on the faces of the people in the first photo, but
I imagine they’re happy as they are at a festival and the
weather is fine.
2.04 Exam Skills Trainer 2, Exercise 4
Hello and thank you for asking me to come and speak to
you today. I’d like to start by telling you a little bit about how I
became a space scientist. I was always interested in the
stars and spent a lot of time as a child staring out of my
window at the night sky. I also read books from the library
and learned all about the planets and famous astronomers
such as Galileo, who studied the stars. I used to stand in the
garden and point out the names of the planets to my very
patient parents.
Science wasn’t really my favourite subject when I was at
school. I preferred maths although I wasn’t very good at it. I
also played the violin and the piano very well and I thought
for a while that music would be my future career. But then I
went on a school trip to the science museum in London.
There was an exhibition about the history of space travel
and also a film about shooting stars. I thought it was
amazing that most of the shooting stars we see are
meteoroids. These objects can be small, like sand, or larger
rocks. A meteoroid becomes a meteor when it hits the
atmosphere and leaves a bright light behind it. That night, I
was looking out of my window and there was a shooting
star. I was so excited I decided right then that I would be a
space scientist!
I worked hard at school and studied physics at university.
After that, I worked for several years as a research assistant
at different universities in Britain, and later in Japan. During
that time, I worked on a very exciting space mission to Mars.
Now I’m back in Britain working on another space mission.
People ask me how to become a space scientist. Well, it
isn’t easy, but I’m proof that it’s possible. It doesn’t matter
too much which university you go to, but you need to get the
best science degree you can and then go from there. Follow
your dreams and don’t give up!
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 in banking. So I travelled with the family. It was fun. We
Pre-Intermediate Student’s stayed in some beautiful hotels. The kids were lovely too,
Book audio scripts but it was hard work looking after them! I was exhausted by
the end of each day.
Speaker 2, Tom
Unit 5 I really wanted to work outdoors over the summer, so when I
saw the advertisement for a job as a gardener, I applied for
2.05 Lesson 5A, Exercise 2 it. I did it for five weeks, and to be honest, I didn’t really
enjoy it very much. I was unlucky with the weather – it was a
architect – photo D cleaner dentist engineer –
very rainy summer. But the main problem was, I had to do
photo A farm worker hairdresser – photo B
the same thing every day. It got really boring because there
paramedic – photo C pilot programmer receptionist
was no variety. At least the hours weren’t too long. I started
sales assistant solicitor sports coach travel agent
at ten in the morning and finished at four in the afternoon.
waiter
Then I went home. Most days, I didn’t see another person all
the time I was there. I didn’t like that either, really. I prefer
2.06 Lesson 5A, Exercise 4 working with other people.
Girl What are you reading? Speaker 3, Katie
Boy It’s an article about different jobs and how much
I really enjoyed my job at a summer camp. It was seven
you can earn. Look – engineer is one of the
days a week, so hard work, but that was fine. The children
best-paid jobs in the country. That’s good news.
had lessons in the morning. Then every afternoon, I’d do
Girl Why is it good news? sports with them: football, volleyball, athletics, lots of
Boy Because I want to be an engineer. different things. There were five of us working as sports
Girl Oh, OK. What are some of the others? coaches. We all got on really well, which was great, and we
helped each other to plan the afternoon. We arranged
Boy Some of the other best-paid jobs? Er …
matches and competitions for the evenings too, so we
architect, dentist, pilot, programmer, solicitor …
usually had to work really late – but we didn’t mind. Seeing
Girl What about paramedic? That’s what I want to the children enjoying themselves and learning new activities
be. was great. I loved it.
Boy Er … yes. Here it is. It is one of the best-paid
Speaker 4, Fynn
jobs.
Girl Great! What are the worst-paid? Over the summer, I spent four weeks at a call centre,
working as a charity fundraiser. I hated it! From nine in the
Boy There are lots: cleaner, farm worker,
morning until five in the afternoon, I had to phone people
hairdresser, receptionist, sales assistant, waiter,
and basically ask for money. OK, so it was money for
sports coach …
charity – a wildlife charity. But people didn’t want to talk to
Girl What about travel agents? My sister wants to me, and sometimes they were quite rude. I got very anxious
be a travel agent … about making the calls. And I didn’t like being indoors all the
Boy Travel agent … let me see. That’s one of the time, in a small room, with about twenty other people. That
worst-paid jobs. made me even more anxious. I felt trapped. I mean, the
Girl Oh dear, maybe she should think of something money was quite good, but I didn’t enjoy the work at all.
else … Never again!

2.07 Lesson 5A, Exercises 7 and 9 2.08 Lesson 5B, Exercise 2

Speaker 1, Ellie Toby Hi, Mia. Is anyone sitting here?
Mia Hi, Toby. No. Sit down, I’ll move my bag.
I wanted to earn some money last summer, so I got a job as
an au pair. It was with a family from Greece who had three Toby Thanks. Are you OK? You look a bit anxious.
young children. Actually, I didn’t earn much money – au Mia I’ve got a job interview in twenty minutes.
pairs don’t. But I didn’t have to pay for food or rent or Toby Oh! I won’t chat, then, I promise!
anything, so it was fine. The family lived in London, but they
travelled a lot because the parents both had well-paid jobs

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Mia It’s OK. I’m going to leave soon anyway. I need Speaker E
to walk to Hill Top Road. Is it far?
I’d like to have a job that pays well, such as …
Toby Not really. It’ll take about ten minutes.
Speaker F
Mia Oh no. Look at that rain! I’m going to get wet!
Toby I’ll lend you my umbrella. The job of sales assistant is very tiring. That’s because …
Mia It’s OK. I’ll call a taxi.
2.11 Lesson 5C, Exercise 5
Toby There isn’t time for that. Here, take it.
Mia Thanks. I’ll give it back later. Where will you be? Speaker A

Toby I’ll wait here for you. Good luck! Cathy wants to become a journalist. However, her father
wants her to work in the family shop.
2.09 Lesson 5B, Exercise 6 Speaker B
Mia Here’s your umbrella. Working as a pizza delivery man is quite stressful. What’s
Toby Thanks. Well? Are you going to tell me about more, it’s badly paid.
the interview?
Speaker C
Mia I got the job. I’m going to start on 1 August! It’s
just for the summer. I think builders have a very boring job. What I mean is, the
work is very repetitive.
Toby What are you going to do after that?
Mia I’m going to study maths at university. Then I’m Speaker D
going to get a job in finance. That’s the plan. The job of gardener is very skilled and challenging. In spite
Toby Why finance? of this, it isn’t very well paid.
Mia It pays well. My salary will be quite high. Speaker E
Toby Do you think it will be rewarding?
I’d like to have a job that pays well, such as stunt performer
Mia I don’t know, Toby. At the moment, I’m more or police officer.
interested in being successful.
Speaker F
Toby Me too. That’s why I’m not going to do a
degree. The job of sales assistant is very tiring. That’s because
Mia I don’t think you’ll get a very good job without a you’re on your feet all day.
degree.
Toby I’m not going to apply for a job. I’m going to 2.12 Lesson 5C, Exercises 7 and 8
start my own business. Interviewer Today in our series about unusual jobs, I’m
Mia What kind of business? talking to Sean Aiken. Sean spent a year
Toby A web-based marketing company. I predict I’ll doing not one job, but 52 – one for each week
be a millionaire before I’m 25! of the year. Hello Sean, and welcome to the
show.
Mia Really?
Sean Hi.
Toby It won’t be easy. But I’m confident.
Interviewer So when did you come up with the idea?
Mia Well, good luck!
Sean It was when I finished university – I realised I
didn’t know what I wanted to do in life.
2.10 Lesson 5C, Exercise 4
Interviewer What did you study at university?
Speaker A
Sean I did business studies, but I had no idea what
Cathy wants to become a journalist. However, … to do with my degree.
Speaker B Interviewer So, how did you come up with the idea of ‘52
jobs’?
Working as a pizza delivery man is quite stressful. What’s
Sean Well, I asked my dad for advice and he said I
more, …
should do something I was passionate
Speaker C about – but I didn’t know what that was! So I
set up the website: oneweekjob.com. I asked
I think builders have a very boring job. What I mean is, …
employers all over the world to give me a job
Speaker D for just one week and I would do a new job
every week.
The job of gardener is very skilled and challenging. In spite
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Sean Yes, one a week for a whole year. I wanted to
discover what I’m truly passionate about.
Interviewer How did you find 52 jobs? It’s difficult enough
to find one!
Sean Some people offered me a job when they
heard about what I was doing, but I found
most of the jobs by searching online.
Interviewer What jobs did you do? Give us some
examples.
Sean Radio DJ, fireman, journalist, yoga teacher,
baker ... I couldn’t find all the jobs in one
place, of course, so I had to travel a lot.
Interviewer Did you take any holiday?
Sean No, I worked for 52 weeks without stopping. It
was incredibly tiring, travelling between each
job, finding somewhere to stay – I often had to
sleep on someone’s sofa for a week. And I
was always short of money. But in spite of
that, I’ve had an amazing time and met some
fantastic people.
Interviewer You were short of money? Didn’t your
employers pay you?
Sean They paid me, but I never had much money to
spend. That’s because I donated all of my
wages to charity.
Interviewer What was the most challenging job?
Sean Working on a farm. That was so hard! I had to
get up at five o’clock every morning and the
work was very tiring!
Interviewer So what did you learn from your 52 jobs?
Sean I learned that to enjoy your job, you need to
be really passionate about it. Your job has to
have meaning – it’s more than just money.
And it’s important that you work with people
that you get on with and who have similar
interests to you.
Interviewer So, would you do it again?
Sean Well, at the moment, I’m helping other people
around the world to do their own ‘52 week job’
project. I’ve found that I’m passionate about
helping others!
Interviewer Thank you very much for coming in and
talking to us, Sean.
Sean My pleasure.
2.13 Lesson 5F
The best jobs in the world … probably
A day in the fields. Not only that, but it might be
Back in 2012, Andrew Johnson was near the end of his
history & photography degree in Chicago. He planned to
apply to film school after graduation, rather than look for a
job. But then his dad noticed an advertisement for a job with
toy manufacturer Lego. Andrew, who was already a Lego
fan, sent in an application. It included a video of himself
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making models. The company loved it and invited him to
take part in an unusual interview. He had to compete
against seven other finalists in a model-building test.
Andrew won, and as a result, they offered him a job: he
joined the team at Legoland Discovery Centre in Illinois as a
Master Model Builder. He meets visitors and helps to give
them exciting new ideas. Perhaps one day he’ll go to film
school, but for now, he’s happy. ‘Lego was always just a
hobby, but now I can do what I love and get paid for it,’ said
Andrew in an interview.
B
Do you find it difficult to get out of bed sometimes, especially
on frosty winter mornings? Well, imagine having a job where
you don’t have to. Jo Unsworth works as a duvet tester for
John Lewis, a British department store. She has the job of
finding the most comfortable duvets in the world to sell in
their shops. Jo has a degree in textiles, so she can
recognise good quality. But the real test of a duvet is
sleeping under it. ‘It’s probably the only career where it’s OK
to fall asleep while you’re at work,’ Jo says. She often can’t
believe how lucky she is to have her ‘dream job’! What is
more, she finds it rewarding: ‘If I do my job properly,
hundreds of other people sleep better. It’s brilliant!’
C
Some film providers like Netflix employ people to watch new
films and TV series from the comfort of their own home!
Their job is to make a note of what type of film it is (horror,
rom-com, etc.) and what age group and type of person
might like it. The film provider can then recommend it to their
members. Joe Mason finished his degree in Film Studies
about two years ago and didn’t know what to do next. Then
he read an article about film taggers. ‘It sounded like a
fantastic job so I did some research online and wrote to
Netflix,’ said Joe. At first they weren’t interested but when
Joe told them he speaks fluent French – his mum is
French – they gave him a job. He watches French films and
TV programmes. ‘It’s a great job because I can work when I
want. I can take a day off if I like and work at the weekend
instead.’ The only problem with the job is that Joe can’t
choose what he wants to watch. ‘Sometimes I have to watch
15 episodes of rubbish! But I shouldn’t complain really.’ 
2.14 Lesson 5G, Exercises 3 and 4
Examiner So, we have three jobs available this summer.
Have you had a chance to look at them?
Candidate Yes, I have.
Examiner Good. So, what about the job of fruit-picker?
Candidate I’m not sure about that one. Although it's well-
paid, it will be very tiring. You have to work all
rainy and windy too, so you'll get very wet and
cold. But you can't stop working!
Examiner Some people like the idea of being outside in
the fresh air all day.
Candidate I know, but I prefer working inside.
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Examiner That’s fine. Well, what about the job of sales
assistant?
Candidate Yes, I quite like the look of that one.
Examiner Why is that?
Candidate Well, I'm very keen on fashion so I’ll find it
interesting to work in a clothes shop. I’m sure I'll
enjoy it even though the hours are long. And the
money isn’t great …
Examiner What about this third job: dish-washer. It’s
better paid than the sales assistant. And it says
you’ll be part of a friendly team.
Candidate Hmm. Yes, I like the idea of being part of a
team. But I don't think washing up in a
restaurant kitchen will be very rewarding. It will
be really repetitive.
Examiner Yes, I see what you mean. But at least it’s
indoors, not outdoors!
Candidate True. But kitchens are usually very hot. It won’t
be a very nice place to work. And I’ll find the
work stressful too, because people shout a lot
in restaurant kitchens!
Examiner So, which job do you want to apply for? Are you
able to decide now?
Candidate Hmm. Well, I'm not choosing fruit-picking. That's
really hard work, and I'm not very physically fit! I
won’t apply for the job of dish-washer either.
The job is quite well-paid. However, I really
don’t want to work in a kitchen. So I’d like to
apply for the job of sales assistant. The pay is
not very good. Nevertheless, I’m choosing this
job because I'm interested in fashion.

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Pre-Intermediate Student’s 2.17 Lesson 6B, Exercise 6
Book audio scripts Ted Hello?
Molly Hi Ted, It’s Molly!

Unit 6 Ted
Molly
Hi, Molly. Are you enjoying your holiday?
Yes. Backpacking is great! I’ve met some really
interesting people.
2.15 Lesson 6A, Exercise 3
Ted How long have you been away?
aquarium botanical gardens castle cathedral
Molly I’ve been away for ten days.
fountain harbour market mosque museum
national park palace ruins statue temple theme Ted Have you reached Istanbul?
park tower water park Molly No. I’m still in Italy. We’ve stopped at some
Photo A is the Eiffel Tower in France. It’s number 4 on the interesting places – Rome, Pisa … I’ve visited
map. lots of ruins but I haven’t bought any souvenirs.

Photo B is the Blue Mosque in Turkey. It’s number 5 on the Ted Have you taken many photos?
map. Molly Hundreds. But I haven’t put them on my
Photo C is the Statue of Liberty in the USA. It’s number 1 on Facebook page. Is there any news from home?
the map. Ted Yes. My dad has broken his ankle. He’s been in
Photo D is Machu Picchu in Peru. It’s number 2 on the map. hospital since Monday. But the doctors …

Photo E is Hong Kong harbour in China. It’s number 7 on Molly Oh no! I’ve used all my credit. Bye!
the map.
Photo F is the Maasai Mara National Reserve, a national 2.18 Lesson 6C, Exercise 2
park in Kenya. It’s number 6 on the map. 1
Photo G is Buckingham Palace, in England. It’s number 3 on The flight attendant is wearing a blue top.
the map. 
2
2.16 Lesson 6A, Exercises 6 and 7 She’s handing a meal to the man.
Good morning, ladies and gentleman, and welcome back to 3
your Golden Days coach tour across Europe. I hope you all
enjoyed your day in Berlin yesterday. Well, today, we’re The man next to the flight attendant is wearing a white
going to head south across Germany and over the border jacket.
into the Czech Republic. We’re going to spend a day in the 4
capital, Prague, and will visit Havel’s Market. There you can
buy souvenirs, paintings … It’s quite touristy, but there are The woman on the right is wearing a T-shirt.
lots of interesting things to see. After some more sight- 5
seeing in Prague, we’re going to head south-east across
Slovakia and into Hungary. There’s lots to see and do in The food is in a cardboard box.
Budapest, but I recommend visiting the Liberty Statue. It’s 6
very impressive. When we leave Hungary, we’ll travel south
through Croatia, all the way down to Dubrovnik. The old We can see a woman in glasses in front of the man in the
harbour there is a very romantic place to have dinner in the white shirt.
evening. The next day, we’re crossing to Italy by ferry.
Rome is the next – and final – stop on our tour. And when 2.19 Lesson 6C, Exercise 3
we’re in Rome, don’t miss the wonderful and historic Trevi 1
Fountain. Now, are there any questions? No? Well, fasten
your seat belts and let’s set off! Man The flight attendant is wearing a blue top.
Woman No, she’s wearing a red top.

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2 ‘Well, now of course!’ said Georgina.
Woman She’s handing a meal to the man. The woman gave her a puzzled look. ‘Not on this plane,
you’re not,’ she replied.
Man No, she’s handing a meal to the woman.
That’s when Georgina found out that her plane wasn’t
3 heading for the historic city of Granada in Spain, but for the
Man The man next to the flight attendant is wearing island of Grenada, in the Caribbean. The Spanish city is
a white jacket. 1,500 kilometres south of London. The island, on the other
hand, is 7,000 kilometres away on the other side of the
Woman No, he’s wearing a white shirt.
Atlantic.
4 After her husband died earlier in the year, Georgina decided
Woman The woman on the right is wearing a T-shirt. to go on holiday to Spain. She contacted a travel agent and
booked the flight on the phone. When the tickets arrived in
Man No, she’s wearing a shirt.
the post, she didn’t notice that one letter was different in the
5 name of the destination.

Man The food is in a cardboard box. ‘It said “Grenada”, not “Granada”, but I didn’t look very
closely,’ Georgina later explained. She didn’t spot the
Woman No, it’s on a tray.
difference in spelling at the airport, either. ‘I noticed that the
6 departure time and the arrival time were very different,’ she
said, ‘but I thought that was because of the time difference
Woman We can see a woman in glasses in front of the
between Britain and Spain.’
man in the white shirt.
When she realised her mistake, two hours into the flight,
Man No, we can see a woman in glasses behind the
Georgina spoke to the flight attendant. ‘I thought the plane
man in the white shirt.
was going to Spain, but it’s going to the Caribbean!’ she
said. The flight attendant was very sympathetic, allowed
2.20 Lesson 6C, Exercises 4 and 5 Georgina to sit in a first-class seat, and gave her
Tom Did you go to Spain in July? champagne. But the plane was over the middle of the
Atlantic Ocean, and heading west. There was nothing that
Lydia No, we went to Portugal. And we went in
Georgina could do but wait until the plane landed at its
August.
destination.
Tom Where did you fly to?
When the plane finally arrived in the Caribbean, the airline
Lydia We drove there, actually. put her in a hotel for the night and then, on the following
day, flew her to Granada in Spain.
2.21 Lesson 6C, Exercise 6 The travel agent apologised to Georgina and gave her a free
1 ticket for her next holiday. ‘It was just a misunderstanding,’
said Georgina. ‘I don’t blame anyone. The travel agent just
No, he flew to Italy last summer. 2 misheard me. I’m certainly not complaining. They’ve given
I’d like a black coffee, please. me a free holiday in Austria. Let’s hope they don’t send me
a ticket to Australia!’
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No, we’re meeting at three fifty. 2.23 Lesson 6D, Exercise 2
4 Beth Have you ever been to Bulgaria?
I haven’t got a credit card. Fred Yes, I went there last year with my family. Have
you been there?
5
Beth No, I haven’t. What cities did you visit?
I’ll have a ham sandwich, please.
Fred We didn’t visit any cities. We went skiing.
6 Beth Sounds great. I’ve never been skiing, but I’d
No, I’ll be on the 2.15 train. love to go. Was it good?
Fred Not really. I fell and broke my leg on the first
2.22 Lesson 6C, Exercises 8 and 9 day, so I spent the rest of the holiday in
hospital!
Georgina Hepworth finished her lunch and relaxed in her
seat with a cup of tea. She was nearly two hours into the
flight. She turned to the woman in the seat next to her and
2.24 Lesson 6E, Exercise 5
said, ‘I’m really looking forward to my holiday in Spain.’ bag drop baggage carousel boarding pass cabin
‘Oh, when are you going to Spain, then?’ asked her fellow crew check-in desk departure lounge flight attendant
passenger.

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flight number hand luggage passport control seat
belt security check security camera window seat
2.25 Lesson 6E, Exercise 8
single room first class half board full time high
season online check-in double room economy class
full board low season part time
2.26 Lesson 6F
Free at last?
Have you ever seen travel programmes on TV about
teenagers on holiday without parents? They’re always
having a wild and exciting time. But is it really like that? We
asked three writers to tell us their personal experiences …
A Examiner
When I was fifteen, I went to stay with my penfriend in north
Germany. It was my first trip abroad and the first without my
parents, and I hated every minute of it. The worst moment
was probably the time when I was alone in the house and
somebody rang the doorbell. They rang it again and again –
but I ignored it. Then I saw the visitor walking around the
house looking through the windows. Frightened, I hid under
the dining-room table. That afternoon, Christina’s mother
came home from work and said: ‘I needed to pick up some
papers from the house today and I didn’t have my key. I
rang the bell. But you didn’t hear me.’ ‘Oh, I was in my room,
I expect,’ I said. ‘Sorry!’ My face went red, because she
knew I was lying. I’m certain she saw me under the table.
B choose from.
At sixteen, I hitch-hiked down to Cornwall in the south-west
of England with a friend. We spent the holiday walking along
the coastal path with a tent and a backpack, staying at
campsites on the way. The weather was fantastic and the
sea was beautiful. We had almost no money and lived on
sandwiches and tea. One of the first things I learned was
this: a fire and a mug of tea can make the world seem
perfect. The second thing: spending more money does not
mean having more fun. What really mattered was talking to
people. I had to do lots of chatting, negotiating, discussing
and questioning. Strangers could be very helpful and
interesting, I discovered. They could also be dangerous,
boring and stupid. It was up to me to judge them and
decide – and that skill has been useful to me many times
since then. I wrote it all down, but I’ve lost the notebook
now, unfortunately.
C
My friends and I were nineteen and on holiday in the coolest
place in the world: Ibiza. On the first day, I fell asleep on the
beach – with no suncream. My friends knew I was getting
sunburned, but they didn’t wake me up because they
thought it was funny. When I woke up, I felt a little sore.
Then I took off my sunglasses and my friends all fell on the
floor, laughing. I had two clear white rings around my eyes!
That night, we all went out dancing and of course I had to
keep wearing the same sunglasses because of my sunburn.
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I wasn’t enjoying myself, so I left before my friends. For
some reason, I didn’t want to wait for a bus back to our
hotel, so I walked seven kilometres along busy roads. When
I finally arrived, my friends were already there, sitting around
the pool. I’ve never understood how they got there so
quickly.
2.27 Lesson 6G, Exercises 3 and 6
Examiner So, we’re going to London next month. How
exciting! Shall we plan our trip?
Candidate Yes, first of all, shall we decide where to stay?
Examiner Yes, let’s do that. How much do we want to
spend?
Candidate I don’t want to spend very much. Why don’t we
stay in a cheap hotel?
I’m not sure about that. The beds in cheap
hotels are always so uncomfortable!
Candidate OK. This hotel near the station looks good.
Examiner I’m not sure. It might be quite noisy. What about
staying in this hotel, near the centre?
Candidate I don’t mind. You choose. Now, what tourist
attractions do you want to see? It would be nice
to visit an art gallery.
Examiner Yes, I like that idea. Do you fancy going to a
concert too?
Candidate I’m not very keen on that idea. I’d rather go to
the theatre, actually.
Examiner OK. Why not? There are lots of good shows to
Candidate What about places to eat? What kind of food do
you like?
Examiner I love fish and chips. Do you fancy getting some
fish and chips on the first evening?
Candidate What a good idea! I like Italian food too, so we
can find a pizzeria on another evening.
Examiner Yes. Now, what’s the best way to travel round
London?
Candidate We could always get a Travelcard. You can
travel as often as you like on buses and the
underground with a Travelcard.
Examiner That’s a really good plan. How much is a
Travelcard?
Candidate I think it’s about £10 a day.
Examiner OK, I’ll get two of those for us.
2.28 Lesson 6G, Exercise 8
Candidate I’m really looking forward to our trip to London.
Shall we book a hotel?
Examiner OK. Or maybe a hostel. They are much
cheaper.
Candidate I like that idea. We can find one online.
Examiner OK. What kind of tourist attractions would you
like to visit?
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Candidate Well, I’d like to see Buckingham Palace and the
Houses of Parliament. And I’d like to go
shopping too.
Examiner Me too. We could go to one of the markets.
Candidate Sorry, did you say ‘supermarket’?
Examiner No, ‘market’. For example, Covent Garden or
Camden.
Candidate Cool. It would be nice to visit a park too. Do you
know if there are any good parks in London?
Examiner Yes, Hyde Park and Regents Park are very
beautiful.
Candidate Pardon?
Examiner Hyde Park and Regents Park. They’re right in
the centre. They are very beautiful.
Candidate What about restaurants? I suppose there are
lots of good restaurants in the centre.
Examiner Yes, but lots of them are very pricey.
Candidate Sorry, what does ‘pricey’ mean?
Examiner Expensive.
Candidate Oh, I see. Well, we can find cheap ones, I’m
sure. How are we going to travel around in
London?
Examiner We can walk if we want to save money.
Candidate I don’t like that idea. It’ll be too tiring.
Examiner Well, let’s take buses, then. Maybe we can hire
bicycles too.
Candidate I’d rather not. Cycling in cities can be quite
dangerous.
Examiner OK, let’s use the buses, then. Or should we use
the underground? It’s quicker than the bus.
business. I’m really interested in business, so I’m sure I’ll be
successful.
3
I’ve always wanted to be an actor. When I was at school, I
was in the drama club and I performed in all the school
plays. I was also in a drama club outside school on
Saturdays. I learned a lot of skills there. We did acting, of
course, but also singing and dancing. I got my first part in
the theatre when I was ten – in Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory. Then I did some adverts on TV, and then some
children’s TV.
4
Many people are nervous about interviews, but there are a
lot of things that you can do to prepare. For example, it
helps to find out all you can about the people you want to
work for. This shows you are interested in them. Choose
smart but comfortable clothes, so you look good but also
feel relaxed. Plan your route to the interview too – you don’t
want to get lost! Finally, arrive at your interview early. You
can wait in a café until it’s time to go in.
5
My dad got a job as a chef in a restaurant in Paris a few
years ago. He rented an apartment there and we stayed at
home in London. In the holidays we visited him and I helped
out in the kitchen. It was really good earning a bit of money,
but my dad didn’t like living away from us so he came back
to England and opened his own restaurant. I’m too busy
now to work there.

Candidate I don’t mind. They’re both good ideas.

Examiner OK. Let’s use the underground. I’m looking
forward to this holiday!

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1
Do you enjoy adventure? Have you ever been white water
rafting, or canoeing on a river? If the answer is ‘yes’, then
you’re the kind of person we are looking for to work on our
summer camps. We have summer activity camps in the
south of France in July and August this year. Experience of
working with young people is preferred. All our staff have
one day off a week, and the opportunity for travel at the end
of August. Please see our website for more details.
2
I’m a creative person and I enjoy making things. I’m good at
selling things too. At the moment, I’m making silver jewellery
and selling it on the internet. When I leave school, I’d like to
study business and finance at university. Then I’ll work for a
company for a couple of years before I set up my own

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Pre-Intermediate Student’s 2.31 Lesson 7A, Exercise 4
1
Book audio scripts You can buy white truffles at a deli.
2
Unit 7 You can buy flowers at a florist’s.
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2.30 Lesson 7A, Exercise 3
1 You can buy a pen at a stationer’s.

This is a kind of mushroom called a white truffle. It is highly 4

prized in cooking and the best ones can cost over €10,000 You can buy melons at a greengrocer’s.
per kilogram. A single white truffle was once sold for over
€230,000! You might think that’s a lot of money to pay for a 5
mushroom, but truffles are very rare and only grow for a You can buy trainers at a shoe shop.
couple of months each year.
6
2
You can get a haircut at a hairdresser’s.
How much is one flower worth? If it’s this particular flower,
the Gold of Kinabalu Orchid, then it’s worth £3,500! Why?
2.32 Lesson 7A, Exercise 5
Because you can only find it in one place in the world – a
park in Malaysia. The flower only grows between the months baker’s bank butcher’s charity shop chemist’s
of April and May, and for long periods – many years, coffee shop clothes shop cosmetics store
sometimes – it does not appear at all. deli (delicatessen) DIY store estate agent’s florist’s
garden centre greengrocer’s hairdresser’s jeweller’s
3 launderette newsagent’s optician’s post office
This pen, called the Mont Blanc Lorenzo di Medici fountain shoe shop stationer’s takeaway
pen, costs £6,850. It’s made of sterling silver and is
engraved by hand. 2.33 Lesson 7A, Exercises 6 and 8
4 1
This pair of melons cost over two million yen at an auction in Assistant Can I help you?
Japan. That’s £12,000! Fruit is a popular gift in Japan to say Customer Yes. I’d like to buy two litres of white paint,
thank you to a friend or to your boss at work. Melons need please. Oh, and some paintbrushes.
to be perfectly round and exactly the right colour. Perfect
Assistant Sure.
apples and strawberries are also popular gifts – but these
‘Yubari King melons’ are the most expensive. Customer Can I use this coupon?
Assistant I’m not sure. Can I see it? Oh, I’m sorry. It’s too
5
old.
These are Nike trainers dipped in real gold! They were Customer Really?
created by the designer ‘Ju$t Another Rich Kid’. He created
Assistant Yes. Look at this date. Use before 31 August
five pairs of these Nike Air Dunks for $5,400 each. The New
2009.
York based artist – real name Ken Courtney – created the
glitzy shoes as part of a collection called 'Indulgences (for Customer Wow! I’ve had that a long time.
the man who has everything)'. 2
6 Customer Hi. I’m looking for a magazine. It’s called Great
How much do you usually pay for a haircut? If you’re in New Train Journeys. Have you got it?
York City and want Orlando Pita to do it, you’ll need to pay Assistant Sure.
about $800. That’s £500. Is it worth it? Well, ask Madonna, Customer How much is it?
or Gwyneth Paltrow, or Anne Hathaway. They all go to
Assistant It’s £1.95.
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Customer Really? That’s very cheap! Boy I’m doing my geography project. Look at this
Assistant Yes. It’s on special offer this month. The normal photo. It’s shocking that some people have so
price is £6.95. much and others have so little! The world would
be much better if money didn’t exist.
Customer Oh, OK.
Girl What do you mean? If money didn’t exist, how
3 would you buy things?
Assistant Hello. Can I help you? Boy If you needed something, you would make it. If
Customer Yes. How much are these jeans, please? you couldn’t make it, you would swap with
somebody else.
Assistant I’m not sure. Is there a price tag?
Girl So if I wanted a new mobile phone, how would I
Customer I can’t see one.
get it?
Assistant It’s usually here, near the top. Yes, there it is.
Boy You don’t need things like that! I’m talking about
Customer £85? Sorry, they’re far too expensive for me! essentials: food, clothes, that kind of thing. At
Assistant Well, we’ve got some cheaper pairs over there. the moment, millions of people haven’t even got
Customer Thanks. those.
Girl If money didn’t exist, life wouldn’t be better for
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poor people.
Assistant Can I help you? Boy No? I think it would. If nobody had any money,
Customer Yes. I’m interested in the diamond ring that’s in everybody would be equal.
your window.
Assistant The one with the large diamond in the centre? 2.35 Lesson 7C, Exercises 2 and 4
Customer Yes, that’s right. Is it £2,500? Glen James didn’t expect to get a reward for what he did.
Assistant Yes. It’s a bargain, isn’t it? He thought he was just doing the right thing. But because of
Customer I don’t know. That seems rather expensive … his honesty, this poor, homeless man from Boston now has
enough money to live comfortably.
Assistant I realise it’s a lot of money. But believe me, it’s
a big diamond for that price. Last February, James, who has been homeless for five
years, was in a shopping centre when he noticed a bag on
5 the floor. Nobody was near it. He picked it up and looked
Assistant Hi. Are you just looking? inside. He couldn’t believe his eyes. There was $42,000 in
cash and traveller’s cheques in the bag. James didn’t think
Customer No. I need some flowers for my aunt. for one moment of keeping the money. He left the shopping
Assistant Is it her birthday? centre and stopped a police car that was passing, and
Customer No, I’m going to see her in hospital. handed the bag to them. The bag also contained passports
and tickets and the police soon found the owner of the bag,
Assistant Well, these roses are four pounds each. But if
a Chinese student who was visiting Boston.
you buy twelve, I can give you a discount. You
can have them for £35. When Ethan Whittington, a manager at an advertising
agency, heard the story on the news, he decided to help
Customer Great! I’ll take them.
James. He wanted to make life better for him.
Assistant Wonderful. And I hope your aunt gets better
Twenty-six-year-old Whittington set up a website where
soon.
people could donate money to James. He hoped to raise
Customer Oh, she’s fine. She’s having a baby! $50,000 but soon there was over $100,000.
6 James is surprised and delighted at receiving the money. ‘I
was only doing the right thing,’ he says. ‘Now I’ll have
Customer Hi. I need to send this package to Brazil.
enough money to open a bank account!’
Assistant OK. Can you put it on there, please? I need to
weigh it.
2.36 Lesson 7C, Exercises 8 and 9
Customer Where? Oh, right. OK.
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Assistant Thanks. So that will be … £12.
Customer Yes, that’s fine. Can I have a receipt? I was in town last week looking for a present for my friend
Amy. I looked in loads of shops but I couldn’t find anything.
Assistant Yes, of course. Just one moment. 
Finally, I went into a clothes store. It’s not a good idea to buy
clothes for people unless you know them really well, but I
2.34 Lesson 7B, Exercise 2 found a nice scarf. Amy is quite fussy but hopefully she’ll like
Girl What are you doing? it. I’ll keep the receipt in case she wants to take it back.
Anyway, I was about to pay for it, when I dropped some
coins on the floor. And as I picked them up I noticed a £10

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note on the floor. I handed it to the shop assistant and she
said she’d keep it in case anyone came back for it.
2
I’m always short of money. I don’t get much pocket money
and I seem to spend it as fast as I get it. I don’t think I waste
money on things I don’t need. In fact, I prefer to spend
money on other people, like my family and friends. Anyway,
I ran out of money last week and I really need some for a
cinema ticket. My friend Sam offered to lend me some
money, but I already owe him money so I asked my sister,
Leia. She said she was short of money herself so she said
no. I guess I’ll have to borrow from Sam again.
3 Like most new businesses, Box did not bring in much
I bought a baseball cap yesterday. But as I was leaving the
check-out I noticed that the shop assistant had overcharged
me. I was paying by card and I didn’t check the amount
before I entered my PIN. Anyway, I’m sure the price ticket
on the shelf was £10, but she charged me £15. I complained
and tried to get my money back. She refused. I said, ‘You
have to sell things for the price that is marked on the shelf.’
She said I was wrong and I got a bit cross, but it didn’t help.
She said, ‘You can have all the money back but I can’t give
it to you for £10.’ I bought it anyway, but I’m glad I did.
Although it’s quite expensive, it’s a brilliant cap.
4
It’s always a mistake to buy things in a sale. OK, so
everything is much cheaper, but I always ask myself, ‘Would
you buy it if it was full price?’ If the answer is ‘No, probably
not’, then I don’t buy it in the sale. In fact, I prefer to buy
really good quality clothes and I don’t mind paying a bit
more for them. There’s a lovely leather jacket that I want but
it costs so much! I only get £6 a week from my parents so I’ll
have to wait a while before I can afford it. I’m sure Dad
would lend me the money if I asked him, but I’d rather not.
5
Last month I borrowed some money from my parents to buy
a necklace. I don’t normally spend a lot of money on myself,
and I don’t normally borrow money, either. But I fell in love
with this necklace, although it cost far more than I normally
spend on jewellery. Even my mum thought it was expensive.
She said, ‘Why don’t you save up for it?’ and tried to
persuade me not to buy it. But, I didn’t listen. I bought it
anyway. A week after I bought it, I decided I didn’t like it
after all so I decided to return it to the shop. But, I couldn’t
find the receipt. The sales assistant refused to give me a
refund or to exchange it, which is fair enough. I’ve wasted a
lot of money, and I owe my mum £60!
2.37 Lesson 7F
Box Clever
Aaron Levie loves to eat tinned spaghetti, drives a six-year-
old car, and has business meetings at a takeaway. He lives
in an ordinary apartment, doesn’t take holidays and, at the
age of 27, says his biggest luxury is his smartphone. If you
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met him, you probably wouldn’t realise that he is a multi-
millionaire. However, as co-founder and CEO of Box, a
successful IT company, he is worth about $100 million. And
he works very hard for his money: most days, he does not
leave the office until after midnight. "I work so many hours
because I love what I do. I’m incredibly excited about the
business," says Levie.
When Levie and his childhood friend Dylan Smith started
their company in 2005, they had not even finished their
university degrees. Box grew fast because it offered a better
way of storing data, and soon they had contracts with many
of the biggest companies in the USA. Levie left university
without finishing his course.
income at the start. Levie paid himself a salary of only $500
a month, and lived off tinned spaghetti and instant noodles.
For two and half years, he spent nearly all his time at his
office. Sometimes he even slept there too.
When Box began, Levie and Smith looked for funding. Back
in 2005, cloud storage was quite a new idea. For that
reason, nobody wanted to risk lending them money. They
wrote letter after letter but could not find any investors.
Eventually, a well-known entrepreneur called Mark Cuban
agreed to put money into Box. Once he had decided to do
that, others followed and the business grew quickly.
That was eight years ago. Now, Box has grown a lot and so
have its profits, making Levie a multi-millionaire. Most
people his age would lead an extravagant lifestyle if they
had so much money. But Levie says that it doesn’t interest
him. "I’m certainly not into money. I don’t live in the office –
now I have an apartment six minutes’ drive away - but there
is no enormous house up in the hills.” He only goes to
expensive restaurants if an important customer wants to eat
there. Otherwise, he has lunch meetings in burger bars.
“And I still really like tinned spaghetti. I’d be happy if I had it
every day!”
2.38 Lesson 7G, Exercises 6 and 7
Student 1 I’d like to start by saying that I don’t believe
schools spend enough money on any of these
things. The reason I say that is that very few
students in our school play musical instruments,
and not many do sport either, except PE, which
is a lesson. Not only that, we hardly ever go on
school trips, perhaps just once a year.
Now, let’s move on to the question of which of
the three schools should spend the most money
on. If I have to choose just one, I’d say that we
should spend the most on music. I’ll tell you
why I think that. First, there are lots of
opportunities for students to do sport outside
school. In my town, for example, there’s a
sports centre where we can swim, go to the
gym, play squash, basketball, football and so
on. Second, students often go on trips and
holidays with their parents. So there’s no need
for the school to spend money on school trips.
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 Finally, and most importantly, very few people
have musical instruments at home, and not
many parents play musical instruments
themselves. So without encouragement and
help from the school, most students will miss
out on music.
To sum up, I believe that schools should spend
money on all these things, but music is the most
important.
Student 2 First of all, we need to ask ourselves if schools
should spend money on music, sport and
school trips at all. In my opinion, they should
use the money for things like books and
computers. However, let’s look at which of the
three deserves the most money. As I see it,
sport is the most important. There are a number
of reasons why I believe this. First, many
teenagers nowadays are unfit. They need to do
more sport at school. Second, music isn’t very
important. Most people just prefer to listen to
music. Very few actually want to play musical
instruments. And if they do, they can teach
themselves guitar at home. Finally, although
school trips are fun and help students to relax
and make friends, sport is even better for doing
these things.
All in all, I take the view that schools should
spend more on sport than on music or
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 damaged bus stops and phone boxes. Police say they are
Pre-Intermediate Student’s close to identifying the culprits and expect to make several
Book audio scripts arrests over the next few days. They have also promised to
patrol the area at night to prevent future crimes.

2.41 Lesson 8B, Exercise 3

Unit 8
Reporter Hello. I’m doing a report on street crime in the
area.
2.39 Lesson 8A, Exercise 2
Man There is a lot of crime here. I saw a mugging
arson arsonist to set fire to
earlier today.
burglary burglar to burgle / break into a house
Reporter But there aren’t many police officers on the
drug-dealing drug dealer to sell / deal drugs streets.
looting looter to loot / steal Man I don’t want more police around.
mugging mugger to mug somebody Reporter Hey! He stole my phone!  
murder murderer to murder / kill somebody
robbery robber to rob a person or place 3.02 Lesson 8C, Exercise 3
shoplifting shoplifter to steal from a shop / shoplift 1
smuggling smuggler to smuggle The police arrested the arsonists.
theft thief (thieves) to steal something
2
vandalism vandal to damage / vandalise
They broke into the house and stole some valuable
jewellery.
2.40 Lesson 8A, Exercises 4 and 6
1 3

Police have launched an investigation into burglaries at
homes in the town centre. They believe that one or two
burglars are responsible for all of the crimes. According to a
police spokesman, they have searched a house near the
park and interviewed a suspect. They have not made any
arrests but believe they are close to solving the crime.
Meanwhile, they have asked home-owners to take extra
care with security, and to lock doors and windows when they
go out.
2 Host
Thieves have broken into a jeweller’s in the town centre and
escaped with watches and bracelets worth half a million
pounds. The crime took place last night, just after midnight,
in the West Green Shopping Centre, where there are also a
number of bars and restaurants. The police have appealed
for witnesses, as they believe several members of the public
were in the shopping centre when the crime took place.
They are also studying CCTV footage for clues.
3 parents were farmers, but they didn’t own the
People in Park Hill are unhappy about vandalism in their
part of town. According to Jeff Burton, who runs a
hairdresser’s, the problem has got worse in recent months.
Vandals have broken his shop window five times in a month,
he claims. They have also smashed car windows, and
They mugged the youth and stole his wallet and phone.
4
They looked for the criminals.
5
The police arrested the suspect.
3.03 Lesson 8C, Exercises 4 and 5
Today on Good Reads I’m pleased to welcome
Christina Rayworth, who has written a new
biography of Bonnie and Clyde. So, Christina,
tell us a bit about their backgrounds.
Christina Bonnie Parker was born in Texas in 1910. She
was short and good-looking, a bright student,
but she got bored, left school and got married at
the age of sixteen. However, the marriage
wasn’t happy and didn’t last long.
Clyde was a year older than Bonnie. His
farm and they were always short of money. His
dad finally gave up farming and opened a petrol
station in Dallas. Clyde had a job but also
started shoplifting and stealing cars.
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Christina In 1930. They fell in love immediately. But the
police arrested Clyde a few weeks later and he
went to prison for two years. In 1932, when he
came out of prison, in the middle of the Great
Depression, there were huge numbers of
people looking for work, and very few jobs.
Unable to find work, the young couple joined a
gang and started a career of crime.
Host But they hadn’t killed anybody yet, had they?
Christina No, but it wasn’t long before Clyde shot the
owner of a shop while they were robbing it. It
was the first of thirteen murders.
Host So they continued to rob and steal?
Christina Yes, they robbed shops and banks across the
southern states. They often changed cars – by
stealing a new one! Clyde was a good driver
and knew the roads very well, so it was difficult
for the police to catch them.
Host What finally happened to them?
Christina They had already killed a number of police
officers so the police were determined to
capture or kill the couple. Bonnie and Clyde
frequently visited their families. The police knew
this and set a trap. They waited for Bonnie and
Clyde to pass in their car and then started
shooting. The police fired 130 bullets at the car,
killing the couple. Clyde was 25, Bonnie was
just 23.
Host Why do Bonnie and Clyde continue to fascinate
us?
Christina Well, we like to romanticise them. They were
young, they were in love and they were always
on the road, never settling down. Bonnie wrote
poems and Clyde played the saxophone. That
appeals to a lot of people too. And I guess
people think of all outlaws as on the side of the
ordinary people, and against authority. But the
reality was very different, of course.
Host Thanks Christina for talking to us.
3.04 Lesson 8F
Who was the Somerton Man?
It began at 6.30 a.m. on 1 December 1948 when some
passers-by discovered the body of man on Somerton
Beach, in Adelaide, Australia, just west of the city. The
police arrived and launched a murder investigation. At the
hospital, doctors examined the body but could not find out
for sure how the man had died. In his pockets were a bus
ticket from the city, a train ticket, a comb, chewing gum,
cigarettes and matches. There was no wallet or
identification. Nobody knew who the man was.
The police continued their investigation. They could not
identify the man using fingerprints or dental records. Then,
two weeks after the discovery of the body, there was a
breakthrough: they found a suitcase that the man had left at
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Adelaide station the day before his death. Inside the case
were some clothes, a knife, scissors and a brush.
However, these possessions did not reveal the man’s
identity. In fact, somebody had removed the labels from
most of his clothes and another label from the suitcase itself.
A new expert joined the investigation: John Cleland, a
professor at the University of Adelaide. In April, he found a
clue that everybody else had missed: a small piece of paper
in a secret pocket inside the dead man’s trousers. On the
paper were two words in Persian: Tamám Shud. The words
are from a famous Persian poem, and they mean “it is the
end”. Somebody had torn the paper from an old copy of athe
book.
A few months later, a man gave police a copy of the book
containing the poem. He said somebody had dropped it into
his open-top car the day after the man on Somerton Beach
died. The last page of the book – with the final two words –
was missing. In the book, the police found two clues: a
telephone number and a message. The message was in a
secret code. The second line was crossed out, and some
letters were unclear.
The telephone number belonged to a nurse. She said she
had given a copy of the book to a soldier called Alfred Boxall
in 1945. Finally, the police had solved the mystery:
obviously, the dead man was Alfred Boxall!
There was only one problem: Alfred Boxall was still alive.
The police found him and interviewed him. What is more, he
still had his copy of the book. The mystery of the body on
Somerton Beach continued.
So what about the mysterious five-line message? Could that
contain the answer to this puzzle? Perhaps, but
unfortunately we do not know what the message says.
Nobody has ever solved the secret code.
3.05 Lesson 8G, Exercise 2
The photo shows a number of men looting a shop. There
must be a riot in this area, because the shutter looks broken.
They can’t want people to recognise them, because most of
them are wearing hoodies and one of them is covering his
face. The man in the foreground is holding up a pair of
jeans. Presumably, he’s stolen them from the shop because
the label is still on them. It must be a clothes shop. The man
on the right can’t be one of the looters because he isn’t
wearing the same clothes and he is just standing there. He
probably doesn’t want to stop them because he is scared.
The man at the back with the stripy hoodie looks like he is
trying to climb in. He’s probably going to steal something. If I
lived in this place, I’d feel really frightened because there’s
no law and order. Anything could happen.
3.06 Lesson 8G, Exercises 4 and 5
The first photo shows a man snatching a bag from a woman
while she’s walking through a subway. She’s trying to hold
onto the bag so he can’t steal it. In the second photo, a man
is leaning into a car through a broken window. He’s also
trying to steal a lady’s bag.
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 The common theme in the photos is crime. You can see the Lucy Yeah, that’s right. I want to take a gap year and
criminal in both photos. But, unlike the first photo, the travel around – and work a bit too.
second photo does not show the victim. That’s because the Sam I’d love to do that, but I haven’t got any money.
owner of the car is probably not there.
Lucy You need to save up.
Another obvious difference is that the criminal in the first
Sam But that’s really hard. How do you do it? Do you
photo might not succeed. The woman might hold onto her
stay at home all the time?
bag. But in the second photo, it seems as if he’s definitely
going to get the bag. Lucy No, you don’t need to do that. But I work in the
holidays and sometimes at weekends. I don’t
Both photos show types of street crime. But I think the first
buy many clothes or CDs any more either. I still
photo shows a more worrying kind of crime. The first photo
go out, but not every night.
shows a crime against a person, whereas the second photo
shows the theft of some property. Sam Maybe I need to get a job then.
Lucy I think that’s a good idea.
3.07 Lesson 8G, Exercises 78 and 89 4
Student Hmm, I’m not sure really. I suppose it’s true to Anna Hey Jake, are you still looking for a job?
say that they’re both stealing. But burglary is
Jake No, I’ve found something in town, in that new
probably worse.
clothes shop that opened on the High Street
Teacher Why do you think it’s worse? last month. My brother’s still looking though.
Student In my opinion, it’s worse because it affects Anna Oh right, well you can tell him I saw an advert in
ordinary people – maybe families, with children. the restaurant near my house for part-time
If burglars broke into my house, I would be waiters.
terrified. Looting from shops is a crime, but it
Jake That sounds good. Is it evenings or lunchtimes?
doesn’t frighten people in the same way. What
is more, the looters aren’t taking anyone’s Anna I don’t know. I’ve got the number. Do you want
personal possessions, so they aren’t upsetting to give it to him?
anyone. Jake OK thanks. I’ll put it in my phone.
Teacher OK, thank you.

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and 5
1
Hello and welcome to George Lewis. I’d like to remind you
all that this week is sales week in our shop. You will find
plenty of bargains on every floor. There is 50% off many
items in ladies’ and men’s fashion and also children’s
clothing. You can save 20% on digital cameras and some
mobile phones too. And don’t forget to visit our café for our
offer of the week menu: one child goes free with each
paying adult. Thank you, and I hope you enjoy shopping
here at George Lewis.
2
Last night, thieves stole two paintings from the Swan Street
art gallery, in the town centre. The paintings belong to a
local artist, Lucien Grey, and are worth around ten thousand
pounds each. A witness saw two men loading the paintings
into a white van parked on the corner of Swan Street. The
men were wearing hats, dark jackets and jeans. The witness
thinks they were in their early thirties. Police would like
anyone who has any information to contact them as soon as
possible. Now, onto the next news story …
3
Sam Hi Lucy! Katie told me you’re going to South
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 Customer I see. Yes, I really like it. The thing is, I joined a
Pre-Intermediate Student’s gym recently.
Book audio scripts Assistant Oh, right.
Customer But my son is trying to get fit, and he would use
it, I’m sure.
Unit 9 3
Customer I like this stereo. It’s a really unusual design.
3.09 Lesson 9A, Exercise 2
Assistant Yes, it’s amazing, isn’t it?
aluminium cardboard ceramic concrete copper
Customer What’s it made of?
glass gold iron leather nylon paper plastic
rubber steel stone wood Assistant It’s made mostly of glass. Would you like to
hear it?
3.10 Lesson 9A, Exercises 6 and 7 Customer I didn’t bring any CDs.
Assistant Don’t worry. There’s one in there. Listen.
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Customer It sounds great!
Customer This is lovely. Isn’t it lovely? What is it exactly?
Assistant It goes forwards to the next if you just touch
Assistant It’s a coffee machine. here.
Customer Oh, yes. Of course. Is it battery powered? Customer Can you turn it down?
Assistant No, it’s mains powered. Look, the cable’s here, Assistant Yes, you can turn it up or down. If you wave
under the base. If you press this button, the your hand once, it gets louder. If you …
plug appears.
Customer I mean, can you turn it down now, please?
Customer That’s clever. I love it. It’s perfect for my kitchen Thank you! I’d like to buy it, please.
at home. I’ll come back later today and buy it.
Assistant Great! You can pay by credit card or cash.
Assistant Would you like to try a cup before you go?
Customer I’m sorry? 3.11 Lesson 9C, Exercise 3
Assistant A cup of coffee?
1
Customer Oh, no thanks. I never drink coffee. Horrible
stuff. It was really kind of you to lend me your car. I’m really
grateful.
2
2
Assistant I see you’re looking at the cycling machines.
Please come to the film with me. You’ll really enjoy it, I’m
Customer Cycling machines? Oh, yes. Yes, they’re very
sure. And I don’t want to go on my own.
nice, aren’t they? A very unusual design.
Assistant It will look great in your living room. You don’t 3
need to put it away if friends come to visit. This match is going to be tough. The other team are really
Customer Yes, I see. Good idea. And it’s got a long strong. But I think you can win if you really want to.
handle. Is that for carrying it?
4
Assistant No, that’s the seat. It’s leather.
I’m sorry, but this soup is cold. Could you change it, please?
Customer Oh yes, of course. It’s heavy, isn’t it?
Assistant Yes. It’s got a triangular base that’s made of 5
iron. It allows you to cycle very fast without the I’m sorry to hear that you failed your driving test. I know
whole thing shaking. you’re upset, but you only made one little mistake and I’m
Customer Oh, and what are these buttons for? sure you’ll pass next time.
Assistant That’s the computer. If you choose ‘share’ 6
mode, it automatically posts your workout
results on Facebook. It’s great to see so many of you here today for the concert.
Thank you very much for coming. I hope you enjoy it.

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3.12 Lesson 9C, Exercises 4 and 5 this wonderful new bus. I’m sure the bus will be in high
demand from the word go.
1
We are all aware of the dangers of being overweight and 3.13 Lesson 9F
how hard it can be to lose weight. This new health drink
Inventions the world forgot
which my company has invented can help do just that. It’s
better than other drinks because it has a new special 1: The Telharmonium
formula that gives you all the vitamins you need without
The Telharmonium was the world’s first electronic musical
extra calories. I won’t give you all the technical details here
instrument. It was designed by an American, Thaddeus
but it has been thoroughly tested and is very effective. So,
Cahill, in 1897. Three models of the instrument were built;
rather than persist with other products, I recommend that
the first weighed about 7,000 kg, and the other two weighed
you try this new one. I don’t think you will be disappointed.
nearly 200,000 kg! Music from the instrument was broadcast
2 to people’s homes using another new invention: the
telephone. For the first time, people could stay at home and
I sold my old motorbike last month and got this new one.
listen on their telephones to live music from another part of
Well, it isn’t new, actually – it’s second-hand. I couldn’t
the country. (The radio had not been invented.) People
afford a new one. But it’s only a couple of years old, and it’s
loved these concerts, but there were problems. Some
as good as new, really– there’s hardly a scratch on it. I was
telephone users who were not listening to the concert were
lucky to get it at such a good price. It didn’t cost much more
interrupted by loud music half way through their
than what I got for my old motorbike. I’d get one if I were
conversation! By 1914, the world was no longer interested in
you, but there aren’t many around and you’re unlikely to get
the Telharmonium. After Cahill’s death in 1934, his brother
such a good deal, but it’s really worth trying. Yeah, go for it.
kept one of the three models, but in 1962 it was destroyed.
3 No recordings of the music were kept, so the Telharmonium
and its unique sound have disappeared forever.
Your high blood pressure is due to a build-up of cholesterol
in your arteries. This has probably been caused by eating 2: The Rejuvenator
too many fatty foods and smoking. I can certainly prescribe
In the early part of the 20th century, there was a lot of
some drugs that will help to bring down the high cholesterol,
interest in the power of electricity to cure medical conditions.
but initially I’d like you to make some changes to your diet
A device called the Rejuvenator was invented by British
and increase your level of exercise. Try to avoid eating fatty
scientist Otto Overbeck in 1925. It was used in the home to
foods such as cheese, butter, cakes, and so on. Try also to
treat all kinds of medical problems, including deafness and
exercise regularly – ideally three times a week for 20
baldness, and became very popular. It was advertised in
minutes or half an hour. Come back to me in three months.
newspapers and members of the public were invited to
If the level is still high we will consider a course of treatment
watch live demonstrations in theatres. The users placed
at that point.
electrodes on any part of their body and a small electric
4 current was passed through it. It was unclear exactly how
the machine worked, but hundreds were sold all around the
I came up with the idea for this about five years ago, but
world and Overbeck became rich. In the 1950s, it was still
only built it in the past twelve months. It’s circular with
possible to buy new parts for these machines, but today
handles on each side. It’s battery powered – rechargeable
they are only seen in museums.
batteries, of course. They are inserted just here. It’s made of
steel and plastic, and it allows you to browse the internet as 3: The Writing Ball
well as record film. So it’s a computer combined with a
The Writing Ball was invented in 1865 by Rasmus Malling-
camcorder. I’ve met quite a few people who might be
Hansen from Denmark. It was a machine for typing onto
interested in investing in it, ’cos it’ll take a lot of money of
paper. Malling-Hansen spent a long time working on the
course to develop and produce. But I haven’t heard back
design. For example, he made sure all the keys were placed
from them … which is a bit worrying because I need money
in the best positions for typing quickly. The machine even
to start advertising it.
used electricity to make the movement faster. There was
5 one problem however: you could not see the paper as you
were typing. Nevertheless, the Writing Ball was sold all over
You’ll be delighted to hear that the new minibus which the
Europe and was very successful. However, each model was
school purchased has finally arrived. It runs on biofuel,
made by hand. Soon, other machines became more popular
which is sourced from plants, so it is very environmentally-
because they were made in factories and were cheaper. A
friendly. It’ll allow the school sports teams to get to and from
new keyboard was developed with the keys arranged
matches quickly and easily. We were able to purchase the
differently. This arrangement is now used on phones and
minibus thanks to the money we made at the Christmas fair.
computer keyboards all over the world, even though it was
We are very grateful to all the people who donated
quicker to type using the Writing Ball. The once-popular
unwanted items for the stalls and who made all those
Writing Ball was forgotten.
delicious cakes and biscuits. Without you, we wouldn’t have

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4: The Antikythera Mechanism Student But it shouldn’t break when you drop it. And it
was in its case.
In 1901, a ship was discovered at the bottom of the sea near
the Greek island of Antikythera. On the ship was an ancient Teacher The glass is very delicate. It can break quite
machine. It had been made about 1,900 years earlier, in 2 easily. I’m very sorry but there’s nothing I can
BC. For many years after its discovery, nobody understood do.
exactly what the machine was for. But in the 1970s, scientist Student Can I exchange it, please?
used X-rays to find out its secrets. Amazingly, they found Teacher No, as I said, we can repair it, but we’ll have to
that the machine was an ancient computer. It had been charge you.
designed to predict the movements of the Sun, the Moon
Student Well, how much will it cost?
and the planets. It did this using more than thirty hand-made
metal wheels of different sizes. A study of the mechanism in Teacher About £80, I think.
2006 was led by Professor Michael Edmunds from Cardiff Student Eighty pounds! I’m not happy about that. Can I
University. He described the device as ‘just extraordinary, see the manager, please?
the only thing of its kind’ and ‘more valuable than the Mona Teacher He isn’t in the shop at the moment.
Lisa’. Reconstructions have been made and the device
Student Well, if you won’t exchange it or give me a
works perfectly.
refund, I’m going to write to the manager.
Teacher As you wish.
3.14 Lesson 9G, Exercises 2 and 4
Student Thank you and goodbye.
Teacher Hello. Can I help you?
Teacher Goodbye.
Student Yes, I bought this portable DVD player here six
months ago and there’s a problem with it.
3.16 Exam Skills Trainer 5, Exercise 4
Teacher Oh, dear. What’s wrong with it?
People have always looked up at the planets and dreamed
Student I can’t switch it on. I press the on/off button and
of exploring space. The history of the telescope dates back
nothing happens.
to the early 1600s. Many people say that Galileo invented
Teacher Let me have a look. Yes, you’re right. Are the the telescope, but this is not actually true. In 1609, he was
batteries fully charged? the first person to use a telescope to study the stars, but it’s
Student Yes, they are. It doesn’t work even when the thought that a man named Hans Lipperhey invented it in
power lead is connected. 1608. Galileo learned about this invention and built his own.
Teacher Have you got the receipt? At first people used it on land and at sea, but then Galileo
had the idea of turning his telescope toward the sky. In
Student Yes, here it is. I’d like to exchange it, please.
March 1610 he wrote about his many discoveries including
Teacher I’m afraid that won’t be possible. It’s over a that the moon was not flat and smooth, but had mountains
month old, you see. and craters and that Jupiter had its own moons. After this,
Student Is there anything else you can do? people not only wanted to look at the stars and the planets,
Teacher We can repair it for you. they wanted to travel in space. They started researching
different ways to get there. The first successful flight was in
Student How long will that take?
1944 when a German V-2 rocket went on a test flight. It was
Teacher About two to three weeks. the beginning of many ‘firsts’. In 1957 the Russians
Student OK, then. Repair it, please. launched Sputnik 1 which was the first satellite to orbit the
Earth.
3.15 Lesson 9G, Exercises 6 and 8 The first successful human space flight was when the
Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin travelled in a spacecraft
Teacher Hello. How can I help you?
called Vostok 1, in 1961. It completed one orbit around the
Student I bought this tablet here last week. There’s a Earth. The first object to land on the moon was Luna 2, in
problem with it. 1959. The first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova,
Teacher Oh. What’s wrong with it? in 1963. And in 1969, the first men walked on the moon.
Student The screen is broken. Look. Since then, there have been many attempts by scientists to
explore Mars. There have been around forty attempts to get
Teacher How did that happen?
there by different countries and more than half had failed.
Student I dropped it. Many people might think this is a waste of time. However I
Teacher Oh, dear. Well, we can repair it for you. But don’t agree with them because already scientists have
you’ll have to pay for the repair. discovered many interesting things about the planet
Student Why? It’s only a week old. Can I have my including signs of water and possible life. More recently, in
money back, please? 2014, India successfully sent the latest spacecraft to send
back images of the planet.
Teacher No, I’m afraid you can’t. You broke it, you see. It
isn’t a fault with the tablet.

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Culture Bank
3.17 Culture 1
How foreigners see the British
What is a typical British person like? People who come to
Britain from other countries probably have a few
expectations: British people are polite, rather reserved, and
enjoy drinking tea and standing in queues! But how accurate
is this stereotype? In an online survey of 1,402 foreign
nationals living in the UK, just over half said that the British
matched their expectations.
The survey also asked which aspects of the British
character the foreign nationals liked and disliked. British
people’s good manners were popular with 49%, and 40%
liked the ability to queue. Many agreed that the British are
reserved and for 32% this was a good quality – but for 19%
it was negative. Other negative aspects were the British
sense of humour (31%) and British culture in general (28%).
However, 77% said they liked British people in general and
61% said that their opinion of the British got better as a
result of living in the UK.
A spokesman for the researchers said: ‘People probably
come to Britain with a stereotype of what to expect. It’s good
to see that, for the majority, the reality is better than the
stereotype.’
3.18 Culture 1, Exercises 4 and 5
Speaker 1
I love the UK. I just love the atmosphere, the culture, the art,
the history. There is also beautiful scenery in places like
Cornwall and Scotland. The people here are kind and
friendly. The only things I don’t like about the UK are the
weather and the food. I had some really bad fish and chips
recently!
Speaker 2
British people don’t care about their work like we do. They
aren’t very hard-working really – they spend all day waiting
to finish work and go home! And when they leave work, they
forget about it. I have my own café here in Cardiff and for
me, my work is my life.
Speaker 3
I find British people very friendly and I love an English
breakfast and fish and chips. But, I don’t like it when I finish
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work at 11 p.m. or midnight and young people are causing
trouble in the street. It’s not always nice and they make a lot
of noise. I don’t worry for me but I’m anxious for my wife at
night over here. Overall though, I like living in Britain. It’s
much better than back home.
Speaker 4
OK, the weather definitely is not great but I love the freedom
of living in the UK. It’s so friendly and welcoming. It was
difficult for me when I first arrived at the age of sixteen. I was
used to rules. My family came first and I always obeyed my
parents. I never answered back. But British teenagers have
so much more freedom. They don’t have many rules, and
that’s not always a good thing. They often behave badly.
Speaker 5
The culture here is amazing and I really like the literature.
Shakespeare is one of my favourites and I love Mr Bean.
Like me, Rowan Atkinson, the actor, studied electrical
engineering at university. But, people here are lazy. You get
too many holidays – especially students.
3.19 Culture 2
The real Robinson Crusoe
Written by Daniel Defoe and published in 1719, Robinson
Crusoe is one of the oldest and most famous adventure
stories in English literature. In the story, Crusoe is marooned
on a desert island and spends 27 years there before he is
rescued. Defoe probably got the idea for his novel from the
true story of the Scottish sailor, Alexander Selkirk. In the
early 18th century, England was at war with Spain, and
Selkirk joined the crew of an English ship, the Cinque Ports,
which attacked Spanish colonies and ships in the South
Pacific. In 1704 Selkirk’s ship stopped at a remote island for
fresh water and supplies. Selkirk was worried that the ship
was in poor condition and, instead of returning to it, decided
to stay on the island alone. He became very lonely and
quickly regretted his decision, but he was right about the
Cinque Ports: it sank. Selkirk survived by building a shelter
and killing animals for food. Two ships visited the island the
following year, but unfortunately they were Spanish, so
Selkirk hid from sight. An English ship finally arrived at the
island in February 1709 and Selkirk was able to return
home.
3.20 Culture 2, Exercises 4 and 5
I took my prisoner to my secret cave on the other side of the
island and gave him food and drink. After that, he went to
sleep.
He was a fine young man, about 25 years old, tall and well-
built, with a kind face and nice smile. […] I decided to give
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him the name of 'Man Friday', because I first saw him on a
Friday.
I began to teach him to speak English, and soon he could
say his name, 'Master', and 'Yes' and 'No'. How good it was
to hear a man's voice again!
Later that day we went back to my first house. We went
carefully along the beach, but there were no boats and no
cannibals. […]
Friday was a quick learner and his English got better day by
day. He helped me with the goats and with the work in the
cornfields, and soon we were good friends. I enjoyed
teaching him and, most of all, having a friend to talk to. This
was the happiest of all my years on the island.
Friday and I lived together happily for three years. I told him
the story of my adventures and about life in England, and he
told me about his country and his people. One day we were
at the top of the highest hill on the island and we were
looking out to sea. It was a very clear day and we could see
a long way. Suddenly, Friday began to jump up and down,
very excitedly.
'What's the matter?' I asked.
'Look, Master, look!' Friday cried. 'I can see my country.
Look over there!' […]
I began to think about escape. Perhaps Friday wanted to go
home too. Perhaps together we could get to his country. But
what then? Would Friday still be my friend?
3.21 Culture 3
British TV around the world
Selling British TV programmes to countries around the world
is an important industry for the UK. It brings in around £1.3
billion a year. The top countries for British TV exports are 1)
the USA, 2) Sweden, 3) Denmark, 4) Germany and 5)
Norway.
There are two main types of TV export: finished
programmes and formats. When countries buy a finished
programme, it is ready to broadcast on their own channels.
When they buy a format, they are just buying the idea for a
programme. They then have to make the programme in their
own language and with people and places from their own
countries.
Many of the finished programmes are dramas. For example,
the historical drama Downton Abbey is very popular in many
countries. Midsomer Murders, a detective drama from 1997,
is still a huge favourite around the world. Wildlife
documentaries are also an important export.
Popular British formats include several talent shows: The X
Factor and Strictly Come Dancing are two well-known
examples. Cookery programmes are very popular too. For
example, local versions of Masterchef are on TV in more
than forty different countries, including India and Iran.
Different TV shows are popular in different countries. For
example, the science fiction show Doctor Who is very
popular in Turkey and many other countries. But when a TV
company in Finland bought the programmes, audiences
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there did not like it at all. They prefer an old police drama
called Heartbeat, which was popular in the UK twenty years
ago and only sells to a few countries.
3.22 Culture 3, Exercises 4 and 5
Top Gear, a BBC TV programme about cars, is the most
popular factual TV programme in the world. Every week,
about 350 million people watch it in 170 different countries.
In most countries, they watch the British version of the
programme, but a few countries bought the format from the
BBC and made their own versions. However, this was not
always a good decision. Russia and Australia both made
their own programmes, following the same format as the
British programme, but they were not popular with viewers.
In the end, both countries decided to show the original BBC
programme instead.
Top Gear began about forty years ago, in the 1970s. In the
early days, it was quite a serious programme with lots of
information about new cars. But in 2002, it changed its style
completely – and as a result became far more popular and
successful. The programme was still about cars, but it also
contained a lot of humour. They started filming the show in
front of a live audience and the atmosphere was like a party.
The programme’s presenters – Jeremy Clarkson, Richard
Hammond and James May – became well-known celebrities
in the UK and around the world. Although all three
presenters are male, a lot of the programme’s viewers –
about 40% in fact – are female.
The new version of the programme introduced a character
called The Stig – a racing driver who tested new cars.
Nobody knew the identity of The Stig because he always
wore a racing-driver’s helmet. People wondered if it could be
a famous Formula 1 driver and the mystery made the show
even more popular.
But the relationship between the three presenters is
probably the main reason for the programme’s success.
However, in 2015 the main presenter Jeremy Clarkson lost
his job. He had an argument with another person who was
working on the show, and Clarkson hit him! Richard
Hammond and James May also left the show. But that is not
the end of Top Gear. The BBC is now making the show with
new presenters.  
3.23 Culture 4. Exercises 4 and 5
Interviewer Today in our series about the English
language we are talking about English as a
global language. In the studio with me is
professor of linguistics, Edward Higgins.
Welcome, Professor Higgins.
Professor Thank you.
Interviewer So, can you tell us how English became a
global language?
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Professor Yes. Well, English spread around the world
during the 18th and 19th centuries. At that
time, Britain was a very powerful country and
it had a large empire. English became the
most important language in countries like
Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and a
second language in countries such as
Pakistan and India. It also became the first
language in the USA.
Interviewer And of course the USA is now the most
powerful country in the world.
Professor Yes, so English continues to be very
important. The enormous influence of
American culture since 1945 means that
English is now more than ever a global
language.
Interviewer How important is the influence of technology?
Professor Very important. English is already the
language of popular culture, films and TV, and
of science, business, aviation and tourism. It
has now also become the language of the
internet; about 55% of the world’s websites
are in English and experts estimate that 80%
of all emails are in English too.
Interviewer Just how many English speakers are there?
 
Professor That depends on how you count them! But
there are about 335 million people who use
English as their first language. In addition,
there are about 430 million people who speak
it as their second language, in countries like
India, South Africa and the West Indies.
Interviewer And a lot of people learn English as a foreign
language too, don’t they?
Professor Yes, about 750 million people learn English as
a foreign language in over 100 countries.
Interviewer So how many speakers is that in total?
Professor About 1.5 billion speakers world-wide.
Interviewer Wow. That’s a lot of people. I guess not
everyone is happy about how widespread and
how important English is becoming?
Professor That’s right. Some people think English is too
powerful. They see English as a threat to their
own language. In Britain for example, Welsh
has only five hundred thousand speakers.
Can it survive alongside English, which has
60 million? Maybe not. And people in other
countries don’t like all the words that their
languages borrow from English. Some French
people for example object to words like
‘weekend’ and ‘blog’ and ‘email’.
Interviewer Will English continue to be the most important
language in the world?
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Professor Probably, but the power of the USA may
decline and China and India might become
the next superpowers. In one hundred years
from now, it’s possible that we will all need to
speak Chinese or Hindi! Nobody really knows.
3.24 Culture 5
Anita Roddick
Anita Perilli was born in 1942 in Littlehampton, a seaside
town in the south of England. Her parents were from Italy
and ran a café. After leaving school, she trained as an
English teacher, but before finding a job, she decided to
travel round the world, working in a number of different
countries. When she got back to Britain, her mother
introduced her to a young Scottish man called Gordon
Roddick. They fell in love immediately and got married.
Together, they opened a restaurant and a small hotel in
Anita’s home town. They had two daughters and moved to
Brighton, also on the south coast.
It was there in 1976 that Anita Roddick opened the first
Body Shop store. Her husband was travelling in South
America and she needed to earn money to support her
young family. She wanted to sell cosmetics and skin-care
products that were natural and not tested on animals. She
also recycled the bottles that contained her products:
customers could bring them back to the shop and refill them.
‘Businesses have the power to do good,’ she said. She
opened a second shop six months later and by 1991, there
were seven hundred Body Shop stores. By 2004, the Body
Shop had over two thousand stores with 71 million
customers in 51 countries.
Anita Roddick was passionate about social and
environmental issues. She gave money to many charities,
including Greenpeace and Amnesty International, and she
campaigned for them too. She joined anti-globalisation
protests and was very critical of big oil companies that did
not invest in renewable energy.
Towards the end of her life, she sold Body Shop to the
world’s largest cosmetics company, L’Oréal. Many of her
customers felt betrayed. But she gave away most of her
money to charities. She died in 2007 at the age of 64.
3.25 Culture 5, Exercises 4 and 5
Richard Branson was born in London in 1950. He didn’t do
very well at school and left when he was sixteen. His head
teacher said to him, ‘You will either end up in prison or
become a millionaire.’ One of these came true: Branson is
now the sixth richest person in Britain.
After leaving school, Branson started a student magazine,
called Student. He used the magazine to start his next
business, a mail-order record company. He advertised pop
records in the magazine and sold them for much less than
the music shops charged. He called his company ‘Virgin’.
Soon he was able to open his first music shop in London.
He then decided to not only sell records but also to produce
them. He built a recording studio and had an instant hit with
Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells. He attracted lots of new young
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musicians and groups, especially punk bands like the Sex
Pistols. Bigger bands like the Rolling Stones and Genesis
followed, and Virgin Records became one of the biggest
record companies in the UK.
But Branson was looking for new challenges. In the early
90s, he sold his record company and started an airline,
Virgin Atlantic, which flies from the UK to destinations all
over the world. He also started a train company in 1993 and
a mobile phone company in 1999.
Branson not only likes business challenges; he also likes
personal challenges and has tried to break a number of
world records. In 1986, he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean
in record time and in 1991 he made the fastest crossing of
the Pacific Ocean in a hot-air balloon. His average speed
was 394 kilometres per hour!
Branson’s most recent business is Virgin Galactic, a space
tourism company. Watch this space!
3.26 Culture 6
Alcatraz is a small, rocky island in San Francisco Bay in the
USA. It is 2.4 km from the shore and the sea around the
island is very dangerous. The water is very cold and there
are fast, strong currents. In the 19th century, the American
government realised it was the ideal place to put dangerous
prisoners, because it is very difficult to reach and even more
difficult to escape from. So they built a prison on the island
and from the 1930s to the 1960s it was the toughest prison
in the USA. Over 1,500 prisoners stayed on the island,
including America’s most violent bank robbers and
murderers. The most famous prisoner was the gangster Al
Capone. But the prison was never full and it was very
expensive to run, so the government finally decided to close
it. Alcatraz became a museum and is now one of San
Francisco’s most popular tourist attractions, with more than
one and a half million visitors a year.
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Interviewer So, here we are inside Alcatraz. I’m with
Danny Bergman, who works at the museum
and shows people round. Hi Danny.
Curator Hello. And welcome to Alcatraz!
Interviewer Thanks. I’m looking forward to the tour!
Curator Well, the first thing I’ll show you is a prison
cell. Come this way. Here we are. This is a
typical cell.
Interviewer Wow, it’s so small!
Curator Yes, it’s 2.7 metres long and 1.5 metres wide.
The prisoners could stretch their arms out and
touch both walls, like this.
Interviewer Oh, yes.
Curator Each cell had a bed with one blanket, a desk,
a toilet and a small washbasin. Each prisoner
had his own cell. Black prisoners stayed in
cells in a different block.
Interviewer What did the prisoners do all day?
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Curator They got up at 6.30, had breakfast at 7, then
tidied their cells. If they were lucky, and
behaved well, they were allowed to work, from
7.30. If not, they had to stay in their cells.
Lunch was at 11.20 and then they worked
again until 4.25. The guards locked the cell
doors at 5 o’clock and turned off the lights at
9.30.
Interviewer It doesn’t sound like fun!
Curator No, it wasn’t. There was a library, though, with
15,000 books and prisoners could borrow
three books at a time. The average prisoner
read about 85 books a year. They could also
play musical instruments for an hour a day in
the canteen, if they wanted to.
Interviewer Could they go outside?
Curator Only at weekends, for a maximum of five
hours. They could play baseball in the
recreation yard.
Interviewer And what about visitors?
Curator Each prisoner could have one visitor a month.
Interviewer Those are very tough rules!
Curator Yes, they are. And if they broke the rules, the
punishments were very harsh.
Interviewer Did any prisoners escape?
Curator Thirty-six men tried to escape, including two
who tried to escape twice. The guards
recaptured twenty-three men, including two
who successfully managed to leave the island
and reach the city. The guards shot and killed
six others during their escape, and two
prisoners drowned trying to swim across the
bay.
Interviewer That makes ... 31. What about the other five?
Curator Nobody knows what happened to them. Have
you heard of the famous Hollywood film
Escape from Alcatraz?
Interviewer The Clint Eastwood film? Yes.
Curator Well, that film tells their story. The five men
planned a very clever and detailed escape
over seven months. They disappeared one
night and were never seen again. The FBI
looked for them but never found them.
Interviewer What do you think happened?
Curator I don’t know. They probably drowned, but it’s
nice to think that maybe they got away!
3.28 Culture 7
Wall Street
Wall Street is a street in New York City’s financial district.
People also use Wall Street to mean the whole financial
district. The Dutch gave the street its name. They built a wall
there to protect the area from the British in the 17th century.
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Wall Street is one of the main financial centres in the world,
together with London, Hong Kong and Tokyo. The New York
Stock Exchange opens every morning at 9.30 a.m. and
closes at 4 p.m. The signal for opening and closing is a bell
and they often invite a celebrity to ring it.
In the early part of the 20th century, Wall Street was the
centre of the financial world. Millions of people wanted to
invest money in the New York Stock Exchange because it
was doing so well. Their money grew and grew and
investors became rich. It seemed too good to be true – and
it was.
The Wall Street Crash began on 24 October 1929. The
value of investments started to fall and soon everybody
wanted to get their money back. Investors panicked and the
situation got worse. The New York Stock Exchange lost
89% of its value very quickly and caused the worst global
depression in history.
3.29 Culture 7, Exercises 5 and 6
The Great Depression began at the end of the 1920s and
lasted until the end of the 1930s. It was the worst
depression in history and it began with the Wall Street Crash
of October 1929. During that crash, the stock exchange fell
by 89% and many investors lost all of their money. But why
did that have such a bad effect on the rest of the country?
After all, most ordinary people had nothing to do with Wall
Street and no money to invest anyway. Why did they suffer
when the stock market fell?
Basically, when the Wall Street Crash happened, the whole
nation lost confidence in the country’s economy. Banks did
not want to lend money to people who needed it and people
with money did not want to keep it in banks. As a result,
more than half of the 25,000 banks in the USA went out of
business.
People were very anxious about the economic situation so
they were careful with their money. They didn’t spend much.
So shops went out of business and people lost their jobs.
Factories began to close down and more people became
unemployed. In 1930, 4 million Americans were looking for
work but could not find it. A year later, the number was 6
million. Because there were not enough jobs, many people
could not afford to pay the rent for their homes. In America’s
towns and cities, there were more and more homeless
people.
The President, Herbert Hoover, did not want to take any
action. He believed that the situation would get better soon
by itself. But he was wrong – it got worse. Much worse. By
1932, about 15 million people – that’s 25% of the working
population – could not find a job.
In 1932, the American people elected a new president:
Franklin D Roosevelt. He decided that he needed to help the
economy out of depression, and he did this by spending
huge amounts of government money on big projects. He
used these projects to give work to millions of unemployed
people. And he often spoke to the American people over the
radio, trying to improve confidence. His efforts did help the
economy – but in fact the start of the Second World War in
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1939 helped much more. Finally the factories and workers
were busy again. By 1940, unemployment was down to
10% – remember, it had been around 25% in 1932. But it
took until 1954 for the New York Stock Exchange to reach
the same level as before the Wall Street Crash of
October 1929.
3.30 Culture 8
Sherlock Holmes: fact file
The author of the Sherlock Holmes stories was Arthur
Conan Doyle (1859–1930). He was born in Scotland and
studied medicine at Edinburgh University. He worked as a
doctor but in his spare time he wrote detective stories.
He wrote the first Sherlock Holmes story in 1887. His
detective hero lives at 221b Baker Street in London.
Holmes is tall and thin, with a long, sharp face. He usually
wears a deerstalker hat, smokes a pipe or cigarettes, and
carries a magnifying glass. He is extremely intelligent and is
a brilliant violinist.
Holmes’s assistant is Dr Watson, an ex-army officer. Watson
is less intelligent than Holmes. In one Sherlock Holmes film,
when Watson asks Holmes how he solved a crime,
Holmes’s famous reply is ‘Elementary, my dear Watson!’
Holmes’s greatest enemy is Professor Moriarty. At the end
of one story, they both die. But Doyle’s fans were so upset
that he had to bring Holmes back to life in another story!
3.31 Culture 8, Exercises 4 and 6
Interviewer Today on Film Review, I’m talking to Mark
Jackson about the famous detective, Sherlock
Holmes. First of all, Mark, can you tell us how
many film and TV adaptations of the Sherlock
Holmes stories there are?
Critic There are hundreds. No one knows exactly
because some have been lost. But the first
was a short film made in 1900. Lots were
made in the 1920s, and it hasn’t stopped
since. At least seventy-eight different actors
have played the character of Sherlock Homes
in films and TV dramas.
Interviewer Wow, that’s amazing.
Critic Yes, no other fictional character has appeared
so often on cinema and TV screens.
Interviewer Why is that? What is it about the stories that is
so appealing?
Critic I think it’s the character of Holmes. The
stories themselves are not that brilliant –
they're good, they're clever, but there are
better detective stories. It’s really the
character of Holmes that is unique and
fascinating.
Interviewer In what way?
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Critic Well, he’s a very complex character. He's
extremely intelligent – he believes that no one
is as intelligent as himself, except perhaps his
great enemy, Professor Moriarty.
Interviewer So, arrogant and vain too.
Critic Yes, arrogant and vain. And he doesn’t care
what other people think of him. But he’s also
very imaginative, very observant and also
very brave.
Interviewer And he has a dark side to his character,
doesn’t he?
Critic Yes. He’s very unemotional, very cold. He’s
quite unsympathetic. He can’t understand
other people’s feelings. And he doesn’t
understand women at all. Dr Watson
describes him in one of the stories as ‘a brain
without a heart’ and ‘more a machine than a
man’.
Interviewer Does he have hobbies or other interests?
Critic He plays the violin. But he gets bored and
depressed very easily. And when he’s feeling
down, he sometimes goes to bed and sleeps
all day!
Interviewer So like many popular heroes he has lots of
faults.
Critic Yes, in that way he is very human.
Interviewer There are two recent TV adaptations of the
Sherlock Holmes stories, a British one and an
American one.
Critic Yes, and the interesting thing is that the
stories are set in the present day. So there’s
the BBC drama called Sherlock, starring
Benedict Cumberbatch. They use some of the
original stories but they have added lots of
humour. Then there’s an American show
called Elementary. It’s set in New York, and it
stars Jonny Lee Miller as Holmes and Lucy
Liu as Watson.
Interviewer Lucy Liu? A woman! That’s different!
Critic Yes, but it works, I think.
Interviewer And it’s set in New York. So is Holmes
American?
Critic No, Miller plays him as British. But Miller has
changed Holmes’s character a bit. Miller’s
Holmes is very scruffy, whereas in the original
stories Holmes is very well-dressed. And in
the TV series Holmes has girlfriends.
Interviewer Really? Is Watson his girlfriend?
Critic No, not Watson. That would be too far from
the original story and make them very
different characters.
Interviewer Do you think there will ever be a female
Holmes?
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Critic People have accepted a female Watson, so
yeah, why not? I think it’s bound to happen
some time. 
3.32 Culture 9
During the 1930s, German military power was increasing. Its
neighbours – in particular, Poland and France – were
becoming more and more worried about the danger of an
invasion. In Poland, a team of brilliant young
mathematicians worked hard to break Germany’s military
codes. It was difficult because the Germans used a complex
machine called Enigma to send and receive their codes. But
by 1938, the Polish team could understand 75% of
Germany’s secret messages. This was mainly thanks to an
invention by Marian Rejewski called the bomba
kryptologiczna. However, that year, the Germans changed
their Enigma machines and made the codes far more
difficult to break. As World War II began, the Polish team
shared their ideas about Enigma with British and French
code-breakers.
A team of code-breakers – men and women – worked at a
secret location in the south of England: Bletchley Park. They
included Alan Turing, a mathematician with an interest in
computing. At Bletchley Park, he designed an early form of
computer which they called the Bombe. (It was based on the
bomba kryptologicdzna.) They used it to help break complex
codes. Compared to today’s computers, the Bombe was
huge and not very powerful. But at the time, it was some of
the most advanced technology in the world. It made the
work of the code-breakers much faster.
Marian Rejewski worked as a code-breaker in Britain during
the war. In 1946, he returned to Poland and worked as an
accountant. He kept his code-breaking work secret from
everybody until 1967! But today, his is celebrated each year
at Bletchley Park.
3.33 Culture 9, Exercises 5 and 6
Ada Lovelace was born in 1815 into a rich family. She was
the daughter of the British aristocrat and famous poet, Lord
Byron. However, she did not grow up with him. She was
brought up by her mother, who made sure that Ada had a
very good education. She was particularly good at maths
and science, and took a keen interest in the scientific
inventions and discoveries of her day.
At that time, a British mathematician called Charles
Babbage was working on a machine for doing complex
calculations. He called his machine a Difference Engine. He
began to build the machine, but he did not finish it because
he had a better idea. He called his new idea the Analytical
Engine, and it was better because it had a kind of memory.
In fact, he didn’t finish building this one either. Babbage
never really finished anything!
Ada Lovelace met Charles Babbage and the two became
friends. Ada began working with Babbage and because she
was a brilliant mathematician, she understood how
important his ideas were. She realised that it was possible to
write programs for the Analytical Engine. Because it had a
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memory, it could do complex calculations, step-by-step. In a
scientific paper, she described how to do this and gave an
example. Because the machine was never built, the
example was never tested. Nevertheless, most computer
scientists see Ada Lovelace’s work as the first computer
program in the world – and it was written years before the
first computer existed!
Ada Lovelace died in 1852 at the age of 36. The importance
of her work was not realised for another hundred years. But
today, she is seen as an important figure in the history of
science. A modern computer programming language is
named after her – Ada. And every October, Ada Lovelace
Day celebrates the role of women in science, technology,
maths and engineering.

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