1.07 Circle the correct answer (A, B or C).

1 Susan _____ as a shop assistant until she finds a better job.

A) is working
B) works
C) is always working

2 We _____ Art at school at the moment.

A) don’t study
B) aren't study
C) aren't studying

3 Paul _____ working in a bank.

A) enjoying
B) enjoys
C) do enjoy

4 How _____ this morning? Are you any better?

A) are you feeling
B) you feel
C) do you feeling

5 I _____ to see you as soon as possible.

A) need
B) am needing
C) usually need

6 Now, you _____ silly! I didn’t say that!

A) are
B) do are
C) are being

7 Why _____ the food? Does it need salt?

A) you taste
B) do you taste
C) are you tasting

8 My parents _____ going to the theatre rather than the cinema.

A) are preferring
B) prefer
C) don’t prefer

1.08 Circle ‘C’ for correct or ‘IC’ for incorrect.

1 I'm enjoying this party! It's great! C / IC

2 She appears very confident about her abilities. C / IC
3 My sister is appearing in a short film this week. C / IC
4 Do you think about the school homework? C / IC
5 I think it going to be a difficult school year with all these new subjects. C / IC
6 He doesn’t remember me at all! C / IC
7 Sheila can't talk to you now. She has dinner. C / IC
8 Who does this iPad belong to? C / IC

1.09 Circle the correct words.

1 My dad is always cooking / always cooks at weekends.

2 I can't stand Perry. He's always complaining / always complains about his life!
3 I don’t never / often do my homework in the mornings.
4 My dog is / is being very lazy. He sleeps all day long.
5 How often are you revising / do you revise your English vocabulary?
6 These days I'm very busy because I practise / am practising for my final guitar
test!
7 I feel / am feeling that something is wrong. What about you?
8 Don't you think / Aren't you thinking that we should help Mum with cleaning the
house?

1.13 Read the text and write the headings in the correct spaces.

Having fun! Morning programme What about you?

Holidays at last! Something useful

Sabina's holiday blog

1 ____________________
Hi everybody! I'm Sabina and I live in Finland. My summer holidays have started at
last, and this year I've decided not to spend them in front of the TV. So here's what
I do every day! It's not a strict timetable of course, but it helps me organise my time
well.
2 ____________________
I don’t get up very early – around nine o'clock. Not like when I had school and had
to get up at half past seven. I have a good breakfast. When I go to school, I don’t
usually have time to sit down and have breakfast, so this is a luxury for me! Then I
help my mum a bit around the house, tidy my room and then I spend an hour on
the laptop chatting to my friends. I don’t spend a lot of time on that because my
parents aren't too happy when I'm on the computer for hours on end. So …
Around half past eleven, I usually go out to meet my best friend, Marianne. We live
close by and we meet every day. Sometimes we go to the shopping centre and
other times we go to the youth club.
3 ____________________
There we meet other friends from school or from the sports team. We are both very
fond of ice-skating and are members of the school team. Marianne is much better
than me at figure skating, but I'm faster so we're both happy! Sometimes we hang
out with the other kids there, but sometimes we have a lesson! I know, I know … 'a
lesson in the holidays?', you ask. Well, let me explain. It isn't a lesson on a school
subject, although I believe it'll be very useful for my future. Marianne and I are
doing a course on computer programming! We both enjoy using computers but we
also want to be able to make computers do what we want them to do!
4 ____________________
After I get back home in the afternoon, I relax a bit and then I usually go to the
swimming pool or the tennis courts. Now in the summer, I believe tennis is the
perfect sport for me. In the evenings, I don’t go out much, but on Saturday I go to
the cinema with Marianne or my brother and his friends or sometimes we go to the
youth club when they organise a dance night. I always look forward to these
evenings because they're great fun!
5 ____________________
So, what about you? Write to me and tell me how you spend your summer
holidays. Do you have a programme like mine or not?

1.15 Circle the correct words or numbers.

1 In the summer, Sabina gets up at 7.30 / 9.00.

2 She spends hours / an hour on the computer.
3 She goes out with Marianne / alone.
4 Marianne and Sabina are having ice-skating / computer lessons.
5 On Saturdays, Sabina goes to the cinema / tennis court.

Tracks 1, 2, 3 and 4

1.20 Listen and write ‘T’ for true or ‘F’ for false.

1 Katrina doesn’t like her school. _____

2 Kostas hasn’t got many classmates. _____
3 Claudine goes to a special school. _____
4 Amir's class is very big. _____
5 Amir thinks the teachers' job isn't difficult. _____

Tracks 1, 2, 3 and 4

1.21 Listen and circle the words you hear.

1 Katrina's teachers are helpful / bad.

2 Kostas goes to high / elementary school.
3 In Kostas's class there are eighty / eighteen students.
4 Claudine's school is a special school for athletes / artists.
5 Amir's class can be very quiet / noisy.

1.24 You have moved to a new town. Write a letter to your friend to tell
him/her about your news. Talk about your new home and school, and
mention any other news you have. Write between 120 and 150 words.

2.07 Circle the correct words.

A: I (1) phoned / used to phone you last night. Where were you?
B: I (2) wasn’t hearing / didn’t hear the phone. I (3) would watch / was watching my
favourite programme on TV. What (4) did you want / were you wanting?
A: I (5) was / was being bored and I wanted to talk to you.

A: (6) Did you / Did you use to watch the news last night?
B: No, why? Was there anything interesting?
A: Yes, there was a story about a man who (7) used to / would live in a tree! Every
morning, he (8) was climbing / would climb down the tree and go to work.
B: What an odd story! What (9) happened / was happening to him?
A: I don't know. I (10) didn’t use to / didn’t watch the end of the programme.

2.08 Circle the correct answer (A, B or C).

1 Why _____ at the cow as you took the picture?

A) were they staring
B) did they use to stare
C) did they stare

2 Bob _____ going to look for UFOs in the desert!

A) was suggesting
B) would suggest
C) suggested

3 As I _____ back home, I saw a huge snake in the middle of the street.
A) was coming
B) would come
C) was came

4 My grandfather _____ me a bedtime story every night when I was little.

A) was reading
B) would read
C) used read

5 They _____ a short cut home when they came face to face with a criminal!
A) took
B) were taking
C) used to take

6 What _____ after the alarm went off?

A) did you use to do
B) were you doing
C) did you do

7 The boy was screaming at the top of his voice, when his father _____ him to be
quiet!
A) told
B) was telling
C) would tell

8 As a child, I _____ in a cupboard when I was sad.

A) was hiding
B) did hide
C) would hide

2.12 Circle the correct words.

1 What was Jack doing when / while the storm started?

2 I know you don't believe this, but I did see / did saw a UFO!
3 I was sitting chatting to my best friend when / while suddenly someone threw a
ball at us!
4 When my cat was a kitten, she would / used to love sitting on my laptop!
5 While / After we were watching my favourite film, all the lights went out.
6 What did the sailors do while / after their boat disappeared?
7 This story happened a long time before / ago.
8 Every day before / while he went to school he would revise his homework.

2.13 Read the text and write the headings in the correct spaces.

Lost! Someone is here! Where's the path?

What a wonderful forest! The way back home

1 ____________________
When Cathleen woke up in the middle of the night, at first she didn’t know where
she was. It took her a moment to remember that the night before her boyfriend
Roger and she had got lost on the way back home after visiting some friends. On
the way back, Roger suggested taking a short cut through a forest. He said it was a
beautiful route and they would get home much faster that way, so she had agreed.

2 ____________________
It was indeed a beautiful route. The forest was very peaceful and green with
enormous, ancient trees and wonderful flowers. They felt very happy and decided
to get out of the car and explore it a bit. They followed a path for some time and got
to a small river with crystal clear water. They were sitting on the river bank when
they heard the sound of distant thunder, so they thought it was time to go back to
their car.

3 ____________________
That's when they realised they were in big trouble! The way back to the path was
gone! They couldn’t find it any more! Roger thought that they should go to the left,
but Cathleen thought they should go right. The noise from the storm was coming
closer and closer and it was getting darker, too. They decided to follow Roger's
idea and headed left into the forest.

4 ____________________
Cathleen was getting scared, their mobile phones didn’t work, the temperature was
dropping and it was getting quite cold in the dark forest. Soon, they couldn’t see
well enough to walk and the rain started coming down, too! It was then that Roger
noticed a small cave between two trees. 'Let's get in there to wait for the rain to
pass,' he said. And that's what they did. They waited and waited but it kept raining
hard. Eventually Cathleen fell asleep and a little later Roger did, too.

5 ____________________
So now Cathleen was wide awake in the cold, dark cave, trying to hear and see
what had woken her up. Roger was lying next to her fast asleep. She was really
scared and didn’t know what to do. 'Wake up!' she whispered to Roger, 'I think
someone is in the cave with us!' As if in slow motion, she saw something move at
the back of the cave. Was it a bear?

2.15 Match the phrases with the paragraphs.

A let's sit down _____

B going back home _____
C left or right? _____
D it's cold _____
E I can see something _____

Tracks 5, 6, 7 and 8

2.20 Listen and circle the words you hear.

1 Kevin's cousin / uncle had vanished years ago.

2 Darleen arrived at the cinema at five past / to six.
3 The man's wife phoned him from home / the office.
4 The woman was working / reading in the garden.
5 The woman heard a cat / dog.

Tracks 5, 6, 7 and 8

2.22 Listen and circle the words you hear.

Kevin was working at the office when someone (1) called / visited him and asked
him to look out of the window. He saw an object which was (2) falling / flying very
fast.
Darleen and her friend were going to the (3) theatre / cinema. They were both at
the main entrance / hall but they couldn’t see each other.
The man was going to (4) fly / drive on a business trip.
The woman could (5) hear / see a cat.

2.24 You have decided to enter a short story competition. The rules of the
competition state that your story must start with the words:

Philip was walking in the street when he found a strange-looking box.

Write your story for the competition. Write between 120 and 150 words.

3.07 Circle the correct words.

1 There was / were some money on the kitchen table.

2 There were very few / a few chairs and we couldn’t all sit down.
3 Let me give you a number / piece of advice.
4 If you can't sleep, count sheep / a sheep.
5 His furniture were / was very old-fashioned and dirty.
6 Can you please give me a glass / glass of water?
7 He said he found a hair / hair in his food and refused to pay the restaurant!
8 I'm sorry, I can't come. I've got a lot of works / work to do today.

3.08 Circle ‘C’ for correct or ‘IC’ for incorrect.

1 The news were very interesting! C / IC

2 She washed her hair and combed them. C / IC
3 Can you see the pink suitcase over there? C / IC
4 We saw a few sheep eating in the field. C / IC
5 There were so many numbers of clothing, I couldn’t choose. C / IC
6 Police are here. C / IC
7 He gave me little information so it was hard to decide. C / IC
8 I haven't got problem. C / IC

3.10 Circle the correct answer (A, B or C).

1 We had so _____ luggage with us that we had to take two taxis to the airport!
A) many
B) lots
C) much

2 I hear that _____ church in the village square is very beautiful.

A) a
B) the
C) –

3 Recently there has been too _____ crime, and people are complaining that the
police aren't doing their jobs!
A) much
B) many
C) few

4 She tried to smuggle _____ jewellery into the country but she got arrested.
A) many
B) some
C) little

5 Where have you been? I've been waiting here for _____ hour!
A) a
B) an
C) the

6 Poor girl! Her brother is a criminal, so she goes to _____ prison every week to
visit him.
A) --
B) a
C) the

7 There are too _____ good athletes nowadays!

A) a few
B) few
C) little

8 There's no _____ of money which will make me change my opinion!

A) number
B) piece
C) amount

3.13 Read the text and choose the best title.

What’s the point?
Laws that are illegal!
Odd laws!
____________________

We all know that the law is there to protect citizens from injustice and illegal
behaviour. We know we must obey the law because this is the basis for a civilised
society, and most of us know without being told what is or should be legal or illegal.
But what happens when the laws are so weird that we break them without even
knowing it?

For example, in New York, you must buy a licence in order to hang out clothes to
dry or else you can get arrested! And in Carmel, New York again, a man can be
arrested if his jacket and trousers are not of matching colours! Now, these laws are
obviously relics of past times and nobody pays any attention to them, I guess, but
what happens if you decide to take a lion to the cinema? Is that legal or not? (Not!)

Here's another crazy law. It is illegal to take off your clothes in the street in
Montpellier, the capital city of Vermont, but it's ok if you walk in the streets naked –
as long as you've removed your clothes before you go out in the streets! And in
West Virginia, people are not allowed to own a red or black flag!

Now, for some of these crazy, bizarre laws, there can be an obvious, logical
explanation. For instance, in Staten Island you can only water the grass in your
garden if you're holding the hose (it helps you not to waste water), but most of
them don’t make sense nowadays any more. So why haven't they been changed?
The answer is probably that most governments are too busy making new laws to
spend time changing old, forgotten laws such as 'having a sleeping donkey in your
bathtub after seven o'clock in the evening'!

3.15 Circle the correct words.

1In New York it is illegal / legal to buy a licence to hang clothes to dry.
2 In Carmel you can't wear a different colour jacket and trousers if you are a man /
woman.
3 In Carmel / Montpellier you can walk in the street without your clothes on.
4 In Staten Island you are / aren't allowed to water the grass.
5 Some of these laws have a weird / logical explanation.

Track 9
3.20 Listen and circle the words or phrases you hear.

1 Kevin is upset / angry because something bad happened at school.

2 Kevin bullied / tried to help a boy.
3 Marcie believes that people should not be afraid of / protect bullies.
4 A teacher punished Jacob / witnessed what happened.
5 Marcie suggests that the students should stop talking to / be friends with the
bully.

Track 9

3.21 Listen and write ‘T’ for true or ‘F’ for false.

1 Jacob lives near Kevin and Marcie. _____

2 Jacob bullied Bruce. _____
3 A teacher saw the whole thing. _____
4 Marcie wants the bully to be punished. _____
5 Kevin is going to talk to the bully. _____

3.24 You have been doing a class project on laws. Your teacher has asked
you to write an essay with the title:

People who break the law shouldn’t go to prison. They should be made to work in
order to help their society. Do you agree or disagree?

Write your essay. Write between 120 and 150 words.