STARTER UNIT

VOCABULARY

Routines. I can talk about routines and say when I do things.

1. Study the words in the box. Which of these things do you do every day?

Answer:

Do my homework, get home, get up, go to bed, go to school, have breakfast, listen to music, relax, tidy my room.

2. Complete the interviews using the correct form of the verbs in exercise 1. Then listen and check.

1.

Kate: Excuse me. I'm asking people about their morning routines. Have you got a minute?

Dylan: Yes, sure.

Kate: What are you doing in town this morning?

Dylan: I'm looking for a present for my mum.

Kate: Do you always (1)………….. on Saturday mornings?

Dylan: No, I don't. I normally play football, but I'm not playing this morning.

Kate: Oh, right. What time do you (2)…………… in the morning?

Dylan: It depends. My mum usually (3)……………… me 4 at seven o'clock, before she (4)……………………….

Kate: Do you (5)………………….. ?

Dylan: Yes, I have some cereal or toast. Then my sister and I (6)…………..

Kate: What time do you start school?

Dylan: I start school at nine.

Kate: Thanks for your help! Have a good day.

2.

Kate: Hello. Do you have a minute to answer some questions? I'm asking people about how they spend their evenings.

Lucy: OK.

Kate: Do you usually go home straight after school?

Lucy: Usually, yes. I (7)………….. school at four and I like to (8)………….. when I (9)…………….. Then I can relax in the evening.

Kate: How do you (10)………………? I see you've got some headphones. Do you (11)……………..?

Lucy: Yes, I like hip hop. I also go on my laptop and chat online or (12)…………..

Kate: Do you help at home much after school? Does someone (13)…………… and cook your meals?

Lucy: I don't often tidy my room. My mum does it. My dad always (14)………….. dinner and I sometimes help him.

Kate: And what time do you (15)…………….?

Lucy: Around ten o'clock. Sometimes a bit earlier if I'm tired.

Kate: OK, great. Thanks very much.

Answer:

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3. Look at the words in blue in the dialogues in exercise 2. Where do adverbs of frequency go in a sentence? Think of more adverbs.

Answer:

Trạng từ chỉ tần suất thường xuất hiện sau chủ ngữ, trước động từ thường trong câu.

4. USE IT! Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions to compare your daily routines. Use time expressions, adverbs of frequency and the words and phrases in exercises 1 and 2. Are your routines similar?

Answer:

1- Q: What time do you usually get up on weekdays?

A: I usually get up at 6:30 a.m. on weekdays.

2 - Q: How often do you tidy your room?

A: I tidy my room once a week, usually on Saturday mornings.

3 - Q: When do you do your homework?

A: I do my homework in the evening after dinner, almost every day.

5. USE IT! Use the information about your partner in exercise 4 to write a paragraph about their daily routine.

Answer:

My classmate is Nhung. She usually wakes up at 6:30am on weekdays. After getting up, she have brakfatst and get ready for school. She go to school at about 7:30 a.m. and study there until the afternoon. After school, she often relax or listen to music for a while. After that, she do her homework in the evening after dinner. Once or twice a week, she go shopping with her family or tidy her room. She usually go to bed at around 10:00 p.m.

LANGUAGE FOCUS

Present simple and present continuous. I can talk about repeated and scheduled actions and things happening now.

1. Study sentences 1 - 5 from the interviews on page 6. Then answer questions a-d.

1. What are you doing in town this morning?

2. I'm looking for a present for my mum.

3. I start school at nine.

4. I have some cereal or toast.

5. Do you always go shopping on Saturday mornings?

a. Which sentence refers to a scheduled action?

b. Which sentences refer to actions happening now?

c. Which sentence refers to a repeated action?

d. Which sentence contains a verb that we can't usually use in the present continuous?

Answer:

a – 4; b – 1, 2; c – 5; d – 3

2. Write the negative forms of sentences 1-5 in exercise 1.

Answer:

1. What aren’t you doing in town this morning?

2. I'm not looking for a present for my mum.

3. I don’t start school at nine.

4. I don’t have some cereal or toast.

5. Don’t you always go shopping on Saturday mornings?

3. Read the interviews on page 6 again. Find examples of:

1. negative forms of the present simple and present continuous

2. question forms of the present simple and present continuous

3. third person singular forms of the present simple

Answer:

1.

- Negative forms of the present simple: I don't often tidy my room.

- Negative forms of the present continuous: … but I'm not playing this morning.

2.

- Question forms of the present simple: Do you usually go home straight after school?

- Question forms of the present continuous: What are you doing in town this morning?

3. Third person singular forms of the present simple: My mum usually wakes me up at seven o'clock, before she goes to work.

4. PRONUNCIATION: Consonant clusters

A consonant cluster is a group of consonants without any vowels between them. A consonant cluster can be at the beginning (school /sku:l/), in the middle (describe /dis'kraib/), or at the end of a word (fact /fakt/).

Underline consonant clusters in the words below and pronounce them. Listen and check.

Answer:

5. Complete the phone conversation on the right using the correct present simple and present continuous forms of the verbs.

Erica: Hi, Claire. Where are you?

Claire: (1)…………………(I / sit) on the bus. I'm nearly in town. (2)…………. (you / want) to meet at the shopping centre?

Erica: I can't. (3)……………...(I / do) my history homework at the moment.

Claire: Why (4)…………….(you / do) your homework now? It's Saturday morning!

Erica: I know! (5)…………….(I / not / usually / do) homework on Saturdays, but I've got a netball tournament tomorrow. (6)……………..They / always / finish) late.

Claire: But (7)………….....(Miss Macken / not / usually / check) our homework.

Erica: That's not true. (8)………………..(She / always / check) it!

Claire: Oh come on, Erica! Take the day off!

Erica: No, (9)………………...(I / not / come) to town, Claire. Speak to you later, OK?

Claire: OK ... looks like I'm shopping on my own, then!

Answer:

1. I’m sitting

2. Do you want

3. I’m doing

4. are you doing

5. I don’t usually do

6. They always finish

7. Miss Macken doesn’t usually check

8. She always checks

9. I’m not coming

6. Work in pairs. Match 1-8 with a-h. Then ask and answer the questions with your partner.

Answer:

1 – e; 2 – g; 3 – a; 4 – f; 5 – d; 6 – h; 7 – c; 8 – b

7. USE IT! Work in pairs. Write another six questions using the question words in blue in exercise 6. Then ask and answer the questions with your partner. What do you both have in common? What are the differences?

Answer:

1. What are you writing?

2. Where does your grandparents live?

3. Who are you waiting for?

4. Why are you waiting for her?

5. How are you feeling now?

6. How often do you play sports?

7. What time do you go to school?

8. When does your mother go to work?

VOCABULARY AND LISTENING

Irregular past simple verbs. I can ask and answer wuestions about memories.

1. Complete the table with the infinitive and past simple forms of the verbs in blue in the quiz. Then listen and check.

Answer:

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2. Do the quiz. Compare your scores with a partner. Who has got the best memory?

1. What was the last film that you saw?

2. When was the last time that you ate in a restaurant?

3. When did you last go to a circus or a 200?

4. Where and when did you first ride a bike?

5. Who taught you English at primary school?

6. How old were your parents on their last birthdays?

7. What was the last music that you heard?

8. When did you last make something to eat?

9. What mark did you get in your last English exam?

10. At what age did you first have a mobile phone?

11. What did you do on your last birthday?

12. Who spoke to you first at school today?

13. Who did you speak to last before you left home this morning?

14. How many people gave you presents last year? What were they?

15. How many people did you buy presents for last year? What were they?

Answer:

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3. Listen to five short dialogues about some other memories and complete the Key Phrases.

Answer:

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4. Listen again. Write down the answers to the questions in the Key Phrases.

Answer:

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5. USE IT! Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions using the verbs in exercise 1 and the question words in the box.

Answer:

Q: How much food did you eat last night?

A: Not much. I just ate some bread.

Q: What did you do last weekend?

A: I went to the zoo with my brother.

Q: Where did you have lunch?

A: I had lunch at home.

Q: Why were you so happy yesterday?

A: I got good marks.

LANGUAGE FOCUS

Past simple. Object and subject questions. I can talk about wwhat I did in the past.

Past simple

1. Complete sentences 1-5 with the words in the box. Then answer questions a-c.

1. I …….. scared, but I was nervous.

2. I …….. some new sport clothes.

3. I ……… see you at the sports centre.

4. What ………. you do last weekend?

5. She ………. to sing professionally when she was only six.

a. Which of the verbs in the box are regular and which are irregular?

b. How do we form the past simple of regular verbs?

c. Which verbs do we use to form questions and negatives?

Answer:

1. wasn't

2. bought

3. didn't

4. did

5. started

a.

- Regular verb: start

- Irregular verbs: be, buy, do

b. We add “ed” to the end of the verbs.

c. Did

2. Complete the interview using the correct past simple form of “be”.

Dan: How old (1)……….. you when you moved to France?

Joe: I (2)………….. four or five. I lived with my mum and my older brother and sister. My dad travelled a lot. He (3) at home much.

Dan: (4)……………. your brother and sister happy to live in France?

Joe: No, they (5)…………... They (6) lonely because their friends (7)………… all in England.

Dan: (8)…………. it a happy time?

Joe: No, it (9)……….. a happy time for my brother and sister. But it (10) a great time for me!

Answer:

1. were

2. was

3. wasn’t

4. Were

5. weren’t

6. were

7. were

8. Was

9. was

10. wasn’t

3. Write sentences that are true for you using the past simple and the ideas in 1-6. Add a second sentence for each one giving extra information.

1. (watch) a good TV programme last night

2. (listen) to music yesterday

3. (meet) friends on Sunday

4. (do) homework yesterday

5. (play) video games this morning

6. (ride) a bicycle last week

Answer:

1. I watched a good TV programme last night. It was Running Man.

2. I didn’t listened to music yesterday. I did my homework.

3. I met friends on Sunday. We went to the cinema.

4. I did homework yesterday. It was hard.

5. I didn’t play video games this morning. I went to school.

6. I rode a bicycle last week. It was fun.

Object and subject questions

4. Study the object and subject questions below. Then find two more examples of each question in the memory quiz on page 8.

Answer:

5. Write object or subject questions using the past simple.

1. Who (buy) a present for Rachel?

2. What (they / get) her?

3. How many people (go) to her party?

4. Who (you / meet) there?

5. Why (you / leave) early?

Answer:

1. Who bought a present for Rachel?

2. What did they get her?

3. How many people went to her party?

4. Who did you meet there?

5. Why did you leave early?

6. Read Ed's text message. Then write questions for answers 1-5. Use “Who” and “How many”

Kyle told Lucy about the football match and they came with me. Kyle bought the tickets and they met me at the ground. There were 70,000 people at the match. Mesut Özil scored two goals.

1. Kyle, Lucy and Ed went.

2. Kyle bought them.

3. Kyle and Lucy met Ed there.

4. There were 70,000 people.

5. He scored two.

Answer:

1. Who went to the football match?

2. Who bought the tickets?

3. Who did Kyle and Lucy meet there?

4. How many people were there?

5. How many goals did Mesut Özil score?

7. USE IT! Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions about the events in the box. Use both subject and object questions.

Answer:

A: Who organized the concert?

B: The school music club organized it.

A: What did you watch at the concert?

B: I watched a live band perform.