Module 1 The wonders of the mind Unit Grmmr Voculry Pronuncition 1 Super rins Tense revision: present tense forms Tense revision: pst tense forms 2 Mind over mtter Pssives review Pssive continuous tenses 3 Brinwves Reltive cluses review: defining/non-defining 4 Time trvellers Reported speech review Reporting vers review Expressions with mind Expressions with rin Helth nd medicine Feelings Everydy English Sports equipment / plces Expressions with time /ð/ the nd /θ/ thing Consonnt clusters Intontion in questions Schw /ə/ techer Module 1 Check your progress Module 2 The wy we re 5 Personlities wht cluses Vers + gerund/infinitive review Try + infinitive v. try + gerund 6 In nd out of fshion used to (review) + would Advers nd dveril phrses 7 Kindness mtters Dummy it Modl vers review 8 Pecemkers Pst perfect pssive Pst perfect continuous Personlity djectives Common dveril phrses Everydy English Mking n effort Conflicts nd solutions Sentence stress nd rhythm / / pple nd /e/ lemon Connecting sounds (intrusive /w/ nd /j/) Linking sounds Module 2 Check your progress Module 3 Mking difference 9 Get involved Conditionls review Mixed conditionls 10 SOS Erth Future continuous Future perfect Future time expressions 11 When strs step in Reduced reltive cluses (omission of reltive pronouns) Question tgs review Wys of getting involved Glol issues Conserving energy Everydy English Fme Expressing opinions Contrctions in 3rd conditionls Contrcted forms of will hve Intontion in question tgs 12 The glol villge Phrsl vers review Phrsl vers Shifting stress Module 3 Check your progress 13 Lnguge Pssive report structures Understnding lnguge Words ending in -ough Module 4 Around the world 14 The wonders of the world Prticiple cluses didn t need to / needn t hve 15 Movie mgic Cluses of purpose with to / in order to / so s to Result cluses with so / such (tht) Geogrphicl fetures Trvel vers Everydy English Recting to films 16 Music in the ir Indirect questions Mking comprisons stronger Listening to Music Module 4 Check your progress /i/ sit nd / i / see Word stress in multi-syllic words Word stress ffecting mening: record (noun) vs. record (ver) Projects Pronuncition Speking: extr mteril Wordlist Phonetic chrt
Speking & functions Listening Reding Writing Tlking out specil tlents Interview with psychologist out utistic svnts Blind Tom nd Stephen Wiltshire Literture: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Nrrtive (1) Tlking out people s prolems nd feelings Discussion out flower remedies Plceos Prove Powerful Remedies from the Rinforest Story: Eyes open Article for school mgzine Tlking out the wy our rins work Discussing sport Discussing the nture of intelligence Interview with two sportswomen They Just Cn t Help It Culture: Intelligence Across Cultures Discursive essy (1) Tlking out time Interview out Doctor Who Song: If I Could Turn Bck Time Quiz out Doctor Who Letter giving dvice Informl letter Discussing shyness Tlking out personl qulities Interview with n expert on shyness Questionnire: How confident re you? Literture: Pride nd Prejudice Description of person Orgnising flsh mo Interview with someone who orgnises flsh mos Text out crzes from the pst Story: Sorry! Letter to newspper Tlking out cts of kindness Asking questions using modls Tlking out irthdys People tlking out specil ojects they hve inherited Hit-nd-Run Kindness Culture: Birthdy Trditions A summry Resolving conflicts Interview out Wngri Mthi Song: Pece, Love nd Understnding Alfred Noel Rests in Pece Apprecition of Noel Prize winner Discussing ge limits in the UK / your country A rdio phone-in progrmme out giving the vote to 16-yer-olds Welog out trip to Mount Everest Literture: Lord of the Flies Letter rising money for chrity Discussing glol issues Discussing wys of conserving energy Rdio progrmme out lterntive energy Time s Running Out Story: The fctory Write mgzine rticle out the future Expressing opinions Discussing the role of music concerts in rising wreness of glol issues People s views on fmous people getting involved in politics Celerity Amssdors Culture: Cn Music Mke Difference? Discursive essy (2) Discussing Fir Trde products The Villge Erth Song: I d Like to Tech the World to Sing Young People Leding the Wy on Fir Trde Report on clss survey Discussing lnguge nd ccents TV progrmme out regionl ccents Ner-Extinct Lnguge Returns Literture: The World According to Grp Nrrtive (2) Descriing n interesting trip Account of trip to the Grnd Cnyon Three texts out wonderful plces in the world Story: Round the world Description of plce Discussing films nd film therpy Converstion out films Movie Therpy Culture: Plnet Bollywood Film synopsis Discussing the effect music hs on you Discussing which music you like/dislike Rdio progrmme out musicl instruments from round the world Song: Lost in Music A World of Music Hikus/limericks/ mini-sgs
YOU WILL LEARN ABOUT Autistic svnts people of unique tlent The powerful heling effects of the humn mind Plnts from the Amzon used for medicl purposes Differences in mle nd femle rins Women in mle sports A cult BBC TV progrmme clled Doctor Who Cn you mtch ech picture with topic? 2 1 YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO Spek Tlk out specil tlents Discuss mind mtters Tlk out medicines Tlk out psychologicl prolems Discuss theory out different rin types Tlk out sports Tlk out piece of dvice or recommendtion Write A story tht egins or ends with given sentence An rticle for school mgzine A composition out sport An informl letter Red An rticle out people with outstnding rin cpcities Plceos prove powerful An rticle out the secret knowledge of tril medicine men A newspper rticle out the humn rin A worried teenger s letter to her dd Listen A rdio interview with psychologist A converstion out flower remedies Interviews with sports professionls out their jos A rdio show on cult TV progrmme 4 Module 1
3 5 4 6 Use grmmr Cn you mtch the nmes of the grmmr points with the exmples? Pst tense Present Perfect tense Pssive Pssive continuous Reltive cluses Reported speech Use voculry Biologicl mechnisms hve een discovered through new techniques. I love reding, which is why I uy so mny ooks. He sid tht his helth ws getting worse. He egn to relise tht Stephen ws communicting through drwings. A new genertion of pinkillers is eing developed. Since then he hs pulished numer of ooks. Cn you think of two more exmples for ech topic? Expressions with mind Opertions Sports Expressions nd illness with time mke up (your) mind doctor tennis wste time chnge (your) mind give n injection rcket run out of time 5
Super rins Tense revision Voculry: expressions with mind Voculry: expressions with rin 1 Red nd listen Wht do you think the two oys in the pictures hve in common? Red the texts to check your ides. In 1850 n Americn lwyer, Jmes N. Bethune, ought slve to work in his home. The slve, womn, hd smll child clled Tom, who ws lind nd utistic. One dy, Bethune ws wlking round his grden when he herd music coming from the house. He went inside to investigte nd found young Tom plying on the fmily pino. Bethune relised tht the oy, who ws only four, hd specil ilities. He hired nd of musicins to come to the house nd ply in front of him. Tom reproduced perfectly the music he hd herd. This confirmed Bethune s suspicion Tom hd the ility to memorise nd repet pieces of music fter hering them just once. In 1857 Blind Tom, s he ws clled from then on, took prt in his first pulic performnce. The reviews were so good tht Bethune took him on tour of the US. Three yers lter, Blind Tom ws invited to the White House, where he performed for the president. Over the next forty yers, Tom performed shows ll over the US, s well s visiting Cnd, the UK nd severl South Americn countries. His concerts were mixture of clssicl music nd his own compositions. They lso fetured section clled the chllenge when memers of the udience plyed piece of music on the pino which Tom then hd to reproduce. He never filed. Blind Tom died in 1908. Stephen Wiltshire ws orn in 1974 in London. He ws mute (unle to spek) nd, t the ge of three, ws dignosed with utism, developmentl disorder cusing difficulty with socil reltionships nd lerning. However, Stephen hs remrkle tlent. Since the ge of three, he hs een creting the most mzing drwings. He is n utistic svnt person who, in spite of his utism, hs n extrordinry ility in certin re. When his mother sent him to Queensmill School in London, his techer, Chris Mrris, egn to relise tht Stephen ws communicting through his drwings. At the ge of eight, he ws drwing detiled pictures of rchitecture, crs nd imginry post-erthquke cities. By the ge of nine, with Mrris help, Stephen strted tlking. At the ge of ten, he produced series of pictures which he clled London Alphet. Ech drwing fetured London lndmrk one for ech letter of the lphet. After Stephen nd his work were the suject of BBC progrmme clled The Foolish Wise Ones in 1987, mny viewers phoned the BBC. They were fscinted y Stephen s ility to look t uilding once nd reproduce it in incredile detil, nd wnted to know where they could uy his drwings. As result, Stephen pulished his first ook, Drwings. Since then, Stephen hs ecome n extremely populr rtist, nd hs pulished numer of other ooks of his drwings nd pintings. Stephen is quite fmous these dys. Becuse of Stephen nd others like him, people re strting to tke utism more seriously. Red the texts gin nd listen. Complete the tle. 1 Wht is/ws his specil ility? 2 Who helped him develop this ility? 3 How did he ecome fmous? 4 Wht exmples re given of his success? Blind Tom Stephen Wiltshire 6 Module 1
2 Spek Work in groups. Look t the list elow nd discuss the following: c Pst tense review Look ck t the text out Blind Tom nd underline: 3 Do you hve specil tlent for ny of these things? At wht ge did you relise you were good t it/them? Cn you nme well-known person who hs (or hd) specil tlent in ech re? Which two res would you most like to hve specil tlent for? Sy why. lnguge memory mthemtics rt Grmmr Present tense review music sport dnce/movement cooking Look t the text out Stephen Wiltshire gin. Underline: one exmple of the present simple tense. one exmple of the present continuous tense. two exmples of the present perfect tense. one exmple of the present perfect continuous tense. d e two exmples of the pst simple tense. one exmple of the pst continuous tense. one exmple of the pst perfect tense. Why do you think ech tense is used? Circle the correct option to complete the sentences. 1 As well s the pino, Tom lso lerned / ws lerning to ply the flute nd the French horn. 2 One dy Tom ws plying / plyed the pino when mn rn onto the stge nd tried to stop him. 3 Two songs tht Blind Tom wrote / hd written re The Rinstorm nd Bttle of Mnsss. 4 Tom lwys ws sying / sid tht his songs cme from the river, the trees nd the irds. 5 By the time he died in 1908, Tom lerned / hd lerned to ply more thn 7,000 pieces of music. Complete the text using the correct form of the vers in rckets. Use the tenses in Exercises 3 nd 3c. Why do you think ech tense is used? Complete the sentences out Stephen Wiltshire with the vers in rckets. Use the correct form of the tenses in Exercise 3. 1 Stephen lives (live) in West London with his mother. 2 Some of the ooks tht Stephen (write) include Cities, Floting Cities nd Stephen Wiltshire s Americn Drem. 3 I m not sure wht Stephen Wiltshire is doing t the moment, ut he proly (drw) something. 4 Since 1993, Stephen (develop) his musicl skills, which re lso quite mzing. 5 Since Stephen first met the fmous neurologist, Oliver Schs, in 1988, the two men (ecome) good friends. 6 Stephen (hve) sister, Annette, who is two yers older thn him. When Brittny Mier ws orn she ws lind nd utistic. By the time she ws five, she still 1 (not lern) to spek, ut she suddenly 2 (egin) to sing while she 3 (listen) to song on her prents stereo. Brittny is now young dult. Over the yers, she 4 (lern) to tlk little, ut she still 5 (find) it difficult to communicte through lnguge. Her music techer, professor t the university of South Crolin, 6 (work) with Brittny for five yers now. He sys tht she is unique. She 7 (ply) with only six fingers, ut she hs the musicl qulities of Beethoven, Mozrt nd Chopin. Unit 1 7
4 Voculry Expressions with mind Mtch the definitions 1 10 with the expressions j. Use dictionry if you need to. Then listen, check nd repet. 1 mke new nd different decision 2 help you not to think out prolem 3 try not to forget out something 4 decide 5 forget 6 e crzy 7 find it hrd to decide 8 sy wht you think 9 try to know wht nother person is thinking 10 e worried c d e f g h i j mke up (your) mind chnge (your) mind e in two minds e out of (your) mind hve got (something) on (your) mind keep (something) in mind spek (your) mind red (someone s) mind tke (your) mind off (something) slip (your) mind Complete the sentences with the expressions from Exercise 4. (Mke sure you use the correct ver form.) 1 A: You look worried. B: Yes, I m little. I ve got something on my mind t the moment. 2 A: I m not sure should I uy the red one or the lue one? B: I don t cre! But plese,! 3 A: But you sid you d come with me! B: I know. I m sorry, ut now I don t wnt to come. I ve. 4 A: So do you still wnt to go out tonight? B: Well, mye. I out it. 5 A: But you promised to do it. B: I m sorry, I forgot. It just. 6 A: Aren t you worried out the exm? B: Yes, little it. So I m going to relx nd wtch good film. Tht will off it. 7 A: Well, tht s wht I think you should do. B: OK, thnks, it s good dvice. I ll. 8 A: I m relly ngry with him, ut I don t wnt to tell him. B: I think you should. Sometimes it s importnt to. 9 If you don t tell me, I won t know. I cn t. 10 A: I m going rock climing tomorrow. B: Wht? Are you? It s relly dngerous! 5 Spek Work with prtner. Ask nd nswer questions. 1 In which situtions do you find it difficult to mke up your mind? 2 In which situtions do you usully find it esy/difficult to spek your mind? 3 If you re worried out something, wht do you do to tke your mind off the prolem? 4 Are you good t reding other people s minds? If so, wht helps you? 8 Module 1
6 Listen Work with prtner. Complete the numer sequences. A 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23,,, B 2 4, 3 9, 4 16, 7 49, 100, 144, 625 Are they squre roots or prime numers? c d e 7 You re going to listen to n interview with psychologist out utistic svnts. Wht things do you think utistic svnts might e good t rememering? Listen nd check your ides. Listen gin nd nswer the questions. 1 Wht re the most common forms of utistic ilities? 2 Wht does the psychologist sy out squre roots nd prime numers? 3 Wht is the rtio of oys to girls who re dignosed to e utistic svnts? 4 Wht is the percentge of utistic people who re lso svnts? 5 The rins of utistic svnts re just like ours. Wht is the significnce of this, ccording to Dr Sellers? Voculry Expressions with rin Red the dilogues. Mtch the underlined expressions with definitions 1 6. 1 think of s mny ides s you cn rinstorm 2 get ides from someone 3 rillint ide 4 originl ide or invention 5 the (most) intelligent person 6 to lwys think out the sme thing 1 A: Mum, I m stuck with my English homework. B: Why don t you pick your sister s rins? She s good t English. 2 A: Wht s up, Jne? You re dy-dreming gin. B: I m thinking out Simon... A: You ve got oys on the rin. Yesterdy, it ws Chris! 3 A: I cn t think of nything to write. B: Let s rinstorm some ides together then. 4 A: You did well in the mths test, Ali. B: Not s well s Gill, she got 90%. She s the rins in our clss! 5 A: I m ored. Wht re we going to do? It s still pouring with rin. B: I ve hd rinwve! Why don t we give Steve ring nd see if he wnts to go to the cinem? 6 A: The recycling project is doing fntsticlly well. B: Yes, it is, thnks to Michelle. It ws her rinchild. Use the expressions in Exercise 7 to complete these sentences. 1 Music! Tht s ll you ever think out. You ve music. 2 If you don t know the nswer, don t sk my fther! Ask my mother. She s in the fmily. 3 I ve just hd nd I think I ve got the nswer to my prolem! 4 I uilt the mchine. But it ws Steve who hd the ide nd designed it. So it s his. 5 Joe I need help with this. Cn I your for moment? 6 We relly need to get some new ides. Let s ll sit down nd for while. 8 Pronuncition /ð/ the nd /θ/ thing Turn to pge 120. Unit 1 9
9 Red Look t the cover of the ook nd red the short summry of the story. Would you e interested in reding this ook? Why / why not? By Mrk Hddon This is murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, nd nrrtor, is Christopher Boone. Christopher hs Asperger s Syndrome. He knows gret del out mths nd very little out humn eings. He loves lists, ptterns nd the truth. He htes the colours yellow nd rown nd eing touched. He hs never gone further thn the end of the rod on his own, ut when he finds neighour s dog murdered he sets out on terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down. Then the police rrived. I like the police. They hve uniforms nd numers nd you know wht they re ment to e doing. There ws policewomn nd policemn. The policewomn hd little hole in her tights nd red scrtch in the middle of the hole. The policemn hd ig ornge lef stuck to the ottom of his shoe which ws poking out from one side. The policewomn put her rms round Mrs. Shers nd led her ck towrd the house. I lifted my hed off the grss. The policemn squtted down eside me nd sid, Would you like to tell me wht s going on here, young mn? I st up nd sid, The dog is ded. I d got tht fr, he sid. I sid, I think someone killed the dog. How old re you? he sked. I replied, I m 15 yers nd 3 months nd 2 dys. And wht, precisely, were you doing in the grden? he sked. I ws holding the dog, I replied. And why were you holding the dog? he sked. This ws difficult question. It ws something I wnted to do. I like dogs. It mde me sd to see tht the dog ws ded. I like policemen, too, nd I wnted to nswer the question properly, ut the policemn did not give me enough time to work out the correct nswer. Why were you holding the dog? he sked gin. I like dogs, I sid. Did you kill the dog? he sked. I did not kill the dog. Is this your fork? he sked. I sid, No. You seem very upset out this, he sid. He ws sking too mny questions nd he ws sking them too quickly. They were stcking up in my hed like loves in the fctory where Uncle Terry works. The fctory is kery nd he opertes the slicing mchines. And sometimes slicer is not working fst enough ut the red keeps coming nd there is lockge. I sometimes think of my mind s mchine, ut not lwys s red-slicing mchine. It mkes it esier to explin to other people wht is going on inside it. The policemn sid, I m going to sk you once gin I rolled ck onto the lwn nd pressed my forehed to the ground gin nd mde the noise tht Fther clls groning. I mke this noise when there is too much informtion coming into my hed from the outside world. It is like when you re upset nd you hold the rdio ginst your er nd you tune it hlfwy etween two sttions so tht ll you get is white noise nd then you turn the volume right up so tht this is ll you cn her nd then you know you re sfe ecuse you cnnot her nything else. The policemn took hold of my rm nd lifted me onto my feet. I didn t like him touching me like this. And this is when I hit him. Red the text quickly. Wht hve the police come to investigte? 10 Module 1