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Crazy English
page 5
A Unique Method
multiple choice
• Word building
• Expressions: make, do
• Expressions: learning a new language
• Present Simple and Present Continuous
Learning a language
multiple matching
Talking about yourself
Informal email / letter
Fit and Healthy
page 15
Stand Better, Feel Better!
multiple choice
• Word building
• Expressions: health and fitness
• Past Simple and Past Continuous
• used to / would
Choosing the correct picture
Talking about sports
comparing pictures
Story
That’s Entertainment
page 25
Looking the Part
gapped text
• Collocations
• Word building
• Suffixes
• Phrasal verbs: put, take
• Present Perfect Simple and Present Perfect Continuous
A film festival
multiple choice
Talking about films
deciding which film to see
Film review
You’ve Got a Friend
page 35
The New Student
multiple choice
• Word building
• Expressions: friendship and making decisions
• Past Perfect Simple andPast Perfect Continuous
Asking for advice
multiple choice
Saying goodbye
choosing an option
Informal letter
Making Music
page 45
Music Piracy
multiple choice
• Word building
• Preposition + noun
• The Future
An interview with Sarbel Michael
sentence completion
Talking about music
comparing pictures
Article
The Inventive Mind
page 55
A Remarkable Man
gapped text
• Word building
• Everyday situations
• Modals and Semi-modals
• Modal Perfect
Different situations
multiple choice
Where to take a visitor
deciding where to go
Informal Letter
All About You
page 65
Your Pen Personality
gapped text
• Word building
• Expressions: tell
• Relative clauses
The PlayStation
sentence completion
Doing things together
comparing pictures
Article
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Survival Instinct
page 75
A Happy Ending
multiple matching
• Word building
• Phrasal verbs: up, down
• The Passive
Forest fires
sentence completion
Protecting the forest
comparing pictures
Letter
Crime Time
page 85
Believe It or Not!
multiple matching
multiple choice
• Word building: prefixes: in-, im-, un-, dis-, il-
• Words connected to crime
• Reported speech
The world of crime
multiple matching
Help to solve a problem
offering advice
Story
Special Days
page 95
Growing Up
multiple matching
• Word building
• Phrasal verbs: go, get
• Adjective + preposition
• The Causative
Two Festivals
multiple choice
Celebrating holidays
comparing pictures
Article
Back to Nature
page 105
A Helping Hand
multiple matching
multiple choice
• Collocations
• Word building
• Expressions: hand
• The prefix: re-
• Conditionals and temporals
An environmentally friendly school multiple choice
Saving energydeciding how to save energy
Report
The Best Choice?
page 115
A Close Match
multiple choice
• Word building: suffixes: -hood, -ness, -ship
• Expressions: sport
• Phrasal verbs: out, on • wish
• Quantifiers; some, any, every, no
Choosing the correct picture
Activities for summer camp
choosing an option
Essay
Have a Laugh!
page 125
April Fool’s Day
gapped text
• Word building
• Useful expressions: … and …
• Phrasal verbs with three words
• Gerunds and infinitives
• Special structures: had better / would rather, let / make, get / be used to
Different situations
multiple choice
Telling a joke
expressing an opinion
Story
Taking the Lead
page 135
A Legendary Leader
gapped text
• Idioms: time
• Word building
• Adjectives and adverbs
• so / such
Martin Luther King
multiple choice
Which biography to read
choosing an option
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Have you ever thought it strange that there is one day in the year – 1st April or as it is often called, April Fool’s Day – when people are actually encouraged to play jokes on each other? In fact, this custom is so common that we often spend the whole day just waiting for someone to trick us! 1
Tricking people is certainly an unusual holiday custom. How did it come about? One popular theory has to do with the calendar. 2 Then, in 1582 the Pope decided to introduce a new calendar. This calendar established 1st
January as the beginning of the year. But in those days news didn’t travel fast. There was no
television, radio or newspapers, so people learned about the Pope’s decision at different times.
As time went by, an increasing number of people in Europe began using the revised calendar. 3 Eventually, those who still celebrated New Year’s on 1st April were thought to be backward or foolish. People would ridicule them and even found it amusing to play practical jokes on them when 1st April came along. This custom of playing pranks
A ReadthreestatementsaboutAprilFool’sDay.Whichdoyouthinkaretrue?
1. OnAprilFool’sDaythemediaoftentakespartinplayingpranksonpeople.
2. Inthepast,peoplecelebratedtheNewYearon1stApril.
3. AprilFool’sDayisonlycelebratedinEurope.
B Nowreadthetexttofindoutwhichofthefactsaretrue.Sixsentenceshavebeenremovedfromit.Chooseonesentenceforeachgap(1-6)fromthesentencesA-G.Thereisoneextrasentenceyoudonotneedtouse.
ReadingReading
HaveyoueverplayedaprankononeofyourfriendsonAprilFool’sDay?Whatdidyoudo?Howdidtheyfeel?
ConneCt to the teXt
tiptipGappedTextWhenyouread,payattentiontopronounslikewe
andtheyandtotheuseoftenses.Forexample;
beforegap1thetextsays:weoftenspendthe
day….Whichmissingsentenceincludesthe
pronounweandusesthePresentSimple?
was so popular that it soon became widespread. Nowadays, April Fool’s Day is celebrated in countries all over the world, from America to Japan.
April Fool’s Day pranks come in all shapes and sizes. Some jokes are simple – like fooling a friend into believing that he has a cockroach on his back and watching him jump up and down to shake off the insect. Others are far more sophisticated. For instance, does the idea of phoning a friend and disguising your voice as Matt Damon or Angelina Jolie appeal to you? No problem. 4 They’ve invented special equipment that transforms your voice over the telephone to sound like the celebrity of your choice. But you had better hope that your friend has a sense of humour when he finds out that you were pulling his leg!
5 On 1st April, 1957, a BBC programme about different world cultures showed women picking spaghetti off trees with the explanation that this was a typical spaghetti harvest scene. Thousands of viewers were convinced that spaghetti grew on trees! Luckily most of them laughed when they found out they had been taken in by a hoax!
Incredibly, even the person who is the butt of the joke doesn’t seem to mind. On the contrary, people actually look forward to April Fool’s Day. 6 You don’t have to spend days looking for the perfect gift. There are no huge family dinners where you must be friendly to relatives you haven’t seen for years. Instead, April Fool’s Day lets us see the funny side of life – even if it’s at our own expense!
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after you read
A ExpRESSioNSFRomTHETExTFindexpressionsinthetextthatmeanthesameasthewordsinbold.
1. Howdidithappen?(lines5-10)
2. Onetheoryinvolvesthecalendar.(lines5-10)
3. Doestheideaofdisguisingyourvoiceseemattractivetoyou?(lines30-35)
4. Theylaughedwhentheyrealisedtheyhadbeentrickedbythehoax.(lines40-45)
5. Mostpeopledon’tmindpracticaljokes.Quitetheopposite,theylookforwardtoit.(lines40-45)
6. itmakesnodifferencehowmuchweexpecttheprank,wearealwayssurprised.(SentenceD)
B Circlethecorrectanswers.
1. Acustomthatiswidespreadiscommon/modern.
2. WeenjoyAprilFool’sDayprankseventhoughtheymaybeatourownsurprise/expense.
3. Duringtheharvest/hoax,peoplepickfruit.
4. Theschooltimetablehasbeenrevised/disguised.Youshouldcheckit.
5. Iwishbadnewsdidn’ttrick/travelsoquickly.
6. Typically/Eventually,theteammanagedtosolvetheproblem.
7. Laurahasredhairunlike/insteadhertwinbrotherJohn,whohasdarkhair.
8. Weencouraged/establishedSallytotakeuptheguitar.
C pRACTiSENEWWoRDSWorkwithapartnerandgiveoneexampleofthethingsbelow.includethewordinboldinyouranswer.
Giveatleastoneexampleof:
•acommoninsectinyourcountry
•somethingthatisfoolishforanathletetodo
•atypicalactivityteensdoattheweekend
•amachinethatissimpletouse
•somethingyouwillcertainlydowhenyouareanadult
D WoRDbuilDiNG:suffixes:-ful,-lessCirclethecorrectanswers.
1. Idon’tknowwhattodowiththismachine.It’suseful/useless.
2. MyparentswishIweremorehelpful/helplessaroundthehouse.
3. You’realwaysbreakingthings.Youshouldbemorecareful/careless.
4. I’mhopeful/hopelessatlearningnewnames.Ialwaysforgetthem.
5. Smokingisharmful/harmlesstoyourhealth.
Vocabulary 2Vocabulary 2
april f l’s dayTechnologyexpertshaverecently
comeupwithabrilliantinvention.
Maybeit’sbecause,unlikeother
holidays, AprilFool’sDayisa silly
occasion.
Forcenturies,peopleinEurope
celebratedtheNewYearinspring,at
thebeginningofApril.
And,nomatterhowmuchweare
expectingit,somehowtheprank
alwaystakesusbysurprise.
Forexample,AprilFool’sDayisan
idealopportunityforstudentstoplay
jokesontheirteachers.
Sometimesthemediagetsinvolved
inthefun.
Butsomepeoplejustcouldn’tget
usedtoitandkepttheolddatefor
NewYear’s.
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