The night-walkers of Uganda

KEY
verb
noun
1. govern
government
2.
divide
division
3.
believe
belief
4.
increase
increase
5. assist
assistant
6.
argue
argument
7. co-operate
co-operation
8.
agree
agreement
425

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1 Warmer
A palaeontologist is a scientist who studies 
palaeontology, learning about the forms of life 
that existed in former geologic periods, chiefly by
studying fossils.
2 Keywords
1. shelf
2. fossil
3. enthusiast 
4. common 
5. research
6. creature 
7. label
8. feature 
9. undiscovered 
10. specimen
3 Comprehension check
1. T
2. F
3. T
4. F
5. F
6. T
7. T
8. F 
9. F
10. T
4 Vocabulary: Prepositions
1. in
2. to/of
3. of
4. at
5. on
6. by
7. of
8. for
Dinosaur bone ‘found’ after 113 years on a shelf 
Level 1 
Elementary
KEY
426

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Iceberg survivors
Level 1
Elementary
1 Key words
1. rescue 
2. crew
3. deck
4. life raft
5. survivor
6. military base
7. cruise
8. iceberg
9. investigation
10. lists
2 Find the answer
1. 154
2. 23 
3. five
4. £4,000
5. The Philippines
6. Chile
3 Comprehension check
1. e
2. d
3. c
4. b
5. f
6. a
 
4 Vocabulary 1: Nations and nationality
5 Vocabulary 2: Opposite adjectives
1. freezing 
2. large 
3. lowest 
4. alive 
5. safe 
6. rare
6 Vocabulary 3: Prepositions
1. in 
2. in
3. on
4. with
5. before
6. on 
7. out of
8. into
KEY
Country
Nationality
Canada
Canadian
Australia
Australian
Switzerland
Swiss
Norway
Norwegian
Denmark
Danish
Belgium
Belgian
The Netherlands
Dutch
Ireland
Irish
427

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1 Pre-reading task
a) vague clock
b) solar-powered glowing garden furniture
c) transparent sticky memos
d) robotic web camera
e) magnetic bathroom mirrors
f) wastepaper bin cable tidier
2 Antonyms
1) change the face
2) founder
3) improvement
4) scheme
5) mass-produced
6) vague
7) glowing
8) ugly
9) fairly
10) manufacture
3 Comprehension check 1
a) Kohei Nishiyama is based in Japan.
b) Kohei Nishiyama’s company is called
Elephant Design.
c) Kohei Nishiyama thinks mass-produced products
are boring.
d) Young designers can post their ideas on
the website.
e) When a design gets 1,000 votes it can be produced.
f) Kohei Nishiyama wants to make
interesting products.
4 Comprehension check 2
1) Designers think of new and interesting ideas.
2) They post them with an image on the website.
3) People vote for the best ideas.
4) The most popular designs are made and sold.
5) The designer gets money for the items that are sold.
The future of design?
Level 1 
Elementary
KEY
428

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‘What am I bid for the four-poster dog bed?’
Level 1
Elementary
1 Key words
1. auction
2. celebrity
3. charity
4. crucifix
5. estimate
6. knick-knacks
7. curator
8. bid
9. bargain
10. documentary
2 Find the information
1. Three
2. Kelly
3. $1,000 to £2,000
4. $1,000 to $1,500
5. Red
6. Elton John
3 Comprehension check
1. e
2. a
3. d
4. b
5. f
6. c
4 Vocabulary 1: Noun + noun collocations
1. e
2. g
3. d
4. b
5. f
6. c
7. h
8. a
5 Vocabulary 2: Prepositions
1. for
2. for
3. about
4. in
5. of
6. in
7. from
8. about
6 Vocabulary 3: Word building
KEY
verb
noun
sell
sale
combine
combination
decide
decision
complain
complaint
collect
collection
present
present
reproduce
reproduction
complete
competition
1.
2.
4.
3.
6.
5.
7.
8.
429

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1 Warmer – music genres 
jazz 
classical 
rock
pop 
country 
rhythm & blues 
reggae 
opera 
punk 
heavy metal 
soul 
2 Keywords
1. increase
2. decrease
3. illegally
4. handling charge
5. average
6. successful 
7. download
8. honesty box
9. piracy
10. experiment
3 How to download the album in 10 easy
steps.
1. Turn on your computer and go to
www.inrainbows.com.
2. Click on DOWNLOAD,
3. then click on ‘view basket’.
4. Now type in the amount you want to pay,
5. then click on ‘pay now’
6. (you might have to wait in a queue).
7. Type in your details, 
8. then download the album and save it on
your computer.
9. Now transfer the album to your iPod, MP3-player,
or burn it onto a CD,
10. then listen and enjoy!
Radiohead fans pay £2.90 for digital album
Level 1
Elementary
KEY
430

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The new passage to India, business class
Level 1
Elementary
1 Key words
1. poster
2. prosecutor
3. similar
4. track
5. jail
6. reward
7. fence
8. squeeze
9. tools
10. cell
2 Find the information
1. $8,000
2. two
3. B310 and B311
4. 20cm by 40cm
5. 32
6. 1.79 metres (5ft 9in)
3 Comprehension check 
1. d
2. f
3. b
4. c
5. a
6. e
4 Vocabulary 1: Collocations
1. b (razor wire)
2. g (high security)
3. d (water pipe)
4. a (concrete block)
5. f (prison guard)
6. h (press conference)
7. c (plastic box)
8. e (railway line)
5 Vocabulary 2: Prepositions
1. for
2. from
3. through
4. for
5. in
6. for
7. in 
8. to
6 Word stress
KEY
A
0 o 
B
o 0
section
movie
metal
prison
detail
concrete
escape
asleep
secure
compare
remove
along
431

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India gears up for mass motoring revolution
Level 1
Elementary
1 Key words
1. motor
2. damage
3. smog
4. airbag
5. greenhouse gases
6. nightmare
7. scooter 
8. boot 
9. boom
10. manufacturer
2 Find the information
1. 250,000
2. Seven or eight
3. 100,000 rupees (£1,260)
4. 219 million tonnes
5. One billion
6. The rupee
3 Comprehension check 
1. b
2. f
3. d
4. c
5. a
6. e
4 Vocabulary 1: Adjectives
1. f
2. e
3. a
4. b
5. g
6. h
7. c
8. d
5 Vocabulary 2: Cars and car travel
1. traffic jam
2. air-conditioning
3. windscreen wiper(s)
4. mirror
5. speed
6. passenger
6 Vocabulary 3: Puzzle
1. transport
2. environment
3. traffic
4. safety
5. motoring
6. factory
KEY
432

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1 Key words
1. controversial
2. bitter 
3. victory
4. accuse
5. defend
6. race
7. racist
8. distort
9. resign
10. support
11. autobiography
12. ain’t
13. demand
14. poll
2 What do you know?
1. Hillary 
2. The third candidate for the Democrats
3. Michelle Obama
4. Hillary Clinton
5. California
3 Comprehension check
1. The name of the third place candidate for the
Democrats is John Edwards.
2. Obama and Clinton are arguing about race issues.
3. There are approximately 75,000 African-Americans
in Iowa.
4. The first primary elections were in Iowa and New
Hampshire.
5. At the moment, the polls show that the next
President could be Hillary Clinton.
6. In the race row, Edwards supported Obama.
4 Vocabulary: Pronunciation
1.
2. comment
Oo
autobiography
oooOoo
official
oOo
community
oOoo
Clinton and Obama
Level 1 
Elementary
KEY
ooOo
Ooo
oO
democratic
controversial
presidential
democrat
president
candidates
teenager
accuse
defend
resign
support
demand
433

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1 Key words
1. survey
2. childhood
3. research
4. multitask
5. decrease
6. sedentary
7. own
8. soap
9. percentage
10. average
2 Find the information
1. Four out of every five (80%)
2. 63%
3. One out of four (25%)
4. 1,147
5. 58%
6. 85%
3 Comprehension check
1. d
2. a
3. f
4. e
5. c
6. b
4 Percentages
1. f
2. a/c
3. d
4. e
5. a/c
6. b
5 Chunks
1. before they go to school
2. at least once a week
3. before going to sleep
4. more than four hours a day
5. after returning home
6. switch from one channel to another
4 Word stress
Life through a lens
Level 1 
Elementary
KEY
A 0 o
B o 0
average
private
children
survey
programme
childhood
amount
return
result
between
because
report
434

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1 Key words
1. crew 
2. rival 
3. battle 
4. sanctuary 
5. jealousy 
6. chase 
7. capture
8. incident 
9. distress flare 
10. cruel 
11. trap 
12. harpoon
2 Skim-reading
1. Seven ships (five belong to the Japanese, one
belongs to Greenpeace, one to Sea Shepherd)
2. Southern Ocean
3. Paul Watson
4. Greenpeace
5. Sea Shepherd
6. Sea Shepherd
3 Comprehension check
1. Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd are trying to stop
Japan’s whaling expedition in the Antarctic.
2. The sea battle is taking place in the Southern
Ocean on the edge of Antarctica.
3. Japan is using four small whaling ships to kill nearly
1,000 whales in the Antarctic whale sanctuary.
4. The Nisshin Maru is a large Japanese whaling
factory ship with a crew of 80 men.
5. Two of the Sea Shepherd boat’s crew jumped
aboard one of the smaller whalers.
6. The Japanese whaler sailed away over the 
horizon with the two Sea Shepherd crew members.
7. Sea Shepherd tries to sabotage or sink 
the whalers.
8. Greenpeace puts itself between the whalers and
the whales.
4 Vocabulary: Opposites
a) 
huge 
tiny
empty
full
leave 
stay
in front of behind
safe 
dangerous
smaller 
larger
different 
similar
A tale of two ships
Level 1 
Elementary
KEY
435

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Fly to Australia in under five hours
Level 1
Elementary
1 Key words
1. vapour
2. mach
3. weapons
4. message board
5. incredible
6. populated
7. environment
8. hypersonic
9. claustrophobia
10. cargo