The night-walkers of Uganda

4 Vocabulary: Collocations
Possible answers:
match, pitch, game, manager, coach, result, score,
player, star, stadium, club, team, squad, hooligan,
competition, trophy, league
Rules and respect
Level 1 
Elementary
KEY
437

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Shark species face extinction
Level 1
Elementary
1 Key words
1. extinct
2. endangered
3. scallop
4. habitat
5. fin
6. migration
7. ban
8. resolution
9. species
10. conservation
2 Find the information
1. £140 a kilo
2. 126
3. 16
4. 99%
5. 90%
6. World Conservation Union
3 Comprehension check 
1. e
2. c
3. d
4. a
5. f
6. b
4 Chunks
1. over the past 30 years
2. in the next twenty or thirty years
3. since the early 1970s
4. in the last 25 years
5. for over a hundred years
6. by an average of 50%
5 Vocabulary 1: Synonyms
1. g
2. e
3. h
4. c
5. b
6. a
7. f
8. d
6 Word building: Irregular verbs
KEY
past simple
past participle
grow 
grew
grown
fall
fell
fallen
become
became
become
show
showed
shown
cost
cost
cost
find
found
found
leave
left
left
see
saw
seen
438

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1 Team quiz: And the winner is...
Bing Crosby, Going My Way, 1944
Laurence Olivier, Hamlet, 1948
Humphrey Bogart, The African Queen, 1951
Marlon Brando, The Godfather, 1972
Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 1975
Ben Kingsley, Ghandi, 1982
Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot, 1989
Roberto Benigni, Life is Beautiful, 1998
Russell Crowe, Gladiator, 2000
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland, 2006
Daniel Day-Lewis won the Oscar for best actor again
this year.
2 Key words
1. triumphant
2. portrayal
3. prospector
4. nominee
5. acceptance speech
6. astonishing
7. victory 
8. animated
9. sapling
10. touching sentiment
3 Skimming for information
a) Daniel Day-Lewis
b) Marion Cotillard
c) Tilda Swinton
d) Javier Bardem
e) Joel and Ethan Coen
4 Comprehension check
1. The most successful film at this year’s Oscars was
 
No Country For Old Men.
2. No Country For Old Men was directed by the
Coen brothers.
3. Daniel Day-Lewis won the best actor Oscar for his
portrayal of an oil prospector.
4. Javier Bardem won the best supporting actor Oscar
for his portrayal of a hitman.
5. The Oscars ceremony was hosted by Jon Stewart.
6. Tilda Swinton is a British actress.
7. Marion Cotillard is a French actress.
8. This year’s Oscars for best actor, best actress, best
supporting actor and best supporting actress
were all won by Europeans. 
5 Vocabulary: Prepositions
for
at / in
of
on / from
in
in
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
The Oscars
Level 1 
Elementary
KEY
439

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1 Key words
1. sack
2. bulletin
3. viewers
4. repeated
5. horrified
6. incident 
7. broadcast
8. reforms
9. restored
10. performed 
11. isolation
12. graduated
2 Vocabulary: Word beetle
camera operators
directors
journalists
newsreaders
TV executives
technicians / technical staff
3 Comprehension check
a) A cockroach ran across the newsreader’s desk on
live television.
b) Ministry officials knew nothing until the next
morning.
c) The news bulletin, with the cockroach, was shown
again on TV the same evening.
d) The president did not find the cockroach incident
funny.
e) The president sacked 30 staff at the state TV
channel.
f) Turkmenistan wants to improve its international
image.
g) Turkmenistan has built a new multibillion pound
tourist resort at the Caspian Sea.
h) Turkmens can now go to Internet cafes and opera
and ballet performances.
4 Vocabulary: Countries
The Turkmen cockroach
Level 1 
Elementary
KEY
oOoo
oO
Oo
Ooo
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Afghanistan
Ukraine
Iran
Russia Kazakhstan
Pakistan
440

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After 49 years of Fidel, Cuba ushers in the era of Raúl
Level 1
Elementary
1 Key words
1. assembly
2. appointment
3. unanimous
4. hardliner
5. dislike
6. ovation
7. task
8. consult
9. single-handedly
10. recover
2 Find the information
1. 81
2. Younger
3. 19 months ago
4. 1959
5. 11 million
6. 614
3 Comprehension check 
1. d
2. f
3. b
4. e
5. a
6. c
4 Vocabulary 1: Prepositions
1. in
2. of
3. of
4. from
5. from
6. of
7. of
5 Vocabulary 2: Verb + Noun Collocations
1. have
2. improve
3. consult
4. make
5. respect
6. free
6 Word building: Adjectives
KEY
Noun
Adjective
history
historic
democracy
democratic
peace
peaceful
economy
economic
politics
political
medicine
medical
Cuba
Cuban
basis
basic
441

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Welcome to UK’s poshest veg shop
Level 1
Elementary
1 Key words
leek
competitive
florist
vase
estate
highlight
orchard
posh
benefit
chutney
2 Find the information
60
Camilla
Highgrove
£395
£1.35
£1.10
3 Comprehension check 
f
c
e
a
d
b
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
4 Chunks
over the last few years
the best thing to buy
one of the people in the crowd
why is he doing this?
in the supermarket opposite
a few metres from Charles’s shop
5 Vocabulary: Compound Words
e
d
b
a
f 
c
6 Word stress
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
KEY
A 0 o
B o 0
local
business
biscuit
highlight
royal
neighbour
estate
advance
reply
promote
produce
reflect
442

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2 Key words and phrases
1. excessive 
2. isolation 
3. withdrawal symptoms 
4. psychiatrist 
5. components 
6. repercussions 
7. clot 
8. estimate 
9. treatment 
10. admit 
11. groceries 
12. discussion boards 
13. recovery 
14. case 
15. self-help group
3 Comprehension check
1. Internet addicts don’t realize how many hours they
spend online.
2. Leading psychiatrists think Internet addiction is a
real illness.
3. The average South Korean high school student
spends 23 hours a week playing online games. 
4. People have died because of their Internet addiction. 
5. South Koreans go online at Internet cafes more often
than Americans. 
6. Internet addiction is difficult to treat. 
7. Facebook and MySpace are social networking
websites.
8. In the USA, most people surf the Internet at home.
9. Internet addicts are often lonely and tired.
10. Internet addicts think they need better computers
and software.
4 Vocabulary: Prepositions
1. by
2. at
3. in
4. of
5. at
6. from
7. to
8. from
9. on
10. on
Addiction to Internet ‘is an illness’
Level 1 
Elementary
KEY
443

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Smashing Pumpkins sue record label
Level 1
Elementary
1 Key words
label
download
refuse
contract
split up
promote
brand
sue
gives ... away
back catalogue
2 Find the information
1991
2000
2006
17 years
nothing (it was free)
Pepsi and Amazon
3 Comprehension check 
d
e
b
c
f
a
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
4 Verb + noun collocations
d
a
f
b
e
c
5 Words and definitions
c
e
f
b
a
d
6 Word building
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
KEY
verb
noun
1
permit
permission
2
disagree
disagreement
3
promote
promotion
4
announce
announcement
5
believe
belief
6
advertise
advertisement
7
increase
increase
8
produce
product
444

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Passengers fume in the chaos of Terminal 5’s first day
Level 1
Elementary
2 Key words
complained
apologize
collapses
teething problems
handlers
backlog
disaster
chaos
fume
carousels
3 Scanning for information
34
10%
£4.3bn
70,000
20
39
26.5
90
 
 
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
4 General understanding
c
e
f
g
a
h
b
d
5 Vocabulary development: Meanings
of get
H
G
G
H
B
H
G
G
G
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
KEY
445

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Celebrity scandal and Anne Frank
Level 1
Elementary
2 Pre-reading 2: Key words
blog
fan fiction
cheats
celebrity
favourite
current affairs
scandal
gossip
skinny
literature
3 Quiz
c
e
b
f
a
d
 
 
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
4 Language and understanding:
Comparatives
True
False
True
True
True
False
They hate the Financial Times
less than the Beano
(or: They do
n’t hate the Financial Times as much 
as the Beano).
They hate encyclopedias
as much as dictionaries.
They don’t hate maps and directions
as much as
homework (or: They hate maps and directions
less 
than homework).
They hate Music (scores)
as much as the Harry
Potter series.
They don’t hate anything in another language
 as 
much as books set by schoolteachers (or: They
hate anything in another language
less than books
set by schoolteachers).