The night-walkers of Uganda

3 Comprehension check
1. F
2. T
3. T
4. F
5. F
6. F
7. T
8. F
4 Vocabulary Numbers
1. one thousand two hundred and fourteen
2. sixty-nine percent
3. two thousand and seventy
4. four hundred million
5. nineteen seventy
6. twelve point one percent
5 Grammar Irregular Past Tenses
1. rose
2. thought
3. became
4. built
5. lost
6. fell
7. saw
8. left
6 Pronunciation Word Stress
A population, generation, controversial
B dramatically, environment
C suburban, according, director
US population passes 300 million
Level 1 
l
Elementary
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Car boom leaves Caracas in one big jam
Level 1
Elementary
1 Key words
1. bad-tempered
2. stressed
3. motorway
4. side-street
5. traffic-jam
6. advice 
7. avoid
8. crossword
2 Find the information
1. Caracas
2. 150,000
3. 300,000
4. Hugo Chávez
5. 16 miles
6. mayor of London
3 Comprehension check
1. a, d, e, f, g
2. a, b, d
3. a, b, d
4 Vocabulary: Opposites
1. worst
2. early
3. negative
4. worse
5. easy
6. rich
7. heavy
8. less
5 Vocabulary: Prepositions
1. in
2. to
3. until
4. to
5. of
6. of
7. from/to
8. of
6 Vocabulary: Collocations
1. e
2. h
3. f
4. b
5. g
6. a
7. d
8. c
KEY
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KEY
Secret Santa revealed
Level 1
Elementary
1 Key words
1. Santa Claus 
2. reveal
3. deputy 
4. withdraw 
5. duties 
6. generosity 
7. identity 
8. fired
2 What do you know?
c
3 Comprehension check
1. T
2. T
3. F
4. T
5. F
6. F
7. T
8. F
4 Vocabulary: Irregular verbs
1. meet; make; keep; tell; think; say; mean
2. give; become; rise; begin; be; write; have; go; know;
withdraw; drive
5 Vocabulary: Adjectives and opposites
better : worse 
big : small
cold : warm
jobless employed
poor : rich
secret : public
unhappy : happy
unlucky : lucky
6 Money crossword
Across
2. make
5. dollar
8. pound
9. giveout
Down
1. bills
3. expensive
4. coins
6. poverty
7. cost
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The power of the desert
Level 1
Elementary
KEY
1 Key words
1. vessel
2. solar
3. desalinated
4. grid
5. enormous
6. power station
7. shade
8. energy
9. turbine
10. source
2 Find the information
1. concentrated solar power
2. wind power
3. 400C
4. $60
5. $13.5bn
6. 3.1%
3 Comprehension check
1. c
2. f
3. a
4. b
5. d
6. e
4 Vocabulary 1: Types of energy
1. hydro-electric
2. nuclear
3. biomass
4. geo-thermal
5. wind
6. solar
5 Vocabulary 2: Adjective + Noun 
collocations
1. f
2. h
3. e
4. a
5. c
6. g
7. d
8. b
6 Vocabulary 3: Word building
1. provide
2. production
3. reduce
4. disagree
5. recommend
6. agreement
7. building
8. grow
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1 Key words
1. false 
2. gangster 
3. prostitute 
4. orphan 
5. nightmare 
6. lie 
7. street children 
8. spear 
9. poverty 
10. angel
2 Find the information
1. the Ithutheng Trust school 
2. $1 million 
3. 45 
4. Bill and Hillary Clinton 
5. Carte Blanche 
6. 2001 (five years ago)
3 Comprehension check
1. f 
2. a 
3. d 
4. c 
5. b 
6. e 
7. h 
8. g
4 Vocabulary: Verbs
1. f 
2. d 
3. c 
4. b 
5. a 
6. e
5 Vocabulary: Irregular verbs
1. heard 
2. told 
3. cut 
4. shot 
5. fed 
6. brought 
7. left 
8. knew
6 Vocabulary: Prepositions
1. of 
2. for 
3. with 
4. in 
5. of 
6. for 
7. on 
8. from
The ‘Angel of Soweto’?
Level 1
Elementary
KEY
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1 Key words
1. debate 
2. partnership
3. heated 
4. struggle 
5. broadcast 
6. bulletin 
7. channel 
8. launch
9. competitor 
10. rival
2 Find the information
1. 170
2. €1.2 billion
3. 10 minutes
4. each half hour
5. in the late 1980s
6. 75 million households
3 Comprehension check
1. F
2. F
3. T
4. F
5. F
6. T
7. T
8. F
4 Vocabulary 1: Noun + noun collocations
1. g 
2. f
3. e 
4. b
5. d
6. h
7. a
8. c
5 Vocabulary 2: Prepositions in phrases
1. at 
2. through 
3. of 
4. in
5. with 
6. against 
7. to
8. between
6 Word building
1. disagreement
2. explanation
3. discussion
4. criticism
5. announcement
6. management (manager); 
7. belief
8. success
The news through French eyes
Level 1
Elementary
KEY
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Democrats hail new era for US
Level 1
Elementary
KEY
1 Key words
1. bill 
2. stalemate 
3. redeploy 
4. reject 
5. take office 
6. hail or proclaim 
7. jet 
8. lobbyist
9. minimum wage 
10. stem cell research
2 Find the information
1. b 
2. f
3. e
4. d
5. c
6. g
7. a
3 Comprehension check
1. a
2. b
3. a
4. a
5. b
4 Vocabulary 1: Opposites
1. the first 
2. majority 
3. to defend 
4. domestic politics 
5. to ban 
6. maximum 
7. opposed to
5 Vocabulary 2: Word building
1. energetic 
2. politics 
3. historic (or historical) 
4. responsibility 
5. available 
6. security
6 Vocabulary: American politics
The hidden words are:
Democrat and Republican
Congress
Speaker
White House
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Six thousand women missing from top jobs
Level 1
Elementary
KEY
1 Pre-reading 1
3. We need 6,000 more women to equal the number of
men in boardrooms, politics and courts.
2 Pre-reading 2
Britain
3 Key words
1. glass ceiling
2. thrive
3. boardrooms
4. attitudes
5. promotion
6. discrimination
7. civil service
8. respresentative
4 Scanning for information
5 General understanding
1. (Too many / not enough / quite a lot of) women get
top jobs in Britain.
2. (Only four / about one in ten) judges are women.
3. When successful women want promotion, they have
(more difficulty than / less difficulty than / as much
difficulty as) low-paid women do.
4. 20 year-old men in Britain earn more than (20 year-
old women / 30 year-old men).
5. Women in Britain usually earn (less / more / the
same) after they have children.
6. Ms Watson thinks that (only women / only men /
both men and women) should be able to ask for
flexible working hours.
6 Pronunciation: word stress
7 Language development: word order
1. There are still not nearly enough women.
2. But they still can’t go far.
3. They don’t want women to choose.
4. There are only two black women MPs.
5. Life at the top is white and male.
6. There is so much more to be done .
1
19.5%
a
Women in parliament
2
10.4%
b
Women running top companies
3
9.8%
c
Women judges
4
40%
d
Women in Scottish assembly
5
51.7%
e
Women in Welsh assembly
6
3.7%
f
Male/female pay gap in their 20s
7
10.7%
g
Male/female pay gap in their 30s
8
17%
h
UK pay gap full-time
9
38%
i
UK pay gap part-time


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1 Key words
1. litter
2. swarm
3. wildlife
4. pest
5. rat
6. infrastructure
7. conservationist
8. unique
9. species
10. graffiti
2 Find the information
1. Pacific
2. Ecuador
3. about 1,000 km
4. 460
5. 40,000
6. 100,000
3 Comprehension check
1. d
2. f
3. b
4. a
5. g
6. e
7. h
8. c
4 Vocabulary: Ships and sailing
1. anchor 
2. liner 
3. voyage 
4. cruise
5. ashore
5 Vocabulary: Word building
1. arrival
2. discovery
3. damage
4. instruction
5. operation
6. increase
7. protection
8. proof 
6 Word game
1. passenger
2. visitor
3. tourist
4. director
5. environment
Mass tourism reaches Galápagos
Level 1
Elementary
KEY
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1 Key words
1. slum 
2. viewer
3. fake
4. petition
5. celebrity
6. contestant
7. racism
8. complain
9. tolerant
10. investigate
2 Find the information
1. A reality TV programme
2. Channel 4
3. 20,000
4. 4.5 million
5. 30
6. 22,000
3 Comprehension check
1. d
2. f
3. a
4. c
5. b
6. e
4 Vocabulary 1: Prepositions
1. on
2. with
3. about 
4. about
5. in
6. on
7. with
8. of
5 Vocabulary 2: Word building
1. complaint
2. demonstration
3. criticism
4. investigation
5. behaviour
6. argument
7. discussion
8. disagreement
6 Vocabulary 3: Word game
1. complaint
2. investigate
3. argument
4. behaviour
5. journalist
Racism, ratings and reality TV
Level 1
Elementary
KEY
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1 Key words
1. astronaut
2. atmosphere
3. solar system
4. spacecraft
5. satellite
6. particle
7. orbit
8. meteorologist
9. reliable
10. deadly
2 Find the information
1. five
2. 10,000 km
3. twenty
4. violet
5. aurora borealis
6. above the Arctic Circle (in the night sky)
3 Comprehension check
1. F
2. T
3. F
4. T
5. T
6. F
7. F
8. T
4 Vocabulary 1: Prepositions
1. in
2. into
3. of
4. from
5. from
6. into/with
7. of
8. in
5 Vocabulary 2: Word building
1. prediction
2. measurement
3. forecast
4. protection
5. record
6. appearance
7. improvement
8. production