The night-walkers of Uganda

6 Vocabulary 3: Word stress
A: measure; forecast; damage; orbit; happen; cover
B: predict; appear; produce; protect; record; improve
Into the aurora
Level 1
Elementary
KEY
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Spacewoman on charge of trying to kill love rival 
Level 1
Elementary
KEY
1 Pre-reading 1
2. A woman astronaut loses her job when she is
accused of attempted murder
3 Key words
1. an astronaut
2. disguise
3. shuttle
4. a rival
5. a colleague
6. alleged
7. bail
8. a nappy
9. a tracking device
10. stalking
4 Scanning for information
5 General understanding
1. d
2. a
3. e
4. b
5. g
6. i
7. c
8. f
9. j
10. h
6 Vocabulary development: Compound
words
1. car park
2. a folding knife
3. an airport lounge
4. the moon landing
5. the air force
6. a love triangle
7. pepper spray
7 Grammar development: Past tense
 
endings
1. took, taken
2. thought
3. chosen
4. become
5. drove
6. wore
7. found
8. flown
9. met
10. threw
1
$25,000
a
money Mrs Nowak had to
pay the court
2
321
b
total number of NASA
astronauts
3
$600
c
money Mrs Nowak took with
her
4
30
d
days Mrs Nowak cannot
work for NASA
5
43
e
Mrs Nowak’s age
6
1959
f
when the US started going
into space
7
950
g
miles from Houston to
Orlando
8
41
h
Mr Oefelein’s age
9
5,300,000
i
miles Mrs Nowak flew in
space
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‘Holy moly’ - sperm donor meets his children
Level 1
Elementary
1 Key words
1. unique
2. sample
3. client
4. offspring
5. siblings
6. donor
7. happy-go-lucky
8. sperm
9. profile
10. choke
2 Find the information
1. in the 1980s
2. 17
3. $50 to $100
4. over 7,000
5. around 30,000
6. 60 to 80
3 Comprehension check
1. c
2. f
3. b
4. a
5. e
6. d
4 Collocations 
 
1. c
2. d
3. b
4. a
5. h
6. e
7. f
8. g
5 Prepositions
1. of
2. to
3. in
4. from
5. at
6. on
7. with
8. in
6 Word stress
A. sample; profile; travel; website; nervous; humour
B. unique; receive; guitar; advice; control; surprised
KEY
389

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Dead or alive, Bin Laden haunts US
Level 1
Elementary
1 Key words
1. earthquake
2. reward
3. hero
4. manhunt
5. cave
6. cleric
7. huge
8. remote
9. bold
10. corrupt
2 Find the information
1. 50
2. Afghanistan
3. $25 million
4. 2001
5. nine out of 10
6. more than 20
3 Comprehension check
1. c
2. h
3. e
4. b
5. d
6. g
7. f
8. a
4 Vocabulary 1: Opposites 
1. quiet
2. negative
3. unwelcome
4. senior
5. strong
6. hard
7. complicated
8. clever
5 Vocabulary 2: Chunks
1. as far as we know
2. at about the same time
3. a quiet mountain area
4. all over the world
5. somewhere in the mountains
6. this is the same
6 Vocabulary 3: Find the nouns
1. smile
2. hunt
3. report
4. attack
5. proof
6. vote 
7. action
8. leadership
KEY
390

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Big blasts or tiny tugs
Level 1
Elementary
KEY
1 Pre-reading 1: Key words
1. a catastrophe
2. a blast
3. an asteroid
4. a tug
5. dust
6. gravity
7. total extinction
8. a tractor
9. to release
10. crops
2 Pre-reading 2: Prediction
1. No. The first paragraph is just saying what could
happen.
2. They have found several possible solutions, but
they haven’t decided which one to use.
3 Scanning for information
1. 6 km
2. Apophis
3. Washington
4. 2004
5. 390
6. NEOs
7. 2036
8. 600
9. 10
10. 800
4 Vocabulary development 1: Find the
word
1. unstoppable
2. planetary
3. worldwide
4. occur
5. robotic
6. hover
7. panic
8. secrecy
5 Vocabulary development 2: Word
building
6 Practice
1. direct
2. psychological
3. secret
4. immediately
5. possibly
6. careful
7. unnecessary
8. official
7 Language development: Useful
expressions
1. if the worst comes to the worst
2. in known history
3. though no one has actually tried it yet
4. it was the right thing to do
adjective
adverb
1. direct
directly
2. psychological
psychologically
3.
secret
secretly
4. immediate
immediately
5.
possible
possibly
6. careful
carefully
7. unnecessary
unnecessarily
8.
official
officially
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Key

1. Pre-reading 1: Key words
a. garbage
b. assault
c. a warehouse
d. a community sentence
e. a boot camp
f. combats
g. sanitation
h. duties
i. a shift 
j. stilettos
2. Pre-reading 2
b
3. General understanding
1 Naomi Campbell had to go to work 
e in a poor part of Manhattan.
2 Ana Scolavino 
g worked in Naomi Campbell’s house.
3 Ms Campbell got angry with her maid
f and threw her phone at her.
4 Ms Scolavino’s head was badly cut and
h the doctor had to put four stitches in it.
5 Ms Campbell was punished 
d for hurting her maid.
6 Ms Campbell also had to go and learn
b how to stop getting so angry.
7 Boy George had a lot of trouble
a from newspaper photographers.
8 Ms Campbell lived in a poor part of London 
c when she was a child.
4. Vocabulary 1: Find the word
1. elegantly
2. costume
3. stitches
4. a fine
5. leggings
6. locker rooms
7. fluorescent
8. offenders
5. Vocabulary 2: Compound words
1. supermodel
2. bodyguards
3. makeup
4. dressmakers
5. downtown
6. housemaid
7. sunglasses
8. indoors
6. Vocabulary 3: Compound words in
context
1. sunglasses
2. downtown
3. housemaid
4. bodyguards
5. indoors
6. supermodel
7. dressmakers
8. makeup
Celebrity boot camp
Level 1 
Elementary
392

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Northern Ireland’s arch-enemies declare peace
Level 1
Elementary
1 Key words
1. journalist
2. century
3. agreement
4. deadline
5. era
6. commitment
7. conflict
8. share
9. suffer
10. restart
2 Find the information
1. May 8
2. Gerry Adams
3. More than 10 years
4. Democratic Unionist Party
5. Ian Paisley
6. Just over an hour
3 Comprehension check
1. F
2. T
3. F
4. T
5. F
6. T
7. F
8. T
4 Vocabulary 1: Verbs and nouns
1. e
2. d
3. a
4. f
5. b
6. c
5 Vocabulary 2: Word building
1. agreement
2. government
3. meeting
4. statement
5. beginning
6. preparation
7. announcement
8. commitment
6 Vocabulary 3: Spelling game
1. agreement
2. statement
3. atmosphere
4. optimistic
5. government
6. conflict
KEY
393

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Gang mayhem grips LA
Level 1
Elementary
KEY
1 Key words
1. gang
2. to bury 
3. to grip 
4. mayhem
5. a crackdown 
6. a summit 
7. to despair 
8. an injunction
9. to ruin
10. a probation officer
2 General understanding
A
2
B
1. para 14
2. para 4
3. para 5
4. para 11
5. para 8
6. para 1
3 Comprehension check
1. a
2. b
3. a
4. b
5. b
6. c
4 Vocabulary 1: Phrases in context
1. doing really well 
2. a world away
3. referred to 
4. all the signs are there 
5. running away
6. that’s over now
7. it’s only a fantasy
5 Vocabulary 2: Law and order
1. police 
2. jail 
3. crime 
4. crackdown 
5. court 
6. FBI agents
7. injunction
6 Vocabulary 3: Word building
adjective
noun
1. glamorous
glamour
2. violent
violence
3. racial
race
4. exciting
excitement
5. difficult
difficulty
6. poor
poverty
7. real
reality
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You are going to read an article about ‘genetically modified’ (or GM) mosquitoes.
When a living thing is genetically modified, it means that scientists have changed its ‘genes’. These are the basic 
units of life that decide what things are like. They can be passed down from parent to child. Scientist change some 
species (or types) of plants to make them more productive, or to resist (or fight) diseases or insects that destroy 
them. In this case, they are changing a species of insect – mosquitoes.
Shock of the new - GM Mosquitoes
Level 1
Elementary
Pre-reading 1: Introduction
1
Pre-reading 2: Key words
2
To help you to understand the article, here are some of the important words. Match these keywords from 
the text with the meanings below.

release
malaria
parasite
habitat
predators prey
hemisphere 
mammals

1. Larger animals that attack and kill other animals for food. ____________

2. To allow something to be free, to let something go. ____________
3. A smaller animal that is used as food by a larger one. ____________
4. The place where a plant or animal usually lives. ____________
5. Animals that have babies; they don’t lay eggs like birds. ____________
6. Half of the earth; the north or the south. ____________
7. A plant or animal that lives on or in another, usually larger one, and feeds on it. ____________
8. A disease with a fever that keeps coming back. It is common in hot countries, and you can catch it if an infected
mosquito bites you. ____________
Comprehension check
3
Before you read the article, think about these questions.
1. How do you think the scientists have changed the mosquitoes?
2. Why do you think they have changed them?
3. Why could this be dangerous?
The words you have looked at should give you some ideas. Now read the article quickly, to see if it you 
were right. (Don’t worry about the names of special plants and animals – you can still understand the 
general idea).
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KEY
1 Pre-reading 2: Key words
1. release
2. malaria
3. parasite
4. habitat
5. predators
6. prey
7. hemisphere
8. mammals
4 Reading for information
1. Johns Hopkins
2. The dodo
3. 300 million
4. James Randerson
5. Andre Farrar
6. Guam
7. 1935
8. the 19th century
9. Deborah Long
10. 72%
5 Vocabulary development 1: Word