The night-walkers of Uganda

Pavarotti dies aged 71
Level 1
Elementary
415

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Miners unearth world’s biggest diamond
Level 1
Elementary
1 Key words
1. gem
2. saddle 
3. mine
4. gift
5. vault
6. colourless
7. rare
8. carat
9. amazing
10. rough
2 Find the information
1. As much as £15 million
2. 1985
3. 69.42 carats
4. Near Pretoria
5. 105
6. 1849
3 Comprehension check
1. d
2. f
3. a 
4. c
5. e
6. b
 
4 Grammar focus: Superlatives
5 Vocabulary 1: Prepositions
1. in
2. for
3. about
4. near
5. in
6. at
7. to 
8. to
6 Vocabulary 2: Irregular past participles
1. found
2. cut
3. seen
4. known
5. thought
6. kept
7. heard
8. bought
KEY
1. big
the biggest
2. good
the best
3. expensive
the most expensive
4. important
the most important
5. wide
the widest
6. bad
the worst
7. rare
the rarest
8. precious
the most precious
416

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What’s in the Big Apple?
Level 1
Elementary
KEY
 
 
 
 

1 Pre-reading task 
These are the words that appear in the text:
burger
fries
apple 
adverts 
snacks
cereal 
breakfast 
tray
judge 
calories 
New York 
health 
home-cooked 
2 Key words
1. c
2. b
3. e
4. a
5. d
6. g
7. j
8. f
9. h
10. i
11. n
12. k
13. l
14. o
15. m
3 Comprehension check
 
1. New York is often called the Big Apple.
2. A judge said that fast food restaurants don’t have to
write calories on their menus.
3. Half of the people who live in New York are 
overweight.
4. Americans eat out almost 50% of the time.
5. A McDonald’s deluxe breakfast contains a huge
amount of calories.
6. The amount of calories in food bought in
supermarkets is written on the packaging.
7. Some large restaurant chains have said they will
stop targeting young children.
8. Some fast food chains now sell healthy options.
4 Comparisons
1. A Big Mac meal has more calories than a Burger
King triple Whopper with cheese.
2. Home-cooked food usually contains fewer calories
than restaurant-bought food.
3. More than half of the Big Apple’s residents are
overweight.
4. Food in fast food restaurants costs less than food in
better restaurants.
5. McDonalds sells fewer salads than burgers.
417

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The McCanns: Exhausted and under suspicion
Level 1
Elementary
1 Pre-reading 1
1. False, they were in Portugal.
2. False, they have two-year-old twins.
3. True.
4. False. Not their own car; a car they rented 25
days later.
5. False, they think he was an accomplice.
6. True.
2 Pre-reading 2: Key words
1. suspects
2. exhausted
3. an accomplice
4. on suspicion
5. allege
6. toddlers
3 Reading for information
1. Rothley
2. Sean
3. 80mph
4. Renault
5. Praia da Luz
6. April 27
7. Amelie
8. 135
9. 25
10. 12.30pm
4 Vocabulary development 
1. people-carrier
2. cuddly
3. trace
4. pursued
5. clear our name
6. give up on
7. briefly
8. shattered
5 Language development: Prepositions
1. on
2. in
3. at, of
4. of, of
5. in
6. to
7. at
8. at
9. at
10. in
6 Understanding reference
1. e
2. a
3. b
4. f
5. c
6. d
KEY
418

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Radiohead’s bid to revive music industry
Level 1
Elementary
1 Key words
1. gig
2. release
3. newsletter
4. merchandise
5. album
6. track
7. piracy
8. deal
9. vinyl
10. booming
2 Find the information
1. In Rainbows
2. 45p
3. £40
4. through a radio station
5. October 10th
6. in December
3 Comprehension check
1. d
2. f
3. b
4. c
5. a
6. e
4 Vocabulary 1: Adverbs
1. probably
2. hardly
3. differently
4. quickly
5. carefully
6. simply
5 Vocabulary 2: Prepositions
1. of
2. to
3. for
4. of
5. to
6. on
7. with
8. for
6 Word buliding: Verbs and nouns
verb
noun
manage
management
compete
competition
release
release
announce
announcement
agree
agreement
decide
decision
KEY
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
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1 Pre-reading task
}:-( My hair is blowing in the wind
;-) I’m only joking!
8-) I’m wearing glasses
0:-) The writer just made a sweet or innocent remark
:-)(-: I’m married
:-\ I’m undecided
2 Antonyms
1. soften
2. abrupt
3. frown
4. love
5. automatically
6. old-fashioned
7. imperfect
8. send
9. angrier
10. routine
11. remove
12. politeness
13. recipient
3 Comprehension check
1. Short forms were also used in the early days
of telecommunication.
2. If people misunderstand written abbreviations, they
might feel hurt, embarrassed or insulted.
3. We are not so careful when we write emails.
4. We often send emails off before correcting them.
5. People use emoticons to put feeling and emotion
into an email.
6. Emails are faster than letters but contain
less humanity.
7. Even simple words like please and thank you can
be misunderstood in an email.
8. The telephone is more personal and therefore better
when you need to give bad news.
9. Emails are useful for sending routine messages
and acknowledgements.
10. The majority of people like to receive letters.
4 Email writing
openings
closings
Dear Sir
Hi gorgeous
Yours sincerely
Kind regards
Bye
Emoticons, emails and letter writing
Level 1 
Elementary
KEY
420

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1 Warmer: Gold
Possible answers:
jewellery
clocks and watches
glasses
paint
gold-leaf
art
teeth (fillings)
medicines
coins
buttons
pen nibs
2 Key words
Mongolia
mine
machine
human rights
soldier
policemen
bowl
smuggle
poverty
nomad
nugget
shell
wealth
arrest
turtle
3 Comprehension check 1
1. i
2. f
3. a
4. e
5. d
6. b
7. h
8. c
9. g
10. j
4 Vocabulary: Lexical fields
Suggested answers:
jobs and professions: gold-miner, taxi driver,
geologist, prostitute, vet, student, prospector
legal words and terminology: black market, 
smuggle, police cells, arrest, evidence, legal, 
illegal, stealing, criminal
places: land, town, plain, hills, café, police cells,
shack, disco, tent
5 Comprehension check 2: Summary
3. Thousands of people are moving to Ogoomor in the
hope of finding gold.
KEY
Gold rush in Mongolia
Level 1
Elementary
421

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Extreme education
Level 1
Elementary
1 Key words
1. contract
2. experiment
3. principal
4. recent
5. lottery
6. behaviour
7. admission
8. funds
9. excuse
10. proficient
2 Find the information
1. 10
2. about 200
3. 90%
4. 3,500
5. 1,800
6. 10 to 14
3 Comprehension check
1. d 
2. f
3. b
4. a
5. c
6. e
4 Vocabulary 1: Verbs and nouns
1. run
2. shake
3. answer
4. look
5. sign
6. come
7. take
8. attend
5 Vocabulary 2: Prepositions
1. from / to
2. between
3. on
4. of
5. in
6. about
7. by
8. with
6 Vocabulary 3: Word building
KEY
verb
noun
1. move
movement
2. behave
behaviour
3. admit
admission
4. educate
education
5. govern
government
6. believe
belief
7. equip
equipment
8. begin
beginning
422

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British Airways says goodbye to Zimbabwe 
Level 1
Elementary
KEY
 
 
 
 

1 What are they called now?
Abyssinia 
Ethiopia
Benadir 
Somalia
French Sudan 
Mali
German Southwest Africa Namibia 
Rhodesia 
Zimbabwe
Upper Volta
Burkina Faso
Portuguese East Africa Mozambique
2 Key words
1. unreliable 
2. diverted 
3. cut off 
4. independence 
5. defeated 
6. collapse 
7. hyperinflation
8. bureaucracy 
9. exchange rate
10. harvest 
11. suspicious 
12. admit 
3 Comprehension check
 
1. c
2. e
3. a
4. g
5. b
6. h
7. f
8. d
4 Vocabulary: Collocations / Word pairs
difficult times
toilet paper
wheat harvest
tobacco production
shopping trip
lose control
shrinking economy
hidden market
call centres
property developer
423

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Google reveals mobile plans
Level 1
Elementary
1 Key words
1. manufactures
2. browser
3. launch
4. online
5. handset
6. market leader
7. media
8. purchase
9. display
10. monitor
2 Find the information
1. More than 30
2. 100 million
3. 1998
4. Larry Page and Sergey Brin
5. $225 billion
6. Apple
3 Comprehension check
1. e
2. c
3. f
4. a
5. d
6. b
4 Vocabulary 1: Compound nouns
1. g
2. d
3. h
4. a
5. e
6. c
7. b
8. f
5 Vocabulary 2: Word building (nouns
ending in -er or -or?)
6 Vocabulary 3: Word stress
KEY
verb
noun
1. browse
browser
2. manufacture
manufacturer
3. operate
operator
4. provide
provider
5. use
user
6. lead
leader
A 0 o
B o 0
product
gather
handset
mobile
software
market
display
provide
compete
replace
increase
announce
424

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Bye bye Belgium?
Level 1
Elementary
1 Key words
1. impatient
2. idiotic
3. polite
4. wealthy
5. symbolic
6. arrogant
7. breaks up
8. inhabitants
9. scandal
10. constitution
2 Find the information
1. 177 years
2. 63%
3. Dutch
4. Flanders
5. Wallonia
6. 156 days (at the time the article was written)
3 Comprehension check
1. e
2. d
3. b
4. f
5. c
6. a
4 Vocabulary 1: Prepositions
1. of
2. in
3. of
4. about
5. to
6. for
7. of
8. of
5 Vocabulary 2: Word building
6 Vocabulary 3: Word puzzle
1. majority
2. federal
3. trouble
4. district
5. independent
6. suburb