Unit 1

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Unit 1

Lesson 1

1
1 suburb

2 mates

3 half term

4 cousin

5 look forward to

6 fed up

2
ambition, care about, politics, college, environment

Unit 1

Lesson 2

3
1 miserable

2 scared

3 lonely

4 bored

5 sad

4
1 friendship

2 missed my mum

3 apologise, bother

4 accent

5 leave me alone

6 trendy

Unit 1

Lesson 3

5
Adelaide, Australia. April 13

, 2005

Yesterday a surfer was attacked by a shark off the coast. He was taken to a local
hospital where he is recovering from the attack. The surfer, 24-year-old Matt
Peterson, was taking part in a competition when his surfboard was hit. “It was
amazing,” said Matt, “one minute I was in the water and then without warning I was
flying through the air.” Somehow Matt managed to swim to the shore. “All I could
see were these huge teeth in the shark’s jaw,” said Matt. “When it came at me again I
screamed and punched it on the nose.” Hospital officials said he was OK, just a little
shocked.

Unit 1

Lesson 4

6
1 I’ll never forget the first time

2 again and again

3 once or twice a month

4 I couldn’t believe it

5 it all went wrong

6 it didn’t bother me

7 It was a great moment

7
Across
3 identity

6 inspire

7 apartment

9 vivid

10 mixture

11 incredible

Down
1 criticise

2 unusual

4 sense

5 terrified

8 typically

12 roots

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Unit 2

Lesson 1

1
1 action

2 comedy

3 horror film

4 musical

5 documentary

2
1 brilliant

2 silly

3 disappointing

4 awful

5 interesting

Unit 2

Lesson 2

3
1 attend

2 talent

3 manage

4 expect

5 refuse

6 obey

7 pretend

4
1 a

2 b

3 c

4 a

5 c

Unit 2

Lesson 3

5
1 paperback

2 increasing

3 enthusiastic

4 cover

5 characters

6 report back

7 comments

6
1 a

2 b

3 c

4 a

5 c

7
1 b

2 a

3 e

4 d

5 c

Unit 2

Lesson 4

8
(from left to right)

2, 3, 1

9
1 The important thing is

2 It means a great deal to me.

3 Do you promise to tell the truth?

4 Who knows?

5 Why not try it?

Unit 3

Lesson 1

1
1 knife

2 tonight 3

wrong

4 what

5 bought

6 thumb

7 spaghetti

knee

9 sandwich

10 character

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2
People Seafood

Fruit Transport

contestant
host
viewer

lobster
prawn

coconut
melon

helicopter
motorboat

Unit 3

Lesson 2

3
1 illegal

2 vacation

3 intend

4 purpose

5 limit

6 break a law

4
1 arrest

2 awake 3

backwards

4 cigar

5 factory

6 intend 7

limit

purpose

Unit 3

Lesson 3

5
a 3

b 5

c 2

d 1

e 4

6
1 calm

2 let

3 slow

4 lie

5 turn

6 write

Unit 3

Lesson 4

7
1 poverty

8 incredible

2 human rights

9 responsible

3 developing world

10 boil

4 drinking water

11 electricity

5 poor

12 make a difference

6 disease

13 governments

dirty

8
1 a

2 b

3 a

Unit 3

Culture

9
1 dramatic

2 solve

3 remain

4 detective

5 villain

6 heroine

7 handsome

8 enemy

9 doorway

10 pushed

11 slipped

12 heavily

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Unit 4

Lesson 1

1
1 b

2 a

3 c

4 a

5 b

6 b

7 b

2
1, 2, 5, 8, 10, 13, 15

3
1 read

2 go

3 find

4 take

5 try

airfield

forward

runway

controls confidence

instruments

however

instructor

unconscious

5
1 heights

2 drop

3 take over

4 button

5 reply

6 registration number

7 chance

8 gently

9 press

10 confidence

Unit 4

Lesson 4

6
1 a

2 a

3 a

4 a

5 b

7
1 take it easy

2 it makes no difference

3 Get me out of here!

4 takes no notice

5 look out

6 Never mind

Unit 5

Lesson 1

1
1 trip

2 pair

3 motorcycles

4 route

5 challenging

6 fortunately

Unit 5

Lesson 2

2
(clockwise from bottom left corner) 3, 2, 4, 1, 5

3
1 sphere

2 bouncy

3 take up

4 combine

5 giant

6 whizz

7 steep

8 contains

9 strap

10 steer

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Unit 5

Lesson 3

4
1 b

2 a

3 b

4 a

5 a

6 a

7 b

8 a

9 b

10 b

5
1 runner

2 career

3 ups and downs

4 medal

5 injury

6 dream

7 hugging

8 support

Unit 5

Lesson 4

6
1 offend

2 popularity

3 valuable, reality, local, tap

4 exhausting, trail, glad, ruins

5 afford, hostels, worth

7
1 I’m really grateful.

2 I’ve never enjoyed myself so much.

3 Have you ever wondered what it’s like? 4 It was magic!
5 I couldn’t face it.

6 What an incredible place!

Unit 6

Lesson 1

1
1 P

2 N

3 N

4 P

5 N

2
1 F

2 F

3 T

4 F

5 F

6 T

7 F

Unit 6

Lesson 2

Product Materials Container

yoghurt
brick
carpet
tyre

plastic
denim
rubber
wool

basket
can
carton
bottle

4
1 recycle, throw away

2 make a list

3 endless, campaigns, products

4 resources, imaginative

5 entirely, made a mistake

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bottle
cotton
pot

bag
can
plastic

mend
denim
leather
pencil

campaign
paper
waste

Unit 6

Lesson 3

6
1 penicillin

2 bicycle

3 atomic bomb

4 aqualung

5 World Wide Web

7
1 display

2 poll

3 attempt

4 nominate

5 a genius

6 connection 7 designs

8 highly

Unit 6

Lesson 4

8
A

Hi! What are you reading?

It’s a book about inventions. It’s really interesting. Did you know that
Leonardo da Vinci was an inventor?

No, I didn’t. What else does the book say?

Well, who do you think invented printing?

I don’t know. I know that the Chinese invented paper, so maybe it was them.

Yes, you’re right, but guess when.

Oh, probably about five hundred years ago.

No, approximately two thousand!

Wow!

Explorers kept on coming back from countries all over the world with new
ideas that they would introduce. Things like cotton which came from India,
chocolate from South America and lots of other things.

But we must have invented some things? What about plastic surgery, for
example?

No, there’s evidence from India that they were doing those kinds of things
more than two and a half thousand years ago.

Evidence?

Yes, there’s a medical book with detailed information about how the process
was carried out.

That’s amazing!

9
1 Don’t throw it away!

2 The possibilities are endless!

3 believe it or not

4 it’s no secret

5 it works!

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Unit 7

Lesson 1

1
1 bring back, chimpanzee

2 remarkable

3 responds

4 instructions

5 correctly

6 bracelet, symbol

7 relationship

Unit 7

Lesson 2

2
1 Internet

2 enormously

3 spread

4 viruses

5 spam

6 solution

7 filter

8 nerd

9 household name

Unit 7

Lesson 3

3
1 T

2 F

3 F

4 T

5 T

6 F

7 T

4
1 c

2 b

3 a

4 b

5 c

5
3, 1, 5, 6, 4, 2

Unit 7

Culture

6
Chandra, Elena, Jin

7
1 E

2 J

3 C

4 J

5 E

6 C

Unit 8

Lesson 1

1
1 shop

2 shoes

3 cheap

4 watch

5 share

6 cash

2
1 essential, survive

2 cubic

3 amount, fresh water

4 frozen, polar ice caps

5 concerned, shortage, consequences

6 rainfall

7 stored, dams

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Unit 8

Lesson 2

Speaker Place Items

got

Items

forgotten

jungle compass

penknife

insect spray

desert sun

cream

matches

mountain

first aid kit
needle and thread

whistle

4
1 T

2 F

3 T

4 T

5 F

6 T

7 F

8 T

9 F

Unit 8

Lesson 3

5
2, 5, 1, 4, 3

6
1 a

2 a

3 b

4 a

5 b

Unit 8

Lesson 4

7
1 interior, semi-desert, outback

2 native, Aborigine

3 Great Barrier Reef, coral

4 grassland, wildlife

5 continental, minus

6 scenery, mountain ranges