PREMIUM ao level | Coursebook - Le PEARSON | Home oe = 2 Q G3 comforts ee =sa ee = | Pe = o = (=) = @ fera} peaceful. a g bị = i) = 7 ES) 8 g > n fc = G = a rs) a — HC = =] (3) i= ~ A) 3 pe le @ Look at the photos of homes around the world and match the = le) outsides with the insides. One pair does not match. E Introduction is & Discuss these questions with other students.
o trị + Whith house is British, Japanese, Cuban, Swiss? How can you tell? + Which one do you think looks most cornfortable or attractive? a Pe) = + What features do you particularly like or dislike? =5 | + How are the houses the same or different as homes in your country? tr œ¬ GG. aay eee =5 Es @ How should you behave as a guest in Britain? Discuss your ideas. (3) + Should you arrive early, on time or a little late? = = + How should you greet your guests? 5 + What should you bring as a present, if anything? Đ | + Should you offer to help your host? (4 What does a foreign guest need to know about how to behave in Unit 01 your country? Discuss your ideas. PREMIUM | UNIT O71 | Listening Grammar | present tenses mm Listen to four international G Discuss these questions with other students.
students living in Britain. Choose + What is a blog? Do you write one, or read one regularly? the correct picture, A, B or C. + Why do you think people enjoy reading blogs? 1. If Jorge was invited to a party at 8 p.
in his country, when would he arrive? & Read the blog and find the answers to these questions. 1 Why is the writer keeping a blog? 2 What does she like and what doesn’t she like about her new life? 2 When does Rosa say it is light in the UK at the moment? I'm a student at Cardiff University, where | study Business Studies and Japanese. For the third year of my course I'm) living in Nagasaki, Japan. "miwriting this blog so all my friends and family can find out about my new life.
Here is a photo of where 3 What does Yalda say the weather is in Nagasaki. like in her country in the winter? on top ofa hill, so the views over the ABOUT ME city are fabulous. NAME: today though, so | can’t see Janette anything but cloud. 4 What will Jan wear tomorrow? Itake a tram into the city centre every day.
It’s a good LOCATION: ®„ way to see the city. Nagasaki, but | like my home, too. Nagasaki, Japan These'are some of my Japanese friends from the college. | kt loads of peaple already and tim Vocabulary | weather ‘Meeting new people all the time! to talk Japanese with them, 4 Look at these words for describing though t always understand weather.
Can you add any more to what they say to me! each column? This is what | eat for breakfast every temperature weather weather day. [ii tyïfg a lot of new foods at the adjectives adjectives nouns moment. It’s a bit strange for me to have fish for breakfast, but generally | love Japanese food. exam feviser ee Ey Look at the examples of the present simple in and answer (2 Describe the weather in your the questions.
country in the winter and summer. 1 Which examples describe repeated events? It’s cool in the winter. 2 Which examples describe general facts? There's a lot of snow. @ Look at the examples of the present continuous in § and There isn’t much sun in the winter.
answer the questions. 3 What do you think the weather is 1 Which examples describe situations happening at the time of writing? usually like in these countries? 2 Which two examples describe something happening around now, but not fT necessarily at the same time as she is writing? | Finland Japan Brazil L Jordan Australia eesee grammar reference: page 153 «6 | PREMIUM | UNIT O41 & Which four examples of the present simple have @ Choose someone you know well. Think about the verbs which are not usually used in the present points below and tell your partner about them. continuous? + what they do regularly iG Which of these verbs are not usually used in the + some general facts about them present continuous? 8 + something they are doing temporarily, around now + what they are probably doing at the moment.
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7 Can you answer the phone? lm newness bath. \ “ -8 Tim thinking English is quite easy / „_ Hi, my name is Mariusz. am coming from Warsaw, in Poland. (e Complete the blog with the correct form of the ` Warsaw is the capital of Poland.
It’s a very old city, but there present simple or the present continuous. are a lot of modern buildings, too. live in a one-bedroom flat with my wife, Kasia. We are not having any children yet.
| work for a bus company. In my spare time | like reading and watching television. Sometimes we go to the cinema. 'm studying Latin American Studies at At the moment | am learning English two evenings a week.
My Leeds University. | (speak) 1 teacher is English. | am not understanding everything she says, „ Spanish pretty well, but my Portuguese but | am liking the classes. At the moment we study present isn’t as good.
That's why | (spend) simple and present continuous. There are fifteen students in 2 my y third y year studying ying in - my y class, so | meet a lot of new Pcop people. Belo Horizonte, in Brazil. l ABOUT ME seo Horzone (le) ——— 3norh HE GfRio eu Bs south oF Brasiia, | & There are six mistakes in the blog.
Find the mistakes “iB i in the State of Minas Gerais. It’s a | and correct them. eee the ae in Brazil. 3 Write your own blog entry.
When you have not/like) |___* the city very ; : LOCATION: — | much, but there are some beautiful old Finished): checkeyourwenietey mises Belo towns in the area. | went to Ouro Preto. WRITING SAILL Horizonte, | (think) +. 2 _$ it was the state Always check your work far mistakes when Brazil capleal two liuindred years ago, you finish writing.
Find out what mistakes you It (not rain) L__® much here in often make (e. with articles} and check these. Belo Horizonte in the winter (April to particularly carefully. September), but now that summer (start) =.
7, it (begin) «___ 8 to get hotter and wetter. I (like) ive 9 the climate, though, it’s much better than { in England! : PREMIUM | UNIT O01 | Reading READING SKILL The questions in Exercise 3 ask you to read (a Caz Owen and her husband, Tom, live in a yurt. the text in more detail. You still may not need Look at the picture and discuss these questions.
to read all the text very carefully. Use your + What isa yurt? first reading to tell you where to look far the + What do you think would be the good and bad things answers when you read again. Also check that about living in a yurt? you don’t have just part of the answer (e. READING SKILL The questions in Exercise 1 ask you to use Discuss these questions with other students.
the picture to make predictions about the Would you like to live closer to nature? Why/Why not? text. This can really help you when you start What would you miss most if you lived in a yurt? reading. Then you should read the text quickly just to check your ideas. Don’t try to read and Look at the text again.
Choose the best meaning understand every word at this stage. for these words and phrases. 1 convenient (line 7) & Read the text quickly. What does Caz think are the A easy and suitable B small advantages and disadvantages of her lifestyle? 2.
adjoining (line 12) @ Read the text again and answer the questions. A beautiful B connected, next to each other 1 How big is their living space? 3 do something up (line 21) A55m B48m C103m A do something again B repair something 2_Whatrooms do they have in the yur ` 4 carry on (line 29) 3 What furniture and household objects does Caz say ' Ato continue B to hold something they have? 5 house proud (line 32) _ 4 How do they heat and light the yurt? \ Aspend a lot of time looking after the home 5 What does Caz say about the weather this winter? B spend a lot of money on the home OUR SOCIETY Interview by Monica Troughton Yurt sweet yurt I remember whose idea it was to live 5 da yurt. We lived for a while in a cottage on Caz Owen and her husband gave up four walls to live under Tom’s parents’ farm. It was lovely in that cottage canvas.
Now with a six-week-old baby, their home has survived and very convenient, but it didn’t feel quite right gales and even has a bath with a view. We bought our first yurt, a 5.5 metre one, 10 for £2,000. Some people thought we were mad, that we wouldn’t survive a summer. But here we are, two years on, with two adjoining yurts.
If you need more space you just add on an extra yurt. Our main yurt is divided into the kitchen, 15 sitting room, dining room and office. The second yurt, with a 4.8 metre diameter, is the bedroom, bathroom and nursery for our baby daughter, Tallis. Tom built the kitchen, office and dining table 20 from wood.
When we found an old bath last year, we did it up, and it now sits in the second yurt next to a window that looks out across fields. As I lie in hot water, which comes from the wood- fired Rayburn range, looking out across fields on 25 a frosty morning or up to the sky on a moonlit night, it feels magical.
