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Inside English

High Beginner Student Book

Unit 1 You

Sound Focus

1. Say the letter A E I O U. Add each letter to the correct sound group in the chart.

2. Listen, check and repeat the answers to 1

3. Listen and write down the order in which you hear the following groups.

a) ___ A E I O Ub) ___ A I O E U

c) ___ E I A U Od) ___ I A O U E

e) ___ I U A O E

Listening

1. Many names in English have two different spelling but the same pronunciation. Lina is checking the spelling of some new Sportica club members. Listen and complete the conversations.

a)L: What’s your name?S: Stuart.L: Is that S T E W A R T?S: No, it’s S T U A R T.

c)L: What’s your name?G: Robby.L: Is that ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ?G: No, it’s ROBBY.L: Okay, thanks

b)L: What’s your name?C: Claire.L: Is that ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ?C: No, it’s CLAIREL: Okay, thanks

d)L: What’s your name?K: Kathryn.L: Is that __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ?K: Yes, it is.L: Oh … great. Er … Thanks.

Listening

2. Here are some more names with two different spellings but the same pronunciation. Listen and repeat the names

a) Alison/ Alysonb) Jeff/ Geoffc) Mandy/ Mandi

d) Lawrence/ Laurencee) Lesley/ Leslief) Stephen/ Steven

Sound Focus

1. How do you say the telephone numbers in CA Travel-useful numbers?

2.Listen and check your answers to 1

LANGUAGE TOOLBOX

0 = zero/oh1 = one2 = two3 = three4 = four

5 = five6 = six7 = seven8 = eight9 = nine

800-230-1455 = eight hundred, two three zero, one four five five

Word focus

1. Complete the chart about singer Britney Spears’ favorite things. Use words from the box.

Hobbies Food Singer Book Drink Actor City Day Car Color

Word Focus

2. Work with a partner. Copy the chart below and write each item in the box in the correct column.

tennis Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling red Thursday orange juice Christina Aguilera The Firm by John Grisham black pizza yellow soda Hong Kong Monday Cameron Diaz white BMW Wednesday tea Chayanne water Tuesday Sydney The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien golf Jeep skiing Pavarotti hamburgers Saturday Julia Roberts Sunday Paris steak Toyota swimming green Keanu Reeves

Language Focus

1. Work with a partner. For each question write two short answers.

4. Work with a partner. Complete each question in two different ways.

Writing

1. Read Keiko’s letter to her teacher. Replace the underline words with contractions. For example: Line 2 name is = name’s, I am = I’m

Song

1. Work with a partner. Look at picture A and picture B. What are the differences? Talk about the things in the box.

the trees the roses the sky the clouds the rainbow the people

For example: In a the trees are green, but in the B they are brown.

Unit 2 People Reading

1. Read the description of the two Tait families. Name each person in the photograph.

CHARLIE TAIT AND WILLIE TAIT are identical twin brothers. Charlie is married to Lisa, and Willie is married to Dawn. Lisa and Dawn are sisters. Both couples have three children. Charlie and Lisa have one son and two daughters. Kevin is 16, Kylie is 13, and Claire is 6. Willie and Dawn have two sons and one daughter. Michael is 16, Scott is 12, and Becky is 5. The two families live next door to each other in Newcastle, England.

Word Focus

1. Complete the chart with the names from the box. Refer to the description of the Tait families.

Becky Charlie Claire Dawn Kevin Lisa Willie Michael

Relative Example

a) husband and wife b) father and son c) mother and daughter d) sister and brother e) brother and brother f) aunt and niece g) cousin and cousin h) brother-in law and sister –in-law

Charlie and LisaCharlie and KevinDawn and ______Kylie and _______Scott and ____________ and KylieBecky and __________ and Lisa

Reading

1. Work with a partner. Read the descriptions of members of the Tait families and write the correct name for each person.

1Charlie is my father. Lisa is my mother. I have two sisters named Kylie and Claire.

Who am I? Kevin

2 Charlie is her uncle. Lisa is her aunt. She has two brothers

Who is she?______

3Dawn is his sister-in-law. Michael and Scott are his nephews. He has one niece.

Who is he?_____

4Kevin, Kylie and Claire are our cousins. Willie and Dawn are our parents. We have a little sister named Becky.

Who are we?_____

5Kevin is their nephew. Kylie and Claire are their nieces. They have two sons and a daughter.

Who are they?_____

Word Focus

1. Work with a partner. Match the picture with the different jobs in the box.

A doctor an engineer a DJ a secretary a mechanic a student

Word Focus

2. Complete the sentences with a/an and in/for.

a) My mother is a doctor. She works in a hospital.b) My father is ____ engineer. He works ___ a big construction

company.c) My cousin is ___ DJ. He works ___ a nightclub.d) My friend is ___ secretary. She works ___ an office.e) My uncle is ___ mechanic. He works ___ his father

LANGUAGE TOOLBOX

Simple presentI workYou workHe worksShe worksIt worksWe workThey work

Language Focus

1. Complete the conversation with words from the box.

Is Does does doesn’t isn’t doesn’t Does Is

Jane: This is me with my brother.Angie: Oh, he’s cute. (1) Is he married?Jane: No, he (2) _____. He’s single.Angie: (3) _____ he have a girlfriend?Jane: No, he (4) _____.Angie: Oh. What (5) _____ he do?Jane: He’s a doctor.Angie: Oh. (6) _____ he live near here?Jane: No, he (7) _____ . He lives in Australia, actually.Angie: Oh. (8) _____ this your father?Jane: No, that’s my boyfriend.Angie: Oh, sorry.

Listening

1. Listen to Jane talking about more members of her family. Which two pictures does she talk about?

2. Make sentences about Lisa and David using the words and phrases from the box.

Lisa: downtown baby boy really cute teacher schoolDavid: San Francisco actor waiter Italian restaurant every year

For example: She lives downtown. She has a baby boy.

Language Focus

1. Work with a partner. Look at the family tree and say what each person’s relationship to Jane is.

For example: Paul is Jane’s grandfather. Annie is Jane’s grandmother, etc.

Speaking Personally

1. Think about one of your relatives or a good friend. You are going to tell your partner about him or her. Read and listen to the questions and think about your answers.

Word Focus

1. Listen and repeat the names of the countries in the box

Australia Brazil Canada France Germany Italy Japan Korea Mexico Thailand The United Kingdom The United States of America

2. Test your geography! Match a country name from 1 with the country shape.

Unit 3 Days Word Focus

1. Work with a partner. Match the verbs (watch, do, have, go) with the nouns in the chart to make eight different daily activities.

a) Do b) _____ c) _____ d) _____

•housework•the ironing

•to the park•for a long walk

•a cup of coffee•lunch with friends

•television•movies and baseball

2. You are going to listen to six people saying what they do when they want to relax. Check your answers to 1.

Reading

1. Work with a partner. Label the pictures with a phrase from the box.

get up late read the newspaper go for a drink go out have breakfast

Reading

2. Read the article about Suzanne Vega and put the pictures in the correct order.

Listening

1. What time is it? Complete the chart to show different ways of telling the time.

Listening

2. Listen, repeat and check your answers to 1.

3. Listen to the conversation and circle the times you hear.

a) get up 6:45 7:15

d) get home 6:15 6:50

b) get to work 8:40 9:20

e) have dinner 7:00 7:30

c) have lunch 1:30 12:30

f) go to bed 12:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m.

LANGUAGE TOOLBOX

a.m. = in the morningp.m. = in the afternoon, in the evening, at night12:00 a.m. = midnight12:00 p.m. = noon

Language Focus

1. Complete the chart of time expressions with at, in and on.

a) _____ b) _____ c) _____

the morningthe afternoonthe eveningsummer/winter, etc.January/ February, etc.

Sundays/ Mondays, etc.Friday nights/ morning, etc.weekdays/weeknights/weekendsmy birthday

nightmidnightnoonfive o’clock/ one thirty, etc

2. Complete the sentences with at, in or on.

a) Something you often do on your birthday.b) Something you always do ______ the morning.c) Something you usually do ______ weekends.d) Something you never do ______ Saturday nights.e) Something you sometimes do ____ the summer.

Reading

1. Look at the two photographs and read the sentences. Guess which person each sentence describes. Underline He or She.

a) He/ She lives in the country.b) He/ She never has breakfast.c) He/ She listens to reggae in the morning.d) He/ She never goes to the gym.e) He/ She drinks a lot of water.f) He/ She trains for two hours every morning.g) He/ She has meat, fish, and vegetables for lunch.h) He/ She does housework in the afternoon.i) He/ She doesn’t drink alcohol.j) He/ She loves roast chicken and chocolate.

Reading

2. Read the article and check your answers to 1

Word Focus

1. Asashoryu says he makes his bed and does housework. Write make or do in the correct diagram to form other common expressions.

Listening

1. Complete the chart with words from the box. You can use words more than once.

love like mind hate don’t really

Listening

2. Read about Jim and Ka-Hee. Are you similar to Jim or Ka-Hee?

Unit 4 Living Reading

1. Look at the photographs. Which one is a real royal palace? What do you know about it?

Reading

2. Complete the descriptions with “Beckingham” or “Buckingham.”

______ Palace was built in 1703. It is situated in the center of London. Queen Elizabeth II lives and works there most of the time.

______ Palace was built in 1930 and belongs to the Beckham family. Singer Victoria Beckham (Posh spice) was a member of the pop group called the Spice girls. She is married to English soccer player David Beckham. They have two children.

Listening

1. Work with a partner. Read the information. Which sentences do you think describe Beckingham Palace and which ones describe Buckingham Palace?

a) There’s recording studio.b) There’s a bathroom dedicated to the actress Audrey Hepburn.c) There are 609 rooms.d) There’s a children’s playroom.e) There are paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens and Vermeer.f) There’s a 19th-century lake.g) There’s an indoor swimming pool.h) There’s a ballroom that is 37 meters long.

2. Listen to the descriptions and check your ideas in 1

Word Focus

Word Focus

2. Work with a partner. Complete the chart with words from 1. Some things can go in more than one room. Add two more words to each column.

In a living room In a kitchen In a bedroom

a chair a bookcase chairs a clock a bed a carpet

3. Underline the correct endings of these sentences to describe the photo above.

a) There’s a rug next to the radiator/ on the floorb) There’s a lamp in the corner/ on the wall.c) There are two pictures above the sofa/ on the rug.d) There’s a magazine on the chair/ under the table.e) There’s a plant next to the sofa/ under the lamp.

Language Focus

1. Work with a partner. Complete each Yes/No question and write two short answers.

2. Listen, check and repeat the answers to 1

Word Focus

1. Underline the correct preposition.

2. Complete the questions with a preposition

a) Do you like living in a house, or would you prefer to be on the top floor of a modern apartment building?

b) Do you like living ____ the city, or would you prefer to live ____ a hill ____ the country?

c) Do you want to be ____ the mountains or ____ the ocean?

Reading

1. Work with your partner. Read and complete the horoscopes with appropriate prepositions

Sound Focus

1. Listen and repeat the words

/I/ live sit this his kiss hit/i/ leave seat these he’s keys heat

2. Choose Bingo card A, B or C. Listen carefully and when you hear a word on your card, cross it out. When all the words are crossed out, shout “Bingo!”

Speaking Personally

1. Think about your home. You are going to tell your partner about it. Read and listen to the statements and questions and think about your answers.

Reading

1. Work with a partner. Match a description from the box with each photograph.

1. The best drive = b2. The best ruin3. The best restaurant

4. The best place to watch people5. The best palace6. The best mountain

Reading

2. Work with a partner. Match the descriptions (1-6) with the photos (a-f) in 1.

Language Focus

1. Complete the chart with the correct words.

Writing

Writing

2. Rewrite the postcard in 1. Replace the underlined words with words from the box to make the postcard sound positive.

Friendly great warm clean delicious and often dry don’t want wonderful cheap happy are some

Unit 5 Review 1 Sound Focus

Word Focus

1. Look at some of the words from Units 1- 4. say the words and write each one in the appropriate column in the chart. Underline the stressed syllable.

1. Match the verbs make, do, go and have with the words and phrases in the box.

International phone call swimming housework breakfast in bed the ironing a cup of tea for a drink after class dinner for friends

Word Focus

1. Complete the sentences with in , on or at.

2. Add words in the box to make the sentences in 1 true for you. Compare your sentences with a partner.

Always usually often sometimes hardly ever never

For example: I sometimes wear shorts in the summer

Writing

1. Read the 50-word autobiography below. Which of the three people in the pictures does it describe?

2. Take a piece of paper and write your autobiography in exactly 50 words.

Listening

Look at the photos (a-c) and listen to the conversation. Which hotel location are they talking about?

2. Complete the chart

Listening

3. Complete the conversation with phrases from the chart in 2.(R= Receptionist; C = Client)

Word Focus

1. Write down the name of people in your family in the chart.

Parents Brothers and sisters

Grandparents Uncles and aunts

Cousins

Charles Harry Elizabeth Anne Zara

2. Write down true sentences identifying five people in 1. Use this sentence structure:

Name is Name’s family relation.For example: Charles is Anne’s brother.

Reading

1. Complete the chart with the correct words.

Reading

2. You are going to read a letter from a homestay host family to a foreign exchange student. Use appropriate object pronouns and possessive adjective form the chart to complete the letter

Unit 6 Food Word focus

1. Work with a partner. Match the pictures (a-d) with the lists (1-4)

Word Focus

2. Name each list (1-4) with a word from the box.

Fruit Carbohydrates Vegetables Proteins

3. Work with a partner. Add the words in the box to the lists in 1.

strawberries fish muffins grapes onions mushrooms olive oil tomatoes pears

Sound Focus

1. Say these words. In each group circle the word with a different vowel sound form the other two.

2. Listen, repeat the words and check your answers to 1.

Language Focus

1. Work with a partner. Complete the chart with items of food from the photos on page 36.

2. Work with a partner. Complete each Yes/No question and write two short answers.

Reading

1. Read the article and complete the sentences.

a) Don’t eat ____ with carbohydrates.b) Don’t eat ____ with any other food.c) Eat ____ with any kind of protein or carbohydrate.

Listening

1. Work with a partner. According to the rules in the article above, which of the following meals will keep you thin?

a) Steak and friesb) Spaghetti with meat saucec) Fruit salad as a dessertd) Fish and vegetablese) Fish and rice

2. Listen to a conversation between Wei and Ting about the food combining diet. Check your answers to 1. What is the “seafood” diet?

Listening

1. When these famous singers give a concert, they make a list of demands for their dressing room. Match a list with each singer. Compare your ideas with a partner.

2. Listen and check your answers to 1.

Word Focus

1. Work with a partner. Complete these phrases with words for the box.

a can of a pack of a jar of a carton of a box of a can of

a) A can of soda/ beerb) ____ chocolates/ matchesc) ____ ice cream/ orange juice

d) ____ cigarettes/ potato chipse) ____ jam/ instant coffeef) ____ caviar/ baked beans

2. Work in small groups. Imagine you are a famous singer. Write your own list of dressing room demands. Write exactly how many of each item you need.

Language Focus

1. Complete the sentences with much or many.

a) You use _____ with countable nouns. (For example: tomatoes)b) You use _____ with uncountable nouns. ( For example: milk)

2. Work with a partner. Complete the following chart with a lot, much, many or any.

a) How much milk do you have?b) How many tomatoes do you have?c) How _____ cheese do you have?d) How _____ peppers do you have?

xxxxxx xxx

a) I have a lot.b) I have a lotc) I have _____.d) I have _____.

I don’t have much.I don’t have many.I don’t have _____.I don’t have _____.

I don’t have any.I don’t have any.I don’t have _____.I don’t have _____.

Language Focus

1. Listen to a conversation between a shop and a customer. What is the problem?

2. Use the words in the box to complete the conversation. There are three words in each space.

I you would ‘d like

SA: Next!C: (1) I’d like a chicken sandwich, please.SA: (2) Would you like wheat or white bread. Butter or margarine, mustard or mayonnaise, salt and pepper?C: (3) ____ … a chicken sandwich.SA: Yes, I know (4) ____ a chicken sandwich. But (5) ____ wheat bread or white bread, butter…C: STOP, STOP. Can you speak more slowly, please?SA: (6) ____ white or wheat bread?C: Er… whet bread, please.

SA: (7) ____ butter or margarine?C: Butter.SA: (8) ____ mustard or mayonnaise?C: Mayonnaise.SA: (9) ____ salt and pepper?C: No, thank you.SA: (10) ____ anything to drink?C: Anything to drink? What’s “anything to drink”?SA: Soda, orange juice, water…C: Ah, drink, drink- soda, orange juice, water. Yes, yes, I understand. No.SA: That’s four dollars… Next!

Speaking

1. Work with a partner. Match the phrases in column A with the situations in B.

2. Work with a partner. Complete the following task.

a) Choose one of the situations from column B in 1.b) Write a conversation like the one in Language Focus 2 above. Use phrases

from column A in 1.c) Act out your conversation for the rest of the class.

Unit 7 Looks Reading

1. Work with a partner. Read the information and label the photos

Word Focus

Language Focus

1. Complete the chart with words and phrases from page 42.

Hair length Hair style Hair color Eyes Other Opinion

Very short Wavy Brown Blue A gold chain Very pretty

2. Add the words and phrases from the box to the chart in 1.

Long straight a mustache green earrings glasses red a beard handsome black a tattoo good-looking a bracelet

1. Match the people on page 42 with the family relationships (a-d).

a) A father and his sonb) A mother and her sonc) A mother and her daughterd) A brother and sister

2. Write sentences to explain your ideas in 1. For example: I think Jem looks like Al. They have similar noses and both

have small ears

Language Focus

Word Focus


4. Write the questions with the words in the correct order.

a) Like who you do look ?b) Your does like look father Who ?c) Like look mother Who your does ?

1. Look at the photograph of Stuart. Check the items in the chart you can see.

Word Focus

Listening

2. Work with a partner. All the words for clothes in 1 are in the plural form. Copy and complete the chart.

1. Listen to an interview with Stuart and underline the correct information.

a) He has 35/ 50/ 350 shirts.b) He has 100/ 200/ 300 suits.

c) He has 50/ 115/ 150 pairs of pants.d) He has 25/ 100/ 125 pairs of shoes.

Sound Focus

Reading

1. Which magazines are popular in your country? Discuss with a partner.

2. Read the magazine quiz about the average American man. Do the quiz with a partner.

Reading

Word Focus

Listening

1. Listen to a commentator, Ross White, describing movie stars as they arrive for the Academy Awards ceremony. Write down the mistake in each picture.

Listening

Language Focus

2. Match the verb phrases in column A with the noun phrases in column B.

1. Work with a partner. Complete these Yes/No questions and short answers.

Speaking Personally

Choose someone you think is good-looking. It can be someone you know, or a famous person. You are going to tell your partner about him or her. Read and listen to the questions and think about your answers.

Unit 8 Ocean Word Focus

1. Rearrange the letters of the words in the box to make six water sports. Label the photographs.

Lasinig nigsruf hisginf nigvidbacus mimswing fudsigrwinn

Word Focus

Listening

2. Work in small groups. Discuss the questions.

1. Three people were interviewed about water sports. The time expressions in chart are wrong. Listen and complete the chart with the correct expressions.

Listening

2. Rewrite these two questions from the interview in the correct order. Ask your partner.

Reading

1. Read the article about Jack O’Neill, the founder of O’Neill sportswear. What is the meaning of the title of the article (a, b. or c) ?

a)Jack O’Neill never goes outside.b)Wetsuits keep you warm in cold water.c)California has a warm climate.

Reading

Sound Focus

2. Test your memory! Write down …

1. The regular verbs in the box come from the article on page 49. Say the simple past forms and decide if the –ed ending adds an extra syllable. Complete the chart.

Word Focus

1. Work with a partner. Complete the chart to show two ways of saying the same thing.

2.

Language Focus

1. Work with a partner. Look at the verbs in boxes A and B and answer the questions

2. Work with a partner. Write the simple past forms of these irregular verbs and practice saying them. Use the list of Irregular Verbs on page 80.

Sound Focus

1. For each group of verbs in Language Focus 2, circle the simple past form with a different vowel sound from the other two.

For example: a) went did sent


3. You are going to play Bingo.

Reading1. Read this story about British actor Richard E. Grant’s terrifying childhood experience. Are these sentences true or false?

Reading

Reading

Speaking Personally

2. Work with a partner. Use the time expressions in the box to complete the story in 1.

One day At first After a few hours Many years later Eventually Suddenly Two or three weeks later

1. You are going to listen to a woman talking about her last vacation. Listen and underline the answers she gives.

Unit 9 Solo Word Focus

1. Listen and practice saying the words in the box. Underline the stressed syllable. Check the words you know.

Angry bored embarrassed excited scared happy lonely nervous sad worried

Word Focus2. Work with a partner. Look at the photographs (a-f). Find a word or words in the box in 1 to describe the person’s feeling in each photograph. Use your dictionary.

Speaking

Reading 1

How do you feel in the situations described in the box? Discuss with your partner.

How do you feel ….

… in an exam? … when you see a baby?… in a traffic jam? … when you see a spider?… in a fast car? … when you speak English?… in a club or disco? …when you sing karaoke?… now?

Reading 2. Read Part 2 and find out what really happened to Andrew. Why did he leave the boat?

Listening

Word Focus

2 Listen to the interview with Debra again. Check the sentences in 1 that you know are true.

Speaking

Sound Focus

Language Focus

Language Focus

Reading

Writing

2 Think about somebody in your family who was born in the first half of the last century (1900-1950). Write a summary of their life using expressions in the box.

Continued

Unit 10 Review 2 Sound Focus

2 Listen, check and repeat the answers to 1.

Word Focus

1.

Word Focus

Word Focus

2. Listen and check your answers to 1. Then ask your partner the questions

Word Focus

Listening

1. You are going to listen to a conversation between the three people in the picture above. Who do you think says these statements (a-h)? Write R for Richard, E for Ella and A for the shop assistant.

2. Listen and check your answers to 1. Why does Richard say “Oh noooooo!” at the end?

Speaking

Reading1. Work with a partner. Read this summary of the life of a famous American. Put the verbs in parentheses into the simple past. Who was he?

Reading

Reading

Speaking

2. Do you think he was a lucky man? Discuss with a partner.

3. What facts do you know about the lives of other famous politicians? Discuss with a partner.

Speaking Personally

1. You are going to listen to a woman talking about the last time she had a delicious meal. Read the questions and listen. Underline the answers she gives.

Speaking Personally

2. Think about the last time you had a really delicious meal. You are going to tell your partner about it. Read the questions and sentence beginnings in 1 again and think about what to say and how to say it.

3. Tell your partner about the last time you had a really delicious meal.

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