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Global English
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Chris Barker and Libby Mitchell

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Sample Welcome to Cambridge Global English Stage 7

Cambridge Global English is an eight-stage course for learners of English as a
Second Language (ESL). The eight stages range from the beginning of primary
(Stages 1-6) to the end of the first two years of junior secondary (Stages 7–8).
It is ideal for all international ESL learners, and particularly for those following
the Cambridge Primary/Secondary English as a Second Language Curriculum
Framework, as it has been written to adhere to this framework. It presents
realistic listening, speaking, reading and writing tasks, as well as end-of-unit
projects similar to those students might encounter in the context of a first-
language school. The course is organised into eighteen thematic units of study
based on the Cambridge International English Scheme of Work for Stage 7.
After every other unit, there is a literature spread, featuring authentic prose,
poetry, plays and songs from a variety of sources.

Cambridge Global English materials are aligned with the Common European
Framework of Reference. The materials reflect the following principles:
● An international focus. Specifically developed for young learners

throughout the world, the topics and situations in Cambridge Global
English have been selected to reflect this diversity and encourage learning
about each other’s lives through the medium of English.
● A cross-curricular, language-rich approach to learning. Cambridge
Global English engages learners actively and creatively. At the same time
as participating in a range of curriculum-based activities, they practise
English language and literacy and develop critical thinking skills.
● English for educational success. To meet the challenges of the future,
learners will need to develop facility with both conversational and
more formal English. From the earliest stage, Cambridge Global English
addresses both these competencies. Emphasis is placed on developing
the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills learners will need to be
successful in using English-language classroom materials.

In addition to this Coursebook, Cambridge Global English Workbook 7 provides
supplementary support and practice. Comprehensive support for teachers is
available in Cambridge Global English Teacher’s Resource 7.

We hope that learners and teachers enjoy using Cambridge Global English
Stage 7 as much as we have enjoyed writing it.

Chris Barker and Libby Mitchell

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Contents

Reading/Topic Listening/Speaking Use of English Vocabulary Writing
Modals: should, A paragraph about
Unit 1 Customs of meeting and Listening Greetings and ways
Meeting and greeting Responding to social scenarios with an can, could, may of greeting (nod meeting and
greeting your head, shake greeting people
Special greetings and appropriate expression Present perfect hands) in your culture
Project social expressions Customs associated with gift-giving in for situations
continuing up to Social expressions
Unit 2 A quiz on social customs India now (Congratulations!,
Personal identity and politeness Speaking Have a nice
Greet people formally and informally Apostrophes ’s weekend.)
Project Gift-giving and famous Talk about ways of greeting and s’
Fiction gifts in history Make up and roleplay dialogues using
Review Phrasal verbs (shop
special greetings and social expressions for, try on)
Unit 3 Talk about gift-giving
Clothing and Present passive,
accessories Write a guide to social customs in your country including modals
with passive
Project Life at school Listening (it can be worn Family A description of
First impressions: the A conversation between two students with ... ) your family
Unit 4
Outdoor pursuits first few weeks at doing a class survey Present perfect A profile of the
secondary school Speaking with ever oldest person in
Project A scientific approach to Ask and answer questions in a class survey your family
Poetry and song family history Ask and answer questions about family Expressing the
Review future
members -ing forms as
Unit 5 Sample subjects, objects
Transport Write a report about your impressions of school so far this term and after a
systems Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai preposition
Review of Units 1–2
Project Past simple passive
Clothes and fashion Listening (with by) Clothes and parts A paragraph about
The clothes and Clothes from around the world of clothes (sleeve, your attitudes
Adverts for accessories wish (that) + past button) to clothes and
accessories of the Speaking simple fashion
ancient Egyptians Give your views on clothes and fashion Materials (cotton,
An advert for an Give your views on accessories gold) A paragraph about
accessory Talk about clothes from around the world a traditional item
of clothing

Prepare and give a presentation of a product

Outdoor sports and Listening Outdoor pursuits Sentences about
activities in New A conversation about an adventure Outdoor survival what you like
Zealand skills doing and are
holiday good at
An article in a travel Information about a school trip
magazine Speaking
Describe sports and outdoor pursuits
Messages and other Ask and answer about experiences (Have
documents relating to a
holiday you ever ... ?)
Talk about what you’ll be doing at a
Activity holidays
School trips certain time

Planning a school trip
Postcard from School Camp by Richard Caley, Forty Years on an Iceberg
Review of Units 3–4

An article about transport Listening Types of transport An account of
systems around the An account of the first hot-air balloon and words related the first hot-air
world to transport balloon flights
flights (passenger, fare)
A brief history of public A discussion about road safety A‘wish list’for
transport Speaking Traditional and your school
Describe types of transport historic means
Road signs and road Talk about the advantages of different of transport (raft,
safety locomotive)
kinds of transport
Traffic signs

Preparing and presenting a plan for improving travel to and from school

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Reading/Topic Listening/Speaking Use of English Vocabulary Writing

Unit 6 Street maps and Listening Prepositions to do Places and Write down
Using maps transport maps A phone conversation about finding your with travel (on the buildings in a the details
subway, get on/off) town or city of a phone
Project Map reading way in a city conversation
Fiction A newspaper report of a A phone conversation about travelling on Comparative Symbols and places
Review adjectives using on a map
mountain rescue the subway/metro much ... than and
Unit 7 A radio news report of a mountain rescue (not) as ... as
Health, food Speaking
and exercise Role play a conversation about finding Past continuous,
including passive
Project your way and travelling in a city form

Unit 8 Write a newspaper article about a rescue operation
All living things The Dream from One Thousand and One Nights
Review of Units 5–6
Project
Fiction A balanced diet Listening Quantifiers with Food Write questions
Review An information leaflet on A nutritionist answering questions about countable and The science of about routine,
uncountable food and
Unit 9 healthy eating diet and health nouns (a few, a food (protein, exercise
World records A leaflet on what the Speaking little) carbohydrates)
Talking about a balanced diet Scientific words
Project brain needs to work Ask and answer about diet, exercise and Adjectives and related to diet
well adverbs and healthy
Unit 10 A magazine article about routine living (oxygen,
Parts and the diet and training of Comparatives of dehydration)
percentages Kenyan long-distance adverbs
runners
Project Position of adverbs
Fiction of frequency
Review Sample
Plan a menu

Animal groups Listening so am I, so do I Characteristics of Questions about
Descriptions of the Listen to and follow information about Relative clauses different types of animals
animal
characteristics of animals with which as a
animals from different Speaking subject pronoun Physical
groups Answer questions about animals characteristics
Family resemblances Talk about who you look like and take (curly hair)
Inherited
characteristics after in your family
A magazine article and a Talk about interests, abilities and inherited
fact file about the world
of the polar bear and characteristics
habitat shift

Write a fact file about bears in the wild
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Review of Units 7–8

An illustrated history of Listening Past perfect Words relating Write an account
the ancient Olympics A profile of a Paralympic athlete Pronouns everyone, to the Olympic giving your
Speaking Games impressions of a
Spectators’comments on Talk about the similarities and differences anyone, no one, sporting event
the Paralympics everything,
between the ancient Olympics and the anything, nothing
A profile of an athlete modern Olympics Comparatives and
A world records quiz Ask and answer questions about an athlete superlatives of
Take part in a world records quiz adverbs

Write a biography of an athlete

The language of Maths Listening Place names and Mathematical Write examples
A numbers quiz Follow instructions in number games buildings with words (add, of places,
The golden ratio Speaking and without the subtract) buildings and
and how it works Solve maths puzzles geographical
A class survey Discuss the golden ratio Part and Geometric shapes features
Talk about places and buildings (It’s a lake percentages: (pyramid,
expressions of rectangle) Rewrite parts and
/ a famous building in ...) quantity followed percentages in
Do a class survey by of words
and discuss the results

Design and carry out a survey
To Give by Vimal Shinagadia
Review of Units 9–10

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Unit 11 Reading/Topic Listening/Speaking Use of English Vocabulary Writing
Holidays and
places to stay Types of holiday Listening Compound nouns Types of holiday Write text
Holiday plans and Holiday plans (water sports, day and holiday messages as if at
Speaking trip) accommodation an airport
experiences Talk about holidays
Text messages to do with Report what someone said in a text Verbs followed by Sports facilities and Write questions
the -ing form holiday activities about holidays
travel message
Airports Ask and answer questions about holidays. Reported speech: Features of the Write a postcard
School exchanges statements and landscape from a holiday
Report your conversation. questions destination
Airport signs

Project Plan a special holiday treat for a friend or for a member of your family

Unit 12 The weather Listening Present simple The weather Write a weather
Climate and the Global warming and A weather forecast active and passive Collocations to do forecast for a
environment A science programme explaining thunder in scientific particular area
extreme weather writing with the weather
Project A magazine article about and lightning (heavy rain, A paragraph about
Fiction Speaking strong winds) how you learn
Review a zero-carbon city Give a weather forecast Extreme weather best
Talk about the causes of thunder and Scientific and
Unit 13 technical words A paragraph
In and out lightning to do with the about where you
of school Give your views on cities of the future environment and would like to live
renewable energy in the future
Project Sample (natural resources,
Find out about an eco house and give a presentation solar energy)
Unit 14 Rain Falls Down by Margot Henderson; Your Dresses by Carol Ann Duffy
Local community Review of Units 11–12 Aspects of school:
classroom
Project Education and learning Listening Prepositions interaction,
Poetry styles A parent talking to a headteacher about followed by timetable,
Review the -ing form subjects, facilities,
A website forum about aspects of a school (by comparing, after-school
talking in class Speaking instead of activities
Give your views on talking in class interrupting)
An excerpt from a school Discuss what helps you to learn Shops and services
prospectus Compare your school Verbs followed Adjectives to
with a free school by the infinitive
International penpals Talk about what you have in common with with to describe town
A letter from a penpal and country
a penpal (quiet, crowded;
traf c, pollution)
Write a letter to a penpal

Shops and services Listening to have something
Town and country Young people talking about what they do done
You and your community Second
A multiple-choice test to help in their community conditional
Speaking
about how responsible Talk about shops and services (if clauses to
you are Talk about whether you’d like to live in the describe
imaginary
town or the country situations)
Compare your answers to a multiple-

choice test

Prepare and give a presentation about how to improve your local area
In Daylight Strange by Alan Brownjohn
Review Units 13–14

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Unit 15 Reading/Topic Listening/Speaking Use of English Vocabulary Writing
Settling America Words connected Write questions
The first Americans Listening Abstract nouns
Project The pioneer families A story from the wagon train (independence, with the settling about pioneer
Stories from the Speaking hope) of America families and
Unit 16 Talk about the important things in life (settlers, pioneers) their journey
e Silk Road American West Compound nouns west across
Rachel’s Journal, an (wagon train, log America
Project
Poetry American girl’s diary cabin) Complete a
Review from 1850 Expressing the summary of a
story
Unit 17 past (revision of
Festivals around present perfect, An account of
the world past simple and how you and
past continuous) your family
Project celebrate New
Write a diary entry as if from a wagon train in the 1850s Year
Unit 18
Using English The Silk Road Listening Participles used as Positive and An account of a
A traditional story from A description of the journey along the Silk adjectives (bored, negative festival in your
Project boring) adjectives country
Review Uzbekistan Road and adverbs
The conclusion of the story A Rainbow so and such to add (beautiful, A newspaper story
emphasis disappointed, to appear on
in Silk brightly, April Fools’ Day
Speaking anxiously)
Describe the journey along the Silk Road Write an account
Talk about goods that are imported and of a play you’ve
been in or about
exported the role you
Ask and answer questions about a story would like to
Compare two versions of a story have in a play
Sample
Creative writing: Write the conclusion to a story
Akbar and Birbal, traditional stories
Review of Units 15–16

Festivals Listening Prepositional Words connected
NewYear celebrations A description of NewYear traditions and phrases (in with celebrations
An account of three January, at (festivities,
celebrations midnight) reworks)
festivals: Diwali, Eid Accounts of fun days (April Fools’Days)
al-Fitr, Maslenitsa Compound
April Fools’Day around the world adjectives
Speaking (brightly-coloured)
Ask and answer questions about Chinese

New Year
Talk about three festivals
Talk about fun days and festivals

Create an information poster about a festival

The theatre Listening like and as to say The theatre (actor,
Performing in a play The conclusion of the story of Aladdin that things are stage)
The story of Aladdin Speaking similar
Talk about being in a play Words from the
Give an opinion of a story Reported speech: story of Aladdin
commands (sorcerer, genie)

Write and perform a play, based on the story of Aladdin
Review of Units 17–18

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1 Meeting and greeting

● Topics Customs of meeting and greeting; special greetings and
social expressions (Have a good weekend); gift-giving and famous
gifts in history

● Use of English Modals: should, can, could, may

How do you say hello?

● Do you know any words for hello and goodbye in other languages?

Speaking

1 Work with a partner. Which of the following phrases are for friends

and family? Which would you use with your teachers?
Sample
Hello Did you know?Good morningHiIn the UK, when someone
How are you? All right? See you asks, ‘How are you?’ people
How’s it going? Goodbye Bye often reply, ‘I’m fine,
Good afternoon How are things? thanks’, or ‘I’m very well,
thank you’. In other words,
Reading and listening 2 people always pretend to be
OK even if they’re not. You
2 Read about how people greet each other and guess can only break this rule with
a really good friend. Is this
which country they come from. Then listen and check. true in your culture?

Argentina Thailand Singapore India

1 I’m from . When we meet 3 In , close friends and family
members hug when they meet, but they
someone for the rst time, we usually do not kiss. You only kiss babies and
very young children.
nod our heads and smile. In formal
4 In , we don’t hug or kiss each
situations, we shake hands. other when we meet. We greet friends and
colleagues with ‘wai’. Wai is a gesture. You
2 In , women give one kiss on put your hands together and bow your
the cheek when they greet friends and head. The tips of your thumbs should touch
family. In formal situations, people your chin for a friend and your nose for
shake hands. someone older than you. However, today
younger people usually wave and even hug.

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Meeting and greeting

Vocabulary A collocation is a

3 Complete these collocations. They are all in the text. group of words
Sample which often
1 to nod your head Language tip occur together;
2 to s hands with someone for example:
3 to put your
4 to bow your together Good morning,
See you soon,
5 to give someone a on the cheek Take care.

4 Match the words and phrases from the text with their meanings.

1 formal a people you work with
2 cheek b a movement of the hand, arms or head to express
3 to hug
4 colleagues something
5 gesture c the side of your face
6 tip d to move your hand when saying hello or goodbye
7 to wave e following social customs and accepted ways of behaving
f to put your arms round someone
g the narrow or pointed end of something

Speaking Writing

5 Work with a partner. Answer these 6 Use your answers to the questions in

questions about meeting and greeting in Exercise 5 to write a paragraph about
your culture. meeting and greeting in your culture.

1 What do you do when you meet someone of When we meet someone of our own age for
your own age for the first time? the first time, we

2 What do you do when you meet an adult for
the first time?

3 How do you greet family members and close
friends?

Speaking

7 Look at these pictures of people greeting each other.

Describe them and say where you think they were taken.

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What should you say? What should you do?

● Are you good in social situations? Can you always think of the right thing to say?

Reading

1 Answer the questions in the quiz. Then compare your answers with a partner.

Are you a good guest?

You’re visiting a friend’s family in another country.
What would you say in each situation?

1 You want to know whether Sample4 Your friend’s parents are
to take your shoes o before in the kitchen preparing
you go into the house. a meal.
a) Should I take my shoes a) I’m really hungry!
o? b) Need any help?
b) I don’t need to take my c) Can I help you?
shoes o , do I?
c) Do you want me to take my shoes o ? 5 You’re having dinner and you
want the salt, but you can’t
2 Your mobile phone has run out reach it.
of credit and you want to use a) Pass the salt.
the landline. b) May I have the salt, please?
a) I need to make a phone call. c) Can you pass the salt?
Where’s the phone?
b) Could I use the phone, please? 6 Your friend’s coughing and
c) Can I use the phone? can’t stop.
a) Would you like
3 You are about to have a glass of water?
dinner, but you’re not b) You should drink
sure where to sit. some water.
a) Where would you c) Be quiet!
like me to sit?
b) Where should I sit?
c) I’ll sit here, shall I?

Scoring Analysis
6–9 Perhaps you should have stayed at home.
Work out your score. 10–13 You’re ne.
1 a3 b1 c2 14–18 Well done! You’ll de nitely get another invitation!
2 a1 b3 c2
3 a3 b2 c1
4 a1 b2 c3
5 a1 b3 c2
6 a3 b2 c1

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1 Meeting and greeting

Use of English: Modals

Modal verbs are ‘auxiliary’ verbs like shall, should, can, could, will, would, may, might. We use them
before main verbs, for example, when asking for advice or permission.

Asking for and giving advice Offering to do something
Should I take off my shoes? Can I help you?
You should drink some water.
Requests
Permission Can you pass the salt?
Can I use the phone? May I have the salt, please?
Could I use the phone, please?

Note: could and may are more formal than can.

2 Complete the conversations using modal verbs. There may be more than one possibility.

A Have you got everything you need? B I feel quite tired after the journey. I can’t keep
SampleB I’m sorry, but I’ve forgotten my towel.
my eyes open!
A (Give advice.)
(Ask to borrow one.) A Do you want to get anything to take home?

May / Could / Can I borrow one?

A Did you have anything to eat on the journey? B Yes, I’d like to buy a present for my parents.
B Well, not much.
A (Offer to make a sandwich.) (Ask for advice.)

A Do you want to let your parents know you’ve
arrived safely?

B Yes, please. (Ask to use the computer to send an
email.)

Listening 3

3 Read these expressions. What are they in your language?

Congratulations! Goodnight, sleep well. Well done!
Happy NewYear! Have a good holiday. Have a good weekend.
Nice to meet you. See you later. Welcome to

4 Listen to the scenarios and respond with an appropriate expression

from Exercise 3.

Speaking

5 Work in pairs. Make up and roleplay five short dialogues, like the ones

you’ve just heard. In each dialogue, include one of the expressions
from the box in Exercise 3.

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It’s better to give than to receive

● Look at the pictures. What can you say about each one?

Reading a

Famous gifts in history b

1 The Greeks and the Trojans had been at c
war for ten years. To bring the war to an
end, the Greeks had a brilliant idea. They
built a wooden horse and left it at the gates
of Troy as a gift for the Trojans. The Greeks
sailed away. The Trojans pulled the horse
into their city as a victory trophy, but they
didn’t know that there were Greek soldiers
hiding inside the horse. During the night,
the soldiers got out of the horse and opened
the city gates for the rest of the Greek army,
which had sailed back to Troy during the
night. …
Sample
2 The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the United States of America from d
the people of France in 1886. It was given to celebrate the centenary
of the American Declaration of Independence (4th July 1776). The
statue, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi, is of a woman holding a torch.
The statue itself is over 46 metres tall. …

3 The Rothschild Fabergé Egg was a gift from Beatrice Ephrussi
to Germaine Halphen, when she became engaged to Beatrice’s
younger brother, Baron Edouard de Rothschild, in Paris in 1902. The
egg is made of pink enamel and gold; on the front is a clock. Every
hour, a cockerel set with diamonds pops up from inside the egg, flaps
his wings four times and then nods his head three times. It remained
in the Rothschild collection for over a hundred years. …

4 China’s use of giant pandas as diplomatic gifts has a long history,
dating from the seventh-century Tang Dynasty, when Empress Wu
Zetian sent a pair of pandas to the Japanese emperor. From 1958 to
1982, China gave 23 pandas to nine different countries. …

1 Answer the questions.

1 Which picture goes with each piece of text?
2 What do the gifts in pictures b and d have in common?
3 What do the gifts in pictures a, b and c have in common?
4 Which gift was not really a gift?

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1 Meeting and greeting

2 Choose the correct sentence to LanguageSample tipWhen you read, you can get a general idea
of what a text is about, but you might not
complete each paragraph on page 12. understand every word. Try to work out
a There is a broken chain at her feet. the meaning of unfamiliar words from their
b In 2007, the family sold it for context; for example, ‘gift’. The article is called
‘Famous gifts in history’ and it’s about things
18.5 million US dollars. that people have given to each other on
c They were hugely popular and were special occasions. So a gift is something that
you give on a special occasion. If you can’t
an enormous diplomatic success. work out the meaning, use a dictionary.
d They entered the city and destroyed

it, bringing the war to an end.

Listening 4

3 Listen to two people talking on a radio programme.

What are they talking about? Which country do they mention?

4 Listen again and answer the questions. 5 Is there anything you should remember
when giving money?
1 What should you take when you visit friends
and family? 6 What do you give to close friends and family?
7 When do you open your gifts?
2 Should you be careful when giving flowers? 8 When do you exchange gifts?
Why?

3 How should you wrap your gifts?
4 When is money a suitable present?

Speaking

5 Work with a partner. Ask and answer the questions in Exercise 4

with reference to gift-giving in your country.

Project: A guide to social customs

6 Design and write a guide to social customs for an exchange student

visiting your school.

● Work in groups. First discuss the following questions and write down all your ideas.
1 What do you do when you meet someone for the first time? Are there different customs for

greeting people of different ages?

When you greet an older person, for example a grandparent, you
When you meet an adult, you smile and shake hands. You shouldn’t
2 How should children address their teachers? They should call them
3 What do visitors need to know about gifts? When you visit someone, you can take

● Now plan your guide. Decide which ideas you’re going to use.

● Decide who is going to write each section.

● Design and write your guide.

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2 Personal identity

● Topics Life at school; describing someone in your family; family
history

● Use of English The present perfect for situations continuing up to
now; apostrophes ’s and s’

So far, so good SampleFirst impressions

● What are the main differences Blog spot
between your secondary school
and your primary school? Posted by: Shamira, Year 7
Think about the subjects you My first few weeks at
do, the school day, the size of secondary school have been
the school, the classrooms and really fun! I’ve made loads of
activities outside lessons. new friends and I’ve also met
up with some old friends that
Reading I haven’t seen for a while, so
that’s been good. At first, it
1 A teacher has asked new was hard to find all my
classes – I kept getting lost and one teacher told
students to describe their me off because I was ten minutes late for her
first few weeks at secondary lesson. Now I know my way around. The teachers
school. Read what two of have been really kind and the lessons aren’t too
them said. Are they mostly difficult. We haven’t had much homework yet, but
positive or negative about I’m sure we’ll get more after half-term. Anyway, so
their new school? far, so good!

2 Answer the questions. Posted by: Sunil, Year 7
On my first day here I was a
1 How long have Shamira and bit nervous, but after a few
Sunil been at their new school? hours I was fine. The first few
weeks have been really good.
2 What problems have they had? I’ve enjoyed learning new
3 What do they say about subjects and making new
friends. My favourite subject
friends? is Science. It’s fun learning in
4 What does Shamira think may a lab! I’ve joined the school
orchestra. I play the drums. It’s great. We’re
happen after half-term? doing a concert at the end of term.
5 What do you think Shamira

means by ‘so far, so good’?
6 Which activity does Sunil do

outside lessons?

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Personal identity

Listening 5 Class survey

3 Before you listen, read the This term …

questions in the survey. 1 Which subjects have you 6 Have you done any
Who do you think wrote the
survey? Who is going to enjoyed most? after-school activities?
answer it?
2 Which subjects have you 7 Which sports have you
4 Listen to Shamira and Sunil
enjoyed least? played?
doing the survey. Have they
done well at school this term? 3 What have you done in 8 Have you been in

5 How did Shamira and Sunil Science? trouble? And what for?

answer each question? Listen 4 What have you done in 9 Has the headteacher
again.
History? spoken to you?

5 Have you had good 10 Have you enjoyed this

marks in all subjects? term so far?

Use of English: Present perfect simpleSample
Language tip
Present perfect simple Remember

We use the present perfect to talk about We use the past simple to talk about
situations continuing up to the present. situations which have ended.

Which subjects have you enjoyed this term? Which subjects did you enjoy last term?

I’ve enjoyed Science. I enjoyed Maths.

Has the headteacher spoken to you? We also use the present
perfect when we don’t

6 Complete the sentences using the present perfect of specify a past time.

the verb in brackets. What have you done in
Science?
1 I’ve made a lot of new friends this term. (make)
2 I think we We’ve done the human
too much science homework this body.

term. (have) new subjects like Technology and Design.
3I

(enjoy) any matches yet. (not
4 I’m in the football team, but we

play) in trouble with the headteacher. (be)
5 My friend the science labs? They’re great! (see)
6 you

Speaking

7 With a partner, ask and answer the questions in the class survey.

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You and your family

● What do you know about your grandparents’ early lives? Do you know
anything about your great-grandparents?

Great-grandparents?

Sample How many cousins
How much do you know about have I got?
your family?

1 What are your grandparents’ first names?

2 Where were your parents born?

3 How many brothers and sisters did your
grandparents have?

4 Where were your great-grandparents born?

5 What is your father’s date of birth?

6 How many aunts and uncles have you got?
What are their full names?

7 How many cousins have you got? Can you
name them all?

8 Have you got any relatives you’ve never met?

9 Have any members of your family emigrated to
other countries? Who, and where?

10 Are there twins in your family? If so, are they
identical?

OK, I’ll pretend to be you
and you can pretend to

be me.

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2 Personal identity

Vocabulary

1 Look at the questions in the quiz on page 16. Find the words for:

1 mother and father parents 4 your aunt and uncle’s children
2 your parents’parents 5 people from the same family
3 your uncle’s wife 6 brothers and sisters of exactly the same age

Speaking

2 With a partner, ask and answer the questions in the quiz. Which ones

are hard to answer? Is there any way you can find out the missing information?

Use of English: Apostrophes ’s and s’

Notice the difference between apostrophe s (’s) and s apostrophe (s’):

● apostrophe s (’s) shows that something belongs to one person or one thing

● s apostrophe (s’) shows that something belongs to more than one person or thing.

What is your father’s date of birth? = What is the date of birth of your father?
What are your grandparents’ first names? = What are the first names of your grandparents?

Why is the apostrophe before the s in the first sentence and after the s in the second
sentence?
Sample
3 Put the apostrophes in the right position in these sentences.

1 My cousins name is Su-Wei. cousin’s 4 The twins hair is not the same colour as their
fathers hair.
2 My grandmothers name is Aisha.
3 When I was young I lived very near my 5 My fathers brothers live in Jakarta.
6 I enjoy finding out about other peoples
grandparents house.

family histories.

Writing My grandmother’s name was Alicia and
I’m named after her. She was my father’s
4 Read this description of a family. Then mother. My father has got two brothers
and two sisters and my mother has got
answer the questions. three brothers and a sister. I’ve got more
1 What’s the name of the person who wrote it? than twenty cousins. I’ve met most of
2 How many aunts and uncles has she got? them, but not all of them. Two of my cousins
3 Who are Rosa and Natalia? are about the same age as me. Their names
are Rosa and Natalia. I get on very well with
5 Use the description in Exercise 4 to write a them. We have a lot of fun when we get
together at their house.
similar description of your own family.

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Family history Did you know? DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)
is the hereditary material in
● How do people find out about their family history? humans and in almost all
other living things. DNA is
Reading and speaking in the nucleus of the cells. It
contains genetic information
1 Look at the map and read the article to find out about a and instructions. What is
DNA in your language?
scientific approach to family history. What does the map
show?

A remarkable journey

“I’m from Poland and my parents, grandparents
and great-grandparents are Polish too. It was really
interesting to find out that my family history starts
in Africa. The DNA test showed that, over time,
my ancestors travelled from Africa to north-eastern
Europe. They were part of a group which also travelled
as far east as India and Pakistan. I had no idea! This has
helped me understand one simple thing: we are all one
big family!” Luiza
“I was amazed to find out that my ancestors travelled
through eastern Europe on their way to India, where I
was born. Suddenly I felt connected with countries like
Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic. Before this,
they were only names on a map to me.” Raju
Sample
2 Find these words in the text. Choose the correct meaning.

1 remarkable a long and difficult b very unusual in a way that you admire
2 ancestors a important people in history b people in your family a long time ago
3 amazed a confused b very surprised
4 connected with a distant from b joined to

3 Answer the questions.

1 On the map, which is Luiza’s ancestors’ 3 What nationality is Raju?
route? Which is Raju’s? 4 What surprised Luiza and Raju about their

2 Have Luiza’s family lived in Poland for a long ancestors?
time? How do you know? 5 What can your DNA tell you about your family?

4 Work in pairs. Ask and answer these questions.

1 What do you know about your family 3 Are you named after anyone in your family?
history? 4 Who is the oldest person in your family? Tell

2 Has your family always lived in the same me about him / her.
area?

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2 Personal identity

5 Read Cecilia’s profile of her The oldest person in my family is my great-grandmother.
She’s my father’s grandmother. Her name is Giulia. She’s 96
great-grandmother. Look at the and she was born in Naples, in Italy. She had seven brothers
second sentence: She’s my father’s and sisters.
grandmother. What does the first When she was 18, she emigrated to
apostrophe show? What does Argentina with two of her brothers.
the second apostrophe show? She’s lived here for 78 years and she’s
never been back to Italy, but she still
Writing speaks Spanish with an Italian accent!
I’ve got some cousins and other relatives
6 Write a profile of the oldest who live in Italy. I haven’t met them, but
I’d love to meet them one day.
person in your family. Use Cecilia, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cecilia’s profile to help you.
Check what you’ve written.
Make sure you have used the
apostrophes correctly.
LanguageSamptiple
Project: A report for your When you’re writing about people,
school magazine or website you can join sentences together by
using who:
7 Write a report for your school magazine or
I’ve got some cousins and other
website about your impressions of school so relatives. They live in Italy.
far this term. Use the plan below to help you.
Illustrate your report with photos and drawings I’ve got some cousins and other
relatives who live in Italy.

Paragraph 1 So far this term has been … Paragraph 3
General impresssion On my first day, … After-school activities I’ve joined … /
The first few days At first, …
I’ve played …
Paragraph 2 My favourite subject is … Paragraph 4
School subjects It’s fun (learning / doing ) … Conclusion I’ve enjoyed science lessons
and homework In Science / History, we’ve …
We’ve had quite a lot of and I’ve enjoyed doing
homework in … , but not Drama.
much in … I’ve made some new friends
here.
So far, so good!

Stage 1 Write your report. Stage 3 Check your spelling and
Stage 2 Read your report and check your Stage 4 punctuation.
grammar. Have you used the present Write a final version of your
perfect correctly? report.

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SampleFiction

1 Do you like humorous books or do you prefer serious ones? Give

some examples of books you’ve enjoyed.

2 Read the introduction and the extract. Do you think Hullabaloo in the

Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai is a humorous book or a serious book?

The story is set in Shahkot, a small town in India. It’s about a boy called
Sampath. His father, Mr Chawla, has ambitions for him and wants him
to do well in life. But Sampath is not interested in having a job and
getting married. He’s a dreamer.
The following scene takes place in the morning. Sampath has taken a
long time over his breakfast; he has been watching a fly on some fruit.
Sampath’s grandmother, Ammaji, is busy preparing lunch boxes for
Sampath and his father to take to work.

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

“Phoo!” Mr Chawla snorted. “Progress! Ever since he was born, this boy has
been progressing steadily in the wrong direction. Instead of trying to work his
way upwards, he started on a downward climb and now he is almost as close to
the bottom as he could ever be.”

“But the world is round,” said Ammaji, pleased by her own cleverness. “Wait
and see! Even if it appears he is going down hill, he will come up out on the
other side. Yes, on top of the world. He is just taking the longer route.”

“He is not taking any route, I tell you. He has missed the route altogether.
He is just sitting by the side playing with flies.” Mr Chawla turned back to
Sampath, who had closed his eyes, imagining a long and peaceful sleep in a
cool dark place. “Come on,” his father urged him. “Get ready for work. It’s
nine o’clock. Why are you still sitting here like a potato?” He twitched with
impatience. “What is the matter with this family? I am the only one with
any sense of responsibility, any idea of the way things work in this world. If it
wasn’t for me, Sampath would be sitting in a special museum for people who
are a cross between potatoes and human beings.” In the tone of a tour guide,
he intoned: “Watch how this peculiar vegetable spends its day.” And, to show
just what he thought of the way this peculiar vegetable spent its day, he picked
up his lunch box and marched, each footstep firm and loud, down the stairs on
his way to work.

From Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
by Kiran Desai, Faber & Faber, 1998

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3 Match the words and phrases to their definitions.

1 snorted a containing the qualities of two different things
2 steadily b a person who shows tourists interesting places and things
3 urged c made a loud noise by forcing air out through the nose, like a horse
4 twitched d made a sudden short nervous movement
5 a cross between e said slowly and clearly without changing his tone of voice
6 tone f slowly and gradually
7 tour guide g strange, unusual, often in a bad way
8 intoned h walked like a soldier
9 peculiar i the quality of a sound, especially someone’s voice
10 marched j strongly advised

4 Answer the questions.

1 Why is Mr Chawla impatient with Sampath this morning?
2 Where is Mr Chawla going?
3 Why does Sampath close his eyes?
4 How would you describe Mr Chawla’s attitude to Sampath?
5 How would you describe Ammaji’s attitude to Sampath?
6 What impression do we get of Sampath?
7 Give two examples of how the writer uses humour in this extract.
Sample
Discussion

5 Work in groups. Discuss these questions.

Do you know anyone like
Mr Chawla, Sampath or Ammaji?
How are they similar? How are
they different?

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