Active Learn-Cambridge English CEFR Level B1/B2

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Unit 1

Activity 1:
1.1: Beijing duck, Dazhaxie and Sichuan hot pot.
2.1: China-dim sum, India-curry, United Kingdom-fish and chips, ltaly-pasta, Canada-
maple syrup, Mexico-black bean salad
Activity 2:
3: 4
4.1: It means that something that one person likes may not be liked by someone else.
Activity 3:
1: a-5 b-1 c-4 d-3 e-2
2: dare not; needn’t; have to; be able to; aren’t able to; had better
3: have to; dare not; had better; needn’t; be able to
4: c a d b
7: a salad without dressing, a glass of water
8: fat, chemicals, amount, soft drinks, taste, harmful
Activity 4:
3.1: Gong Bao Chicken was originally a family dish of Ding Baozhen, a high-ranking court
official of the Qing Dynasty.
3.2: The two main parts of a recipe are the ingredients and the instructions.

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Unit 2

Activity 1:

1.1: It’s about an American family welcoming Grandpa and exchanging
presents with him

Activity 2:

2.2: The son wants to have a career in music after graduating from senior high
school, while his father wants him to go to university and become a lawyer

4: Setting 1 a table and two chairs; Characters; Plot, 2 focus on his band 3 have a
career in music (when he leaves school) 4 go to university 5 be a lawyer 6 are
respected by others 7 play music 8 have two options for his future

Activity 3:

1: d-E a-D e-C c-B b-A

2: has, called, will throw/ are going to throw, will give/ am going to give, likes, am
thinking of, will love, have, finished

4.1: He was quite thin and pale. He had red, bushy hair and a square jaw.

4.2: She looks almost the same as she did ten years ago, with smooth skin and
straight black hair, because jogging has kept her slim and fit.

4.3: Her hair has got a lot longer and she wears it in a ponytail. She also has
freckles on her cheeks now.

Activity 4:

1: b d f

2: school play, off sick, tired and pale, relax, countryside, picnic, catch up

5.1: A photo

5.2: The author wanted to surprise her mother with home-made scrambled eggs

on her mother’s birthday. Unluckily, the eggs were burnt, but they ended up

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5.3: Because it shows the love between the author and her mother.

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Unit 3

Pen drive Mouse Microwave 3D Glasses Camera

Memory Loudspeaker MP3 Player Computer Television
card

Headphones Printer Joystick GPS
Stereo

Video
Web Camera Steering Wheel Camera Mobile Phone Wristwatch

Scanner Gameboy CD Player Gamepad E-Book

Radio Fax Machine PDA Laptop Mixer

Cordless PhoneKeyboard Tablet Bluetooth
Headset Dictaphone

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Household Appliances Answers
Unit 3
Freezer
Cooker Functions
Dishwasher You wash clothes in it
Iron You bake food in it
Refrigerator You press clothes flat and remove
Dryer wrinkles in it
Toaster You wash your dishes in it
Washing Machine You heat food with it using energy
Vacuum Cleaner waves
Microwave You dry clothes with it
Oven You keep food cold with it
You heat pots and pans on it
You toast food with it
You clean the floor with it
You keep food frozen with it

1. Refrigerator
2. Toaster
3. Cooker
4. Dryer
5. Vacuum cleaner
6. Toaster
7. Oven
8. Freezer
9. Dish washer

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Unit 3

The Future of Electronic Books
Task A:
1. Students
2. E-books
3. Readers
4. Book
5. Traditional books
6. E-books

Task B:
1. Expensive
2. Wholesale
3. Few
4. Upload
5. Nobody
6. Minority

Task C:
1. Traditional books are heavy, unlike e-books
2. Directly from the internet
3. E-books can be viewed on a computer screen or using a

book reader. About the size of a large trade paperback,
these handheld e-book readers have high-resolution,
easy-to-read screens, and a computer or telephone
connector to obtain files. Better yet, they have enough
memory to store many book files at once.
4. you start slowly and carefully doing something that you
have not done before, because you are not sure if you will
like it or if it will be successful
5. Yes. ‘you can try-before-you-buy’

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Unit 3

Vocabulary
1. enjoying a certain activity, a lot and spending as much time as possible

doing it
2. a way in which two or more people behave towards each other
3. a low humming or murmuring sound
4. a portable computing device such as a smartphone or tablet computer
5. every day
6. to reply

True/False
1. False
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. False
6. True

Gap Fill:
1. Seventy-eight per cent
2. three-quarters
3. one in two
4. Eighty-five per cent
5. One in three

Writing Practice
Task A:
1. C. general information about the website
2. B. good things about the website
3. D. some of the problems of the website
4. A. a conclusion and overall opinion

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Unit 4

Grammar: Word Formation
1. Illness
2. Replace
3. Damaged
4. Ability
5. Clearly
6. Partially
7. Growth
8. Removed
9. Spinal
10. New-born

Reading Passage: Organic Food
1. A
2. B
3. C
4. C
5. B

Listening Practice: At the Chemist

Post-listening
1. A
2. B
3. A
4. C
5. c

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Reading Answers trekking

Warming-up Unit 5

1 desert
)

snowboarding

kayaking white water rafting ancient ruins

2) Free play, no standard answer

Pre-reading

Free play, no standard answer.

Comprehending

1.Check your understanding: grouping

Activity holidays Polar expeditions Cultural journeys

go kayakingtry different sports visit the South Polesee whales try different local foodlearn about
Trekking tours foreign cultures

Wildlife holidays

visit Scotlandclimb mountains see lionsfollow a local guide

2.Check your understanding: multiple choice

1.Activity holidays, Polar expeditions and Wildlife holidays
2.Trekking tours
3.Cultural journeys
4.Trekking tours and Wildlife holidays
5.Activity holidays and Trekking tours
6.Activity holidays, Polar expeditions and Trekking tours

Listening

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Unit 5

Writting Things Ami has not done yet
go to the theatretake a yellow taxi
1.Check your understanding: grouping

Things Ami has already done
see Central Parksee the Statue of Liberty

2.Check your writing: grammar

1. Dear Jena
2. We’re having a wonderful time at the beach.
3. We’ve swum with dolphins and we’ve been on a boat trip to an island.
4. Tomorrow we’re going to play beach volleyball.
5. Wish you were here.
6. Love
Suri and Adi xx

Video-time

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Unit 6

1 Reading

Kinds of Festivals Names of Festivals Countries
Festivals
Obon Japan
Festivals Day of the Dead Halloween Mexico Some Western countries

Dragon Boat Festival China
Columbus Day USA
India
Festival to honour Gandhi

Harvest Harvest/Thanksgiving Festivals Europeanand other countries
Spring Mid-autumn festivals China and Japan

Spring Festival China
Easter and related holidays Some Western countries
Cherry Blossom Festival
Japan

2FTTFT
1

Comprehending

Suggested answers: (1)D (2)C (3)C (4)A

2 1) Festivals of the dead are for honoring or satisfying dead ancestors or others, who some
people believe might return to help or harm living people.

2) Autumn festivals,are happy events because people are thankful that food is ready for
winter and the hard farm work is finished.

3) At Spring festivals,people usually have dances,carnivals and other activities to celebrate
the end of winter and the coming of spring.

4) It is important to have festivals and celebrations so we can enjoy life/be proud of our
customs/forget our work for a little while.

5) Three common things might be from the following:food,music, entertainment,being with
family and friends,dance,lights or fires, remembering events or people.

Grammar

Suggested answers:
1. A: Would
B: ‘d like to go with you on Sunday

2. A: Could
B: couldn’t find it
3. A: May
B: may go (with your friends)

4. A: should
B: should study science
5. A: Can
B: can’t play the role of the prince
6. A: Might/Should
B: might/should stop playing tricks at Halloween

Video-time

The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th of the first nonth of the lunar calendar. This
day is always the frst full moon in the new year.Ancient people also called it
Shangyuan Festival.Celebrations and traditions on this day began from the Han
Dynasty and became popular in the Tang Dynasty.
Watching the red lanterns is one of the main traditions.Lanterns of different
shapes and sizes are usually put on trees, or along river banks on show. It is
said that sky lanterns were first used by Zhuge Kongming to ask for help when
he was in trouble. Today, when the lanterns slowly rise into the air, people make
wishes.
Another tradition is guessing lantern riddles. The ddles are usually
short,wise,and sometimes humorous. The answer to a riddle can be a Chinese
character,a famous person's name, or a place name.

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Unit 7

Activity 1 Activity 7
Hi Randy,
Accept any logical and meaningful response. I’m at Banjaran Hot springs now. It just a short
(Suggested answers) travel from Ipoh, amidst 260-million-year-old
limestone hills, cascading waterfalls and
1. Many workers died from accident, hunger tropical rainforests,.Here, 3 million litres of
and exhaustion. water billow up daily from the ground below;
also, within the resort are a crystal cave for
2. The wall was formidable but not invisible. metaphysical healing, a pampering spa and
wellness centre and more.
3.They fortify the wall using stone from kiln. See you soon,
Mary
4. It was granted World Heritage by UNESCO
in 1987. Practical assessment
1. Said
Activity 2 and Activity 3 2. Said
Accept any logical and meaningful response. 3. Told
4. Asked
Activity 4 4. D 5. Said
1.C 4. C 6. Said
2.B 6. C 7. Asked
3.A 8. Told
9. Said
Activity 5 10. Said
1. declare 11. Told
2. ranking 12. Said
3. between 13. Ask
4. fortification 14. Told
5. invading 15. said
6. structure 16. Told
7. built 17. Said
8. spectators 18. Told
9. earthquakes
10. influences Activity 8
Accept any logical and meaningful response.
Activity 6

Accept any logical and meaningful response.
(Suggested answers)

e.g. House of millions golden

jellyfish.

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Unit 8

Activity 1 Practical Assessment (Quiz)
1. B 1. Have
2. B 2. Take
3. B 3. Take
4. Taking
Activity 2 5. Catch
Accept any logical and meaningful 6. Catch
response. (Suggested answers) 7. Make
1. Make a start. 8. Make, keep
2. A passage of play. 9. Make
3. Roughly accurate approximation. 10. Making
4. Admit defeat. 11. Made
5. To box. 12. Playing
6. To be ready to work. 13. Lost
7. To react to something. 14. Lose
15. Practise
Activity 3 16. Keep, made
Accept any logical and meaningful 17. Staying
response. 18. Made
19. Build
Activity 4 20. Had
1. FALSE 21. Going
2. TRUE 22. Have
3. FALSE 23. Had
4. FALSE 24. Giving
5. FALSE 25. Have
6. FALSE 26. Does
27. Do
Activity 5, 6, 7 and 8 28. Doing
Accept any logical and meaningful 29. Take
response.

Activity 9
Accept any logical and meaningful ending.

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