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Exam insight 1

Page 95 Exercise 7

Page 94 Exercise 1

Exam insight 2

Audio script, track 3.12

Page 96 Exercise 1

1  F  2  T  3  F  4  F  5  T  6  F

Alex  Hi, Jenny. How was your trip to the Philippines? Did you have a good time? Jenny  Yeah. It was great. Alex  What did you do? See the sights? Lie on the beach? Jenny  Well, it’s a bit of a long story actually. I was there a few years ago. And on that occasion I was up in the hills and just walking about and this young girl – Halina her name was – about seven or eight years old, came and walked with me, and started chatting to me. In surprisingly good English. And she showed me round her village and took me back to meet her family and so on. Alex  Sounds great – getting to meet the locals. Jenny  Yes, it was really interesting. Anyway, I’d worked out that it wasn’t school holidays there and, being a teacher, I naturally wanted to know why Halina wasn’t in school. Alex  And? Jenny  Well, meeting her family, … I mean, there was almost no furniture in the house. They slept on mats on the floor. Alex  Right. Tough life. Jenny  Very. And for Halina to go to school they needed books, paper, pencils and so on. Alex  And they couldn’t afford it. Jenny  Exactly. So when I got back home. I got in touch with an organization called Aid Asia. And I told them about the village and about Halina. And they went and visited and decided it was the right sort of place for one of their development programmes … Alex  Fantastic. Jenny  It was really. I give them a couple of hundred pounds a year, they get money from other places too and now all the kids in the village go to school and, well, life is much better. Alex  And you went to visit them. Jenny  Yes, I was there for about half the time. Then I did a bit of sightseeing. I spent a few days in Manila the capital and then went to one of the islands. Alex  It sounds fantastic …

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Page 95 Exercise 3

1  b  2  a  3  a  4  a  5  c  6  b  7  b  8  b

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Page 95 Exercise 6 London – b The Alps – c Greek Islands – a Students’ own answers

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Page 96 Exercise 2 1  a  2  c  3  b  4  b

Audio script, track 3.13 1 Man This is a photo of Jack. He doesn’t have a normal life, a home, a family like you and me. As you can see, he’s homeless. Everything he owns is in those two plastic bags. He eats whatever he finds. He sleeps wherever he can. Here at Lifeguard we try to help people like Jack, provide him with a hot meal, give him shelter and a bed to sleep on. And that’s where you come in. We need to pay for food, bedding, and essential medicines. If you feel you can help … 2 Man OK. We need to make sure that as many people as possible know about this and come and join in. Woman  Absolutely. I know someone who works for City Radio. I’ll ask her to get it talked about. Man  That’s great. And there are a lot of people who follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We need to let people know where to meet, what the route is and so on. Woman  Did you talk to the police? Man  Yes, they’re fine about it. I mean, it’s not as if there are likely to be any problems … 3 TV Presenter (F)  There was trouble again today at Downham’s Heath in Suffolk where environmental campaigners are trying to stop the building of the largest new housing estate in southern Britain. Protestors, who say the work is destroying an important area of natural beauty, clashed with the police in their efforts to stop drivers delivering building materials to the site. There were a number of arrests. However, a spokesperson for Redstart, the construction company building the homes, said that work was continuing on time and the first new homes would soon be ready to view. 4 Woman How did you get on? Man  OK. Woman  You don’t look very happy. Man  Well, some people are so mean. I mean, it’s a really good cause. Lots of people in the world don’t have access to clean water! Woman  I know! Man  And most people just walked straight past me. Didn’t even make eye contact. Woman  Hmm. Tough. Man  And one guy came up to me and started telling me that I should be more concerned about what’s happening in this country and less bothered about other countries. Woman  What did you do?

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insight Intermediate  Exam insight Answer Key Man  I was very polite and thanked him for his opinion. But that wasn’t what I wanted to do. Woman  No. I’m sure it wasn’t!

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1  F  2  NG  3  T  4  F  5  T  6  NG  7  NG  8  T

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By the time after a while were wiped out / died out used to spend How about meeting Having the ability to in order to study take part in

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Exam insight 3 Page 98 Exercise 1

1  C  2  D  3  A  4  –  5  B

Audio script, track 3.14 A Speaker 1  I don’t think it’s as simple as that. I mean, sure, some people shoplift because they don’t have much money. They can’t afford to buy the things they need so they steal them. But I think there are other people who do it because it brings a bit of excitement to their lives; some people do it because they are ill; and I think there are also professional shoplifters who steal valuable things that they know they can sell. B Speaker 2  Personally I think shops and shopkeepers only have themselves to blame for a lot of the shoplifting that goes on. Everything they sell is just out there – in front of you – you can pick it up and look at it, try it out, whatever. And then you can just put it in your pocket and walk out. It’s almost like putting a piece of meat in front of a dog and expecting the dog not to eat it. It’s totally unrealistic. The stores just make it so easy for anyone who wants to steal something. C Speaker 3  There’s no excuse for shoplifters. Everybody knows the law. I know some shops don’t think it’s worth bothering to take shoplifters to court, but I think that’s wrong. You have to make an example of these people. They’ve broken the law. If you don’t deal with them strictly, then you’re just encouraging other people to do the same thing. Especially if they know that nothing really bad is going to happen if they get caught. D Speaker 4  Ending up with a criminal record can be a serious problem in later life. It can make it harder to get a job or to get into college. But even if that doesn’t happen you can still have problems. Sometimes people experience feelings of guilt about

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what they’ve done. They lose respect: self-respect, and possibly the respect of other people. They might even lose friends – friends who may think ‘Hey! Do I really want to be close to this person who shoplifts?’

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1  C  2  B  3  A  4  B  5  A, C

Page 99 Exercise 3

1  fit  2  to  3  is  4  while  5  look  6  so

Page 99 Exercise 4 The theme is money – saving and spending.

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Exam insight 4 Page 100 Exercise 1 1 2 3 4

A projects B bank A street B loves A three B no A newspaper B week

Audio script, track 3.15 A Man  Oh, I got my doctorate in Physics and then I became a research scientist, a physicist. I worked in various university departments in the United States. But the thing is, the jobs are only temporary – just for as long as the project lasts. Well, I had a young family and I wanted something more settled so I rang a friend of mine who worked in the banking industry and said: ‘Look! These are the skills I’ve got, are any of them transferable to banking?’ He said: ‘If you want a job, I’ve got just the thing for you!’ So that’s what I do now. B Woman  I left school at sixteen with no idea what I wanted to do. Then I met Tom. I can honestly say if I hadn’t met Tom I don’t know what I’d be doing now. He’s a street entertainer. He does things like fire-eating. He has a tennis racket with no strings and he manages to push his body through it – all sorts of strange tricks. It was exciting! We spent time together and started going out. Eventually he taught me how to do some tricks and we started working together. We perform in squares and parks in major cities. It’s just a great life! C Man  I went to university. Studied English Literature. Had a great time – and got a good degree. But actually, you know, a friend of mine left school and went straight into a job with a big department store. And, looking back, I wish I’d done that. I mean, she’s got three years’ experience, a good salary, and in a couple of years’ time she’ll be climbing the management ladder. Whereas I finished my degree eighteen months ago and, well, you know what the job market’s like. I’m still looking. photocopiable

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insight Intermediate  Exam insight Answer Key D Woman  I’ve always wanted to write. Even when I was a kid I was always writing stories. But when I started to think about how I could make a career as a writer, well, you really do have to start at the bottom. I started by making tea for the editors in the local newspaper and having them make jokes and laugh at me. Eventually they put me in charge of advertisements and after about a year I was allowed to write a real article - 100 words! It took time. But I’m the one who’s laughing now. I write a weekly column for a national newspaper.

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j – at c – only b – what g – had f – first i – to be a – in e – would

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Exam insight 5 Page 102 Exercise 1 1  c  2  b  3  a  4  d

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1  B  2  F  3  E  4  A  5  C

Audio script, track 3.16 Interviewer  My two studio guests today are here to talk about street art, or graffiti. Should we look after it and enjoy it? Or should it be cleaned up, and the ‘artist’ punished? Denis Coates is here from Birmingham Council’s Clean-up Department, but first let’s talk to street artist, Ron Smedley. Ron, what’s your view on this? Ron Smedley  Well, I’m obviously on the side of the artist. However, I think we need to take an almost ‘historical’ look at this. Most people think that graffiti is a modern thing, or relatively modern anyway, that it started in, say, the 1970s. There’s also a belief that it’s a proper ‘art movement’ of some kind and that in a few years’ time, we’ll all have forgotten about it and moved on to something else. But I think the truth is very different. For me it’s a people’s art form, in the way that folk music is. And it started way back – I mean, you could even say cave paintings are a form of graffiti – and as people’s art it will continue in some form forever. Interviewer  But is all graffiti ‘art’? Ron Smedley  That’s a good question. I mean, I started doing this in my teens. And back then it was a way of getting at my mum

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and dad. A way of saying: ‘I’m going to paint on walls, if I want to!’ Obviously I was breaking the law, not that that really worried me at the time, but I don’t think the idea of ‘art’ bothered me at all. These days though I make my living as an artist and I’m much more concerned about self-expression, about saying something important. Interviewer  Turning to you Denis Coates, what is the council’s attitude towards street art? Do you clean everything up as soon as it appears or … well, what is your policy? Denis Coates  Well, most people think that we clean up every bit of graffiti as soon as it appears and that certainly used to be the case. However, that just wasn’t economic – far too expensive. Also it was pointed out that some of these paintings, or whatever you call them, were quite artistic and we were often asked to leave them. In the end, we decided that if someone wants one removed then we’ll do something – but otherwise we’ll leave them alone. Interviewer  And how do you feel about that? I mean, strictly speaking, the artist is often breaking the law and committing a criminal offence. Denis Coates  I think that is really something for the police to deal with. It’s not for the council to decide who is or isn’t breaking the law. I mean there are issues about whether the artist has permission from the owner of the wall or building that he or she is going to paint on. Generally the police seem to be taking a very realistic view of this. I mean, there’s no point taking up time in court to deal with ...

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1 actually 2 imaginable 3 varieties 4 involved 5 equipment 6 training 7 prepare 8 used 9 convenience 10 costly

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