Messages 4 Student's Book

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Module 3

Chang

es

Module 2

New ho

rizons

R E V I S I O N

2

Map of the book

● Describing the present and the past

● Verbs + prepositions in Wh-questions

● Present continuous

● Expressions: contradictions

● Relative clauses with who, that, which

● Present simple

● Pronoun one/ones

● Expressions: asking for clarification

● Past continuous and past simple

● used to

● Expressions: expressing surprise

● must/mustn’t, have to/don’t have to

● Comparative adjectives

● Passive (present simple and past simple)

● Expressions: making travel arrangements

Unit 1

Getting

together

Unit 2

Friends and

neighbours

Review

Review

Unit 4

Journeys

Unit 3

All in the

mind

Unit 5

In the news

Unit 6

Attachments

Review

Grammar check Study skills: Homophones How’s it going?: Progress check Coursework: Reviews

● Verbs + prepositions

● Postcards

● Words with some and every

● Pronunciation: stress and intonation

● Listen to biographies of famous people

● Read holiday postcards

● Skim and scan a text

● Life and culture: Welcome to Liverpool!

● Talk about a picture

● Write about famous people in the past

● Make a conversation at a café

● Write a postcard

● Flats and houses

● Friendship

● Nouns and adjectives describing personal qualities

● Pronunciation: /ə/

● Listen to a guessing game

● Read a questionnaire about friendship

● Understand new words

● Life and culture: Poem

● Talk about where you live

● Tell the class about yourself and your neighbourhood

● Play a guessing game

● Write about yourself and friendships in your life

Grammar and Expressions

Vocabulary and

Pronunciation

Listening and

Reading skills

Communicative tasks

Module 1

P

e

ople and places

● Fears and fantasies

● Dreams

● Link words

● Pronunciation: /j/

● Listen to three conversations about coincidences

● Read a magazine article about dreams

● Identify the topic of a text

● Life and culture : Haunted Britain

● Talk and write about coincidences in the past

● Describe yourself when you were younger and compare with a friend

● Describe things that you imagine or worry about

● Write a description of a dream

● On the road ● Travelling ● Prepositions of movement ● Pronunciation : stress in sentences ● Listen to a song

● Read an account of a journey around the world

● Scan a text for information

● Life and culture : Journey into slavery

● Write and act a conversation at a travel agent’s

● Describe where things are/were made or produced

● Write a journal about a journey

● Present perfect +just, yet, already

● been and gone

● Present perfect and past simple

● its: possessive adjective

● so ... that ... ; such a/an ... that ...

● Expressions: offers and suggestions

● Topics in the news

● Yellowstone Park

● Pronunciation: /s/+ consonant

● Write an email to a friend or relative with your news

● Discuss what you have and haven’t done

● Write a radio report

● Write about recent events for a school newsletter

● Present perfect with for and since

● Present perfect with superlative adjective + ever

● Superlative adjectives

● give + direct and indirect object

● Expressions: time expressions

● Personal possessions

● Living abroad

● still, any more

● Pronunciation: //

/ɔ/

● Give details about your background

● Talk about your favourite possessions

● Describe important things and events

● Write an account of personal experiences

● Listen to an interview with a surfing champion

● Read an interview with a boy who has lived all over the world

● Skim a text for the general idea

● Life and culture: New Zealand

● Listen to news headlines on the radio

● Read a magazine article about a volcano

● Understand the main idea of a text

● Life and culture: Non-stop news

Grammar check Study skills: Guessing what words mean How’s it going?: Progress check Coursework: Conversation with Grace Lawson Grammar check Study skills: Spelling How’s it going? : Progress check Coursework: Who’s who at Greenside?

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Module 6

Jus

t im

agine!

Module 5

Living t

o

g

e

ther

Module 4

Talking points

● Special occasions ● Invitations and replies

● Verbs with look

● Pronunciation: final

/s/and /z/

● Describe special occasions

● Talk about superstitions

● Write about and discuss plans for a celebration

● Write and reply to an invitation

Grammar and Expressions

Vocabulary and

Pronunciation

Listening and

Reading skills

Communicative tasks

Unit 7

Celebrations

Unit 8

Secrets

and lies

● Verbs and nouns that go together ● ‘Sales talk’ ● because, so ● Pronunciation: /ai/ /ei/ ● Listen to a discussion on the radio

● Read an article about a ‘con man’

● Predict the topic of a text

● Life and culture: The code talkers

● Talk about events in the future and when they might happen

● Talk about what’s right and wrong ● Write an imaginary ‘sales talk’

Unit 11

Challenges

● Past perfect

● must, can’t, might, could for speculation ● Expressions: Neither do I. So am I. ● Adjectives describing feelings ● In the mountains ● Adverbs ● Pronunciation: stress in sentences, weak forms

● Describe a situation in the past and how you felt

● Imagine what different situations are like

● Write a short story

Unit 12

Happy

endings

● Reported speech

● say and tell

● whose ● Expressions: everyday expressions ● Words connected with money ● Sending messages ● Phrasal verbs ● Pronunciation: vowel sounds

● Report what people say

● Make a conversation at a party

● Write and reply to a message

● Food

● The fast food industry ● Adjectives ending in -ed/-ing ● Pronunciation: silent vowels ● Listen to a TV quiz programme

● Read a review of a book

● Recognise facts and opinions

● Life and culture: Make Poverty History

● Talk about things you’d like to change

● Prepare and ask questions for a quiz

● Write a review for a school magazine

● Verb/preposition + -ing form

● -ing form and to + verb

● want/ask/tell someone to do something

● Expressions: requests and responses

● People in groups

● A wildlife commentary

● too and enough

● Pronunciation: /ŋ/

/n/

● Listen to phone calls making requests

● Read a commentary for a TV wildlife programme

● Use pronouns and possessive adjectives

● Life and culture: Romeo and Juliet

● Describe people’s likes and dislikes

● Interview a friend for a TV show

● Write and act a telephone conversation asking someone to do something

● Write a description of teenagers in your country

Review

Grammar check Study skills: Preparing for tests and exams How’s it going? : Progress check Coursework: Letters

Unit 9

Groups

Unit 10

Food for

thought

Review

Grammar check Study skills: Preparing and giving a talk How’s it going? : Progress check Coursework: The ads page

● Listen to a story about a terrible night

● Read a story about an extraordinary experience

● Guess meaning from context

● Life and culture: Gandhi

Review

Grammar check Study skills: Learning English on your own How’s it going? : Progress check Coursework: Sports news

● Listen to a song

● Read three jumbled stories

● Follow the sequence of a story

● Life and culture: Keeping in touch

● Listen to a song

● Read invitations and replies

● Scan a text for information

● Life and culture: The number 13

● First conditional with if and unless

● The future with will and going to

● Expressions: I hope so/not. I guess so/not.

● might and may

● when in future sentences

● should/shouldn’t

● Second conditional

● Expressions : responding to opinions

Map of the book

●

Grammar index

●

Communicative functions index

●

Wordlist

●

Phonetic symbols

●

Verb forms and irregular verbs

●

Songs

● Expressions of quantity

● Question words

● Subject and object questions

● Expressions: expressing preferences

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Grammar

●

Describing the present and

the past

●

Verbs + prepositions in

Wh-

questions

●

Present continuous

●

Relative clauses with

who

,

that

,

which

●

Present simple

●

Pronoun

one/ones

Vocabulary

●

Verbs + prepositions

●

Flats and houses

Expressions

●

Contradictions:

Yes, he is!

No, he hasn’t!

●

Asking for clarification

People and places

In Module 1 Steps 1 and 2 you study

so that you can

●

Write a postcard

●

Express your opinions

about friendships

In Step 3 you ...

read

●

Three postcards

●

A questionnaire about

friendship

study

●

Words beginning with

some

and

every

●

Nouns and adjectives

describing personal

qualities

●

Skimming and scanning

a text

●

Understanding new words

so that you can

●

Talk about a picture

●

Write about famous

people in the past

●

Contradict someone

●

Make a conversation

about going out with

friends

●

Talk about where you live

●

Describe people and

things

●

Ask for more information

●

Play a guessing game

Life and culture

Welcome to Liverpool!

Poem

Find out more about the people who work at Greenside C

P

erhaps you’re reading

this article in the canteen, while you’re eating your lunch. This month we’d like to introduce you to the person who does all the cooking. His name’s Del Stanley. Del trained to be a chef in London

and he came to Greenside College two years ago. He says ‘I like using fresh, local food if I can. It isn’t always easy to find things that everyone likes – teenagers are very unadventurous when they choose their meals!’ A lot of p most imp mends th at the end are clean to-five job work in th some free got a blac

Coursework 1

Part 1 Who’s who at Greenside?

You write about people who

work at your school.

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d

What’s it about?

What can you say about the pictures?

Now match the pictures with sentences 1–4.

1

The sun’s going down and everything looks beautiful.

2

He works in a shop that sells newspapers and food.

3

He’s wearing a hat and coat.

4

We live in a flat on the first floor.

a

b

c

Coursework

Our school magazine

In Book 4 you study

●

a magazine written by students

at Greenside Community College

so that you can

●

make an English magazine for

people at your school

Your Coursework has got six parts:

Part 1 Who's who at Greenside?

You write about people who work

at your school.

Part 2 In conversation with

Grace Lawson

You talk to an old person in your

neighbourhood and write a short

interview.

Part 3 Reviews

You write a review of a book, film

or TV programme.

Part 4 Letters to the editor

You write a letter for a magazine

letters page.

Part 5 The ads page

You make adverts to put in your

school magazine.

Part 6 Sports news

You write a report about a sporting

event.

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e

vision

Module 1

1

In Step 1 you revise

●

describing the present and the past

so that you can

●

talk about a picture

●

write about famous people in the past

S

TEP 1

6

1

Share your ideas

Describe the painting. What are the people doing?

What do you think of the painting?

The woman is laughing.

Fact File

Humphrey Bogart, actor, 1899 –

1

Born in:

2

Worked for:

3

Most famous films:

4

2

Reading

Idols of the 20th century

a

Look at the painting and read the description.

Find at least:

1

three verbs in the present.

2

three verbs in the past.

The name of the painting is

Nighthawks: Boulevard

of Broken Dreams

. It’s by an Austrian painter

called Gottfried Helnwein. It shows a scene in a

diner in the USA during the 1950s. Outside, the

street is dark and empty. Inside, three people are

sitting at the counter, a woman and two men.

A waiter is standing behind the counter. The man

in the middle of the picture is wearing a blue suit

and tie. He doesn’t look very happy. The woman on

the right is laughing and talking to the man next

to her, but he isn’t listening.

The four people in the picture are all famous

American stars from the 20th century. The man in

the blue suit is the actor Humphrey Bogart. Bogart

was born in New York. At first, he acted in the

theatre, but for many years he wasn’t successful.

Then he started working for the Warner film studio

and, at the age of 40, he finally became a star. He

made more than thirty films. Two of his most

famous films were

The African Queen

and

Casablanca

. Bogart died in his sleep at his home

in Hollywood in 1957.

b

Listen to the first paragraph and

follow in your book. Then find these things.

1

a nationality

2

a country

3

two jobs

4

two things that people wear

c

Listen to the second paragraph

and follow in your book. Then copy and

complete the fact file.

I like it, but I think

it’s a sad painting.

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e

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Unit 1

Fact File

Marilyn Monroe, actress, 1926 –

1

Born in: Los Angeles

2

_{name: Norma Jean Baker}

Worked for:

3

_{Century Fox}

Most famous film:

Some Like It

4

4

Listening

Biographies

Read the two fact files. Then listen

to the biographies of Marilyn Monroe and

Elvis Presley. Write the missing

information in your notebook.

Choose either Elvis Presley or

Marilyn Monroe. Describe what

he/she is doing in the picture. Then

use the notes in your fact file and

describe his/her real life.

3

Revision

Describing the present and the past

Look at the painting and complete the description of

James Dean.

On the left, there

1

₍

_be

_{) a tall, good-looking young man.}

He

2

₍

_wear

_{) a dark coat and a scarf. He looks sad and}

lonely. He

3

₍

_{not talk}

_{) to anyone. He}

4

₍

_be

_{) the}

famous American actor James Dean.

James Dean

5

₍

_be

_{) born in Indiana in 1931. At first, he}

6

₍

_act

_{) on television and, four years later, he}

7

(

become

) a film star. But Dean only

8

₍

_make

_{) three}

films. He

9

₍

_die

_{) in a car accident in September 1955.}

Try this!

How many words for clothes

do you know?

scarf, ...

Fact File

Elvis Presley, singer, 19

5

_–1977

Born in: Tupelo, Mississippi

Played the

6

_{from the age of}

7

Worked for: RCA

8

Most famous hits:

9

_{Be Cruel}

_,

Jailhouse Rock

,

10

_{Suede Shoes}

5

Writing

Elvis or Marilyn

Use what you know

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Module 1

In Step 2 you study

●

verbs + prepositions in Wh- questions

●

present continuous

●

contradictions: Yes, he is! No, he hasn’t!

so that you can

●

contradict someone

●

make a conversation about going out

with friends

S

TEP 2

1

I’m often late in the morning because

I have to look

my things.

2

I like looking

my friends’

photos.

3

I don’t often think

the future.

4

I don’t come

this country. I

was born abroad.

5

When I’m with my friends, we often

talk

films and music.

6

I don’t like waiting

people

when they’re late.

7

In class, I usually talk

my

English teacher in English.

8

My father and I argue

football.

Listen and check.

b

What about you?

Which of the

sentences in 1a are true for you?

Work with a friend and tell him/her

at least three things about yourself.

for

2

Presentation

Who are we waiting for?

a

What can you say about the photos?

b

Close your book and listen to the conversation.

What are Danny and his friends doing this evening?

Danny and Nadia live in Liverpool. They’re in a café and

they’re waiting for their friends.

DANNY: What’s the time, Nadia?

NADIA: It’s nearly half past seven.

DANNY: So who are we waiting for?

NADIA: Clare and Luke. Luke’s always late.

DANNY: No, he isn’t!

NADIA: Yes, he is! I’ll phone him. ... Luke, where are you? We’re waiting for you.

DANNY: Here’s Clare! Hi, Clare.

CLARE: Hi! Sorry I’m late. Who’s Nadia talking to?

DANNY: Luke. He’s late too. And he’s got the tickets.

CLARE: No, he hasn’t! I’ve got them. They’re in my bag.

NADIA: Hi, Clare. We must go. It’s half past seven.

DANNY: What about Luke?

NADIA: He’s meeting us outside the cinema in ten minutes.

DANNY: OK.

NADIA: What are you looking for, Clare?

CLARE: The tickets. I can’t find them.

DANNY: You’re joking!

CLARE: Hang on! No, we’re OK. They’re here, in my pocket.

I don’t come from this

country. I was born in ...

1

Key vocabulary

Verbs + prepositions

a

S

Complete the sentences with

the prepositions in the box. You’ve

got three minutes!

about

at

for

from

to

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