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Hi-tech

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First conditional

1a

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb in brackets. Use the Present Simple or will+ infinitive. 1 If you ____________ (eat) cheese late at night, you’ll have bad dreams.

2 You’ll get a cold if you ____________ (go) outside with your hair wet in winter.

3 If you ____________ (change) the colour of your hair too often, it’ll fall out.

4 You ____________ (get) cancer if you use a mobile phone too much.

5 You ____________ (have) bad skin if you ____________ (eat) too much chocolate.

6 If you ____________ (drink) red wine every day, it ____________ (reduce) your cholesterol.

7 If you ____________ (smoke) when you’re young, it ____________ (stop) you growing.

8 You ____________ (become) anti-social if you ____________ (spend) too much time in front of a computer.

b

Tick (_✔) the sentences that you think are true.

1

If I were on a crowded bus, I _________________ ______ (give) my seat to an old person.

b

Look at your answers. Are you a good citizen?

Second conditional

2a

Complete the sentences to make them true for you. Use the Past Simple or would(n’t)+ infinitive.

Language focus

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2

If I found a purse or wallet in the street, I _______________ (keep) the money in it. 3

If I was in a street and I couldn't find a bin, I _____ ___________ (throw) my rubbish on the ground.

4

If I ______________ (see) two children fighting in the street, I ______________ (try) to stop them. 5

If I had a party and my neighbours ___________ ______ (complain) about the noise, I ___________ (turn) the music down.

6

I _______________ (tell) the police if I thought that my neighbour _________________ (sell) drugs.

'd give / wouldn’t

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First and second conditional

5

Complete the sentences to make them true for you. Use the first or second conditional.

1 If I could be invisible for a day, _____________________________________________________________________

2 I’ll be extremely happy if ___________________________________________________________________________

3 Life would be a lot easier if _________________________________________________________________________

4 If I need a lot of money quickly, _____________________________________________________________________

5 I’d organise a big party for all my friends and family if ________________________________________________

6 Humans won’t survive if ___________________________________________________________________________

7 If I were president of my country, ___________________________________________________________________

8 If I could travel in time, ____________________________________________________________________________

Reported statements

6

Complete the sentences.

Direct statement Reported statement

1 ‘I’m a bit depressed.’ She told me ____________________________________________

2 ‘_____________________________________’ She said she was phoning from the bus.

3 ‘I can’t hear you.’ She told me ____________________________________________

4 ‘I had an argument with my boss earlier.’ She said ________________________________________________

5 ‘He __________________________________’ She told me he was very angry.

6 ‘I’m going to leave my job.’ She told me _____________________________________________

7 ‘I ____________________________________’ She said she didn’t think the company would be very happy.

8 ‘I haven’t told them yet.’ She said ________________________________________________

9 ‘I don’t have time to tell you everything.’ She said ________________________________________________

10 ‘I ____________________________________’ She told me she’d phone again later.

58 I’m phoning from the bus.

she was a bit depressed.

4

Write answers to the questions in Exercise 3 that are true for you. Write complete sentences.

1 ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

2 ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

3 ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

4 ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

5 ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

6 ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

Second conditional:

questions

3

Write questions in the second conditional.

1 if you / win a fortune on the lottery / you / leave your job?

____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

2 if you / have more money / you / be happier? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

3 what / you / do / if you / not have to work? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

4 you / live in another country / if you / can? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

5 if you / go to live abroad / what / you / miss about your country?

____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

6 if a very rich person / want to marry you / you / say yes?

____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

If you won a fortune on the lottery, would you leave

your job?

If I won a fortune on the lottery, I would / wouldn’t

leave my job.

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Gadgets

1

Order the letters to make words. Then match the words with the pictures.

1 a p p l o t _____________ Picture: ____

2 o i l m b e _____________ Picture: ____

3 D D V e r l p a y _____________ Picture: ____ _____________

4 m a l t p o p _____________ Picture: ____

5 m e t r e o _____________ r o l c o n t _____________ Picture: ____

6 a s m e g _____________ c o o l n e s _____________ Picture: ____

7 P 3 M l a y r e p _____________ Picture: ____ _____________

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7

Read the e-mail. Then complete the conversation with reported statements.

A:We got an e-mail from Katrin last night.

B: Oh, good. What did it say?

A:Well, she said she 1_{____________ sorry she}2_{____________ in}

touch for a while but she 3_{____________ for her final exams}

and 4_{____________ much time.} B: What about next weekend?

A:She said that she 5_{____________ to revise most of the time,}

but that we 6_{____________ with her. She said she} 7_{____________ to go out with us on Saturday night.} B: That’s good. What else did she say?

A:She said she 8_{____________ Bruno and that he} 9_{____________ us on Saturday. She also said she}

10_{____________ us up from the station if we told her what}

time we 11_{____________. What time are we arriving?} B: The train gets in at six.

A:OK. I’ll write back and tell her. Oh, and she said she

12_{____________ to see us. I’m really excited too.}

say

and

tell

8

Circle the correct word, sayor tell.

1 The doctor said / toldme that I should eat less salt.

2 He said / toldhe’d be here before 5pm.

3 I said / toldthe teacher I couldn’t come to the next class.

4 The weather forecast said / toldit was going to rain tomorrow.

5 They didn’t tell / sayus that they had a house in the country.

6 A lot of people say / tellthat I look like my mother.

7 I said / toldthe travel agency that I preferred a room with a sea view.

8 She’s already said / toldeverybody about her new job.

Vocabulary

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Hi Ged and Vicky!

I hope you’re both well. I’m sorry I haven’t been in touch for a while but I’m studying for my final exams and don’t have much time. I got your e-mail and yes, you can stay with me next weekend. I’ll have to revise most of the time, but I’ll be able to go out on Saturday night. I saw Bruno a couple of days ago, by the way. He’s going to join us all on Saturday. Tell me when you’re arriving and I’ll pick you up from the station.

I can’t wait to see you! Katrin

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5

Complete the sentences with a verb and a pronoun if necessary.

1 You’ve left the lights on again! Please ________________.

2 The machine’s unplugged. Could you ________________?

3 You see those red lights? You can’t use the machine until they ________________.

4 The answerphone’s off. Can you ________________ if you go out?

5 When I turn on my laptop, I have to wait for ages before I can use it because it takes a long time to ______________________.

6 You can’t use your mobiles in class so please ________________ now.

7 Could you turn the machine off then

________________ and put it in the cupboard?

8 Keep an eye on the yellow light. You can unplug the machine when it _______________.

Computer vocabulary

1a

Write the correct letter next to the words.

1 mouse _____

2 keyboard _____

3 printer _____

4 monitor _____

5 speakers _____

6 mouse pad _____

b

9.1 Listen and check.

c

Practise saying the words. Listen and repeat.

Vocabulary extension

d

switch them off

Time verbs

2

Complete the sentences with the correct form of these verbs.

1 If you buy a cinema ticket in advance, you don’t have to queue. It _____________ time.

2 I try not to watch more than an hour of

television a day. I don’t like _____________ time.

3 We had two hours to wait at the airport so we went shopping to ____________________ time.

4 I don’t understand why people play chess. It’s a strange way to ____________________ your time.

5 We wanted to see some other sights during the holiday but we ____________________ time.

3

Answer the questions.

1 How do you kill time when you’re on a long train, plane or car journey?

____________________________________________

2 How do you spend your time at weekends? ____________________________________________

3 When was the last time you couldn’t finish something because you ran out of time? ____________________________________________

4 How much time have you wasted this week? What have you wasted it on?

____________________________________________

5 What do you do to save time when you’re busy? ____________________________________________

Machine nouns and verbs

4

Complete the instructions with these verbs.

The photocopier’s unplugged when we’re not using it, so the first thing you have to do is

1_{_______ it ______. Then you}2_{________ it _____ –}

that’s the switch there – and a green light will

3_{______________. You have to wait for it to} 4_{____________ before you can start copying.}

That takes about five minutes. When it’s ready, you put the document you want to copy here, and you 5_{____________ this button. And when you}

finish, remember to 6_{________ it _____.}

The green light will 7_{__________. Then can you} 8_{_______________ it and leave the plug where}

you found it?

saves

plug

in

kill run out of save spend waste

come on go off plug in press switch on / off turn on / off unplug warm up

Time ver bs:Tr y the interactive activity for this topic on your CD-Rom. A

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4 TAKEAWAY ENGLISH:

Telephoning – business or pleasure?

Pronunciation

1a

Put the words in the correct order in the telephone expressions. 1 through / put / I’ll / you ___________________________________

2 one / please / just / moment _______________________________

3 I / can / how / you / help / ? _______________________________

4 to / please / like / I’d / to / speak / Mrs Evans ________________ __________________________________________________________

5 a / can / I / take / message / ? _______________________________

6 I’m / not / afraid / at / she’s / in / the / moment ______________ __________________________________________________________

7 from / it’s / Thomas Meinart / Germany _____________________

8 I / who’s / can / ask / calling / ? _____________________________

9 please / the / hold / line ____________________________________

10 later / I’ll / again / try ______________________________________

b

c

Practise saying the expressions. Listen and repeat.

2

Match the business expressions (1–6) with the social expressions (a–f). 1 Hang on a sec.

2 Hi, is Toni there please?

3 Who’s that?

4 Sorry. He’s not in at the moment.

5 Tell him Patrick rang.

6 Can I take a message or anything?

3a

Complete the telephone conversation with expressions from Exercise 1.

A:Good morning, MegaRam. 1_{_________________________} B: Good morning. 2_{_______________________ She’s the}

Marketing Manager.

A:3_{________________________}

B: Yes, it’s Mr Davids from Jenson Chips.

A:OK. 4_{_____________________, and}5_{______________________.} B: Thank you.

A:I’m afraid she’s engaged at the moment.

Do you want to hold or 6_{________________________?} B:Could you tell her Mr Davids called and that

7_{________________________.}

b

Conditionals

and contractions

1a

9.2 Listen and write the sentences

you hear.

1 _____________________________ _____________________________

2 _____________________________ _____________________________

3 _____________________________ _____________________________

4 _____________________________ _____________________________

5 _____________________________ _____________________________

6 _____________________________ _____________________________

b

Underline the contractions and

write the full forms above the contractions.

I will

I’ll be really happy if you call me.

c

Practise saying the sentences as quickly as you can. Listen and repeat.

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I

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2a

9.3 Listen and count the number

of times you hear /

_ai

/ in each sentence.

1 _____

2 _____

3 _____

4 _____

5 _____

6 _____

b

Listen again and write the words with the /

_ai

/ sound.

1 _____________________________

2 _____________________________

3 _____________________________

4 _____________________________

5 _____________________________

6 _____________________________

c

Practise saying the sentences.

Listen and repeat.

I’ll be really happy if you call me.

I, time, my, mobile

a) Could I ask who’s calling?

b) I’m afraid he’s not in the office at the moment.

c) Could you tell him Mr Prevatt called?

d) Would you like to leave a message?

e) Hold the line, please.

f) I’d like to speak to the sales manager, please.

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speak more naturally

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When you speak English naturally, you stress words that contain information (nouns, adjectives, etc.). This is because it’s important to hear and understand these words. Other words are unstressed. They don’t contain information and you don’t really need to hear them clearly.

1a

9.6 Listen to this dialogue. The underlined words are stressed.

A:What did you get for your birthday?

B:A Playstation and three new computer games.

A:Can I borrow them?

B:Yes. When I’ve finished with them!

b

Tick (✔) the type of words that are normally stressed.

________ adjectives ________ numbers ________ articles (a, the) ________ prepositions ________ auxiliary verbs (can, have) ________ question words ________ conjunctions (and, when) ________ verbs

________ nouns and names

2a

Underline the stressed words in the conversation. (The number of stressed words is in brackets.)

1‘Computer Megastore. Can I help you?’ (3)

2‘Yes. I’ve seen your advert and I’m interested in the special offer.’ (6)

3‘The Pentium 4?’ (2)

4‘Yes. How much does it cost?’ (4)

5‘Eight hundred and ninety-nine euros.’ (5)

6‘Does the price include VAT?’ (3)

7‘Yes, it does.’ (2)

8‘And how much do you charge for delivery?’ (4)

9‘There’s a delivery charge of thirty euros.’ (5)

10‘Fine. I’d like to buy one, please.’ (4)

b

Unstressed words

3a

You often pronounce the words a, the, for, of, to, and and the auxiliary verbs can, does, dowith a schwa /ə/ when they’re not stressed. Circle examples in the conversation.

Computer Megastore. Can I help you?

b

9.7 Listen again and check.

4

Practise saying the dialogue. Listen and repeat.

Stressed words

✔