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It now em ploys over people, and has added vegetable pots to its products. Part of its m arketing strategy is to use delivery vans which are decorated to look like cow s or grassy fields. Answer the questions. Answer questions with a partner. Is there anything you found difficult to understand? Listening to English in the media Try to listen to as much English as you can outside class in a format you can listen to repeatedly, e. With a partner, say what you think the expressions mean.
Which words are not stressed in the sentences? Practice saying the sentences with good stress and rhythm. Use the questions below to help you.
Add any other information that you think is relevant. Use the words and phrases in Vocabulary Bank W ork p. A job you would love to do What do you think the advantages of the job would be? What makes you think you might be good at it?
Do you know' anyone who does it? Can you think of any drawbacks? A job you would hate to do What do you think the downsides of the job would be? Do you know anyone who does it? Have you ever done anything similar? Can you think of any positive aspects of the job? What pros and cons do they mention? Take turns describing the jobs you would love to do. Analyze an email in response to a job advertisement and write a cover letter.
With a partner, say ifyou consider them to be positive or negative qualities, and why. Would you use any of them to describe yourself? Try to guess the meaning of any unfamiliar words or expressions. Find out what personality type you and your partner have and read the descriptions. How accurate do you think the description ofyour personality is? Noticing and recordingwords that go togetherwill improvethe accuracy and fluency ofyourspeakingandwriting.
All these collocations appear in W halsyour personality type? B He often has lunch with us, but he never pays. D He has a realtendencyto arguewith people inauthority. E He has been working at the same job for 15 years. G He has to write everything down otherwise he forgets things. H He has his blood pressure checked every week.
Learn more about have, and practice it. I download all my music from the Internet. Whenever 1play a sport or game 1always have to win. Which of these are you more likely to do? Check the instructions only if you ge t stuck. Do you? Would you? If you really didn't like the person, would you?
Who do you think is the eldest son and heir to the throne? Which ones do you think they are? Who do you think he is? Which of the king's children? Decide who you want in it and where they are going to stand, and make a rough diagram. What is the relationship between? Take the quiz with a partner. Try to use the bold words. In w hat way?
Do you enjoy them? You are going to debate some of the topics below. Each student must choose a different topic and make brief notes about what he or she thinks. Children are left far too much on their own nowadays. It would be better if one parent didn't work and stayed at home to take care of the children after school. Working parents should not use their own parents to look after their children.
Grandparents should be allowed to relax and enjoy their retirement. In the 21st century, friends are the new family. You get all your parents' love and attention. The family is a trap from which it can be difficult to escape. Then listen again and repeat them, copying the rhythm and intonation. The person who made the notes should give their opinion first, and then the rest of the group says what they think.
Try to use language from the box in b to agree or disagree with the other people in your group. Online Practice IB 11 What do you call? I'm sure they have a few dark secrets. Family quiz Why do you think he was interested in finding out about his family background? David Torchiano is an amateur genealogist who has spent many years researching his family tree. He was born and raised in New York City. His mother's side of the family is from Croatia and his father's side of the family is from Southern Italy.
He currently works for The New York Times and has his own analytics start-up company as well as a sushi supper club. Mark sentences below T true or F false. What does he say about? Ellis Island also has documentation on the millions of immigrants who passed through the station. The documentation includes passenger records that outline arrival information, passenger details, and the ship of travel.
Phrasal verbs are a com bination of a verb plus a particle preposition or adverb. The particle can change the m eaning of the verb com pletely and the phrasal verb can have a m eaning th a t is different from the individual words in isolation. What do you think the phrasal verbs mean? What three questions do they answer? Who has personally done some research into their family tree? Who seems to know least about it? Useful phrases Practice using phrasal verbs and where possible the useful phrases.
FromtheFinancialTimes G pronouns V language term inology P sound-spelling relationships IfEnglish is supposed to be the lingua franca, how come there's no word in English for lingua franca? Whose language is it? Do you ever make any of these mistakes? How important do you think they are? H ow many people can speak English?
Some experts estimate that 1. Never in recorded history has a language been as widely spoken as English is today. The reason why millions are learning it is simple: it is the language of international business and therefore the key to prosperity.
It is not just that multinational companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Vodafone conduct their business in English; it is the language in which the Chinese speak to Brazilians and Germans to Indonesians. David Graddol, the author of English Next says it is tempting to view the story of English simply as a triumph for its native speakers in North America, Britain and Ireland, and Australasia — but that would be a mistake.
Global English has entered a more complex phase, changing in ways that the English-speaking countries cannot control and might not like. An important question one might ask is: whose English will it be in the future?
Non-native speakers now outnumber native English speakers by three to one. The majority of encounters in English today take place between non-native speakers.
According to David Graddol, many business meetings held in English appear to run more smoothly when there are no native English speakers present. This is because native speakers are often poor at ensuring that they are understood in international discussions. They tend to think they need to avoid longer Latin-based words, but in fact comprehension problems are more often caused by their use of colloquial English, especially idioms, metaphors, and phrasal verbs.
P rofessor Barbara Seidlhofer, Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Vienna, records and transcribes spoken English interactions between speakers of the language around the world. She says her team has noticed that non-native speakers are varying standard English grammar in several ways. Many omit definite and indefinite articles where they are required in standard English, or put them in where standard English does not use them.
Nouns that are not plural in native-speaker English are used as plurals by non-native speakers e. Many non-native speakers who teach English around the world would agree. But language changes, and so do notions of grammatical correctness. Those who insist on standard English grammar remain in a powerful position.
Academics who want their work published in international journals have to adhere to the grammatical rules followed by native English-speaking elites. But spoken English is another matter. Why should non-native speakers bother with what native speakers regard as correct? Their main aim, after all, is to be understood by one another, and in most cases there is no native speaker present.
They are all formal in register. Match them to their neutral equivalents below. Correct any mistakes. Which of the mistakes if any do you think interfere with communication? Iprefer the old-fashioned kind. Learn more about pronouns, and practice them. Underline the words that you think have extra stress. Listen and check. Emphasizing that something is your own opinion b Read some comments from around the world about learning or using English.
Compare wirh a partner and say if you think the situation is the same or different in your country, and how you feel about it. Use the expressions from a. The politicians wouldn't dare. I feel really embarrassed when I hear how some of our politicians or athletes speak.
I mean, I know it's more universal, but not everybody in Brazil understands English. Ithink they should sing in Portuguese. Ipersonally hate it.
Ithink we should use our own words for these things, not just borrow from English. And people even use some words that don't exist, like footing, when the English word isjogging. Before you listen, check that you understand the words in the glossary. This expression comes from baseball, when the ball is hit so far that it flies outside of the ballpark or stadium.
What do they say? Who do you identify with most? Answer the following questions with a partner. Do you agree with them about what is difficult? All the words and expressions are from File 1. It is often the only possible combination to express a concept, e. They often go in and out of fashion very quickly. They can sometimes cause offense. I had to walk home. Replace the word or phrase in italics with a phrasal verb that means the same.
Use the bold verb. Q Collocation Circle the right word in each pair. Although many people think that English pronunciation has no rules, especially regarding sounds and spelling, estimates suggest that around 80 percent ofwords are pronounced according to a rule or pattern. Are the pink letters all pronounced the same, or is one word different?
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