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UNIT 1

Grammar 5 skill
1 6 expedition
1 ’m not going
2 ’s talking 6
3 hate 1 ungrateful
4 do you prefer 2 inactive
5 is she wearing 3 dishonest
6 don’t work 4 impatient
7 rains 5 insensitive
6 unambitious
2
1 does he send Use of English
2 ’m meeting 7
3 fly 1 actor
4 doesn’t know 2 lives
5 wants 3 good-looking
6 are you studying 4 musical
5 plays
3 6 playing
1 watching 7 restaurant
2 cooking 8 characters
3 to go 9 good
4 staying in 10 working
5 to hear
6 to carry Listening
7 writing 8
1 Speaker A: pop
Vocabulary 2 Speaker B: country and
4 western
1 rude 3 Speaker C: heavy metal
2 confident 4 Speaker D: rap
3 nasty 5 Speaker E: indie
4 generous
5 lazy Reading
6 shy 9
7 arrogant 1 T
8 funny 2 T
3 F
5 4 F
1 plan 5 T
2 activities
3 time Writing
4 voluntary 10 Students' own answers.

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UNIT 2

Grammar 8 fencing
1 9 paddle
1 learned 10 rowing
2 didn’t compete
3 Did you do 6
4 scored 1 tournament
5 didn’t have 2 compete
6 did she sail 3 racecourse
7 went 4 competitors
5 penalty
2
1 Were you waiting Use of English
2 was doing 7
3 wasn’t listening 1 was growing up
4 was she watching 2 played
5 were swimming 3 loved
6 were looking 4 was studying
5 started
3 6 came
1 arrived, was waiting 7 won
2 was raining, went 8 became
3 were driving, saw 9 were watching
4 were chatting, came 10 broke
5 was reading, rang
6 went, was watching Listening
7 was eating, found 8
1 c
Vocabulary 2 a
4 3 c
1 b 4 b
2 c 5 b
3 a
4 c Reading
5 b 9
1 F
5 2 F
1 athletics 3 T
2 champion 4 T
3 ice hockey 5 F
4 archery
5 world records Writing
6 snowboarding 10 Students' own answers.
7 weightlifting

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UNIT 3

Grammar 5
1 1 economy
1 a lot of 2 crops
2 A few 3 respect
3 much 4 farmyard
4 any 5 wheat
5 a little 6 ban
6 any
7 many 6
1 through
2 2 –
1 the 3 onto
2 – 4 along
3 the 5 past
4 a 6 follow
5 the
6 a Use of English
7 the 7
1 B
3 2 A
1 There aren’t a lot of young 3 A
people in the village. 4 A
5 B
2 Is there much pollution in the
6 C
city centre? 7 D
3 There are a lot of 8 A
monuments in my city. 9 A
4 There isn’t any space in the 10 A
car park.
5 Are there any cinemas in Listening
your town? 8
6 There is a lot of traffic on 1 C
Friday afternoons. 2 – 
3 D
Vocabulary 4 E
4 5 B
1 village 6 A
2 footpath
3 pedestrian Reading
4 rubbish bin 9
5 sign 1 C
6 cottage 2 F
7 pavement 3 A
8 traffic lights 4 D
5 E

Writing
10 Students' own answers.

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UNIT 4

Grammar 4 serious
1 5 violent
1 the most expensive
2 a shorter 5
3 the scariest 1 c
4 a worse 2 a
5 funnier 3 b
6 the best 4 e
7 cheaper 5 d
8 the biggest
9 more attractive Use of English
10 the most boring 6
1 can't stand
2 2 am a big fan of
1 as popular 3 am tall enough to be
2 too violent 4 are better than
5 were more beautiful than
3 enough money
6 very disappointed with
4 too wet 7 couldn't predict who
5 as difficult as 8 was very moved by
6 as clever as 9 aren't as gripping as
7 too hot 10 was the most frightening film
8 as good as
9 funny enough Listening
10 enough time 7
1 E
Vocabulary 2 A
3 3 – 
1 Animated 4 D
2 ceremony 5 B
3 disaster 6 C
4 Westerns
5 documentary Reading
6 award 8
7 speeches 1 b
8 Science fiction 2 a
9 romantic 3 c
10 action 4 b
5 d
4
1 moving Writing
2 predictable 9 Students' own answers.
3 dull

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UNIT 5

Grammar 3 busk
1 4 artists
1 since 5 audience
2 for
3 since 6
4 for 1 bargain
5 since 2 bids
3 advertising
2 4 sale
1 have been 5 purchased
2 Did you see
3 have they known Use of English
4 watched 7
5 Have you seen 1 has
6 hasn’t been 2 largest
7 did he buy 3 was
8 cooked 4 has been
9 has she been 5 since
10 haven’t heard 6 larger
7 for
3 8 has had
1 been 9 customers
2 gone 10 departments
3 been
4 been Listening
5 gone 8
1 T
Vocabulary 2 F
4 3 T
1 jeweller’s 4 F
2 newsagent’s 5 T
3 stationer’s
4 chemist’s Reading
5 butcher’s 9
6 clothes shop 1 C
7 garden centre 2 F
8 electrical store 3 D
9 sports shop 4 E
10 baker’s 5 A

5 Writing
1 audition 10 Students' own answers.
2 venue

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UNIT 6

Grammar 4 created
1 5 posted
1a ’ll drive 6 updated
1b is going to drive
2a ’re going to visit 6
2b will visit 1 off
3a ’ll have 2 down
3b ’re going to have 3 in
4a won’t forget 4 out
4b ’s going to forget 5 on
6 away
2
1 doesn’t wake Use of English
2 eat 7
3 spend 1 fancy
4 has 2 going
5 don’t do 3 If
6 don’t sleep 4 stay
5 play
6 have
3 7 rides
1 probably 8 why
2 might 9 will
3 definitely 10 make
4 might
5 probably Listening
6 could 8
1 F
Vocabulary 2 F
4 3 T
1 notebook 4 T
2 coffee machine 5 F
3 dishwasher
4 hard disk recorder Reading
5 vacuum cleaner 9
6 satellite TV 1 D
7 camcorder 2 A
8 fridge 3 E
4 F
5 5 B
1 deactivated
2 upload Writing
3 log on 10 Students' own answers.

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UNIT 7

Grammar 5
1 1 annual
1 mustn’t 2 decade
2 must 3 century
3 needn’t 4 date
4 needn’t 5 midday
5 mustn’t 6 calendar
6 must
7 needn’t Use of English
8 mustn’t 6
9 must 1 advice
10 mustn’t 2 gifts
3 must
2 4 shake hands
1 don’t go, will clean 5 restaurants
2 don’t arrive, will be 6 needn’t
3 learn, will get 7 if
4 will be, doesn’t hurry 8 superstition
5 will go, passes 9 mustn’t
10 will
Vocabulary
3 Listening
1 c 7
2 b 1 B
3 b 2 D
4 a 3 A
5 c 4 E
6 a 5 –
7 c 6 C
8 b
Reading
4 8
1 lie down 1 T
2 put up 2 F
3 turn around 3 T
4 bend down 4 T
5 lift up 5 F
6 hold out
Writing
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UNIT 8

Grammar 8 sell
1 9 dress up
1 melted 10 take part
2 would rise
3 rose 6
4 would lose 1 b
5 got 2 c
6 would freeze 3 a
7 would die 4 c
5 b
2
1 would help Use of English
2 didn’t sit 7
3 built 1 natural
4 would understand 2 combination
5 caught 3 failures
6 would be 4 production
5 importantly
7 didn’t work
6 reaction
8 would marry 7 governments
8 Organisations
3 9 donations
1 spoke 10 kindness
2 could
3 weren’t Listening
4 had 8
5 didn’t live 1 B
2 D
Vocabulary 3 A
4 4 E
1 c 5 –
2 d 6 C
3 e
4 a Reading
5 b 9
1 F
5 2 T
1 donate 3 F
2 cause 4 T
3 recycle 5 T
4 reuse
5 left-overs Writing
6 waste 10 Students' own answers.
7 raise

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UNIT 9

Grammar 2 shoplifter
1 3 thief
1 hadn’t finished 4 muggers
2 had lost 5 Joyriders
3 had already left 6 murderer
4 had read 7 burglary
5 had hidden 8 theft
6 Had Jane arrived 9 arson
7 had taken
6
2 1 number
1 (that) he had been to the 2 junk
bank. 3 machine
2 (that) he really wanted to be 4 information
a pilot. 5 password
3 (that) she couldn’t stand 6 bank
romantic films.
4 (that) the young boy had Use of English
taken her bag. 7
5 (that) they were watching 1 D
the people in the house. 2 A
6 (that) he hadn’t seen the 3 D
robbery. 4 D
5 A
7 (that) Dora hadn’t asked her
6 D
about her exam results. 7 A
8 B
3 9 C
1 ‘I lost my mobile at the 10 D
party,’
2 ‘I’m too ill to go to work,’ Listening
3 ‘We’re meeting at the 8
restaurant at 8.30 p.m.,’ 1 T
4 ‘You’re late for the lesson,’ 2 T
5 ‘The concert hasn’t started,’ 3 F
6 ‘I’m looking for someone 4 F
with a lot of experience,’ 5 F

Vocabulary Reading
4 9
1 nicked 1 a
2 arrested 2 b
3 set 3 b
4 robbed 4 c
5 broke 5 b

5 Writing
1 vandals 10 Students' own answers.

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UNIT 10

Grammar
1 5
1 is published 1 title
2 is researched 2 plot
3 are interviewed 3 characters
4 is written 4 paperbacks
5 is corrected 5 chapter
6 are taken 6 cover
7 is printed 7 contents
8 sequel
2 9 epilogue
1 was directed 10 publisher
2 haven’t been sent
3 will be published Use of English
4 have been invited 6
5 were told 1 wrote
6 will be sold 2 are told / were told
7 weren’t given 3 tells / told
4 had written
5 extremely
3
6 disappointed
1 We are usually asked to 7 being included
arrive ten minutes before an exam. 8 was brought back
2 David Copperfield was 9 has been brought back
written by Charles Dickens. 10 have continued
3 The stolen car has been
seen in the area. Listening
4 The bus has been delayed 7
by an accident. 1 C
5 The motorway was built to 2 D
make journeys to London shorter. 3 – 
6 The TV series will be filmed 4 B
in Liverpool. 5 E
6 A
Vocabulary
4 Reading
1 dictionary 8
2 comics 1 F
3 textbooks 2 F
4 cookbook 3 T
5 newspaper 4 F
6 short stories 5 F
7 atlas
8 manual Writing
9 autobiography 9 Students' own answers.
10 encyclopaedia

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