New FRamework Students Book Unit 2

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Home alone Quantifiers, countable / uncountable Present Perfect & Past Simple Renting a room Houses, homes, furniture An advert for a flatmate Silent consonants whole

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House the world

Vocabulary & Speaking

Homes

1 Find words in the texts and put them into these

categories.

2 Put these words into the categories. Add some more

of your own.

chalet cellar lounge terrace

staircase chimney tin cottage

concrete houseboat study

3 Underline any adjectives in the texts. Are they

positive, negative or neutral?

4 Work in pairs. Take turns describing a house you

know well using the vocabulary above.

Listening1 Look at the four bedrooms (14) on page 15. What

adjectives would you use to describe them?

1 bright, minimalist

2 Connect the four people on page 15 Clara,

Richard, Alex and Beverley to the rooms (14).

Give reasons for your choices.

3 2.1 Listen to these people talking about their

bedrooms and check your ideas.

4What parts of the room do they mention? What istheir favourite thing?

5 Listen again. What is the connection between their

room and their personality?

types of houses rooms in a house materials parts of a house

hut loft mud roof

positive negative neutral

spacious cramped steep

Try the internet activities for this unit at www.webframework.net

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Speaking & Reading

1 Look at the pictures and answer the questions.

1 Which is the most similar to houses in your country?

2 Which countries do you think the houses are in? Why?

2 Match the texts (ad) to the houses (18). Four of the

houses are not mentioned.

a) A round hut in Cameroon made of mud and straw.It has a steep thatched roof, one door and no

windows. It is very dark inside.

b) A small house in a southern Spanish town. It has

whitewashed walls and a small balcony with flowers.

There are wooden blinds to keep the house cool in

summer. It is in a quiet backstreet and is very peaceful.

c) An apartment in Hong Kong city centre. It is on the

57thfloor of a high-rise building. It is very cramped.

The windows are tiny and the ceilings very low.

d) A traditional English semi-detached house in thesuburbs, made of red brick. It is spacious and

comfortable and has a large garden. It has five

bedrooms, two bathrooms and a loft with a skylight.


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Unit 2: Home alone 15

2Home alone

The Real Thing: whole

1 Find examples of the word whole in Transcript 2.1

in the Reference Guide.

2 2.2 Listen and check.

3 Underline the correct phrase in the two rules below.

a) Whole refers to a lot of / all ofsomething.

b) Whole comes before / after articles,

determiners or possessive pronouns.

4 2.3 Listen to three short dialogues. What are they

talking about? What does the whole thing refer to

each time? Choose the best option: a or b.

Dialogue 1. a) the news b) the story

Dialogue 2. a) the hotel b) the plan

Dialogue 3. a) the game b) the surprise

Look at these phrases from Transcript 2.1.

The words in bold are used before nounsto express quantity.

hardly anyfurniture loads ofjunk

a couple ofphotos a fewthings

so much stress theresnot enough space

The quantifier depends on whether the noun is

countable or uncountable.

Put these quantifiers into three categories.

a lot of / lots of / loads ofideas/help

a little time so / too manycars

plenty ofmoney/friends some books/luck

(not) enough sugar/eggs a couple of dogshardly any hair/taxis not muchwork

several people not manydoctors

a fewvisitors so / too much sun

Countable nouns: , , ,

,

Uncountable nouns: , ,

Countable and uncountable nouns: ,

, , ,

Language focus

Quantifiers (1)

Practice

1 Use the quantifiers (ad) to make correct sentences

about the illustrations (14).

a) too much c) very little

b) lots of d) hardly any

2 Use the quantifiers in the Language focus box to

describe the rooms in your house.

There are lots of plants. Theres not much furniture.

Pronunciation

Silent consonants

Do Pronunciation Worksheet 2.

See Reference Guide, pp. 56.

See Workbook, p. 9, exs. 13.

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3 4

1

3 4

2

a couple of

so / too much

hardly any


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Reading

1 Answer the questions.

1 What do you know about IKEA?

2 Do you have any IKEA furniture at home?

3 Why do you think IKEA is so popular?

2 Read the article and check if any of your ideas are

mentioned.

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Design your life

Speaking & Vocabulary

Furniture1 Look at the three rooms below. Do you like them? Tell

your partner why or why not.

2 Label the furniture in the photos using these words.

Which piece of furniture can you NOT find?

rug parquet bookshelves fireplace blinds

coffee table side table cushions cupboards

chest of drawers armchair

The gospel according to

It started as a young mans dream in rural Sweden.Now IKEA is the worlds largest furniture retailer with283 stores in 36 countries and an annual turnover ofbillions of euros. How do they do it? Daniel Monk wentto a superstore to investigate.

1 Firstly, IKEA stores are not really stores at all: ina traditional shop you enter and search for aparticular product. At IKEA, you have to do a tourof the whole store until you arrive at the productsyoure looking for. This is a brilliant trick to get youto spend more money!

2 At IKEA the customer does the work: you shop withlittle help from the staff, take your furniture homeand assemble it yourself. All this helps to keep costsdown. Thats great in theory, but dont you just hateflat-pack furniture when you get home and find afew important parts are missing?

3 The IKEA philosophy is optimistic. It encourages youto take control and thats incredibly clever you justneed a little imagination. With IKEAs help you canfight the chaos in your home. There are dozens ofbookcases, shelving and multi-purpose cupboards,because everything must have its home. Order and

classification are at the heart of the IKEA ideology.

4 Judging by their sales figures, that ideology isspreading. Few households in Europe these dayscontain nothing from IKEA. In some ways, its great:IKEA have made stylish furniture affordable. Thedanger, of course, is that our homes are all startingto look alike.

5 On the positive side, IKEA is pretty classless. Almosteverybody has enough money to shop there, and itspopular with one-parent families and single people.So, while traditional British institutions the Crown,

Parliament, Marks and Spencer have become lesspopular, theres plenty of evidence that IKEA willkeep going strong.

IKEA


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2Home alone

3 Read the article again. Match the headings to the

paragraphs (1-5).

a) IKEA for all

b) Getting around the shop

c) Lookalike homes

d) Ordering your mess

e) Youre on your own

4 Decide whether each of the following statements is

true (T) or false (F). Correct the false statements.

1 At IKEA...

a) you have to follow a certain route. Tb) you can wander around the store as you like. Fc) you have to see the whole of the store.

2 Prices are kept low at IKEA because...

a) the staff dont give you a lot of help.

b) you have to assemble the furniture yourself.

c) you have to design the furniture yourself.3 IKEA specialises in...

a) cheap quality furniture that looks stylish.

b) containers and boxes for storing things.

c) items that help you organise your life.

4 The author likes the fact that...

a) IKEA has become so popular.

b) all kinds of people shop there.

c) you assemble your own furniture.

5 In general, the author...

a) is very positive about IKEA and its ideology.

b) is quite impressed by IKEAs success.

c) likes some things about IKEA and is sceptical

about others.

Language focus

Quantifiers (2)

few / little

Read these sentences and complete the rules.

...all you need is a littleimagination.

...a fewimportant parts are missing

We use a few with countable/ uncountable nouns.

We use a l ittle with countable/ uncountable nouns....Fewhouseholds contain nothing from IKEA.

...withlittlehelp from the staff.

and have a negative meaning

(like not many / not much or hardly any).

and have a positive meaning

(like some).

enough

Read these sentences and complete the rules.

Most people have enoughmoney to shop in IKEA.

IKEA is cheap enoughfor most people.

We put enough before nouns / adjectives and afternouns/ adjectives and adverbs.

See Reference Guide, p. 6; See Workbook, p. 9, ex. 4.

Practice

Circle the correct option in each sentence.

1 Shes not very popular. She has a few / few

friends.

2 I can come out tonight after all. Ive got a little /

little money left.

3 Can I have some more sugar in my coffee? Its not

enough sweet / sweet enough.

4 There werent enough people / people enough to

play football yesterday.

Listening

1 Look at Janines room and describe it.

There are hardly any shelves. Theres not enough spacefor her books

2 2.4 Janine has used IKEA furnishings to transform

her room. Listen to her talking about the room and

answer the questions.

1 Which of the furniture items on page 16 does

she mention?

2 Which does she like / dislike? Why?

3 Listen again. Complete with the words you hear.

1 in fact I think I bought things

2 when I get rugs, itll be just perfect

3 that coffee table ... theres space for it

4 the blinds ... there were different types

5 the bookshelves ... I can fit books on

them

6 the chest of drawers ... there are

drawers, in fact

Speaking

Discuss in pairs. What would you do to change yourroom, flat or classroom?

My flats not light enough, so I would paint the walls whiteand get a few mirrors for decoration. Theres too much


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2 You are going to read the story of Sozana and Saranda,

Kosovan refugees. Answer these questions. Then read

the art icle on page 19 and check your answers.

1 What do you know about Kosovo?

2 Which country do you think Sozana and Sarandalive in now?

3 What difficulties do you think they have had to face?

3 Choose the correct option (a, b or c) for each sentence.

1 The twins left Pristina with

a) very few possessions.

b) nothing.

c) what they were able to take in 15 minutes.

2 At the refugee camp

a) there was loads of food.

b) there was hardly any food.

c) they had to wait a long time to get food.

3 How many places have the twins lived in the

United States?

a) two

b) three

c) four

4 How would you describe their feelings about

living in New York?

a) They have mixed feelings.

b) They love it there and have no regrets.

c) They miss home and want to return.

4 Put the events of their story into the correct order.

a) go to a refugee camp in Macedoniab) war breaks out

c) fly to New Jersey

d) live in an apartment in Pristina 1e) move to Brooklyn

f) catch a train to Macedonia

g) their uncle finds them a flat in the Bronx

5 Change the present tense verbs in Exercise 4 to the

past tense and retell the twins story. Add any more

information you can remember.

Sozana and Saranda lived in an apartment in Pristina withtheir family. Then, on April 1st, 1998, war broke out

6 Discuss with your partner.

1 Is this a happy or sad story?

2 Are Sozana and Saranda lucky or unlucky? Why?

Speaking

1 Look at the photos and answer the questions.

1 Where do you think they were taken?

2 Who lives in these houses and why do you

think they are there?

3 What difficulties do you think the people

experience every day?

I imagine theyd have to / would find it difficult toTheres probably not enough / very few

2 Work in pairs. Take turns choosing a picture and

describing it for your partner to identify. Use the

words in the box to help you.

tents huts thatched leaves

plastic sheets roof sticks loads of

not much too much / many

There are loads of small, round huts.They are made from

Reading & Speaking

1 Choose the correct definition.

A refugee is someone who

a) leaves his / her country to find work in

another country.

b) enters another country illegally.

c) leaves his / her country because of war, or

other threats or dangers.

Refugees


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2Home alone

We lived with our parents and younger sister in an

apartment in Pristina. Our older brother was

working in America and sent us money each month.

The war broke out on April 1st, 1998. One day, about two

weeks later, some men came to our house and told uswe had 15 minutes to leave. We left quickly, taking

nothing, and went into a car park where about 200 other

people had gathered. We pushed our way onto a

crowded train headed for Macedonia. We finally got there

at about 2 oclock in the morning, got off the train and

started walking in the rain. We got to Blaca and stayed

for five days, sleeping in fields and begging for food.

Then our whole family went to a refugee camp. At first we

were delighted to see the food there, but it wasnt easy

to get. We had to queue for three hours sometimes. After

about a month, they put us on a plane to New Jersey

because our brother lived there. Three weeks later, ouruncle, who lived in New York, came to pick us up.

He found an apartment for us in the Bronx and the

Immigration Service gave us enough money for clothes,

medicine and food for one month. Our father got a job as

a plumber.

We started school in the Bronx, which was very hard.

After three months, we moved here to Brooklyn. Weve

been here for about two years and we like it because

theres a school for kids like us. Weve learnt a lot of

English and this week weve started driving lessons.

Although were very close, weve never been to

Manhattan, but we would love to go. Weve made quite

a few friends recently but miss all our friends back home.

But this is our new home now, this is where well stay.

Sozana and Saranda,

Kosovo, 17 years old

Language focus

Present Perfect & Past Simple

Underline the correct verb tense to complete the

rules below.

1 We use the Present Perfect / Past Simple to describe

finished time: we say when the action happened.

Then our whole family went to a refugee camp.

2 We use the Present Perfect / Past Simple to

describe actions that happened (or didnt happen) at

an indefinite time in the past, and which have some

present relevance.

Weve made quite a few friends

(= we are happy now)

weve never been to Manhattan

(= we would like to go now)

3 We use the Present Perfect / Past Simple to

describe actions which began in the past and

continue into the present.

Weve been here for about two years

Put these time expressions (from the text) into two

categories.

April 1998 never one day

three weeks later this week recently

at 2 oclock in the morning

Finished time: , , ,Time up to now: , ,

See Reference Guide, p. 7.

See Workbook, p. 10, exs. 57.

Practice

1 Correct these sentences.

Have seen1 Did you see any good films recently?

2 When I have been a child I lived in the capital city.

3 I never heard that joke before.

4 I went to the gym five times so far this week.

5 Ive been to New York last year.

6 I lived here all of my life.

2 Describe your own life using the Past Simple or

Present Perfect tenses. Divide your life in to

childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Use some

of the time expressions above.

07 years I was born in Toronto. I went to school there

714 years When I was eight we moved to Quebec...

1421 years Recently Ive started a course in graphicdesign

Present Perfect & Past Simple: Try the interactive activity on your CD-ROM.


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Flatmates

Speaking & Vocabulary

Renting a flat

1 Is it common to share a flat in your country? What

do you think the positive and negative aspects are?

2 Look at the photos opposite. Which of these things

would be important to you?

3 Match the words (17) to their definitions (ag).

1 roommate

2 tenant

3 landlord

4 estate agent

5 squatter

6 guest

7 flatmate

a) a person who lives in an

empty building without

paying rent

b) someone who you payrent to

c) someone you can buy or

rent a flat / house from

d) a person who you invite to

stay in your flat / house

e) someone who lives in a

flat / house and pays rent

f) a person you share a flat /

house with (UK)

g) a person you share a flat /

house with (USA)

4 Write five questions you would ask a potential flatmate.

Do you like pets? Are you a vegetarian?

5 Compare in groups. Find the five most important

questions (eliminate the non-essential information).

Reading & Listening

1 Look at the photos of Ivan and Saskia. What kind of

people are they? What hobbies / interests do youthink they have?

2 Read the text and check your ideas.

Ivan Saskia

Sharing a flat: Try the interactive activity on your CD-ROM.

PROFILE

Ivan is 23 and is from San Sebastian, in

Spain. Saskia is 22 and comes from

Rotterdam, in Holland. They share a flat

in Edinburgh and are both Erasmusstudents. Ivan studies Medicine and

Saskia Graphic Design. Saskia is

obsessed with tidiness and order. She

studies a lot at home. Ivan is quite a lazy

student, but he enjoys cooking and

doing odd jobs around the house. They

are not a couple, but they have a lot of

interests in common. They both love

cats and have two at home. They enjoy

yoga and meditation and like quiet New

Age music. They both smoke. They dont

watch TV much and now they are

looking for a new flatmate, preferably of

the same age and with similar interests.


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David


2Home alone

4 2.5 Listen to two interviews with potential flatmates,

David and Nicola, and answer the questions.

1 What positive or negative qualities do David

and Nicola have? Which ones are mentioned on

your list? Tick the ones you have in common.

2 Which of the two candidates, David or Nicola,

do you think is the most / least suitable? Why?How are they different?

5 2.6 Listen to Ivan and Saskia talking about the

person they chose. Were you right?

6 Read the statements below. Then listen again.

Are they true or false? If false, explain why.

The new flatmate...

1 is quite clean.

2 makes disgusting food for them.

3 doesnt spend much time with them.

4 doesnt care about them smoking.

5 will be leaving in six months.

perfect flatmate nightmare flatmate

very quiet listens to loud dance music /

heavy metal late at nightnon-smoker chain smoker

Nicola David

smoker terrible cook

TAKEAWAY ENGLISH: Renting a room

1 Match the questions (18) to the answers (ah).

1 So, what do you think of the flat?

2 What music are you into?

3 What do you like doing in your free time?

4 Do you mind people smoking?

5 What are you doing at the moment?

6 Are you a clean and organised person?

7 Are you going out with anyone?

8 Is there anything else youd like to say

about yourself?

a) Im a journalist and Im studying at the

same time.

b) I love all types, Im not fussy.

c) No, Ive just split up with someone.

d) Im just a really nice person!

e) Most of the time, yes!

f) Its great, just what I was looking for.

g) Not at all, Im very relaxed about it.

h) Im really into cycling and other sports.

2 Work in pairs. Follow the instructions.

Student A: You are looking for a flatmate.

Interview Student B using the above

questions and some more of your own.

Which of the three candidates would you

accept as your flatmate? Why?

Student B: Read your profiles on page 123

and answer Student As questions three

times for each of the three candidates.

I wouldnt choose X because he would always be at home.

Swap roles. Student A: Read your profiles on page 118.

3 In small groups, make a list of the qualities of a

perfect flatmate and a nightmare flatmate.

Renting a room: Try the interactive activity on your CD-ROM. Now do Unit Test 2 on your CD-ROM.

Nicola

Writing

An advertisement

Write an advertisement for a new flatmate. Include a

brief description of

1 the flat, using vocabulary from the unit.

2 the location and nearby facilities such as transport, etc.

3 the kind of flatmate youre looking for.

(Large) room for rent in a (bright, spacious) flatLocated in a (lively) area withSuitable for a (single non-smoker) who likes

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