Rising Star

S T U D E N T ' S B O O K

A Pre-First Certificate Course

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Unit Title Topics Grammar Use of English

The global teenager

Visions of the future

Communication, the environment

Science-fiction films, space travel

The t ru th is ou t the re Mystery stories

Present simple, present continuous

Past simple, present perfect simple and continuous

Past perfect simple and continuous, past continuous

Error correction (Part 4)

Open cloze (Part 2)

Multiple choice cloze (Part 1)

Review: Units 1-3 page 32

4 Sunny days The weather and Future (1): future Open cloze page 34 the natural world simple, going to, (Part 2) page 34

present continuous, present simple

5 page 42

The secrets of science Science and technology

Future (2): future perfect simple, future perfect continuous, future continuous


6 Looking good. Health and fitness, Conditional (1): first Open cloze page 50 feeling good food and second (Part 2) page 50

conditionals


7 A good story Story-telling Conditional (2): third Multiple choice page 60 conditional, wishes cloze (Part 1) page 60

and regrets

8 Wonders of the world Ancient history page 68

The passive Error correction (Part 4)

Vocabulary [Reading Listening Speaking Writing

Describing movement Multiple matching: Note-taking Pairwork task Transactional Phrasal verbs with summaries (Part 2) (Part 3) letter (Part 1)

on and up (Part 1) Words often confused

Compound nouns Multiple matching Multiple choice Pairwork task Informal letter Collocation (computers) (Part 4) (Part 4) (Parts 3 and 4) (Part 2) Phrasal verbs with get

Parts of speech Gapped text: Note-taking Information gap Short story Words often confused sentences (Part 3) (Part 2) (Part 2) Phrasal verbs with go

Idioms (time) Multiple choice Yes/No Photographs (Part 2) Transactional Words often confused (Part 2) questions letter (Part 1)

(Part 4)

Prepositions (with Multiple matching: Multiple choice Pairwork task Magazine adjectives and nouns) headings (Part 1) (Part 1) article (Part 2)

Words often confused

Word building (food) Multiple choice Multiple choice Photographs (Part 2) Informal letter Phrasal verbs (food and (Part 2) (Part 4) (Part 2)

drink)

Word building Multiple matching Yes/No Information gap Short story Collocation (go and have) (Part 4) questions (Part 2) Words often confused (Part 4)

Noun suffixes Multiple matching Multiple Planning a tourist Report (Part 2) Phrasal verbs (Part 4) matching brochure

with up and down (Part 3)

Unit Title Topics Grammar Use of English

Star players

page 76

Sport, famous people

Reported speech Open cloze (Part 2)


10 page 86

Fun and games Celebrations and festivals

Gerunds and infinitives Word formation (Part 5)

11 page 94

From Columbus to Concorde

Travel and transport

Comparative and superlative adjectives


12 page 102

Making money, spending money

Shopping and consumerism

Relative clauses and pronouns



13 Smart kids Education page 112

Modal verbs (1) Open cloze (Part 2)

The world 's best, the The media, crime page 120 world 's wors t

Modal verbs (2): modal perfect

Word formation (Part 5)

W o r k and play page 128

Summer jobs Clauses of purpose and reason




Communication activities pages 139, 140 Grammar reference page 141 Phrasal verb dictionary page 157

Contents

Vocabulary [Reading Listening Speaking Writing

Antonyms Multiple matching: Note-taking Information gap Magazine Words often confused headings (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 1) article (Part 2) Collocation (sport)

Countable and Multiple choice Multiple choice Pairwork task Descriptive uncountable nouns (Part 2) (Part 4) (Parts 3 and 4) composition

Collocation (fun and (Part 2) games)

Words often confused

Word formation (making Gapped text: Note-taking Photographs (Part 2) Report (Part 2) adjectives) sentences (Part 3) (Part 2)

Words often confused •

Collocation (take)

Transitive and intransitive Multiple choice Multiple Pairwork task (Parts 3 Transactional verbs (Part 2) matching and 4) letter (Part 1)

Phrasal verbs with take (Part 3) Words often confused

Parts of speech Gapped text: True/False Pairwork task Opinion Collocation missing questions (Parts 3 and 4) composition

(make and do) paragraphs (Part 4) (Part 2) Collocation (exams) (Part 3)

Word formation (noun Gapped text: Multiple Telling a story using Argumentative suffixes) missing matching picture prompts composition

Phrasal verbs with break paragraphs (Part 3) (Part 2) Collocation (law and (Part 3)

order)

Word formation (suffixes) Multiple matching Multiple choice Photographs (Part 2) Letter of Words often confused (Part 4) (Part 1) application Collocation and idioms (Part 2)

(jobs)

Introduction to the Cambridge FCE^ r The Cambridge First Certificate Examination has five papers, each of which tests a different area of your ability in English. Each paper is worth 20% of the total.

Paper 1 Reading (1 h®yr 15 minytes) The reading paper has four parts, each of which consists of a text and a comprehension task of some kind. The types of text used include magazine and newspaper articles, reports, guides, advertisements and stories. There is a total of 35 questions.

Part Questions Task

1 Multiple matching 6 or 7 You have to match headings or summary sentences to their appropriate paragraphs.

2 Multiple choice 7 or 8 You have to choose the correct answer or end of a sentence from a choice of four.

3 Gapped text 6 or 7 You are given sentences or paragraphs which have been removed from the text and have to decide where they should go in the text.

4 Multiple matching 13-15 The text is divided into different sections. You are given sentences and have to decide which section each one refers to.

Paper 2 Writing (1 b©ur 3® minutes) The writing paper has two parts. Part 1 is compulsory and consists of a transactional letter. In Part 2, you can choose to answer one of five tasks. One of these tasks is always a question on a set book.

Part Questions Task

H Transactional letter 1 You have to write a letter that has a specific purpose (eg to ask for information or to complain). You are given information that you have to include in your letter.

2 Article/composition/ report/letter/story/ book report

Choose 1 of 5 You have to write a text based on a 'real life' context (eg writing an article for a school magazine).

Paper 3 Use of English (1 hour 15 mooDytesj) This paper has five parts and tests your knowledge of grammar and vocabulary. There is a total of 65 questions.

Part Questions Task

11 Multiple choice cloze 15 You are given a text with 15 gaps and have to choose the correct answer for each gap from a choice of four.

2 Open cloze 15 You are given a text with 15 gaps and have to fill each gap with an appropriate word.

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[Paper 3 coratimyed 3 Key word

transformations 10 You are given a complete sentence followed by a gapped

sentence. You have to complete the gapped sentence using a given word so that it means the same as the first sentence.

4 Error correction 15 You are given a text of 15 lines, some of which contain unnecessary words. You have to decide which lines are correct, and which contain an unnecessary word.

5 Word formation 10 You are given a text with ten gaps. You have to fill each gap using the appropriate form of the word stems given.

[Papdo3 % Listening (about 4© minutes]) The listening paper has four parts, each of which consists of a listening text and a comprehension task of some kind. The types of listening text used include interviews, conversations, news reports, talks and phone messages. A variety of accents are used, and you will hear each listening text twice. There is a total of 30 questions.

Part Questions Task H Multiple choice 8 You will hear eight short, unconnected extracts. You have

to answer a multiple choice question about each one.

2 Note taking/ blank filling

10 You will hear a monologue or conversation. You have to complete notes or sentences.

3 Multiple matching 5 You will hear five short extracts which are related in some way. You have to match each extract with a given sentence.

4 Selecting from two or three possible answers

7 You will hear a monologue or conversation. You have to answer questions which involve choosing between two or three possible answers (Yes/No, True/False, multiple choice, which speaker said what).

Paper 5 Speaking (about 115 minutes) In the speaking paper there are usually two candidates and two examiners. One of the examiners interviews the candidates; the other examiner listens and assesses the candidates, but does not join in the interview.

Part Tome Tas!«

H Interview 3 minutes The examiner will ask you and the other candidate to talk about yourselves (eg where you come from, etc).

2 Talking about photographs

4 minutes The examiner will give you and the other candidate two photographs each. In turn, you have to talk about your photographs for about two minutes.

3 Pairwork task 3 minutes The examiner will give you and the other candidate a visual prompt (eg a photo, a map, a diagram) and will set you a task to do. The task may involve planning something, solving a problem or reaching a decision.

4 Discussion 4 minutes The examiner will ask you and the other candidate general opinion questions about the topic of the pairwork task.

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The global teenager Present simple, present continuous

Reading ^U Work with a partner. Look at the photograph and discuss

these questions.

1 What are these young people wearing?

2 How do they spend their free time? What music do they listen to?

3 What languages do they speak? Where do they learn English?

4 Which satellite TV channels do they watch? Do they use the Internet?

Read the text and check your answers.

Teenagers of the worDd unite! Will teenagers be the force of the future? Carol Packer looks at the rise of the global teenager.

The popularity of the satellite TV channel MTV is 20 evidence of this: their pop videos play in every

corner of the planet, from Stockholm to Sofia, from Athens to Atlanta, and since most of the songs are in English, kids from all over the world learn to sing in English too.

3 25 Kids these days can chat online with friends

thousands of miles away. In fact, a teenager in India may feel they have more in common with an Internet friend in Brazil than with other young people in their own country. Young people around

30 the globe are beginning to hang around together on the Internet as they used to on the street.

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l While the population of Europe and America is growing older, those in developing countries are becoming younger. In the non-western world, particularly India, China and Brazil, there is an

5 influential generation of teenagers growing up. These young people's tastes influence the design of clothes and cars; whole industries are appearing to help teenagers spend their free time - and their money.

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10 English plays an important part in a teenager's world; it is the dominant language in youth style and is one way in which teenagers across the world can communicate with each other and share a common culture. The existence of graffiti written

15 in English in so many countries is one example of this.

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The strongest force in international youth culture today is pop music. Music has universal appeal.

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There may be a greater readiness to learn language on the streets of cyberspace than in the classroom. More and more people are learning English from

35 their friends on the Internet and it is not always the same as the English they learn in the classroom.

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TCn© global teoonagor

Tim Berners-Lee, the British inventor of the World Wide Web, imagines the effect of the

40 Internet on a teenage boy: his search engine shows him a random selection of the 643,768 people around the world whose preferences in reading are similar to his own. He knows that he may live in a small town in the Netherlands

45 but he is right in the centre of the main trend, he feels he is exactly in tune with all his unseen friends.

But companies like Benetton say they are also trying to create a youth agenda to unite

50 teenagers of the world. This agenda includes an awareness of the global environment and human rights. The Benetton message says teenagers do not always conform to the same style. Thus, those who wear the 'united

55 colours of Benetton' are encouraged to celebrate together their individual and cultural difference.

FCE practice" Part 1 H|) Choose from the list A-H the sentence which

best summarizes each part I -6 of the article. There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.There is an example at the beginning (0).

A A new generation appears on the world scene.

B Computers create a new kind of neighbourhood.

C New ways of learning English have appeared.

D Teenagers also have language in common.

E A tuneful language that everyone understands.

F Teenagers like to be different too.

G Education is changing to meet the needs of modern teenagers.

H The man who first thought of the Web.

Work with a partner and give your own answers to the questions in exercise I.

I am wearing a tracksuit and trainers.

I like listening to music and rollerblading.

(||) Find words in the text that have a similar meaning to the following.The first letter of each word is given to help you.

1 the number of people who live in a town or country p

2 people of the same age group g

3 the effect something or someone has i

4 the work and the processes involved in the production of goods, especially in factories i

5 writing and pictures drawn on the walls of buildings g

6 someone who designs or makes new things

7 a fashion t

8 to behave in the expected way c

9 to do something special because something good has happened c

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The gtolbaD teeonager

Grammar and HJs® ©if EDnglDsCn Present simple, present continuous

I f ] W e use the present simple to do the following things:

a to talk about general scientific truths b to describe present actions, eg in

commentaries c to talk about how often we do things

Match the uses above with these examples. 1 They go to the office every day. 2 The earth goes round the sun. 3 Romario passes the ball; he shoots.

U W e use the present continuous to do the following things:

a to talk about things happening now b to talk about changing situations c to talk about irritating things which often happen

Match the uses above with these examples. 1 You're always dropping things! 2 It's stopped raining - the sun's shining. 3 What are you doing under the bed?

See grammar reference page 141.

( j f ) Complete these sentences using the correct form (present simple) of the words below.

come shine use speak live have be

1 I from a country in Latin America. 2 In my country the sun a lot. 3 I in a new city which is high above

the sea. 4 We a language which is like Italian

and French. 5 My favourite school subject maths. 6 I an internet friend from England

called Sarah. 7 I the Internet everyday to talk to her!

Complete these sentences to make questions in the second person for each of the sentences in exercise I.

1 Where come from? 2 shine a lot in your country? 3 live? 4 Which speak? 5 What your favourite school

subject? 6 any Internet friends? 7 often do you use the Internet?

Now write sentences about yourself and your country using the verbs above.

I come from ...

Choose the present simple or present continuous in these sentences.

1 I work/am working eight hours a day at the moment, and it starts/is starting to get very tiring.

2 I am only working/only work in the computer department till Meg gets back from holiday. Usually, I work/am working in the toy department.

3 Look it's1 snowing/snows outside. It never snows/is never snowing in November.

4 I live/am living in London, as I have done all my life, but at the moment I'm staying/stay in Madrid because we've just opened a new office there.

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