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Level 1 Unit 1
Strategies and Exam tips sections are designed to equip students with strategies to deal with the range of exam tasks found in the entrance exam.
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5 Read the WRITING FOCUS and complete the examples with the words in purple in the text.
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1 Work in pairs. Look at your partner. Then close your eyes and describe his or her appearance and clothes. 2 In the email below, Maggie describes her friend Claire. Before you read, make a list of the things you think she might include. age, hair (length and colour), interests, … 3 Now read Maggie’s email and see which things on your list she mentioned. 4 Do you think you would get on well with Claire? Why? / Why not?
A friend is going to visit the city where your cousin lives. Your cousin has agreed to show your friend around the city. They have never met before. A Write an email of 100 to 150 words to your cousin: • thank your cousin for agreeing to show your friend around • explain the reason for writing the email • mention your friend’s age • describe your friend’s personality (mention something negative) • mention some of your friend’s interests • describe your friend’s appearance (general impression, clothes, physical, etc.) • thank your cousin again • say goodbye Useful Language • Thanks for agreeing to …
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Describing a person Body • Mention age He’s (about) my/your/ 1 ..... age. He’s in his teens/ 2 ..... /mid/late twenties. • Describe personality and interests He’s a very easy-going/interesting person. She’s the sort/type/kind of person 3 ..... always remembers your birthday/loves kids. She’d 4 ..... a great teacher/doctor/friend. He’s 5 ..... music/fashion/skateboarding. • Describe hair, eyes, skin and face He’s got cool, short, 6 ..... hair.
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EXAM FOCUS Multiple choice: statements 1 Read the statement and choices and make a note of any key words. 2 Use the key words to identify the part of the text that the statement refers to. 3 Focus on the detail of the paragrap 4 Eliminate any options that are obvio 5 Read the paragraph or sentence ag final choice. EXAM FOCUS Multiple choice 1 Read the statement and choices an any key words. 2 Use the key words to identify the p the statement refers to.
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She’s got beautiful, long 7 ..... , blond hair. She’s got a kind/friendly/unusual smile/face. • Mention height/build She’s short/ 8 ..... /tall. He’s fairly well-built/ 9 ..... . • Give general impressions She looks (kind of) cool/unusual/mysterious/ unhappy/nervous. He looks a bit 10 ..... you/me/Mr Bean/Ronaldo. • Mention clothes She 11 ..... casually/smartly/well/in black. He always wears casual/smart/scruffy/fashionable/ stylish clothes. 6 Some adjectives can be very negative when used to describe a person. Replace the underlined negative adjectives with the kinder phrases in the box. not really interested in fashion not always hard-working mature a little overweight a bit too slim sometimes forgets his/her manners 1 Jo is skinny. She doesn’t eat very much. Jo is a bit too slim. 2 Ryan is fat. He doesn’t do much exercise. 3 Harry is scruffy. He doesn’t care what he wears. 4 Ellie is rude. She needs to be more polite. 5 Ken is a(n) old student. He’s back at university because he wants a career change. 6 Kelly is lazy. Her parents are worried that she’ll fail her exams.
Zara told me you are looking for a new singer for your band. If so, I think my friend might be perfect.
• I’m writing to tell you about … • She’s a very easy-going person. • She looks kind of cool. • She’s got long, curly, brown hair. • She’s into museums and sports. • Thanks again for helping me. 1 Match part-words in box A with words in box B to make at least ten more family words. ex- grand great- great-great- half- -in-law second step + B Use the ideas in the WRITING FOCUS and the model to help you. C Check ✔ Have you followed the task? ✔ Does the introduction to your email explain why you are writing? ✔ Does your email use kinder phrases instead of negative adjectives? ✔ Have you used the correct order for adjectives of appearance? ✔ Have you organised your email into 3 or 4 paragraphs? ✔ Have you checked spelling and punctuation? A
Her name’s Claire and she’s our age, though she looks like she’s already in her early twenties. She’s very easy-going and I think she has a great sense of humour – we get on really well. She’s also a very creative person and a fantastic singer. She plays the guitar and writes her own songs and has even made a video to go with one of them. She’s into all sorts of music, from classical to punk and I think she’s the sort of person who is open to new ideas. I think she’d make a great singer for the band. She’s about medium height and slim, and she’s got long, straight, dark hair. She dresses fashionably and she often wears a black, leather jacket. I think she looks a bit like a film star because she’s very glamorous . She’s also very pretty dark hair. She looks a bit like she’s very glamorous hair. She dresses fashionably and she often wears a black, leather jacket. I think she like a film star because
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Watch her video (attached) and let me know what you think.
Multiple choice: statements
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1 Match part-words in box A with words in box B to make at least ten more family words. ex- grand great- great-great- half- -in-law second step + A
5 Read the EXAM FOCUS above. Then choose the correct answer A–D. 1 Your genes ..... A come mainly from your mother. B mean you always resemble one of your parents. C determine what you look like. D are always unique to you. 2 Two blue-eyed parents with a brown-eyed child is ..... A uncommon. B common. C impossible. D extremely common. 3 Some children are very tall because ..... A their parents are very healthy. 3 Focus on the detail of the paragraph or sentence. 4 Eliminate any options that are obviously incorrect. 5 Read the paragraph or sentence again and make your final choice.
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2 Use different family words from Exercise 1 to describe yourself. Draw a diagram.
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B they have short parents. C they enjoy their lifestyle. D they eat well and live well. 5 Read the EXAM FOCUS above. Th correct answer A–D. 1 Your genes ..... 4 Bald men ..... A always lose their hair due to their father’s genes. B nearly always have sons who go bald. C sometimes inherit baldness from their mother’s side. D never pass on baldness through their daughters. 5 Black and white twins are only possible when ..... A come mainly from your moth B mean you always resemble o C determine what you look like D are always unique to you. 2 Two blue-eyed parents with a b A uncommon. B common. C impossible. D extremely common. 3 Some children are very tall beca A their parents are very health A a black parent has white-skinned ancestors. B black is the dominant gene in the family. C the parents are both black. D the parents are both white. 6 The most appropriate title for the text is ..... A What do you look like? B A family tradition C Where are you from? D It’s all in the genes 6 Match the words and phrases in blue in the text with the meanings 1–6. 1 small brown spots on the skin 2 small areas on your cheek or chin that go inwards 3 looks exactly like 4 be like 5 look like 6 family members who lived a very long time ago I’m Simon’s nephew. I’m Ewa’s son.
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Task layout helps students prepare for the exam.
I’m Monika’s brother.
EXTRA PRACTICE • Listening 3 → You are going to listen to an interview with Sheila Turner, who writes a blog with tips about shopping and saving money.
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2 Use different family words from Exercise 1 to describe yourself. Draw a diagram.
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2 EXTRA PRACTICE • Speaking Personal questions 1 Answer the questions.
3.13 Read the multiple-choice questions carefully. Then listen to the recording and choose the correct options. Only ONE option is correct. 1 In the interview, Sheila gives advice to listeners about … A famous shops. B reducing fuel bills. C well-known supermarkets. D shopping for food. 2 Before she goes shopping, Sheila … A prepares a shopping list. B checks her supermarket’s website. C never eats. D sticks her shopping list on the wall. 3 Sheila says that when bargains are offered by supermarkets … A the prices aren’t always lower than before. B she can never remember what the original price was. C they usually make you spend more money.
1 What do you like about the region where you live? 2 What are the most interesting places to visit in your region? 3 Is your region famous for anything? 4 What are the main industries or jobs where you live? Describe the photos 2 Compare and contrast the photos. What would be the advantages and disadvantages of living in each place? Which would you prefer to live in? Why?
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3 In pairs, describe three people from your family. Who do you look like most? 4 Read the article. Which things 1–7 can you inherit from your parents and/or ancestors? 1 your health 2 your eye, hair and skin colour 3 your facial features
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C In a different video, O’Neill thanked her followers and the media for the support and attention she had been getting for speaking out about social media. She wants fans to know that posts are edited and manipulated to get more views, which puts pressure on girls to look perfect. ‘I no longer want to spend hours and hours of my time scrolling, viewing and comparing myself to others,’ she said. ‘I want to do something radical, something a little different. I want to use my imagination, my individual mind.’ media platforms. She said she felt unworthy and unpopular by society’s standards unless she was validated with lots of likes and views. Her moment of revelation came when she realised that she still felt lonely in spite of achieving large numbers of followers. She began to need more and more followers to feel good. She was surrounded by other wealthy, famous and important social media personalities, but she said that some of them told her that they were as sad as she was. O’Neill has now changed her focus from social media to promoting her personal website. She said that she didn’t know how she would make money and asked for support from visitors to her site.
If you saw hundreds of likes on an Instagram picture of a perfectly posed, blond-haired woman in a bikini, you would probably think that she was confident and had a perfect life. But behind the scenes, Essena O’Neill said that she felt like a lost and lonely teenager. That’s what the social media personality wanted her followers to know: what you see on social media isn’t always true to life. The Australian-born model, who has made a career of posting photos of herself in perfect clothes with the perfect background, created a buzz online after she deleted many of her photos on Instagram and changed some of her captions to describe how she really felt when the photo was being taken. She edited her posts to repeat her message that social media is an illusion. Later, she deleted her Instagram, YouTube and Facebook pages from the Internet. Social media personalities like O’Neill get paid to wear clothes and to advertise and promote products. ‘They are given talking points and instructions on when to post,’ said O’Neill in her YouTube video. By editing her posts, O’Neill wanted to open people’s eyes to the truth about social media. ‘It’s not real life,’ she said in a video on her website. Since she was 12, O’Neill had accumulated over half a million followers across multiple social
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D you can be certain that the new price is no higher than the old one. 4 When talking about supermarket own brands, Sheila says that … A they are always worth buying. B you should at least try them to see if they are acceptable. C the labelling isn’t as clear as for other brands. D they are a waste of money. 5 The advantage of online shopping is that … A the products cost less than in the shop. B
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Extra practice sections for Reading, Listening and Speaking each linked to the main units in terms of topic and exam-type questions . me If you saw hundreds of likes on an Instagram picture of a perfectly posed, blond-haired woman in a bikini, you would probably think that she was confident and had a perfect life. But behind the scenes, Essena O’Neill said that she felt like a lost and lonely teenager. That’s what the social media personality wanted her followers to know: what you see on social media isn’t always true to life. 5
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4 It’s a good idea to ..... of the same product in different shops. 5 You can compare the quality of different products by ..... . 6 Sheila’s final piece of advice is about ..... .
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1 In pairs, describe the jeans in the photos. Then discuss the questions. 1 What are ‘distressed’ jeans? 2 Who do you think buys them? 3 Why do you think some people prefer distressed denim? 2 Watch the video and check your answers to the questions in Exercise 1. 3 Watch the video again until 01:50. Are the statements true (T) or false (F)? Correct the false ones. 1 The factory Alex visits is in Mexico. 2 The factory produces 100,000 to 150,000 pairs of jeans a week. 3 One factory worker describes his job as a holiday. 4 People will pay more for things which look older. 5 Older people prefer their jeans to look older. 4 In pairs, discuss the meaning of the words in the box. Use a dictionary if necessary.
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Authentic BBC culture videos bring topics to life and motivate students to learn. Each unit has a video lesson with language presented through relevant and intriguing real-life content. 1 In pairs, describe the jeans in the photos. Then discuss the questions. 1 What are ‘distressed’ jeans? 2 Who do you think buys them? 3 Why do you think some people prefer distressed denim? 2 Watch the video and check your answers to the questions in Exercise 1. 3 Watch the video again until 01:50. Are the statements true (T) or false (F)? Correct the false ones. A
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