10 Do you look like your mom?

2
8

10

Common Mistakes
toes
3 I need warm socks because my fingers are cold.
my places
I broke the leg in three parts.

R Irregular plurals of body parts

9
a foot – two feet
a tooth – some teeth

1 Vocabulary: The Body and Face

A 10.1 Label the photos with these words. Listen to a sports science class to check. Point to the part(s)
of your body as you hear it / them.
arms back chest fingers feet hands head legs stomach/k/ toes

B In pairs, say which parts of the body you need to do activities 1-8.
1 to think 5 to play soccer
2 to run 6 to write You need your legs
and your feet to run. And you need
3 to swim 7 to do yoga your arms too.
4 to ride a bicycle 8 to learn English
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I feel it in my fi ngers, I feel it in my toes. The love
that’s all around me and so the feeling grows.

C 10.2 Match parts of the face 1-8 to these words and guess their
3
pronunciation. Listen to a TV assistant to check. 1

ears eyes lips nose

2
eyebrows hair mouth teeth
4
5
D Match the part of the face you associate most with these verbs.
eat listen read smell 7
kiss look see speak 6

E MAKE IT PERSONAL Say which part of your face you like most and why.

I really like my ears, because they’re 8

not big and they’re not small.

2 Listening
A Match the description items below to suspects 1-3.

Wa nted
There are four items for each suspect.
average build
overweight
slim

average height
short
tall

blue eyes
brown eyes
green eyes

long dark hair

short dark hair
short fair hair

Common Mistakes
What does he look like?
is
He looks like tall.
He has a long hair.

B 10.3 Listen to the three descriptions and write the suspects’ names, Adam, Charlie and Mark, under
the correct picture.

C Spot the suspect! A: Describe one of the suspects. B: Close the book and say who it is. Swap roles.

D MAKE IT PERSONAL Describe a “suspect” in your class. Use this person, not he or she. Can your classmates
guess who it is?

This person is tall, has long dark hair and black eyes. This person is wearing…
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 10.2 Are you like your dad?

3 Reading
A 10.4 Read the article and complete the information about Kelly.

Full name: Kelly

Date of birth:
An Description:

Extraordinary Hobby:

Athlete Occupation:

Kelly Bruno is tall and slim the New York City triathlon
with long dark hair and brown in 2008. Kelly is also a medical
eyes – she loves sports and she’s student. Her father was a doctor
an excellent athlete. She looks like and he inspired Kelly to study
a lot of young women, but Kelly is medicine. She began her studies in
different. Born in North Carolina 2009, but in 2010 her father died
on March 23, 1984, Kelly was six in the earthquake in Haiti. He was
months old when part of her leg working there for an organization
was amputated. Three months called “Food for the Poor.”
later she got a prosthetic leg and What does Kelly think about
began to walk at the age of only her leg? “It’s just an obstacle;
13 months. She was good at everyone has their
sports at school, especially baseball, own obstacles.
soccer and running, and she is now Whatever yours is,
a champion triathlete. In a triathlon just don’t quit.”
she has to swim 1,500 m, cycle
40 km and run 10 km. She won

B 10.5 Re-read the article and complete Kelly’s timeline. Listen to a conversation to check.

6 months old 9 months old 13 months old 2008 2009 2010

part of her leg

was amputated

C MAKE IT PERSONAL What do you think of Kelly? Choose the three adjectives that best describe her. Find
someone who chose the same words as you.

active athletic courageous determined energetic heroic ordinary strong

Which words did you choose? I think she’s strong, determined and heroic. What about you?

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ones who make a brighter day, so let’s start giving 10.2

4 Grammar: Comparatives 1

2
A 10.6 Match photos 1 and 2 to the adjectives. Listen to Maggie
and Steve to check.
boring
World of English
happy
So is one of the 20 most common words in
interesting
English. Look:
sad ➤ I’m tired, so I’m going to bed. (= a conclusion)

short ➤ You’re so intelligent! (= an intensifier)

tall

B 10.6 Listen again and complete 1-4 with the word you hear.

shorter happier more interesting taller

1 Scott is than Jake. 3 It doesn’t matter that he’s than Scott.

2 Jake is than Scott. 4 Scott is than Jake.

Comparatives Common Mistakes

Look at B and match the columns to make comparative rules. I’m more stronger than myger
a Adjectives of one syllable: good à better; bad à worse brother, but he’s more big
then me.
b Adjectives of two syllables (ending in -y): use more + adjective a
c Adjectives of two or more syllables: double the final consonant + er
d Irregular comparatives: take off -y and add -ier Grammar p. 136
e Adjectives ending consonant – vowel – consonant: add -er

C Who’s better for Maggie, Jake or Scott? Use the adjectives in A to give your reasons.

I think it’s Jake because he’s…

Ugh, I hate taking

5 Listening photos. I’m not like

my friendly sister.

A 10.7 Listen and identify Brad’s sisters Zoe and

Rebecca in the photos.

B 10.7 Listen again. Complete these sentences

with Z (Zoe) or R (Rebecca) based on what you hear.
1 is friendlier than .
2 is more generous than .
3 is shyer than .
4 is calmer than .
5 is more intelligent than .
6 is more organized than .

C MAKE IT PERSONAL Use the adjectives in 4A to compare yourself to someone in your family.

My dad was friendlier than me. He liked to go to parties

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6 Reading
A 10.8 What is the enneagram? Read the introduction to the website and choose the best answer.
1 An old, symbolic name for an online dating site. 2 A diagram that represents nine personality types.

Which The enneagram is an ancient symbol used to describe personality

types. It is a circle with nine points. Each of them represents

type are a different personality type with both negative and positive
characteristics. The enneagram says that we move between

you? these negative and positive characteristics. All of us have one of

nine basic personality types. Here is an example of each type:

I’m type 1. I’m a perfectionist and I’m idealistic. My negative

side is that sometimes I’m very critical of other people.

I love to help people and I’m very Well, I’m type 3. I am ambitious and
generous, but if you’re my friend I good at things. If I do things well I can
don’t want to share you! I can be very become more arrogant—this is my
possessive. I’m type 2. negative side.

Type 4 people are romantic and want to I’m a solitary person and I want to try
understand other people. That’s me! I to understand what’s happening in my
like to understand how people feel, but world. That’s type 5. Sometimes I feel
sometimes I can be moody. depressed and that’s my negative side.

I’m very loyal to my friends and I’m very I love to have fun and to be spontaneous.
responsible. My negative side is that I can I’m type 7 and I’m usually happy, but
be suspicious. This is type 6. I can get more disorganized when I’m
trying to have fun!

Type 8 people are strong and they want I’m type 9 and I hate conflict, so I always
to do important things for the world— try to be calm. The negative part of this
that’s me. My negative side is that I can is that I accept things I don’t like, just
get angry when you don’t agree with me! because I don’t want any problems.

B Work in trios. Each student reads about three C 10.9 Ask and answer in trios to complete the
different personality types and completes the table. table. Listen to check.
Student Type Positive side Negative side
What’s the negative
1 idealistic side of type 1?

A 2
3 D MAKE IT PERSONAL What are you like? Compare
yourselves using adjectives from this unit. Which
4 moody

B
enneagram type are you?
5
I think I’m more critical than you.
6
7 fun

C 8
9
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 You’re simply the best,
better than all the rest 10.3

7 Grammar: Superlatives
A 10.10 What can you see in photos a-e? Read the quiz, match each
question to a photo, then answer them. Listen to check.

WHO CAME WE ALWAYS REMEMBER

SECOND?
THE WINNER, BUT WHAT
ABOUT SECOND PLACE?

1 What’s the second highest mountain in the world?

a Mount Kilimanjaro b Mount Everest c K2
2 What’s the second longest river in the world?
a the Nile b the Amazon River c the Mississippi
a 3 What’s the second most populated city in the
Americas?
a São Paulo b New York City c Mexico City
4 What’s the second largest country in the world?
a Russia b Canada c China
5 What’s the second most successful national
soccer team?
a Brazil b Germany c Italy
b c d

Superlatives
1 Match sentences a-d to the rules.
a Salzburg is the prettiest city in the world. Irregular: good – the best; bad – the worst.
b Who’s the tallest person you know? One syllable: the -est.
c That’s the most beautiful place I know. Two syllables ending in -y: the -iest.
d What was the best movie you saw last year? Adjectives with two or more syllables: the most .
2 Which rule a-d do the superlative forms in the quiz follow?
e 1 2 3 4 5

Grammar p. 136
B MAKE IT PERSONAL Order these words to make questions. In pairs, ask and answer them.

1 the / what / oldest / your / is / city / country / in / ? Common Mistakes

2 the / in / expensive / are / what / most / your / supermarkets / town / ? st
Home is the most nice
3 biggest / what / the / country / your / is / stadium / in / ? place of the world.
4 most / in / country / popular / beaches / your / what / the / are / ? in
5 youngest / your / in / who / the / is / class / person / ?
I don’t really know, but I think it’s...
6 most / world / people / famous / the / in / are / who / the / ?
7 possession / important / you / most / what / the / have / is / ? Workbook p. 51
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 10.4 What’s the best place in the world?

8 Pronunciation: Comparatives and Superlatives World of English

We normally stress words
A 10.11 Listen and underline the stressed words in each sentence.
that carry the message. Other
1 Everest is the highest mountain in the world. words are often unstressed,
2 And K2 is higher than Kilimanjaro. reduced and said faster. If
you don’t hear them, you can
3 The Nile is the longest river. still understand the meaning.
4 The Amazon is longer than the Mississippi.

B Describe the 1st, 2nd and 3rd for questions 3-5 in the quiz on p. 111. Write a superlative and
a comparative sentence for each question as in the models in A.
The most populated…

C In pairs, compare answers and practice using stressed and unstressed words.

9 Reading
A Do you know the places in photos 1-9? Find examples of these
things in the photos.
a canyon a cave flowers an island a lake
a lizard a mountain top rocks an underground river
a volcano a waterfall

B 10.12 Quickly read the article and match the places to photos 1-9.
3
C Re-read the article and answer 1-9. Which place:
1 is in nine different countries?
2 has many different flowers?
3 has caves and lakes?
4 has an underground river?
5 is in two countries?
6 contains a volcano?
7 is a very deep canyon?
8 is home to a famous animal?
9 is a mountain over five kilometers high? 4

D 10.13 Listen / watch and say which two of the nine places are not mentioned.

E 10.13 Listen / watch again and number the places 1-7 in the order you hear them.

F MAKE IT PERSONAL Do you agree with the choices? Which of the places do you most want
to visit? Why?

I want to visit Table Mountain. I really want WRITING BANK

Workbook p. 52 go to p. 153
to go to South Africa and I love flowers.

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Tropical the island breeze, all the nature wild and
free. This is where I long to be, la isla bonita

1 2

The New Seven Wonders of Nature

In 2007 Bernard Weber started a project to find the seven most beautiful
places in the world. People from all five continents voted for their favorite
place. Here are nine of the finalists.

Komodo National Park Halong Bay

is in Indonesia. It opened The Amazon rain forest is the The Grand in Vietnam has
in 1980 to protect the largest in the world. It’s located Canyon in the thousands of
Komodo dragon, the largest in nine different countries and USA is more than rocks and islands
lizard in the world. it’s home to the world’s biggest 1.6 km deep. It in different sizes
river, the Amazon River. has many canyons and shapes.
Table Mountain in and caves. It also has
South Africa is flat on beautiful caves
the top and contains The Iguazu Falls is one of the largest groups of and lakes.
more than 1,470 waterfalls in the world. There are 275 different waterfalls
types of flowers. there. The Falls are on the border between Brazil and
Argentina.

Jeju is the largest island in South Mount Kilimanjaro in The Puerto Princesa
Korea. It’s home to Hallasan, a dormant Tanzania is one of the highest National Park in the
volcano that’s also the tallest mountain mountains in the world. The top Philippines has the world’s
in South Korea. There are 360 other of Kilimanjaro is at 5,895 m largest underground river,
volcanoes around Hallasan. above sea level. at 8.2 km.

6 7 8

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 10.5 What’s your blood type?

Skills Understanding facts

A Match these words to pictures a-g. Which two words rhyme?

a beard blood a brain a heart a lung fingernails a tongue

1. The brain is
more active at
8. The most night than during 2. Hair grows
common the day. faster on your g
a face than on
blood type in
the world is other parts of
Type A. your body.

True or
7.The tongue
is one of the false? 3. Toenails
strongest muscles How much grow faster
in the human do you know than fingernails.
body. about the
human body? f

6. Food is more 4. On average,

important to women’s hearts
b humans than beat faster than
sleep. 5. Your right men’s.
lung is smaller
than your left
lung.
e

d
c

B 10.14 In pairs, do the quiz. Listen to check. Which fact is not illustrated?

C 10.14 Listen again and complete the words in 1-8. Which is the most interesting fact?
1 Your b is very a when you s .
2 It says that if m don’t shave, a b can g to more than 10 meters!
3 Your t grow slower than your f .
4 Women are s than men, so their h needs to move the blood f .
5 The h needs a lot of s .
6 The l time a person can go with no s is 11 d . For me, number 6 is the most
interesting. I didn’t know that.
7 When you eat or t you are using your t .
8 The most c blood type is .
I think number 7 is more interesting.
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 Is your English better than a year ago? 10.5

in Action Making choices

A 10.15 Listen and match dialogs 1-3 to three of these four photos. Check the option they choose.
1 2

3 4

B 10.15 Listen again to check. Then read AS 10.15 on p. 167 for two minutes and try to remember all you can.

C In pairs, look only at the photos in A and practice the three dialogs from memory. Create a similar one
for the fourth picture.

D MAKE IT PERSONAL In pairs, decide which gig you’d like to go to. Use any adjectives from this unit and
make a decision.

R boring
exciting
fun
interesting
modern
old

Well, I think we have to

go see the Rolling Stones.
They’re the best.

No, the Rolling Stones

are so old. I prefer Bruno
Mars. He’s more exciting.

Workbook p. 53, 69
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