A2

High
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Teacher’s
Introduction page 2 Book
For the Student page 3
For the Teacher page 8
Teacher’s Digital Solutions page 10
Student’s Digital Solutions page 12
Key Competences for lifelong learning page 15

Student’s Book contents page 16

Starter A, B, C and D page 18
Unit 1 – Free time page 30
Unit 2 – School is cool! page 56
Unit 3 – Party time! page 82
Review – Units 1-3 page 108
Unit 4 – Wonderful world page 114
Unit 5 – Let’s go out page 140
Unit 6 – Long ago page 166
Review – Units 4-6 page 192
Unit 7 – Wild world page 198
Unit 8 – Getting away page 224
Unit 9 – Digital world page 250
Review – Units 4-6 page 276
Review – Units 1-9 page 282
Grammar Reference page 301
Communication page 311
Face 2 Face page 314
Pronunciation page 315
Stories page 320
HIGH ACHIEVERS

High Achievers is a multi-level course aimed at teenage students who want to

improve their English as much as they can. In a world where the level of English
is increasing year on year, High Achievers aims to motivate and challenge
students at every step of the learning process.

High Achievers has an ambitious vocabulary and grammar syllabus and

contains thorough and regular practice of all the key skills – Reading,
Listening, Speaking and Writing.

High Achievers A2 thoroughly covers all key language and skills associated
with the A2 CEF level.

High Achievers includes the following components:

For the STUDENT For the TEACHER

● Student’s Book ● Teacher’s Book with the Student’s Book interleaved,
containing complete teaching notes and reference material,
● Workbook to accompany the Student’s Book lessons as well as lesson-by-lesson guidance to the digital
● Student’s i-book for students to access the course contents activities
in a different way ● Teacher’s Resource Book containing a thorough pack
● eWorkbook for complete tracking of your students’ progress of photocopiable Tests as well as further supplementary
worksheets
● The High Achievers game for students to consolidate the
Student’s Book lessons while they learn about various cities ● Teacher’s Audio Material pack containing all of the audio
around the world for the course on 6 CDs

● Teacher’s i-book for IWB to bring teaching to life in the

classroom

● Worksheet Generator for you to edit and create your own

versions of all worksheets in the Teacher’s Resource Book

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1 Free time Unit overview

Vocabulary Language objectives

● Likes & dislikes: be able to stand, be into, be keen on, enjoy, ● To learn vocabulary related to likes and dislikes (page 9)
fantastic, favourite, hate, horrible, like, love and free time activities (page 13)
● Free time activities: go bowling / shopping / ● To revise present simple & affirmative (page 10) and
skateboarding /swimming, go for a bike ride / a run / present simple questions (page 14)
a swim / a walk, have a barbecue / a party / a picnic / ● To practise using punctuation (page 17)
a sleepover, play basketball / computer games / football /
a musical instrument
● Adjectives
● -ing forms Skills objectives
● Face 2 Face: Your turn I agree Go ahead
● To read and understand a message board about music
(page 8)
● To discuss likes and dislikes (page 9)
Grammar ● To listen to and understand a dialogue about TV
programmes (page 11)
● Present simple affirmative & negative ● To discuss favourite TV programmes (page 11)
● Present simple questions ● To read a questionnaire about teenagers and their free
time (page 12)
● To practise saying hello and goodbye, introducing people
and asking how people are (page 16)
Pronunciation
● To write a personal profile (page 17)
● Third person -s
● do and does
Assessment criteria
● Students can use the present simple affirmative, negative
Recycled language and questions
● Content Starter Unit ● Students can use vocabulary for likes and dislikes and free
time activities
● Students can pronounce third person -s and do and does
● Students can read a message board about music and a
questionnaire about teenagers’ free time
● Students can listen to and understand a dialogue about
TV programmes
● Students can find out about people’s likes and dislikes
● Students can greet people and introduce people
● Students can write a personal profile

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Resources Go Digital!
● Teacher’s i-book Teacher’s i-book
● Student’s Book CD 1
Use the Richmond i-tools to complete the activities
● Teacher’s Resource Book: with the students on the IWB.
Vocabulary Support Worksheet Unit 1, page 12 offers additional IWB practice to reinforce the lesson
Vocabulary Consolidation Worksheet Unit 1, page 13 content:
Grammar Support Worksheet Unit 1, page 36 Reading
Grammar Consolidation Worksheet Unit 1, page 37 The IWB Reading activities are designed to focus on real
Speaking Worksheet Unit 1, page 60 language in use within the reading texts.
Test Consolidation Unit 1, page 82 The hot spots are designed to highlight potentially difficult
Test Extension Unit 1, page 86 words or cultural information before doing the reading
activities.
Speaking Test Unit 1, page 217
● Reading extra, pages 8 and 12

Listening
The IWB Listening activities are designed to help students
Key competences explore the listening dialogues in greater depth.
Linguistic competence ● Listening extra, page 11
Page 9, 10, 11, 14, 16, 17 Writing
The IWB Writing activities are designed to give students
Mathematical competence and basic controlled practice with some basic support before they do
competences in Science and Technology the free writing tasks in Your turn to write.
Page 12 ● Writing extra, page 17

Digital competence More provides extra interactive practice which can be

practice
Page 12 used for fast finishers or as a wrap-up activity.
Alternatively, it can be used as homework.

Social and civic competence ● Grammar, pages 10 and 14

Page 9, 10, 11, 13, 16 ● Vocabulary, pages 9 and 13

● Pronunciation, pages 10 and 14
Cultural awareness and expression Grammar provides a step-by-step visual grammar
presentation
Page 8, 11, 12, 14 presentation with a focus on form and use.
● Grammar, pages 10 and 14
Competence in learning to learn
The High Achievers game: Mystery World Tour
Page 8, 9, 13, 15
Remind students to complete the games for the unit at home.
If they achieve 80% or more correct answers throughout the
Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship
unit, they will be given a question about a famous World
Page 10, 13, 15, 17 landmark. If they answer correctly, they will receive the first
clue out of nine to solve the final challenge.

For a detailed description of the Key competences and

how they support students’ learning, go to page 15.

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People can use music to express Discussing questions before reading helps
themselves. Music can also serve students to make links between their own
as a catalyst for new ideas. Ensure experiences and new content, uncovering
that all opinions about music what they really know about a topic. Check
are respected. the answers to the questions in exercise 2.

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UNIT 1 READING

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Play short extracts of songs from different music genres,
e.g. rap, indie, rock, hip hop, pop, dance music. Ask students
to write down what each type of music is called. Ask them to
discuss their favourite types of music in pairs. Ask: Why do you
like it? How does it make you feel?.

1 Ask students to write down the names of five singers, five groups
and five songs. Elicit some example answers from the class.

Answers Students’ own answers

2 Put students in pairs to discuss. If any students are keen to sing,

they could sing a line from one of the songs they have written
down, and see if their partner can guess what it is.

Answers Students’ own answers

Teaching tip
When students are doing pairwork activities, get them to
swap partners and repeat the activity to maximise student
interaction, and so they hear different opinions.

3 1.7 The text is available to listen to.

Pre-teach the following words and phrases: I’m into… (I like), tracks
(songs), moves (actions, movements) and vinyl (records).

Answers
Adriano’s favourite groups are Mayday Parade and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Jessica’s favourite group is the Black Eyed Peas.
Kolya’s favourite singer is Pharrell Williams.

Go Digital!
Hot spots: track, breakdancing
Use the hot spots to highlight potentially difficult words or cultural
information before the reading activities.
● Touch the Reading text to access the hot spots.
Extra activity: highlight words
This activity can be done as a whole class activity.
● Touch to open the extra activity.
● Ask students to choose two colours to highlight words in the text.
● Ask for volunteers to come up to the board to highlight 4 types of
music in one colour.
● Ask for more volunteers to highlight 6 things you can use to listen to
music in another colour.
● Use to show the solution for this exercise.
Suggested use: before exercise 5, page 9

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The exercises help students to learn The pairwork discussion helps Students develop their learning
and apply strategies to remember, students to understand and practise strategies by categorizing
increase and consolidate their appropriate codes of conduct and vocabulary in a table. Check
vocabulary. Ask students to write manners, such as respecting other that they can work independently to
down the phrases from exercise 9 in people’s ideas. Monitor students as develop their own learning styles.
a notebook, and check their work. they do the task.

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UNIT 1 READING AND VOCABULARY

4 Get students to do this individually. Check answers with the class.

Get students to explain why the false answers are wrong.
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Answers boring, funny, uncool, exciting. Write the following words on the
board: football, walking, sports programmes, rock music, going to
1 True
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2 False (He likes old-fashioned records because he thinks they are cool.)
3 True
the words with the adjectives, e.g. I think football is boring.
4 False (She doesn't like the same music.)
5 True 9 1.9 Transcripts page 52 You could ask students to try and
6 False (His favourite song has a music video.)
match the speech bubbles before they listen. Then play the audio
for them to check their guesses.
5 Get students to compare their answers in pairs.

Answers Answers
1 B 2 D 3 A 4 E 5 C
1 Jessica 2 Kolya 3 Adriano 4 Kolya

6 Elicit the opposites before students check in the text. Elicit other 10 You could get students to rank the phrases in order, from the
strongest to the weakest (1 favourite, 2 love, 3 fantastic, 4 enjoy,
examples of adjectives which have the prefix un-, e.g. unhappy,
5 like, 6 I’m not into / not keen on, 7 horrible, 8 hate / can’t stand).
untidy, uncertain, unclear.
They could do this in pairs, as it will lead to interesting discussion.
Answers
Answers
1 happy 2 great 3 cool 4 big 5 old-fashioned 6 expensive
Likes: love, enjoy, keen on, fantastic, like, favourite, into
Dislikes: I can’t stand, horrible, hate
Extra activity Strongest: love, favourite, I can’t stand, hate

Ask students to write six of their own sentences containing the 11 Elicit an example from students, as a model. Students could write
adjectives in exercise 6. sentences about what members of their family like and dislike.

7 1.8 Transcripts page 52 Get students to read the sentences Answers Students’ own answers
carefully before they listen. Play the audio twice, if necessary.
12 Quickly drill questions such as Do you like...? What's your favourite...?
Answers to review question forms and to practise pronunciation. After a few
minutes, get students to change partners and exchange ideas.
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I use online music sites. Answers Students’ own answers
I watch a lot of videos on my phone.
I like hip hop music.
I listen to tracks on my mobile.
Extra activity
I’ve got small earphones. Make copies of pictures of singers, different sports,
tv programmes and actors. In pairs, students discuss whether
8 When students have completed the table for themselves, elicit they like / dislike the thing in the picture, e.g. A: Madonna! Do you
questions they can ask their partner, e.g. Do you use online music like Madonna? B: No! I can’t stand her!
sites? Get them to ask and answer the questions. They could add
another column to the table and complete it for their partner.
Get students to report back to the class. Elicit the phrase Neither Continuous assessment
of us … . Teacher’s Resource Book
Vocabulary Support Worksheet: page 12, exercises 1, 2 and 3
Answers Students’ own answers Vocabulary Consolidation Worksheet: page 13, exercises 1, 2 and 3

Go Digital!
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learning points for likes and dislikes. This can be set for homework: give
students a quick demonstration of the game and show them where to
find it. Alternatively, you can play it at the end of class.

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By listening to and repeating Students develop their social Discussing ideas and information
sentences, students learn to imitate skills when they understand the with students can help them to
the pronunciation, intonation and importance of a healthy lifestyle. Ask develop motivation to overcome
stress of English. Listen to students them about their daily routine and obstacles and determination to reach
individually to help them to develop about what they do to look after their their personal goals. Acknowledge
natural-sounding English. health and well-being. and appreciate all contributions.

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UNIT 1 GRAMMAR

GRAMMAR OPTIONS 4 1.10 Before they repeat, tell students to listen carefully to the s
sound at the end of the verbs. Ask: Is the pronunciation the same or
● The grammar box gives a summary of the grammar areas that different? How many different sounds can they hear? What sounds
students will practise on this page. can they hear? Then get students to listen and repeat.
● The grammar is presented in a complete grammar reference
on page 114. Answers Students’ own answers
● Visual grammar presentation
5 1.11 Transcripts page 52 Play the audio a second time and
get students to repeat the sentences for pronunciation practice.
Warmer
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order of the sentences. Get students to write the sentences in 1 On Friday evenings, Maria’s mum goes to dance lessons.
the correct order: 2 Maria’s dad plays volleyball.
Tom wakes up every day at seven o’clock. He gets up at a quarter 3 Maria’s sister, Joanna, works in a restaurant.
past seven and has a shower. He cleans his teeth and brushes his 4 Maria doesn’t stay at home.
5 Maria watches films at her friend’s house.
hair. He eats corn flakes for breakfast and drinks a cup of coffee. He
leaves his house at eight o’ clock. He rides his bike to school. 6 Encourage students to write at least five sentences, including three
sentences about what other members of their family do so they can
1 Ask students to look at the photos. Ask: What can you say about the practise the third person form.
people in the photos? Ask: How old do you think they are? What sport
does Jack play? What does the boy with the black cap do? Answers Students’ own answers
Before students complete the text, ask them to quickly read
through the whole text first, ignoring the gaps. 7 As an example, ask one student to read out one of their sentences
about their family, then ask another student to report back to the
Answers class, e.g. Elena’s sister does karate on Friday evenings.
Check students are confident using the possessive ’s.
1 get 2 go 3 gets 4 watches 5 arrive 6 play
7 leaves 8 works 9 comes 10 goes Answers Students’ own answers

Teaching tip
Continuous assessment
Create a pile of small correction cards. For this lesson, write an s
on a card and put it in your pocket. If a student forgets to add s Teacher’s Resource Book
to the 3rd person singular form, e.g. Zach leave the house., take the Grammar Support Worksheet: page 36, exercises 1, 2 and 3
card from your pocket and show the student. Correction cards Grammar Consolidation Worksheet: page 37, exercises 1, 2 and 3
provide helpful, visual prompts for self-correction. Students
often react to seeing you put your hand in your pocket, and
correct themselves before you can even get the card out!

2 Do the first one with the class as a model. Remind students to use
contracted forms.

Answers
1 Zach doesn’t get up at 7am.
2 Jack has breakfast in the kitchen.
3 Jack doesn’t watch TV after breakfast. Go Digital!
4 Zach doesn’t study at university.
5 Jack and Zach sometimes play basketball in the park. Grammar
6 Jack and Zach don’t work all day.
Visual grammar presentation
3 Encourage students to check back in the text in exercise 1 to
help them. More practice
Students play a fun game to practise the use of present simple
Answers affirmative and negative. This can be set for homework: give students
a quick demonstration of the game and show them where to find it.
3 Jack doesn’t watch TV after breakfast. Zach watches TV
after breakfast. Alternatively, you can play it at the end of the class.
4 Zach doesn’t study at university. Zach works as a DJ. Pronunciation
More practice
This listening activity gives students more practice identifying the three
different sounds associated with the third person ‘s’.

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Listening to different types of audio TV programmes influence teenagers TV is a major influence on the
enables students to understand and their development. Through TV, culture of many societies. Most
the spoken word in a variety of they learn values and attitudes, and teenagers love TV and spend a lot of
communicative contexts. Assess integrate them into their lives. Ask time watching it. Ask students what
their comprehension by asking students their opinions on how TV types of TV programmes they love to
questions about what they hear. influences people. watch in their free time. Discuss.

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UNIT 1 LISTENING

Warmer
Ask students: How many TV channels can you name? Which TV
4 1.13 Transcripts page 314 These expressions are all common
idiomatic expressions in spoken English. They are highlighted in
channels do you normally watch? With books closed, get
the audio script. Before students go to page 126, ask students which
students to brainstorm types of TV programmes. Write them
one means: It’s time for you to do it now. (your turn), You can carry on
on the board.
and do that. (go ahead), I have the same opinion as you. (I agree).

1 They can name the programmes in their own language if they don’t Answers
know the English equivalent.
1 your turn 2 I agree 3 Go ahead
Answers Students’ own answers
5 Get students to ask and answer the questions with a partner.
Quickly review the phrases for expressing likes and dislikes on
page 9 and remind them to use them.
WORDS TO KNOW Get students to report back to the class something they learned
Check that students know the following words: drawing, snack, about their partner.
penguin, film-maker.
Answers Students’ own answers
2 1.12 Transcripts page 52 Ask students to look at the list of
TV shows A –H, and to try and guess which programmes the
people watch. Play the audio so they can check if their predictions Teaching tip
were right. It’s often helpful to get students to report back their partner’s
ideas and opinions in feedback. This practises 3rd person s, e.g.
Answers Anna thinks... , Sabine really likes... . Students also tend to listen
more carefully to each other if they think they might be asked to
Elena - B Mandy - D Karl - A Matt - G Leila - H
explain what their partner said.
3 1.12 Transcripts page 52 Encourage students to check
answers with a partner afterwards. Then correct the false
sentences. Fast finishers
Ask fast finishers to talk about films and clips they watch on the
Answers internet. Write the following questions on the board and ask
1 False (Her favourite programme is Spongebob Squarepants.) students to discuss them in their pairs. Do you watch YouTube?
2 False (She doesn’t like reality TV shows. She thinks they’re boring.) Do you stream TV shows? Do you like watching films on laptops or
3 True tablets or do you prefer TV? Why / Why not?
4 True
5 False (She doesn’t watch TV every day.)

Go Digital!
Extra activity: drag and match
Students work in pairs or in small groups.
● Touch to open the extra activity.
● Ask students to close their books or screens.
● Five quotes from the text are presented on screen. From their
knowledge of the text students match the quotes and the speakers.
● Ask them to predict the answers.
● Play the audio asking students to focus on the speaker and the
quotes and match them up.
● When the activity is completed, use the Check button to show the
correct answers.
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The questionnaire helps students The questionnaire increases The questionnaire will help
to develop confidence in using students’ awareness of the students to recognize similarities
numbers and percentages, and importance of digital technology, and differences in teenagers’
in interpreting scores. Check but also teaches them to use lifestyles in other countries. Ask
that students are able to express it responsibly. Discuss the them to draw conclusions about the
percentages and what they mean. questionnaire results with them. questionnaire.

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UNIT 1 READING

Warmer
With books closed, write on the board the following questions:
What percentage of teenagers watch movies … at home, at the
cinema, on their laptop, on a tablet, on a smartphone? What
percentage of teenagers send more than 60 texts a day?
Encourage discussion, but do not confirm their guesses at
this stage.

1 Get students to discuss in pairs. Get class feedback.

Answers Students’ own answers

2 Focus students’ attention on the statistics at the top of the

questionnaire. Ask them: Are these figures surprising? Ask them to
compare the figures with their own answers from exercise 1.

Answers Students’ own answers

Teaching tip
Write useful words or phrases, e.g. I think... , I’m not sure... ,
Maybe about... on posters on the classroom walls to help
students give their ideas and predictions.

3 1.14 The text is available to listen to.

This activity can be done in pairs.

Answers
Glasses: What is your favourite place to watch films?
Phone: How many text messages do you send each day?

Go Digital!
Hot spots: racing, matches
Use the hot spots to highlight potentially difficult words or cultural
information before the reading activities.
● Touch the Reading text to access the hot spots.
Extra activity: Jigsaw reading
This activity can be done as a whole class activity.
● Touch to open the extra activity.
● Ask students to close their books or screens.
● Students match the questions to the answers.
● Elicit answers and ask volunteers to come up to the board to match
questions and answers.
● When the activity is completed, use the Check button to show the
correct answers.
● Use the feedback stage to check any problems with vocabulary.
Suggested use: after exercise 2

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Rest and recreation are vitally Word Zone work helps students to Students talk about their preferred
important elements of a healthy develop their own learning skills activities, choosing according to
lifestyle. Discuss this idea with as they practise how to process, their own criteria, and expressing
students after exercise 10 or 11, and assimilate and recover information likes and dislikes. Read the students’
talk about students’ own free time when they need it. Ask them to copy sentences and encourage them to
activities. the table in their notebooks. express themselves in class.

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UNIT 1 READING AND VOCABULARY

4 Do the first one with the students as a model and elicit the answer
from the class.
Warmer
When they have finished, get them to correct the false sentences. Write a word on the board, e.g. computer. Tell the class to think of
another word that begins with the last letter, e.g. restaurant, then
a word which ends with the last letter of that word, e.g. television.
Answers
Put the students in pairs and get them to play the game together.
1 True Make it more difficult by setting a time limit (maybe 15 seconds) to
2 False (He doesn’t go to many matches. He watches on TV.) think of each word!
3 False (He plays two or three games online.)
4 Not mentioned
5 False (He goes with this friends.) 9 Explain to the students what a collocation is (words that typically
go together). Do the first one with the class as a model.
5 You could get students to do this activity orally in pairs. Get one
student to read the sentence, their partner has to finish it correctly. Answers
Then they swap roles.
1 go for 2 play 3 go to 4 go 5 have
Answers
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2 football
Encourage students to write down collocations in their vocabulary
3 for his school team
4 many text messages books instead of words in isolation, e.g. in exercise 9, they should
5 at the cinema record the word a run under the letter r, but precede it with go for
6 lots of different games in brackets. This helps them to remember chunks of language.

6 Read Word Zone with the class. Elicit other ways of saying 10 Read the example with the class.
I love movies. (I love watching movies) and Football is my favourite
sport. (Playing football is my favourite sport). When students have finished, elicit an answer for each of the
pictures from individual students. The main aim of this activity is
After students have found the examples in the questionnaire, elicit
to get students to practise using the collocations correctly, but you
other examples, e.g. playing the guitar, riding a bike.
can also quickly correct any minor grammar mistakes.

Answers
Suggested answers
reading, drawing, watching movies, going to the movies
Hiro loves playing the cello.
Louisa loves going to the cinema
7 Encourage students to extend their answers like Matheus has done. At the weekend Delia, David and Lisa often go for picnics on the beach.
Ray loves going skateboarding.
Answers Students’ own answers Emma and Ivo sometimes go for a walk on Saturday morning.

8 You could get students to swap partners and repeat the activity 11 Check students understand the verb prefer and how to use it
until they find someone who has similar answers to them. (prefer + ing form). Encourage them to use the activities from
exercise 9, but they can also add their own.
Answers Students’ own answers
Answers Students’ own answers

Continuous assessment
Teacher’s Resource Book
Vocabulary Support Worksheet: page 12, exercises 4 and 5
Vocabulary Consolidation Worksheet: page 13, exercises 4 and 5

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free time activities. This can be set for homework: give students a
quick demonstration of the game and show them where to find it.
Alternatively, this game is an ideal extra class activity and could be set
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UNIT 1 GRAMMAR

5 Encourage students to refer to the grammar box if they need to.

GRAMMAR OPTIONS Get students to check their answers with a partner.
The grammar box gives a summary of the grammar areas that
students will practise on this page. Answers
● The grammar is presented in a complete grammar reference
1 Which film do you like best?
on page 114. 2 Why do you think it’s a good film?
● Visual grammar presentation 3 Which character does Miranda play?
4 I know Miranda is from the US. Where does she live?

6 Elicit the full questions before students begin. You could get a
Warmer volunteer to ask you the questions first to model the activity.
To revise question words, write simple questions on the board When students have finished they could change partners and
leaving a gap for the question word, e.g. [Where] is your school? repeat the activity.
[What] is your name? [Why] are you late? [When] is your lunch
break? [Who] is your teacher? [Which] is your favourite subject? Answers Students’ own answers
Get students to complete the questions.

Teaching tip
1 1.15 Point out that students should feel a vibration in their
throat when they say the word does /dʌz/. The main aim of pairwork speaking exercises on the grammar
page is to reinforce correct use of language, so during pairwork
activities on the grammar page, such as exercise 6, try to correct
Answers Students’ own answers
errors as you monitor round the class.

2 Get students to underline the subject of the question to help them

determine whether to use do or does.
Continuous assessment
Answers Teacher’s Resource Book
Grammar Support Worksheet: page 36, exercises 4, 5 and 6
2 Do you have a barbecue when the weather is nice?
3 Does your friend play a musical instrument?
Grammar Consolidation Worksheet: page 37, exercises 4, 5 and 6
4 Do you and your friends like having sleepovers?
5 Do you see many films at the cinema?
6 Does your best friend go for walks or bike rides?

3 Get students to swap partners and repeat the activity for

extra practice.

Answers Students’ own answers

Extra activity
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Students choose the correct words to complete sentences, which helps
Answers them consolidate the learning points for the present simple questions.
There is also some practise of short answers with yes and no. This
2 How much does it cost? can be set for homework. Give students a quick demonstration of the
3 Which one do you like best? game, explaining to them that the objective is to get through the maze.
4 Why does your sister go to a different school?
Alternatively, you can play this game in class and use it to reinforce
5 Where do you want to sit?
6 Who are the main actors in this film? points of form and use.
Pronunciation
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The Do the Challenge exercise When working as a class, students
enables students to express and practise working collaboratively,
share their views, helping them to generating ideas, giving opinions and
get to know themselves better and a sharing what they have learned.
to understand their abilities and Check that all students participate
limits. Allow students to express equally.
their opinions.

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UNIT 1 CHALLENGE

In this lesson students complete a questionnaire about the Teaching tip

likes and dislikes of the other students in the class, with the
Play gentle background music to create a relaxed atmosphere
aim of finding students who like and dislike the same things as
(music without too many lyrics usually works best). This makes
themselves.
students feel less self-conscious about speaking, as they don’t
feel that others can hear them. It also encourages students to
speak more loudly and clearly.
Warmer
Ask students to stand up in a circle and play a memory game. 4 After students have discussed in pairs, get some of them to report
The first student says their name and something they like, e.g. back to the class. You could teach them the phrases Both Tom
My name is Yvette and I like swimming. The next student has and I like … and Neither Tom or I like … .
to remember what the person before said and add what they
like too, e.g. Yvette likes swimming. My name’s Jonathan and I
Answers Students’ own answers
like playing video games. The next student will say: Yvette likes
swimming, Jonathan likes playing video games and I like … .
If a student forgets something or gets it wrong, they have to sit
down. The person still standing at the end wins the game.
Fast finishers
Ask fast finishers to write a short paragraph reporting on the
results of their questionnaire. Write a few phrases on the board
1 Elicit the words for the things in the photos (A: shopping, B: football, to help them: A lot of the class … , Not many students … , A few
C: cats, D: basketball, E: sunbathing, F: rollercoasters, G: sushi, students … , No-one … , Everyone … .
H: broccoli, I: aeroplanes, J: chocolate).
Encourage students to use the phrases from the Vocabulary section
on page 9 to give their opinions.

Answers Students’ own answers

2 Give the class a few minutes to copy the questionnaire and write
their own opinions.

Answers Students’ own answers

3 Check students understand what they have to do. Before they

begin, elicit other replies they could give, e.g. I hate it too. I think it’s
fantastic / horrible. I’m not very keen on it.
If it’s difficult for students to move around, organise them into
groups of five or six. Once they’ve asked all the students in the
group for their opinions, get three students from each group to
exchange places with three students from another group and
repeat the process.

Answers Students’ own answers

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Key competences
The exercises require students to Speaking exercises enable students
learn and use functional language to practise communicating
(greetings and introductions), appropriately in different situations,
enabling them to apply language and to demonstrate collaboration and
rules to the appropriate context. tolerance. Check that students show
Assess students’ learning in exercise 7. respect for others when they speak.

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UNIT 1 INTERACTION

5 Write formal and informal on the board. Ask students what the
Warmer words mean? Who do we say formal or informal things to and why?
Ask students: How many different ways are there of saying hello Do the first one with them and elicit the answer.
and goodbye in your language? When do you use these expressions?
Are some more formal than others? With books closed, ask Answers
students to think of as many greetings as they can in English.
2 Formal 3 Informal 4 Informal 5 Formal

1.16 Express yourself contains a variety of useful expressions for 6 Tell students that they should choose an English-speaking country
the situations in the dialogue. Some of them (but not all of them) to make the activity more realistic.
are used in the dialogue. They are available on the audio if you want
students to hear how they are pronounced. Answers Students’ own answers

1 Ask students also: Who do you think the people are? Which country 7 Make sure the groups have an even number of students,
do you think the girl is arriving in? preferably four. Within each group, get students to work in pairs.
They introduce themselves to each other using the information
Answers from exercise 6, then they join with the other pair in their group,
They are at the airport. and take turns to introduce their partner to them.
They are greeting someone who has just arrived.
Answers Students’ own answers
2 1.17 Transcripts page 52 Ask students to read the questions
first before they listen. Play and pause the audio as needed.
Teaching tip
Answers When appropriate, in exercises like exercise 7, get some of the
1 Washington 2 Andy 3 Sarah 4 Jessica’s brother more able students to model pairwork activities as an example.
Or you can model the activity yourself. Try to give a funny
3 1.18 Transcripts page 52 Ask students to look at the picture. example to get students’ attention.
Ask: Who are the people in the picture? What are they wearing?
Where are they going? Elicit that the girls are Hannah and Jessica
from exercise 1, and that the boy is probably a school friend.
They are wearing school uniform, and are probably on their way
Fast finishers
to school. Tell students they are going to hear the three of them Ask students to close their books. Give them one minute to
chatting. remember and write down as many expressions as they can
from the Express yourself box.
Answers
1 False 2 True 3 True 4 False

4 1.18 Transcripts page 52 Pause the audio after each

expression to give students time to write them down.

Answers
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students’ competence in effective to practise planning, completing
communication as they practise and reviewing a written project.
using punctuation. Check that they Check that they understand the
have used correct punctuation when importance of planning, and that
reviewing their personal profiles. they have checked and corrected
their work.

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UNIT 1 WRITING

5 Ask individual students to give examples for each of the bullet

Warmer points to build up a model answer on the board. Elicit the type of
Write some facts about a famous person on the board, e.g. Rafael information they could include for each bullet point. Tell them
Nadal, but don’t write the name of the person. they can closely follow Adrianna’s profile or use their own ideas,
Age: 28 e.g. personal facts: age, where you live, who you live with; likes and
Country: Spain dislikes: music, food, animals, sports; free time and hobbies: going
Likes: Nutella for a walk, having a barbecue, going shopping.
Dislikes: Tomatoes and cheese
Answers Students’ own answers
Free time: Playing golf and going to the beach
Get students to guess who the person is (Is it …? Yes, it is . / No, it
isn’t.) 6 Highlight the use of but (in the last line of the third paragraph) and
so (penultimate line) in Adrianna’s profile. Point out that these are
good connecting words to use in their writing, and they should try
1 Before students read Adriana’s profile, check they know the to include at least one example of each.
meaning of hang out (to relax and do nothing very special). Encourage students to use lots of different expressions to describe
their likes and likes. Refer them back to page 9, if necessary.
Answers When checking punctuation, make sure students have used a
Age: 12 comma before but and so.
Country: Poland
Favourite singer: Ed Sheeran Answers Students’ own answers
Outdoor hobbies: going for bike rides, skateboarding
7 When students have checked each other’s work, get class feedback.
Extra activity Ask: What did youlike most about your partners profile? What did you
find most interesting?
In pairs, ask the students to read the text again and underline
all the expressions used to describe likes, dislikes and to give Answers Students’ own answers
opinions (I like, My favourite, He’s amazing, I love, I can’t stand it,
it’s horrible, I enjoy, it’s fantastic, I also love, I’m into…).
Teaching tip
2 Get students to write their answers in full sentences. Try to think of natural contexts for communicative activities
When they have answered the questions, get them to check with (such as writing personal profiles for a dating website). This
a partner by asking and answering the questions in pairs. A: Where makes activities more interesting, real and enjoyable. It also gives
does Adrianna live? B: She lives in Lublin in Poland. students a reason to do the task (like finding the perfect partner).

Answers
1 She lives in Lublin, in Poland. Fast finishers
2 She talks for hours with her friends. Ask students to write a profile of their favourite actor or singer.
3 She likes pop music.
4 She doesn’t like rap music.
5 She thinks it’s fantastic.
6 She goes to the park.

3 Try to elicit a few examples of sentences with commas, and write

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them on the board.
Draw students’ attention to the use of commas before but and so in Extra activity: Writing preparation
Adrianna’s profile. This activity is better done as a collaborative whole class activity, or in groups.
Ask students to think of examples when we use capital letters in ● Touch to open the extra activity.
English but not in students’ own language, e.g. nationalities, school ● Ask students to close their books or screens.
subjects. ● The activity is similar to the writing model in terms of organisation
of topics. The model text on screen does not have any punctuation,
Answers students have to use the Richmond i-tools to put in the
missing punctuation.
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● If doing this activity in groups, ask for representatives plot ideas on
4 Get individual students to come out and write the correct sentences the IWB.
on the board for students to check. ● Use the activity to reinforce learning points about pronunciation and
the organisation of this type of text.
Answers ● Use to show the original writing model for this exercise.
1 My name’s Eduardo, and I’m from Sao Paulo in Brazil. ● Get students to assess the solution and to compare it with their own
2 I like swimming, but I don’t go very often. attempt.
3 We go to the beach on Saturdays and Sundays. Suggested use: after exercise 4
4 My favourite group is Coldplay. They aren’t American, they’re British.

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