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Unit map
Vocabulary
Activities and sports
Food dishes
Sports venues
Adventure activities
School clubs
Word Skills
Compound nouns and adjectives
Pronunciation Stress in compounds
Grammar
Present perfect and past simple contrast
Present perfect simple and continuous
Listening Eating out
Reading Field games
Speaking Stimulus-based discussion
Writing A blog post
Culture More than a film
Vocabulary Builder page 109
Grammar Builder and Reference pages 116, 117
1 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Ask about your partner's hobbies. Find two things that he or she a) usually does at the weekend and b) occasionally does at the weekend.
2 VOCABULARY Check the meaning of the activities and sports below. How many can you find in photos A-F?
Activities and sports
bake cakes
collect figures, cards, stamps, etc.
draw hang out
with friends make clothes
read books
read magazines
text your friends
use social media
video blog
watch videos online
do, play or go
ballet
ballroom dancing
basketball
board games
bowling
camping
cards
chess
cycling
drama gymnastics
ice hockey
martial arts
a musical instrument
photography
rollerblading
running
shopping
skateboarding
weights
LEARN THIS! do, play and go
a We normally use do with individual sports and activities not ending in -ing.
b We normally use play with team sports, ball sports, games and musical instruments.
c We normally use go with sports and activities ending in -ing.
3 Read the Learn this! box. Which verbs do we use with the blue activities and sports in exercise 2: do, play or go?
4 Put the activities and sports in exercise 2 into groups A-G. You can put some of them into more than one group. How many more activities can you add?
A Games
B Music
C Computer-based activities
D Home-based activities
E Outdoor leisure activities
F Activities and sports you usually do on your own
G Sports you do with another person or in a team
5 SPEAKING Which of the activities and sports in exercise 2
a have you tried and enjoyed?
b have you tried but didn't enjoy?
c would you like to try? Why?
d would you prefer not to try? Why?
6 🎧1.20 Listen to five people talking about why they hate certain things. What sports or activities do they talk about?
RECYCLE! Present simple and adverbs of frequency
We use the present simple for habits and routines.
Adverbs of frequency (always, usually, often, sometimes, hardly ever, never) come before the main verb but after the verb be.
7 🎧1.20 Read the Recycle! box. Then listen again. Complete the sentences with the present simple form of the verbs below and adverbs of frequency.
beige
buy
go
play
use
a Speaker 1________ camping with his parents.
b Speaker 2________ thinks that horror films unrealistic and unconvincing.
c Speaker 3________ social media.
d Speaker 4________ things online.
e Speaker 5________ . the guitar at school.
8 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Do you agree with the opinions of the speakers in exercise 7? Why? / Why not?
I disagree with Speaker 1. I think camping is great because sleeping in a tent is fun.
