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Flying high COLLOQUIAL ENGlISH THE INTERVIEW [J a You are going to listen to an interview with Hayley Levine, a flight attendant with First Choice Airways. Before you listen, read the glossary and look at how the words are pronounced to help you understand what she says. _",,"!~...,~t Glossary immediate care /I ' m i :di ~ l kea/ first aid, simple medical treatment given to passengers sick bag /'slk blegl a paper bag kept in the seat pocket in case somebody needs to be sick on a flight gruelling J' gru:; hl)l very difficult and tiring emergency exit Ij'm3:d3
It was only a small mistake, but it changed my life. a Read the story. What was the 'small mistake? What happened? b Using adverbs and adjectives helps to make a story come alive and makes it more enjoyable to read. Complete the story with an adjective or adverb from the list below. aggressive an hour later extremely family-run frequently immediately new reasonably quick well c You may want to write some dialogue as part of your story. Rewrite the following with the correct punctuation. Use the dialogue in the story to help you. sit down mr simpson said coldly i want to talk to you about an email you sent 'Sit d You are going to write a story beginning with the sentence It was three 0' clock in the morning when the phone rang. Look at the time expressions in Useful language and correct one word in each. I had been working at JB Simpson's for ten years. It was a small , ___ company which exported garden furniture. I was , _ __ happy with my job - I got on , ___ with the owner, Arthur Simpson but not with his wife, Linda. She was a loud, , ___ woman, who 5 _ __ used to turn up at the office and start criticizing us for no reason. Everyone disliked her. One afternoon Mrs Simpson came in while I was finishing writing a report. She looked at me and said, 'If I were you, I wouldn't wear that colour. It doesn't suit you at all .' I was wearing a , __ _ pink shirt that I was , _ _ fond of, and her comment really annoyed me. I typed a 8 __ _ email to Alan Simmonds in Sales. 'Watch out! The old witch is on the warpath!' and pressed 'send'. A couple of minutes later I was surprised to receive an email from Mr Simpson asking me to come to his office 9 ___ • When I opened the door, I saw his wife glaring at the computer screen , and I realized, to my horror, what I had done. I had clicked on Simpson instead of Simmonds. 10 ___ I was packing my things. I had been sacked! Useful language Time expressions , In that moment , the door opened. 2 As soon than I saw him, I knew something was wrong. 3 Ten minutes after , I went back to sleep. , A morning in September I got to work early. We got to the station 5 just on time to catch the train. PLAN the content. 1 Invent a plot and write what happened simply, in about so words. 2 Then think about how you could improve your story by adding more details, e.g. with adjectives and adverbs. 3 Think about what tenses you need for each part of the story, e.g. how to set the scene, what significant events happened before the story starts. WRITE 120- 180 words, organized in two or three paragraphs. Use a variety of narrative tenses and adverbs and adjectives to make your story more vivid. CHECK your short story for mistakes ( grammar , punctuation , and spelling ). EI
Page 1: SPECIAL EDITION Upper-intermediat 5
Page 4 and 5: Contents Grammar Voubulary Pronunci
Page 6 and 7: A G revision: question formation V
Page 8 and 9: PEED DATING SPEED DATING SPEED DATI
Page 10 and 11: B G auxiliary verbs; the ... the ..
Page 12 and 13: 6 LISTENING & READING a Read the be
Page 14 and 15: c G present perfed (simple and cont
Page 16 and 17: G RAM MAR present perfect (simple a
Page 18 and 19: What does the future hold? COLLOQUI
Page 20 and 21: GRAMMAR I Complete the sentences wi
Page 22 and 23: A G adjectives as nouns, adjective
Page 24 and 25: 3 READING a Look at the photos on p
Page 26 and 27: G narrative tenses, past perfect co
Page 28 and 29: GRAMMAR narrative tenses, past perf
Page 30 and 31: c (i adverbs and adverbial phrases
Page 32 and 33: SPEAKING o Communication Reading ha
Page 36 and 37: ~RAMMAR Circle the right answer, a,
Page 38 and 39: A G passive (all fo rms), it is sai
Page 40 and 41: ms), it is said that. .. , he is th
Page 42 and 43: ms), it is said that..., he is thou
Page 44 and 45: 4 C RAM MAR passive (all forms), it
Page 46 and 47: G future perfect and future continu
Page 48 and 49: 7 GRAMMAR future perfect and future
Page 50 and 51: G conditionals and future time clau
Page 52 and 53: 4 GRAMMAR conditionals and future t
Page 54 and 55: THE INTERVIEW lCJ a You are going t
Page 56 and 57: GRAMMAR a Complete the second sente
Page 60 and 61: (i unreal conditionals V feelings P
Page 62 and 63: mals oO! caught fIre? ,u had been o
Page 64 and 65: 3 GRAMMAR unreal conditionals I Wha
Page 66 and 67: B G past modals; would rather, had
Page 68 and 69: 4 LISTENING a 4.14 What's the diffe
Page 70 and 71: c G verbs of the senses V the body
Page 72 and 73: 3 VOCABULARY the body 4 PRONUNCIATI
Page 74 and 75: Stage and screen COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH
Page 78 and 79: G gerunds and infinitives V music P
Page 80 and 81: 3 VOCABULARY music a 5.4 Listen and
Page 82 and 83: G used to, be used to, get used to
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4 VOCABULARY sleep "reams fall keep
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c G reporting verbs; as V the media
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3 VOCABULARY the media news noun [u
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THE INTERVIEW lCJ a You are going t
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GRAMMAR a Complete the second sente
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A C articles V collocation: word pa
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5 LISTENING a Have you ever had to
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B C uncountable and plural nouns; h
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5 LISTENING a 6.9 You are going to
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c G qua ntifiers: all / every, etc.
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3 READING a You are going to find o
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THE INTERVIEW lCl a You are going t
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GRAMMAR Choose a, b or c. 1 After t
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G structures after wish V oed / -in
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4 READING a Look at the photos of t
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G clauses of contrast and purpose;
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4 GRAMMAR clauses of contrast and p
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G relative clauses V prefixes P wor
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3 READING & LISTENING a Read about
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Words COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH THE INTERV
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GRAMMAR a Complete the second sente
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Communication IB You're psychic, ar
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Communication 4C Two paintings Stud
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Communication 4B Argument! Student
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Interviewer If you saw on someone's
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3.1 Interviewer How did you become
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Kevin's last hope was to pay a loca
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expensive dishes and wines without
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John "When we are on the river, we
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lA question formation 1 Can you dri
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2A adjectives as nouns, adjective o
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3A passive (all forms), it is said
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IA unreal conditionals second condi
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SA gerunds and infinitives verbs fo
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6A 2 articles basic rules: a I an I
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7 A structures after wish wish + pa
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• Personality 1 Adjectives and ph
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Clothes and fashion 1 Describing cl
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Weather I What's the weather like?
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The body 1 Parts of the body and or
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The media 1 Journalists and people
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Business and advertising 1 Verbs an
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13 o"'~ t1teI 17~. OJ . • short v
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Sounds and spelling - consonants us
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