1 SPEAKING Do you love living in a city? What do you think are the benefits of living in a big city? 2 Work in pairs. Match the photos A-E with the cities and the countries. What do the countries have in common? 3 Work in pairs. Check the meaning of the following words. Identify the words that are in the wrong groups.
1 SPEAKING Describe the photo. What are the people discussing, do you think? 2 Read and listen to the dialogue. Look at the highlighted sentences and answer the questions. Then find one more third conditional sentence in the dialogue. 3 Look at the highlighted sentences in the dialogue and answer the questions below. Then read the Learn this! box and complete the examples.
1 Read the text. Find the name of the inventor and the invention. 2 VOCABULARY Read Listening Strategy 1. Match the verbs and nouns below to make travel-related collocations. Some verbs can go with more than one noun. 3 Listen to six short extracts and answer the questions. Listen for verbs and nouns from exercise 2 to help you. 4 Read Listening Strategy 2. Then listen again. Which extracts (1-6) are formal? Which words from the strategy do they include?
1 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Do you think space programmes, which cost millions, are a good way for governments to spend money? Give reasons. 2 Read Part 1 of the article. What happened to the spaceship? Rewrite the underlined participle or infinitive clauses as relative clauses.
1 SPEAKING Describe the photo in pairs. What would be the best and worst things about going on a long trip on a boat like this? 2 Read the text. If you had been on a trip like this, would you have enjoyed it? Why? / Why not? 3 Read the Learn this! box. Then look at the highlighted verbs in the text above. Which verb pattern (a-e) does not have an example in the text?