Unit 1
Inside view
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1 Her family name and her first name.
2 The porter gives Janet the keys to her room.
3 Janet calls the porter “sir” at first.
4 The porter asks Janet to call him Stewart.
5 The porter asks Janet to sign for her keys. 6
1 I’m Janet Li
2 My Chinese name is
3 it’s short for
4 Everyone calls me
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1b 2b 3a 4b 5b 6a
Outside view
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The true statements are: 2, 4 and 6.
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1 four years; modern languages
2 special meal
3 of the town
4 improve its place
5 white shirt
6 should have traditions
7 white; pink; red
8 our history
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Listening in
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Number of institutions: 8
Sporting importance: university sports teams compete against each other
Academic importance: near or at the top of the US colleges and university rankings Social importance: social elitism, mostly rich, intellectual, white students
Location: the US north-east
Origin of name: Roman IV (meaning four) or ivy plants growing on walls
Oldest institution: Harvard, founded in 1636 Largest number of undergraduates: Cornell, about 13,000
Acceptance rates: seven percent to twenty percent
Famous alumni: George Bush, John F Kennedy and many others
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1 The story begins at Princeton University.
2 Nash admits to Charles that he is better with numbers than people.
3 Nash finds relationships difficult at first.
4 When Nash is put in a psychiatric hospital he thinks the Soviets have captured him.
Unit 2
Inside view
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Chicken curry; moussaka; minestrone soup; chilli con carne
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Janet has had minestrone soup and chicken curry. Kate has had minestrone soup and moussaka. Mark has had the prawn with garlic and chilli con carne. They will have some kind of dessert.
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1 apple strudel
2 pastry
3 with flour, eggs, butter and lots of chocolate
4 fruit salad
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1 What would you like
2 why don’t you try
3 It’s made with
4 I’m not so keen on
5 What flavor
6 what are you going to have
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1b 2b 3b 4a
Outside view
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1 Leah has been working in the restaurant for over 50 years.
2 Shrimp is the main ingredient in the dish.
3 The garlic helps to reduce cholesterol.
4 Leah learned to cook from her mother. She had to learn to cook as she comes from a big family. She is the eldest of 11 children.
5 Leah’s mother-in-law ran the restaurant when Leah was younger.
6 Leah started cooking in the restaurant in 1946.
7 All Creoles keep paprika in their kitchen.
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Listening in
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Ben answers questions 3, 1, 8.
Michelle answers questions 2, 5.
Tom answers questions 6, 4, 7.
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1 go ahead and start
2 you can go to a restaurant
3 stay too late
4 would arrive
5 everyone tries everything
6 you don’t like their cooking
7 that’s considered rude
8 nothing more than that
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Unit 3
Inside view
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1 “How much do you know about memory?”
2 He says he’s got a pretty good memory.
3 He says he can’t remember a thing when he’s tired.
4 He says he read something about memory in it.
5 She jokes, “Oh, Mark! What a good memory
you have!”
6 Because Mark forgot he had a lecture.
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The skills that Janet has difficulty with are: 1, 3 and 4.
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1 I’m finding studying at Oxford quite hard.
2 Yes, but I’m good at that.
3 I think it’s giving you opinion and then justifying it.
4 That’s what the research tells us.
5 No! look, I’m starving and I can’t think at all when I’m hungry.
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1 generally
2 mostly
3 I find it difficult
4 I have difficulty
5 getting better at it
6 Your task is
7 Everyone is capable of
8 Now ask another one
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Outside view
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1 Mind maps are diagrams which help us to generate ideas, and also to organize or structure our ideas related to a topic.
2 OK, brainstorming is one of the most important uses of mind maps.
3 By using mind maps to collect the main ideas from what the teacher says, you can keep a very general understanding of a topic…
4 Before an exam, after having studied for many, many days or even weeks, you might want to capture the very general understanding of the subject.
5 They give us almost a picture, a different perspective in terms of a picture, or a diagram of understanding information or understanding connected ideas, which is very helpful for people who like to learn from a different way.
6 As you can see, we have main ideas throughout our mind map.
7 Mind maps are illogical and therefore they encourage us to think creatively, you might say.
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1 There is a center.
2 There are only words, not sentences.
3 It looks like a tree.
4 You used a lot of colours.
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1d 2b 3a 4b
Listening in
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Age: 51
Age when the stroke occurred: 50
Number of weeks of speech and language therapy: 12 weeks
Length of time in hospital: three and a half months
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1 No, not that much.
2 Because he couldn’t speak.
3 She uses exercises to help him learn to speak again.
4 A special computer programme.
5 Yes, he did.
6 Being given the right drug at the right time and having a lot of therapy.
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1 in white coats
2 my family
3 almost immediately
4 words and pictures
5 a lot of words
6 read and write
7 the right time
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Unit 4
Inside view
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1 No, she hasn’t.
2 She trains volunteers.
3 To tell her she can’t make the next training session
4 Experienced students.
5 The ability to really listen to someone and make them feel you’re listening.
6 Listen carefully and then repeat what people have said a little differently.
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1 Abbie speaking
2 can you hold on a moment
3 can I call you back later
4 You’re saying
5 What do you mean
6 So what you’re saying is
7 So they know you’ve really heard them
8 you’ve got it already
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1b 2a 3a 4b 5b 6a
Outside view
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The topics mentioned are: 1, 4, 5, 6 and 8. 3
1 160
2 1992
3 one billion
4 20 billion
5 10, 15
6 2004
7 450; two; one
8 ten per cent
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1b 2c 3d 4b 5a 6c 7a 8d 9a 10b
Listening in
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1 The man took his son and niece with him.
2 The man phoned the emergency services before it got dark.
3 Afterwards, the girl said, “It was quite fun.”
4 The emergency service center sent out helicopters as soon as it was daylight.
5 The group moved away from where they had taken their photos because the ground was too rough to sleep on.
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1 His mobile phone.
2 14.
3 The emergency services staff were able to identify which mountains they were.
4 To pinpoint the exact location.
5 Leaves.
6 They were only 400 meters away from where the emergency services staff expected them to be.
7 Always take your mobile phone with you when you go hiking.
8 No.
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The true statements are: 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8.