READING &

LISTENING EXTRA
ADVANCED 6 6
ANSWER KEY 1 Don’t use slides. 1 Linda believes that there should be
2 Talk should be like a compelling story. more sites of natural beauty on the
UNIT 1 3 Use a gripping video. UK’s list of World Heritage Sites. Gary
4 Keep the length short. believes that the balance is right
2 5 Transmit emotion, relive the story as
you tell it.
and that it is natural that the list is
dominated by sites of cultural value.
1 via their profile picture and cover photo 2 Linda’s main argument is that the Lake
2 identities in the gaming world are 7 District means a lot to people, that
more about fantasy 1 only one its beautiful landscape is an excellent
2 brave
3 3 a barrier between the speaker and the
example of the perfect harmony
between man and nature.
1 incomplete 2 usually audience Gary’s main argument is that the Forth
3 don’t show their faces 4 childhood 4 opposites Bridge is a masterpiece, a unique feat
5 sometimes feel 6 more 5 depends of engineering and design which you
7 a form of escape 8 boring 6 shorter can’t find anywhere else.
4 8 7
1e 2a 3h 4c 5f 6g 7b 8d 1 It takes guts 1 False – She thinks that twenty-nine is
two verb/verb phrases that collocate with 2 a whole range of a lot.
‘an identity’: project, take on 3 to get your message across 2 True
4 vividly 3 True
6 5 gripping 4 False – He says that some parts of the
1c 2b 3a 6 rely on Lake District are not that beautiful.
7 cope with 5 False – She says that man’s intervention
7 8 in sync with is the key element, that man has made
1 True it more beautiful.
2 False – She says it was a ‘big mistake’. 9 6 True
3 False – He changes his profile photos 2 Possible answers: 7 False – She will still vote for the Lake
depending on his mood. the inclusion of humour, have a clear District.
4 True focused message, have a good rapport
5 False – only when she is happy with the public (be relaxed from the 8
6 True start), use pauses for effect and to give 1 aesthetic 2 landmark 3 harmony
you time to think, move around when 4 masterpiece 5 highlight 6 innovation
8 you’re speaking, etc. 7 heritage 8 milestone
1 solitary 2 enigmatic 3 insecure
4 upbeat 5 melancholic 6 confident
7 optimistic UNIT 3 UNIT 4

UNIT 2
2 1
1 a place of outstanding natural beauty/
cultural significance that is worthy of
2 protection/preservation
The writer would say points 3, 4 and to a 3 Places of natural beauty, cities and
lesser extent, 6. monuments can all be World Heritage
Sites.
3 4 Italy has most World Heritage Sites.
1 True 5 Threats include mass tourism,
2 False – Information is easily accessible vandalism, climate change, pollution,
but is ‘possibly inaccurate’. natural disasters, wars and conflicts, etc.
3 True
4 False – ‘it is also delivered in ways that 3 Slow food: educational movement which
would have seemed inconceivable’ 1 unknown 2 natural beauty 3 surprised
5 False – ‘that many views of an academic 4 particularly in Africa 5 restricted
talk on education surely is a fact worth 6 agrees
celebrating’
6 True 4A
7 False – ‘people attend conferences 1d 2e 3g 4a 5f 6b 7h 8c
more than ever before’
4B
4 2 Mass tourism
2 a hermit 3 inaccurate 4 ephemeral 3 natural phenomenon
5 thought-provoking 6 craving 4 irreversible damage
7 to assimilate 8 inconceivable 5 cultural significance
9 dumbed down 10 popping up 6 aesthetic value
7 tourist destination
8 important factor
Organic food: food grown without
pesticides and chemical fertilizers
Fair trade products: food that has been
produced in developing countries but for
which local workers have been paid a fair
price
Farm-to-table restaurants: restaurants
which believe that the whole process
of food production should be local –
harvesting, storage, processing, packaging,
sales and consumption
promotes local food that is in season and
warns about the risks affecting the food
industry, e.g. factory farms, processed
food, genetically modified foods, etc.
3
1 surprising
2 try to understand
3 think organic food is better quality
4 some places don’t maintain the correct
standards
5 teaches us about healthy eating
6 are not commercial
7 which doesn’t have a perfect appearance
8 sensible

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4 6
1 leovers 2 convenience food
3 doggy bag 4 in season 5 foodies
6 balanced diet 7 tuck into
8 factory farms
7 in a national newspaper.
(Sample answers)
1 Rachel believes that diet is important
because: 1) our health is worsening
as a result of poor diets, 2) this
means the health system is put under
pressure because more people require
treatment.
2 To help the situation: 1) labels can be
placed on food warning of their risks
(like tobacco), 2) healthy food can be
subsidised by the government
3 He believes that people should be
able to eat what they like and that the
cost to society of unhealthy eating is
exaggerated. Plenty of people who eat
well get ill.
8 7 compassion 8 charm
1 doesn’t like fast food but
2 the ageing population
3 more information about food
4 may have improved a little
5 plenty of
6 is the number one health issue
7 similar to
8 thinks she a point but doesn’t agree
READING &
LISTENING EXTRA
UNIT 7
1 earthquake and tsunami in Chile: she
videoed it and sent the video to a TV 2
channel 1 Gross National Happiness is the Bhutan
2 train driver’s strike: he took a photo and government’s way of measuring their
posted it online. It was later published progress as a country. Progress is
measured according to the people’s
3 an attack on a homeless man: she happiness and well-being rather than
wrote a blog about it economic profit or productivity.
2 to do trekking, to visit monasteries/
7 markets/festivals, to take time out, to
Melanie: 3, 4, 7 enjoy a different way of life
Roger: 1, 8, 9 3 Relatively wealthy tourists, no
Patricia: 2, 5, 6 backpackers. Bhutan is unique
because of its Buddhist culture and
8 its sustainable development policies,
1b 2a 3g 4c 5d 6e 7f including its attitude to tourism.
Other collocations include: video story,
video coverage, amateur footage, amateur 3
coverage, exclusive footage, exclusive 1c 2b 3a 4c 5a 6c
coverage, biased photographer, biased
footage, biased coverage, biased story, 4
common attitudes, common story 1 haven 2 overlook 3 vision 4 illusion
5 cultivating 6 well-being
UNIT 6
6
2 Joe had a negative experience because
d 1) he felt sick due to the altitude, 2) it was
crowded
3 Helen had a positive experience because
1 Nearly 1) she had such a sense of freedom there,
2 were once 2) she went to places that are rarely visited

9 3
4
only certain people
the norm 7
1 dictatorial 2 subsidise 3 epidemic 5 can be motivated by 1 False – Only Joe had health problems.
4 stretched 5 duty 6 self-esteem 6 doesn’t understand 2 True
7 policymaker 8 patronising 7 in some places 3 False – He says that the country is very
8 don’t have positive connotations popular and has become less exclusive.
4 True
UNIT 5 4 5 False – The weather was sometimes
1 passé 2 deciphered 3 backlash bad but that didn’t spoil her trip.
2 4 hold sway 5 edge 6 in the know 6 True
Sentences 2, 4 and 5 accurately describe
the term ‘citizen journalists’.
7 derives/is derived 8 stigma
8
6 1 strenuous 2 off the beaten track
3 Does he/she talk about What tattoo does 3 acclimatise 4 play it by ear 5 bliss
1 False – Breaking news is news that you tattoos with reference he/she have or would 6 cleansing 7 packed
to the past, present or he/she like to have?
get the moment it happens. future?
8 pressed for time
2 True
Daniel past Maori design
3 False – Eye-witness reports frequently
come about by chance (‘you happen to
Linda 1
future star
2
UNIT 8
Richard 3
present dragon
4
be walking …’)
4 True Barbara 5

7
past
present
feather
6

heart and name

8
2
Kurt
5 False – The article says that many 3
Tracy 9
future cutting-edge design
10
well-known people use social media.
6 False – The writer says that there is 3
room for both professional and citizen 7 1 feel more under pressure 2 no longer
journalists. 1 c, e 2 h, l 3 a, f 4 b, i 5 g, k 6 d, j 3 understand quite well 4 quickly
5 bored 6 deeply personal
4 8
1b 2a 3c 4e 5f 6d 1 had a yearning 2 frowned upon 4
3 peer pressure 4 surpassed 1 immerse myself 2 distinguish
5 meaningful 6 have taken off 3 stroking/to stroke 4 exacerbates
7 pluck up the courage 8 cutting-edge 5 blurs 6 tend 7 pinpoints 8 distort

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6 UNIT 10

Lucy
Context
Taking a long time to get
Times goes
slowly
2
off a plane Bolivia: difficulty: very narrow and steep,
no barriers, bad weather
watching Radiohead/ quickly
Christian
favourite band live in direction: downhill
concert scenery: great variety of landscapes,
Rachel exercise/running both
mountains and tropical green forests
Italy: difficulty: lots of bends, technically
Boris being stuck in the house slowly
difficult to drive
Kathryn spending time at the quickly direction: uphill
beach scenery: snowy mountains and valleys
North Africa: difficulty: length and fragile
7 state of road, bad weather
1 b, h 2 c, j 3 d, f 4 a, g 5 e, i direction: largely flat (neither uphill or
downhill)
8 scenery: desert landscape
1 restless 2 exhaustion 3 treasure
4 drags on 5 exhilarated 6 lose track 3
7 housebound 8 potter 1 b, g, i 2 a, h, d 3 f, e, c

4
UNIT 9 1 perilous 2 hamper 3 breathtaking
4 zigzags 5 dates back 6 undertake
2 7 barren 8 reward
3
6
3 1 Sharon’s favourite is the Bolivia one.
1 True 2 The other road they talk about is one in
2 True the Carpathian mountains in Romania.
3 False – A lot of icons have been 3 Robert mentions that road because
criticised for favouring London. he says that a TV programme Top Gear
4 False – People like it but don’t interpret claimed it was the best road to drive
or understand it all. on in the world (not the Italian road
5 True mentioned).
6 False – They are also interested in
seeing people who actually stand for/ 7
represent something important. 1b 2c 3a 4a 5b 6c
7 True
8
4 1 hairpin bend 2 harrowing
1 object to 2 stand for 3 quintessential 3 blast 4 adrenalin rush
4 melting pot 5 bias 6 herald 5 appeal to somebody 6 nickname
7 canvass 8 purports 7 understatement 8 thrilling

6A
Favourite icon Year created
Glenda Barack Obama campaign 2009
poster
Peter Coca-Cola bottle 1915
Patricia I ♥ NY 1977

6B
They are all related to marketing and
advertising, they were all created to
transmit a message, they have all been
imitated.

7
1 e, g, h 2 a, d, f 3 c, i, b

8
1 recognisable 2 conveys
3 eye-catching 4 countless 5 close-up
6 visualise 7 capture 8 epitomise

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