Page 33 how many brothers and sisters have you got? | he wants to know how many people are coming to dinner | how beach /biːtʃ/ Noun many centimetres are there in a metre? a beach is the land at the edge of the sea Collocates: play on a beach | sit on a beach left /left/ Noun singular the children are playing on the beach | they want to the left is one of two directions. When you write in spend the day on the beach | there are some lovely English, you start on the left of the page beaches near here | let’s go and sit on the beach the hotel is in the next street, on the left | I prefer the one on the left | John is sitting on my left | that’s my uncle cash /kæʃ/ Noun uncount on the left of the picture | stay on the left at these traffic cash is money, in the form of coins and notes lights Collocates: pay (by) cash Adverb: left | Adjective: left I haven’t got any cash with me | are you paying by cash go down this road, then turn left | keep left at these traffic or credit card? | a cash machine (a thing in a wall in the lights | I write with my left hand | her left eye is green and street that gives out bank notes) | I’ve got to go to a bank her right eye is blue to get some cash machine /məˈʃiːn/ Noun church /tʃɜː(r)tʃ/ Noun a machine is a piece of equipment that does a particular a church is a building where Christians go to pray kind of work (speak) to God, especially on Sundays a ticket machine (that takes money and gives you a Collocates: a church service | go to church ticket) | a coffee machine (that makes coffee) | a cash we go to church every Sunday | there’s a church at the machine (a thing in a wall in the street that gives out end of our street | a church service (a regular event at a bank notes) | a washing machine church, usually on a Sunday) | we want to get married in a church next to /ˈnekst tʊ/ Preposition if you are next to someone or something, you are close early /ˈɜː(r)li/ Adverb to them, and closer than anyone or anything else if you do something early, you do it before the time that the hospital is next to the park | she always sits next to is usual or expected her grandmother | please put the book next to the others I get up early on Fridays | if we get there early we can on the shelf have a cup of coffee before the film starts | Jenny always arrives for school early night /naɪt/ Noun night is the time when it is dark, between the afternoon Adjective: early and the morning we have an early start tomorrow Collocates: at night film /fɪlm/ Noun I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night | the a film is a story that uses moving pictures. You can watch airport is closed at night | there’s a good film on TV on films on television, in a cinema, or over the Internet Saturday night | he works nights (during the night rather what time does the film start? | I like watching films on TV than during the day) | my favourite film is Mad Max | it’s a really boring film | open /ˈəʊpən/ Adjective we’re making a film about the history of our school if a shop is open, you can go in and buy things first /fɜː(r)st/ Adjective are the shops here open on Sunday? | they’re not open in a race, the person who wins is the person who gets to at lunch time | if it’s still open, we can buy some bread | the end first, before everyone else they stay open until 10 o’clock on Fridays Collocates: come first Verb: open | Opposite – Adjective: closed | Verb: close Usain Bolt always comes first | I hope to come first in the the supermarket opens at 8 in the morning | I’m afraid race tomorrow | the person who comes first wins a prize you’re too late – we’re closed | the shops are closed on Sundays | they close at 6 o’clock get up /get ʌp/ Phrasal verb when you get up, you get out of bed in the morning after phone /fəʊn/ Noun sleeping at night a phone is a thing that you use to be able to talk to what time do you get up? | he gets up at 7.30 | I get up people who are not with you late on Saturdays | 5 o’clock is too early to get up! what’s her phone number? | my daughter wants a new phone | my phone doesn’t work here | can I borrow your how many /haʊ ˈmeni/ Phrase phone? you say how many? when you are asking about the number of people or things somewhere
pool /puːl/ Noun turn off /tɜː(r)n ˈɒf/ Phrasal verb
a pool, or a swimming pool, is an area of water where if you turn off a piece of electrical equipment, you move people can swim a switch so that it will stop working Collocates: an outdoor/indoor pool | a heated pool turn your phones off before the lesson starts, please | do you prefer swimming in a pool or in the sea? | it costs turn the light off before you go | shall I turn the TV off? | £2 to go into our local swimming pool | she has a pool in he turns off the radio before starting his homework her garden | the leisure centre has an indoor pool as well walk /wɔːk/ Noun as a heated outdoor pool | jump into the pool if you go for a walk, you go somewhere by putting one right /raɪt/ Noun singular foot in front of the other, usually for pleasure the right is one of two directions. When you write in let’s go for a walk | a walk in the park | it’s a nice day for English, you start on the left and your writing moves a walk | a ten-kilometre walk in the country towards the right of the page Verb: walk there’s a museum on this road, on the right | I prefer the I walk to school every morning one on the right | Alan is sitting on my right | that’s my aunt on the right of the picture | stay on the right at these traffic lights Pages 34–35 Adverb: right | Adjective: right bank /bæŋk/ Noun go down this road, then turn right | keep right at these a bank is a building that keeps people’s money, and traffic lights | I write with my right hand | her left eye is where you can go to get some of your money when you green and her right eye is blue need it there’s a bank next to the supermarket | the bank opens second /ˈsekənd/ Adjective at 9 in the morning | she works in a bank | is there a bank in a race, the person who arrives after the winner and near here? before everyone else is the person who comes second Collocates: come second called /kɔːld/ Adjective if you are called something, that is your name. If coming second is a good result | who is in second place? something is called something, that is its name | I always come second, never first my dog is called Felix | the town is called Bootle | what’s see /siː/ Verb your village called? | it’s a place near Manchester, called if you see a play or a film, you watch it in a theatre, a Salford cinema, or on television Verb: call I’m going to see a film tomorrow | let’s see the news on I call my car Aggie TV | do you want to see a film with me at the weekend? car park /ˈkɑː(r) pɑː(r)k// Noun station /ˈsteɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun a car park is a place where you can leave your car for a a station is a place where trains stop to let passengers while get on and get off the car park is full | the shop has a car park behind it | the Collocates: train station airport car park is very big | you have to pay to use the meet me outside the station | the station is very crowded | car park the huge train station in Milan | can we walk to the station from here? cinema /ˈsɪnəmə/ Noun a cinema is a theatre where you can go and watch films third /θɜː(r)d/ Adjective there are two cinemas in my town | we go to the cinema in a race, the person who arrives after the first two is the every Thursday | it costs £12 to get into the cinema | person who comes third there’s a good film on at the cinema this week Collocates: come third clothes /kləʊðz/ Noun plural if you come third in the Olympics, you get a bronze medal clothes are pieces of material such as shirts, jackets and | she is unhappy because she is third | in third place is the trousers that people wear English runner I like buying new clothes | a clothes shop | I’m going train /treɪn/ Noun shopping for clothes | his clothes are old and dirty | my a train is a long vehicle that has wheels which run on wardrobe is full of clothes rails (long thin metal things on the ground) and that carries passengers expensive /ɪkˈspensɪv/ Adjective something that is expensive costs a lot of money Collocates: by train | take a/the train | train station an expensive watch | I like expensive clothes | it’s a good where is the train station? | I go to school by train | take a restaurant, but too expensive for us | an expensive meal train to Crewe | this train stops at Glasgow Central station | a high-speed train (that goes very fast) | you can get a far /fɑː(r)/ Adverb train from London to Amsterdam if something is far or far away, it is a long distance from you she lives far away, in Scotland | is it far to your school? | we can walk there – it’s not far
a hospital is a place where doctors help people who are ill or hurt afternoon /ˌɑːftə(r)ˈnuːn/ Noun the afternoon is the time of day between the morning he’s visiting his uncle in hospital | I’m going into hospital and the evening for an operation | ambulances bring people to hospital | the hospital is very busy in the winter Collocates: this afternoon | tomorrow afternoon there’s a football match on Saturday afternoon | I’m market /ˈmɑː(r)kɪt/ Noun meeting Tim tomorrow afternoon | we spend the a market is a place outdoors in a town where people afternoon listening to music | what do you usually do in bring things to sell on a particular day. Some towns have the afternoon? a market once a week in the main square or just in the streets children /ˈtʃɪldrən/ Noun there’s a market here every Wednesday | Friday is a child is a young person who is not an adult yet. The market day (the day when there is a market) | a fish plural of child is children market (where they sell fish) | a street market (in the children are playing in the park | there are 30 children in streets) | the market square (the place in some towns my class at school | the children are making a lot of noise where markets are held) closed /kləʊzd/ Adjective near /nɪə(r)/ Preposition if a shop or business is closed, you cannot go in there to if something is near somewhere, it is only a short buy anything or do business distance away the bank is closed on Saturday | the office is closed for my grandparents live near us – in the next street | the the weekend | I’m afraid we’re closed | the shops are hotel is near the beach | the restaurant is near the station closed on Sundays | Ashford is quite near Canterbury | is there a bank near Verb: close here? we close at 5 o’clock | the bank is about to close need /niːd/ Verb company /ˈkʌmp(ə)ni/ Noun if you need something, you want it for a particular a company is a business organisation purpose Microsoft is a big company | she runs a small company in I’m really hot – I need a drink | do you need a shower? | I Paris | a company that employs 300 people | he works for need £5 for my train ticket a German company park /pɑː(r)k/ Noun depend /dɪˈpend/ Verb a park is a big open space with trees and grass in a town if one thing depends on another thing, it can only or city where people can go and relax away from traffic happen or succeed because of the other thing and streets Collocates: depend on something let’s go for a walk in the park | I take my sandwich and eat it in the park at lunchtime | the park closes at eight we want to arrive by four, but it depends on the traffic | o’clock in the evening | London has several famous parks my university place depends on my exam results | the cost of the holiday depends on the hotel you choose shop /ʃɒp/ Noun a shop is a place where you go to buy things different /ˈdɪfrənt/ Adjective if two things or people are different, they are not the a clothes shop (that sells clothes) | the shop sells books same and computer games | she works in a shop | shop workers | the shops close at 8 | what time do the shops Collocates: different from something or someone open? I want a different job | my brother and I go to different schools | I work for a different company now | the boys supermarket /ˈsuːpə(r)ˌmɑː(r)kɪt/ Noun have the same colour hair but different colour eyes | his a supermarket is a large shop which sells lots of second film is very different from his first one different sorts of food and other things Noun: difference I need to go to the supermarket | I do my shopping at the Collocates: a difference between things supermarket | a 24-hour supermarket (that stays open all the time) | he works in the local supermarket there’s a big difference between the two pictures
want /wɒnt/ Verb evening /ˈiːvnɪŋ/ Noun
if you want something, you do not have it but would like the evening is the time of day when it starts to get dark, to have it between the afternoon and the night Collocates: want to do something Collocates: this evening | tomorrow evening do you want a drink? | she wants a new car | I want to let’s go to the cinema this evening | spend the evening buy another jacket | he wants to become a police officer watching videos | ring me tomorrow evening | we have dinner at 7 in the evening
if you have free time, or if your day is free, you can do a deeply religious man (who believes very strongly in his what you want to do and do not have to go to work or religion) | a religious leader school we have a free afternoon on Wednesdays | I’m busy shopping /ˈʃɒpɪŋ/ Noun uncount today, but tomorrow is free | what do you do in your free if you go shopping, you go to the shops to buy things time? | if you have any free time in Paris, go to the Louvre Collocates: go shopping I’m going shopping this afternoon | I don’t like shopping | government /ˈɡʌvə(r)nmənt/ Noun can we go shopping for clothes tomorrow? the government is the group of people who are in charge of a country or region short /ʃɔː(r)t/ Adjective the government is spending too much money at the a short period of time does not last very long moment | can the government make people happier? | we have a short weekend where I work – just Saturday the local government (that works in a town or region, not afternoon and Sunday | spend a short time in the bath | a the whole country) | the government building (where the short holiday in Paris people in the government work) Opposite – Adjective: long hours /ˈaʊə(r)z/ Noun plural a long weekend (Friday or Monday as well as Saturday your hours are the number of hours you have to spend and Sunday) at work every day or every week study /ˈstʌdi/ Verb it takes an hour by car to get to Liverpool | the film lasts if you study, you read books or information on the three hours | a one-hour French lesson internet to learn about things for school or university morning /ˈmɔː(r)nɪŋ/ Noun she’s studying science at university | I want to study the morning is the time of day when it starts to get light, languages | I usually study for two hours in the evening | between the night and the afternoon I’m studying for my music exams Collocates: this morning | tomorrow morning today /təˈdeɪ/ Adverb what time do you get up in the morning? | what a lovely today is the day of the week that is now, at the present morning! | it’s very cold this morning | let’s meet tomorrow time morning I have to go to work today | let’s meet later today | there’s mosque /mɒsk/ Noun more rain coming today | today is Friday | it’s my birthday a mosque is a building where Muslims go to pray (speak) today to Allah tomorrow /təˈmɒrəʊ/ Adverb there’s a beautiful mosque in the town centre | you have tomorrow is the day that comes after today to take off your shoes before you go into the mosque | let’s go swimming tomorrow | it’s my birthday tomorrow | Masjid-ul-Haram, near Mecca, is the largest mosque in tomorrow is Tuesday the world tradition /trəˈdɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun night /naɪt/ Noun a tradition is a habit or way of doing things that is very night is the time when it is dark, between the evening old and the morning it’s a tradition to have candles on a birthday cake | I often wake up in the middle of the night | he works all singing is an important tradition in Wales | our traditions through the night | the airport is closed at night | she are very different from theirs works nights (during the night rather than during the day) Adjective: traditional open /ˈəʊpən/ Verb our furniture is made by hand in the traditional way when a shop opens, people can start going in to buy | a group performing traditional Polish dances | the things restaurant serves traditional Chinese dishes the supermarket opens at 8 in the morning | what time do you open? yesterday /ˈjestə(r)deɪ/ Adverb yesterday is the day that comes before today Adjective: open yesterday was Sunday | the day before yesterday are the shops here open on Sunday? | they’re not open at lunch time | if it’s still open, we can buy some bread | they stay open until 10 o’clock on Fridays Pages 38–39 religion /rɪˈlɪdʒ(ə)n/ Noun again /əˈɡen/ Adverb a religion is a system of beliefs in a particular god and if you do something again, you do it for a second, third, the activities that are connected to this belief fourth, etc., time they do not belong to any religion | you should respect all say that again? | I’m going to Paris again next week | let’s religions | religion is very important to my family | the city watch that film again is home to people of different religions
a board is a large flat sheet of wood or plastic in a if you get something, you buy it or start to have it classroom where the teacher can write things or show can I get a coffee, please? | is there somewhere I can get pictures or text from a computer a drink here? | we get the same newspaper every day come and write the answer on the board | I can’t see the board | look at the board and copy the words homework /ˈhəʊmˌwɜː(r)k/ Noun uncount homework is work for school that you do at home in the book /bʊk/ Noun evening or at the weekend a book is a lot of pieces of paper with writing on them Collocates: do your homework | set (someone) that are held together inside a cover so that you can read homework them, one page after another do your homework before dinner | we get a lot of Collocates: read a book homework | it takes him an hour to do his homework | she’s reading a book | I always take a book to read on we’ve got maths homework tonight | Mr Skelton always the train | my school books | a book by Joël Dicker sets us too much homework
break /breɪk/ Noun leave /liːv/ Verb
when you are at school, a break is a time when your if you leave somewhere, you go away from there lessons stop and you relax for a short time before I leave work at 5 every evening | what time do you starting lessons again leave for school (start your journey to school in the break is from 10.00 till 10.20 | our lunch break | a mid- morning)? | you’re still too young to leave home (go to afternoon break (in the middle of the afternoon) live somewhere away from your parents) | I leave early on Fridays classroom /ˈklɑːsˌruːm/ Noun a classroom is a room in a school where you have light /laɪt/ Noun lessons a light is an object in your house that shines brightly it’s very cold in the classroom this morning | a big when electricity passes through it classroom | where is your classroom? | my classroom is at turn the lights on – it’s dark | the lights are on | turn the the end of the corridor light off before you go upstairs
come in /kʌm ˌɪn/ Phrasal verb play /pleɪ/ Verb
if someone says ‘come in’ they are asking you to come if you play a video or a piece of music, you turn on a inside the room where they are piece of equipment so that you see the video or hear the come in and sit down | don’t wait outside, come in | can I music come in? play that song again | press this button to play the video | she spends the evening playing board games everyone else /ˈevriˌwʌn els/ Pronoun everyone else means all the people somewhere, but not share /ʃeə(r)/ Verb you if you share something with someone, you both use it or I’m cold, but everyone else says they are warm | have it everyone else likes football, but I don’t | is everyone else I share a bedroom with my sister | can I share your book? ready? | he never shares his toys with his sister | do you want to share a taxi to the airport? family name /ˈfæm(ə)li neɪm/ Noun your family name is the name that everyone in your sit /sɪt/ Verb family has if you sit or sit down, you rest with your weight on your what’s your family name? | Elton John’s real family name bottom is Dwight | Jones is a very common family name in Wales come in and sit down | Simon sits next to Camilla in class | she is sitting outside the café waiting for Allie | can I sit floor /flɔː(r)/ Noun here? a floor is a level inside a building. When you come into a building from the street, you are on the ground floor. start /stɑː(r)t/ Verb When you go up one floor, you are on the first floor if something starts, it begins to happen my office is on the third floor | which floor is the classroom Collocates: start doing something | start to do something on? | my house has three floors the film starts at 8 | school starts next week | I’m going to start learning German | she starts work at 9 every front /frʌnt/ Noun singular morning | the weather is starting to improve the front is the place where everything or everyone else is behind Opposite – Verb: end I always sit at the front in the cinema | the teacher sits what time does the film end? | the story ends when the at the front of the class | the magazine has a picture of hero comes back from the war Ronaldo on the front
you say sure in order to agree with someone or agree if you use something, you do something with it with a suggestion that they make can I use your phone? | use this towel to dry your hair | shall we go to the cinema? – sure, good idea | are you use your dictionary to find out what the words mean | you ready? – sure, let’s go can use the money to buy a bike
tablet /ˈtæblət/ Noun word /wɜː(r)d/ Noun
a tablet is a small, flat computer that you can carry a word is a group of letters that have a meaning around easily. You touch the screen to make it work do you know the word ‘believe’? | what’s the French word rather than using a separate keyboard for ‘bread’? | I try to learn a new word every day | I don’t you cannot take your tablet into the exam room | a new understand this word tablet costs £400 | a Samsung tablet | apps that work on phones and tablets write /raɪt/ Verb if you write, you make marks on paper to form words, time /taɪm/ Noun uncount or you use a keyboard to put words onto a computer time is the number of days, hours, minutes, etc., that you screen can spend doing something write your name at the top | I’m writing an email to my I don’t have enough time with my family | have you aunt | she’s learning to read and write | write down my got time to look at my photos? | let’s spend some time telephone number together young /jʌŋ/ Adjective understand /ˌʌndə(r)ˈstænd/ Verb someone who is young is not old if you understand something, you know what it means or a young child | a friendly young man | my youngest how it works brother is six can you understand Italian? | I don’t understand this word | I don’t understand how mobile phones work
EXERCISES E Complete the sentences with words formed from
the words in bold. Be careful! There is one word that doesn’t change. A Are the words for places (P) or things (T)? Circle P or T. 1 They’re people. He goes to a 1 pool P T mosque and she goes to a church. religion 2 bank P T 2 Oh, no. The café is ! close 3 tablet P T 3 T hese aren’t the same colour. They’re 4 company P T . difference 5 cinema P T 4 Is the market on Sunday? open 6 light P T 5 This is a food from Saudi Arabia. B Complete the sentences with the words in the box. tradition
board children depends free morning second F Circle the correct words.
1 I don’t use / play my phone in the evening. 1 O h! Tilly is first and her sister is ! 2 ‘Please can you sit / write your name again?’ 2 Is there a in the classroom? 3 E veryone else walks / writes to work, but I take 3 The journey time on the traffic. a bus. 4 The is my favourite time of day. 4 They get / leave the train every day. 5 I have two – a son and a 5 Do you buy / need a break? daughter. G Complete the sentences with the verbs in the box. The 6 Are you today, Meghan? words in bold will help you. C Complete the sentences with at, from, in or on. get up need see share study turn off 1 My house is front of a park. 1 Do you want to a film this week? 2 I don’t work night. 2 My sons £50 for new shoes. 3 Do you want to go for a walk the beach? 3 We English at the school on New Road. 4 My English class is Thursday. 4 ‘Franco, your book with Sophia, 5 They go to school Monday to please.’ Friday. 5 I don’t early every day. D Write the words that mean the opposite. 6 This is a hospital. your phone. end far leave old right short