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SECOND EDITION

Michael McCarthy Jeanne McCarten Helen Sandiford

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Acknowledgments Touchstone Second Edition has benefited from extensive development research. The authors and publishers would like to extend their thanks to the following reviewers and consultants for their valuable insights and suggestions:

Authors’ Acknowledgments

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Helen Sandiford would like to thank her family for their love and support, especially her husband Bryan. The author team would also like to thank each other, for the joy of working together, sharing the same professional dedication, and for the mutual support and friendship.

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Finally, the authors would like to thank our dear friend Alejandro Martinez, Global Training Manager, who sadly passed away in 2012. He is greatly missed by all who had the pleasure to work with him. Alex was a huge supporter of Touchstone and everyone is deeply grateful to him for his contribution to its success.

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Ana Lúcia da Costa Maia de Almeida and Mônica da Costa Monteiro de Souza from IBEU, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Andreza Cristiane Melo do Lago from Magic English School, Manaus, Brazil; Magaly Mendes Lemos from ICBEU, São José dos Campos, Brazil; Maria Lucia Zaorob, São Paulo, Brazil; Patricia McKay Aronis from CEL LEP, São Paulo, Brazil; Carlos Gontow, São Paulo, Brazil; Christiane Augusto Gomes da Silva from Colégio Visconde de Porto Seguro, São Paulo, Brazil; Silvana Fontana from Lord’s Idiomas, São Paulo, Brazil; Alexander Fabiano Morishigue from Speed Up Idiomas, Jales, Brazil; Elisabeth Blom from Casa Thomas Jefferson, Brasília, Brazil; Michelle Dear from International Academy of English, Toronto, ON, Canada; Walter Duarte Marin, Laura Hurtado Portela, Jorge Quiroga, and Ricardo Suarez, from Centro Colombo Americano, Bogotá, Colombia; Jhon Jairo Castaneda Macias from Praxis English Academy, Bucaramanga, Colombia; Gloria Liliana Moreno Vizcaino from Universidad Santo Tomas, Bogotá, Colombia; Elizabeth Ortiz from Copol English Institute (COPEI), Guayaquil, Ecuador; Henry Foster from Kyoto Tachibana University, Kyoto, Japan; Steven Kirk from Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan; J. Lake from Fukuoka Woman’s University, Fukuoka, Japan; Etsuko Yoshida from Mie University, Mie, Japan; B. Bricklin Zeff from Hokkai Gakuen University, Hokkaido, Japan; Ziad Abu-Hamatteh from Al-Balqa’ Applied University, Al-Salt, Jordan; Roxana Pérez Flores from Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila Language Center, Saltillo, Mexico; Kim Alejandro Soriano Jimenez from Universidad Politecnica de Altamira, Altamira, Mexico; Tere Calderon Rosas from Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Campus Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Mexico; Lilia Bondareva, Polina Ermakova, and Elena Frumina, from National Research Technical University MISiS, Moscow, Russia; Dianne C. Ellis from Kyung Hee University, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea; Jason M. Ham and Victoria Jo from Institute of Foreign Language Education, Catholic University of Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea; Shaun Manning from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea; Natalie Renton from Busan National University of Education, Busan, South Korea; Chris Soutter from Busan University of Foreign Studies, Busan, South Korea; Andrew Cook from Dong A University, Busan, South Korea; Raymond Wowk from Daejin University, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea; Ming-Hui Hsieh and Jessie Huang from National Central University, Zhongli, Taiwan; Kim Phillips from Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan; Alex Shih from China University of Technology, Taipei Ta-Liao Township, Taiwan; Porntip Bodeepongse from Thaksin University, Songkhla, Thailand; Nattaya Puakpong and Pannathon Sangarun from Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand; Barbara Richards, Gloria Stewner-Manzanares, and Caroline Thompson, from Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, USA; Kerry Vrabel from Gateway Community College, Phoenix, AZ, USA.

The authors would like to thank all the Cambridge University Press staff and freelancers who were involved in the creation of Touchstone Second Edition. In addition, they would like to acknowledge a huge debt of gratitude that they owe to two people: Mary Vaughn, for her role in creating Touchstone First Edition and for being a constant source of wisdom ever since, and Bryan Fletcher, who also had the vision that has led to the success of Touchstone Blended Learning.

Touchstone Second Edition authors and publishers would also like to thank the following individuals and institutions who have provided excellent feedback and support on Touchstone Blended:

Gordon Lewis, Vice President, Laureate Languages and Chris Johnson, Director, Laureate English Programs, Latin America from Laureate International Universities; Universidad de las Americas, Santiago, Chile; University of Victoria, Paris, France; Universidad Technólogica Centroamericana, Honduras; Instititut Universitaire de Casablanca, Morocco; Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Peru; CIBERTEC, Peru; National Research Technical University (MiSIS), Moscow, Russia; Institut Obert de Catalunya (IOC), Barcelona, Spain; Sedat Çilingir, · Burcu Tezcan, and Didem Mutçalıog˘lu from Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey. Touchstone Second Edition authors and publishers would also like to thank the following contributors to Touchstone Second Edition: Sue Aldcorn, Frances Amrani, Deborah Gordon, Lisa Hutchins, Nancy Jordan, Steven Kirk, Genevieve Kocienda, Linda-Marie Koza, Geraldine Mark, Julianna Nielsen, Kathryn O’Dell, Nicola Prentis, Ellen Shaw, Kristin Sherman, Luis Silva Susa, Mary Vaughn, Kerry S. Vrabel, Shari Young and Eric Zuarino.

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Touchstone Level 1 Contents and learning outcomes Language Learning outcomes

• Expressions to say hello and good-bye

• Letters and numbers

• Numbers 0–10

Sounds right

• Personal information

• Questions with What’s . . . ? and answers with It’s . . .

• Complete an application form

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• Sounds like hi

• Exchange email addresses, phone numbers, etc.

• Use the verb be with I, we, and you

• Ask How about you? • Use expressions like Thanks or Thank you

• The verb be with he, she, and they in statements, yes-no questions, and short answers

• Ask and say where people are

In class pages 11–20

• Talk about things you take to class using a / an • Ask about things using this and these

• This and these

• Say who owns things using possessive ’s and s’

• Noun plurals

• Ask for help in class

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• Questions with Where . . . ?

• Respond to I’m sorry and Thanks

• Possessives ’s and s’ Extra practice

• Say the ages of your family members

• Ask information questions about family members • Show interest in a conversation

• Possessive adjectives • The verb be in statements, yes-no questions, and short answers • Information questions with be

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• Types of celebrities

Speaking naturally

• Basic adjectives

• Is he . . . ? or Is she . . . ?

• Adjectives to describe personality

Sounds right

• Family members

• Sounds like s in see or z in zero

• Numbers 10–101

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• Describe weekly routines • Say more than yes or no to be friendly • Say Well to get more time to think

• Simple present statements, yes-no questions, and short answers

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• Ask and answer yes-no questions about your week

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Checkpoint Units 1–3 pages 31–32

• Describe a typical morning using the simple present

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• Sounds like e in she or a in late

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• Say Really? to show interest or surprise

Everyday life pages 33–42

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• Ask and answer yes-no questions

Unit 4

• Noun plural endings

• Prepositions and expressions of location

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• Describe people’s personalities

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• Talk about celebrities using my, your, his, her, our, and their

Favorite people pages 21–30

Speaking naturally

• Classroom objects

• Articles a, an, and the

• Ask where things are in a classroom

Unit 3

• Personal items

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• Use be with he, she, and they

• Everyday expressions

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• Email addresses

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• Introduce yourself

All about you pages 1–10

Pronunciation

• The verb be with I, you, and we in statements, yes-no questions, and short answers

• Say hello and good-bye

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• Verbs for everyday activities

Speaking naturally

• Days of the week

• -s endings of verbs

• Time expressions for routines

Sounds right • Sounds like u in study, o in phone, e in get, or a in law

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Unit 5

Free time pages 43–52

• Write about a classmate for a class website

• Simple present information questions

• Types of TV shows

Speaking naturally

• Ask simple present information questions

• Free-time activities

• Do you . . . ?

• Say how oten you do things

• Frequency adverbs

Sounds right

• Talk about TV shows you like

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• Time expressions for frequency

• Talk about your free time

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• Read an article about American habits

• Which o sound is diferent?

• Expressions for likes and dislikes

• Ask questions in two ways to be clear or not too direct • Say I mean to say more or repeat ideas • Read an article on technology addicts • Email a friend for advice using and and but

Unit 6 Neighborhoods pages 53–62

• Say what’s in a neighborhood with There’s / There are

• There’s and there are

• Neighborhood places

Speaking naturally

• Describe places

• Quantiiers

• Adjectives

• Word stress

• Tell the time and ask questions with What time . . . ?

• Adjectives before nouns

• Expressions for telling

Sounds right

• Make suggestions with Let’s

• Telling time

• Say Me too or Me neither to show things in common

• Suggestions with Let’s

• Say Right or I know to agree

Extra practice

• Which sound vowel sound is diferent

• Read a guide to New York City • Write a city guide using prepositions

Checkpoint Units 4–6 pages 63–64

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Skills Writing

• Recognize responses to hello and good-bye

• Diferent types of identiication cards and documents

• Complete an application

• Classroom conversations

• Write questions about locations

Memberships

Who’s absent today?

• Respond to Thank you and I’m sorry

• Listen to a classroom conversation, and say where students are Following instructions

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• Recognize classroom instructions

Teen habits

• Listen to an interview with an average American teenager

• Use Me too or Me neither to show things in common • Respond with Right or I know to agree or show you are listening

What do they say next? • Listen and guess the questions people answer

• Write new expressions with their responses

What do you remember?

My things

• Pair work: Look at a picture and list what you remember

• Link things with places

Guess the famous person

All in the family

• Pair work: Ask yes-no questions to guess a famous person

• Make a family tree

Do you have the same media habits?

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Are you like an average American?

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• Use I mean to repeat your ideas or to say more

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• Ask questions in two ways to be clear and not too direct

• Write questions about people

A typical week

• Write about a classmate’s typical week for a class website

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• Listen and match the correct response

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• Start answers with Well if you need time to think or if the answer isn’t a simple yes or no

Meetings and greetings

• Group work: Play a game to learn classmates’ names

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• Say more than yes or no when you answer a question

• Listen to three people’s descriptions of their friends, and ill in the missing words

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• Use Really? to show interest or surprise

• A family tree

Friends

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The name game

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• Ask for help in class

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• Listen for personal information, and complete application forms

Free talk

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Reading

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• Use capital letters and periods

Technology and you • Write a reply to an email asking for technology advice • Link ideas with and and but

Using phones

• Listen to how people use their cell phones

• Pair work: Compare media habits with young adults in the United States

Favorite free-time activities • Pair work: Make guesses about a classmate’s free-time activities

• Draw and label simple pictures of new vocabulary

Do what? Go where? • Write verbs with the words you use ater them

What’s on this weekend?

The Village

City guide

Find the difference

A time and a place . . .

• Listen to a radio show for times and places of events

• Read a travel guide to New York

• Write a city guide

• Pair work: List the diferences between two neighborhoods

• Link times of day with activities

Where to go? • Listen for decisions made in conversations, then react to statements

• Use prepositions for time and place: between through, at, on, for, and from . . . to . . .

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Useful language for . . . Getting help

Working with a partner I’m ready. Are you ready?

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Language Learning outcomes

Grammar

• Talk about ongoing activities with the present continuous • Talk about sports and exercise • Ask about current activities using the present continuous

• Imperatives

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• Read an article about exergaming • Write an article about exercise using imperatives • Say what you like to, want to, need to, and have to do

Shopping pages 75–84

• Ask about prices using How much . . . ?, this, that, these, and those

• Want to and have to

• Questions with How much . . . ?; this, these; that, those

• Colors

Sounds right

• Shopping expressions

• Sounds like a in hat

• Give sightseeing information with can and can’t

• Can and can’t for ability and possibility

• Say what languages you can speak

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• Talk about international foods, places, and people • Explain words using kind of and kind of like

• Sightseeing activities

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• Countries

• Can and can’t

• Regions

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• Languages

• Sounds like sh in she or ch in child

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• Nationalities

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• Use like to give examples

• Prices • “Time to think” expressions

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• Write a review of a store using because

A wide world pages 85–94

Speaking naturally

• Jewelry

• “Conversation sounds”

• Read a review of a shopping mall

Unit 9

• Clothing and accessories

Extra practice

• Take time to think using Uh, Let’s see, etc. • Use Uh-huh and Oh in responses

• Sounds like ou in four or or in word

• Like to, want to, need to, and have to

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• Talk about accessories

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• Talk about clothes

Unit 8

• Stress and intonation in questions

• Sports and exercise with play, do, and go

• Common responses to good and bad news

Extra practice

• React to news with That’s great, That’s too bad, etc.

Speaking naturally

• Weather

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• Ask follow-up questions to keep a conversation going

• Seasons

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• Present continuous statements, yes-no questions, short answers, and information questions

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• Describe the weather

Unit 7

Vocabulary

• Read a travel website

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• Write a paragraph for a travel website

• Talk about last night using simple past regular verbs

Unit 10

• Describe the past week using simple past irregular verbs • Respond to news with Good for you, etc. • Say You did? to show surprise or interest

Speaking naturally

• Time expressions for the past

• -ed endings

Extra practice

• Fixed expressions

• Sounds like oo in looked, ou in bought, o in spoke, or e in let

• Adjectives to describe feelings

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• Read about a blogger’s week

• Simple past irregular verbs

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• Ask simple past yes-no questions

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Busy lives pages 97–106

• Simple past statements, yes-no questions, and short answers

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Sounds right

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Looking back pages 107–116

• Describe past experiences

• Ask and answer questions using the past of be • Talk about vacations

• Talk about activities with go and get expressions

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• Write a blog about your week, using ater, before, when, and then

• Show interest by answering and then asking a similar question • Use Anyway to change the topic or end a conversation

• Simple past of be in statements, yes-no questions, and short answers

• Expressions with go and get

• Stress and intonation in questions and answers Sounds right

• Simple past information questions

• Which vowel sound is diferent?

Extra practice

• Read a funny magazine story • Write a story using punctuation for conversations

Unit 12 Fabulous food pages 117–126

• Talk about eating habits using countable and uncountable nouns, How much, and How many

• Countable and uncountable nouns

• Talk about food

• How much . . . ? and How many . . . ?

• Make ofers using Would you like . . . and some or any • Use or something and or anything in lists • End yes-no questions with or . . . ? to be less direct • Read a restaurant guide • Write a restaurant review

• Would you like (to) . . . ? and I’d like (to) . . .

• Foods and food groups

Speaking naturally

• Expressions for eating habits

• Would you . . . ?

• Adjectives to describe restaurants

• Syllable stress

Sounds right

• Some and any • A lot of, much, and many Extra practice

Checkpoint Units 10–12 pages 127–128

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Interaction

Skills Listening

An article for a health magazine

Find out about your classmates

• Read an article about exergaming

• Write a short article giving advice about exercise

• Class activity: Learn interesting facts about classmates

The Dubai Mall: Shopping, • Listen to conversations in a Entertainment, Lifestyle store, and write the prices • Read a review of of items and which items a mall people buy Favorite places to shop

International dishes

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What language is it from?

• Link ideas with because to give reasons

An online travel guide

• Listen to a person talking • Read a travel website about international foods, and identify the foods she likes

• Use like to give examples

• Write a review for your favorite store

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• Listen to someone talk about shopping, and identify shopping preferences and habits

• Explain words using a kind of, kind of like, and like

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I’ll take it.

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• Listen to a conversation, and identify the origin and meaning of words

• Write a paragraph for a travel guide • Commas in lists

How do you like to dress?

Nice outit!

• Group work: Compare ideas about shopping and clothing

• Label pictures with new vocabulary

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• Listen to people talk about exercises they like

• Use “sounds” like Uh-huh to show you are listening, and Oh to show your feelings

• Write new words in true sentences

• Use imperatives to give advice

Do you enjoy it?

• Take time to think using Uh, Um, Well, Let’s see, and Let me think

Who’s doing what?

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Exergaming: Give it a try!

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• Listen to people tell you their news and choose a good follow-up question to ask them

Vocabulary notebook

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Writing

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• Ask follow-up questions to keep a conversation going

Reading

Self study

Where in the world?

People and nations

• Pair work: Discuss where to do various things in the world

• Group new vocabulary in two ways

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Conversation strategies

LEVEL 1

She said yes!!!

• Listen to people talk about their week and respond

• Read Martin’s Blog entry

Yesterday

Ways with verbs

• Pair work: Look at a picture and list what you remember

• Write down information about new verbs

Guess where I went on vacation.

Past experiences

• Complete a funny story • Use punctuation to show direct quotations or speech

• Group work: Guess classmates’ dream vacations

• Use Anyway to change the topic or end a conversation

• Use or something and or anything to make a general statement

Restaurant guide

Do you recommend it?

Plan a picnic

I love to eat!

• Restaurant descriptions and recommendations

• Write a restaurant review

• Group work: Plan a picnic menu and make a shopping list

• Group vocabulary by things you like and don’t like

• End yes-no questions with or . . . ? to be less direct

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Weekend fun

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• Show interest by answering a question and then asking a similar one

• Write a blog entry • Order events with before, ater, when, and then

How embarrassing!

• Listen to conversations • Read a funny magazine about peoples’ weekends, story and identify main topics and details

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• Use You did? to show that you are interested or surprised, or that you are listening

A great day

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Checkpoint Units 7–9 pages 95–96

He said, she said

• Use a time chart to log new vocabulary

Funny stories

• Listen to two stories, identify the details, and then predict the endings If you want my advice . . . • Listen to people talking about lunch, and identify what they want; then react to statements

• Use adjectives to describe restaurants

Do you recommend it? • Listen to someone tell a friend about a restaurant and identify important details about it

Checkpoint Units 10–12

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UNIT

In this unit, you learn how to . . . Lesson C

Lesson D

• Exchange email addresses, phone numbers, etc. • Complete an application form

• Ask How about you? • Use expressions like Thanks or Thank you

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Lesson A • Say hello and good-bye • Introduce yourself

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Hello and good-bye

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Thanks.

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Good morning.

Listen. Are Matt and Sarah friends? How about Rob and Sandra? Practice the conversations.

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Rob Hello. I’m Rob Jones. Sandra Hi, I’m Sandra Davis. Nice to meet you. Rob Nice to meet you.

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Chris Evans.

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All about you

UNIT 1

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Listen. Are these people saying “hello” or “good-bye”? Practice the conversations.

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Good, thanks. See you tomorrow.

Hi. How are you? Bye. See you. 6. Good night. Have a good weekend.

See you later. Nice to meet you.

Good. How are you? Bye. See you next week.

C Look at the conversations above. Which expressions mean “hello”? Which expressions mean “good-bye”? Complete the chart.

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D Class activity Say “hello” and “good-bye” to ive classmates using the expressions above.

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Names

Lesson B

1 Saying names in English 1.05 Listen to these people give their names. Then complete the information.

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Listen. How do you spell Catherine’s last name? Then practice the conversation with a partner. Use your own names.

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What’s your name? Catherine Ravelli. How do you spell Catherine? C-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E. Thanks. And your last name? R-A-V-E-L-L-I.

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E Class activity Ask your classmates their names. Make a list.

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All about you

UNIT 1

2 Building language Listen. Which classroom is Carmen in this year? What about Jenny? Practice the conversation. 1.08

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Good morning. Are you here for an English class? Yes, I am. I’m Carmen Rivera. OK. You’re in Room B. And I’m Jenny. Are you Jenny Loo? No, I’m not. I’m Jenny Lim. Am I in Room B, too? Yes. . . . Wait – no, you’re not. You’re in Room G. Oh, no! Carmen, we’re not in the same class!

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A Complete the conversations. Then practice with a partner. 1. A

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Contractions I’m = I am you’re = you are we’re = we are

Are we in the same class? Yes, we are. No, we’re not.

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you here for an English class? not. I

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Sounds right

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B Pair work Choose a conversation and practice it. Use your own information. 5

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Personal information

Lesson C

1 Numbers 0–10 3 three

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