UNIT 4 SOCIALISING. Vocabulary. Function. Film, Cinema and Music. Put the words in the box into the correct column.

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1 UNIT 4 SOCIALISING Vocabulary Film, Cinema and Music Put the words in the box into the correct column. comedy animation rock jazz reggae thriller horror hip hop historical blues heavy metal pop disco action punk science Þ ction classical Movies Music Ask and answer the following questions with your partner:. Which do you prefer music or movies? Why?. What kinds of music do you like? 3. What kinds of movies do you like? 4. Are there any kinds of music or movies you don t like? 5. What is your favourite movie / song? 6. Who is your favourite actor / musician? 7. When was the last time you went to the cinema? 8. When was the last time you went to a concert? Function Making Suggestions a How sociable are you? Put a cross on the line below. very shy very sociable The International English Certificate

2 Pre Intermediate Unit 4 b Now interview your partner to complete the questionnaire. How Social Are You? How often do you... often sometimes rarely never. meet friends for dinner in a restaurant?. go to a café with a friend? 3. invite people to dinner at your house? 4. celebrate a friend s birthday? 5. meet friends after work for a drink? 6. go to see a movie with friends? 7. go out with your colleagues after work? 8. go to a street festival or parade? 9. visit a friend s house for coffee or tea? c What other things do you do with friends in your free time? Listen to Lisa, Belinda and Michael talking about what to do at the weekend. Tick (!) the activity they decide to do.. visit a friend s house for coffee. go for a drink in a bar 3. invite friends round for dinner 4. go to the cinema 4 Work in groups of three. It s Saturday afternoon and you ve got nothing to do. The teacher will give you some cards. Use them to decide what to do together. Use the phrases from exercise 3. How about? I don t like... Perhaps we could No, I don t want to Why don t we? 3 What words do they use to make suggestions? Listen again and complete the gaps.. going to the cinema?. I know, go round to Paul s house for a cup of coffee. 3. going for a drink? 4. just stay at home and cook dinner. 5. cook dinner and invite Sammy and Jason over? The International English Certificate

3 Grammar Going to / Will for Plans and Instant Decisions Listen to Bill talking about what he and his friends have decided to do at the weekend. Answer the following questions:. What are Bill s plans on Saturday afternoon?. What does he decide to do on Saturday evening? i Language Focus Look at these sentences from the listening text. We re going to see a movie on Saturday afternoon. Okay, I ll come to dinner. Which one tells us:. he decided before he was talking?. he decided when he was talking? ii Complete the grammar rules below. We use to talk about decisions we have already made. We use for decisions made at the time of speaking (instant decisions). iii What are the negative and question forms of the following: She s going to cook lasagne Negative: Question: I ll ask Susie if she wants to come. Negative: Question: iv Listen to your teacher and practise the pronunciation of going to and will in these sentences: They re not going to go and see a movie. I ll ask Susie if she wants to come. Match each question with the correct answer. Questions Answers. I m going to go to the supermarket. a) I ve got my car here so I ll drive. Does anyone want to come?. Do you want to come to the cinema tonight? b) I d love to play, but I m going to meet my friend Mandy and I are going to see Two Towers. for lunch. 3. How are we going to get to the restaurant? c) Oh I ll come. I have to get some bread. 4. I m tired. I m going to fall asleep soon if I don t d) Thanks, but I m going to go to the theatre with go home. Mike. 5. I m going to play tennis this afternoon. e) OK, I ll call a taxi for you. Anyone interested in a game? 3 The International English Certificate

4 Pre Intermediate Unit 4 3a Choose the correct verb form. The Þ rst one has been done for you.. A: I m so hungry! Can we stop and get a hamburger on the way home? B: No, we re going to eat / we will eat dinner with Harriet and Paul, remember.. A: Oh no! I left my bag at the library! B: Okay. Don t worry. We re going to drive / We ll drive back and get it now. 3. A: Paul. Do you want to join us for dinner? We re going to meet / We will meet in the Indian restaurant in Kings Road. 4. A: Where is John? He didn t come to school yesterday. B: Oh, I don t know. I m going to call / I ll call him to see if he is okay. 5. A: I m so tired. B: Are you? Okay, we re going to stop / we ll stop for coffee soon. 6. A: I ll be / I m going to be away next week. Do you know anyone who could look after my dog? 3b B: I m going to ask / I ll ask my friends for you. Now practise these mini conversations with a partner. 4 Work in pairs. Take it in turns to ask and answer questions using the prompts below.. Ask for help with your homework. Sorry / can t help / play tennis. I / help / tomorrow. Can you help me with my homework? Sorry, I can t help. I m going to play tennis. I ll help you tomorrow.. There s no food in the fridge and you are hungry. Tell your husband / wife. Oh really? Don t worry. I / go / supermarket. 3. You don t have any money. Tell your friend. I / lend / you / money. 4. Ask your friend to come out for dinner with you. Sorry / can t / go out with / boy / girl friend. 5. Tell your friend that you need to post a letter. I / drive / past the post ofþ ce. I / post / it for you. 6. Ask your friend what he / she is going to do tomorrow. 5 I / have lunch / with parents. Work in groups of four. You are going on a picnic together. The teacher will give you a list of things to take. Decide who is going to take or do the things not ticked (!). A: I m going to bring some wine. B: I m going to bring some chairs. Who s going to bring the cups? C: OK I will. The International English Certificate 4

5 Grammar Future Time Clauses Look at the pictures below and complete the sentences for each person. a) b) c) d) e) Language Focus i Look at some example answers from exercise. After the match Þ nishes, I m going to have a shower. While I m in London, I ll visit Big Ben and the Tower of London. When I grow up, I m going to be a professional footballer. I m going to be a millionaire by the time I m 30.. Are these sentences about the past, present or future?. Which verb form comes after after, while, when and by the time? ii. As soon as this match Þ nishes, I m going to have a shower.. When this match Þ nishes, I m going to have a shower. Which sentence suggests that the speaker is going to have a shower immediately after the match Þ nishes? iii. I m going to be a millionaire when I m 30.. I m going to be a millionaire by the time I m 30. Which sentence suggests the speaker will be a millionaire at some time before they are 30? 3. Complete this sentence: We are talking about the future but we use the after we use after, while, when and by the time. 5 The International English Certificate

6 Pre Intermediate Unit 4 Use the prompts below to make true sentences for yourself. Tell your partner.. After this lesson / Þ nish. When / Þ fty years old 3. As soon as / home 4. While / work or school tomorrow 5. After / this English course 6. When / children 7. By the time / get home tonight Reading Music: Food for Thought Use your dictionary to match the words and their meanings.. experiment (n) a) A test to discover something new.. result (n) b) The way someone acts. 3. behaviour (n) c) Friends and the things you do with them. 4. social life (n. phr) d) The information you get after doing an experiment. Read the article Music: Food for Thought on the next page and put one of these headings at the top of each paragraph. The Result The Experiment Social Life Behaviour The International English Certificate 6

7 Music: Food for Thought How does listening to music or playing a musical instrument change us? Some people believe that music is like food for our minds and is important in helping us learn. Others say that they wouldn t be happy without their music. But does music really make us happy? Can it help us study better?. When our school decided to cut funding to our music program, we wanted to know the answers to these questions. We took 30 students, aged and, from our junior high school and divided them into three groups. Students in Group A were given piano lessons three times a week and students in Group B were given classical music to listen to while they did their homework. Group C were given neither musical lessons nor music to listen to. During the year, the teachers at our school carefully monitored how well the three groups did in their schoolwork and asked their parents to report on their behaviour at home.. The students who were given piano lessons achieved the best results. Out of the 0, eight of them got higher than average marks in their homework and end-of-term tests. Not surprisingly, the group who were given nothing at all didn t do any worse or better at school. However, the students who were given classical music to listen to actually got slightly lower scores on their homework. Perhaps the music distracted them from concentrating, or they preferred rock and roll. 3. We also asked parents to rate their children s level of happiness from one to 0 during the year. Once again, the students given piano lessons did best. Seven of their parents said that they seemed to be happier at home. Two of the parents did not notice any change. One couple said that their child seemed to be more unhappy, perhaps because the piano lessons were stopping him from playing baseball. The parents of the other students didn t notice any significant change in their children s behaviour. 4. One interesting result of the experiment was the effect of the piano lessons on a child s social life. Half of the parents of the children given music lessons noticed that they didn t spend as much time with their friends as before. They were enjoying the lessons so much they preferred to practise music. In contrast, the other two groups of children spent around the same amount of time with their friends. In conclusion, we believe that the results of our experiment show that music lessons are good for students: it makes us happier and helps us learn better. This is deþ nitely food for thought. Perhaps the government should give more money for it, not less! 7 The International English Certificate

8 Pre Intermediate Unit 4 3 Are these statements T true or F false?. The students wanted to know if music helps students sleep better.. They asked all the students in their year to listen to classical music while doing their homework. 3. Piano lessons helped the students do better at school. 4. Students in Group B got lower marks on their homework than the students in Group C. 5. The happiest students were those in Group C. 6. The students in Group B spent less time with their friends. 4a Read the text again. Find and circle these words: 4b monitored report on achieved scores distracted rate seemed signiþ cant Using the sentence from the text, choose the best meaning below. Do not use your dictionary.. to monitor a) to help b) to stop c) to watch. to report a) to tell about b) to ask about c) to give 3. to achieve a) to do badly b) to do well at something c) to stop doing something 4. a score a) marks b) mistakes c) problems 5. to distract someone a) to stop someone doing something b) to help someone do something c) to ask someone to do something 6. to rate something a) to decide how good something is b) to say it s bad c) to say it s good 7. to seem a) to look like b) to look unhappy c) to look happy 8. significant a) big b) small c) unimportant 4c Now check your answers in your dictionary. Reading Tips When you are reading and you Þ nd a word you don t understand, what do you do?. Panic!. Stop reading and look it up in your dictionary. 3. Read the sentence again, guess the meaning of the word, and keep reading. You can check it later. The International English Certificate 8

9 Grammar Modals of Probability How do you think social life will change over the next 0 years? Will people go out more or less? Will people have more or less time? Discuss with your partner. You can use some of the ideas below. communicating cinema safety computer games How does Julie think social life will change? Do you agree? People won t send letters any more. They ll use . People will still go to the cinema to see Þ lms. People might have more time to socialise because technology saves them time. All phones will have video. You ll will be able to see who you re talking to. People may stay at home more to watch DVDs and play computer games. Internet chat could be more popular than meeting face to face. We may do more of our socialising at home. It might become too dangerous to go out at night. 9 The International English Certificate

10 Pre Intermediate Unit 4 i Language Focus Put Julie s predictions into one of the columns below. Decide if she is certain or if she thinks it s possible. Future Certainty Future Possibility iii Is there any difference in meaning between the following sentences? It might become too dangerous to go out at night. It may become too dangerous to go out at night. It could become too dangerous to go out at night. iv What verb form is used after will, might, may and could? 3 Tell your partner your predictions for your future using the sentences below. I might live to be 00. How about you? ii What verbs does Julie use when she. is certain?. thinks something is possible?. live to be 00 years old. become a millionaire 3. have more than three children 4. travel to Australia 5. get married before move to Paris 7. have more than two jobs 8. stop learning English soon 9. speak English ß uently one day 0. use the internet more Maybe... I won t become a millionaire. Do you think you will? Pronunciation Intonation with Wh and Yes / No Questions There are two basic types of questions.. Wh questions that contain a question word (Where, When, Why, What, How etc).. Yes / No questions that do not usually contain question words. These questions are normally answered with Yes or No. Look at the questions below and decide whether they are Wh questions or Yes / No questions.. Do you want to see a movie tonight?. Which movie do you want to see tonight? 3. When do you want to meet? 4. Are we meeting at seven o clock? 5. Where are we playing tennis? 6. Are we playing tennis? 7. Are we catching the bus to the cinema? 8. How will we get to the cinema? The International English Certificate 0

11 What happens to our voice at the end of questions? Listen to the examples. Choose the correct answer.. The voice goes up / down at the end of Yes / No questions.. The voice goes up / down at the end of Wh questions. 3a Look at the questions below and practise the correct intonation.. Do you live near school?. Where do you live? 3. Have you been learning English for more than two years? 4. How long have you been learning English? 5. Do you have any brothers and sisters? 6. How many brothers and sisters do you have? 7. What are you doing tonight? 8. Are you going out tonight? 3b Stand up and move around the room and ask your classmates the questions. Make sure you use the correct intonation. Listening Learning How to Play a Musical Instrument Unscramble the names of the instruments. a) esapxohon b) nopia c) nilvoi d) rmuds e) ratigu f) yabekrods g) murptet h) teluf i) lelco The International English Certificate

12 Pre Intermediate Unit 4 a Can you play a musical instrument? How did you learn? Why did you choose this instrument? b When learning how to play a musical instrument, which of these things do you think is important? Put them in order of importance from to 9.. having a good teacher. wanting to learn 3. putting in a lot of practice 4. going out to see live music 5. enjoying it 6. choosing an instrument that s right for you 7. having friends who play too 8. feeling that you are getting better 9. listening to lots of music 3a John, Sue, Dan and Kim are musicians. Listen to them talking. Which instruments do they play? 3b What do they think is important? Write J, S, D or K next to the points below.. having a good teacher. wanting to learn 3. putting in a lot of practice 4. going out to see live music 5. enjoying it 6. choosing an instrument that s right for you 7. having friends who play too 8. feeling that you are getting better 9. listening to lots of music Speaking Being Polite Listen to these three short conversations. Decide where the people are. Tick (!) the right box. on a train in a café in class.. 3. The International English Certificate

13 Listen again to the conversations and complete the gaps using the phrases in the box. would you mind could you no problem do you mind if you re welcome sure. A: I sit here? B: No.. Take a seat. A: Thanks. A: Err, lending me your dictionary? I forgot to bring mine. B: Sure. There you go. A: Thanks very much. B: 3. A: Excuse me, open the window please? B: Okay. A: Thank you B: 3a Look at the list of situations. Tick (!) the ones in which you would have to be polite.. asking the hotel to call a taxi for you. asking your friend to lend you $0 3. asking your teacher if you can leave class early 4. asking your neighbour to look after your pet while you re away 5. asking someone to be quiet in the cinema 6. asking your brother for a lift to school 7. asking your boyfriend to answer the phone 8. asking your mother if you can borrow her car 3b Practise asking and answering the questions with your partner. Could you...? Preparation for Task Reading Personal s Read Emily s to Trevor on the next page and tick (!) the things she did last weekend.. went to the park for a picnic. visited the museum 3. went shopping 4. invited a friend to her house for coffee 5. stayed at home and listen to music 6. went to see a movie 3 The International English Certificate

14 Pre Intermediate Unit 4 Subject: my weekend Dear Trevor Just a short to tell you about last weekend. It was great fun! On Saturday afternoon I met up with John and Isobel and went to the park with them for a picnic. On the way there we saw John s friend Rob so he came with us too. We stayed there for a couple of hours and then went to see a movie in the city. Have you seen Dancing with the Devil? Rob told us it was a great film, but I hated it! Too much blood for me! On Sunday morning Jenny came over to my house for a coffee. She wanted to talk to me becuase she s having problems with her boyfriend. Poor her! After coffee we decided to go for lunch at the new restaurant by the river. Have you been there? It s a really nice place to eat, the food was excellent! Perhaps we can go there together some time. Anyway, it would be nice to hear from you some time. Would you like to meet up next week? Keep in touch Emily Look at the words in italics. What do the words replace?. It last weekend. them 3. there 4. he 5. there 6. us 7. she 8. her 9. we 0. It. we. there 3 Read Trevor s reply to Emily s and complete the gaps with a word from the box. it (x) them he there Subject: Dear Emily Re: my weekend Thanks for your . It was interesting to read about your weekend. How are John and Isobel? I haven t seen for a long time. No, I haven t seen Dancing with the Devil yet but I want to. My friend saw it last week and said was really good. I had a good weekend too. On Saturday I went to the sports centre. I usually go to play tennis but I hurt my arm last week so I went for a swim instead. Then in the afternoon I went to Peter s house for a barbecue. We had a good time, always makes me laugh. On Sunday I felt a bit tired so I didn t do much, just watched TV. There was a programme on about Lions in Africa. was really interesting. Yes, I d like to meet up next week. How about Thursday evening? Keep in touch Trevor 4 Look at Trevor s reply again. In what order does he: a) give news b) write about Emily s c) write about the future Find the paragraph and write a), b) or c) next to it. The International English Certificate 4

15 Task Writing Personal s Tell your partner what you did last week. Find out what they did. What did you do last week? Well, on Monday... What are you going to do this weekend? a Write an to an English speaking friend. Write about:. What you did last week. b Read and check your Þ rst version. Have you used personal pronouns?.... used past simple for last weekend? used going to for next weekend? c Swap your with a partner so they can check it. d Make any corrections and send your to your teacher.. What you are going to do this weekend. 5 The International English Certificate