32 My home town and my country 6 Complete the passage with the correct form of the words in brackets In my home town there are two cinemas, the grand cinema and the palace cinema The Grand Cinema is (1) (old) and(2) (small) than the Palace Cinema. It is also (3) (warm)in the Grand Cinema. The Palace Cinema is usually(4) (busy) than the grand Cinema and the tickets are (cheap)too. 7 Listen and complete the sentences. a Shanghai New York _, Beijing Washington dc I New York is a(n) an city than Washington DC 2 New York is more than any other city in the Us 3 Shanghai has a(n) population than Beijing 4 Beijing Is than Shanghai 16
Unit 3 Around the w⑥rd Washington DC Washington dc is the capital of the Us Located on the east coast. it is best known for the White House where the President of the uS lives and works, and for Capitol Hill, where the US Congress meets There are many famous monuments, memorials and museums in Washington Dc. The Lincoln Memorial is a grand white building. Millions of tourists visit it every year to show respect to President Lincoln. In the National Air and Space Museum, people can see the command module of Apollo 11, which sent the first humans to the moon in1969 Module task: Making a report comparing two places in your home town 8 Work in pairs. Compare two places in your home town Where is it? How old is it? It's in the north/south/east/west of the town It 's about. vears old How many people work/go there? Is there anything special about it? people work/go there It 's bigger than 9 Write the information in the table Place 1: Place 2. 10 Make a report · Write sentences Place I is bigger than Place 2 Place 2 is older than place i Join the sentences using and or but Place I is bigger than Place 2, but Place 2 is older than Place 1 11 Read your report to the whole class. 17
3 o Spot orts Module task: Making a sports poster Unit 1 Nothing is more enjoyable than playing tennis Listening and vocabulary 1 Listen and number the sports as you hear them. a baseball[ basketball O football table tennis 0 tennis 0 volleyball D Now match the words with the pictures 2 Look at the sports in Activity 1 and talk about them. Use the words in the box to help you boring dangerous difficult easy exciting expensive popular relaxing safe 3 Listen and read Daming: Hey, Tony. Come and watch the football match on TV Tony: OK. What's the score? Daming: Spain scored a minute ago Tony: Wow! Thats fast Daming: Thats right. Last week the match on TV was so boring because no one scored at all. So this week's match is already more exciting Betty: What's the matter with you, Tony? You look tired Tony: I'm really tired after last nights tennis match. And I hurt my knee Daming: That's too bad! Sit down and watch the match. It's safer than playing tennis Betty: Yes, watching is not dangerous and it's more relaxing too Tony: Well, I'm not sure about that. Nothing is more enjoyable than playing tennis Betty: But you enjoyed watching the Olympics on TV, right? Tony: Yes, but thats because it was cheaper than buying tickets for all the games Daming: And staying at home was easier than going to the Everyday English stadium. Oh, look at that a That's too bad! Tony: Oh, he missed! Oh, bad luck I'm not sure about that Daming: Never mind. There's still plenty of time for them to Bad luck! score ever min 18
Unit Now check () the true sentences. 1 This week,'s match is more exciting than last week's 2 Tony played table tennis yesterday 3 For Tony, playing tennis is more enjoyable than watching matches on TV. 4 Watching the Olympics on TV was more expensive than buying tickets for the games 5 Going to the stadium was more difficult than staying at home 4 Complete the sentences with the words in the box already hurt matter mind miss Olympics stadium i Why didn t Tony score? What is the with him 2 You lost the match? Never Maybe you will win next time 3 I am not good at tennis. I always the ball 4 The match began ten minutes ago and Spain is wInning 5The2008 were held in Beijing 6 Watching football at home is easier than going to the 7 Tennis is a little dangerous because you may your knee 5 Complete the passage about yourself. Use the words in Activity 1 to help you My favourite sport is(1) And I enjoy watching(2) I am quite good at ( 3) I do not like playing(4) And I am not very good at(5) Pronunciation and speaking 6 Listen and notice how the speaker links the words. I Spain scored a minute ago 2 Last week the match on tv was so boring because no one scored at all 3 Oh. look at that Now listen again and repeat a 7 Work in pairs. Talk about the sports you like. Hey, Bruce. Which sport do you like, swimming or running? I like swimming. It 's more relaxing than running 19
odo Sports Unit 2 This year we are training more carefully Reading and vocabulary 1 Work in pairs. Talk about the pictures. Use the words and expressions in the box to help you. beat careless cheer. on coach fan club play against train 2: 2 Read the passage and complete the table a Training hard By Li Daming It is Saturday tomorrow, but I am going Our coach is pleased because we are to school. I am not going for lessons, but to playing better as a team now. Last year we play football. I am in our school team and we were sometimes careless when we passed are going to play against another school next the ball and we lost to the other team in week. The practice starts at 10 am. We all the final match. What a pity! This year we arrive as early as we can so that we have time are training more carefully. That means we to warm up. We are training harder than usual have a better chance of winning because the other team beat us last year. This The fan club has fewer people this year year we want to do better We hope to play well so that we have more It is more difficult to practise in winter fans to watch the matches. It is good to because the days are short and the weather have our fans around. They cheer us on is cold too. It gets dark earlier, so it is loudly and we feel more confident to win important not to be late for after-school the game practice