A
B
C
D
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LISTENING
6
a
You are going to listen to Martin Wells being
interviewed for a magazine and he mentions the
following places. Match the places with the photos.
Do you know which countries they are in?
1
the Amazon River Basin
2
the ice-cut fjords of the South Island
3
the Himalayas
4
Hawar Islands
6
b
2.3
Listen to the first part of the interview and
check your answers.
7
a
2.4
Listen to the second part of the interview.
Take notes under the following headings.
1
The Salween River
2
Difficulties and dangers of the journey
3
What Martin learnt from the travel experience
7
b
Work with a partner and compare your notes. Correct
or add to them if necessary. Then check the accuracy of
your notes by looking at Audio script 2.4 on page 165.
PRONUNCIATION
8
a
2.5
Contractions
Listen to the sentences and
underline what the speaker says.
1
I just returned
/
I’ve just returned
from the forests.
2
I had
/
I’ve had
the most amazing year.
3
Last year in January,
I won
/
I’ve won
a scholarship.
4
Then
I raised
/
I’ve raised
a large sum of money.
5
And then
I started
/
I’ve started
travelling.
6
I climbed
/
I’ve climbed
the Himalayas in Nepal.
8
b
Listen again and repeat the sentences.
GRAMMAR
PRESENT PERFECT AND PAST SIMPLE
9
a
Choose the correct tense in these sentences.
1
I’ve never driven
/
I didn’t drive
before.
2
I
left
/
have left
school when I was 16.
3
I
already visited
/
have already visited
a foreign country.
4
I
finished
/
haven’t finished
my university studies yet.
5
I’ve known
/
I knew
my best friend for the last ten years.
6
I’ve never been
/
I never went
on a plane.
9
b
Complete the rules with
present perfect
or
past simple
.
1
We use the
to talk about finished actions in
a time period that continues up to now (with time
expressions such as
this week
,
for the last five years
).
2
We use the
to talk about finished actions at
a specific past time (with time expressions such as
yesterday, last year, in 1999, when I was 9
).
3
We use the
to talk about experiences in our
lives, but we don’t say when they happened (with
adverbs such as
never, ever, already, yet
).
10a
Underline the sentences in Audio script 2.5 on page
165 that contain
already
and
yet
. Answer the questions.
1
Which adverb do we use in negative sentences?
2
Does
already
come before or after the main verb?
3
Where does
yet
come in the sentence?
Ê
Language reference and extra practice pages 128–129
10
b
Look at the sentences below. Each has a mistake
with an adverb or time expression. Replace the wrong
word/phrase with words from the box.
already before never this week yet
1
Martin has yet climbed Mont Blanc twice.
2
We’ve interviewed five people for this expedition so
far last week.
3
We’ve ever been to the Himalayas.
4
The students haven’t passed the course already.
5
Mark and Susanna have been on a climbing
expedition once yet.
SPEAKING
11
a
Look at these travel-related jobs. What
experience do you need for each one?
1
Tour assistant – Paris, London, Rome
2
Mountain expedition assistant – Himalayas
3
Field trip volunteer – Amazon
4
Assistant travel agent – busy travel agency
11
b
Work with a partner. You are going to see if you
are suitable for the jobs in Exercise 11a.
Student A:
turn to page 155.
Student B:
turn to page 161.
Which of the four jobs would suit you best?
