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Home for Christmas
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Open answer.
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Recording
1 Desk clerk: I’m sorry, but the
afternoon flight to Luton is fully
booked. There are some seats
available on the evening flight to
Gatwick, though. Would you like to
book for that?
Passenger: Yes, that will be fine,
thank you.
2 Desk clerk: I’m afraid all flights to
Heathrow have been cancelled
because of bad weather. We don’t
know when the airport will open again.
Passenger: Oh dear!
3 Desk clerk: There aren’t any flights
to Stansted tomorrow, but there’s
one on Thursday at 6 p.m. and there
are some seats available on that.
Shall I make a booking for you?
Passenger: Yes please. One person.
4 Desk clerk: There aren’t any flights
to Luton in the mornings, I’m afraid,
but there’s one in the afternoon on
Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
Would you like to make a booking?
Passenger: Yes please. Let me look
at my diary for a moment…
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1 B 2 E 3 C 4 E 5 E 6 C, E 7 D
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A5 B2 C4 D3 E1
Chapter One
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1C 2A 3B 4A 5 B 6C
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1C 2E 3B 4A 5D
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A 2, 4 B 5 C 4 D 1 F 3
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Open answers.
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The nearest airport is London City
Airport.
The farthest away is Luton.
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A3 B1 C4 D2
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The Emerald Isle
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Chapter Two
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F – She says that love is for idiots.
F – Shauna likes Harminda.
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F – They find a small hotel.
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F – No, they don’t, but they
wonder what is inside.
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Dublin
rainy
the Claddagh, woollen pullovers
oysters, Guinness
Trinity College
Jonathan Swift, Bram Stoker,
Oscar Wilde, James Joyce
7 Bloomsday, 16 June; Saint Patrick’s
Day, 17 March
8 Possible answers: Irish people are
relaxed and have a good sense of
humour, Dublin is famous for
historical buildings
1 What – Shauna to Vanessa – ‘I’m
not the one with a problem…’
2 Where – Shauna to the security
guard – ‘The next ferry is
tomorrow morning…’
3 Why – Shauna to Vanessa – ‘Oh
don’t start all that again!’
4 What – Vanessa to Harminda and
Shauna – no reply.
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Open answers.
Open answers.
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Chapter Three
1C 2C
3B 4B 5A 6B
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1 proposed 2 engagement ring
3 Marriage 4 marry
5 loves / is in love 6 got married
7 is in love / loves 8 fiancé
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1 approval 2 sarcasm 3 sarcasm
4 approval 5 approval 6 sarcasm
7 approval 8 sarcasm
Open answers.
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1F 2A 3E 4C 5B 6D
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1 blanket 2 clip 3 lock 4 label
5 tears 6 sunglasses
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1B 2B 3B 4A 5A 6C
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1B 2C 3C 4A 5B 6B 7A
Recording
1 Vanessa: I want to open it.
2 Shauna: That’ll never work.
3 Shauna: I didn’t think it was going
to work.
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4 Harminda: I’m going to phone the
police.
5 Vanessa: Do you realise what a
difference this money could make
to my… to our lives!
6 Vanessa: With this you could pay
for the best doctors.
7 Harminda: We won’t go to the
police now, but when we get to
London.
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1 into 2 of 3 for 4 on 5 for 6 to
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1 full of 2 concentrating on
3 got into 4 reached for
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Open answers.
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1 Twenty-one countries at 1 January
2008 Austria, Belgium, Finland,
France, Germany, Greece, Ireland,
Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,
Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain. The
Vatican, Monaco and San Marino are
official users. Andorra, Montenegro
and Kosovo are unofficial users.
From 1 January 2008, Cyprus and
Malta.
2 United Kingdom, Denmark and
Sweden.
3 Users since 1 January 1999 are
Austria, Belgium, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy,
Luxembourg, the Netherlands,
Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain(the
article does not state that Greece
started in 2000). Slovenia from 1
January 2007. From 1 January 2008,
Cyprus and Malta.
4 Austrian schilling, the Belgian and
French francs, the German marc,
the Greek drachma, the Irish pound,
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the Italian lira, the Portuguese
escudo, the Slovenian tolar and the
Spanish peseta. (Note: not
mentioned in the text are the
Dutch gulden, the Finnish markka
and the Luxembourgian franc. On 1
January 2008 Malta abandons the
lira and Cyprus the pound.)
5 No. Greece uses lepto and lepta
instead of cents. (Interesting to
note that on euro notes there is
‘EURO’ in the Latin script and
‘EYPΩ’ in the Greek script. The
Slovenian word is ‘EVRO’ However,
the new EU member Bulgaria
proposes ‘eBpo’, the spelling that is
currently used in Bulgaria.)
6 The notes are the same but the
coins are different: they have one
side which is designed by
individual states.
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Open answers.
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Open answers.
Chapter Five
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1 F – They are very nervous and
frightened.
2 F – Only Vanessa goes in.
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6 F – She runs out of the bar.
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1 later 2 as soon as 3 In the end
4 until
A later B in the end C as soon as
D until
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Open answers.
1B 2C 3C 4A 5B
1 Why didn’t she listen to
Harminda?
2 Why didn’t they go to the police
before?
3 Why did she never listen?
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Chapter Four
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1 saw 2 met 3 knew 4 saw
6 had to 7 chose 8 got
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1 chose 2 met 3 told 4 knew
5 had to
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Open answers.
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1C 2B 3B 4A 5A 6C 7B 8A
9 A 10 C 11 B 12 C 13 C 14 B
15 A 16 C 17 A 18 B
1D 2E 3F 4B 5A 6C
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1B 2D 3A 4F
Recording
1 ...A body was found in the car park
of Galway Airport in the early hours
of this morning. 33-year old Colin
O’Flaherty, manager of a car hire at
Galway Airport, was shot in the
chest. His assistant, Chrissie
O’Flannahan, told police that...
2 Three men escaped today with more
than a million pounds from a branch
of the National Bank in York. Two of
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the men held bank employees at
gunpoint for an hour while the third
man took the money in bags to a
waiting car...
3 At a house in North-East London
last night, police arrested two men
found in possession of a kilo of
marijuana. A large quantity of
money was also found in the house.
It is thought that the substance
was...
4 A young girl from Credition in Devon
is in a critical condition in hospital
after being hit by a car yesterday
evening while walking home from
school. People who were nearby at
the time report seeing a blue car
speeding away, but the driver didn’t
stop. Police investigations
continue...
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A Vanessa B Vanessa
C Mr O’Flaherty and son
D Mrs O’Flaherty
1 look 2 looked 3 sounded
4 don’t look 5 sound
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Open answers.
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Chapter Six
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1A 2B 3B 4A 5A 6A
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Parindra, Harminda’s brother
Harminda’s father
Meena, Harminda’s mother
Harminda’s father
Meena, Harminda’s mother
Harminda
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1 missed 2 want / decision
1 Julia is coming for a drink tonight.
Do you want to come, too?
2 Will you be there before 6 o’clock?
3 I’ll see you later.
4 Are you free to meet tonight?
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Open answers.
Indians in Britain
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1B 2A 3B 4B 5A 6C 7A
1 They could enter because India
was part of the British Empire and
this made them British subjects.
2 They emigrated to Britain to earn
money which would allow them to
improve their lives in India.
3 It is a traditional Indian dish, which
is now very popular in Britain.
4 In addition to Indian cuisine being
very popular, new musical styles
influenced by traditional Indian
music have developed and recent TV
programmes and films have been
based on Asian communities. Asian
communities now play an important
part in multicultural Britain.
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Chapter Seven
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1B 2C 3A 4A 5C
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1 you 2 are 3 to 4 be 5 for
6 Shauna 7 Vanessa
A are/to a B A/is/for you
C to the
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1E 2B 3C 4A 5D 6F
Open answers.
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Open answers.
Chapter Eight
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2 F – She thinks that Vanessa
persuaded Shauna.
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5 F – His plaster is fake.
6 F – He has a gun in his jacket.
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A4 B1 C3 D2
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1C
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Chapter Nine
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What about my baby?
I’m going to be a grandmother.
I got the part, of course!
And I’m getting married in about
three hours from now.
5 Mum, how did Dad’s operation go?
6 I hope this young man drives his
car better than he does a
wheelchair!
7 And if it is Declan that makes you
happy, then I am happy.
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Harminda: 1, 5
Harminda’s father: 6, 7
Harminda’s mother: 2
Shauna: 4
Vanessa: 3
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3 Hello, yes, I’ve just seen three men
with guns running out of the bank
in the high street. They were
carrying lots of bags. They’ve just
driven away in a blue van.
4 Oh, hello, yes, I thought I should
call as I can see lots of smoke
coming from my neighbour’s
house, from the kitchen window. I
don’t know if it’s anything to
worry about, but I thought I should
phone anyway.
5 Listen, there’s been a terrible
accident - I’m calling from my
mobile, on the M1, just south of
Leeds. There are a lot of people
hurt, from what I can see –
crashed.
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1 ambulance 2 police 3 police
4 fire 5 ambulance
Recording
1 It’s my husband. I think he’s had a
heart attack. He’s lying on the
floor and I don’t know if he’s
breathing. Please send someone
quickly.
2 Hello? There’s a man with a gun.
He wants to shoot me! I’m outside
the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in
London.
Open answers.
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Santa Claus
Roast turkey
Roast potatoes
Christmas cards
Christmas trees
Christmas presents
Santa Claus’s red and white
costume
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Summary
1 Fill in the gaps with a word from the box and then put the sentences in the
correct order to make a summary of the story.
assistant available bar briefcase choice crash criminal
directions exit find following hospital
immediately London lorry news plane plaster push
realise talking text together worried
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There is a big ...................... between a car and a ...................... .
Two men ...................... Shauna and Vanessa into their car.
The girls are very surprised by what they find in the ...................... .
Harminda is ...................... because she is late and her ......................
will leave without her.
The girls ...................... that someone is ...................... them.
The hire car ...................... says there is only one car ...................... .
The girls arrive in ...................... and Harminda ...................... goes to
see her father.
A man wearing a fake ...................... asks Harminda for ..................... .
Harminda’s father accepts his daughter’s ...................... of boyfriend.
Vanessa discovers some terrible ...................... while watching TV in
a ...................... .
Harminda reads Vanessa’s ...................... message and realises that
the man is a ...................... .
Harminda, Shauna and Vanessa decide to travel ...................... to
London.
Harminda wakes up in ...................... with her family and friends
around her.
Harminda misses the ...................... for the port because she is
...................... .
Harminda is upset when she cannot ...................... the other two
girls.
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Vocabulary – a crossword
1 Complete the crossword.
Across
2 If you .... something, you take it
very quickly.
5 If you agree to do something but
you really don’t want to, you do it
.... .
8 A driver of a car may use this to
signal something to another
driver.
9 Police cars, fire engines and
ambulances make this noise when
there is an emergency.
10 A driver of a car uses this to stop
the car.
12 If something is not real, it is .... .
13 You may use one of these if you
can’t walk for any reason.
14 If you say something in a way to
hurt someone, you say it .... .
15 The holiday a bride and groom go
on after they get married.
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1 The time of day when the sun
comes up.
3 If there are a lot of cars on the
road and they are not moving or
moving very slowly, there is a .... .
4 You can put one of these in your
hair if you want to keep it off your
face.
6 If you say something in a way to
show that you think you are
better than someone else, you say
it .... .
7 You find one of these on food
packaging or clothes; it gives you
information or instructions.
11 People go to one of these to show
how good they are at singing,
acting or dancing, etc.
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1 D worried / plane 2 F assistant / available 3 L together 4 N exit / talking
5 C briefcase 6 E realise / following 7 A crash / lorry 8 J news / bar
9 G London / immediately 10 B push 11 O find 12 H plaster / directions
13 K text / criminal 14 M hospital 15 I choice
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