UNIT 1 Education & learning
SPEAKING Giving personal
information page 8
Vocabulary
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ANSWERS
1 curriculum
2 compulsory
3 primary school, secondary school
4 state, private
5 academic, vocational
6 talented
7 pupils, homework
8 exams
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ANSWERS
psychology U
geology U
chemistry U/S
geography U/S
literature U/S
biology U/S
medicine U
engineering U
economics U/S
physics U/S
management U
history U/S
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ANSWERS
1 biology, chemistry, medicine
2 economics, management
3 psychology, history, geography
Exam skills
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ANSWER
Candidate 2’s response. It shows a greater range of
vocabulary and grammar, such as adverbs (Well, Actually)
and verb forms (present simple, past simple, gerund after
enjoy).
EXAM TIP
ANSWER
Try to add some additional information that gives the
examiner something more than the basic response. Speak
for around 15 seconds each time.
LISTENING Completing basic
information page 10
Topic focus
2
ANSWERS
With the numbers ending in zero, the stress falls on the first
syllable:
sixty, twenty, seventy (stress on first syllable)
sixty-five, twenty-one, seventeen, seventy-one, sixteen,
twenty-five, seventy-five (stress on the final syllable)
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ANSWERS
16, 20, 25, 70, 71, 75
There is only one range: 16–20%
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ANSWERS
literature, management, chemistry, medicine
psychology, geology, geography, biology
physics, history
engineering, economics
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ANSWERS
Grammar
a 25
b 75
c 71, 64
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Vocabulary
ANSWERS
1 Past
2 Future
3 Present
4 Future
5 Present
6 Past
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ANSWERS
1 hated studying
2 ’d like to study
3 prefer studying
4 hope to go
5 enjoy studying
6 didn’t like studying
d 20
e 70
f 16–20
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ANSWERS
1 hard work = effort
2 standard = quality
3 ambitions for = expectations of
4 importance = value, success = achievement
5 stressed = under pressure
EXAM TIP
ANSWER
Read the instructions and look at the information carefully
to find out if names or numbers are required, or both.
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Exam skills
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ANSWERS
a Pablo Hernandez
b 115
c Irene Allegri
d 8th
e Mohammed Bagabas
f 772289
g 86 kilograms
h 07789 471147
EXAM TIP
ANSWER
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You should write a sentence that describes the key trend.
ANSWERS
1 When?
2 What?
3 What?
4 How long?
5 How much?
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6 What?
7 When?
8 Who?
9 Where?
10 What?
ANSWER
The man in the cartoon is looking too closely at one aspect
of the data and might miss the key trend as a result.
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Exam practice
ANSWER
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ANSWERS
1 10 weeks
2 31st May
3 communication
4 6.30 p.m.
5 1,200
6 Culture and business
7 Claire Kuhles
8 College Street
9 c.kuhles@lastmail.com
WRITING Describing trend data
Description A
This is the correct answer because it does not include
specific numbers, and uses ‘broad strokes’ to describe the
overall trend.
Vocabulary
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ANSWERS
page 12
Topic focus
2
ANSWERS
bar chart B
line graph D
pie chart A
5 The diagram shows the number of females / women /
female students who went to university / studied at
university / were enrolled at university / attended
university / were students at university / were in higher
education from 1900 to 2000 / over a hundred-year
period / during the 20th century.
table E
flow chart C
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ANSWERS
1 and 3 are true, 2 is false because the number of people
attending school increased, and 4 is false because the
number is 400 million.
Exam skills
Verbs: increased, rose, fell
Adverbs: slightly, significantly, dramatically
Nouns: fall, increase, rise
Prepositions: to, in, by, from
Adjectives: slight, significant, dramatic
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ANSWERS
1 significant / dramatic
2 increase / rise
3 from
4 to
5 rose / increased
6 dramatically / significantly
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ANSWERS
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1 b 2 a 3 c
POSSIBLE ANSWERS
Exam skills
2 The diagram shows the number of hours that people
watch television / the amount of television viewed / the
amount of time viewers spend watching TV from 9 a.m. to
9 p.m. / over a 12-hour period.
3 The diagram shows the number of days that people went
on holiday / how long people took off work to go on
holiday / the standard duration of holidays from 2000 to
2012 / over a 12-year period.
4 The diagram shows the number of miles that people
travel / how far people travel in miles / the mileage
travelled per year / annually from age 18 to 80 / by adults
aged between 18 and 80 / by adults between the ages of
18 and 80.
7 increase / rise
8 in
9 by
10 rose / increased
11 slightly
10
ANSWER
In sentence 1, rose is a verb and dramatically an adverb; in
sentence 2, rise is a noun and dramatic an adjective.
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ANSWERS
1 There was a steady decline in the number of female
students in Eastern Europe.
2 There was a significant increase in the number of female
students in Asia.
3 The number of people studying maths fell slightly.
4 The number of people studying law fell dramatically.
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POSSIBLE ANSWER
It makes the text more interesting for the reader and
demonstrates good control of the language. Students
should demonstrate knowledge of a range of structures in
the exam.
READING Multiple choice
page 14
Exam skills
3
ANSWERS
1 b 2 a 3 a 4 a
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ANSWERS
1 more useful than
2 don’t use the internet
3 Learning naturally, makes children curious
4 used to learning, rarely do
EXAM TIP
ANSWER
They give you an idea of where to look for the information in
the passage.
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ANSWERS
1 reading
2 Sugata Mitra
3 computer games
4 language course, exam
5 main idea
Exam practice
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ANSWERS
1 B (a girl improved her writing so much her angry teacher
accused her of copying – lines 22–24)
A is incorrect because the text says Studying online may
have a similar effect (lines 26–27).
C is incorrect because the text says it wasn’t important
what books they read (line 13).
D is incorrect because in the case study which was
successful the researcher gave students the books (line
18).
2 B (see lines 27–31)
Options A, C, and D are not mentioned in the text, and
students should be careful not to presume any of these
things based on outside knowledge.
3 A (watching people play computer games may help more
than actually playing them – lines 43–44)
B is incorrect because the text actually says the opposite
(see lines 43–44 above).
C is incorrect because the text does not mention how
long. Students again should be careful not to presume
this. They may be misled by the statement that using
language repeatedly is essential, but this refers to
frequency not duration.
D is not mentioned but students may presume D is
correct based on the statement that watching people
play is better than playing because you have time to
listen to or read the language in the games (lines 44–45).
Students should be careful not to go too far beyond the
text to take such leaps in logic.
4 C (if you want to take an exam in English, doing a course will
be as useful as reading for fun – lines 52–53)
A is incorrect because the text says This does not mean
that language courses are a waste of time (lines 50–51).
B is incorrect because it means the opposite of what the
text says (see lines 52–53 above).
D is not mentioned but students may be misled by the
statement that doing both is clearly best (line 54). Students
should beware of drawing incorrect conclusions such as
presuming that both means ‘at the same time’.
5 C (lines 4 to 6, line 13, lines 38–39, and lines 49–50)
A is incorrect because the text states This does not mean
that language courses are a waste of time (lines 50–51).
B is incorrect because although the examples mentioned
are outside the classroom, the focus of the text is not
school contrasted with studying alone, but using
language for fun contrasted with studying.
D is incorrect because the main idea is that any kind of
activity that is enjoyable is useful. Students may be misled
by the statement some kinds of contact may be more useful
than others (lines 40–41), but the words much more in
option D makes this stronger than the tentative use of
may in line 41.
Grammar
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ANSWERS
… children will learn to navigate the web in foreign
languages and also teach themselves academic subjects if
they have access to the internet.
Krashen also discovered that if you want to take an exam in
English, doing a course will be as useful as reading for fun.
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POSSIBLE ANSWERS
1 If you do something you enjoy using English, your English
will improve quickly.
2 If you choose your own reading materials, you will be
more motivated to read.
3 If you give children access to a computer, they will learn
many things by themselves.
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