Cambridge University Press Language In Use - Pre-Intermediate - Self-Study Workbook

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Self-study Workbook
Self-study Workbook with Answer Key
Classroom Book
Teacher’s Book
Class Cassette Set
Self-study Cassette
Video (PAL)
Video (NTSC)

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Contents

Guide to units

page 6

Unit 1

Things people do

10

Unit 2

Family and friends

12

Study pages A

14

Unit 3

Talking about places

16

Unit 4

On the move

18

Study pages B

20

Unit 5

Talking about now

22

Unit 6

Food and drink

24

Study pages C

26

Unit 7

The past

28

Unit 8

A place to live

30

Study pages D

32

Unit 9

I've done it!

34

Unit 10

Clothes

36

Study pages E

38

Unit 11

Quantity

40

Unit 12

How do you feel?

42

Study pages F

44

Unit 13

What will happen?

46

Unit 14

About town

48

Study pages G

50

Unit 15

Comparing things

52

Unit 16

Free time

54

Study pages H

56

Unit 17

Rules and advice

58

Unit 18

A day's work

60

Study pages |

62

Unit 19

Telling stories

64

Unit 20

People

66

Study pages J

68

Unit 21

Future plans

70

Unit 22

Around the world

72

Study pages K

74

Past and present

76

Arts and entertainment

78

Final review

80

Tapescripts

82

Irregular verbs/Phonetic symbols

86

Acknowledgements

87

Unit 23
Unit 24


To the student
This Workbook contains exercises for you to do on your own.

Like the Classroom Book, it has units and Study Pages.
The units contain:

* homework exercises
* a listening activity
* a list of new words.

The Study Pages contain:
đ a progress test
 a phrasebook exercise
* a writing activity.
At the end of the book, there is a Final Review test.

The Workbook has a Self-study Cassette. You will need this for the Listening
exercises in each unit. The tapescripts are at the back of the book.
The Workbook pages look like this:

Cc: Homework exercise
A: Homework exercise

_1

B: Homework exercise

Homework exercises
These give extra practice in the main grammar
or vocabulary of the unit. There are usually
three homework exercises.
Listening

Each unit has a short listening activity.

To the student

Words
Some useful vocabulary from the unit. You write
the words in your own language. You can also
add your own words.


Check your
progress

Check your progress
A progress test on the last two units and Study
Pages in the Classroom Book.

Writing
Write paragraphs using language from earlier
units.

Phrasebook
This has phrases from the Classroom Book
exercise. You write the phrases in your own
language.

To the student

Guide to units
Self-study Workbook
Listening: The best time of the day

Vocabulary exercises
Listening: Relatives

Check your progress
Phrasebook

Writing: Joining sentences

Grammar exercises

Listening: Rooms and flats

Vocabulary exercises
Listening: Trip to Stonehenge

Check your progress
Phrasebook
Writing: Punctuation

Grammar exercises

Listening: We’re busy
oo

2
laa Aa

and
friends

Grammar exercises

Nội

1
In 92
people do

Vocabulary exercises
Listening: Polish dishes

Check your progress
Phrasebook
Writing: Reference

Guide

to units


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Self-study Workbook
Grammar exercises

H5

L Listening: A man and a penguin

P

Vocabulary exercises
TA leS
to live

Listening: Favourite rooms

Study
pages

Check your progress
D

ry

Phrasebook

Writing: Joining ideas

Grammar exercises

tS

done ít!

Listening: What has happened?

Listening: Working clothes

ạ

_

Clothes

08:08:63 6380

Vocabulary exercises

Check your progress
Phrasebook

Writing: Sequence (1)

Grammar exercises

6U) ANH Ï¡sccnino: A healthy diet

42

How do

you feel?

Vocabulary exercises

Listening: Ouch!

Check your progress
Phrasebook

Writing: Lists


-

Q

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mm..
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02 60

vo, ae

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Self-study Workbook

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oes

ae

:

exercises

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Grammar

13

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happen?

TT

2

Listening: Giving blood
7...

a

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se

Check your progress
Phrasebook
Writing: Reason and contrast

ose ee

Vocabulary exercises
Listening: Living in London

sa
ca
a

Grammar exercises

15
Comparing
things

Listening: The most and the fewest

ne

1... Le

Vocabulary exercises
Listening: Rock climbing

Free time

Check your progress
Phrasebook

Writing: Sequence (2)

Grammar

7
Rules and

exercises

Listening: Radio phone-in

advice

ee

oo
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Vocabulary exercises

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a

per

..

Listening: A security guard

ee a

Check your progress
Phrasebook

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Writing: Letter writing

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Guide

to units

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Grammar exercises

Listening: The wedding video

Vocabulary exercises
Listening: Family picture

Check your progress
Phrasebook

Writing: Relative clauses (1)

Grammar

exercises

Listening: Plans for the evening

PP)
Around
the world

Vocabulary exercises
Listening: Living in a hot climate
Ty
ma aa.

oe

one, not

Check your progress

Phrasebook

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nà

....

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nã
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Sao

âm.
poses

ee

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Writing: Relative clauses (2)

23

Grammar

SLM

Listening: Have you ever.

24

Vocabulary exercises

Arts and

Listening: TV survey

lá» S0)

entertainment

Final review

exercises

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Things people do
A Positive and negative
Jane is completely different from her parents. For example:
-

|

She reads magazines, but she doesn’t read newspapers.

We _; smoke.

They read newspapers, but they don’t read magazines.

They

i
+ smokes.

He

She: doesn’t smoke.

don’t smoke,

i

Complete these sentences about Jane and her parents.
1

She watches news programmes, but she doesn’t watch old films.

B On Saturdays
What do you do on Saturdays? Do you
— visit friends?

— go shopping?

— cook a meal?

— work?

— play football?

—- go to bed late?

0%

Write about yourself, using frequency expressions from the table. Examples:

| often visit friends.
.

always

......................L..

Â

su.

Ổn
ÂT

| don’t usually cook a meal.

HH

2

HH1.
Cu.

HH

HH

hư HH...

H1.

tt HH...

HH 022.2 11H...

HH. nh HH HH0...
HH TH.

HH HH.

1...

ecerưeeg

HHHHH...eH.ngee

HH...

Hee

lẳ..................................

"............................

10

Unit 1 Things people do

usually

often
.

sometimes

not usually
not

often

never

0

‘00%

0


C Asking Wh- questions
Write questions using question words from the box.
1

How much

What

What time

When

Where

Why

Does it cost £5? £8? £15?

How much

does

it cost?

Listening: The best time of the day

Words

Three peop
people talk about the time of day y they ney like best.
Listen and complete the table. Write two things each speaker does.

Write these words in your language.

Speaker 1

classical music...........................................................

h2

......................

Thimgs SHOE MOOS.

..............

Hee

COnNCert

.......................................

BOOUE

Speaker 2
Best time€:

JÂZZ

.................................
c2
rrrrerrrrrioe

Speaker 3
Best tie€:...........................................
2222222122 1g
xe

Things she does:

0s...

222i.

come round
(to my flat)

_............................................

makeabed

....................................

SEN (a card)

..................................................

Other words

............................................
2222222222222
ve

Which speaker
—is a student?..........................

— Works in an office?........................

—is married?

Unit 1 Things people do

11


Family and friends
A

Family tree

[| son

ý] mother

[| daughter

[ | father

Complete this family tree with words from the box.
One of the words isn’t used. Which one?

uncle

LÌ grandson
[| brother-in-law

[V) brother

[| sister-in-law
[| son-in-law
FT

I

1 grandfather

married to

2

†

[| daughter-in-law

i

$

married to f

6

5 mother

tà

10 brother

3

11

1

f

14

13

\
You

@

9

1

married to I

:

15

f

19

12

Unit 2

Family and friends

7

t

@

@

.

16

married to f

1

8 father-in-law

1

oat

wife or

married to

f

12

husband

i

@

€

1

married to I

;

17

‡

18

20 granddaughter

B Relatives, friends and neighbours
Write about two of these people.

My

1 a relative
2 a friend (maybe a flat-mate or room-mate)
3 aneighbour

\_ is

een,

/

How old \

⁄

\

he/she?

{

mm.

À

ee

Is he/she single?

divorced?
Nee

A

LO

Ỏ

⁄

}

7

™

=

) Where does Ầ
( he/shelive? ⁄
NX

at

Xư—¿

we

(
Where does
)
{ he/she work or study? (

ZL

Listening: Relatives

| <

We shaw a room

gidfriend called Clair. | think they ‘re enga
ged.

ae

engaged? married?

is 20.

_

¿

Or

Leo

the university. te studies chemistry,
and he also
works ia a restaurant at weekends
. He’s got a

Include answers to these questions,
and add any other information you like.
⁄

room—mate,

NL

we

“THƯỜNG

Words

Three people talk about their relatives. For each relative,
find three differences from the sentences below.

Write these words in your language.

1 My grandmother is 95. She lives with us in London. She can’t walk
but she still reads a lot.

MICE
interesting

rrntintitnnnniininnnnninniine
............................................

travel

CỐ

receive

So

ÂN...

Q.2...

TH TT TT

02k k khen c 111111 1k k KH

h1

TT

111K

g0 cà

nh pH cv Và

........................
ÊT

2

he

KH TK

tk

K4 k1

kHHH KH LH 1k0

110 11k.

1 111100 tr.

get

engaged

My brother is a lorry driver. He travels all over Europe. He always
brings back presents from the countries he visits. | think he has

BEE

a boring job.

meet

ÂT
b

Ân

3

de

...........2...2
PET

2Q. Q n2 nn TT cv

c1 1k1

hn ng kh

ng TT KH

TT

TH

HT

no

--..............................................

T111

Hx nọ

tu KT

KT

kg

TH TT

T11 11 140 1 105 09 11118 1k

My uncle sells computers and he’s very rich. He has two houses

ooo

et married
MATTER

die

eeeeerrrrrnrrrrrrrerrrrer
..........................................

D0

alone

re
¬

Other words

with swimming pools, and he goes on expensive holidays. | don't
like him because he’s mean.

Unit 2

Family and friends

13


Study pages
C heck your progress

Phrasebook

1 Here’s a number, a date and a time. Write them in words.

Write these conversations in your language.

365

(John, this is my

11.45

5

cousin Paula. rỡ

⁄

$8 2

Whose bedrooms? Fill the gaps with possessive forms.
My parents sleep in the green room, and my sister sleeps in
the yellow room. Harry sleeps in the blue room, and the
children sleep in the red room.
4

__

ee

15 Jan 1999

XI

“Hello,

The green room iS.......................................................... bedroom.

Paula

Nice to meet |
— you.
7%

5 The yellow 100m is............................................cevee bedroom.

c_ The blue room iS........................................-veceree bedroom.
đj The red room iS........................................esree bedroom.

Fill the gaps with the opposites of the words in italics.
4

Ÿm not....................................... . Ïm auakel

b

1go to sleep at 1 1.00 and l.................................... at 7.00.

c

They go to bed late, but they........................................ late too.

\ meet Mr Frost, my

then you can get dressed again.

A

neighbour.

een

ä OK.................................. and have a quick shower, and
_/

4 Complete the conversation. Use the Present simple.

DDO YOO nnn

(you/work/Cambridge?)

"5n...

(work/bookshop)

A And your WiÍe?....................................eeiirie (where/work?)
B

She..........................-22222222
2
erere

A

Really?.........................................-22eeeere

BSH
`

5 Complete
the table.

Male
tà 2

2 tre

re
a
grandson

LH TH Hee

father-in-law

14

Study pages A

a

Oh, how do.
_ you do?

(what/teach?)

.............,,ƠỎ
......(.ŒÃ......

ƒ /Y

¬
(work/university)

(not teach)
(work/library)

Female
wife

sunt
vcccecavaveusecevevevevcuseensen

niece

s.......eeee

Q.11. HH... 21T.
SP

Tư

1T... TT...
nga.

UỰUUƯƯƯUYdétreeserntrtrtrrrrtrrrtrntrrrtrtterrttrtrrererrrrr

——.......................Ô.

Writing Joining sentences
Look at these examples.
| don’t have a brother. | have two sisters.
| don’t have a brother but | have two sisters.

One sister is older than me. The other one is younger.
One sister is older than me and the other one is younger.
My older sister is married. She lives in London.
My older sister is married and lives in London.

These paragraphs have too many sentences. Join some of
them together, so that each paragraph has four sentences.

| have no brothers or sisters. | have two

.
......nner

Na

me. The other one is older. The younger
one is I9. He has just started university. |

.................................................eeeinieririrrrrreiirererrerirrrirrreirddrriirnrrrrrrrrrirrriirriiririnrriir

The older one is married. She lives with
her family in Australia.

Ị have

two

uncles.

One

is

retired.

-GH 00T nu ch

He

lives in Scotland. The other livesin

|

0,061

gu

30251: 0 1802 C102 85 1078. K1 1

cọ c4

ki

K00

4089002104.

01: 14 k0 ke thi

....reu
..........
HH tre
2222202...
....................

London. He has two children. One is
eight. The other is ten.

Study pages A

15


Talking about places
A

lwo

descri ptions

Has got

.

.

Th

Here are pictures of a hotel bedroom and reception

area. Write about them using has got and there is/are.
The

me room

h

nas so

There is/are
t a table.

It’s got four chairs.

There’

are

ere’s

a table

le in

th

in ' can

There are four chairs.

bedroom

B Not a good place for a holiday

The room hasn’t got a window.
The rooms haven't got balconies.

These hotel guests aren’t happy. Fill the gaps with
hasn’t got, haven’t got, there isn’t and there aren’t.

There isn’t a table.
There aren’t any chairs.

The rooms
>

“.. ...
phones

SA

n..

-

(

re

NI

ay

hà

:

E

Zz

DF ccc

any chairsonthe
balconies.

any newspapers or
magazines.

any water in it!
a toilet.

16

.

Unit 3 Talking about places

\

/


C Asking questions

Has France got any mountains?
Have the rooms got balconies?

Rewrite these questions using Have/Has ... got ...¢
1

Is there a hotel in this town?

Is there a phone in your office?

Are there any lakes in Egypt?

Now rewrite these questions using Is/Are there ...?
4

Has this town got a university?

Listening: Rooms and flats

Here are some advertisements in the paper for rooms and flats.
(Furnished = it has furniture.)
A

B

c

:

ROOM hear city

;

»

centre. Furnished.

ROOM to rent. Ground floor.
FURNISHED FLAT. One
room, bathroom, kitchen.

1 [=3

D

LARGE FLAT. 3rd floor.

Near city centre.

E FURNISHED FLAT.

3 rooms, large balconies.

Listen to the two conversations. Which rooms or flats

are they talking about?

Words
Write these words in your language.
fax machine

..............................................

reception desk..................................................

blackboard

_....................................................

ashtray
thck

sả...
eeeee

CATDGE.....................eiireve

unfortunately................................................
share (Vy

s.......................

unusual
business trip
1 This ¡is a small..................................... on the.................................. floor
[tS SOC ........................

The 1:0:

Other words

<....../4(/:|1ÃÃ:ẦH...

2 This is a large.................................. on the.................................... floor
iz.o mm ....................

Unit 3 Talking about places

7


“2

On the move

A Train, bus and plane
Someone describes the train journey from London to Edinburgh.
Can you match the first and second halves of the sentences?

the early morning train.

|

Lalwayege
It costs

at about half past ten.

] usually catch

2

it leaves Kings Cross Station

about four hours.
by-tram.

It arrives at Edinburgh

:

at 6.25.

The whole journey takes

£65 return.

Now write about either the bus journey or the plane journey from
London to Edinburgh. Use the notes in the boxes.

PLANE
From Heathrow. £80 return.
Morning. Leaves 7.40. Arrives 8.45.

eccsecenessssneneceecensnsnveesceesnssanveneeeceannanteesgeensnsssnessunretsssensnuoriiceesunaesetersnmnntessessnunmeeesessnsececesusunnseesesnnnanaeseeetey

BUS
From Victoria Bus Station. £45 return.
Morning. Leaves 6.00. Arrives 3.00.

B Adjectives
Five people talk about public transport. Which two adjectives go best with each remark?
1

7

\

a
`
`
They always come on time, ÀN

but the seats are veryhard,

/

especially on a long journey.

Ne Nc

ee"

TY

/ 2

[2

ty

xxx

cảm

._{

NV

| Can never find a seat, especially

`

in the mornings, and they stop at {9
` every little station on the way.
)
See

cet

gemma

Ne

TY”

mm.

They don’t costvery

much, but people say they
have a lot of accidents.

a

ese

y2

..

'

5a

ow

The tickets cost

.

. .............
.

 cu... HH
Ổn
4

nh
n0 2222222

LH HE T1 1211.1122122

HH”.

5

18

NƯƯÀG

ghe
TH

Ưng 0 tereeee
Hye

Penne

“————
[5]

(

Sometimes they

On the move

N

they don’t, so very few

‘people

use them.

j
.

_/

comfortable
uncomfortable
cheap

expensive
fast

slow

safe
dangerous
empty

¬

come and sometimes

Tớ. —.

Unit 4

`

alot, but they have /
\ lovely big, soft seats. /

)

(
/

crowded
reliable

unreliable


C

Questions

Sally wants to visit her friend, who lives in Grandville. She phones and asks how to get there.
Read the text, then look at the friend’s answers. What are Sally’s questions?
10

How

can

I get

to

Grandville?

You can get to Grandville by bus, train
or car, but the best way to get there is
by train. It costs about £35, and it
takes about four hours, The train
leaves at 8.05 in the morning, and
arrives at about

12.00. You can get to

my house from the station by taxi.

Listening: Trip to Stonehenge

Words

A tourist in London wants to know how to get to Stonehenge.

Write these words in your language.
¡222

ĐT...

tight

................................c.

bus terminal
convenient

weekdays
journey
pleasant

Listen and fill the gaps.
Stonehenge iS..................................-

re

from London.

The best way to go there iS........................................ eo
Pt CAKES ooo .......,Ơ,Ơ

COSTS

ng. ............,,ƠỎ

.

to get there, and

underground..................................................
notÍar

———

s................................c

ferry boat
Other words

.

You can’t get there by train because .............................................----2---sssserriee

L2i8v in...
ADOUE

..............

. That costs

cece cceccceeesesssssesenssnsnusssssssnseseneesneninvannnnneeneeeseseseer .

Unit 4

On the move

19


Study pages
Check your progress

Phrasebook

1 Where are they?
a

Write this conversation in your language.

The bookshop is
Cc

K

E

©

%
a)
n

2

⁄ —
°
5
Qa
ẽ
P

/ Two tickets to N

the buildings.
đ

The bookshop is........................... the café and the bank.

e

There’s a post box....................... the bookshop.

ƒ

There`s a bus stop............................ the café.

2

The class starts at 9.00. Today, Alice (A) came at 8.30,
Ben (B) came at 8.55, Carla (C) came at 9.00, Dan (D) came
at 9.10 and Elvis (E) came at 9.45.

Read the text. Who came ...
4

early?...........................

c

In time?

b

late?

đ

on time?..............................

3 Fili the gaps with ?, on or 4Í.
4

She gets up...................... SIX œ'clock .......................... the morning.

b

Iusually play football.......................... Sunday mornings.

c

He always calls me .................... midnight.................... my birthday.

4 Write sentences (1) with baue/bas got (2) with there is/are.
4

not / any coffee / but / some cakes.

Yo

/When

(

XS

any

hotel?

5 What are the missing verbs?
| live in Bristol but 1 work in London. L.................. home at 6.1 5 in
the morning, and [................... the 6.25 train, which ...................
in London at 8.00, Then [.................. the underground to
Piccadilly, and | usually .................. to work about 8.45. So the
whole journey.................. about two and a half hours.

20

Study nages B

a“

Sin le rooms?
in this

-

does the

en does the

Z At 7.15. From
.¬

platform 5.

Ts