14.04.21

Focus Now: pages 72, 73, 76, 77

Ex 11 page 72

1. Where is she working in these days?

   She’s working in a radio station these days.

2. Where does she work?

   She works in the city centre.

3. Hoe much money does does he earn with his new job?

   He earns a lot of money with his new job.

4. What is he doing in the canteen?

   He is having lunch in the canteen.

5. Why are you going by car?

   We are going by car because there is a public transport strike.

6. How are they going to school at the moment?

   They’re going to school on foot at the moment.

7. What is she having right now?

   She’s having a sandwich right now.

8. What do they like a lot?

   They like rap music a lot.

9. How much time does it take to fill in the form?

   It only takes a couple of minutes to fill in the form.

10. Who’s studying abroad this year?

    My sister is studying abroad this year.

11. When do you have swimming lessons?

    I have swimming lessons on Monday and Friday.

Ex 12 page 72

1. Which is heavier? A leaf or a rock?

2. Everyone thinks Monday is the worst day of the week.

3. Are you sure bikes are safer than motorbike?

4. Which hobbies are the cheapest and the most expensive?

5. We don’t think golf is more boring than tennis.

6. In fairy tales the princess is always the most beautiful lady in the story.

7. Alice is the youngest girl in her family.

8. The new printer is much noisier than the old one.

Ex 13 page 72

1. In our country young men don’t have to do military service when they are 18. It’s no longer obligatory.

2. When do we have to pay the rent?

3. If you are attending school in the UK, you have to wear a uniform but if you are in Italy, you don’t have to.

4. A firefighter has to train a lot.

5. Does Paula have to work long hours?

6. It’s the weekend. I don’t have to get up early. I can stay in bed.

7. Nobody has to cook because my mother always does the cooking for everyone.

8. Henry doesn’t have to cook eat fish if he doesn’t like it.

Ex 14 page 72

What’s That Mysterious Man Doing on Boston’s B Tallest Building?

BOSTON---- Something strange A is happening in Boston these days. High in D the air, on one side of the John Hancock building, you can see a figure, standing on some kind of platform. It is a two-dimensional apparition; a man in shorts, reaching from the side 44^th on the 50thfloor of western-facing side of the tower. The figure is so big and so high up that it is visible from various points in D town.

The installation is taking Bostomians by surprise. They are using social media to ask what it is about. “Whatever is going on on the Hancock Tower right now is really weird”, tweets B a user.

This is the answer. It is an art installation with no name by the secretive French artist JR. “That’s the way JR like to work. He D doesn’t usually do these things quietly and then people realise art is all around us”.

The work seems vague, There isn’t C much to distinguish the man or to specify his surroundings. But it C is getting more and more popular both with residents and tuorists.

Ex 15 page 73

1. What do you do for a living?

2. What does being a firefighter mean?

3. The

4. are

5. in the afternoon

6. have dinner

7. at eight o’clock

8. What do you like about what you do?

9. We work 24 hours every day together

10. There are weeks when we don’t have more time with this guys,

11. so we do with our families, we build friendship.

12. A lot of time

13. don’t have to

14. you have to be younger than 33.

15. Not all people get in.

16. You have to be in the top three to get the job.

17. What is it challenging about what you do?

18. Are doing

19. have to step back

20. that’s one the hardest things for people to learn

Ex 16 page 73

I really admire my father. He’s nice, outgoing, generous, solar and a great plumber. I usually see him every day. I admire him because he works hard to maintain he, me and my sisters.

Ex 1 page 76

Ex 2 page 76

1. My favourite subject are Maths or Science.

2. My worst subject is art.

3. The best thing about my school is that it’s close to home.

4. The worst thing about my school is

Ex 3 page 76

1. Why do some children have to leave school at eleven?

   Because there aren’t secondary schools.

2. Why do many children in Bangladesh miss school for four months of the year?

   Because of all of the rain.

3. Do the children go to boat schools at the weekend?

   Children only go to boat schools when there are floods for two or three hours a day, six days a week.

4. How do the children feel about the floating schools?

   They feel very proud of them and they try to get good marks.

Ex 4 page 77

2-18 years old

nursery school= kindergarten→ primary school→ middle school→ secondary school

Higher education

technical college/ university

Type of school

State school, private school, boys’ school, girls’ school, single-sex school, mixed school

Ex 5 page 77

1. nursery school

2. primary school

3. middle school

4. secondary school

5. private schools

6. state schools

7. university

8. technical college

9. mixed

10. single-sex

Ex 6 page 77

1. do badly - do well

2. get bad marks - get good marks

3. fail an exam – pass an exam

4. be late for lessons – be on time for lessons

5. start school – leave school

6. come to class – miss a class

Ex 7 page 77

1. You have to work hard if you want to do well in the exams.

2. Sarah loves Maths and always gets good marks in the Maths tests.

3. I work hard, but I still do badly in the English tests.

4. I’m always on time for lessons – I am never late!

5. In England children usually start school at age of five and they can leave after age of sixteen.

6. My brother doesn’t work hard, but he always pass his exams.

7. I love Biology and I always try not to miss a class.

Ex 8 page 77

1. do

2. be

3. get

Ex 9 page 77

1. get

2. is

3. is

4. gets

5. do