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Učbenik za angleščino v 8. razredu osnovne šole

NEW EDITION

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Review

• Questions and answers • Present continuous and present simple

• Countries and nationalities • Language • Using numbers

• Expressions: Greetings and introductions

• Pronunciation: Weak forms /ə/

• Past simple • Past continuous and past simple

• Verbs describing actions • Adventure • Link words

• Expressions: Giving and accepting an apology

Grammar check

Unit 3 People

• Listen to a song • Read a magazine article about the English language • Understand the main idea of an article • Life and culture: What a mixture!

• Ask questions when you meet new people • Talk about yourself and your friends • Talk about things in Slovenia that come from abroad • Write facts and figures about Slovenia

• Listen to a story about a lucky discovery • Listen and complete a form • Read a short adventure story • Guess meaning from context • Life and culture: Journeys and explorers

• Write a conversation about events in the past • Interview a friend about a discovery • Write a short story

• Pronunciation: Intonation in questions

• Expressions: Asking for a description

• Adjectives describing personality • The internet • Opposites: un- + adjective • The different meanings of like

• Listen to a personality test • Read a web page • Use pronouns and possessive adjectives • Life and culture: The British

• Write a description using comparatives and superlatives • Describe people’s personality • Write a web page about yourself

• Suggestions • Expressions of quantity: too much/many, (not) enough, a lot of

• Places to visit • School • Uses of get

• Listen to someone talking about a place • Read an article about a Japanese student’s day • Scan a text for information • Life and culture: Australia

• Plan a dream school trip • Describe a place you know, and things you like and don’t like there • Write about a typical day

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Unit 4 Places

Descriptions Module 2

• Pronunciation: /aʊ/ /uː/ /ɪə/

• Expressions: Responding to suggestions Grammar check

Study skills: Thinking about learning Progress check Coursework: Getting around

• Sports clothes • Competitive sport • Adjective/verb + preposition: good at / worry about

• Expressions: Shopping

• Pronunciation: /aɪ/ /ʊ/ /æ/

• First conditional • The future with will and might • will/won’t + probably

• At the table • Technologies of the future • Compound nouns: coffee maker

• Expressions: Polite requests

• Pronunciation: /e/ /eɪ/ /ʌ/

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• Present continuous used for the future • The future with going to • The future with will and going to

Unit 6 Choices

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Unit 5 Goals

The future

Communicative tasks

• Pronunciation: Stress in words

Review

Module 3

Listening and Reading skills

Study skills: Your coursebook Progress check Coursework: Home life

• Comparatives and superlatives • (not) as … as

Review

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Vocabulary and Pronunciation

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Unit 1 Nice to meet you Unit 2 Past events

Module 1

Present and past

Grammar

Contents

Grammar check

Study skills: Making a vocabulary notebook

• Listen to a talk about a cycling trip • Read an interview with a young athlete • Skim a text for the general idea • Life and culture: The history of the Olympics

• Talk about future plans • Talk about the future and make offers • Make a conversation in a shop • Interview a friend and then write about him/her

• Listen to a song • Read an article about technologies of the future • Summarise the main idea • Life and culture: Journey into space

• Make a conversation in a restaurant • Describe things that aren’t certain and things that are probable in the future • Write about future plans • Make predictions about life in the future

Progress check Coursework: Shopping in London

• Present perfect: affirmative, negative and questions • The infinitive of purpose • Expressions: I think so. / I don’t think so.

• Present perfect + ever and never + just + for and since

Vocabulary and Pronunciation

• Our changing world • The environment • Housework • The fashion industry • Pronunciation: Stress in words

• Outdoor activities • Music • Prepositions of time • Pronunciation: Stress in words

• Expressions: Time expressions with for and since

Listening and Reading skills

Communicative tasks

• Listen to a radio advert • Read a newsletter about a campaign • Understand the main idea of a text • Life and culture: Let’s clean the world!

• Talk about important changes in the last twenty years.

• Talk about things you’ve done this week • Write an advert • Write a letter about a campaign

• Listen to a student describing important people in his life • Read a biography of a rock band • Guess meaning from context • Life and culture: What’s on?

• Describe your experiences • Talk about present situations and how long they have continued • Write a description of a person you know • Write a biography

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Unit 7 Achievements Unit 8 Experiences

Module 4 Your world

Grammar

• have to, don’t have to, mustn’t • should, shouldn’t • Expressions: Thanking people and responding to thanks

• someone, anything, nowhere, etc.

• Reflexive pronouns: myself, yourself, etc.

• Illnesses and injuries • Customs • Adverbs

• Pronunciation: /ʃ/ /ʧ/

• Materials • Communication technology • Pronunciation: /ɔɪ/

• Listen to two friends following instructions • Do a quiz about customs around the world • Identify the topic • Life and culture: Proverbs and idioms

• Describe rules at your school and your ideal school • Talk about problems and give advice • Write about customs in your country

• Read about communication technology • Use pronouns and possessive adjectives • Life and culture: A worldwide celebration

• Describe what things are made of • Make a conversation about buying presents • Say goodbye and thank someone after a visit • Explain how to use a mobile phone

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Unit 9 Get it right!

Unit 10 A small world

Module 5 Connections

Review Grammar check Study skills: Learning to listen Progress check Coursework: Useful information

• Expressions: Expressing a reaction Saying goodbye

Review Grammar check Study skills: Speaking Progress check Coursework: Mini phrase book

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Curriculum studies (pages 114–121) • Geography: Africa • History: The USA • Biology: The body and how it works • Physics: Gravity • Language: Slovenian

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Extra vocabulary (pages 122–124) • Verbs describing actions • Adjectives describing personality • Opposites using the prefix dis• Compound nouns • Time words: for, during, by, until • Parts of the body

Extra grammar • The in names of places (Review 2, page 45) • Present perfect and past simple (Review 4, page 89)

• Things I can do in English • Grammar index • Irregular verbs • Verb forms • Spelling notes • Wordlist • Phonetic symbols • Songs

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Present and past V 1. IN 2. KORAKU SE UČIŠ

besedišče: • države in narodnosti • glagoli za opis dejanj

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izraze: • pozdravljanje in predstavljanje • opravičevanje in sprejemanje opravičil

da boš znal/-a: • postavljati vprašanja, ko spoznavaš nove ljudi • pozdravljati in predstavljati ljudi na različne načine • opisati narodnost in povedati, od kod ljudje prihajajo • govoriti o stvareh v Sloveniji, ki prihajajo iz tujine • govoriti o preteklih dogodkih • reči, da ti je žal • opisati preteklo dejanje, ki ga je prekinilo drugo dejanje

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slovnico: • vprašanja in odgovori • present continuous in present simple • past simple • past continuous in past simple

bereš: • članek o angleškem jeziku • kratko pustolovsko zgodbo

da boš znal/-a: • napisati dejstva in podatke o Sloveniji • napisati kratko zgodbo

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se učiš: • števila • veznike • razumeti glavno misel besedila • uganiti pomen iz sobesedila

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Life and culture

Coursework 1

• What a mixture!

• Journeys and explorers

Home life Pišeš o domačem življenju v svoji državi.

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What’s it about?

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What can you say about the pictures?

Now match the pictures with sentences 1–4.

1 The Grants always have coffee and toast for breakfast.

2 He made a spear to catch the fish in the lake.

3 Why is Ana crying?

4 Amelia Earhart was flying to Australia when her plane crashed.

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Coursework My guidebook Bereš • vodnik za obiskovalce angleško govoreče države

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Da boš znal/-a • sestaviti vodnik za angleško govoreče obiskovalce svoje države Coursework ima pet delov: Part 1 Home life Pišeš o domačem življenju v svoji državi.

Part 2 Getting around Pišeš o zanimivih krajih v svoji državi.

Part 3 Shopping in London Pišeš o nakupovanju v svojem domačem kraju ali glavnem mestu.

Part 4 Useful information Napišeš nekaj uporabnih informacij za obiskovalce svojega kraja.

Part 5 Mini phrase book Napišeš knjižico izrazov za obiskovalce svoje države.

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1 Nice to meet you Step 1

da boš znal/-a • postavljati vprašanja ob spoznavanju novih ljudi • pozdravljati • predstavljati ljudi

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Share your ideas What can you say about the photo? Describe the boy and girl. Where do you think they are? What do you think they’re saying?

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I think they’re in a park.

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V 1. koraku se učiš • vprašanja in odgovore • pozdravljati in predstavljati

Reading and speaking Where do you come from?

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A Which questions do you think the boy is asking? Choose eight questions from the list.

1 What’s your name?

2 Why are you laughing?

3 Where do you come from?

4 Have you got any friends here?

5 Do you live in Mexico City?

6 Are you all right?

7 What do you think of London?

8 What are you doing in England?

9 Do you play tennis?

10 What’s the matter?

B Complete the conversation with questions from 2A. Jay: a Are you all right?

Ana: No, I’m not.

Jay: b …

Ana: I’m homesick.

Jay: c …

Ana: I come from Mexico.

Jay: d …

Ana: No, I don’t. I live in Veracruz.

Jay: e …

Ana: I’m studying English. I’m staying with a family here.

Jay: f …

Ana: I like it, but I sometimes feel a bit homesick.

Jay: g …

Ana: No, I haven’t.

Jay: h …

Ana: Ana. Jay: Pleased to meet you, Ana. I’m Jay, Jay Sayer. Er … do you fancy an ice cream?

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C If you have time Practise the conversation between Jay and Ana.

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B Match the expressions with the explanations. How do you say these expressions in your language?

1 Hi!/Hello! How are you?

2 Nice to meet you. / Pleased to meet you.

3 How do you do? a This is a formal greeting. You can use it when you meet an adult for the first time. b You often say this when you see a friend. c You say this when you meet someone for the first time. It’s friendly but it can be formal or informal.

Complete the questions with is/are, do/does, has/have.

Where do you come from?

Where … Ana live?

Why … she crying?

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– Yes, she is.

9a, 10a – No, she isn’t.

– Yes, they are.

– Yes, they do.

– No, she doesn’t.

– Yes, she does.

– No, she hasn’t.

– No, they haven’t.

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Is Ana Mexican? … she happy?

Are Jay and Ana in the park? … they both speak English?

Does Ana come from London? … she like London? … she got any English friends? … Ana and Jay got an ice cream?

– I come from Velenje.

– In Veracruz.

– Because she’s homesick.

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C In Slovenia, do you use different greetings when you talk to adults and when you talk to other young people?

When do you use someone’s surname?

Do any of your friends have nicknames?

A Put the words in the right order and make questions.

1 Are Jay and Ana old friends? old / Ana / are / friends / Jay / and ? they / a / are / park / in ?

Ana / nationality / what / is ?

English / got / friends / Ana / any / has ? she / homesick / is ? from / she / where / come / does ? studying / what’s / Ana ? fancy / ice cream / an / you / do ?

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How do you do? ni pravo vprašanje.

Ustrezen odziv je How do you do?

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B Now ask and answer the questions in 4A. Are Jay and Ana old friends?

Expressions Greetings and introductions

A Complete and practise the three dialogues.

Hi, Jenny.

How … you today?

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This … Mrs Jones, the head teacher.

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How do you do, Mrs Jones?

How do you do?

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Pronunciation Weak forms /ə/ 1.04 Listen and repeat the sentences.

1 How are /ə/ you today?

2 Where are /ə/ you from?

3 How do you /djə/ do?

4 Where do you /djə/ live?

No, they aren’t.

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Writing and speaking Meeting people

Use what you know Imagine you’re meeting an English teenager for the first time. Work with a partner and make a short conversation.

Think of at least three questions to ask.

A: Hi! I’m David. What’s your name?

B: My name’s Max. Nice to meet you, David.

A: Is this your first visit to Slovenia?

Practise your conversation.

Nice to … you, Tom.

1.03 Listen and check.

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Step 2 V 2. koraku se učiš • poimenovanja držav in narodnosti • present continuous in present simple

Presentation What are they doing?

A Think of at least two questions about the photo, then ask a classmate your questions.

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Vocabulary Countries and nationalities A Read the list and find the odd one out. All the names refer to countries, except one, which refers to nationality.

Albania • Austria • Bosnia Herzegovina • Bulgaria • China • Croatia • the Czech Republic • Denmark • Germany • Greece • Hungary • Ireland • Japan • Mexican • Montenegro • the Netherlands • Poland • Russia • Serbia • Switzerland

B 1.06 Close your book and listen to the text about Ana. What’s she thinking about?

When she’s at home in Veracruz, Ana usually starts the day with some chilaquiles and a hot chocolate.

She always has breakfast with her sister Clara, and they talk about their plans for the day.

Now, of course, everything’s different. At the moment she’s sitting in the kitchen with her English family, the Grants. She’s having a cup of coffee and a piece of toast. The Grants always have coffee and toast for breakfast. It’s raining outside and the Grants are talking about the weather again. But Ana isn’t listening. She’s looking at the rain and she’s thinking about her sister, at home in Veracruz.

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1.05 Listen and check.

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B For each country, write the nationality.

Country: Switzerland Nationality: Swiss

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C What other countries and nationalities do you know? Make a list. You’ve got one minute!

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• Veliko začetnico uporabljamo pri imenih držav, narodnosti in jezikov.

I live in Japan. I’m Japanese.

I speak Japanese and English.

• V imenu nekaterih držav uporabljamo člen the: the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, the UAE (the United Arab Emirates), the UK (the United Kingdom), the USA (the United States of America)

C 1.06 Listen again and follow in your book.

Ask and answer the questions.

1 What does Ana usually have for breakfast?

2 What’s she having today?

3 Is she talking to her sister?

4 Does her sister live in Veracruz?

5 What are the Grants doing?

6 What’s Ana doing?

Try this!

How many days of the week can you write using these letters? You can use each letter more than once.

WTUNAHEOYDMCNRFS

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Grammar Present continuous and present simple

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A Look at the examples and complete the explanations.

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At the moment, Ana’s sitting in the kitchen.

Present … uporabljamo za izražanje dejavnosti, ki potekajo v trenutku govorjenja.

The Grants always have coffee and toast.

Present … uporabljamo za izražanje navad 9, 10 ali splošnih resnic.

B Look at the text again and find at least two more examples of the present continuous and the present simple.

Practice A Complete the sentences with the present continuous or the present simple.

1 The Grants often talk about the weather.

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The Grants often (talk) about the weather.

Ana (not talk) to her sister at the moment.

Ana (not like) tea.

At home in Mexico, she usually (have) hot chocolate for breakfast.

The Grants (live) in London.

The weather isn’t good today. It (rain).

It’s 7.30 am in London and Ana (get up). But in Veracruz it’s 1.30 am and Clara (go) home after a party.

Clara (send) her sister a text message nearly every day.

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B What about you? How many true sentences can you write about yourself, using the present continuous and the present simple? You’ve got two minutes!

At the moment, I’m writing a sentence in English.

I like music and swimming.

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1.07 Listen again. How many of these things B are mentioned?

C Describe someone in the class. Use the present continuous and the present simple.

He’s wearing a black sweater.

He plays a lot of volleyball.

Can your classmate guess who it is?

Is it Nejc?

No, it isn’t.

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Speaking An international world

Use what you know Think of things in your country that come from other parts of the world, then share your ideas with the class.

In Slovenia, we watch lots of American films.

People drive French … We eat … In our shops, there are a lot of … People wear …

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Share your ideas Learning English Why is English a useful language? Think of at least three reasons.

V 3. koraku • bereš članek o angleškem jeziku • vadiš uporabo številk

It’s an international language.

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Reading A Read the text. How many of your reasons can you find?

This month we look at how the English language brings people together.

Guang is Chinese.

He’s fourteen and he’s learning English at school.

About a billion people learn English as a foreign language. They use it in their job, when they travel abroad, when they go on the internet, or when they want to understand English films or songs. In China, more people are studying English at the moment than in any other country, and 100,000 native English speakers are currently teaching there.

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Did you know that nearly a quarter of all the people on Earth can speak English?

That’s nearly two billion people!

It’s difficult to be sure exactly how many people speak English as a second or foreign language. English is certainly the most common second or foreign language in the world.

One estimate says that there are now three times more non-native English speakers than native English speakers! In India, for example, there are hundreds of different languages, so people often use English to communicate with each other.

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Tara’s from Perth, in Australia. English is her first language.

About 450 million people speak English as a first language in countries like Britain, the USA, Australia and New Zealand. In fact, English is the official language of about fifty countries around the world.

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Sandro’s family come from Puerto Rico but now they live in New York, where Sandro was born. His first language is Spanish, but he speaks English fluently. About 54 million people in the USA come from Latin America – that’s 17% of the total population. They learn English as a second language because they live in an English-speaking country. Sandro usually speaks Spanish at home and with his Latin-American friends, but he speaks English at school.

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ENGLISH WORLDWIDE!

English is the main language in international business, in science and technology, in sport and pop music. It is one of the languages used at meetings of the United Nations (the UN) and many other international organisations.

It is also the main language of the internet. About 55% of websites are written in

English. The same is true of social media. More ‘tweets’ are written in English than any other language. But things are changing fast. For example, millions of people in China now use their own language on the internet.

Chinese, Arabic, Russian and Spanish are all becoming more common, but English is still the most important ‘international’ language for most of us.

Language is a key to the outside world. It helps you to connect with other people. Research tells us that, by 2020, there will be 2 billion people learning English, so you aren’t alone!

Italian 1.8% Portuguese 2.3% Chinese 3.3% French 4%

Polish 1.7%

Spanish 4.6% Japanese 5% German 6%

English 55%

Russian 9%

The top ten languages used on websites.

B Comprehension check

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Word work Numbers A Match the words on the left with the figures on the right.

1 a thousand a 2.75 2 six thousand b 2015 3 a million c 1,000 4 one and a half d 102 5 two point seven five e 31st 6 seventy-five per cent f 75% 7 one and three quarters g 6,000 8 a hundred and two h 1¾ 9 the thirty-first i 1,000,000 10 twenty fifteen j 1½

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1.08 Listen, and read the text again. Then match 1–8 with a–h and make eight sentences.

1 Nearly twenty-five per cent 2 English is the first language 3 Seventeen per cent of the 4 For fifty-four million Americans, 5 There are a hundred 6 There are more non-native English speakers 7 In India, people speak 8 More than half of all websites a of four hundred and fifty million people. b Spanish is their first language. c of the world’s population can speak English. d are written in English. e thousand English teachers in China. f a lot of different languages. g than native English speakers. h population of the USA are from Latin America.

B Write the underlined words in figures.

1 Eight thousand people. 8,000 2 Three quarters of the class.

3 Five and a half years.

4 Nine point two litres of water.

5 A quarter of the population.

6 Sixty per cent of television programmes.

7 A million dollars.

8 Eighteen per cent of the world’s scientists.

9 He was born in eighteen eighty-nine.

10 It’s ten twenty-five.

C Reading skills Understanding the main idea 1 What is the topic of the text? a culture b language c countries 2 What do you think is the main idea of the text? Read the beginning and the end again, then choose the best answer.

It’s about … a all the different languages in the world. b English as an international language. c English people all over the world.

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C Test a friend Write a number in words.

Can your friend write it in figures?

A: Three million, two hundred and sixtyeight thousand, nine hundred and one.

B: 3,268,901

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• V takih primerih uporabljamo vezaj: seventy-five, ninety-two.

• Rečemo: A hundred and three. Nine hundred. Four thousand. Two million. NAPAČNO: nine hundreds itd.

Writing guide Facts and figures

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Writing Statistics about Slovenia

• Think of a title and write the date.

Statistics about Slovenia

5th October

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• Introduce your topic.

Here are some facts and figures about Slovenia’s population.

• Start each new fact on a new line.

The population of Slovenia is … … people live in the capital, Ljubljana.

• Say what nationalities live in Slovenia and what languages people speak.

The language of Slovenia is … but … % of Slovenians also speak …

There are people from …

• Give some examples from your own family and friends.

In my class, most of the students speak …

Some of my relatives live in …

Use what you know Find some facts and figures about the population of Slovenia, for example: What is the population?

Do most people live in a town or in the country?

Are there many people from other countries?

How many people speak English as a second language?

When do people use English?

Have you got any English-speaking friends? If so, how many?

What other languages are spoken in Slovenia?

Use the Writing guide to complete your answers.

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Extra exercises

2 Make questions for these answers.

1 Where are you going?

I’m going to the cinema.

In London.

Yes, a bit. We learn it at school.

No, he lives in a flat.

About 2 million, I think.

Because it’s funny.

I can’t find my mobile.

No, she isn’t. She’s homesick.

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3 Choose the right words and make complete sentences.

1 Sue usually (gets / is getting) up at seven o’clock.

2 James (doesn’t write / isn’t writing) an email at the moment.

3 Nearly 2 billion people (speak / are speaking) English.

4 (Do you stay / Are you staying) in a hotel or with friends this week?

5 Oh no! It (rains / ’s raining). Where’s my umbrella?

6 Sometimes I (feel / ’m feeling) homesick.

4 Match 1–8 with a–h. Then write four short conversations.

1 e This is Mr Wilson, the science teacher.

6 b How do you do, Mr Wilson?

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6 Put the letters in the right order and find ten nationalities. Then write the country for each nationality.

1 Mexican – Mexico 1 2 3 4 5

This is Mr Wilson, Hi, Steve. How This is my Are I’m How do you No, I’ve got Nice to meet

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you all right? do, Mr Wilson? a cold. you, Ben. the science teacher. fine, thanks. best friend, Ben. are you?

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7 How do you say these sentences in your language?

1 Pleased to meet you.

2 How do you do?

3 Do you fancy an ice cream?

4 What’s the matter?

5 Mike’s an old friend.

6 This is our teacher, Mrs Webster.

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5 Complete the conversation.

A: 1What are you doing?

B: I’m busy. I’m on the net.

A: 2…

B: No, I’m not studying. I’m playing a game called Wizard Wars.

A: 3…

B: I’m playing with my friend Gavin.

A: 4…

B: He lives in Manchester.

A: 5…

B: Yes, we play this game every day.

A: 6…

B: I’m winning!

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1 Choose the right answers.

1 Are you and Susan hungry? a No, we aren’t. b No, we don’t. c No, we haven’t.

2 Do Jane and Tom go abroad a lot? a Yes, they are. b Yes, they do. c Yes, they have.

3 Does Kevin text his girlfriend every day? a Yes, he has. b Yes, he is. c Yes, he does.

4 Is English your first language? a No, I haven’t. b No, it isn’t. c No, I’m not.

5 Has Tina got any English friends? a Yes, she is. b Yes, she does. c Yes, she has.

Extension

8 Complete the sentences using these words.

You’ll need to use some of the words more than once. equals point per cent quarters plus minus a and 1 Seventy … thirty equals … hundred.

2 Fifty … of three thousand is one thousand five hundred.

3 Two … four plus three … one equals five … five.

4 Twelve … eight equals four.

5 Three … of the class live in Ljubljana and a quarter of the class live in the country.

6 Jan’s little sister is seven … a half.

7 His grandmother is … hundred … two.

8 Thirty-four minus twenty-seven … seven.