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OF COURSE!

LENA LANGBORG & ERIKA TIDBLOM

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Illustrationer: Lene Due Jensen

Formgivning: Helena Jansson Formgivning

Art.nr 40781

ISBN 978-91-44-13646-2

© Författarna och Studentlitteratur AB 2023

Upplaga 1:1

Listening Carlos. Rana and her dad. Rana and her mum.

Grammar and Vocabulary Grammar review: frequency adverbs, WH questions, regular verbs, irregular verbs. Tag questions

Other Speaking/Writing: Talk or write about habits. Practise the words in the poems and talk about the poems. Writing: Sentences in different tenses. Write your own love poem.

Listening An interview about New Zealand.

Grammar and Vocabulary Grammar review: prepositions of place, verb tenses. Verbs in -ing form. Word families.

Other Speaking/Writing: Questions about adventure sports. Speaking: What adventure would you like most? Writing: The story of someone who had to leave their home.

Listening Jill and Ben at Radio Station X51.

Grammar and Vocabulary Grammar review: using do and did to make questions and negative sentences, adjectives. This, that, these, those. Adverbs. Other Speaking: discuss the texts. Writing: A letter.

Listening Going up. After dinner.

Grammar and Vocabulary Relative pronouns (who, which, and where). The past continuous. Word formation.

Other Speaking: What were you doing when you heard …? What has happened in the last ten years …? Writing: My life ten years from now.

Listening Parts of the body. The Taylors. Grammar and Vocabulary Do and make. Spelling hints. Word classes.

Other Speaking: The negative effects. The positive effects. What do you think?

Presenting your screen diary. Writing/Speaking: Where have you learned English? Writing: My screen diary.

Listening Maggie and Andy. Charlie and Kieran. Grammar and Vocabulary Countable and uncountable nouns. Much, many, a lot of, lots of. Some, none or any. The past perfect.

Other Speaking: Travelling. Writing/Speaking: A list of questions. Writing: What happened? Plan your own trip by train.

Welcome to Of Course! 3

Your trip to the world of English has already come a long way. Now it’s time to keep going with the next level. We will help you by providing new reading texts, grammar pages, exercises and lots of chances to help you get better at speaking and writing.

In Of Course! 1 and Of Course! 2 you visited many countries where they speak English, and learned a lot about them and the people that live there. In Of Course! 3 we invite you to join us on visits to Scotland, Canada, Nigeria and New Zealand. You will meet people with different hobbies and jobs, and find out more about their countries.

You can listen to all the reading texts online on your phone, a tablet or a computer. On a tablet or computer you can even read and listen to the texts at the same time.

Every chapter has a few texts with a common theme. For example, in Chapter 5, you can find out what’s inside the mind of a gamer, and in Chapter 6 you can join Maggie, and the people she meets, on a train trip to Scotland. The last chapter presents some books that you might like to read. And – of course! – you will learn a lot of new words and grammar to improve your language skills.

There are questions to check that you understand what you read after every text. There is also new grammar in every chapter and a word list. You will write your own texts and speak English with other students in the classroom.

There are lots of listening exercises which you can find by logging into the digital material. Don’t forget to answer the questions after listening!

Of course there are lots of other interactive exercises in the digital material, where you can practise reading, vocabulary, spelling, grammar and more. You can find out right away if your answer was right or wrong, and do the exercises again until everything is right! It’s like having a teacher sitting next to you at the computer.

We are very pleased to help you on this trip into your English language future.

Lena Langborg and Erika Tidblom

P.s. On the last page of every chapter you will see a list of the digital exercises. Just click on this symbol pil] in the digital book to start the exercises!

CHAPTER 1 Love for life

A Special Gift of Love

Andrew hurried down the street. He was looking for a shop where they sell make-up, but he didn’t really know where to go. He didn’t want to ask his wife or any of their friends – this was his secret. Then suddenly he saw a shop window full of pictures with beautiful women in perfect make-up, and stopped. This was the right place! He entered the shop and began to examine the products. He didn’t know anything about make-up or how to apply it, maybe because he was over 50 and not really interested in it. He looked for instructions on the labels, but it didn’t say how to actually put the makeup on. After a few minutes the shop assistant came up to him and asked if he needed help.

“Well, yes please,” he answered. “I have never used make-up before and I wonder if you have lessons for customers who want to learn how to use it.”

If the woman was surprised, she didn’t show it. She replied that they didn’t offer make-up lessons, but she could recommend a place that did. Andrew thanked her very much.

“After I have learned how to use make-up, I will come back and buy the make-up from you, because you’ve been so helpful.”

Two weeks later Andrew started make-up lessons. The teacher was a woman called Angelica and she was an expert on make-up and hairstyling. In the classroom, there were seven other students. All of them were younger women. They looked at him curiously, but didn’t say anything other than hello. Angelica showed them how to do different types of make-up on one of the other students. At the end of the lesson the instructor told them to try some of the things she taught them at home, as homework.

After the second lesson some of the women stayed in the classroom and asked Angelica why Andrew was taking a make-up lesson.

Angelica just smiled and said: “Everybody is welcome to join my lessons. And I know there are men who like to wear make-up. Why should women be the only ones to try to improve their looks?”

“Well, I wonder if he is a transvestite,” one of the women whispered. “You know, a man who likes to wear women’s clothes and make-up.“

Her friend suggested: “Maybe he is just curious and wants to understand young people. He writes everything down and he is very serious. He doesn’t talk to any of us.”

Before the third lesson began one of the women approached Andrew and asked him why he had chosen to take make-up lessons.

“I could see you were curious,” Andrew answered with a sad smile. “It is like this. I am married to a wonderful woman and six months ago she was in a car accident. Her hands were hurt very badly and she can’t put on her make-up by herself anymore. I try to help her with everything, including her make-up, but I’m not very good with the make-up. I told her she is beautiful just the way she is, but she doesn’t want to leave the house without make-up. I hate to see her sad, so I decided to take this course and learn how to do it. This is my gift to the love of my life.”

AFTER READING

001 True or False?

Write the answers in your notebook. Write T for TRUE and F for FALSE.

1. Andrew was not married.

2. He did not want to ask anyone he knew where he could buy make-up.

3. He asked the shop assistant to tell him which was the best make-up.

4. Andrew didn’t know how to put on make-up.

5. The shop assistant told him that she could recommend a place where he could learn how to apply make-up.

6. The women were happy that there was a man taking the lessons too.

7. One of the women thought that Andrew was a transvestite.

8. Angelica said that everybody was welcome in her course.

9. Andrew wanted to learn how to put on make-up so that he looked better.

10. Andrew’s wife could not put on make-up herself because she was blind.

11. Andrew thought that his wife looked beautiful without make-up.

12. His gift to his wife was to help her put on her make-up.

GRAMMAR: TAG QUESTIONS – IT’S NOT DIFFICULT, IS IT?

Tag questions come at the end of a sentence. They are used when the speaker is almost sure about something, but wants to check if it’s right.

Always use the word not , either in the main part of the sentence or in the tag (the end of the sentence).

• In a positive sentence, the tag question is always negative. We are late, aren´t we?

• In a negative sentence, the tag question is always positive. She isn’t happy, is she?

examples:

I am not the only one who wonders why he is here, am I? He didn’t talk to the other students, did he?

She is named Angelica, isn’t she? It isn’t the right place, is it?

Tag questions can use do, don’t , did or didn’t instead of repeating the same verb.

examples:

You know how to apply make-up, don’t you? They learned how to put on make-up, didn’t they?

002 Fill in The gaps in The Tag quesTions

1. Andrew’s wife can’t put on make-up, ?

2. Angelica cares about her students, ?

3. Andrew loves his wife, ?

4. They often talked about the only man in the class, ?

5. Annie was curious about Andrew , ?

6. Olivia likes make-up, ?

7. This make up is very expensive, ?

8. You don’t know why he is learning about make-up, ?

It’s Never Too Late To Change

Julia had become a teenager just two weeks before she went into her father’s home office to look for a good book to read. Her father always encouraged her to read and to learn about life and people. He was a hardworking man who did everything he could to make her and her mother happy. When she found Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, she took it from the bookshelf and started reading it right away. But then she stopped, because she could see that there was something hidden behind the other books on the shelf. It was a small, rather old book. My Diary was written in big letters on the cover. Was it her father’s diary? She knew she should not read it. A diary is personal and might be full of secrets. Nobody else should be allowed to read it. But, she loved her father very much and decided that the diary could be a new way to find out more about his life. He never talked much about his childhood or his parents and she wondered why. She was too curious to just put it back without reading it.

She decided to read the last entry first. It was written on her Dad’s 20th birthday. She read that he had not celebrated his birthday. His own father was in prison at the time, and his mother was staying with her sister. It sounded like she did that a lot. Harry wrote that he didn’t care about his birthday, because next year he was going to be somewhere else. He had left school when he was 16 and he didn’t have a job. He drank too much alcohol and he used drugs sometimes. His girlfriend was only 17 years old and pregnant with his child. Julia read the last page in the diary:

“It’s time to change my life. I have just discovered that I’m going to be a father. I want to be the best father in the world. I will do everything I can to make my child happy. I want to be the father I never had.”

A teenager is someone who is thir teen, or four teen or fif teen or six teen or seventeen or eighteen or nine teen years old.

AFTER READING

003 answer The quesTions

1. How old was Julia?

2. Why did she go into her father’s home office?

3. What did Julia’s father always encourage her to do?

4. What book did Julia choose to read?

5. Why did she suddenly stop reading?

6. What made her curious?

7. Why did she decide to read it?

8. How do you think she felt after she finished reading?

9. Do you think her feelings for her father changed after she read it? Why?

10. Do you think that it was all right to do as she did?

A Brother’s Love for His Sister

The Thomsons moved to a new house in the outback in Australia not long after their first child Belinda was born. When she was two, her little brother Ethan was born. As they grew up, they became the best of friends. They were a happy family, but bad things can happen to any family. When Belinda was only twelve years old, she became very sick. Her parents had to take her to hospital. She had to have an operation. The doctor was worried and told her parents it was difficult to find her blood type quickly, because they were in a small hospital far away from the city. They needed to be able to give her a blood transfusion immediately if she lost blood during the operation. When they checked the blood types of Belinda’s parents and her little brother Ethan, they discovered that Ethan was the only possible donor.

The nurse talked to little Ethan and explained the situation. She told Ethan that Belinda was very sick and that Ethan’s blood could save her life. Did he want to help his sister? Ethan didn’t answer the question at first. He looked very serious as he walked around the room and didn’t say a word for two minutes. Then, finally, he looked the nurse in the eye and said “Yes.”

donor: someone who gives something.

His parents hugged him and thanked him and told him he was a good and brave boy.

“I must go now,” Ethan said to his parents. “Goodbye Mum, goodbye Dad.”

“Wait,” said the nurse.”One of your parents can come with you.”

“That’s all right,” Ethan said. “You can stay with Belinda. I will be okay.”

Ethan waved at his parents and followed the nurse into the lab so that she could take the blood from him. He didn’t cry or complain even though it hurt a little. The nurse finished the blood transfusion and looked at Ethan. He didn’t move. He just lay on the bed and looked at his arm where she took the blood.

“Are you okay?” she asked him.

“I’m just wondering how much time I have left. Is there enough time to go to Belinda’s room and say goodbye to her?”

“You don’t need to say goodbye,” the nurse explained. “She will recover after the blood transfusion and soon you can all go home together like before.”

“So I am not going to die? I gave her all my blood,” Ethan said and looked surprised.

“No, you just gave her a little, just enough for her to survive.”

Ethan got up and went straight to his parents.

“Mum! Dad! Did you choose to let Belinda live and for me to die?”

“Oh, no Ethan! Of course not! We love you both very much and we want you to live for many, many years.”

AFTER READING

004 whaT happened when?

Put the sentences in the right order from one to twelve. Write them in order in your notebook.

a. Belinda got very sick one day.

b. The doctors checked what blood types the family had.

c. Belinda had an operation.

d. The nurse said that they could go home together after Belinda recovered.

e. The doctors were worried that Belinda would lose a lot of blood.

f. The nurse told Ethan that his blood could save his sister’s life.

g. Belinda’s little brother, Ethan, was born.

h. Ethan said goodbye to his parents.

i. The Thomsons moved to the outback, in Australia.

j. Belinda’s parents took her to hospital.

k. Ethan asked the nurse how much time he had left to live.

l. The nurse explained that he was not going to die.

The Brian Wilson Breakfast Show

Brian Wilson works at Radio 5 and he is the host of The Brian Wilson Breakfast Show every day from 7 o’clock to 10 o’clock in the morning. This Saturday morning he has invited three people to talk about their different habits. The guests on the show come from three different generations.

Brian: Good morning and welcome to my breakfast show, everybody! It’s eight o’clock. Is this early morning for you, Nicole?

nicole: Oh yes, for a weekend morning! I usually sleep until noon, or even later. I think that Saturday’s the best day of the week!

GeorGe: Really? What a waste of time! I rarely sleep later than seven o’clock. I always have so many things to do!

Brian: I never do either. What about you, Margaret? Are you up before five?

MarGaret: Oh yes, I normally am. But sometimes I don’t get up until six o’clock.

nicole: Are you joking, Margaret?

MarGaret: Of course I am. Why does everybody think that all old people love to get up so early?

Brian: So tell us the truth, Margaret! I’m always curious to know the truth.

MarGaret: Well, I usually get up at seven or eight. If it’s a beautiful summer’s day I want to make sure I get the best spot on the beach. But normally I stay in bed much longer and listen to the radio for a while. My husband often brings me the morning paper and a nice cup of tea.

GeorGe: Sounds like a lovely habit! I look forward to the day I can retire from my boring job! I seldom have time to read the newspaper these days.

Brian: And what are your plans then, George?

GeorGe: To build my own house, to travel the world, to read a lot of books, to grow vegetables in my own garden and …

Brian: Alright! Thank you, George. I think we all wish we had more free time. What do you usually do on Saturdays, after you wake up, Nicole?

nicole: The first thing I always do is to check my phone.

MarGaret: Is there often something wrong with it?

nicole: No, I mean, I check for messages. Maybe there is something going on or somebody wants to meet up.

MarGaret: Well, that’s nice! Where do you usually meet your friends?

nicole: We meet online … It’s actually pretty cool, because I don’t need to get out of bed and get dressed! I never use the camera on the mobile phone – I usually say it’s broken. And well, occasionally I do go out and meet them in a café or a park.

Brian: I think we can all agree that we live rather different lives. Thank you for joining me on the breakfast show. Have a nice day and make the best of it – in the way you choose!

GRAMMAR REVIEW – FREQUENCY ADVERBS

how To use Frequency adverbs

Word order:

Subject + adverb + main verb

examples:

Margaret usually gets up at 8. George seldom has time to read the papers.

Subject + verb to be + adverb + adjective

examples:

She is always tired. I am often late.

Adverbs of frequency answer the question: How often?

What percent (%) of the time?

Adverb Example

100% always Her father always encouraged her to read.

90% usually/ normally He usually wakes up early in the morning. The bus normally comes on time.

70% often She often stays with her sister.

50% sometimes He sometimes used drugs.

30% occasionally I occasionally got out and meet my friends in a café.

10% seldom I seldom have time to read the newspaper.

5% rarely/ hardly ever I rarely sleep later than 7 o’clock. I hardly ever drink beer.

0% never He never talked about his childhood.

005

whaT happened when?

Look at The Brian Wilson Breakfast Show text again. What do the guests do often never seldom sometimes rarely usually always occasionally ?

Write two sentences about every person in the show. Use all of the frequency adverbs. Write in your notebook.

example: George always has so many things to do.

GRAMMAR REVIEW – WH-QUESTIONS

Do you remember the question words?

who how why when where what whose

SPEAKING AND WRITING

006 Talk or wriTe abouT habiTs

Find out about your classmates’ habits. Use the question words and the frequency adverbs to ask questions.

examples:

When you usually get up in the morning? What would you never wear to school? How often do you…?

GRAMMAR REVIEW – REGULAR VERBS

in The presenT, pasT and presenT perFecT Tenses

Present tense: I play football every Wednesday.

Past tense: Yesterday I played a match with my football team.

Present perfect: I have played football since I was five years old.

Add -ed to the regular verbs when using the past or the present perfect tense.

Remember to use have or has before the verb in the present perfect tense.

examples:

I have looked for my keys everywhere. She has looked for our cat all day.

Singular Plural

I have worked We have worked

You have worked You have worked

He has worked They have worked

She has worked

It has worked

Remember the -s on the verb in the present tense.

examples:

Margaret likes to make sure she gets a place on the beach. Nicole sleeps until noon. but: I play, you sing, we listen and they talk.

WRITING

007 wriTe senTences in The differenT Tenses

check complain encourage recover recommend retire

Write three sentences for each of the verbs in the box, using the present tense, the past tense, and the present perfect tense.

examples:

She recommends Angelica’s lessons to people who want to buy make-up.

Yesterday she recommended the lessons to Robert. She has recommended the lessons to five people this week.

GRAMMAR REVIEW – IRREGULAR VERBS

in The presenT, pasT and presenT perFecT Tenses

Irregular verbs have different forms in the past and in the present perfect form.

base form present tense past tense present perfect be begin choose do hurt see teach tell wear write

am, are, is begin, begins choose, chooses do, does hurt, hurts see, sees teach, teaches tell, tells wear, wears write, writes

008 Fill in The gaps

was, were began chose did hurt saw taught told wore wrote

has been, have been has begun, have begun has chosen, have chosen has done, have done has hurt, have hurt has seen, have seen has taught, have taught has told, have told has worn, have worn has written, have written

Fill in the right form of the verb (in brackets at the end of each sentence). Write in your notebook.

1. George his car to work every day. (drive)

2. Yesterday Nicole her phone at home! (forget).

3. I this song too many times! (hear).

4. Brian always to listen carefully to all the guests (try)

5. It’s difficult to what they say on the radio nowadays. (hear)

6. Margaret never anything we say to her. (forget)

7. Nurse Betty Ethan since he was five years old. (know)

8. It Belinda a long time to recover. (take)

9. When Brian arrived they already there. (be)

10. Belinda’s parents everything for her and Ethan since they were born. (do)

11. George and his wife not sure if they want to retire next year. (be)

12. Julia’s father a stupid thing when he was young. (do)

Be Proud Of Who You Are

by S. Raine

I come with no wrapping or pretty pink bows. I am who I am, from my head to my toes. I tend to get loud when speaking my mind. Even a little crazy some of the time.

I’m not a size 5 and don’t care to be. You can be you and I can be me.

I try to stay strong when pain knocks me down. And the times that I cry are when no one is around. To make mistakes is human or that’s what they say. Well, tell me who’s perfect anyway.

Goodbye Note

by S. Raine

I never thought this day would come. I truly thought you were the one. We used to laugh and talk all night. Now we argue, fuss, and fight. All is wrong in things I do. To take the blame is never you. So quick to run when things get rough. Your best excuse, it’s just too tough. Home alone has become my life. Did you forget you had a wife?

I keep it secret when things turn bad. Because our kids love their dad. I’ll sleep tonight on what I wrote. As I leave this goodbye note.

SPEAKING

009 pracTise saying The words

Listen to the poems in the digital material. Look up any words you do not understand. And listen especially to words like rough and tough. What do they sound like?

Listen many times and try to say the words like the reader does. Listen – stop – repeat. Practice makes perfect!

010 Talk abouT The poems

In pairs or small groups, talk about each poem at a time. These questions can help you.

What do you think has happened?

Try to describe the person who is talking in the poem. What is the problem?

What advice would you like to give?

How do you think it will end?

WRITING

011 wriTe your own love poem. Read the two poems again. Love can be wonderful, but also difficult and sad. Write a poem about love, happy or not. Your poem does not need to rhyme, and it does not need to be long. Try to write around 10 lines

NEW WORDS

Translate into your language. Write the words in English and your language in your notebook and learn them.

other words and phrases accident alcohol blame blood camera cover

Nouns Verbs adjectives

diary drugs

entry generation habit label letter make-up

message mistake note page product secret

shelf

shop assistant situation

spot teenager vegetables

apply argue check chosen (choose) complain encourage had to (have to) hidden (hide) hurry (hurried) knock lost (lose) recommend recover retire taught (teach) tend to thought (think) written (write)

beautiful crazy hardworking perfect possible rough serious tough

at first badly even though for a while finally look forward to normally quickly rarely rather truly used to

WORK WITH THE DIGITAL EXERCISES

Word check 1

Word order

Match two parts of a sentence

Spelling: Listen and write the words

Dictation: Listen and write the sentences

Grammar review: Adverbs of frequency – how often?

Grammar review: Present tense

Grammar review: Choose the right tense

Listening 1: Carlos

Listening 2: Rana and her dad

Listening 3: Rana and her mum