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 Jim Scrivener & Tim Bowen

St ra i g h t f o r ward Beginner
PORTFOLIO

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 Contents
Welcome to your Straightforward
Beginner Portfolio

page
Before you start
Me 3
Language passport 4–5
English words I know 6
My English 7
Needs analysis 8

During the course

Diary 9–57

At the end of the course

Can you remember? 58
My grammar now 59
Now I can ... 60
The way forward 61

My dossier 62
Answers 63

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 Me
My name

Stick your My home town

photo here.

My country

My family
I like J …

the sun

Stick a photo
of your fam
ily here.
football

TV

food
My friends

music

nds here. books

Stick a photo of your frie

films

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 Language passport
My school/college
My school/college is .

My teachers
My teachers are

     .

My school subjects

mathematics science/technology history geography

languages art music IT sport

Examinations Qualifications

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 My Xxxxxx
My languages
My language is .

My other languages (1 = L, 2 = K, 3 = J 
):
 

Language:
Speaking 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3

Writing 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3

Listening 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3

Reading 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3

English-speaking countries I know (3)

Canada
England
Scotland
Ireland
Wales

USA

Australia

New Zealand

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 English words I know
Food & drink
coffee

International words
taxi

Everyday conversation
goodbye

Computer words
internet

Other words
football

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 My English
1 = I can’t do this. L 2 = This is OK. K 3 = I can do this very well. J

I can/can’t … For example 1 2 3

Say hello or goodbye. Hello.
Ask a person’s name. What’s your name?
Say my name. I’m Jack.
Ask where a person is from. Where are you from?
Say my phone number. It’s 241 564 333.
Count to twenty. one, two, three, …
Spell my name. M - A - R - I - A.
Ask what things are. What’s that?
Ask for food and drink. I’d like a sandwich, please.

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 Needs analysis
I want to learn English because … . Tick (3) the pictures.

Which are the most important for you? Mark them with a V.

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 Diary
There are diary sections in this Portfolio. Use them to write your thoughts while you
study the course. Answer the question for each diary or write about:
• your English lessons.
• important things you learn.
• easy or difficult things.
• your teacher and other students.

Look at the example diary from page 13 of this Portfolio.

Write about your lessons, your coursebook and your teacher.

My English lessons are interesting.

My coursebook is nice. The pictures are good. The grammar is not very
difficult for me.

My teacher is very helpful. She is funny.

I want more homework!

‘ Do you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

’
Winnie the Pooh

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1a Hello. Goodbye.
Can do (tick 3)
I can understand greetings.
I can say hello to other people.
I can introduce myself and ask for other people’s names.
I can pronounce some popular English names.
t
ent Business studen
Language stud
Personal profile
d Beginner
CARD
My name is
Here is your Straightforward student
card. Complete the information. I am studying
ge is
STUDENT My first langua
Straightforwar

ess is
My email addr

Signature

Hello
Number the conversation 1 to 5.

  Jessica. What’s your name?
  Bye.
1   Hello. 
  I’m Joshua. Goodbye.
  Hi. What’s your name?

Contractions
Add these contractions to the sentences. English names
Find the English names.

’m ’s Example: MESAJ = James

LIDNAE AMEM
LIMEY HOPISE
1 I ’m Mr Smith. HAMOST CAJK
2 What your name? RASHA TEPER

3 Hello. I Emily.

‘ ’
4 My name Jim.
Where is the good in goodbye?
10 Anonymous

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1b Where are you from?

Can do (tick 3)
I can understand the names of cities and countries.
I can ask and say where I’m from.
I can introduce and greet people.
I can use to be to introduce myself and other people.

My friends
Stick photos of your friends and complete the sentences.

This is . His/Her name is .

He/She is from . He/She is from .

Countries Puzzle
How many countries can you write in English? Make a sentence and a question with
these words.

to you nice meet

Today’s lesson
Write six new words or phrases from today’s
lesson.
you where are from?

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1c What’s your number?

Can do (tick 3)
I can ask for people’s phone numbers and understand the answer.
I can count to ten.
I can say phone numbers.
I can use intonation when asking questions.

Numbers
Circle the numbers 1 to 10. Two letters are wrong. Correct the mistakes.

fif etwofoursix
ev en
s

en e t
nine
eichtonet hre

What’s your mobile number?

Write the numbers:

Write the words:

Questions
Write five different questions in English.
(You can use the words many times.)

where how what ’s are

er
Mark name home numb
from you your

1   ?

2   ?

3   ?

4   ?

5   ?
‘What’s your number?’
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1d Review
Can do (tick 3)
I can read and understand simple biographical information.
I can greet people and say hello and goodbye. Nice to meet you.
I can write a short conversation in English. Where are you
I can use the present simple of the verb to be. from?

Famous people
Match the people to the countries.

1 Roger Federer Australia

2 Penelope Cruz USA
3 Gisele Bundchen Switzerland
4 Tom Hanks Brazil
5 Michael Schumacher Spain
6 Kylie Minogue Germany

Today
Spelling
Complete the sentence about your day.
Find four words from
lesson 1d.
bad difficult good fantastic OK easy
BERMUN
Today is a day, because EPOHN
ICTPERU
.
ACEHTRE

Diary
Write about your English lessons, your coursebook and your teacher.

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2a The hotel
Can do (tick 3)
I can introduce myself to a hotel receptionist.
I can pronounce the letters of the alphabet.
I can spell names.
I can count from one to twenty.

A
B
The hotel for me C
Which is the hotel for you? Why?

International hotels
Correct the spelling mistakes.

Hitlon Sheatron Holdiay Inn Radison

Alphabet puzzle
Which two letters are in the wrong group?
/eI/ A H J K
/i…/ B C D E G P S V
/e/ F L M N T X Z

Acronyms
Match the acronyms to their meanings.
1 UN Unidentified Flying Object
2 CIA World Health Organization
3 UFO United Nations
4 WHO Central Intelligence Agency

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2b Hotel room
Can do (tick 3)
I can say the names of common objects.
I can use this/that/here/there to ask about an object.
I can ask what the English name is for things.
I can understand a hotel porter describing a hotel room.

What’s that?
Complete the sentences.

1  It’s a   .    2  It’s a   .  3  It’s a   .

4  It’s a 
It’s a  
It’s  a  .  5  It’s a  
It’s a  .  6  It’s a   .

Mistakes
Correct the mistake in each line.

Jane: Hello! How is you?

Tom: Hi Jane. I’m fine, thank.
Jane: Oh! Look over there. It James Bond.
Tom: James Bond? Were?
Jane: At Reception. Oh, excuse I. It’s not James Bond.

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2c The café
Can do (tick 3)
I can understand food and drink vocabulary on a menu.
I can order food and drink in a café.
I can talk about objects in the singular or plural.
I can use the indefinite article a/an.

Food & drink

Write F (for food) or D (for drink) by each word.
cheese tea milk coffee bread omelette
beer apple wine water sandwich croissant

Drinks
Number the drinks 1 to 5 (1 = J, 5 = L 
).

tea with milk red wine

orange juice beer
black coffee

a or an?
Three of these are incorrect. Correct them.

a apple a sandwich an tea

a key a coffee an chair

Would you like a drink?

Circle six drinks.

ilkpteaw
lsm et g b eerwz
pr r e zto
ow ate p
inelcoffe eyew

1
‘ If this is coffee, please bring me some tea,
but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
’
Abraham Lincoln (US president, 1809–1865)

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2d Review
Can do (tick 3) I’d like a lamp
and a key, please.
I can spell words.
I can count to twenty.
I can ask what words are in English.
I can ask for a drink or food in a café.

What & where?

What are these words? Where are they –
in a hotel room or a café?
Example: deb = bed – in a hotel room
1  palm    5  evonelisit
2  staroincs  6  teletome
3  garnoe uejic  7  aodir
4  oeffec   8  eyk

At reception
Complete the conversation.
Receptionist: Good morning.
Mr Smith: Hello. My 1 is Mr Smith.
Receptionist: Ah yes. Mr Smith. How 2 you?
Mr Smith: Fine, 3
. I’d like my key, please.
My 4   number 726.
is
Receptionist: Yes, 726. Here’s your 5 .
Mr Smith: Thank you. Oh. I’d 6 a coffee.
Receptionist: One coffee?
Mr Smith: Yes, 7 .

Diary
What can you do very well from Units 1 and 2? What is difficult for you?

to
p

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3a Emergency workers
Can do (tick 3)
I can understand the names of some jobs in English.
I can ask about someone’s job.
I can use to be (affirmative) to talk about my nationality and job.
I can pronounce/d Z/, /d/, /r/ and /tS/.

Questions
Write three questions with these words. Then answer the questions.

Who Are What teacher job student is is your your you a

Contractions Pronunciation
Add these contractions to the sentences. Underline the/d Z/sounds and circle the/tS/
sounds.
’m ’s ’re A: What do you do?
B: I’m a driver in Germany and
1 They doctors. Jin’s a teacher from China.
A: Oh, look over there! Food.
2 We from Brazil.
B: Mmm. I’d like a cheese sandwich.
3 David a teacher.
4 You a student.
5 I a taxi driver. I’d like a coffee
Excuse me,
I’m a doctor. and a croissant,
6 The job in China. please.

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3b International train
Can do (tick 3)
I can understand a short conversation.
I can talk about the colours of an object.
I can use to be (negative) to correct simple statements.
I can use short forms of the verb to be (contractions).

My country’s flag
Complete the sentence with colours.
My country’s flag is . . .

Geography quiz
Correct these sentences.

1 China is in Africa.
2 Tokyo is the capital of China.
3 The Italian flag is red, white and blue.
4 São Paulo is a large city in Asia.
5 Sydney and Melbourne are in the USA.

Nationalities
Complete these nationalities.
P  l s h  r e  c
I t    i a n r m n

New words
How do you remember new words? The train is late again.
Tick (3) the things you do.

I write new words in my notebook.

I write the word in my language
next to new words.
I keep new words together in groups.
I write new words in sentences.
I look at new words again after
the lesson.

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‘ The only way to catch a train is to miss the train before.
’
G.K. Chesterton (English writer, 1874–1936) 19

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3c International school
Can do (tick 3)
I can understand information about a school.
I can use to be to ask questions and give yes/no answers.
I can name the days of the week.
I can ask for information about a word and say I don’t understand.

My school
Complete the sentences for you.

My school is . It’s in . There are

teachers. The school director is . The teachers are from
. The students are from . The school is open
days a week from to .

English in the classroom Days

Match the beginnings and endings. Which day is not in the box three times?

1 What’s this you spell it?

day
2 How do you in English? Monday We d n e s Y
IDA
Frid FR
3 How do don’t understand. ay MONDAY

4 Sorry, I pronounce it? Thursday SUNDAY Tuesday

SAT
Sund URD sday
What other classroom language do you know? ay AY Thur
Wednesday
Tuesday Tuesday
Sund Friday We d n e
ay sday

Monday Sat u rd ay SATURD

AY

Days of the week

What do you do on different days of the week?

On Monday  .
On Friday  .
On Saturday  .

’
On Sunday  .

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‘ Life is my college.
Louisa May Alcott (American author, 1832–1888)

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3d Review
Can do (tick 3)
I can understand some information about a football
match in a television guide.
I can use short answers with the verb to be.
I can say my job.
I can say where I’m from.

Sports
Number the sports 1 to 5 (1 = J, 5 = L 
).

football basketball baseball

tennis motor racing

Your journey to school or work

Complete the sentence about your journey to school or work.

fast slow easy difficult OK good

My journey is because . . .

Jobs puzzle
e
Circle six jobs. am
dic
r p ar
driv

actors tu
to

e
rdoc
er

de
ch

nttea
Diary
Is your English class good?

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4a How old is it?

Can do (tick 3)
I can understand and say numbers from 21 to 101.
I can ask someone about the age of their family.
I can describe the age of something.
I can use it and they to refer to objects.

Numbers quiz
Use these numbers to answer the questions.

Q
one hundred and one ninety-five sixty-three eighty-eight
4 I’m forty-th
ree.

Q Q Q
My wife is
fifty-two.
y
twenty-nine. M ber of Our total a
         I’m ge is
1 sister is thir ty
-fo
is
ur.
2 Mar y is
fifty. 3
The num
players
in eight .
Our total age Jim is fift teams is
. y-one. football .
Their tota
l age is
.

My family Oh, about three days.

Write about your family (names, jobs, age).

How old is it?

Pronunciation
Match the words to the stress pattern.

fourteen sixty
fifteen
thirteen
forty eighty

Puzzle
Make two questions from lesson 4 A with these words.

are how you? old      it? is  

old how

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‘
Everyone is the age of their heart.
Guatemalan proverb
’
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4b Family album
Can do (tick 3)
I can understand family words.
I can understand a family webpage.
I can use possessive ’s to talk about family connections.
I can pronounce /´/.

My family
Make a webpage about your family. Use the words at the bottom of the webpage.

THE FAMILY WEBPAGE

Stick photo Stick photo Stick photo

here. here. here.

This is my . My . I’m .

Stick photo Stick photo Stick photo

here. here. here.

She’s . He’s . This is .

mother baby father house brother husband sister married

grandparents uncle child aunt kids wife

’s or not?
Add ’ where necessary.

1
’
This is Peter s house.
2 My parents are teachers.
4 Whats the answer?
5 I’m 26 years old.
3 Shes a taxi driver. 6 Katys computer is old. 23

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4c Where’s my black bag?

Can do (tick 3)
I can understand details in a short conversation.
I can describe a picture.
I can use prepositions of place to say where an object is in a room.
I can use a set of words related to personal possessions.

e…
rs
Where are these things? myp
u

Match the things to the places for you. In

In my wallet
…
phone

umbrella photographs
money
glasses
keys
mobile
ID card

…
se
ca
ief
br
my In
In m
y
b
ag
…

Your English class

What things do you bring to your English class? Make a list.
dictionary, …
Where are my
sunglasses? They’re on
your head!

Housemates
Who are your housemates? Write about one or
two of their personal possessions.

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4d Review
Can do (tick 3)
I can count to 100.
I can talk about how old things are.
I can talk about my family.
I can say where things are.

Talk about people

Match the beginnings and endings.
1 This is my car. a She’s from Spain.
2 Look at the houses. b It’s under the desk.
3 This is my teacher, Mercedes. c I’m a taxi driver.
4 Is David a doctor? d They’re very old.
5 Where’s the cat? e We’re Canadian.
6 Hi, I’m Jane and this is my husband. f No, he isn’t.

Diary
What can you do very well from Units 3 and 4? What are your problems?

Grammar
Match the grammar words to the examples.
1 pronoun 2 main verb 3 possessive 4 preposition 5 negative

not it on be ’s

How many?
2
Q Q
Letter ‘a’ day
in the
Write the numbers. in one
word Can Hours
adian
4 5 Photos on
page

Q
38 of the

Q
People in a
1 football team
Student’s
Book

3 Q
Days in a week

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5a World of work
Can do (tick 3)
I can understand basic biographical information in a text.
I can use the present simple to talk about work and life.
I can decide who is likely to say some sentences.
I can use the third person ‘s’ ending in the present simple.

Who am I?
Who are these people?

A B
tfy
I live in Washington DC. 
I live in a large white house.
I live in a very large house in London.
I work in that building.
I’m a woman.
I go to my office on foot.
I meet thousands of people.
I’m very rich.

Talk about work & life

Match the beginnings and endings.
1 I live in a a a big company.
2 I go to work by b Canada.
3 His house is c small flat.
4 She goes to the d on foot.
5 I work for e shops with her grandchildren.
6 She goes to work f bus.
7 Fay and Earl come from g two housemates.
8 Mary lives with h next to his parents’ home.

Doctor, teacher, taxi driver or film actor?

Who says these sentences?
a  I work in Hollywood.
b  I work in a school.
c  I work in a hospital.
d  I work alone.
e  I work in different countries.
f  I work in a car. 
g  I work with children in a classroom.
h  I work with paramedics.

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5b Technology & you

Can do (tick 3)
I can understand a simple conversation about work activities.
I can ask for and give an email address.
I can talk about the technology I have and use.
I can use don’t/doesn’t to make negative statements in the present simple.

Technology words
Circle three technology words.
mbyt zzprinterot
tfyuid i t e
igit b s
alc w e
am l p
era u b
hgrst
My technology
Which of these things do you have at home? Which is your favourite?

a digital radio a fax machine a computer an MP3 player a mobile phone

a DVD player a laptop computer a digital camera

Sentence puzzle
Make three sentences from lesson 5B with these words.

1  email don’t an I address have 
2  doesn’t home she at computer have a 
3  computer the a teacher has 

This is great...
but what does it do?

‘ The production of too many useful things

results in too many useless people.
’
Karl Marx (German philosopher, 1818–1883)
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5c New job
Can do (tick 3)
I can understand people talking about their work.
I can ask someone questions about their job.
I can give short answers to do/does questions.
I can use adjectives to describe how I feel about different jobs.

Describe a job
Make sentences with these words.

1 Monday I work Friday to from

2 an computer I old use
3 work boring my is very
4 interesting an it’s job not
5 very job my is difficult

Questions & answers tary?

Match the questions to the answers. Yes, I do. Is she a secre

Do you like y Are you a doctor?

our  job? Yes, he does.
alone.
Does Mike work here? No, she N o , I wo r k
doesn’
Is this your t. Does Susan live in
D o   yo house? New York?
u   wo r
k  with not.
  other
  peopl No, I’m
e?
Yes, it is.

No, she’s the boss!

‘Do you have a difficult job?’

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5d Review
Can do (tick 3)
I can understand basic biographical information in a text.
I can understand symbols in emails.
I can find information in a text.
I can ask and answer questions about work and home.

Dogs
I hate dogs.
Which of these sentences are true for you? I prefer cats.
I have a dog. Dogs are man’s best friend. I’m afraid of dogs.

I like dogs.

It’s a dog’s life

Complete the text with these verbs.
goes drinks sleeps has walks likes eats
                  
Percy is a dog. Every morning he  1   walks  in the 
park with his owner. Then he  2  
 home 
and  3  
 breakfast. He  4  
 meat 
and  5    water. He  6    lying in 
the sun and doing nothing. He  7    all 
afternoon.

Ideal job
What is your ideal job? What do you want to be? Why?

Diary
Write down five things you want to remember from Unit 5.

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6a Night & day

Can do (tick 3)
I can understand the main ideas of a short article.
I can talk about what I do on a typical day.
I can tell the time.
I can use adverbs of frequency to say how often I do something.

Morning or night?
Are you a morning person or a night person? Why? Write three sentences.

My house
Correct these sentences.

I sleep in the kitchen.

I take a shower in the living room.
I make coffee in the bedroom. ‘That’s the problem with him.
I watch television in the bathroom. He’s a night person.’

What time is it?

What do you do at these times? Complete the sentences.

At 7.30 am I never  .
At 11.00 am I sometimes  .
At 5.00 pm I hardly ever 
At 5.00 pm .
At 11.00 pm I often  .

‘
30
Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are
there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
’
Catherine O’Hara (Canadian actress, 1954–)

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6b Free time
Can do (tick ✓)
I can understand notices about free time activities.
I can ask present simple wh- questions to find out about someone’s life.
I can answer questions about free time activities.
I can tell the time.

Free time
What do you like to do in your free time?

Activities
What are these free time activities?

Q
al s.
A ball. Two go
1 22 players.
One referee.

Q
n
2 Two kings. Two
queens. Black and

Q
htee
b a ll. Eig e white squares.
A .An
ic
3 holes ain.
.R
walk

4 Pages.
Q
A good story.

5 MPeuospicle. .
Q
Salsa.
Verbs
Match the verbs to the endings.
(More than one answer is possible.)
1 play a Russian
Times 2 watch b my parents
Answer these questions. 3 open c a story
When do you eat lunch?
4 read d tennis
When do you start work? 5 talk e how to dance
When do you get up? 6 don’t know f the door
When do you go to bed? 7 meet g to friends
When do you do exercise? 8 learn h a film
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6c Eating habits
Can do (tick 3)
I can understand questions in a survey.
I can ask questions and talk about eating habits.
I can use how often to ask about habits and routines.
I can pronounce the names of English words on food labels.

How often I do things

Complete these sentences for you.
I go to the cinema  .
I drink coffee  .
I do sport  .
I watch television  .
I use the internet  .

My favourite food
Write a lunch menu with your favourite food.

Food puzzle
Find ten food and drink words ( and ).

S R Y T O A S T F
O N T P P H I S R
U E G S A L A D U
P C R U S N G N I
M I L K T C E D T
R A W R A B T N D
E C H I C K E N E
W A T E R O A O O
E I C E C R E A M

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6d Review
Can do (tick 3)
I can ask the time.
I can tell the time.
I can say what I do on a typical morning.
I can talk about different foods.

What’s the time?

Match these sentences to the times.
1 A fast lunch – just a sandwich today. a 6.45
2 The sun comes up. I wake up. b 9.1O
3 I’m tired! Goodnight! c 12.5O English breakfast
or Continental
4 Oh no! I’m late for work again! d 21.3O breakfast, sir?
5 A great concert! I love Coldplay! e 23.3O

Questions
Write three questions you would like to ask your teacher.

Food
Find five foods.

pleap ickench staap shif tame

Diary
You are halfway through Straightforward Beginner. How is the course? Is your English getting better?

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Spanish Proverb
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7a Weekend city break

Can do (tick 3)
I can understand a description of a city.
I can understand a tourist brochure.
I can talk about a city I know.
I can use there is / there are to talk about
the existence of things.

Weekend break
Which of these cities would you like to visit for a
weekend break? Why?

Places
Which things are not in the correct place?
Example:   Bedroom:  bed   car   desk   lamp   chair 
1  Train station:  timetables   passengers   signs   castles   trains 
2  Airport:  passports   receptionists   shops   planes   taxis 
3  Beach:  sea   children   fish   windows   sun
4  Hotel:  bedrooms   bar   restaurant   lift   bridge 

Which town?
Can you remember which town these things are in?
Write P (for Prague), St (for St Petersburg) or B (for Barcelona).

1 Sagrada Familia 5 Camp Nou

2 Charles bridge 6 River Vltava
3 Peter and Paul Cathedral 7 Pulkovo-2 airport
4 Picasso museum 8 Hermitage museum

Do you know?
Answer the questions. Write Prague, St Petersburg or Barcelona.
1  Which town is called Praha by the people who live there?
2  In which town is there a famous long street called La Rambla?
3  Which town’s old names are Leningrad and Petrograd?

3 ‘ Laughter is an instant holiday.

’
Milton Berle (American comedian & actor, 1908 – 2002)

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7b A good neighbourhood
Can do (tick 3)
I can understand people talking about the location of a flat.
I can talk about a simple map.
I can use there is / there are in the negative.
I can make questions using Is there? / Are there?

Near my home
Tick (3) the things near your home.
hospital park supermarket cinema bank restaurant
school theatre railway station museum bus stop swimming pool

What people do
Correct the sentences.
1  People play football in a bank. 

2  People buy food in a cinema.

3  People watch films in a supermarket.

4  People change money in a park.

Adjectives Adjectives puzzle

Match the opposites. Complete these words from lesson 7B.

b a t i f l
easy
happy e p n v
noisy g y
c h p
interesting quiet
f e n y
boring
lt
difficu
unhappy

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7c In the city of York

Excuse me can you
Can do (tick 3) tell me where the museum is
I’d like to walk there but if it
I can understand basic tourist information. is very far I can go by taxi
I can ask for travel items. it’s a lovely day today …
I can ask for tourist information.
I can ask for help or explain that I don’t understand.

Survival English Sorry, can you

Make sentences with these words. repeat that, please?

1  understand  I  don’t
 
2  only  English  I  little  a  speak 

3  speak  sorry  I’m  don’t  I  English

Two words
Match the two words that go together.
book
Example:
city
train station identity

credit money guide

public single transport

card station information camera

British centre phrase

train digital ticket tourist

book card

• York is the city with the most ghosts in Europe. For 
example, a worker in an old 
building saw a whole Roman army walk through the
 room. The building was over 
an old Roman road. 
• The huge cathedral took over 25O years to build. 
• Here is an exciting tourist attraction: Go on a 
tour of historic toilets!
• In York, an old law says that you can shoot a 
person from Scotland with an arrow after dark 
(but we don’t recommend that you do it)!

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7d Review
Can do (tick 3)
I can understand short conversations about objects.
I can use there is / there are to talk about the existence of things.
I can use a set of adjectives to describe things.
I can ask questions about the location of places.

When I travel …
Which things are important to you when you travel to another country? Number these things 1 to
5 (1 = very important, 5 = not very important).

passport money map phrase book mobile phone

Tourist guide GREAT

PL
Write a tourist guide for your city. EAT AN ACES TO
D DRIN
K
O
GS TO D
THIN
FIVE

MOST INTEREST
ING
PLACES TO VISIT

Diary
Is your English good enough for a weekend break in an English-speaking country? Do you want
to travel to English-speaking countries? Which ones?

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8a Remakes
Can do (tick 3)
I can understand dates (years).
I can understand the main facts in a magazine article.
I can say when and where I was born.
I can use was/were to talk about past situations.

Films I like
How much do you like these kinds of film? Give each a mark out of 5 (1 = I don’t like this kind of
film at all, 5 = I like this type of film very much).

crime films science fiction

& fantasy

horror films /5 romance ACTION FILMS

/5
/5 /5 /5

Birthdays
Write about your family and friends.
When were they born?

Can you remember?

Make sentences from lesson 8A with these words.

Did you know?

1  Japanese  Godzilla  film  was  a
t.
died classical balle
Penelope Cruz stu .
 born in Hawaii
2  James  Dr No  first  Bond  was  the  film Nicole Kidman was ll band.
ed in a rock and ro
Johnny Depp play ilm  
le directed the f
Nicolas Cage’s unc
3  popular  was  Friends  the  1990s  in
The Godfather.

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‘ I like a film to have a beginning, a middle
and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
’
Jean-Luc Godard (French film director, 1930–)

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8b Crime scene!
Can do (tick 3)
I can understand a dialogue from a TV programme.
I can talk about my favourite television programmes.
I can use was/were to ask and answer questions about
past situations.
I can talk about the past.

Questions from a detective

Answer the detective’s questions.

What’s your name?

Where were you at six o’clock
Are you married? yesterday evening?

Where do you work? Were you at the museum at midnight?

Were you at school yesterday morning?

Where were you at two o’clock yesterday
afternoon?
Were you with other people?
Really? I think you were at the
museum last night!
Yesterday there was a Picasso in the
museum. Why is it in your home today?

TV Characters
Can you match these characters to the TV programmes?
1 Jack Bauer a Friends
2 Mulder and Scully b Star Trek (The Next Generation)
3 Dr Gil Grissom c 24
4 Rachel Green and Chandler Bing d Lost
5 Dr Jack Shephard and John Locke e CSI
6 Jean-Luc Picard and Data f X Files

Last year
Answer these questions about your home town last year.
1  Were there many tourists in your town?
2  Was there snow?
3  Were there any big crimes in your town?

‘ This was a serious crime, and when a person

does something like that, it’s not good.
’
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8c That’s my opinion
Can do (tick 3)
I can understand people’s opinions.
I can ask about likes and dislikes.
I can give my opinion on different topics.
I can understand adjectives of opinion in reviews.

Positive & negative

Write P (for positive) or N (for negative) I love it … It’s OK … I hate it
by each adjective. What’s your opinion about these activities?
beautiful
getting up early
fantastic
awful
great
terrible cooking
bad

Things I like surfing the internet

Write three sentences about things or
activities that you like.
listening to music

swimming

jogging

doing homework

cleaning my room

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8d Review
Can do (tick 3)
I can say when and where people were born.
I can ask about likes and dislikes.
I can talk about things I like and dislike.
I can understand and compare information in biographies.
s actor.
h e  so n  of a famou .
Clooney & Sutherland 1  He 
 i s 
is th
 t t a hospital
d  i n  a  T V  series abou
Can you remember which 2  He starre
 in 1961.
of these facts are about 3  He was born
 in America.
George Clooney and which 4  He was born
are about Kiefer Sutherland? n 24.
5  He starred i nald.
s called Do
6  His father i Robin.
ac te d  i n  B atman and
7  He  n films.
ar te d  a cting work i
Likes & dislikes 8  H e  st
Answer these questions.
Who is your favourite actor?
Was your dinner good last night?
What is your favourite building?
What was your favourite film last year?
Do you like today’s weather?

Kiefer Sutherland
Beautiful words and his father

In your opinion, what is the most beautiful word

in English? Why? What is the most beautiful word in your own language? Why?

Diary
How often do you use English on your computer? Do you look at English language websites?

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9a Five days in India

Can do (tick 3)
I can understand and use big numbers.
I can understand an email from a friend on holiday.
I can use past simple irregular verbs.
I can talk about things that happened on my holidays.

Number quiz

Q
Can you match the answers to the correct numbers?

1 How many people are there in the world? a one thousand

2 How many kilometres is it from the Earth to the Sun? b two thousand
3 How many dollars does a millionaire have? c six and a half billion
4 How old is London? d five hundred thousand
5 How many grams are there in a kilogram? e one million
6 How many millimetres are there in half a kilometre? f one hundred and fifty million
7 How many months ago did dinosaurs live on earth? g eighty six million
8 How many people on Earth have a cold today? h one billion

India
Can you remember?

2 What is the 
currency called? 4 What is Chai?

1 What was 
the old name 
3 What is the  5 Where is the 
of Mumbai? capital? Taj Mahal?

Sentence matches
Find at least two possible endings for each sentence beginning.

1 Sarah ate a to a very good museum. f a bath.

2 He drank b a big lunch. g a cheese sandwich.
c to the station. h on a weekend break.
3 I saw
d some coffee. i my parents.
4 Mr Smith had e a million pounds. j a cup of Chai.
5 We went

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9b The Beatles’ last day

Can do (tick 3)
I can understand the main ideas in a magazine article.
I can talk about a series of events in the past.
I can use the past simple of regular verbs in the affirmative and negative.
I can pronounce regular past tense endings.

Where are they from?

Match the singers and groups to the countries.
Bjork Colombia
U2 USA
Shakira England
REM Iceland
Franz Ferdinand Ireland
Robbie Williams Scotland

Musical instruments
How many words for musical instruments
do you know in English? Make a list.

The Beatles
What are your favourite Beatles songs? Why?

My taste in music
Give these kinds of music a mark out of 5 (1 = I don’t like this kind of music at all, 5 = I like this
type of music very much).

blues
jazz country Rock
HEAVY METAL
/5 /5 /5 /5 /5

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‘ Children and animals understand my music best.
’
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9c A national holiday
Can do (tick 3)
I can understand descriptions of national holidays.
I can ask questions about important dates.
I can say the date.
I can use prepositions to talk about dates and times.

When was it?

Can you match these events to the dates?

Q 2
Q
India became
1 Man first
walked on independent
the Moon

Q Q
The Beatles 4 Geor g
eWB
3 performed on TV
becam
Presid
e US
ush

to 4OO million ent

people

5
Q Q
d was
The film Th The first iPo
Matrix ope
America
e
ned in 6 for sale

a June 25 1967 d March 31 1999

b October 23 2OO1 e August 15 1947
c July 21 1969 f January 2O 2OO1

My important dates
Write five dates that are important in your life.
Say why they are important.

Day & date puzzles

•  I was born three days after the last 
Sounds /T/ & /D/ day of July. What date was I born? 
Which words have /T/ and which have /D/?
•  I met my friend four days after last 
these that mother weekend. What day of the week was
the meeting? 
Thursday fourth birthday
•  My next holiday is eleven weeks after 
this month Christmas. Which month is it in? 
 


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9d Review
Can do (tick 3)
I can understand numbers in a radio programme.
I can talk about dates in the year that are important to me.
I can understand and say large numbers.
I can use some irregular verbs in the past tense.

Did you know?

There are 200 million times more insects than people 
in the world. There are 73,000 different kinds of spider.
Australia has 17 million people and 150 million sheep.
There are 53 million dogs in the USA.

The last rock concert I went to was …

Circle the words that are true for you.
noisy fantastic boring great awful DO YOU LIKE WHAT?
THE MUSIC?

Important dates
Which of these dates are public holidays in your country? Add two more.

01MAY 01 25 07
DEC M
JAN AR

Diary
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10a Did you have a

good weekend?
Can do (tick 3)
I can understand someone talking about their weekend activities.
I can ask someone questions about their weekend and respond appropriately.
I can ask questions using the past simple.
I can pronounce diphthongs in English.

Weekends
Which of these weekend activities do you like? Which ones don’t you like?
washing the car doing the shopping staying in bed watching TV
going to a restaurant cooking a meal cutting the grass

Last weekend
Make sentences from lesson 10A with these words.
1  his  the  cleaned  man  car

2  away  the  her  woman  went  family  with

3  had  the  boring  woman  a  weekend

4  didn’t  the  shopping  man  do  the

Pronunciation
Can you find five /eI/ sounds and five /aI/ sounds in these sentences?

They went away to Spain by train.

Very nice. Why didn’t they fly?
They don’t like planes.


‘ Give a man a fish and he has food for a day;
teach him how to fish and you can get
rid of him for the entire weekend.
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10b Pub quiz

Can do (tick 3)
It’s OK, Tom.
I can answer questions in a quiz. I think I know
I can use the past simple to ask general knowledge questions. the answer.
I can make guesses when I am unsure of facts.
I can recognize contractions when I hear them.

Q
More quiz questions

a Lov elace write in 1843?

1  What did Ad
t computer program
a the firs
b Frankenstein
c Dancing Queen
rman come from?
2   Which planet did Supe
a Vulcan
b Pluto
c Krypton
sta rt to build in 3BC?
3  What didngpehaopmlePal ace
a Bucki
b The Pyramid at Giza
ina
c The Great Wall of Ch
X & Y?
se CDs: Parachutes and
4  Which group made the
a Coldplay
b Radiohead
c Gorillaz
es?
t TV show moving pictur
5  Where didgs,theEnfirs
gland
a Hastin
y
b Würzburg, German
c Dallas, US A

Was or did?
Complete the questions with was or did. Can you answer the questions?
1  Who   the star of Mission Impossible 1, 2 and 3?
2  Who   Ann Darrow meet on Skull Island?
3  Who   Lee Harvey Oswald shoot in Dallas, Texas?
4  What book   JRR Tolkien write in 1954 and 1955?
5  Who   Luke Skywalker’s father?
6  What   Nelson Mandela become after he was free from prison?
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10c Going shopping

Can do (tick 3)
I can understand a shop assistant in a clothes shop.
I can understand details in a tourist guide.
I can ask for the price of something in a shop.
I can understand key words on labels.

Shopping
Which of these shops do you visit? Write 1 to 5 in the boxes. (1 = I visit this type of shop
very often. 5 = I never visit this type of shop.)

department store bookshop shoe shop bouti ue pharmacy

Currencies & symbols

Match the currencies to the symbols.
1 US dollar £
2 Australian dollar $
3 British pound €
4 Euro ¥
5 Japanese yen A$

In my city
Write three sentences about the best places to go
shopping in your city.

Puzzle
Find four shopping words.

hops tassinsat
Joke
redpattmen trose
Shopping tip
drecit crad – you can get
shoes for 85
cents at the
ghacning moro
bowling alley.

8
‘
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We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
’
Bill Bryson (American author in Neither Here Nor There, 1951 –)

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10d Review
Can do (tick 3)
I can say what I did last weekend.
I can use language to make guesses.
I can say prices.
I can ask about things in a shop and find out prices.

The weekend Shopping

Answer two of these questions. Write five things you bought last week.
What did you do last weekend?
What was the best weekend of your life?
What was the worst weekend of your life?

At the shops
Number the conversation 1 to 9.

  There it is. On the second shelf. 

  Yes, of course. Thank you. Goodbye.
1   Excuse me? Do you have Lord of the Rings?
  Thanks. Goodbye.

  The book, please.

  It’s £14.99.

  Can I pay by credit card?

  Do you want the book or the DVD?

  Ah yes. Thanks. How much is it?

Diary
How do you remember words? Do you make lists of words? Do you organize words in some way?
Is learning vocabulary easy for you?

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11a Artist, actor, athlete

Can do (tick 3)
I can understand action verbs in a text.
I can talk about what I can do.
I can use can /can’t to talk about other people’s ability.
I can use a number of action verbs.

I can …
Mark what you can do on this meter. (0 = I can’t do it. 1 = I can do it badly. 2 = I can do it quite
well. 3 = I can do it very well.)

sing run drive type use a PC dance

0
1
2
3

Write ten more things you can do and ten things you can’t do.

What can Mike do?

Find out what Mike can do by unmixing the letters.

I can CANDE OGNAT.
I can YALP HET RATGUI.
I can MISW OWT OMKISLETRE.
I can PETY RYVE STAF.
I can GNIS TABLEES GNOSS.

Artist, actor, athlete

Can you do the same with these letters?

B uilder B aker B anker

D D D

P P P

0
S

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S S

‘ I shut my eyes in order to see.

’
Paul Gauguin (French artist, 1848–1903)

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11b Glastonbury
Can do (tick 3)
I can understand details in telephone conversations.
I can talk about organizations.
I can talk about festivals.
I can use the present continuous to talk about things happening now.

Some famous festivals

Match these festivals to the countries. Yes. We’re having a
great time …
1 Glastonbury USA
2 Edinburgh England
3 Mardi Gras Spain
4 San Fermin Scotland

Music festival
Think about the perfect music festival. What kind of
music is it? What bands and other entertainers are there?
What about food and accommodation? Make notes.

Facts about Glastonbury

•  153,000 people attended the
 2005 Glastonbury Festival.
•  The organizers sold all the ti
ckets in just three hours.
•  There was more rain in five
 hours than normally falls i
•  The festival gave more than n two months.
 £1,350,000 to charity.

At the moment I’m …

Which of these things are you doing at the moment? Tick (3) the boxes.

listening to music looking at other people

studying English drinking a coffee
travelling on a bus smiling
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11c Britain’s favourite paintings

Can do (tick 3)
I can understand someone talking about a painting in a gallery.
I can understand the main idea and specific details in a short magazine article.
I can describe what is happening in a picture or a painting.
I can discuss art.

My favourite painting
What is your favourite painting? What is in the picture? Who painted it? When did he/she paint
it? Where did you see it? Why do you like it?

Artists
Match the artists to their art.
1 Vincent Van Gogh a The Night Watch
2 Claude Monet b Mona Lisa (La Giaconda)
3 Leonardo da Vinci c David
4 Pablo Picasso d Girl with a Pearl Earring
5 Rembrandt e Water lilies
6 Johannes Vermeer f Guernica
7 Michelangelo g Starry night

Memory test
Close your Student’s Book. Can you remember the painting of Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy in

Q
lesson 11C?
7
Q Q
3
Q
e What c Is the man Wh
the nam
What’s t?
olo
book o ur is the
n the t 5 wearing shoe
s on at
doi ’s the
1 of the
ca able?
his feet?
ng? cat

Pictures
2
Q
What’s on the
floor behind the
man’s chair? 4
How man
flowers a
vase?
Q
y white
re in the
6 What’s
man’s
Q
in the
left ha
nd ?

Is it difficult to describe pictures and other things?

My painting
Draw a picture or painting. Describe it to a friend. Can they draw it without looking at your picture?

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‘ Why do people think artists are special? It’s just another job.
Andy Warhol (American pop artist, 1928–1987)
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11d Review
Can do (tick 3)
I can ask someone questions about a picture or a painting.
I can describe a picture or a painting.
I can talk about ability.
I can talk about what I am doing at the moment.

Writing a CV
Imagine that you are looking for a job.
Write five things that you can do well.

Music festivals
What music festivals are there in your
country? Which ones do you go to?

Word puzzle
Complete these words from lesson 11D.
p n t n g
p c   r e
n t e v   w
p   n t r

Diary
How many people did you speak to today? What did
you talk about? Write about who you spoke to and what you talked about.

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12a Getting through

Can do (tick 3)
I can understand information about a specific situation.
I can compare myself to people in a text.
I can use polite intonation on the telephone.
I can use a set of telephone phrases.

Mobile phones
When do you turn off your mobile phone? Tick (3) the boxes.

at school (in the classroom)

in the cinema
on a plane
on a train
at night when I’m asleep
in a restaurant

Using my mobile phone

Number these things for your mobile phone from 1 (I do this the most often) to 5 (I hardly ever do this).
I use my mobile phone …

  to talk to my friends. 

  to send text messages.

  as an alarm clock. 

  to surf the internet. 

  to listen to music. 

Puzzle
Write four telephone phrases.
to I speak can Mike?  a can message? I take  call you would like back? to  there? is Sandra

Text messages
Can you read these text messages? Write them in normal English.

 C U l8r How r u?

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 Date:

12b Departure lounge

Can do (tick 3)
I can understand parts of telephone conversations.
I can understand simple practical details in a conversation.
I can talk about future plans.
I can use be going to + verb to talk about future intentions.

What are they doing?

Turn on the TV. What is the person on TV doing? Change to other channels. What are the other
people doing?

What are the people doing?

Channel 1
Channel 2
Channel 3
Channel 4

I’m not going to do it!

Write down five things that you are not going to do tonight.

Airport words
Imagine that you are going to fly from London to New York.
Number these things in the order you do them.

buy duty-free perfume

check in your bags
get on the plane
1 find the right check– in
desk
go through customs
and passport control
look at the sign to
find the gate number
take off
walk to the gate


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 Date:

12c After the course

Can do (tick 3)
I can understand a blog entry.
I can use be going to with future time expressions.
I can use a set of phrases to give best wishes.
I can use some adjectives that describe feelings.

Learning a foreign language

Number these ways to learn a foreign
language from 1 (the best way) to 5.

at school with a teacher

at home using a book
watching movies and DVDs
on the internet
talking to people in a foreign language

How do you feel today?

Complete the sentence.

sad angry tired happy scared

I feel today because .

Blog: my plans
The course is almost finished. What are you going to do after the course? Write a blog about your
plans using be going to.



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‘ I hate goodbyes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.
’
Charles M. Schulz (Snoopy cartoonist, 1922–2000)

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 Date:

12d Review
Can do (tick 3)
I can ask to speak to someone on the phone.
I can leave a message on the phone.
I can talk about future plans.
I can say that I’m not a beginner anymore!

Next week … next year

What are you going to do next week? What are you going to do next year?

Wrong words
Correct these sentences. Use a word from one of the other sentences.
1 My grandmother is sitting in a painting.
2 The Czech runner won the silver blog.
3 I can’t play the exam but I can play the piano.
4 Every evening I go to my computer and write my medal.
5 My favourite wheelchair is ‘Sunflowers’ by Van Gogh.
6 Good luck with your English guitar tomorrow!

Diary
It is the end of the course! Which lesson did you enjoy the most? Which language was the most
useful for you? Which grammar was the most difficult? How do you feel about your English now?
Are you ready to start Straightforward Elementary?

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 Can you remember?
Now that you have finished the course … how much can you remember about the
characters and topics from Straightforward Beginner?
Don’t look back at your Student’s Book – see what you can remember!

1 Where is the United Nations 7 What kind of food can you get at the
International School (lesson 3C)? Golden Dragon Restaurant in lesson 8C?
a Paris a Chinese
b New York b Italian
c London c Thai

2 What were Milo and Bertie in 8 What is the most beautiful word in
lesson 5D? the English language according to the
a cats British Council survey (lesson 8D)?
b birds a passion
c dogs b love
c mother

3 Which of these activities can you do

at the Chelsea Community Centre in 9 Where is the Taj Mahal (lesson 9A)?
lesson 6B? a New Delhi
a play the guitar b Agra
b play chess c Mumbai
c swim

4 10 When was the Beatles’ last concert?

Which of these cities was one of the
(lesson 9B)
weekend break cities in lesson 7A?
a 1959
a Prague
b 1969
b Madrid
c 1979
c Rome

5 11 What is the famous London shopping

Which English city is famous for its
street in lesson 10C?
Roman and Viking history (lesson 7C)?
a Piccadilly Circus
a London
b Regent Street
b York
c Oxford Street
c Manchester

6 What was the first James Bond film 12 Where is the music festival in lesson
(lesson 8A)? 11B?
a Goldfinger a Glastonbury
b From Russia with Love b Edinburgh
c Dr No c London

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 My grammar now
You studied these grammar items in Straightforward Beginner. How confident do you
feel about your own understanding and use of each one?
(1 = I can’t do this. L 2 = This is OK. K 3 = I can do this very well. J )

Grammar item For example 1 2 3

Verb  
to be My name is Jessica.
Contractions She’s Italian.
this, that, here, there What’s that in English?
a/an It’s an umbrella.
Verb  
to be  
negative We aren’t Canadian.
Verb  
to be  
questions Is the school open?
Possessive ’s He’s Jennifer’s brother.
Prepositions of place Is it under the table?
Present simple They live in Mexico.
Present simple negative They don’t have a computer.
Present simple questions Does he have an easy job?
Adverbs of frequency I hardly ever hear my alarm clock.
Wh- questions Where do you live?
How often + time expressions How often do you have coffee?
there is / there are There are twelve students in the class.
was/were It was cold yesterday.
Subject & object pronouns She’s an actress. I like her.
Past simple irregular verbs They went to Warsaw last month.
Past simple regular verbs They didn’t like each other.
Prepositions of time  
(in, on, at) The class starts at nine o’clock.
Past simple questions What did you have for lunch?
Past simple short answers Yes, I did. No, I didn’t.
can/can’t He can use a computer.
Present continuous Is it raining?
be going to  
for future plans Are you going to call me?
Future time expressions next year, tomorrow evening

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 Now I can
Listening
I can understand greetings.
I can understand the names of cities and
countries.
I can understand the names of some jobs in
English.
I can understand numbers from one to 101.
I can understand people talking about their
work.
I can understand questions in a survey.
I can understand a description of a city.
I can understand people talking about the
location of a flat.
I can understand basic tourist information.
I can understand dates (years).
I can understand descriptions of national
holidays.
I can understand someone talking about
their weekend activities.
I can understand a shop assistant in a
clothes shop.
I can understand details in telephone
conversations.
I can understand someone talking about a
painting in a gallery.
Reading
I can understand food and drink vocabulary
on a menu.
I can understand a family webpage.
I can understand the main ideas in a short
article.
I can understand basic biographical
information in a text.
I can understand notices about free time
activities.
I can understand questions in a survey.
I can understand a description of a city.
I can understand the main facts in a
magazine article.
I can understand an email from a friend.
I can understand details in a tourist guide.
I can understand the main idea and specific
details in a small magazine article.
I can understand a blog entry.
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Speaking
I can say hello to people.
I can introduce myself and ask for other
people’s names.
I can ask about and say where I’m from.
I can introduce and greet people.
I can ask for people’s phone numbers.
I can spell names.
I can ask what the English name is for
things.
I can ask for information about a word and
say that I don’t understand.
I can order food and drink in a café.
I can describe the age of something.
I can use the present simple to talk about
work and life.
I can ask someone questions about their job.
I can talk about what I do on a typical day.
I can talk about a city I know.
I can ask for tourist information.
I can talk about things I like and dislike.
I can ask for the price of something in a
shop.
I can describe what is happening in a
picture or a painting.
I can talk about future plans.
Writing
I can complete a form.
I can use capital letters and punctuation.
I can write a paragraph about myself.
I can write a short text about a person.
I can write a short description of a city.
I can write a holiday blog.
I can use first and then to show a sequence
of events.
I can write a letter to ask for information.
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 The way forward
Hopefully you will now be ready to move on to Straightforward Elementary. What else
can you do to help improve your English?

Reading
• Try to read something in English every day (internet web pages, news items on
news websites, magazine articles).
• Watch movies in your own language with English subtitles.
I often read . . .

Listening
• Watch English movies and DVDs with English subtitles.
• Listen to radio news items on internet radio.
I often listen to . . .

Writing
• Write emails and text messages to your friends in English.
• Write messages on internet forums.
I write these things in English . . .

Vocabulary
• Keep a vocabulary notebook. Write down interesting and useful new words that
you meet when you read or listen to English.
I practise vocabulary by . . .

Grammar
• Look back over the grammar in your Student’s Book and test yourself.
• Practise trying to use more difficult structures when you speak English.
I practise grammar by . . .

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 My dossier
Your dossier is a collection of the work that you have done by yourself, either in class
or at home. It is a record of your level and also of the progress that you make.
on
Remember to put a date
all your work.
Include dated ‘can do’
er to
checklists in your dossi
gre ss yo u are
record the pro
making.
in
Put your work
a fil e
a folder or
fe .
to keep it sa
B e g i n ne r

Take photos of your

school, classroom, Divide your work
classmates and teacher into categories:
to decorate your • writing
dossier.
• speaking
• reading
• listening
• vocabulary
• grammar
Keep one dossier
for each level of • pronunciation
Straightforward. Include recordings • tests
Use
of you speaking.
w your
them to hear ho
ac cu racy
pronunciation,
ov e.
and fluency impr

You could keep two dossiers:

• a ‘Working’ dossier for the work you do on a day-to-day basis, and
• a ‘Showcase’ dossier for your most recent and best work.

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 Answers
6b Activities: 1 football, 2 chess, 3 golf, 4 reading,
5 dancing
Verbs: 1d, 2h, 3f, 4cg, 5ag, 6abceh, 7b, 8ace
6c : toast, salad, milk, chicken, water, ice cream
: soup, pasta, tea, fruit
1a Hello: 3, 5, 1, 4, 2 6d What’s the time: 2a, 3e, 4b, 5d
Contractions: 2 What’s your name? 3 Hello. I’m Food: apple, chicken, pasta, fish, meat
Emily. 4 My name’s Jim.
English names: Daniel, Emily, Thomas, Sarah, 7a Places: 1 castles, 2 receptionists, 3 windows,
Emma, Sophie, Jack, Peter 4 bridge
Which town? P: 2, 6 St: 3, 7, 8 B: 1, 4, 5
1b Nice to meet you. Where are you from? Do you know? 1 Prague, 2 Barcelona,
1c Numbers: eicht = eight, fife = five 3 St Petersburg
Possible questions: What’s your name? What’s 7b What people do: 1 park, 2 supermarket, 3 cinema,
your home number? What’s Mark’s home number? 4 bank
Where’s Mark from? How are you? Where are you Adjectives: interesting – boring, happy – unhappy,
from? quiet – noisy, difficult – easy
1d Famous people: 1 Switzerland, 2 Spain, 3 Brazil, Adjectives puzzle: beautiful, expensive, ugly,
4 USA, 5 Germany, 6 Australia cheap, friendly
Spelling: number, phone, picture, teacher 7c 1 I don’t understand. 2 I only speak a little English.
2a Hilton, Sheraton, Holiday Inn, Radisson 3 I’m sorry, I don’t speak English.
Alphabet puzzle: S and T Two words: digital camera, tourist information,
2b 1 pen, 2 CD player, 3 key, 4 TV, 5 lamp, 6 phone guide book, credit card, identity card, public
Mistakes: is = are; thank = thanks; It = It’s; transport, phrase book, British money, city centre,
Were = Where; I = me single ticket (Other answers are possible.)
2c Food: cheese, bread, omelette, apple, sandwich, 8a 1 Godzilla was a Japanese film. 2 The first James
croissant Drink: tea, milk, coffee, beer, wine, Bond film was Dr No. 3 Friends was popular in the
water a or an? an apple, a tea, a chair 1990s.
Drinks: tea, wine, coffee, water, beer 8b 1c, 2f, 3e, 4a, 5d, 6b
2d Hotel: 1 lamp, 5 television, 7 radio, 8 key 8c Positive: beautiful, fantastic, great
Café: 2 croissant, 3 orange juice, 4 coffee, Negative: awful, terrible, bad
6 omelette 8d Clooney: 2, 3, 4, 7 Sutherland: 1, 5, 6, 8
At reception: 1 name, 2 are, 3 thanks, 4 room,
5 key, 6, like, 7 please 9a Number quiz: 1c, 2f, 3e, 4b, 5a, 6d, 7h, 8g
India: 1 Bombay, 2 Rupee, 3 New Delhi, 4 tea, 5 Agra
3a Questions: Who is your teacher? Are you a Sentences: 1bg, 2dj, 3defgij, 4bdefgj, 5ach
student? What is your job?
Contractions: 1 They’re doctors. 2 We’re from 9b Bjork – Iceland, U2 – Ireland, Shakira – Colombia,
Brazil. 3 David’s a teacher. 4 You’re a student. REM – USA, Franz Ferdinand – Scotland, Robbie
5 I’m a taxi driver. 6 The job’s in China. Williams – England
Pronunciation: /dZ/ Germany, Jin, sandwich 9c When was it? 1c, 2e, 3a, 4f, 5d, 6b
/tS/ teacher, China, cheese, Sounds /T/: Thursday, fourth, birthday, month
3b Geography quiz: 1 Asia, 2 Japan, 3 red, white and /D/: these, that, mother, this
green, 4 Brazil, 5 Australia Day & date puzzles: August 3, Thursday, March
Nationalities: Polish, Italian, French, German 10a Last weekend: 1 The man cleaned his car.
3c 1 What’s this in English? 2 How do pronounce it? 2 The woman went away with her family.
3 How do you spell it? 4 Sorry, I don’t understand. 3 The woman had a boring weekend. 4 The man
Days: Thursday didn’t do the shopping.
Pronunciation: /eI/ they, away, Spain, train,
3d driver, doctor, paramedic, actor, student, teacher planes /aI/ by, nice, why, fly, like
4a Numbers quiz: 1 sixty-three, 2 one hundred and 10b More quiz questions: 1a, 2c, 3c, 4a, 5a
one, 3 eighty-eight, 4 ninety-five Was or did? 1 was – Tom Cruise, 2 did – King Kong,
Pronunciation: thirteen, fourteen, fifteen 3 did – John F Kennedy, 4 did – Lord of the Rings,
forty, sixty, eighty 5 was – Darth Vader, 6 did – President of South Africa
Puzzle: How old are you? How old is it?
10c Currencies: 1 $, 2 A$, 3 £, 4 € , 5¥
4b 3 She’s 4 What’s 6 Katy’s Puzzle: shop assistant, department store, credit
4d Talk about people: 1c, 2d, 3a, 4f, 5b, 6e card, changing room
Grammar: 1 it, 2 be, 3 ’s, 4 on, 5 not 10d At the shops; 4, 8, 1, 9, 3, 6, 7, 2, 5
How many? 1 eleven, 2 three, 3 seven,
4 twenty-four, 5 five 11a dance tango, play the guitar, swim two kilometres,
type very fast, sing Beatles songs
5a A: President of the USA B: The British Queen Artist, actor, athlete: (possible answers) doctor,
Talk about work & life: 1c, 2f, 3h, 4e, 5a, 6d, 7b, 8g driver, detective, paramedic, police officer, painter,
Doctor: c, e and h. Teacher: b, g. Taxi driver: d, f. scientist, student, shop assistant
Film actor: a, e
11b 1 England, 2 Scotland, 3 USA (New Orleans),
5b Technology words: digital camera, website, printer 4 Spain (Pamplona)
Sentence puzzle: 1 I don’t have an email address.
2 She doesn’t have a computer at home. 3 The 11c Artists: 1g, 2e, 3b, 4f, 5a, 6d, 7c
teacher has a computer. 1 Percy, 2 a telephone, 3 yellow, 4 five, 5 no,
6 a cigarette, 7 looking out of the window
5c Job: 1 I work from Monday to Friday. 2 I use an old
computer. 3 My work is very boring. 4 It’s not an 11d Word puzzle: painting, picture, interview, painter
interesting job. 5 My job is very difficult. 12a Puzzle: Can I speak to Mike? Can I take a
Questions & answers: Does Mike work here? Yes, message? Would you like to call back? Is Sandra
he does. / Are you a doctor? No, I’m not. / Is she there?
a secretary? No, she’s the boss! / Is this your Text messages: See you later. How are you?
house? Yes, it is. / Do you work with other people? 12b 4, 2, 7, 1, 3, 5, 8, 6 (‘buy duty-free perfume’ could
No, I work alone. / Does Susan live in New York? come in different places)
No, she doesn’t. 12d 1 wheelchair, 2 medal, 3 guitar, 4 blog, 5 painting,
5d 2 goes, 3 has, 4 eats, 5 drinks, 6 likes, 7 sleeps 6 exam
6a sleep = bedroom, shower = bathroom, coffee = Can you 1b, 2c, 3b, 4a, 5b, 6c, 7a, 8c, 9b, 10b, 11c, 12a
kitchen, television = living room remember?

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