Learning goals

1 Dialogue Communication
23 Cover the dialogue and listen. Introduce people
Ask where people and things are:
Robbie: There’s my mom. Where is? / Where are?
Brian: Where’s your dad? Grammar
Liza: He’s at work. Prepositions of place: in, on, above,
Robbie: No, he’s not. He’s at home today. under, at, behind, in front of
Andy: Yeah, Dad’s at home. Mom, this is Possessive adjectives
Brian. Vocabulary
Mom: Hello, Brian. Nice to meet you. How Things for teens
are you?
Brian: I’m OK, thanks. Just a little tired.
Mom: Where are your bags?
Brian: They’re on the cart over there.
Mom: Andy, please put Brian’s bags in
the car.
Robbie: Let’s go, Mom.
(Later, at home.)
Robbie: Come on, Brian. I’ll show you my
room and my new video games.
Liza: Robbie, Brian’s tired. Leave him
alone. OK?

2 Comprehension
A. Match the two parts to make sentences.
1. Mom is a. on the cart.
2. Dad is b. tired.
3. Brian is c. at the airport.
4. The bags are d. in the car.
5. Andy puts the bags e. at home.
B. 24Read along as you listen again.
Check your answers.

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 3 Useful expressions 4 Communication
A. 25 Listen and repeat. Introduce people
• Come on. A. 26 Listen to the conversation.
• I’m OK, thanks. / Fine, thanks.
A: Mrs. Salas, this is Monica.
• Nice to meet you.
B: Nice to meet you, Monica. How are you?
• How are you?
C: Fine, thanks.
B. Write the appropriate responses. Use the
B. GROUPS. Write a conversation introducing
expressions from Exercise A.
a friend to your mom or dad. Use Exercise A
1. A: How are you? as a model.
B: A:
2. A: B:
B: Nice to meet you, too.
C:
3. A:
B: OK. Let’s go. C. GROUPS. Role-play the conservation.

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 5 Pronunciation
Linking sounds
A. 27 Listen. Then listen again and repeat. B. PAIRS. Practice the conversations with a
classmate.
• Where’s your dad? • This is Brian.
• He’s at work. • Nice to meet you. 1. A: Where’s your dad?
• He’s at home. • How are you? B: He’s at home.
2. A: This is Sara.
B: Nice to meet you.

6 Vocabulary
Things for teens
A. 28 Look at the pictures as you listen and repeat.

1. cell phone 2. skateboard 3. MP3 player 4. computer

5. DVDs 6. DVD player 7. video games 8. television

9. magazines 10. backpack 11. bicycle 12. Rollerblades®

B. Look at the words in Exercise A. Put a check (✔) next to the things you have.

GRAMMAR FOCUS
Prepositions of place: in, on, above, under, at, behind, in front of
Where are the CDs? Where’s the balloon?
They’re in the bag. It’s above the table.
They’re on the bag. It’s in front of the TV.

Where’s the balloon? Where’s your sister?

It’s under the table. She’s at work.
It’s behind the computer. She’s at home.
She’s at school.

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 Discovering grammar 10 Listening
Look at the grammar chart. Circle the A. 29 Listen to the conversation. Circle the
correct answers. correct answers.
1. What are some examples of prepositions? 1. Where’s the family?
a. the c. under e. in front of a. at the park b. at home
b. at d. an f. in 2. Where’s Liza?
2. What usually comes after a preposition? a. at the computer b. on the phone
a. a verb b. a noun c. an adjective 3. Where are Andy and Brian?
a. in the bedroom b. at school
4. Where’s Robbie?
a. in the bedroom b. in the kitchen
Practicing grammar 5. Where’s dinner?
a. in the bag b. on the table
7 Practice
B. 30 Listen again and check your work.
PAIRS. Take turns asking and answering the
questions.
1. Where’s our teacher?
She’s in front of the class.
2. Where’s your English book?
3. Where’s your backpack?
4. Where are your pens and pencils?
5. Where are your notebooks?

8 Practice
A. PAIRS. Compete with another pair. Look
at the picture. In three minutes, write
sentences that say where the objects are.
Use prepositions.
For example:
The video camera is above the bed.

B. Count your sentences. Who has the most

sentences?

9 Practice
Have a competition! Go to
page 68.

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 Communication
Get started
1 Put the words in the correct order to make
sentences.
1. is / This / David / .
This is David.
2. your / What’s / name / ?

3. are / How / you / ?

4. meet / to / Nice / you / . 2. A: Hi, Pedro. are you?

B: , thanks.

5. am / I / fine / .

6. backpack / Where’s / your / ?

Move up
2 Complete the conversations.

3. A: Pedro, this is Su-mi Lee. Su-mi,

is Pedro Cruz.
B: you, Pedro.
C: .

Reach for the top

3 Imagine that you are introducing your
friend Paul to your friend Asha. Write the
conversation.
1. A: Hi! My name’s Jesse Turner. What’s You: Asha, this is Paul. Paul, this is Asha.
your ? Asha:
B: Pedro Cruz.
Paul:

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 Vocabulary Move up
5 Complete the words with a, e, i, o, or u.
Get started 1. MP3 pl a y e r
4 Look at the pictures. Find and circle them 2. v d g m
in the puzzle. Look across, up, down, and
3. t l v s n
backward.
4. R ll rbl d s
5. DVD pl y r
6. sk t b rd

Reach for the top

6 Label the pictures with words from Exercise 5.

1. skateboard 2.

3. 4.

N D C D V D S H B
O R E T U P M O C
I A L M I A A E Z
S O L O V D G I E 5. 6.
I B P E S O A E L
V E H H C A Z E T
E T O H D C I B U
L A N E L O N D N
E K E I K B E L L
T S B I C Y C L E

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