Timesaver photocopiable | _ Grammar Activities (Pre-intermediate / Intermediate) Ao no 2 ee NSW TN Po MAGAZINES, Jane Rollason mi SCHOLASTICSMW AM Aa yas ACTIVITIES (PRE-INTERMEDIATE — INTERMEDIATE) Teacher’s reference key ‘A small clock on each page tells you approximately how long each activity should take. ‘Small icons at the top of each page show whether the activity is best suited to individual, pair or group work. © IndividualEt Grammar ACTIVITIES (PRE-INTERMEDIATE — INTERMEDIATE) Contents Who Are You? Present simple Unchanging World Present simple You're Late! Present continuous Where’s Your Homework? Past simple Scary Stories Past simple Michael Johnson.. Past simple That's History ... Present perfect with for or since Changing Rooms Present perfect Here is Today's News Present perfect Pompei Past simple / past continuous Memory Test ... Past continuous A Fishy Story, Past perfect Amazon Diary... Past simple Trip to Town... .20 & 21 going to What is Going to Happen Next? 22 going to Vote for Us 23 will On Tour, 24 & 25 Present simple for future plans Diary Battleships .. .26 & 27 Present continuous for future plans Emergency! Zero conditional April Fool. First conditional What a Change! ... Second conditional What Kind of Artist Are You? Second conditional A Tropical Island is Born... Present passive What's It Made Of? to be made of What's Happened to You?, have /get something done Great Natural Disasters .... Past simple passive (©p ie amore o om cream mE?)ak i) aie) ied ad il i Zak's Coffee Bar .. must/ mustn't Class Survey . can {could The Rainbow Cafe .. Would you like...? School's Out .. Making suggestions What Are You Allowed to Do? be allowed to Our Bodies Verb + to + infinitive To: Ben@astro.co.uk Question tags Football Crazy! Questions and short answers Fortune Teller Imperatives Alien Language. Reported speech Seen Towns and Villages. some/any/a Word Chain .. Compound nouns Tropical Island . some/ any This Creature is Weird ‘s Lost Property... ‘sors’ City or Country? Quantifiers These Clothes Don't Fit! this, that, these, those, one, ones Is Anybody There? Indefinite pronouns Street Market. Adjectives Comparing Animals Making comparisons: intens adjectives The Biggest and the Best! Superlatives Careers Advisor. good at | bad at At the Olympics ... Adverbs Robbie, the School Rabbit Articles Creare) Are You an Extrovert or an Introvert? 68 so do !/ neither do | Crazy World of Adventures 69 Sequencers ‘Treasure Hunt 70&71 Prepositions of place Who Was First? 72 Prepositions of time and place Airport Journey . Phrasal verbs What's Happening? Phrasal verbs Answers.aan TZGIES Present simple )) Who Are You? Complete the information about yourself by finishing the sentences. : (say name’ tli) Lo ores aaeieee stick a photo of yourself here. metres tall. | brother(s) and/ \or sister(s). a weigh kilos. ) Now, complete the same information about your best friend, This time you have to write whole sentences. Example: ¢ aera) "Smcsesmmnemnssoni Draw a picture or stick a photo of your best friend here.QU ANAM AM AANA AAD Saad CEE "resent simple Om Unchanging World The verbs in these fascinating facts are mixed up. Can you sort them out? 'A koalavbear doses for up'to.22/heurs In art galleries around the world, each each day. [_] visitor measures an average of 3 seconds in front of each painting. In the summer in the Arctic Circle, the sun In baseball, when a pitcher beats a good never travels. ball, it weighs at about 160 kilometres an hour. An astronaut footprint on the surface of the moon sleeps for millions of years. LJ An adult elephant spends about 225 litres of water every day. A snake never throws its eyes at any The largest flower in the world is called a time, Rafflesia - it lasts up to 7 kilos and loses upto 1 metre across. ® A human heart sets about 70 times a minute. Read the facts again... Puta tick next to the facts that you knew already. {fa lizard drinks its tail, it grows % Puta star next to the most interesting fact. another one. Puta cross next to the least interesting fact.Era TEE Present continuous Om You’re Late! It’s Helen’s birthday. She has invited a group of friends to go to the theatre to see a show. Her boyfriend, Rob, is late. Helen calls him on her mobile phone. Choose a verb from this box for each space in the conversation and put it in the present continuous. Use the pictures to help you Each time you take a verb, write the letter next to it here to find the fallinto on > name of the show: | tunoutof g ———$—— ci push a caauiae leave h .25 Whore are you, 5 Rob? Hurry up. We're sit e all at the get on k f theatre. The show run ° starts in 36 minutes. i go into i drive down i the football club now. The football match finished wait t very late but don’t worry, my dad’s promised to give me \ get out I of tho car-1_tho cell when I get there. 18.40 I'm out of the underground - there’s a train broken down in the tunnel. | to the bus stop round the cornor. 18.51 Okay, I'm off the bus. How long have | got? 18.531 through the crowds. Now I'm on the bridge. 1 18.42 ve climbed out of the hole. Oht There's a bus. 1 18.45 We Charing Cross Road. Oh nol thore’s a demonstration, We can’t got through. 19.00 The tickets thought you hat the tickets .. © © =" z ¥ & & z : ' & 5 & 5 k E & 5 & & &al aaa md wos eid id ia ayo is as) Uk hist a) aa al al a a (RUE Past simpie f) Ew Where’s Your Homework? Make sentences to go with these excuses. Use the table to help you. Myfather [ate with it The queen _| exploded. Aneagle stole ‘and took it back to his university. Mybrother_| came my school bag. My computer landed in our garden _| with it Some boys [took my homework | it Aprofessor [made a paper plane _| to tea The dog lit the fire and took my homework back to their planet. Aliens thought it was brilliant | and used it to make a nest Now, think of your own excuse and write it here, ® Actually, RSE GA ATE a SSDNA, A OPTTEAIGT LM Past simple for narrative Scary Stories Qru+ the verbs in the spaces. Q Praw lines with three different colours to make three stories. lived landed ) Aliens on the earth. Afamily (on a windy hil. ( heard broke went sat ) A group of ten adults and fourciren 5 to the island of & Tunamo in the Pacific Ocean. & Aboy with a hamburger i 7 Be their voices. (couldn't Help lived One night a bird _ ‘We are here, We are friendly Ee outside the window and Us,’ they answered. Ei the glass. 4 Only giant spiders E (lived started shouted were on the island. “The next night there The family______ get out. = hundreds of birds. e = EK (were ate caught ) Nobody _ there and \ enna E they ‘a new society. He his hamburger. "Where are you" he ‘The birds ‘everywhere, 5 ‘The spiders eight 5 ‘adults and four children in their Ee web. -— a, 5 (escaped was killed \ ened K The others 5 They the family. K There___a loud crunch in his mouth, & & Now answer these questions, 41. Who killed the aliens? 2. Who did the spiders kill? 3. How many people escaped from Tunamo? 4. Who killed the family on the windy hill? _ "ESE GAT RETEST SSC OF EP nam mi(eed Past simple o > Michael Johnson - his feet never touch the ground Read about Michael Johnson. Put the verbs into the past simple and fit them in the passage about him. Then, complete the grid with the verbs to find the answer to this question: What subject did Michael study at college? He won 5 Olympic gold medals. He (1) broke 6 world records. He ran 200 metras in 19.32 seconds and 400 metres in 43.18 seconds He was bom in Texas and he has lived all his life there. His dad (2) w. a truck driver. Everybody at school was amazed by his running talent. His high school coach said that his feet never (3) s. ‘to touch the ground, He went to college and (4)s__ for a degree. While he was at college, he ee ‘that he could make a career in athletics. He was world no.1 at 200m and 400m by the age of 23. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Johnson was the first athlete ever to win both the 200m and the 400m finals. The 200m final was his favourite race. ‘That was as close as I've ever got ‘to the perfect race,’ he (6) s. He soon became one of the highest paid athletes of all time. In 1997 he a8 Ms_ a G-year deal with Nike 2 worth $12million. He was wearing special = shoes when he (8) w___ th 9fR 400m final at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 — they had pieces of real gold sewn into them »/ BR] OKIE He (9) r in 2001 at the age »|R of 33 when he was still at the top. 4|s a[sMIAME Present perfect with for and since That’s History! Look at the timeline and answer the questions. first voyage around the world 1522 first hot-air balloon flight E! first first wheel Olmpe Games fist farms 8000 B ist farms 8000 BC 3000 BC 776 BC Ee! first E weiting ! 3500 BC — ie first paper E! 105 Bc Ee! /E first /B 4 45 first humans in Europe fy 300 8C E 40,000 BC first city " i E 5 Ea first humans 100,000 BC first cave paintings 20,000 BC first passenger train 1825. Onna Ppwd a) aaa io i i id ia ik il ik oil ao oe i TEs Present perfect first mobile phone 1986. semen first pe 1984 ‘transplant 1982 first walkman, 1979 first television first set 3 ay cinema =\ 4 first atom fie) oes fistman on oeine a fist man in spo 186 fist woman in space 1963 first underground railway 1863 first car 1908 first glass of Coca Cola ‘drunk 1886 Add these things to the timeline Gp How 1ong have humans ved onthe earth? ince) @ How tong people ben painting pictures since) How long have humans been in Europe? (nce) How long have people been farming? (since) ® How long have people lived in cities? (since) ® How long have people had books? (for) @ How long have people been travelling by train? {for @ Howe long has Coca Cola been in the shops? (for) & How long have people had cars? (for) How long have people had mobile phones? (For) Imagine you can change history. Choose three things to cross off the time line Think of three things to add to the time lineGee Present perfect Changing Rooms STUDENT A You and your partner decide to give your best friend's room a new style. i Ge This is your best friend’s room. & 8 Draw your changes here. Don't show your partner, You can: move the furniture; change the flooring; paint or wallpaper the walls; decorate the blind; buy 3 new things. When you've finished, answer your partner's questions. mt a = 8 Find out what your partner has done to the room. Draw his/her changes here. BS Now compare your dra your partner's. They should be the same. Are they?aa (eden a a Changing Rooms STUDENT B a You and your partner decide to give your best friend's room a new style. a eo This is your best friend’s room, | a i | a | | a a a) a e Draw your changes here. Don’t show your partner. a You can: move the furniture; change the flooring; paint or wallpaper the walls; decorate the blind; a buy 3 new things. When you've finished, answer your partner's questions. a 2 a a 2 ‘Now compare your drawings with your partner's. They should be the same. Are they? C "RSE ARO ATT na a oR aT S)GOSTE RE Aoi) i ww a id| CURT Present perfect AD) Here is Today’s News News readers on radio and television often use the present perfect to tell the day’s news stories. These stories have got mixed up. First, sort out the sentences to make 8 possible stories. Then, match the sentences to the pictures. Qe The government | a.) have climbed tothe top ofthe Milenium Wheel Q Wee sonserous eocoaties [] bb) hassave his owes from fire in ther home, @ + vvsicen €) Pov arsed vo nko or sean camera se 20 @ Wo 100150 [—} €@) ave exeped from the aquarium, @ cmvcsives has introduced a new taxon chocolate Qe Avutture[ 9.) has attacked his customers with a kitchen knife } Apetrat[ | bh ) has lost is wie in 2 magic box Ton RAR ATES a na has crashed into an aeroplane at a height of 10,000 metres. BREESE RS ERM iitt ba aa ti aaa i ih i aia ia ia i jal da da ial is i al ie i ka (SIME Past simple / past continuous contrast ‘© ‘D f) Stas Read the text. Then, answer the questions. Today is August 24, AD 79. We ate in Pompeli, a small town in southern ltaly, during the time of the Roman Empire, The town lies just below Mount Vesuvius, an ancient volcano. Farmers grow food on the slopes of the mount People are busy in the town. Lets walk down the main street. First we pass a faverna, ‘A young man is drinking a glass of wine at the bar, Next we smell fresh bread from the bakery. Two women are buying loaves and honey cakes. In the road a crowd of children are playing a game with stones, Maximus Minimus walks past ~ he lives behind the bakery, He invites us in. We follow him Into his open air courtyard. His wife, Agrippina, is here, writing a letter, The workmen are painting pictures of the countryside on the walls. A dog Is sleeping in the corner, Suddenly there is an explosion. The sky goes dark. The ground shakes violently. There {s lightning. Everybody thinks it is an earthquake, but they are wrong. It is the volcano. After 800 years, Mount Vesuvius has woken up. Fire and lava burst out of the top. Black clouds of fhot ash fil the sky and the wind takes them over Pompell. Maximus grabs Agrippina’s hand and they run out of the house. The dog hides under a table. The children cry for thefr parents, Men, women, children and animals run through the streets. Most of them escape but two thousand die, f ‘When it is over the sky stays dark. Piles of ash cover everything. It looks like snow, i 7 volcano erupted? What did Maximus do when the volcano Q @ Hirar were tne two women doing? erupted? 8 What were the children d © wet cit the dos dor @ wnat w0s Aerippina doing? © whet sit the crtaren do? © wet were the wortanen doing? ® What happened to the people of Pompeii?YESTERDAY EVENING 8.30 Mark Memory Test Look at this page for 1 minute. THIS MORNING 11.00 ia = Nea THIS AFTERNOON 4.00 Aaa etme amr OT OHO OE EEE a a eoi aaa io le la ii i i el mm fo ee i oe bua eae THM TITLE EOLed Past continuous Memory Test What can you remember? @ What was Lulu doing at 11.00 this morning? ® What was Mark doing at 8.30 yesterday evening? @ wr woe nd wat cing 8 80 yeedey even? ® ‘When was Lulu flying ahelicopter? @ wen were ula and Marlon playing thelr guitars? @ vor was Lut doing at 4.00 this afternoon? ® What was Wark doing at 11.00 this morning? & When was Mark ice-skating? ® What was Mark doing at 11.00 this morning? @ wre vnsivan cong ot 420 vs erent How many did you remember? ‘What were you doing at: 8.30 yesterday evening? 11.00 this morning? 4,00 this afternoon?Gennes Past perfect B A Fishy Story Read the story and put the pictures in the order that they actually happened. Bp Ona strange day, fish fell out of the sky, it happened like this. | had gone to the shops to buy vegetables for supper and a bone for my dog. It wasn't raining when | left but | hed taken my umbrella anyway. | got to the shops and bought the things | wanted. | was walking hare when suddenly there was a loud bang and the sky went very dark. | looked up to see black shapes falling towards me. In an instant the shapes began to hit the ground. They hit me, toa and knocked me over. They were fish. | was amazed. | looked eround, Other people had come ut into the straet when they heard the noise. Nobady could explain it. That evening our street was on talevision. An old bomb from the war had expladed in the river that runs through the town. The bomb had lain at the bottom of the river for fifty years. So that night we had fish for supper with our vegatables PRP PPP eee eee ee eee eo rmhrm me omGIG ULAU Re Past simple Amazon Diary Ben was on an expedition through the Amazon when he lost the other people in his group. Here's part of his diary, Cut out the blocks of letters below and stick them in the ‘correct spaces to complete the story. DAYI8 | HAVE LOST THE OTHERS. {DAY 20 I WAITED A pay. if “igo MANY 6TRA OUNDS. 1 HAD 50 1CHOCOLATE AND E WATER BUT NO [ING ELSE. THERE ALL OV THE CHOCOLATE BRUGH EM OFR THEN T (OVER ME, S01 TO THE RIVER I intro BOAT BUTIT SANK. 1 MYSELF THE WATER, ATELY! S SURROUNDED BY A FISH. | CLIMB CROCODILE. NCH HANGING A BRANCH. THOLD OF A iWATER IT WA ae MONKEYS TAI FELL BACK ae az a ~ fi) THE CRO ILE CHASED THE Mo | ay BN ANDI DOWNSTREAM ANDG {| i anoner | S iam writina my oii” | a co HAVE SU | VED, WHAT'S THAT NO i a \\ bets tien wo AAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHI 5 a Yt Vie a NZ NANA EY2A55) i a 1) A (fis f air E Al \anfea) Ph) 7 Gene Lyre \) i] \ wy RM 4 Y Ned twit LAN IN Ne Nee AES ERA 2 ER 4 rho 4 How many different types of creature did he meet? a Who do you think he met at the end? a iGoing to for plans / intentions bem Trip to Town You're going to town. The time now is 9.50am. This is your list: This is what your mum says to you s you this list. as you're going out of the door: aa new CD. hire video for this evening meet friends at burger bar (2.15 Add your own ideas: BUS TIMETABLE | leaves 9.30 10.00 11.30 MUSIC / DIDED arrives 10.00 10.30 12.00 MEGASTORE = > [LIBRARY Opening hows Mon-Sat 9:30-4:00 Aaj A) \ Book ~ [POST OFFICE Bz) Open Mon-Sat 9.00am - 5.30pm. ESE GO ETT wa cw AE PANT OF HOLT NE Peace cece cededa ad) fa) hada AM dal kala da ao EEE Going to for plans intentions A Trip to Town On the bus you plan what you are going to do, using all the information on these pages. Like this: 1030 bank 11.30 hair cut Then a friend gets on the bus. The time now is 10.15. He/She asks you what you're going to do today. Tell him/her, like this: First, Yim going to the bank. Then, Use words like these: First. Next, Then, After that, Last Compare your plan with another student's. If there are differences, explain your plan, like this: I'm going to the bakery first because they sell out early. rar a TTR = ares na amo EDPAIGE Going to for predictions 6 p> What is Going to Happen Next? Make 8 predictions like this: The little boy is going to fail into the hole. The ants The crocodile oo 8 The bridge @ _ree sving e a The bull Q@ __ ite monkey Q _ sre nenspaper @ _ ire litte dog fe eECEEEsEEEHE & a eeie ia rhea al aa ia FIVE YEARS LATER. No Have the Forward Party's predictions come true? Read these newspaper stories and write yes or no in the spaces above. STREET CRIME UP There were 40% more street crimes in the last three months. NUMBERS OF WILD ANIMALS INCREASE ‘There are more hedgehogs, foxes, wild rabbits and badgers in our countryside than ever before. “WHERE ARE OUR COMPUTERS?” School teachers complained to the government yesterday that they had no computers in their classrooms. MORE JOBS The number of employed people rose again last month FARM PROTEST Hundreds of farmers drove their tractors around Parliament Square yesterday to protest against falling milk prices. HOMES FOR THE POOR New houses for people on low incomes are now available. TRAFFIC ISN’T MOVING: Drivers in Southampton city centre were angry yesterday when roadworks on the main roads caused hours of delay. i TTT TE TESPresent simple for future plans On Tour STUDENT A You and Student B are members of a new pop group. You come from New Zealand and you are going on a tour around the world to promote your band, staying in some cities only long enough Mark on the map where you spend each night with this symbol @.- Sometimes you spend the night in the air. Neither of you knows where you are spending the final night. Wait until the end to find out. ITINERARY Day 1 Monday Leave Auckland midnight. Arrive Vancouver, Canada, the following morning. Lunchtime TY interview. Perform at pop festival in the afternoon. Leave Vancouver 8pm, Day 3 Wednesday Arrive Sao Peulo at 2pm. Breakfast with clients. Appear on TV and perform. Hotel in Sao Paulo Wednesday night. Fly out 8am. Day 5 Friday ‘Appear in breakfast TV. Fly to London at 12 noon. 12 hour flight. 2 hour time difference. Central London hotel Day 7 Sunday morning. Arrive Bombay. Day off. Sightseeing. Relaxing. Evening - do concert, Day 9 Tuesday. Morning meeting, Fly to Tokyo. Evening concert. Fly out. What is the name of your band? Write the letters on Take the third letter of the fourth city you visited, the _‘the poster. second letter of the second city you visited, the last letter of the first city you visited and the fourth letter of the sixth city you went to. Now, take the first letter of the city that you visited on day nine, the second letter of the fifth city you visited, the last letter of the city you lve in, the second letter of the third city and the last letter of the city you ARE COMING TO visited on day eight. YOUR TOWN SOON! EXD scant cama S 5 Pm nm a 5 RRP EPP PEP EY mm Pee mm roherranone =o ee nea CTY Present simple for future plans Oop On Tour STUDENT B a You and Student B are members of a new pop group. You come from New Zealand and you are going on a tour around the world to promote your band, staying in some cities only long enough a to give an interview or do a concert. You have half the itinerary. Student B has the other half. . Don’t show each other your information. Talk about your plans like this: ia Mark on the map where you spend each night with this symbol Sometimes you spend the night in the air. Neither of you knows where you are spending the final night. Wait until the end to find out. im ial ITINERARY Foi Day 2 Tuesday Arrive New York early morning. Lunch and then interviews with magazine journalists in the afternoon. Do concert ‘at Zpm. Leave New York at 12 midnight. Day 4 Thursday Arrive Johannesburg 10pm local time. Hotel. Day 6 Saturday Appear on breakfast TV. Fly to Rome, Lunchtime interview. Fly to Moscow. Evening concert. Fly out overnight. Day 8 Monday Lie-in in Bombay, Fly out in the afternoon. Arrive Singapore mid-evening, Evening concert. Day 10 Wednesday morning, Arrive Sydney. Morning interview. Then fly back to Auckland. jal is) ia What is the name of your band? Write the letters on Take the third letter of the fourth city you visited, the _—_—the poster. second letter of the second city you visited, the last letter of the first city you visited and the fourth letter y q of the sixth city you went to. (a Now, take the first letter of the city that you visited on day nine, the second letter of the fifth city you visited, ‘the last letter of the city you live in, the second letter of the third city and the last letter of the city you ARE COMING TO visited on day eight. YOUR TOWN SOON! da a ia aa(ATT LU eee Present continuous future use Diary Battleships eG Find a partner. You are Student A and your partner is Student B. @ below you will see a copy of your diary. DO NOT SHOW IT TO STUDENT B. od You and Student B are brother and sister. It's the first week of the holidays and your mother wants you to help her with the housework. You and Student B both have three free periods during the first week of the holidays. You must find all 3 of Student B's free periods by asking him/her questions e.g. What are you doing on Friday morning? What are you doing ‘on Tuesday evening? Take it in turns - Student A asks a question, then, Student B asks a question. You are the winner if you find all of Student B's free periods before he/she finds yours, @ %¢ loser has to help your mother with the housework! STUDENTA FRI SAT SUN TUES ‘WED THURS: morning | free working sping to | guing to at the shoe the dentist | choir shop practice babysitting visiting my Rte ne brather for afternoon | shopping for | norking at | [tree ving toking the | Pe Or Joe's the shoe ‘shopping ‘eat to the iad birthday shop with Mum vet present evening | going to traveling to | traveling | cooking free going singing in Joe's visit home dinner for ice-skating | concert Birthday — | grandma ny faily wath Laura party Write Student B’s answers here. FRI SAT SUN MON [TUES [WED | THURS morning afternoon evening © ma Ce a amow ma MORATOTRRATETE ———~) Sn HW ve em um tm tm gy ee ae m mmm mm mim mm umm 1dae a ai le dee de i praeean errs ae WIG TLLE Ee Present continuous future use Diary Battleships eG Find a partner, You are Student B and your partner is Student A. e Below you will see a copy of your diary. DO NOT SHOW IT TO STUDENT A. You and Student A are brother and sister. It’s the first week of the holidays and your mother wants you to help her with the housework. You and Student A both have three free periods during the first week of the holidays. You must find all 3 of Student A’s free periods by asking him/her questions e. What are you doing on Friday morning? What are you doing on Tuesday evening? Take it in turns - Student A asks a question, then, Student B asks a question, You are the winner if you find all of Student B's free periods before he/she finds yours, o The loser has to help your mother with the housework! STUDENT B FRI SAT SUN MON [TUES | WED THURS morning | going for ping helping to | going going free holiday job | shopping | prepare the | skimming horse-riding interview village tele ong afternoon | going to free ging to doing piano - babysitting | beving my basketball wilage fete | prectice for my | hain cut practice day | neighbour evening | going to baking cakes | going to the | playing in pa ieee ‘working on my piano lesson | for the cinema with | basketball holiday project village fete | Mike match, with my study| patie Write Student A’s answers here. FRI SAT SUN MON _| TUES WED THURS morning afternoon evening ESE ain RTE cna na ERSTE WEED