BOOST YOUR 0
VOCABUL Y1
Chris Barker
PENGUIN
ENGLISH
Contents Pages
Unit Introduction
4-5
Saying hello a nd goodbye; Introducing yourself a nd other people; Personal details; Tlfles; Friends; British I American WOf"d list
2
5 - 8 Test yaurself 2
12-\7
family
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10
18-23
Age ; Hair ~; Hoir colour; Eye ccOOur; Shades of colour; Height; Measurement of he ight; Measurement of weight; Build
24-29
House and home
Description; Rooms I areas; My room ; Locat ion: prepositions
30-3\
I - 4 Test l1Qurself \ Test exercises 1 - 5
5
32-37
Days; Months; Years; Dates; Sea sons; Time prepositio ns; Time adverbials; Times
6
38-43
Ufeathome
Before school; After school; Adverbs a nd
phrases of frequency; Jobs ar ou nd the
house; Pets; Meals at school and at home
7 _ School = :=...
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Main school subjects in UK schools; People;
Exams; Non-lesson time; Afte r-schoof
act ivities and dubs; School rooms a nd places
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Food and drink
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50 - 55
Sport / AdMty; Penon; Spom ....,ts;
Winning a nd losing
70-75
Basic food; Drinks ; Fruit; Vegetobtes; Meet;
Prepe-ed food
12
Cauntrles, nallanalltles and 76 - 8\ lanquQQes Some countries and nation alities: Europe ; Euro pe I Asio; Midd le East and Asia; North Americo; Central America; South America; Africa ; Australosta; The twelve most wKIe1y spoke n languages
9 -12 Test yourself 3
Time
58-63
CO&OUrs; Shades; Clothes and footwear; 1\:"" of clothes; Style
Life stages; 's
4
Free lime
Activities; Talking about post octMties; Music:; Muslcol instru ments
Male and female ; Fomity members;
3 Describing people: age _ ....;;a"nd ", appearance
56-57
Test exercises 1 - 5
6-11
Meellng I!!!Qple
Pag es
Unit
82-83
Test exercises 1 - 5
Reference
84-87
The English a lpha bet; Heig ht a nd weight ; Numbe rs; Some basic spelling rule s; British and American Eng lish
self assessment and proqress check
Answer key (Centro l pcll-cct section)
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Meeting people Translate the words and phrases. Saying hello and goodbye Informal Hi. Hello.
Bye! See you.
See you lofer.
See you soon.
See you tomorrow.
Formal Good morning. Good afternoon . Good evening. Goodnight. Goodbye.
A: How are you? B: Fine, thanks. / I'm OK, thanks. And you? A: Mm, not too good. / Mm, nof great B: Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. A: How are things? B: Fine, thanks. / Not bod, thanks.
Introducing yourself and other people Informal My nome's (John).
Formal A: Let me introduce (Moria) .
I'm (John).
B: Pleased to meet you.
This is (Mario) .
C: Pleased to meet you, too .
A: Nice to meet you.
Welcome to {London).
B: Nice to meet you, too .
Boost Your Vocabulary I Unit 1
Personaldetails
Titles
First name(s} Surname
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Mole / Female Address
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Street Town / City Postcode
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Dote of bi rth
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Phone number Mobile phone number
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e-mail address
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Mr Mrs Miss Ms
Male Mr adult men
Female Mrs married women Miss unmarried (single) women Ms married or unmarried women
Friends She's my best friend. He's my penfriend. We're good friends. We're in the same class at school. We're classmates. We're neighbours. I know him / her welL I don't know him / her very well. I don't get on very well with him / her. We get on very / really well. We don't get on very well. What's your surname? Could you spell that, please? Could you repeat that, please? Yoo can callme Miss Tracy Bradshaw (,/) or Miss Bradshaw (,/ ) bat not Miss Tracy ~).
You can canme Wayne Connolly (,/) or Wayne (,/) bat not Mr Wayne ~). Yoa can callmyDad Mr Connolly
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British
American
surname postcode mobile phone penfriend gel on
last name zip code cellphone pen pol gel along
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Complete the conversations.
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They're very import ant! Who are they?
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We
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A: How ore you?
B: I'm , thanks. (2) ....... .... ......... How are you? (5) 4 ...... ............ to meet you. (7) 4 My name is Anna . (5) 5 is Smith. (7) 6 My the same class. (2) 7 We're 8 A: How are you? B: I'm , thanks . (4) 9 How are ? (6) 10 It's latel I must go ! (9) 11 you tomorrow. (3)
Good rnorninq. .everyone. Mmm, not great.
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Hello. Pleased to meet you. See you later.
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Goodnight.
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Draw lines to link the personal details. First name
Bradshaw
Surname
[email protected] Date of birth
12, Rose Street
Street
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Town / City
13 April 1989
Posfcode
Milton Keynes
Phone number
Tracy
e-mail address
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Put the words in the right order. Start with the word in the centre of each circle.
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Read about Tracy's best friend. Then write about your best friend .
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7 i Read about Alex. Then complete your personal details and introduce yourself.
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Sa Put the missing phrases in Conversation 1 or 2. Fine, thanks. I'm Rosa. Pleased to meet you, too.
Hello, Mark. Hi. How are you?
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Laura Mark
Hello. Pleased to meet you.
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Hi. . This is my friend. Hello Hi, I'm Jock.
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You are with Simon, your English penfriend. You meet one of your classmates in the street. Write the conversation. You
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Classmate You Simon C1cissmate
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Family Translate the words and phrases. Male and female boy
girl
man
woman
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(plural : women)
Family members Male / Female
Male
Female
grandfather
grandmother
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grandparent
grandson
granddaughter
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grandchild
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Dad
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stepfather
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stepmother
brother
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sister
stepbrother
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holfbrother
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husband
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son
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uncle
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nephew
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mother
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child
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teenager
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adult
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guard ian
halfsister
aunt
life stages baby
parent
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relation / relative
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Roberto is Tommaso's fat ner.
Tommaso is Anno's brother.
Hello. fly name'sShamina. Tve got a siste» and a baby brotbe« We five with 00f' parents in London. GarFamilyis qpite large. Tve got roar oonis. Faar ancles and sevencousins:
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Have you got any brothers and sisters? I've got a brother and a sister. He's got on older sister and a younger brother. I'm an only child. My po rents ore separated. My parents are divorced. Our family's quite small. Our family's quite large. See page 86 for the British / American word list.
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Female
grandmother
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Male / Female
guardian
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Who are Wayne's relations? 1
His father's mother's husband is
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Choose five members of your family and write their names.
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Adam Peter
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Brothers: TI.m, Mark, Sam ( all older)
No, not at the moment. Actor and singer
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Use the chart in exercise 5 to write about Adam, Kelle and yourself.
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How good is your memory? You have one minute to read about Shamina and Jonathon on page 13. Now write sentences about Shamina and Jonathon. Don't look at page 13.
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9a Read the clues and identify the people. Write their names in the family tree.
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Emma's got a younger sister called Diana. David and Mary are husband and wife. Diana's father is ca lled Neil.
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eli Are you good at writing puzzles? Write some clues for a puzzle about your own family. Ask a friend to complete it.
Write ten words and five expressions you are going to memorize.
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Describing people: age and appearance
Translate the words and phrases.
Age middle-aged old
young
in her teens
in his twenties
Howald are you?
I'm 14. / I'm 14 years old.
He's in his twenties.
She's in her thirties.
Hair length
Eye colour
short medium length long
blue brown grey green
Hair colour
Shades of colour
brown black fair blonde red grey white
dark light
not very
quite
very
He's not very old.
She's quite old.
Her heir's very long.
What does he / she look like?
What's her hair like?
She's got dark brown hair.
What colour hair has he got?
He's got short, fair hair.
What colour eyes has she got?
She's got light blue eyes.
They're a sort of greenish brown.
Boost Your Vocabulary 1 Unit 3
Height
Measurement of weight
toll of medium height short
kilo stone pound
Measurement of height metre centimetre foot (plural: feet) inch (plural : inches) 1 metre
= 3.28 feet
1 centimetre 1 foot
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0.39 inch
= 12 inches
See page 84 (or height and weight abbreviations.
Build small big slim of medium build well-built muscular How He's He's He's He's
See page 86 (or the British / American word list.
toll is he? (quite) tall. of medium height. (quite) short. about 1 metre 75.
How much do you weigh? I weigh about 50 kilos .
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1 I Describe the age group of these people. 1 She's about 43 or 44. She's in her forties. 2 He's 52. 3 She's 16. 4 He's about 27 or 28 . 5 She's 3.
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Hair colour / shade
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How good is your moths? Use the information on page 19 to find the answers to the quiz.
See page 84 for height and weighf
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