New New Clive Oxenden Student’s Book FILE ENGLISH Christina Latham-Koenig It has all the elements that ENGLISH FILE ‘have made the series 100% such a successful one.’ The course that gets students talking ● Motivating, Fun, motivating lessons that work NEW real-world texts p.84 The perfect balance of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and ● Grammar Bank with skills to help your students use English really effectively. rules and exercises p.132 Student’s Book ● Illustrated A complete package for teachers and students Vocabulary Bank p.146 The Teacher’s Book gives you the support you need, and all the New and Sound Bank p.158 components work together for more effective learning. ● Colloquial English focus Upper-intermediate on everyday language p.32 Common European Framework of Reference B2 ENGLISH FILE Student’s Book Upper-intermediate English Sounds Pronunciation Chart Teacher’s Book based on an original idea and design ● Full notes, with extras highlighted in colour. by Paul Seligson and Carmen Dolz ● Photocopiable Grammar, Communicative, and Vocabulary activities. ● A song in every File. ● A Test and Assessment CD-ROM. iPack ● New digital teaching material. ● For use with interactive whiteboards, projectors, and computers. DVD ● Brings the Colloquial English lessons to life. MultiROM ● Home-study CD-ROM and audio CD in one. ● Grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, video, dictation, and exam practice. ● Extra listening. Workbook ● Lesson by lesson revision and practice. ● Available with or without Key Booklet. Oxenden Latham-Koenig Class audio ● Four CDs of class listening material. Website ● Interactive exercises, games, and downloadable material at: www.oup.com/elt/englishfi le/upper-intermediate Study Link Look out for the Study Link logo throughout the course. This shows links between components to make teaching and learning more effective. oxford english ISBN 978-0-19-451842-0 www.oup.com/elt/englishfi le/upper-intermediate 2 2 9 780194 518420 WWWOUPCOMELT NNEFEF UUPPER-INTPPER-INT SSBB CCover.inddover.indd 1 229/10/089/10/08 111:14:371:14:37 Clive Oxenden Christina Latham-Koenig New ENGLISH FILE Upper-intermediate Student’s Book Paul Seligson and Clive Oxenden are the original co-authors of 1 English File 1 (pub. 1996) and English File 2 (pub. 1997). 00NEF Upp-Int SB Contents Fnl. 29/9/08 10:28 Page 2 00NEF Upp-Int SB Contents Fnl. 29/9/08 10:28 Page 3 Contents Grammar Vocabulary Pronunciation Grammar Vocabulary Pronunciation 1 5 4 A Q and A revision: question formation working out meaning intonation, stress, and rhythm 68 A The psychology of music gerunds and infinitives music ch and y from context in questions 72 B Counting sheep used to, be used to, get used to sleep linking words 8 B Do you believe it? auxiliary verbs; personality using a dictionary to check word stress; the…the… + comparatives intonation and sentence rhythm 76 C Breaking news reporting verbs; the media word stress as 12 C You’re the doctor! present perfect (simple and illness and treatment consonant and vowel sounds continuous) 80 COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH Music festivals 81 WRITING A formal letter 16 COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH What does the future hold? 82 REVISE & CHECK What do you remember? What can you do? 17 WRITING An informal email / letter 18 REVISE & CHECK What do you remember? What can you do? 6 84 A Speaking to the world articles collocation: word pairs sentence stress 2 20 A National stereotypes: using adjectives as nouns, clothes and fashion vowel sounds 88 B Bright lights, big city uncountable and plural nouns; towns and cities word stress in multi-syllable words truth or myth? adjective order have something done 24 B Air travel: the inside story narrative tenses, past perfect continuous; air travel irregular past forms 92 C Eureka! quantifiers: all / every, etc. science changing stress in word families so / such…that 96 COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH Great cities 28 C Incredibly short stories adverbs and adverbial phrases confusing adverbs and word and sentence stress 97 WRITING A report adverbial phrases 98 REVISE & CHECK What do you remember? What can you do? 32 COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH Flying high 33 WRITING A short story 7 34 EVISE HECK What do you remember? What can you do? R & C 100 A I wish you wouldn’t...! structures after wish -ed / -ing adjectives and related sentence rhythm verbs; expressions with go 3 104 B A test of honesty clauses of contrast and purpose; business and advertising changing stress in nouns and verbs 36 A The one place a passive (all forms), it is said that…, crime and punishment the letter u whatever, whenever, etc. burglar won’t look he is thought to…, etc. 108 C Tingo relative clauses prefixes word stress 40 B Stormy weather future perfect and future continuous weather vowel sounds 112 COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH Words 44 C Taking a risk conditionals and future time clauses; expressions with take sentence stress and rhythm 113 WRITING ‘For and against’ likely and probably 114 REVISE & CHECK What do you remember? What can you do? 48 COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH High risk? 49 WRITING Expressing your opinion 50 EVISE HECK What do you remember? What can you do? R & C 116 Communication 121 Listening 4 132 Grammar Bank 52 A Would you get out alive? unreal conditionals feelings sentence rhythm 146 Vocabulary Bank Look out for Study Link 56 B How I trained my husband past modals; verbs often confused weak form of have 157 Phrasal verbs in context This shows you where to find extra material for would rather, had better more practice and revision. 158 Sound Bank 60 C Let your body do the verbs of the senses the body silent letters talking 64 COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH Stage and screen 65 WRITING An article 66 REVISE & CHECK What do you remember? What can you do? G revision: question formation V working out meaning from context 1 P intonation, stress, and rhythm in questions 2 PRONUNCIATION intonation, stress, and rhythm in questions Using the right intonation or tone helps you to sound friendly and interested Q and A when you speak English. Stressing the right words in a sentence helps you speak A with a good rhythm. Intonation + stress = the music and rhythm of English. a 1.1 Listen to questions 1–8. In which one does the speaker sounds more friendly and interested? Write a or b. 1 GRAMMAR revision: question formation 12345678 a Complete the following questions with one or two question words Young star, old star b 1.2 Listen and underline the stressed words in these questions. or an auxiliary verb. Every week the British newspaper, The Guardian, 1What’s your favourite kind of music? 5 How long have you been How much 1 do you earn? chooses people who have been in the news recently, and 2 Have you ever been to a health club? living here? 2 Are you married? publishes a short interview with them called Q&A. The Q&A Lionel Richie 3 How often do you go away at the 6 What are you thinking about? 3 have you been learning English? questionnaire often includes quite personal questions. weekend? 7 Are you a vegetarian? 4 do you prefer, small towns or big cities? Lionel Richie was born in Alabama, USA. He 4 Do you know what’s on TV tonight? 8 What do you do to relax? 5 do you go to the theatre a year? Norah Jones Norah Jones was born became famous in the 1970s as lead singer with 6 tall are you? Q&A c Listen again and repeat the questions in b. Try to sound as friendly as in New York and is the The Commodores and again in the 1980s as a 7 religion are you? possible. Then ask each other the questions. daughter of the Indian sitar solo singer. He is best remembered for songs like 8 you want to have children? player and composer Ravi Three times a lady, All night long, and Say you 9 of music do you listen to? Shankar and the concert (say me), for which he won an Oscar. 3 SPEAKING 10 advice do you listen to most? promoter Sue Jones; her a Look at the answers other celebrities gave to some other questions in 11 you ever said ‘I love you’ and not meant it? half-sister is the musician 1 What’s your idea of perfect happiness? The Guardian interview series. In pairs, try to guess what the original 12 did you vote for in the last election? Anoushka Shankar. A singer- Sunday by the pool, no phone calls. questions were. songwriter, her debut album, b Cross (✘) the questions above which you wouldn’t ask a person 2 What’s your earliest memory? Come away with me, sold La Sagrada Familia When England went out you don’t know very well. Are there any questions which you My first day at pre-school. I was terrified. I’d For the Labour party. more than 20 million copies basilica in Barcelona. of the World Cup. would not even ask a good friend? Which questions might you never seen that many children in my whole life. worldwide and won her five expect to find in a magazine interview with a famous person? 3 What’s your most treasured possession? Grammy Awards. 1 2 3 My Oscar. c Read the two interviews. Which question is…? 4 If you could edit your past, what would you the most personal the most boring the most original. 1 Where would you like to live? change? d Read the interviews again and write N (Norah) or L (Lionel). Barcelona. The Commodores never did a farewell tour. 2 What do you most dislike about your appearance? We just broke up and disappeared.