Answer Key Macmillan English Hub B1+/B2- Student’S Book
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Answer key Macmillan English Hub B1+/B2- Student’s Book Welcome B 1 c GRAMMAR 2 a A 3 b 1 ’m looking 2 don’t know C 3 going to be Students’ own answers 4 have D 5 was 1 They were friends at school, but they last saw each 6 You’ll other eight years ago. 7 did you decide 2 Because she and Elisa both thought the other one had a 8 was trying perfect life. B 3 Last week. 4 It’s lovely, but it caused a lot of problems. 2 correct 5 3 It’s an online course, so all the answers are checked by She loves it. a computer. 6 She’s too busy. 4 correct E 5 Everybody makes mistakes when they speak English – even Students’ own answers English speakers! 6 correct GRAMMAR 7 It’s important to learn a lot of new words, but I don’t really A enjoy to studying vocabulary. Present simple: have, get up, take, watch, seems, show, think, C understand, look, talks, love, don’t mind, know, mean, guess, Students’ own answers need, see, work, use, rains Present continuous: is feeling, ’m writing, ’m smiling, VOCABULARY ’re getting, ’m not complaining, is becoming, ’m thinking, A ’m sitting, ’s shining Describing places Illnesses Transport B attractive headache coach a rule 3 b modern temperature helicopter b rule 4 noisy toothache tram c rule 3 a d rule 5 B e rule 2 1 with 2 took 3 at 4 borrow 5 keep 6 for 7 get f rule 3 c C C Students’ own answers Rule 2: Her pictures always show her wonderful family … / But no one ever talks about money problems … PRONUNCIATION Rule 3a: Katia … is feeling confused / I’m not 1 were complaining, though 2 can Rule 3b: That’s why I’m sitting on the beach in all my 3 walk pictures! / … we only take pictures when the sun’s shining! 4 mouth Rule 3c: My life is becoming a bit boring 5 have Rule 4: I love being normal … and I don’t mind that … / I 6 these guess I need to explain … 7 cap Rule 5: I think I understand what happened / I’m thinking of FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE staying at home this evening … 1 d 2 h 3 a 4 i 5 f 6 b 7 g 8 e 9 c E 2 S 3 S 4 S 5 D 6 D 7 S 8 S 9 S 10 D 1 COMMUNICATION 11 S 12 D UNIT OPENER F 1–3 Students’ own answers Students’ own answers 1.1 Communication today SPEAKING READING A–D Students’ own answers A Students’ own answers Published by Macmillan Education, a division of Springer Nature Limited. © Springer Nature Limited, 2019. This page may be photocopied and used within the class. 1 Answer key Macmillan English Hub B1+/B2- Student’s Book LISTENING SPEAKING HUB A–B A–E Students’ own answers Students’ own answers C 1 brother and sister; making a podcast 1.2 Who owns English? 2 a voice recorder LISTENING 3 a week without using their mobile phones; making a A podcast about it Students’ own answers D B 1 Jackson couldn’t find Olivia because he usually uses his 1 For a blog post. She wants to interview him about his phone to get to places. experiences of using English during his trip across Europe. 2 Someone helped him and told him where Olivia was. 2 He met a lot of great people and had amazing conversations. 3 In England E 4 Mostly pronunciation but also some grammar differences. Arranged a plan B: what to do if something goes wrong; 5 On a train, first class is better than standard class. Juan thinks Jackson wore a watch; Jackson checked a map before he left. non-standard English is better (for some purposes) than F Standard English. 6 Juan thinks it is useful for international communication. 1 Yes 2 Looking around and thinking about their surroundings C G 1 Both 2 Juan 1 c 2 a 3 c 4 a 5 b 3 Mona H 4 Juan Students’ own answers 5 Both VOCABULARY D Suggested answers A 1 They are discussing MLE. Juan doesn’t think the grammar 1 looking at can be wrong as so many people use it. 2 looks 2 They are discussing other non-standard forms of English, 3 looking; see such as Jamaican English and Indian English. 4 listen to; watch 3 Mona thinks it’s better to use Standard English because it’s 5 sounds good English. 6 hear 4 Standard English is easier for non-native speakers to 7 sounds understand, so it’s better to use this. 8 look B GRAMMAR 1 hear A 2 look; listen 1 Can I ask you a few questions? 3 watch 2 Which countries did you visit? 4 looks; sounds 3 What happened in England? 5 looks; sounds 4 How is English changing? 5 Who uses MLE? D 6 What do you mean by ‘Standard English’? 1 observe 7 So are you saying we need to learn non-standard English? 2 recognise 3 notice B a 4; 7 E b 2; 6 Students’ own answers c 3; 5 PRONUNCIATION C A 2 countries did Juan visit 2 We arranged to meet here, outside the university, at 3 Can you give me an example four o’clock. 4 form of English is becoming popular in London 3 It’s Monday afternoon and I’m late meeting Olivia. 5 people speak non-standard English 4 I’ll buy you a cake to say thank you, and you can tell us what 6 Do most native speakers speak Standard English you think of our podcasts. 5 Yes, I’m wearing a watch today – an old one from when I was a teenager. Published by Macmillan Education, a division of Springer Nature Limited. © Springer Nature Limited, 2019. This page may be photocopied and used within the class. 2 Answer key Macmillan English Hub B1+/B2- Student’s Book PRONUNCIATION 1.3 Welcome back A COMPREHENSION a Speaker 2 A b Speaker 1 1 Sam B–C 2 Milly Students’ own answers 3 Zac 4 Neena SPEAKING 5 Zac A–C 6 Sam Students’ own answers 7 Gaby READING B 1 For Sam’s website A 2 He thinks Milly’s mum died Students’ own answers 3 He is meeting Milly’s mum B 4 Pants are underwear – Zac means trousers. 1 Positive (especially in the second half). 5 She has a photoshoot but she has a broken arm 2 Library picture: Our brains are like a library. When we add C more and more information, the old information is still Students’ own answers there, but it gets harder to find it. That’s why we feel like we forget languages that we once spoke. FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE Door picture: When we don’t use a foreign word for a A long time, it becomes blocked by the word from our own 1 help language. After some time, it becomes hard to unblock that 2 giving word, just like it’s hard to open a door that’s been closed for 3 help a long time. 4 need Colourful words: This is an example of bad information 5 give (the words themselves) blocking the good information 6 help (the colour they’re written in), just like how words in 7 help our first language block foreign words that we’re trying 8 need to remember. 9 help C 10 help What’s the worst thing about learning a language?; Is it the B hundreds of hours you need to spend studying and practising?; 1 I need a favour. Can you lend me some clothes? Please? How do I know?; So is there any hope for me and my Spanish?; 2 I can give you a hand with that. How does this work in practice?; And what happened when 3 Thank you so much, that would be great. I left Spain?; How can I open those doors?; Is there anything 4 Shall I bring some stuff round to the flat later? good to say about this ‘blocking’ process?; Did you notice 5 That would be awesome. how hard it was to say the colour when the word itself was a 6 Do you need a hand? colour?; What’s the connection with language learning?; What’s 7 I can manage. I’m OK. the best thing about learning a language?; Is it the ability to 8 Listen, let me help you. communicate with different people around the world? USEFUL PHRASES E Students’ own answers A 1 d VOCABULARY 2 f A 3 a 1 monolingual; bilingual 4 b 2 phrase 5 c 3 accent 6 e 4 idiom B 5 fluently; accurately Students’ own answers SPEAKING HUB A–D Students’ own answers Published by Macmillan Education, a division of Springer Nature Limited. © Springer Nature Limited, 2019. This page may be photocopied and used within the class. 3 Answer key Macmillan English Hub B1+/B2- Student’s Book PRONUNCIATION 2 EXPERIENCES A UNIT OPENER 1 rises 1–3 Students’ own answers 2 falls B 2.1 Important decisions 1 Asking for help 2 Offering help READING Could you help me out? Do you need any help? A Would you mind giving me Shall I give you a hand? 1 c a hand? 2 a SPEAKING 3 b 4 e A–B 5 d Students’ own answers B Unit 1 Review Students’ own answers GRAMMAR C 1 b A 2 two people – the first and third 2 ’m studying 3 ’m really enjoying D 4 don’t speak 1 49 5 ’s getting 2 You need a lot of time and money.