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Mục lục:

1 CULTURE
• Hairstyles
2 CLIL
Art: Colours
3 CLIL
• Geology: The water cycle
4 CLIL
• Society: Fairtrade
5 CLIL
• Science: Genetic engineering
6 CULTURE
Work experience
7 CULTURE
Youth projects
8 CULTURE
Book days

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1 CULTURE

• Hairstyles

I can report back on a class survey about hairstyles.

1 Look at the photos. Then read the article. Which photo(s) match(es) each decade?

2 🔊3.02 Read and listen to the article again and answer the questions.

1 Why was a hairstyle called ‘the Rachel’?

2 What did the hairstyle in the 2000s look like?

3 What new hair colour became popular in the 2010s?

3 YOUR CULTURE Work in pairs. Answer the questions about Việt Nam.

1 Which hairstyles are most popular in Việt Nam at the moment?

2 Which of the following are fashionable for men in Việt Nam?

beard long hair moustache undercut

3 What colour hair dye is the most popular in Việt Nam?

black blonde brown grey red other

4 USE IT! Do a class survey using the questions below. Then report the results.

1 Which hairstyle from the text do you like most?

2 Which hairstyle from the text do you like least?

3 Did you use to have a different hairstyle when you were younger? Describe it.

4 What hair colour would you like to try?

The most / least popular hairstyle in the class is …

The number of people who like / don’t like it is …

The most / least popular hair colour is …

The number of people who like / don’t like it is …

… people used to have a different hairstyle in the past.

Hair through the decades

Like fashion trends, hairstyles come and go. Here’s a look at hair crazes over the past thirty years.

The ‘Rachel’

This hairstyle was named after Rachel Green, a character from the 1990s American sitcom Friends. The actress Jennifer Aniston, who played Rachel in the show, used to have medium-length hair that was cut in layers at the bottom.

Extensions

The craze for very long, straight hair in the first decade of the 21st century made hair extensions extremely popular.

2010s

Grey hair

This decade introduced a strange new fashion of young women with grey hair. Not natural grey hair, but a dye to change the colour to silver grey.

The beard and the moustache

OK, so they’re not really hairstyles, but the long beard and curly moustache will be remembered as the look of the 2010s. They were so popular that images of moustaches even decorated blouses, hats and all sorts of clothes.

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2 CLIL

Art: Colours

I can name colours and say how they relate to each other.

1 Check the meaning of the words in the box. Do you know any other adjectives to describe colours?

complementary harmonious pastel primary secondary vibrant

2 Read the text. Write the names of colours 1–6 on the colour wheel. Which colours are primary and which are secondary?

Yellow - primary

3🔊 3.03 Read and listen to the text again. Complete the sentences using the words in exercise 1.

Yellow and purple are ..................... colours.
Blue and red are ..................... colours.
A .....................colour is bright and strong.
Green and yellow are ..................... colours.
Orange and purple are..................... colours.
A ..................... colour is pale and soft.

4 USE IT! Work in groups. Look at Wassily Kandinsky’s painting Squares with Concentric Circles. Choose two squares in the painting and say how the colours in each square are related. Which square do you like best and why?

... and ... are harmonious / complementary colours.

I like ... because it looks .... It reminds me of ....

The COLOUR Wheel

Have you ever thought about how colours are related? Why do some colour combinations look good and others don’t?

According to Isaac Newton, white light consists of all the colours of the rainbow. Newton then arranged them in a circle of warm and cool calegories.

Red, blue and yellow are the three primary colours on the colour wheel. By mixing two primary colours, we've got the secondary colours green, orange and purple.

Colours can also be harmonious or complementary. Complementary colours are directly opposite each other, like red and green. Harmonious colours sit next to each other on the wheel.

Famous artists and decorators have used the colour wheel to choose the right colours ever since then. Everyone agrees that colours can affect our feelings. A vibrant red, for example, is often associated with anger or danger, while yellow is a happy colour. Blue can make people feel calm; pastel pink, which is a gentle pink, sometimes makes them think of romance, and green is the colour of nature.

What’s your favourite colour? What do you associate it with?

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3 CLIL

• Geology: The water cycle

I can understand the water cycle and describe the journey of a river.

1 Match the words in blue in the fact sheet with definitions 1–7.

changes from liquid into gas ...................
changes from gas into liquid ...................
rainfall ...................
water when it exists in the air ...................
the part of the land or body of water at the top ...................
ice is in this state ...................
water at room temperature is this ...................

2 Read the fact sheet. What happens to water when it falls to the Earth?

THE WATER CYCLE

Now here is a challenge for you. Go and get a glass of water and take a look at it. Can you guess how old it is? Well, your water perhaps fell from a cloud just a couple of weeks ago, but it has been around for the same length of time as planet Earth! That means that your glass of water was around when the first creatures swam in the sea and when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth. But how is this possible?

The fact is that the quantity of water on the Earth remains the same over time and it constantly goes through the water cycle. In the cycle, there is continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth. Firstly, the sun heats the water in the rivers, seas and oceans, and it evaporates into the air. Plants and trees lose water, too, and this also goes up into the air. The water vapour then cools and condenses into small drops which form clouds.

You can see how condensation happens if you look again at your glass of water on a hot day. After a short time, water from the air condenses onto the cold glass. Back to the sky, though, and the next step is that the clouds gradually get heavier and heavier until they can’t hold the water any more, and it falls to Earth as rain, sleet or snow.

Water can change state from liquid to vapour to solid during the cycle, but any form of water that falls from the clouds is called precipitation. When on Earth, some of the water runs into rivers, lakes and streams and becomes surface water. Some enters the ground and forms underground rivers or lakes before eventually flowing back to the seas and oceans. The cycle is complete.

3 Label the diagram with the words in the box.

condensation evaporation precipitation water returns to the sea

4 🔊 3.04 Read and listen to the fact sheet again. Answer the questions.

What is true about the amount of water on Earth?
Why does water vapour condense?
What happens to a glass of water on a hot day?
Name two forms of precipitation. Do you know any more?
What are the three states that water can be in?

5 USE IT! Work in pairs. Create a poster to show what happens in the water cycle. Include information from this page.

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4 CLIL

• Society: Fairtrade

I can talk about Fairtrade and design a poster about it.

1 Read paragraphs 1 and 2 of the text quickly to find the words below. What part of speech are they? Explain their meaning in your own words.

conditions label plantation price profit

2 Read the article. What is Fairtrade?

MAKE BANANAS FAIR

Bananas are the most popular fruit in the world. British people love eating bananas, but they don’t grow in the UK and have to be transported. So how is it possible that a banana only costs eleven pence in supermarkets?

1 The reason is that the farmers often get very little because the companies who buy bananas want to make big profits. Life isn’t easy on a banana plantation. The farmers work long hours and can get harmed by dangerous pesticides.

2 Fairtrade is an international movement that tries to help farmers and workers in developing countries. Fairtrade products include items like bananas, coffee, sugar, cocoa, and rice. When you buy a product with the Fairtrade label, you know the farmers received a fair price and worked in good conditions.

3 Foncho, a Fairtrade banana farmer in Colombia who belongs to a farmers’ co-operative. ‘We experienced very difficult times when we weren’t in Fairtrade,’ he says. Today, as a Fairtrade farmer, he gets a minimum price for his bananas and his co-operative also gets the Fairtrade premium. This means he can build his family a house and support them.

4 Therefore, next time you are shopping in the supermarket, look for the Fairtrade label. If enough people choose to buy Fairtrade goods, more companies will pay the farmers a fair price.

3 🔊 3.05 Read and listen to the article again. Write true or false. Correct the false sentences.

People in the UK don’t grow bananas.
Some banana farmers don’t earn enough because companies don’t pay a fair price.
Fairtrade only helps banana farmers.
Foncho buys bananas from farmers and sells them to supermarkets.
Thanks to the Fairtrade, Foncho’s life is getting better now.

4 USE IT! Work in groups. Make a poster about Fairtrade. Include pictures.

Write about workers’ conditions like this:

Workers often	word earn
	can't don't

Write about consumers’ actions:

Consumers

don’t, should

buy, pay

more, enough

Include a slogan, for example:

Buy … / Give … / Pay … / Help …

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5 CLIL

• Science: Genetic engineering

I can understand genetic engineering and give my opinion about it.

1 Check the meaning of the words in the box.Use the words to complete the text below.

alter crops diseases gene genetic engineering herbicides nutrients weeds

2 🔊 3.06 Read and listen to the text. Match headings A–E with paragraphs 1–5.

A What genetic engineering can do

B Doubts about genetic engineering

C An example of genetic engineering

D Defining genes

E Genetic engineering and weeds

1 Did you know that scientists have put a fish ................... into a tomato? They did it to develop tomatoes which can grow in cold temperatures.

2 So what are genes? Genes are instructions which exist inside every cell of every living thing. Each cell in the human body contains about 25,000 to 35,000 genes which determine your eye colour, how tall you are, what skills you have, and so on. So if you

......................... a plant gene, you can change a specific characteristic like colour, shape or height.

................ changes the genes of plants or animals to make genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Scientists believe that GMOs can help us in many ways. For example, GM

....................can produce more food which contains more

...................... . They can also have an engineered resistance to insects and

.................. and stay fresh for longer. GMOs can make fish grow larger and make cows produce healthier milk. Some people think that if we want to feed the world’s population, we will need GMOs.

3 Answer the questions.

Why did scientists genetically modify a tomato?
What do genes do?
What effect can herbicides have on crops?
What sort of plants can resist herbicides?
Why do some people oppose the use of GMOs?

4 USE IT! Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions.

Do you think GM food is a good idea?
Are you happy to eat GM vegetables or fruit? Why / Why not?
Are you happy to eat meat from a GM animal? Why / Why not?
How much more will you pay for organic food?
Will we be able to feed the world if we use GM food?

4 But does genetic engineering work? Farmers use

...................to kill weeds, but these chemicals can also damage crops. In the USA, farmers use GM crops which resist herbicides, so that they can destroy

................... without damaging the crop. However, some ‘superweeds’ are becoming immune to the herbicides, so the farmers have to use more and more chemicals.

5 Food is very important to all of us and many people believe we are what we eat. These people are worried about the overuse of chemicals and the possible effects of eating GMOs. Some governments oppose them. What do you think?

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6 CULTURE

Work experience

I can talk about the benefits of work experience.

1 Look at the photos and answer the questions. Then read the article and check your answers.

1 What job categories can you see?

2 Why do you think some teenagers work in their holidays?

The world of work experience

Forget relaxing with friends. The end of the school year is a time for working for most fourteen- and fifteen-year-olds in the UK. Around half a million teenagers in the UK do work experience every summer. This is a useful way to find out which jobs you might enjoy in the future. It is also important when you apply for university, or get a job in the future. For example, if you want to study to be an engineer, you could do work experience with a car manufacturer. Other popular work experience placements are in teaching, marketing, media, and finance. Placements usually last two weeks.

Some teenagers have no idea what job they want to do. In this case, they need to think about their passions. For example, if you are interested in music, you could work in a music shop. Alternatively, if you love animals, you could work on a farm.

2🔊 3.07 Read and listen to the article again and answer the questions.

1 What time of year do most teenagers do work experience in the UK?

2 Why does the writer think work experience is useful?

3 How long are placements?

4 What does Paul want to do when he finishes school?

3 YOUR CULTURE Work in pairs and answer the questions.

Do teenagers usually do work experience in your country?
NO	YES
Why not? Do you think it's a good idea to do work experience? Why / Why not?	which types of jobs are most popular? How old are people when they do work experience?

4 USE IT! Imagine your country has a new rule: All fourteen-year-olds must do work experience in the school holidays. Prepare a class debate. Follow instructions 1-3.

1 Group A: you agree with the rule.

Group B: you disagree with the rule.

In pairs, write a list of reasons to support your opinion.

2 Take turns to present your reasons.

3 Decide which group presented the best argument.

My work experience:

Hi, I'm Paul, and I've just done two week's work experience on a farm near where I live. It was brilliant. I enjoyed giving the animals their food in the morning. I also made sure the animals had exercise and I kept everything clean. At night, I helped to put the animals inside. It was hard work but I loved it. I hope the farm will give me a job when I finish school.

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7 CULTURE

Youth projects

I can research and talk about youth projects.

1 Read the article about the Hideaway Youth project. Why did the project win an award?

2 🔊3.08 Read and listen to the article again and answer the questions.

1 How old are the young people who are supported by the Hideaway Youth Project?

2 What are the aims of Hideaway?

3 What happened in 1965?

4 What programmes should young people join if they want to become healthier?

5 What can people learn at the Young Men's Project and the Young Women's Project?

6 Why was 2014 an important year for Hideaway?

3 YOUR CULTURE Work in pairs and answer the questions about your country.

1 Are youth projects like Hideaway common in your country?

2 Do you think enough is being done in your country to support young people? Why / Why not?

4 USE IT! Research a youth project in your country and write a fact file about it. Find out:

what the project is called
where it is
when it was started
what its main aims are
who can join
what people can do there
what the benefits of joining are for young people

HIDEAWAY YOUTH PROJECT

Helping young people to make a difference

Aims

Hideaway tries to support young people aged eleven to twenty-five in Moss Side, Manchester. The organisation aims to give young people a way of expressing their opinions and making positive contributions to society.

History

In the 1960s, the city of Manchester had problems with crime, violence and unemployment. The founders of the Hideaway Youth Project wanted to provide a safe place - a 'hideaway' for young people in the Moss Side area in particular.

Since opening in 1965, the project has helped thousands of teenagers of different cultures, religions and races. They can share their stories and get advice, as well as take part in activities that develop skills. Many of these teenagers then go on to become project volunteers themselves.

Activities

Programmes include:

Powerhouse - fun sports activities such as football and basketball, or specialist sessions on cooking and art.

Healthy Living - young people learn about how important it is to eat well and do regular exercise. Young Men's Project and Young Women's Project - these two separate projects support and encourage young men and women to talk about sensitive topics openly and honestly. The sessions promote acceptance and tolerance, and build self-confidence.

Award winners

In 2014, the Hideaway Youth Project won the Youth Work Award for their success in helping young people be the best that they can be.

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8 CULTURE

Book days

I can talk about book festivals.

1 Make compound nouns using the words in the boxes. Then scan the text to find three compound nouns from the list. What do they mean?

best book story work

sellers shop telling worm

2 Read the web page to find out which festival is the oldest.

Let's celebrate

BOOKS!

Do you want to meet other people who just love a good story? Then check out these perfect festivals for all bookworms!

International Agatha Christie Festival

Agatha Christie, the famous mystery writer, is the best-selling novelist of all time. Her books, translated into over 100 languages, are read and loved by people all over the world. Since 2004, fans of Agatha Christie have been meeting every year at the festival.

Where?

Torre Abbey, Torquay in Devon

When?

September (usually the 11 to the 20t)

What?

Listen to talks on Agatha Christie's books, watch theatre groups perform her plays, take part in writing and drama workshops, go to murder mystery parties and taste food that appears in Agatha Christie's books!

3 🔊3.09 Read and listen to the text again and answer the questions.

1 Which month is most popular for book festivals?

2 You like acting and want to attend a suitable workshop. Which festival would you go to? Why?

3 Your neighbours want to take their young children to a book festival. Which one would you recommend? Why?

4 You don't like large festivals. Which festival should you not go to? Why not?

5 You prefer hearing stories to reading books. Which is the best festival for you? Why?

4 YOUR CULTURE Write about a book or film festival in your country. Do research online and complete the table.

Name of the festival
History of the festival
Where it takes place
When it takes place
What you can do there

5 USE IT! Work in pairs. Tell your partner about the festival you wrote about in exercise 4.

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Nguyễn Văn Bình Book Street

Launched on January 9, 2016, Nguyễn Văn Bình Book Street received 1.5 million visitors and sold more than 500,000 copies of books in the first year. It provides a location for businesses in the publishing sector to organise events and present products, and a cultural space for book enthusiasts. The pedestrian-only street includes more than 20 book stalls featuring books and magazines from domestic and foreign publishers.

Where?

Nguyễn Văn Bình Street, District 1, Hồ Chí Minh City, Việt Nam

When?

8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Daily

What?

Listen to famous writers talk about their best-sellers, take part in writing workshops and talk shows, attend book signing and book release, and choose from thousands of titles in the festival bookshop.