Exercise 4 page 13
2 didn’t go 3 didn’t take place 4 invented 5 competed
6 wore 7 didn’t kick 8 won
Exercise 5 page 13
Students’ own answers
2C Sporting heroes
Exercise 1 page 14
1 g 2 j 3 e 4 f 5 b 6 l 7 i 8 c 9 d 10 a
Exercise 2 page 14
c
Exercise 3 page 14
1 He doesn’t give up.
2 He failed the dribbling test.
3 He was injured and took a long time to recover.
4 Chelsea bought him in 2006.
5 He started his career at Dynamo when he was young and has
finished at the same club now he is older.
6 He raises money to help orphanages and gives money to
hospitals for equipment and hospital workers.
Challenge! page 14
Students’ own answers
Listening Extra Unit 2
Exercise 1 $ LISTENING 7 page 106
It all started in 1980, in a pub in Wales. Two men were having an argument
about an unusual topic: one of them was saying that humans were faster
than horses over a long distance, in a cross-country race. The other man
was insisting that horses were much faster than humans. Who was right?
They couldn’t agree. Well, the owner of the pub – a man called Gordon
Green – heard the argument and decided to find out the answer...by
organizing a race between people and horses!
The first race took place in the same year – 1980 – and the ‘man versus horse
marathon’ became a regular yearly event. (In fact, the course is only 35 km
long, so it isn’t actually a marathon.) The competitors were men, women...
and horses. For the first few years, a horse always won the race.
In 1985, a new rule allowed cyclists to take part as well and although a horse
won the race that year too, it only just beat Jacquie Phelan, a champion
cyclist from the USA. In 1989, British cyclist Tim Gould beat the first horse by
three minutes. This was the first time that a human won the event.
The first human to win the race on foot was Huw Lobb. In 2004, he
completed the course in 2 hours, 5 minutes and 19 seconds. He won
£25,000. That year there were 500 human competitors and 40 horses. The
only other year a human won was in 2007. It seems that horses are faster
than people after all.
A horse usually wins the ‘man versus horse’ marathon.
Exercise 2 $ LISTENING 7 page 106
1 b 2 a 3 b 4 b 5 c 6 c 7 b 8 c
2D Past simple and past
continuous
Exercise 1 page 15
1 went 2 were staying 3 happened 4 was shining
5 decided 6 were playing 7 came 8 suggested
9 was wearing 10 agreed 11 lost 12 enjoyed
Exercise 2 page 15
1 begin ➞ began
2 not appear ➞ didn’t appear
3 was running ➞ were running
4 were giving ➞ gave
5 was watching ➞ were watching
6 didn’t won ➞ didn’t win
7 didn’t ran ➞ didn’t run
Exercise 3 page 15
1 broke, was playing
2 didn’t hear, weren’t listening
3 dropped, was running
4 weren’t wearing, met
5 was raining, left
6 ate, wasn’t looking
Challenge! page 15
At eleven o’clock yesterday morning, the sun was shining. A boy
was cycling and a girl was chatting on the phone. Two women
were having a coffee and a man was reading a magazine. Two
cats were fighting.
2E Surf ’s up
Exercise 1 page 16
1 splash 2 floating 3 wave 4 surface 5 paddle 6 shore
Exercise 2 page 16
Clay Marzo and Jamie Tierney got to know each other while
Jamie was making a documentary about Clay.
Exercise 3 page 16
1 F: Marzo looks relaxed while he is surfing.
2 T 3 T
4 F: Marzo was a professional surfer when he was eleven years
old.
5 T
6 F: The film director realized Marzo had Asperger’s syndrome.
Exercise 4 page 16
1 e 2 b 3 h 4 a 5 g 6 c 7 f 8 d
Challenge! page 16
Students’ own answers
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