Matters Intermediate Workbook.pdf

JAN BELL

ROGER COWER

Intermediate

JAN BELL

ROGER GOWER

Contents chart

Unit

Page

Reading

Listening

Writing

My favourite things

Magazine article

Daily routine

How do I look?

Punctuation; dictation

Adventures abroad

Newspaper article;

vocabulary in

context

Home thoughts from

abroad

Two people describing

learning a language

Dictation

A bit windy

Short story extract

Are you 'green?

Childre.n talking about

the environment

Semi-formal / personal

writing; dictation

Choosing a partner

Novel extract

A place to live

Interview with an estate

agent

Linking expressions

Reading the signs

Magazine article

A better life?

Two people talking

about the future

Spelling

Is the service good

enough?

Sketches of different

people at work

Dialogue

Money, money, money

Magazine article

Dictation

Layabout

Three people talking

about their dreams

Summary writing

Leisure

Jigsaw text

Punctuation and layout;

abbreviations

A meal or murder?

Ed talking about

what he eats

Beastly tales

Magazine article

Direct speech

What are you afraid of?

Four people talking

about their fears

Story

Tales of the unexpected

Magazine extracts

So strong

Nancy on her

experience of sexism

Similar spellings

Revision

Linking expressions;

dictation

Grammar

Vocabulary

Pronunciation

Less direct questions; the definite article;

So do I. / Neither do I.

Strong adjectives (exhausted, etc.); housework;

everyday expressions

Present Simple or Present Continuous?;

How often?

Clothes; parts of speech; jobs; names

and tides

Time expressions; used to; irregular Past Simple

forms; pronunciation of Past Simple forms; past

tenses and linkers

Countries and nationalities; family

relationships; spelling

Past Simple or Present Perfect?; been or gone?;

question tags

Living in Britain (shops); American English

Will or going to?; will or shall?;

verbs and preposition

Weather - temperature; telephone expressions;

same words, different meanings

Different words,

same pronunciation

Defining relative clauses; result and reason;

clauses of purposes

Town and country; adjectives with -ing or -ed

Adjective •word order; possessives

Adjectives and adverbs; relationships;

parts of the body

Sound and spelling

Comparison of adjectives and adverbs;

superlatives; prepositions of place; prepositions

of direction

Furniture and household objects; doing things

in the house; forming adjectives; prefixes

Open conditionals; asking questions;

certainty and possibility

Health; synonyms; antonyms

Word stress

Time clauses; if or when?; future forms;

Future Passive

Phrasal verbs with on or off; phrasal verbs

•with take; describing objects - size and shape

Functions: requesting and asking permission;

apologising and making excuses

Adjectives into nouns; cooking

Short and long

vowels; sound and

spelling

The second conditional; conditionals and wish; Buying

prepositional phrases

Vowel sounds

Since ОГ far?; HOW long... ?; РГЄ5ЄПІ Perfect

Simple or Continuous?; Present or Present

Perfect?

Idiomatic expressions: pairs

Necessary or not necessary?; permission and

prohibition; obligation, prohibition and

permission (past)

Synonyms; groups of words; words often

confused

Weak forms

Countable or uncountable?; quantity

Food; eating and drinking; phrasal verbs

Reporting statements and questions; reporting

Animals; classifications

Problem consonants

verbs

The -ing form; -ing or to?

Fear; adjectives and prepositions; adjectives

into verbs

Past Perfect or Past Simple?; Past Perfect Simple Ways of speaking; say, speak, tell or talk?;

make or do?

Diphthongs

The passive

Words often confused

Contrastive stress;

silent letters

Review of verb forms; sentence transformation; Word building; test your vocabulary

spot the errors

Sounds

or Continuous; sequencing events

My favourite things

READING

1 Read the extract below, which is from an article about the

actress Jenny Agutter. Then on a separate sheet of paper write

down what she does:

in Los Angeles

in Britain

a) in the morning

b) in the afternoon

c) in the evening

SUNDAY

BEST

Actress Jenny Agutter talks

about her Sundays on both

sides of the Atlantic.

'Whether I'm at home in Los Angeles

or staying in England Sunday is a

day to relax, and so there are no

alarms set.

In California breakfast is fruit

and yoghurt followed by pancakes

and lots of coffee. Most of the

morning is spent reading the

newspaper, eating pancakes and

pottering around the house doing

things like gardening or tidying up.

However, I don't iron on a Sunday.

My pet hates are ironing and

washing up.

In the afternoon I go out on my

bike — maybe to the beach, where

there are lots of people around, and

it's very livery. Otherwise I drive

into the hills near Hollywood and

walk in the forests. This is really

wonderful, because there are some

beautiful waterfalls and it's usually

very quiet there.

Later in the afternoon I have

friends round and we either have a

barbecue or go out to a Chinese

restaurant. In the evening I stay in

and watch a late night movie or a

video. I particularly love old Gary

Grant films.

When I'm staying in England I

stay with my parents, who live in

Brixton, or rent a place if I'm

filming. Sunday is still a late

morning. I may have a croissant and

a cup of coffee for breakfast but I

don't eat much because I look

forward to a traditional English

Sunday lunch. I don't mind

cooking, so I spend the morning

doing that. I love roast lamb so I

usually have that, followed by

sherry trifle.

Lunch is a time for seeing family

and friends, so it usually takes a long

time — eating, drinking wine and

relaxing.

If I don't cook it's nice to go and

have Sunday lunch at a country

pub. I really miss pubs, and

Guinness, when I'm in LA. I have

always loved walking since I was a

child, so if I'm in London I enjoy a

stroll along the canal in Regent's

Parkin the afternoon. lalwaysleave

the newspapers until the evening

when I'm over here, and I buy them

all - from the gossipy ones to the

serious ones. I probably have just a

light meal in the evening and again

spend the evening watching

television rather than going out.

I'm so busy during the week that

Sunday has become my most

precious day. It is one of the few days

that I get eight hours sleep, which

sets me up for the next week.'

(from Woman's Realm)

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