9789152345269

AWESOME 8

ANTHONY CHILDS-CUTLER

AGNES GENTILI CRONHOLM

Textbook

AWESOME är ett läromedel i engelska för år 7–9.

AWESOME 8 består av sju kapitel. Varje kapitel behandlar ett tema eller fokuserar på ett engelskspråkigt område och innehåller spännande och aktuella texter. Olika texttyper presenteras och efter varje kapitel finns uppgifter som knyts till de olika texttyperna.

E M O S E W A Textbook

8

ANTHONY CHILDS-CUTLER

Upplägget i Textbook och Activity Book i Awesome 8 är välstrukturerat och tydligt med texter av olika svårighetsgrad.

AWESOME 8 består av • Textbook • Activity Book

AGNES GENTILI CRONHOLM

• Lärarhandledning och facit online (pdf) • Lärarens ljudfiler online • Övningsmästaren, www.ovningsmastaren.se, textbokens ljudfiler,ordträning och övningar.

ISBN 978-91-523-4526-9

ISBN 978-91-523-4526-9

(523-4526-9)

9 789152 345269 9 789152 345269

Awesome omslag_plano (kopia).indd 1

ANTHONY CHILDS-CUTLER AGNES GENTILI CRONHOLM

2017-03-30 14:01

Contents

Chapter 1: Go the Distance!

6

Florida, Here We Come!

8

Travel Quotes

12

Leave Your Heart in San Francisco

14

Ad and Complaint

17

Ways to Become a Great Traveller

20

Awesome Writer and Speaker: A Travel Guide

23

Chapter 2: The USA

24

State Symbols of the USA

26

American Dreams

30

A Sound History of the USA

34

Chapter 3: Meanwhile Somewhere Else 38 It’s a Big Small World

40

The School Charity Fund

45

Ticket to the USA: Dream or Nightmare?

48

Numbering the Planets

50

Connections

54

Awesome Writer: A Letter to the Editor

55

Awesome Speaker: A Presentation About a Charity Organisation

Chapter 4: Do It Yourself 56 Wave After Wave of DIY

58

A Flying Ring – for the Engineer in You

61

Making a Proper Home

62

Do-It-Yourself United

66

Three Dreaded Words

70

Awesome Writer: An Instruction

71

Awesome Speaker: An Instructional Video

Awesome_innehåll.indd 4

2017-03-15 11.21

Chapter 5: The West Indies 72 The West Indies

74

Visitors to the West Indies … and what they leave behind

78

The History of Mary Prince: A Woman and a Sister

82

Chapter 6: In It to Win It!

86

Layzee Hayzee

88

Five competitions that changed sport

91

Life’s a scrum

96

The Egg Carriers

100

Awesome Writer: A Dialogue

101

Awesome Speaker: A Debate

Chapter 7: In Your Dreams

102

Fantasy, Dream or Plan?

104

Dream and Believe

108

What’s the Stuff That Dreams Are Made of?

112

Aristotle’s Dreams

116

Awesome Writer: A Letter to the Future You

119

Awesome Speaker: A Vision Board

The Toolbox

120

Word Lists 134

Awesome_innehåll.indd 5

2017-03-15 11.21

Fiction

8

Awesome8_kap1.indd 8

2017-03-15 10:11

Florida, Here We Come!

My name is Suzie, I’m fourteen years old and I live in New Jersey, USA. ‘Summer’ and ‘vacation’ are my favorite words. School is out and the office is closed. Almost everybody is looking forward to the holidays. Unless, that is, you’re part of my family. This is the conversation we had in April.

AMY

Can I go on vacation with my friends this year?

We want to go to Cuba.

MOM You’re only sixteen, Amy. We take our vacation as a family.

AMY So where are we going?

DAD Orlando, Florida.

AMY But we go there every year.

DAVEY It’s got Disney World! How many times can we go?

MOM We go once, you know that.

DAVEY Only once? But that’s not fair. I don’t get to see everything.

MOM Amy might take you a second time, if you ask her nicely.

AMY Why me?

MOM I thought you liked Disney World.

AMY When I was six, like Davey.

DAVEY Granddad and Suzie will take me.

AMY Is Granddad coming again this year?

DAD OK, everybody. Let’s be clear. We go to Florida because that’s where Granddad likes to go.

MOM He’s on his own now and I can’t bear the thought of leaving him home alone.

AMY But he’ll bring Alvin again. I know he will.

DAD Alvin is your granddad’s cousin. He’s also alone and Granddad likes to bring him.

AMY But Alvin’s so negative about everything. Last year he suspected they put alligator meat in burgers in Florida and that’s why they tasted weird. And he never stops complaining.

DAD I haven’t heard anything from my middle child. What do you think, Suzie?

SUZIE I’m happy to go to Florida.

AMY You always agree with everybody else. Why don’t you have your own ideas?

9

Awesome8_kap1.indd 9

2017-03-15 10:11

Fiction

SUZIE

DAD MOM DAD AMY DAD AMY DAD

I have my own ideas. And I know what will happen this vacation. Dad will pack far more books than he can possibly read. Mom won’t be able to turn off her phone, because she’s a workaholic and has a boss who doesn’t respect her vacation time.

That’s the truth.

It is not. And I’m going to buy you an e-reader for Christmas.

I wouldn’t use it. I prefer books.

There’s hardly any wi-fi in Cuba.

Then you’ll enjoy it when you go there any time after your eighteenth birthday, but not before.

That is so unfair. Your idea of a perfect holiday is a staycation.

You’re right. Home is the only place I can get any peace and quiet with time to read.

MOM, AMY

(Together) You read all the time!

DAVEY Will you and Granddad take me to Disney World every day?

SUZIE Maybe not every day, but we can go a second time.

AMY See? You give in to everybody.

SUZIE No, it’s what I want. According to Granddad I am adventurous like Grandma and adaptable like him.

AMY What does that mean?

SUZIE Remember last year? I read on the beach a little every day with Dad, and watched Mom texting her boss. Granddad and I took Davey to Disney World a second time …

DAVEY Yay! SUZIE AMY SUZIE

… so that Mom and Dad could have some quality time together.

Sure, reading and texting.

We went to the Kennedy Space Center and Granddad told me how he and Grandma stayed up all night watching the first moon landing in the Sixties. Then we took a boat trip to the Everglades to see the alligators and another trip the next day to swim with the manatees and dolphins at Crystal River. Didn’t you enjoy any of that?

10

Awesome8_kap1.indd 10

2017-03-15 10:11

AMY

It was OK. But you seemed to have a great time. You spent most days walking behind Granddad and me chatting to Alvin.

AMY We weren’t chatting. We were arguing. He kept saying that cab drivers in Florida cheat you and that the kitchens in their restaurants are filthy. And that everything’s better and cheaper back home in New Jersey.

SUZIE Granddad says that Alvin is a glass half-empty kind of person.

AMY What does that mean?

SUZIE It means that when he sees a glass that is half full, he only sees the empty half. He concentrates on the negative and doesn’t notice all the positive things in life.

AMY Well, that describes Alvin perfectly. But you look at a half-empty glass and think it’s full.

SUZIE It’s half-full, yes.

AMY And that’s why you don’t know what you really want. You’re too positive about everything.

SUZIE I want a vacation with the family. That’s what I like.

AMY Oh! I give up. Florida, here we come. Again.

DAVEY Yay! SUZIE

workaholic arbetsnarkoman (person som jobbar för mycket) staycation hemester (att stanna hemma på semestern)

react and respond

1 Children should always be part of decisions made in the family.

Do you agree?

2 What was your favorite place when you were six, like Davey in the text? Say why.

3 If you could go anywhere on vacation, where would you go? Why? 4 Is it right that Amy is too young to travel abroad without her parents at age sixteen? Give your reasons.

5 What is Suzie’s idea of a good holiday?

6 Do you think it is best to be a glass half-full person or a glass half-empty person? What positives and negatives can you think of?

7 Is it more important to offer good company to other people when you are on holiday, or have a good time yourself?

8 Would you like to join Suzie’s family on holiday? Say why or why not.

11

Awesome8_kap1.indd 11

2017-03-15 10:11

ARTICLE

Do-It-Yourself United Imagine that you support one of the richest and most famous football clubs in the world. Then imagine that a family running a foreign business decides to buy it. Imagine that the business has a lot of debt, so you wonder how it can afford to buy and control a leading sports brand. Finally, imagine that this foreign business buys the club and uses the club’s income to reduce its own debts. How would that make you feel?

66

Awesome8_kap4_DIY.indd 66

2017-03-15 10:18

Manchester United fans didn’t have to imagine that scenario. It happened to their club, which went from being the world’s richest to having the biggest debt. Fans were furious. Some decided they would try to recreate the ethos of Manchester United in a new club owned and run by the fans.

Hundreds of United fans held public meetings to discuss how to move forward. A steering committee was elected and met to consider how on earth you build an ambitious football club from nothing.

The committee considered a new name. Should it be “F.C. United”, “Manchester Central” or even “Newton Heath United”, after the original place where Manchester United was founded in 1878? What would be the club colours, and what should the badge look like? Where would the club play its home matches, and how would it raise money?

The answers needed to come quickly so as not to lose the enthusiasm of 4,000 United rebels. The English Football Association rejected the name “F.C. United” for being too generic but accepted the fans’ favourite, “F.C. United of Manchester”. The club colours were a no-brainer. What other colour would be chosen by diehard fans called “The Red Devils”? Getting players to trial for a high-profile idea was easy. Over 900 players applied and attended trials. They were whittled

down to a squad of 17. A manager was appointed with the promise of a long-term contract. There would be no chopping and changing if a few results went the wrong way. The 4,000 enthusiasts collected £100,000 to fund the enterprise.

The reality for a new club, even for one founded by ManU fans, is that it has to start at the bottom, nine levels below the Premier League. Even if the club got promoted every year – which would be a major miracle – it would take at least 10 years to join the elite.

The club had £100, 000 in ethos här: livsfilosofi the bank, but steering committee styrelse in 2005 the badge klubbmärke top Premier generic ospecifik League die-hard någon som inte players earned ändrar uppfattning high-profile välkänd more than enterprise bolag that in two weeks.

67

Awesome8_kap4_DIY.indd 67

2017-03-15 10:18

INFORMATIVE TEXT

1960 – Rome: The Games That Made a Difference In 1959, twenty-year-old Margaret Maughan was on her way to a party when the car she was travelling in left the road and turned over. Margaret was trapped inside.

Worse, she realised that she was paralysed from the waist down.

Margaret was taken to the now-famous Stoke Mandeville Hospital for spinal injuries run by Dr Ludwig Guttman. He believed that taking part in sport was a good way for people with serious injuries to get the most out of their lives, even though they were in wheelchairs.

In 1960 Margaret was surprised to be offered a place on Britain’s team at the first Paralympic Games held in Rome. The Games had been inspired by Dr Guttman after he had organised competitions for patients at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

There were few facilities for people in wheelchairs in 1960. Margaret and the other British competitors were loaded into their aeroplane by forklift trucks. In Rome they were carried up and down stairs by teams of Italian soldiers.

Margaret returned to the UK with two gold medals, one for archery and one for swimming. However, it wasn’t easy to find a job in Britain. Few thought that a woman in a wheelchair could control a classroom of teenagers. But once she did get a job, Margaret found that the students were very understanding.

She took part in four more Paralympic Games between 1968 and 1980, winning a total of four gold and two silver medals. In 2012 she was the final torchbearer and lit the flame at the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games in London.

spinal injury ryggradsskada archery pilbågsskytte torchbearer fackelbärare

94

Awesome_6.indd 94

2017-04-03 14:32

2011 – Cologne: The Prize That Changed E-Sports Danil Ishutin, known to his friends as ‘Dendi’, loved going fishing with his father.

But then his dad got sick suddenly and died.

After that day Dendi spent all his free time playing computer games, which worried his mother. She encouraged him to go out and get some fresh air. She suggested that maybe he’d like to go fishing again. But Dendi remained in his room playing computer games.

One day, the video game developer Valve made an astonishing announcement.

They were offering the first-ever one million dollar prize for the winners of an e-sports competition: an international Dota 2 tournament. Dendi decided to travel to Germany as the captain of Na’Vi, a team from Ukraine.

His friends and family were sceptical. They had never really understood that e-sport was a serious activity. Here was an opportunity for Dendi to convince them that he wasn’t just wasting his life away. He explained that even if his team failed to win top spot, they could cover their costs by winning smaller prizes.

Na’Vi competed against 15 other teams from all over the world and the tournament was streamed online with commentary in English, Chinese, German and Russian.

In the final, Na’Vi was up against the Chinese team E-Home, who were famous for their disciplined style of play. After losing the first match, Dendi led his team to four straight wins and the top prize.

When he got back to Ukraine, Dendi took some time away from his computer and went fishing.

He had come to terms with losing his dad and at the same time helped to ignite a worldwide interest in professional e-sports.

Dendi at Dream Hack Summer 2015

1 The texts describe five competitions. What did each help to change?

2 Which person or people mentioned in the texts had the toughest battle in your opinion? Say why.

3 What qualities does a person need to be a top performer in any form of competition. Make a list and give reasons.

95

Awesome_6.indd 95

2017-03-15 10.20

FEATURE ARTICLE

Z Z

Z

What’s the Stuff That Dreams Are Made of?

How do you react if a friend tells you that he or she has had an interesting but weird dream? Do you: A Listen closely to the story and try to focus on details (because dreams can be important).

112

Awesome8_kap7.indd 112

B Try to avoid the situation (because there is nothing more boring than listening to a completely ran dom story).

2017-03-15 10:27

No matter your point of view on dreams they are part of your life and something you cannot control. But do dreams have meaning and can we learn something about ourselves from our dreams, or are they merely random scattered thoughts that run through our minds when we sleep?

When do we dream?

Scientists divide sleep into two different categories: REM sleep and nonREM sleep.

R-E-M, or REM, stands for Rapid Eye Movement and refers to the fact that your eyes move very quickly from side to side when you dream. But there are many other things that also happen during REM sleep. For example your breathing changes and your heart starts to beat faster. Your brain partly paralyses your muscles in your body to stop you from acting out the scenes in dreams. Most of your dreaming takes place during this category of sleep.

SLEEP CYCLE AWAKE REM

STAGE 1

REM

REM

REM

STAGE 2 STAGE 3 STAGE 4

(deep sleep)

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

HOUR

Non-REM sleep can in turn be divided into four different stages. Stages 1 and 2 are short periods of light slumber when you first close your eyes in the evening and they last for about 20 minutes. As you progress to stages 3 and 4 your sleep gradually changes into a deeper kind of rest and your body relaxes completely. If someone tries to wake you when you are in stage 4 they will have a hard time because it is almost impossible. This is the deep sleep which you need to feel rested and ready for a new day.

During the night you move between non-REM sleep and REM sleep in cycles. Usually you dream four or five times during the night, or for about 90–120 minutes in total.

Why do we dream?

It is not clear to researchers why we dream, but there are many different theories about how dreaming affects us.

One theory is that our brains need to be active in order to function properly. Dreaming is simply the brain’s way of working during times when there isn’t much else going on.

scattered gradually cycles complex

osammanhängande gradvis cykler, perioder komplicerade

Other research shows that dreaming might have more complex explanations.

113

Awesome8_kap7.indd 113

2017-03-15 10:27

The Toolbox

2. Letters to the Editor A letter to the editor is a short text where a person reacts to something that has been published in a newspaper. It can be something the person has read in a news article and reacted to, something that the person didn’t agree with in a review or a reply to another letter to the editor (you can see examples on pages 48–49).

Most newspapers have a section with letters to the editor each day. The texts in that section are not written by journalists, but by readers. The purpose of a letter to the editor is to express an opinion on something and present arguments and evidence. Many letters to the editor are based on feelings and emotions; facts and numbers aren’t as important as in more formal texts. However, experts also write to newspaper editors when they feel that a journalist has got something wrong in an article on their subject.

Letters to the editor usually follow a clear structure and include: • A greeting to the editor: “Dear Editor,” • A background and a short summary of the text the person is reacting to: “Yesterday I read an article about how environmentally friendly bottled water is.”

• An opinion (connected to the background): “That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. I can tell you that water from the tap is more environmentally friendly than water in plastic bottles.”

• Evidence that supports the opinion: “Plastic is not good for the environment. Just think about how much plastic litter you see in the streets and in nature. Transporting bottled water is bad for the environment as well.”

• What should be done? In closing, the writer suggests an action or a solution: “Don’t buy bottled water! The water from the tap is just as fresh.”

• A sign-off and a signature: Use you real name or an alias.

“Best regards, Lars.”

126

Awesome8_Toolbox.indd 126

ridiculous löjlig litter skräp contribute bidra belongings ägodelar attic vind spectacles glasögon optician optiker visual defect synfel

2017-03-30 11:37

Headline: Can be the message of the text or a question that the writer tries to answer.

Greeting phrase Introduction: Background and a short summary of the text the writer is reacting to.

An opinion.

Main body: Evidence that supports the opinion.

Conclusion: What should be done?

A clear message of what people can do to make a difference.

Sign-off and signature.

It’s Not That Hard to Help Dear Editor, Yesterday I read an article about an organisation called “The Chip In-itiative”.

This is a group of inspiring people who try to find new ways to fight poverty and make the world a better place. In the article they pointed out that many people don’t know how easy it is to contribute to charity and that most people can help, even if they don’t have money to give. The article made me realise that I was one of those people! But it’s not just about money. There are lots of other things that anyone can do to help!

One thing that the people in the article discussed was the amount of belongings that many people have in their homes and rarely use. My family has lots of toys, clothes, furniture, bikes and various other things that just collect dust in the basement or in the attic. And I bet that most other families do too!

My suggestion is this: Instead of keeping your old stuff in the garage or in storage you should sell it and donate the money to charity. If you need help there are organistations that come and pick your things up for free and then give the money to charity. It’s a win-win situation: You help someone and you get more free space!

There are even things that I hadn’t realised had a value for someone else. One example is spectacles. There are organisations that specialise in collecting used spectacles to send them to people in developing countries. An optician helps people in those places to find a pair of glasses that match their visual defect.

There are many organistations like this. I found one that collects old gaming equipment and donates it to children’s hospitals and another one that sends used musical instruments to schools in poor areas. I bet most of you have something at home that someone else can find useful!

So instead of just thinking that you can’t do anything: Take a look in your garage, storage, basement or attic. Do you really need all that stuff? Didn’t think so. Go out there and make the world a better place! Want to know what the best thing is about that? It’s free! And it makes you feel better.

Yours sincerely, Kurt Wilson

127

Awesome8_Toolbox.indd 127

2017-03-30 11:37

AWESOME 8

ANTHONY CHILDS-CUTLER

AGNES GENTILI CRONHOLM

Textbook

AWESOME är ett läromedel i engelska för år 7–9.

AWESOME 8 består av sju kapitel. Varje kapitel behandlar ett tema eller fokuserar på ett engelskspråkigt område och innehåller spännande och aktuella texter. Olika texttyper presenteras och efter varje kapitel finns uppgifter som knyts till de olika texttyperna.

E M O S E W A Textbook

8

ANTHONY CHILDS-CUTLER

Upplägget i Textbook och Activity Book i Awesome 8 är välstrukturerat och tydligt med texter av olika svårighetsgrad.

AWESOME 8 består av • Textbook • Activity Book

AGNES GENTILI CRONHOLM

• Lärarhandledning och facit online (pdf) • Lärarens ljudfiler online • Övningsmästaren, www.ovningsmastaren.se, textbokens ljudfiler,ordträning och övningar.

ISBN 978-91-523-4526-9 ISBN 978-91-523-4526-9

(523-4526-9)

9 789152 345269 9 789152 345269

Awesome omslag_plano (kopia).indd 1

ANTHONY CHILDS-CUTLER AGNES GENTILI CRONHOLM

2017-03-30 14:01