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C O RE 1

ENGLISH

Jörgen Gustafsson Monica Hjorth Eric Kinrade

Core English 1 består av • Allt i ett-bok • Elevfacit • Lärar-cd • Lärarhandledning • Ljudfiler till eleven (finns på www.ljudmastaren.se)

JÖRGEN GUSTAFSSON • MONICA HJORTH • ERIC KINRADE

Engelska för gymnasieskolans studieförberedande program, Engelska 5, B1– B2 samt för motsvarande nivå inom vuxenutbildningen

C O RE 1 ENGLISH

Jörgen Gustafsson Monica Hjorth Eric Kinrade

ISBN 978-91-622-7514-3

(523-2287-1)

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CONTENTS BREAKING THE ICE

Save Now, Spend Later They Tried to Tell Us We’re Too Young Who Are You? Sounds and Spelling The Bubble Gum Blowers (poem) Paul Cookson Q and A about the English Language

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A SMILING FACE

That’s Right David Compton Neighbours (poem) Benjamin Zephaniah Filling the Gap Caroline Dubois Don’t Worry, Be Happy Bobby McFerrin The Sandwich Frank McCourt The Great Rat Hunt Laurence Yep To be continued on the CD Words of Wisdom SPEAKING AND WRITING

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IDENTITY

The Forces of Destiny When the Cat’s Away … The Five-Minute Date Pete Johnson I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking for U2 On the Sidewalk, Bleeding Evan Hunter Messy Room (poem) Shel Silverstein SPEAKING AND WRITING

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GLIMPSES OF THE PAST

Spared (poem) Wendy Cope Christmas Morning, 1949 Sylvia Seymour Akin Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a Legend Sue Limb I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker Sandi Thom Gearing up for War Michelle Magorian Kennedy Assassinated Merriman Smith Eyewitness at Sharpeville Humphrey Tyler SPEAKING AND WRITING

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And Now You Can Go Vendela Vida Hijack! Robert L. Fish To be continued on the CD Kittens Dean Koontz Never Stop on the Motorway Jeffrey Archer The Sound Collector (poem) Roger McGough SPEAKING AND WRITING

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TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE

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City Quiz Hiker Cuts off Own Arm to Survive The Grand Canyon Bill Bryson Shifting or Moving? Valerie Victoria Around the World with a Toothbrush and a Smile Life on the Edge Space Oddity David Bowie SPEAKING AND WRITING

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PORTFOLIO SKILLS

Reading Listening Speaking Writing Vocabulary (tests)

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GRAMMAR

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CHAPTER WORD LIST

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Every effort has been made to make this list of copyright holders complete as well as correct and any necessary amendments are invited. We are grateful for the following parties for permission to reprint. ‘The Sandwich’ from Teacher Man by Frank McCourt, Harper Perennial, 2006. Used by permission. ‘The Great Rat Hunt’ by Laurence Yep from When I Was Your Age, ed. Amy Ehrlich, Candlewick Press. ‘The Five-Minute Date’ from Love Hurts, ed. Miriam Hoodgson, Reed International Books Ltd. ‘On the Sidewalk, Bleeding’ from Happy New Year, Herbie by Evan Hunter © Evan Hunter. Reprinted by arrangement with the Author. ‘Christmas Morning 1949’ from True Tales of American Life, editor Paul Auster, Faber and Faber. ‘You’re a Legend’ by Sue Limb from Shining On: A Collection of Stories in Aid of the Teen Cancer Trust, Pfd. Used by permission. ‘Gearing Up for War’ from Goodnight, Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian © 1981 Michelle Magorian, ﬁrst published by Kestrel Books, 1981. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Group UK. ‘Kennedy Assassinated’ by Merriman Smith from The Mammoth Book of Journalism, 2003, ed. Jon E. Lewis, Carroll & Graf (The Perseus Books Group). ‘Eyewitness at Sharpeville’ by Humphrey Tyler from The Mammoth Book of Journalism, 2003, ed. Jon E. Lewis, Carroll & Graf (The Perseus Books Group).

And Now You Can Go by Vendela Vida, copyright © 2003 by Vendela Vida. Excerpted from the novel And Now You Can Go (Vintage 2003/Vintage UK, 2004). All rights reserved. Reprinted by arrangement with Mary Evans Inc and Abner Stein. ‘Hijack!’ by Robert L. Fish from Hijack and Other Stories, Longman, 1981. ‘Kittens’ from Strange Highways by Dean Koontz, 1995. Published by permission of the author. ‘Never Stop on the Motorway’ from Twelve Red Herrings by Jeffrey Archer, Pan Macmillan, 1997. ‘The Grand Canyon’ from The Lost Continent © Bill Bryson 1989. Extracted from The Lost Continent, published by Black Swan. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd. POEMS ‘Barry and Beryl – the Bubble Gum Blowers’ by Paul Cookson. Reproduced by permission of the Author. ‘Neighbours’ by Benjamin Zephaniah from Propa Propaganda. Reproduced by permission of the Author, Bloodaxe Books. ‘Messy Room’ by Shel Silverstein from Light in the Attic, 1981. Reproduced by permission of the Author. ‘Spared’ by Wendy Cope © Wendy Cope. Reproduced by permission of the Author. ‘The Sound Collector’ by Roger McGough from Selected Poems, 2006. Reproduced by permission of the Author.

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SPINE-CHILLING Look at the picture and describe what you see. What do you feel when looking at it? Compare your reactions to the picture with those of a friend.

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Rank the following items and situations. Which are the top three on your scary list, and which are the bottom three? Spiders Horror films Snakes A plane crash Thunder and lightning Injections Walking alone through a park

Being mugged Blood Unprovoked violence Loneliness/being left alone Being stalked by a stranger Donating blood

Compare your lists and explain your choices.

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And Now You Can Go by Vendela Vida A young woman has just moved to New York. She knows nobody and spends most of her afternoons alone in the park across the street from her apartment. First listen to the story and then answer the following questions.

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C H EC K YOU R LISTE N I NG

Are these sentences true or false? 1 2 3 4 5 6

The young woman knew what time it was because someone had just asked her the time. At first she thought the man was lost and was going to ask her the way. The young woman offers the man money but he keeps asking for more. The woman doesn’t run away because she thinks she might get shot in the back. The man says she wants to die and he explains why. In the end the woman has good reason to fear for her life.

VOCABU LARY

Phrasal verbs She turns round to look at him. In this sentence turn round means that she changes direction to face the other way. A In the sentences below are ten phrasal verbs with turn. Translate the phrasal verbs in italics into Swedish. 1 The players turned against their coach when he criticised them over and over again. 2 The road was blocked so we had to turn back. 3 I’ve been turned down for ten jobs so far. They say I haven’t got enough work experience. 4 I was really tired and decided to turn in as I’d got an early start the next morning. 5 The magician tried to turn the frog into a prince. 6 If the red light flashes you’ve got to turn off the machine right away. 7 I tried over and over again but I didn’t manage to turn on the heating. 8 This car factory turns out hundreds of cars every day all year round. 9 You can always turn to us if you’re in trouble. 10 Sheena turned up twenty minutes late for the meeting.

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B Now use the ten verbs in the correct form in these sentences. turn against turn off 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

turn back turn on

turn down turn out

turn in turn to

turn into turn up

I felt really low and had no one to … for help. The war has become unpopular and people … their leader. I’m not going to … an offer to go to New York! Can we please … the TV? There is a film I’d like to see on Channel Four. It’s getting late – maybe we should … and get some sleep. Microsoft … millions of iPhones last year and made an incredible profit. Eventually my watch … where I least expected – in my own pocket! Please … the lights; I’m trying to sleep. The weather was getting really bad so we decided to … home again. Ten years in prison had … him … a grey-haired old man.

LET’S TALK

Discuss these questions. • • • • •

Does the girl get killed or will she survive? How do you know? If you had been the girl, would you have acted in the same way? Why didn’t she call for help? Do you think that a real-life situation like the one in the text is scarier than for example a supernatural incident? Why/why not? Lots of people like to be terrified by horror films, thriller novels or spooky stories. Are you one of them? Why do people seem to enjoy being terrified?

WRITI NG

Choose one of these writing tasks. 1 Continue the story Write a continuation of the story. Consider questions like: What happened to the girl? What happened to the man? Use no more than 500 words. 2 Going through my mind In the extract we get to know what the girl feels through her thoughts. Imagine what thoughts may have gone through the man’s mind. What was he thinking while threatening the girl? How did he feel? What made him do it? Write your text using either a first person narrator e.g. ‘I pointed the gun at a girl and …’ or a third person narrator, e.g. ‘he pointed the gun at a girl and … .’

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Hijack! by Robert L. Fish

Five o’clock on a warm afternoon in late summer, with only a faint line of cloud over the distant Tennessee mountains, a plane, a 727 jet, was approaching the Tennessee river valley ﬂying southwest at 28,000 feet on its way from New York to New Orleans. The radioman pushed himself into the cockpit through the narrow door from the cabin, fastening his trouser belt and nodding comfortably to the captain. He settled down to work again. The captain watched him thoughtfully for a moment, then glanced over his shoulder, looking below, where sunlight ﬂashed from water. He reached for his microphone, and turned off the soft cabin music. ‘Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. To our right, and almost directly below us, is Watts Bar Lake, a part of the

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PORTFOLIO SKILLS Dear student The activities in the following section are divided into ﬁve parts: • • • • •

Reading Listening Speaking Writing Vocabulary

Here you will have an opportunity to improve your English skills in general and to prepare yourself for exams such as the National Test in English. You can work at your own speed and you can choose to concentrate on the skills that you feel you need to practise more. Start anywhere you like – you don’t have to do the activities in the order in which they are presented. You can work alone, but you can also choose to work with other students. In this way you will be able to help and support each other. Don’t forget that you can always ask your teacher for help and advice. Your teacher will give you a copy of a worksheet – My Dossier. This sheet is simply to help you record what you have done, when you did it and who with. Make sure you show your teacher what you have done and ask her/ him to sign the sheet.

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READING SKILLS Here are some general tips to help you improve your reading.

• Read English texts every day and try to include as many different types of texts as possible: novels, short stories, newspaper articles, e-mails, brochures, adverts etc. • Some people read the questions first and then the text; others read the whole text first and then the questions. Try both ways to find out what suits you best. • Don’t worry if there are some words you don’t understand; perhaps you don’t need to know every single word to follow the storyline or understand the main point of the text. • Learning to ‘guess’ the meaning of new words is very important. Always look at the context to make an intelligent guess. Example: The old man’s hearing was found to be slightly defective. We know that old people often have some difficulties hearing so ‘defective’ can’t be a good thing. And ‘slightly’ says something about how ‘defective’ the hearing is; it’s either very bad or only a little bad. The logical explanation is that slightly defective means ‘a little bit bad’. • Sometimes it is possible to guess the meaning by looking closer at the words themselves, trying to split them into their different parts or comparing them to Swedish. Example: We never realized that we had overstayed our welcome. ‘Welcome’ is almost the same in Swedish; ‘overstay’ can be split into ‘over’ and ‘stay’ – ‘over’ means ‘more’ or ‘too much’ (over-optimistic etc). ‘Overstay our welcome’ must mean that we stayed longer than we should have – we didn’t realise that we should have left earlier.

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A Plate of Peas by Rick Beyer

My grandfather died when I was a small boy, and my grandmother started staying with us for about six months every year. She lived in a room that doubled as my father’s ofﬁce, which we referred to as ‘the back room’. She carried with her a powerful aroma. I don’t know what kind of perfume she used, but it was the double-barrel, ninety-proof, knockdown, render-the-victim-unconscious, moose-killing variety. She kept it in a huge atomizer and applied it frequently and liberally. It was almost impossible to go into her room and remain breathing for any length of time. When she would leave the house to go spend six months with my Aunt Lillian, my mother and sisters would throw open all the windows, strip the bed, and take out the curtains and rugs. Then they would spend several days washing and airing things out, trying frantically to make the pungent odor go away. This, then, was my grandmother at the time of the infamous pea incident. It took place at the Biltmore Hotel, which, to my eight-year-old mind, was just about the fanciest place to eat in all of Providence. My grandmother, my mother, and I were having lunch after a morning spent shopping. I grandly ordered a Salisbury steak, conﬁdent in the knowledge that beneath that fancy name was a good old hamburger with gravy. When brought to the table, it was accompanied by a plate of peas. I do not like peas now. I did not like peas then. I have always hated peas. It is a complete mystery to me why anyone would voluntarily eat peas. I did not eat them at home. I did not eat them at restaurants. And I certainly was not about to eat them now. ‘Eat your peas,’ my grandmother said. ‘Mother,’ said my mother in her warning voice. ‘He doesn’t like peas. Leave him alone.’ My grandmother did not reply, but there was a glint in her eye and a grim set to her jaw that signaled she was not going to be thwarted. She leaned in my direction, looked me in the eye, and uttered the fateful words that changed my life:

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Human Attraction on Second Thought

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LONDON, England – Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but other people’s opinions matter too when it comes to the attraction between men and women, according to recent research carried out in Britain. Researchers found that women are more attracted to a man if other women like him too. Women, of course, are not aware of this; their response is quite unconscious. And, in fact, when questioned about it more than 90% of the subjects being tested and interviewed denied that they were so easily influenced. Nevertheless, the findings are beyond dispute. ‘We tend to think about things like attraction as reflecting a private decision or a personal choice but our work shows that people’s attractiveness judgments can be influenced in pronounced ways by what other people appear to think of those individuals,’ said psychologist Dr. Ben Jones. Jones, of the University of Aberdeen, and his team tested the impact of the opinions of others by giving women a test in which they had to choose the more attractive of pairs of male faces and to rate how much more handsome they found them. They were then shown a short video in which the same faces were displayed. But each face was being looked at by a woman smiling or one showing a bored or neutral expression. After watching the video, the researchers repeated the initial test. ‘We found that the slide show caused women to become more attracted to the men who were being smiled at by other women,’ said Jones. The test had the opposite effect on men however, possibly because of the competition factor amongst males. When men were asked to look at the same male faces, those who got the approving female glances became less appealing. ‘According to the researchers, this shows that people are using cues to the attitudes of others towards individuals to shape their own attractiveness judgments of those individuals,’ Jones told journalists.

The findings, which are reported in The Proceedings of The Royal Society B journal, are similar to mate-choice copying seen in other species and are thought to be the first time it has been shown in humans. Positive female interest in the faces increased the women’s preference for the males but it had the opposite effect on male judgments. Jones suggests the positive reaction conveys a sense of approval for women but the negative male reaction could reflect jealousy or competition. ‘If I go to a bar with Brad Pitt, for example, chances are I’m not going to get much interest from the women because Pitt will hog all the attention,’ he said.

C H EC K YOU R READI NG

A Here are some statements based on the text. Mark them as true or false. 1 In general, people think that their choices are not influenced by what other people think. 2 In the experiments described women were clearly not influenced by what other women thought. 3 The majority of women felt that the results did not give a true picture of how they behave. 4 The conclusion of the researchers is that we think and act independently of others. 5 The research shows that human behaviour is similar to that of other animals. 6 The simplest explanation for the way men reacted is that they experienced a feeling of jealousy. B Choose the best alternative. 1 If we were to give a male friend some advice on the basis of the research mentioned in the article, it would be: A Don’t make a habit of going out with attractive women. B Go out for a drink with an attractive male friend if you want to be noticed. C Don’t be surprised if women find some men more attractive than others.

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2 They say that ‘beauty may be in the eye of the beholder’. The word ‘beholder’ means the same thing as … A a person who is exceptionally beautiful. B a person who is being looked at. C a person who is looking at something. 3 It says in the text that the findings are beyond dispute. This tells us that … A what the researchers found is probably not true. B what they found cannot be questioned. C more research will be needed to find out the truth. 4 In the text it says that the researchers repeated the initial test which means the same as … A the first test. B the second test. C the last test. 5 In one of the tests some faces became less appealing. This means the same as … A annoying. B ugly. C attractive. 6 It says in the text that ‘positive female interest in the faces increased the women’s preference for the males’. Here, the word ‘preference’ tells us that the women … A disliked the males. B liked the males. C trusted the males.

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C O RE 1

ENGLISH

Jörgen Gustafsson Monica Hjorth Eric Kinrade

Core English 1 består av • Allt i ett-bok • Elevfacit • Lärar-cd • Lärarhandledning • Ljudfiler till eleven (finns på www.ljudmastaren.se)

JÖRGEN GUSTAFSSON • MONICA HJORTH • ERIC KINRADE

Engelska för gymnasieskolans studieförberedande program, Engelska 5, B1– B2 samt för motsvarande nivå inom vuxenutbildningen

C O RE 1 ENGLISH

Jörgen Gustafsson Monica Hjorth Eric Kinrade

ISBN 978-91-622-7514-3

(523-2287-1)

000157_CORE_omslag.indd 1

2013-04-24 15.24