LISTENING

Exercise 1. Listen to two conversations and choose the correct answer.

(Track 1.30)
1. What does the girl want to study in the future?
a. Photo A b. Photo B c. Photo D
2. The girl and the boy have both seen one of the documentaries. What was it about?
a. Photo A b. Photo E c. Photo F

Task 2. Listen to five speakers talking about why they became scientists. Which job does each
person do? Match the correct answers. (Track 1.32)

Speaker A conservationist
1 A linguist
Speaker A marine biologist
2 A psychologist
Speaker An archaeologist
3
Speaker
4
Speaker
5
Task 3. Listen again. Match speakers 1–5 with statements A–E. (Track 1.32)
A. I want to understand how early childhood affects behaviour.
B. I'm keen on studying how machines can communicate.
C. I want to explore oceans and preserve the ocean environment.
D. I'm interested in studying our prehistoric ancestors.
E. I want to find solutions to nature's problems.
Speaker 1 ____ Speaker 2 ____
Speaker 3 ____ Speaker 4 ____
Speaker 5 ____

VOCABULARY
Exercise 1. Choose the correct answers A–C.
1. I can't enter the website. Something is wrong. Am I using the correct _____?
a. keyboard b. password c. text message
2. I've started using a new _____. I type in what I'm looking for on the Internet and it finds the
websites I want really quickly.
a. keyboard b. username c. search engine
3. Sarah spends a lot of time _____ specimens in the countryside. She truly enjoys being a
biologist.
a. collecting b. developing c. inventing
4. Ben emailed the document to me. I made a copy of it on paper with the _____ for you.
a. broadband b. web browser c. laser printer
5. You must be very creative to _____ something completely new and useful for people to use.
 a. invent b. discover c.observe
6. I need a new _____ for my desktop computer. The 'Enter' key doesn't work
a. laptop b. keyboard c.username

Exercise 2. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in capitals.
1. Charles Darwin, the world famous ______________ travelled to many exotic places such as
the Galapagos Islands. BIOLOGY
2. Galileo Galilei, a famous ______________ was the first person to see the rings of Saturn. He
did this using his telescope in 1610. ASTRONOMY
3. The famous ______________ Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day 1642. And it's not
true that an apple hit him on the head. PHYSICS
4. Larry Page, the ______________ who helped start the company Google, is now worth $44.5
billion. COMPUTER SCIENCE
5. The Nobel Prize is named after Alfred Nobel. He was a ______________ and he is famous
for making dynamite. CHEMISTRY
6. Euclid was a ______________ and many people call him the Father of Geometry. He wrote
one of the first textbooks for teaching maths. MATHEMATICS

Exercise 3. Choose the correct verbs.

1. When you do/make an experiment, it's not always a success.
2. Scientists spend a lot of time just observing/discovering their experiments.
3. Was it Marie Curie that invented/discovered radium?
4. Please take/do the important measurements this afternoon, Adam.
5. Famous scientists often develop/observe important theories.
6. Today we can do/make research on the Internet. In the past it wasn’t so easy.
7. The Scottish man, John Logie Baird invented/discovered television in 1925.
8. I prefer collecting/taking specimens. It's better than working in the laboratory.
GRAMMAR
Present perfect Gerunds

Exercise 1. Put the words in the correct order to make sentences and questions.
1. anything / never / they’ve / won
______________________________________
2. hasn’t / yet / Liz / unpacked
______________________________________
3. you / other countries / have / visited?
______________________________________

4. has / to Russia / already / Max / been

______________________________________

5. decided / yet / where to go / haven’t / we

______________________________________
 6. she / been / has / ever / to Mongolia
__________________________________________

Exercise 2. Complete the dialogue with the correct form of the verbs in the box. Use the
Present perfect or the Past simple. There is one extra verb.

be buy go just/record listen not hear write

Tia: 1 _________________ you ever _________________ to a concert?

Ben: Yes, I 2_________________ to see The Rolling Stones with my parents last year.
Tia: The Rolling Stones?! I 3 _________________ them.
Ben: Well, they’re an old band, but they are amazing – and they 4 _______________ a new
album too.
Tia: Really?! 5 _________________ you _________________ to it yet?
Ben: Yes, I 6 _________________ it yesterday. It’s really good.

Exercise 3. Choose the correct option.

1. Hugo prefers shopping / shop online.
2. My mum wanted finding / to find a smart black skirt for work.
3. She doesn’t like to wear / wearing red.
4. I can’t stand to buy / buying clothes.
5. Where does Mary hope to get / getting a red pullover?
6. You don’t need to try / trying this on – it’s one size.
READING

Science at the South Pole

Jane Roberts is a marine biologist. She worked for two years in Antarctica. Here, she answers
your questions.

Is there really a pole at the South Pole?

Yes, there is. It's in front of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. In 1911 a Norwegian explorer
called Roald Amundsen was the first person to get there, followed by a British man, Robert Falcon
Scott, thirty-four days later. Unfortunately, Scott and his team of five all died on the return journey.
When the first explorers reached the South Pole there was nothing there. Now, several hundred
people work at the Station. There's an airstrip for small planes, a canteen, hot showers, a post
office, a tourist shop, a basketball court and a movie theatre.

Who does Antarctica belong to?

Antarctica doesn't belong to any nation. There's no permanent population, but there are bases that
look like small towns. Thirty different countries run about seventy research stations in Antarctica.
People stay there between three and eighteen months. Most people work only in the summer
months, but some stay all year round. The population is around 4,000 in summer and 1,000 in
winter.
Why did you want to work in Antarctica?
I was studying in London and I read about an exciting research project in Antarctica. I applied for
the job, but thousands of other people also applied. I was lucky!

What exactly were you doing there?

I was doing research into marine life. I collected specimens of ice and examined them in the
laboratory. There are layers of ice thousands of years old! We found the remains of a dinosaur. It
was in millions of pieces and we had to put all the pieces together like a jigsaw. Our research
showed us that millions of years ago the Antarctic was much warmer.

What did you wear in Antarctica?

It's extremely cold all year round. When I was doing experiments outside, I wore three pairs of
socks and often five layers of clothing. Winter temperatures fall to –80°C and even summer
temperatures are below zero at the South Pole. For several months, there's no sunlight at all.
Sometimes it's too cold to go outside.

What did you do in your free time?

When it was snowing, we read lots of books and played games. There isn't much to do in Antarctica,
but I enjoy reading and I made some good friends there too.

Did you miss home?

No, but I missed colours – it's very white in Antarctica! But I was working all day and it was really
interesting work

Exercise 1. Read the text. For questions 1–5, choose the correct answer A, B, C or D.

1. The South Pole Station is named after

A. the first person to reach the South Pole.
B. the first person who died after reaching the South Pole.
C. the five people who died after reaching the South Pole.
D. the first two explorers to reach the South Pole.

2. People who work in Antarctica

A. are residents of Antarctica.
B. live in small towns.
C. stay for a period of time in research stations.
D. return to their country in winter.

3. Jane discovered that

A. she likes working in a laboratory.
B. millions of years ago dinosaurs lived on ice.
C. the Antarctic wasn't always cold.
D. research is like doing a jigsaw.

4. The temperature at the South Pole

A. is –80 degrees all year round.
B. is usually above zero in summer.
C. never rises above zero.
D. is too cold to go outside.

5. In the interview, Jane

A. describes her experience of working in Antarctica.
 B. encourages tourists to visit Antarctica.
C. explains how researchers apply for jobs in Antarctica.
D. presents her research into the weather in Antarctica.

Exercise 2. Read the text again. Match the words in bold in the text with the definitions in the
box.

1. several sheets of material on top of one another _____________

2. the skeleton _____________
3. a place where planes can land _____________
4. organise and manage _____________
5. a place to eat, usually in a school or factory _____________
6. a picture cut into small pieces that you put together _____________
7. arrived (at a place) _____________