LIFE IN A DAY  1

THINK AND DISCUSS

Answers will vary. Possible answers:

1. Sunday is my favorite day because I can relax and spend time with my friends or family. / I love Monday because I like starting a new week. / My least favorite day is Thursday because I have to take a test every Thursday. / I always work late on Monday, so that’s my least favorite day.

2. I enjoy having breakfast every morning. It’s my favorite meal of the day. I usually have scrambled eggs, toast, and a cup of tea. / I like catching up with my friends on social media. I don’t get to meet them so often anymore, but I’m able to chat with them on social media sites.

EXPLORE THE THEME

A 1. The world’s population grows by about 200,000 people every day. More than eight million fly to a different place daily. More than one billion people visit Facebook every day.

2. Answers will vary. Possible answers: Yes, I use the Internet every day. I check my email, chat with my friends, post pictures online, do research for school, and watch videos.

B connect; communicate; upload (Note: The verb connect can refer both to communicating with others in an online environment and the act of

getting online itself.)

Reading 1

PREPARING TO READ

A 1. extraordinary

2. arrive

3. team; project (Note: A project is something that usually takes a long time to finish.)

4. normal (Note: Students will also see the synonym typical in the reading.)

5. take care of (Note: Taking care of someone means looking after that person’s health and well-being.)

6. produce (Note: Produce is often used instead of make for larger, more complicated projects or items.)

B Answers will vary. Possible answers:

1. I usually communicate with my family by phone. They don’t like texting very much. I communicate with my friends by texting, mostly. Text messages don’t interrupt as much when we’re in class or at

home doing our homework.

2. On a normal weekday, I eat breakfast early in the morning before

3. taking the subway to school.

C Answers will vary. Possible answers: exercise / eat breakfast / drink coffee / take the train / drive to work / walk home / cook dinner / take a bath

D c (Note: Numbers include the year the movie was made [2010], the date the videos were recorded [July 24], the number of videos made [80,000], the amount of video recorded [4,500 hours], the number of countries that participated [192], and the final length of the edited movie [90 minutes].)

UNDERSTANDING The READING

A c (See Paragraph A: What happens in a single day on planet Earth?)

B 1. b (See Paragraph A: The team asked people from around the world to film their life…)

2. a (See Paragraph C: What we might see as banal, living in our own culture, is not banal to somebody growing up in Dakar.)

3. a (See Paragraph E: …you can ask thousands, tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people all to contribute to a project…)

4. b (See Paragraph F: The Life in a Day team hopes that, after watching the movie, others may feel the same way.)

C 1. goes on

2. imaginary

3. banal

4. contribute

D Answers will vary. Possible answers: I would send a video of my family eating dinner together because we always laugh and joke together. / I

would send a video of one of my classes because I think students are interested in seeing other schools around the world.

DEVELOPING READING SKILLS

A a (Note: Students should notice that the words hours and days are repeated a lot. They should also notice the names of the different planets.)

B c (Note: Students should notice some of the following key words and phrases: first baby, typical day, different, sleep, awake, time, feeding, diapers, tired, happiness.)

Video

BEFORE VIEWING

A Answers will vary. Possible answers: I think that they’re talking to teens from another country. The title says “conversation,” so they’re probably not talking to a teacher or professor. That would be more like a lecture.

B Answers will vary. Possible answers:

1. Students will learn that they have a lot in common with people from other countries. This will help them to get along better with one another.

2. Skype is free and easy to download. You can also use Skype on any computer, tablet, or mobile phone.

3. I think students would probably ask each other about everyday things, such as the food they eat, the schools they attend, and the hobbies they enjoy.

C 1. alike

2. amaze (Note: Something that is amazing is both unexpected and very impressive.)

3. exchange (Note: People can exchange intangibles such as ideas, as well as actual things.)

WHILE VIEWING

A 1. their daily lives

2. recording videos of themselves

3. that people are more similar than different

B 1. d; 2. c; 3. b; 4. a (Note: To beatbox is to make drum sounds with the mouth. It is strongly connected to hip-hop culture.)

AFTER VIEWING

A Answers will vary. Possible answers:

1. In a big world, everyone seems far away and hard to connect with. In a small world, we are all connected and we realize that our similarities are greater than our differences. We decide for ourselves which of these worlds we live in.

2. What do you eat for breakfast? / What language

do you speak at home? / What do you like to do in your spare time?

B Answers will vary. Possible answers: Both projects are made possible by the Internet. / Both projects expose people to different cultures around the world (Note: While technology and language are important parts of these projects, the main similarity is that they both promote

cultural exchange and highlight similarities around the world.)

Reading 2

PREPARING TO READ

A 1. depends on (Note: Students should use depends, not depend.)

2. balance, spend time

3. during

4. surprise

5. realize

6. schedules (Note: Students should use the plural form of the word.)

7. measure

B Answers will vary. Possible answers:

1. During my free time, I enjoy hanging out with my friends / going to the movies / playing video games with my brother.

2. I spend most of my free time reading. / Most of my free time is spent surfing the Internet. / I spend a lot of my free time practicing the piano.

C Answers will vary. Possible answers:

1. I think being an actor is interesting. You get to play a lot of different roles. / Being an astronaut is interesting because you get to work in zero gravity.

2. Scientist / Musician / Travel writer / Social worker / Athlete

D 1. c (Note: Katija is a bioengineer.)

2. b (Note: Lee is a bioarchaeologist.)

3. a (Note: Qi is a filmmaker and a photographer.)

UNDERSTANDING THE READING

A b (Note: The purpose can be found in the sentences just below the title. Explain the slight difference between options a and b. Option a is about a specific day, whereas b is about a typical day.)

B a. Lee

b. Katija, Lee

c. Katija

d. Qi

e. Qi, Katija, Lee

f. Qi

g. Katija, Lee

h. Katija

C 1. quit (Note: Quit also frequently means to choose to leave a job.)

2. buried

3. skeleton (Note: Christine Lee is pictured handling a skeleton on page 13.)

4. dive

5. laboratory

D Answers will vary. Possible answers:

Katija: Diving in the ocean

Lee: Making new discoveries

Qi: Traveling around the world

I think Kakani Katija has the most interesting job. Diving in the ocean sounds fun and exciting. / I’ve always liked history, so I think Christine Lee has the most interesting job.

Writing

EXPLORING WRITTEN ENGLISH

A 1. GF

2. GF

3. R

4. R

5. GF

LANGUAGE FOR WRITING

B 1. communicate

2. are (Note: Explain that are is a form of the verb be.)

3. is (Note: Explain that is is another form of the verb be.)

4. works, does, work

5. have, has

6. take

C Answers will vary. Possible answers:

1. My favorite hobby is playing video games.

2. I like going to the beach.

3. My favorite movie is Inception.

4. I spend time with my friends on weekends.

5. I take the bus and walk the rest of the way.

6. I study at a high school.

7. My family enjoys going to the movies

WRITING SKILLS

D 1. I work in an office on First Street.

2. My friend and I like to play computer games.

3. My best friend’s name is John.

4. My favorite movie is Iron Man.

5. My family likes to go hiking in the mountains in the summer.

6. We eat dinner at 7:00 every evening.

7. One of my favorite sports is basketball.

E Answers will vary. Possible answers:

1. I love to surf, so I go to the beach every weekend.

2. I meet up with members of my band every weekend for practice.

3. Every Sunday, my family shares a big meal.

F Answers will vary. Possible answers:

Jim enjoys exercising, and he hikes every Saturday. I like exercising, but I prefer playing sports. I think hiking is boring. / Sharon goes for salsa classes with her friends every weekend. I like to dance, too, but I prefer hip-hop.

WRITING TASK

A Answers will vary. Possible answers: drink tea / exercise / walk my dog / call my parents / cycle to school / go running

B Answers will vary. Possible answers:

1. Prepare breakfast: Normally noodles with a fried egg, sometimes with vegetables.

2. Help out at my father’s shop: My father fixes motorcycles, the main mode of transportation here.

3. Play soccer with friends: No soccer fields here, so we play on basketball courts.

REVISING PRACTICE

a, b, d, b, c

REVISING PRACTICE

1. I cook food for 500 people every day.

2. I think many people don’t cook nowadays.

3. My husband drives me to work every morning.

4. He is a bus driver.

5. I don’t work in an office.

6. I work in a laboratory.

7. My grandparents don’t watch TV.

8. My daughter doesn’t have a job. (Note: The tense is reflected in the auxiliary verb do.)