GI A1PLUS Student's Book Answer Key
GI A1PLUS Student's Book Answer Key
know? 3
4
an
a
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Back to school
5 an Sunday
6 a Possible alternative: Sunday,
7 an Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Exercise 1 8 a Thursday, Friday, Saturday
1 Hi Max The first day of school is
Exercise 3
2 I’m fine Monday.
3 I don’t know 1 books
2 keys (order unimportant) Exercise 2
Exercise 2
Students’ own answers
Exercise 4
Students’ own answers
add -s: bags, banks, boys, Exercise 3
Exercise 3 monkeys, phones a Saturday
1 c add -es: addresses, classes b Wednesday
1 e omit -y + add -ies: countries, c Thursday
2 d stories d Tuesday
3 a e Sunday
Exercise 5
4 b
1 pink Exercise 4
Exercise 4 2 red 2 window
1 my 3 orange 3 board
2 your 4 yellow 4 door
3 he 5 green 5 poster
4 her 6 blue 6 computer
5 it 7 purple 7 desk
6 we 8 black 8 chair
7 their 9 brown
10 grey Exercise 5
Exercise 5 11 white
Students’ own answers
1 our Exercise 6
2 they Exercise 6
3 My, I Students’ own answers
1 chairs
4 your, it’s
Exercise 7 2 desk
5 She, our
3 board
1 Bag A 4 computers
What’s in your bag? 2 Bag C
3 Bag B
5 posters
Exercise 1 Exercise 7
Exercise 8
1 mobile phone 2 That’s
Students’ own answers 3 These are
2 keys
3 pencil case 4 Those are
4 notebook
Exercise 8
5 bag
6 money Students’ own answers
7 books
1 Unit 7
Exercise 5 Exercise 5 2 Unit 4
Students’ own answers 1 54 3 Unit 8
2 20 4 Unit 3
1 I’m
Exercise 8
2 It’s Vocabulary and
3 You’re
4 we’re
Listening Students’ own answers
Grammar
5 We’re
Exercise 1
6 it’s
7 You’re Suggested answer:
8 I’m Yes, because it’s a beautiful Exercise 1
9 are country. (also: Aukland is a 1 am
The answer is ‘Madrid’. modern city, it’s safe for tourists 2 Are
with lots of things to do. The 3 isn’t
Exercise 5 beaches aren’t crowded.) 4 Are
1 aren’t 5 aren’t
Exercise 2
2 isn’t
modern – old, clean – dirty, safe Exercise 2
Exercise 6 – dangerous, quiet – noisy, 1 Is your city big?
1 Cem isn’t (is not) from boring – interesting, crowded – 2 Are you and your classmates
Istanbul. empty, hot – cold happy?
2 We’re (are) from Miami. 3 Is your teacher from the
Exercise 3 USA?
3 I’m (am) not Indian.
4 Elena’s (is) from Brazil. Students’ own answers 4 Are you from Japan?
5 You aren’t (are not) from 5 Are summers in your country
Tokyo. Exercise 4 hot? / Are summers hot in
your country?
Exercise 7 Suggested answer:
Rugby, sheep and tradition are Exercise 3
2 China and India aren’t (are important.
not) in Europe. They’re (are) a 3
in Asia. Exercise 5 b 5
3 Thomas isn’t (is not) from c 4
Spain. He’s (is) from the 1 is d 1
Netherlands. 2 isn’t e 2
4 We aren’t (are not) in a maths 3 isn’t
class. We’re (are) in an Exercise 4
Exercise 6
English class. 1 Are
5 I’m (am) not British. I’m (am) 1 True 2 ’m not
(student’s nationality). 2 False – Most people live on 3 Are
the North Island 4 aren’t
Exercise 8 3 False – Wellington’s only 5 Is
1 ’re small, but it’s the capital 6 isn’t
2 aren’t 4 True 7 Are
3 aren’t 5 False – There are interesting 8 are
4 ’s things to do
5 ’m 6 True Exercise 5
6 aren’t Students’ own answers
7 ’re
Exercise 8 Exercise 7
2 Family
1 Jonas, 13 Students’ own answers
Vocabulary 2 To show a family tree. It’s
easy to see the family tree Exercise 8
Exercise 1 and see pictures of people
1 a Eli and Toby
and understand the
2 b Toby – He’s got a lot of
1 France relationships clearly.
cousins he can do things with.
2 It’s over 100 years old. 4 Jonas
3 c Eli – She would like a sister
3 Students’ own answers
to talk to.; Clara – Her
Exercise 2 Reading and critical brothers are very annoying.
3 son
4 daughter Exercise 1 Critical thinking
5 brother Students’ own answers Suggested answers:
6 father
1 Advantages: It’s fun, the
Exercise 2 children are never lonely –
Exercise 3
1 It’s a big family. they’ve got a lot of brothers,
1 Victor/Louise 2 There are 26 people in the sisters and cousins to play
2 Lena family and they all live in the with.
3 Anna same house. Disadvantages: The house is
noisy.
Exercise 4 Exercise 3 2 Advantages: You have your
own room, it’s quiet at home,
1 e 1 Montana in the USA more presents on your
2 g 2 house birthday/at Christmas.
3 f 3 grandparents Disadvantages: It’s lonely –
4 a 4 four, 16 no brothers or sisters to talk
5 c 5 small to/play with. You haven’t got a
6 h 6 bus brother or sister to help you
7 d 7 six with your homework.
8 b
3 Students’ own answers
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
2 aunt
1 False Bill and Barb have got
Grammar
three sons and one daughter.
3 grandfather 2 True
4 uncle Exercise 1
3 False – Each child hasn't got
5 cousin a separate bedroom. 1 ’ve got
6 niece 4 True 2 haven’t got
5 False – They eat at three big 3 ’s got
Exercise 6 tables. 4 ’ve got
a short, old 6 False – The home is noisy. 5 haven’t got
b tall, dark
c young, fair Exercise 5 Exercise 2
1 lonely 1 c
Exercise 7 2 together 2 d
Students’ own answers 3 unusual 3 a
4 share 4 b
5 reality show
6 fun
Exercise 6
Exercise 3
Exercise 8 1 a
Exercise 6
2 b
Students’ own answers
1 tea 3 b
2 soup
Exercise 9
3 chicken Exercise 6
Students’ own answers 4 apple
1 d
5 sandwich
2 a
6 orange
3 b
3 Eat well 7 meat
4 c
8 rice
Vocabulary 9 peas
Exercise 7
10 oil
Exercise 1 11 juice 1 planet
Missing word: biscuit 2 less
Students’ own answers 3 production
Exercise 7 4 promise
Exercise 2 5 environment
1 coffee, water, juice, tea
6 gas
cheese, tomato 2 potato, tomato, peas
3 banana, apple, orange
Exercise 8
Exercise 3 4 chocolate, biscuit
1 promise
Students’ own answers
Exercise 8 2 less
Exercise 4 3 gas
a chicken sandwich and (fried)
4 planet
A cheese, tomato, banana, potatoes
5 production
Iceland 6 environment
Exercise 9
B chocolate, (strawberries),
Brazil 1 Yes. She is happy at the
C potato, Italy market and she likes all the
D (different types of) fish, food she buys.
cheese, Russia 2 Fun and happy.
3 Students’ own answers.
1 some 1 d
Exercise 1 2 is 2 a
1 There’s 3 has got 3 c
2 There are 4 there’s 4 b
3 There aren’t 5 café’s
4 Is there 6 aren’t Exercise 4
5 there is 7 have got
1 Feijoada – meat and beans;
6 Are there 8 any
Moqueca – fish, tomatoes,
onions, coconut milk;
Exercise 2
Real-world speaking Empadão – meat or fish; Pão
1 are de queijo – bread and cheese
2 is Exercise 1 2 in restaurants, because it
3 is takes 24 hours to cook
burgers, desserts and sides (also 3 the north of the country
4 are
drinks) (Brazil)
5 are
4 empadão – lunch and dinner
Exercise 2 at the weekend; pão de queijo
Exercise 3
a veggie/vegetarian burger, – breakfast or as a snack
1 There isn’t during the day
some cheese fries, a bottle of
2 There are
water and a chocolate cupcake
3 There’s Exercise 5
4 There aren’t
Exercise 3 1 and
5 There isn’t
Can I have some ... 2 but
Exercise 4 I'd like some … 3 but
That’s all, thanks.
1 Is there a baker’s? No, there Exercise 6
isn’t.
Exercise 4 The food is different in different
2 Are there any cafés? Yes,
there are. 1 Can I have regions, but these are some
3 Are there any sports shops? 2 Would you like typical dishes.
No, there aren’t. 3 anything You cook fish with tomatoes,
4 Is there a supermarket? Yes, 4 I’d like onions and coconut milk and you
there is. 5 else serve it with rice.
5 Is there a newsagent’s? No, 6 How much It is a typical meal for lunch and
there isn’t. dinner at the weekend.
Exercise 5 There are different types of pie,
Exercise 5 but the most common is with
Students’ own answers meat or fish.
1 Are there ... and you eat them for breakfast
2 there are Exercise 6 or as a snack …
3 There’s
Students’ own answers
4 Is there Exercise 7
5 there isn’t
6 there’s Writing 1
2
and
and
Exercise 6 3 but
Exercise 1
4 but
Students’ own answers curry – India, kebab – Turkey, 5 and
paella – Spain, sushi – Japan, 6 but
tacos – Mexico
Exercise 8
Exercise 2
Exercise 9 Exercise 7
4 My time
Students’ own answers Students’ own answers
Vocabulary
Exercise 8
Project
Exercise 1 She takes photos/photographs of
sloths.
Exercise 1 1 o’clock
2 twenty past
Students’ own answers Exercise 9
3 half past
4 quarter to 1 they are interesting, you can
Exercise 2
5 five to learn a lot, animals are cute.
Reason for the meal: my 2 Online. On TV.
American cousin’s visit, my Exercise 2
birthday, no special reason
What to eat: chocolate, fish and
Six small clocks showing the Reading and critical
thinking
following times:
salad, pizza
1 quarter past two
Where to eat: at a vegetarian
2 ten to twelve
café, at an Italian restaurant, at Exercise 1
3 four o’clock
home
4 half past seven Students’ own answers
When: after school, Friday
5 twenty to ten
evening, Sunday lunchtime
6 twenty-five past nine Exercise 2
Who to share it with: my family,
my grandparents, people from 1 K-pop is from South Korea.
Exercise 3
my class 2 It’s a mix of different musical
Students’ own answers styles including rock, pop, hip
Exercise 3 hop and jazz.
Exercise 4 3 K-pop stars are famous for
Students’ own answers
do homework: 5:30 pm (half their music videos.
Exercise 4 past five in the evening) 4 Students’ own answers
get up: 7:15 am (quarter past
Students’ own answers Exercise 3
seven in the morning)
go to bed: 9:55 pm (five to ten at It’s difficult.
Exercise 5
night)
Students’ own answers have lunch: 1:10 pm (ten past Exercise 4
one in the afternoon)
Exercise 6 1 get up
Exercise 5 2 8:00 am
Students’ own answers 3 5:00 pm
1 c 4 have lessons
Exercise 7 2 b 5 10:00 pm
3 a 6 go to bed
Students’ own answers
Exercise 6
Exercise 8
Students’ own answers
Students’ own answers
1 get up
2 have breakfast
3 go to school
4 have lessons
5 have lunch
6 have lessons
7 go home
8 do (my) homework
9 relax
10 go to bed
Lana finishes school at 3:15 Students’ own answers 2 He doesn’t like football.
(quarter past three). Grace 3 We like the cinema.
finishes school at 3:45 (quarter to Exercise 6 4 She hates basketball.
four). 5 You don’t like Chinese food.
1 to organise your activities
6 I love burgers.
2 friends
Vocabulary and Exercise 7
Listening Exercise 7
2 you
1 swimming
Exercise 1 3 him
2 evening
4 her
3 life
Students’ own answers 5 it
4 week
6 us
Exercise 2 5 Flora
7 them
1 listen to music Exercise 8
2 watch TV Exercise 8
3 meet friends Students’ own answers
Students’ own answers
4 sleep
5 play the piano
Grammar Exercise 9
6 play the guitar
7 chat on my phone 1 Is it
Exercise 1 2 isn’t
8 go out on my bike
9 read 1 use 3 Some
10 do sport 2 Does 4 it
11 go shopping 3 do 5 has got
12 go swimming 4 Yes, 6 there are
13 go to the cinema 5 doesn’t 7 don’t know
14 play basketball 8 does it cost
15 play video games Exercise 2
16 take photos
1 Do you do sport? Real-world speaking
Exercise 3 2 Does your mother speak
English? Exercise 1
1 go shopping 3 Do you have breakfast at
1 a birthday cake/a birthday
2 go to the cinema school?
party
3 play video games 4 Does your best friend play the
2 a guitar, a girl
4 take photos guitar?
3 friends/brothers, video games
5 do sport
6 play basketball Exercise 3
Exercise 2
7 go swimming
Students’ own answers
They decide to play Amy’s new
Exercise 4 video game on Sunday at 11:30
Exercise 4
am/half past eleven.
Suggested answers:
2 does she go to school?
At home: watch TV, sleep, play
3 do you/I have lunch? Exercise 3
the piano
4 do you finish school?/does
Not at home: do sport, go to the 1 Are you free on (Saturday)?
school finish?
cinema, go out on my bike, go 2 Sorry, I’m busy.
swimming, play basketball 3 What about (Sunday)?
Exercise 5
Both: listen to music, meet 4 (Sunday)’s good
friends, play the guitar, chat on Students’ own answers 5 Yes, great.
my phone, read, go shopping, 6 Is (ten o’clock) OK?
play video games, take photos 7 Why don’t we (meet at
11:30)?
8 OK, fine.
Exercise 2
The watch: talk to friends, watch 1 The tablet is lighter than the how to make objects with a 3D
films, take photos, use the laptop. printer
internet 2 The laptop is bigger than the
The camera: take photos, make tablet./The tablet is smaller Exercise 4
videos than the laptop.
All the phrases
The keyboard: wear it, walk and 3 The tablet is easier to use
write messages than the laptop./The laptop is
Exercise 5
more difficult to use than the
Exercise 8 tablet. 1 How
4 The laptop is more expensive 2 First
Students’ own answers
than the tablet./The tablet is 3 What’s
1 is Exercise 2
Exercise 4
2 goes Suggested answers:
cheap – cheaper 3 ’s The laptop:
difficult – more difficult 4 ’s Yes: It’s cheap and it’s perfect for
easy – easier 5 read students. It’s small and light, and
fast – faster 6 his the touchpad and keyboard are
light – lighter 7 cheaper easy to use.
new – 8 a lot of No: It isn’t new (it’s two years
newer old old), it’s small and very cheap –
– older
slow – slower
Real-world speaking perhaps it’s slow.
The speaker:
thin – thinnerop Yes: It’s small and light and
Exercise 1
modern. You can carry it. It isn’t
Students’ own answers old.
No: It’s expensive.
Exercise 2
1 D
2 B
3 A
4 C
Exercise 3 Exercise 9
6 The world is
Laptop: Students’ own answers
It’s good for students. art
It’s smaller and lighter than other
Project
Vocabulary
laptops. The touchpad and
keyboard are easy to use.
It’s blue. Exercise 1
It’s two years old. Exercise 1
Suggested answer:
It’s €75. Elena is short, so the robot 1 It’s upside-down. (It’s also a
Portable speaker: retrieves items in her kitchen that house that people visit for fun
It’s good for music fans. she cannot reach, when she and to take photos. It isn’t a
The sound quality is better than wants to cook a meal. house that people live in.)
you get from a bigger speaker. 2 Student’s own answers
It’s lighter than other speakers. Exercise 2 3 Students’ own answers
It’s small.
It’s black. 1 David’s grandmother, Elena
Exercise 2
It’s six months old. 2 she’s short and can’t get
It’s €40. things from high places A bedroom
3 in her kitchen B living room
Exercise 4 4 when she wants to cook a C kitchen
meal D bathroom
Students’ own answers E hall
Exercise 3
Exercise 5 Exercise 3
1 b
Students’ own answers 2 d 1 kitchen
3 a 2 bedroom
Exercise 6 4 c 3 living room
1 keyboard 4 bathroom
2 lighter Exercise 4 5 dining room
3 touchpad 6 garden
Students’ own answers
4 beautiful
5 February Exercise 4
Exercise 5
6 speaker Students’ own answers
7 bigger Students’ own answers
8 Wednesday Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Exercise 7 1 floor, ceiling, wall
Students’ own answers
2 bath, shower
1 difficult 3 bed – photo A, chair – photo
2 fourteen Exercise 7
B, table – photo B and A,
3 address Students’ own answers 4 toilet – photo D
4 heavier
5 photos Exercise 8 Exercise 6
1 trousers Grammar
2 shoes Real-world speaking
3 skirt Exercise 1
4 dress Exercise 1
5 jacket 1 before
6 shirt 2 with the verb be Students’ own answers
7 trainers 3 don’t use
8 coat 4 use Exercise 2
9 jeans in Wells Street; today from 10:30
Exercise 2
am to 8:00 pm
Exercise 2 2 Are they listening to music?
1 umbrella 3 Are we travelling by bus? Exercise 3
2 trainers 4 Are you watching a film?
How can I get there?
3 glasses 5 Am I speaking Spanish?
It costs …
4 jacket 6 Is she playing the guitar?
Exercise 6
Exercise 7
Exercise 8 Exercise 6
8 From A to B
Suggested answers: 1 False − They didn’t plan to
Vocabulary 1 The city is busy and loud. start a new sport.
There are lots of cars, bikes, 2 True − The company decided
Exercise 1 buildings and people. The to organise a competition.
countryside is quiet. There 3 False − Riders put videos
A train are some boats and cars. online.
B boat 2 They see new things and 4 False − Funk Bros are
C taxi learn about other celebrities because they post
D plane countries/cultures. videos online.
E bus 3 A documentary is more 5 True − Millions of people
F car serious. A vlog is usually watch the videos of ... Funk
G bike more fun and has better Bros.
graphics and often uses 6 False − Many people want to
Exercise 2 photos. The music in a see scooters … in the
documentary is more serious Olympics, but for now, it’s just
Students’ own answers
than in a vlog. a cool sport!
Exercise 3
Exercise 7
2 ambulance Reading and critical
3 motorbike thinking 1
2
competition
craze
4 underground
3 kids
5 lorry Exercise 1
4 tricks
6 helicopter
1 a coach 5 traffic
7 scooter
2 the underground 6 version
8 ship
9 tram 3 a boat
Exercise 8
Exercise 4 Exercise 2
1 kid
Students’ own answers 2 craze
1 plane, train, coach, car (also
3 trick
possible: motorbike,
Exercise 3 4 traffic
helicopter, ship, taxi, lorry)
5 version
2 bike, motorbike, scooter a scooter, for transport and for 6 competition
3 bus, tram, underground (also sport/fun, to be healthy
possible: taxi, bike)
4 ship, boat Exercise 4
5 plane, helicopter
Students’ own answers
Exercise 5
Exercise 5
1 driver
2 pilot 1 They’re more than a hundred
3 passenger years old.
4 journey 2 Children made the first
5 ticket scooters as toys.
6 travelcard 3 Wim/He made a scooter to go
to his favourite shop when he
Exercise 6 didn’t want to drive.
4 They were cheaper and
Students’ own answers lighter.
5 They became popular as a
Exercise 7 type of transport in Tokyo, in
Bangladesh. To visit her family Japan.
and learn about their culture 6 Riding a scooter is good
exercise.
Exercise 2
Real-world speaking
1 b
2 a
2 the biggest Exercise 1
3 the healthiest
b Exercise 6
4 the most/least popular
5 the most/least dangerous We had our first problem before
Exercise 2
6 the best we left home.
What time’s the next train? First event = we had our first
Exercise 3 Buy your ticket (at the machine). problem
After we got Dad’s passport, my
a 3
Exercise 3 parents decided to take a taxi.
b 1
First event = we got Dad’s
c 4, 5 1 way
passport
d 6, 7 2 Take
e 2 3 change trains
4 does it cost
5 return
6 in five minutes
7 get the train
Project know! 4
5
take
go
Exercise 1
Vocabulary Exercise 6
car 1 go
Exercise 1 2 play
Exercise 2 3 have
A astronaut
1 There are three questions. B midnight/midday 4 take
2 Yes, there is. C keyboard 5 play
3 Yes, there are. D mouth 6 go
E helicopter Students’ own answers
Exercise 3 F cinema
Suggested answers:
G
H
trainers
juice
Reading
Which type of public transport do
I shower
you prefer? Why? What is Exercise 1
important when you choose a
Exercise 2 1 b
type of transport – cost, exercise,
2 c
environment, etc.? When was the AMBULANCE
3 a
last time you travelled by …?
Exercise 2
Exercise 4
Students’ own answers
Students’ own answers
Exercise 5
A There’s a very big food fight 1 There’s 2 I didn’t see the match on TV.
and people throw tomatoes. 2 Correct Did I/you see the match on
B People are having a water 3 There aren’t TV?
fight. 4 Is there 3 We didn’t have chicken for
C People are throwing water 5 Correct dinner. Did you/we have
and paint. 6 There are some/There aren’t chicken for dinner?
any 4 They didn’t go to the cinema
Exercise 4 last night. Did they go to the
Exercise 4 cinema last night?
1 tomatoes
5 I didn’t get up at half past six.
2 Buñol, Spain 1 I don’t like sports.
Did I/you get up at half past
3 the last Wednesday of August 2 Do your cousins live in the
six?
(every year) USA?
6 Leslie didn’t meet her best
4 water fight 3 Leticia watches TV every
friend on holiday. Did Leslie
5 (in) Thailand evening.
meet her best friend on
6 New Year / in April 4 Does Ömer have lunch at
holiday?
7 to clean everything for the school?
new year 5 Azra studies German.
8 dance/sing, sing/dance, water 6 Your parents don’t speak
and paint English.
9 (in) India
10 to celebrate the end of winter Exercise 5
and start of spring
1 Our, theirs
Exercise 5 2 Can you, can’t
3 heavier, yours
hungry: an adjective that means 4 difficult
you want to eat 5 younger, swim
diet: the food people eat 6 hotter, than
fun: an adjective to describe an
activity that you like Exercise 6
together: with other people
unusual: not normal or typical 1 We’re having dinner right
now.
Exercise 6 2 My classmates aren’t
speaking English.
Students’ own answers 3 What are you doing at the
moment?
Grammar 4 My sister isn’t playing a game;
she’s studying.
Exercise 1 5 Alice is sitting next to Juan.
6 Is Zeynep chatting on the
1 are
phone?
2 ’m not
3 is
Exercise 7
4 ’re
5 Are 1 invented
6 aren’t 2 were
7 isn’t 3 wanted
4 studied
Exercise 2 5 wasn’t
1 b 6 lasted
2 c 7 travelled
3 c 8 continued
4 a
5 b
Unit 6 Unit 8
Exercise 1 Exercise 1
Exercise 5 Exercise 3
Exercise 3