Prime Time 5, Coursebook mit Audio-CD

Check-out NOW yOU CAN ✔ Talk about other people’s personal qualities. ✔ Talk about your strengths and weaknesses and your plans for the future. ✔ Talk about features of a personal web page. ✔ Talk about past and future events. ✔ Use simple and progressive forms. 1 Speaking: One of your classmates Talk about somebody in your class. Describe this person and say: • who they are • what they are like • what they like doing • what their strengths are • whether you are one of their friends 2 Writing: Real friends? Write an answer of about 150 words to this posting found on a discussion forum online. Include the following points: • the difference between “real” friends and friends on Facebook • the number of people that you would consider as friends (give reasons) 3 Language in use: Future tenses Underline the correct tenses to express the future. Marco: Hey, Pete. Naomi (helps • is helping) me to paint my room on Saturday. Do you want to help, too? Pete: Sounds like fun, but I can’t. I (ammeeting • will meet) my Austrian friend Nina at Heathrow on Saturday. Her plane (arrives • will arrive) at 2.30. And I’ve promised to be there. Marco: Oh, yes, of course. Nina! Well, I hope I (am getting • will get) the chance to meet her soon. Pete: If you like, we (come • will come) over to your house on Sunday morning. Marco: Yes, that would be great. Oh, wait, I haven’t got time. I (am working • will work) in the coffee bar all day on Sunday. It (is opening • opens) at ten o’clock, and I have to be there even earlier than that. Pete: No problem. I (bring • will bring) Nina to the coffee bar for one of your Marco specials! Can describe people, places and possessions in simple terms. (A2) Friends on Facebook are not real friends – it’s so superficial. With how many people can you really stay in touch? 10? – 40? – 400? I know people who boast that they have more than 400. They can’t really mean it … Can write personal letters giving news and expressing thoughts about abstract or cultural topics such as music, films. (B1) TIP When you talk about the future, sometimes more than one tense can be correct. 28 Identities – what next? 2 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv