Prime Time 5, Coursebook mit Audio-CD

Check-out NOW yOU CAN ✔ Talk about human rights issues. ✔ Judge when to use gerunds and infinitive forms. ✔ Discuss tolerance, respect and moral values. ✔ Write a formal letter of complaint. ✔ Use gerunds and infinitives. 1 Writing: A letter of complaint You have just come back from a school trip to an English-speaking country. The following things went wrong: your host family did not show any interest in you and your return flight was delayed by three hours. Write a letter of complaint to the company offering the trip. 2 Language in use: Gerunds and infinitives 1. Craig Kielburger wanted (make) life better for children in Asia. 2. He couldn’t stand (hear) about the awful sweatshops in the developing world. 3. The children were the reason for him (do) something about their problems. 4. So he decided (become) active himself. 5. He didn’t stop (think) that he might be too young himself to help anyone. 6. His parents finally stopped (tell) him not to go. 7. They allowed him (travel) to Asia with a group of Canadian human rights activists. 8. Craig didn’t mind (be) the world’s youngest human rights activist. 9. Actually, people were interested in (find) out about him because he was so young. 3 Language in use: The Civil Rights Movement You are going to read a text about the civil rights movement in the USA. Some words of the text are missing. Choose from the list (A–M) the correct part for each gap (1–10) in the text. There are two extra words that you should not use. Write your answers in the boxes provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. In the 1950s it was not possible for black people to get a good … (0) . They were not allowed to go to the same schools as … (Q1) , and the schools which blacks were made to … (Q2) were not as good. This meant that many black people could not read or write. Even if black … (Q3) managed to … (Q4) all their high school exams, they did not have the chance to go to a good … (Q5) or university. Even when the … (Q6) were changed, many states in the South were not … (Q7) to open all their schools. Soon black students began to organise … (Q8) against … (Q9) . They decided not to attend their lessons and … (Q10) , and they let reporters interview them and take photos of their meetings. A adults H problems 0 E Q6 B attend I protests Q1 Q7 C college J segregation Q2 Q8 D courses K teenagers Q3 Q9 E / education L whites Q4 Q10 F laws M willing Q5 G pass Can write […] letters describing experiences, feelings and events in some detail. (B1) ✔ 97 7 Human rights Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv