Prime Time 5, Transition, Coursebook mit Audio-CD

0 The teenagers’ bikes make a lot of noise because a) they have loud music systems. b) of their engines. c) the teenagers are DJs. d) they are very old. ✘ 1 Having sound machines is popular a) among immigrants from Guyana and Trinidad. b) in Richmond Hill, New York. c) among DJs. d) all around the world. 2 Most bikes also have lights, while others have a) three wheels. b) TVs. c) DVD screens. d) no saddles. 3 Noise is not a problem because a) the music is not loud. b) the bikers don’t ride their bikes in the night. c) people like the music. d) the bikers do not stay in one place very long. 4 Nick Ragbir a) has a business to sell stereos on bikes. b) is a DJ from Guyana. c) sells 5,000 sound systems a year. d) lives in Queens, New York. Language in use: “Travel bugs” – a geocaching feature Read the text about “travel bugs”, a geocaching feature. In most lines (1–11) there is a word that should not be there. Write these words in the spaces provided. 2–4 lines are correct. Make a ✔ in the space if the line is correct. There are three examples (0, 00, 000) at the beginning. When you go geocaching, you might sometimes “nd a “travel bug” ✔ 0 in a cache. ey are metal hot dog tag discs with their own tracking hot 00 number written on to them. You can put one on a small toy and drop ✔ 000 it into a cache. Other time geocachers who “nd them pick them up and 1 take them to another cache. ey send the bug’s total number to the 2 website, which then tracks its journey and counts the miles it has 3 travelled from cache to cache book. People usually give their bug a 4 mission, such as “get to other Canada by next June”. ey then watch 5 on the site how their bugs are doing a°er. Someone took a bug for us 6 to New Zealand recently, le° it in a cache there, and we’re watching 7 its progress check back to Scotland. A junior school in South 8 Wales gave one to each social class as part of a geography project 9 and they are tracking each one via the internet at school because to 10 see which travels the furthest. 11 Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfil a specific task. (B1) 3 57 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv