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Vocabulary word building (3):
VOCABULARY word families
12C AND SKILLS Superheroes Skills Listening: a radio interview;
Reading: a magazine article

QUICK REVIEW Third conditional Write three sentences •
with because about good or bad things that happened to you • HELP WITH LISTENING
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Sentence stress and weak forms: review
last week: On Friday I was late for work because I missed the •
train. Work in pairs. Swap sentences. Make third conditionals a Work in pairs. Look at the beginning of the
from your partner's sentences: If you hadn't missed the train interview. Mark the stressed words and circle
• the weak forms.
on Friday, you wouldn't have been late for work. •
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• Hello@ welcome@ the programme. Stories
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• of superheroes have entertained us for nearly
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Speaking and Listening • eighty years, and one of the most popular of
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Work in groups. Discuss these questions. • these is Spider-Man. Today I'm talking to the
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• author Robin Baker, whose new book, Superhero,
1 Look at the photo of Spider-Man. What superpowers does •
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he have? • tells the story of Spider-Man's creator, Stan
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2 Have you seen any of the Spider-Man films? If so, did you like •
• Lee. Welcome to the programme, Robin .
them? Why?/Why not? •
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3 What other superheroes do you know? What superpowers do • b Look at Audio Script mss p174. Read
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they have? • and listen to the beginning of the interview .
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4 Look at the photo of Stan Lee. What do you think he did? • Check your answers .
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• c Listen to the whole interview again. Follow
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• the sentence stress and weak forms .
Reading and Vocabulary

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a Look at the photo on p99. What is the man
doing? Why is he doing this, do you think?

b Before you read, check these words with
your teacher or in a dictionary .
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a coma a rope equipment a skyscraper

c Read about Alain Robert. Match these
topics to paragraphs 1-6.
a A childhood adventure
b The real Spider-Man 1
c Danger and police
a 35 Listen to an interview with the writer, Robin Baker.
d A terrible fall
Put topics a-e in the order he talks about them.
e Why he likes climbing
a Stan Lee's other superhero characters.
f Three amazing climbs
b Why Spider-Man is different from other superheroes.
d Read the article again. Answer these
c How Spider-Man got his name.
questions.
d Stan Lee and his characters' movies.
1 Why did he climb up the side of the building
e Spider-Man's superpowers.
where his family lived?
b Listen again. Are these sentences true or false? 2 Why were the doctors wrong?

1 Stan Lee's comic The Fantastic Four saved his company. 3 Why is his style of climbing so dangerous?
2 He thought of the idea for Spider-Man when he saw a spider 4 Why does he usually get arrested?
walking up a wall. s What did he do for the first Spider-Man movie?
3 Spider-Man was the first name that Stan Lee thought of. 6 What happened after he climbed the Jin Mao
4 Spider-Man doesn't have problems like normal people. Building?
s He got his superpowers when he was bitten by a spider. 7 Why does he climb?
6 Stan Lee is usually a newspaper seller in his characters' movies.