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Introduction

To the student

This book will help you learn around 1, 250 new words and phrases. You can use the book
yourself, without a teacher. You can do the units in any order you like.

Here is what the pages look like:

42 Come / came / come

The left-hand page presents Come and go are different: Diagrams and pictures

the new vocabulary. go come show the meaning.
A Come in / out
We say ‘Come in!’ when someone knocks at the door of a room.
Then the person who knocked comes into the room.
Come in!
Come out (of) is often the opposite of come in (to).

A woman came out of the shop with
The left-hand page is two big bags. (I was in the street.)

You put your money in and the ticket
comes out of the machine.
divided into sections. b Come back and come home Example sentences show
Come back means ‘return to this place here’.
She went away for three days. She came back yesterday.
(She is here again.)
Come back is often used with from.

They came back from Italy yesterday. the words in context.
Come home is similar; ‘home’ is ‘here’ for the person speaking.
MUM: What time did you come home last night?
SaDIe: Oh, about 3 o’clock.
MUM: What! That’s much too late!
c Other important uses of come
A: What country do you come from?
Common mistakes and We’re going clubbing tonight. Do you want to come along [come with us]? Mini-dialogues show how
B: I’m from Poland. / I come from Poland. / I’m Polish.
Come and see me some time. [visit me]
learning tips are also given Common mistakes people use the words in
I come from Poland [NOT I’m coming from Poland].

on the left-hand page. Tip real situations.
Write down any prepositions you find with come every time you see them.
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Exercises
The right-hand page 42.1 Fill the gaps in the sentences. the machine.
1 I put money in, but the ticket didn’t come out of
2 A: I’m going to Thailand tomorrow.
?

practises the new B: Oh! When are you coming the classroom and started the lesson. A lot of different exercise
A: In two weeks.
3 The teacher came
?
4 A: Where do you come
B: I’m Spanish.
vocabulary. 5 Come and me at 5 o’clock; we can talk about it then. types are used: gap-fills,
school at 4 o’clock.
6 The children come
42.2
What do you think these people are saying? Use words from the box.
come from come in come along come here answering questions,
Come in! We’re going
to a party.
Do you want
to ? matching, etc.
1 Come in! 3
I
France.
Pictures, tables and
2 4
diagrams give variety to 42.3 Fill the gaps using come in the correct form.
for your letters? They’re on the table.
1 Did you come
back yesterday.
2 She
the exercises. 3 He you here every Tuesday. Over to you tasks give you
4
to the party tonight?
from a small town in Luxembourg.
5 Pierre
42.4 Answer these questions for yourself. a chance to do more work
1 What time do you come home every day?
2 What country do you come from?
3 What do you do when you come into your classroom? on the topic of the unit.
Over to you
Look up these verbs in a dictionary. Write down the meaning and one example for each verb. After a
week, cover the verbs and examples, look at the meanings and see if you can remember the verbs.
Verb Meaning Example
come round
come across
come up
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The Answer key at the end of the book is for you to check your answers to the exercises after you

do them. The Answer key sometimes has more than one answer. This is because there is often
not just one correct way of saying something. The Answer key also has possible answers for most
of the exercises which are open-ended, or where you are asked to talk about yourself.
The Index at the end of the book has all the important words and phrases from the left-hand

pages. The Index also tells you how to pronounce words. There is a list of phonemic symbols to
help you understand the pronunciation on page 158.
It is a good idea to have a dictionary with you when you use the book so you can check the
meaning of something, or translate a word into your own language. sometimes, you will also
need a dictionary for the exercises; we tell you when this is so. You also need a vocabulary
notebook to write down new words. see page 172 for ideas on how to learn and remember
these new words.
We hope you like this book. When you have finished all the units in this book, you can go to the next
book in the series, English Vocabulary in Use: Pre-intermediate and Intermediate, and after that, to the

higher levels, English Vocabulary in Use: Upper-intermediate and English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced.
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