The first two exercises, Meeting people and Small Talk, practises language you may use when first meeting somebody. Meeting people is a vocabulary exercise focusing on questions and Small talk is a listening activity - can you match the questions and answers?

The grammar on page 5 looks at the verb to be. There are three language exercises which offer further practice on the verb to be; Conference introductions, School open day and Who are you?

Hearing numbers correctly is a critical skill in English. What time do you arrive? and Letters and numbers provide you with extra practice.

Have a go at Numbers and prices for further practice.

Some of the exercises in The football business practice pronouns. For further practice have a look at Subject pronouns, Is this your bag? and First day in the office.

Get practice at pronouncing countries correctly in Word stress patterns. Can you identify which syllable is stressed?

Have a go at Making a phone call. This listening activity is about someone having problems using the phone. There are three different listenings in all.

The rest of the exercises in Macmillan English Campus practice the present simple which is the main focus of the coursebook.

The four Grammar Reference Units at the bottom of the unit will provide you with a good overview of this area of grammar: Present simple: affirmative is the positive form; I like swimming, Present simple: negative e.g. I don't like swimming, Present simple: interrogative is the question form; Do you like swimming? and Present simple: spelling checks your third person spelling; flys or flies?

There are also three Language Exercises to practice these grammar rules; two called Present simple and one called The taxi driver.

Finally, you have a listening activity, Good for the environment, which helps you practise the negative form of the present simple.

This unit starts off with two listenings about daily routine: My job and Daily Routine. My job is a two part listening so make sure you do both exercises.

This section of the book also looks at common word partnerships - verbs and nouns that go together, or collocations. School mornings and What do you do in your job? practice some verb and noun collocations.

Exercise 4 on page 15 looks at present simple questions. Have a go at What does Mrs Bari do? and Question formation for more practice.

Do the two Grammar Reference Units first; Adverbs of frequency; never to always and Adverbs of frequency: word order first. Then have ago at Market research for further practice.

When talking about routines and time it is often difficult to remember which preposition to use. Try the two Language Exercises: Working in Bristol and Mr Gonzales starts work at 9 am. to help you remember your prepositions.

Finish off with a fun game: Pret a porter - each time you match the correct preposition the supermodel gets to eat a bit of cake!!

Page 17 &18 – arranging a trip

Page 18 & 19 –

How many, how often?

Page 20:

Customer Enquiries

Page 22 Eating Out

Page 25 – 26 Conference Centre

There are lots of great activities linked to this unit. Conference Facilities is a listening activity using the vocabulary you need to describe a range of business facilities, while Have we got everything? and Come to the zoo  present  ways of using the important structure have got.

Page 26 Grammar link

Have got and  have are crucial expressions in English, and there are three exercises which show you how to use them accurately:

Have got: present simple affirmative;

Have got: present simple negative;

Have got: present simple interrogative.

Page 27

Page 28: A Job interview

Job interviews are one of the most important things you will ever have to use English for. Interview questions practises the questions you answer when you apply for a job with an English-speaking employer. Can you do this? gives you further practice with questions about ability, and Robot rescue dog is a fun listening activity about what a mechanical dog can and can’t do.

Page 30 - Grammar link

Page 32 questions about the past

Were you ill? and Questions and short answers with was and were practise use of the past tenses of to be.

Page 32, 33 & 35 - Grammar link

This Unit introduces the past Simple, and you can sharpen your accuracy with five exercises: Questions in the past simple, which is a language exercise, and Past simple regular: affirmative; Past simple regular: negative; and Past simple regular: interrogative which show you how to build sentences. Past simple regular: spelling practises the rules of spelling regular verbs in the past simple. When you have completed these activities you will be ready to try the other exercises in this unit.

Page 33-35: A dangerous criminal

Page 38-39 Yesterday

Page 39 – Grammar link

Irregular verbs are so confusing in English! Get lots of practice in using them in the exercises in the grammar exercises in this unit:

Past simple irregular: use

Past simple irregular verbs: A-D

Past simple irregular verbs: E-K

Past simple irregular verbs: L-R

Past simple irregular verbs: S-Z

Page 43-44 Things go wrong

Checking in at a hotel can be a stressful and difficult process. Checking in at the Riverside Hotel and Hotel check-in are two listening activities that will help you with this. At the Royal Hotel is a language exercise which demonstrates correct ways to make and answer polite requests. When in Rome…  provides you with more vocabulary to use in hotels. Reserving a hotel room gives you the chance to practise writing a fax.

Page 44-45 Hotel breakfast

There are three exercises to offer further practice of this area of grammar: Countable v uncountable nouns: definition and contrast, Uncountable nouns: other and Choosing countable or uncountable nouns.

Check your spelling of clothes vocabulary in Clothes. My favourite clothes is a listening activity where you have to match what you hear to the descriptions.

Expand your knowledge of the use of some and any in the two language exercises: Quantifiers and A, some, any. Practice much and many in the listening Patsy and Bob go camping, then play the game Skater Waiter for some fun practice of the questions How much and How many.

The book looks at business travel. In A business trip you have to rearrange the words to complete someone's 'To do' list before they go on a business trip.

In the sports shop and In the post office are two listenings about shopping. In the post office is a two part activity so don't forget to do the second exercise after you've checked your answers to exercise one.

Expand your vocabulary by doing the Vocabulary Activity The Weather.

There's also a listening activity called The weather where you are. Listen to the weather forecast from around the world.

Finish off with a Poker Game. Try to make sentences about the weather or collect pairs of adjectives or nouns related to the weather. Be careful though - this is addictive!

Over the next four pages in the book you look at comparatives and superlatives. There are a number of exercises available in MEC to make sure you have a good understanding of this grammar. Spot the difference looks at comparative adjectives. Ask the pilot and Comparative and superlative adjectives look at both comparatives and superlatives.

There are also four Grammar Reference Units with grammar explanations of the rules and simple exercises for your reference.

Page 57-58 Commuting

Page 59 Tell me about your journey

Page 63 Dress code

Page 64 Grammar Link

This unit deals with the present simple and continuous tenses, so there are six grammar activities to help you:

Present continuous: affirmative;

Present continuous: negative;

Present continuous: interrogative;

Present continuous: spelling;

Present continuous: use;

Present simple v continuous

There are also two language activities dealing with the same area: Present continuous and Present simple and present continuous.

Page 66 Trends

Page 67-68 The journey from hell

Page 68-69 Stranded by a strike

Travelling Tales is another listening activity which builds your vocabulary by identifying synonyms – words with the same meaning as some that you may already know.

Page 70-71

Page 70 Grammar link: Going to

There are many ways to talk about the future in English. This unit deals with the important structure going to, and there are several grammar activities to help you here:

Future with going to: affirmative;

Future with going to: negative;

Future with going to: interrogative

Page 73 Grammar Link: subject questions