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For a detailed breakdown of language points and grammar in each section,
see Teaching Suggestions (page 74 onwards).
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Pupils with 1+ years of English
TOWEROFLONDON 4
ENGLISH FOOTBALL 6
THANKSGIVING 8
PANDAS AND WHALES 10
HAWAII ... 12
HARRY POTIER 14
VENUS AND SERENAWILLIAMS 16
GREYHOUND RACING ... ...18
BRITNEY SPEARS .20
NEW YORK 22
1NDEPENDENCE DAY .24
AN1MALSDOWN UNDER .: .26
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Pupils with 2+years of English
ENGLANDANDTHEENGLISH 28
WHAT AREYOURHOBBIES? 30
SCOTLAND .32
CLOTHES .34
AUSTRALIA... ..36
SCARYANIMALS: FACTOR FANTASY? 38
DAVID BECKHAM 40
DANGEROUSSPORTS 42
HOW DO YOU SEETHE FUTURE? 44
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HORIZONSCOMM UNITY HIGH SCHOOL 46
ROLLERBLADING .48
IRELAND 50
CANADA 52
BUCKINGHAM PALACE 54
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SCHOOLSlNBRITANI... 56
NEWZEALAND 58
GLOBALWARMING 60
SOUTHAFRICA 62
CHATROOMS 64
LIVERPOOL 66
TEXTMESSAG1NG .68
THESCHUMACHERBROTHERS 70
SCHOOLTRADITIONSlNTHEUSA 72
Teaching Suggestions and Answers 74
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The Tower of London
WHERE IS IT? WHAT ARE RAVENS?
TheTowerof Londonisonthe RiverThames, Ravensare big black birds. They eat meat. Every
nearTowerBridge. day they eat 150grams of meat, eggs, and
biscuits with blood. There are six ravensat the
HOW CAN VOU GETTHERE?
Tower. The Beefeaters give meat to the ravens
Bybus,bycar,byunderground('the Tube')and
every day.
byboat.
ARE VOU AFRAID OF GHOSTS?
WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE TUBE
People say the Salt Tower has got ghosts. The
STATION?
Beefeaters don't go there when it's dark!
It'scalledTowerHill.
WHAT ARE THE CROWN JEWELS?
HOW OLD IS THE TOWER OF LONDON?
Theyarethe Queen'sspecialjewels.Shewears
It's900yearsold. It'svery strbng. The walls are
them onceayear.
4 metres thick! It'scalled The Tower of London'
but there are 21towers. HOW MANV JEWELSARE ON THE
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QUEEN'S CROWN?
WHV IS IT FAMOUS?
Thereare2,868jewelsonthe crown.
It'sgot Beefeaters, ravens,the Crown Jewels
and ghosts. DOESTHE QUEEN LlVE lN THE TOWER
OF LONDON?
WHAT ARE BEEFEATERS?
No,she!ivesin BuckinghamPalace.
They are special guards. There are 40 Beefeaters
in the Tower. They live in the Tower. They wear
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blue and red clothes Internet on www.toweroflondontour.
com/tolarea.html and on
every day but on special
daysthey wear red www.nationalgeographic.com/world/
0101/tower/tower2.html
and goIdclothes.
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What isit in your language?
Find out!
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underground ( )
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strong ( )
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thick ( )
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famous ( )
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crown ( )
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jewel ( )
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ghost ( )
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special ( )
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guard ( )
gold= ( )
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biscuit ( )
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blood ( )
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afraidof ( )
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dark ( )
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once ( )
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Steal the CrownJewels!
Vouwant to steal the jewels but you need the password.
Hereis the c~de for the password. The password opens the safe.
KEY10 CODE
EXAMPLE 1 1 ? A B C D E F G H 1 J K L M
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fourteen = a 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
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fourteen = n
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seven'een. fit,:en =
twenty.-five, fifte.en, twenty.-one =
e e lBI8B
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twe.nty-five. .twenty-two., twenty-f.our, eight.een =
GOOO
fifteen, eighteen, eighteen, nineteen, thirteen =
The OldestTower
What is it called?
Write the opposites of the words.
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1 day
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2 goodbye
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3 right
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4 old
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5 left
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6 brother
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7 father
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8 open
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9 dry
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10 yes
11 old 000
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12 no
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13 sister
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EnglishFootball
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THE PREMIERSHIP Michael's brothers are called Ierry and Andrew.
There are a lot of famous football teams in Can.you make a name for a horse fram your
England. There are twenty teams in the family's names?
Premiership. This meansthey are the top teams
Find out more on Englishfootball and
in England. ln May,the team in the Premiership
. the career of Michael Owen on the
with the most points are the champions. They
Internet on www.footballculture.net/
win a big prize called the Premiership Trophy. and
WHO ARE THE PLAYERS? www.soccernet.com/england/
There are playersfrom other countries in players/owenmichael.html
Englishteams. Mario Melchiot comesfrom
Amsterdam in Holland but he playsfor Chelsea.
Thierry Henry comesfrom Parisbut he playsfor
Arsenal. English players like David Beckham and
Michael Owen play in the Premiership.
Beckhamcomestrom London and he playsfor
Manchester United. Michael Owen lives in
North Wales but he playsfor Liverpool.
MICHAEL OWEN
Michael Owen was born on the 14th December,
1979. Heliveswith hisfamily in North Wales.
Michael-earns a lot of money becausehe isa
top football player. He likes to buy housesfor
hisfamily. Heowns three housesin the same
street! He isfamous becausehe scoreslots of
goals. He isa striker. He plays in a Number 10
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shirt for England. Hewas European Footballer
of the Year in 2001. He isrich and famous but What isit inyour language?
Findout!
he likesto live an ordinary life. Hesigns
autographs and talks to journalists top = ( )
and ispolite to hisfans, but'the point= ( )
important thing for Michael isto play
prize= ( )
good football.
=
trophy ( )
Hetrains almost every day
with the other players in the toearn= ( )
Liverpool team, and in hisfree same= ( )
time he likes playing golf, toscore= ( )
snooker or table tennis. He
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goal ( )
loveshorse-racing too.
striker= ( )
TALK TO MOJO
Heowns a race-horse called ordinary= ( )
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tosign ( )
Talkto Mojo. The name has
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Michael's initiais (M. O.)and polite ( )
the first letters of ail his snooker= ( )
family's names: Hissistersare
horse-racin=g ( )
called .Lesleyand Karen.
initial= ( )
Michael's father and mother
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Help MichaelOwenScorea Goal!
Read about Michael Owen. Draw a line to the bail with the correct word in it.
Draw the goal that Michael scores.
My name is Michael Owen. younger than David Beckham. l've two brothers
and two sisters.l'm Chester in England. 1 scoring goals.
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The Fans
Look at these fans. They are watching a football match. How do they feel?
Match the feeling to the pictures.
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He'sangry.
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They'resad. D
He'shungry.D
He'shappy. D
What's going to happen next?
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He'sgoing to buy a sandwich.
She's not going to watch
D
football again.
D
Histeam isgoing to win!
D
Their team isgoing to lose.
Hisfavourite player isgoing
D
to get a red card.
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Thanksgiving
November is holiday time in America. It's Thanksgiving. AliAmericans try to get
home for Thanksgiving. It's a bigger holiday than Christmas. The date of the first
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Thanksgiving meal was 1620 a time for the people from England to say thank
you to the Native Americans. The Native Americans helped the English to hunt for
food, to grow things to eat, to build houses and to use plants to cure iIIness.
THANKSGIVING DINNER Theparade
Americans loveto eat. On Thanksgiving starts in
Americans saythank you for the food they Central Park
have. American families eat a big meal then it goes
together. Theyeat corn, potatoes, salad, down to
Columbus
pumpkin pie, apple pie, cranberry sauce,
stuffing,bread and turkey.Turkeysdon't like (jrele and
Thanksgiving- Americans eat 45 million turns left into
turkeys! Broadway
and then
THANKSGIVING FOOTBALL
goes down
What are The DallasCowboys, The Chicago 7th Avenue
Bears,and The Washington Redskins? They are
and stops at
American football teams. American families
34th Street.
watch an American football game at
Thanksgiving. American football isdifferent to Draw the
football inthe rest of the world. The players route on the
wear helmetsand pads.Thebailislike a
little map of
rugby bail.
New Yotk.
BALLOONS
If youwant to seeailyourfavourite cartoon
characters - a giant Homer Simpson, a giant
MickeyMouse,a giant Shrekand manymore- WORD CHECK
then go to NewYorkCity.There isa
What isit in your language?
paradethere with big balloons, Find out!
pop stars and television stars.
to hunt = ( )
to build= ( )
to cure = ( )
illness= ( )
corn= ( )
pumpkin= ( )
cranberrysauce= ( )
stuffing = ( )
different= ( )
therest= ( )
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giant= ( )
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Findout more on the parade= ( )
Internet on
www.kidsdomain.com/ map= ( )
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Shopping for Thanksgiving
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one Corn-on-the-cob
2 pumpkins
cream
fiveIoaves
a turkey
potatoes
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You are in the supermarket. You ask the assistant where the things are. Lookat the
plan of the supermarket. Which food from your list is she talking about?
1 Gostraight on. They're between the apples and the pears.
2 Gostraight on. They're on your left. They're opposite the bananas.
3 They're in row three. They're inbetween the fish and the octopus.
4 It'sin row four. It'snext to the milkand opposite the fish.
5 Gostraight on. Atthe end of the fruit and vegAables you can see the bakery.
They're next to the cakes.
6 Gostraight on. They're in between the onions and the carrots.
Thanksgiving Menu
Look at the menu. Tick( V ) the food Thanksgiving Menu
you want to eat. Don't be greedy!
STARTER sa/ad
D
Choose one thing from each course.
pumpkin soup D
melon
D
MAIN COURSE
turkey and potatoes D
turkey and rice D
turkey and corn D'
DESSERT
app/e pie and cream D
app/e pie and icecream D
pumpkin pie D
carrot cake D
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Pandas and Whales
A lot of the animais in the world are in danger. Some people like ~okillanimais
for their fur; some people like to killanimais for fun.
PANDAS WHALES
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Pandas are indanger. Youean see pandas inthe The blue whale isthe biggest animal in the
zoo but there are only about 700 pandas inthe world.
world. Arethere going to be any wild pandas ~
intwenty years from now? ln 1900there were 250,000 blue whales in
the oceans;today there are 3,000.
WHY ARE PANDAS lN DANGER? ~
Blue whales live for about 80years.
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Pandas love to eat, but they are very ~
\4'\ fussy!Theyonly really liketo eat bamboo. Bluewhaleseanbe25metreslong and
weigh 130tonnes.
Theyean eat 38 kilograms of bamboo
every day.They ean eat for 14hours every
~Whales are like dolphins beeausethey are
day. mammals (animais not fish) that eanlive
in water.
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People like bamboo too. ln China, they
\8.'f\ make houses, furniture, toys and paper ~Whales live in families of three or four.
from bamboo. People liketo eat bamboo They are good at gymnasties and they ean
seeds, too. 'sing',
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Pandas don't have many babies. ~Whales are in danger beeausepeople like
to hunt them.
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There are many people inChina. Theyare
\4'\ cutting the forests to grow food and build ~Whales are in great danger from
.houses. The pandas ean't find a place to pollution; a lot of toxie (poisonous) things
live. are in the sea.
Findout more about pandas, whales WORDCHECK
. and other animais in danger on the
What isit in your language?
Internet on
Find out!
www.panda.org/species/
and danger = ( )
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www.enchantedlearning. to kill ( )
com/subjects/whales/species/ =
fur ( )
Bluewhale.shtml
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fun ( )
only= ( )
wild= ( )
fussy= ( )
furniture= ( )
toy= ( )
seed= ( )
baby/babies =( )
forest= ( )
ocean= ( )
dolphin= ( )
pollution = ( )
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Animaisin Danger
Lots of animais are in danger. Look at the pictures, read the information and write
the number of animais under each picture. Order the animais from 1to 9.
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ingreat danger C2) not insuchgreat danoger
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KOALA There are between fortY a ~- b """"" "' "'""" c
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thousand and eighty thousand f/.,',6"_\:,:~1>'
koalas. "'" \.\\ - ', ""',.,,, ,,-,
CHEETAH There are between
twenty thousand and twenty-five
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thousand cheetahs. ..
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TIGER There are between
five thousand and seven thousand
,
five hundred tigers.
RHINOCEROS There are about
eleven thousand rhinoceroses. g 0 h 0 0
PANDA There are seven hundred
pandas.
POLAR BEAR There are between
40,000 - 80,000
twenty thousand and fortY
thousand polar bears.
AFRICAN ELEPHANT There are about sixhundred thousand African elephants.
MOUNTAIN GORILLA There are only sixhundred and fifty mountain gorillas.
BLUEWHALE There about five hundred blue whales.
HowHighCanthe
PandaClimb?
Pandas love climbing. Choose the correct
words to make this panda climb high.
1 Pandas livein
2 Pandas bamboo.
3 Pandas are
4 Hunters killpandas to make
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