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Friendly faces

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Look, Mother Now, girls and boys

lam nota duck -

lam Mr Fingers,

Oh, look, Mother \ Ohno! lam a duck!

itis a duck : Help! Help!

1 Is this Ishea magician? Yes, he is a hat?

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She is small, she is young and

Button!

Your face is dirty

You are naughty!

The cake is yellow

The ice-cream is cold

Button is naughty

Match the sentences with the pictures

This dog is clean

This dog is dirty

This dog is happy

This dog is fat

This dog is unhappy

This dog is naughty

The car 's in the street now

Aman isin the cor

listening

He is standing He is walking to the telephone near the Ñ near the car now He is old tree now woman is standing very talland thin His there Her hot

hair is white le black

The man is Now the woman is writing

spzaking to the woman, NOW She is smiling inasmall book The man ‘ie

pointing at her bag,

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PP The món 6welin he cóc

and the red bag isin his hand! the woman is running to.a bus now

window now, please | am

following Mr Z and the red bag now

A Read and match

Clee el

oman| |[ The || smiling ||is]

upon 2

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Itis very small Look at the black

and red buttons on the wall and on

the ceiling The buttons are in front

of the astronaut’s seat They are

near the astronaut’s hands

FFA The seat is in the middle of the

oom The radio is beside the tronaut’s head And a lamp

is beside the radio

The door of the spaceship is behind

BI the astronaut’s head And in the door is a small window look at

the stars!

A Read and match

2 The buttons are in front of the astronaut's seat

3 The astronaut’s seat is on the floor, beside the seat

B Make words 3 pudrascob =

C Look at the picture Finish the sentences

[beside | infrontof | middle | ton | behind

The seat is in the of the room

Theboxis_ the seat, on the floor

The radio is _ the seat, on the floor

The cupboard is _ the seat, near the door

The secret room

is Wendy? Is

is.a key in this door W she in the big

And the door is ee room’?

IS there a baHoru2 Lisi 0 radio?

this wall There isa

secret room behind, the wall!

A True or false?

1 There is a key in one door of the old house

2 There are tables and chairs in the big room

3 There is a secret room behind one of the walls ===

4 There is an old radio in the secret room,

B Write Thereis or Thereore

an old house near the river

two doors at the front of the house

stairs at the back of the big room

small button in the middle of one wall

not a lamp in the secret room

C Answer the questions: Yes,thereis or No,thereisnot

Yes there are or No,thereare not

1 Is there a pencil on your desk now?

2 Are there cars in the street now?

3 Is there a bird in the sky now? _

4 Are there books in your bag now?

5 Is there a cupboard in your classroom?

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What are letters?

Letters are lines

and dots «+ + se *«@@**

andcrosees + + t+ t+ «xx«K « K

| am writing these words with letters and you are reading my words

How many different alphabets are there?

There are fifty or sixty

Five of these are the main

alphabets lam writing these lì Lm

words in the Roman alphabet

There are twenty-six letters or Vv *

in the Roman alphabet

The Roman alphabet

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A Make sentences

are||or|| || There |/alphabets

<aifng| [letersi] [words] [the

B Read and match

Ten and five is

Fifteen and twenty-five is

Fifty and twenty is

Sixty and thirty is

Seventy and fifteen is

1 How many dots are there?

2 How many crosses are there?

3 > How many lines are there?

4 How many stairs are there?

5 How many letters are there in this word?

Paddy isa pointer Today he is

working at Mrs Parker's house

Mrs Parker is.an old woman

‘Mrs Parker is speaking to Paddy She is pointing at

an old cupboard Paddy is

=” = Now what is Paddy doing?

He is wearing dirty trousars

and anold shirt He is

carrying a pot of paint in

of the floor, Mrs Parker is putting a

newspaper on the Floor, under the

What is he doing now? He

is not painting the

cupboard the newspaper

Now he is painting again bur

where is the newspaper? It is not

on the floor Stop, Paddy ! He is Painting the floor Stop!

ae es

Mrs Parker is looking at the floor She is not Paddy is washing the floor

A True or false?

1 (Picture 2 ) There is an old cupboard in Mrs Parker's house

2 (Picture 4 ) Paddy is putting a newspaper on the floor —_

4 (Picture 5 ) Paddy is singing a song

5 (Picture © ) Paddy is reading the newspaper

B Answer the questions

1 (Picture 1 ) Where is Paddy today?

2 (Picture 2) Whois speaking to Paddy?

3 (Picture 3) Whatis Paddy wearing?

4 (Picture 4) What is Mrs Parker doing in this picture?

5 (Picture 7) Whatis Paddy doing in this picture?

T tio= 7 ——_— #4 pronsweep

2 tranipe = ene 5 Ueteia

Jack and Alex are going

to the river for a picnic

There are sandwiches,

cakes, bananas and

pears in the basket and

Jack has a big bottle of

Pepsi Alex has two towels

in his bag —they are going

swimming

They have good bicycles They

are riding beside the river now

Jack has the picnic basket on

the back of his bicycle

They are under a big tree near the river

The picnic basket is beside the tree Alex

is taking the towels from his bag A cow

is looking at Alex and Jack

They are swimming in the river The cow 3a

is looking at the basket She is smelling St

the cakes and sandwiches She is hungry

Oh no! The cow has a pear

in her mouth—she is eating

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Now the children are looking

at the cow They are shouting,

but the cow is not listening

Jack has a stick —he is throwing the stick

at the cow and Alex is shouting But

the cow is not hungry now and there

are no sandwiches or cakes for the children «

A Answer the questions C Write the words inthe squares

1 What is his name? Across (+)

2 Jack — a big bottle in his hand

4 Alex and Jack good bicycles,

!-am on holiday on Sea |

island The sun is

shining and if is hot

My friend Lesley is

| here with her father,

They have a small

boat We are going

fishing

five o'clock in the afternoon

There are big, black clouds in the

sky and it is raining The windis

pushing us out to sea

Eleven o'clock,

a ship out there, but we have no

lamp

/t is not raining now,

it is night and the

moon is in the sky

The wind is pushing the boat out, out, out

tosea Wehave no

supper and we are

very hungry We have

some coffee, but we

are cold and unhappy

Thụ!

morning

It 1s seven o'clock in

the morning The sun

is shining again There

is a small island and

there are men and

women near the

boats, Lesley is

waving her

handker chief and her

father is shouting

Half past seven =

Two sử the boats are coming out from

| the island! We are OK!

We are with Lesley's mother on Sea

Island again She is very happy to see us

A True or false?

1 Itis raining on Thursday morning

2 Atfive o'clock on Wednesday afternoon there are

black clouds in the sky -

3 The man and the children have no supper, but they

have some coffee, = —

4 OnThursday morning they are neara small island

B Readand match, “|

2 Itiseleveno’clock “#7

\ 3 Itis five o'clock

4 Itis half past seven

5 Itis half past three

C Make sentences

1 [clouds [sky || [are] | There | [black |[the [in] [big |

boat | [The || pushing [to is] [ihe sea [out] wind

[It] [o’clock [in] [.][seven | [morning | [the |[is

and |[smail| [Lesley] [her|[a]| father ||.|have||boat

a handkerchief ahat ahen hot akey

alamp a magician a newspaper anurse old young

closed paint a painter a pear

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Cassette (2 stories) The Queen's Handkerchief

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John and Paul go to School Grade 4 Cassette

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The Bird and the Bread Four Clever People Cassette

Tonk and his Friends Inthe Cave

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