excellent 3 pupils book

go tothe beach takephotos visitmuseums go cycling stay at home Sally Craig Rick Megan Ben Ask and answer?. [5\ Holiday time Listen and say the rhyme.. + The children left the museum

The Holiday Adventure

Course consultants: Diana Webster and Anne Worrall

ae ate: ant very SE5i at ike/dont ie eno + noun

like + ing Present continuous

School subjects Past simple Playground games

Functional language ~ Concern and sympathy:

What's the matter?/Poor you! đit

like + .ing good dt

‘Functional language — — Asking for and expressing fine

opinion: What did you think?/How was ?/ would like Baljantia Seen Terrible!

Imperative

Where's ? Prepositions of place Directions

Town places Comparatives

Superlatives Whose ?/mine/yours

Functional language ~ Apology, offering

something: Sorry!/It doesn't matter./

Have one of mine

Main teaching points Main revision

3 © will/won't need

Jobs Functional language — Saying goodbye:

Common jobs Present simple

That's kind of you./Making suggestions:

Shall we ?/Let's ./Good idea!

Prepositions of movement: across, through, into, _ /mperatives for directions Unit 11 out of, along, around, down, up, past Who ?

How high/wide /long /far ? Times and dates

Large numbers Landscape features Functional language — Expressing feelings:

What's the matter?/I am so

c = ký

REVISION

Parts of a bike

Functional language — Urgency/encouragement:

Come on!/We've got to hurry!/Don't worry!

Future tense with: will/won't shall

could/couldn't Prepositions of movement

E Present perfect (life experiences)

Functional language — Anxiety and reassurance:

Oh, no!/It’s just/Don't be nervous

Yes/no questions Past simple Present continuous Why ?/Because

got to There is/are

Present simple Imperative

REVISION

Functional language — Requesting repetition:

Slow down!/Can you speak slowly, please?

Present perfect Town places Superlatives will/ won't

got to

Adverbs Directions Comparatives would like

It's the holidays soon

What are you going to do?

Nothing We're going to stay at home :

We went camping last year

It wasn't great It rained every day!

(Dục

[2\ What are they going to do on holiday?

Listen and point

go tothe beach takephotos visitmuseums go cycling stay at home

Sally Craig Rick Megan Ben

Ask and answer

8 What's Sally going to do? 8 She's going to go to the beach

=

[3\ What are they doing?

Listen and point

run

Now close your book Can you remember?

Make sentences

Two boys are playing football

_ Agirl is eating an ice cream

Tt’s a lovely clay! oe ee Te’ S warm ang d

ee Visited the castle b, here! Sunny here We are renee a WET

eS morning ancl now Tt’s very hot here: Yesterday use camping holiday

m Séctting at a cafe Yesterday we went ) went here in Scotland

ancl eating an ice cycling and odau Yesterday it rained

Te We are Wwalki Today it’s raining

9: Tomorrow it’s gding to

shopping Today Tm

at the beach And

cream Tomorrow

we're going to visit Seum we ore fs

st ons - tomorrow we are W3 CỔ Lư lÉọ i : rain ain too! And on ere

going to go ổ geing i go home

roller skating Love Sue a 1

_————— Ask and answer [- who is this postcard from? [_ John

[5\ Holiday time

Listen and say the rhyme `

Holiday! Holiday! Holiday! Holiday!

Let's go and play Let's go and play

Holiday! Holiday!

Let's go and play

Golden sun Jump and run Run in the park

Lots of fun In the sun Play till dark

Splash inthe sea Skip and hop Climb a tree

Feeling free Never stop Then home for tea

(De

Nothing ever happens a

Listen and read

Ben walked home ‘It's going to be boring at home in the holiday,’ he thought

‘What am | going to do? Nothing ever happens here And it always rains!"

He looked in the Travel Agency window France, Italy, Spain

“Some people have exciting holidays,’ he thought ‘Why not me?’

TRAVEL AGENCY

ir own car per person 5

Choose a holiday Tell your partner

I'm going to go to London

I'm going to stay three days

I'm going to stay in a hotel

I'm going to go by train It’s going to cost £200

Holiday advertisements

Write a holiday advertisement in your notebook

8= Draw a picture Think about these questions:

Where are you going to go?

How long are you going to stay?

Are you going to stay in a hotel, a house or a tent?

Are you going to go by train, plane, boat, car or bus?

How much is the holiday?

% Do you like standing \_

Ve @ on your head, Craig? _

“Bad luck! Its :

\ South America

§ © d

y “CTT

[PON sue ⁄ Ul ay ae

Oh, dear! I’m not very good at geography

Queen Victoria was Queen

of England for 64 years

I'm Tammy

I'm in room 1

We're doing history

We're doing history

Listen and point *

history geography science sport IT

music maths English art Practise with a partner 8 They're doing history B Room 1

(3\ Who's good at geography?

Listen, point and say

Ask and answer E ws good at art? 8 Megan

Unit 2

In the playground

Listen and say

playing football reading comics skateboarding playing ball

Ask and answer 8 Do you like playing football? 8 Yes, | do./No, | don't

| like fishing in the lake

Now you add a verse

Use these words:

Too late!

Listen and read +

The children left the museum They waited for the bus back to school It was very windy

Two men came out of the museum with a big parcel They put it into the back of a white

van Something flew out of the van It was a piece of paper Ben caught it

‘Quick!’ said Sally ‘Give it back!’ But the van drove off

“Too late!’ said Ben

“What is it?’ said Rick

Ben looked ‘Letters and numbers,’ he said

They all looked

“What does it mean?’ said Rick

‘Perhaps it’s a code,’ said Sally

†oys and dolls |

books and maps

café

Practise with a partner 8 What's in room 1? 8 The ticket office

= write a guide to the museum in your notebook The ticket office is in room I

— The dinosaurs are next to Lhe painkings 11

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EXCELLENT! Magazine =a

In this issue of EXCELLENT! we go on holiday and visit some famous places

TAUNTING The Seven Wonders of the World

2,000 years ago, a Greek man called Philo chose the

seven wonders of the world These included a huge

statue, a lighthouse 150 metres tall and some

_ beautiful gardens in the desert Only one of these

seven wonders is left today: the Pyramids Egyptian

_ kings (Pharaohs) built the Pyramids 4,500 years ago

are made of 5,000,000 (five million) blocks of

W a Swiss pilot, Bernard Weber, thinks we oose the new seven wonders of the world Here are some ideas for the new wonders:

The Potala was the

home of the Dalai Lama, the ruler of

Tibet 7,000 workers

and 1,500 artists

built it in the seventeenth century

Easter Island is a tiny

island in the Pacific,

2,000 km from land

These huge statues

are 1,000 years old

one knows what

they are for! Tu 4

Do you know any amazing places? Are they the new wonders of the world?

Make a list of new wonders of the world with your class

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ANAAD We asked you to write and tell us about places you NOUN visited on holiday Here are some of your letters:

Dear Excellent,

We went on holiday to China

We went to the Great Wall

ts very high and very long,

You can walk on the top:

Sam (age 1)

Ness in Scotland

People say a monster W

lives here L looked

for a long time but L

didn't see a monster!

Dear Excellent, We wee to Paris

wa train It’s a beautiful city

Lam standing in front : : 1

of Lhe Tower Sự London we climbed the id Sel with PPS ana are Tower It’s 300 metres

oe Pei high Tt was windy on top!

prison in the ola days Sim lage 0)

The men outside are called Beefeaters EEE EE we

Res) ages Time for a laugh

1 Cut two shapes for

your photo frame

5 Glue it to the frame

Don't glue the top

6 With the pencil, draw

a pattern on the frame

2 To make a frame cut

a hole in one shape

3 Press the foil on the

frame Glue it down

on the back

7 Put in your photo and write about it

4 Cover the other

shape with foil

Unit 3

[1\ | know that man

Ben read the message again but he (0) didn't understand it He phoned Rick ?

e Poor you! What's the matter?

Ben was bored

Hey! You! What are

you looking at?

I've got flu

Listen and point é

3 You should stay in bed

Listen and point

take some cough mixture scratch your spots go to the doctor go to the dentist

Make sentences

You should stay in bed

You shouldn't get up

16

Who are you?

Choose who you are Don't tell your partner

Ask and answer

The dog's got toothache

Listen and say the rhyme

The dog's got toothache

The cat's got flu

The chicken’s got chicken pox

And | have too!

| saw the man from the museum

Listen and read *

Ben phoned Sally ‘Sally, | saw a car.’

‘Why are you telling me that?’ said Sally

The car number was WA21 KPG,’ said Ben ‘Then | saw a man It was the man from

the museum He shouted at me.”

‘Why?’ said Sally

‘| don't know,’ said Ben ‘He dropped a notebook | wanted to give it to him but he

got into the car and drove away We must find him and give him the notebook It's

got a message in it Come on!’

‘I can't,’ said Sally ‘I "

‘Don't tell me .,’ said Ben ‘You've got flu and your mum says you shouldn't go out.’

‘How did you know?’ asked Sally

Sick notes

Read the note Sally's mum Dear Miss Packer

wrote to Sally's teacher I :

am sorry, Sally cee)

3 Come fo school

= she's Got flu The

SOUS She should : Imagine you have got £ S1,06 064L

chicken pox Write q 6S ki ec,

sick note from your M rs Myecs

mum in your notebook a

Unit 4

IM Craig's birthday party

Hi, Ben! Come in It's Craig’s birthday party

Do you like playing party games?

IH When is Craig's birthday?

Listen, point and say Birthday Book Sas

- “ẨŒ@—~ =

This is Sally's birthday book

She writes the names of her }| JANUARY MAY

family and friends in it 2t Mum 24th Megan

FEBRUARY JUNE OCTOBER

Ask and answer

a When is Sally's mum's birthday? 8B It's on January the 21st

Happy birthday!

Partner A chooses a present Partner B guesses the present

LAI Do you like playing football?

20

(Unit 4

(4 What did you do on your birthday?

Play in pairs Ask and answer

Spin a coin

i ?

Heads = move 1 square 8 Did you have a party?

Tails = move 2 squares [= Yes | did./No, | didnt

have a party „ stay at home

I'd like a pair of rollerblades I'd like a silver scooter My friends are my treasure —

And a brand new winter coat And a new pair of shoes Life’s most important things.

Unit 4

I'm good at solving codes

Listen and read 1

‘I've got the notebook here,’ said Ben He took it out of his pocket

‘Let's see,’ said Sally They all looked at it

‘What does it mean?” she asked

‘Look,’ said Ben ‘It says @ Perhaps it's an e-mail address?’

‘Let me see! Let me see!’ said Craig ‘I'm good at solving codes!"

Then Sally said, ‘No, no It isn't an e-mail address And it isn't a code | know what it is!’

wrote back Thank you For your

EXCELLENT! Magazine mm

In this issue of EXCELLENT! we look at festivals around the world

TENA NEMS Festivals in Britain

of their beds Santa Claus comes in the night and fills them with presents

Merry Christmas!

On May 1st children dress up and dance

around a maypole The ribbons make a

pretty pattern on the maypole

At Easter in March or April children

decorate eggs The Easter Rabbit

comes and hides

22

makes pancakes with

eggs, flour and milk

Sometimes there are

pumpkins They cut

scary faces in the side

of the pumpkin and

put a candle inside

+

| S(UJ`/ ANAAD MG wrote to us about festivals in your countries

Dear Excellent,

| kive in Singapore This is me at

My name is Eleni and I live in Chinese New Year lim inside a

Greece Ak Easter we paint eggs red dagen We have dragon dances and

and have special bread for breakfast fireworks in the streets

There is @ procession wikh candles ab David (age 9)

midnight, and Fireworks

This is me a+ Diwali In India, Diwali

isa Tưe dau Festival when people

clean +heir houses, imite friends and

give presents They put lighted lamps

everywhere in Hội houses

: mua (age /2

Make aUU DO ols scam

You need:

card pdint scissors ‘cathe beads a small glue sticky

or paper shapes stick tape

1 Choose one of these shapes 2 Cutit out Then paint it 3 Tape it to

and draw it on card and decorate it the stick

23

It isn't an e-mail address and it isn't a code What is it then?

They're directions Look L means left and R means right

So L @ lights means ‘Turn left at the traffic lights.’

Yes And R @ X means ‘Turn right at the crossroads.”

What does TH mean?

| don't know Let's look at a map

Look! Town Hall That's it! TH must be Town Hall

Of course! Turn left at the Town Hall What's ELM ST?

Elm Street Look! Here it is And the last line means ‘Number 45 is opposite the Post Office.’

So turn left at the traffic lights Turn right at the crossroads Turn left at the Town Hall Number 45 Elm Street is opposite the Post Office

Let's go there!

Wait for Megan and Rick They're coming soon

Look at the map Start at the shop Follow the directions to Elm Street

Where's the post office?

Listen and point x

Then ask and answer in pairs

8 Excuse me Where's the hospital? a In Park Street, between the park and the library

Turn left at the tree

Rick and Megan are doing a treasure hunt in the park Look at the key Then read the

directions What do they mean?

swimming pool = shop

Look at the map of the park in Exercise B in your Activity Book, page 23

Where is the treasure?

2

26

(Unit S

[#

Ee

Whose camera is it?

Listen and practise

After the treasure hunt Megan and Rick went to Sally's house, Megan: Oh, look! A camera Whose is it? Is it yours, Sally?

Craig: No, it isn't! It's mine

Ben: Come on! Let's go!

Rick: Where?

Ben: No time for questions Let's go!

Practise with a partner Choose three things Don't tell your partner

GO O &

jon look! A bike Is it yours?

I'm lost

Listen and sing

I'm lost, I'm lost, I'm lost again

Please help me find the way

Turn left at the park Go straight on Go straight on

Then turn right Turn right at the school Cross the road and then

Go straight on Turn left at the bank : Oh no! I'm lost!

Then left at the lights Go past the pool Let's start again!

Listen and read

Number 45 was a big old house

‘It's scary,’ said Megan, ‘Let's go.”

They rang the bell No one answered

‘Nobody lives there,’ said Craig ‘It’s empty.’

‘No, it isn't,’ said somebody Everybody jumped

A girl came into the garden

‘Who are you?’ asked Ben

‘I'm Polly,’ said the girl ‘I’m staying next door with my aunt That house isn’t empty

| saw two men there, They came this week.’

‘OK,’ said Ben ‘Let's put the notebook through the letterbox.’

Polly,’ said Sally, Are you OK?’

‘It's boring here,’ said Polly ‘| haven't got any friends.”

‘Come and play with us!’ said all the children together

IH A postcord for Polly

Read the postcard from Polly’s mum

Qeac PoLuy

tod are ypu? Dad and I

ace very busy in London

T hope pu are having a

Write Polly's reply in your notebook Use these ideas:

Auntie Sue/very nice/boring here/haven't got any friends/children/house next door/very

friendly/play together

Unit 6

[2\ what kind of film?

No, The Apollo Cinema It's newer and bigger And it has better films!

The films at The Star are terrible!

Were going to meet the \

others at the cinema, Polly

So we want an exciting cartoon about cowboys in space!

Craig likes space adventures

because they're scary.

Ày ¿

faster slower

bigger smaller fatter

thinner

Make sentences

The mouse is faster than the cat

The cat is slower than the mouse

SOTA LU hi Hình TH" ree ENC ẻ eS

But he's not very clever đe ie ay 4

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Unit 6

Ae

Can | have two tickets?

Listen and read

( 3 ` me =

Sally and Megan went to see Jane, Julie and the Giraffe

Polly and the boys went to see Alex and the Alien

Sally: Can | have two tickets for jane, Julie and the Giraffe, please?

Ticket seller: How many adults and how many children?

Sally: Two children, please

Ticket seller: Two pounds fifty each That's five pounds, please

Sally: Thank you What time does it start?

Ticket seller: At two o'clock

Practise with a partner A is Rick B is the ticket seller

[AI Can | have four tickets for Alex and the Alien, please?

a How many adults and how many children?

My friend Annie

Is taller than me

My friend Pete Has got bigger feet

Bigger or smaller, After all, Shorter or taller, In the end, Thinner or fatter, There's nothing better

It doesnt matter Than a friend!

Unit 6

[8 We know them!

Listen and read

After the film the children went to The White Cat Café wl

‘Three lemonades and three orange juices That's £6.80

Then £2 for the biscuits That's £8.80 altogether.’

The children found a table and sat down

“How was your film?’ asked Sally

‘Fantastic!’ said Craig

‘Terrible!’ said Polly ‘What about your film?’

‘Brilliant!’ said Megan ‘What did you think, Sally?’

But Sally didn't hear

*Sally?’ said Rick ‘Sally? What are you looking at?’ (

‘The newspaper,’ said Solly 'The men we know them

‘No, we don't,’ said Rick

‘Not the men with the newspaper,’ said Sally,

‘the men in the newspaper We know them!"

n The White Cat Café

Ask and answer

Work in groups of four A is the waiter/waitress Coffee

Tea

8 What would you like? Orange juice

B I'd like a lemonade and some chocolate biscuits Lemonode

B Can | have a coffee and a piece of cake _ Le

emon cake

B And I'd like an ice cream, please pee TN coe chocolote, vonilla)

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In this issue of EXCELLENT! we look at cinema and cartoons

ANAT NEMS How the Xe: began

When you see a lot of pictures very quickly, yo

: $ i —Ỷ=

think one picture is moving Inthe nineteenth =

century people made moving picture machines

like this magic lantern

nt actors!’ people said

Greta Garbo and In 1927 talking pictures arrived and in the Laurel and Hardy 1930s films became very popular Millions

This picture of people went to the cinema — sometimes shows Charlie three or four times a week!

Chaplin who was sometimes funny,

and sometimes sad He always wore a bowler hat, a small

jacket and big

Do a survey to find out how often students in your class go to the cinema

What kind of films do you and your friends like to see?

=

ANU You wrote to tell us about your favourite

Dear Excelent,

pr Mike watching Harry

Potter films @eause 7

Bove the Harry Potter

booles Harry Potter is a

young wizard The Gooles

because he wants to see are realty exciting and

his animal friends The the films are quite scary

CLoer, Shere Khon is qite Taut (age \2)

Scoru I like Baloo because

he is so cute ond friendly

Rachel (age ti)

1 kke Scooby Doo films

The children are really

clever, and Scooby Doo, the

dog, is really funny He's abvays Scared and jumps into Shaggy's arms

small notebook pen or pencil

1 Number the right-hand 4 Copy this picture on

pages from 1-10 page 5

3 2 Copy this picture on the š 5 Now draw in the pictures ˆ

Ị first page in between

3 Copy this picture on b 2 6 Flip the pages of the book

page 10 - Your picture will move

Let's buy a paper

Look! That's them!

Who? What? Where?

These men in the paper We saw them in the museum They stole a painting

Wow! It's the men from next door!

‘Police look for thieves Police are looking for two men Stan Biggs and Ron Clark stole a painting from the Town Museum last Tuesday.’

Look! ‘The painting is by Britain’s greatest artist, John Scott The Boatmen is Scott's best painting It is the oldest painting in the museum, worth over ten million pounds.’ Amazing! Phone the police!

It's no good

Let's go to the house

It's no good

No, we should phone the police

IT’S NO GOOD! They left yesterday The house is empty

[2\ The oldest painting

Listen and point

The Boatmen John Scott 1690

Red on Blue Sven Rop ko 2001 The Sea Peter Braun 1890

Ask and answer

oldest newest val Which is the biggest painting? Winter Annie Brown 1950

biggest smallest i The Sea

1973 He liked Kandinsky lived in Russia, Turner lived in England

Germany and France He He was born in 1775

was born in 1866 He died He died in 1851 He

in 1944 He liked painting liked painting the sky big colourful pictures and clouds

painting people

Ask and answer

8 When was Picasso born? 8 In 1881

[When did he die? EE n1973

B Where did he live? B In Spain and France

a What did he like painting? a People

(4 Art records

Listen and read

Sixty cars make a sculpture called Long Term Parking

It's twenty metres high

It's ina car

In 1970, one hundred people went to

an exhibition by a new artist,

Yamasaki They bought twenty-five

paintings in three hours The

paintings were £500 each Yamasaki

came out to see them What a

surprise! He was a chimpanzee

Point to the pictures

The heaviest lady

The tallest sculpture

The worst mistake

The cleverest chimpanzee

The biggest finger painting

[5W Dreaming

Listen and sing

People say that the worst mistake was at an art gallery

in New York For three months a painting called The Boat was upside down

Do you think this is true?

Find the smallest island With the sharpest rocks

Look under the palm trees Find a treasure box

Climb the highest mountain

Fly to any star

Walk the darkest forest

Where the dragons are

Cross the widest desert Sail the deepest sea Fight the biggest monsters

Anyone can dream

Swim the longest river

With jungle on each bank

Find the wreck of a pirate ship

That hit a rock and sank

The children went to Polly's house

The house next door was dark and empty

‘Let's look for a clue,’ said Craig

They went into the garden

‘Look!’ shouted Craig

He found a piece of paper under the door mat

‘It's a clue!’ he shouted

Suddenly they heard a car

“Quick! Hide!’ said Ben

They hid behind a tree A woman went up to the door She looked

under the door mat Then she threw down the mat and walked away Ñ

‘What did she want?’ said Polly \

‘This,’ said Craig, and he showed them the piece of paper `

Find the thieves

Read the newspaper story

Which man is Stan Biggs? Police are lookin for)

Which man is Ron Clark? Biggs and Ron Clark stole 'g for two men Stan a paintin, inti

from the Town Museum last Tied

The painting is by Britain’s greatest

= Now write a newspaper story and artist, John Scott The Boatmen is

=} draw a picture of a thief in your notebook Scott’s best painting It is the oldest Use these questions to help you: Painting in the museum, worth over

: i £10,000,000 Stan Biggs is 32 He is

Who are the police looking for? about 1.80 m tall with brown hair a

What did he/she steal and when? a beard Ron Clark is about 1.70m tall

How old is he/she? yarn Dl He is :

What does he/she look like? 3

No, the crocodiles are the best

There’s nothing scary on a farm

,( | want to see the monkeys

Turn left at the café and

go straight on The monkeys are opposite the farm

Here's a guide There's a

A map and lots of puzzles

Who said ‘There's nothing scary on a farm’?

Practise with a partner

8 Can | have four tickets, please?

BỊ How many adults and how many children?

8 Two adults and two children

8 Here you are

LAI Thank you

Where's the school?

Listen, then ask and answer

8 Excuse me Where the school?

8 Go straight on It's opposite the supermarket