Look what I can do!
Write or show examples in your notebook.
I can talk about different types of home.
I can describe an eco-house.
I can identify the materials used to build a house.
I can talk about ways to save energy at home.
I can use modal verbs and yes/no questions to talk about buildings.
I can write about famous landmarks in my town or country.
I can understand an extract from The Hobbit.
How are buildings important to us?
Make a list of types of buildings in your town or city.
Why are they important? Which ones do you visit the most?
1 What special features
does an eco-house have?
Discuss with a partner.
It has solar panels to heat the house.
4
Tell your partner some ways to save energy at home.
Which ones do you do?
I always turn off lights if no one is in the room.
5
Think of famous buildings in your country. Choose one and write some interesting adjectives to describe it.
6
Write the names of five types of house.
Which one do you like best? Why?
Tell your partner.
I like apartments best because you can see views of the city.
2
What materials can you use to build a house or building? What is your home made of?
3
1 Read the clues and guess the words.
a This person is your mother’s father.
b This adjective means very, very cold.
c This rocket can travel into space and come back again.
d This adjective describes a house with lots of space.
e This type of house has only one floor and no stairs.
f This person cleans and fixes things in your school.
g This machine can move across the surfaces of planets and moons.
h This is a sport you can do in the sea.
i This type of home is in the same building as other homes.
2 Now add one word to each vocabulary group in Activity 1.
a grandfather, cousin
3 Play Bingo! Choose six words and write them in a grid like the one below.
me book can house call play sing sun old
4 Listen to your teacher. Cross out the words that rhyme in your grid.
When you have crossed out all of your words, say ‘Bingo!’
Check your progress 1
A B
10 Compare the stories and poems in Units 1, 2 and 3.
Whichonedidyoulikebest? Why?
I liked… because…
5 Work in pairs. Each sentence has an error. Take turns to roll a dice and choose the sentence with the same number. Can you correct the errors?
1 My school is big than my cousin’s school.
2 There is a large water tub in our school collect rainwater.
3 My country has the taller mountains in the world.
4 My friends really enjoy play basketball.
5 When I am older I want be a P.E. teacher.
6 The building opposite our school must be a library – I’m not sure.
6 Read the corrected sentences from Activity 5 and tick (✓) the ones that are true for you. Compare with your partner. Which ones are the same?
7 In groups, write a quiz! Choose from these topics.
Write questions for your classmates to find answers in Units 1–3.
buildings famous places
sport landscapes space
Which planet is the nearest to the Sun?
8 Swap quizzes. Which group got the most correct answers?
9 Work in pairs. Your teacher will give you information about photo A or
photo B. Don’t tell each other! Your partner must ask you six yes/no questions to find out information about your photo, then guess what the building is and where it is in the world.
Check your progress 1
Is it a hotel?
Is it in Europe?
We are going to…
• discover what children eat for breakfast around the world
• find out how chocolate is made
• write about quantities of things
• explain how to grow a vegetable using connecting words
• write a poem about a fruit
• enjoy a story about a special cake.
Watch this!
Getting started
What can we discover about food?
a Look at the photo of people enjoying food. Which types of food can you see?
b What kind of food do you like? Why? How does food make you feel?
c Where do you think the food you eat comes from?
4 Food
a story about a special cake.
4 Food
1 Vocabulary: In pairs, read the names of the foods.
Can you find them in the photos below?
Which picture do you see the food in: a, b, c or d?
cheese bread banana orange juice chicken onions mushrooms tomatoes egg papaya
a
We are going to...
• discover what children eat for breakfast around the world.