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Alice & Pe A Nc Marshall Cavendish Education King Duckie Preface F— We believe that the learning of English should be a fun and rewarding experience for pupils Through English, we hope to give every pupil the opportunity to learn the English language in a most enjoyable and enriching way Ake eRe KcKoug The teacher may want to read this to pupils as modelled reading English begins with themes from the pupils’ immediate world of school, family and friends, and progresses steadily to themes relating to things and situations they are likely to encounter in the wider world Learning becomes integrated as grammar, vocabulary and other essential skills for language use are systematically taught in a meaningful context This indicates which language area the page is focusing on L — Pupils are given many opportunities to listen to, speak, read and write English They are also introduced to a wide variety of text types, such as poems, letters and instructions The colourful illustrations are also designed to stimulate pupils’ interest and imagination Wherever possible, the textbooks also incorporate the national initiatives of Thinking Skills and National Education Good words fo ledrn dre —] highlighted There are two parts to the textbook for each level: parts A and B, each part containing eight units Each textbook unit has a corresponding workbook unit and contains the following features: a The units are organised “iF by themes The Things We Wear ime, We wear them in the dayt too And in the night-time the town Wewear them all about Questions such as this help pupils relate to the theme of the unit The questions also encourage pupils to think further about a topic or issue z00 We wear them to the orfeathers, We don't have fur s Or scales like crocodile e things Instead we have som - pe and size That come in every sha I both wear them, You and s, d everybody know feathers, we dont have fur or But we haveclothes This is one of the five characters that appear throughout the textbooks and | workbooks They help draw pupils’ attention to important language points and conventions A simple storyline runs through every unit in the textbook This storyline provides the context for introducing the various language items Vocabulary* + “Here are s fener ® wie of the people and things I read about i m Grammar rules and language conventions are made explicit in these notes This teaching point makes clear is splings io show mor ton a? nae] “~ to teachers and parents the focus of every page Preface of dam There iis a one-page story The King's Wishes a There was once k the queen A coo d, sai his minister palace in a grand in every unit palace with lived ina small happy king He m One day, the er aft ked should live and a maid loo too small A king your palace is ace,” to have a grand pal ger happy “I wish The king was noquelon en here.” he said to the queen “I am happy l palace,” said the mal our rooms y “But I like man h wit nd palace listen He built a gra ore long, the The ae did noty servants to keep it clean BefThe the and coo! needed man elves He hting among “¢hems fig d rte sta ts servan maid left hed the king be as before." sig “TL wish things could st go back to our can the queen “We g “They can,” said maid were waitin the and k coo The And soine did happily ever after ed And they all liv A suggested reading list is provided to encourage pupils to read extensively for them, Lis ‘Reading read more abot Tf you want to the librery: these books in for k loo , ams ‘Comanor dre y fre Jef by h Wis Fedge Makes A by Valerie Coursen Mordonfs Wish The lett bes sgimina pri and the Princess Wenprinee toaball, moke a new soung,on ir regether the pr Sound in priz, The pri When thMey were had na The princess i Ke She tore P Inher ti hole honemic awareness is taught systematically through ough i interesti verses/sentences ong sại ess dr "Oh deart™ ini ss, ‘Now I look e Prince “Don't wor TY,” =T by sai Bàng the prince, nt for 1" you Tt will milak ey AS good as new.n Tess The dle prin ar gave the pri cess A nee prin and incesent ead But the “And new prshes in bọd) “ở hếP finger Contents Unit3 e Writing is Exciting ø 25 Unit 4» Once Upon a Time unit5 « Holiday Time ST s0 Title The Things We pages Wear NHƯ Text Type for Reading + Poem - The Things We Wear + Story - Centipede’s New Shoes 1-12 + Poem - Wishes and Dreams Story - The Man with a Dream pages 13-24 * Story - The King's Wishes Writing is Exciting pages * Poem - Writing is Exciting * Story - Blacky + Poem - Chit-chat + Party Lists 25-36 + Invitations + Story - Zhiming and the Tiger Once Upon a Time pages + Poem - Once Upon a Time * Story - The White Elephant 37-48 Vocabulary + What we wear on different days + Different parts of our clothing + Accessories to complete an outfit + Difference between fiction and non-fiction + Names of occupations | | | + Three parts of a story + Different types of texts « Words associated with a story: ‘titles’, ‘author/writer’, ‘characters + Names of characters and things ina fairy tale * Settings of a story th helping out Poem - Helping out Story- The Storm pages | 61-72 Feelings pages 73-84 pages 85-96 What was T† Like Then? + Poem - Feelings + News report - Storm Blows Off Roof! * Story ny - Sam at the cinema + Poem - What was It Like Then? + Personal recount + Story - How Singapore Got Its Name + Feelings + Things you can find on a book cover: title, author, illustrator + Old Things and New Things + People and things at Chinatown | i Oral Interaction i Phonics i it LẮ\ ie + Using ‘a pair of’ + Adjectives + Difference between ‘wearing: and ‘putting on’ + Comparative/superlative adjectives + Using 'I wish to’ + Using ‘has and ‘have’ + Expressing future time * Connectors + Describing the children in the picture and discussing where br, cr and dr + Wishes + What you want to be when you Beginning Blends: {r, en and pr ˆ Beginning Blends: they are going grow up + Using the modal ‘can’ to + Making lists express ability invitations, acceptance notes + Adjectives + Irregular plurals * Writing a story * Simple past tense + Adverbs + Places to visit during holidays + How did you apie the holidays? + Using ‘can’ and ‘cannot’ + * + + Irregular verbs Subject pronouns Object pronouns Simple past tense + Using ‘should’ and ‘should not’ to express obligation shies + What will happen if people hot help one another? + What you can or cannot to help out at home/school + Different feelings of the a + Simple past tense + Interrogative pronouns * Prepositions * Singapore in the past and now + The lives of Singaporean children then and now aS people in the park Beginning Blends: gl, pl and sl ™ sex is Beginning Blends: sk, sn, and sw * Helping classmates + Using the word ‘because’ to explain feelings + Adjectives + Interrogative pronouns Beginning Blends: bl, cl and fl | | Gavel 3i of | oe postcards Pe Ending Blends: nk, nd ond no Ending Blends: nt, mp and sk § BLANK The Things We Wear We wear them in the daytime, And in the night-time too We wear them all about the town We wear them to the zoo We don't have fur or feathers, Or scales like crocodiles ®* Instead we have some things That come in every shape and size You and I both wear them, And everybody knows, We don't have fur or feathers, But we have clothes Unit 1+ The Things We Wear * Vocabulary .° We wear these things ona hot day _ | sun hat swimming Wy costume FÁ k swimming trunks ” scarf TNs ° sweater aL glove boot L coat 5 sire Teaching Point: Discuss the illustrations and the vocabulary items = a a mitten = Unit + Feelings » © Phonemic Awareness - ” Ending Blends nk The letters nand k together make a new ending sound, like the nk sound in pink I can blink And I can wink I'm a clever kid, I think Teaching Point: Discuss the poem and illustration Draw pupils’ attention to how the nk sounds nd The letters n and d together make a new ending sound, like the nd sound in kind I am sweet And I am round The orange tree Is where I'm found What am I? Teaching Point: Discuss the poem and illustration Draw pupils’ attention to how the nd sounds 83 ˆ:„ + Phonemic Awareness « ” Unit + Feelings Ending Blends The letters n and g together make a new ending sound, like the ng sound in king ng * ae I've hurt my wing, And it's now Ina sling Teaching Point: Discuss the poem and illustration Draw pupils’ attention to how the ng sounds Say Out Loud Say out loud the names of the things What sounds they end with? trux* OS rix+ ®) ixx — " ie ~~ dell, Teaching Point: Ask pupils if they know other words that end with the nk, nd or ng sounds Write these words on the board Let pupils practise making these sounds 84 * Workbook 2A, pages 85-86 « pe SU Ritaieane What was lt Like Then? What was it like In the old days, Grandpa? What was it like For you then? Did you watch T.V.? Did you study hard? Did you write With a marker pen? What was it like In the old days, Grandma,(eN When you were Young like us? Did you fly in an aero š Ride in a car? Did you go to School in a bus? 85 _- Grdmmdr - ˆ Unit + What was It Like Then? Liming wants to know what life was like in the old days He asks his grandfather and his friends What was it like Ci hings were very different " when you were young, Grandpa? = We didn't have television sets or computers We made our own toys * nw ll ~~ = We helped our fathers with their work _ We grew our own , vegetables We didn't have cars We walked or cycled everywhere We didn't buy things at the supermarket We kept our own chickens and ducks 86 Unit - What was It Like Then? a * Grammar Suping wants to know what it was like in the old days too She asks her grandmother and her friends We worked very hard at home helping our mothers What was it like when you were a girl, Grandma? Ba SG mee We helped to look after our brothers and sisters We sewed our own clothes Our families were big ary There weren't many big buildings or shops then > had a lot of fun, didn't we? We played game like 'congkak' The boys had kites The verbs in bold are in the simple past tense Teaching Point: Remind pupils that the simple past tense is used for things that happened in the past 87 - ~ - .TexiType Oral ,'ˆ Uni† - What wos T† Like Then2 Grandpa tells Liming more about the old days Many children did not go to school because many people then were poor & Children today are lucky They can all go to school Singapore is very clean now When I was a boy, it was not so clean Many people did not have jobs Now there are a lot of jobs Everyone has a home Everyone has food There were not many tall buildings then Now there are a lot of tall buildings A lot of people live in flats now Many people lived in shophouses then Some people lived in wooden houses too Look at this photograph This is what Singapore was like then Teaching Point: Draw pupils’ attention to the text type ‘personal recounts’ Discuss with pupils the differences between Singapore in the past and Singapore today Ask pupils to retell the stories that their parents or grandparents have told them before of the old days Photograph from the collection of Terry Wright, Courtesy of National Archives of Singapore 88 Unit + What was It Like Then? Text Type Oral Grandma tells Suping more about her childhood I wanted to go to school but I could not In those days, more boys went to school I helped my mother at home I did not learn how to read But I learnt how to cook, sew and look after babies Now, children have many places to visit They can go to the Science Centre, the Bird Park and the Zoo They can go to Sentosa too There were not many places to visit or go to when I was young There were many children in the family We lived with our grandparents Everyone had to help Now, people have smaller families có Children are busy at school | J They not help so much at |} home Teaching Point: Draw pupils’ attention to the text type ‘personal recounts’ Discuss with pupils the differences between the lives of children now and the lives of children then 89 * Workbook 2A, page 88 s _- + Grammdr - ` Uni† - Wha† was T† Like Then? Grandpa shows Liming his old photographs Who is this, They're my Who are they, sisters Grandpa? That's my old house That's where I lived when I was a boy Teaching Point: Encourage pupils to ask questions using the interrogative pronouns ‘who’ and ‘what’ 90 * Workbook 2A, page 89 « Unit + What was It Like Then? ¬ * Grammar - * _ Grandma shows Suping a photograph of her old house She tells Suping about her house This is where I lived when I was a girl My house was between two other houses c== ` SS There were some chairs and a table under these porch There was a road in front of my house and a stream behind it There was a small bridge across the stream There were fruit trees beside the house I liked to climb onté x