Tina and Jen are siting down on the grace They are eating a picric Pam is looking at the river, She i standing on a rock,
The police have a helicopter
Trang 4The policemen and the girls are sitting down on the grass Pam is smiling ~and now she is eating her picnic
A Answer the questions
(Picture 4) How many girls are there in this picture? (Picture 4) What are the girls doing?
(Picture 2) What are Tina and Jen doing now? (Picture 4) Who is running to the police station?
Oapowrn
=
(Picture ©) How many policemen are helping Pam?
B Finish the sentences C Look at this picture Write the words { have | under | is | are | with Pam_ — — slandingongrock Pamslegis —— — arock Tina iswoiling_——— Pam
The police ahelicopter
apon The policemen and the girls
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PLE
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[Alexis opening the packet [Jp His mother is looking at th T
white rocks She is smilin Not diamonds? Sugar?
<i
per No, Alex These are
ook atthese, 1) not diamonds This is
Mother Diamonds! |] sugar You have a We are rich! packet of sugar You cannot eat diamonds, Yes, Alex Sugar
but you can eat sugar
and I like sugar
A True or false? B Finish the words |
1 Alexisyoung and strong 1
2 Alex cơn corry big pieces of wood
3 Alex is looking at an old shoe
4 Alex's house is an old packet op
on
5 Alex's mother likes sugar
€ Read and match
1 Alexis looking at .„ „1o his house
Alex is carrying the packet at the white rocks
Alex's mother is looking
ab
on Alex is climbing into the shoe
You cannot eat diamonds, but
you can eat sugar
an old packet
with the packet
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It is ten o'clock inthe
morning The Fiying Doctor isin his office|
You can see his aeroplane outside the
window He is listening 4 big radio
The Flying Doctor is looking ata mapon the
Trang 86 The doctor is at the girl's house The is in bed and the doctor is looking at her
A Answer the questions
1 (Picture 1) Whois this man?
2 (Picture 2 ) Whatis he doing now? 3 (Picture 4) Whatis the doctor doing?
Please don't worry She ten't
very ill Give mộ ile foe 2
4 (Picture 5 ) Whois waiting for the doctor?
5 (Picture 6) Whereis the doctor
now?
B Match the questions with the answers
Ishis aeroplane outside the window? Is the doctor reading a book?
Is the woman waiting for the doctor? Ubon= C write sentences 1 2 This/man/good pilot This man is a good pilot
Are there Flying Doctors in Australia? Gate meio R, itis
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Id Itis Naomi’s birthday She is having a party with her friends » a NV) Itis long and thin Itis a whistle!
Go and play your whistle inthe park, Naomi Be quiet, Naomil
I don't like that whistle! Please don’t play itin here
3 Later
Ngomi's father is reading the newspaper and her brother is
working Naomi is playing her whistle her whistle Let’s go! w
Where are all my friends? Where are all the dogs
and the birds, too?
I5 Naomi is walking home
There is an old woman in the house! What can | do?
Can | help? Yes, | can!
6 7 Oh good! Aman is opening his window He can telephone the fire station
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A True or false?
1 Naomi’s whistle is long and thin 4 Naomi's house is on fire
2 Naomi has a young sister 5 The old woman and the fireman like 3 Naomi's friends like her whistle Naomi’s whistle B Make sentences Naomi| [having per|| | [reading] [is ||the | [Naomi’s | in| [Please || whistle ||.|{don't are|{my ||Where arown = fire-engine C Finish the sentences
[ can | is | don’t | coming | like an lAA4IT 0ï)
11 — thiswhisle her whistle
2 Please play your whistle 4 What |do?
Trang 11Look at these F013: too They are aac EU <0 o hove ID too Look TT
etc P¡mols on ¡nd the igugn9:- them, HD
uc snokes ƠI DU: 20 don'† WOrry ~
Trang 126 These stamps œre different, too They have œ
picture of Queen Elizabeth on them — but where is the name of the country? You cannot see the name ‘England’ on these
stamps Stamps in England
do not hove the name
of their country on them
Whet is the name of your country? Can you see it on your stamps?
A Answer the questions
1 What can you see on the stamps from Mongolia? Where is Mongolia? n Are the stamps from Rwanda big or small? What can you see on the stamps from Nicaragua? What can you see on the stamp from Egypt?
Can you see the name of the
country on stamps from England?
Read and match
The stamps from Nicaragua The stamps from Rwanda
The stamps from Mongolia The stamps from England
The stamps from England do not
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B Write the words in the squares
1 — They have different pictures and you
can see them on letters
1 | Itisalong and dangerous animal
2 = Itis big and it has two wheels anda driver, 3 — Itis beautiful and you can smell it E] E |
have the Queen“s head on them
have pictures of tractors on them
have the name of their country on them
~ have flowers and animals on them
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1 Kate’s father is sick He is in bed 2 Kate and Jane are in the kitchen Kate is opening the tin
Kate: OK, Dad There are a lot of tins in the kitchen There is a tin of
vegetable soup too, | think Give me the tin-opener, Jane
Jane: Here
4 Kate and Jane are making the 3 The tin is open Kate is smelling it
R vegetable soup
Now, we have some
vegetables |s there any rice?
Jane: Yes Here’s some rice Where
isthe pan?
Kate: Here isa pan We are ready Kate: Oh dear This is not soup
There is not any soup for Dad here Jane: Well, we can make some vegetable soup for him!
Kate: Yes Good idea!
© The soup is burning! Look at all the smoke! Kate an are running into,
The soup is cooking in the kitchen
Kate and Jane are not in the kitchen y
They are playing tennis in the garden | Kote:_ Ohno! Jane: Lookat the soup!
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PERMAR
7 They cannot give Kate’s father this soup Kate is opening the
window Jane is washing the pan, 8 si"
3? Kate’s father is drinking the soup | Kate: Let's buy atin of soup Father: Mmm tis very good soup A Trve or false?
1 Jane is sick She is in bed 4 There is no pan in the kitchen
2 There is not any soup in the kitchen 5 Kate and Jane are playing tennis in
3 There is a tin-opener in the kitchen the kitchen
B Match the sentences with the pictures
They are giving some soup to Kate's fathe
They are making some vegetable soup
The girls are buying a tin of soup
The girls are opening a tin but it is not a tin of soup
Trang 15A very special biscuit
Í
There is no grass and there is no
milk from the cows
hin and weak What mes they can gO
ther countries
\| them are very!
|| con they do? Someti
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‘And what are Food Aid Biscuits made of? They are made of flour, oil, sugar and salt They are very good food for hungry people
A True or false?
Food Aid Biscuits are made in Africa
In some countries there is not much rain Sometimes people cannot grow food
Food Aid Biscuits have sugar and salt in them
Food Aid Biscuits are made of milk
Oabon=
B Read and match
1 This biscuitis isthe ‘Food Aid Biscuit’
2 Thename of this biscuit is good food for hungry people 3 The Food Aid Biscuit is for „+ flour, oil, sugar and salt
4 This biscuit is made of made in Holland
5 The Food Aid Biscuit . people at special centres
C Find words
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4] Cody is.a fisherman He is the captain
of abig boat Andrew and Steven are
his friends They are fishermen, too
The three men are in Captain Cody's boat Itis night, There are black clouds inthe | sky and they cannot see the stars The
wind is blowing,
PA The storm is worse now The
are bigger itis a very dangerous storm big boat is sinking The
Captain Cody is shouting fo Andrew and Steven three men are climbing into a small boat Come here! Help me
with the small boat 7 È OK Let's go!
Ree Quick, Cody! Climb in!
are oranges and bananas The island hasa river, #00 They have food and water: Cocky has some dry matches they can make aire
It is morning There are no clouds inthe sky The waves are smaller and the sun is shining The three men can see asmall island
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7 á AL | can see a boat Captain! Look? ‘Quick! Make the fire bigger
standing beside the fire He'is watching the sea Captain Cody and Steven are asleep, Andrew is shouting The light is getting nearer~the They have a big fire now and they are boat is coming lo save them Suddenly he can see a light! A boat is coming!
A Answer the questions B Write the words in the squares
(Picture 4 ) Whatis Captain Cody’s work? (Picture 2 ) Where are the three men?
1
2
3 (Picture 5 ) Whot can the three men see? 4 (Picture 6 ) Whatare there on the island? 5
(Picture 7 ) What can Andrew hear and “An 8
what can he see? apepel = gee |
2
3
C Make sentences 4 r
1 [is}[a][-][big] [the | [Cody] [oF [ca 5
2 [.][This| [storm] | very][«] {dangerous [is $ |
3 [boa [sinking] [Big] [][] The] ï ela]
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4 Emma has a letter from her
grandmother this morning
She is reading it Is there anyone i eating somethin: piece of the pie! Grandmother is in the k She is looking at the em| 18 Grandfather is in the kitchen He is shouting at Grandfather He is
hiding behind his newspaper
ltis Saturday morning Itis a quarter
to ten Grandmother is at the supermarket and Grandfather is
reading the newspaper
Grandfather is hungry and he is thinking
[about Grandmother's apple pe in the kitchen? Yes, But Grandfather is greedy He is g He ïs eating a eating all the pie The plate is empty! & <> - s |
‘Go to the bakery now and
buy another pie, please! J
gi TT scars =
itchen now
pty plate and b =
Trang 20[[emarialion Grandniner! Novaieclever Grandmother! Oh, whelabeautful pel
i
And now it is half past ten Here is
Emma The new apple pie is on the l
table in the kitchen and
Grandfather has a new Grandfather is looking at it! He is
is in the bo: hungry again!
A Answer the questions ý i
1 (Picture 4) Whatis Emmareading? Y)
2 (Picture 2) Whatisher grandfather reading?
3 (Picture 2) Where is Emma's grandmother?
4 (Picture 4) Whatis Grandfather doing in this picture?
5 (Picture 7) Whatis Grandfather carrying in the box?
B write past or to C >What time is it? Write the answers
1 itis half one 1
Trang 21TT was on hohday with my friend, Martina We were at a small hotel neor the mountains It was six
o'clock, The sky was red and orange and yellow it was abeautiful evening |i
2 There was asmall ‘the sky over the mountains red dotin [5 The dot was suddenly bigger and nearer was red But there was no noise It was not an aeroplane Wf was round and it had small windows There were
Look! What is it? ‘small faces behind the windows It was a spaceship! |) Is it a stor or an
4 The spaceship was very near us now It was obove our heads Suddenly there was a very strong blue
light above us Our fable and the chairs were blue Martina's face was biue and | was blue
The spaceship was not there
Trang 22A True or false? DW ene apron — CuUhONn=64
Two girls were on holiday
The hotel was near some mountains There was a yellow aeroplane over Make sentences L] holiday | were Wellon the mountains
4 There was a spaceship in the garden of the hotel
5 Martina’s face was orange and red [.][ small sky | in There [dot red||a was the| had] |.|[windows spaceship The| [small
There |[ | above || blue
was light us strong ||a
blue|/Our the
table were L] chairs ond
Write the words in the squares There was no noise It was notan
Iwoson with Martina
The spaceship was in the sky, over the
Wasita or an aeroplane?
Trang 23Picture dictionar asnoke 3 | i ] “| a horse - anaeroplane œnolbum animals Z ẹ aS, Ah
abird broken achild children
Trang 24a ~ EAN akitchen alight loud + +
amatch aminule an office an orange
orange outside over apacket
a pan
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