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EC4 AmE U5 TB
EC4 AmE U5 TB
OBJECTIVES
Reading
• Reading comprehension – Can identify specific information in a simple story, if guided by questions.
• Reading development – Can follow a simple series of written instructions to carry out a task.
Listening
• Listening comprehension – Can recognise words and simple phrases related to familiar topics, if spoken
slowly and clearly and supported by pictures.
• Response to spoken prompts – Can identify simple information in a short video, provided that the
visual supports this information and the delivery is slow and clear.
Speaking
• Spoken process and strategies – Can give a short, simple prepared talk on a topic of personal interest.
• Spoken process and strategies – Can take part in a very simple conversation on a familiar topic
(e.g. their home, family, school) if the other speaker repeats questions as necessary and speaks slowly
and clearly.
Writing
• Written production – Can write short, simple personal emails/letters about familiar topics, given
prompts or a model.
• Written production – Can write a simple text containing key information, given a model.
KEY LANGUAGE
Key vocabulary Phonics STEAM Grammar
butterfly The sounds /br/, /cr/, /dr/, 2D If they destroy the forest, there won’t
chemicals /fr/, /gr/, /pr/, and /tr/ 3D be any wildlife.
eagle bridge gray depth If they don’t clean up the river, the
field faces fish will die.
brown green
habitat height If they build a lot more houses, it will
crab grouse be very noisy.
mountain cranky growing light box
If they don’t care for the wildlife,
otter dragon princess negative shapes
it won’t be a beautiful place.
pollution dreamy prissy positive shapes
There are fewer bears than wolves.
threat friendly tree width
There are more owls than otters.
tiger frog triangular
turtle grass
wolf
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MATH
Students will learn how to identify the number of faces on 3D shapes.
CREATIVE ACTIVITIES
Make your own picture dictionary.
This feature occurs in each Vocabulary lesson and
encourages students to process new vocabulary
through drawing and writing.
forest
Act out the story in groups. owl
This feature occurs in each Story lab lesson tiger
and will help students revisit and produce core
language learned so far in the unit, as well as
collaborate with other students in a fun context.
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5 Endangered animals
How can I organize a campaign to save an animal?
Endangered animals =
there aren’t many of these
animals living on Earth.
1 Why is wildlife endangered?
Discuss with a partner.
We cut down trees to make paper.
2 036
Listen, count, complete, and circle the habitat.
Animal: Otters
Animal: Butterflies
Habitat: They live in and Animal: Owls
around the water. Habitat: They live on
forest river field flowers. Habitat: They live in trees.
Threat: Water pollution in forest river field forest river field
the rivers and seas. Threat: Chemicals on plants. Threat: Loss of habitat.
Time: Time: Time:
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Lesson flow
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Your route
tiger owl is the most
similar to mine.
turtle otter
4 Make your own picture
dictionary. Label the animals and
SONG
forest
their habitats.
TIME Habitats owl
tiger
Habitat! Habitat! What is that?
There are butterflies in the field.
There are wolves in the field.
There are owls in the forest. 5 038
Listen and complete.
There are tigers in the forest. There are bears in the mountains. Then say.
There are eagles in the mountains. There are otters in the river. I’m going to read
you a story. What’s it about?
There are turtles in the river. They are habitats! brown cranky dreamy friendly
They are habitats! The animals’ habitats! Habitats. gray green prissy triangular
The animals’ habitats! Habitats.
A grouse, a crab,
a frog, a dragon,
a princess, a
bridge, a tree, and
2 Draw your route on the map in 1.
Where will
you go first?
To the mountains. grass growing all around.
Then ask and answer with a partner.
6 Say it again as quickly as
You are going to visit the Ottery Wildlife you can.
Center on the weekend. You will see four Well, it’s about …
different animals at four different places.
You’ll see eagles and
bears there.
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Lesson flow
Warm up Lesson Song Practice Code Cracker Picture Presentation Practice Objective
objective Production dictionary review
Warm up
LESSON OBJECTIVE
• Ask students What animal habitats
I will learn animal and habitat words. do you know? and elicit examples:
forests, hills, beach, rivers. Then have
KEY LANGUAGE students work with a partner and
make a list of where animals live.
Key vocabulary Phonics
• Draw a Venn diagram on the
butterfly otter The sounds /br/, /cr/, /dr/, /fr/, /gr/, /pr/, and /tr/
board with three circles and label
chemicals pollution tree
bridge dreamy green the circles with three habitats, e.g.,
eagle threat brown friendly grouse triangular forests, hills, rivers. Then ask a few
field tiger crab frog growing students to come to the board and
habitat turtle princess write animal words in the Venn
cranky grass
mountain wolf diagram, e.g., otters in river. Have
dragon gray prissy
students work in groups to create
their own Venn diagrams.
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Song
PHONICS
1 037 Listen and match. Sing the song.
Presentation
(Answers: butterflies and wolves to field, tigers
and owls to forest, eagles and bears to mountains, 5 038 Listen and complete. Then say.
turtles and otters to river) (Answers: gray, cranky, friendly, dreamy, prissy,
• Play audio 037. Have students match the animals to brown, triangular, green)
the habitats they hear in the song. Check answers. • Students will learn the sounds /br/, /cr/, /dr/,
• Point at each animal and its habitat and ask /fr/, /gr/, /pr/, and /tr/ as in brown /braʊn/,
students to read out loud the matching sentence. crab /kræb/, dragon /ˈdræɡən/, frog /frɑːɡ/, gray
• Play the audio again. Have students listen and
/ɡreɪ/, princess /ˈprɪnsəs/, and tree /triː/.
sing along using the lyrics on the page. • Play audio 038. Have students listen and
complete. Then play the audio again and have
COMMUNICATION them read along quietly to check answers.
Practice • Play the audio again for students to read out
2 Draw your route on the map in 1. Then ask loud in time. Encourage them to emphasize the
and answer with a partner. /br/, /cr/, /dr/, /fr/, /gr/, /pr/, and /tr/ sounds.
• Have one student read the instructions, and • Assist Play the Phonics Pronunciation video. Ask
two students read the example in the speech students to sit and watch quietly. Play it again
bubbles. Then ask students to draw their routes and ask students to copy what they see and hear.
and ask and answer with their partner.
PHONICS
CODE CRACKER
Practice
Production 6 Say it again as quickly as you can.
3 Look at your friends’ routes. Whose route is • Have students work with a partner to say the
the most similar to yours? Complete the table. sentences as fast as they can without making a
• Coding syllabus: Students will learn how to mistake.
complete skeleton or incomplete event plans.
• Students will add information to the table. They Objective review
will use their answers to draw conclusions. • Revisit the lesson objective. Say Now I can use
• Have two students read the speech bubbles, animal and habitat words.
then ask students to write the letters using the • Involve Encourage awareness of what students
key for their route in the first column. They know by eliciting full sentences using the new
could use different colors for the F in field and vocabulary and having them identify those words
the F in forest. Let students move around the in pictures.
classroom to choose friends they want to ask.
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If they destroy the forest, there won’t be If they move the river, there won’t be any fields or flowers.
any wildlife.
If they don’t clean up the river, the fish will die. If there is a shopping center, they will destroy the wildlife habitat.
If they build a lot more houses, it will be very noisy.
If they don’t care for the wildlife, it won’t be If there is a train station,
If they cut down the forest, they
a beautiful place. will destroy the wildlife habitat.
If they build a , .
If they build a , .
6
We will build a hundred and fifty new houses. There will be a train
station with a parking lot. There will be a new school and a shopping Play Consequences.
mall. There will be a new sports center and swimming pool. If they build a new shopping mall, …
• Write the first part of an IF sentence.
• Pass the paper to a friend.
3 Look at 2. Who are the changes good for and not good for? • Write the ending and start the next
Discuss with a partner. IF sentence.
• Pass the paper …
There will be a lot more
houses. That’s good for people. But there won’t be a forest.
That isn’t good for the wildlife.
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Lesson flow
Warm up Lesson Video Presentation Practice Practice Practice Production Production Objective
objective review
Warm up
LESSON OBJECTIVE
• Put the flashcards for animal and habitat words
I will learn to use sentences with if. on the board. Elicit the words for each picture and
ask students to make a sentence with them, e.g.,
KEY LANGUAGE Chemicals on plants are a threat to butterflies.
If they destroy the forest, there won’t be any • Write the words for the flashcards on the board
wildlife. one at a time and have individual students match
them to the flashcards and say the words.
If they don’t clean up the river, the fish will die.
If they build a lot more houses, it will be very • Extra Write animal and habitat words on the
noisy. board, but replace more than half of the letters
with lines, e.g., c h _ _ i _ _ _ _ (chemicals). Have
If they don’t care for the wildlife, it won’t be a
students work in pairs to solve the puzzles, then
beautiful place.
check answers as a class and have students spell
out the words.
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COMMUNICATION COMMUNICATION
Production
Practice
6 Play Consequences.
2 What will change? Read and discuss with a
partner. • Read the instructions with students, then have
them follow the instructions, passing their piece
• Have students read the text and look at the
of paper to the student next to them. They
pictures, then think about what the changes will
should fold the paper over so the next student
mean for the people, environment, and wildlife.
can’t see what they wrote.
• Have two students read the speech bubbles, then
• Have students open the paper and ask for one
ask students to discuss the changes. They should
sentence from each student in the class. Ask
give reasons why they agree or not using will.
students Do the sentences make sense or are
they funny? Elicit answers and discuss further.
CRITICAL THINKING
Practice Objective review
3 Look at 2. Who are the changes good for and • Revisit the lesson objective. Say Now I can use
not good for? Discuss with a partner. sentences with if.
(Model answers: good for people: new houses, • Involve Encourage awareness of what students
school, transportation, shopping mall, sports can do by asking them to make statements
center, swimming pool, not good for people or about what will happen if we don’t care for the
wildlife: no forest, no river, loss of habitat, noise, environment and eliciting answers using if.
pollution)
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Aset and
2 Every day, Aset cleaned the barn and fed “She’s calling for her mother,” explained Dad.
Kara
K Kara. After, they played with an old teddy
bear and a rope. Aset ran round the barn
“If you are quiet, you will see her.” Suddenly, a big,
beautiful wolf appeared. She ran to Kara and licked
pulling the teddy bear on the rope. Kara her. Then they disappeared into the forest.
1 Aset was walking in the forest when he chased the toy. It was Kara’s favorite game!
heard a sound coming from a bush. He
Kara and Aset were soon best friends, but
looked under the bush and found a little gray
nobody knew Aset’s secret.
puppy. Aset decided to keep the puppy. “I will
call you Kara,” he whispered to the puppy. 4 That night, Aset went to the barn with
He took Kara back to the farm and found a his mom. They were filling a basket with
warm place in the barn for a bed. Soon, Kara apples when Aset heard a soft sound. It was
was asleep. a little gray puppy wagging its tail. “Thank
you, Mom!” He said. “I will call her …”
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Lesson flow
Warm up Lesson Pre-reading Reading Values Comprehension Production Act out Objective
objective Comprehension review
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2 040
Read, listen, and complete. 3 Write the number
Light box artworks are very interesting
of faces.
MATH EXPERIMENT TIME
ZONE
because they are three dimensional
(or 3D). Solid objects are 3D. They have Can you make an animal light box?
height, width, and depth. They have different faces. Materials
Paintings and drawings are two dimensional (or 2D). They 1
have height and width, but they don’t have depth and they 4 pieces of white cardboard – 30 cm x 20 cm
only have one face. 4 strips of foam board – 2 x 30 cm x 5 cm and 2 x 20 cm x 5 cm
2 12 strips of thick cardboard 6 x 20 cm and 6 x 30 cm
This is a 1 strip of LED lights – 1 m
ruler, pencil, scissors, glue
dimensional
artwork. It has
face(s). 1 Glue the four strips of foam board to form a box.
face 3 2 Draw and cut out the background and animals for
the light box using 3 of the pieces of cardboard.
3 Layer and glue the three cut out drawings with the strips of cardboard in
This is a between each.
4 Put your 3D picture inside the box. Glue the LED strip inside the box behind the
dimensional
4 pictures. Cut a hole in the last piece of white cardboard. Glue the cardboard to
artwork. It has
the back of the box.
faces face(s).
5 Pull the cable of the LED outside the light box
through the hole. Switch on the lights!
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Lesson flow
Warm up Lesson Video Pre-reading Reading Reading Math Production Production Experiment Objective
objective Practice time review
Pre-reading Production
• Point at the pictures on page 82 and ask What can 5 Write a code for your pattern.
you see? Write ideas on the board. Once you’ve read
• Ask students to read the introduction text
the texts, you can add more detail to these ideas.
together, then write a code for their pattern using
Reading letters and numbers only. Remind students to give
1 Read and complete. different numbers for each footprint.
1 041
Listen and say true or false. 1 What does Jack want? Read 73 Highlands Road
There are fewer bears than wolves. and check . Then number
Oxbo, Wisconsin 54552
There are more owls than otters. the features.
April 11th
a new airport a solution Dear Ms. Tamer,
more rabbits a new forest
Animals in forest
Some people want to destroy the forest and
1 = the date build an airport. This forest is a habitat for
many wolves. If they destroy the forest, the
Season: Spring Ranger: Julia Holden 2 = the person writing the letter
wolves will leave the forest. If the wolves
otters 15 3 = the person receiving the letter
leave the forest, there will be more rabbits.
eagles 24 4 = the address
This won’t be good for our forest.
owls 17 5 = the problem
When you write a Please build the airport in a different place.
wolves 32 6 = the solution formal letter, be Please don’t destroy the forest.
bears 6 polite. Remember
Kind regards,
to add the correct
start and end. Jack Robers
2 Look at 1 and make your own bar chart with three animals.
Then ask and answer with a partner. 2 Read and answer.
1 What will happen if they destroy the forest?
Visitor How many wolves Ranger
2 What will happen if the wolves leave the forest?
are there?
There are thirty-two. 3 What will happen if there are more rabbits in the forest?
Are there more
wolves than eagles?
Yes, there are. 3 Complete the code. Then use
Are there fewer the words to write a letter. CODE CRACKER
eagles than otters? No, there aren’t.
There are more.
If they , they will destroy the . = build / plant
3 Look at your bar chart. Complete the sentences. If they destroy the , the , will have no habitat. = maize / houses
If the have no habitat, they will leave. = fields / pond
1 There are fewer than .
If the leave, there will be . = otters / butterflies
3 There are more than .
This is bad for our . = more / fewer
2 There are fewer than .
= fish / flowers
4 There are more than .
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Lesson flow
1 041
Listen and say true or false. 1 What does Jack want? Read 73 Highlands Road
There are fewer bears than wolves. and check . Then number
Oxbo, Wisconsin 54552
There are more owls than otters. the features.
April 11th
a new airport a solution Dear Ms. Tamer,
more rabbits a new forest
Animals in forest
Some people want to destroy the forest and
1 = the date build an airport. This forest is a habitat for
many wolves. If they destroy the forest, the
Season: Spring Ranger: Julia Holden 2 = the person writing the letter
wolves will leave the forest. If the wolves
otters 15 3 = the person receiving the letter
leave the forest, there will be more rabbits.
eagles 24 4 = the address
This won’t be good for our forest.
owls 17 5 = the problem
When you write a Please build the airport in a different place.
wolves 32 6 = the solution formal letter, be Please don’t destroy the forest.
bears 6 polite. Remember
Kind regards,
to add the correct
start and end. Jack Robers
2 Look at 1 and make your own bar chart with three animals.
Then ask and answer with a partner. 2 Read and answer.
1 What will happen if they destroy the forest?
Visitor How many wolves Ranger
2 What will happen if the wolves leave the forest?
are there?
There are thirty-two. 3 What will happen if there are more rabbits in the forest?
Are there more
wolves than eagles?
Yes, there are. 3 Complete the code. Then use
Are there fewer the words to write a letter. CODE CRACKER
eagles than otters? No, there aren’t.
There are more.
If they , they will destroy the . = build / plant
3 Look at your bar chart. Complete the sentences. If they destroy the , the , will have no habitat. = maize / houses
If the have no habitat, they will leave. = fields / pond
1 There are fewer than .
If the leave, there will be . = otters / butterflies
3 There are more than .
This is bad for our . = more / fewer
2 There are fewer than .
= fish / flowers
4 There are more than .
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(Answers: 1 If they destroy the forest, the wolves • Involve Have students swap their finished
will leave., 2 If the wolves leave, there will be letter with their partner. They can read it and
more rabbits., 3 If there are more rabbits, this give points for spelling and content, making
won’t be good for the forest.) comments about how well they outlined the
problem and the solution. They can write the
• Have students read the text again and answer the number of points and good job or good try on
questions. Then check answers with the class. the brochure. Then they return it so that their
• Assist Ask students what they think Jack means by partner can try to improve it.
This won’t be good for our forest. Discuss the food • Differentiation Have students work in pairs and
chain and explain that when there are too many look at the sets of words to the right of the
rabbits, they need food and will eat all the plants, sentences and think of more words that they
which means loss of habitats and food for other can use as variables. Less confident pairs can
animals. try to add one or two more words to each set,
• Digital literacy Ask students How can we while more confident pairs can try to add three
communicate with someone we don’t know very or four words.
well? Have them discuss in groups and make a list.
Remind them to think about digital technologies Objective review
and the internet, e.g., phone calls, email, live chat,
• Revisit the lesson objective. Say Now I can write
and social media. Then discuss as a class and
a letter.
write ideas on the board. Have a show of hands to
find out the most popular ways for your students • Involve Encourage awareness of what students
to communicate with someone they don’t know can do by having them show you and read their
very well. Make them aware of the dangers when letter out loud.
communicating with strangers.
• Challenge Ask students to rewrite the letter in
Activity 1 as an email. Remind them to think
about the differences, and what they need to add
or remove.
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… write a letter.
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Lesson flow
Warm up Lesson Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 At home Now I can Objective
objective review
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1 023 Listen and sort. 3 Complete the sentences. Write two endings using
(Answers: Endangered: otters, elephants, will and won’t.
Not endangered: dogs, hamsters, horses, rabbits, (Model answers: 1 we will use bikes/we won’t need
Some are endangered: bats, donkeys, goats, owls, gas stations, 2 the air will be clean/there won’t be
sharks) air pollution, 3 the streets will be cleaner/people
won’t throw trash on the streets, 4 people will have
2 Label the word groups. Then choose and
a good diet/people won’t use chemicals)
complete.
(Answers: 1 threats, 2 endangered animals, 4 Read and draw a path.
3 habitats, Model answer: Sharks live in the ocean. (Model answer:
Water pollution is a problem for sharks.) Condition: If they make a new park, …
• In this coding activity, students learn to use variables
to make sentences about endangered animals. Result 1: + place for biking, + playground, – no
3 Complete the wildlife observation sheet. stores, – dangerous at night.
• Students complete the wildlife observation sheet. Result 2: + take more exercise, – hard to buy food)
Wonderful wildlife 5 Choose one condition and four results. Then
1 Unscramble the letters and complete the complete the path.
sentences. (Model answer: Condition: they build a new
(Answers: 1 field, 2 wolf, 3 turtle, 4 threat, nature reserve, Result 1: + it will be good for
5 otter, 6 butterfly, 7 Chemicals, 8 tiger, wildlife, – there will be lots of insects, Result 2: +
9 habitat, 10 eagle, 11 Pollution, 12 Mountains) It will be good for families, – there will be more
dangerous animals)
2 024 Match the habitats to the animals. Then
listen and check. • In this coding activity, students learn to use the
set functions from Activity 4 to find results for a
(Answers: wolves: tundra, birds with long
condition of their choice.
legs: wetlands, polar bears: Arctic, elephants:
grasslands) 6 Talk to a partner about your path in 5.
• New vocabulary is presented and practiced in this • Students look at Activity 5 and talk to their partner
activity (Arctic, grasslands, tundra, wetlands). about their path, telling them the condition and
explaining the results.
3 Make words.
(Model answers: break, bridge, price, present, Story lab
prissy, princess, fridge, friendly, frog, green, grass, 1 Read and answer.
gray, crab, cry, cranky, drink, dry, dreamy, dragon, (Answers: 1 Aset hears a sound and looks behind
train, tram, tree) a bush., 2 He think it’s a dog because it looks like
a dog., 3 He cleans the barn and he feeds and
Language lab
plays with Kara., 4 They are scared and worried.,
1 025 Listen and complete with will or won’t. 5 He takes her to the forest where he found her.,
(Answers: 1 will, 2 will, 3 will, 4 will, 5 won’t, 6 Because the gray puppy looks like Kara.)
6 won’t, 7 won’t, 8 will)
2 Read and complete with dogs or wolves.
2 Match the ideas to the sentences in 1. (Answers: 1 dogs, 2 Wolves, 3 Dogs, 4 Wolves,
(Answers: 8 cleaner streets, 4 a good diet, 5 Dogs, 6 Wolves)
1 a lot of wildlife, 7 less plastic waste,
3 Find words in the story that mean …
6 no pollution in the air, 2 cleaner air,
3 more otters, 5 a lot of butterflies) (Answers: 1 puppy, 2 keep, 3 whispered, 4 barn,
5 fed, 6 chased, 7 pulling, 8 called)
4 Make a model of a habitat.
• Students make a model of a habitat of their choice
from paper and card.
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