BI Starter Teacher Notes
BI Starter Teacher Notes
BI Starter Teacher Notes
Worksheets
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Unit 6
Festivals
Tests
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Unit 6
Review 1
Review 2
Review 3
End of Year
Editable Tests
Worksheets and evaluation overview 1
Worksheets teacher’s notes and answer keys 2
Tests teacher’s notes and answer keys 22
Marking grids 33
Worksheets overview
Bright Ideas Starter provides a great variety of fun
and engaging worksheets that are ideally suited to
supplementing the Class Book lessons.
For Lessons 1, 5 and 9, the teacher’s notes in the Teacher’s
Guide will provide suggestions on how to supplement
the Class Book page with further activities, for example:
flashcards and storycards.
For Lessons 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8, there are worksheets
provided for Units 1–6.
This is a brief overview of the function of each worksheet:
• Lesson 2: Vocabulary 1 practice
• Lesson 3: Song worksheet
• Lesson 4: Grammar 1 practice
• Lesson 6: Vocabulary 2 practice
• Lesson 7: Grammar 2 practice
• Lesson 8: Cross-curricular worksheet
There are also four festival worksheets.
Tests overview
The evaluation section of Bright Ideas Starter contains
materials that will help you to evaluate what your
students have learned.
From the beginning of Primary education, evaluation
should be integrated into the teaching–learning process.
In Bright Ideas Starter, there are two types of evaluation:
Summative tests
There are six unit tests, three review tests (for use after
Units 2, 4 and 6) and one end of year test (for use after
Unit 6).
The tests reflect the target language of the course and
the types of activities that the students do in class. You
will find the transcripts, marking scheme and answers to
all activities in the pages that follow.
In addition, marking grids are provided so that you
may easily record test results and keep a record of
each student’s strengths and/or areas for improvement
throughout the year.
Self-evaluation activities
Students are invited to reflect on their efforts at the end
of the unit or specific tasks by colouring Sock according
to their own evaluation: fantastic, good, or OK. It is a
gentle introduction to the concept of self-evaluation –
a key part of the learning process. It is important that
the students realize that when they are evaluating
themselves, they are not being tested.
Optional activity
• Start drawing one of the animals on the board. The first
student to guess which animal you are drawing and call
out the correct word can either take a turn to draw an
animal for the rest of the class to guess, or whisper the
name of another animal for you to draw.
Optional activity
• Play a game of What’s missing? Place the garden object
flashcards on the board, or on a desk. Ask students to
point to the cards and say the words. Tell the students to
close their eyes. Remove one or two of the flashcards. Tell
the students to open their eyes and say which flashcards
are missing.
Optional activity
• Invite a student to come to the board. Hand the student
four to six of the food flashcards. Say the words for
the flashcards in random order. The student sticks the
flashcards on the board in the order you say the words.
• You can play this as a game in two teams if you like,
inviting students from each team in turn to come to the
board and awarding one point for each correct sequence
of flashcards.
Optional activity
• If you have time, students can follow the instructions and
make the card. They can give it to a friend, or take it home
and give it to a family member.
Optional activity
• Invite students to show their Bingo cards to the class.
Encourage students to point to the pictures on the card
and say (grandma / brother).
• Choose a student in the class. Say, I’m one of you and point ANSWERS
Students’ own answers.
to all the students. Ask, Who am I? Say, I’ve got (brown) eyes.
I’ve got (straight / long / blond) hair.
Optional activity
• The first student to guess who you are describing can
• Invite a student to come to the front of the class and close
either choose another student and describe him / her
their eyes.
to the class, or whisper a name to you so that you can
describe another student for the class to guess. • Ask another student to come to the front of the class and
stand behind the first student.
• Say, Who’s this? and encourage the first student to ask
questions to find out who the other student is, e.g. Have
you got (long / short / straight / curly / dark / blond) hair?
Have you got (blue / green / brown) eyes? Have you got
glasses?
• Repeat with other students.
Optional activity
• Divide the class into two teams to play the game.
Students from each team in turn choose a person from
the worksheet and note down the number. Students
from the other team ask questions to find out who the
person is.
• The teams then swap roles and play again.
• If you like, you can set a limit on the number of questions
each team can ask to make the game more challenging.
Optional activity
• Students can draw a picture of themselves wearing their
favourite outfits. Invite students to show their pictures to
the class and talk about them (e.g. I’m wearing a (T-shirt).
It’s (red).)