EC2 AmE U1 TB
EC2 AmE U1 TB
EC2 AmE U1 TB
OBJECTIVES
Reading
• Reading comprehension – Can understand basic sentences naming familiar, everyday items if
supported by pictures.
• Reading accuracy – Can recognize simple words and phrases related to familiar topics if supported
by pictures.
Listening
• Listening comprehension – Can recognize words and simple pictures related to familiar topics, if spoken
slowly and clearly and supported by pictures.
• Listening accuracy – Can hear the individual vowel and consonant sounds in simple words, if
supported by pictures.
Speaking
• Spoken production – Can express likes and dislikes in relation to familiar topics in a basic way.
• Spoken production – Can reproduce words from taught vocabulary lists.
Writing
• Written accuracy and appropriacy – Can write some familiar words.
• Written production – Can write simple sentences using familiar words, given prompts.
KEY LANGUAGE
Key vocabulary Phonics STEAM Grammar
café The sounds a /æ/ as in bricks I like parks.
castle bag and e /e/ as in leg cement I don’t like stores.
farm bag pan spaghetti He likes parks.
house cap peg steel She doesn’t like stores.
library cat pen straws Does she like playgrounds?
museum clap pet strong Yes, she does. / No, she doesn’t.
park leg ten tower Do you like …?
playground man wet wood Yes, I do. / No, I don’t.
river mat There’s a river.
school There are houses.
store There isn’t a playground.
swimming pool There aren’t any farms.
Let’s make … .
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MATH
Students will count items and do simple additions.
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.
.
My game is
.
There’s a/an
.
There are
.
There isn’t/aren’t any
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CODE CRACKER
there!
everywhere!
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Lesson flow
Warm up
LESSON OBJECTIVE
• Greet students by saying Hello, I’m (name). Then
I will learn about places in town. introduce another member of the class whose
name you know: This is (name).
KEY LANGUAGE • Have students work in groups of three and
café park introduce themselves and then introduce their
friends to each other: I’m (name). This is (name).
castle playground
• Monitor Listen and provide support if
farm river
needed. Take notes on any general issues with
house school
pronunciation and intonation.
library store
museum swimming pool
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COMMUNICATION Song
4 008 Listen and point. Then sing along
Presentation
and dance.
1 Where do you want to go in the town?
• Play audio 008 and ask students to read along
• Ask students to look at the picture. Ask Where with the song quietly.
do you want to go in the town? Then point and
• Play the audio again. Have students sing along,
say Yes, the castle!
and show them the actions. You may need to
• Revise previous vocabulary. Ask Can you see a repeat the song with actions a few times for
girl? Who else can you see? Say Yes, two boys. students to remember.
They are all friends.
• Actions are: Here (point at the floor with both
• Differentiation Stretch: Ask students who they hands), there (shield eyes and look at something
go to town with. Support: Write the beginning nearby), everywhere (stretch arms out with palms
of the sentence on the board, e.g., I go to town up. You can use the “Dance Move” cards to help
with … . guide students.
• Students practice singing several times to become
CRITICAL THINKING familiar with the tune, actions, and lyrics, then
Practice get them up and dancing. You don’t need space.
Students can dance by their desks. Let them have
2 Stick the items on the places in the town.
fun and come up with their own ideas for dance
(Answers: Students stick the cake on the café, movements. They could mime pushing a cart in
the rubber ring on the water, and the flag on the store, writing in a notebook at school, making
the castle.) swimming movements, etc.
• Introduce the items on the stickers (cake, rubber • Extra Play charades with places. Have students
ring, and flag) by pointing at them and saying act out being at a place, doing what they might
the words. Encourage students to say the words do there, and ask others to guess where they are.
out loud.
• Ask students to look at the picture and guess Objective review
where the stickers go. • Revisit the lesson objective. Say Now I know places
• Assist Have a volunteer come to the board and in my town.
demonstrate where the stickers go by holding • Involve Encourage awareness of what students
up their Student’s Book. As they do this, say Yes, can do by eliciting the new vocabulary words and
the cake goes here. Or That’s right. The flag their actions.
goes there.
• To reinforce critical thinking, ask students
questions in L1 to ensure understanding and
encourage discussion about the reasons for
their guesses.
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1 009
Listen, point, and repeat.
Go to the …
1 park 2 library
3 farm 4 store
5 school
1 house 2 store 3 library
3 climb
1 farm 2 4 swim
7 park 8 café 9 river
I can swim in a
swimming pool. I can eat and
drink in a café.
Lesson flow
Warm up Lesson Presentation Practice Practice Code Cracker Practice Practice Picture Objective
objective Practice dictionary review
Warm up
LESSON OBJECTIVE
• Encourage everyone to recite the days of the week.
I will learn town words. Then play Buzz. As a class, students take turns
saying days of the week. The student whose turn it
KEY LANGUAGE is to say Saturday or Sunday replaces it with buzz.
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• Ask students to look at the words and ask each CRITICAL THINKING COMMUNICATION
other What’s this? They should find the correct
Practice
pictures in Activity 1.
6 Where can you do these things? Write. Then say.
• Play audio 010. Demonstrate the first item
on the board by listening and circling the (Suggested answers: 1 park / playground,
correct word as you hear it (school). Then have 2 café / house, 3 playground / park / farm,
students listen and circle the words. 4 swimming pool / river)
• Check by asking volunteers to circle the correct • Review the words play, eat and drink, climb,
words on the board. and swim by asking students to act them out.
• Extra Ask students to work with a partner. • Show students the examples in the Student’s
Student A says a place and Student B says Book and ask Where do you play? Elicit at the
the corresponding number from Activity 1. park, at the playground, and at school. Tell
them that when they talk about where they do
something, they use the preposition at.
COMMUNICATION
• Let students decide the best places for the
Practice
activities.
3 Look at 1. Circle the places you like. Then say.
• Demonstrate the activity by circling and saying CREATIVITY
two places you like, e.g., I like the river and the
café. Do choral repetition. Picture dictionary
• Monitor Write I like … on the board. Have 7 Make your own picture dictionary. Draw and
students say the places they like in pairs. Walk write town words.
around and listen as they do this. • Ask students to use a new notebook or the back
of their English notebooks to create a picture
dictionary for all of the new words they’ll learn
Practice CODE CRACKER throughout the book.
• Show students the examples in the Student’s Book
4 Mom is busy today! Read, draw, and number.
and encourage them to use their imagination to
(Answers: 1 park, 2 library, 3 farm, 4 store, draw pictures to represent the words.
5 school)
• Brainstorm and write a list on the board.
• Show a flashcard of Mom and say she is very Encourage students to write the words neatly
busy going to many places around the town. under the pictures they draw.
Point at the picture in Activity 4 and ask
students to name the places.
Objective review
• Ask students to draw in the route Mom takes
• Revisit the lesson objective. Say Now I can use
and number them according to the list of
town words.
places Mom goes. Say One: park and students
draw the path to the park, and so on. • Involve Encourage awareness of what students
can do by eliciting the new vocabulary words and
having students point at pictures of them.
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1 011
Watch. What does Milly like? Check or cross .
Do you like parks? Do you like park a? No, I don’t. I like park b.
Yes, I do.
I like parks.
I don’t like stores. 1 I like park b . 2 I don’t like .
2 011
Watch again and circle. 3 Read and draw or .
Park
Me My partner Our choice
1 I only do what
I want to do.
1 Anna likes / doesn’t like clothes stores. 1 I don’t like castles. Pool
2 I listen to my
2 Milly likes / doesn’t like cars. 2 Leo doesn’t like stores. friends and we
3 Milly likes farms.
6 Now talk about your choice.
decide together.
4 I like museums.
I like park a. Carla likes park c.
We both like swimming pool c!
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Lesson flow
Warm up Lesson Video Presentation Practice Practice Practice Code Cracker Production Values Objective
objective Practice Production review
Warm up
LESSON OBJECTIVE
• Put the flashcards for the places around town
I will talk about town words using like / don’t like. on the board and have students say the words.
Ask students to classify them as “building” or
KEY LANGUAGE “outside.”
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Presentation
COMMUNICATION
• Show students the grammar box and read the
examples. Ask which are like and which are don’t Production
like sentences. 6 Now talk about your choice.
• Ask students to show you a happy face for positive • Have students work with a new partner and
sentences and a sad face for negative sentences as report their decision about where to go on
you read them out. their day out using the language in the speech
bubbles.
Practice • Extra Have students work in groups of three.
2 011 Watch again and circle. Ask them to turn back to the vocabulary on
(Answer: 1 likes, 2 likes) page 12 and decide where they want to go on
a day out together using all of the possible
• Tell students to listen and circle. Play audio 011.
places around town and the language they
Practice have used in this lesson.
3 Read and draw or . • Extra Have a spelling competition. Divide the
(Answers: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ) class into teams. Say a town word. The first
team to write it correctly on the board wins a
• Read the sentences and make a happy face if it point. The first team to five points wins.
expresses like and a sad face if it expresses don’t
like. Read again and have students make faces, too.
• Students draw a happy or sad face according to Values
whether the statement expresses like/likes or don’t/ Production
doesn’t like. 7 How do you and your friends decide what to
do? Check the correct box.
COMMUNICATION COLLABORATION
• Have students work with a new partner. They
This activity encourages Collaboration. For further check the box that indicates the way they make
support download our Collaboration checklist. their decisions.
Practice • Point out that it’s always good to listen to your
friends and make decisions together.
4 Plan a day out with a partner. Ask and answer.
Then write.
• Point at the pictures of the parks. Ask students Objective review
to complete the first two sentences with the • Revisit the lesson objective. Say Now I can talk
letters of the parks they like and don’t like. about town words using like / don’t like.
• Indicate and practice the language and the • Involve Encourage awareness of what students
responses in the speech bubbles. Then have can do by showing them pictures of places and
students ask and answer in pairs. Ask them to asking Do you like …? and Does she/he like …?
record their partner’s information about parks
in full sentences, (Juan/Maria) likes park a.
She/He doesn’t like park b.
• Ask students to do the same for swimming pools.
Tell them to use the park sentences as models.
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READING wn.
Look! A band!
1 012
Read and listen. Why is 2
A special day
beautiful today!
Good morning! Come
into school. Where
are Anna and Leo?
You’re welcome!
Listen, Anna! I
1 can hear music!
We’re here,
7 We have a big cake!
Miss Kelly!
What’s
happening, I don’t know!
Leo? 4 Oh, no! Look, Anna!
4
can’t stop!
It’s red and yellow! What makes the castle red and yellow today? Check .
2 Look at the story. Then match and number. 1 Anna
1 2 3
a b c d 2 Leo
3 Miss Kelly
4 Castle Town
5 Act out the story in groups.
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Lesson flow
Warm up Lesson Pre-reading Reading Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension Act out Objective
objective review
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• Have students check their answers with a partner. • Extra Have students work in pairs to brainstorm
Then check as a class. special days they have: birthdays, school
• Ask students to look at the story and circle where graduations, and so on. Make a list on the board
they found the information they needed. in English, and together make a list of food and
• Challenge As a class, write a summary of the story activities related to the celebrations. Encourage
on the board. Ask students to offer sentences and students to use the English words they know and
write them on the board in order, e.g., Anna and supply any other words for them as needed.
Leo walk to school. They see a boy on a bike with
Objective review
a cake … .
• Revisit the lesson objective. Say Now I can read a
CRITICAL THINKING story about a town.
Comprehension • Involve Encourage awareness of what students can
do by asking them to read a few lines from the story.
4 What makes the castle red and yellow today?
Check .
(Answer: 3 It’s lit red and yellow for the
celebration.)
• Point at the pictures and describe them
(paintbrushes and paint, red and yellow leaves,
red and yellow lights).
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EXPERIMENT TIME
1 013
Listen and repeat. Then write a or e.
Watch a video about buildings
How can I build
1 What do we need to build a tower?
a house? Check or cross .
1 c p 2 b g 3 m t 4 p g 5 t n 6 p t
Look! This is
2 014
Listen and chant. 4 Look and match. the Eiffel Tower.
3 015
Listen and play the game.
This house is strong. 2 Can you put books on your
tower? Is it strong? Circle.
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Lesson flow
Warm up
LESSON OBJECTIVE
• Review town words with students. Put the color
I will learn the /æ/ and /e/ sounds. The sounds a flashcards on the board and ask What places do
/æ/ as in bag and e /e/ as in leg. you like? Encourage students to use full sentences.
• Ask students to work in groups of four and
KEY LANGUAGE together write a list of all of the places around
The sounds a /æ/ as in bag and e /e/ as in leg. town they have visited since you last saw them.
Ask them to share their list with another group.
bag man pet
cap mat ten Lesson objective
cat pan wet • Introduce the lesson objective. Say Today
clap peg I will learn the a and e sounds.
leg pen
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• Play audio 014 for students to listen. Then play • Involve Encourage awareness of what students
the audio again and encourage students to can do by eliciting words with the /æ/ and /e/
join in. sounds.
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EXPERIMENT TIME
1 013
Listen and repeat. Then write a or e.
Watch a video about buildings
How can I build
1 What do we need to build a tower?
a house? Check or cross .
1 c p 2 b g 3 m t 4 p g 5 t n 6 p t
Look! This is
2 014
Listen and chant. 4 Look and match. the Eiffel Tower.
3 015
Listen and play the game.
This house is strong. 2 Can you put books on your
tower? Is it strong? Circle.
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Lesson flow
Warm up
LESSON OBJECTIVE
• Ask students about their own houses. Is your
I will learn about building materials. house big or small? What color is your house?
How many bedrooms are there in your house?
KEY LANGUAGE Do you like your house?
bricks straws
Lesson objective
cement strong
• Introduce the lesson objective. Say Today I will
spaghetti tower learn about building materials.
steel wood
• Involve Students will learn about the different
materials buildings are made of and test to see
how to make a structure strong.
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Objective review
Experiment time
• Revisit the lesson objective. Say Now I know about
How can I build a tower? building materials.
• Go to the Pearson English Portal and click on • Involve Encourage awareness of what students
“Resources,” for more teaching resources about can do by showing them pictures of materials and
this topic, including a video about building. asking Can you build a house with … ?
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1 017
Listen and read.
3 There houses.
any houses?
Yes! There are
eleven houses. 4 Now tell the class about your game.
4 There museums. Picture a! Do you like my game? Look … there’s a school, a river …
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Lesson flow
Warm up
• Review places in town with students. Write the
categories Shopping, Fun, and Learning. Have
students suggest places for these categories.
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1 017
Listen and read.
3 There houses.
any houses?
Yes! There are
eleven houses. 4 Now tell the class about your game.
4 There museums. Picture a! Do you like my game? Look … there’s a school, a river …
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Lesson flow
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CREATIVITY
Production
3 Design a game. Draw and write.
• Assist Ask students what board games they
play and make a list. Suggest some games the
students might make, for example, a board
game that takes you around town, a chutes
and ladders game set in a castle, or a tic-tac-
toe game with stores and parks for tokens.
Make them easy but creative.
• Have students work in pairs. Give students time,
space, and materials like poster paper, markers,
or pencils to make their games. You may want
them to bring things from home for their
games.
• Involve Encourage students to think of names
for their games, e.g., The amazing school / Fun
in the park / Crazy castle. They may want to
make a game kit with objects, tokens, and dice,
and put it in a box somewhere to be played by
other students throughout the year.
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What are my
favorite places?
.
Now I can ..
Show a new friend
… use town
around your town. words.
… talk about
my town using
like / don’t like.
pool
… describe
library places and things
using there is /
there are.
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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 Look, match, and circle. 5 Draw or for you. Then choose and write.
(Answers: 1 b café, 2 c swimming pool, 3 a castle) (Answers: Students’ own answers)
• In this critical thinking activity, students match the • Students complete with either a happy face or a
activity to the place. Then they circle the correct sad face. Then they write Yes, I do. or No, I don’t.
word. 6 Make. Then show and tell.
2 Circle the odd one out. • Students decorate both sides of a paper plate. One
(Answers: 1 b You can’t find a ruler at a café., side shows a happy face and pictures of things
2 c You can’t find a tractor at a swimming pool., the student likes. The other side shows a sad face
3 a You can’t find a slide at a castle.) and pictures of things the student doesn’t like.
Then they share their plates with the class and talk
• In this coding activity, students circle the item that
about their likes and dislikes.
doesn’t belong to each group.
3 004 Listen to the song. Number the words Story lab
in order. 1 Make your story book. page 117
(Answers: stores – 1, school – 2, castle – 3, (Answers: Frame 1: Listen / can / What’s / don’t,
pool – 4) Frame 2: band / The / beautiful, Frame 3: castle /
red / yellow, Frame 4: no / Look / Help / stop,
Where are they?
Frame 5: Thank / You’re, Frame 6: morning /
1 Label the pictures. Anna / Leo, Frame 7: Miss / cake / birthday / Town)
(Answers: 1 house, 2 farm, 3 river, 4 store) • In this coding activity, students learn to arrange
2 Unscramble the words. the pages in the same order as the story.
(Answers: 1 café, 2 castle, 3 farm, 4 house, • Students cut out the pages from their Workbooks
5 library, 6 museum, 7 park, 8 playground, along the cut lines to create three strips of paper.
9 river, 10 school, 11 store, 12 swimming pool) Then they fold each strip along the fold lines.
3 005 Listen and say. Then match. Ask students Do you remember the story? and
have them put the pages in the correct order and
(Answers: 1 c, 2 b, 3 a)
number them. Then ask them to complete the
• New vocabulary is presented and practiced in this speech bubbles.
activity (zoo, hotel, mall). • For students who don’t remember the story, play
Student’s Book audio 012 or encourage them to
Language lab 1
look back at their Student’s Books, pages 16–17.
1 Look, read, and match.
• Have students draw a picture on the front cover
(Answers: 1 He likes museums. 2 He doesn’t like to show what the story is about. Then have them
farms. 3 She likes school. 4 She doesn’t like cafés.) read and review the story, choosing their favorite
2 Circle and write likes or doesn’t like. character and page. They can color in the stars to
(Answers: 1 He likes, 2 She likes, 3 She doesn’t like, show how much they liked the story.
4 He doesn’t like) • Students can use their storybooks to retell the
• Students circle He or She and then they write the story to their families and friends!
correct words. 2 Order and write.
3 006 Look, listen, and check . (Answers: 1 I like the castle!, 2 We have a big
(Answers: 1 a, 2 b, 3 b, 4 a) cake!, 3 I don’t know!, 4 Happy birthday, Castle
Town!)
• Students look at the pictures and listen and check
the correct answer, a or b. 3 Choose and color. Then write and say.
4 Read and write . or ? Then circle. • Students color the castle as they wish. Then they
write the colors they have used and talk to their
(Answers: 1 ? Yes, he does, 2 . True, 3 . False,
partner about their castle.
4 ? Yes, she does.)
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• Students count and write the numbers. (Answers: 1 There’s a pool., 2 There are ten
stores., 3 There’s a farm., 4 There are two cafés.,
Phonics lab 5 There’s a library., 6 There are five houses.)
1 Circle 6 words. • Students circle the correct words and write about
(Answers: cap, peg, bag, mat, wet, ten) Picture b.
2 Write a or e. Then look and match. Let’s play!
(Answers: 1 cap – a, 2 peg – c, 3 bag – e, 1 008 Look, listen, and number.
4 mat – b, 5 wet – d, 6 ten – f)
(Answers: a 2, b 1, c 3)
3 007 Read, listen, and circle.
2 Read and match. Then circle game a, b, or c.
(Answers: 1 mat, 2 ten, 3 cap, 4 peg, 5 wet,
(Answers: 1 game b, 2 game a, 3 game c)
6 bag)
3 Talk about this game with a partner.
Experiment lab • Students talk about the game picture using the
1 Match, choose, and write. language which has been modeled in the lesson.
(Answers: 1 b bricks, 2 d wood, 3 a steel,
PROJECT AND REVIEW
4 c cement)
1 Check or cross and write for your town
2 How many bricks do you need? Draw and write. guide.
(Answers: 1 6, 2 8) • Students check or cross the chart according to
• In this math activity, students practice estimating what they have done in their own project. They
and counting. can add their own ideas, too.
• Before students do this activity, they guess how 2 Choose, complete, and circle for your town.
many bricks are needed for each wall. They record • Students choose and complete for their town.
their guesses. Then they complete the drawings of
3 Ask and answer about your partner’s favorite
the brick walls, making sure they stagger the bricks
place.
so that the walls are strong. Finally, they count the
number of bricks and write it down. • Students discuss the places they like in their town
with a partner.
Experiment time 4 Look at the photos. Read and check T (True)
1 Draw a tower. or F (False).
• Students draw a tower. It might be their own or (Answers: 1 F, 2 T, 3 T, 4 F, 5 T)
one that another student made. 5 009 Read, listen, and circle.
2 Read and circle for you. (Answers: 1 doesn’t like, 2 likes, 3 likes)
(Answers: Students’ own answers)
• Students listen and circle the correct answers
• Students circle the items they used to build their according to the audio.
towers. Then they circle strong or not strong 6 Now talk to a partner about Donny’s town.
according to their thoughts on their tower.
• Students ask and answer using the information
Language lab 2 they have gotten from the pictures and the audio.
1 Read and draw.
(Answers: Students draw a picture of a village with
a castle, three houses, four stores, a museum, and
two rivers.)
• Students read the text and draw a picture
according to the information.
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