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Meet The Explorers (pages 4–9)
Vocabulary Language focus Story
Revision of Be good at + ing The old book
numbers Possessive apostrophe Value
Courage
Phonics
Short vowel sounds
Song: The Explorers

1 Our school (pages 10–21) ? What kinds of puzzles are there?

Vocabulary Language focus Story Skills Think and learn
School Like / Don’t like + ing Getting help Reading Maths: Geometrical shapes
subjects Have to + infinitive Phonics Reading, listening and speaking
Letter names Value
Accepting others
Song: Lots of puzzles Communication: Favourite subjects Writing: My portfolio

2 The picnic (pages 22–33) ? What’s good to eat?

Vocabulary Language focus Story Skills Think and learn
Food Questions and The golden apple Listening, reading and Science: Edible plants
answers with some speaking
Value
and any Reading and writing
Perseverance
Suggestions
Phonics
The sounds /ɪ/ and /aɪ/
Song: Good idea Communication: At the sandwich shop Writing: My favourite foods

3 Daily tasks (pages 34–45) ? What’s it like to work at night?

Vocabulary Language focus Story Skills Think and learn
Daily tasks Telling the time Tidying up Reading Social science: Jobs at night
Adverbs for time Phonics Writing, listening and speaking
The letter sounds Value
v and f Being kind to others
Song: Night time flight Communication: Helping at home Writing: My family

4 Around town (pages 46–57) ? What do we find in towns?

Vocabulary Language focus Story Skills Think and learn
Towns Prepositions Up high Reading Geography: Tall buildings
Be going to + Value Listening, speaking and
infinitive of purpose writing
Lateral thinking
Phonics
The sounds /aː/ and /r/
Song: Lost in town Communication: Help a visitor in your town Writing: Messages

2 Map of the book

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5 Under the sea (pages 58–69) ? What’s in the sea?

Vocabulary Language focus Story Skills Think and learn
Sea Was / Were The trap Reading Environmental studies:
creatures Questions and Phonics Writing, listening and speaking People and the sea
answers with
The letter sounds Value
was / were
s and sh Being brave
Song: The Crocorox Communication: Where were we … ? Writing: Sea creatures

6 Gadgets (pages 70–81) ? How are gadgets useful?

Vocabulary Language focus Story Skills Think and learn
Technology Comparatives The cave Reading and speaking History: Cave paintings
Superlatives Value Listening, speaking and
writing
Being resourceful
Phonics
Long vowel sounds
Song: Look at my gadget Communication: Go shopping Writing: My gadgets

7 In the hospital (pages 82–93) ? What keeps us healthy?

Vocabulary Language focus Story Skills Think and learn
Health Past simple: regular At the hospital Reading Science: Keeping healthy
verbs Reading and listening
Phonics
Past simple:
–ed endings Value
irregular verbs
Determination, never giving up
Song: An apple a day Communication: At the doctor’s Writing: Write a story

8 Around the world (pages 94–105) ? What wonders of the world are there?
Vocabulary Language focus Story Skills Think and learn
Countries Negatives with past The final letters Listening and reading Geography: Wonders of the
simple Speaking, reading and writing world
Value
Questions and
Showing interest in
answers with past
other cultures
simple
Phonics
The sounds /iː/ and /ɪ/
Song: All the wonders in the world Communication: What did we do on our holidays? Writing: Write about a country

9 Holiday plans (pages 106–117) ? How are holidays different?

Vocabulary Language focus Story Skills Think and learn
Weather Future with be going The treasure Reading History: Holidays in the past
to + infinitive Reading and listening
Phonics
Questions and
The sound /ɜː/ Value
answers with be
going to + infinitive Changing perceptions

Song: Happy holiday Communication: Holiday time Writing: Imagine a holiday

Language focus: pages 118–128 Practice of creative thinking, critical thinking and cognitive skills.

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Our school
1
1 Listen and say the
009
1 2
words. Then check with a friend.
3 4 5
1 English

2 Maths

3 Geography 6 7

4 Science
8
5 I.T.

6 Music 9

7 Art

8 P.E.

9 History

⚻ ☾ ☾ / ♒
BIG ⚺♊♎♊☾ /
⚵♊ /
QUESTION
What kinds of puzzles are there? ⚹♊♒ ♒♊⚺
♒♈ / ♈♊ /
☾ / ♒ ⚵♊ /
☾♈ ♈  / ♒
♈ / ♒ ⚵♊ /
♒ ♊☿⚺♌
♊
2 0 10 Listen and correct the sentences.
1 Ben’s favourite subject is History. 3 Lucy wants to ask their Maths teacher.
2 Lucy understands the puzzle. 4 Lucy doesn’t like the librarian.

3 Ask and answer.

Do you like History? Yes, I do. It’s my favourite subject.

What subjects are you good at? Music and Art. I’m very good at them.

10 School subjects; before / after

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1 011 Listen and write Z (Zoe) or A (Adam).

1 I love doing number puzzles. Z
2 My sister likes number puzzles.
3 I like listening to stories.
4 My sister doesn’t like writing stories.
5 I love singing.
6 I don’t like listening to music.

2 Where do the words go? Say the sentences.

1 I love. (singing) 3 She doesn’t like stories. (writing)
2 I don’t like number puzzles. (doing) 4 She likes to music. (listening)

3 0 12 Watch, listen and say.

Language focus

I like listening to music. He likes listening to music.

I like climbing trees. He likes climbing trees.
I love sleeping in the sun. He loves sleeping in the sun.
But I don’t like hearing bees. But he doesn’t like hearing bees!

4 Play the like / don’t like game.

doing number puzzles

listening to stories
Do you like drawing?
singing
doing projects Yes, I do.
learning about animals
listening to music
sleeping
writing stories

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1 0 13 Listen and tick the subjects you hear. Then sing the song.

There are lots of puzzles

To find answers to.
They help us understand
What’s false and what’s true.
I love learning about the world
In Geography.
I love playing sports and games.
It’s time to do P.E.
I love hearing about the past.
I love History.
Let’s turn on our computers now.
It’s time to do I.T.
I love doing lots of sums
And Maths is really cool.
Oh yeah! I love all the things
That we learn at school!
There are lots of puzzles …

2 Solve the puzzles and write the school subjects.

1 h l g E s n i

2 c c n e i S e
3 y t H r s i o

4 h o r p G e y g a
3 Create a puzzle for your friend.
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1 Read and draw the missing picture.
[Reali a: set the follow ing text as a
Hi Julia
Whats app message on a phone screen]

I know you are in my

class this year. Here are
some of the things we
have to do: We have to
wear a school uniform.
We have to learn some
new words every week.
We have to arrive at
school at nine o’clock.
We have to put our
homework book on the
teacher’s desk before
the lesson. See you
tomorrow!
John

2 Put the words in order. Say the sentences.

1 uniform. have to wear You a school
2 have to your homework put on the teacher’s desk. You

3 015 Watch, listen and say.

Language focus

You have to wear a uniform. You have to clean your eyes like this.
You have to climb like me. You can’t? I see. Hehe!

4 Read and play the rules game. before you go to bed every day
before you go to school before you eat

You have to brush

your teeth before
brush your teeth you go to bed.
wash your hands
have breakfast

do your homework
get up
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Getting help
Story title
1 0 16 Why can’t Lucy and Ben read the book?

1 2

Lucy: Excuse me. Can you help us, please?

Mr Williams: Hmm. Let me think. It isn’t easy.
Mr Williams: Yes, of course. What’s the problem? There are lots of clues in this book. But they’re all
Ben: We can’t read this book. It’s in code. in code. Very interesting! I like doing puzzles!

3 4

Mr Williams: This is difficult! Can I keep the book?

I can tell you tomorrow. Mr Williams: OK then, sorry kids. I can’t help you.
Lucy: Keep the book? I’ve got to go.
Ben: No, sorry. We can’t give it to you. Lucy: OK, thanks anyway.

5 6

Ben: Someone wants our book!

Lucy: It’s probably Horax and Zelda.
Ben: What’s going on? It’s dark! Ben: What? Here in the school? No way!
Lucy: Come on, Ben. We have to get out of here. Lucy: We have to find a way to read this code.

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7 8

Horax: The children have got the book.

Lucy: Hey, look at this! What’s this here? Zelda: What about the code?
Ben: Let me see. I think … Yes, it’s the secret to the Horax: I don’t understand the code, yet. We have
code. Yes! Now we can read the clues. to follow those kids.

2 Use the code to write the message from Lucy and Ben’s book.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
☿♐☉☾♊○⚵⚻⚳◑⚹⚼☾♈ ⚺♒♌♎●♃∝☍

⚻☾☾ ♒⚵♊ ⚺♊♎♊☾ ⚹♊♒♒♊⚺ ♒♈

♈♊☾ ♒⚵♊ ☾♈♈ ♒♈ ♒⚵♊ ♒ ♊☿⚺♌♊

Phonics
3 Find who says … OK, thanks anyway.

4 017 Listen and say.

DJ Cool K is on his way from the UK to the USA.

Phonics focus: letter names 15

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Skills / Storytime
storytime

1 Look at the pictures and the title. What do you think the story is about?
Write three sentences.
I think the story is about … There is / are …

2 Read the story quickly. Try to find the answers.

1 What is the teacher’s name? 3 What do the children write down on the paper?
2 What doesn’t Oliver like?

3 0 18 Read and listen. Check your answers.

are great fun

All the girls and boys in Oliver’s class like playing football
but Oliver doesn’t like football. Many of them love playing
computer games but Oliver really doesn’t like computer
games. ‘He’s a bit silly!’ a boy called Mike says.
At lunch Ms Sanders, their teacher, goes outside with her class. The children love
that. Most of the children run around but Oliver prefers sitting under a tree. ‘He likes thinking,’
some children say. ‘He’s a bit silly!’ Mike says.
One day, the children have a History lesson. Many of the
children love History. They love listening to Ms Sanders’
stories. Oliver finds listening to stories boring, he prefers
numbers and dates.
Ms Sanders sees that Oliver is not listening and she stops
her story. She goes to the board and writes a date on it:
10th August 1992.
‘History is full of important dates.’
Ms Sanders says. Oliver starts
to listen. ‘And dates are important in our lives too.’ Ms Sanders says.
‘Look at this date. It’s very important to me but maybe it’s not important
to you. What do you think it is, Oliver?’
The children are all very quiet now. They are looking at Ms Sanders,
and they are looking at Oliver. ‘It’s a Monday!’ Oliver says.
‘Ha ha!’ laugh the children in the class.
Ms Sanders tells them to be quiet. ‘You’re right, Oliver! It is a
Monday and it’s my birthday. How do you know it’s a Monday?’

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‘It’s easy!’ Oliver says. ‘Write down a date. And I can tell you what day of the week it is!’
‘That’s not true!’ Mike says. ‘You can’t know that! You’re not a computer. Hahahaha!’

‘Take out some paper,’ Ms Sanders tells the class. ‘Write down a day, a month and a year.’
The children put their papers in front of Oliver.
10th April 2016 – ‘It’s a Sunday!’ Oliver says.
21st September 1999 – ‘It’s a Tuesday!’ Oliver says.
1st January 2001 – ‘It’s a Monday!’ Oliver says.
‘Now let’s look at the computer!’ says Ms Sanders. ‘Mike, come here!’
Mike sits down at the computer. He types the first date: 10th April 2016.
‘It is a Sunday!’ Mike says. He looks at the next date.
‘It is a Tuesday!’ Mike says. And when he looks at the next date he says,
‘It is a Monday!’

‘Wow!’ the children say. ‘You’re a computer, Oliver!’

Oliver smiles. ‘I’m not a computer!’
‘Can you teach us how to do this?’ Mike says.
‘Mm. I’ve got an idea,’ Oliver says. ‘Let’s start a puzzle club
at our school. Puzzles are great fun!’
‘Hooray!’ the children shout.

4 Put the story in order.

In a History lesson, Ms Sanders is telling a story.
Oliver doesn’t listen to the story.
Oliver says the day of the week for each date.
Oliver says what day of the week the date is.
Ms Sanders writes a date on the board.
The children start a puzzle club together.
The children write down some dates on pieces of paper.

5 0 19 Listen to a summary of the story. Write the three differences.

In the summary we have …
1 Maths instead of History . 3 instead of .
2 instead of .

6 Talk together: What activities or subjects at school are fun for you?
I really like … My favourite … I think it’s fun to …

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Think and learn

Sup er f ac t!
Triangle shapes
What shapes can we see in buildings?
are often used in
buildings because
they are very strong.
1 020 Listen and point.

3
2
1 4 side

5 angle

pentagons hexagons triangles

2 Look at these sequences. Draw the missing shapes.

1 3

2 4

3 What shape is it? Match the sentences with the shapes.

1 It’s got five sides and five angles. a b

2 It’s got three sides and three angles.

c d
3 It’s got six sides and six angles.

4 It hasn’t got any angles.

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4 Look at the butterfly puzzle and tell your partner how to colour the shapes.

The kites are blue.

OK. And what colour are the small triangles?

5 Project Use shapes to draw an insect or a bird. Count the number

of shapes, angles and sides. Tell your friends.

This is my insect. It's a dragonfly.

It’s got six shapes: two hexagons,
two squares, two pentagons,
three triangles, three circles and
four kites. There are … sides
and … angles.

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