ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

Conforms to

3
the Québec ESL
program and to
the Progression
of Learning ACTIVITY BOOK

Karine Mallet
Anita Romano
Aaron Jolly
Viv Lambert
Series advisor: David Nunan
 Table of contents
Meet the poptropicans IV

Welcome unit 2

1 Nature 6
Game: Nature Tic-Tac-Toe

2 Me 16
Project: Cool Costumes

3 Pets 26
Game: My Pet

4 Home 36
Project: Make a Collage

5 Clothes 46
Game: Can You Find It?

6 Sports 56
Project: Stay Fit, Stay Healthy

7 Food 66
Game: Guess My Food

8 Things we do 76
Project: Making Art

Wordlist 86
Photo Credits 90

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 Meet the
Poptropicans
Hello! My name is Kim.
I’m a boy.

My name is Katy.
I’m a girl.

My name is Captain Conrad.

I’m a space explorer.

This is a wabberjock.
It’s an animal.

My name is PROD 1.
I’m a robot.

My name is PROD 2.
I’m a robot.

IV Poptropica English • Activity Book 3

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 I’m President Pop. I’m the park keeper.
I’m the President I like nature.
of Space Island.

My name is Dr. Bones.

I’m Shirley Homeland. I have tickilitis.
I work on Space Island.

My name is Fid.
I’m the zookeeper. I have a house.
I love animals.

My name is Fashionista.
I’m Laurence Laundry. I love clothes.
I clean clothes.

I’m Ben Beamaway.

My name is Arnold.
I have a restaurant.
I like sports.

This is a tifftiff plant.

I’m a gardener.
It’s the only medicine for
I plant flowers.
tickilitis.

We’re tricksters. We’re pests!

yellow trickster pink trickster blue trickster red trickster green trickster

Meet the Poptropicans V

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 Welcome to
SPACE ISLAND

Katy Kim Captain President PROD 1 PROD 2 tifftiff

Conrad Pop plant

p. 22
1 What do you see?

2 Talk about the characters. Then listen and read.

People on Earth are sick. Oh, no! That is Do you have a tifftiff plant?
Everyone has tickilitis. sad news,  2 The tifftiff plant is the only
Captain Conrad. medicine for tickilitis.
 1 Can we help?

Yes, we have
tifftiff plants
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The tifftiff plant is a Of course. Please come to

 3 4
medicine. It’s very important. Space Island. We can help
you find a tifftiff plant.

Thank you!

2 Poptropica English
• Activity Book 3 Lesson 1

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  5 Come on,  6 Look! Two PRODs!
Kim, Katy!
Good! They
Quick, Katy! can help us.
Hurry up! Hooray! I
Phew! like PRODs!
I’m here! Quick!
Quick!

Ah! This is the problem!

 7 Hmm. I don’t What’s the problem? 8
like this.

17 - 16 - 15...
20 - 19 - 18... Here. No! No!

Good job, Katy! Hooray!

 9 OK, let’s go!  10 Wave goodbye to Earth!
Phew! Yes,
let’s go! Wow!
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Goodbye, Earth! Bye-bye.

3 - 2 - 1 - Go!!
to be continued

Welcome Unit • Space

Island Lesson 1 3

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 3 Listen to the dialogue, check (✔) and say.

Hello. I’m Captain Conrad.

I’m President Pop.

Welcome to Space Island.
My name’s Katy.

I’m Kim. I’m PROD 1. And I’m PROD 2! Hello!

4 Listen and sing. Then find the tifftiff plant in the picture.
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p. 21

Hey boys! Hey girls!

Come with us to Space Island.
Look up, down, here, there.
Look around everywhere.
Where’s the tifftiff plant?
Come on, come on,
Let’s find the tifftiff plant!

4 Lesson 1 English
Poptropica • Activity Book 3 Lesson 2

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 5 Match.

a ) Kim, Katy, PROD 1 and PROD 2 1 are found on the island.

b ) Their mission 2 is to find the tifftiff plant.

c ) Captain Conrad 3 welcomes the team.

d ) Tifftiff plants 4 is happy to meet President Pop.

e ) President Pop 5 are members of the mission.

p. 22
6 Look at the comic strip in Activity 2 . Number the pictures in order.

1
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Welcome
Lesson
Unit
1 • Space
Island Lesson 3 5

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 1 NATURE
Katy Kim PROD 1 PROD 2 park keeper

1 Who do you see?

2 What do you know?

sun

3 Listen, then find the vocabulary words in the picture.

birds

animal

pond
rock
mushrooms

insects

6 Poptropica English
• Activity Book 3 Lesson 1

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 4 Listen and read. Underline the vocabulary

from Activity 3 .
p. 20

Hello! Welcome to the park. There are

a lot of things to see. Look! There’s a
pond here and there’s a big rock.

There are insects!

clouds Ooh, yes.

There are trees.

And there are blue birds.

Look!

The flowers are beautiful.

Mmm…

Ooh, the sun is hot.

I like the park.

5 Unscramble the letters and write the vocabulary.

trees birds flowers insects

pond rock trees

a ) wrefols: flowers

b ) opnd:

c ) rkoc:

d ) seincts:

flowers e ) etres:

f ) sdrib:

Unit 1 • Nature Lesson 1 7

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 GRAMMAR
6 Listen and chant.

There’s a pond, a blue pond.

There’s a rock, a brown rock.
There’s an animal, a purple animal.
There are birds, blue birds.
There are insects, pink insects.
There are flowers, yellow flowers.

How many animals are there? There’s one purple animal.

There is /
p. 17 There are How many birds are there? There are two blue birds.

7 Match the questions with the answers.

a ) How many ponds are there? 1  There are four mushrooms.

b ) How many birds are there? 2  There’s one pond.

c ) How many rocks are there? 3  There are three pink insects.

d ) How many animals are there? 4  There are two blue birds.

e ) How many insects are there? 5  There’s one brown rock.

f ) How many mushrooms are there? 6  There’s one purple animal.

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8 Practise asking and answering with a friend.

How many mushrooms are there?

There are four mushrooms.

How many animals are there?

There’s one purple animal.

8 Lesson 1 English
Poptropica • Activity Book 3 Lesson 2

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 1
VOCABULARY
9 Listen and number. Then say.

a) butterflies b) wind c) ants d) sky

e) worms f ) spiders g) roses h) rainbow

10 With a friend, complete the chart.

p. 7 ants butterflies flowers mushrooms

roses spiders trees worms

Animals Plants

ants
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Ants are animals. Do you agree?

Let me see… Yes, I do. Let’s write it in the chart.

UnitLesson 1
1 • Nature Lesson 3 9

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 READING

p. 25
11 Look at the picture below.

What is the text about?

12 Read about a special flower. Complete the sentences.

birds colours flowers metres

orange seeds six sunflowers

Sunflowers

Sunflowers are very beautiful . They look like the sun.

Sunflowers are easy plants to grow, but there are some important rules to follow.

Sunflowers grow in warm climates. They need to be in the sun for at least

hours each day. These plants can grow up to five

tall.

Sunflowers are also grown for their food. There are up to 2000 in

the centre of a sunflower. like to eat sunflower seeds.

There are more than 60 types of sunflowers. They can be different ,

including yellow, , red, beige and purple.

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10 Poptropica English
• Activity Book 3 Lesson 4

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 1
GRAMMAR

There are some spiders. There aren’t any spiders.

Is there a rainbow? Yes, there is. / No, there isn’t.
p. 15 Some / Any Is there any wind? Yes, there’s some wind.
No, there isn’t any wind.
Are there any ants? Yes, there are. / No, there aren’t.

13 Read the text in Activity 12 again. Then write.

a ) Are there any sunflowers in cold climates?
No, there aren’t .
b ) Are there any animals that like sunflower seeds?
Yes, there .
c ) Are there any purple sunflowers?
, there are.
d ) Are there any blue sunflowers?
, there aren’t.

Writing and Speaking

14 Choose a picture and write a description.

Then have a friend guess.

 1  2  3
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In my picture, there are .

There aren’t .

Are there any insects?

Yes, there are five.

Is it picture 3?
Yes, it is! My turn.

Unit 1 • Nature Lesson 5 11

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 15 Look at the characters. Then listen and read.
Island
adventure
p. 23

Katy Kim PROD 1 PROD 2 trickster tifftiff plant

 1 Is it big or small?  2
It’s small. Is this a tifftiff?

What colour is it? It’s orange. I don’t know.

 3 4
Aargh! It isn’t Oooh! Look, it’s
It’s an animal!
a tifftiff! a tifftiff plant!

Ha, ha, ha!

 5  6 There aren’t any tifftiffs here.

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Hee, hee, hee!

Help! I’m in
the pond!

Ha, ha, ha! It isn’t funny!

to be continued

12 Poptropica English
• Activity Book 3 Lesson 6

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 1
16 Talk about the comic strip.

a ) What are the children looking for?

b ) What does a tifftiff plant look like?
c ) What does the animal look like?

17 Read the comic strip again and answer.

Then check with a friend.
Yes No
a ) Tifftiff plants are brown and big. x We can
b ) PROD 1 pushes PROD 2 into the water. do it!

c ) The trickster pushes PROD 2 into the water.

Great work,
d ) PROD 2 is happy in the water. partner!
e ) They find a tifftiff plant.

I can do it!

p. 24
18 Draw a nature picture and write about it.

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In my picture, there is .
There are .
There aren’t any .

I can identify common nature words.

STR-X
I can ask and answer about how many there are.
I can understand a text about sunflowers.

Unit 1 • Nature Lesson 7 13

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 Game
Step 1: Read the instructions.
p. 13  1 Is there a sun?
Number of players: 2

You need:
• 1 game board
• 9 paper tokens per player

How to play:
• Take turns reading the question
on a square.
• If you answer correctly, place a token
on the square.
• The first player to complete a row wins.  4 Are there five rocks?

p. 12
Step 2: Look at the model below.

In square 5,
Are there any
mushrooms?
Yes, there are.
Your turn!

 7 How many rainbows

are there?
Thank you!
In square 3, How many
animals are there?
There’s one animal.

Step 3: Play the game.

14 Poptropica English • Activity Book 3 Game

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 Nature Tic - Tac - Toe
 2 Is there a tifftiff plant?  3 How many animals
are there?

 5 Are there any mushrooms? 6 How many tricksters

are there?

8 Are there two rocks? 9 Are there two birds?

Unit 1 • Nature Game 15

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