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Teal tered. s Sue Mohamed OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Introduction}forypanents} Translations available at oxfordplus.oupe.es Traducciones disponibles en oxfordplus.oupe.es Hiha disponibles les traduccions a oxfordplus.oupe.es Traduciéns dispofibles no sitio web oxfordplus.cupe.es Sarrera honen itzulpenok eskuragarri daude helbide honetan oxfordplus.cupe-es Welcome to the Big Surprise! Skills Builder Book, part of the Big Surprise! course that your child is using at school to learn English. This book extends the learning experience so it can continue at home. Even if you don't speak English well, your support and interest will help your child to be an enthusiastic learner. After completing each unit at school, your child will bring home the Skills Builder Book to complete, to show you what they have learnt, orto use as a study guide. The Vocabulary page provides an opportunity to practise and record the key vocabulary of each unit. Each unit of this book includes a Grammar page for reviewing the structures of the uit. ‘The Reading and writing page for each unit provides your child with additional reading and writing practice outside the classroom, Each page also contains a Tip to foster learner independence. This book has three Spelling pages to help children with spelling and give them useful suggestions. At the bottom of every page is a small image of a house 4 which indicates an English at home activity that you ‘can do together with your child, Listen to your child and praise them for their effort. rollerblading playing basketball horse riding skateboarding canoeing fishing jogging playing badminton sledging ——s 2 Draw two sportsmen or sportswomen and label the sport. Tell your family the names of 3 sports you like watchii sabi | canoeing. al [1 | don't like He doesn’t like ES | sn’t like canoeing. 1 Look at the pictures and complete. My name’s Oliver. I L ony, Gs. My friend Mary And my friend Tim 2 Complete. He likes but he Tell your family 3 things you like doing. , She likes but she 1 Read about Norbert Peterson and complete the chart. Norbert Peterson is the actor in the famous ‘Moonlight’ films. He’s got lots of interests. He likes playing classical and blues guitar. He also Music: (likes) likes playing the piano. He likes skiing, but he isn’t athletic. In ‘Moonlight’, he can play baseball but ‘I don’t really like playing basketball,’ a he says. ‘ies Start a new paragraph for a new topic. For example: music, sports Name: Norbert Famous actor in: Sports: (likes) 2 Read and complete with information from the chart. i kins Name: Veronica Hodgkins Mer nic cag Famous aetor in: ‘School Academy’ films 5 She’s got lots of interests. Music: (likes) singing and dancing Sports: (likes) horse riding and hockey Says: ‘My favourite sport is shopping!” ! she says. Read and tell your family about Norbert and Veronica. He / She likes Vocabulary | Anagrams 1 Put the letters in order and label the skeleton. cet cetht toof acef enek serhoudl erfign ckne hdan 1 tooth, 4 2 Read and draw a body. eles @ The face is a large circle. a square & The teeth are small squares. The eyes and ears are small circles. a rectangle i | The neckis a rectangle. The body is an oblong. an oblong @P | The legs and arms are rectangles. The knees are squares. atriangle A. | The hands and feet are triangles. awe * The fingers and toes are stars. Point at and tell your family parts of the body. F [He's got | g curly hair. | She's got} _ [os | PE ees ee Yes, he has. las curl Ir? she _ a e leas [ No, | she hasn't. | 1 Look, read and circle. Write. She’s 2. He’s got curly / straight hair. 3 He’s got short / long legs. 4 He’s got big / small eyes. N Complete the questions. Look and answer. 1 Has he got big eyes? lean’t find my cat J can't find my dog. Scarface. - Gedney mee ee ee punogtee 7 j and a short tal, His name is four white feet. Bobby, 2 land pes seheons tails e's wearing a collar with a Boni, Sane, Class 5 small eyes. She's wearing a bell around her neck. Tlove her very much. Please help me find her! Jake, Class 4 Read again and circle a or b. Then write. 1 The____——_—sname is Bobby. a)cat’s —_b) dog’s 2. The dog’s got ears. a) long —_b) short 3 The cat wearing a collar. a) is b) isn’t 4 The cat’s got white feet. a) four —_b) three Draw a pet and write a notice for the notice board. Ican’t find my Read your notice to your family. Match the sentences to the pictures. Looks Unit 1; 1 He’s a cowboy and she’s a cowgirl. Regular plurals end in‘s’. Lear irregular plurals! 2 They're cowboys and cowgirls. Unit 2: 3 He’s got one tooth and a bad foot. 4 She’s got white teeth and big feet. one two or more a person. mice aman dom awoman people achild men a mouse women Learn the 7 irregular spellings in activities 1 and 2. Ask your family to test you. i Finding the | odd-one-out Teactricey * Look, circle the odd-one-out and write. eee. sausages chocolate chicken cake coffee pear peach apple coffee tea sugar Make your own odd-one-out. Draw and write 4 food items. ee ‘een ginthode ald \ uncountable nouns Grammar, Look? There’s some chicken pon epee _ in the fridge. | CanIhavesome | chicken? Yes, of course. ae No, sorry. 1 Look and complete. 1 There’s come cheese, on the blue plate. 2 There's on the white plate. 3 on the yellow plate. (eee inithelbottles Th Goi) os) chicken? No, Yes, Tell your family what food there Reading andiwriting® A dialogue } 1 Read and match. [a] 2 Waiter: Can I help you? Tim: Can I have some cake, please? Waiter: Yes, of course. There’s some chocolate cake and there’s some banana cake. Tim: | Umm... chocolate cake, please. And can I have some cola? Waiter: No, sorry. We haven’t got cola. There’s some peach juice. Tim: — Okay, peach juice and chocolate cake, please. fal 2 Write your own dialogue. Make your writing interesting. Ty thinking of Waiter: CanI__ you? other foods to use: . tomato strawberry : Can I have some soup icecream please? vegetable ‘chocolate Waiter: Yes, of course. There’ssome__ Cand there's. some \ Daily routines | Verbs get | get have go uy mwa eee s 2 Write the verbs in the order you do them. Tell your farnily about your daily routine a Te \ Present simple Grammar, [| rave tunch | ye prastunch | I [getup _| atone o'clock. Se gets up at one o'clock. go to school goes to school | 1 Read about Toby and draw times. Look and write about Rose. goto school | have lunch go home Toby gets up at seven o'clock. He goes to school at nine o'clock. He has lunch at one o’clock. He goes home at five o'clock. Read and complete with the correct form of get / have / go. Tm Simon. 1 up at ten o’clock on Saturday. My friend Jill up at eight o’clock. I dinner at seven o'clock. She_________dinner at eight o’clock. I to bed at ten o’clock. She to bed at nine o’clock. 1 Read and match to picture A or B. 2 Write about the person in the other picture. Aday in the life ofa \ policeman and a teacher Mr Plod gets up early at six o’clock. He has a shower and he gets dressed. } He has coffee for breakfast. { Then he goes to the police station. He has lunch in the police canteen at one o'clock. { He goes home at half past six. \ He goes to bed at quarter \ to eleven. Tell your family about Mr Jones’ day. coffee icecream meat teeth three o'clock have tea ‘ee’ ‘ed’ mares (se with spelling | words with spelling | Looks Three possible me she | he 2 Write words with ‘ee’ or ‘ea’. | spellings: ‘e’in'ime’ ‘ee’ in feet’ ‘eq’ in‘meat? C+ Amind map } transport &/S)0 CSS O O ez 2 Draw and complete. Igo to school I go to town I go to the beach by by by ( Tell your family the names of transport you use a lot. Present simple with the vei Grammar, 1 hae How do you go | to the shops? a eee tothe shops | by | car. Bybus. | S Iwalk. 1 Look and write about Paul. Monday awe On Monday, Paul walks to school. he oe | On wednescey | efeaen testy | GO Friday EE 2 Read and complete questions. Write answers. @ How do you go to town? How the beach? or) 1 Reading and\writing A postcard Read and match people to transport and places. Dear Granny, This is a fantastic holiday in a great place. (n the morning, | go to the beach 4 by car with Mum and Dad. \n the afternoon, Mum goes to the shops by bike. Dad walks to the sports centre. Love, Billy (zs es

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