LANGUAGE FOCUS AND VOCABULARY • Starter unit

be Colours
1 Write the short forms. 5 Find nine more colours in the wordsearch.
I am I’m S D O X B R O W N
1 You are
2 He is P U R P L E T H P
3 She is I M A C U D E I L
4 It is N I N O E V R T Y
5 We are
K B G R E E N E U
6 They are
T Y E L L O W G A
2 Complete the sentences with the correct form E J Z N B L A C K
of be. Use short forms where possible.
Helen and Julia are friends.
Classroom objects
1 The pencil blue.
2 We Australian. 6 Label the pictures with the words in the box.
3 My name Samuel.
4 They in the classroom. bag ​book ​chair ​pen ​rubber  ​ruler
5 Tokyo a city in Japan.
6 I fourteen.
7 You welcome.
8 The students at school.

there is / there are   ruler 1 2

3 Tick (✓) the correct sentences and cross (✗) the
incorrect sentences.
There are three boys. ✓
1 There’s a teacher.
2 There’s five girls.
3 There are one school. 3 4 5
4 There are twelve months.
5 There’s a big city. Countries and nationalities
6 There are an orange. 7 Complete the countries and match them to their
7 There are ten books. capital cities.
8 There’s thirty days in May. 1 M  o r o c c o a London
2 B  b Rabat
Days and months 3 J  c Ankara
4 Find the word that doesn’t match. 4 the d Moscow
5 R  e Brasília
July September Thursday August
6 T  f Tokyo
1 Wednesday May Sunday Monday
2 December March June Saturday Numbers
3 Tuesday January April October
4 February Friday November July 8 Write the numbers.
seventeen  17
1 twenty 4 thirty-six
2 ninety-three 5 eleven
3 forty-five 6 one hundred

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