Betty Kirkpatrick Terry BellBetty Kirkpatrick Terry Bell a division of MSCHOLASTIC© 2005 Learners Publishing Pte Ltd Leamers Publishing Pte Ltd is a division of Scholastic Inc. First published 2005 by Learners Publishing Pte Ltd 26 Sin Ming Lane, #05-127 Midview City, Singapore 573971 Reprinted 2006 (twice), 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 All rights reserved. No part of this book shall be reproduced, or transmitted by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher, Email: learnpub@ leamers.com.sg Visit our website: hitp:/vww.learners.com.sg, ISBN 978 981 4133.90 6 Printed by B & Jo Enterprise Pte Ltd, Singapore {Please rememberthat \ unauthorized photocopying | of this book is illegal. |a P, reface ns = This series of three books is designed to guide students in their composition writing by using models. This means students learn how to write well by first studying the example essays given before attempting to write their own. * Book 1 focuses on the basics of writing. | * Book 2 prepares students for essay writing. * Book 3 aims to develop students’ writing skills. Each book contains about 50 topics that students are likely to be asked to write in class. Each topic starts with a model. In the section that follows, the more difficult words or phrases used in the essay are explained concisely with supporting example sentences. At the end of each topic students are asked to write on the same or a similar topic using the questions or writing frame provided as a guide. Students should study the models carefully, paying attention to how ideas are presented, and how the paragraphs are organized. They will no doubt benefit from the systematic guidance and learn how to express and organize their ideas in writing.— Contents Page Preface ....... 3 7 10 My Father .. 13 My Mother ...... 16 My Brothers .... 19 My Sisters... 22 My Grandparents 25 My Best Friend 1... 28 My Best Friend 2.... 31 The Teacher | Like Best .... My Favourite Sport My Favourite Book... My Favourite Game= x \ R = Ss nN s iS SESRSSSSESESEEIBL My Birthday . 55: My Favourite Food... = S8 My School..... 61 The Film | Like Best...... 5 fe My Favourite Colour . 79 My Favourite Story .... My Favourite Dessert Children’s Day 2: 85. Mother's Day ....... . 88 Father's Day..... 1 Christmas . Teacher's Day. « (97. New Year's Day... -- 100 First Day at School ..... .. 103 What | Did During the School Holidays .. 106 A Family Celebration 109My Town... . 12 At the Dentist’s 15 A Day at the Beach . 18 A Day at the Zoo..... « W27 A Visit to the Farm .... 124 My School Library ..... 127 A Family Outin . 130 A Visit to Grandmother’s House +» 133 At the Supermarket .. 136 A Class Outing... 139 At the Doctor’s 142 At the Airport 145 My First Visit to London In the Playground When Our Parents Were Away......| of fruit and vegetables. Myself aa Read this composition — My name is Jack Li. | am ten years old. | will be eleven in June. | have very short, black hair and brown eyes. |am quite tall and extremely thin. | look like my father. | live in a small town called Ping Tung. | live with my father and mother in alarge flat. | am their only child. | sometimes wish that | had a brother or sister. 1 go to a primary school. | walk to school every morning with my friend Tom. | get quite alot of homework. | like English and Social Studies but | hate Maths. My favourite meal is hamburger and chips and ice cream. My mother says this is not healthy so she makes me eat a lot I like to go cycling with Tom. We usually ride our bikes in the park. We never cycle on busy roads. \ eee ee Paragraph 1 Introduce yourself — give your name and age and describe your appearance Paragraph 2 Say where you live and with whom. Paragraph 3 Talk about your school, friends and favourite subjects as well as the subjects you dislike, Paragraph 4 Describe your favourite food and drink. Paragraph 5 Describe your hobbies and activities with friends.Learn these words extremely extremely means the same as very, very: © The old man is extremely ill. The opposite of extremely is slightly: © My grandmother is slightly deaf. flat If you live in a flat, you live in a set of rooms on one floor of a larger building: © /haveasmall flat on the second floor. In American English a flat is called an apartment: e My uncle lives in an apartment in New York. hate If you hate something or someone, you dislike them very much: © Jack isa bully and | hate him. © | hate my new school. The opposite of hate is love: e [love my mum and dad very much. * |love chocolate milkshakes. favourite If you use the word favourite, it means that you like something or someone best: © Aunt Beth is my favourite aunt. * Strawberry ice cream is my favourite. The opposite of favourite is least favourite: * Geography is my least favourite subject. bike bike is short for bicycle. You usually say bike rather than bicycle: * Iride my bike to school every day.err, turn to write How old are you? How do you look? Where do you live? How many people are there in your family? Who are they? What school do you go to? What subjects do you like best? What is your favourite food? What do you do in your leisure time?My Family er Read this composition —~ My name is Ben Park. There are five | Paragraph 1 5 : Introduce yourself — people in my family. They are my mother, | give your name and my father, my sister Amy, my brother | _ introduce the people Tom and myself. | in your family. My father is called David. He is alawyer. | Paragraph 2 My mother’s name is Alice. She is a | M*ro*uce your : parents: what are teacher at a primary school. their names and what are their jobs? My sister Amy is 16 years old. She is a | Paragraph 5 student at a high school. She is very | “ive details about ete ee, your sister: her age intelligent. She plans to go to university | ana ner ambition. when she finishes school. Tom is 11 but he is not very interested in | Paragraph 4 schoolwork. He often gets into trouble | Bik about your . . . other: what he fornot paying attention in class. But Tom | enjoys doing and his likes to play basketball. He hopes to bea | 2mbition for the professional basketball player one day. eal Hike my family very much. The peoplein | paragraph 5 my family are very interesting andlifeat | Conclusion: how you : f feel about your home is never boring. family. ‘4 Plbeam these words lawyer Alawyer gives advice to people about the law and howit affects them: © Dan sent for his lawyer when the police arrested him. * Ourlawyer advised us not to buy the house. intelligent If you are intelligent, you understand things quickly and well: * Sam is an intelligent pupil and solved the maths problem easily. The word clever means the same as intelligent: ® Jillis clever and was able to answer the exam questions easily. university Some people go to study at university after they leave school. When they finish they get a degree: © Before youcan get some jobs you have to study at university. professional The word professional means that you earn money from taking part in a sport. It is not just a hobby: * Tomisa professional football player. © Susan is very good at tennis. She wants to be a professional one day. The opposite of professional is amateur: © Richard plays football for a local team, but he is still an amateur. [*|Your turn to write My Family How many people are there in your family? What is your mother’s name? What does she do? How old are they? Have you got any brothers? What are their names? How old are they? What is your father’s name? What does he do? | Have you got any sisters? What are their names? What are their hobbies? What are their ambitions?(— Read this composition —. My Father lam Steven Wang. | live with my parents and two brothers Jack and Peter. My father is called Tom Wang. He is forty years old. He is quite a big man and he is very strong. He is now rather bald and is embarrassed about that. He was very proud of his thick black hair. Heisa builder. He used to work for alarge local firm but now he owns his own business. Just now, he and his workers are building a new house in our street. He spends a lot of time on the building site. My father likes to play golf. He plays at the local golf course with his friend Sam. He has just bought a new set of golf clubs. He also likes to cook. He cooks the family meals at weekends. Mum gets a | rest. He is a very good father. We all love him | very much. N Paragraph 1 Introduce yourself and your family. Paragraph 2 Introduce your father: his name, age and what he looks like Paragraph 3 Give details about his job. Paragraph 4 Talk about his hobbies: what he enjoys doing. Paragraph 5 Conclusion: how you feel about your 13 father.Learn these words bald Ifa man goes bald, he loses his hair or he loses a lot of his hair: * Henry went bald when he was quite young. embarrassed Ifyou are embarrassed about something, you feel uncomfortable about something and you feel rather ashamed: * | spilt coffee on my friend’s carpet. | was so embarrassed. building site A building site is a place where something is being built: © That is going to be a new school. Just now, it is a building site. golf course A golf course is a large area of grass on which people play golf: * Golf is very popular here and there are several golf courses in the area. golf club You play golf with a golf club. It is a long metal stick with a piece of metal or wood at one end. You use a golf club to hit a ball into ahole ona golf course: * The golfer took another golf club from the bag. Golf club also means a place where people meet to play golf. It has a building and a golf course.Your turn to write My Father What is your father’s name? How old is he? What does he look like? What kind of person is he? What does he do for a living? What are his hobbies? How do you feel about your father?4) My Mother | Read this composition —~ My mother’s first name is Anne. She is | Paragraph ‘ 5 Introduce your very pretty and verykind. Shewears nice | inother: her name clothes. and what she looks like. Before | was born, my mum was anurse | Paragraph 2 at the local hospital. Now she stays at | [cr JeP: Pefore and home to look after me and my sister Beth. When Beth goes to school my mum might go back to work part-time. She walks with me to school each day. | P#asraph 3 What she does She also comes to meet meafterschool. | every day. She usually takes my baby sister with her in her buggy. My mother bakes very good cakes. She we tgs che does also bakes good scones. My friends all | weil like to come to my place for tea. My mother likes to garden too, and grows beautiful flowers. She also grows vegetables for our meals. She is alovely person. lam glad that she | Péragraph > : How you feel about is my mum. \ your mother. \ ~ [16]Learn these words part-time If you work part-time, you do not work as long as most people do. You do not work full-time: © Amy works part-time in the local library. buggy A buggy is a kind of chair on wheels. You push a baby in it. You can fold it up to become flat: © |am taking the baby for a walk in her buggy. scones Ascone is a kind of small cake. Scones may be sweet or not. You often put butter on them. You also sometimes put jam on them. garden If you garden, you work in a garden: * My father gardens on Saturday mornings.Your turn to write My Mother What is your mother’s name? What does she look like? What kind of person is she? What does she do every day? Name two things that she does well. How do you feel about your mother?My Brothers eo Read this composition —, lam Terry Chen and lam aged ten. I live with my parents and my brothers. | have three brothers, Paul, Mark and Harry. | have no sisters. Paul is the eldest. He is fourteen years old. He works hard at school. He wants to do well in his exams. He would like to bea doctor. Sometimes, Paul andl argue about our football teams. Mark is eighteen months older than me. He and | get on very well. We play together a lot. We both like playing and watching football. Harry is the youngest of the family. He will be four next week. He does not goto school yet. He goes to nursery in the mornings. He often wants to play with Mark and me but he is too small to play football properly. Mum says we have to let him play sometimes. It is good to have brothers. | always have someone to play with. \ f Paragraph 1 Introduce yourself and your family, Paragraph 2 Describe your eldest brother. Paragraph 5 Describe brother number 2 Paragraph 4 Describe brother number 3 Paragraph 5 Describe how you feel about your brothers [79]Learn these words parents Your parents are your mother and father: * My parents both came to the school play. Last year only my mother could come. argue If you argue with someone about something, you do not agree with them about it: * My brother and | argued about the film we had seen. | liked it. He did not like it. get on very well Ifyou get on very well with someone, you are friendly with them. You do not quarrel with them: * We got on very well with the people next door. nursery A nursery is a place where young children are looked after when their parents are at work: * Mrs Licollects her baby from nursery after work. A nursery is also a room in a house where a baby sleeps: * We put the baby’s cot in the nursery.Your turn to write | My Brothers | My nameis | | Their names are | andlhave____————_brothers. | His hobbies are My favourite brother is | like him very much because My eldest brother is years old. His hobbies are _ \ My youngest brother is years old. uN ORMy Sisters or Read this composition —. lam called Sally Black. lam eight. have | Paragraph 1 - ‘ Introduce yourself four sisters. My sisters are all older than | gna your sisvers me. Linda is three years older than|am. We | Paragraph 2 : e Describe sister share a room. Linda is very messy. number 1 Sometimes she snores. | would like a room to myself. Patsy is twelve years old. She loves | Paragraph 5 ; Describe sister dancing. She goes to ballet lessons every | number 2 week. She has pink ballet shoes. Anna is fifteen. She wants to be a chef. | Pa7agraph 4 : Describe sister She is an excellent cook. She oftenhelps | number 3 our mother in the kitchen. Jane is eighteen. She works in the local | Paragraph > - ef Describe sister library. She has always liked books. She | number 4 reads a lot. She gets books from the library for me. She is going to college next year. | love my sisters but it would be nice to | Masraphe Describe how you have a brother. | feel about your \ ) sisters, 22Learn these words messy Messy means untidy and dirty: © | need to clean my room. It is messy. snore If you snore, you make a loud noise as you breathe when you are sleeping: ° | could not sleep last night. My sister snored and kept me awake. chef Achefis acook in a restaurant or hotel. Chef can also mean the most important cook in a restaurant or hotel: © You will like the food in the hotel. They have a very good chef. excellent Excellent means very, very good: © She isan excellent teacher. * Itis an excellent book. college Some students go to college to study after they have left school: ° My big brother is studying computer science at the college. [23]Your turn to write — My Sisters How many sisters have you got? What are their names? Which ones are older than you? How old are they? Are they still at school? Which ones are younger than you? How old are they? What do they want to do when they leave school? | Which sister is the youngest? How old is she? Which is your favourite sister? Why? How do you feel about your sisters? | af#) My Grandparents — Read this composition —, My name is Jean Park and | am nine years old. | live in Newton with my mother and father. My grandparents live here too. My maternal grandparents live near us. | go to their house after school. My mother collects me from there after work. Granny is quite young and she is very active. Grandpa is much older. He is often ill and cannot walk very far. My paternal grandparents live at the other side of town. They come to lunch with us every Sunday. My father goes to get them in his car. They cannot afford to have their own car any more. They usually travel to places by bus. My friend’s grandparents all live very far away. | am glad that | see my grandparents often. Me CC Paragraph 1 Introduce yourself and your family. Paragraph 2 Describe your mother’s parents Paragraph 5 Describe your father's parents. Paragraph 4 Describe how you feel about your grandparents. |lege these words maternal grandparents Your maternal grandparents are your mother’s parents: © My mother was born in this town, but my maternal grand- parents now live in the city. paternal grandparents Your paternal grandparents are your father’s parents: * My father was born in Tokyo and my paternal grand- Parents still live there. collect If you collect someone or something, you go and get them and take them with you: ° Mrs Lee is going to collect her son from his friend’s house. © lam going to collect my shoes from the repair shop. active If you are active, you move around a lot and do a lot of things: * You watch too much television. You should try to be more active. afford If you can afford something, you have enough money to pay for it: * We cannot afford a holiday this year.Yours turn to write \ a ae MT | My y Grandparents | Where do your maternal grandparents live? When do you usually go to visit them? Describe your mother’s parents. Where do your paternal grandparents live? . How often do they come to visit you? How do you feel about your grandparents? ae 27Cc | her. pool. She invited all her friends. Read this composition — My best friend is called Mary. She is nine years old, the same age as | am. We go to the same school, too. She sometimes comes to my house after school. | sometimes go to hers. Then we have tea together. We do our homework together. We are allowed to play outside or to watch television for a short time. We like to play with our dolls together. Mary has a doll called Lucy. Lucy has blonde hair and blue eyes. She is very pretty. Mary sometimes lets me borrow Mary has an older brother, Mike, and an older sister, Doris. She is a lot younger than they are. Mary’s birthday was last month. She had a party at the swimming Maryisakind person. lam happy to have her as a friend. My Best Friend 1 Paragraph 1 Introduce your best friend, What things do you have in common? Paragraph 2 Describe the things you do together. Paragraph 5 Describe your best friend’s family. Paragraph 4 Describe how you feel about your best friend.Learn these words called If you say that someone is called something, you mean that this is their name. Instead of saying: * Myname is Jill, you can say: | am called Jill. blonde If someone has blonde hair, they have very pale yellow hair: * Amy has dark hair. Her sister has blonde hair. The spelling blond is used for a man: ° Jill's brother is a blond. borrow If you borrow something from someone, they let you use it for some time and then you give it back to them: © My brother borrowed Dad's car. * Lam going to borrow the book from the library. * The person lends you the thing that you borrow. older/elder You can use elder instead of older in a sentence like this: * lhave an older sister. | have an elder sister. You cannot use elder instead of older in sentences such as Mr Smith looks a lot older now. You cannot say: Mr Smith looks alot elder now. invite If you invite someone to an event (e.g. a party), or a place, you ask them to come. You give them an invitation: * Jane and Bill invited me to their wedding. * 1am going to invite Jack to my house for dinner. * Sue sent me an invitation to her wedding. If someone invites you and you want to go, you accept. If someone invites you and you cannot go or do not want to go, you refuse. FIYour turn to write \ \ ~My Best Friend My best friend is called —_ She/Heis__ years old. We do lots of things together such as We both enjoy My best friend lives Thereare__-_————SSS_speople in her/his family. \\ike her/him very much because _9) My Best Friend 2 — Read this composition —. The name of my best friend is Peter King. He and | are both ten years old. He is slightly smaller than | am. He has fair hair. His mother is English. Peter lives next door to me. We go to school together every day. We often ride our bikes there. Sometimes my father gives us a lift in his car. Sometimes we walk. At break, Peter and | play in the playground together. Peter isa very good tennis player. He is teaching me to play. We often share our snacks. We have lunch together in the school canteen. Peter spends a lot of time at his computer. He can do alot of things on it. His father works for a computer | company. lam going to England with Peter next year. | am very excited. KE _ ws Paragraph 1 Introduce your best friend, What things do you have in common? Which things are different? Paragraph 2 Describe the things you do together Paragraph 5 The things your best friend does well. Paragraph 4 How you feel about the trip to England with your best friend, [5]Learn these words lift If someone gives you a lift, they take you somewhere in their car without asking you to pay: * Dad gave me alift to the station. In American English a lift is called a ride. snack A snack is a small amount of food, such as a biscuit. You usually eat snacks between meals: © Lunchwill not be ready for two hours. You can have a snack if you are hungry. canteen A canteen is a kind of restaurant in a place such as a school, factory or office building: * [sometimes have lunch in the school canteen. Sometimes | take sandwiches. excited If you are exited you are very happy, often about something that is going to happen: ° Jack was very excited the night before his birthday.\ \ (a Your turn to write ~My Best Friend What is your best friend called? How old is he? When is his birthday? What does he look like? What kind of person is he? What kind of things do you like to do together? What kind of things is he good at? Describe his family. How do you feel about your best friend?10) The Teacher I Like Best a Read this composition — There are some very good teachers inmy feragraph 1 : aN a Introduce your school. My favourite teacher is Miss Hill. | yycurite teacher at She came to teach at my school last | schoo! term. llike her because she explainsthings very | Perasraph2 7 4 Say why you like this well. | find my schoolwork easier now. | | teacher so much understand it better. Miss Hill makes schoolwork seem more interesting. She does not get cross very often. She does not shout. She smiles a lot and looks happy. She has been overseas a lot. She often ade ada éi tells us about the lives of people in other | the nice things the countries. She describes what they eat | teacher does in and wear. She also tells us about their | “"°* houses. I like to hear about their sports and hobbies. Sometimes she shows us photographs of foreign places. Last week she showed us a video of her holiday in Africa. We only have Miss Hill for one year. | will | 7resraph 4 How you will feel be sad when we get another teacher. when this teacher = re _/ leaves your school. a]Learn these words explain If you explain something to someone, you talk about it ina way that is easy to understand: * Dadis good at explaining things. He explained how to work the new computer. If you explain something, you give an explanation. * The teacher gave us an explanation of how the machine worked. cross When someone is cross, they are angry: © Mum was cross when | broke the plate. shout If you shout, you say something in a very loud voice: © My father was at the other end of the garden. | had to shout to get him to hear me. overseas The word overseas refers to foreign countries that are across the sea: * My brother is a soldier. He has just been sent overseas. The word abroad also refers to foreign countries. They need not be across the sea: © Weare not going abroad on holiday this year. hobby A hobby is something you do because you like it and want to do. it. Itis not part of your work: © My favourite hobby is cycling. [35|Your turn to write The Teacher I Like Best The teacher | like best is called ___ She / He teaches us | She / He has been at our school She / He is a good teacher because The lessons are very interesting because { } | | like this teacher very much because — | |My Class 1am a Primary 2 pupil at Mayflower Primary School. There are twenty-five pupils in my class. | There are fourteen girls and eleven boys. Our teacher is called Mrs King. She is quite strict. Most pupils behave well because we want to learn. We sit at our desks and work hard. Two of the pupils sometimes behave badly. They do not like school. Bill Blair is sometimes noisy. He talks to his friends in class and disturbs the rest of us. The teacher tells him not to. Mary Scott also sometimes behaves badly. She is sometimes late for school and does not always do her homework. Her parents had to come to the school because the teacher complained about Mary’s behaviour. I like most of the people in my class. We often play together in the playground. Ne = es = ) Paragraph 1 Incroduce your school. Paragraph 2 Describe your class and your teacher. Paragraph 3 Describe some of the pupils who behave badly and the action taken by the teacher. Paragraph 4 How you feel about your class, 37Learn these words strict If someone is strict, they make you do what they want. They make you obey rules: * Mr Grant is very strict. He will punish you if you forget to bring your homework. behave If you behave well you act in a proper and correct way. If you behave badly you do not: * The children behaved well on the outing to the zoo. ° Mike behaved badly at the birthday party and was taken home early. noisy If someone or something is noisy, they make a lot of noise: * The dogs were very noisy and barked all night. disturb If someone or something disturbs you, they stop you getting on with what you want to do. They interrupt you: * 1am trying to do my homework. My little sister disturbed me. She wanted me to read her a story. complain If you complain about something, you say that it is not good enough. You are annoyed or unhappy about this: © The train was very late. My father complained about it to someone at the station. behaviour Behaviour is the way you behave, the way you act or do things. © The child’s bad behaviour made me angry. [i]Your turn to write My Class How many people are there in your class? | What is your teacher called? Why kind of person is he/she? Do most pupils in the class behave well? Are there any pupils who sometimes behave badly? \ \ | What does the teacher do when pupils behave badly? Do you like your classmates? | SS — [>>|1Z) My House eT Read this composition —. | live with my parents and brother and sister. We live in a flat near the city centre. The flat is in a large, modern block called Queen’s Court. There are six floors in the block. We live on the sixth floor. We get a good view of the city from our flat. We usually take the lift to get to our flat. Our flat has two large bedrooms and one small one. My parents sleep in one of the large rooms. My brother and | share the other large bedroom. The small room is my sister’s. The flat also has a large sitting room. There is a large kitchen with a dining table at one end. At the other end there is a large bathroom with a shower and a bath. | really like living here. 1 hope we never move. a Paragraph 1 Say where you live (house, flat etc.) and describe the location Paragraph 2 Describe the bedrooms: how many? And who sleeps where? Paragraph 5 Describe the other rooms, Paragraph 4 How you feel about living there.Learn these words modern Something that is modern has been made or built quite recently: © We live ina modern house in the city, but my grandparents live in an old cottage in the country. block A block is a large building. It is divided into parts and the parts are used as offices or homes: * ~My Dad works in an office block near my school. view The view which you get from a window or from a high place is everything which you can see from there, especially when this is attractive to look st: ¢ My bedroom is on the top floor and it has a beautiful view of the sea. lift Aliftis amachine like a large box. It carries people or things up or down from one floor of a building to another: © The lift was broken. We had to climb the stairs to get to my father’s office. In American English a lift is called an elevator: © We took the elevator to the third floor.Your turn to write | My House llive ina | Itis located My homehas____——————s bedrooms. In my bedroom | have My brothers / sisters sleep My parents’ bedroom is — _ The other rooms in my home are | like living here because ___ ai Read this composition — | have a black cat called Timmy. He has a white patch on his face. He is a very large cat and eats a lot. His favourite food is fresh fish. He usually gets a tin of cat food. He loves drinking milk. His mother is my grandmother’s cat. Her name is Poppy. Poppy had kittens about three years ago. We got Timmy and my cousin got a kitten, too. That kitten is now a cat called Susie. Timmy sleeps a lot during the day. At night he likes to go out and catch mice. We have a cat flap for him in the kitchen door. He recently got into a fight in our back garden. He was fighting with our neighbour’s cat called Archie. Timmy hurt his ear in the fight. He had to go to the vet. | really love my pet. | wouldn’t change him for any other pet. He’s very special. Gomes Paragraph 1 Introduce your pet what does it look like? What does it like to eat and drink? Paragraph 2 Say when you got your pet and where you got it from Paragraph 5 Describe what your pet does during the day and at night. Pavagraph 4 Describe if anything unusual has ever happened to your pet Paragraph 5 Describe how you feel about your pet [3]Learn these words patch Apatch is a piece of something that looks different from the rest of the thing: * Dad hasa bald patch on the top of his head. kitten A young cat is called a kitten: © The cat was playing with her kittens. Ayoung dog is called a puppy or pup. Ayoung horse is called a foal. mice You say mice when you are talking about more than one mouse: e My brother has a pet white mouse. His friend has three white mice. cat flap A cat flap is a small opening with a cover in a door. The cat can open the cover and so is able to come and go as it pleases: © The cat was very big and fat and got stuck in the cat flap in the kitchen door. vet A vet looks after animals when they are ill or when they have hurt themselves: * Our dog hurt his paw and we took him to the vet. Vet is short for veterinary surgeon.My Pet Your turn to write Ihave a pet. Itis a and its name is We got it from We have hadit for Itis a It likes to eat months / years. in colour and has and it enjoys drinking love my pet because14) My Favourite Sport el Read this composition — | like all kinds of sport but my favourite sport is swimming. | was taught to swim when | was very young. My parents are both good swimmers. My father was the swimming champion of his school. He teaches me on Saturday mornings. We all go to the town swimming pool then. | sometimes go after school also. | take my towel and swimming trunks to school. In the summer, | sometimes swim in the sea. We live near the coast. It is fun to play in the sea but it is easier to swim properly in the pool. | want to be able to swim really well. | practise as much as possible. lam taking swimming lessons at the pool. My swimming coach is called Jim. He says that | am doing well. My ambition is to swim in the Olympic Games. Paragraph 1 Introduce your favourite sport Paragraph 2 Say when and how you learnt this sport do you need to practise? Paragraph 3 Describe when and where you play this sport. Paragraph 4 Describe your ambitions,Lea rn these words champion A champion is a person or team that has won a competition: * Bobis the boxing champion of the club. © They are the European football champions. swimming trunks Boys and men wear swimming trunks when they go swimming. They cover the lower part of the body except the legs: * We are going on holiday to a hotel with a swimming pool. | must remember to take my swimming trunks. practise If you practise doing something, you do it again and again so that you get better at it: * My teacher says that | must practise handwriting. My writing is hard to read. coach A coach is someone who teaches you how to play a sport and helps you to be better at it: © | take lessons from a tennis coach. [|\ \ Your turn to write My Favourite Sport What is your favourite sport? How did you learn this sport? Where do you play? Who plays with you? Do you need to practise? How often do you practise? Do you have any ambitions for the future? | | (i |15) My Favourite Book I Read this composition >) My favourite book is Winnie the Pooh. It is by a man called A.A. Milne. llike the book because it is about a teddy bear. | love teddy bears. The bear in the bookis called Winnie the Pooh. It belongs to alittle boy named Christopher Robin. The bear is often just called Pooh. | also like the book because it makes me laugh. Pooh has many friends. He has adventures with them. Piglet is Pooh’s best friend. He is a little toy pig. Tigger is also their friend. He is a toy tiger. He is not at all fierce. He is very friendly. There is also a toy donkey called Eeyore. He is often very sad. Pooh likes to eat honey. He keeps jars of it in his house. Often he eats too much honey. He is rather fat. One day he gets stuck in the door of his house. Ilike all the characters in this book. They | are so funny and interesting. S Paragraph 1 Introduce your favourite book. Paragraph 2 Describe what the book is about and why you like it. Paragraph 3 Describe some of the characters in the book, Paragraph 4 Describe what happens to the main character. Paragraph 5 How do you feel about the characters in this book? 49Learn these words adventure Ifyou have an adventure, you do something unusual and exciting. Sometimes it is dangerous: © Thesailors had many adventures. In one of them they hada fight with pirates. fierce If a person or thing is fierce, they look angry and look as if they will hurt you: * The big dog looks fierce but it never bites people. jar Ajar is made of glass and has a lid. You put something, such as jam, in ajar to keep it fresh: * We bought two jars of strawberry jam at the supermarket. get stuck If you get stuck somewhere, you cannot move or get out: * My key has got stuck in the lock.Your turn to write | My Favourite Book | My favourite book is ss | It was written by re a The main character in the book is | like this character because _ The other characters in the book are | The story is very interesting: = a I like this book because _————— [51]16) My Favourite Game oT Read this composition —., lam ten years old. | like to play outside. I stay indoors when it is wet. Then, | sometimes like to play Scrabble with my mother and father, my sister Kathy, and my brother Simon. | have just started to play. Before, it was too difficult for me. Now | am just learning the game and I enjoy it. The rest of the family play much better than I do. Simon almost always wins. Scrabble is a board game. Each player gets some tiles from the Scrabble set. Each tile has one letter of the alphabet ‘on it. You have to make words from the letters. Each letter gets a certain number of points. Many words have the letters E and Ain them and soE and A get only one point each. Not many words have the letter Z in them so the letter Z gets ten points. It’s aninteresting game but quite difficult. | want to get better at Scrabble so that | can win all the time, just like Simon! Paragraph 1 Introduce where you like to play games Paragraph 2 Describe the game you like to play: who do you play with? How well do you play? Who usually wins? Paragraph 3 Describe what you have to do and how you scare points in this game. Paragraph 4 Describe your ambitionLearn these words board game Aboard is a thin, flat piece of something hard. You play a board game ona piece of board: © Chess isa board game. ° Monopoly is a board game. tile Atile is usually used to cover a wall or the roof. In Scrabble, and some other games, it is one of the small pieces you play with. In Scrabble the letters are on the tiles: © There was a storm. Some of the roof tiles blew off. © There are 100 tiles in a Scrabble set. set Set is the name given to all the things that you need for something: © / gota chess set for Christmas. * My brother has a new train set.Your turn to write | My Favourite Game | What is your favourite board game? | Who do you play with? | How long have you been playing this game? Are you very good at this game? | | | | | What do you have to do in this game? How do you score points?17) My Birthday ol Read this composition — I will be ten next month. My birthday is on the sixteenth of August. | am going to have a birthday party at home. We are sending out invitation cards next week. We are inviting fifteen people. Not all of them will be able to come. There will probably be twelve of us at the party. My Aunt Liz is going to bake a birthday cake for me. It will be a chocolate cake with chocolate icing. | do not like fruit cake. The cake will have ten candles on it. My mother will light them after tea. Then | will blow them out and | will make a wish. We will play a few games at the party. Then we are going to watch some videos. We will all be very happy. \ Paragraph 1 When is your birthday? Paragraph 2 Describe preparations for the birthday party: sending invitations Paragraph 5 Describe preparations pteparing the food and the cake. Paragraph 4 Describe what will happen at the party. [55]Learn these words invite If you invite someone to something, you ask them to come. You give them an invitation. Sometimes you send a card to invite them. This is called an invitation card: © linvited my friend to tea. * | have had an invitation to a party. If someone invites you to something and you want to go, you accept. * laccepted Jim’s invitation to his party. If someone invites you to something and you cannot go or do not want to go, you refuse. icing Icing is something sweet that is used to cover a cake. It is made with sugar and water: * The cake had orange icing on it. candle A candle is a piece of wax with a piece of string through the middle. The piece of string is called a wick. You light the wick. Small candles are put on a birthday cake: ¢ The lights went out and we had to light candles. * There were nine candles on the birthday cake. make a wish When you make a wish, you say that you want something very much. You often just say it to yourself: * Imade a wish when | blew out the candles on my birthday cake. | wished for a new doll but | did not get a new doll.Your turn to write My Birthday How old are you? When is your birthday? What are you going to do on your birthday? Are you going to have a party? How many people will celebrate with you? Will you have any special food, such as a cake? Who will prepare the food for you? Describe the food. What will you and your friends do at the party?16) My Favourite Food n Read this composition sy My favourite food is chips. Sometimes they are called French fries. | do not have them very often because my mother says that they are not healthy. They contain too much fat. Oven chips are healthier. They have less fat in them. | sometimes have oven chips | for tea as a treat. | usually have them with fish fingers. | put tomato ketchup on them. | often have peas with them. My favourite sweet food is ice cream. | like chocolate ice cream best. | also like vanilla and strawberry ice cream. | sometimes have it with fruit for dessert. ! also sometimes have it outside on very hot days. Then | have it on a cone. Sometimes, | buy it from an ice cream van at the beach. My favourite foods are not very healthy so I do not have them very often. | eat them mostly on special occasions, for example when | go to the beach. That’s why | love going to the beach! [ze] Paragraph 1 Introduce your favourite food Paragraph 2 How often do you eat this food? What do you eat with them? Paragraph 5 Describe your favourite sweet food which flavours do you like? When do you eat it? Paragraph 4 Summarize: why you have your favourite food on special occasions only.Learn these words healthy If food is healthy it is good for you and helps to make you strong and well: * My packed lunch contained healthy things such as salad and apples. treat A treat is something special that you enjoy very much: © Our parents took us to the circus as a treat. * It was my birthday and we had ice cream for dessert as a treat. dessert Dessert is a sweet food. You eat it at the end of a meal after the main course: * We had apple pie for dessert. cone A cone for ice cream is a piece of thin biscuit. It is wide at the top and comes to a point at the bottom. The ice cream goes on top: © It was very hot and | bought an ice cream cone. van A van often has no windows in the sides of the back half of it. It is used to carry goods from place to place: ¢ Dad hired a van to move some of our things to the new house. Avan is sometimes used as a mobile shop: * We bought some burgers and soft drinks from a van out- side the cinema. 59i turn to write \ \ “My Favourite Food My favourite food is | | | like this food very much because 1 | Lusually eat this with | sometimes eat it on special occasions such as My favourite sweet food is My favourite flavour is | like these foods very much because —___19) My School eS Read this composition —~ lam a pupil at Bayside Primary School. | Paragraph 1 The school has over 500 pupils. There are aioe oe nalts 25 pupils in my class. There are three classes in my year. Our Principal is called Mrs Brown. She | Paragraph 2 came at the beginning of last term. a Before that, we had Mr Watson. He | retired, The school has a large hall as well as | Paragraph 3 _ many classrooms. We use it for morning | escribe the schoo! assembly. We also use it for other large - school meetings. Sometimes plays are performed in the hall. It has a stage in it. There is a smaller hall also. This is used as a gym for PE classes. Outside the school building we have | Paragraph 4 playing fields. Pupils play football and ea a hockey there. There is a little garden beside the school. It has some trees and flowers init. It also has a small pond with | some fish inside. | | really like my school and the teachers | Paragraph 5 How do you feel | there. about your school? \ / 61Learn these words Principal A principal is a person who is in charge of a school: * If pupils are very bad, they are sent to the Principals office. Head teacher, headmaster and headmistress all mean the same as principal. retire When someone retires, they stop work for good, usually because they are quite old: * Mr Wang is nearly 65. He’s going to retire soon, assembly Aschool assembly is a gathering of all the students and teachers in one place, often at the beginning of the school day: * The Principal read out the list of prize winners at assembly. perform If you perform a play, you act it in front of people, called an audience: © The pupils have written a short play. They are going to perform it in front of the whole school tomorrow. When you do something to entertain people, it is called a performance: ° We went to the ballet and the performance lasted two hours. hockey In a game of hockey each player has a kind of stick. They try to hit the ball into the goal with the stick: * Ihave been chosen to play for the school hockey team. [ea| Your turn to write My School | Which school do you go to? How many pupils are there in your school? How many pupils are there in your class? What is your Principal called? How long has she/he been the Principal? Describe the school buildings. How many buildings are there? What do they look like? What are they used for? Where do pupils play sports? What else is there in the schoo! compound? [53]20) My Toys -— Readthis composition — | have a lot of toys in my bedroom. | have a lot of cars and trucks. loften play with them. Sometimes | play with them indoors. Sometimes | play with them in the garden. | do not play with all my toys. My younger brother plays with some of them. My favourite toy is Lego. | have several boxes of it. | have played with Lego fora long time. At first Dad used to help me build things with it. Now | make things with Lego myself. | make all kinds of things with it. | once made a very large castle. It took many pieces of Lego to make it. | kept it for a long time. Then | took it to pieces. | wanted to make a submarine. | have just finished it. | enjoy playing with my toys. It’s good fun and | also learn how to make things | wibile I play. [= \ a Paragraph 1 Introduce your toys, Paragraph 2 Where do you play with your toys? Paragraph 3 Describe your favourite toy. Paragraph 4 Describe the benefits of having toys.Learn these words truck Atruck is used for carrying goods from place to place: © The truck was carrying a large load of tins of food. In British English a truck is often called a lorry: © The car crashed into a lorry. castle A castle is a large old building with very thick walls. The walls were to stop people from attacking it and getting inside. Kings or other important people lived in castles: © The castle was built on top of a’stony hill. submarine Asubmarine is a kind of ship that travels under water. It is often used in war: * The enemy are building nuclear submarines. [es]Your turn to write My Toys Do you have any toys? Where do you keep them? What kind of toys do you have mostly? Where do you play with them? Does anyone else play with your toys? What is your favourite toy? How long have you played with this toy? Why do you enjoy playing with toys?a4 Read this composition —. s My name is Sam Jones. The subject like best at school is art. | like to draw and paint very much. | like to make pictures of the things | see around me. I painted a picture of a house last week. The art teacher said that it was very good. He put my picture on the wall. | want to draw a picture of a circus. | will do this next week in the art class. | will draw clowns. | like to paint at home as well. | have a paint box and some paintbrushes. | also have an easel. | put alarge piece of paper on the easel. | painted a picture of my dog in his basket. He is an old dog. My mother put the picture on the kitchen wall. lenjoy art very much. I can do it at school and at home. It isn’t like other school subjects. Art is like a hobby for me. oe The Subject I Like Best Paragraph 1 Introduce your favourite school subject. Why do you like this subject? Paragraph 2 What happened last week at school? Paragraph 3 Do you do this at horne too? Paragraph 4 Describe how you feel about this subject [>|Learn these words draw When you draw, you use a pencil or pen to make a picture of someone or something: ¢ The teacher asked us to draw some trees. * I drew a picture of a ship. paint When you paint, you use a coloured liquid (called paint) to make a picture of someone or something. You put the paint on with a brush: © | painted a picture of my little sister. * The teacher asked us to paint a bunch of flowers. You can also paint walls. You put paint on them with a large brush to change their colour: © The walls are white. !am going to paint them yellow. | have bought some yellow paint. clown A clown is a person who does things to make people laugh. He also wears funny clothes. You will see clowns at the circus. easel An easel is a kind of wooden frame with three legs. You put your paper or canvas on an easel when you paint a picture: © | sat in front of my easel and painted a picture of a boat on the sea.Your turn to write The Subject I Like Best My favourite subject at school is | Vike that subject very much because The teacher for that subject is In the lessons we In the future, | hope He/SheI Like Best — Read this composition —~, | | like to watch wildlife programmes on TV. There are a lot of different wildlife programmes on television. | like wildlife programmes because | love animals and | want to get to know about animals in other countries. Wildlife programmes show animals in their natural homes. | do not really like zoos. The animals are treated well in zoos, but they are not free. Wildlife programmes are often about animals in danger. The behaviour of some people harms animals. | saw an interesting programme about gorillas on TV recently. It made me feel very sad. There are far fewer gorillas than there used to be. They live in the jungles and forests of Western Africa. The jungles and forests are being destroyed. The gorillas themselves are for their meat. These programmes are good. | enjoy | watching them. | also learn things about | different animals in the world. \ [re] being destroyed, too. They are being killed | The TV Programme Paragraph 1 Introduce your favourite TV programmes. Paragraph 2 Describe why you like these programmes, Paragraph 3 Describe what these programmes are about, Paragraph 4 Describe why these programmes are so good.Lea rn these words wi Wildlife is the name given to all the animals, birds, insects and, sometimes, plants in their natural home or surroundings: © The wildlife of the region will be badly affected by the new road. programme ATV programme is something that is broadcast on television: © | watched a TV programme about volcanoes last night. natural home An animal's natural home or natural surroundings is where it is born and usually lives: * | hate to see tigers in cages in the zoo. | would rather see TV pictures of them in their natural home. An animal’s natural home is often known as its habitat: © This pond is the habitat of frogs and several other creatures. in danger If animals are in danger, they might all die. They are said to be endangered. If all members of a group of animals (called a species) die, the species becomes extinct: © The gorillas are in danger. They are being killed by hunters. destroy If you destroy something you damage it so badly that it is completely ruined or no longer exists: © These are the ruins ofa castle. It was destroyed by fire more than a hundred years ago. [7Your turn to write | the TV Programme I Like Best | The’ TV Programme I Like Best My favourite TV programme is | | I like this programme because | This type of programme shows | | usually watch this programme —______ as | This programme is good because | LL Fal23) The Film I Like Best < Read this composition —~ My favourite film is The Wizard of Oz. It is a very old film. It was first shown in 1939. My grandmother was born in that year. It is my favourite film because it reminds me of my grandmother. She died last year. | used to watch it with her. It is occasionally on TV. Sometimes it is on at Christmas. Now there is a DVD of it. The film is about alittle girl called Dorothy. She lives in a place called Kansas in America. There is a storm. Dorothy is carried away by akind of strong wind that goes round and round. It is called a tornado. She meets some odd friends. There is the | Scarecrow. He wants to have a brain. The Tin Man wants to have a heart. The Cowardly Lion wants to have courage. | They go to see the Wicked Witch of the West. She is very frightening. This film is good because it has some | strange characters and the story is very interesting. Paragraph 1 Introduce your favourite film: why is that your favourite film? Paragraph 2 Describe the main character and what happens to her. Paragraph 5 Describe the other characters in the film. Paragraph 4 Summarize the good things about the B film.