STARTER UNIT

Vocabulary Grammar
The classroom Subject pronouns
1a SPEAKING Look at the picture. Match the 1a Look at the sentences. How do you say the
objects (a–o) to some of the words in the box. words in bold in your language?
Check that you understand all the words. 1 I am a student. 5 It is a pen.
Use a dictionary if necessary. 2 You are a student. 6 We are friends.
01 Classroom objects 3 He is a boy. 7 You are happy.
bag • board • board rubber • book • chair • 4 She is a girl. 8 They are sisters.
computer • desk • dictionary • door • notebook •
pen • pencil • pencil sharpener • poster • 1b Complete the sentences with the correct
rubber • ruler • textbook • window subject pronoun.
1 He is a boy. (Tom)
a
2 are happy. (Bill and Ben)
3 are sisters. (Anna and I)
4 is my friend. (Amy)
c
b d 5 is big. (the bag)
6 are late. (Leo and you)
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Imperatives
e 2a Look at the pictures and complete the
sentences with the words in the box.

come • sit • work • write

g
f

h
i
o
1 in 2 to the
pairs. board.
j

k
l

3 Don’t 4 down.
m in your textbook.

n 2b 02 Listen and check your answers.

2c Look at the sentences in 2a and choose the

1b Which words in the box are not in the picture? correct alternative to complete the rule.
Imperative sentences have/don’t have subject
1c SPEAKING
Make a list of the classroom objects pronouns.
you see in your classroom.
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Speaking
The alphabet 5 SPEAKING Practise the dialogue. Use your own
names.
1a PRONUNCIATION 03 Listen to the alphabet.
What le°er is missing? What’s the sound? What’s your name?

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff It’s Leo.

Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll How do you spell it, please?

Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr It’s L – E – O.

Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Classroom expressions
6a Match the questions (1–3) to the answers (a–c) to
Yy Zz make a short dialogue. Then listen and check your
answers.
1 What’s this in English?
1b 04 Listen and check your answer.
2 Can you repeat that, please?
05 Listen. Why are the le°ers in different lists? 3 How do you spell that?
2a
a Yes, it’s a board.
Grey: A H J K b B–O–A–R–D
Green: B C D E G P T V c It’s a board.

Red: F L M N S X Z 08 Listen and check your answers.

6b

6c Read these answers. What are the questions?

Yellow: O
1 I’m sorry. I don’t know how to spell it.
Blue: Q U W
Dark blue: R 2 I’m sorry. I don’t know the word in English.

2b 05 Listen again and practise saying the lists.

7 Practise the short dialogues with
SPEAKING

3 06 Listen and write down the two le°ers you classroom objects and the expressions in 6a
hear each time in the order you hear them. and 6c.
1 , 5 ,
What’s this in English?
2 , 6 ,
3 , 7 ,
It’s a poster.
4 , 8 ,

07 Listen and write the words the boy spells. How do you spell that?
4
1 5
P–O–S–T–E–R
2 6
3 7
4 8

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 Vocabulary

Colours
1a Label the colours a–f with the words in the 2 Look at the picture and write sentences about the
box. Which of the colours in the box are not in colour of the classroom objects.
the picture?
09 Colours
black • blue • brown • green • grey • orange •
pink • purple • red • white • yellow

a c b

d e

f
The bag is black.
1b Complete with the missing colours.
1 black + white =
2 white + red =
3 blue + yellow =
4 red + blue =
5 yellow + red =
6 red + blue + yellow =

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Vocabulary
Numbers – cardinal and ordinal 4a Write the dates.
1 31 / 01 the thirty-first of January
1a Put the words in the box in order in the correct
column. Write the numbers next to them. 2 3 / 09
3 25 / 12
eight • eighth • fiſth • first • five • four • fourth •
4 11 / 06
nine • ninth • one • second • seven • seventh • six •
sixth • ten • tenth • third • three • two 5 15 / 08
6 22 / 04
Cardinal numbers Ordinal numbers
4b 13 Listen and check your answers.
one – 1 first – 1 st
5a Look at the calendar. Ask and answer
SPEAKING

questions about the dates.

January 2022
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
1 2

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12 13 14 15 16

1b 10 Listen and check. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

2a Match the ordinal numbers to the words in the box. 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

eleventh • thirteenth • thirtieth • thirty-first • 31

twelſth • twentieth • twenty-fiſth • twenty-first

a 11th e 21st What day is the the 31st of January?

b 12th f 25th
c 13th g 30th Monday. What day is the 12th of January?
d 20 th h 31st

2b 11 Listen and check. 5b Answer the questions.

Days and months What is …
1 today’s day and date?
3a Put the words in the box in order in the correct It’s Thursday the 9 th of September.
column.
2 yesterday’s day and date?
April • August • December • February • Friday • 3 tomorrow’s day and date?
January • July • June • March • May • Monday •
November • October • Saturday • September • 6 Read and answer the question.
Sunday • Thursday • Tuesday • Wednesday

Days Months Culture exchange

Monday January
What’s the date?
In the UK and the US they write the date
differently. In the US the order is first the
month and then the day, so 07/02 is July the
second. In the UK the order is first the day
and then the month so 07/02 is the seventh of
February! And in your country?

7 SPEAKING Ask and answer these questions.

1 When is your birthday this year?
2 When is the next holiday?

3b 12 Listen and check.

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 Speaking
Telling the time
4 SPEAKING
Ask and answer about the time in
1 Put the times in the correct order. these cities.

five to nine • half past four • nine o’clock • 1 London 2 Paris

one o’clock • quarter past three • quarter to seven •
ten past two • ten to eight • twenty to five

1 one o’clock
2
3
4
5
3 Auckland 4 New York
6
7
8
9

2 Choose the correct alternative.

1 9.15
It’s quarter to nine/quarter past nine. 5 Mexico City 6 Rio
2 6.05
It’s five to six/five past six.
3 2.45
It’s quarter to three/quarter past two.
4 12.20
It’s twenty past twelve/twenty to twelve.
5 8.40
What time is it in London?
It’s twenty to eight/twenty to nine.
It’s half past one.
6 3.10
It’s ten past three/ten to three.
7 10.25 5 SPEAKING
Take turns to do the task.
It’s twenty-five to ten/twenty-five past ten. Student A: Choose a phone. Say the time and date.
8 7.30 Student B: Say the le°er of the phone.
It’s half past seven/twenty past seven. a b c

3 Match the times to the pictures.

a b c

d e f

d e f

It’s quarter to three. It’s Tuesday the 3 rd of October.

It’s c!
1 ten to four 4 quarter to five
2 half past eleven 5 five past eight
6 SPEAKING
Draw a phone screen. Take turns to tell
3 quarter past seven 6 six o’clock your partner a time, day and date. Write the time,
day and date your partner says.
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Grammar reference Grammar test
Subject pronouns Subject pronouns

Check it Starter unit

1 Write the correct subject pronoun.
Singular I, You, He/She/It
1 is white. (the board)
Plural We, You, They
2 are here. (mum and dad)
• We use subject pronouns as the subject of the
3 is my brother. (Marco)
sentence.
4 are friends. (Sofia and I)
I am a student.
5 is happy (Elena)
• We can use them to replace names. 6 are 13. (Max and you)
He is a boy. / 6 points

Imperatives Imperatives
• We use an imperative to tell someone to do 2 Look at the ticks ( ) and crosses ( ) and
something. choose the correct alternative.
Work in pairs. 1 Open/Don’t open the textbook.
2 Close/Don’t close the door.
• Imperatives don’t have a subject.
3 Use/Don’t use your dictionary.
They Work in pairs.
4 Talk/Don’t talk to your partner.
/ 4 points

Vocabulary Vocabulary test

The classroom The classroom
bag • board • board rubber • book • chair • 1 Find six classroom objects and write them
computer • desk • dictionary • door • notebook • below.
bernoteb oo
pen • pencil • pencil sharpener • poster • rubber • krub kp nci
l
ruler • textbook • window d es os rp e
ter u te
comp
Colours
1 4
black • blue • brown • green • grey • orange •
pink • purple • red • white • yellow 2 5
3 6
Numbers – cardinal
/ 6 points
one • two • three • four • five • six • seven •
eight • nine • ten • eleven • twelve • thirteen • Colours
fourteen • fiſteen • sixteen • seventeen •
2 Complete the colours with vowels.
eighteen • nineteen • twenty • twenty-one •

Test yourself Starter unit

thirty • forty • fiſty 1 y ll w 4 p rpl
2 r ng 5 bl
Numbers – ordinal
3 r d 6 gr n
first • second • third • fourth • fiſth • sixth •
seventh • eighth • ninth • tenth • eleventh • / 6 points
twelſth • thirteenth • fourteenth • fiſteenth • Days and months
sixteenth • seventeenth • eighteenth • nineteenth •
twentieth • twenty-first • thirtieth • fortieth • 3 If Monday is the first day of the week and
fiſtieth January the first month of the year, write the …
1 third day:
Days
2 second month:
Monday • Tuesday • Wednesday • Thursday •
3 twelſth month:
Friday • Saturday • Sunday
4 seventh day:
Months 5 sixth day:
January • February • March • April • May • June •
6 sixth month:
July • August • September • October • November •
December 7 second day:
8 tenth month:
/ 8 points
On-the-Go Practice
Total: / 30 points

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 STARTER UNIT
Vocabulary
The classroom
1 01 Label the photos with these words. Then listen, check and repeat.

bag • board • computer • desk • dictionary • door • pencil • pencil sharpener • rubber

1 3

7
8
9
6

2 02 Write the words in the correct syllable group. Then listen, check and repeat.

book • chair • computer • dictionary • notebook • pen • poster • ruler • window

1 O book
2 Oo notebook
3 oOo
4 Oooo

Grammar
Subject pronouns 2 Choose the correct alternative.
1 Are these subject pronouns singular (S) or 1 I/We am Camille.
plural (P)? Choose the correct alternative. 2 She/I is a student.
1 You are my teacher. S/P 3 He/They are my teachers.
2 She is in Class 6. S/P 4 She/We are his sisters.
3 We are Roger and Mary. S/P 5 It/You are in my class.
4 They are my two brothers. S/P 6 He/It is a computer.
5 He is happy. S/P
6 I am Hugo. S/P Imperatives
7 It is a textbook. S/P 3 Match the halves to make sentences.
8 You are my friends. S/P 1 Come to a down.
2 Don’t write in b pairs.
3 Sit c your textbook.
4 Work in d the board.

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Speaking
The alphabet
1 03 Add the missing le°ers to the alphabet. Then listen, check and repeat.

Z
1) D (2) F G (3) I (4) (9)
A B ( KL M WX
8)
(5) T U (
O P (6) R ( 7)

2 04 Write the le°ers A–Z in the correct sound

group. Then listen, check and repeat.
1 /eɪ/ A,
2 /iː/
3 /e/
4 /əʊ/
5 /juː/
6 /aɪ/
7 /ɑː/

3 05 Listen and answer the questions.

1 What’s your name?

2 How do you spell it, please?

Classroom expressions
4 06 Match the halves to make sentences.
Then listen, check and repeat.
1 What’s this a you repeat that, please?
2 Can b I don’t understand. 6 07 Complete the questions. Then listen, check
3 How do you c the word in English. and repeat.
4 I don’t know d in English? 1
5 I’m sorry. e spell that? ’s this English?

5 Write these classroom expressions in the correct

place in the dialogue. There are two expressions It’s a desk.
that you don’t need.
1 How do you spell that? 2
2 I’m sorry, I don’t understand. you repeat that, ?
3 Can you repeat that, please?
4 What does ‘desk’ mean? Yes, it’s a desk.
5 What’s this in English?
3
Lauren: (a) ? do you that?
Sofia: It’s a board.
Lauren: (b) ?
Sofia: Yes, it’s a board. D-E-S-K.
Lauren: (c) ?
Sofia: B-O-A-R-D
Lauren: Thank you!

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Vocabulary
Colours 4 Write the cardinal and ordinal numbers for each
photo.
1 Find eleven colours in the word search.
a b
Y P O G P D O V P N

E I K R R M Q W X H

L N L B A E R E D R

L K L T R N Y Y P B

O N G T M O G O U L

W B L A C K W E R U

Y N A N F N H N P E
one , first ,
R V V W P B I N L I
c d
G R E E N N T M E E

K Z I U R Y E H E M

2 Complete the sentences with words for colours.

1 My bag is .
2 My desk is .
3 The classroom door is .

Numbers – cardinal and ordinal

, ,
3 08 Complete the table with the words in the
box. Then listen, check and repeat.
e f
eighth • eleven • fiſth • first • four • ninth •
second • seven • six • ten • thirtieth • thirty-first •
three • twelſth • twentieth • twenty-five

Cardinal Ordinal
one (a)
two (b)
(c) third
(d) fourth , ,
five (e)
g h
(f) sixth
(g) seventh
eight (h)
nine (i)
(j) tenth
(k) eleventh
twelve (l)
twenty (m)
(n) twenty-fiſth , ,
thirty (o)
5 Answer the questions with cardinal or ordinal
thirty-one (p) numbers.
1 How old are you?
2 What is your house number?
3 What is your phone number?
4 What is today’s date?

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Days and months
6 Complete the calendars with the words in the box.

April • August • December • Friday • January • July • June • March •

October • Saturday • September • Sunday • Tuesday • Wednesday

March
Monday (a) (b) Thursday (c) (d) (e)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8 9 10 11 12 13 14

This year
(f) February (g) (h) May (i)

(j) (k) (l) (m) November (n)

7 09 Listen and underline the stressed syllable in each word. Then listen again and repeat.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

8 10 Write the months in the correct syllable group. Then listen, check and repeat.
January February March April May June July August September October November December
1 Oooo January , 4 oO
2 O , , 5 oOo , ,
3 Oo , ,

9 Write the day or month.

What is …
1 the second month of the year? 4 the day aſter Sunday?
2 the day before Saturday? 5 the month with three le°ers?
3 the seventh month of the year? 6 the day with nine le°ers?

Speaking
Telling the time
1 11 Choose the correct alternative. Say the sentences. Then listen, check and repeat.

1 It’s quarter past 2 It’s ten past 3 It’s quarter 4 It’s half past 5 It’s three oh 6 It’s quarter to
seven/quarter five/five to past eleven/ eight/half clock/three eleven/quarter
to eight. eleven. ten to twelve. past nine. o’clock. past ten.

2 12 Write the times. Then listen, check and repeat.

12 12 12 12 12 12

9 3 9 3 9 3 9 3 9 3 9 3

6 6 6 6 6 6

1 2 3 4 5 6

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Review Starter unit 1 Find eight classroom objects in the word 3 Choose the correct word to complete the
search and write the words. sentences.
1 to the board.
W P G C O M P U T E R
a Work
E E U T C W F S B Y R b Sit
M N R K E R P E B S N c Come

A C R T D B M M O E O 2 Don’t in your textbook.

a write
R I X Y D B O I A X T
b come
W L X P O S T E R K E c go
J R Q R U O P L D Y B 3 in groups.
B S M U W T N U T H O a Work
b Choose
G H V L K R I E L R O
c Complete
A Q F E F B O O K B K 4 Don’t down.
G G L R S S E S D L N a work
P K R S D W B X S M E b sit
c listen
D I C T I O N A R Y E

1 4 Complete the dialogue with the correct words.

2 Theo: (a) ‘s this in English?
3 Noah: It’s a dictionary.
4 Theo: I’m (b) . I (c)
5 understand. Can you repeat that,
6 (d) ?

7 Noah: It’s a dictionary.

8 Theo: (e) do you spell that?

Noah: D-I-C-T-I-O-N-A-R-Y
2 Put the words in order to make sentences. Theo: Thanks.
1 sister / my / is / She / .

2 in / We / Class 7 / are / .

3 They / teachers / are / my / .

4 a / is / He / student / .

5 Josh / am / I / .

6 friend / my / are / You / .

5 Write the colours.

1 The sun is .
2 An apple is or .
3 The sky is .
4 An elephant is or .
5 A tree is and .
6 A penguin is and .
7 A flamingo is .
8 A banana is or .

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6 Are these numbers cardinal (C) or ordinal (O)? 10 Write the time in words.
Choose the correct alternative.
1 first C/O
2 third C/O
3 twelve C/O
4 twelſth C/O
5 eight C/O
6 twenty-fourth C/O
7 thirty C/O
1
8 thirty-one C/O

7 Write the consonants to complete the days of

the week.
1 O A
2 UE A
3 E E A
4 U A
5 I A 2
6 A U A
7 U A

8 Put the le°ers in order to make months.

Then write them in order.

iprAl • suAgut • emecbDre • auFbryer •

arnJuay • yJlu • eJnu • craMh • yMa •
vbemNroe • rcObtoe • mebpeteSr
3
1 January
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
4

Review Starter unit

9
10
11
12

9 Write the dates in full.

1 22/01 the twenty-second of January
2 21/02
3 11/07 5
4 19/09
5 16/11
6 10/12

On-the-Go Practice
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