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978-1-009-35415-8 — Cambridge Primary Global Perspectives Learner's Skills

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Introduction
Welcome to Stage 1 of .
We hope you will find the projects in this book interesting.
You are going to work on four projects. The projects in this book help you
understand new things.
The projects are about:
" your family
" gardens
" jobs people do
" saving water.

There are four children in the book.

They try out all of the projects.

Here is Zara. Here is Marcus. Here is Arun. Here is Sofia.

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8.1

You do not need to learn facts.

You will need to help people.
You will learn how to:
" find out new facts
" find out what people think
" talk to lots of people
" think about what you do.

You will need to work in different ways:

" sometimes you will work on your own
" tner or a group
sometimes you will work with a partner
" sometimes you will learn in the classroom
" sometimes you will learn in different places.

There are lots of ways to do well:

" think about your own ideas
" think about other people9s ideas
" help other learners to learn
" try out new ways to learn
" help other people to learn new things.

We hope you will enjoy the projects in this book!

Adrian Ravenscroft and Achama Mathew

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How to use this book

In this book you will ûnd lots of different things to help your learning.

You will see a picture

With your class, look at the pictures and talk about the questions.
and discussion at • Who are the people in the pictures?
the start of each project. • What are they doing?
• What things do you like doing with your family?

The learning goals show ú you

û L
ú û
what you will learn. There is Ou I think My teacher thinks
space for you to show what ú û ú û
you think at the end of the I can ask questions to find
out about people9s lives
..........................................................

lesson. There is also space ..........................................................

for your teacher to say what

you have learned.

This tells you what the key

words are. Key words are u

in the glossary. The glossary

is at the back of the book.
You can ûnd out what the
key words mean there.

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u k

Here are things to do. What questions will we ask?

They will help you learn. 1 ook at Sofia, Arun and Zara9s garden again.
Marcus wants to find out more about their garden.
He thinks of three questions.
Draw J ne t to the good questions.
Draw L ne t to a question that is not useful.
How old are
you?
How did you
make the tree?
Do butterflies like
these flowers?

D uk ?

Did you know that plants

Interesting facts and need ffood?
information. is a v
very good food for
plants
plants. You can make it
in a compos
compost bo in your
gar
garden. It9s easy! Just put
your banana skins
skins, apple
cor
cores and vegetable peel
in the bo . Mi it up with
a spade. AAfter a few
months
months, you will have
lo
lovely compost!

u u
Useful words.
qu u u
You can use these words.

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Audio is available on Cambridge GO and in the Teacher's Resource.

0 ' on Cambridge GO and in the Teacher's Resource.

Video is available

Your teacher will have access to free supporting resources through

Cambridge GO 3 the home for all your Cambridge digital content.
Visit cambridge.org/go

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1 What can
families teach us?

With your class, look at the pictures and talk about the questions.
• Who are the people in the pictures?
• What are they doing?
• What things do you like doing with your family?

Arun

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1 W u ?

Sofia

u
Marcus

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1 W u ?

1.1 Who is in my family?

L

Ou I think My teacher thinks

ú û
I can say who is in
my family ú û ..........................................................

..........................................................

ú û
I can find out if we all use
the same names for family ú û ..........................................................
members
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1 W u ?

Who are my family members?

1 ook at the picture of Arun9s family again.
Five people live in Arun9s home: Arun,
his sister, his uncle, his father and his mother.
Draw the people who live with you in your
y can stick in a photograph.
home. Or you

Write who those people are by writing their names beneath your
drawing or photo.

2 Write the names of some who do not live with you.

Do you know where they live? Tell your partner.

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1 W u ?

What do I call my adult family members?

1 Read what Marcus and Arun say.

This is my
father. His name
is Arjun and I call
him Papa.

This is my
grandmother. Her
name is Ada and I
call her Nanna.

What do you call your older family members? Write it in the table.

F W I
Grandmother
Father

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1 W u ?

2 Are there other adults who are not family members who look
after you too? Write what you call them here.

.............................................................................................................................................

Do we all have the same names for our

family members?
Work in a group. Say what you wrote in D uk ?
your chart. Do all the children in your group
use the names for family members? There are lots of
names for a
Write the name of one family member
grandmother. In Italy,
where you all have the name.
they call her Nonna. In
South Africa, they call
............................................................................
her Ouma or Gogo. In
Write the name of one family member Indonesia, she is Nenek.
where you all have names.

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