1 Decision time...She does not like the pollution in the centre of her town. Cara wrote her letter...

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Decision timeIn Unit 1, you are going to read part of a longer story.

Vocabulary

nouns decisions, shadeverbs echoed, glanced, pretend, sweatingadjectives proud

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Setting

This story takes place in a school.

Sometimes in our lives we have to make difficult decisions.

Characters

Mr Graham is a teacher. Sarah is a student. Wayne is a student.

Plot

Mr Graham sends the He goes to the staff room. children out to play.

Sarah is hot. She goes back In the empty classroom she into school to get a drink. sees Wayne.

• Why is Wayne in the classroom? • What do you think he is going to do? • What will Sarah do? Read the beginning of

the story and find out.

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Journey to the centre of the Earth3

In Unit 3, you are going to read part of a science fiction story.

Vocabulary

nouns archaeologist, crater, surface, weapons, armour, scales, razor verbs relax, inhabit, doze, plunged adjectives eerie, fearful, hideous, ghastly, coilingadverbs uneventfully

Science fiction stories are often about strange imaginary places and creatures. This famous story is written like a diary.

Each chapter is about what happens on a different day.

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Professor van Harry is the professor’s Hans is a guide. Hardwigg nephew. He wroteis an archaeologist. about their adventures in his diary.

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This part of the story is set on an ocean at the centre of the Earth!

They discovered some rather frightening creatures!Professor van

Hardwigg, discovered a map which showed how to get to the centre of the Earth.

The professor, Harry and Hans discovered an ocean at the centre of the Earth. They made a raft to cross the ocean. Read all about our

adventures in my diary!


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Escape from the Castle of DoomIn Unit 5, you are going to read part of a fantasy adventure story.

Vocabulary

nouns companions, warrior, knight, patrol, dungeon, courtyard, guardroom, statues, gagverbs captured, rescue, froze, beckonedadjectives trustedadverb cautiously, incredibly

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Characters

SettingCastle of DoomIt is at the top of a high, rocky mountain.

Plot

A fantasy is a story that shows lots of imagination and is very different from real life.

I’m Princess Petronella. The Duke of Doom has captured me and keeps me in the Castle of Doom.

I’m Braveheart. I’m a knight.

My name’s Sapphire. Princess Petronella is my best friend.

My name is Midge. I am very short. I am incredibly strong!

I’m Sterling. I’m a warrior.

Braveheart and his friends try to rescue Princess Petronella from the Castle of Doom. Will they succeed? Read the story and find out!

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The TV Game Show

In Unit 7, you are going to read Scene 1 of a play.

Vocabulary

nouns audience, expenses, pause, fanfare, folks, chance, disappointmentverbs congratulate, applaud, cheer, remind, stiradjectives horrid, apprehensive, fortunateadverbs anxiously

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Scene 1 takes place in a TV studio.A game show is being filmed. It is called ‘Your Golden Chance.’

My name is Anna. My name is Larry.I’m eleven years old. I’m the presenter of the show.I am trying to win a holiday. You can win a great holiday or a horrid holiday.

• Where do you think Anna would like to go? • What sort of holiday would you like to win?

Here is the beginning of Scene 1.

Scene 1 In the TV studio Anna is a girl of 11 years of age, and is in a TV studio. She is with a TV presenter, Larry, who is holding a microphone. On the table is a big gold box, labelled ‘Your Golden Chance’. A cameraman is filming them. A studio audience is watching the show.

Larry [looks towards camera and smiles at Anna] Well done, Anna. You’ve won over three thousand pounds in prize money. How do you feel about that?Audience [applaud and cheer]Anna Wow! That’s great!

This opening paragraph tells you: 1 where the scene is set 2 who is in it 3 what is happening.

These are the names of the characters. They show the actor when to speak.

These are the stage directions. They tell the actors what to do.


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The hidden persuaders8

Vocabulary

nouns agency, company, bargain, jingleverbs persuade, design, aim at, impress, emphasiseadjectives advertising, brilliant, wild

In Unit 8, you are going to see an advertisement.

• What is your favourite advertisement?

• What does it try to persuade you to do?

• What do you like about it?

My name is Emma. I work for an advertising agency. Here is an advertisement for a new chocolate bar. What do you like about it?

clear title

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interesting words

fi nishes with a catchy jingle

Don’t get left out.Buy one. Try one. Get one now!

Choco-Crunch... too good to miss.

It’s smooth

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Anwar and Ashraf

In Unit 10, you are going to read a short play. It teaches us that it is a good idea to be generous and share what we have.

Vocabulary nouns travellers, conversation, insultadjectives fantastic, ridiculous, selfi shverbs overhearing, divideadverbs exactly, extremely

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Anwar: (pulling Ashraf’s sleeve) Am I seeing things? Is that a lovely, fresh loaf of bread?

Ashraf: (excitedly) Yes, it is. I wonder why it’s there.

Anwar: Someone must have left it there for poor, hungry travellers like us.

The narrator tells us what is happening.

These are the characters in the play.

Anwar Ashraf the stranger

The setting of the play is a deserted Indian market in a village. It is dusk.

The plot is about two tired, hungry men who fi nd a loaf of bread.

What do you think Anwar and Ashraf do with the bread?




Tigers

In Unit 11, you are going to read some facts about tigers.

Vocabulary nouns swamps, territory, peacocksadjectives endangered, rare, commonverbs protect, die out, pounces

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• The facts are organised under subheadings.

Looking at tigers Where tigers live Hunting for food

• Under each subheading the facts are written in paragraphs.

When we start writing a new paragraph we can leave a space and begin a new line.The fi rst paragraph is about male tigers.The second paragraph is about female tigers.

• The writer also uses: photographs so the reader can see the tigers.

• Factual writing like this is usually in the present tense.

Female tigers are smaller than males.

Looking at tigersA tiger is a fi erce, strong cat that hunts in forests and jungles.Tigers are the biggest cats in the world. A male tiger may be longer than a car and weighs more than two adult men. A tiger’s tail is over0.6 metres long.

Female tigers are smaller than males …

Tigers are the only big cats that are striped all over.

captions which explain the photographs.




Black Beauty

In Unit 12, you are going to read part of a much longer story. The story was written a long time ago when people travelled by horse and carriage.

Vocabulary

nouns stable lad, yard, bridleadjectives uncomfortable, nervous, dreadfulverbs sensed, trusted, dartedadverbs gently, quietly, lightly

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Black Beauty, Ginger and the other horses are sleeping in the stable.

The stable catches fire. What will happen to the horses?

Characters

Black Beauty is a horse. Ginger is Black James is the The stableHe is the narrator of Beauty’s friend. driver. lad. the story.

Plot

1st person narrativeThe story is told by Black Beauty. He was in the stable when it caught fire. We read about what happened from his point of view. He uses the 1st person pronouns I and we.

He tells the reader: • what he saw ‘The air was thick with smoke.’

• what he heard ‘I could hear Ginger coughing.’

• what he felt He felt ‘very uncomfortable’ and ‘very nervous’.




Grace DarlingIn Unit 13, you are going to read about a daring rescue.It is part of the biography of Grace Darling.

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Vocabulary

nouns lighthouse, dawn, sealsadjectives ferocious, terrible, faintverbs drift, pleaded, relieved, sweptadverbs slightly, forcefully, selflessly

A biography is the story of a person’s life (or part of their life) that is written by another person.

The biography tells us what happens:

Grace Darling lived in a lighthouse.

A ship sank near the lighthouse.

Grace and her father rowed out to the rocks. Did they rescue the people?

The biography tells us how people felt as well as what they did.

The captain was relieved when he saw the light.Grace was horrified when she saw the people on the rocks.The people were terrified.


Vocabulary

nouns lighthouse, dawn, sealsadjectives ferocious, terrible, faint, relievedverbs drift, pleaded, sweptadverbs slightly, forcefully, selflessly



Stig of the dumpIn Unit 14, you are going to read part of a longer story.

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Vocabulary

nouns flint, wreckage, clump, shelteradjectives rickety, crumbly, funnyverbs peered, loopedadverbs desperately, beneath

Characters

At this point in the story, there is only one character.A young boy called Barney.

SettingThis part of the story takes place in a chalk pit. The writer uses lots of describing words to help you build up a picture of the setting in your mind.

PlotThis is the beginning of Barney’s adventure.He goes to the chalk pit, looks over the edge and falls in!He falls through the roof of a shelter.Whose shelter is it?Who lives in the chalk pit?

‘huge hole’

‘strings of ivy’

‘crumbly, brown earth’

‘strange bits of wreckage’

‘trees hung over the edge’




Where does our rubbish go?

Vocabulary

nouns dustbin, landfi ll site, soilverbs crushed, rotsadverbs relatively, regularly

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The information is written in two ways.

A fl ow diagram • shows each step of what happens to the rubbish • is written in the order which it happens • has drawings to help you understand what is happening

List of advantages and disadvantagesThere are good things and bad things about how we get rid of our rubbish. Here are some of them.

Most people have bins in their houses which keep fi lling up with rubbish. Different sorts of rubbish is thrown away in different rooms in the house.

When our bins are full, we empty them into a dustbin outside.

Advantages Disadvantages

We have to put our rubbish When rubbish rots, it makessomewhere. Landfi ll sites are a gas which can be bad for relatively cheap. They are the environment.easy to use.

In Unit 15, you are going to read information about how rubbish is collected.




The One That Got AwayIn Unit 16, you are going to read a short story called ‘The One That Got Away’.

Vocabulary

nouns assembly, creepy-crawlies, contributionadjectives rare, boring, glossy, frillyverbs eavesdropping, intended, kicked offadverbs carefully, definitely, rapidly

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The author is Jan Marks.

CharactersThe characters are the teacher and students in Class Four.

Mrs Cooper is the teacher. Malcolm is the main character.

SettingMost of the story takes place in the classroom.

PlotMrs Cooper tells Class Four that they must bring in something interesting to talk about.All Malcolm’s friends have something interesting to talk about.

Malcolm doesn’t know what to bring in.Then he has a great idea!

Can you guess what Malcolm brought to school in a matchbox?Here’s a clue: the teacher and the students were frightened!




Interview with John LittleIn Unit 17, you are going to read an interview.

Vocabulary

nouns memory, advice, abroadadjectives famous, jealousverbs fascinated, decided

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In an interview: • one person asks the questions the interviewer• one person answers the questions the interviewee

What other questions do you think the interviewer asked John about his memories of school?

In this unit John Little is the interviewee.

John Little is being interviewed because he is a children’s author.He wrote ‘Escape from the Castle of Doom’ in unit 5.

The interviewer asks some interesting questions about John’s memories of school. John Little gives quite long, interesting answers. He answers the questions fully.

Where did you go to school?

I went to school in Folkestone, Kent, in England. My first school was Mundella Primary School. When I was eleven, I went to the Harvey Grammar School. (This school was named after William Harvey. He was a famous scientist.)


Vocabulary

nouns memory, adviceadjectives famous, jealousverbs fascinated, decided



Memories of schoolIn Unit 18, you are going to read some poems about school.

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Vocabulary

nouns schoolyardverbs picksadjectives eager

What do you think the word might be?

Getting it right!Students sitting at their desks Chatting and writing Hands up, answering questions

What I remember?

Bells ringingFeet shuffl ingChairs scrapingTeachers talkingStudents listening

Left out!Standing in the schoolyard Waiting for the game, I don’t know why I bother, It always ends the same.

The fi rst poem is an acrostic.The fi rst letter of each line spells a word.

The second poem is a list poem.

Is the poet remembering what she saw or what she heard?

The third poem is a rhyming poem.

Look at the title. What do you think the poet remembers about school?

The fourth poem is a haiku.

What can you remember about haikus?

First day of schoolWhat will it be like?



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