3 Schooldays

In this unit …

Kung Fu school p35

South African
schoolgirl p38

Using your phone at

school p40

CLIL Da Vinci’s
design p117
BE
What can you see in the photo?
Vocabulary Unit aims Start thinking
● Places in school I can …
● School subjects ● describe my school and school subjects.
● What country is it?
● Nouns and verbs ● talk about what I like and don’t like. ● Who are the children?
● Adjectives ● understand about schools in other ● Where are they going?
countries.
Grammar
● talk about things we can and can’t do.
● can for ability
● ask and answer questions about personal
and permission
information.
● Object pronouns
● write an email about my school.
● like/love/hate/don’t
mind + ing

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Vocabulary Places in a school
1 Look at the plan of a secondary school. Which places have you got in your school?

playing field

main hall

science lab

IT room

sports hall

library

classroom canteen

2 1.27 Match the sentences 1–8 with

the places in Exercise 1. Then listen,
Your turn
check and repeat.
3 Draw a map of a school. Write the
1 We have lunch here. canteen names of the places.
2 The whole school meets here.
3 We do outdoor sports here. 4 Use the map to ask and answer
4 This is where we do indoor sports and questions about the school.
exercise.
5 We work with computers in this room. This school is very big. This is the
6 This is where we do experiments. sports hall, and this is the main hall.
7 We read and study here.
8 This is where our main lessons are. What’s this?

It’s the science lab. It’s got …

Vocabulary bank • page 109

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 dragon
Kung Fu is a ‘martial art’. It’s also a great Chinese
tradition. Chinese children can go to special
schools and study Kung Fu every day!

After they finish their studies, the students

can get good jobs in the army or the
police force.
snake Li Zheng, from Shanghai, is thirteen
years old. She practises Kung Fu
in the playing field every day with
hundreds of other students. She wants to
be a police officer in the future. Every morning
and evening, Li does her exercises and
practises her Kung Fu moves and positions
frog for hours. The training is difficult and Li can’t
live at home. She can only see her family
in the holidays. Li can do a lot of different
moves like the frog, the dragon and
the snake. Her teacher is an expert in
Kung Fu. He can break a brick with
his hand! Can Li break a brick with
her hands? No, she can’t!

FACT! Some martial arts are at least

two thousand years old!
Explore nouns and verbs

Reading A magazine article 4 Find the verbs and nouns in the article. Copy
and complete the table. Then complete the
1 1.28 Look at the title and pictures. Where sentences.
is the school, do you think? Why do you think
the students are there? How old is the girl in Verb Noun
the picture? a study
b practice
c train
2 Read the text again. Are the sentences true (T)
d exercise
or false (F)? Correct the false ones.
1 Li Zheng practises Kung Fu with other people. T 1 There are a lot of grammar in this book.
2 Li Zheng lives at home. 2 I get up at 6 o’clock every day and the piano.
3 Li Zheng wants to work in a school. 3 After I finish my , I want to go to university.
4 Li Zheng doesn’t see her parents very often. 4 My sister wants to be a teacher. She’s at teacher
college.
3 Answer the questions.
Vocabulary bank • page 109
1 What does she want to do in the future?
2 When does she see her parents?
Your turn
5 Ask and answer the questions.
1 Would you like to go to Li Zheng’s school? Why/
Why not?
2 Would you like to learn a martial art? Why/Why not?
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Language focus 1
can for ability and permission
1 Complete the examples from the text on page 34.

I / You / He / She / It / We / They

+ He break a brick with his hand!
Chinese children to special schools
and study Kung Fu every day!
– Li live at home.
They can’t see their parents during the week.
? Li break a brick with her hands?
Yes, she can. / No, she .
Can they break a brick with their hands?
Yes, they can. / No, they can’t.

Grammar reference • page 101 Get it right!

Notice that can doesn’t
change in the third person.
2 Write sentences with I can and
I can play guitar.
I can’t. Use the ideas below
He can play the guitar.
and add your own ideas. He cans play the guitar ✗
● do a handstand
● write an email in English 4 Write sentences about your partner’s abilities.
● do Kung Fu Marta can ride a bike but she can’t …
● ride a bike
● play football 5 Write about things you can and can’t do at
● play the guitar home and at school. Use the ideas below and
● speak French your own ideas.
● swim 50 metres ● use my mobile phone in the classroom
● go to bed late on school nights
I can ride a bike.
I can’t speak French … ● wear what I want at home
● talk in class

Say it right! ● go to bed late

a 1.29 Listen and choose the option at weekends

you hear. I can’t use my mobile
phone in the classroom
I can’t but I can …
1 I can / can’t hear you.
2 She can / can’t come for dinner. 6 Work with a partner. Ask and answer
3 Pablo can / can’t help you with your questions about the information in Exercise 5.
homework.
4 They can / can’t count to 20 in French. Can you talk in class? Yes, we can!
5 Can / Can’t you wear jeans at school?

b 1.29 Listen and repeat the sentences.

Learn about a different Kung Fu school in China.
● What do students learn at the school?
Your turn ● How many boys study at the school?
● What do the students learn how to do at the school?
3 Work with a partner. Ask and answer the
questions in Exercise 2.

Can you do a handstand?

3.1 Kung Fu school
No, I can’t. Can you …?

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 Listening A podcast New Bank School of Performing Arts

1 Look at the New Bank School website.

How is it different from your school?
THE NEW BANK
SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS
2 1.30Listen to Tom talking about TRAINING PERFORMERS FOR THE FUTURE!
HOME ABOUT EVENTS
the school. What’s his favourite lesson?

3 1.30 Listen again. Complete

the information.
1 great
1 Tom thinks his teachers are …
2 The school day starts at 9 am and finishes at …
3 They have three lessons in the morning and …
lessons in the afternoon.
4 On Saturday, they only have lessons in the …
5 Tom wants to be a professional … when he
leaves school.
Click here and listen to Tom talking about his life
at New Bank.

Vocabulary School subjects

4 1.31 Match the school subjects in the box
with the pictures (a–i). Then listen, check
and repeat.
a History

Science Geography Maths ICT

PE History French English Music

a b c
je
parle
s
françai

d e f

Your turn
5 Complete the sentences for you. Then work
g h i with a partner. Ask and answer questions.
My favourite subjects are Maths and Science
I don’t like …
I don’t study …
I’m good at …

What are your Maths and Science.

Vocabulary bank • page 109 favourite subjects? What about you?

6 Write sentences about you and your partner.

My favourite subjects are … I don’t like …
I’m good at … My partner likes …
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Language focus 2 Object pronouns
1 Complete the examples from the listening 5 Read the quiz. Choose the correct answers for
on page 36. you. Write one more example for each section.
1 That’s in the blue shorts!

DO YOU LIKE IT?

2 It’s a really good school and I love !
3 I like but I prefer Dance.
4 I practise with on Saturday afternoons.
5 Our teachers tell it’s really important to do our Do our quiz and tell us what you
academic schoolwork.
think about these things.
2 Match the object pronouns in the box with the
subject pronouns. SCHOOL DO YOU LIKE …
me us him it her you them you break times?

doing homework?
I – me you – it – he –
she – we – they – you – Maths ?
Grammar reference • page 101
SPORT DO YOU LIKE …
(don’t) like, don’t mind, love, playing tennis?
hate + ing watching football?

3 Look at the sentences from the listening on ?

page 36. What do you notice about the form
of the second verb in a–c? PEOPLE DO YOU LIKE …
a) I don’t mind working this hard.
b) I really don’t like getting up early on Saturday Mo Farah?
mornings!
Dakota Fanning?
c) I love dancing.
d) I like the lessons, but I’m really tired at the end of ?
the week.

Use verbs ending in -ing after (don’t) like, don’t

KEY: Yes, I love it/them/him/her.
mind, love, and hate I don’t mind it/them/him/her.
No, I don’t like it/them/him/her.

love like don’t mind don’t like hate

Grammar reference • page 101 Your turn

4 Write complete sentences that are true for 6 Work with a partner. Ask and answer the
you. questions in the quiz. Use the phrases in
the key.
1 I / watch / sport on TV.
I love watching sport on TV.
Do you like break times? Yes, I love them!
2 My best friend / play / computer games.
3 I do / my homework.
4 My teacher / stay / up late at weekends. Do you like doing homework? No, I hate it!
5 My friends / go / to the cinema.

7 Write sentences from Exercise 6. Use object

pronouns.
I hate doing homework but my partner doesn’t
mind it.

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 Discover Culture 2

1 Look at the map and the picture. Who is the man in the photo?
Where was he from?
1
2 Look at the pictures of Tobilay and
answer the questions.
1 Where is she?
2 How old is she?
3 Where is she from?

Find out about a school in South Africa.

3.2 South African schoolgirl

3 3.2Watch the video up to 0.38 and

check your answers to Exercise 2.

4 Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)?

Correct the false ones. 6 Look at the pictures. Complete the captions about
1 The school children wear white shirts. South African culture.
2 They have pasta for lunch. a) Today it’s Nelson Mandela’s .
3 The children sing and dance in a field. b) The national anthem has words from different
4 Both boys and girls play netball. South African languages.
5 Tobilay does her homework at school. c) They learn traditional South African and .

5 Watch the video again and

3.2 7 Watch the video again to check your
3.2
complete Tobilay’s profile. answers to Exercise 6.

Your turn

Tobilay is 1 years old. She walks 8 Work with a partner. Compare your school day to
2
kilometres to school every Tobilay’s school day. Use the topics below.
morning. School starts at 3 ● How I get to school ● Activities I do in the

o’clock. Every morning she 4 the ● Time my school starts afternoon

national song with her classmates. In ● Activities I do in the ● Homework
the afternoon she studies Zulu 5 morning
and learns traditional South African
Tobilay walks to school but I go
6
and 7 . She loves 8 ! In the to school by car. What about you?
evening she does her 9 , writes in
her 10 , and reads her 11 from
class. This evening she’s got a lot of
12
! 9 Write a description of your usual day at school.
Compare it to Tobilay’s.
I don’t walk to school, I go by bus.
Our school doesn’t start at 8am, it starts at 8.30 am.

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Reading A profile A Welsh school
1 1.32 Look at the map and Hi! My name’s Gareth and I’m a student at Penglais
photos. Where’s Wales? What extra Comprehensive School in Aberystwyth, a small town in
Wales. In my school we study both English and Welsh. Aberystwyth
activities do you think students do in
Wales? Read Gareth’s blog and check At home, Welsh is our first language so I usually speak
your answers. Welsh with my parents and grandparents. I like listening to
my grandfather tell interesting stories in Welsh.
2 1.33 Read the profile again and Our school is great because we’ve got lots of different clubs.
complete the sentences about Gareth There’s a guitar club on Thursdays. Students can learn how to play the
and his friends. Listen and check. guitar. My friend Isabel goes to this club. She really loves playing music
1 Gareth speaks two languages, and and singing and she’s really good. I’m terrible at singing!
. He speaks with his family. We also have a hip-hop group. Students can learn
He goes to the club. He can . hip-hop music and dance and sometimes they
He loves . have concerts.
2 Isabel goes to the club. My friend Darren goes to Rugby Club. He can
She loves . run very fast but I’m really slow! Lots of Welsh
3 Darren goes to the club. people love playing and watching rugby but I
He can . think it’s boring!
I go to Surf Club every Tuesday after school. We
Explore adjectives can surf and swim. I love surfing and I can swim
fast. Our teacher is an expert surfer. He’s
3 Find these adjectives in the text. brilliant but he shouts a lot!
Which ones mean ‘very good’?
FACT! The Welsh alphabet
Which one means ‘very bad’?
doesn’t have the letters K, Q, V or Z.
a) interesting e) terrible
Your turn
b) great f) fast
c) boring g) slow 5 Compare your school with Tobilay’s and Gareth’s
d) brilliant schools. Copy and complete the chart.

4 Find the opposites for these Tobilay’s school Gareth’s school My school
adjectives in Exercise 3. Languages
a) interesting boring Activities / Clubs
b) brilliant
Likes / Loves
c) fast
Vocabulary bank • page 109
6 Write sentences. Then work with a partner and compare
your sentences.
In Tobilay’s school they speak a lot of languages.
In Gareth’s school they speak … In my school …

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 Speaking Asking and giving permission

Real Talk: Can you use your mobile phone at school?

1 Watch the teenagers in the video.

3.3
How many of the teenagers …
a) can use their phones anywhere in school?
b) can only use their phones in class to surf the internet?
c) can’t use their phones anywhere in school?

2 Can you use your mobile phone at school? Ask and

answer with your partner.

5 1.34 Listen again and check your

answers.

6 Work with a partner. Practise the

conversation in Exercise 4.

7 Change the words in bold in the

conversation in Exercise 4. Use the
information below. Practise the conversation.
You want to …
… have breakfast in bed
… borrow £10
… wear your new trainers to school
… go swimming on Sunday afternoon.
3 1.34 Listen to the conversation. When can
Fran and Bella go to the cinema? Mum, can I have
breakfast in bed? No, sorry …
4 Complete the conversation with the useful
language.

Useful language
Great, thanks … Why not? Yes, you can.
Can I / we …? … sorry, I’m afraid you can’t.

Fran: Hi Dad. go to the cinema with Bella

this evening?
Dad: No, .
Fran: ?
Dad: Because your uncle and aunt are
here this evening.
Fran: go on Saturday then, please?
Dad: .
Fran: , Dad!

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Writing An email
Hi, Günter
Please send me an email with information about Penzance
your school for my school project. Thanks!

Hey Günter,
Here’s some info about my school for your project. I go to Humphrey
Davy School in Penzance, England. It’s a big school! It’s got about
50 teachers and 900 pupils, from 11 to 16 years old. We have six
classes in each year, with about 30 pupils in each class. We have
a school uniform .You can see it in the photo (we can’t wear
jeans or trainers). The school day starts at 9 o’clock and finishes
at 3.30 pm.
In my year, we study a lot of subjects – 12!!! . My favourite
subject’s Maths. Every teacher’s got a different room, so we go to a
different classroom every lesson. All the classrooms are big and we
have posters on the walls with our projects .
That’s all for now. Write back if you need more info! Bye!
Anna

1 Read Anna’s reply to Günter. Where’s her school?

Get Writing
How many pupils are there?
PLAN
2 Answer questions about Anna’s school.
6 Make notes about your school.
1 What’s the name of the 5 What time does school Include information from 
school? start and finish? Exercise 2.
2 Is it big or small? 6 How many subjects does
The name of your school
3 How old are the pupils? Anna do?
The size (big, small?)
4 Do they have a uniform? 7 What’s her favourite
Pupils’ age
subject?
Uniform?
Time school starts and finishes
3 Find examples of informal language in Anna’s email.
Subjects
Useful language
WRITE
Informal language
In an email to a friend, use informal language …
7 Write an email to Günter. Use your
notes and the language below.
• to start: Hi,
• to end: That’s all for now. Bye! I go to …
• contractions: Here’s , It’s a … school with …
• abbreviations: info The pupils are …
We have / haven’t got …
The school day …
4 Complete the Useful language box with the phrases The classrooms are …
below.
CHECK
Hello! Bye for now! How are you? How’s it going? 8 Can you say YES to these
questions?
• Have you got information from
5 Make these sentences informal. Use the Useful language
Exercise 6 in your email?
box to help you.
• Have you got informal language?
1 Dear Anna, 4 We have got a new
• Are your spelling, grammar and
2 My class teacher is great. teacher.
punctuation correct?
3 My school is very big – it 5 Best wishes, Günter
has got 1,500 pupils.

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Grammar reference
Unit 3 love, (don’t) like, don’t mind, hate + -ing
• We use the -ing form of the verb after love, (don’t)
can for ability and permission
like and hate.
+ I/You/He/She/It/We/They can She loves playing with her little sister.
sing. I don’t mind doing homework.
– I/You/He/She/It/We/They can’t

? Can I/you/she/it/we/they sing?

4 Complete the sentences with the -ing form of
the verbs in the box.
+ Yes, I/you/he/she/it/we/they can.
– No, I/you/he/she/it/we/they can’t. do walk go paint sing watch play learn

• We use can to express ability and permission.

1 He loves to school.
He can play tennis. (ability)
Dad says we can’t go to the party. (permission) 2 I don’t like homework.
• Can is the same in all forms. 3 Karen loves DVDs.
I can speak Chinese. 4 We like English.
She can speak Chinese. 5 They don’t like pictures.
• We use infinitive without to after can. 6 He doesn’t mind with the baby.
They can sing. 7 My brother hates .
• We don’t use do/does when we make questions 8 They don’t mind to school.
with can.
Can you use your mobile phone at school? Object pronouns
1 Write affirmative (✓) and negative (✗) subject
sentences with can. I you he she it we you they
pronoun
1 Jamie / run fast. (✓) object
Jamie can run fast. me you him her it us you them
pronoun
2 My granddad / use a mobile phone. (✓)
3 They / skateboard. (✗) • We can use object pronouns to replace nouns that
4 You / stay out late tonight. (✗) follow verbs.
5 I / ski. (✗)
I love Maths lessons. ➔ I love them.
I don’t like cooking. ➔ I don’t like it.
6 She / play the piano. (✓)

2 Write questions and short answers for the 5 Complete the sentences with the correct object
pronoun.
sentences in Exercise 1.
1 Our teacher always tells us to sit down.
Can Jamie run fast?  Yes, he can. / No, he can’t.
2 It’s a great film. Watch !
3 Write sentences with can about you and your 3 She’s got exams. She needs to study for .
friends and family. Use the prompts to help. 4 Brad goes to Art classes. I can go with .
1 play the guitar / piano 5 Katia knows the answer. I can email tomorrow.
I can play the guitar. I can’t play the piano, but my 6 My best friend always tells her secrets.
uncle can.
2 swim / dance / ride a bike / ride a horse
3 speak French / Russian / Chinese / Spanish
4 drive a car / drive a lorry / fly a plane

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Vocabulary Bank 3
Jog your memory!
Look at the pictures. Cover the rest
of the page. How many places in a
school can you remember?

Think again
Places in school (page 33) School subjects (page 36)

canteen library science lab English History Music

classroom main hall sports hall French ICT PE
IT room playing field Geography Maths Science

1 Work with a partner. Look at the words 1 Look at the words in the box. What is your
in the box. Choose a room. Don’t tell your perfect school day? Complete the timechart.
partner. Say three things you can find in
8.30–9.45 9.45–11 11–11.15 11.15–12.15
the room. Can your partner guess which
room it is? PE
A: You find books, computers and pens in this 12.15–1.15 1.15–2.15 2.15–2.30 2.30–3
room.
B: Is it the IT room?
A: Yes, it is!

Explore nouns and verbs Explore adjectives (page 39)

(page 34)
boring great terrible
exercise practise study training brilliant interesting
practice studies train fast slow

1 Complete the chart with words from the list. 1 Look again at page 34. Can you find three
more adjectives in the Kung-Fu text?
verb noun
exercise 2 Think of a word for each adjective.
boring – shopping
2 Can you add three more nouns and two
more verbs to the chart? swim (verb/noun
)

Study tip
Write the part of speech next to new words in your vocabulary notebook.
It helps you to use them correctly in your work.

Vocabulary Bank 109

3 CLIL

Design and Technology Drawing tools

1 1.45 Look at the picture. Match the drawing tools
with the words in the box. Then listen and check.

coloured pencils compass ruler drawing board

felt-tip pens paper pencils setsquare T-square

1 setsquare
2 3

5
4
6

9
8

2 Complete the table about the drawing tools 5 Look at the shapes. Copy them. What drawing
with the words in the box. tools do you need?

angles circles colour straight

paper parallel

1 paper

drawing board We put 1 … on this.

t-square We draw 2 … lines with this.
setsquare We draw 3 … of 90º, 45º, 30º
and 60º with these.
compass We draw 4 … and curved lines
with these.
Your turn
ruler We draw 5 … lines and calculate 6 Work with a partner. Describe the drawing tools
the length of a line with this.
in Exercise 1. Your partner guesses what they are.
felt-tip pens We 6 … our design with these.
We draw angles with these. A set square?
3 1.46 Listen to the conversation and
check your answers.
Find out about Leonardo da Vinci’s designs
for a cart.
4 Which drawing tools in Exercise 1 do you
use …
● in Maths? ● in both?
● in Art?

3.4 Da Vinci’s design

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