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Unit 1: My home Translator:I like to read articles about true people

and real life stories.
Emma: Hi, Francesca. Here's a short film for you
to see my house before you come to stay I like to read the Reader’s Digest in my
next summer. My friend Harry's on spare time.
camera. Say ‘hi’, Harry. My dream is to become a kung fu actress
in the future.
Harry: Hi, Francesca.
Narrator: Tian Tian often looks at the kung fu
Emma: So come in. medals in the school.
This is my dog Hero, he's really friendly Her favourite kung fu actor is Jackie
and loves to play. Come here, sweetie. Chan. Who's the girl with the sword? It's
Good dog. So this is our kitchen. That's Tian Tian!
my dad cooking.
Kung fu, of course, is a martial art.
Dad: Hi, Francesca, nice to meet you. Some kung fu training is like dancing. It's
very beautiful.
Girl: That's my brother and my friend Rosie.

Rosie: Hi. Unit 3: Meerkat manor

Brother: Hi. This is Flower. She's the leader of a big family of
meerkats. She's only 30cm tall but she's strong.
Harry: OK, what's next, Emma?
Meerkats live under the ground.
Emma: Upstairs. This is my brother's bedroom,
In the morning, they always clean the entrances to
he's really messy. Those are his video
their homes and they clean each other.
games.
They're good parents. The male and female
Emma: He's a boy. My books are on this shelf... meerkats look after their babies.
and this is my room!
When Flower and the grown ups go to look for
Emma: These are my two alarm clocks. That's breakfast, she leaves her babies with their
my computer, it's old. This is my guitar. babysitters.
Here's my camera. It’s my turn to film.
Smile, Harry! The meerkats look for beetles. They like spiders
There are some clothes on the chair, and and scorpions, too.
under it. My iPod, my brother's
headphones, my favourite film, Rainbow This meerkat is very busy. It's hot work but there's
the Magic Unicorn. The end. water in his food.

The babies learn to stand on two legs. They

Unit 2: Kung fu school practise a lot and they often fall over.

Narrator: In the morning Tian Tian has normal The young meerkats often play games.But when
lessons – Maths, Science and the sun is very hot, it isn't easy to stay awake.
Geography – and in the afternoon and
evening she has kung fu training. Meerkats’ homes have a lot of entrances.
She knows her lessons are important.
But in this entrance they find a dangerous snake.
She often goes to the school library
because she loves reading. At the end of the day, Flower and the meerkats go
home. They're all happy to see the babies again.
Qiao Tian Tian: [Speaks Chinese]

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Unit 4: Treasure hunt Rosie: Send. Turn left, go to the canal gate with
fish.
Emma: OK, here we are, we're in London. It's Turn left
Max's birthday and we're on his treasure Go to the canal gate with fish
hunt. He's sending us text messages with Look at the water
clues and instructions. What colour is Dazzler?

Harry: This is the first one. Cross the road, turn Look at the water. What colour is
right, Dazzler?

Cross the road, turn right Emma: What? Dazzler?

Go straight on!
Harry: Oh look, house boats.
Harry: go straight on,
Rosie: Look, there's Dazzler, its blue.
Wait at the old cinema on the right!!
Emma: Harry, text Max.
Harry: Wait at the old cinema on the right.
Harry: OK, brilliant! I've got a signal! Send.
Emma: Show me. OK, let's go.
Emma: Have you got the next clue?
Rosie: Wow! Look Harry. This is an old cinema.
What's Max's question? Harry: Hang on. Come on, come on, yes, yes
Max. Here it is. Find L'Angolo Bianco.
Harry: Hang on. How many women are there? What colour is it? You have four minutes.

How many women are there? Find the L'Angolo Bianco.

What colour is it?
Rosie: How many women are there? You have four minutes!

Emma: Oh, hey, look up! There are some Harry: Where's the L'Angolo Bianco?
pictures of women up there, look. How
many are there? Rosie: No worries, I can have a look on my
phone for it.
Harry: Great. Well done, Emma.
Emma: Good idea.
Rosie: There's... seven. Quick, text Max.
Rosie: Uh no, now I don't have any signal.
Harry: Oh no, I haven't got a signal.
Harry: I think it’s that way.
Rosie: Its OK, I do. Send. Go straight on.
Go straight on! What's the name of the Rosie: Are you sure?
shop on the corner?
Harry: Yeah, come on let's go!
Rosie: What's the name of the shop on the
corner? Emma: Let's ask.

Harry: Run! Harry: Oh excuse me, where's the L'Angolo

Bianco restaurant?
Emma: Coming. Oh I hate running.
Woman: Turn right, go past the leisure centre, turn
Rosie: There, look! It's Bentply. right, it's on your left.

Harry: Quick, send a text. Harry: Thank you, come on.

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Rosie: OK, so it’s left here. Anne: And there'll be no news again tomorrow.
Good night.
Harry: Left? No, it's right.
Narrator: Our second finalist is Natalie.
Rosie: No left.
Natalie: My name's Natalie and my film’s The
Harry: Right! What do you think, Emma? Penguin Protest.
EMMA…
It's right. Come on, let's run. Narrator: In her film, penguins are trying to stop
global warming.
Rosie: Can anyone see the L'Angolo Bianco?

Harry: Yeah. Natalie: The best bit of making films is probably

the editing and watching it over and
Emma: And I can see Max. seeing the hard work.

Rosie: What colour is it? Narrator: And now for the third finalist. This film is
by a group of young film makers and
Harry: It’s white. they're the actors in their film, too.

Max: Come on guys, it's my birthday party. Film Makers:And our film is Safari Adventure.

Girl: Our film is about two tourists going on a

Unit 5: Me and my movie safari because they're bored.

Narrator: Every year in Britain there's a competition Boy: It's so hot here.
to find the best young film makers. It’s
called Me and My Movie. There are Girl: I know and I'm terribly bored.
training workshops in the summer. Then
the young film makers make their films. Boy: Why don't we go out?
The films are two minutes long. After that,
a team of judges watch the films. There Girl: Yeah! Let's go on a safari.
are a lot of them. They chose four great
films... and here they are! Boy: Tally ho!

The first finalist is Dominic. His film is a Narrator: Our last finalist is Lauren.
comedy.
Lauren: Hi, my name's Lauren and my film's
Dominic: Hello. I'm Dominic, the creator and Vern's Vacation.
director of N.O. News.
Narrator: Lauren's film, a penguin called Vern is
Narrator: Dominic is using his family as actors. going on a skiing holiday.
Here he is filming them at home. Let's Here she's editing the action on her
see N.O. News. computer. Vern's skiing holiday is going
wrong.
Announcer: O. News. No news, all the time.
Now the finalists are arriving in London.
Anne: Tonight a major food scare, Hugh Jiddiat Let's find out the winner of this year's Me
reports. and my Movie.

Hugh: Thanks, Anne. Well there are no fruit or Announcer:The award goes to Vern's Vacation by
vegetables on the streets of Covent Lauren from the Isle of Man.
Garden currently.

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Lauren: Thank you. This is absolutely amazing. I'd osie: So how are you going to make a volcano
just like to say today and tonight have out of all of this stuff?
been fantastic and I've had the best time,
so thank you very much. Emma: Just watch. OK, now I pour the vinegar
and the washing up liquid into the jug.
And some food colouring.
Unit 6: Food experiments
Max: I want to see this.
Rosie: Hi there, today we’re showing you two
amazing science experiments. Here's Emma: Now, ready? Let's watch the volcano.
Professor Max.
Max: Hey, that's fantastic!
Max: Good afternoon, Professor Max here, and
today the first experiment is... a fruit Rosie: Wow, that's amazing! I've got to share
clock. this.
Rosie: A what? A fruit clock? What's that?

Max: Yeah, a fruit clock. It’s amazing. Watch

Unit 7: Frontier house
and learn. I've got some cardboard, some Narrator: In the American TV series Frontier House,
scissors, some aluminium foil, some three families travelled back to 1883. The
lemons, some metal paper clips, some Clune family moved from their home in
wire, some two pence coins and a clock. California to a log cabin.
Life was very different.
Rosie: Where are the batteries? The two girls, Aine and her cousin Tracy,
worked in the field, while Aine's brother
Max: Good question. These are the batteries. Justin was busy with their father.
Right, let’s get started.
Erinn Patton was on her family's farm,
Rosie: Careful, Max. too. She worked with the cows and she
Is that it? Is it working? was happy. Her brother Logan looked
after animals and carried water.
Max: Wait a minute. Now let's join the wires to
the clock. There see, the clock's working! His life back home was very different.

Rosie: Wow! That's amazing. I've got to share Logan: My only friend here is work.
this with Emma. Emma! Emma!
Narrator: In the 1880s, life in the countryside
Emma: OK, the fruit clock's cool but I'm making a wasn't easy. Farm animals and sharp
volcano. tools were dangerous and wild animals
were dangerous, too – like bears.
Rosie: A what?!
Errin: I see it, I see it, I see it.
Emma: A volcano.
Narrator: The Frontier House school was a long
Rosie: In the kitchen? way from the children's homes. They
walked to school because there weren't
Emma: Yes, that's right. It's easy and its good any buses or cars.
fun. OK, so I've got a small plastic jug,
some vinegar, some baking soda and In the 1880s, some teachers were very
some washing up liquid. young, only fifteen or sixteen.
They often lived in the school. There
Rosie: How much washing up liquid? were some books but there wasn't a
library.
Emma: Not much. Oh and some food colouring.

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All the students were in one classroom. He travelled to other countries and talked
They were at school for five months of to people all around the world. And then
the year but a lot of children didn't go to he went to university in the USA. Now
school. They stayed on the farms. They back home in Malawi, William has got
worked and helped their parents. more ideas. He built some new schools
and he's planning to build a football
stadium.
Unit 8: Windmill boy
William: For me, science is important because you
can do lots of things that can help you or
Comm: Outside the cities in Malawi, Africa, life is help your
sometimes difficult. Not many people community, or help your nation, or help
have electricity. But one young man the world.
changed the lives of the people in his
village. His name is William Kamkwamba.
When he was a boy, William's family lived Unit 9: Our school’s got talent!
without electricity.
Rosie: OK, we're on our way to audition for our
Schools were expensive and his parents school's talent show.
didn't have much money so he left school
when he was fourteen. William got a job, Max: I'm nervous and excited. I really want to
but he went to the library in the evening. be in the show.
He wanted to learn.
Rosie: I always dance with my friend Emma. It's
One day he found a book with a picture of easier to dance with a friend. OK, here's
windmills on it. Inside the book he learnt our dancehall, wish us luck.
that windmills can pump water to a place
and can generate electricity. William was Rosie/ Emma: We dance together, our dance is
only fourteen but he decided to build a called...
windmill for his village.
Emma: Girls got power.
William: I didn’t have money to buy materials.
Rosie: Girls got power.
Comm: So he made his windmill from old things
he found. Harry: They're really good dancers.
He built a tower from wood. He I'm not sure about the music.
connected a dynamo to an old bicycle They're very flexible.
wheel.
He connected a light bulb to the dynamo, Max: Hi I'm Max and this is Harry. We've been
then William and the people in the village dancing together since we were six years
waited for wind. old.
A strong wind came, the windmill turned
and the light came on. Harry: We've got a great sense of rhythm. We
hope you think so too.
William: I was very happy and very excited. Like
wow, I've done it. Rosie: There is some good footwork. They
dance really well together. They're very
Comm: People in his village had electricity for the good.
first time. The windmill was very
successful and he built two more. These Harry: Cut!
windmills brought water to the fields and
now people can charge the batteries for Max: Judging tonight, we have ex-member of
their mobile phones. William became the famous girl band, Katnip, please
famous. welcome Stella Starr. Billionaire record

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producer, David Nash. The famous Woman: Boys, are you ready?
female rapper legend, Twenty Pence.
And Barry Harlow. Boys: Yes!

Emma: They are all good but I think Max is the Woman: Three, two, one – go!
best. He listens to the music.
Boy: Go, Zach!
Max: I disagree. He is good but Rosie's better.
She's fun and enjoys the dancing, and Boy 2: Go, Zach!
she practises a lot.
Narrator: Zach's high in the trees. It’s very difficult.
Harry: I think that we should judge them as a
pair. Woman: Oh! He’s dropped it.

Rosie: I agree. I want Emma and Rosie in the Narrator: Next, it's the blue cog.
show. They're better dancers.
Boy: Come on, Zach!
Emma: And their timing is excellent.
Narrator: Can he do it? Yes, they've got four! The
Max: Cut! boys are the winners and they win the
treasure.

Unit 10: Escape from scorpion

island
Narrator: Ten young adventurers in two teams are
going to Scorpion Island. They are going
to have the biggest challenge of their
lives. There are only two ways to get to
Scorpion Island, by helicopter or by boat.
And it's an exciting journey.

Boy: I made it!

Narrator: They're arriving at the beach. It’s a great

feeling.

So what's the game? There’s treasure on

the island. You get it when you win a
challenge. Now for the first challenge.
Let’s meet the teams. First the girls. Their
team captain is Lizzie. She has to lead
her team.
It's an exciting job. Next, the boys. Zach
is their captain. He's going to lead his
team against the girls.

Woman: OK girls, are you ready?

Narrator: The girls are going first. The captain has

to get the cogs and drop them. The other
players try to catch them.
Yes! The girls have got three.

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