Activity Book Teaching Notes

Unit 3 – Health matters

AB28. ACTIVITY 1 Key: 1 Daisy: went to a party / didn’t go to the cinema. 2 Sally
went to the cinema / didn’t drink any milk at breakfast. 3 Jack had
Read Stella’s diary. a stomach-ache / didn’t eat any food all day. 4 Susan gave her
• Tell pupils to open their Activity Book at page 28. Show mum some flowers / didn’t have lunch at school. 5 Paul: did his
the page on the whiteboard and ask pupils to read the homework / didn’t see his friends.
activity instruction. Elicit or teach diary and who wrote
the diary (Stella). Pupils read. AB30. ACTIVITY 2

Now look for the past of these verbs. Write sentences about the children.
• Check pupils know what to do. They check in pairs. • Focus pupils on Activity 2 and on the example. They
Check with the class. write sentences about the children in Activity 1 using the
model. Monitor and check. Remind pupils they can work
Key: 2 had, 3 ate, 4 drank, 5 went, 6 saw, 7 took, 8 gave, 9 were with a partner if they want.
Key: (in any order) 2 Sally saw a film at the cinema. She didn’t
AB28. ACTIVITY 2 drink any milk at breakfast. 3 Jack had a stomach-ache. He didn’t
eat any food. 4 Susan gave her mum some flowers. She didn’t
Read and complete. Use the past tense verbs from have lunch at school. 5 Paul did his homework. He didn’t see
Activity 1. his friends.
• Focus pupils on Activity 2. Check they know what to do.
Pupils work individually. They check in pairs. Check by AB31. ACTIVITY 1
asking pupils to read full sentences aloud and showing
the word cards for Unit 3.
Put the words in groups.
• Tell pupils to open their Activity Book at page 31. Show
Key: 2 were, 3 saw, 4 gave, 5 took, 6 was, 7 had, 8 ate, 9 drank the page on the whiteboard. Remind pupils of the word
families in the Warmer. Check pupils have read and
AB29. ACTIVITY 1 understood the activity instruction, using the example.
They do the activity in pairs. Check with the class.
Read, choose and circle. Compare with
your friends. Key: Places: school, hospital, cinema, park; People: cousin,
teacher, mum, nurse; Food: burger, banana, apple; Drink: milk,
• Tell pupils to open their Activity Book at page 29. Show lemonade, juice, water
the page on the whiteboard. Elicit what they have to do.
Pupils do the activity individually. Make groups of four.
AB31. ACTIVITY 2
Pupils take turns to read a sentence aloud. When they
say their choice, e.g. great, the other pupils compare it Decide what Meera did yesterday. Choose and
with their answers and say Same or Different. write words from Activity 1.
Key: Pupils’ own answers • Demonstrate the activity for pupils. Individually, they
choose and write appropriate words from Activity 1 in
the table (places in the ‘go’ column, people in the ‘see’
AB29. ACTIVITY 2
column, food in the ‘eat’ column and drinks in the ‘drink’
Now write about your weekend. column). They keep their ideas secret.
• Talk with pupils about what they did last weekend, Key: Pupils’ own answers
using ideas from Activity 1 as prompts. Focus pupils on
Activity 2. Pupils write about last weekend using the AB31. ACTIVITY 3
Activity 1 text as a model. They write a first draft in their
notebooks. Monitor and check. Pupils check each other’s Ask and answer. Complete the table with your
work in pairs. Pupils write their final copy in their Activity friend’s answers.
Books.
• Elicit a question word for each column of the table
Key: Pupils’ own answers (where, who, when, what) and review how to form past
simple questions about each thing. Volunteer pupils read
out the speech bubbles. Demonstrate with four or five
AB30. ACTIVITY 1 questions and answers, using open pairs.
Read and complete the table. • Make new pairs. Pupils ask and answer to guess what
their partner has written in the table. They write the
• Tell pupils to open their Activity Book at page 30. Show
words from their partner’s table in the second table.
the page on the whiteboard. Focus pupils on the children
Monitor and check that pupils are hiding their books and
numbered 1 to 5 in the picture and the information.
asking complete questions. They compare their tables
Explain that they should read the information and
when the activity is complete.
complete the table for each child. They check in pairs.
Check with the class. Key: Pupils’ own answers

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Unit 3 – Health matters

AB32. ACTIVITY 1 2
Man: So, what did you have to do?
Read and complete with ‘b’ or ‘v’. Then look and Ann: I had to take some medicine.
circle ‘True’ or ‘False’. Man: And what did the doctor say?
• Write There’s a _ery _ig _ear on the _each and ask pupils Ann: She said I can’t eat any cake or biscuits this week.
in pairs to complete the sentence using the letters b or Man: Ha ha. Oh dear.
v. Invite pupils to come to board and write in the missing 3
letters. Tell pupils to open their Activity Book at page Man: Are the other people in your family ok?
32. Show the page on the whiteboard. Ask pupils to look Ann: Well, my aunt was in hospital on Friday.
at the sentences in Activity 1 and complete them using Man: Your aunt! Which one?
‘b’ and ‘v’. Pupils then circle which sentences are true Ann: My Aunt Lily, the teacher.
or false. Man: Oh dear.
4
Key: 2 At the beach, two boys are playing baseball. True, Man: Why was she there?
3 The brown bear and the vet are eating burgers. False, Ann: She was there because she had a temperature.
4 A spider is sleeping in a very big bed. True.
Man: Oh no. Was it bad?
Ann: Yes, it was 39!
AB32. ACTIVITY 2 Man: 39? That is bad.
Draw things with the letters ‘b’ and ‘v’. 5
Man: Is she ok now?
Write sentences. Ann: Yes, she’s ok, but the doctor says she has to
• Tell pupils to draw their own items beginning with the sleep a lot.
letters ‘b’ and ‘v’ on each background and include as Man: That’s a good idea.
much of the unit vocabulary as they can. Elicit and talk
about some ideas together. Ask pupils to draw their AB34. ACTIVITY 1
pictures and then write sentences about them below
each picture. Read and circle the pronouns. Then write the
• Ask pupils to go around the class and mingle, showing contractions.
and sharing their pictures and describe what they • Tell pupils to open their Activity Book at page 34. Show
can see. the page on the whiteboard. Read the first sentence to
the class. Elicit the personal pronoun (I) and have pupils
Key: Pupils’ own answers
circle it. Then point to the example I’m and explain that
it is a contraction. Have pupils complete the activity and
AB33. ACTIVITY 1 write the personal pronoun and contraction on the board
for each sentence.
Listen and write. There is one example.
• Tell pupils to open their Activity Book at page 35. Key: 2 they / they’re, 3 we / we’re, 4 it / it’s
Show the page on the whiteboard. Focus them on the
activity instructions. Play the example. Tell pupils they AB34. ACTIVITY 2
need to write one, two or three words or a number for
each answer. Check comprehension of the rest of the Read again and complete. Make notes for your
questions and headings. Play the audio. Pupils write dream job.
notes. Check with the class. • Point to Activity 2. Ask pupils if they remember what
Key: 1 stomach-ache, 2 cake or biscuits, 3 in hospital, 4 39, Joaquin’s job is. Tell pupils they are going to reread
5 sleep a lot Joaquin’s blog and complete the chart. Direct pupils to
page 35 in the Pupil’s Book. Then give pupils enough
5 time to reread the text and complete the first column.
Man: Hi, Ann. Where were you yesterday? Make sure pupils understand the difference between
Ann: Yesterday … er, I was at the doctor’s. skills and training.
Can you see the answer? Now you listen and write. • Tell pupils to complete the second column in the chart
1 with information about the dream job they talked about
Man: Really, you were at the doctor’s! What was the matter in Activity 6 of the Pupil’s Book.
with you?
Key: Job title: professional musician; Job description: playing
Ann: I had a stomach-ache. drums / music all over the world; Skills / training: drum lessons;
Man: Oh dear. I’m sorry about that. I hope you’re better What makes the job fun: travelling / playing music with friends
now.
Ann: Yes, I’m ok today.

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Unit 3 – Health matters

AB34. ACTIVITY 3 AB35. ACTIVITY 2

Write a blog entry about your dream job. Use Read and tick (✓) past tense.
your notes. • Ask pupils to read the questions about the Lock and Key
• Draw the pupils’ attention to the Writing Tip. Ask them story. Tell them to tick the correct answer for each one.
to write their blog entry. Encourage them to refer to Allow them to refer to the Pupil’s Book if necessary.
Joaquin’s blog entry in the Pupil’s Book as a model. Key: 2 No, he didn’t. 3 No, they didn’t. 4 Yes, he did. 5 Yes, he
Key: Pupils’ own answers did. 6 No, they didn’t.

AB35.
AB34. ACTIVITY 4

Did you … Can do

• Ask pupils to complete the checklist and congratulate • Focus pupils on the Can do section of the page. Say Let’s
all efforts. read the sentences together. Read the first sentence.
Elicit what this means with examples and remind pupils of
• Invite volunteers to read their blog entry to the class. Ask
the activities they did in this unit when they talked about
the class which jobs sound most interesting and why.
health. Review what the three faces mean (not very well
Key: Pupils’ own answers / OK / very well). Remind pupils they circle the one they
think is true for them.
• Repeat for the second sentence, reminding pupils of
AB35. ACTIVITY 1
activities they did when they talked about the past.
Match to make sentences. Repeat for the third sentence, reminding pupils about the
communication activity as well as other activities when
• Tell pupils to open their Activity Book at page 35. Show
they asked questions about the past. Pupils circle the
the page on the whiteboard. Focus pupils on Activity 1
appropriate face.
and elicit what they have to do (make sentences using
the table). Elicit a few examples. In pairs, pupils take • Say Now show and tell your friends. Pupils work in
turns to make sentences. Monitor and check / help where groups of three and take turns to show their work for /
necessary. talk about each one.

Key: 2 Jim didn’t go to the doctor. 3 Zoe went to the dentist last Key: Pupils’ own answers
week. 4 Did Sally take her medicine? 5 There were a lot of people
at the hospital.

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