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It’s the sequel to Dragon Trainer (2010) and it stars Hiccup and the toothless dragon. The two friends discover a secret cave which is home to a lot of wild dragins and the Dragon Cavalier. So another adventure begins and the pair fight to save the future for mankind. At cinemas from 19th June!

She’s one of best-selling artists in the history of music and she is adored by young people. We present Rihanna, her life, her success and …

Game What is the name of the toothless dragon? Use the secret code to find out.

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Hi there everyone!

Summer is here and it’s time to think about our holidays! In this edition of Let’s Start we will talk about works of art on the beach and a very special event at Whipsnade Zoo this summer!

And of course you’ll find all the usual great games, interesting articles and fun activities to keep you busy! I’ll say goodbye and wish you a very happy and fun summer holiday!

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In this edition of Let’s Start you will learn about: • Verbs of preference • Modal verbs • Conjunctions • Possessive adjectives • Revision of structures presented throughout the year Common European Framework Elementary Level (A1/A2)

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Picture Dictionary

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Poster

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At the seaside

Art … on the beach!

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The perfect view

Whipsnade Zoo

It’s games time!

Myths and Legends

The Loch Ness Monster

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Good news

Monks help leopards

Fun facts Rihanna loves

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Robyn Rihanna Fenty was born in Saint Michael, on the Island of Barbados, on 20th February 1988. At 16 she moved to the USA to follow her dream: to become a singer. Her first album, Music of the sun, came out in 2005.

Her musical style was clear from the start: Rihanna mixes pop, dance, r’n’b and hip-pop and the results are amazing.

Since the beginning of her career she has sold 35 million albums and 125,000,000 singles! But her life is not all about success: Rihanna does charity work with her music and she helps children who are suffering from cancer.

• dancing • going out with her fiends • shopping • watching films

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Rihanna has worked with many different artists.

Amongst them there is a very famous rapper. Say if the sentences are true or false and find out his name.

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Art … on the beach!

International competitions In America over 200 sand sculpture competitions are organised each year. The most famous competitions take place in Canada, in the city of Harrison Hot Springs.

The participants come from all over the world. Other competitions take place in France, Germany, India, Portugal, Italy etc …

Do you like playing in the sand? Do you build castles on the shore? There are people who create real works of art in the sand. And there are important competitions all over the world …

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Sand sculptures It’s great to be a kid again and make sculptures in the sand. Not just sandcastles, but other things too. You need sand, water and a lot of imagination! It’s a hobby which can become real art! All over the world there are competitions in sand sculpture. The participants have to make a sculpture in the sand and the most beautiful one wins first prize!

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In Italy, in Cervia, every year there is a sand sculpture competition: it is famous in Italy and abroad. The participants have to build a sculpture in 3 days. The theme for this year is “10th century magic”. The audience will choose the most beautiful sculpture and visitors can see them from August to October!

GAME The technique Sand sculptures are made with natural sand and water. You use spades, buckets and small knives.

Firstly, you make a mix of sand and water, then you build up the sand until you have a large block until finally you can work with the block to form a sculpture. Then you spray a liquid substance onto the sculpture (made from water and glue) to make it last longer.

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The oldest sand sculpture is 25 years old! A real record! Find 12 words in the grid from the text and find out where the sculpture is.

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water it needs from that! Very clever!

Dolphins are very sociable animals and they travel in groups called “pods”. These pods usually contain between 5 and 30 dolphins and each one is different. Dolphins talk to each other too, through a series of whistles and chirps and they also like to play by jumping out of the water and doing acrobatic spins and twists!

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The bottlenose dolphin can be found in many different parts of the world, including the coast of the United Kingdom! Although it spends all of its time in the water, the dolphin is not a fish. In fact it is a mammal, just like you and me! It needs to breathe air, so it has a hole on the top of its head called a blowhole. It doesn’t drink the water which it swims in, but it eats fish and extracts the

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DO LPHI N Dolphins are one of the most playful and intelligent animals on our planet. There are many different kinds of dolphin, perhaps the most famous is the Bottlenose dolphin.

GAME Guess the correct answer.

The largest type of dolphin is: A

the striped dolphin

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the bottlenose dolphin

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Choose the picture that you like the best and read what it says about your personality.

Stormy sea: you are direct and sincere, you don’t like wasting time and you face problems with energy and strength.

You have a strong personality and you are never indifferent. Sometimes you get angry but you have a heart of gold.

Snowy mountains: you are brave and you like challenges and adventure. You have lots of things that you want to do and you dream of success. You like winning and coming first. Pay more attention to the simple things in life.

Green hills:

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Snow leopards are animals in danger: there aren’t many left and they could disappear in a very short time because people hunt them. Around 3,000 snow leopards live in China, in the Tibet Mountains. Here there are also 300 Buddhist monasteries. Buddhism is a philosophy which respects every living creature: for this reason the Buddhist monks are helping to defend the leopards from hunters. The monks guard the leopards and they hide them in their monasteries when necessary.

you are a calm and quiet person. You like taking your time when you do things. You don’t like surprises and people who change their minds all the time. You are loyal and you love the right things.

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Desert: you are thoughtful and you like to be on your own. You are always asking yourself questions and you don’t always find the answers. You are very sensitive and you love art. You don’t like superficial people: you are very aware of the important values in life.

Snow leopards have “speckled” fur.

What is the meaning of “speckled”?

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it has small spots

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it has thin stripes

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it is a single colour

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Whipsnade was opened on Sunday 23 May 1931. It was such a big success that the following Monday it received 38,000 visitors. One of the first features of the zoo was the Brown Bear enclosure, which you can still see today! rd

Apart from visiting the animals this summer, including the new arrival of the six month old baby giraffe Savannah, you can do a lot of exciting things at the zoo this summer. You can work with the animal keepers, meet the penguins and even sleep at the zoo overnight!

Guests Apart from brown bears, the zoo is home to many different species of animals; over 200 different species to be more precise! And these animals come from all over the world, too! For example, you can see elephants from Asia, rhinos from Nepal, lions from Serengeti and even red pandas, whose natural habitat is the Himalayan Mountains!

Whipsnade Stampede If that’s not enough, why not take part in the fun run at Whipsnade? You can run (or walk, if you prefer) either 5km or 10km in a race around the zoo, passing some of the world’s rarest and most incredible animals on your way!

It is one of the most famous zoos in the United Kingdom and this summer there are lots of exciting and special things to see and do there.

Let’s visit Whipsnade Zoo!

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Whipsnade Zoo is a zoo and safari par which civers 600 acres. It is situated in the county of Bedfordshire in the South East area of England. Together with London Zoo, it is owned by the Zoological Society of London which is a charity dedicated to the conservation of animals all over the world.

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Myths and Legends

The Loch Ness Monster

Dinosaur facts We think that Nessie is a type of plesiosaurus, but in which period did the plesiosaurus really live?

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The Cretaceous period (144 million years ago) B

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Nessie is the name of the monster who lives in the lake called Loch Ness, in the Highlands of Scotland. On 2nd May 1933, Alex Campbell saw a strange creature in the water of Loch Ness. He described the creature as a “dragon or pre-historic animal”. Then in December of that year a photograph, taken by a man called Hugh Gray, was published in a national newspaper of a strange animal in the lake at Loch Ness. It seems to be similar to a type of dinosaur called the plesiosaurus. Many more people say that they have also seen and photographed the monster, but there is no real proof that it lives in the lake, or that it even exists. What do you think?

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It is probably the most famous legend from Scotland and certainly the most mysterious! Let’s meet Nessie!