Best Friends Student Book 1 Unit 1

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Components: For Students Student Book with Workbook Student Audio CD Interactive Readers for Levels 3–6

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St ud e nt Book & Wor kbook

Milada Broukal • Andy Cowle

For Teachers Teacher’s Edition Big Books for Levels 1 and 2 Learning Posters 3–6 Classroom Audio CD Online Resource Package

ISBN ISBN-10

978-981-4370-05-9 981-4370-05-3

9 789814 370059

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Friends

Student Book & Workbook

The Teacher’s Edition offers: • full-size Student Book pages interleaved with easy-to-follow teaching notes; • ample opportunities to monitor, assess, and track students’ progress; • a bank of supplementary and testing materials; and • a program syllabus with clear lesson aims to guarantee students’ success.

Empowering Minds • Improving Lives

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This motivating six-level course creates confident, independent young language learners of English. Addressing the varied learning styles and changing interests of primary school students, Best Friends provides: • an innovative mix of original stories, factual content, cartoons, and classical literature to develop literacy and information fluency; • realistic, playful characters to give a meaningful and memorable context to new language acquisition; • built-in Learning Posters to engage children in warm-up, practice, and assessment activities; • cross-curricular content pages for students to learn about the world around them using English; • integrated Workbook pages to extend or recycle classroom learning or for independent practice; • a Picture Dictionary (for Levels 1 and 2) or Illustrated Glossary (for Levels 3–6) to promote active vocabulary building; and • a Student Audio CD for additional listening practice of wonderful songs, stories, and dialogs.

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Published by Alston Publishing House Pte Ltd 6 Battery Road, #29-03, Singapore 049909 Main: (65) 6538 3990 Fax: (65) 6538 3991 Email: enquiry@alstonpublishinghouse.com Website: http://www.alstonpublishinghouse.com © 2012 Alston Publishing House Pte Ltd All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. First published 2012 Reprinted ISBN 978-981-4370-05-9 Publisher: Sim Wee Chee Managing editor:  Ann Teo Editorial team:  Deborah Tham and Marjorie Ang Printed in China by PWGS

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2 There’s a spider on the desk!

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3 This is my mom.

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4 Where’s Martha?

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5 Can I help you?

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Workbook

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Picture Dictionary

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Contents Vocabulary

Social and Academic Language Functions

Grammar

Listening

Pronunciation

Writing

Reading

Colors

Express social courtesies

Identify colors

sh

Ask and answer questions

Sentence completion capital letters periods

Pets in the Reptile House

Sizes

It’s a . . . Is it . . . ? Yes, it is. No, it isn’t.

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Sentence completion capital letters periods

Pets in the Classroom

Rhyming sounds

Sentence completion periods question marks

A Birthday Party

Short vowel sounds

Sentence completion periods

Hide and Seek

R-controlled vowels: ir

Sentence completion periods question marks

At the Pets’ Café

1 It’s a shark. page 6 Follow instructions

shark, turtle, fish, snake, frog, stick-bug, spider, hamster

2 There’s a spider on the desk!

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Classroom objects

Repeat spoken language

Regular plural nouns

Identify numbers

Numbers 1–20

Count objects

How many There is / there are

Follow instructions

read, count, sing, write, play, fall

Ask for and give information

3 This is my mom.

What are they doing? They’re verb+ing.

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Family members

Describe family relationships

Physical descriptions

Describe people

birthday, cake, party, candle, wish, present, picture, thank you

Express social courtesies

Who’s this? It’s my . . . Personal pronouns

Listen for specific information Follow instructions

Pronoun + is/are + adj Have/has

4 Where’s Martha? page 72 Rooms of the house

Describe location

Furniture

Ask and answer questions

Prepositions: in, on, under

Listen for prepositions Follow instructions

Where is/are . . .? look for, hiding, where are you, there you are

5 Can I help you?

Possession: adjectives and nouns

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Clothing

Express likes and dislikes

Do you like . . . ?

Food and drink

Express social courtesies

Here you are.

I’m hungry, menu, please, sorry, good idea

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Picture Dictionary page 147

Would you like . . . ?

Determine the purpose for listening


What’s your name?

Is it a shark? Yes, it is.

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Nice to meet you. T-2

Listen, point, and read.

Hey, mr. Turtle. I’m Chris. What’s your name?

Nice to meet you.

Listen and repeat.

Conversation

Annie: Hello. Sam: Hi. Annie: What’s your name? Sam: Sam. Annie: I’m Annie.

Yeah. See you around.

Practice with a partner. Say your name. I’m Timothy. My friends call me Tim.

What’s your name? T-4

Hello, mrs. Fish. I’m Chris. What’s your name?

Listen and chant.

Nice to meet you.

What’s your name? What’s your name? I’m Annie. I’m Annie. What’s your name? What’s your name? I’m Sam. I’m Sam. What’s your name? I’m . . .

Practice Make greeting cards.

I’m alice. This is Susy, Kim, Robbie, Jaime, and Oscar.

Nice to meet you, too.

Play a game. Pick a card. Greet a partner.

Act out the story.

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T-6

Vocabulary T-5

Listen and read.

Color and say.

Listen and read.

It’s a turtle.

It’s orange.

It’s green.

turtle

orange

fish

Grammar

Practice with a partner. 1

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green shark T-7

Listen and read. Is it a dolphin?

blue No, it isn’t.

starfish

red

Yes, it is.

Is it a shark?

octopus yellow

Practice with two partners.

dolphin purple

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Pronunciation T-8

Look and listen.

fish

Reading

sh T-9

Listen, read, and say.

shark

A shark is a fish.

Listening

What color is it? T-10

Listen and check.

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Story Words T-11

Before You Read

Listen and point.

T-12

Listen and read.

tiny

big

Manny is a stick-bug. He is a tiny green stick-bug.

Martha is a hamster. She is a little brown hamster.

Frank is a spider. He is a big blue spider.

little

frog

snake

Practice with a friend. Talk about the pictures. It’s little.

It’s a little frog.

Look! They are in the Reptile House.

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T-13

MARTHA: It’s a big snake! MANNY: Yes, it is. I’m a big stick-bug. FRANK: No, you aren’t. You’re tiny and you’re red! Hurry up, Martha. Let’s go.

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MARTHA: Look, it’s tiny! FRANK: I am not. MARTHA: No! Not, you! The frog is tiny!

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FRANK: This is fun! MARTHA: This is fun! MANNY: This isn’t fun. Let’s go!

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Comprehension

Writing Write. Draw. Present.

Read and circle. It’s a snake.

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It’s a big black spider.

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It’s a big green frog.

It’s a spider. It’s purple.

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It’s a little red snake.

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It’s a tiny purple frog.

Read and draw. This is fun!

capital letter

period

It’s a ________________________________. It’s _________________________________. 22

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Art Class

Let’s make an aquarium.

Let’s make colors.

Materials

Team Project

Read and color. red + blue = purple

blue + yellow = green paper

tape

yellow + red = orange

a shoe box

string

colored pencils

paint and paintbrush

scissors

Instructions

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Draw.

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Cut.

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Attach.

My Favorite Color

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Finished!

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Review It’s blue.

Flip a coin. Move your marker. Say.

Move 2 squares.

Move 1 square.

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Vocabulary: Colors

Social Language Function: Greetings

What color is it?

Pet Finger Puppets

Read and color.

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Grammar: It’s a . . .

What is it? Look at the picture. Answer the question. Is it a fish?

Is it a turtle?

Is it a shark?

Is it a starfish?

Is it an octopus?

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Comprehension Skill:: Characters

Vocabulary: Key words

Who is missing?

The Reptile House

Look at the picture. Draw Manny, Frank, and Martha.

Read each sentence. Write a word from the box. little

snake

1 Look! It’s a _________________.

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frog

spider

tiny

4 It’s a ________________ frog.

Look! It’s a _________________.

5 It’s a ________________ snake.

3 Look! It’s a _________________.

6 It’s a ________________ spider.

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