Collins International Primary GP 4 SB

Student’s Book 4

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INTERNATIONAL PRIMARY GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

3.4 What shall I do? 42 3.5 Let’s collaborate! 44 3.6 Let’s create! 46 Unit3 Final task: Plan a drama performance 48 Reflection: How successful was our drama performance? 50 Unit4: Happiness! 51 4.1 What is happiness? 52 4.2 What makes people happy? 54 4.3 Is happiness important? 56 4.4 Can money make you happy? 58 4.5 How can we make other people happy? 60 4.6 Where are the happiest places? 62 Unit4 Final task: Research and communicate information about World Children’s Day 64 Reflection: How successful was our research and communication? 66 Unit5: Hungry for change 67 5.1 What do we need? 68 5.2 Should we all have the same? 70 5.3 How much does a bowl of bean stew cost? 72 5.4 What is hunger? 74 5.5 How are we dealing with hunger? 76 5.6 Can we solve the problem of world hunger? 78 Unit5 Final task: Create an infographic about global hunger 80 Reflection: How successful was our infographic? 82 Glossaryofkeyterms x Acknowledgements x SamplePages

1Unit The world we live in

What do you know?

• What can you see in the photo?

• What is the girl making?

What is she wearing?

How is she making these things?

In this unit, you will:

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discuss technology and how it affects us and our planet

read and discuss different people’s views on different technologies

give your own opinion and say if you agree or disagree with other people’s opinions

do a survey

have a debate

write an online post.

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What do you think about printing?

What is the teacher doing in the picture? How does a printer work?

can you do with a printer?

Read the message from Himari. Does she have a positive or negative opinion about printing? How do you know?

Hi, I’m Himari. In my opinion, printing is great because our teacher can print us copies of worksheets and we can write on them and keep them. However, I also think there is a problem with printing because it uses a lot of paper.

Key term opinion: what a person thinks about something

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Read the message from Adriana. Does she agree with Himari? How do you know? Does she have a positive or negative opinion about printing?

Hi, Himari. My name’s Adriana. I agree that printing helps us learn better and we can print out our work and our projects. That means we can make wall displays or show our families. I disagree that using paper is a problem, because at our school we reuse as much paper as we can and then we recycle it.

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What

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Positive ✓ Negative ✗ ✓ Evaluation ✓ Analysis ✓ Research

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you have a

would you print?

D printer.

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4 Who do you agree with most, Himari or Adriana? Can you say why? 5 Describe the objects. How do you think they were made? How did you identify Himari’s and Adriana’s ideas about printing? Talking point6 What do you know about 3D printing? Discuss it in your groups. Fill in the KWL chart on the worksheet. 7 Read the text on the worksheet. What is the writer’s opinion of 3D printing? How do you know? Find three words that tell you. 8 Imagine

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What

Draw

picture on the worksheet. Write a sentence explaining what it is and why you would make it. 3 SamplePages

1.2 How do I know what someone thinks? 1 Do a jigsaw reading about 3D printing. Your teacher will give you a text to read. Ask your partner questions. 2 Which of the pictures below matches your reading text? ✓ Evaluation ✓ Analysis ✓ Research 4 SamplePages

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3 Answer the questions about the text. a How many points about 3D printing does the writer make? What are they? b Is the writer for, against or not sure about 3D printing? c What key words or phrases in your text tell you the writer’s ideas? 4 Work with a new partner. Compare your texts. • Do the writers mention the same points? • Do they think the same things about these points? • Do they think the same things about 3D printing? 5 Make a list of pros and cons about 3D printing. What did you learn in the jigsaw reading task that you did not know or had not thought of before? Do you

this information was useful in helping you to think about the wider topic of technology? Talking point Key terms for: to think something is a good idea against: to think something is a bad idea pros and cons: the good and bad points about something 6 What can you add to your KWL chart? SamplePages

1.3 What do I think about 3D printing?

1 Read the infographic. What is it about?

One third of people in a survey believe that all homes in the future will be 3D printed. 3D printed homes are…

Analysis

more energy efﬁcient cheaper quicker to build

more resistant to natural disasters.

2 What amount of people do not think that all homes in the future will be 3D printed? What amount of people would not consider living in a 3D printed house?

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3 Answer Himari’s questions.

Two thirds of people in a survey would consider living in a 3D printed home.

Key term infographic: a text with pictures, numbers and symbols to help us understand information about a topic

Do you think the infographic gives a positive view of 3D printed homes or a negative view? Would more people consider living in a 3D printed home than not living in one?

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✓ Evaluation

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a 3D printed home,

will last for very long.

idea of living in a 3D

not sure if it will be

built house.

house

I love

be very

can’t afford to buy a house, so I hope that 3D printed houses will be cheaper.

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4 Who has a positive view and who has a negative view? How conﬁdent are you in understanding the information in an infographic? How conﬁdent are you in recognising what a writer thinks about something? Talking point 5 Which two speakers have similar ideas about 3D printed houses? 6 Add to your KWL chart. 7 Take turns to ask and answer these questions with a partner. • What is your opinion? • Would you live in a 3D printed home? Why, or why not? I’d love to live in a 3D printed

because

technology and a 3D printed

would

modern. I could design it exactly how I wanted it, too. I’m interested in the

printed home, but I’m

as strong as a traditionally

I don’t want to live in

because I don’t think it

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1.4 What do you think?

Read and answer

question.

How can we find out what other people think about living in

printed homes?

2 Plan research questions.

First, discuss these questions in your group.

• What do we want to know?

• Do we need open or closed questions?

Then write your questions.

Do you think that homes in the future will be

printed?

One third of people in a survey believe that all homes in the future will

3D printed homes are…

printed.

more energy

more resistant to natural disasters.

Two thirds of people in a survey would consider living in a 3D printed home.

build

Key terms

survey: a way to ﬁnd out information from a lot of different people by asking them all the same question open question: a question where the person asked can give any answer they want closed question: a question where the person asked chooses one of several given answers

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Himari’s

✓ Research

3D

be 3D

efﬁcient cheaper quicker to

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Top

How conﬁdent do you feel about planning research questions and carrying out a survey? Talking point 3 Share your questions with the class. Decide on the four best questions. Copy them onto the worksheet. 4 Carry out your survey. Record the answers on the worksheet. • Ask for permission to do the survey. • Explain what the survey is about. • Record the answer(s). • Be polite.

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1.5 How do I show survey results?

✓ Communication ✓ Research

1 Read Adriana’s question. What suggestions can you give her for showing the results of her survey?

What an interesting survey! I’ve got my results, but I’m not sure how to show them. Do you have any ideas?

2 Look at the results of your survey on the worksheet.

a

Use one of the methods you have just discussed to record the results of your survey.

b Share your results with the class. Are some ways of recording the results better than others? Which ones? Why?

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Top tips

Smile.

up straight.

at your audience.

Speak clearly so everyone can hear and understand

3 Look at your survey results on the worksheet again. Now create an infographic to show the results. First, discuss in your groups how you will present your infographic, then design it together. Use the Top tips to help you. Remember! An infographic is a text with pictures, numbers and symbols to help us understand information about a topic. What do you like about your infographic? How could you improve it next time? How do you think working as a team helped to make the infographic better? Talking point 5 Were you surprised by any of the results of your survey? Would you change any of the questions if you were doing the survey again? 4 Present your infographic to the class. • Use images and words together. • Include numbers and fractions. • Make your infographic easy to understand and attractive to look at.

• Stand

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• Look

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you.

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1.6 What do you think about wind farms? 1 Discuss the picture. What technology does it show? ✓ Evaluation ✓ Communication a What do wind farms make? b What type of this thing do they make? c How do they make it? d What are the structures on a wind farm called? e What do the blades do? 2 Do you think wind farms are a good idea? Do you think everybody thinks the same as you? 3 What do you know about wind farms? Take the quiz to ﬁnd out! 12 SamplePages

Read the text on the worksheet and check your answers.

5 Read the text again. Does it give facts or opinions?

6 Play ‘Go ﬁsh!’. Your teacher will give you some sentences. Are they facts or opinions?

Key terms fact: something that can be proved to be true opinion: a thought or belief about something, which cannot be proved to be true or false

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Read the message from Adriana. What could you do to help her? Then read Himari’s reply. What does she suggest?

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I’m confused. I don’t know whether wind farms are good or bad. Can you help me decide?

You could have a fishbowl debate!

8 Have a ﬁshbowl debate about whether wind farms are good or bad. Debate the question: Should we build a new wind farm where we live?

Key term debate: a long discussion where one set of people argue in favour of something and the other set of people argue against it

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Read the message from Adriana. What words or phrases could she use?

10 Adriana has asked her friends about wind farms. Read what they said. Answer the questions.

a What words or phrases do Adriana’s friends use to show opinions?

b What words or phrases do they use to give their reasons?

c Who uses personal experience in their reason?

d Who uses a fact or facts in their reason?

e Who uses a personal view in their reason?

f Who is in favour of wind farms and who isn’t?

I think wind farms are really important because they supply clean energy, and this will help us fight climate change. Victoria

I think wind farms are good because they make electricity and we need electricity to power our homes and schools, but I wouldn’t like a wind farm where I live because they are ugly and noisy. Sofia

I live near a wind farm and I think it looks quite pretty, especially when the turbines are moving round in the wind. You can’t really hear the wind farm from the town, only if you are close to it. Catalina

Okay, I know what I think about wind farms now, but how do I give my opinion?

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12 Choose a colour. I am for wind farms. I am against wind farms. 13 In your group, complete the paragraph on the worksheet. Is someone’s view a fact or an opinion? Did any of today’s activities make you change your view of wind farms? Why? Talking point 11 Read Alba’s reply to Adriana’s question. Is she for or against wind farms? Why? In my opinion, we should use other forms of renewable energy rather than wind farms because wind farms can be dangerous for birds and bats. Alba 15 SamplePages

Unit1 Final task: Write an opinion about space exploration

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in teams of three or four. Read some online posts about space exploration

decide what the writers

about

Use the information

a pros and cons list about space exploration.

the posts and your own knowledge

one post

your group’s opinion

write a reply post

Read

ﬁnal task and discuss the question. Work

and

think

it.

in

to make

Choose

and

which gives

about the writer’s view and explains why. 1 How do you think you will be successful in this task? Use the words in bold to help you. 2 Look at the pages from a book below. What do you know about space exploration? ✓ Evaluation ✓ Analysis ✓ Reﬂection 16 SamplePages

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Read the online posts. Do the writers agree about space exploration? What are their views?

www.space…

A In my opinion, space exploration is a waste of time and money. We spend millions of dollars every year on improving space technology. I think that we should use that money to help people who live in poverty on our planet instead. Space scientists should use their knowledge to improve life on Earth and to help in the ﬁght against climate change.

www.space…

B Space exploration is so exciting and important. Not only does space exploration mean that in the future, when there are too many people living on Earth, we might be able to choose to go and live on another planet, but also, we have so much new technology thanks to space scientists. For example, did you know, that it was space scientists who designed the latest wind turbines. They wanted to make them really strong so that they would work on Mars, and now, thanks to this, we have wind farms generating clean energy all over the world. Did you also know that thanks to space satellites, we can monitor changes to our planet more easily?

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Make a pros and cons list about space exploration.

Choose either post A or post B. Write a response.

We agree/disagree with the writer of post A/B because…