PREFACE

RECOMMENDED READING

Below is a short list of books you may find interesting. • Narnia (C. S. Lewis) • The Nine Lives of Montezuma (Michael Morpurgo) • Mr Stink (David Walliams) • Billionaire Boy (David Walliams) • Junie B Jones (Barbara Park) • The One and Only Ivan (Katherine Applegate) • Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (J. K. Rowling) • Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Jeff Kinney) • All children’s books by Roald Dahl including James and the Giant Peach;

Matilda; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Charlie and the Great Glass

Elevator; George’s Marvellous Medicine; Danny the Champion of the World. • A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L’Engle) • How to Train Your Dragon (Cressida Cowell) • A Light in the Attic (Shel Silverstein: a book of poetry) • Charlotte’s Web (E. B. White) • Tale of a 4th Grade Nothing; Superfudge; Fudge a Mania; Double Fudge (Judy

Blume) • Mr Nobody’s Eyes (Michael Morpurgo) • A Series of Unfortunate Events (Lemony Snicket) • Books by Jenny Nimmo (including Henry and the Guardians of the Lost) • Books by Lauren St John (The Last Leopard; The White Giraffe and series)

INTRODUCTION

This study guide has four units and 18 lessons. Each lesson is taught over two weeks.

• Unit 1 has five themed lessons. • Unit 2 has four themed lessons. • Unit 3 has five themed lessons. • Unit 4 has four themed lessons. • At the end of Units 2 and 4, you will write exams.

Each lesson consists of four sections: • Listening and speaking • Reading and viewing • Writing and presenting • Language structures and conventions

Each of these sections has activities. At the beginning of each lesson is a list of what is covered in that lesson. At the end of each lesson, there are remedial and extension activities which you may complete if time allows.