Unit Title Theme Text type
1 My best friend Caring and sharing: Be considerate Diary
2 A day at the beach Language arts: Fun with plays Poem 3 Sandboarding Happy days: Entertainment and leisure E-mail
4 Cherry blossoms The world around us: Wonderful people Postcard
5 Stay happy online We love Hong Kong Leaflet
6 The story of the wolf Relationships Story
7 To my grandson Caring and sharing: Be considerate Letter 8 The Ugly Duckling Language arts: Fun with plays Play
9 Pastimes Happy days: Entertainment and leisure Questionnaire
10 Exams – Oh no! We love Hong Kong Survey report
Vocabulary quiz 1
11 My pen pal The world around us: Wonderful people Letter
12 Valentine’s Day Relationships Encyclopaedia
13 Fight for school! Caring and sharing: Be considerate Magazine article
14 It’s Santa! Language arts: Fun with plays Song
15 Save the sharks! We love Hong Kong Newspaper article
16 Train your brain Happy days: Entertainment and leisure Pamphlet
17 The master of fairy tales The world around us: Wonderful people Biography
18 Walking around Relationships Map
19 Communication Relationships Mind map
20 Wasting food We love Hong Kong E-mail
Vocabulary quiz 2 Prefixes and suffixes Vocabulary index
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Unit Title Theme Text type
1 My best friend Caring and sharing: Be considerate Diary
2 A day at the beach Language arts: Fun with plays Poem 3 Sandboarding Happy days: Entertainment and leisure E-mail
4 Cherry blossoms The world around us: Wonderful people Postcard
5 Stay happy online We love Hong Kong Leaflet
6 The story of the wolf Relationships Story
7 To my grandson Caring and sharing: Be considerate Letter 8 The Ugly Duckling Language arts: Fun with plays Play
9 Pastimes Happy days: Entertainment and leisure Questionnaire
10 Exams – Oh no! We love Hong Kong Survey report
Vocabulary quiz 1
11 My pen pal The world around us: Wonderful people Letter
12 Valentine’s Day Relationships Encyclopaedia
13 Fight for school! Caring and sharing: Be considerate Magazine article
14 It’s Santa! Language arts: Fun with plays Song
15 Save the sharks! We love Hong Kong Newspaper article
16 Train your brain Happy days: Entertainment and leisure Pamphlet
17 The master of fairy tales The world around us: Wonderful people Biography
18 Walking around Relationships Map
19 Communication Relationships Mind map
20 Wasting food We love Hong Kong E-mail
Vocabulary quiz 2 Prefixes and suffixes
New word(s) Repeated new word(s) Page
enjoyable, excellent, generous, mobile phone,
order, person 4
boiling, calm, land, swimsuit, wonderful 6
beginner, exhausted, frightened, problem,
sandboarding, slide 8
cherry blossom, popular, snow 10
dishonest, golden, impatient, junk mail,
manners, spam, treat 12
brick, delicious, dynamite, knock, stick, straw exhausted, wonderful 14
future, important, matter, recently, respect, steal 16
enormous, feather, handsome, scene, starving,
strange-looking 18
collect stamps, pastime, questionnaire, spend 20
attention, depressed, government, importance,
leisure, promote, social networking, suggest questionnaire 22 24
bedtime, elementary, enjoy, middle, simple, unlike 26
bow, dove, kill, marry, perform, romance, rose,
wedding 28
admire, bravery, fame, gain, injured, national, peace kill 30
awake, boots, gloves, goodness, jacket, pout 32
ban, cruel, expensive, extinct, protect, shark fin future, government, kill, popular 34 brain, creative, humorous, language, musical
instrument, route, sugary, train awake 36
available, collection, emperor, mermaid,
publish, tailor injured, language, wonderful 38
apartment, congested, field, neighbourhood, traffic route 40
communicate, connect, electronic, immediately,
laptop, overseas, text message expensive, mobile phone 42
compost, fridge, landfill, nowhere, nutrient,
recycle, waste future, government, problem, promote,
sandboarding 44
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Unit 6
The story of the wolf The story of the wolf
Alan is reading a new version of a classic story. Read it and answer the questions on the next page.
Text type:
story Text type:
story
New word(s) brick, delicious, dynamite, knock, stick, straw
Repeated new word(s) exhausted, wonderful
The big bad wolf and the pigs
Three little pigs said goodbye to their mother and left home. They walked for a long time and were very exhausted. The first little pig saw some yellow straw so she made a house with straw. The second little pig found some brown sticks so he made a house with sticks. The third little pig saw some red bricks so she made a house with bricks.
That night a hungry wolf blew down the straw house and ate the first little pig. ‘Yummy!’ he said.
Then the wolf went to the second little pig. He blew down the stick house and ate the second little pig. ‘Wonderful!’ he said.
Then the wolf knocked on the door of the third little pig. The wolf huffed and puffed but he could not blow down the brick house because it was too strong.
The wolf was very hungry so he sat down and thought about what he could do. ‘Aha, I have an idea!’ he said. He went and got some dynamite from his wolf friend. He put the dynamite by the door of the brick house.
‘Boom!’ He blew up the brick house and he ate the third little pig. ‘Delicious!’ he said.
The wolf lived happily ever after!
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Write the correct letters in the boxes.
1. How many characters were mentioned in the story?
A. four B. five
C. six D. seven
2. The wolf is .
A. frightened B. lazy
C. clever D. friendly
3. The of this story is different from the traditional one.
A. characters B. ending
C. setting D. beginning
4. Match the pictures with the correct words.
A. B. C. D.
bricks dynamite sticks straw Fill your answers in the spaces provided.
5. How did the wolf catch and eat the third little pig?
The wolf (a) the brick house by using (b) .
6. Which three words did the wolf use to describe the taste of the three little pigs?
(a)
(b)
(c)
Personification (giving animals or things a human character) is often used in stories that involve animals.
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1. Fill in the blanks with the given words. (9 marks)
Vocabulary Quiz 2
communicate route tailor wedding text message exercise traffic roses smart phone
Today is Jack’s (a) ! He is going to marry
Rebecca. When he got up he did some (b) because he likes to be healthy. Then he went to a flower shop to buy Rebecca some
(c) . Next he went to the (d) to pick
up his new clothes for the wedding. There were many cars on the road so the (e) was very bad. He tried to take a different (f) to the church for his wedding but that road was busy too. Oh no, he found he was going to be late! He wanted to send Rebecca a (g) but then he remembered he had left his
(h) at home. He couldn’t (i) with
her! Finally he got to the church but Rebecca was very angry because they could not celebrate their wedding on time.
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2. Label the pictures with words from Units 11-20. (5 marks)
(a) (b) (c)
(d) (e)
3. Label the clothing items (6 marks).
(a) (b) (c)
(d) (e) (f)
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Vocabulary in Minutes
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Around 120 grade-appropriate new words extracted from the units
Words are marked with syllable breaks, parts of speech, Chinese definitions and example sentences
Personalised booklet allows students to add their own words
English in Minutes goggles make vocabulary learning fun and easy
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de.li.cious (adj.) 美味的 e.lec.tro.nic (adj.) 電子的
e.g. The wolf thought the little pigs were e.g. An e-card is an electronic card.
delicious .
de.pressed (adj.) 沮喪的 e.le.men.tary
(adj.) 初級的
e.g. Exams make some students unhappy or e.g. Leo goes to elementary school in the USA.
depressed .
dis.ho.nest (adj.) 不誠實的 em.pe.ror (n.) 皇帝
e.g. Shop online carefully since some shops e.g. The Emperor’s New Clothes is a famous
might be dishonest . fairy tale by Andersen.
dove (n.) 鴿子 en.joy.able (adj.) 寫意的
e.g. Heart shapes and doves are commonly e.g. The new 3D cartoon was enjoyable . seen on Valentine's Day.
dy.na.mite (n.) 炸藥 en.joy (v.) 享受
e.g. The wolf put some dynamite by the door e.g. I enjoyed reading about your school life.
of the brick house to blow it up.
e.nor.mous (adj.) 巨大的
e.g. e.g. The chickens were small but the Ugly
Duckling was enormous .
ex.cel.lent (adj.) 卓越的
e.g. e.g. Alan has excellent grades at school.
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