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Transcript $ 1•51How the North Island got its shape: A Maori legend from New ZealandHave you ever noticed something strange about the North Island of New Zealand? If you look at a map, it looks like a fish! In fact, in a Maori story, it was a fish, a long, long time ago. This is the story of how the North Island got its shape.Many years ago, three giant brothers lived in Hawaii. One of the brothers, Maui, was special. He was very clever and very strong. And he loved playing tricks on his brothers.One day, his brothers decided to go fishing. But they wanted to go alone, without Maui, because they didn’t like his tricks. So they got up early, got into their canoe and went out to sea.But Maui tricked them! He hid in the bottom of the canoe. When he came out, they weren’t happy! “We’re going to take you home right now!” they said. “You can’t,” said Maui. “We’re in the middle of the ocean now. It’s too far!”So they all started fishing. Suddenly, Maui felt something. “I’ve got a fish!” he shouted. He started to pull. The fish was very big and very heavy, and Maui asked his brothers for help.They pulled and pulled and then … an island appeared! The brothers had pulled an island up from the bottom of the ocean! They were very surprised. The island-fish was flat – it didn’t have any mountains or valleys. Maui jumped onto the new island-fish. “Stay here” he said to his brothers. “I’ll come back soon. Wait for me! Don’t eat the fish!” But his brothers didn’t wait. “I’m hungry,” said one. “Don’t listen to Maui,” said the other. So they cut into the island-fish and started to eat it.Their cuts made mountains and valleys on the island fish. They made the cliffs and caves. In fact, they made the North Island of New Zealand. That’s why the Maoris call it Te Ika a Maui – the fish of Maui.But, New Zealand has two big islands. If the North Island is a fish, then what is the South Island? The Maoris call it Te Waka a Maui – Maui’s canoe. They say that the small island at the end of the South Island is the anchor!And that’s the story of how the islands of New Zealand got their shapes.

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Transcript $ 2•49The children of Lir: A story from IrelandA long, long time ago in Ireland, there was a very important man called Lir. He lived in a castle with his wife and their four beautiful children. But one day, his wife died. Lir and the children were very sad.A few years later, Lir married again. His second wife was called Aoife. She loved Lir and at first she loved his children. But soon, she stopped loving the children, because she didn’t want to share Lir with them. So she made a terrible plan.One day, she took the children to a lake. While they were playing in the water, she said some magic words. The water turned to fog, and Aoife started to laugh. She laughed and laughed. The children looked at each other and they saw that they were swans – beautiful white swans! “You aren’t human now!” Aoife said “You’re swans. But I have left you one human thing. I have left you your voices. You can talk and you can sing. Your voices will be the most beautiful in the world.” Then she said “You will be human again in many years, when you hear the sound of a church bell.”Lir looked all over the castle for his children, but he couldn’t find them. Then, one of the swans flew to him and told him the story. He was furious, and he sent Aoife away.Lir visited his children on the lake every day. He listened to their beautiful singing and he was very sad. Eventually he died, and the swans flew away.Many years later, the swans were living on a small lake near the sea. One day, they were singing their beautiful song when old man called Mochua heard them. He asked “Are you the children of Lir?” They told him their story.Mochua invited the swan children to live with him. He lived near a small church and he decided to make a bell for it. He found lots of old swords and shields, which he used for their metal, and he started to work.At last, the bell was ready. As Mochua rang it, a white fog appeared on the lake. The wind blew the fog over the swans, then the fog changed to all the colours of the rainbow. The wind blew the fog away and the children reappeared. And that is the story of the Children of Lir.

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Transcript $ 3•30The woodcutter of Gura: A story from EthiopiaThis is a story about a man who lived in Ethiopia, in a place called Gura. One day, he needed some wood for his fire. So he picked up his axe, went out of the house and went to look for a tree.Soon, he found a big, dead tree near the river. He climbed up the tree, and sat on one of the branches. Then he took out his axe and started to cut the branch.As he was cutting it, one of his friends walked past. Everybody knew that this friend was a very clever man. He looked up and saw the man in the tree. “Hey!” he said “Don’t do that! Don’t cut the branch you’re sitting on. If you do, you’ll fall down and kill yourself!”“Don’t worry,” said the woodcutter, “I won’t fall down.”“OK – it’s your decision!” said his clever friend.The woodcutter continued cutting, – then suddenly, the branch broke! He fell to the ground. “Ouch” he said. “Oh no, my friend was right! First the branch broke, then I fell down – so now I’m dead!”When his neighbours found him, he didn’t speak and he didn’t move, because he thought he was dead.“He’s dead!” they said. They picked him up and carried him back to the village. “Stop!” shouted the woodcutter. “Don’t forget my axe.” “This way is the fastest,” said one. “No, that way is the fastest!” said another. The woodcutter pointed to the hill. “That’s the best way,” he said. So they went over the hill.When they arrived at his house, his family asked, “What happened?” “He was lying under a tree,” his friends said “A branch fell on him and killed him.”“No, no,” said the woodcutter. “It didn’t happen like that! I was cutting wood and I fell out of the tree, and now I’m dead!” Then his wife said, “Are you sure he’s dead?”“Of course I’m dead!” said the woodcutter. “My clever friend said I would fall out of the tree and die. And that is what happened. I fell out of the tree and now I’m dead.”“Oh,” said his wife. “I see.”Then she said, “But wait a minute. He didn’t see you fall. Perhaps you aren’t dead!”“Of course I’m dead!” said the woodcutter. Then he got up, picked up his axe and went out of the house. “And now,” he said, “I’m going to get some wood for the fire.”

152 ‘Learning through English’ posters

Poster 5 – Great river cities

Level 6, Unit 1

IntroductionAsk the class (use L1 where necessary):• What cities on rivers can you name? Or towns?• How many bridges can you see?• Which of these places would you most like to visit? Why?

Ask the questions on the posterDivide the class into five groups. Each group takes turns to go up to the poster and look.

Poster questions:Find these things in the poster:• two rivers in Europe (Amstel, Vltava)• three rivers in Asia (Huangpu, Chang Jiang / Yangtze,

Ganga)• two capital cities on rivers (Amsterdam, Prague)• a very ancient city (Varanasi)• a city which has changed a lot since the 1990s (Shanghai)Write these sentences on the board. While one group is looking at the poster, ask the other groups to say if they are true or false.• The river in Prague is called the Vltava. (true)• Shanghai is one of the world’s oldest cities. (false –

Varanasi is)• The Narnia films use Prague. (true)

Show and tell!Ask the class to bring in their information on other river cities. In groups, pupils show their river cities and, if possible, find them on maps. Make a display of their information.

Game: Invention anagrams• Write the cities: Amsterdam Shanghai Prague Varanasi

on the board. Divide the class into pairs. Give them one minute to write all the English words they can using the letters in the cities (e.g. there, dam). Feed back the words onto the board and check their spellings. The pair with the most words wins.

SUGGESTED WORDSriver, steps, red, have, give, pen, ant, heart, earth, rat, hear, get, sing, right, night, team, meat, shirt, shine, vase

Game: Invention pictionaryDivide the class into four groups. Give two groups city cards and two groups country cards and ask them to find their matching city or country.Use the places in the poster or places the pupils will know.

Poster 6 – Types of films

Level 6, Unit 6

IntroductionAsk the class (use L1 where necessary):• What types of film can you think of (L1)?• Which of these films would you most like to see? Why?• Which of these films would you least like to see? Why?• What’s your favourite film?

Ask the questions on the posterWrite the questions onto five pieces of paper or cards. Divide the class into five groups. Give a card to each group to find on the poster.What type of film might have these features?• a magic sword, a castle, a dragon• a chase, a car crash, a fight• singing, dancing, romance• comedy, talking animals, no human actorsWhich type of film is about real life, without actors?While one group is looking at the poster, ask the other groups to make a list of all the films they know. Can they say what type of films they are?

Show and tell!• Ask the class to write the names of films they have seen

(at home or at the cinema). Make a display of film names according to the types on the poster. Do a class survey on the most seen film and type of film.

Game: Guess the filmIf possible, use the films from the Show and tell! for this game. Choose a film you know and give some facts about it without saying the title (stars, film type). Pupils guess which film you’re talking about.

Game: True or false?Use the class survey from the Show and tell! Divide the class into two teams. Ask a pupil from one team to come up to the survey. Say a true or false sentence relating to the survey (e.g. more pupils have seen Finding Nemo than The Incredibles.) Ask a student from the opposing team to say if this is true or false. The student at the survey checks the answer. Repeat this procedure alternating between the two teams. Give points for correct answers. The team with the most points wins.

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Poster 7 – Survival in the city

Level 6, Unit 7

IntroductionAsk the class (use L1 where necessary):• Which animals can you see here?• What other animals survive in the city?• Which of these animals would you like to visit you where you

live?

Ask the questions on the posterWrite the questions onto five pieces of paper or cards. Divide the class into five groups. Give a card to each group to find on the poster. Can you find an animal which:• flies but isn’t a bird?• sings all through the year?• has a big furry tail?• is often kept as a pet?• turns its body into a ball to protect itself?

Show and tell!Ask the class to write a record of any wild animal they see outside school and within a time set by you. Do a class survey on the most seen wild animals and where they exist.

Game: Animal pictionaryDivide the class into two teams. One pupil from each team comes to stand at the board. Show them the name of an animal you have written on a piece of paper, e.g. hedgehog. When you say ‘go’, pupils have to draw the animal on the board. The first team to guess the animal gets a point.

Game: Letter arkDivide the class into groups. The first group to put their hands up with the mystery word is the winner.My first is in robin and in bat.My second is in hedgehog but not in fox.My third is in bat and in rat.My last is in rat but not in fox.(Clue: you can find me in some American cities)Answer: bear

Poster 8 – The busy night sky

Level 6, Unit 8

IntroductionAsk the class (use L1 where necessary):• How many planets can you name?• Which are bigger – meteors or meteorites? (meteorites)• How old will you be when Halley’s Comet appears in 2062?

Ask the questions on the posterWrite the questions onto four pieces of paper or cards. Divide the class into four groups. Give a card to each group to find on the poster.Point to these things in the pictures:• the head and tail of a comet (a)• Halley’s Comet in an old picture (b)• a place where a big meteorite landed on Earth (d)• small bits of dust in the night sky (g)Do this as a whole-class activity.

Show and tell!Ask the class to talk about what they have seen in the sky at night. They could also ask their families. Share the findings.

Game: What am I?Describe each of the three objects without naming them, e.g. I’m a big piece of rock from Mars. I travel very fast. I make craters where I fall. (meteorite)Pupils guess which object you are talking about.

Game: Sum it upMake cards for the situations below. Pupils take it in turns to describe what has happened in L1. The rest of the class try to think of the English for what is being described. You could do this for:You find a meteorite crater in the park.You look out of your bedroom window and see a meteor shower.You are in an aeroplane and from the window you see the tail of a comet.

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1 If she could do any job, she’d become a doctor.

2 If he

3 If she was rich,

4 If he

5 If she could travel anywhere,

6 If he

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3 Read, find the words and write.

lasro smesty sixa remadite srMa mono tibor

1 solar system Earth is part of one of

these. It is a group of planets with a star in the centre. In Earth’s, there are eight planets going around the Sun.

2 This is a red planet. A

day on this planet is just over 24 hours.

3 This line goes from a

planet’s north pole to its south pole. Each planet turns around this line through its centre.

4 This is the path that

planets follow when they go around the Sun. It takes the Earth one year to travel round the Sun on this path.

5 This goes around a

planet. It has got craters. Some planets have many of these.

6 The planets near Earth

are different sizes. This is the distance from one side of a planet to the other.

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Name Test991 Look and write.

1 The dinosaurs are on the first floor .

2 A is standing in the lift.

3 A man is coming though .

4 A boy is putting his rucksack in .

5 This poster tells you where to find .

6 Visitors can get a map at .

7 A girl is walking up .

8 You go out through the .

9 A girl is standing in front of .

10 This boy is listening to information through .

11 You can use an to find out about the things in the museum.

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2 Write questions.

1 Presenter: How many moons has Mars got ? Zoe: Mars has got two moons.

2 Presenter: What ? Adam: A penguin is black and white.

3 Presenter: How ? Zoe: A spider has got eight legs.

4 Presenter: Where ? Adam: The Romans lived in Italy.

5 Presenter: What ? Zoe: The Lumière brothers invented the

film projector.

6 Presenter: How ? Adam: Bears stay warm with their thick fur.

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Name Review Test 3

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1 Read and write the questions.

1 Which planet do you come from ? I come from the planet Zarg. I’m called a Zargian.

2 How long ? It took 20 years to get here.

3 ? Zarg is purple.

4 ? It has five moons.

5 ? It’s bigger than Earth but smaller than Jupiter.

6 ? It’s quite cold, and it’s often very stormy.

7 ? A day on Zarg is the same as 48 hours on Earth.

8 ? Yes, there are animals on Zarg. They look like cows, but they’re green.

9 ? Zarg is a billion kilometres from the Sun.

10 ? There are five planets in Zarg’s solar system.

11 ? We eat everything, including humans!

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2 Look and read. Write true or false.

1 She would like to live in Antarctica.

true

2 If it rains, they’ll stay dry.

3 The boy is listening to some music.

4 If he saw a tiger, he’d run away.

5 Eagles have got strong claws.

6 This box is the shape of a cylinder.

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3 Read and write answers.

1 Tom: Hi Pippa. Would you like to come to the Space Centre with me? Pippa: Yes, I’d love to.

2 Tom: What will you do with your rucksack if you can’t take it in? Pippa: in a locker.3 Pippa: Have you been to the Space Centre before? Tom: No, 4 Pippa: Where would you like to go first? Joey: the rocket display.5 Tom: How did the astronauts get to the moon? Pippa: They a spaceship.6 Pippa: What would you do if your rocket crashed on a planet? Joe: on my radio.

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Name Skills Test 3

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Listening

1 Listen and circle the correct answer. $ 4.17

1 Holi is … a a Hindu festival b a Christian festival c a Buddhist festival

2 Before Holi, people … a splash coloured water b go into the streets c light bonfires

3 During Eid, people … a don’t eat or drink b dress up in their best clothes c clean the house

4 They give poor people money so they can … a buy a car b celebrate Eid c make popcorn

5 The night before Chinese New Year, everyone … a lights fireworks b gives money to children c plays with lanterns

6 At the end of the festival, boys … a wear dragon costumes b decorate the house c have a big meal

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Reading

2 Read and write answers.

Blists Hill Victorian TownBlists Hill Victorian Town museum is about an hour from Birmingham, in the UK. Industry started here in the 18th century, and there were many ironworks, mines and factories in the area. The River Severn is near here, and huge wooden boats used to carry materials and products up and down the river.

The people who work at Blists Hill wear old-fashioned costumes, and the shops and buildings look just like buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries. There is a mine shaft that goes up and down, bringing coal from underground. There’s a high street with a bank where you can exchange your money for old money, and there’s a chemist with a dentists’ chair and dentists’ tools – they look quite frightening! You can buy hats, lace and clothes in the clothes shop, and you can even get a drink in the pub!

One of the things visitors like best is the Victorian school. Visitors sit on wooden benches, and a very strict teacher teaches a lesson. She asks the questions, and if the visitors don’t give the right answer, she throws chalk at them!

1 Which city is Blists Hill close to?

Blists Hill is close to Birmingham. 2 What did boats carry up and down

the River Severn?

3 What do the people who work at

Blists Hill wear?

4 Where is the dentists’ chair?

5 Where can you get a drink?

6 What does the teacher do if people

get questions wrong?

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Writing

3 Look and write about the planet.

Myropa 6What does it orbit? The suns Bari and Blink

How far from its sun? 150 million km

What colour is it? Orange and blue

How big is it? Same size as Earth

How long are the days there? 15 hours

What is on it? Seas, island, storms, volcanoes, small animals, plants

Can you visit? Yes – stay in space hotel

The planet is called . It orbits

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Speaking

4 Ask and answer questions about the museum.

Straight ahead and they’re on your left.

Can you tell me how to get to the stairs?

Turn right, …

Where’s the …?

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