Best Friends 1-6 Table of Content

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Mastery

C1

B2

Vantage

Effective Operational Proficiency

B1

Threshold

A1

A2

Waystage

Breakthrough

Basic User

Independent User

Proficient User

ISBN ISBN-10

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

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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.

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This motivating six-level course creates confident, independent young language learners of English. This series takes learners from Beginners to Pre-Intermediate level (A1 to A2) of the Common European Framework of Reference. 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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1 It’s a shark.

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2 There’s a spider on the desk!

28

3 This is my mom.

50

4 Where’s Martha?

72

5 Can I help you?

94

Workbook

116

Picture Dictionary

147

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Contents Vocabulary

Social and Academic Language Functions

Grammar

Colors

Express social courtesies

Sizes

Ask and answer questions

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

1 It’s a shark. page 6

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

2 There’s a spider on the desk!

page 28

Classroom objects

Repeat spoken language

Regular plural nouns

Numbers 1–20

Count objects

How many There is / there are

read, count, sing, write, play, fall

Ask for and give information

3 This is my mom.

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

page 50

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 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 Where is/are . . .?

look for, hiding, where are you, there you are

5 Can I help you?

Possession: adjectives and nouns

page 94

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

Would you like . . . ?

Workbook page 116

Picture Dictionary page 147

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Listening

Pronunciation

Writing

Reading

Identify colors

sh

Sentence completion capital letters periods

Pets in the Reptile House

th

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’ CafÊ

Follow instructions

Identify numbers Follow instructions

Listen for specific information Follow instructions

Listen for prepositions Follow instructions

Determine the purpose for listening

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Mastery

C1

B2

Vantage

Effective Operational Proficiency

B1

Threshold

A1

A2

Waystage

Breakthrough

Basic User

Independent User

Proficient User

ISBN ISBN-10

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

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St ud e nt Book & Wor kbook

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

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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.

B est Friends

This motivating six-level course creates confident, independent young language learners of English. This series takes learners from Beginners to Pre-Intermediate level (A1 to A2) of the Common European Framework of Reference. 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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1 Can you play tennis? 2 Where’s the park?

6 28

3 In the morning I eat my breakfast. 50 4 What’s the weather like?

72

5 We’re having fun on the farm.

94

Workbook

116

Picture Dictionary

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Contents Vocabulary

Social and Academic Language Functions

1 Can you play tennis?

Grammar

page 6

Sports

Talk about abilities

Can/Can’t for ability

Toys

Ask for and give information

I like . . . Like + verb-ing Me, too.

2 Where’s the park?

page 28

Places

Ask for and give directions

Where is . . . ?

Transportation

Make suggestions

Prepositions of place: next to, between, behind, in front of Imperatives Adverbs: here, now

3 In the morning I eat my breakfast. Daily and leisure activities

page 50

Describe everyday routines

Time of day

Simple present tense I eat cereal for breakfast. In the afternoon we go to the park. We . . .

4 What’s the weather like? page 72 Weather

Describe the weather

It’s rainy.

Accessories for weather

Ask and answer questions about possession

This/These Possessive pronouns Is this your umbrella? No, it’s hers.

5 We’re having fun on the farm.

page 94

Farm animals

Describe what chores people are doing

Chores

Ask and answer questions about favorite animals

Zoo animals Activities

Workbook page 116 Picture Dictionary page 146

Present continuous tense I love elephants. So do I.


Listening

Pronunciation

Writing

Reading

Identify names of sports

Long vowel sounds: a, e, i

Sentence completion

The Pets and their Extreme Sports

Long vowel sounds: a, e, i, o

Write complete sentences

Pets on the Run

Silent e

Write about everyday activities

Pets Having Fun

ch, sh, and th sounds

Answer questions to write a paragraph

Pets in the Garage

Beginning consonant blends with s: st–, sp–, sl–, sn–, and sw–

Answer questions to tell a story

Monkey Business at the Zoo

Distinguish negative forms Listen for specific information

Listen for specific information Follow instructions

Listen for specific information Listen to order events

Listen for specific information Complete a picture

Identify pictures Listen for the main idea


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

ISBN ISBN-10

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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

B est Friends

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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1 Regular Routines

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2 Fun Festivals

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3 Memorable Museums

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4 Crazy Creatures

72

5 Worldly Wonders

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Workbook

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Glossary

146

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Contents Vocabulary

Social and Academic Language Functions

Grammar

1 Regular Routines page 6 School subjects

Ask for the time

Daily activities

Tell the time

What time is it? It’s . . . When’s . . . ?

Talk about daily activities

Simple present tense (Review)

Holidays

Talk about holidays you like

Some/Any

Party foods

Give reasons for liking a special holiday

Preposition: on

Quantities and containers of food

Describe food

Why/Because

2 Fun Festivals

page 28

3 Memorable Museums

page 50

Dinosaurs

Ask and answer questions about dinosaurs

Was/Were

Descriptive adjectives

Describe portraits

Object pronouns

Paintings and portraits

Talk about activities in the past

Simple past tense: Regular verbs Time expressions

4 Crazy Creatures page 72 Animals

Describe animals

Comparative adjectives

Descriptive adjectives

Compare animals

Superlative adjectives

Talk about what you know about animals

I think/know . . .

5 Worldly Wonders

page 94

Countries, nationalities, and landmarks

Identify nationalities and landmarks

They are Canadian.

Weather

Make and respond to questions about weather

What about . . . ? Have to / Has to

Workbook page 116

Glossary page 146

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Listening

Pronunciation

Writing

Reading

Identify pictures

ea

Capital letters

Peter Pan and Wendy: Fly with Me!

Listen for the main idea and specific details

Identify people in a picture

Write about personal routines

-y

Listen for the main idea and specific details

Identify pictures

ay

Listen for the main idea and specific details

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Structuring a paragraph Write about the recent past

ou

Listen for the main idea and specific details

Identify pictures

Peter Pan and Wendy: Neverland

Write about a favorite festival or holiday

Listen for the main idea and specific details

Identify pictures

Commas in lists of words

More capital letters Write about a favorite animal

ow

More capital letters

Peter Pan and Wendy: Captain Hook and the Pirates

Peter Pan and Wendy: The pirates take the children.

Peter Pan and Wendy: Back Home in London

Write about your country

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

ISBN ISBN-10

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4

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

B est Friends

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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1 Fond Friends

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2 Fun Food

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3 Past People

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4 Healthy Habits

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5 Amazing Architecture

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Workbook

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Glossary

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Contents Vocabulary

Social and Academic Language Functions

Grammar

Physical description

Describe people and animals

What does she look like?

Personality

Talk about likes and dislikes

What is she like? I think she’s clever.

1 Fond Friends

page 6

Say what you are good at likes/doesn’t like verb + -ing . . . is good at . . .

2 Fun Food

page 28

Healthy snacks

Offer a snack

Would you like . . . ?

Food portions

Accept or refuse a snack

How about . . . ? Pronouns: something, nothing, all

3 Past People

page 50

Life in the past

Talk about life in the past

Simple past: questions

Ancient Egyptian life and inventions

Compare past and present life

Clauses with when

Talk about inventions that change our lives

Could/Couldn’t

4 Healthy Habits

page 72

Ailments

Talk about ailments

I have a headache. My head hurts.

Remedies

Ask for and give advice

Must/Mustn’t

Talk about healthy habits

Should/Shouldn’t

5 Amazing Architecture

page 94

Architectural features

Describe famous places and constructions

Relative clauses

Dimensions

Ask and say what constructions were made for

Adjectives and adverbs

Shapes

Infinitive of purpose

Workbook page 116

Glossary page 146

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Listening

Pronunciation

Writing

Reading

Listen for the main idea

oy

Conjunctions: and or but

Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz: The Cyclone

Write about your best friend

Identify sequence of events

Identify pictures

or

Listen for the main idea Listen for specific details

Identify sequence of events

Punctuation: periods, question marks, and exclamation points

Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz: The Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Lion

Write about your favorite snack food

oo

Listen for the main idea

Clauses: when Write about the Ancient Egyptians

Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz: The Emerald City

Listen for specific details

Identify people in a picture

ur

Listen for the main idea

Joining sentences: so Write about healthy habits

Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz: The Wicked Witch

Listen for specific details

Identify pictures Listen for the main idea

igh

Using relative clauses Write about a famous man-made landmark

Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz: Home Again

Listen for specific details

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ISBN ISBN-10

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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

B est Friends

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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2 Wild Weather

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3 Cool Clothes

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4 Incredible Inventions

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5 Super Sports

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Glossary

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Contents Vocabulary

Social and Academic Language Functions

Grammar

1 Friends and Family page 6 Extended family

Talk about people’s past lives

Family relationships

Say what happened before or after a certain event or date

Time clauses: before, after, and when Review: Wh- questions

2 Wild Weather page 28 Stormy weather

Describe stormy weather

Feelings

Talk about simultaneous actions

Pronouns with some-, any-, every-, and noPast continuous tense

3 Cool Clothes

page 50

Clothing and accesories

Confirm ideas

Tag questions

Order of descriptive words

Talk about plans for the immediate future

Future tense: going to / will

4 Incredible Inventions page 72 Materials

Say what materials things are made of

Modern inventions

Guess how things work or what they are for

Present passive voice Review: Infinitive of purpose

5 Super Sports

Might

page 94

Sports competitions

Talk about athletes and sports events

Shall for suggestions Comparative adjectives (more/less)

Make comparisons Superlative adjectives (the most / the least)

Workbook page 116

Glossary page 146

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Listening

Pronunciation

Writing

Reading

Listen for the main idea

wh

Order actions

Gulliver’s Travels: Gulliver in the Land of the Little People

Write about a family member

Listen for specific information

Listen for the main idea

Short e sound spelled ea

Long e sound spelled y

Short u sound spelled oo

Listen for specific information

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Listen for specific information

Listen for the main idea

Prepare to write

Gulliver’s Travels: Lilliput Has Problems

Write about favorite clothes

Listen for specific information

Listen for the main idea

Gulliver’s Travels: The King of Lilliput

Write a narrative paragraph

Listen for specific information

Listen for the main idea

Time transitions

Silent e

Reasons with because Write about a favorite sport

Gulliver’s Travels: Gulliver in the Land of the Big People

Gulliver’s Travels: The King and Queen of Brobdingnag

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

6

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

978-981-4370-10-3 981-4370-10-X

9 789814 370103

CD

6

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

B est Friends

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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1 Awesome Authors

6

2 Perfect Places

28

3 Colorful Careers

50

4 Spectacular Space

72

5 Timely Transport

94

Workbook

116

Glossary

146


Contents Vocabulary

Social and Academic Language Functions

Grammar

1 Awesome Authors page 6 Entertainment: films and books

Talk about preferences

Would rather

Say what activities began at a certain date

Present perfect tense

Genres For and since

2 Perfect Places

page 28

Geographical regions

Talk about extreme (or exotic) geographical regions

Nature

Very, too, and enough She hasn’t fed the cats yet.

Talk about travel experiences or plans Extreme temperature

3 Colorful Careers

Ever and never

page 50

Professionals

Talk about what a person does

Review: who and that

Occupations

Discuss a person’s interests and concerns

Real conditional (First conditional)

Jobs

Phrasal verbs: interested in, excited about, and care about

4 Spectacular Space page 72 Space

Make comparisons

Space travel

Discuss unreal or fantasy situations

More, the most, fewer, and the least Unreal conditional (Second conditional)

5 Timely Transport

page 94

Transportation

Talk about uncommon transportation

May, might, and could for possibility

Speed

Make comparisons

As . . . as So and such

Workbook page 116 Glossary page 146


Listening

Pronunciation

Writing

Reading

Listen for the main idea

Long u sound spelled ew

How to write a biography

The Red Dragon: The Northern Tribe

Listen for specific information

Listen for the main idea

Write about a favorite author

F sound spelled ph

Listen for specific information

Listen for the main idea

er

Listen for specific information

Supporting and concluding sentences

The Red Dragon: The Dragon Rider

Write about a favorite career or job

S sound spelled c (Soft c)

Listen for specific information

Listen for the main idea

The Red Dragon: The Dragons’ Cave

Write about a familiar place

Listen for specific information

Listen for the main idea

Topic sentence

Irrelevant sentences

The Red Dragon: Armies from the South

Write about a planet

K sound spelled c (Hard c)

Stating advantages or reasons Write about the best form of transportation

The Red Dragon: A New Beginning


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