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Discovery

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MINI DICTIONARY What’s the weather like?

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Hello everyone!

My name is Lynn and this year we’ll have great fun with our friends at the farm: Robby, Dylan, Charlotte and Gracie… our new friends! You can cut them out from the insert in the magazine, play with them, and tell their stories. In this issue we’ll learn about the seasons and the weather.

Let’s have fun!

See you soon, Lynn

Contents 2 A rhyme

The Ready friends 4 Mini dictionary

What’s the weather like?

6 Let’s play!

8 Discovery

The National Space Centre 10 Story Corner

My favourite season 12 Culture site

H is for… Harvest Festival 14 Let’s play at Forest Farm!

16 Delicious desserts

Pumpkin pie

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A rhyme

The Ready friends Here they come, the Ready friends, singing and dancing; the fun never ends!

Here’s our friendly rabbit, Robby, giving hugs is his favourite hobby.

Charlotte the cow, making everyone laugh, she really is a crazy calf!

Here comes the elegant Charlie the cat, the perfect feline aristocrat!

And there’s Hattie, the clever hen, she guesses all the answers, again and again!

And Dylan too, our lovable duck, when he plays rap music, it brings good luck.

Last of all, here’s our goat Gracie, always full of energy, she’s never lazy!

Here they come, the Ready friends, singing and dancing; the fun never ends!

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Illustrator: Laura Deo

What are the names of the Ready friends?

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Mini dictionary

What’s the weather like?

It’s sunny

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Read the words aloud.

There’s a rainbow

It’s cold

It’s cloudy

It’s windy

It’s raining

It’s hot

The weather is good

The weather is bad

The seasons

There’s a storm

Illustrator: Laura Deo

It’s snowing

spring

summer

autumn

winter

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Fun and games 1 Look and complete. Connect

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Answers on page 11.

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Discovery

The National Space Centre

Welcome to a very special museum - The National Space Centre. It’s out of this world! Let’s take a look…

The National Space Centre in Leicester, is an exciting and interactive museum all about space science and astronomy.

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You can take a journey M through time, when you visit the historical spacesuits of the past, or see a real piece of moonrock, taken on the Apollo 17 mission in 1972! Then you can sit back and watch the stars in the spectacular planetarium show.

Visit https: //spacecentre.co.uk/

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It is home to six interactive galleries, the U.K.’s largest planetarium and even a 13 meters high tower in which you can see a full-size rocket!

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Story Corner

My favourite season

Today, the Ready friends are enjoying the end of the summer at Forest Farm. They are playing in the sun, but Charlotte is a little sad.

What’s the matter Charlotte?

Don’t cry!

I’m sad because summer is ending.

I love the sun.

Charlotte cries and Robby tries to make her feel better.

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Which is your favourite season, my friends?

Hattie explains that there are four seasons in the year.

I don’t like summer very much… I’m too afraid of storms!

You’re right, Hattie! I prefer autum, when the sun plays hide-and-seek with the clouds.

Hattie tells Charlie why she doesn’t like summer very much.

Answers: Page 3: The ready friends are: Robby the rabbit, Charlie the cat, Dylan the duck, Charlotte the cow, Gracie the goat and Hattie the hen.

Pages 5-6: 1 1 sunny, 2 storm, 3 rainbow, 4 raining, 5 cold, 6 cloudy: When it’s raining, we need an umbrella! 2 1 The weather is bad, 2 The weather is good, 3 It’s cold, 4 It’s hot. 3 1 My favourite season in spring, 2 I don’t like autumn or winter, 3 I like summer because it’s hot, 4 I love rain, sun and rainbows! 4 own answer.

5 own answer. Pages 8-9: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Pages 12-13: Examples: apple, banana, carrot, date, eggplant, fig, grape, haricot bean, iceberg lettuce, jackfruit, kiwi fruit, lemon, melon, nectarine, olive, pear, quince, raspberry, strawberry, tomato, ugli fruit, victoria plum, watermelon, xigua, yam, zuchini. Page 14: 1 1d, 2f, 3a, 4e, 5c, 6b, 2 1 false (Charlotte is sad), 2 true, 3 false (Hattie is afraid of storms), 4 true, 5 true, 6 false (Hattie doesn’t like winter, summer or autumn), 3 1 sun, 2 storms, weather - bad, 3 clouds, 4 rainbow, 5 snows, wind, 4 1 autumn, 2 winter 3 spring, 4 summer. Page 16 c), pear.

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So… Hattie doesn’t like winter, summer or autumn.

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Hattie doesn’t like winter because it’s too cold.

Gracie, I don’t like bad weather so…

Hattie, do you prefer autumn or spring?

Dylan is very hot and he loves water. But what’s he doing?!?

Well done Charlie! In winter it’s too cold, in summer it’s too hot, but in spring … the weather is good!

… so her favoutite season is spring!

Well done, Charlie!

You’re right!

Robby is very hot. He drinks an orange juice in the shade under the tree. … a multi-coloured rainbow appears.

It’s beautiful!

I love it when it rains, because then…

And you, Robby?

Which is your favourite season?

I like winter, when it snows and the wind blows through the trees.

Culture Site

H is for‌ Harvest Festival!

Every autumn towns and cities in the U.K. celebrate something called Harvest Festival. Let’s find out more‌ Harvest is the time when food like fruit, corn and vegetables are collected, usually at the end of the summer. An ancient tradition in many parts of the United Kingdom is a special celebration called Harvest Festival.

During a Harvest Festival people usually bring gifts of food, like fruit, vegetables, pasta and rice, to schools or churches in their town.

There is usually a special celebration where people eat, sing songs, say prayers, dance and celebrate. The

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food is then divded and distributed in the commuity to sick and poor people.

Many schools also collect money for charities.

In schools, children learn about food and the importance of good nutritian, and they talk about life in countries where food is difficult to grow and what they can do to help. Children

world have a similar celebration. For example, in America and Canada people celebrate Thanksgiving, while in Asia Mid-Autumn Festival is a very important celebration. Do you celebrate something similar in your country? also learn which fruit and vegetables are typical during the different seasons and why it is important to use ‘seasonal’ fruit and vegetables.

For example, in the U.K. typical winter fruits and vegetables are apples, onions and leeks, but in spring carrots, strawberries and spinach are common. Summer fruit and vegetables are lettuce, peas and blueberries, and in autum we use more cauliflower, sweetcorn and pears … and pumpkins, of course!

Many other countries around the

Game A is for apple, B is for banana, C is for carrot…

Can you name a fruit or vegetable beginning with every letter of the alphabet? a......................................................................... b......................................................................... c......................................................................... d......................................................................... e......................................................................... f......................................................................... g......................................................................... h......................................................................... i.........................................................................

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Answers on page 11.

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Let’s play at Forest Farm!

Read the story then complete the activities.

1 Here are the Forest Farm friends.

Read and match.

1 Robby 2 Charlotte 3 Dylan 4 Hattie 5 Gracie 6 Charlie

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2 True or false? Correct the false sentences.

1 Charlotte is happy because summer is ending.

2 Hattie explains that there are four seasons in a year.

3 Charlie is afraid of storms.

4 Dylan and Gracie like the rain.

5 Robby drinks an orange juice under the shade of a tree.

6 Hattie doesn’t like winter or summer, but she loves autumn.

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2 Hattie is afraid of ................. and she doesn’t like it when the ................. is ................. .

3 Charlie likes it when the sun plays hide-and-seek with the ................. .

4 Dylan likes it when it rains because a ................. appears.

5 Robby likes it when it ................. and when the ................. blows.

4 Which is their favourite season?

1 Charlie’s favourite season is ...................................................................... .

2 Robby’s favourite season is ....................................................................... .

3 Hattie’s favourite season is ........................................................................ .

4 Charlotte’s favourite season is .................................................................. .

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Answers on page 11.

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Delicious Desserts

Pum pkin pie

On 31st October we celebrate Hallowe’en.

We carve out pumkins to make scary lanterns… but what can we do with the pumpkin?

Why not make pumpkin pie?

Ingredients: - 750g mashed pumpkin - 350g sweet shortcrust pastry - 140g caster sugar - ½ teaspoon salt - ½ teaspoon fresh nutmeg - 1 teaspoon cinnamon - 2 beaten eggs - 25g melted butter - 175ml milk - 1 tablespoon icing sugar

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Method: - Put the pumpkin in a pan, cover with water and boil for about 15 minutes. Remove and cool.

- Roll our the pastry and put it in a large (22-25cm) baking tin. Cook in the oven (180°C) for 20 minutes - Mix the pumkin with the sugar, salt, nutmeg and half the cinnamon, then add the egs and butter. Pour into the baking tin and bake (220°C) for 10 minutes.

- Reduce the oven temperature to 180°C and bake for another 35 minutes - Cool the pie then sprinkle the icing sugar and remaining cinnamon to decorate.