Kid's Box New Generation 4 Workbook American English

1 Back to school school

1 Find and circle the words. busy exciting boring careful difficult brave slow quick

2 Look at the pictures in Activity 1. Complete the sentences.

1 The woman’s fighting the fire. She’s very brave .

2 My mom is b because she works a lot.

3 My aunt thinks television is b .

4 This book is very e . I don’t want to go to bed.

5 My younger sister thinks it’s d to put her shoes on.

6 What a great motorcycle. It’s really q !

7 You must be c when you cross the street.

8 We were at the beach yesterday. It was windy and cold. The weather was t .

9 The snail is a small animal. It’s very s .

1 Complete the questionnaire.

2 Ask your friend. Write the answers.

1 What do you think of video games?

2 What do you think of television?

3 What do you think of tennis?

4 What do you think of school?

5 What do you think of pop music?

6 What do you think of comic books?

7 What do you think of soccer?

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Kid's Box New Generation Level 4 Workbook with Digital Pack American English Excerpt

2 Read and circle.

1 This is the person when / who / where teaches children.

2 There are / is / have five children in the classroom.

3 Mr. Edison is the teacher what / when / who is writing on the board.

4 Mary is the girl where / with / who is wearing a pink dress.

5 Paul’s book is in / under / on the desk.

6 Jim is the boy who / with / why is sharpening his pencil.

7 Danny is talking about / to / for Mary.

8 In the classroom, the children haveto / can’t / shouldn’t listen to the teacher.

Paul Jane Mr. Edison

Danny Mary Jim

1 Look at the pictures. Read and correct.

1 The man who’s painting has a gray mustache.

2 The man who’s throwing a ball has a little white dog.

3 The woman who teaches music lives in a big house.

4 The man who’s wearing a green sweater rides his horse to school.

5 The woman who likes books gets up at nine o’clock. black beard

2 Read and complete the table. Label the pictures. Name Description

There are four new teachers at K.B. Elementary School.

1 The woman who teaches music likes reading. She’s 57.

2 The teacher who’s named Mr. Brown has a black beard. He is 42.

3 The woman who’s 30 has long fair hair. She teaches math.

4 The man who likes playing the guitar has a brown mustache.

5 The man who likes playing tennis teaches English.

6 The woman who teaches math likes horseback riding.

7 The man who doesn’t teach English teaches P.E. His name’s Mr. Kelly.

8 The woman who’s 57 is named Mrs. Bird.

Movers Reading and Writing Movers

1 Read the story. Choose a word from the box. Write the correct word next to numbers 1–5. There is one example.

My name is Emma. My dad’s a farmer , and I live on a big farm in the country. We have about eighty (1) and thirty cows. My dad’s always busy, and he sometimes works at (2) ! On Saturdays and Sundays, I sometimes help my dad with the animals.

I don’t want to be a farmer. I want to be an art (3) . I study art at school, but I only have two classes a week, and I want to (4) better pictures.

Every Friday afternoon, after school, my aunt and I catch the bus to go downtown. My aunt goes shopping, and I take another longer art class. It’s never (5) , it’s exciting!

boring sheep school night tiger

teacher farmer draw pretty

(6) Now choose the best name for the story. Mark (✓) one box.

Emma wants to be a farmer

Emma goes shopping with her aunt

Emma wants to be an art teacher

How can we use paint? How can we use paint?

1 Read and circle the adjectives.

1 The painting uses bright happy colors.

2 The artist uses curved lines to make interesting shapes.

3 The colorful round shapes make the painting look attractive.

4 The painting reminds me of pink lemonade.

5 I feel excited when I see the painting. Go back to Student’s Book page 17.

Practice Plan

2 Read again and complete. Make notes about another painting.

Artist Piet Mondrian

Titleofpainting

Style

Adjectivestodescribethepainting

Adjectivestodescribeyourfeelings aboutthepainting

Edit Write

Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow

3 Write a description of the painting. Use your notes.

4 Did you …

write about the artist’s style in your description? use adjectives to describe the painting? say how the painting makes you feel?

Writing Tip Writing tip

Include descriptions that help the reader imagine what you are talking about.

Do you remember? Do you remember?

1 Read and write the words.

1 She’s Sally’s friend, but she’s older than her. Eva

2 A person who works in a hospital.

3 The opposite of “always.”

4 A person who looks at teeth every day.

5 There are a lot of these in a forest. Monkeys sometimes live in them.

6 The opposite of “difficult.”

7 This little animal is very slow.

2 Cross out the words from Activity 1.

new Eva dentist likes doctor teacher

never Robertsnail trees his easy

Use the other words to write a sentence.

3 Read and write “T” (true) or “F” (false).

1 Lock and Key go to Danny’s school on Tuesday. F

2 Lock tells the class that detectives find people and things.

3 Lock and Key eat lunch at the school.

4 The teacher thinks Lock and Key’s work is boring.

5 Lock and Key play soccer after lunch.

6 The teacher thinks Lock and Key are naughty.

Can do Can

I can describe people.

I can describe things.

I can say what I think.