Relief Teaching Themes: The City by Teacher Superstore

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Contents Teachers’ Notes

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Section 3: The Humanities

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City Words City Challenge City Cross and Search City Language City Card Games Hangman in the City Television in the City Alphabet City Poetic Devices City Articles City Exposition City Discussion Poetic City Cinquain City City Lyrics City Narrative Promoting the City City Superhero Comparing the City Picture Book Multicultural Cities

City Features City Changes Working in the City City Services City Entertainment Tourism City Guide City Traffic Famous Landmark Ancient Cities

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Section 2: Mathematics City Populations Population Game World Populations Comparing Populations Washing Windows Day in the City Postcodes City Weather Symmetrical City Pizza Fractions

City Birds Bat City City Plants City Fireworks Tree City City Machines

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Section 5: Visual Arts Symmetrical Buildings City Restaurant Mobile Food in the City City Art Cardboard City Hide and Seek City City Crowd Skyscraper Scene Answers

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Teachers’ Notes Relief Teaching Themes: The City is specifically designed to help relief teachers deliver lessons which are engaging, motivating and related to the theme of the city. This book is divided into five sections: English, Mathematics, The Humanities, Science and Visual Arts. This allows teachers to locate suitable lessons quickly and easily. The lessons in this book are suited to children aged nine years and above, but can be simplified for younger children. Students with a wide range of learning and thinking styles are catered for.

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The lessons are presented as task cards which enables teachers to plan their day to suit their own teaching style. It is advisable to copy sets of the task cards from the book and laminate them for future use. Sets of cards can also be copied in A3 size for effective whole class display. This will save time at the beginning of the day by avoiding queues for the copying machine. Some of the lessons require the students to research information. Lessons which do require students to make use of materials other than a pen/pencil and paper are clearly marked with appropriate icons. You could borrow a set of books on the city theme from the school library so that students may have access to information throughout the day. You could also book a time in the computer room for students to conduct research. If there are classroom computers, set up a class timetable for shared use of the computer. Allow the students time to discuss © ReadyEdteacher. P u b l i c a t i o n s and select tasks from each section. The Provide each student with at least five groups then set up a timetable for the day f or r e v e wof pu po ses on l y• sheets of• A4 paper or ten half A4i sheets andr begin working on their tasks. Individual Work Book

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Take six city scenes and cut them up. Place them in a box and jumble them together. Each student selects a piece of the city. Silently they have to find the group to which they belong by finding the missing pieces of their city scene.

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The teacher selects a set of task cards to use for the day. Display the cards to the class and discuss each activity with the students. Allow students to select their tasks and copy them in their order of preference. Each student can then create their own timetable for the day. Students are placed into groups to collectively sit down and read through the task card selection given to them by the

Establishing Groups Creatively

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paper to staple together and construct their special daily work book. Provide a piece of coloured card or paper for the cover of the booklet. Allow the students ten minutes at the beginning of the day to begin a cover for their book. Using this individual work book allows relief teachers flexibility and creativity and does not intrude on established class work book setout.

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Write numbers one to five on pieces of paper. Place them into a box and jumble them up. Students each pull out a number. Their group will be the other students with the same number.

Classroom Management Ideas Managing a new class is often a challenge. By using a few simple management strategies you may find that your day runs more smoothly and students are motivated to complete tasks given.

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When marking the roll, select a word with a city theme for the students to say as they indicate they are present in the classroom, e.g. skyscraper.

At the end of each session discuss the activities completed and mark appropriate work.

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Have a set of short break games to play, to provide the students with stretch and rest time.

Provide time limit incentives to complete work. If work is completed by a designated time the individuals or groups can be awarded points which are tallied on their individual booklets.

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At the end of the day ask students to reflect on their day in written form. They can write down or talk about what they enjoyed, learned, achieved, could do better next time, what they’d like to learn about another day and what activity they would like to do next time.

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Students make name tags to display on their desk and place in front of them.

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Play name games at the beginning of the day. Roll a ball to each student as they sit in a circle and ask them to take turns in saying their name and saying one thing they like to do in their spare time.

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Section 1: English

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City Words

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In pairs, brainstorm words relating to the city. To help you, think about what a city looks and sounds like and/or what you might see in the city. Write your words in a list.

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• Write the meanings of ten challenging words from the list.

r o e t s Bo r e p ok u S • Sort the list words into nouns, verbs and adjectives.

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• Write down the antonyms and synonyms of some of the words. Antonyms - opposite meaning. synonyms - similar meaning.

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• Write the nouns in blue, verbs in pink and adjectives in green.

Extra! Brainstorm compound words relating to the city, e.g. skyscraper, transport. Write them down using your favourite colours.

City Challenge

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Brainstorm words relating to what you can see in the city. Create a list of words and complete the following:

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Sentence Challenge • Write ten sentences using your word list. Try to use as many words from your list as you can in each sentence.

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Unscramble • Select ten words from your word list. Mix up the letters and give them to a friend to unscramble.

Word Shapes • Experiment to see if you can write a word into a shape which makes it look like its meaning. See example on the left. 7

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City Cross and Search

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• Create a word search using the words from the word list that you have created. To do this, draw a grid and write your words in the grid. Surround your words with random letters and give your word search E.g. b u s e s to a friend to complete. Remember to write a list u s h o p s of the words that your friend has to find beside c i t y e your word search.

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• Create a word cross by writing all of your words from the list down, across and up from one root word. Look at the example to help you.

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Brainstorm words relating to the city. To help you, think about what a city looks and sounds like and/or what you might see in the city. Create a list of words.

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Find Smaller Words • How many smaller words can you find using the letters in the word ‘restaurants’? You can only use each letter as many times as it appears in the word e.g. ants, sat.

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Alliteration • Alliteration is the term used to refer to words which are placed next to one another and begin with the same letter, e.g. Sam sat on the slippery slide at the sunny side of the city. • Write five alliterative sentences using the city theme.

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City Card Games

Create a snap or memory game by cutting a piece of card into twenty equal squares. Select ten words to do with the city and write each word onto two cards.

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Memory GAME

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Working in pairs mix up the cards and turn them face down. Take turns in turning over two cards at a time in an attempt to find two matching cards. If your cards match, put these cards to one side and take a second turn. The player with the most pairs wins.

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Divide the cards equally between you and your opponent. Take turns to place the cards on the table, face up on top of each other. If two matching cards are placed on the table, the first person to place his/her hand on the cards and say ‘SNAP’ collects all of the cards. The person with the most cards in his/her hand, when there are no cards left on the table, wins.

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Hangman in the City Make a list of words relating to the city and play a game of Hangman in the City.

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• One person (leader) selects a word from the list and draws a number of short lines for each letter of the word, e.g. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___(traffic).

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• The group members have to take it in turns to guess each letter and discover the whole word. If they guess an incorrect letter, then the leader begins to draw a picture of hangman in the city (as shown). • The aim is to guess the word before the picture of the hangman in the city is completed.

Section 1: English

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Television in the City

Are there any television programs which are set in the city that you like to watch? Choose one and complete the following questions:

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• What is the show about?

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• What impressions of the city does it give you?

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• What parts of the city does it show?

• Would it make you want to live in that city? • Illustrate a city scene from the show.

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Think of ten cities in the world that you are familiar with and write them down.

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• Record your list of cities in alphabetical order.

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• Find out the country where each city is located and write those countries in alphabetical order. Extra Challenge: In pairs write down the names of cities that begin with each letter of the alphabet.

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Poetic Devices

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Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia refers to words which suggest sounds, such as zoom, boom and crash.

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• Think about sounds that you hear in the city and list them as onomatopoeic words.

Personification refers to the process of giving anything that is not living, human qualities, e.g. the cars coughed, the trees whispered, the streets moaned under the weight of the people.

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Personification

• Make a list of ten non-living objects/things that can be found/seen in the city and personify each of them. Create a poem about the city using words from your lists.

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City Articles

Choose one of the following to complete:

Option 1

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Cut out a newspaper article about the city. Paste it in your work book and beside it, write a short retell of the information, then write six comprehension questions for a friend to answer. If it does not have one already, create a visual to go with the article.

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Newspapers

Option 2 (Group Activity) Select a newspaper article with a city theme. One person reads the text aloud to the group. The group members then discuss what has been read and record the information in their own words.

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Section 1: English

Task Card

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Expositions try to persuade people to adopt a particular point of view on a topic. They begin by outlining the point of view on a topic and proceed by stating the reasons for the point of view.

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Write an exposition to argue your preferred point of view for one of the following topics: • Living in the city is better than living by the coast. • People should only use public transport to get into the city. • There should be more parking available in the city.

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City Discussion

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City Exposition

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Discussions show both sides of a topic by outlining the arguments for and against an issue. They end with the writer revealing which point of view they are in favour of.

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. Task t Poetic City e o c Card . ch e Rhyming couplets have two lines which rhyme. r e o t r haiku poem consistss of three lines.e The first and third lines have five s 13 Asyllables, r u p and the second line has seven syllables.

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Complete the following task: • Create three rhyming couplets which express city life. • Write and illustrate a haiku poem based on the pollution in the city. 12

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Cinquain City city noisy, squashy push, shove, squeeze I am feeling tired city

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A cinquain poem doesn’t have to rhyme. It consists of five lines. The first line consists of one word (usually the subject of the poem), the second line lists two descriptive words about the subject, the third line uses three words which express action, the fourth line uses four words which express emotion and feeling and the final line repeats the first line or uses a synonym for the word used in the first line.

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• Create and illustrate two cinquain poems about the city. One should celebrate city life and the other should deal with a negative aspect of city life.

City Lyrics

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Think of one of your favourite songs. Write or print out the lyrics.

• To the tune of this song, create new lyrics which © Re a dyEdPubl i cat i ons relate to the city. • e With ae friend record your new city song lyrics onl a • •f orr v i w p u r p o s e s o n y tape or CD. Play the song to the class.

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Extra! Find some song lyrics about the city. Read them out to the class, or play the song if you have the facilities. As a class discuss how the city is being portrayed.

. City Narrative Task t e o c Card . c e Shorth narratives consist of three parts. An opening, ar middle and an e o t and the characters, r The opening usually introduces the setting(s) s s 16 ending. r u e p the middle describes the problem that the character(s) faces and the

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ending describes how the character(s) deals with the problem. • Write a narrative about a character who lives in the city but encounters a problem. Plan your story before you begin.

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• Illustrate a part of your story.

Section 1: English

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Promoting the City

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Choose a city that you know well and create a brochure that promotes it to tourists. Think about its best features. What makes your city stand out from all other cities and why would people want to visit it?

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• Create a jingle or slogan which promotes your city and include it on the brochure. Make it sound catchy and exciting.

City Superhero

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• Use images, words and colour to make your brochure attractive.

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Batman and Spiderman both work in the city. They protect it against evil forces.

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. Comparing the City o Task t e c Card . Compare living in the city and living on the coast c e r using ah Venn diagram. e o t r s super 19 • Create a Venn diagram as shown. City

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• Create your own superhero who works in the city. Draw him/her and label his/her superhero powers. Say in which city he/she works and what he/she does there.

• In the space where the circles overlap, write down aspects which the city and the coast share (similarities). • List aspects which are only found in either the coast or the city in the outer circles. • Give your Venn diagram a title.

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Compass

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Picture Book

Task Card

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Have a go at making a simple picture book for young children about the city. Create flaps so that the children can lift each flap to see a picture.

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In the City

• Underneath each box write one sentence about the city, e.g. There are lots of buses in the city.

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• In each box, draw and colour a picture which matches your sentence, e.g a bus.

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• Cut out flaps for each picture making sure they are one centimeter wider than the boxes on your picture book.

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• Staple together four pieces of card. On each piece of card draw a large box.

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• On the left hand side of each flap, bend to create a crease at least one centimetre wide. Paste over your pictures.

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• Give your picture book to a young child to read.

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Multicultural Cities

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Multicultural means relating to or including several cultures. Respond to the following about multicultural cities:

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• Write down things that you would be able to see in a city that indicates that it is multicultural. Illustrate your list. • What are the advantages of living in a multicultural city? Record your answers inside a skyscraper.

• What is something multicultural which you have seen, eaten or participated in and have enjoyed?

Internet (optional)

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Section 2: Mathematics

City Populations

Task Card

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Investigate the population of some of the cities in your country. • List each city and record the population.

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• Select five other countries. What is the population of each country’s capital city? Make a list. • Which city (from your list) has the largest population?

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• What is the difference in population between the most populated city and the least populated city (from your list)?

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• Which city (from your list) has the lowest population?

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• How many of the cities that you have listed have a population of over 10 million people? Use this website to help you complete this task: www.mongabay.com/cities_pop_01.htm

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2,125,017

Sydney 4,255,954

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Divide an A4 piece of paper into 16. Fold in half and repeat twice, unfold and fold once the opposite way. Cut along the creases to give you 16 individual pieces.

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• Find the populations of 16 cities around the world.

• Write the city on one side of a piece of card and the population on the other side. Swap cards with a friend.

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• Stack the cards, with the names of the cities face up. • Take turns selecting one card at a time and guessing the order of lowest to highest population.

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World Populations

Task Card

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With a friend, look at the websites listed at the bottom of the page and list the top ten most populated countries in the world.

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• Write the names of each country along the horizontal axis and the population numbers up the vertical axis.

Tip: You will need to select a suitable number scale for the vertical axis as the numbers will be very large. Go to: http://www.aneki.com/populated.html and http://www.worldatlas.com/citypops.htm

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• Record your information clearly in the form of a bar graph.

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Population

Singapore

4,608,167

Canberra

20,600,856

London

60,943,912

Tokyo

127, 288, 419

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Comparing Populations

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Look at the table and answer the following questions: • Which city has the largest population?

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• Which city has the smallest population?

• What number do you get if you subtract Singapore’s population from Tokyo’s population? • If you add the populations of Singapore, Canberra and London together, will their combined population be greater than Tokyo’s population? What is the difference? • What is the average population? (Add all of the populations together and then divide by four.) 18

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Section 2: Mathematics

Task Card

Washing Windows

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A window washer wants to work out the total area of all the windows he has to clean on a city skyscraper. Pencil & Paper

• The skyscraper is rectangular with four sides.

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• Each window measures 2 metres x 2.5 metres. Calculator (optional)

• From this information, work out the total area of all the windows on the skyscraper. Extra: If there are five other identical buildings for him to clean, how many windows will there be altogether and what will be the total area of windows to clean?

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• There are 240 windows on each side.

Definitions Area= length x width. Expressed as m2.

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Day in the City

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• On a piece of paper, draw two symbols far apart, one to represent the city and one to represent your house.

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• Draw two bus stops in front of these symbols.

• Draw three other stops in between the city and your house. Measure and record the distance between each stop in centimetres. Convert to kilometres (e.g one centimetre = one kilometre).

• Calculate and record how long it will take the bus to travel to each stop if its speed is 50 kilometres per hour. (Time = distance ÷ speed.)

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Postcodes

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A postcode is a geographic identification number given by the Government Postal Authorities to identify a particular area and state in a country. The postcode for the city of Sydney is 2000. The postcode for the city of Perth is 6000. What number do you get when: Location Postcode • You take 2000 away from Albert Park SA 5014 Clare SA 5453 6000? Gosford NSW 2250 • You divide 6000 by 2000? Dubbo NSW 2830 Cairns QLD 4870 • You add the two postcodes Surfers Paradise QLD 4217 together? Geraldton WA 6530 • You multiply the postcodes? North Melbourne Vic 3051

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Extra! Write out a division sum which equals 2000. Write out an addition sum which equals 6000. Use the information in the table above, to create some number problems for your friend to solve.

City Weather

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Daily temperatures in cities around the world vary greatly. Investigate just how different they are by using the information provided to answer the questions.

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• Which city will be the warmest?

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• Which city will have the coldest temperature?

• What is the difference between the warmest daily high temperature and the coldest daily high temperature?

Daily Temperatures City High Low Sydney 17 11 Kuala Lumpur 35 25 Hanoi 36 26 Montreal 23 19 Male 32 27 Buenos Aires 13 9 Auckland 16 12 20

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• What is the difference between the coolest daily low city temperature and the coolest daily high city temperature? • Which cities have similar daily temperatures?

• Which two cities have the smallest difference in temperature for the day? Colour Pens

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Symmetrical City

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If something is symmetrical it means that it is the same on both sides. Asymmetrical is not the same on both sides.

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• Draw and label things and objects which you see in the city which are asymmetrical. • Cut them out and make a city scene.

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• Draw and label some objects which you see in the city which are symmetrical.

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Pizza Fractions

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You are the owner of a city take away pizza shop. If you cut a pizza into four slices. One slice = 1/4 (quarter) of the pizza. Using fractions show what one slice represents if a pizza is cut into: • two slices? • six slices? • eight slices? • twelve slices? • sixteen slices?

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There are 12 people at a pizza party. Six people are not very hungry and only want one slice of pizza, four people are quite hungry and would like two slices of pizza the rest are starving and want three slices of pizza each. One slice represents an 1/8 of the pizza. Are there any pizza slices left over? Colour Pens

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City Cafe

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• What would it cost to feed ten people the most expensive meal on the menu? • What is the cheapest meal that someone could order? • If a customer came in and ordered one of everything that you have on your menu, how much would it cost? • If you were to order dinner from your menu what would you order and how much would it cost?

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Create a menu for your own cafe in the city. • List ten meals and five types of drinks that people can order and list the price beside each item. Look at your menu and answer the following questions: • What meals can people order for under $5? • What food and drink combinations can people order for under $15?

Office Space

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Design an office floor plan which covers one level of a city building. The floor space is rectangular in shape.

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• Measure the length and width of each office and then calculate the area of each office.

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Section 3: The Humanities

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City Features

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Any city is made up of natural and built features. • In pairs make two lists. One list should consist of eight natural features that can be found in the city, and the other list should name eight built features that could be found in the city.

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• Illustrate one natural and one built feature found in any city. Beside each one describe its function in the city.

City Changes

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Over time cities grow and develop. Choose one city to research.

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• Find out when the city was first established. Describe the city in its early days. Find or draw a picture of it.

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• Create a time line to show the city’s growth and development through to modern times. Write a description of the city in different time periods. • Add illustrations to your descriptions.

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Working in the City

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List the types of jobs that people do in the city. • Select three jobs from your list, (e.g. museum curator).

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• Make a list of jobs which can’t be done in the city due to the environment, e.g. farming, fishing etc.

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• Write a short description of each job and say why each job is done in the city.

• Can any of the jobs from your original list be done outside of the city just as effectively? Think about the resources available.

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City Services

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There are many services and facilities that are available to members of the public in the city, (e.g. train service and garbage collection).

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• In pairs make a list of all of the services and facilities available to members of the public in the city. • Select six from your list and think about the benefits of these services and facilities and how it would affect people if these services and facilities were removed.

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• Record your thoughts in a table like the one shown. Service/Facility Train services Garbage collection

Benefit of Service My Dad can get to work

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City Entertainment

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The school holidays are here and you want to spend some time being entertained in the city. Look at the city venues below and complete the tasks.

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• List the entertainment likely to be available at each venue for children during the school holidays.

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•Museum •Art Gallery •Library •Puppet Theatre

• Create a simple map with all four venues on. Include other features typically found in a city, such as traffic lights and tall buildings.

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• Create a key so that each venue can easily be identified.

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Many cities attract tourists because they are places where there is usually lots to do.

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• What are the main tourist attractions in the city closest to where you live?

• If you had a friend visiting from the country or from overseas what would be some of the activities you could do in the city near you? • Find out which cities in the world attract the most tourists. 26

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Scenic City Tours

Imagine that you have been given the task of guiding people around a city. Choose a city to research and then complete the following:

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• Write a tour guide which includes an explanation of four key attractions. Maybe talk about their history, significance in the city, how they work, etc.

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• Tell your visitors four key facts about the city. Include its population, where it is located, how it is governed and what it is famous for.

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• Create a poster to attract people to join your tour.

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City traffic has long been blamed for contributing to air pollution. • In pairs, brainstorm ways that city traffic could be reduced. • Find a few facts about city traffic and pollution on the Internet. • Create a poster to try and entice people to help reduce city traffic. • Present and explain the poster to the class.

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This website may help you to complete this task: http://www.informaction.org/cgi-bin/gPage.pl?menu=menua. txt&main=car_intro.txt&s=Cars

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Famous Landmark

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Brainstorm, with a small group of friends, four famous city landmarks and buildings around the world, e.g. Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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• Choose a landmark and draw an illustration.

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• When was it built? What interesting information can you find out about it?

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• Which city and country is it in? Why do you think it is popular?

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Ancient Cities

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Cities have existed for a long period of time.

• List the names of as many ancient cities as you can.

• Share your ideas with the class and create a class bank of ancient cities.

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• Select one ancient city and write an information report on its history, why it is famous, who lived there, and whether it exists today. • Display some pictures of the city.

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Letting Light In

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Cities often consist of lots of tall buildings situated next to each other. It is important that these buildings are created to let in lots of natural light. Conduct the experiment below to determine which material lets in the most light.

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Method: Use the torch to measure how much light each of the six materials lets through by shining it directly on the material.

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Materials: six different materials of your choice (e.g. glass, plastic, cloth, wood etc) and a torch.

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• Depending on the results label each material opaque, transparent or translucent. • Which material lets in the most light? • Which material lets in the least light?

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City Skyscrapers

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What types of construction materials are used to build big skyscrapers? Select one type of material and write an information report about it.

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• What is it?

• What is it made from? • How is it used?

• Is it easily available?

• Could using it damage the environment?

• What could be used instead of this material and be just as effective?

Reports present information about something. The information usually appears under headings and is often accompanied by diagrams.

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City Birds

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Many animals have made homes in the city as their natural habitats are disappearing. Laughing kookaburras have adapted to life in the city suburbs.

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• What information can you find out about these adaptable birds? (Think about diet, life cycle, its food chain, etc.)

• List other birds which have had to adapt to city life.

Interesting link: http://birdsinbackyards.net/species/ Dacelo-novaeguineae

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Bat City

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One species of bat which can live in the city is the flying fox or fruit bat.

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• Look at pictures of the three different types of fruit bat and describe their appearances.

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• Select one type of flying fox and draw a simple diagram of its body. Label this diagram.

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• Research how it moves, what it eats and how humans threaten its survival. • List how its adaptations allow it to live in the city.

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• Draw one of these bats in a city environment. To help you complete this task, go to: http://www.bats.org.au and http://www.teachthechildrenwell.com/animals.html and http:// australianmuseum.net.au/Australian-bats

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City Plants

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Lots of offices in the city contain plants. Answer the following questions about people and plants: • What gases do humans breathe in and out?

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• Why do you think it is important to have plants in offices which are crowded with people?

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• Illustrate the above answers by drawing two labelled diagrams.

City Fireworks

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Each city around the world provides fireworks displays for special occasions.

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• For what special events does the city closest to you have their major fireworks displays?

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• Have you ever seen a fireworks display? Write down the senses which you use when watching a fireworks display.

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• What is the special term used for fireworks?

• What are the main ingredients used to create fireworks? • Who were the first people to use fireworks?

• Create some ideas for new fireworks. Write what they would look like when they erupted and draw a coloured picture. Link: http://wiki.answers.com/ 32

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Tree City

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Trees play an important part in city life. Answer the questions below. Pencil & Paper

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• Think about city streets. Most city streets contain the odd tree to break up the built features. Apart from trees’ aesthetic appeal, how else are trees useful in the city? Record your answers by drawing a tree and writing your answers around it.

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• Think of a typical city office. Draw and label seven items found in an office that are made from trees.

• Trees also give us leaves. Search for different leaf shapes and draw examples of each one.

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City Machines

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People have used technology to design machines to make construction, moving, digging and collecting garbage easier and safer. You may have seen some of these machines.

o c . che e r o t r s super • Write a list of the types of commercial machinery used in the city.

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• Search the Internet for images of some of these machines.

• Select one machine and write a description and what job it is used for. Illustrate your description.

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Symmetrical Buildings

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• Fold a piece of art paper in half. Paint half a building with the middle of the building running down the fold. Use plenty of paint. Fold the blank side over exactly on top of the paint and rub down on the paint carefully. Open it up to see a symmetrical building.

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• Fold a piece of paper in half. Draw half of an interesting shape of a building. Cut along the outside lines of the building leaving the fold uncut. Fold it open and you will have a symmetrical building. Fill in the building details.

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City Restaurant

• Brainstorm, with a partner, types of restaurants which would be popular in a multicultural city.

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• Decide on a type of restaurant, its location and what you will call your restaurant.

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• Think of a healthy, popular menu for your restaurant.

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• Design a menu and cover.

• Create a billboard to promote your city restaurant.

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Mobile Food in the City

You are the owner of a mobile food truck which sets itself up on the city streets each day.

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• Create a healthy take away food menu and an attractive sign board which informs customers of the food selection and highlights the healthy aspects of the food.

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• Design your vehicle so that it stands out in the crowded city.

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City Art Lots of artists showcase their art in the city in different ways. Choose one of the following:

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• Imagine that you are an artist who uses chalk to create art on the city pavements. Create a number of chalk designs.

• You have been asked to spray paint a blank brick wall in the city train station. Create your design.

• Using plasticine create a sculpture to be placed in the middle of a famous city.

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Cardboard City

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Work in groups to create a city. • Use one side of a cardboard box for the city surface, then glue cardboard objects on to the city floor. Add other features, such as roads with paint, pencils or plasticine. Include buildings, traffic lights and natural features.

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• Write a description of your city’s features.

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• Did your creation turn out the way you wanted? What could you do better next time?

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Hide and Seek City

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Create a busy city scene which has at least ten people hidden in the picture.

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• Plan your drawing in pencil. Decide on your characters and think about how they could be hiding in the picture (e.g. peeking out from a building or a boy hiding in the design of a window, etc.).

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• Use pens, pencils, textas and crayons to colour in your drawing. • On a separate piece of paper create a key with pictures and names of who you have to find in the artwork.

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City Crowd

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Create a city crowd using paper and scissors.

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• The folded paper will be the joins, where the people hold hands and their feet touch.

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• Draw a picture of a person with their hands and feet out to touch the side of both folds.

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• Fold a long piece of paper like the way you would a fan. Start at the end and fold the edge of the paper over a short distance, then flip the paper over and fold the paper again the same width. Keep folding and flipping the paper until you are at the end.

• Cut around the person’s body without cutting the edges of his/her hands and feet where they make the fold.

• Fold out your creation to see what your crowd looks like. • Join yours with a few friends to make a very long line.

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• Draw six boxes (windows) in three rows onto a piece of A4 paper (see diagram). • In at least two of the windows, draw people or objects.

o c . che e r o t r s super • Carefully paint around the windows, using black.

• In groups or as a class, build a skyscraper scene by attaching the A4 pieces of paper together.

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Task Card 3 The 10 most populated countries in the world from 1 to 10 are: China 1,330,040,000 India 1,148,000,000 United States 303,825,000 Indonesia 237,512,000 Brazil 196,343,000 Pakistan 172,800,000 Bangladesh 153,547,008 Nigeria 1,46,255,008 Russia 1,40,702,000 Japan 1,27,288,000

Task Card 7 A. 4000, 3, 8000, 12000000

Task Card 8 Q. Which city will be the warmest? A. Hanoi. Q. Which city will have the coldest temperature? A. Buenos Aires. Q. What is the difference between the warmest daily high temperature and the coldest daily high temperature? A. 23 degrees Celsius. Q. What is the difference between the coolest daily low temperature and the coolest daily high city temperature? A. 4 degrees Celsius. Q. Which cities have similar daily temperatures? A. Kuala Lumpur and Hanoi. Q. Which two cities have the smallest difference in temperature for the day? A. Montreal and Auckland.

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Task Card 21 Some of the things you would see in a multicultural city are: different restaurants, specialty food stores, different foods in traditional supermarkets, temples, mosques, cathedrals, different clothing, people talking in different languages and street signs in different languages. Some advantages of living in a multicultural city are: experiencing new cultural celebrations, meeting new friends, tasting new foods, broadening your ideas and beliefs, learning more about new religions and traditions, learning about accepting others as equals, helping people in need of a safe place to live and learning new languages.

Task Card 5 A. The total area of 960 windows is 4800m2. Q. If there are five other identical buildings for him to clean, how many windows will there be altogether and what will the total area of windows be? A. Total number of windows = 4800 Total area = 24000m2

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Task Card 10 2 slices = 1/2 8 slices = 1/8 16 slices = 1/16 6 slices = 1/6 12 slices = 1/12 Q. Are there any slices of pizza left over? A. Yes, 4 slices

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Task Card 1 Natural features: trees, ponds, grass, flowers, fauna, flora, bush, soil. Built features: bridges, roads, buildings, sewers, telecommunication towers, water tanks, electrical wires and poles, traffic lights, monuments, drains, tunnels, train lines.

Task Card 3 A. Examples of jobs in the city: secretary, teacher, museum curator, security guard, police officer, fireman/woman, ambulance officer, nurse, doctor, tree surgeon, garbage collector, street sweeper, cleaner, taxi driver, bus, tram and train driver, company directors, stock exchange traders, accountants, businessmen/ women, state government members of parliament, lift operators, builders, architects, plumbers, electricians, kitchen manufacturers and installers, fresh food market traders, green grocers, supermarket checkout operators, market stall shop assistants, traffic wardens, jail wardens and officers.

Task Card 5 Q. What gases do humans breathe in and out? A. Humans breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide Q. What gases do plants take into their system and release? A. Plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen. Q. Why do you think it is important to have plants in offices which are crowded with people? A. To create more oxygen and decrease the amount of carbon dioxide in the air.

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Task Card 6 Q. What are the good things about tourists visiting cities? A. Tourists strengthen the economy of any city by bringing an income to local and government businesses. If tourists like a particular place, they will tell other people to visit.

Task Card 8 Q. What is the special term used for fireworks and for a professional who creates fireworks? A. Pyrotechnics and pyrotechnicians. Q. When does the city closest to you have their major fireworks displays? A. Many cities of the world celebrate special occasions by putting on a fireworks display. Some celebrations: New Years Eve, Christmas Eve, Chinese New Year, Queen or King’s birthdays, Independence days, Easter, Harvest festivals, Festival of Light, Deepavali (Diwali), Hanukkah. Q. What is used to create fireworks? Common fireworks are paper or cardboard tubes containing combinations of gunpowder, flash powder, and propellants. Larger pyrotechnics use metal mortars and other containers, and some displays use compressed air for launching. There are many chemicals also used to provide various levels of burning or exploding. Some create coloured stars, bangs and reports, and crackling. Chemicals used include: aluminum, ammonium percholorate calcium carbonate carbon, copper, iron, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium (many compounds) strontium, sulphur, titanium, and more.

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Task Card 4 Services and facilities in the city: buses, trains, sporting grounds, swimming pools, garbage collection, highways, tunnels, libraries, rubbish dumps, sewer treatment plants, entertainment centres, street sweeping, parks, skate parks, town water supply, fire brigades, ambulance, police, hospitals, doctors surgeries, schools, councils.

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Task Card 8 Traffic pollution is responsible for the output of hydrocarbons, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, metals and a variety of organic compounds into the environment. It can also produce acid rain, and is a major source of greenhouse gases which contribute to global warming. Chemicals emitted into the air can cause many health problems.

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Task Card 9 Famous landmarks: Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House in Sydney. The Statue of Liberty and Wall Street in the USA. The Giza Pyramids and The Sphinx in Egypt. The Taj Mahal in India. Stonehenge in the UK. The Great Wall of China in China. The Angkorwat in Cambodia. The Acropolis of Athens in Greece. The Colosseum in Rome. The Potala Palace in Tibet and the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy.

Q. Who were the first to use fireworks? A. The earliest use of fireworks was by the Chinese 2,000 years ago. A Chinese cook spilled the ingredients of gunpowder into his cooking and invented gunpowder. Gunpowder was invented during the Song dynasty (960-1279) and fireworks followed. The Chinese people celebrate the invention of the firecracker every April 18th by celebrating the inventor Li Tian.

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