Scope and Sequence

Vocabulary Celebrations, Musical instruments, Nature, Technology, Food

Look and What did you do last weekend?
remember Grammar
We ate some Chinese food and listened to some music.
p. 4 What are the girls doing in the photo?
Do you ever go to parades like this?

Vocabulary Grammar Skills

envelope, letter, Have you ever swum to a post office? Listen to a report about unusual post offices.
post (verb), postbox, No, I haven’t.

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Read about time capsules.
postcard, post office, Has your sister ever been to Antarctica? Write an email to a penfriend.
stamp Yes, she has. Learn and speak about how animals
Making Reading: bury, They’ve never seen a penguin. communicate.
newspaper, It’s been under the ground for fifty years.
contact magazine, object It’s been under the ground since 1970.
p. 9 Think about your
VALUE
cultural identity.

carpet, cooker, Cibrilla has arrived in Bilma. Listen to a description of the Tuareg nomads
of Niger.

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cushion, electricity, They slept every night in the desert.
fire, fridge, pot, shelf They’ve already visited more than eighty Read about the Zapp family.
Reading: geography, countries. Write a biography of your hero.
Life on language, left They haven’t finished their journey yet. Learn and speak about trips people have
They’ve just left Dublin.
the road (leave) been on.

p. 17 Respect other
VALUE
cultures.

Function 1 Leaving a message p. 25 School trip 1 The cave art of France p. 26 Review 1: Units 1–2 p. 28

competitions, prize, The sun was shining. Listen to a report about the Naadam Festival
race, rider, stadium, Thousands of people were waiting. in Mongolia.

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taking part, win, She was looking for a toy when she Read about the Polgár sisters.
winner found a chess board. Write a short story about a sports competition.
Reading: blind, Learn and speak about life in Mongolia.
Challenges board, chess, pieces
p. 29
VALUE Work hard.

biscuit, butter, flour, People hold a frying pan with a Listen to a description of pancakes around
the world.

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honey, pepper, salt, pancake in it.
sugar, yoghurt They throw the pancake up into the air. Read about a restaurant where the children
Reading: delicious, The people who work at the restaurant cook.
What’s on forks, knives, prepare, teach the children. Write a café or restaurant review.
This is the pizza which/that I cooked.
your plate? spoons
It’s a restaurant where the children are
Learn and speak about school lunches.

p. 37 the cooks.
VALUE Eat healthily.

Game 1 p. 45 Reading extra 1 The story behind the marathon p. 46 Review 2: Units 3–4 p. 48

beetle, butterfly, A harpy eagle is heavier than a golden Listen to information about the harpy eagle.
Read about yaks and where they live.

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eagle, insects, eagle.
mammals, mouse, The ostrich is the biggest bird in the world. Write an animal factfile about a polar bear.
mice, plant, snake, A harpy eagle’s wingspan is as long as Learn and speak about giraffes.
The animal tortoise, wing a lion.
A lion isn’t as fast as a cheetah.
kingdom Reading: adapted,
It’s too cold for most animals.
fur, furry, thick, view
p. 49 The lion isn’t fast enough. Understand
VALUE
There isn’t enough food for the animals. nature.

bin, collect, keep, The children used to keep their books in Listen to a report about recycled bags in
light, plastic, recycle, old plastic bags. South Africa.

6 reuse, throw away,

turn off, turn on
This place didn’t use to have many
animals.
Read about the Forest Man of India.
Write questions and answers for a ‘How green
Helping the Reading: land, look Did he use to live in the forest? are you?’ quiz.
environment after, make sure, Yes, he did. Learn and speak about helping the
plant (verb) environment.
p. 57
Help the
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environment.

Function 2 Ordering food in a restaurant p. 65 School trip 2 The Galápagos Islands: Deep sea p. 66 Review 3: Units 5–6 p. 68

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Life in
Vocabulary
astronaut, land,
Look
rocket, orbit, planet,
solar system, space,
spacecraft, take off
Reading: float,
gravity, muscle, pull,
Grammar
Some scientists think people will live
on Mars.
Life on Mars won’t be easy.
What are you doing at the weekend?
I’m visiting the Hong Kong Space
Museum.
Skills
Listen to a report about Mars.
Read about life on the International Space
Station.
Write an information text about Venus.
Learn and speak about a NASA engineer.
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space sleeping bag

p. 69
VALUE Give and share.

act, audience, The queen is going to live in the Listen to a radio programme about water

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end, fairy tales, get mountains. puppet shows in Vietnam.
married, king, queen, Are you going to go cycling at the Read about the ‘Circus for all’.
stage, theatre, weekend? No, I'm not. / Yes, I am. Write a playscript.
Come to traditional He isn’t going to play football Learn and speak about shows.
tonight.
the show! Reading: acrobatics,
I think he’s going to fall.
hoop, lives (life),
p. 77 We’re going to enjoy the show.
performing, problems VALUE Work together.

Game 2 p. 85 Reading extra 2 The hunter and the tortoise p. 86 Review 4: Units 7–8 p. 88

hill, pond, skis, If you like animals, you’ll love Serengeti Listen to a programme about national parks

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sledge, snowboard, National Park. around the world.
stay, stone, stream, If we don’t walk up the hill, we won’t Read about an outdoor science experiment.
torch see the beautiful view. Write a short report about a place you’ve visited.
The world Reading: become If you put the bowl outside, what will Learn and speak about National Geographic
happen to the water?
outside gas, experiment,
It will get warmer.
Explorer Bertie Gregory.
happen, rise
p. 89
VALUE Be active.

bandage, broken, It may be dangerous. Listen to a description of the Lochaber

compass, cut, fall It might get colder later. Mountain Rescue team.

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over, first aid kit, fog, You could get lost in the dark. Read about ‘Flying Doctors Nigeria’.
foggy, mountain She has to go to hospital. Write a newspaper story about something that
rescue teams, I don’t have to go to hospital. happened at your school or in your town.
Help! plaster, storms, Her friend had to call an Learn and speak about the emergency
p. 97 whistle ambulance. services.
Reading: ambulance, I didn’t have to call an ambulance.
VALUE Stay safe.
death, patient

Function 3 Making arrangements p. 105 School trip 3 Patagonia National Park p. 106 Review 5: Units 9–10 p. 108

burn, cardboard box, Water, oil and sugar are put into a Listen to a description of how a traditional

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cool, glass jar, heat, large pot. Bahraini sweet is made.
look like, metal tin, The mixture is poured into metal tins. Read about how pearls are made.
mix, pour, wooden How are most pearls made? Write a description of a favourite possession.
How is it spoon The pearl isn’t taken out Learn and speak about how a traditional
immediately.
made? Reading: jewel, Japanese food is made.
natural, pearl, rare
p. 109 Think about where
VALUE
things come from.

east, invented The first compasses were used more Listen to a report about navigation and the
(invent), invention, than a thousand years ago. ancient Polynesians.

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magnet, navigation, A needle was put in the middle of a Read and answer a history and geography
needle, north, sailors, piece of card. quiz.
south, west When was the Titanic discovered? Write an article about an invention.
Discoveries Reading: breathe, What was designed by Bartolomeu Learn and speak about inventions and
p. 117 design (verb), sank Lourenço de Gusmão? discoveries.
(sink) VALUE Be curious.

Game 3 p. 125 Reading extra 3 Aboriginal art p. 126 Review 6: Units 11–12 p. 128

Look One more look p. 129 BONUS School trip Greenland p. 130
BONUS Reading extra Sand and stone p. 132 BONUS Game p. 134
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1 Look at the photo. Then read the text and circle the
correct words.
My family is Chinese and we 1 live / living
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favourite time of year is February when we celebrate Chinese
New Year. Many streets in Paris 2 put / doo up decorations
and there are lots of parties.

Last year we 3 see / saw w a parade at City Hall. There were lots
of girls in beautiful pink 4 trainers / costumes. They walked
along the road and they banged on big 5 violins / drums
very loudly. After the parade we 6 went / going g to a party
at my aunt’s house. We ate 7 some / any y Chinese food and
listened 8 at / to
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had
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2 Complete the questions with the present simple or

the present continuous. Then ask and answer the
questions in pairs.
1 Whatare the girls doing (girls / do) in the photo?
2 Are they dancing (they / dance)?
3 (you / ever / go) to parades like this?
4 (you / like) Chinese food?
5 What do your parents do (your parents / do) at New Year?

3 Complete the text with the past simple of the verbs

from the box.

buy eat go have make play taste

Last weekend, we 1 a party at my house.

In the morning, we 2 to the shops and
we 3 bought lots of nice food. In the afternoon,
4
I a cake for the party. At the party we
5
some games! Then we 6 the
7
cake. It really good.

4 What did you do last weekend? Ask and answer in

pairs. Use the ideas from the box and your own ideas.

eat some nice food go to the park listen to music

play football watch TV

Did you play football? No, I didn’t.

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Look and remember
1 Look at the photo. Then listen to the sentences.
Circle True or False. TR: 1

1 True / False
2 True / False
3 True / False
4 True / False
5 True / False
6 True / False

2 Work in pairs. Write four more true/false

sentences about the photo. Read the sentences
to your partner.

There’s a castle in the photo.

False!

3 Match the questions (1–6) with the answers

(A–F).
1 Whose drone is this?
2 What did they do yesterday?
3 How many hours have they been there?
4 How much water is in their water bottle?
5 Who did they send the photos to?
6 What are they doing today?

A A few.
B Us.
C Theirs.
D They’re taking photos.
E They climbed a mountain.
F A little.

4 Work in pairs. Write a short story about the two

people in the photo. Use at least four of the
words from the box.

climb dangerous discover look at plants

rest river rocks take photos tired

One day, two climbers went to the mountains. They

took their drone with them …

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Look and remember
1 Put the words into the correct row on the word mountain.

broccoli cello chilli circle corn dentist designer

e-book flute headphones jam laptop lettuce microphone

nurse nuts office block pilot square tablet violin

1 Buildings
2 Shapes
3 Musical instruments
4 Jobs
5 Technology
logy
6 Food broccoli

2 Work in pairs. Can you think of one more word for each category in the
word mountain?

3 Work in pairs. Complete sentences 1–5 with your own ideas. Then ask
about your partner’s sentences. Make questions with Why,
y Where, When,
Who
o and How often?
1 My favourite sport is …
2 My favourite place is …
3 My favourite possession is …
4 On my last holiday I …
5 On my next holiday I want to …

My favourite sport is tennis.

Where do you play?

I play at the sports centre.

How often do you play?

Every weekend.

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Look at the photo. Discuss the questions.

1 Where are these people?
2 What are they doing? Why?
3 Why do you think they can’t use their phones to make phone calls?
4 How do you communicate with the following people: your school friends; your family;
people who live far away?
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Vocabulary
1 Listen and repeat. TR: 2

envelope letter post (verb) postbox postcard post office stamp

2 Complete the text with words from 3 Listen to the radio travel show. Complete
Exercise 1. There are two words you the sentences with the correct place,
don’t need. Vanuatu (V) or Port Lockroy (PL). TR: 3

My aunt doesn’t send text messages or 1 There’s a post office in the sea in .
emails, but she writes a long 1 letter
2 There are two thousand penguins in .
and sends it to me every week. I know it’s
from her because she always uses a green 3 Four people work at the post office in .
pen to write my name and address on the 4 Tourists send more than eighty thousand
2
. My aunt lives in Sri Lanka, letters and postcards from PL .
3
and the from there often have 5 You can’t buy postcards from the post office
pictures of birds and animals on themthem. I think iin .
they’re beautiful. I don’t write to her every
week, but I always buy a 4 for her 4 Work in pairs. Discuss. Which post office
when I go on holiday. I 5
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Grammar
1 Study the grammar box. 3 Work in pairs. Find out about your
partner’s experiences. Ask and answer
Present perfect with ever/never questions with the phrases from the box.
We use the present perfect with everr to ask
questions about experiences. post a letter to another country

Have you ever swum to a post office? eat a mango

No, I haven’t. visit a castle
Hass your sister ever been
n to Antarctica?
be late for school
Yes, she has.
We use the present perfect with neverr to talk go ice skating
about things we have nott done. play the violin
They’ve never seen a penguin outside a post
office! see an elephant

He’s never sent me a postcard. climb a mountain

Have you ever posted a

letter to another country?
Yes, I have!

4 Work in pairs. Write four sentences with

I’ve never … . Make three sentences true
and one false. Read the sentences to
your partner. Can they guess the false
sentence?

I’ve never bought a postcard.

I’ve never been to Canada.
I’ve never swum in a lake.
I’ve never ridden a horse.
Vanuatu
I think, ‘I’ve never swum in a
lake.’ is the false sentence.

2 Write questions with the present perfect

That’s right! I havee swum
and ever.
r Then ask and answer the
in a lake!
questions with a partner.
1 you / swim / in the sea
Have you ever swum in the sea?
2 you / see / a penguin
3 your best friend / send / you / a postcard
4 your parents / make / a video call
5 you / have / a penfriend

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1 Look at the title of the text and the 3 Read again. Write T (true) or F (false).
photo. Guess. What is the woman doing? 1 Time capsules are messages from the
future.
2 Listen and read. TR: 4
2 There are very many time capsules under
the ground today.
3 In 2015, Pam Hatchfield opened a 220-year-
old time capsule.
4 The time capsule in Osaka is about five
thousand years old.
5 It is not under the ground now.
6 Rin Masayuki has got a letter from the time
capsule.

4 Imagine you are making a time capsule.

What do you want to put in it?

Pam Hatchfield,
Boston, US

A message from the past

We can’t travel in time. We can’t talk to pe eople in the US. There’s even a time capsule at the South
from the past or the future. But we can le eave Pole! It’s been there since 2002.
special messages for people in the fut uture. Many
Near Osaka Castle, in Japan, there is a time
people have made ‘time capsules’ s . They write
capsule from 1970. It’s been under the ground
letters and put objects from theieirr life into a box.
for about fifty years and it will stay there for five
Then they bury the box underr the ground. They
thousand years. It’s got more than two thousand
hope that in the future some
meone will find their time
objects from Japanese life in the 1960s, including
capsule and will learn abo
bout our life today. There
some clothes, newspapers and magazines,
are now thousands off time capsules under the
a postcard, a television, stamps and books. It’s
ground around the world. In 2015, Pam Hatchfield,
also got a letter from nine-year-old Rin Masayuki.
from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, opened a
His letter begins, ‘How are you, people of five
time capsule fro
rom 1795. It’s the oldest time capsule
thousand years from now?’

New words: object bury

newspaper magazine Think about your cultural identity.
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Grammar
1 Study the grammar box. 3 Work in pairs. Make true sentences
with forr or since. Use the phrases
Present perfect with for and since from the box.
We use the present perfect with forr to talk about
length of time. have my school bag live in my house

It’s been
n under the ground for fifty years. not watch a film know my best friend
I’ve lived in Osaka for three months.
be at my school not ride my bike
We use the present perfect with since
e to talk about a
point in time. not eat

It’s been
n under the ground since 1970.
I haven’t lived in Tokyo since January. I’ve had my school bag since 2016.

I haven’t eaten for two hours.

2 Complete the text with the verbs in brackets.

Use the present perfect and circle forr or since.

There 1 have been (be)

pictures and symbols on
these cave walls sincee / for
more than thirty thousand
years. What do they mean?
Since / Forr a long time,
people 2 (look)
3
at them and
(talk) about the pictures and
their stories. But Genevieve
von Petzinger wants to know
more about the symbols on
the walls, not the pictures. She
4
(love) history
sincee / forr she was a child.
She 5 (visit)
many caves in Europe since /
for 2010. Now she has found a
very interesting fact. The same
thirty-two symbols are in many
caves. Genevieve wants to
understand these symbols. Are
they a message from the
people of the past?

Genevieve von Petzinger,

National Geographic Explorer

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1 Work in pairs. Think about time capsules. Can
you think of any possible problems with them?

2 Listen and read. TR: 5

3 Listen and chant. TR: 6 and 7

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Writing An email
1 Read the email. Then answer the questions. 2 Read the information in the box.
1 Who is the email to? Then look at the email and answer
2 Where does Aya live? questions 1 and 2.
3 Who is Keket?
We usually start emails to friends with
4 How many students are in Aya’s class?
Hii or Hello
o + the person’s name.
5 What does Aya do in her free time?
Hi Sarah
Hello Yuri
Hi Samira
We usually finish emails to friends with:
I’m really excited that you are my new Please write back soon!
penfriend! My name is Aya and I live in Cairo,
1 Bye for now!
Egypt. I wasn’t born in Cairo – I was born in
Aswan, but I’ve lived here for seven years. 1 How does Aya start her email?

There are six people in my family: my mum, 2 How does she finish her email?
my dad, my two sisters, my brother and me.
2 3 Writing skill Paragraphs
We’ve also got a cat called Keket. She’s really
a Read the information in the box.
beautiful!
When we give personal information
I’ve been at my school for three years. It’s a
in a letter or email, we use a new
big school and there are forty students in my paragraph for each new topic area.
3 class. I’ve studied English since I was six years
old. That’s because my school is a language b Match topics 1–4 with the
paragraphs in Aya’s email.
school and our classes are in English.
1 family
4 When I’m not at school, I like going swimming 2 free time
and playing video games.
3 home
Please tell me about your life. Who’s in your 4 school
family? How long have you been at your
5
school? Do you like it? What do you do in your 4 Imagine Aya has written to you.
free time? Write a reply.
• Answer the questions in her email.
Please write back soon!
• Start and finish your email with
Aya phrases from Exercise 2.
• Use a new paragraph for each
new topic.

School children
in Egypt

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1 Look at the photo. You’re going to watch a video called

The science of miaow.
w From the title and the photo, predict
the main idea of the video.

2 Watch the video. Tick (✓) the information the scientists want to
find out. Video 1

1 Why do kittens miaow? 2 What do adult cats’ miaows mean?

3 Do cats miaow when they sleep? 4 Do cats from different regions miaow in
different ways?

3 Watch the video again. Complete the sentences with the words from
the box. Video 1

cats children humans miaows regions

1 Kittens miaow because they want to talk to other .

2 Adult cats miaow because they want to talk to .
3 Some people talk to their cats like little .
4 People from different talk in different dialects.
5 The study will help people to understand what their cats’ mean.

4 Work in groups. Discuss the questions.

1 Do people in your country use different dialects? Can you think of any
special words which only people from your region use?
2 The scientists in Sweden are listening to the sounds which cats make.
What other activities can help us to understand animals?
3 Do you think the scientists’ work is important? Why? / Why not?

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Life on the road 2

Tessa and Dillon travelled

from Alaska to South
America. They stopped
near this mountain in Peru
for a photo with an alpaca.

Look at the photo. Discuss the questions.

1 Have you ever been on a long journey?
2 Do you think this is a true picture of everyday life in Peru?
3 What is your country famous for?

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1 Listen and repeat. TR: 8 3 Cibrilla is a Tuareg Nomad
from Niger in Africa. Listen to
the description of his life. Then
complete the text. Use one word
in each gap. TR: 9

Today, Cibrilla has arrived at the

carpet cooker cushion electricity town of Bilma to sell onions and other
vegetables. When Cibrilla and the
other nomads travelled through the
desert, they walked for 1
hours every day. At night, they
2
in the desert. They
fire fridge pot shelf needed 3 because it was
4
very at night. Of course,
2
5
they didn’t have , so
Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions 1 and 2.
they cooked dry food with camel
1 Which of the items from Exercise 1 have you got in:
milk in a 6 over a fire.
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Tuareg Nomads in the Sahara Desert, Niger

18 UNIT 2 Life on the road

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Grammar
1 Study the grammar box. 3 Complete the sentences with the
verbs in brackets. Use the present
Present perfect and past simple perfect or past simple.
We use the present perfect to talk about general 1 Yesterday, they arrived (arrive) at
experiences.
their home town.
She’s visited many countries.
2 The children aren’t at home. They
We’ve seen some amazing places.
(go) to school.
We also use the present perfect to talk about an
action in the past that is still true today. 3 He (live) in the desert for
Cibrilla has arrived
d in Bilma. (He is in Bilma now.)
twenty years. He loves it there.

Now the nomads have moved

d to the cities. 4 She (move) to a different
We use the past simple to talk about a completed
town when she was eight.
action in the past. 5 My friends and I (watch)
They sleptt every night in the desert. (They are not in a TV programme about the Tuareg
the desert now.) nomads last night.

4 Imagine you are on a camping trip.

2 Circle the correct answer.
What have yo y u done today y? What did
you do yesterday? Use the phrases in
It is nine o’clock in the evening. The
tth
he bo
he boxx an
a d yo
y ur own ide deas
as.. Th
as Then
en ask
Tuareg nomads 1 arrived / have arrived
and
annd a
annsw
swer
er wit
ith
th a pa
part
art
r tn
neer.
at their camp for the night. Their day
2
started / has started d at four o’clock in the arrive / at the camp cook / dinner
3
morning. They got up / have got up p and
4
see / some animals make / a fire
made / have made e a small fire. Then they
5
began / have begun that day’s journey through swim / in the lake do / the washing up
the desert. Nomads 6 travelled / have travelled play / volleyball walk / in the forest
through the desert for thousands of years.

What have you done today?

I’ve walked in the forest …

What did you do yesterday?

I cooked dinner.
How about you?

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3 N
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Reading
1 Look
Look
k at th
he title of the art
rticle
le and the photo.
Whe
Wh ere do you
ere o thi hink
nk the
h se peoplle li
live
v ?

2 List
Li sten
en
n and
n read
ead. TR: 10

The world is their classroom

They’ve already visited more than eighty The children don’t go to school. They learn
countries, including Australia, China and from travelling around the world. They call
Egypt, and they’ve travelled more than it, ‘Car Schooling’! They speak different
300,000 kilometres. But they haven’t finished languages when they play with other children;
their journey yet. Herman and Candelaria they learn about maths when they use
Zapp left their home in Argentina in January different money and of course, every day is
2000. They planned to travel for six months. a geography lesson! Sometimes their board
But at the end of the six months, they didn’t is the wet sand on the beach; sometimes
want to stop! Now they have four children: they watch and learn from the animals
Pampa, Tehue, Paloma and Wallaby. Their around them.
home is a car – ninety years old and not very
What is the best thing about their life?
fast, but they like travelling slowly. The car is full
‘Making many friends all around the world,’
of maps and photographs from all the places
says Pampa.
they’ve visited. Sometimes theyhey stay with
different families and somettimes they
sleep in the car.

New wo
New
Ne word
rds:
left (past simple of lle
eave
e)
language
geog gra
raph
phyy

The
e Zapp
pp family in Indonesia

Respect other cultures.

VALUE Workbook, Lesson 6

20 UNIT 2 Life on the road