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Contents

Unit 1How tall are you?
Vocabularyyounger, older, taller, shorter, longer, thinner, heavier, bigger, smaller, stronger, dinosaur , hall, metre(NAmE: meter), than, both, kilogram, countryside, lower, shadow, smarter, become
SentencesThat’s the tallest dinosaur in this hall.
It’s taller than both of us together.
How tall are you? — I’m 1.65 metres.
What size are your shoes, Mike? — My shoes are size 37.
Your feet are bigger than mine.
How heavy are you? — I’m 48 kilograms.
Unit 2Last weekend
Vocabularycleaned, stayed, washed, watched, had, had a cold, slept, read, saw, last, yesterday, before, drank, show, magazine, better, faster, hotel, fixed, broken, lamp, loud, enjoy, stay
SentencesHow was your weekend? — It was good, thank you.
What did you do? — I stayed at home with your grandma. We drank tea in the afternoon and watched TV.
Did you do anything else? — Yes, I cleaned my room and washed my clothes.
I want to buy the new film magazine.
What did you do last weekend?
Did you see a film? — No, I had a cold. I stayed at home all weekend and slept.
Unit 3Where did you go?
Vocabularywent, camp, went camping, fish, went fishing, rode, hurt, ate, took, took pictures, bought, gift, fell, off, mule, Turpan, could, till, beach, basket, part, licked, laughed
SentencesWhat happened?
Are you all right? — I’m OK now.
Where did you go?
It looks like a mule!
Did you go to Turpan? — Yes, we did.
How did you go there? — We went there by plane.
Sounds great!
Unit 4Then and now
Vocabularydining hall, grass, gym, ago, cycling, go cycling, ice-skate, badminton, star, easy, look up, Internet, different, active, race, nothing, thought, felt, cheetah, trip, woke, dream
SentencesThere was no library in my old school.
Tell us about your school, please.
How do you know that?
There were no computers or Internet in my time.
Before, I was quiet. Now, I’m very active in class.
I was short, so I couldn’t ride my bike well. Now, I go cycling every day.

Proverbs

  1. Less is more.
  2. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
  3. All’s well that ends well.
  4. Life is what you make it.

Irregular verbs

InfinitivePast Tense
be (am/is/are)was/were
becomebecame
beginbegan
bringbrought
buybought
cancould
comecame
cutcut
dodid
drawdrew
drinkdrank
drivedrove
eatate
fallfell
feelfelt
findfound
flyflew
getgot
givegave
gowent
have (has)had
hearheard
hurthurt
keepkept
knowknew
learnlearnt/learned
leaveleft
letlet
loselost
makemade
meetmet
putput
readread
runran
saysaid
seesaw
sellsold
sendsent
shallshould
singsang
sitsat
sleepslept
speakspoke
standstood
swimswam
taketook
teachtaught
telltold
thinkthought
wakewoke
wearwore
willwould
winwon
writewrote