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CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH
Language Assessment

Part of the University of Cambridge

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Student's Book
Fourth edition

Anne Robinson
Karen Saxby


The authors and publishers would like to thank the ELT professionals who commented on the
material at different stages of its development.
The authors are grateful to: Niki Donnelly of Cambridge University Press.
Anne Robinson would like to give special thanks to Adam Evans and to many,many teachers

and students who have inspired her along the way. Gratitude to her parents Margaret and Jim her first teachers,who definitely encouraged her to discover and have fun! Warm thanks to Jose
Ramon for his patience and understanding while this series was being written and Cristina and
Victoria for their help and enthusiasm. And in memory of her brother Dave.
Karen Saxby would like to give special thanks to everyone she has worked with at Cambridge
Assessment since the birth of YLE! She would particularly like to mention Frances,Felicity and
Ann Kelly. She would also like to acknowledge the enthusiasm of all the teachers she has met
through her work in this field. And lastly, Karen would like to say a big thank you to her sons,
Tom and William,for bringing constant FUN and creative thinking to her life and work.
Freelance editorial services by Christine Barton
Design and typeset by Wild Apple Design.
Cover design by Chris Saunders (Astound).
Sound recordings by dsound Recording Studios,London
The authors and publishers acknowledge the following sources of copyright material and
are grateful for the permissions granted. While every effort has been made,it has not always
been possible to identify the sources of all the material used, or to trace all copyright holders.
If any omissions are brought to our notice, we will be happy to include the appropriate
acknowledgements on reprinting and in the next update to the digital edition,as applicable.
The authors and publishers are grateful to the following illustrators:
T = Top, B = Below, L = Left, R = Right,C = Centre, BIG= Background
L aetitia Aynie(Sylvie Poggio Artists Agency) pp. 23 (C),44 (T),58 (C),81 (T), 87 (T); David
Banks pp. 58,86 (B),99 (B); Adrian Bijoo@Advocate 59, 82 (T), 88 (B); Joanna B occardo pp. 33
(C),84 (T); Chris Embleton-Hall (Advocate Art) pp. 11 (T), 17 (C),41 (B),48,67 (T),76 (B),
94 (B); Andrew Elkerton (Sylvie Poggio Artists Agency) pp. 7,9 (B),13 (T), 16 (B), 17 (T, B),33
(T), 34,35,54,71 (T), 72 (T), 74 (C), 75 (B),82 (C),89,94 (T); Clive Goodyer pp. 18,19 (T),25
(T),26 (B), 27,32 (B),38 (B),43 (B),45,69, 72 (B),76 (T), So (T),86 (T); Andrew Hamilton @
Elephant Shoes Ink Ltd pp. 13 (B), 15 (T, B),20 (T),26,32 (T), 41 (T), 44 (C),46 (B),47 (T), 61
(C, B),68 (B),78 (T), 84 (C),88 (C); Brett Hudson (Graham-Cameron Illustration) pp. 19 (B),
37 (T),49 (C),50 (B),53 (T), 79 (T); Kelly Kennedy (Sylvie Poggio Artists Agency) pp. 9 (T), 39
(T), 46 (T), 47 (B),51 (T), 66, 68 (T), 73, 82 (B),85; Nigel Kitching pp. 18 (T),25 (C), 43 (T), 49
(B), 53 (BL), 57 (T), 61,97 (T); Arpad Olbey(Beehive Illustration) pp. 19 (C), 10,24(8),71 (B,

C), 84 (B),87 (B);Nina de Polonia (Advocate Art) pp. 10,44 (B),50 (T),62,So (B),82 (T),88
(B), 93(B); David Pratt pp. 37 (B); Anthony Rule monkey and Project bag images throughout,
pp. 5,6,11,14,18,19,22,26,31,32,38,41,46,50,55,58,62,66,68,72,74,76,78,82,86,87,90,
94; Pip Sampson pp. 15 (C),29,30,38 (T),40,43 (C),56,57 (B), 63,70,71 (B), 74,78 (B), 79 (B),
90; Melanie Sharp (Sylvie Poggio Artists Agency) pp. 6 (B), 8,11 (R),16 (T),22,23 (B), 37 (C),
52,53 (BR), 60,64,65,73,77, 83,88,95,97 (C, B), 99 (T); Emily Skinner pp. 57 (B); Jo Taylor pp.
20 (B),21,28,31,39 (B), 42,58 (B), 74 (B), 75 (T),81 (B),84 (B), 91,92; Theresa Tibbetts pp. 93
(T, C); Matt Ward@ Beehivepp.51,63;Sue Wimperis (Graham-Cameron Illustration) pp. 67 (B);
Sue Woollatt (Graham-Cameron Illustration) pp. 14,34,96,98.


Contents
1
2
3
4
5

What's your name?

6

Animals and aliens

7

Look, listen, smile, draw

8

In my clothes cupboard

9
10

11

Say hello!
Numbers, numbers, numbers
Red, blue and yellow
Answering questions

Funny monsters
Our families
Whose is it?

12
13
14
15
16
17

Who's got the red balloon?

18

A colourful house

19

20
21
22
23
24
25

What's in your bedroom?

Who can do this?
Big, small, happy or sad?
One, two, three animals
What's your favourite fruit?
What's on the menu?

Ben and Kim live here!
Play with us!
In our bags and in our school
At our school
What's the class doing?
Animal challenge

6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20

22
24
26
28
30
32
34
36
38
40
42
44
46
48
50
52
54


26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36

37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45

How many pets?
Food I rea Uy Like!
My favourite food day
We're in the toy shop today
Monsters in the park
Coming and going
Happy birthday!
On the beach
Let's go to the park
What, who and where?
Great games, great hobbies!
Let's play
My favourites
One foot, two feet
Night and day
Trains, boats and planes
About a phone
What are they saying?
About us
Happy ending!

Pairwork activities
Unit wordlist

56
58
60
62
64
66
68
70
72
74
76
78
80
82
84
86
88
90
92
94
96-100
101-111


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Say hello!

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n
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• your name?
Wh t•
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Hello! Say, spell and write nam es.

B Q

Know your Letters!

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D

a

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a

b

k

b

t

g

q

l

X

C

s

m

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r

n

p

y

d

e

f

g

b

V

n

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C

s

z

h

w

m

a

w

V

k

J

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g

V

w

X

f

0

n

m

h

u

J

y

X

p

q

r

s

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k

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Listen! Draw a line from the baby frog to its mum!

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1
2

4
5

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D What's the animal?
1

2
3
4
5

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Do you know these animals too?
This cat's name is ....................... _______;;;;j
This dog's name is ....................... .
This snake's name is ....................... .

G � Play the game! Can you make a word?

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p

e

1


Nurnbe��rnbers, numbers
'A. Write the numbers.

ltW@ ..... '?.....

,

eight ............

f

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five ........... .
ten ............
(fi)n(ru@ ........... .
twelve .... . ....... liUUflerli @ITu ........... .

t
ty ............

B Look at the letters. Write words for six things in the picture.

r
esho
C (A, Y
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3

1

dbe

2

0

C Let's count! How many can you see? Answer the questions.
How many cats are there in the picture?
How many balls are there?
How many shoes are there?

.... J .... .
............

k

�a

Listen and write a name or a number.

Examples

What is the boy's name?
How old is he?
1 How many toys has Tom got?
2 What is the name of Tom's cat?
3 How many books has Tom got?
4
What is the name of Tom's school?
5
Which class is Tom in?

.......... Iqrri.......... .

.............?.............

................ School

E

Listen and draw lines between the letters and numbers.

F

Colour and draw.

Colour B brown. Colour G green.
And draw a big yellow sun in the picture!

G � Play number games!


What's your name?
Look at the letters. Write the names.

2

S

m

a

9

5

B l i l

6

a

n

A

7

n

8

B Write the names under boy, girl or boy and girl.
� Alex Sue Ma�
Alice Jill May Pat Grace

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.........t?.�......... .......................

My favourite English names are:

and

C

D Listen and write the names.
1
2

........ TC?�. . . . . . . . .

3
4

Mr .......................

5
6

Mrs ...................... .


Answer the questions. Write your names in the circle.
1
2
3
4

E

What's your name?
What's your friend's name?
What's your grandmother's name?
What's a good name for a cat or a dog?

D Listen and write the names
and numbers.

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(z.)

F

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(3)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . St.r-ee.t

It's your friend's birthday!
Write your friend's name and address.

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G Find a name from A, B or C in these sentences.
1
2
3

ListenThe cat is sleeping on the mat today.
She wants an orange and an apple.

4
5
6

Grandma, you're great!
Be nice to your teacher!
Stop at the end of the street.


· Red, blu8nd yellow
Read and colour.

1
2

3
4

5

B

blue + red = ............................
white + black = ........................

blue + yellow = .......................
yellow + red = .........................

1
5

red + white = ...........................

You and colours. Answer the questions.
What colour are your eyes?
What colour is your T-shirt?
What colour is your bedroom?
What colour is your hair?
What is your favourite colour?

C

Look at the pictures. Circle the correct word.

1
2

3

4

This is a boat/ goat.
This is a cat/ mat.
This is a kite/ tree.
This is a boy I woman.

D
D
D


D

D Listen and colour the birds.

E Great colours for a car, shoes, sports shoes, ice cream or bike!
What's a good colour for a�?

What colour� do you like?

What colour are your favourite � ?

What's a great colour for a

What colour is your favourite

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s
A

7

Answering questions

Complete the crossword. Find the answers in the box.

How are , ____

you?

7

abcdef
ghUkI
mnopqr
stuvwx

a,

l

We love
English.

l
p

cross
letter
question

h

a,

b

e

number

t

sentence
tick

yz

words

l__
B

[Z]

Read, draw and write.

1

Draw a line.

4

Write a number.

2

Tick the box.

5

Put a cross in the box.

3

Write yes.

6

Write one word.

7
8
9

What's your favourite English word?
Write a sentence with five words.
Write a question with four words.

D

D


(8

Look and read. Write yes or no.J

Pat

Ben

Kim

Hugo
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Examples

Eva

One of the boys is sleeping.
The girl in the tree has black hair.
Questions

1
2
3
4
5

(� a
E

You can see six apples.
The dog is brown and white.
The children are in the house.

The boy's ball is purple.
The frog is on a book.
Listen and draw lines.J

� Mime the sentence.

Mark

Sam

. ........M.�� .........
. . . . . . . . . .Y\O
.............


Write the animals, then draw lines from

a or an.
arm
body
ear
eye
face
foot
hand
head
leg

an

mouth
nose
tail

B

Look and read. Put a tick (V) or a cross (K) in the box.

__ 6

1

These are arms.

2

This is a head.

3

This is a tail.

D

4

This is a leg.

5

This is a mouth.

10 This is an

D

D

These are feet.

D

D

D


� Read this. Choose a word from the box� ·
Write the correct word next to numbers 1-5.

You can see giraffes at the ......... ?P9 .......... Giraffes
are very big < 1 > •••.•.•.•...........•..• Giraffes have got four
long <2> ....................... and their tails are very long
too. Giraffes see with their big brown (3) ....................... .
They like eating <4> ....................... , but they don't eat meat.
They drink <5> ........................ Their bodies are yellow,
orange and brown. Giraffes are fantastic animals. Do
you like giraffes?
Example

D

zoo

water

fruit

shoe

animals

eyes

nose

Write one word on the lines.

This is a ....................... and it's a very ....................... animal.
It runs with its ....................... legs and it has
a very long ....................... .
It likes eating ....................... but it doesn't eat meat.
It drinks ....................... and it loves swimming in it too!
Horses are really cool! Can you ride one?

E � Play two games!

Make the animals!
Have you got the II ard'a tall?

Look, listen, smile, draw
� Look at the pictures. Look at the letters. Write the words.
Example

1

Gt,

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4

a

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2

B

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f
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5

What's not there? Write the parts of the face.

1 his ... -��.... 2 her .............. 3 his .............. 4 his .............. 5 her ..............

Choose and write the correct word.
1
2
3
4
5

I ....................... with my mouth.
I ....................... and ....................... with my eyes.
I ....................... to music with my ears.
I ....................... at my friends with my hand.
I can ....................... a ball with my feet and I can .......................

with my feet and legs.
�

-

�

''

kick

smile

Usten

wave

look

see

run


D

Look at Sam's robot. Choose and write words
on the lines.

(

1
2
3
4
5

COFfl(:>Ute1

clock keyboard

kites socks J

The .....�r:r:'P.�W-..... is the robot's face.
The ....................... is the robot's mouth.
The ....................... is the robot's body.

The ....................... are the robot's arms.
The ....................... are the robot's legs.

Now draw the robot's eyes, ears and nose.

E

Look at the picture. Find words to complete the sentences.
s.mibiRg frog

tail

hand

boxes

ball

waving

The family are

......���9 ....... But they

aren't sitting on chairs! The
boy 's the tree! Can you see the
0 > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . under his
sister? The old man and
woman are sitting on two
m
The
baby's got a flower in her
(4>
and she and
her mum are sitting on a big
<s>
The cat's
on the shoe! Can you see its
brown (G> ••••••••••••••••••••••• ?

F � Play the game!

Draw the monkey.

0


�'-In my clothes cupboar
d
Write the words for the pictures.

s

t

B

D Listen and tick (ti') the box.
1

Which boy is Tom?

2

Which is Kim's dad?

AD
3

Which woman is Dan's teacher?

eo

4 Where is the T-shirt?

�

A

co

AD

B0

co


C Look at the picture. Write one-word answers to the questions.

Examples

What colour is the boy's T-shirt?
How many sofas are there?
1 Where is the jacket?
2 How many people are there in the picture?
3 What colour is the woman's skirt?
4 What is the baby"wearing on one of her feet?
5 What c. olour is the girl's hair?

r.� ................ .

one

.......................
on the ............ .

a blue .............

Count and then make sentences. Use There is or There are.
1

four

2

white

3

baby

4

There are

There is

chairs

green

one

happy

cats

5

E � Play the game! The long clothes sentence.

flowers


Look, read and write numbers. Then, draw and colour the clothes.

The monster
It's got .......... -� .......... heads
and ....................... eyes. It's
got ....................... noses. It
hasn't got a mouth, but it's got
....................... funny tails.
Its ....................... feet are very
big. Its ....................... arms
are very long and its hands are
very small.

Today it's wearing baseball caps and boots and a big T-shirt.
Read and colour the monster.

1
2
3

4

C

The monster's arms are red and its hands are green.
It's got purple faces, pink eyes and yellow noses.
Colour three boots blue and two boots orange.
Make its T-shirt pink and its baseball caps orange.

Choose words and write about the monster!

Say 'Hello' to Bounce!
It's very big/small, happy/sad, very beautiful/ugly, scary/silly and really funny!
is its favourite food!
and
It drinks


D Which monster am I? Look at our pictures. Write the correct number.
1
2
3
4
5

monster ...........4.......... .
monster .......................
monster .......................
monster .......................
monster .......................

I've got a flower in my hair.
I'm holding my baby.
I love reading funny stories.
I've got my robot in my hand.
I really like my new glasses!

E Look at the monsters. Write colours.
Monster
1
2
3

body
blue

hair
black

eyes
red

nose
blue

arms
0

feet
red

4

F Write names for monsters 1-4 under the pictures in the Picture Hall.

G

Listen and complete the sentences about monster 5.
Hi! My name's ........................ I love reading
.......................stories and learn in g about .......................
in the .......................at my new school.

H

D � Play the game! Colour the wall.


Read about Sam. Which picture is Sam's family?
My name's Sam. I live in a big house with my<6ffe�and dad and my
three sisters and two brothers. My grandpa an grandma live in the
small blue house next to us. We all love animals. We've got a donkey.
Its name is Mango. Our dog's name is Chocolate and he plays and
sleeps in our garden. My grandparents have got a cat and three fish.
The cat's name is Lucy but I don't know the names of their fish!
2
3
1

Put circles round the family words.
Complete the sentences about Sam's family's pets.

3

(� Thi,,s i,,s mH
/ .,,. .......................

...� .


D Answer the questions.
�

1
2
3
4
5

Is your street long or short?
How many people live in your house/flat?
Do your grandfathers and grandmothers live with you?
Have you got a lot of cousins?
Has your family got a pet?

E Draw circles round words about your family and home and write names.
This is me!
My name's ............................... .
I live in a

with my

house
flat

big
small

mum dad brother sister
grandma grandpa
grandparents

in the

house
flat

next to us.

We love

cat

animals
cats dogs
gardens

dog

, but we haven't got a

garden

F � Play the game! Who's that?