CAMBRIDGE
ENGLISH
for schools
Starter Student’s Book
ANDREW
LITTLEJOHN
& DIANA
CAMBRIDGE
i) UNIVERSITY PRESS
HICKS
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SYNDICATE
OF
THE
UNIVERSITY
OF
CAMBRIDGE
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CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY
PRESS
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© Cambridge University Press 1996
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no reproduction of any part may take place without
the written permission of Cambridge University Press.
First Published 1996
Reprinted 1997
Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge
ISBN 0 521 56795 5 Student’s Book
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Workbook
Teacher’s Book
Class Cassette Set
Workbook Cassette
Contents
Map of Cambridge English for Schools Starter
4
What’s in Cambridge English for Schools Starter? ..... 6
THEME
A
‘1 INTRODUCTORY UNIT Learn English!
New friends
2 ToPIC Around the world..............
3 LANGUAGE FOCUS
sonata
4 activity English in our world.
B
Where we live
5 TOPIC
Your country
6 LANGUAGE FOCUS..
` REVISION:...............s-s.cass
Cc
Animal world
8 TOPIC Animal facts
9 LANGUAGE FOCUS...
10 REVISION
The
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22
13
19
24
26
31
36
38
circle of life
ToPIC Natural food......
LANGUAGE FOCUS.....
REVISION..........
North and south
14 Topic The clothes we wear.
15 LANGUAGE FOCUS
16 activity A class calendar
E
=—-`..
Inthe sun
17 TOPIC What’s the time?
18 LANGUAGE FOCUS...
19 REVISION Make a test.
20 QUESTION TIME! A revision game.......................
Songs.
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Map of the world
Useful sets
Wordlist/Index
Thanks and acknowledgements.
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86
Map of Cambridge English for Schools Starter
UNIT
THEME
A
TOPIC
New friends
Curriculum links: Geography — countries;
Communication studies — use of English.
Where we live
Curriculum links: Ge ography — countries,
continents and physical atures; Social studies
— housing, languages.
Animal world
Curriculum links: Biology and Environmental
science — animal life and habitat.
The circle of life
Curriculum links: Biology — food chains;
Geography — facts about the world.
North and south
Curriculum links: Geography — Northern/
southern hemispheres; Biology — capillary action;
Social studies — the climate and how it affects our
lives.
In the sun
Curriculum links: Physics and Geography — sun,
shadows and time.
TOPIC
Around the world
14
Saying your name, age, where you come from and
where you live; some adjectives; numbers 20+.
TOPIC Your country
26
Names of countries, continents and languages;
natural features of countries; a poster about your
country; ‘has got’.
TOPIC Animal facts
38
Animals from around the world; habitat; what
animals can and can’t do; reading and writing
about animals.
11 topic Natural food
50
14 Topic The clothes we wear
62
Food chains; the life cycle ofa butterfly.
Months of the year and clothing; climate and
seasons in different parts of the world.
17 topic What’s the time?
Activities in the sun; the sun and shadows; telling
the time from the sun; daylight hours in England
and your country; sunrise/sunset; making a
sundial.
74
UNIT
UNIT
LANGUAGE FOCUS
3
LANGUAGE FOCUS
REVISION/ACTIVITY
19
4
‘this’, ‘that’, ‘be’ in positive sentences and
AcTIVITY English in our world
24
Making a poster about English in your life.
questions.
In the classroom: classroom words.
6
LANGUAGE
FOCUS
31
Rooms in a house; discovering a grammar rule;
a
ue
LANGuAGE Focus
‘be’ in negative sentences; ‘can/can’t’.
43
10 Revision
Self-assessment
48
Revision of Units 8-9.
55
13REvIsION
Pets; Present simple; ‘there is/there are’.
Self-assessment
Out and about: in the shops (2).
Revision of Units 11-12.
15 Lancuace Focus
36
Revision of Units 1-6.
In the classroom: classroom phrases (1).
12 Lanauace Focus
REVISION
Self-assessment
Out and about: in the shops (1).
9
7
67 — 16 activity A class calendar
Clothes, possessive ’s; colours; an experiment with
flowers and colours.
60
72
A calendar to show climate events for each
month of the year.
Out and about: meeting friends.
18 Lanauace Focus
79
19QREVISION Make a test
‘have got’; telling the time; days of the week;
personal routines.
Self-assessment
In the classroom: classroom phrases (2).
Making your own test.
Revision of Units 14-18
84
What’s in Cambridge English for Schools Starter?
Cambridge English for Schools Starter has three parts for you. There is a Student’s Book,
a Workbook and a Workbook Cassette.
The Student’s Book
1 The Student’s Book has six Themes. Match the Theme, the name and the picture.
Theme A
Theme B
North and south
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we live
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Theme €
New friends Se
Theme D
In the sun
Theme E
The circle of life
Theme F
Animal world
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2 Look at the pictures on page 7. Look in your book. What Unit are the pictures in?
The Workbook and Workbook Cassette
3 Can you
‘a use the cassette with these
Language focus
exercises?
a Unit2Exercise3
b Unit 6 Exercise 1
© Unit10Exercise4
d Unit13Exercise1
e Unit15Exercise2
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Learn English!
How can you learn English?
Look at the pictures.
Can you learn English like this?
Write yes (V) or no (x).
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Write English
Play with a computer
in English
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Sing in English
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Have fun!
Extra practice * WB
Play a game
Listen to your teacher. Do the actions.
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Ex.
1
A puzzle
Write the words
in the puzzle.
What is word 7?
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With Cambridge
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Think!
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Extra practice * WB Ex. 2
Look at the picture. How many words can you understand?
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Word
Meaning
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pork.
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Practise!
Extra practice * WB
4.1 Where are they?
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Listen. Where are the people? Write 1, 2, 3 or 4.
A inaschool
in apark
4.2 Practise with your teacher
4.3 Practise in pairs
Work in pairs. Ask each other.
STUDENT
1:
Hello, Tim. How
are you?
STUDENT 2:
STUDENT 1:
Fine, thanks. How are you?
Fine, thanks. Bye!
STUDENT 2:
Bye!
Ex.
4
5
Learn the alphabet
7 \
5.4 The English alphabet
Băneseraeirggrclirgnsgdl
E
L
F
M
B
The alphabet
G
H
1
N
Oo
P
J
K
Q
R
8
Extra practice *
b
WB Ex. 5
S
| Learn the sounds.
Say the letters in groups.
le
id
a __ fail
ARIK
le!
Spell your name and address.
fw!
an
5.2 What’s the word?
Look in Unit 1. Choose a word. Spell it to your partner.
Your partner writes it down. Check if you are right!
5.3 Play a game! Letter Bingo
Choose a card. If your teacher says one of your letters, cross it off.
If you can cross off all of your letters, shout ‘Bingo’!
<=)
Listen to ‘Hello, friend (How are you?)’
and sing it with your class.
The words are on page 88.
Unit1
Leam English!
11
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7
Learn the numbers
Numbers 1-20
Extra practice * WB Ex. 6
7.1 One, two, three ...
(=) Say the numbers.
S&S
Say it clearly!
7.2 Think!
‘What’s the next number?
a two, four, six,
b five, ten, fifteen,
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d twenty, eighteen, sixteen,
e sixteen, thirteen, ten,
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one, four, eight, thirteen, .
Write some numbers for your neighbour to complete.
7.3 Play a game! What the word?
Look at your Language Record on page 13. Choose four words.
Write them in the squares. Don’t look at your neighbour's!
YOUR WORDS
1
2
3
4
reer
5
6
7
8
Er
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
19
20
Now work with your neighbour. Ask:
Nothing.
6
:
3
What's number
Write your neighbour's letters.
fifteen?
B.
YOUR NEIGHBOUR’S WORDS
1
2
3
er
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
The first person to guess the four words is the winner!
8
Your Language Record
Now complete your Language Record.
12
Unit1
Leam English!
14
15
16
17
18
v
Language Record
Write the meanings of the words in your language.
Word
Meaning
eat
listen
look
play
read
sing
sleep
speak
write
a song
em
with
Example
ae
I eat a sandwich at school.
Listen to the cassette.
Look at the picture.
Play a game!
Read this book.
Sing a song!
I sleep at night.
I speak English.
Write the word in the puzzle.
Sing a song.
I read a book in English.
Sing it with your class.
Your own phrase book! SAYING HELLO
Write the phrases in your language.
Hello.
How are you?
C
Fine, thanks.
Not too bad.
Bye! Goodbye!
Unit1
Learn English!
13
Topic Around the world
People and places;
1
Names and ages
parievlw lylxii
Geography
Ym...
Extra practice * WB
1.1 What’s your name?
My name's Carol
What's your name’
==) Read and listen.
Can you understand?
How old
are you?
Tell the class.
My name’s...
I’m... years old.
10 ten
13 thirteen
11 eleven
14 fourteen
12 twelve
15 fifteen
1.2 practice
Work in a small group. Ask each other.
How old are you?
1.3 Four students
Vm
.+ years old.
Write two sentences for each person.
My name’s Carolina.
I'm twelve years old.
Carolina
Ầ
Marek
Check your answers with the cassette or your teacher.
Theme A
Satoru
Ex.
1
2
Around the world
People and places
Extra practice * WB
Ex. 2, 3, 6
2.1 They live in...
Read about
Carolina and
Marek. Join
them to the
right country.
This is Carolina.
She’s twelve years old.
7 She’s from Italy.
This is Marek.
He’s thirteen years old.
He’s from Poland.
2.2 Paula and Satoru
Look at the pictures. Write about Paula and Satoru.
Join them to the right country.
This is
She's
3
A photo poster
3.4 Apipictureof you
A:
My name 6s Bety.
Writing; adjectives
Extra practice * WB Ex. 5
'm twelve years
Find a photograph
or draw a picture.
Write about yourself.
Unit 2
Topic
15
3.2 Your town
==) Look at the pictures and read the texts.
Who lives there? Carolina, Marek,
Paula or Satoru? (Look at Exercise 2.)
Find a photograph or draw a picture
of your house or flat. Write about it.
This is my hovse/flat.
It isin
isa
Put your pictures and writing on a
poster. Put them on the classroom
wall.
4
This is my hovse. It is in
Ohara. Ohara is a small town
in Japan
This is my flat.
It is in Rome.
Rome is a big city
Look!
T
Decide...
Ss
Choose an exercise. You can work by yourself, with a partner or
in a small group.
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atowe-emallX
Exercise 4.1 is a vocabulary exercise.
Exercise 4.2 is a writing exercise.
4.1
What’s the word?
a
Put the words in the puzzle. What is word 6?
1.................
2 Satoruis
Old are you?
..
Japan.
3 Whatisy....
. name?
4 Englandisas.
sone COUNTY.
5 Myn....
.. is David.
Make a puzzle for other students.
Look in Units 1 and 2 for words.
4.2
Some more countries
Read about Britain, Italy and Brazil.
Now look at the map on page 90. Find these countries.
Chile
Russia
New Zealand
Write about them.
Chie CG
16
Theme A
country.
Australia
Norway
Ecuador
Vocabulary
S
5
Sing a song! Hello, hello!
Listen to ‘Hello, hello!’ and sing it with your class.
The words are on page 88.
6
Learn some more numbers
20+
Extra practice * WB Ex. 7
6.1 Ten, twenty, thirty ...
(==) Listen and say the numbers.
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Say it clearly!
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6.2 Thirteen or thirty?
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/twenti/- twenty
ty fery ty
Say it clearly!
_ /83:'timn/ thirteen
.
Listen and write the number.
thirty
/for'ti:n/ fourteen
forty
6.3 Twenty-one, twenty-two ...
Write the numbers.
21 _ twenty-one
54
32__
67
88
74
92
thirty-two
47
401 & hundred and one
295 two hundred and
twenty-five
Write some numbers for your neighbour.
6.4 Play Bingo!
“=| Choose a card. Listen. Put a cross (x) if you hear one of
your numbers. When your card is full of crosses shout “Bingo”!
22
45
Unit 2 Topic
17
7
Your Language Record
Now complete your Language Record.
Language Record
Write the meanings of the words in your language.
Word
Meaning
Example
acity
Tokyo is a big city.
a flat
a house
a name
My flat is big.
My house is small.
What's your name?
a town
and
My house is in a small town.
Five and five is ten.
big
long
c
Italy is a big country.
Chile is a long country.
small
I'm
she
Britain is a small country.
I’m twelve years old.
Paula is eleven years old. She is from Brazil.
he
this
what
Satoru is fourteen years old. He is from Japan.
This is my house.
What's your name?
your
What's your name?
my
from
My name is Paul.
I’m from England.
Your own phrase book! Write the phrases in your language. NAMES AND AGES
C
My name’s ...
How old are you?
I’m twelve years old.
What's your name?
This is my house.
Write the numbers.
28 twenty-eight
ag sity MMe ee
ag ese
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200
‘this’, ‘that’; ‘be’; classroom
Language focus
1.
vocabulary
Anew school and new friends
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~
Listening
1.1 What are they saying?
Susan is at a new school.
She is with Kate and Tony.
Look at the picture.
What are they saying?
1.2 Are you new here?
>) Listen to Kate, Susan and Tony.
Are they in the same class?
KATE:
SUSAN:
KATE:
SUSAN:
KATE:
Hello. Are you new here?
Yes. It’s my first day.
WhatŠ your name?
Susan.
I’m Kate. This is Tony.
TONY:
Hi, Susan.
TONY:
Oh, no. We're in Class 2M.
SUSAN:
SUSAN:
TONY:
KATE:
SUSAN:
Are you new here?
What class are you in?
Class 2F. This is my classroom, here.
We're in that classroom, there.
Oh, no! That’s the bell. Susan,
come to my house with Tony after school.
Thanks!
Can you understand the conversation? Check with your teacher.
Read the conversation in groups of three.
š
2
me
What’s this? What’s that?
2.1 ‘This’ or ‘that’? Make a rule
When do you say ‘this’?
When do you say ‘that’?
That’s my
cl2ssroo!
‘this’ and ‘that’
i) ae
Le
Extra practice * WB Ex. 1
Extra practice * TB Ws. 3.1
:
|
(‘that’s’ = ‘that is’)
Talk to your neighbour.
Make a rule.
Unit 3
Language focus
19