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Have you ever had akey pal?

Unit 1 Lesson 1 Talking about key pals

1 Think about it.Look at these maps. Have you ever had an email from any of these countries?

1 Think about it.Look at these maps. Have you ever had an email from any of these countries?

2 Listen and read.

Jordan UK USA China Australia Canada

a key pal a visitor a parcel a postcard a letter

3 Ask and answer. Have you ever had a key pal from another country? Where?

Sally and Joe are in the school computer room.Sally has received an email from her key pal.

Joe had a key pal in America, but now hedoesn’t have one.

Sally’s key pal is from Jordan.Her name is Samia.

Sally has a picture of Samia and her brother, Ali.

What’s that?

It’s an email from mykey pal. It just arrived.

She lives in Amman.She’s Jordanian.

What’s his name?

Have you ever had a key pal?

I had a key pal inAmerica, but he hasn’temailed for six months.

Where is yourkey pal from? Look! This is Samia and

this is her brother. Whydon’t you email him?

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Present perfect; past simple 5Unit 1 Lesson 2

1 Read Sally’s email from Samia.

2 Look, ask and answer.Here are four questions about Sally’s email. How many more can you ask and answer?

1 Has Ali ever been on an aeroplane? 2 When did they go to Disneyland Paris?3 Was the roller coaster frightening? 4 Did Ali like it?

3 Look and write.

present perfect and past simple

Learn your irregular verbs!

have or has + past participle

Look at these words.

holiday_pic.jpg

Dear Sally,Thank you for your email and thephotograph of your family. I have a brother, too. His name is Ali. I’ve attached a photo tothis email. I took it in Disneyland Paris. Haveyou ever been there? We went last year. Weflew from Amman to Paris and we stayed in a Disney Hotel.There were a lot of rides in Disneyland. Some were quite frightening! The ride in the picture is called Big Thunder Mountain. It’s aroller coaster. Ali didn’t like it very much, butI loved it.Have you received a parcel from me yet? It’s a present from Disneyland. I hope you like it. Please email soon.Your friend, Samia

I have had a key pal since last year.I have never seen her.He had a key pal two years ago.He only wrote one letter.

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A

B

Have you met the new boy?

His name is James. He’s nice.

Have you seen this video?

6 Unit 1 Lesson 3 Discussing English usage; practising conversation

1 Read and circle.

2 Talk about English and you.

3 Listen and speak.Listen to Sally and Joe. What are they saying? Can you remember?

Never Sometimes OftenHow often …

… do you read English books?

… do you watch television in English?

… do you listen to English songs?

… do you speak English with friends?

… do you see signs in English?

… do you see English newspapers?

… do you watch films in English?

English and you!English and you!

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Describing key pals 7Unit 1 Lesson 4

1 Listen and speak.

2 Listen and find.Look at these photographs and listen to Mark and Amy. Who are their key pals?

3 Find, say and write.Choose a key pal from above. Talk about him or her. Then write a short description.

climbed

calledstayedreceived

liked

stoppedaskedlooked

needed

wantedvisitedshouted

Name: KarlAge: 12Country: Germany

Name: SoniaAge: 12Country: Morocco

Name: LouiseAge: 13Country: Australia

Name: JeanAge: 11Country: England

Name: BillAge: 13Country: USA

Name: Samia

Age: 12Country: Egypt

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8 Reading for pleasure

Answer:Meetingtonightbythelake.

smoke signals

People have always sent messages in differentways. They have used fire and birds. They haveused ships and horses. They have used lettersand telephones, radios and computers.

Early Egyptians wrote using picture letters calledhieroglyphs. There were over 700 of these letters.Some stood for whole words.

For example, is the hieroglyph for ‘life’

and is the hieroglyph for ‘stone’.

In America the first messages were smoke signals.These were good for short messages.

American Indians also wrote using pictures.Each picture = a word.

For example, means ‘morning’ and means ‘night’.

is a ‘lake’ and is a ‘river’.

means ‘meeting’ and means ‘talk’.

Now, can you read this message?

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2

3

5

7 8

6

4

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9Reading for pleasure

But pigeons can’t travel very far. The UnitedStates is a very big country. It is 3000 milesfrom coast to coast. So the ‘Pony Express’started in 1860. Riders on horseback carriedthe mail across the US in about ten days.

People have written letters for centuries. But lettersare slow. Pigeons could carry long messages andthey were fast. This was called ‘pigeon post’.

But the telegraph has not lasted. Peoplebegan to use telephones instead, and nowthey also use faxes and computers.

pigeon post

CANADA

Sacramento

St Joseph

UNITED STATES

Then came the first telegraph line. Two days laterthe Pony Express stopped.

Samuel Morse invented a code in 1837 to carrymessages. Morse code travelled along atelegraph wire. Morse code uses dots anddashes for letters. For example

� – = a and – � � � = b.

telegraph

telephone computer

Pony Express

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