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Contents
Map of Pupil’s Book 4
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Introduction
vi
Welcome!
2
2
5
A
B
Mr Wilson wants to travel
Language time
1
In the clock shop
1A
1B
1C
1D
Don’t touch!
Language time
A dangerous place
Know it all!
Measuring time
2
The robots
2A
2B
2C
2D
You’re spies!
Language time
My name’s Zenna
Know it all!
The night sky
Revision Units 1 and 2
3
Lost in the mountains
3A
3B
3C
3D
I’m going to hide!
Language time
I know who you are!
Know it all!
The Incas
4
The silent people
4A
4B
4C
4D
In a museum
Language time
We’re free!
Know it all!
Inventions
Revision Units 3 and 4
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21
23
5
The builders
5A
5B
5C
5D
Keep calm!
Language time
The nose
Know it all!
Where is it? What is it?
6
Let’s go home
6A
6B
6C
6D
Xenorilum
Language time
Home!
Know it all!
The future
Revision Units 5 and 6
Mr Wilson’s BIG time travel puzzle pages
A–Z: teaching young learners
Games extra
Extra practice
25
28
Answers
31
31
33
36
Test notes, tapescripts and answers
Assessment sheet
Tests
Cut-outs
Word lists
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Map of Pupil’s Book 4
Revision of language from Primary Colours 3
Welcome!
A Mr Wilson wants to travel
4–5
This is …
How old are you?
Where do you live?
What do you like doing?
I want to …
Nouns uncle, secret, smile, the past, the future
Verbs travel, sell
8–9
I have to help him.
Noun smoke
Adjective busy
Verb disappear
Adverbs always, never
Pronoun nothing
1B Language time
10–11
What … ? How long … ?
Where … ? Why … ?
How much … ?
I have to find my shoes.
She has to make her bed.
Noun trunk
Verbs die, breathe, lose
Adverbs usually, sometimes
6–7
1C A dangerous place
12–13
Let’s hide!
Quick!
We don’t know.
Nouns mammoths, ground, hill,
spears, cave people, thousand
Verbs hit, race
Adjectives exciting
1D Know it all!
Measuring time 14–15
Nouns hour, moon, sundial,
sand, calendar, shadow, sky,
cave, entrance
Verbs count, build, rise
Present tenses, adverbs of frequency, comparatives and superlatives
2 The robots
2A You’re spies!
Language time
Noun magazine
Prepositions above, behind, between, in, in front of,
next to, on, under
Wh- questions, have to
1 In the clock shop
1A Don’t touch!
B
16–17
What are you doing?
Mr Wilson is looking at the
teleporter.
Be quiet!
Take them!
Nouns robots, spaceship, voice
Verbs escape
2B Language time
18–19
How often do you … ?
Nouns homework, bedtime,
weekend
Adverbs never, sometimes,
often, always
2C My name’s Zenna
20–21
It’s safer.
the most powerful spaceship
Wake up!
Wait!
Too late!
Nouns universe, present,
length, width
Verbs appear, reply
Adverb quickly
2D Know it all!
The night sky
REVISION Units 1 and 2
24–25
3 Lost in the mountains
3A I’m going to hide!
26–27
What do you mean?
Nouns mountain, river
Adjectives square, round, high,
strange
22–23
Nouns planet, sun, moon,
meteor, life, air, gas, night,
rock, galaxy, ice, dust, tail
Verbs burn, twinkle
Adjectives bright, dead
going to, adjectives, numbers 1–100
3B Language time 28–29 3C I know who you are!
Mr Wilson is going to sit down.
The children are going to hide
in the trees.
He isn’t going to cook.
They aren’t going to make a
bridge.
What are you going to do
tonight?
Noun chat
30–31
The city is that way!
Where are you going?
Nouns kilometre, explorer,
route
Verbs appear, joke, arrive
Adjectives far
3D Know it all!
The Incas
32–33
Nouns empire, archaeologist,
disease, llama, plants, fire,
wheel, knot
Verb control
Adjectives enormous, strange
Preposition until
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4 The silent people
4A In a museum
34–35
Of course!
The old man entered the room.
People listened to music with
this.
Nouns mobile phone, sign,
museum, guard, keyboard,
MP3 player, key, programme,
toothpaste, telescope, cooker,
piggy bank
Verbs communicate, expect,
smile, kick, collect
Adverb just
Past simple, comparatives as … as …
4B Language time 36–37 4C We’re free!
Did you watch TV last night?
Yes, I did. / No, I didn’t.
Nouns evening, jungle, bone,
skin
Verb chase
Preposition through
Pronouns anyone, anything
Adverb anywhere
38–39
You’re right.
This computer is as big as a
house.
Noun brain
Adjectives free, light
Verbs explode, save
Pronoun ourselves
Adverb suddenly
4D Know it all!
Inventions
REVISION Units 3 and 4
44–45
They were standing on a hill.
You must take me home.
They mustn’t see us.
Let’s stay here.
Keep calm!
Nouns soldier, circle, pavement
Adjectives dangerous, silly
Verbs rest, shout, build
6 Let’s go home
6A Xenorilum
42–43
Past continuous, must and mustn’t
5 The builders
5A Keep calm!
40–41
Nouns the Internet, cassette,
DVD player, event, vehicle,
steam engine, petrol, wagon,
underground train
Adjective electric
Verb flew
52–53
If you put Xenorilum in a Time
Travel Clock, it works better.
Why … ? To …
Why did Zenna use her
telephone? To call a friend.
Nouns laboratory, button,
home
Verb hate
5B Language time 46–47 5C The nose
What was Mr Wilson doing
when the robot came in?
He was taking the teleporter.
Nouns background, winner
48–49
What’s he saying?
No idea!
Move out of my way!
Nouns camp, bucket, wood,
ladder, floor, language,
message
Verb smash
Adverb outside
5D Know it all!
Where is it? What is it?
50–51
Nouns bell, building, ground,
wife, body, statue, accident,
tool
Adjective famous
Adverbs really, probably
Infinitive of purpose, zero conditional, ordinal numbers, dates
6B Language time 54–55 6C Home!
If you don’t sleep, you feel
tired.
What day is 1st April? It’s a
Tuesday.
Ordinal numbers 1st–30th
Don’t worry.
Noun moment
Preposition by
56–57
6D Know it all!
The future
58–59
We will live in normal houses.
Will we communicate without
speaking?
Nouns electricity, nuclear
power
Adjective thin
Preposition by
REVISION Units 5 and 6
60–61
Songs
62–63
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Introduction
Primary Colours is a course in English for children of
primary school age, who may be learning English
in school alongside other school subjects or in a
language institute. The course includes a Starter level,
for complete beginners who have not yet learned
to read or write. Primary Colours 1 can be used after
Primary Colours Starter, or with complete beginners who
are familiar with print. This level, Primary Colours 4, is
for pupils who have finished Primary Colours 3 or who
have completed approximately three years of English
and who are reasonably confident in all four skill areas
in English: reading, writing, listening and speaking.
The activities and content have been chosen to maintain
pupils’ fun in learning and to reflect the stage of their
maturational development.
Each level of the course has these components:
● Pupil’s Book
● Activity Book
● Teacher’s Book
● Class cassettes / CDs
● Songs and / or Stories Cassette / CD
for Starter and levels 1–3
● Vocabulary Cards for Starter and level 1
Pupil’s Book
Primary Colours 4 Pupil’s Book contains the following
work for classroom use:
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a Welcome! unit with two sections.
six main units, each with four sections. Sections
A and C centre around a continuing story
about four children and Mr Wilson who travel
backwards and forwards through time with a
special Time Travel Clock.
Section B is called Language time and provides
further practice of the grammar and vocabulary
from the story in section A.
Section D is called Know it all! In these sections
the content of the unit is fleshed out with reading
and listening activities which offer further
information about the topic. They are followed
by a related project activity.
Units 2, 4 and 6 are followed by Revision sections.
Activity Book
The Activity Book contains:
● practice exercises for each unit, which the pupils
can usually do at home if you prefer.
● six Learning skills sections featuring a Time Travel
Journal as an on-going record of learning, and
other interactive ideas using a Language Bag.
● three Revision sections, which include selfevaluation.
Teacher’s Book
This Teacher’s Book contains:
● a map of the course.
● teaching notes, which provide guidance on each
exercise, extra ideas, answers and tapescripts.
● an A–Z: teaching young learners with many more
ideas on teaching children.
● a Games extra section with additional games for
practising new language.
● an optional photocopiable Extra practice section
for each unit.
● photocopiable Tests for all units.
● a photocopiable Assessment sheet.
● photocopiable Cut-outs.
● Word lists for each unit.
Aims of the course
The main aims of Primary Colours 4 are:
● to maintain the pupils’ interest in and enjoyment
of learning English.
● to broaden their lexical base.
● to develop grammatical competence.
● to increase confidence in communication.
● to improve reading, writing, listening and speaking
skills.
● to develop awareness of effective learning
strategies.
● to contribute to the pupils’ education and
understanding of the world around them.
● to encourage the transfer of thinking skills from
first language to English.
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Key features of Primary Colours 4
The key features of this level of Primary Colours take
into account the importance of maintaining pupil
involvement after three years of learning English.
There may be widening differences of motivation
and proficiency in your classes by the start of the
pupils’ fourth year of learning English.
This level offers a range of activities and content
designed to include and support all pupils. Primary
Colours 4 expands the topic-based approach of the
previous three levels to allow pupils to bring areas
of personal interest to the classroom through their
own knowledge and project work.
Personalisation is a key factor in pupil motivation
and throughout the book pupils are asked to keep
their own Time Travel Journal. In this they record
key words and sentences from each unit to help
them remember what they have learned. This builds
on the Passport which pupils were encouraged to
keep in Primary Colours 3.
Allowing pupils time, either at home or in class,
to write in their journals provides an opportunity
for them to choose aspects of the unit which are
important for them, making the language and the
content more memorable.
To help the pupils personalise other aspects of their
learning, it is also important to encourage them
to make decisions about what they will be doing
and how they want to do it. This is particularly
important in their project work.
Topic-based approach
As with other levels, Primary Colours 4 is divided into
six topic-based units with grammar and vocabulary
carefully chosen to allow pupils to communicate
their own ideas and to draw on information and
experiences from outside the language classroom.
This interdisciplinary approach to language learning
leads to the use of richer and more varied language in
the classroom and allows for important links to be
made to other areas of the curriculum.
Making and doing
Many language learning activities require the pupils
to ‘do’ something, for example, answer questions,
fill in spaces or match two parts of a sentence. These
activities provide the practice needed to help pupils
absorb new vocabulary and grammar. In addition
to these activities, many pupils respond well to
an opportunity to ‘make’ an exercise as well as
‘doing’ one. The teaching notes indicate where it is
appropriate to ask pupils to make their own puzzles,
their own matching exercises, or to write their own
comprehension and true / false questions for their
friends to answer.
Primary Colours and Cambridge ESOL
Young Learners English Tests
Cambridge English for Speakers of Other Languages
(ESOL) has developed a series of tests for children
of primary school age who are learning English as a
foreign language. They consist of three key levels of
assessment: Starters, Movers and Flyers, with Starters
being the first level.
If you are interested in putting forward your pupils
for the Young Learners English (YLE) Tests, the
most appropriate level is to prepare for Flyers after
studying both Primary Colours 4 and 5. The approach
in Primary Colours 4 allows pupils to develop all
four skills as they work towards Flyers, whilst
adding to their language awareness. There are then
additional grammar structures from the Flyers
syllabus which are introduced in Primary Colours 5.
The photocopiable Tests at both levels 4 and 5 offer
practice in some of the activity types used in the
YLE Tests.
Learning styles
The topics and activities in Primary Colours 4 recognise
that every child is unique and that each pupil has
different verbal, visual, aural, manipulative, musical
and kinaesthetic skills. Primary Colours 4 offers a
wide range of creative exercises which are designed
to bring out the best in every child and to maintain
involvement. The learning skills sections in the
Activity Book ask children to have a Language Bag
which they can use for individually created vocabulary
and skills work.
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