Welcome
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and tick the school words you hear. DAN: Hi, Shari. Did you have a good holiday
SHARI: Yeah. Lovely, thanks, Dan. Do you know Alvin He lives near me and he's new at school. DAN: Hi, Alvin. Nice to meet you. ALVIN: Hi, Dan.
ALVIN: What's that on the board
SHARI: It's a poster about a new school ezine. DAN: What's an ezine
SHARI: It's an internet magazine. DAN: Oh!
DAN: Look. It's a competition for the best ezine in the school.
SHARI: Oh, that's interesting. And there's a prize! Shall we try and write one ALVIN: Good idea, but what shall we write about ALL: Hmm.
ALVIN: Oh! Can we write about sport and computers DAN: We can write about anything we like.
SHARI: Let's write our first ezine on our school so Alvin can learn about it. DAN: OK. ALVIN: Great!
DAN: See you outside school at four o'clock. ALVIN AND SHARI: See you!
Unit 1
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and tick the TV words you hear.
NARRATOR: It's ten to four. Dan, Shari and Alvin are in the library.
ALVIN: Look at this, Dan. Fun time is on TV1 at ten past four. Shall we watch it DAN: Wait a minute. Animals is on TV2 at twenty past four. SHARI: Let's watch that because we all like it. DAN: Yeah, that's a good idea, but what time is it now
SHARI: It's five to four. If we want to watch it, we have to leave now. ALVIN: Come on, then. Let's go!
DAN: Phew. Just in time. It's quarter past four.
SHARI: Hi, Dad. Can we put TV2 on, please We want to watch Animals.
MR NELSON: Oh, I'm sorry, Shari. Not today. The golf's on TV3 and you know I love golf. ALVIN: What time does it finish, Mr Nelson
MR NELSON: Oh, don't worry. It finishes at twenty-five past seven! THREE CHILDREN: Oh.
SHARI: Well, boys, I think we can watch TV another day.
ALVIN: You're right. Let's go and write something about TV for our ezine. DAN: Yeah. We can't watch TV, but we can write about it. MR NELSON: Ssshhhh! THREE CHILDREN: Ooh!
Unit 2
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and tick the jobs you hear.
DAN: What are we going to write about for our ezine this week SHARI: I don't know. Have you got any ideas, Alvin
ALVIN: Er, no, but let's have a look at the exhibition on jobs and think about it.
DAN: Look at this nurse. That's an interesting job. I think I'm going to be a nurse when I'm older. SHARI: Hmm. A nurse is OK, but I think I'm going to be a dentist. What are you going to do, Alvin ALVIN: I'm not sure, but I'm going to have an exciting job.
TEACHER: Everybody has to leave the school building now, please. Walk quickly, but don't run. SHARI: Oh, no! I hope the school isn't going to burn down. TEACHER: It's OK, everybody. It's only a practice.
ALVIN: That's a really exciting job. I'm going to be a firefighter.
SHARI: Well, now we know what we're going to write about in this week's ezine! Jobs. DAN: Let's write about famous people's jobs. SHARI AND ALVIN: Yeah!
DAN: Yee ha! We're going to win that prize!
Unit 3
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and tick the city words you hear.
MR GREY: OK, kids. We're going to meet back here at half past five. Don't get lost! DAN: No problem, Dad! It's ten past two now, so we've got more than three hours. SHARI: We want to get some interesting information for our ezine, so where shall we go first ALVIN: Tower Bridge is the most famous bridge in London. Let's go there. SHARI: How do we get there
ALVIN: Let's look at the map ... Now, we're outside the station. That's here.
DAN: We have to go straight along this road. We don't go across the river. We turn left here. ... DAN: OK, now we're at a corner. Do we want to go left or right, Alvin
ALVIN: Er, I don't know. I think we take the third street on the right, then walk past this park. SHARI: Er, boys ... turn the map round! We're going in the wrong direction! SHARI: Excuse me. Can you tell us how to get to Tower Bridge, please WOMAN: Look, dear. It's just across the street. It's behind you.
Unit 4
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and tick the weather words you hear. SHARI: That was amazing! ALVIN: It was really scary as well.
ALVIN: Now we've got a great project for our ezine ... Disasters! SHARI and DAN: Yeah!
REPORTER: Well, hello, children. Are you getting warm SHARI, DAN AND ALVIN: Yes!
REPORTER: Can you tell me what happened
SHARI: It was hot and sunny this morning, so we decided to sail to the small island for a picnic with my dad. ALVIN: When we were sailing to the island, the sky went dark. REPORTER: Were you listening to the weather on the radio
DAN: The radio was on, but we weren't listening to the weather. We were listening to music. REPORTER: Why didn't you go back to the beach
DAN: Because we were very near the island. We decided to wait there for the weather to get better ... but it didn't. A storm started.
SHARI: We were walking up the beach, looking for somewhere safe to stay, when lightning hit the boat and it caught fire. REPORTER: What a disaster!
SHARI: We couldn't leave the island, so Dad had to phone for help.
ALVIN: At first the phone didn't work. But then he tried again and it was OK. Phew! REPORTER: Were you afraid SHARI, DAN AND ALVIN: Yes!
DAN: But it was really exciting when the helicopter came to get us. SHARI AND ALVIN: Yeah, that was great!