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What do
you know?
Back to school RMF

Vocabulary: saying hello 3 Match expressions 1–5 with expressions with

a similar meaning a–e.
1 Look at the picture and complete the dialogue 1 Hello. a Thanks.
with the phrases in the box. 2 I’m fine. b Bye.
I don’t know I’m fine Hi Max 3 I don’t know. c Hi.
4 Thank you. d I’m not sure.
5 Goodbye. e I’m OK.
Max: Hello Lara. Is
this our classroom? Grammar: subject pronouns
Lara: 1 (…) . Yes,
Class 2A. and possessive adjectives
Max: How 4 The underlined words are subject pronouns.
are you? The words in bold are possessive adjectives.
Lara: 2 (…) , but Copy and complete the table with words from
it’s all different: new the dialogue and in the box.
school year, new
class, new teacher. Hi. I’m Callum. What’s your name?
Max: 3 (…) .
He’s late. Where’s Tyrone?
My name’s Rob. We’re in the same class.

he her it their

Subject pronoun Possessive adjective

I 1 (…)
you 2 (…)
3 (…) his
she 4 (…)
5 (…) its
6 (…) our
they 7 (…)

5 Choose the correct option.

1 That’s Mr King. He’s we/our new English teacher.
2 Markus and Clare are new this year. They/Their
Lara: Well, some
things never change.
are in our class.
Tyrone’s always late! 3 My/I name’s Mrs Clark and my/I ’m the
headteacher.
4 A: Is this you/your chair?
2 1 Listen and check. Then practise the
B: No, I think it’s/its free.
dialogue in pairs.
5 A: Where’s Anisha?
B: She/Her isn’t in we/our class this year.
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What’s in your bag? 3 Copy and complete the table with two plural
nouns from exercise 1.
Vocabulary: personal objects
Most nouns: add -s animals
1 Look at bags A–C. Match objects 1–7 with the 1 (…)
words in the box.
2 (…)
bag books keys mobile phone Nouns ending in -ch, -sh, -s, buses
money notebook pencil case -ss or -x: add -es
Nouns ending in consonant + cities
A -y: omit -y + add -ies

4 Make the words in the box plural and add

1 them to the table in exercise 3.
2
address bag bank boy class
country monkey phone story

B Vocabulary: colours
3
5 Match colours 1–11 with the words in the box.
black blue brown green grey orange
pink purple red white yellow
4

1 2 3 4

C 6
5 6 7 8
7
5
9 10 11

6 Work in pairs. Point to objects in the

Grammar: a, an and plurals pictures in exercise 1 and ask about the colour.
What colour’s the mobile phone in bag A?
2 Read the examples and the rules. Then write a
or an. It’s orange.

a or an?
7 2 Listen to three dialogues. Which bag is
Use a + singular noun starting with a consonant each dialogue about?
sound.
a teacher 8 Work in pairs. What can your partner
Use an + singular noun starting with a vowel sound. remember about his/her bag? Ask questions.
an apple Then look and check.
1 (…) mobile phone 5 (…) elephant What’s in your bag?
2 (…) pencil case 6 (…) school
A mobile phone, my keys and a book.
3 (…) object 7 (…) email
4 (…) bag 8 (…) taxi What colour’s the book?

I think it’s black.

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School days
Vocabulary: days of the week
1 Look at the calendar. Write the days of the week in the correct order. What day is the first day
of school?
Friday Monday Saturday Sunday SEPTEMBER
Thursday Tuesday Wednesday
M T W T F S S

2 3 Listen and repeat the days of the week. Back to school! 1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10 11 12
3 Look at the calendar and write the day of
the week for dates a–e. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
a 4th b 8th c 2nd d 7th e 12th 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30
Vocabulary: the classroom
4 Look at the two classrooms. Match objects 1–8 with the words in the box.
board chair clock computer desk door poster window

1 clock

ABOUT NEW POSTS ARCHIVES

WHAT’S YOUR IDEAL CLASSROOM? POSTED 12TH AUGUST

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2 5

4
3
6

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5 Which classroom from exercise 4 do you prefer? Why?

6 Complete the description with words from exercise 4.
This is my ideal classroom. These are our tables. There are four 1 (…) at each table. This 2 (…) at
the front of the class is for the teacher. That’s the 3 (…) for the teacher to write on. We’ve got two
4 (…) . We use them to do projects. Those 5 (…) on the walls are our project work.