Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-55729-1 – Guess What! American English Level 6 Student’s Book
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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-55729-1 – Guess What! American English Level 6 Student’s Book
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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-55729-1 – Guess What! American English Level 6 Student’s Book
Susannah Reed, With Kay Bentley, Course consultant Lesley Koustaff Excerpt M i f t i
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Susannah Reed, With Kay Bentley, Course consultant Lesley Koustaff Excerpt
I had a strange weekend. I went camping with my family because we wanted to sleep outside, but my dad forgot to take the tent! We tried to make a tent with a blanket, but it wasn’t very good. We were cold. We needed to make a fire, but we didn’t have any firewood. Then it started to rain, and our sleeping bags got wet. We had to come home. We still want to sleep outside someday. Zoe
We wanted to sleep outside. My dad forgot to take the tent. We tried to make a tent.
Read, complete, and order the sentences.
want/sleep try/make start/rain need/make forget/take have/go
a They a tent with a blanket because they their tent.
b Their sleeping bags got wet because it .
c They a fire because they were cold.
d Zoe’s family was excited because they in a tent.
e They home because they got wet.
7 Make true and false sentences about yourself. Then talk to a friend. I forgot this morning. I want after school today. I need on Saturday. I tried yesterday. I had last week.
I forgot to brush my teeth this morning.
We wanted to sleep in a tent . We needed to make a fire. False!
What does Pedro have to do? Listen and choose. a put up the tent b wash the cups and bowls c cook the dinner
Listen again and practice.
Teacher: OK, everyone, come and help me, please.
Emma: Yes, of course. What do we have to do?
Teacher: Emma, put up the tent, please. And Pedro … Pedro: Yes?
Teacher: Please wash the cups and bowls.
Pedro: Aww! Can I put up the tent?
Teacher: No, Pedro. I asked Emma to put up the tent.
Pedro: Can I help cook the dinner?
Teacher: No, Pedro. What did I ask you to do?
Pedro: You asked me to wash the cups and bowls.
Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-55729-1 – Guess What! American English Level 6 Student’s Book
Susannah Reed, With Kay Bentley, Course consultant Lesley Koustaff Excerpt
Where are we? It looks like an island. What’s that noise?
Smart ants?
Look! They’re trying to show us something.
Do you want to find Emoclew?
Here’s the first thing you must do. Find a paper to show you the way. Some smart ants can help today.
Of course! A paper to show us the way!
So where’s the lost city?
We don’t have tents.
We can make some with blankets. Put the map and the tablet into the backpack.
We should camp here tonight.
Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-55729-1 – Guess What! American English Level 6 Student’s Book
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Look below! What does Ben Taylor do?
Read and listen.
Ben Taylor makes movies about animals. We asked him to describe his favorite movie-making experience.
“Last November, I had to make a movie about emperor penguins in Antarctica. I stayed on a boat, but one night I camped outside.
It was very cold. I had to have a very warm sleeping bag and a special tent, but I didn’t need to take a flashlight. November is early summer in Antarctica, and it doesn’t get dark.
Antarctica isn’t quiet at night. You can hear the wind, and sometimes you can hear noisy penguins. You can hear the ice, too! Ice makes a strange sound when it moves.
When I woke up the next morning, there was a family of emperor penguins near my tent. I filmed them for two hours. It was so exciting I forgot to have breakfast!”
18 Read again and correct the sentences. Ben went to Antarctica in January.
3 He camped on the ice for seven nights.
5 November is a winter month in Antarctica.
6 He was bored by the penguins.
2 He had to make a movie about elephant seals.
4 He had to take a sleeping bag and a flashlight.
Now write about it in your notebook. Your turn!
Imagine you make movies about animals. What animals would you like to make a movie about? What do they do?
Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-55729-1 – Guess What! American English Level 6 Student’s Book
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2 Watch the video.
How long is your sleeping bag? How heavy is your backpack? How much water is there in your water bottle? When we don’t know and we can’t measure something, we have to guess, or estimate, measurements.
To help us estimate, we can think about other objects we know. For example, Alice knows her tent is 4 kg. Her backpack feels a bit heavier. Alice estimates that her backpack is about 5 kg. When we’re estimating, we use words like it’s about … or it’s more than … , but less than … For example: The tent is about 250 cm long. Or: The tent is more than 2 m long, but less than 3 m long.
In math we use the sign ≈ when we estimate a number.
4 Answer the questions. What units of measurement do we use to find out how long something is?
2 How many centimeters are there in 3 meters?
3 Why do we sometimes have to estimate measurements?
4 What words do we use when we estimate? 5 Which is more difficult to estimate, how tall or how heavy your friends are?
6 Find five objects. Estimate and then measure how long and how heavy each one is.
