Unit 1 Different Trees, Different Forests 4
Unit 2 What Am I? 6
Unit 3 From Just a Drop 8
Unit 4 Living on an Onion 10
Unit 5 Zebra Stripes 12
Review 1 14
Unit 6 The Snakebot 16
Unit 7 Isn’t She Beautiful? 18
Unit 8 Thomas Edison 20
Unit 9 A Convenient Machine 22
Unit 10 What’s Next? 24
Review 2 26
Unit 11 Kids at Play 28
Unit 12 Nice Ice 30
Unit 13 Scary But Fun 32
Unit 14 The Oldest Game 34
Unit 15 Step by Step 36
Review 3 38
Unit 16 A Unique Place 40
Unit 17 Rain in the Rainforest 42
Unit 18 Layers of the Forest 44
Unit 19 Don’t Smell the Flowers! 46
Unit 20 Rainforest Medicines 48
Review 4 50
Unit 21 Hot, Hot, Hot 52
Unit 22 So Fun to Make 54
Unit 23 Fruit for Royalty 56
Unit 24 A Big Breakfast 58
Unit 25 A Fish with Poison 60
Review 5 62
Unit 26 Where is the North Pole? 64
Unit 27 From Ocean to Ocean 66
Unit 28 A Changing Holiday 68
Unit 29 Falls of Love 70
Unit 30 A Dark Drink 72
Review 6 74
Contents
On the Land
Machines
Leisure
Rainforests
Special Foods
The Americas
Think about a forest. In autumn, some trees are red or yellow.
Others remain green.
In winter, some trees are bare.
Others remain green.
Some forests have lots of red or yellow trees. Others have lots of evergreens.
Forests with mostly changing trees have better soil. In autumn, dead leaves rot on the ground.
Forests with mostly evergreens don’t have good soil. Not enough leaves fall and rot on the soil.
Look at the title and picture.
What is the reading about?
This reading is about different animals in a forest. (T / F)
Choose the answer.
a. Different kinds of green b. Evergreens and other kinds of trees c. Beautiful autumn trees d. Why some trees lose leaves
UNIT 1
Look First
Different Trees, Different Forests
4
Find the words below.
autumn remain bare mostly better soil rot evergreens
Main Idea
Different Trees, Different Forests
5
_____________ _____________ _____________ _____________
evergreen soil autumn bare Match the two parts of the sentences.
1. The forest is ● rots quickly in summer.
2. Please ● better than vegetables.
3. I like candy ● remain sitting.
4. Fruit ● mostly green.
Draw lines to show where you can find each thing.
From the Reading
New Words
Write It
What?
Which?
changing trees evergreens
poor soil better soil
Why?
many leaves rot not many leaves rot
