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Unit Topic Grammar Text type Page

1 From here to there

• Talking about distance

• Talking about the length of time

conversations 2

2 Meet up with family and friends

• Simple future tense

• Talking about directions text messages 6

Quiz 1 (Units 1–2) 10

3 Then and now

• Reflexive pronouns with by

• Talking about abilities in the past

diary entries 12

4 Habits and hobbies

• used to

• Talking about reasons conversations 16

Quiz 2 (Units 3–4) 20

5 Summer camp

• Present perfect tense

• Present perfect tense with ever and never

emails 22

6 Help out at home

• Talking about preferences

• Present perfect tense with yet, already and just

notes 26

Quiz 3 (Units 5–6) 30

Grammar Enrichment

• Question words

• Tenses

• Yes / No questions

• Pronouns and possessive adjectives

• Connectives

32 33 34 35 36

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Talking about distance

1 From here to there

• We use ‘how far’ to ask about the distance from one place to another.

• We use ‘metres’ and ‘kilometres’ to talk about the distance between two places.

A. Adam is asking his dad the distances between different places. Fill in the blanks with

‘how far’, ‘from’ or ‘to’ and the given words.

It’s two hundred metres

How far

How far is it fromfrom the taxi rank

to

to the library?

How far is it from the taxi rank

to the library?

the park the restaurant?

It is two hundred metres.

about four kilometres. metre(s) = m kilometre(s) = km

1

is it the footbridge

? (library)

2

is it

? (cafe  sports centre)

3

(hotel  museum)

It’s fifty metres.

It’s about one kilometre.

It’s two kilometres.

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E. Adam is asking Zoe about her neighbourhood. Complete the sentences with the given information. Write the numbers in word form.

1 Adam: How long does it take to go from the car park to the supermarket?

Zoe: It takes .

2 Adam: How long does it take to go from the footbridge to the train station?

Zoe: It takes .

3 Adam: How long does it take to go from the bus terminal to the library?

Zoe:

4 Adam: How long does it take to go from the taxi rank to the country park?

Zoe:

Work it out!

F. Adam and his parents are going to the zoo. Fill in the blanks with ‘how far’ or ‘how long’ and the given information. Write the numbers in word form.

Adam: ¹ is it from here to the zoo?

Mum: It’s a long way. It’s ² . (about 10 km)

Dad: ³ does it take to go from the bus terminal to the zoo?

Mum: It takes ⁴ by bus. ( )

Adam: ⁵ from the MTR station to the zoo?

Mum: ⁶ by MTR. (only )

Dad: It’s faster. Let’s take the MTR then.

Mum: ⁷ the zoo Rose Restaurant?

Dad: It’s not far. ⁸ (100 m)

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Quiz 1 (Units 1–2)

A. Cody and his parents are going camping. Fill in the blanks with the given information.

Write the numbers in word form. (22 marks, @2 marks)

Cody: ¹ is it from the MTR station to the campsite?

Dad: It’s ² . We can walk there.

Mum: ³ does it take to walk from the MTR station to the campsite?

Dad: It takes ⁴ . ( )

Mum: I might come a little late. ⁵

to the campsite, ?

Dad: First, walk out of the MTR station. Then ⁶

Main Street. ⁷ and walk along West Road.

8 Park Road. The campsite is

9 .

Cody: I want to buy some food there. ^bk the

campsite the nearest supermarket?

Dad: It’s not far away. ^bl Cody: That’s great!

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1 Question words

A. Lily is looking at a survey. Fill in the blanks with the given words.

Student Survey

1 are you?

I’m 11 years old.

2 brothers and sisters do you have?

I have a brother and a sister.

3 are you?

I’m 145 centimetres tall.

4 are you?

I’m 36 kilograms.

5 can you jump?

I can jump 1 metre high.

6 do you go to school?

I go to school by bus.

7 is it from your home to school?

It’s about 12 kilometres.

8 does it take to go from your home to school?

It takes 15 minutes by bus.

9 is the bus fare?

how how far how heavy how high how long how many how much how old how tall

Grammar Enrichment

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