Unit Title Theme Text type
1 I feel sick! Relationships: Making friends Conversation
2 Food bank Food and drink: Choosing food and
drinks Form
3 Changes Changes: Now and then Article
4 TV programmes Happy days: Entertainment and leisure Report
5 Uncle Egg Waffle We love Hong Kong Interview
6 Too much noise! Using my five senses Blog
7 A special hobby Relationships: Making friends Interview 8 Going on a picnic Food and drink: Choosing food and
drinks List
9 Win! Win! Win! Changes: Now and then Poster
10 Rich and poor in Hong Kong We love Hong Kong Report Vocabulary quiz 1
11 Aunt Ada is here Happy days: Entertainment and leisure Letter
12 Bitter medicine Using my five senses Diary
13 Police suspect Relationships: Making friends Personal description 14 Afternoon tea Food and drink: Choosing food and
drinks Recipe
15 Couch potato We love Hong Kong Newspaper article
16 Marie Curie Changes: Now and then Biography
17 Behind the scenes Happy days: Entertainment and leisure Interview
18 The wonder cat Using my five senses Story
19 Social networking Relationships: Making friends Website
20 Problems for pandas We love Hong Kong Blog
Vocabulary quiz 2 Prefixes and suffixes Vocabulary index
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4 A
Unit Title Theme Text type
1 I feel sick! Relationships: Making friends Conversation
2 Food bank Food and drink: Choosing food and
drinks Form
3 Changes Changes: Now and then Article
4 TV programmes Happy days: Entertainment and leisure Report
5 Uncle Egg Waffle We love Hong Kong Interview
6 Too much noise! Using my five senses Blog
7 A special hobby Relationships: Making friends Interview 8 Going on a picnic Food and drink: Choosing food and
drinks List
9 Win! Win! Win! Changes: Now and then Poster
10 Rich and poor in Hong Kong We love Hong Kong Report Vocabulary quiz 1
11 Aunt Ada is here Happy days: Entertainment and leisure Letter
12 Bitter medicine Using my five senses Diary
13 Police suspect Relationships: Making friends Personal description 14 Afternoon tea Food and drink: Choosing food and
drinks Recipe
15 Couch potato We love Hong Kong Newspaper article
16 Marie Curie Changes: Now and then Biography
17 Behind the scenes Happy days: Entertainment and leisure Interview
18 The wonder cat Using my five senses Story
19 Social networking Relationships: Making friends Website
20 Problems for pandas We love Hong Kong Blog
Vocabulary quiz 2 Prefixes and suffixes
New word(s) Repeated new word(s) Page
chest, cough, medicine, sore, throat 4
allergic, food bank, identity card, signature 6
busy, harbour, holiday, tourist, tunnel 8
favourite, popular, programme, report, television 10
arrest, fine, government, hawker, licence,
problem busy, favourite 12
apartment, build, dust, noise, truck, volume television 14
airport, hobby, pilot, share programme 16
charcoal, fork, jar, packet, piece, sunblock 18
camera, customer services, enter, prize,
receipt, win 20
average, gap, graph, income, poor, rich government 22
24 cartoon, column, exam, gun, improve, unhappy programme, television 26 bitter, clinic, damp, herbal, pulse, tongue cough, medicine, sore, throat 28
branch, dangerous, male, robber bank, gun 30
beat, fry, heat, ingredient, toast piece 32
adult, cancer, couch, heart column, problem, report 34
born, die, scientist, university dangerous, prize 36
actor, actress, director, operator, producer camera, favourite, programme, television 38 amazed, believe, human, mountain, suddenly,
travel 40
comment, present toast 42
promote, province, railway, tired programme, university 44
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JumpStart Reading and Vocabulary Powerhouse 4A 12
Jessie is reading an interview in a magazine. Read the interview and answer the questions on the next page.
Unit 5
Uncle Egg Waffle
Uncle Egg Waffle Text type:
interview Text type:
interview
Cooking Monthly:
Seven times! Why?
Mr Ng:
Because I didn’t have a licence to be a hawker. I just want to make my egg waffles so I can get some money. But the government said I needed a hawker licence and they arrested me.
Cooking Monthly:
Did you have to pay fines too?
Mr Ng:
Yes, I had to pay big fines. I don’t have much money left to give to my family in mainland China.
Cooking Monthly:
I’m sorry about that. I hope you sell lots of waffles every day so you can support your family.
74-year-old Ng Yuk-fai talks about his life as an egg waffle master.
Cooking Monthly:
You are called ‘Uncle Egg Waffle’. Why is that?
Mr Ng:
Because I love making egg waffles!
Cooking Monthly:
They are my favourite! How long have you been making waffles?
Mr Ng:
I’ve been making waffles for 30 years.
I learnt how to make them from my uncle.
Cooking Monthly:
That’s a long time. Where’s your shop?
Mr Ng:
I don’t have a shop. I have a cart where I cook my waffles. I push my cart to different places to sell my waffles.
I can sell 400 waffles on a busy day.
Cooking Monthly:
I heard you had some problems in 2011. What happened?
Mr Ng:
Well, the government took away my cart seven times last year.
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Repeated new word(s) busy, favourite
New word(s) arrest, fine, government, hawker, licence, problem
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Some English words have more than one meaning. Apart from ‘good’, the word ‘fine’ also means an amount of money that you have to pay as a punishment for not following the law.
Learn more
Tick ( ✓ ) the correct answers.
1. At what age did ‘Uncle Egg Waffle’ start making egg waffles?
A. 74 years old B. 44 years old C. 34 years old D. 30 years old
2. Mr Ng makes his egg waffles on a cart. Which picture shows a cart?
A. B. C. D.
3. What is the largest number of waffles Mr Ng sold in one day?
A. thirty B. a hundred
C. four hundred D. seven hundred 4. Why did Mr Ng need to pay fines?
A. He was a hawker.
B. He did not have a hawker licence.
C. He had no cart.
D. His egg waffles had problems.
5. What does Mr Ng do with the money he makes?
A. He gives it to the poor.
B. He buys cars.
C. He gives the money to his family.
D. He travels to China.
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JumpStart Reading and Vocabulary Powerhouse 4A 24
Vocabulary Quiz 1
1. Fill in the blanks with the given words. (8 marks)
sore throat apartment clinic favourite cough volume programmes medicine noise
Amy had a sore (a) and a (b) too. She took a taxi to the doctor’s clinic. The doctor gave her some (c)
and she went home to her (d) . She couldn’t sleep so she watched some television (e) . Her (f)
programmes are dramas. She was angry because her neighbours were very noisy. The (g) of their TV was very high. Amy had a sore head too because of the loud (h) !
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Marks:
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2. Label the TV programmes with the given words. (6 marks)
(a) (b) (c)
(d) (e) (f)
3. Label the pictures with words from Units 1–10. (6 marks)
(a) (b) (c)
(d) (e) (f)
news weather report sports programme cookery programme music show interview
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4 A
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act.or (n.) 男演員 ar.rest (v.) 拘捕
e.g. I love this actor very much and will go to e.g. The government says I need a hawker
see his film. licence and they arrest me.
act.ress (n.) 女演員 a.ver.age (adj.) 平均的
e.g. The actress is performing well in this e.g. The average property price in
drama. Hong Kong continues to grow.
a.dult (n.) 成人
e.g. Children have to be accompanied by e.g.
adults when they go swimming.
air.port (n.) 飛機場
e.g. I love planes very much so I go to the e.g.
airport twice a week to take photos.
al.ler.gic (adj.) 過敏的
e.g. I am allergic to milk and eggs. e.g.
a.mazed (adj.) 驚訝
e.g. Everyone was amazed by his excellent e.g.
performance.
a.part.ment (n.) 單位
e.g. The people living in this apartment e.g.
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