1What is the boy like in the song?
2What is the girl like in the song?
3Find the words from the reading which mean the following: (a) having qualities similar to those of your parents and grandparents, (b) the process of an egg being fertilized inside a woman's body, (c) the way something feels, (d) grow taller rapidly, (e) physical or mental strength that enables you to do something difficult.
4Choose the correct answer. (a) What changes take place in a baby a few months after birth? (b) What causes pale skin to become brown? (c) Roughly, at what stage in their development do girls start to grow in height? (d) What happens to our bodies if we eat too much and do not do enough exercise?
5What words are used to describe eyes, skin and hair in the reading?
6Put these words in the correct box according to the sound of their final -s: falls, others, turns, differences, girls, results, amounts, bones, changes, boys, processes.
7Complete the sentences with look(s) or look(s) like: (a) My little sister always says she ... a princess. (b) Ann ... her mother. (c) You ... stressed. What's the matter? (d) Your trousers are very fashionable. You ... smart. (e) She's older but she ... healthy. (f) That house ... a palace! (g) You don't ... cheerful. Are you okay?
8Match the questions with the possible answers: What's Naresh like? How are you? Who do you look like? What do you like? What does he look like? What's she like? What does Mike look like? Who does Mike look like? How's your mother? Who's Ann like?
9Choose and write the correct verb, look(s), be like, look(s) like or like: (a) Peter ... worried. Is he ok? (b) What ... she ...? She's tall, pretty and very friendly. (c) You ... an actress in this dress! (d) Who ... she ...? Like her father, very determined. (e) She ... (not) very happy today. (f) They ... dancing but they don't like singing. (g) What does your brother ...? He's tall with blue eyes. (h) What ... they ...? They're very friendly. (i) They ... angry. What's the matter?
10Study these sentences and learn the meanings of the bold words: My brother and I both play sports. He's like me. What does Sam look like? He's tall and wears glasses.
11Listen to the audio in which Tom and his father talk about Tom's friends, and answer: whether Patrick has short, brown, straight hair; who is talkative; what Tom says about Marcel; who looks like Harry Potter; who talks about video games with Tom at lunch; and what Tom and Dad are going to do.
12What words did Tom use to describe his friends? Write as many words as you can remember.
13Find the rhyming words from the poem for: breast, me, mills, go, isles, small, today.
14Answer these questions about the poem: (a) What does the wind do to the tree? (b) Who does the wind talk to? (c) Why is the wind so great? (d) What does the whisper say?
15Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets: (a) The plane ... at 6.30 p.m. every day. (arrive) (b) I will phone you when he ... back. (come) (c) Unless we ... now, we can't be there on time. (start) (d) The sun ... in the east. (rise) (e) The next term ... this Monday. (begin)
16Turn these into questions as in the example Where/you/live? becomes Where do you live?: (a) How many children / you / have? (b) How often / you / study English? (c) What time / the film / start? (d) Where / you / play volleyball? (e) When / you / drink tea? (f) Why / he / play football?
17Write a paragraph about a friend. Describe that person's height, hair, age and facial characteristics, and also describe that person's personality and why you like him or her.
18How do you spend a typical day? Write a paragraph describing what you do from the morning to the evening, using the present simple tense.
19From the story The Stag and its Reflection: (a) What was the stag very proud about? (b) What was he unhappy about? (c) What lesson do you learn from the story?
20What is the difference between What does she look like? and What is she like?
21When does the final -s of a word sound /ɪz/, and what happens to the word when it does?
22Why do we write It walks on the water and not It walk on the water?
23Give two examples from the poem Wonderful World where the poet describes a non-living thing as if it were a person.