Unit 7

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START IT! He was a little baby once.

7.1
Faster, stronger, older They were little babies called tadpoles.
Welcome to the wonderful world of animals. Find out
what it is like to be an animal! Their world looks, sounds We use there was/there were to talk about situations in
and smells different! Can you smell the air with your the past.
tongue? Or look for food with your face? Or see in the
dark? Animals really are amazing. They are real ‘super- There was a lesson about baby animals.
animals’. Do you know which is one of the strongest There were cute baby animals, too.
animals? Almost. It’s a rhinoceros, but not this kind. It’s
a rhinoceros beetle! This beetle can lift something that is
The negative past tense of the verb to be is wasn’t/weren’t
100 times heavier than its own body weight. Try lifting a
car! Snow leopards have very strong legs. They can jump
farther than any other animal, more than 15 metres. But he wasn’t pink as a baby. His parents
That’s longer than a school bus. Some animals are really weren’t worried about that.
fast. The cheetah is the fastest land animal. It can run up There wasn’t a cuter baby animal than this
to 98 kilometres per hour! That’s as fast as a car! Other seal.
animals don’t hurry ever. Like this three-toed sloth. It’s There weren’t any baby butterflies.
the slowest animal on earth! It sleeps most of the day and
doesn’t move very much. In the wild, it can live up to 16
years. But can you guess which animal lives the longest? Use it!
It’s the deep-sea sponge! Yes, sponges are animals, too. Use the pictures and words to make sentences.
Some are thousands of years old. They can live longer There was an eagle.
than the Greenland shark, one of the world’s largest There wasn’t a parrot.
carnivores. It only lives 400 years. Some animals are very
clever: the lyrebird from Australia can copy any sound it Now you try.
hears. It’s better than a recording. Listen. Do you know the There wasn’t a monkey.
sound? Pretty amazing, don’t you think? There was a mouse.
There weren’t any giraffes on the farm.
LANGUAGE IN ACTION 1 There were horses.
There were lions at the wildlife centre.
7.2
Baby animals There weren’t any bears.

In science class, we’re studying different LANGUAGE IN ACTION 2

­animals. There was a lesson about baby
­animals. Here are some interesting ones. Look 7.3
The wildlife centre
at this kangaroo! I think he goes to the gym!
It’s difficult to believe he was a little baby once. Hey guys! We're studying different kinds of
How about these toads? Once upon a time, animals in science class. Our class visited a
they were little babies called tadpoles. There wildlife centre last week. There were many
weren’t any baby butterflies to see because they animals at the centre. We didn’t see any
start out as these caterpillars! Or how about ­elephants, but we saw a mother bear and two
this adult flamingo? He’s pink! But he wasn’t baby bears. The mother bear was huge! She
pink as a baby. Oh no, he was grey. His parents was the same size as a small car. I took this
weren’t worried about that. All baby flamingos picture before they ran away. We saw a grey
are grey! There were cute baby ­animals, too. parrot. My friend Lily said, ‘What a beautiful
Like this tapir from South America. But in my parrot!’ And the parrot said, ‘What a beautiful
­opinion, there wasn’t a cuter baby animal than parrot!’ Everyone laughed. Parrots are so
this seal. That’s all for today! Bye! ­clever! We saw a bunch of other animals, too.
Like this long snake. The wildlife guide let us
touch it. Ew! I didn’t touch it, but my friend
Language in action Ben did. It was an amazing trip! That’s all. Bye!
was/were, there was/were
Which language does the vlogger use? We use was/were
to talk about how people or things were before now.

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Language in action distances and carried lots of things. People bought and
Past simple sold goods with the help of their camels. They were
Which language does the vlogger use? We use the past the trains and the ships of the land. Today camels are
simple to talk about actions that happened in the past. in festivals and they run in races like this one. They are
To form the past simple of regular verbs, we add –ed. still very important to people of many cultures. They
have lots of special qualities. Did you know camels can
drink 150 litres in ten minutes, survive without water
Everyone laughed. for several weeks and live in -50ºC, or +40ºC, day or
night? They can move fast and carry heavy loads. Even
To form the past simple of irregular verbs, we use their milk is really good for you, but it’s not in shops yet!
different words such as, take/took and run/ran. What else do you know about the camel? What other
animals were important to people in the past? Are they
still important today?
I took this picture before they ran away.

To form the negative past simple, we use did not plus

the infinitive without to.

I didn’t touch it.

We didn’t see any elephants.

We often use past time expressions with the past

simple.

Our class visited a wildlife centre last week.

They didn’t go to the centre yesterday.

Use it!
What happened? Change the sentences to past tense.
The lion ran this morning.

Now you try.

The monkey ate a banana yesterday.
We saw a koala sleeping yesterday.
The whales didn’t swim by the boat last month.

GLOBETROTTERS
7.5
Four-legged friends
Animals. In the air. On land. In the sea. They are strong ...
and funny. They are beautiful ... and clever. They do
amazing things ... and very silly things! And people
need them now and in the past. Long ago they explored
new places with us and took us on exciting journeys.
Horses were very important in daily life. People used
them for trade and for transport. But there is another
animal, a curious animal, a strong animal - the camel.
The relationship between humans and the camel
started 3,000 years ago in the Arabian Peninsula. People
needed camels for many things: for food, for clothes, for
transport. These large animals helped people and gave
them joy. Camels were also in other parts of the world
like Africa and Asia. They were there during important
times in history and big discoveries. For many years,
camels travelled along the Silk Road. They walked long

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