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Unit Number Unit Heading PB/

TGActivity Number Answers

1 Adding the prefix un-

PB 1 undo, unpick, unafraid, untidy, unfair, unusual, unreal, unpopular, uneven, unsafe, unwell, unload.

PB 2 Answers will vary. Ensure the pupils have used the words in the correct context.

TG 1 not fair, not lucky.

TG 2 a) I sang a song with Jasmine in the concert. b) My mum is French and my dad is Scottish.

TG 3 a) I like sausages and I like chips. b) Adam plays the piano and he plays the flute.

TG 4 a) cats, b) dishes, c) foxes, d) socks.

2 Capital letters PB 1 Dear, Mum, Dad, Robbie, I, Planet, Earth, I, France, China, Australia, However, Nepal, I, Mount, Everest, I, Charlie, Sam, I, I, Please, Aunt, Ruth, Uncle, Robin, Love, Robot.

3 Using ‘and’ as a joining word PB 1

Nick read a book and he went to bed. Sarah put on her coat and she walked to the shops. Holly went to the cinema and she ate some popcorn. Hassan ran very fast and he won the race. Ben finished his homework and he played in the garden.

PB 2 Answers will vary.

4 Singular and plural

PB 1 watch/watches, toy/toys, box/boxes, dress/dresses, banana/bananas, flower/flowers, show/shows, brush/brushes, class/classes, bridge/bridges.

PB 2 Answers will vary. Ensure the pupils have followed the rules for adding -s and -es correctly.

5 Using ‘because’, ‘that’, ‘if’ and ‘when’

PB 1 Answers will vary. Ensure that they make sense.

PB 2 a) because, b) then or and, c) that, d) because, e) but.

PB 3 School is over when the bell rings. Your friend will be pleased if you lend her your book. Call me when you get home. Your report will be good if you try your hardest.Turn the lights out when you go to bed.


TG 1 Answers will vary.

6 Using ‘or’ as a joining word

PB 1 Answers will vary. Example answers are: a) We could watch television or read a book. b) You can eat an orange or a banana. c) I could travel or train or by bus.

TG 1 a) but, b) or, c) but.


7 Using ‘but’ as a joining word PB 1

I want to buy a new book but I don’t know which to choose. Andrew loves orange juice but he hates lemonade. She enjoys swimming in the sea but she is afraid of sharks. My brother is three years older than me but I am taller than him.


8 Expanded noun phrases

PB 1 soft, cosy, comfortable, colourful.

PB 2 the soft, comfortable, colourful chair.

PB 3 a) swimming pool, b) sports car, c) lady, d) sun.

PB 4 Example answers: a) the delicious, juicy, tasty beefburger. b) the old, tatty, empty house, c) the pretty, neat, colourful garden.

TG 1 Nouns: box, house, bottle, sock, hat, carpet, bed, camera, candle.Adjectives: difficult, unusual, tall, warm, green, delicious, clean.


9 Types of sentences

PB 1 a) question, b) exclamation, c) exclamation, d) statement, e) question, f) exclamation.

PB 2 a) Do your homework! b) Close the door! c) Answer the phone!

PB 3 a) How old is Josh? b) What time do you get up in the morning? c) What is your favourite subject?

PB 4 a) What a surprise! b) What a beautiful rainbow! c) Help!


10 Using -ing for actions in the present

PB 1 a) is, b) are, c) am, d) are, e) are.

PB 2 I am sitting, sun is shining, birds are singing, wind is blowing, I am having, I am eating, Amal is playing, Emma is reading, we are having!

11 Using -ing for actions in the past

PB 1 Answers will vary. Ensure pupils have the correct form of the verb ‘to be’.

PB 2 a) Yesterday I was enjoying the sunshine. b) Yesterday she was wearing her favourite jumper.c) Yesterday we were learning about Stonehenge. d) Yesterday they were eating fish and chips for lunch.

TG 1 He is, She is, We are, They are, He was, She was, We were, They were.

TG 2 a) Dad is painting the walls blue. b) I am reading a very funny book. c) We are baking a delicious fruit cake.

12 Choosing the right tense

PB 1 a) Past, b) Present c) Past, d) Present.

PB 2 a) Yesterday I was visiting my grandmother. b) Last Tuesday I was running in a race. c) Right now he is travelling on the bus to school. d) This time last week we were learning about 2D shapes.

PB 3 a) was, b) am, c) were, d) was.

PB 4 was living, was a prisoner, was guarding, was shining, was knocking, was roaring, was not afraid.

TG 1 Answers will vary but must make sense.

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13 Apostrophes for missing letters

PB 1 have not, haven’t, o / he had, he’d, ha / is not, isn’t, o / I am, I’m, a / we will, we’ll, wi


PB 3 a) Nick’s reading his comic books. b) Darnell’s writing a story.c) My mum’s making a cup of tea. d) Who’s knitting a jumper?

PB 4 a) contraction, b) long form, c) contraction, d) contraction, e) long form.

14 Apostrophes for possession

PB 1 a) the shed’s window, b) case, c) Raj’s basketball, d) the clock’s face.

PB 2 a) the king’s crown, b) the dog’s bone, c) the car’s wheel.

PB 3 a) It is Salima’s rucksack. b) It is Millie’s goldfish. c) It is Zaki’s cricket ball. d) It is Niamh’s chocolate bar. e) It is Jimi’s teddy bear.

PB 4 a) The chicken’s feathers. b) The cat’s whiskers. c) The pupil’s pencils.

TG 1 possession, contraction, possession.

TG 2 a) Jack’s present, b) The teacher’s book, c) Grandma’s car.

15 Sentences, capital letters, full stops

PB 1 a) played, b) dug, c) wrote.

PB 2 a) School begins at nine o’clock. b) Sarah and Misha are coming to visit tomorrow. c) My friend Sanjay lives in Glasgow. d) In the holidays I am going to France for a week.

PB 3a) Yasha went to Germany in August. b) At Easter we ate chocolate eggs and watched a film called Arlo and the Dragon. c) In January the class went on a trip to the Houses of Parliament. d) Ethan’s favourite Scottish tennis player is Andy Murray.

PB 4 The, Jones, Spain, They, London, Saturday, They, Harry, Jessica, Spanish, They, Everyone, England.

16 Question marks, exclamation marks



PB 3 a) ! b) ? c) ! d) ! e) ? f) ? g) ! h) ? i) !, k) !.

PB 4 morning. happened. moving. it? spaceship. Wow! eyes. next? directions. surprise! again. dream. happen? know!

TG 1 a) !, b) ?, c) !, d) !, e) ?, f) ?, g) !, h) ?, i) !, j) !.

17 Using commas in a list

PB 1 a) He bought apples, bananas, pears and oranges. b) He bought flour, eggs, sugar and milk. c) He bought three pencils, white paper, a pot of glue and a roll of tape.

PB 2a) The bicycle had wheels, a saddle and a blue basket. b) My dad asked me to wash the dishes, make my bed and peel the potatoes. c) Khalil likes football, swimming, hockey and listening to the radio.d) At the weekend Anna went to a museum, played on the swings, read a book and visited her Aunt.


PB 4 interesting, exciting; school, learned; swim, met; shiny, fast, metal; t-shirts, sweets, postcards.

TG 1 Answers will vary. Ensure pupils are using commas correctly.

TG 2a) Mum asked me to bring a hammer, a screwdriver, some nails and a spanner. b) I went to the cinema with Jenny, David, Ali and Sunil. c) At the barbecue we ate sausages, burgers, sweetcorn and salad.d) In the garden we planted roses, daisies and lavender.

18 Compound words PB 1 raindrop, skateboard, sunflower, footprint, firework.

PB 2 a) firefighter, b) dishwasher, c) doorbell, d) postman or postlady.

TG 1 classroom, afternoon, weekend, bookshelf, keyboard.


19 Hard and soft consonants – ‘c’

PB 1 hard c: carrot, castle, cold, corn, cupcake, crayon, candle, camel, soft c: face, police, voice, rice, pencil, celery, cereal, centre, both: circle, concert, bicycle.

TG 1a) soft c: juice, prance, race; hard c: cart, cow, cuddle, b) soft g: rage, gem, angel, barge; hard g: gate, target, c) soft c: prince; hard c: cargo, captain, both: circle, cycle, circus, d) soft g: gym, gentleman, giant; hard g: garden, gap, jungle.

20 Hard and soft consonants – ‘g’

PB 1 a) engine (soft g), b) game (hard g), c) angel (soft g), d) glass (hard g), e) glue (hard g).

PB 1 a) giraffe, b) frog, c) tiger, d) goat.

21 -ge and -dge endings

PB 1 range/change, bridge/fridge, grudge/trudge, dodge/lodge, judge/smudge, hedge/wedge.

PB 2 challenge, fridge, hedge, package, cottage, badge.

TG 1 rhyming words: bridge/fridge, hedge/sledge, cage/age, large/charge, page/stage. Ensure poems make good use of rhyme.

22 Silent letters PB 1 wrote, gnaw, knock, knowledge, kneel, knight, knuckle, gnash, wrong.


PB 3 a) wrist, b) knot, c) knife, d) wring, e) wreck.

TG 1 silent k: knocking, knight; silent g: gnat, gnome; silent w: written, wrap, wrecked, wrinkles.

TG 2 a) write, b) wreck, c) knitting, d) know. Ensure pupils are using the words in their correct meaning.

23 Words ending in -le and -el

PB 1 a) stable, b) bubbles, c) cuddle, d) pebble.


24 Words ending in -al and -il

PB 1 a) pedal, b) metal, c) animal, d) hospital.

PB 2 Example sentences: A pencil is something you write with. A fossil is the print of an ancient creature in a rock. A nostril is a hole in your nose. A daffodil is a pretty flower.

TG 1 table, puddle, riddle, gerbil, tunnel, capital.


TG 3 a) Brazil, b) canal.


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25 Suffixes -er and -est

PB 1 shorter/shortest, later/latest, finer/finest, wiser/wisest, older/oldest, younger/youngest, higher/highest, taller/tallest

PB 2 fatter/fattest, thinner/thinnest, bigger/biggest, dimmer/dimmest, hotter/hottest, flatter/flattest, madder/maddest, sadder/saddest.

PB 3 a) heavier, b) shiniest, c) smellier.


TG 1 racing/raced, hopping/hopped, dipping/dipped, caring/cared, calling/called, watching/watched.

TG 2 smaller/smallest, prettier/prettiest, bigger/biggest, shorter/shortest.

26 Suffixes -ing and -ed

PB 1 washing/washed, calling/called, asking/asked, planning/planned, loving/loved, missing/missed, clapping/clapped, touching/touched, pushing/pushed.

PB 2 a) shining, b) filled, c) batted, d) sitting, e) hoping, f) called.

PB 3 a) She smiled at her mother. b) I am travelling on the train. c) They are arriving at seven o’clock. d) I saved my pocket money. e) You are dragging your coat on the floor. f) Dad shopped for new shoes.

27 Verbs ending in -y PB 1 spying/spied, copying/copied, replying/replied, trying/tried, marrying/married.

PB 2 a) playing played, b) enjoying enjoyed, c) delaying delayed.

28 Nouns ending in -y

PB 1 a) babies, b) keys, c) strawberries, d) donkeys.

PB 2 cherries, butterflies, libraries, puppies, pennies, mysteries.

TG 1 replied, replying; cherries; tried, trying; chimneys.

29 Suffixes -ment and -ness

PB 1 Verbs: agree, judge, disappoint, fulfil, move, treat, improve. Adjectives: kind, sad, bold, cold, ill, mad.

PB 2 Agreement, judgement, disappointment, fulfilment movement, treatment, improvement. kindness, sadness, boldness, coldness, illness, madness.

30 Suffixes -ful and -less

PB 1 harmful /harmless, helpful/helpless, fearful/fearless, restful/restless.


TG 1 a) hopeful hopeless, b) harmful harmless, c) painful painless, d) helpful helpless.

TG 2 a) careless, b) handful, c) carefully, d) quietly.

31 Suffix -ly PB 1 quickly, badly, perfectly, carefully, gladly, sadly, suddenly, proudly, certainly, quietly, promptly.

PB 2 a) merrily, b) lazily, c) noisily.

32 Words ending in -tion

PB 1 a) mention, b) direction, c) fiction, d) fraction, e) caption, f) collection.

PB 2 a) section, b) attention, c) action, d) competition. Ensure the sentences the pupils write convey the correct meaning of these words.

TG 1 motion/lotion, station/nation, direction/collection, mention/invention, fraction/action.


33 Homophones PB 1 Answers will vary.

PB 2 a) flour, b) hoarse, c) won, d) ours. Ensure the sentences the pupils write convey the correct meanings.

PB 3 a) there, their, they’re, b) your, you’re, c) it’s, its.


TG 1 night/knight, hear/here, blue/blew, brake/break, their/there, your/you’re.


TG 3 a) because, b) people, c) work.

34 Vowels that sound different


PB 2 a) working, b) worm, c) world, d) word.


PB 4 a) usual, b) measure, c) television, d) casual, e) treasure.

35 Common exception words

PB 1 move/prove/improve, door/poor/floor, find/mind/behind/kind, child/wild, could/would/should, any/many.


TG 1 Many, people, find, cold, water, beautiful, Many, again, again, because, money, busy, Would.

36 Around the home PB 1 bedroom: bedside table, wardrobe, rug, curtains, mattress, pillow, cushion, bookshelf. bathroom: toilet, sink, tap. kitchen: oven, fridge-freezer, sink. sitting room: armchair, television, bookshelf, cushion, rug, curtains.


37 At school PB 1 Maths: addition, calculator, triangle, graph. English: apostrophe, exclamation, story, vocabulary.Science: experiment, graph, habitat, material.

PB 2 a) homework, b) friends, c) teachers, d) playground, e) library, f) headteacher.

38 Out and about PB 1 supermarket, pineapple, peppermint, checkout, toothpaste, strawberry, newspaper, shopkeeper.


39 Using a dictionary

PB 1 spellings, meanings of words, whether a word is a noun, adjective or verb.

PB 2 a) Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Spain. b) apple, banana, blueberry, grape, melon, pear, pineapple. c) panda, panther, parrot, peacock, penguin, pig, poodle.

PB 3 meddle – interfere or get involved in something, drowsy – tired or sleepy, conscious – alive and alert, hinder – prevent or stop.


40 Using a thesaurus PB 1 a) plain, b) grand, c) soft, d) similar.




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