1 My naughty brother Story fever, flu, liar, matter, normal, painful, temperature 4

2 Wasting food Email compost, convenient, fridge, future, government, landfill, nutrient, promote, recycle 6

3 My best friend Diary enjoyable, excellent, generous, mobile phone, order, person 8

4 Let’s make music Instructions blow, cardboard, extend, instrument, material, pitch, straw, vibrate 10

STEAM House 1 12

5 Honey bees Magazine article hive, honey, mask, protect, sting flu, nutrient 14

6 Communication Mind map communicate, electronic, expensive, immediately, in person, laptop, overseas, text message convenient, mobile phone 16

7 My pen pal Letter bedtime, elementary, enjoy, middle, simple, unlike enjoyable 18

8 An amazing straw Newspaper article bacteria, disaster, filter, litre, source enjoy, straw 20

STEAM House 2 22

Vocabulary quiz 1 24

9 Free food! Recount ambulance, argue, charity, complain, crowded, impatient, important, manner immediately, middle, temperature 26

10 Fighting brain cancer News report cancer, kill, mosquito, operation, treatment, virus fever, future, overseas 28

11 Fight for school! Magazine article admire, bravery, experience, fame, frightened, gain, injured, national, peace kill, operation 30

12 A special hobby Interview airport, binoculars, hobby, pilot, programme, share enjoy, immediately, unlike 32

STEAM House 3 34

13 A day at the beach Poem boiling, calm, land, swimsuit, wonderful enjoy 36

14 Meet a spaceman Interview astronaut, experiment, flag, gravity, nervous, proud, spacesuit

admire, bravery, experience, frightened, wonderful 38

15 Watch out for seafood Leaflet avoid, endangered, oyster, prawn, recommend, seafood, squid enjoy, protect, share 40

16 On Mercury Conversation fact, million, orbit, rotate, surface astronaut, boiling, gravity, spacesuit, temperature 42

STEAM House 4 44

Vocabulary quiz 2 46

Prefixes and suffixes 48

Vocabulary index 50

STEAM House Science vocabulary index 52

Current issues

Current issues

STEAM

STEAM

STEAM

STEAM

Cross-curriculum

Cross-curriculum

Caring and sharing

Places and activities

Places and activities

Relationships

The world around us

The world around us

The world around us

The world around us

The world around us

Food and drinks

Fun and games

Using my five senses

Me, my family and friends

Me, my family and friends

We love Hong Kong

Changes

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1 My naughty brother Story fever, flu, liar, matter, normal, painful, temperature 4

2 Wasting food Email compost, convenient, fridge, future, government, landfill, nutrient, promote, recycle 6

3 My best friend Diary enjoyable, excellent, generous, mobile phone, order, person 8

4 Let’s make music Instructions blow, cardboard, extend, instrument, material, pitch, straw, vibrate 10

STEAM House 1 12

5 Honey bees Magazine article hive, honey, mask, protect, sting flu, nutrient 14

6 Communication Mind map communicate, electronic, expensive, immediately, in person, laptop, overseas, text message convenient, mobile phone 16

7 My pen pal Letter bedtime, elementary, enjoy, middle, simple, unlike enjoyable 18

8 An amazing straw Newspaper article bacteria, disaster, filter, litre, source enjoy, straw 20

STEAM House 2 22

Vocabulary quiz 1 24

9 Free food! Recount ambulance, argue, charity, complain, crowded, impatient, important, manner immediately, middle, temperature 26

10 Fighting brain cancer News report cancer, kill, mosquito, operation, treatment, virus fever, future, overseas 28

11 Fight for school! Magazine article admire, bravery, experience, fame, frightened, gain, injured, national, peace kill, operation 30

12 A special hobby Interview airport, binoculars, hobby, pilot, programme, share enjoy, immediately, unlike 32

STEAM House 3 34

13 A day at the beach Poem boiling, calm, land, swimsuit, wonderful enjoy 36

14 Meet a spaceman Interview astronaut, experiment, flag, gravity, nervous, proud, spacesuit

admire, bravery, experience, frightened, wonderful 38

15 Watch out for seafood Leaflet avoid, endangered, oyster, prawn, recommend, seafood, squid enjoy, protect, share 40

16 On Mercury Conversation fact, million, orbit, rotate, surface astronaut, boiling, gravity, spacesuit, temperature 42

STEAM House 4 44

Vocabulary quiz 2 46

Prefixes and suffixes 48

Vocabulary index 50

STEAM House Science vocabulary index 52

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4JumpStart Reading and Vocabulary Plus P5

1 My naughty brother

Mary has a naughty brother. How naughty is he? Read the story and answer the questions on the next page.

Tom and I are twins. Tom can be very

naughty sometimes. This is what happened

one day at breakfast.

‘I feel sick,’ Tom said to me and Mum.

‘What’s the matter?’ asked Mum.

‘I’ve got the flu,’ he said.

Mum waited for the school bus to pick

me up. Then she took Tom to the doctor’s clinic.

The doctor asked him, ‘What’s wrong, Tom?’

‘I think I have a fever. My throat is sore too,’ said Tom.

The doctor checked Tom’s temperature and looked at Tom’s throat.

‘Hmm, your temperature is normal and your throat looks fine to me.’

‘Oh, but everything is painful. I can’t go to school today,’ said Tom.

The doctor told Mum, ‘Tom is all right. I think he can go to school.’

‘No, no! Please don’t send me to school, Mum!’ said Tom.

‘Why not? Is it because you have a test today?’ asked Mum.

‘Hmm, yes,’ said Tom quietly.

Mum was so angry because Tom lied. Mum took Tom to school and

brought him to our classroom. ‘Tom is here to do the English test,’ she told our

teacher.

Tom was late so he did not have enough time to finish the test. He only

got 7 marks! It serves him right for being a liar!

Story

fever, flu, liar, matter, normal, painful, temperature

1

5

10

15

20

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Fill your answers in the spaces provided.

1. Characters:

Mary

(a) (b)

(c) (d)

2. Setting:

When? One day

Where?

home

(a)

(b)

3. Plot:

Tom said he felt (a) . Mary went to school by (b) .

Mum took Tom to the doctor’s clinic. The doctor checked Tom’s (c)

and (d) . The doctor said Tom was not sick. Mum took Tom to

(e) . Tom did the (f) test. Tom got only (g)

marks in the test.

4. Theme:

This story tells us that .

Answer the question in a complete sentence.

5. Why did Tom do poorly in the English test?

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12JumpStart Reading and Vocabulary Plus P5

1

When we play the recorder, we blow air through

the mouth hole. The air turns into a wave. The

vibration, or the wave, of air produces sound.

If we close more holes with our fingers, it takes

the wave of air longer to leave the recorder.

Pitch ➔ lower

If we close fewer holes, it takes the wave of air

less time to leave the recorder.

Pitch ➔ higher

Alice is reading an article about wind instruments. Look at the article and answer the questions on the next page.

Woodwind instruments Today we will talk about an instrument that you know quite well – the recorder.

If we blow air through a shorter straw,

the sound will have a higher pitch.

If we blow air through a longer straw,

the sound will have a lower pitch.

This is similar to making music with straws.

air in

finger air out

wave of air

Mouth hole

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The following is the explanation of how recorders work. Fill your answers in the spaces provided.

To play a recorder, we blow air through

the 1 hole.

There will be a 2 of

air inside the recorder.

We can control the level of pitch by

putting our fingers on the holes of the

recorder. If we close more holes with our

fingers, it takes 3 time

for the air to come out. It is like blowing

air through a longer straw and the pitch

is 4 .

On the other hand, if we close fewer

holes, it takes 5 time

for the air to come out. It is like blowing

air through a shorter straw and the pitch

is 6 .

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11. Fill in the blanks with the words given. (8 marks)

convenient electronic excellent

expensive generous normal

painful simple

(a) It is to feel nervous when we try new things. If we are patient

enough to carry on, we will see progress.

(b) Mr Cheung is a businessman. He always gives money to poor

people.

(c) This watch is too . We should buy something else for Dad’s

birthday.

(d) John Wong is an dancer. He won three awards last year and

people say he is one of the best performers ever.

(e) The test was very . I finished it in just an hour and spent the rest

of the time on checking my answers.

(f) Nowadays many things have become like email and e-Books.

They are more convenient and take up less space.

(g) Sally fell down and hurt her left knee last week. Now it is very

for her to walk for a long time.

(h) It is more to read the news online so fewer people buy

newspapers nowadays.

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2. Label the pictures. (8 marks)

(a) (b) (c)

(d) (e) (f)

(g) (h)

3. Fill in the blanks with the words given. (5 marks)

bedtime fridge liar material pitch

(a) This cup is made of hard so it doesn’t break easily.

(b) Bob’s classmates call him a because he never tells the truth.

(c) After coming home, Mum put the ice cream in the before it

melted.

(d) The opera singer can sing at a very high .

(e) Sally’s mother tells her a story every night before she goes to

sleep.

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