Oxford Primary Skills Unit Teaching Notes Oxford University Press 1 Lesson objectives

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Key
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a
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e
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9 Write questions for a quiz about space or a 
different subject you know a lot about.
The children write a given number of quiz questions 
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about space or a subject of their choice. Explain that they 
shouldn’t make the questions too obscure or difficult. You 
might want to let them work in pairs.
When they have finished writing, ask them to write the 
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answers to the questions on a separate sheet of paper.
Reading (optional extension activity)
Collect the children’s quiz questions. Write a different 
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number on each sheet of questions, and display the 
sheets around the class.
Let the children go around the class, writing the answers 
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to each quiz on a piece of paper. They should make sure 
they write the number of each quiz as well. When they 
have finished (or when a time limit is up) ask them to 
return to their seats.
The writers of each quiz then call out the correct answers, 
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and the rest of the class mark their answers and award 
themselves a point for each correct answer.

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Oxford Primary Skills 5 Unit 10 Teaching Notes © Oxford University Press
10
It’s time for a story
Lesson objectives
To read and understand two short stories
To understand and use the past simple in stories
To be aware of the use of adjectives and expressions to 
show feelings in stories
To write a simple short story
Language
They weren’t happy.
There were tears in her eyes. 
He couldn’t believe his eyes. 
Key vocabulary: 
hut, market, spade, pot, pile, greet, slip, 
copy 
(noun)
, couple, bury, greedy
More words: 
happy, glad, sad, pleased, pretty, ugly, beautiful, 
lovely, big, huge, tiny, large, nervous, calm, frightened, scared, 
horrible, wonderful, brilliant, great, hot, warm, freezing, 
boiling