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Oxford Primary Skills 5 Unit 8 Teaching Notes © Oxford University Press
More words (page 55)
Check the words in your dictionary. Then complete 
the sentences.
In a stronger class, use the 
• 
More words
section to extend 
the children’s vocabulary.
Ask the children to turn to page 55, section 8 (
• 
Recipes and 
cooking
). Read the words in the box, and give the children 
some time to look up the words in dictionaries. Model and 
drill pronunciation.
Read the example. Then let the children work individually 
• 
or in pairs to complete the sentences.
Check the answers as a class by asking volunteers to 
• 
read out the sentences. Pay attention to the children’s 
pronunciation of the target vocabulary.
Key
1 
mixture
 2 
ingredient
 3 
stir
 4 
bake
 5 
oven
 6 
cool
Writing (page 35)
Ask 
• 
Do you enjoy cooking? What do you make? Do you use 
recipes?
Ask the children to look at the list of ingredients in the 
• 
recipe and identify any abbreviations that have been used 
(
g, tsp, ml
). Write the words 
grams, teaspoons 
and 
millilitres
on the board, and model and drill pronunciation.
Read the recipe while the children follow it in their books. 
• 
Then ask some questions to check understanding, e.g. 
How much sugar do you need? What temperature should the 
oven be? How long do you need to bake the cakes for? What 
do you use to decorate the cakes?
Point out the use of 
• 
the
in the text. (We use the definite 
article because the ingredients have already been 
mentioned in the list of ingredients.) Point out that we 
don’t need to repeat 
the
in a list, e.g. 
Mix the butter and 
sugar in a large bowl
NOT 
Mix the butter and the sugar in 
a large bowl.
Ask the children to find more examples of 
sentences where 
the
is used only once with a list (i.e. 
Add 
the eggs, flour and vanilla. Mix the icing sugar and water 
in a large bowl to make icing. Use the icing and sweets to 
decorate your cakes.