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

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by reading each of the questions in turn and asking the 
children to answer/comment.
More words (page 55)
Check the words in your dictionary. Then complete 
the questions and answers in the Space Quiz.
In a stronger class, use the 
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More words
section to extend 
the children’s vocabulary.
Ask the children to turn to page 55, section 9 (
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Space 
exploration
). 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 
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or in pairs to complete the questions/answers.
Check the answers as a class by asking volunteers to 
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read out the questions and answers. Pay attention to the 
children’s pronunciation of the target vocabulary.
Key
1 
orbit
 2 
space shuttle
 3 
atmosphere
 4 
comet
 
5 
galaxy
 6 
gravity
Writing (page 39)
Ask the children to read the quiz in pairs and try to 
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answer the questions. When they have answered all of the 
questions, tell them to look at the upside-down answer 
key at the bottom of the quiz and find out the answers 
that they didn’t know.
Then read the questions to the class (or ask volunteers to 
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read them), and elicit the answers.
8 Match the clues and the answers.
Read the text in the blue box. Ask the children to find a 
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question beginning with each question word in the quiz.
Look at Exercise 8. Ask the children to work individually to 
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match the clues to the answers.
Check the answers as a class.