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Look. Listen. Write the letter. TR: 5.1 Example: A 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) D E F G A B C Complete with the best word(s) from the box.generation jewelry making passed down proud traditionMy grandmother made this necklace. (a)_ is part of my culture. The women in my family make jewelry. My grandmother (b)_everything she knows about jewelry making to my mom. I’m the next (c)_ and I’m learning about this (d)__, too. It takes twenty hours to make each necklace! Isn’t it beautiful? I’m (e)__of mygrandmother’s work. 1. (a) ___________________ 2. (b) ___________________ 3. (c) ___________________ 4. (d) ___________________ 5. (e) ___________________ Complete the sentence. Use the correct form of the wordin parentheses.Example: Cooking (cook) my grandmother's recipes makes me feel proud. 1. ________ (share) your culture with other people helps them understand you. 2. ________ (make) music with traditional instruments is fun. 3. _________ (weave) beautiful cloth is something many people in Ghana can do. 4. ________ (paint) pottery makes it beautiful. 5._-________ (learn) your traditions is important. Complete with the best word from the box.cooperating going holding making storytelling studyingExample: I like making traditional music with my family. 1. I enjoy ____________________ with others to get things done. 2. He's good at ____________________. I love listening to him talking about his past. 3. I think ____________________ art from different countries helped me learn about other cultures. 4. People say ____________________ on to your traditions is important. 5. Tourists like ____________________ to different countries. Match the verb that best completes each pair of sentences.a. passing downb. playingc. swimmingd. jewelry makinge. starting____ 1.____ is my favorite sport. I enjoy ____. ____ 2.____ is part of our culture. My sister is good at ____. ____ 3.____ traditions is important to my family. My father is interested in ____ our traditions ____ 4. ____ the guitar is easy for me. I’m good at ____ the guitar. ____ 5. Marco is excited about ____ school. ____ school is exciting when you’re five years old! All About Music Did you know that modern music comes from traditional music? Everygeneration changes the music of the past. They make it their own. Reggae music began in Jamaica, but it has its roots in African music. Africans came to Jamaica and brought their music. It mixed with music from Europe. Now, reggae impacts music all over the world. Dancehall and hip-hop music came from reggae! Shaabi music is based on Egyptian folk music. It is played with the saxophone and electronic keyboard, which are modern instruments. But it is also played with a kanun, a traditional string instrument. Write T for True or F for False. ____ 1. Modern music comes from the changes made to music of the past. ____ 2. Reggae is one example of music that has not changed. ____ 3. Reggae comes from Jamaica, but it has African roots. ____ 4. Shaabi music is based on Asian folk music. Read:Mexican Paper Cutting Papel picado is a paper cutting tradition from Mexico. People in Mexico have decorated their homes and streets with colorful papel picado for centuries. They are an inexpensive and colorful way tocelebrate a birthday, wedding, or holiday. Papel picado is made with rectangular pieces of thin paper called tissue paper. Artists indifferent villages of Puebla, Mexico, have passed down this tradition for generations. They take 40–50 sheets of tissue paperand draw a design. Then they cut out the design. The motifs theydraw include flowers and birds. Some artists can even cut wordsinto the paper! Now you can buy plastic papel picado made in afactory. It’s colorful but the patterns aren’t intricate (very detailed)like the motifs of traditional papel picado. 3. When artists make traditional papel picado they first _____. 1. Papel picado is ________. 2. Papel picado is used ________. Choose the best answer. a new traditon an old tradition for especial celebrations once a year from Spain every day cut the paper draw a design buy plastic Traditional papel picado is ________ plastic papel picado. Plastic papel picado is ________. more intricate than as intricate as less intricate than handcrafted made in a factory expensive Put the traditions in the order you hear them described (1–5). _____ embroidery _____ pottery _____ jewelry making _____ paper cutting _____ sculpture Write a personal blog entry in 3 to 4 sentences about a family vacation or a special day.Describe your thoughts and feelings. You can use informal expressions like cool, awesome,hated it, and laugh out loud (LOL). Speaking Example: A 1) ____ 2) ____ 3) ____ 4) ____ 5) ____ 6) ____ Look. Listen. Write the letter. TR: 6.1 A B C D E F G Complete with the best word from the box.adapt digests leaves stinks trapped trickExample: The plant had big, green leaves. 1. A Venus flytrap ____________ an insect slowly, over a period of days. 2. Don’t touch that flower! It ___________ . 3. Plants don’t eat people! Are you trying to ____________ me? 4. The spider ____________ the insect and then ate it. 5. When there isn’t any rain, plants have to ____________ in order to survive. Complete the sentence. Use the correct form of the word in parentheses.Example: Nutrients are absorbed (absorb) by the roots of a plant. 1. Pollen ____________________ (carry) by insects from one plant to another. 2. Seeds ____________________ (move) by flying birds. 3. The insect ____________________ (trick) by the smell of rotting meat. 4. Petals ___________________ (attach) to the stem of a plant. Write a sentence with the words in parentheses. Use that. Example: (sunflower / stem)A sunflower is a plant that has a long stem. 1. (garden / flowers) _____________________________ 2. (rose / thorns) _____________________________ 3. (Venus flytrap / insects) _________________ Choose the best answer. 1. Bees ________ to flowers. 2. I want flowers that ________ bees. 3. A pitcher plant is a plant that ________ small animals. 4. The insect ________ inside the closing leaf. 5. Stinking flowers are plants that ________ insects with their smell. 6. Insects ________ by the smell of stinking flowers. attract trick attract traps traps trick attracted trapped attracted trapped tricked tricked are attracted is trapped is trapped are attracted are tricked are tricked All About the Hydnora Africana The Hydnora Africana is a strange kind of plant. It has no leaves or stem. It has a flower that looks like a hungry mouth! White stuff is inside the flower. The white stuff stinks. Insects are attracted to the smell. The insect is trapped inside the flower by stiff hairs. The insect eats the white stuff to survive. Pollen sticks to the insect. A few days later, the flower opens and the insect is free. Then it takes the pollen to another flower. The flower has done its job! ____ 1. The Hydnora Africana has leaves but no stem. ____ 2. The Hydnora Africana is a smelly plant. ____ 3. The Hydnora Africana has gray stuff inside that the insect eats. ____ 4. The Hydnora Africana traps insects inside its flower. Read and choose the best answer. Air Plants Plants need light, air, water, and nutrients to live. Air plants need all these things because they are plants, but they don’t need to grow in the ground! They’re called air plants because they get most of their nutrients from the air instead of from the ground. There are over 650 different kinds of air plants! They come in alldifferent sizes and colors. Most air plants have thin leaves. Most also have pretty flowers. They’re often found on rocks, plants, or the ground. They do have roots, but the roots don’t absorb waterand nutrients. The leaves do! Air plants are easily cared for and easily grown. Most only need to be watered once a week. Air plants will only survive in warm climates. 1. Air plants have ________. 2. Air plants are grown ________. 3. Air plants get their nutrients from their ________. 4. Air plants cannot adapt to ________. flowers in the air on roots of other plants flowers cold weather leaves on rocks, plants or the ground thorns hot weather roots vines the ground Listen to the descriptions of two different plants. Choose the best answer. TR: 6.2 1. Do bryophytes have a stem? 2. Do bryophytes have roots? 3. Does lucky bamboo have a stem? 4. Does lucky bamboo have roots? 5. Does lucky bamboo have leaves? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No Write 3 to 4 sentences about a plant you like. Describe its color, size, and what it looks like. Describe the big parts first and then the small parts. You can go from top to bottom, from the inside to the outside, and so on. Speaking Look. Listen. Write the letter. TR: 6.3 Example: A 1) ____ 2) ____ 3) ____ 4) ____ 5) ____ 6) ____ D E F G A B C Match.a. thorns.b. generation.c. ground.d. atmosphere.e. galaxy.f. handcrafted. ____ 1. We breathe the oxygen in our ____ 2. Stars and solar systems make up a ____ 3. I’m going to pass down our traditions to the next ____ 4. When art is made by hand it’s called ____ 5. Be careful! You picked up a flower with ____ 6. A plant’s roots are usually in the Choose the best answers. 1. Which words describe the parts of a flower? 2. Which words describe items in our universe? leaf petal bacteria solar system light stem thorn galaxy Choose the best answer. 1. ________ has different traditions in their families. 2. Does ________ know any traditional songs? 3. That flower has an odor ________ stinks. Anyone Anyone May Everyone Everyone That No one No one Is 4. Earth is a planet ________ orbits the sun. 5. There ________ be another planet with an atmosphere. 6. ________ knows if there is life on other planets. May Might Everyone Might That Someone That Is No one Complete the sentence with the correct form of the word in parentheses.Example: Living (live) on Mars might be hard. 1. ____________________ (debate) about extraterrestrials is fun. I say there are extraterrestrials, but you say there aren’t! 2. ____________________ (communicate) with extraterrestrials might be difficult. We wouldn’t be able to talk with them. 3. Scientists are excited about ____________________ (explore) Mars. 4. I enjoy ____________________ (study) the solar system. 5. Water ____________________ (store) in the stems of a plant. 6. Bees ____________________ (attract) to the sweet odor of flowers. Answer the question with a complete sentence. 1. What do you think we might discover on Mars? 2. What are you good at? 3. How is an insect trapped in a Venus flytrap? All about Mexican and Japanese Music Norteño is a modern type of Mexican music with folk roots. Old Norteño music was played with an accordion and a Mexican guitar. Then, Norteño bands heard rock music. They added drums, saxophones, and electronic keyboards to their bands! Modern Norteño has a stronger beat than the traditional music.Modern Japanese music includes all modern music types and instruments like electric guitars and keyboards. In the 1920s, when J-pop began, performers used harmonicas and stringinstruments. The music combined Western jazz and soul with a traditional style of Japanese singing. Write T for True or F for False. 1. Norteño comes from older, traditional Norteño music. 2. Old Norteño music included saxophones. 3. J-pop began in 1950. 4. Norteño music has folk roots. True True True True False False False False The Nazca Lines of Peru The Nazca Lines in Peru are long lines that were drawn in the desert long ago. The longest line is 48 kilometers (30 miles) long! Scientists think the lines are 2,000 years old. Scientists began studying the lines in the 1920s, but it wasn’t until the 1930s, when people first started to travel in airplanes, that many people saw pictures of the long lines, big shapes, and animal motifs across the ground of the desert. People wondered how an ancient culture could make these intricate patterns without seeing them from the sky or space. Some people thought the lines were made by extraterrestrials or for ancient spacecraft to land on Earth! For a long time, scientists thought the patterns were connected to the stars in our solar system. This added to the debate that the lines were drawn by extraterrestrials, since scientists didn’t think the Nazca knew a lot about the solar system.Starting in the 1970s, scientists had other ideas. Now scientists think that the ancient Nazca culture made the lines as part of water ceremonies. As a desert culture, water was important to Nazca people’s survival. The area where they lived got less than three centimeters of rain a year! Scientists also know that the lines were made by turning brown rocks over so that the white dirt under the rocks showed.The Nazca wouldn’t need extraterrestrials to do this. Turning over rocks is hard work, but it is something many people could do together. Mystery solved! Read and complete with the correct number from the box.three 48 1920s 1930s 1970s 2,000 Example: Planes first flew over the lines in the 1930s. 1. The Nazca lines were first studied by scientists in the _____. 2. The longest Nazca line is ____________ kilometers long. 3. Scientists think the lines are ____________ years old. 4. Scientists’ ideas about the lines changed after the ___. 5. It rains less than ____________ centimeters per year in the Nazca desert. The Nazca Lines of Peru The Nazca Lines in Peru are long lines that were drawn in the desert long ago. The longest line is 48 kilometers (30 miles) long! Scientists think the lines are 2,000 years old. Scientists began studying the lines in the 1920s, but it wasn’t until the 1930s, when people first started to travel in airplanes, that many people saw pictures of the long lines, big shapes, and animal motifs across the ground of the desert. People wondered how an ancient culture could make these intricate patterns without seeing them from the sky or space. Some people thought the lines were made by extraterrestrials or for ancient spacecraft to land on Earth! For a long time, scientists thought the patterns were connected to the stars in our solar system. This added to the debate that the lines were drawn by extraterrestrials, since scientists didn’t think the Nazca knew a lot about the solar system.Starting in the 1970s, scientists had other ideas. Now scientists think that the ancient Nazca culture made the lines as part of water ceremonies. As a desert culture, water was important to Nazca people’s survival. The area where they lived got less than three centimeters of rain a year! Scientists also know that the lines were made by turning brown rocks over so that the white dirt under the rocks showed.The Nazca wouldn’t need extraterrestrials to do this. Turning over rocks is hard work, but it is something many people could do together. Mystery solved! 1. Why do some people believe the Nazca lines were made by extraterrestrials? 2. What does the reading tell you about Nazca culture? The motifs include extraterrestrials. Some of the lines look like a place for a spacecraft to land. T They don’t think the ancient Nazca culture knew enough about the solar system to make the star motifs. They used airplanes to make the lines. The Nazca people lived in the desert. They lived a long time ago. Water was important to their survival. hey don’t think people could have made the lines without seeing them from the sky. Listen and number steps in order (1–6). TR: 6.4 ____ The plant digests the insect. ____ The trap closes. ____ An insect is attracted to the odor of the flytrap. ____ The trap dies and falls off. ____ The insect touches the hairs in the trap. ____ The trap opens again. Listen and answer the question with a complete sentence. TR: 6.4 1. Describe what an insect has to do for the trap to close on it. 2. Describe what happens after the trap closes on an insect. Choose one and write. a) Do you think we should search for life in space? Take a position. Think about cost and usefulness. Write 3 to 4 sentences. Use facts to persuade. Introduce your facts with expressions such as research shows and the facts show that. b) Write a personal blog entry in 3 to 4 sentences about a family tradition. Describe the tradition and your feelings about the tradition being part of your culture. You can use informal expressions like cool and awesome. Speaking |