Bahasa Inggeris notes, module 7

Helping out

Textbook Get Smart Plus 4 (Student's Book), pages 71-80 (Get Smart Plus 4 Student's Book, one volume); Phonics 7 on p. 125

What this chapter covers

I can ask for and offer help with verbs like help, carry bags and pick up rubbish (7.1)
I can use the object pronouns me, you, him, her, it, us and them, like "Help us clean the park." (7.1)
I can ask "Whose ... is this?" and answer with my / mine, your / yours, his, her / hers, our / ours and their / theirs (7.2)
I can read a story and say what the characters do and whose things they find (7.2)
I can read a text about recycling and say what we can and can't recycle (7.3)
I can use someone, something, everyone and everything, and no one, nothing, anyone and anything (7.3, 7.4)
I can read a story and understand its value, "Be helpful to others." (7.5)
I can say and spell words with the sounds ay, ai /ei/ and i, ie /ai/ (7.6)

Welcome to Module 7! You will learn how to help other people, say whose things are whose, talk about recycling, and use words like someone and nothing.

7.1Sing a song: Can you help us?

Words for helping: help, carry bags, pick up rubbish, and hurt (to feel pain). The children in the song carry bags and clean the park.

The song Can you help us? with children carrying bags and picking up rubbish in a park — "Can you help us?" The children help each other and clean the park.

Get Smart Plus 4, p. 71.

Value: Helping others is good for the whole community.

Pattern: subject and object pronouns

After a verb like help, use an object pronoun: "Help me", "Help her", "Help us".

Subject pronoun	Object pronoun	Example
I	me	Help me take out the rubbish.
you	you	I can help you.
he	him	Let's help him.
she	her	Help her carry the bags.
it	it	Pick it up.
we	us	Help us clean the park.
they	them	Help them, help them!

Box showing I - me, you - you, he - him, she - her, it - it, we - us, you - you, they - them — Subject pronoun - object pronoun.

Get Smart Plus 4, p. 71.

Do not say "Help I" or "Help she". After the verb, use me and her. Subject pronouns (I, she, they) come before the verb: "She helps me."

Complete: "My mum is carrying heavy bags. Let's help ______."

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her (a girl or woman is the object, so her).

7.2Smart kids: Whose is this?

New words: sleeping bag, torch, peanuts, squirrel, tent.

Six comic pictures of children at a camp site, looking for sleeping bags and peanuts at night, with squirrels at the end — The children are tired after picking up rubbish. Whose sleeping bag? Whose peanuts?

Get Smart Plus 4, p. 72.

The story: The children are tired after picking up rubbish all day. One picks up fifty bottles and another twenty cans. At bedtime a boy cannot find his sleeping bag. The others ask "Whose is this?" They help Carlos find his sleeping bag, and one child shares a torch. In the dark they find some peanuts. Then something moves, and squirrels are in the sleeping bag. The squirrels like Carlos's sleeping bag and his peanuts, too!

Value: Always help your friends.

Pattern: Whose ...? and possessives

Subject	Possessive adjective (before a noun)	Possessive pronoun (stands alone)
I	my jacket	mine
you	your jacket	yours
he	his jacket	his
she	her jacket	hers
it	its	(none)
we	our jacket	ours
they	their jacket	theirs

Box: Whose jacket is this? It's my jacket. It's mine. Whose sleeping bags are these? They're our sleeping bags. They're ours. my - mine, your - yours, his - his, her - hers, its - none, our - ours, your - yours, their - theirs — my - mine, your - yours, his - his, her - hers, our - ours, their - theirs.

Get Smart Plus 4, p. 73.

Examples

Whose jacket is this? It's my jacket. It's mine.
Whose sleeping bags are these? They're our sleeping bags. They're ours.
Is this yours? No, that isn't his. It's mine.

Use my, your, her, our, their with a noun (my torch). Use mine, yours, hers, ours, theirs without a noun (The torch is mine). His is the same in both places.

Do not write "That tent is she" or "It's mine tent". Write "That tent is hers" and "It's my tent". Also, no apostrophe in yours, hers, ours, theirs.

For a named person, add 's: "Whose hat is this?" "It's Alex's."

Fill in: "These tents belong to Carlos and Sandy. They're ______ tents. They're ______."

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their tents. They're theirs.

7.3Our world: Help the Earth, recycle!

New words: recycling, paper, metal, glass, plastic, jar.

A science text called Help the Earth - Recycle, with a flower made of recycling arrows and three recycling bins — Science: Help the Earth - Recycle!

Get Smart Plus 4, p. 74.

Recycling means using something you don't need any more to make something new. It helps the Earth because we make less rubbish.

We can't recycle everything. We can recycle metal, paper, glass and plastic.
For example, empty metal drink cans, boxes and glass bottles.
Old plastic bottles can become new bottles, and also shoes and clothes.
Put these things in the recycling bins, not in the rubbish.

Value: Help protect the environment.

Pattern: someone, something, everyone, everything

Word	Means	Example
someone	a person, but we don't say who	There is someone at the door.
something	a thing, but we don't say what	There is something on the table.
everyone	all the people	Everyone can recycle.
everything	all the things	We can't recycle everything.

Box with example sentences using someone, something, everyone and everything — There is someone at the door. There is something on the table. Everyone can recycle. We can't recycle everything.

Get Smart Plus 4, p. 75.

Words that end in -one are for people; words that end in -thing are for things. They take a singular verb: "Everyone is here", "Everything is clean".

True or false: "We can recycle everything."

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False. We can't recycle everything, but we can recycle metal, paper, glass and plastic.

7.4Let's play: no one, nothing, anyone, anything

The board game on p. 76 asks questions about the rubbish bin, the fridge, a tent and a sleeping bag. Use these words to say that no one or nothing is there.

Positive question	Negative with no one / nothing	Negative with not ... anyone / anything
Is there anyone in the tent?	There's no one in the house.	There isn't anyone on the bus.
Is there anything in the fridge?	There's nothing on the table.	There isn't anything in the fridge.

Get Smart Plus 4, p. 76.

Use one negative word only. "There isn't anything" or "There's nothing", but not "There isn't nothing".

In questions we use anyone / anything: "Is there anyone in the sleeping bag?" Not "Is there someone?" unless we expect the answer yes.

Project (p. 77): choose something you don't need any more, such as an old jam jar. Change it and make something new: wash it, paint flowers or birds on it, and use it as a pencil holder. This is recycling, too.

Make the sentence mean the same: "There's nothing on the table." There isn't ______ on the table.

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anything.

7.5Story time: The lost boy 2

Comic picture: Amin holds up a string of beads and asks Kelly whose it is, while a little boy peeks from behind a tree — Amin finds something and asks, "Is this yours?" A little boy is hiding behind the tree.

Get Smart Plus 4, p. 78.

The story: Kelly and Amin hear a noise in the trees. Amin finds a string of beads and asks Kelly, "Is this yours?" Kelly says no. A voice behind the trees says, "It's my cat's." It is a little boy, Adam. Adam is lost, and he has lost his cat, Tiger, too. He doesn't know where he lives, so Kelly and Amin take him to the police station to find his parents. Later Adam is at home. His parents were very worried. Tiger is at home too, and Adam is happy.

Value: Be helpful to others.

Why do Kelly and Amin go to the police station?

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To find Adam's parents, because Adam is lost and doesn't know where he lives.

7.6Phonics: ay, ai and i, ie

Two groups of words with pictures: ay, ai say /ei/ in play and rain; i, ie say /ai/ in rice and pie — ay, ai say /ei/ (play, rain). i, ie say /ai/ (rice, pie).

Get Smart Plus 4, p. 125 (Phonics 7).

Letters	Sound	Words
ay, ai	/ei/	play, rain, day, train
i, ie	/ai/	rice, pie, pies

The chant "On the train" has many of these words: train, rain, play, day, Fay, pies, rice.

Which sound has the word rain: /ei/ or /ai/?

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/ei/ (ai says /ei/, as in play).

Summary

Topic	Remember
Object pronouns	me, you, him, her, it, us, them: Help me. Help us.
Whose	Whose bag is this? It's my bag. It's mine. (yours, his, hers, ours, theirs)
Recycling	We can recycle metal, paper, glass and plastic. We can't recycle everything.
someone / something	someone = a person, something = a thing; everyone = all people, everything = all things.
Negatives	no one, nothing; isn't anyone, isn't anything. Only one negative word.
Phonics	ay, ai = /ei/ (play, rain); i, ie = /ai/ (rice, pie).
Values	Helping others is good for the community. Always help your friends. Help protect the environment. Be helpful to others.