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UNIT 1 WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE
Worksheet 1    Comprehension: ‘Wilma’s six-metre labour of love’    
Worksheet 2    Vocabulary: Word origins    
Worksheet 3    Grammar: Pronouns, Water sports word list, Word search    
Worksheet 4    Punctuation and spelling: The semicolon, The colon, Punctuation revision, Quotation marks, Revision: Word origins, Crossword    

UNIT 2 DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS
Worksheet 5    Comprehension: ‘Trial, error and success: How dogs learn’    
Worksheet 6    Vocabulary: Word origins, Canine word list    
Worksheet 7    Grammar: Prepositions, More prepositions, Adverbs revision, Parts of speech    
Worksheet 8    Punctuation and spelling: Syllables, Capital letters, Spelling    

UNIT 3 THE GREAT OUTDOORS
Worksheet 9     Comprehension: Climate change    
Worksheet 10    Vocabulary: Windy words, Word origins    
Worksheet 11    Grammar: The sentence, The subject, The predicate, Nouns and nominalisation    
Worksheet 12    Punctuation and spelling: Paragraphs, The topic sentence, Ellipsis points, Brackets, Exclamations    

UNIT 4 THE MOVIES
Worksheet 13    Comprehension: ‘Monsters University’    
Worksheet 14    Vocabulary: Movies word list, Crossword, Idioms    
Worksheet 15    Grammar: Simple and compound sentences; Nouns, adjectives and verbs    
Worksheet 16    Punctuation and spelling: Apostrophes, Connectives, Affect/effect, Passed/past   

UNIT 5 HEALTHY FOOD: HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT
Worksheet 17    Comprehension: Synonyms    
Worksheet 18    Vocabulary: Food idioms, Cooking verbs    
Worksheet 19    Grammar: Adjectives, Amazing adjectives, Spelling numbers, Revision: adjectives    
Worksheet 20    Punctuation and spelling: Revision: Punctuation, Spelling, Bought/brought    

UNIT 6 JEWELS
Worksheet 21    Comprehension: ‘Pearls in Broome’, Crossword    
Worksheet 22    Vocabulary: Sparkling words, Colour words, Synonyms, Precious expressions    
Worksheet 23    Grammar: Tenses    
Worksheet 24    Punctuation and spelling: Revision: commas, Quotation marks, Silent letters    

UNIT 7 LET’S GET PHYSICAL
Worksheet 25    Comprehension: ‘7 days to make workouts fun’    
Worksheet 26    Vocabulary: Let’s get physical word list, Synonyms, Sport expressions/idioms    
Worksheet 27    Grammar: More adverbs, Prefixes    
Worksheet 28    Punctuation and spelling: Revision: Punctuation, Spelling rules for plural nouns    

UNIT 8 WHAT NEXT? THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY
Worksheet 29    Comprehension: The global village    
Worksheet 30    Vocabulary: New words for new times, Word origins, Crossword    
Worksheet 31    Grammar: Revision: Prepositions, Computer terms, Word origins: ‘techno–’, Dictionary definitions    
Worksheet 32    Punctuation and spelling: Alphabetical order, Commas and pronouns, Dashes, Revision: punctuation    

UNIT 9 CARS
Worksheet 33    Comprehension: ‘Blow to hoon blitz’, Puns    
Worksheet 34    Vocabulary: Scrambled words, Word origins: ‘anti–’ and ‘ante–’, Synonyms and antonyms, Alphabetical order    
Worksheet 35    Grammar: Personal pronouns, Subject and predicate, Revision: prepositions    
Worksheet 36    Punctuation and spelling: Revision: Quotation marks, Revision: Commas, Homophones    

UNIT 10 WILD ANIMALS
Worksheet 37    Comprehension: Gorillas and chimpanzees, Word origins    
Worksheet 38    Vocabulary: Animal words, Word puzzle, Prefixes and suffixes    
Worksheet 39    Grammar: Collective nouns, Animal verbs, Animal similes    
Worksheet 40    Punctuation and spelling, The apostrophe: possession and contractions, Revision: Punctuation, Jumbled words