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throw	catch	kite
a ball	a ball
	sport

tennis	badminton

sand

swim

sea

sun

shell

Let’s talk!

ʺ What colour is the boy’s camera?

ʺ Do you see the boy with the yellow and blue shorts? What did his mum give to him?

ʺ There are a lot of games here. Which game do you like?

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My street run	park
	tree

train

morning

afternoon evening

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bookshop

shop/store

day

fly a plane

bus

boat

drive a car

lorry/truck

stop

helicopter

go

ride a

motorbike

bike

Let’s talk!

ʺ Can you point to the car under the bridge?

ʺ What’s in front of the fruit shop?

ʺ What colour bag does the boy see?

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Some games

Can you find the words?

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Don’t worry if you don’t find them. The answers are on page 30!

3clean	beautiful	end	nice
sorry	new	good	small
again	big	angry	well
dirty	short	double
complete	hers	long
young	old	pardon

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Which number?

Can you show which number goes with which and write in the letters?

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Where is Monkey?

Choose from:
in front of	next to	behind	in
between	under	on
			1	between
2		3
4			5
6			7

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a det		alphabet n		answer n + v
about prep		an det		apartment n
add v		and conj		(UK flat)
afternoon n		angry adj		apple n
again adv		animal n		arm n
Alex n		Ann n		armchair n
alien n		Anna n		ask v	at prep of place
baby n		beach n		bird n	box n
badminton n		bean n		birthday n	boy n
bag n		beautiful adj		black adj	bread n
ball n		bed n		blue adj	breakfast n
balloon n		bedroom n		board n	brother n
banana n		behind prep		boat n	brown adj
baseball n		Ben n		body n	burger n
basketball n		between prep		book n	bus n
bath n		big adj		bookcase n	but conj
bathroom n		bike n		bookshop n	bye (-bye) excl
be v		Bill n		bounce v
cake n		sweet(s))		catch (e.g. a	child/children n
camera n		car n		ball) v	chips n (US
can v		carrot n		chair n	fries)
candy n (UK		cat n		chicken n	chocolate n
Starters A–Z
Word List
Grammatical key
adj	adjective	excl	exclamation	pron	pronoun
adv	adverb	int	interrogative	v	verb
conj	conjunction	n	noun
det	determiner	poss possessive
dis	discourse marker	prep preposition

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choose v	close v	come v	cow n
class n	closed adj	complete v	crocodile n
classroom n	clothes n	computer n	cross n + v
clean adj + v	coconut n	correct adj	cupboard n
clock n	colour n + v	cousin n

D

dad(dy) n	dinner n	don’t worry excl	dress n
Dan n	dirty adj	door n	drink n + v
day n	do v	double adj	drive v
desk n	dog n	draw v	duck n
dining room n	doll n	drawing n

E

ear n	elephant n	enjoy v	evening n
eat v	end n	eraser n (UK	example n
egg n	English adj + n	rubber)	eye n

F

face n	fishing n	food n	fries n (UK
family n	flat n (US	foot/feet n	chips)
father n	apartment)	football n (US	frog n
favourite adj	floor n	soccer)	from prep
find v	flower n	for prep	fruit n
fish (s + pl) n	fly v	friend n	funny adj

G

game n	glasses n	grandfather n	grey)
garden n	go v	grandma n	great adj + excl
get v	goat n	grandmother n	green adj
giraffe n	good adj	grandpa n	grey adj (US
girl n	goodbye excl	grape n	gray)
give v	Grace n	gray adj (UK	guitar n

H

hair n	he pron	him pron	home n + adv
hall n	head n	hippo n	horse n
hand n	helicopter n	his poss adj +	house n
handbag n	hello excl	pron	how int
happy adj	her poss adj +	hit v	how many int
hat n	pron	hobby n	how old int
have v	here adv	hockey n
have got v	hers pron	hold v

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I

I pron	in prep of place	in front of prep	its poss adj +
ice cream n	+ time	it pron	pron

J

jacket n	Jill n	jump v
jeans n	juice n

K

keyboard n	kick v	kitchen n	know v
(computer)	Kim n	kite n

L

lamp n	letter n (as in	living room n	a lot adv + pron
learn v	alphabet)	lizard n	a lot of det
leg n	like prep + v	long adj	lots adv + pron
lemon n	lime n	look v	lots of det
lemonade n	line n	look at v	love v
lesson n	listen v	lorry n (US	Lucy n
let’s v	live v	truck)	lunch n

M

make v	me pron	monkey n	mouth n
man/men n	me too dis	monster n	Mr title
mango n	meat n	morning n	Mrs title
many det	milk n	mother n	mum(my) n
mat n	mine pron	motorbike n	music n
May (as in	mirror n	mouse/mice n	my poss adj
girl’s name) n	Miss title	mouse
		(computer) n

N

name n	nice adj	no adv + det	now adv
new adj	Nick n	nose n	number n
next to prep	night n	not adv

O

of prep	old adj
oh dis	on prep of place
oh dear excl	one det + pron
OK adj + dis	onion n

open adj + v	ours pron
or conj
orange adj + n
our poss adj

P

page n

paint n + v

painting n

pardon int

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park n	pencil n	pick up v	playground n
part n	person/people	picture n	please dis
Pat n	n	pineapple n	point v
pea n	phone n + v	pink adj	potato n
pear n	photo n	plane n	purple adj
pen n	piano n	play v	put v

Q

question n

R

radio n	rice n	right dis	rubber n (US
read v	ride v	robot n	eraser)
really adv	right adj (as in	room n	ruler n
red adj	correct)		run v

S

sad adj	shirt n	snake n	start v
Sam n	shoe n	so dis	stop v
sand n	shop n (US	soccer n (UK	store n (UK
sausage n	store)	football)	shop)
say v	short adj	sock n	story n
school n	show v	sofa n	street n
sea n	sing v	some det	Sue n
see v	sister n	song n	sun n
See you! excl	sit v	sorry adj + int	supper n
sentence n	skirt n	spell v	sweet(s) n (US
she pron	sleep v	spider n	candy)
sheep (s + pl) n	small adj	sport n	swim v
shell n	smile n + v	stand v

T

table n	thank you dis	this det + pron	toy n
table tennis n	thanks dis	those det + pron	train n
tail n	that det + pron	throw v	tree n
take a photo/	the det	tick n + v	trousers n
picture v	their poss adj	tiger n	truck n (UK
talk v	theirs pron	to prep	lorry)
teacher n	them pron	today adv + n	try n + v
television/TV n	then dis	Tom n	T-shirt n
tell v	there adv	tomato n	TV/television n
tennis n	these det + pron	Tony n
test n + v	they pron	too adv

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