Activity Book: Living things
Cambridge Primary English Grade 6 · Unit 4: Living things · Lesson 15 · Term 1 · Marshall Cavendish
Also known as: Unit 4 practice · Activity Book
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Lesson idea
Activity Book practice for Unit 4 on scavengers, relative clauses, each other, else, superlatives, collective nouns and word order.
Lesson vocabulary: scavenger: an animal that eats animals that are already dead · hyena: a scavenger found in Africa and Asia · orangutan: an endangered ape in Borneo
Key points
- Use who for people and that or which for animals and things.
- Else is used to talk about a different person or thing.
- When a new sentence refers to a collective noun, we use the plural pronoun they.
Lesson questions (19)
- What do scavengers eat?
Answer: Animals that are already dead - Which is a scavenger?
Answer: vulture - Complete: The bears ___ we saw in the zoo are brown bears.
Answer: that - Complete: Alex Smith, ___ wife is a vet, lives next door.
Answer: whose - Complete: Do you remember the time ___ we saw that huge lizard?
Answer: when - Complete: We read about the Sahara Desert, ___ people use camels.
Answer: where - Which animal travelled 40,000 km in three years?
Answer: Yoshi the loggerhead turtle - Why are orangutans endangered?
Answer: People are cutting down the forests where they live - The way an animal acts is its ___.
Answer: behaviour - Complete: The two kittens played happily with ___.
Answer: each other - Complete: She applied for the job but they gave it to ___.
Answer: someone else - My jacket isn't here. I must have left it ___.
Answer: somewhere else - Deserts cover about what part of the land on Earth?
Answer: One-third - The word sahara comes from the Arabic for ___.
Answer: deserts - ___ are the fastest cats.
Answer: Cheetahs - ___ are the largest mammals on land.
Answer: Elephants - Complete: The team feel sad. ___ lost the match.
Answer: They - Complete: There ___ a pile of dirty clothes on the floor.
Answer: was - Complete: His collection of stamps ___ very interesting.
Answer: is
About this lesson
“Activity Book: Living things” is from Cambridge Primary English Grade 6 (Unit 4: Living things) and has 19 questions with answers. Sample questions: “What do scavengers eat?” and “Which is a scavenger?”. Every question can be played in any Hessa Play game or activity.
How to use it in class
- Show the question on the board and let students think before the options appear.
- Split the class into two teams; every correct answer earns a point.
- Display it on the smart board, send it as homework by link, or play it solo or in two teams.
Questions about this lesson
When do we use who, that and which?
who is for people, and that or which is for animals and things.
What does else mean?
else means other or different, and it comes after words such as anyone and someone. Example: Anyone else? Is there anything else?
Which pronoun do we use for a collective noun?
When we mean a group such as the animals or the family, we use they in the next sentence. Example: The animals are hungry. They eat leaves.
Do students need an account to play this lesson?
No. The teacher shares the lesson link; the student types a first name and plays on a phone or computer, and the score reaches the teacher.
Which games suit this lesson?
You can play it in The Hunter, Complete the sentence, Match Up, Matching pairs and the other games and activities on Hessa Play.