Unit 5 Succeed in Cambridge Young Learner
exams with Picaro
The English Learning Adventure
Each Picaro unit is mapped to the Cambridge English: Young
www.picaroworld.com Learners English Exams (YLE). It builds familiarity and
con dence with the exam vocabulary, grammar structures
and format, helping children achieve their best possible
scores.
Picaro Topic 1
Objective
Understand personal information from a text, express their likes
and dislikes and use vocabulary related to activities and food.
Key language
Numbers - 1–10
Activities - I (don’t) like… singing reading books playing games
watching TV
Food - coconuts eggs meat milk lemons
Practice Read the Story
Match the word and the picture. Write the number Ask your child to look at the activity and focus on
next to the word. Focus on the pictures, say a word the pictures. Elicit words your child can tell you
and ask your child to point to the corresponding from the pictures. Read each sentence and ask your
picture and number of the �irst word. Ask your child to follow with their �ingers. Repeat the
child to write the number of the picture next to the process but this time ask child to read with you.
word. Do this with each picture and word.
Additional Activity: Read and tick
Draw and Colour
Check your child’s understanding of the text by
Instruct your child to draw their favourite activity doing this reading comprehension task. Ask them to
or food. When they have �inished, get your child to read through the activity again then tick the correct
tell you about their picture, for example, “What’s answers.
your favourite food?” or “What do you like?”.
Practice
Match the word and the picture. 2
Write the number next to the word. 1 3
coconut 9 5
9
ice-cream
milk 34
playing games
reading books
singing 67 8
swimming
tomatoes
watching TV
Draw and Colour
Read the Story
My name is Grace.
I am seven years old. I’ve got a sister and My favourite colour is
a brother. green and my favourite
animal is a cat.
I like playing games I don’t like milk I like tomatoes
and singing. but I don’t like eggs.
Additional Activity: Read and tick
Grace likes green. Yes No
No
Grace doesn’t like tomatoes. Yes No
Grace likes singing. Yes
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Picaro Levels
Picaro Level CEFR Cambridge YLE Recommended
Child Age
1 Level 1 Pre-A1 Pre-Starters
2 Level 2 Pre-A1 Starters 2-4
3 Level 3 Movers
4 Level 4 A1 Flyers 5-7
A2
8 - 10
11 - 12
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