4 Our Senses

Unit 4 VOCABULARY 1 1 Listen and read. We use our eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin to learn about the world around us. smooth, rough, beautiful, ugly, hard, soft, dry, sticky, delicious, terrible, quiet, loud 2 Listen and say. smooth The door is smooth. rough The tree is rough. beautiful This bird is beautiful. ugly This bird is ugly. dry Why is it dry? sticky This is very sticky. hard This chair is hard. soft This chair is soft. terrible This food is terrible. delicious This ice cream is delicious! quiet Shhh! Be quiet! loud The music is too loud.

SONG 1 Listen. Read and sing. Our Senses How does the cake taste? It tastes sweet. How does a kitten feel? It feels soft. Let’s count our senses, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5! Listen. Look. Feel. Taste. Smell. It’s great to be alive! How does the drum sound? It sounds loud. How does a flower smell? It smells good. Let’s count our senses, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5! Listen. Look. Feel. Taste. Smell. It’s great to be alive! How does the garden look? It looks beautiful. How does a hug feel? It feels great! Let’s count our senses, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5! Listen. Look. Feel. Taste. Smell. It’s great to be alive!

GRAMMAR 1 Sense verbs The soup smells great. The music sounds terrible. The flowers look beautiful. The baby rabbit feels soft. How does the chicken taste? It tastes delicious.

VOCABULARY 2 1 Listen and say. sweet This honey is very sweet. salty The chips are salty. bitter Black coffee tastes bitter. sour Lemons are sour. spicy These peppers are very spicy. 2 Listen and stick. Work with a partner. Check your answers. OK—food number 1. That is spicy. Don’t eat it! It’s a pepper! And now number 2. Oooh that’s sour. That’s lemon I think. And number 3? Yum! My favorite. That’s very sweet. It’s strawberry ice cream! Right—number 4. Hmmm—these are salty! They’re potato chips! And the last one—number 5! Mmmm. I know what that is. It’s very bitter. It’s black coffee. GRAMMAR 2 was / were How is the ice cream? It’s delicious! How was the ice cream? It was delicious. More, please! How were the cookies? They were great. Can I have one more, please?

READING 1 Listen and read. AMAZING Animal Senses Many animals can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch, but they do it in a different way from humans. Imagine that you have to walk on your dinner to taste it! Well, a butterfly does. It tastes with its feet! People use the ends of their fingers to touch. Seals use their whiskers. Their sense of touch is amazing. They can feel fish through the water 180 meters (590 ft.) away. Spiders don’t have ears. They hear using hundreds of small hairs on their legs. We can smell delicious food in front of a restaurant. But we can’t smell food in a different town. Bears can! Bears have a fantastic sense of smell. They can smell things that are as far as 32 kilometers (20 mi.) away! Chameleons can see very well. Look at their eyes! One eye looks up, and the other eye looks down. They can see all around them.