7.2 Daily Life, Work, Health & Leisure Vocabulary
Key Takeaways
- Food stretch items are tools, tastes and breakfast spreads: knife, fork, spoon, chopsticks, jam, honey, sugar, salt, pepper, butter, flour, biscuit (US cookie), cereal, yoghurt, pizza, snack, meal, smell and taste.
- Health Flyers-new language is bandage, chemist's, cut, fall over, medicine and x-ray; they join Movers hospital, doctor, ill and the earlier body words.
- Work pairs in Part 1: journalist versus photographer, pilot versus astronaut, fire fighter versus police officer, waiter versus mechanic, actor versus singer, designer versus artist, manager versus engineer.
- Sports and leisure add club language (join, member), snow words, music (concert, instrument, violin, drum, pop/rock, tune), and UK/US pairs backpack/rucksack, torch/flashlight, programme/program, tyre/tire.
- Time and number stretch includes a.m./p.m., midday/midnight, autumn/fall, the months, 21st–31st, 101–1,000, thousand, million, several, how long and ago.
7.2 Daily Life, Work, Health & Leisure Vocabulary
Quick Answer: Flyers-new daily-life words are the stretch on top of Starters and Movers. The papers do not ask children to recite a list. They ask them to tell jam from honey, a journalist from a photographer, a cooker from an oven, and autumn from spring, then spell the chosen word. Family adds husband, married, surname, wife. Health adds bandage, chemist's, cut, fall over, medicine, x-ray. Time adds a.m./p.m., midday, midnight, months, 21st–31st. British spelling is the classroom default; official US pairs such as biscuit/cookie and autumn/fall are both accepted.
Family, surname and who is married
Flyers-new family words are only four: husband, married, surname, wife. Children already know mum, dad, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, cousin, parents. The new work is adult family and the family name.
Speaking Part 1 asks for name, surname and age. Surname is the family name, not the first name. Listening Part 2 often spells a surname letter by letter; that spelling must be exact. Married describes a husband and wife. A Part 1 line may be: This is the name a woman uses after she is married — her husband has the same one. → surname is tempting, but the definition of wife is the woman, and husband is the man. Read to the end.
Use Flyers-new names in drills: Betty, David, Emma, Frank, George, Harry, Helen, Holly, Katy, Michael, Oliver, Richard, Robert, Sarah, Sophia, William. Unisex names from earlier lists still appear in Listening Part 1: Alex, Kim, Pat, Sam.
Food: tools, tastes, spreads and the meal
Flyers-new food and drink: biscuit (US cookie), butter, cereal, chopsticks, flour, fork, honey, jam, knife, meal, olives, pepper, piece, pizza, salt, smell, snack, spoon, strawberry, sugar, taste, yoghurt. Cookie is listed as the US pair of biscuit. Children still need Starters bread, breakfast, apple and Movers cheese, pasta, picnic, plate, hungry, thirsty.
Part 1 writers love this list because many items are sweet, on bread, or on a table.
Spreads, tools and meals
| Teaching definition | Answer | Nearby trap |
|---|---|---|
| This is made from fruit and you spread it on bread with a knife. | jam | Honey is sweet too, but it is not made from fruit. |
| Some people stir this into tea or coffee with a spoon to make it sweet. | sugar | Salt is not sweet. Honey is not usually stirred into tea on Flyers papers. |
| You put this on food with salt. It is not sweet. | pepper | Sugar is sweet. |
| This is white. You use it to make bread, pizza or a cake. | flour | Flower (Starters, in a garden) sounds the same in many classrooms; it is not food. |
| You eat this with milk in the morning, often from a bowl. | cereal | A biscuit (US cookie) is a snack, not usually a bowl of breakfast. |
| This is a small meal, perhaps a biscuit and a drink, not lunch or dinner. | snack | A meal is breakfast, lunch or dinner. |
| You cut food with this. Be careful; it is sharp. | knife | A fork holds food; a spoon holds soup or yoghurt. |
Chopsticks go with some meals (often noodles or rice from earlier lists), not with soup. Olives appear on a pizza or on a plate. A piece is a part: a piece of pizza, a piece of cake. Smell and taste are verbs as well as experiences, and they join Flyers-new grammar: That smells like strawberry. This pizza tastes like olives. Yoghurt needs the British spelling in classroom writing; copy the box in the exam.
Knife is also a spelling item (silent k). It belongs in this chapter's meaning work and again in 7.3.
Health: what you do after you fall over
Flyers-new health: bandage, chemist('s), cut, fall over, medicine, x-ray. Movers already gave hospital, doctor, nurse, ill, sick, headache, stomach-ache, temperature, tired. Starters gave cold, cough, dentist.
A typical Flyers chain: Holly falls over in the playground. She has a cut on her knee. Mum takes her to the chemist's for a bandage and medicine. If the doctor needs to look at a bone, there is an x-ray at the hospital.
- Fall over is the verb phrase (not just fall).
- Cut is the injury.
- Bandage goes on the cut.
- Medicine is what you take when you are ill; you often buy it at the chemist's.
- X-ray is the hospital photo of a bone, not a holiday photo.
Do not teach off-list pharmacy as the US pair of chemist's. It is not on the official lists. The testable shop is chemist's.
Home: kitchen, post, hair and garden
Flyers-new home words: brush, comb, cooker, cushion, diary, entrance, envelope, fridge, gate, key, letter (as in mail), oven, screen, shampoo, shelf, soap, stamp, step, swing, telephone.
Kitchen cluster: a cooker is where you cook on top (British classroom word); an oven is inside, for pizza or cake; a fridge keeps food cold. Do not swap cooker and oven in a definition that says inside, for bread and cakes.
Post cluster: you write a letter, put it in an envelope, stick on a stamp, and need a key for the door or the gate. A postcard (earlier list) has a picture on the front; a letter does not have to.
Hair and wash: a brush and a comb for hair; shampoo for hair; soap for hands. Telephone is the full word; phone is already on Starters. Screen is the front of a computer, a phone or a television. A cushion sits on a sofa (Starters sofa). A shelf holds books; a cupboard (Starters) is the bigger piece of furniture. A gate is outside; a door is of the house. Entrance is the way in (also on the world-around-us list). A step is one part of the stairs (Movers stair(s)). A swing is in the garden (also on sports and leisure). A diary is where you write what you did; a calendar (time list) shows dates and months.
Body and clothes: the extra parts you can name
Flyers-new body words are only four: elbow, finger, knee, toe. They sit on top of Starters arm, hand, leg, foot and Movers back, neck, shoulder, stomach. The elbow is the middle of the arm; the knee is the middle of the leg; fingers are on the hand; toes are on the foot. Fall over often hurts a knee. A glove goes on the hand; a sock (Starters) goes on the foot.
Flyers-new clothes: belt, bracelet, costume, crown, glove, necklace, pyjamas (US pajamas), pocket, ring, spot/spotted, stripe/striped, sunglasses, trainers, umbrella, uniform.
Clothes: jewellery, costume and pattern
- Jewellery: bracelet (arm), necklace (neck), ring (finger), crown (head, for a queen).
- Belt goes round the middle; pocket holds a key.
- Costume is for a play, a festival or a party; uniform is for school or a job (pilot, police officer, fire fighter); pyjamas are for bed. US pajamas is accepted.
- Spotted has spots; striped has stripes. Listening Part 5 and Speaking Part 1 use these with colours: the striped T-shirt, the spotted bag.
- Trainers are sports shoes; sunglasses are for sun; an umbrella is for rain.
Work: jobs that share a workplace but not a definition
Flyers-new work: actor, artist, astronaut, business, businessman/woman, designer, engineer, factory, fire fighter, job, journalist, manager, mechanic, meeting, news, newspaper, office, photographer, pilot, police officer, queen, rocket, singer, taxi, waiter. The same Handbook column also repeats airport, ambulance, fire engine and police station, because the job and the place travel together.
Part 1 will put two jobs in the box that both write, fly, help, or wear a uniform. The last half of the sentence is the mark.
| Pair | Distinguishing clue |
|---|---|
| pilot / astronaut | A pilot flies a passenger plane and often wears a uniform. An astronaut travels in a rocket and may go into space. |
| journalist / photographer | A journalist writes the news in a newspaper. A photographer takes photos for a newspaper or a magazine. |
| designer / artist | A designer plans clothes, cards or websites as a job. An artist paints or draws pictures. |
| fire fighter / police officer | A fire fighter uses a fire engine and puts out a fire. A police officer works at a police station. |
| waiter / mechanic | A waiter brings food in a restaurant. A mechanic repairs cars. |
| actor / singer | An actor is in a film or a play. A singer sings, often at a concert. |
| manager / engineer | A manager runs an office or a business and goes to a meeting. An engineer plans or builds machines, bridges or rockets. |
| queen | Not a job you apply for in the same way; a queen may wear a crown and live in a castle. |
Job is the useful general noun: What job does she do? News is the information; newspaper is the thing you read. Business is the company; businessman / businesswoman is the person. Taxi is both the car and, on this list, the work context of driving people.
Sports and leisure: clubs, snow, music and days out
This is the longest Flyers-new column. Do not memorise it A to Z. Cluster it.
Club language: join a club, be a member, get an invitation, win a prize, be the winner, play for a team, play a match, run a race.
Snow cluster: ski, sledge, snowboard, snowball, snowman on top of Movers snow. A sledge is for sitting and going down a hill; a snowboard is what you stand on; a snowball is for throwing; a snowman is what you build.
Music cluster: concert, stage, instrument, violin, drum, tune, pop music, rock music, plus work-list singer and earlier guitar, piano, band. A tune is a piece of music you can sing or play. A concert happens on a stage, often in a theatre or a stadium.
Screen and paper leisure: cartoon, channel, magazine, online, quiz, puzzle, chess, diary, programme (US program).
Days out and travel kit: festival, golf, volleyball, pyramid, tent, suitcase, backpack (UK rucksack), torch (US flashlight), tyre (US tire), umbrella, hotel.
Official UK/US pairs in this column: backpack/rucksack, flashlight/torch, programme/program, tyre/tire. Both accepted. Teach the British form for writing in a British-spelling classroom, and recognise the US form in Listening.
Collect is the verb: Holly collects stamps. Instrument is the umbrella for violin, drum, guitar, piano. Online describes homework, a quiz, or a magazine on a screen.
Time and numbers: the stretch that fills Listening Part 2
Flyers-new time: a.m., p.m., ago, autumn (US fall), calendar, century, date, early, future, hour, how long, late, later, midday, midnight, minute, month, quarter, spring, summer, winter, tomorrow, tonight, plus the months of the year. Days of the week and yesterday / o'clock / weekend are already Movers.
- a.m. is morning; p.m. is afternoon or evening. Midday is 12:00 in the day; midnight is 12:00 at night.
- Quarter is clock language: a quarter past three, a quarter to four.
- How long asks about duration: How long is the journey? Answer with hours and minutes.
- Ago looks back: William went to London two months ago. Tomorrow and tonight look forward.
- Early / late / later describe clock time and sequence.
- Date is the day in the month (the 23rd of May). A calendar shows dates. A century is a hundred years. Future is time that has not happened yet.
- Seasons: spring, summer, autumn/fall, winter. Autumn and fall are both official. Months: January to December — drill spelling, especially February, Wednesday is a day, September, October, November, December.
Flyers-new numbers: 101–1,000, 21st–31st, million, several, thousand. Hundred and 21–100 are Movers; 1–20 are Starters.
- Dates in the last third of the month need 21st–31st: Holly's birthday is on the 23rd of May.
- Thousand and million appear in Listening numbers and in world facts (a million people).
- Several means more than two, but not a huge exact number: several passengers on the platform.
Listening Part 2 is where time and number stretch earns marks: a form with a date, a time (8.30 a.m.), how long a tour lasts, or a price that is not on this list — stay inside the wordlist for productive answers. Speaking Part 4 asks What time do you get up on Saturday? and What are you going to do tomorrow?
Revision that matches the papers
Do not give children a 200-word alphabetic dump. Give them pairs, chains and paper jobs:
- Food pair of the week: jam/honey/sugar/salt.
- Job pair of the week: journalist/photographer.
- Health chain: fall over → cut → bandage → chemist's.
- Time drill: write today's date with the right 21st–31st ending if needed.
- One Speaking Part 4 answer using a Flyers-new leisure word: I joined a volleyball club. I am a member.
Starters and Movers words stay in every box. A definition of nurse or hospital can still appear beside x-ray. Flyers-new is the stretch, not a new language.
A Part 1 definition says: "You spread this on bread with a knife. It is made from fruit." The box includes jam, honey, sugar and butter. Which word is correct, and why?
Which Flyers-new job writes the news, and which job takes the photos?
Katy fell over in the playground and now her knee has a small cut. Where does her mum buy medicine and a bandage on the Flyers list?
Which time pair is Flyers-new, and both forms are accepted on the official lists?