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An action story about Granny Fixit, a sad pirate and a crowd of multi-coloured parrots. When Jill and Ahmed find themselves by magic on a pirate ship they meet sad Pirate Bill. He has no pirate hat, treasure or parrot! But with Granny Fixit around no one stays sad for long!
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Eli Design Department Sergio Elisei Production Manager Francesco Capitano Typeset in 15,5 / 22 pt Monotype Plantin Schoolbook © New edition 2021 First edition 2009 P.O. Box 6 - 62019 Recanati MC - Italy T +39 071750701 - F +39 071977851 info@elionline.com - www.elionline.com Printed in Italy by Tecnostampa Recanati ERY104.10 ISBN 978-88-536-3113-8
Illustrated by Gustavo Mazali
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Granny Fixit and the Pirate by Jane Cadwallader Illustrated by Gustavo Mazali
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My name is Gustavo. I live in a very big city, Buenos Aires. I have been drawing all my life, ever since I was a child as I didn’t have a TV. I enjoy most of all drawing comic strips and picturing myself and my kids in the illustrations that I create.
Jane Cadwallader
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Stage 1 below A1
My name is Jane and I live in a beautiful Spanish city, Madrid. I’m an English author of children’s books. I’ve always loved creating stories and songs for children. The best ideas come to me while… I’m jogging!
Grammar and structures Singular and plural nouns with ‘s’ Possessive form (’s) Present simple (positive, negative, interrogative forms) Have got for possession Can/Can’t for ability Let’s
Jane Cadwallader Granny Fixit and the Pirate
J. Cadwallader Granny Fixit and the Pirate
Vocabulary areas Animals, Furniture, Numbers, Colours
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ill and Ahmed are in class. The teacher, Mr Robinson, is asking the children to write a story about an adventure. They can write the story with a friend.
Would you like to work with me?
O.K.
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Ahmed and Jill are walking to the library.
LIBR ARY What can we write about?
Let’s look for adventure books.
Who’s walking behind the children? Oh! It’s Granny Fixit! 4
The woman is pointing to the adventure books. There’s Granny Fixit. She puts her hand in her small yellow bag. What’s in there? Oh, it’s a big yellow adventure book! She puts the book in the bookcase.
The adventure books are over there.
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The children open the big yellow adventure book and… Oh! The sea!! And a pirate boat!! And a PIRATE!
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Activity Pages 1 Label the pictures. Cross out the pictures that aren’t in the story. parrot
box island
ball
hat bag
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book
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2 Find the words. Fill the gaps in the song.
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parrots . Look at the __________ __________ and blue. Grey and __________ . Green ones too! __________ __________ everywhere. One on the __________ . One on the __________ .
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3 Circle the correct word. 1 2 3 4 5
The adventure book is blue / yellow. The pirate is big / small. The pirate wants a parrot / cat. Granny Fixit looks for the parrots / treasure. The pirate’s name is Ben / Bill. 29