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Granny Fixit is in the park listening to the birds. There are two children. They aren’t enjoying the park! They’re playing a video game! How can Granny Fixit distract the children? How can she show them that it’s fun to play in the park, too? Read the story and find out! In this reader you will find:
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Health and exercise | Time management | Sharing
Granny Fixit and the Video Game by Jane Cadwallader Illustrated by Gustavo Mazali ELI Readers Founder and Series Editors Paola Accattoli, Grazia Ancillani, Daniele Garbuglia (Art Director) Graphic Design Federico Borsella Production Manager Francesco Capitano © ELI 2022 P.O. Box 6 62019 Recanati (MC) Italy T +39 071750701 F +39 071977851 info@elionline.com www.elionline.com
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Typeset in 15,5 / 22 pt Monotype Plantin Schoolbook Printed in Italy by Tecnostampa - Pigini Group Printing Division Loreto - Trevi ERY144.01 ISBN 978-88-536-3496-2
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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.
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Jane Cadwallader Stage 1 below A1
Jane Cadwallader Granny Fixit and the Video Game
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!
Language Present simple action verbs Present continuous Can for ability and for permission Have got There is / are
Expressions: Please / Thank you / Hello / Goodbye / What a/an Let’s … Would you like to … I like + verb + ing Oh dear! Me too! See you later!
J. Cadwallader Granny Fixit and the Video Game
Vocabulary areas Colours, body and physical descriptions, sports and leisure
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2 It’s a beautiful morning! Granny Fixit is listening to
the birds but Eva and Dan are playing a game on their tablets.
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3 It’s a beautiful afternoon. Granny Fixit is enjoying
the sun but Eva and Dan are playing a game on their tablets … AGAIN!
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Oh dear!
Granny Fixit puts her hand in her small yellow bag. What’s in there?
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4 Eva and Dan look up. Oh! There’s a creature from
the game. It’s small, yellow and round. It’s got long thin arms and long thin legs, big eyes, glasses and a big red hat. What a funny thing!
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I’m Dan. What’s your name?
What a funny name! I’m Eva.
My name’s IT.
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Let’s go to the playground.
OK. Would you like to play?
Yes, please! Thank you! 8
Granny Fixit and the children go to the playground. The children play with IT. IT bounces, runs, jumps and climbs. Eva and Dan push and pull.
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6 Granny Fixit is sleeping. Oh, no! The small yellow
bag is open. Look! There are more small creatures from the game! One, two, three, four, five, six. They’re round and yellow. They’ve got long thin arms and long thin legs and big eyes. They’ve got orange, purple, black, blue and white, and blue hats.
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I’d like to play!
Me too!
Me too! 11
7 And there are MORE small creatures! Seven, eight,
nine, ten, eleven, twelve! They’ve got brown, yellow, grey, green and pink and green hats! And they all like to play! They run, jump, climb and bounce.
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Activity Pages 1 Find and write the names of the characters. Colour the hats.
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3 Find the words and write them in the poem.
play play play
jump
climb kick
run
Can we __________? Can we __________? Can we __________ today? Let’s c__________ and j__________, And k__________ and r__________, And let’s have lots of fun!
4 Match the sentence halves. Complete and colour the picture. 1 2 3 4
It’s It’s It’s It’s
got long thin got big got got a big red
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5 Act out the play.
Sustainable Development Goal 3 Good health and well-being Exercise is good for you!
Characters
What a beautiful day! I like this video game! I like this video game too! Oh dear! Narrator: Granny Fixit puts her hand in her small yellow bag. Oh! What’s your name? My name’s IT. My name’s Dan. My name’s Eva. Let’s go to the playground! Narrator: The children and IT play in the playground. Granny Fixit goes to sleep. 30
Can we play? Can we play? Can we play today? Let’s climb and jump. And kick and run. And let’s have lots of fun! Can we play a different game? Let’s play football! Let’s play basketball! This is fun! I like basketball! Can we play too? Yes, of course! Let’s play baseball! This is fun! I like baseball! Can we play too? Yes, of course! Come here! It’s time to go home! Ooooooooooooh! We don’t want to go home! We can play on our tablets this evening. Yes, we can play with you for half an hour. OK. Goodbye. See you later! Let’s play tomorrow! Yes, let’s play in the park tomorrow. Goodbye! Goodbyeeeeeeeee.
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6 Draw some small creatures doing your favourite sport and write.
My favourite sport is _______________. Here are _______________ small creatures playing _______________. They’ve got _______________ hats.
7 Do you like the story? Draw your face. = I love the story! = I like the story! = I quite like the story! = I don’t like the story! 32