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THE WRONG SHOES

Antoinette Moses & Alexander Gordon Smith

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THE WRONG SHOES

Antoinette Moses & Alexander Gordon Smith

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Moses, Antoinette

The wrong shoes : standfor graded readers : level 2 / Antoinette Moses & Alexander Gordon Smith ; ilustração Aluísio C. Santos. -- 1. ed. -São Paulo : FTD, 2018.

ISBN 978-85-96-01497-7 (aluno)

ISBN 978-85-96-01498-4 (professor)

1. Literatura infantojuvenil em inglês

I. Smith, Alexander Gordon. II. Santos, Aluísio C. III. Título.

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Produção

THE WRONG SHOES

Alexander Gordon Smith is the author of eleven novels –including the Escape From Furnace series (Fuga de Furnace in Brazil ), loved by millions of readers worldwide. His other books include The Inventors, The Fury, and The Devil’s Engine series. He is passionate about the benefits that reading and writing bring to people of all ages, and runs creative writing talks and workshops across the world. He lives in Norwich, England, with his wife and his daughters.

Antoinette Moses was born in London and now lives in Norwich. She writes plays and fiction, and has published many books including a guide to Athens, Greece, a cookery book, and a book of poems. She has also written over twenty award-winning books of short fiction for English language learners. Antoinette teaches creative writing at the University of East Anglia in England, where she also runs the Festival of Literature for Young People.

BEFORE READING

Match the words with the pictures. 1 2

Look at the pictures in the book. Check what you think the story will include.

1. a soccer match P

2. a vacation at the beach

3. some jewelry P

4. a dangerous dog

5. some old shoes P

1. laces

2. a locket

3. a heart

4. kick

5. a snake

6. an old car

7. an old man P

8. a restaurant

9. a school P

10. a black cat

6. a goal

7. a red card

Chapter 1

It’s today, Tuesday! The first school soccer game!

Old Shoes Break

I’m on the team for the first time, and so is Marco, my best friend. It’s a beautiful sunny day in early fall, and all the school is watching. Everybody is cheering. It feels great.

Marco is next to me. “Great!” he says and laughs. “This is wonderful.”

Coach starts the game. I watch the ball; it comes towards me.

“Marco, Marco! Here!” I say. I kick it to Marco and he runs up the field and passes it back to me.

“Raffa!” he shouts.

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I pass it back to him again and he is running, running. There is a big boy in front of him, but Marco looks left and then runs past him on the right. He’s running towards the goal. He kicks the ball and then...

“Oh no!” I say.

Marco’s on the ground. I run up to him.

“Are you OK?” I ask.

“No, I’m not,” he says. “It’s these shoes. They’re old, and broken. They’re my brother’s old shoes.”

Coach runs up to Marco. “My shoes are broken,” Marco says. “I can’t play.”

Marco leaves the field, his head down. Coach starts the game again and another boy, Paulo, comes on. Marco just watches. Now I have the ball and I pass it to Paulo, but Paulo isn’t ready for it. He loses the ball and the other team gets a goal. I like Paulo a lot, but he isn’t very good at soccer.

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We lose the game 3-2. Marco is waiting for me and we walk home. There’s an old bottle in the street, and Marco kicks it along unhappily.

“Let’s go to my house,” I say.

“Why?”

Marco asks.

“We can play soccer in the backyard,” I tell him.

“I can’t play,” Marco says. “I don’t have any soccer shoes and my parents don’t have any money.

I can’t have new shoes.”

“I have some old shoes,” I say. “You can borrow those.”

“I don’t want your old shoes,” Marco says. “Old shoes just break.”

Then he laughs. “Sorry, Raffa,” he says. “It’s just a school game, isn’t it? It’s not the big game.”

In the big game our school plays another school. It’s a very important game. People talk about it for weeks before – and after.

We walk home and laugh and talk. We always talk a lot when we walk home.

“OK,” I say. “Manchester City or Chelsea?”

“Chelsea,” says Marco. “That’s easy.”

“Barcelona or Real Madrid?” he asks me. I think. They are both good teams. That’s difficult.

“Where are we, Raffa?” Marco says. “I don’t know this street.”

“I think it’s behind our street,” I say. It’s a small street with old houses.

“Look, Raffa” says Marco. He is standing in front of an old shop. The windows are very dirty, but there are lots of interesting things in there.

“That’s amazing,” says Marco.

“What’s amazing?” I ask him.

“Look at that locket. Mom has her birthday next week. I don’t have a gift for her and she loves jewelry. I want that locket.”

Chapter 2

I look at Marco and I shake my head.

“It’s very beautiful,” I say. “But you don’t have any money.”

The Right Shoes The Right Shoes

But Marco goes in, so I follow him. An old man comes out of the back of the shop. “Good afternoon, young man,” he says. “How can I help you?”

“How much is the locket in the window?” asks Marco.

“Ah, the locket,” says the old man. “It’s very old and it’s expensive.”

“I don’t have any money,” Marco says.

We look at the things in the shop. It’s full of beautiful things, but they are all expensive. The old man smiles at us.

“Why do you want the locket?” he asks Marco.

“It’s my mother’s birthday next week,” says Marco.

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“Mothers are very important,” says the old man. He looks at us. “This shop is very dirty and I’m tired. Can you clean my shop? Then we can talk about the locket.”

Marco nods his head and we both smile.

“Yes,” we say, “we can clean your shop. It is very dirty.”

I clean the shop windows and Marco cleans the shelves. We work hard and soon we are very dirty, but the shop is getting clean. Marco is working on a high shelf and the dirt falls on my head.

“Sorry,” says Marco, and we both laugh. He goes back to the shelf and then he stops suddenly.

“Oh,” he says. “Look, Raffa!”

“What is it?” I ask.

“Look at these soccer shoes!” Marco says.

“Put them back,” I say. “They are too expensive.”

“But they’re new and they’re a seven,” Marco says.

“I’m a seven. They are the right shoes for me.”

The old man is watching us.

“Please put them back,” I say.

Marco puts the shoes back on the shelf, but he is angry now. He wants the shoes. We work very hard. It’s six o’clock and the shop is clean.

“Thank you,” the old man says. “Good work.”

“That’s OK,” we tell the old man.

“And do you want the locket?” he asks. The locket is in his hand. It is really beautiful.

Marco looks at the locket. Then he shakes his head. He looks up at the soccer shoes on the shelf.

“No,” Marco says. “I don’t want the locket now. I want the soccer shoes.”

“Why?” the man asks. He is smiling.

“I want to play in the big game,” says Marco. “I want to be the best player.”

“Is that what is in your heart?” the old man asks. “Yes,” says Marco. “I want to be the best.”

The old man’s eyes look strange.

“Good,” he says. “You want the soccer shoes. And the soccer shoes want you, I can tell. They can see what is in your heart.”

I don’t know what he means. He gives Marco the shoes and Marco is very happy.

“It’s only six o’clock,” Marco says to me. “Now let’s go to your backyard and play soccer.”

Chapter 3 Pass the Ball! Pass the Ball!

It’s Wednesday afternoon and we have soccer training at school. I love soccer training. Coach is really good.

I see Marco, and he’s wearing his new soccer shoes. He looks very happy.

“Hi, Marco,” I say. “How are the new shoes?”

“They’re great, Raffa,” says Marco. “Coach says I can play on the team.”

“That’s wonderful,” I say. I’m really happy. Now Marco and I are both on the team again.

“Just watch me score goals now,” says Marco. I laugh. “I can score goals, too,” I say. And it is true. I play soccer really well. I am better than Marco, but I don’t say that. Marco’s my best friend.

First, we listen to Coach.

THE WRONG SHOES

Marco loves playing soccer, but his family is poor, and he cannot afford the new soccer shoes he needs. So when he sees the perfect pair in a small shop he really wants them.

How far will Marco go to get his new shoes? And what will the shoes do to Marco?

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