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How PB3 and Robin help to save a life and a love! PB3 and his robot are excited to find themselves in a circus! Elephants and jugglers and an acrobat and a clown! They go with Sally to have tea in Coco the clown’s motorhome, visit the circus school and finally the big top. Little did they suspect that the excitement is just about to begin!
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PB3 and Coco the Clown by Jane Cadwallader Illustrated by Gustavo Mazali ELI Readers Founder and Series Editors Paola Accattoli, Grazia Ancillani, Daniele Garbuglia (Art Director)
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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.
and Coco the Clown
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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 Present simple Present progressive Verb + infinitive Infinitive of purpose There is / There are Prepositions of place and movement Possessive adjectives Descriptive adjectives Question words: Who? / What? / Why? / Where?
Jane Cadwallader PB3 and Coco the Clown
Jane Cadwallader PB3 and Coco the Clown
Vocabulary areas Family, time and meals, the body and face, clothes, colours
Jane Cadwallader Stage 2 A1
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t’s night. Sally is with her uncle Coco the clown in his circus motorhome. They are having dinner. Suddenly they hear a strange noise WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
What’s that! I don’t know!
2
What can it be? It’s round and grey. OH! It’s a SPACESHIP!
3
Sally and Coco run outside. A small ET and a robot are coming down the stairs of the spaceship.
Hello. My name is PB3 and this is my robot, Robin.
4
My name is Sally and this is my uncle, Coco the clown.
5
PB3 and Robin are very surprised. On Planet P3 they don’t have animals, or motorhomes or even many different colours (they only have black, grey, green and white).
Look at those funny houses!
TO E M O C
Those aren’t houses! They’re elephants!
Ha! Ha! This is a circus.
6
US C R
CI
Coco and Sally invite PB3 and Robin to have a cup of tea.
US
Do you like tea?
I don’t know. 7
Activity Pages 1 Put the sentences in order. Number the pictures.
1 circus. • They • go • to • a 2 They • Coco • meet • and • Sally. 3 falls. • Katya 4 PB3 • help. • and • Robin 5 says • Sally • thank • you. 1
________ ________ ________ ________ They ________ go to a circus.
2
________ ________ ________ ________ ________
3
________ ________
4
________ ________ ________ ________
5
________ ________ ________ ________
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2 Find the words. Fill the gaps in the song. elephant
juggler
acrobat late
clown town
circus
circus. (triangle) Come to the _____________ It’s right here in _____________. (circle and triangle) There’s Katya the _____________ (square) And Coco the _____________ (triangle and rectangle) Come to the _____________ (triangle) Jim the _____________ is great (circle) And you can ride on an _____________ (rectangle) Come on! Don’t be _____________ (square and circle) 3 Match. 1 Robin thinks the elephants are houses. 2 They have a cup of tea. 3 They go to the circus school. 4 They help Coco get dressed for the show. 5 Katya falls into the balloons.
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