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Discovery
The Legend of King Arthur
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MINI DICTIONARY Autumn is here! 4-5
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CULTURE SITE Happy Halloween! 8-9
A rhyme
Hurray for autumn! What beautiful colours! Autumn is here! We can play in the forest! Give a big cheer! Hello, I’m very happy because autumn is here and there are lots of beautiful colours in nature. Do you like autumn? In this issue of Ready, we’ll have an amazing adventure with our friends from Forest Farm. It’s autumn, on Forest Farm too! And you can learn about a famous English legend on the poster on page 8. Open your magazine and let’s go! Have a great day! Lynn
We can play in the leaves, throw them around, red, green and yellow, all over the ground. Let’s pick some white mushrooms for our mum, We can cook them for dinner! Yum, yum, yum!
Which colours can you find in the rhyme?
Contents 2 A rhyme Hurray for autumn! 4 Mini dictionary Autumn is here! 6 Fun and games! 8 Discovery The Legend of King Arthur 10 Story corner Autumn is great! 12 Culture site Happy Halloween! 14 Let’s play at Forest Farm! 16 Let’s have fun! Bewilderwood
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The sky is filling with grey clouds again, Where’s my blue umbrella? It’s going to rain! Let’s look around for something to eat. A bright orange pumpkin – what a treat!
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Mini dictionary
Autumn is here
Read the words aloud.
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umbrella
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boots
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dead leaf (pl. leaves)
mushroom
chestnut
pumpkin
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Fun and games! 1 Crossword.
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1 Charlotte is wearing autumn fashion. She’s wearing a red _ _ _ _ _ _ , a green _ _ _ _ _ and a _ _ _ . 2 Dylan has got a multi-coloured _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . He’s wearing _ _ _ _ _ and he’s walking in the _ _ _ _ . 3 Gracie is making _ _ _ _ _ _ _ soup, a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ omelette and some _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ for dessert. 4 In _ _ _ _ _ _ , there are lots of _ _ _ _ _ _ in the sky, and the _ _ _ _ _ lose their _ _ _ _ _ _ .
4 Chose and draw your favourite season. Autumn Winter Spring
Illustrator: Laura Deo
Summer
Answers on page 11.
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Discovery
The Legend of
King Arthur There are many myths and legends in Great Britain. King Arthur was a very special king who lived in medieval times.
Arthur lived in an enormous castle called Camelot, where there was a very big, round table. Arthur and his knights sat at this table to plan their battles. They were called “The knights of the round table�. Arthur had a very special sword called Excalibur. The sword was in a stone and people said that only a true king can remove the sword. Many people tried to take it, but no one could move it. When Arthur was very young, he needed to find a sword for his brother. He saw the sword in the stone and tried to take it. It moved easily for him and that is how Arthur became King of the Britons!
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Disney made a film about the story of King Arthur. What is the title? a b c
Camelot The Sword in the Stone Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table Answer on page 11.
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Story corner
Autumn is great! No, I’m a little bit sad.
Why are you sad, Gracie?
Because summer has ended.
Are you okay, Gracie? It’s autumn and we’re with our friends and Forest Farm. Charlie the cat talks to Gracie the goat.
But autumn is wonderful!
That’s right, Gracie!
Dylan the duck and Hattie the hen are very happy. The love autumn!
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Charlotte tries to comfort Gracie. Gracie cries!
Rain, clouds.... how awful!
Super! We can use the umbrella!
Robby the rabbit likes dancing in the rain with his umbrella.
Answers: Page 3: red, green, yellow, white, grey, blue, orange. Pages 5-6: 1 1 cloud, 2 chestnut, 3 pumpkin, 4 tree, 5 mushrooms, 6 scarf, 7 hat, 8 rain, 9 anorak; 2 dead leaves; 3 1 anorak, scarf, hat, 2 umbrella, boots, rain, 3 pumpkin, mushrooms, chestnuts, 4 autumn, clouds, tree, leaves; 4 own answer. Pages 8-9: b), The Sword in the Stone. Pages 12-13: Trick or treat. Pages 14: 1 1d, 2f, 3a, 4e, 5c, 6b; 2 1 summer has ended! 2 is wonderful! 3 dancing in the rain, 4 dead leaves, 5 in her basket, 6 Dylan.
Gracie stops crying. Thanks to her friends she understands that autumn is a lovely season, too.
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Dylan the duck is very happy. His pumpkin is wonderful!
You’re right, my friends! Autumn is... really great! Look, Gracie! Its’ a beautiful Halloween pumpkin! Charlotte the cow loves making pictures with dead leaves.
Gracie is still sad. Hattie shows her the basket full of mushrooms. No, but there are some wonderful mushrooms!
Dead leaves... how sad!
Super! We can make a leaf picture!
There are no butterflies!
Culture Corner
Happy Halloween! All over the world, people celebrate Halloween in many different ways. In a small town in the North of England, it is one of the most important events of the year.
With a population of around 12000, Hexham is a small, ancient town in Northumberland, in the north of England. It has a very special festival just before Halloween called “Spook Night”. It has a full programme of activities for all ages, starting at 11a.m. and finishing late at night. You can start the day by going to the market square and tasting some delicious Halloween sweets, like toffee apples and candy floss, the go to Hexham’s cinema to watch a spooky movie, like
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Nightmare before Christmas. There is a fairground with scary rides like the ghost train and the pirate ship, or you can compete in a fancy-dress competition and win a prize for your crazy costume! Later in the evening, when it’s dark, you can visit the ruins of Hexham Abbey – but watch out for ghosts!
What is the name of the game children play at Halloween? Use the letters in bold in the text to find out
Answer on page 11.
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Read the story and complete the following activities.
1 Here are the Forest Farm friends. Match.
1 Robby 2 Charlotte 3 Dylan 4 Hattie 5 Gracie 6 Charlie
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2 Tick the correct part of the sentence. 1 Gracie is crying because
Charlie loves autumn.
2 Dylan and Hattie think that autumn 3 Robby likes
singing in the rain.
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summer has ended.
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is very sad!
dancing in the rain. chestnuts.
in her basket.
dead leaves. in her backpack.
Robby celebrates Halloween with a pumpkin.
3 Make little snails with chestnuts. Materials • coloured modelling clay • chestnuts
Make the body of the snail with some modelling clay and use a chestnut for the shell.
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Answers on page 11
Illustrator: Laura Deo
Let’s play at Forest Farm!
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Welcome to Bewilderwood, an adventure park with a difference, where you can discover the magic and beauty of nature in this enchanted forest.
Bewilderwood is an enormous natural adventure park near Norfolk in the east of England. You can explore the fantastic tree houses, climb up the wooden climbing frames and fly back down on the exciting zip-wires, or take a slow, relaxing ride in one of the boats on the river. There’s also a lot of fantasy to enjoy. You can take part in the interactive story-telling, for example, or follow the story of the fantasy creatures: the Boggles
and the Twiggles! Look for Swampy, who is a sweet and funny creature who lives in the forest and travels everywhere by boat; Thornyclod is a curious forest spider who likes to wear boots or shoes; Mildred the Crocklebog is a very special type of crocodile who wears a crown on her head like a princess and carries a gold hand-bag! Whatever you do at Bewilderwood, it’s always great fun for all the family!
