The Magic Finger. A book contest.

THE MAGIC FINGER BOOK CONTEST

BY 1ยบESO AB

CONTEST RULES    

Read the book at home.

Work in groups.

Hand in the paper with the challenges on time.

The group who wins a challenge, will get a piece of the cake, which means that they will paint it with the colour of the group.  The group with more pieces will become the winner of the contest

GROUPS GROUP 1: Alejandro Gale, Ainhoa Trueba , Lucía Cruz , Borja Jiménez.

GROUP 2: Natalia Hernández, Marta García, Raquel Pérez, Marta Mejías GROUP 3: Paula Martín, Celia López, Paula Blázquez, Verónica Moreno GROUP 4: Jorge Camacho, J.Luis Sierra, Álvaro Gallego, Daniel Vadillo GROUP 5: Lucía González, Henar González, Claudia Burgos.

GROUP 6: María Muñoz, Claudia Sánchez, Delia Cruz

CHALLENGE 1: questions In groups, write five questions and answers about what happened in the first part of the story

CHALLENGE 2: vocabulary in context Write 10 sentences with new words you found in the first part of the story

CHALLENGE 3: a summary In groups, write a summary of what happened in the third part of the story.

CHALLENGE 4: description In two columns, describe the day for the Gregg’s family and for the ducks family

CHALLENGE 5: end of the story In groups, write what happened in the last part of the story.

CHALLENGE 6: moral & opinion.

What is the moral of this story? Did you enjoy it? Write your opinion

Challenge 1 In groups, write five questions and answers about what happened in the first part of the story

1 What is Gregg’s family hobby? When do they practise it?

Their hobby is hunting. They practise it on Saturday mornings.

2 What word did the girl spell?

The girl had to spell “cat”, but she said “kat”.

3 What happened to Mr Winter when the girl used her magic finger?

Whiskers started to grow in her face, and a big tail started to grow too.

4 What happened when Mr Gregg was crossing the yard?

When he was crossing the yard, he heard the call of a wild duck in the sky.

5 How many ducks do they shoot with their guns in the first hour of hunting?

They shoot ten birds with their guns in the first hour of hunting.

Group 6: María Muñoz, Delia Cruz and Claudia Sánchez.

CHALLENGE 2

Write 10 sentences with new words you found in the first part of the story

-

10 WORDS IN SENTENCES:

1. I cried to my boyfriend with anger.

2. I felt our love.

3. My daffodil grew a lot.

4. I read minds …

5. I like your laughter.

6. I put the magic finger into the wood.

7. The deer lives in a forest.

8. My cat has long whiskers.

9. My teacher has a huge nose.

10. In my yard there are many flowers.

GROUP 1 Lucía Cruz, Alejandro Gale, Borja Jiménez, Ainhoa Trueba

Challenge 3 In groups, write a summary of what happened in the third part of the story.

Summary When Mr Gregg wakes up in the morning, he notices that he doesn´t have arms, he has ducks wings. He is very small. Later, Mrs Gregg wakes up and looks at her husband. She is very small, and has ducks wings too. Philip and William go into the room and they start to fly. Some minutes later, the children fly out of the window. Mr and Mrs Gregg fly out with them. They are having fun. They see four enormous ducks going into their house. They are sad because they don’t have a place to live. Mr Gregg has an idea: They can build a nest to sleep. They start building the nest with sticks and leaves. When they finish, they go to get some food from their house.

Group 6: María Muñoz, Delia Cruz and Claudia Sánchez.

Challenge 3 Summary The Greggs`s family noticed that they had wings like arms and they could fly. When their children flew out of the window Mr and Ms Gregg went after them. When the family came back to their house, the ducks stole their house. Mrs Gregg cried, but Mr Gregg found one tree and thougt yah they could live there. All the family helped and finally finished their nest and Mrs an Mr Gregg liked it.

Group 5: Henar, Lucia and Claudia.

CHALLENGE 4

In two columns, describe the day for the Gregg’s family and for the ducks family

Gregg family

Ducks

They have wings.

They have arms.

They live in a nest.

They live in a house.

They fly.

They walk.

They have human

They have duck

body.

body.

They are tiny.

They are big.

1. The Gregg family has wings, but the ducks have their arms.

2. The Gregg family had to move to a nest, because the ducks occupied their house.

3. The Greggs felt free when they flew for their first time, later some ducks occupied their house, they felt very sad.

4. The Greggs were really tiny, they were easy to hunt by the ducks, because the ducks were as big as a human.

Lucía Cruz, Alejandro Gale, Borja Jiménez, Ainhoa Trueba GRUPO 1

CHALLENGE 5 In groups, write what happened in the last part of the story.

END OF STORY The ducks closed the Windows and the Gregg’s family saw that the dicks did. Them the Gregg’s family couldn’t come into the house to have lunch and so they went to eat to their apple tree. After that the girl called Philip, but she saw talking with a duck. At the night the Gregg’s family were in the nest and it started to rain. When the Gregg’s family woke up, they saw that the Duck’s family wanted to kill them. Mr Gregg promised the dicks they not to kill animals again. After that, the Gregg’s family went down to the tree and they turned into humans body. Then Mr Gregg broke the gungs, Mrs Gregg put some flowers in honor of the 16 ducks that Mr Gregg killed and the children gave food to the animals. When the girl arrived, the Gregg’s family told her everything and showed her their nest.

The magic finger shone again.

Group 5: Lucía, Henar y Claudia.

CHALLENGE 6

What is the moral of this story? Did you enjoy it? Write your opinion

TAKE CARE OF NATURE OR NATURE WON’T TAKE CARE OF YOU.

We thought that the book explains very well our moral and we think the girl’s magic finger and the transformations of the Greggs and the ducks are very funny.

Lucía Cruz, Alejandro Gale, Borja Jiménez, Ainhoa Trueba GRUPO 1

SOME ORIGAMI ABOUT THE CHARACTERS IN THE BOOK

CELEBRATING WITH THE CAKE WELL DONE !!