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Expressions: Nice to meet you See you tomorrow Goodbye Can you help? I’ve got an idea! What a fantastic flower! It’s too hot!
What do you know about flowers? Where do they live? When can you see them? How many petals have they got? Can you eat them? How do they help plants make more plants? Find out about the beautiful, fantastic and funny world of flowers. You can also meet four Flower Fairies and read how two children try to find them a safe home.
The Flower Fairies
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The Flower Fairies by Jane Cadwallader Illustrated by Gustavo Mazali
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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.
Jane Cadwallader
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Jane Cadwallader The Flower Fairies
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Grammar Present simple and continuous This / these have got for possession
Can / can’t for ability Determiner and conjunctions
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Vocabulary Colours Numbers The world around us Parts of the body Transport Adjectives for description and feelings
J. Cadwallader The Flower Fairies
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!
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Jane Cadwallader
The Flower Fairies Illustrated by Gustavo Mazali
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My name’s Lucy.
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I’m Matt. Do you like flowers?
Flowers Quiz Look and read. What do you think? Put a tick (✓) or a cross (✗) in the box. 1□
All flowers have 7 petals.
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Some flowers eat insects.
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You can see flowers at night.
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You can eat flowers.
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Flowers can grow in water.
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Flowers Quiz Answers Read and check your answers to the quiz on page 2 and 3. 1 □ Some flowers have five petals, some have seven petals and some have lots of petals!
2 □ These flowers eat insects.
3 □ You can see these flowers at night.
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4 □ You can eat these flowers.
And these!
5 □ These flowers grow in water.
These flowers grow under the sea!
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Forest Flowers 3
These are forest flowers.
a Bluebells
They are blue. They’ve got six petals.
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b Snowdrops
They are white. They’ve got six petals.
c Violets d Primroses
They are yellow. They’ve got five petals.
They are purple. They’ve got five petals. 7
e Wood anemones
They are white. They’ve got six or seven petals.
f Forget-me-nots
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They are blue. They’ve got five petals.
g Celandines
Find the flower!
They are yellow. They’ve got eight to twelve petals.
Look at and read pages 6-9. Write the letter. Write for a friend. 1 They are white. They’ve got six petals. 2 They’ve got five petals. They’re blue. 3 _____________________________________________ 4 _____________________________________________
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Chapter 1
One day Matt and Lucy see a fairy!
Hello. I’m Bluebell. Can you help?
Bluebell’s got three friends. I’m Celandine.
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My name’s Snowdrop and this is Violet.
Nice to meet you.
They see some men. We can’t live here!
Lucy and Matt pick up the flower fairies. I’ve got an idea!
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Lucy and Matt take the fairies to a park. They go past some shops.
This is a good home for you!
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We like the tree! Oh! I like the water.
I like the sun!
It’s evening.. Goodbye!
See you tomorrow!
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