UncleJack Bakonzi and the tree

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Jane Cadwallader

Uncle Jack and the Bakonzi Tree A nail biting adventure in the Rwandan rainforest with Uncle Jack, Jim, Daisy and May (and of course Grumpy the dog!).

Can they save the life of King Kambogo?

You will learn something about the Nyungwe Forest in this exciting adventure where Uncle Jack and the others fly off to Africa to look for a cure for King Kambogo. They don’t realise but there are some bad men who don’t want them to find the cure!

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Jane Cadwallader

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Young ELI Readers

100 headwords

with Audio CD

Uncle Jack and the Bakonzi Tree

by Jane Cadwallader Illustrated by Gustavo Mazali

Production Manager Francesco Capitano

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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.

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UNCLE JACK AND THE BAKONZI TREE

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 Past simple regular and irregular forms Verb + infinitive Verb + -ing Adverbs Can / can’t Must / mustn’t Question words: what? / why?

Prepositions of place

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JANE CADWALLADER

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and the Bakonzi Tree

Printed in Italy by Tecnostampa Recanati - ERY301.01 ISBN 978-88-536-0425-5

Illustrated by Gustavo Mazali

To the real Kambogo and Winnie.

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SYLLABUS

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Jane Cadwallader

Uncle Jack and the Bakonzi Tree Illustrated by Gustavo Mazali

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here’s a picture of my friend King Kambogo and Nyungwe Forest.

Let’s go and listen to him!’ said Uncle Jack.

THURSDAY

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FRIDAY King Kambogo told the people about Nyungwe Forest and the animals that live there.

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Then he told them about some bad men who wanted to cut down the forest to grow tea. Most of the people said, ‘We must help the forest!’ But there were two bad men listening to King Kambogo.

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One of them said, ‘We must stop King Kambogo!’

The other said, ‘Let’s give him a stomach-ache with this medicine, then he can’t tell people about Nyungwe Forest and we can cut down the forest to grow tea!’

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The next week Uncle Jack got a letter. It was from King Kambogo. ‘I must go and see King Kambogo in hospital!’ said Uncle Jack.

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That afternoon Uncle Jack went to visit King Kambogo. King Kambogo wasn’t well! ‘I feel terrible!’ he said. ‘Some people from the television are coming to talk to me about Nyungwe Forest but I can’t talk to them. I’m too weak.’

The bad men were behind the curtain. ‘Ha Ha,’ they thought, ‘our plan is working!’

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‘I want you to go to Nyungwe Forest and bring me some bark from the Umusurirabakonzi tree.

I need this to get well,’ said King Kambogo. Uncle Jack listened. The two bad men listened too.

‘We must find this tree before Uncle Jack,’ the bad men said very quietly, ‘and stop Uncle Jack bringing the bark to King Kambogo.’

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Uncle Jack put a map, some cheese sandwiches, a pineapple and some tea into a basket. Of course the children wanted to go with him! Grumpy the dog didn’t want to go ... but he had to help Uncle Jack with the children!

Uncle Jack said, ‘We are going to Africa. We must look for a Umusurirabakonzi tree.’

‘A WHAT?’ asked Daisy.

‘Let’s just call it a Bakonzi tree,’ said May. ‘O.K.’ said Uncle Jack laughing.

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‘We can find the Bakonzi tree in Nyungwe Forest and Nyungwe Forest is in Rwanda and Rwanda is in Africa,’ said Uncle Jack.

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‘Oh,’ said Jim, ‘it’s a chimpanzee!’

‘And baby chimpanzees!’ said May. ‘Aren’t they beautiful?’

‘Hrrrrrrmph!’ said Grumpy. His idea was that only birds lived in trees. What were these chimpanzees doing in the tree? Silly chimpanzees! thought Grumpy.

‘Come on. Let’s go!’ said Uncle Jack.

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They saw a woman. ‘Hello,’ said Daisy, ‘what’s your name?’

‘My name is Winnie. Where are you going?’ asked the woman.

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‘We are looking for a Umusurirabakonzi tree.

King Kambogo is not well and he needs some bark from this tree. Can you help us?’ asked Uncle Jack.

‘Of course !’ said Winnie. ‘Come with me.’

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The children had a good time in the forest! Daisy and May jumped from tree to tree (with Grumpy trying to stop them). Jim took photos of the spiders and snakes and ants and monkeys.

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In the deep green forest What can you see?

Ants and snakes and spiders

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And monkeys up a tree!

In the deep green forest What can you do?

Take photos. Climb up And swing from trees too!

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4 After two days walking in the forest Winnie

suddenly pointed to a tree. ‘There it is!’ she said.

But there were two men near the tree. It was the two bad men. They had a big saw.

‘Oh no!’ said Jim. ‘Those men are going to cut down our Bakonzi tree!’

Jim started to run but Uncle Jack said, ‘Stop and watch!’ Uncle Jack was smiling. Winnie was smiling too.

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The men started to cut down the tree but suddenly they stopped. ‘UGH! WHAT’S THAT TERRIBLE SMELL? Was it you?’ asked one man.

‘No it wasn’t me!’ said the other man, ‘It must be you! Oh no! IT’S THE TREE! Run!’

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The men ran down the road. Winnie laughed ‘Ha! Ha! Umusurirabakonzi means “the smelly tree” because it smells very bad when it is cut.’

The children laughed too.

Uncle Jack cut a little bark, very carefully, from the tree.

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Uncle Jack, Winnie and the children went back to the tree with the balloon. They were tired and Grumpy was very grumpy! He didn’t want Daisy and May to look at the flowers or talk to the animals! Winnie watched Grumpy.

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‘There’s the tree with the chimpanzees!’ said Daisy.

‘Hello Chimps!’ said May. ‘And there’s our balloon,’ said Jim.

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Suddenly the two bad men jumped out from behind a tree. ‘Give me the bark. You mustn’t give it to King Kambogo!’ said one of the men. Uncle Jack put the bark behind his back.

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The chimpanzees threw fruit at one of the men.

Winnie put her water jug on the head of the other man. ‘Hurry. Go up the tree quickly!’ shouted Uncle Jack to the children.

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Uncle Jack went up the tree with Grumpy.

Winnie gave Grumpy a leaf. ‘Goodbye Winnie. Thank you very much!’ said Uncle Jack. May and Daisy gave the baby chimpanzees a hug. ‘Thank you,’ they said.

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‘GOODBYE!’ shouted everyone, ‘Goodbye Winnie.

Goodbye chimpanzees!’ and off went Uncle Jack’s balloon. The bad men were very angry. They jumped up and down!

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Uncle Jack and the children went to see King Kambogo. Grumpy went too. King Kambogo was very happy. He put the bark of the Bakonzi tree in some water and drank a lot! Now he felt better. Now he could talk on the television and save Nyungwe Forest!

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‘Thank you! Thank you very much!’ said King Kambogo.

‘One question,’ said Uncle Jack. ‘Winnie gave this leaf to Grumpy. What is it for?’ King Kambogo looked at the leaf and started to smile. ‘That is for headaches … and to stop you being grumpy!’

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Karaoke

5 music

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Activity Pages 1 Look at the picture from the story. Read the sentences about the story. Write before if the action was before what happens in the picture. Write after if the action was after.

after 1 Uncle Jack took some bark from the tree. _______ before 2 They met Winnie. _______ 3 The chimpanzees threw fruit at the bad men. _______

4 Uncle Jack and the children went to Rwanda. _______

5 Jim took photos of some forest animals. _______ 6 The bad men ran away. _______ 7 Winnie showed Uncle Jack the way to the Umusurirabakonzi tree. _______ 8 Uncle Jack, the children and Grumpy went to see King Kambogo in hospital. _______ 28

2 Choose letters from each tree in order and complete the words of the song. f

s r o h i t

e r k o o d n

e o y e e s e

t s e s r s s

r __ e __ s __ t In the deep green fo__ What can you see?

Ants and __ __a k__ __ and s p__ __ __ __s And m __n__e__ __ up a tree!

In the deep green __ __r__ __t What can you do?

Take p__ __t__ __ . Climb up And swing from __ __ __ __s too!

3 Match the speech bubble to the person.

Where are you going?

Stop and watch!

Was it you?

Hello Chimps!

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4 Cross out letters to find verbs in the past.

Write them beside the verbs in the present.

Circle the ants with irregular verbs.

esawle

beran

saw see ________

put ________

want ________

run ________

puter

megave

alistenedw

give ________

watchedel watch ________

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hiwantedfg

listen ________

lejumpedme jump ________

fetooked

esaidet

take ________

say ________

5 Use the regular verbs in activity 4 to complete the sentences in the past. watched the television.

1 Yesterday Daisy ___________ 2 Grumpy ___________ onto the sofa. “Get off the sofa!� said Uncle Jack.

3 May talked and Uncle Jack ___________ .

4 Jim ___________ a new camera.

5 Grumpy opened one eye and ___________ everyone.

6 Write the sentences.

1 ImustgoandseeKingKambogo.

I must go and see King Kambogo. ______________________________________________ 2 WemustfindthetreebeforeUncleJack. ______________________________________________

3 Theywantedtocutdowntheforest. ______________________________________________

4 Themenstartedtocutdownthetree. ______________________________________________ 31

7 Imagine and draw a tree that looks or smells special. Invent a name and write about it.

This is the ___________________ tree. It ___________ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________

8 Do you like the story?

Draw your face and choose a sentence to write.

I love it.

I like it.

I quite like it.

I don’t like it very much.

I don’t like it at all.

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