Uncle Jack in the Amazon Rainforest

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Uncle Jack in the Amazon Rainforest

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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Have you ever seen a sloth? Jim and his sisters meet one of these animals in this adventure in the Amazon rainforest.

Uncle Jack, Jim and his sisters and Dr Silver have an important mission! Can they team up with some Amazon Indians to save Slowly the sloth and his friends and help protect their habitat?

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My name is Jane and I live in a beautiful Spanish city, Madrid.

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ncle Jack was sitting in an armchair in his living room. In his hands was a letter from his daughter, Dr Silver. She was a biologist and she worked in the Amazon rainforest. Uncle Jack wasn’t happy.

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The letter from Dr Silver said, Dear dad, some people from the city are cutting down the forest. Some Amazon Indians are helping them. It’s terrible! ‘I must go and help my daughter,’ said Uncle Jack. ‘Two heads are better than one!’

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Uncle Jack put a bag with some sun cream, a sandwich and some mosquito repellent in the hot-air balloon.

Suddenly he saw Jim, Daisy and May. ‘What are you doing?’ asked Uncle Jack. ‘We’re coming too!’ said Jim. ‘Four heads are better than two!’ ‘Woof Woof ’, said Grumpy the dog. ‘Sorry Grumpy’, said Jim, ‘five heads are better than two!’

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The hot-air balloon went to the Amazon rainforest.

It was very hot and very green! ‘It’s beautiful Uncle Jack. And what a lot of animals!’ said Jim. ‘There’s Dr Silver,’ said Daisy. ‘Hello! Hello Dr Silver! It’s us!’ shouted May.

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Activity Pages 1 Who are the characters in the story?

Uncle 1 _________ Jack.

4 Kaba, the _________ of the Chief.

2 The _________ of Uncle Jack, Dr Silver.

5 The _________ from the city.

3 The _________ Indians.

6 _________ the sloth.

2 Choose the correct words to complete the sentences. Then, number the sentences in the order of the story. a b c d 28

Uncle Jack and the children went to the North Pole / Amazon rainforest to help Uncle Jack’s daughter / sister.

The Amazon Indians made a Monkey / Sloth Sanctuary.

The men from the city / forest were afraid and ran away.

They made a sloth ball / hamburger with some Amazon Indians.

3 Colour the outlines of the verbs that are in the poem and write them in the correct place. Check on page 7. move

sleep

stand

wake up

hang

jump

play

sit

eat

think

Slowly’s Poem

eat I’m a sloth and I ________ slowly ________ and ________ and climb slowly I’m a sloth. I do everything slowly That’s how I got my name.

I’m small and hairy with three toes Long arms and legs and a soft nose I ________ from a tree all day long My home is the Amazon rainforest.

I’m a sloth and I ________ slowly ________ and ________ and ________ slowly I’m a sloth. I do everything slowly That’s how I got my name … SLOWLY. 4 Find verbs in Activity 3 that rhyme with these words. play 1 day __________ 2 sheep __________ 3 lime __________

4 sand __________ 5 drink __________ 6 meat __________ 29