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Jane Cadwallader

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Jane Cadwallader Uncle Jack and the Bakonzi Tree

Stage 3 A1.1
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Can / can’t
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My name is Jane and
I live in a beautiful Question words: what? / why? Can they save the life of King Kambogo? of the stories and plots.
Spanish city, Madrid. Prepositions of place You will learn something about the Nyungwe Uncle Jack and the Bakonzi Tree
I’m an English Forest in this exciting adventure where Uncle by Jane Cadwallader
author of children’s
books. I’ve always
To download the multimedia files Jack and the others fly off to Africa to look for Illustrated by Gustavo Mazali
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 ‘T
2 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 24 APRIL
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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.

Dear Un
cle Jack
,
I’m in S
t John’s
Hospita
I have a l.
terrible
stomach
-ache!
Please co
me and
see me.
Your fri
end.
King Kam
bogo

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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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 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. _______

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

f s e r e o t s
h r o k o o y e e e s r
i t d n s e s s

In the deep green fo__

r __
e __
s __
t
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.

Stop and Hello

Where are Was it
watch! Chimps!
you going? you?

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