Here are the Emperor Penguins as happy as can be. Theyre off to lay their eggs in a place far from the sea. They stay here all the winter as cold as cold can be. Until their babies hatch in a place far from the sea.
Tags
Adventure
Social Issues
Animal Story
In this Reader you will find
Games and language activities
An audio recording of the story and the song
A picture dictionary
Come on an Antarctic adventure! Some Emperor Penguins cannot get to the place where they go every year to lay their eggs. Will Uncle Jack be able to help them?
In this hilarious story you will learn something about the habits of the Emperor Penguins and follow Uncle Jack and the others in their race against time to help the penguins to the place where they lay their eggs.
Syllabus
Topics
Weather, food, physical description
Grammar and structures
Past simple regular and irregular forms
Verb infinitive
Verb ing
Adverbs
Can cant
Must mustnt
Question words what? why? who?
Prepositions of place
Comparative sentences
Distributives every, all noun
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