Uncle Jack and the Emperor Penguins (A1.1)

Here are the Emperor Penguins as happy as can be. They’re 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 / can’t Must / mustn’t Question words: what? / why? / who? Prepositions of place Comparative sentences Distributives: every, all + noun