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Key Words
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Here is o girl who lives on o fqrm. She

is Pom, ond she lives on this big form

It

wflth her mother ond fother" Pom likes

tc trive here.

She wqnts to help her fother with the

form work this ofternoon. She tokes the

hruo big horses to wqter. Pom is on one
of them. Her dog is with her.

Pom con do other work. She con look

ofter the pigs or help to milk the cows.

She likes to work on the form ofter school.

Peter ond Jone go to school with Pom.
Pom sits with Jone in school. Pom likes

Joile, ond Jone likes Pom. Jone ond
Peter ore soon going to the form for teo.

Th€il, one ofternoon, Pom will go to

Jone's house for teo.

new words

Pom lives mother fother



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mforiHlmke,-hroeonuodsreep. oJtmhonegecivhiseildsgroepinentgeortotsothemooeveicnosokemthsee.
She tolks to the brother
the form. ond sister obout

teo"l,"wsihlletoskoeyyso. u"rtoknseoewthyeouhorriskees ofter
best." them

"Yes," soys peter, "r rike the horses best

on your form, ond then I like the pigs.,,

"l like your cows best," soys Jone. ,,1

wont to see the mon milk them.,,

"Hove o good teo," soys pom. ,,Eot

some more coke."

As they eot they con see out of the
window. They look of the
sun on the hill.
"You must like to live
form," soys Jone. here on your

"Yes, I like to live here," soys pom.

new words best your

The three children go to see the horses.

AII three of them like horses. "Here they

ofe,) soys Pom. "This is where they live."

"The big one is best," soys Peter. " Let
me get up on him." The others help Peter

up. "Thonk yol)," he soys, "l likg it up

here,"

Jone hos some opples in o bog. She
tokes out three of them . " Con we give

them opples ?" she osks.

"Yes," soys Pom, "opples ore good for

them."

Pom tolks obout the horses. "They like

me," she soys. " l moke them work, but

they like their work."

"Your horses like their opples," soys
Jone. "Look, they wont some more."

The horses eot more opples. The three
children pot the horses ond tolk to them.

Pom soys, " Now we will look of the

pigs."

new words

three their



"This is where the pigs live," soys Pom.

"There ore some bobY ones."

., Pom's fother is with the Pigs. H e is

going to give them something to eot.

" Pigs like to eot," soYS Pom's fother.

" Look of the bobY Pigs," soys Jone.

"l like the boby ones."

,,YeS,,, soys Peter, "they ore so little ond
the others so big."

new word

"See how your boby pigs Iike their

mother," soys Jone to Pom.

"Yes," soys Pom, "they know who

looks ofter them."

"The cows ore going by," s"olyshePlopmt'os
three children.
fother to the

milk them. I hove to go J'to\,/."

"Con we see some more of the form ?"

osks Peter.

"Yes," says Pam, "come on then, let us
go for a walk." The three children walk

rou,. nd the farm where Pam lives.

"We like going round your farm like
this," says Peter to Pam.

They come to the water. Peter wants
to look at the fish. He gives them some­
thing to eat.

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"I can see some big fish and their
baby ones," he says. "They are going
round and round."

Pam and Jane get some flowers. Jane
looks up. "I can see your father by the
farm-house," she says, "and there are
the men at work."

"What is the time?" asks Peter. "It
must soon be time to go home."

"I can see a car going to the farm­
house," says Jane. "It is our Dad's car.
He and Mum have come for us. It is
time to go."

new words round time

Peter's ond Jone's mother ond fother
hove come for their children. They hove

cpme in their cor. Pom's fother tolks to

Jofie's fother, ond her mother comes out
of the house with some eggs.

"lVhot big eggs !" soys Jone. "They

must be the best."

"The eggs ore for yo u," soys Pom's
mother to Jone's mother.

"T honk yo ui' soys Jone's mother. " lt

is good of you. We oll like eggs."

The three children tolk. "Thonk you

for o good tim ei' soys Peter. "We liked

going round your form."

"The boby pigs ore sweet:' soys Jone.

"Come ond see them ogoin soon,"

soys Pom.

"You must come to our house," soys

Jone's mother to Pom. "We ore going

owoy soon to the seo, but you must come

to see us ofter thot."

"Yes, pleose," soys Pom.

new word eggs



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The children ore owoy of the seo. As-
they eot their eggs they look out of the

window. They con see the seo ond the
boots. Their friend Tom is by the boots.

He lives by the seo oll the time.

"Our friend Tom knows oll obout

bootS," soys Peter. " H e is the best one
to toke us out in o boot this ofternoon."

ln comes their mother. "Eot up your

eggs," she soys, " and then I wont you

to come round the shops with me."

"Con we go out with our friend Tom
th is ofternoo n ?" osks Peter.

"Yes," soys Mother, "you con see your

friend Tom. He will look ofter you. Here

is your fother," she soys, "so come oh,
you t\Mo."

new words friend Tom

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The three in the boot ore Jone, Peter,

qnd their f riend Tom. Jone hos her
dol, Ann, with her. She soys thot Ann

likes boots.

They ore out of seo in their boot. The

children like it on the woter. They cqn

see other boots ond the houses. There is
no donger.

Tom stops the boot for o time, so thot
Peter con fish. Then he tolks to the two

children. Tom knows how to fish os he

lives by the seo. H e helps Peter ond

Jone to get ,orn.* big fish.

Jone lets her doll Ann see the fish.

"We will give them to our mother

o nd fother," soys Peter.

"Then we will hove fish for teo," soys

Jone. "We oll like fish. Do you wont

some, Tom?"

new words doll Ann

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The sun is out todoy. Jone ond Peter
ore in the sun by the seo when they see

thejr friend Tom. Jone hos Ann, her

doll, with her ogoin.

Tom sits on o boot ond tolks obout

the seo, obout boots, ond obout fish. He

likes to live by the seo, ond he likes to
tolk obout the seo. He likes it best of oll
when he is in o boot, ofl the seo, in the

su n.

Their friend Tom helps boys or girls
when they wont to go out in o boot, or

to fish. He soys there ore times when he

hos to jump into the woter to help boys

or girls who qre in donger.

new words todoy when



Peter ond Jone hove come home todqy

with their mother ond fother.

.,''!t is good to be home," soys Mother,
os the cor stops. She tells Peter to help

Fother with the bogs. "Help Dod get the
things from the cor," she soys.

Then Mother tells Jone to go next door

for the cot. "Be o good girl," she soys,
"ond go to our friends next door for

the cot. "

Jone puts down her doll, Ann, ond
off she ru ns.

Fother ond Peter toke the bogs from

the cor into the house ond come out
ogoin. " Now we hove time to get the

dog," soys Fother.

As they go off , Jone comes f rom next

door with her cot.

new words

tells next door

Mr and Mrs Green live next door to
Jane and Peter. Mr and Mrs Green are
fr,,iends of Jane's mother and father.

Today, Peter's father tells Mr Green
about the good time they have had by
the sea. Mr Green is by his car. He is
going to the shops with Mrs Green.

Mrs Green talks to Jane's mother, who
asks her to get some eggs for her at
the shops.

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"I like to see your two children play
with my three," says Mrs Green. "Look
at them now, they do have fun." The
two mothers see their children play.

Pat likes to be with the boys. He runs
round them with a ball, as they play
their game.

The two girls like it best when they
can look after the baby.

new words

Mr Mrs Green

This is Bob. He is the boy who lives
next door to Peter ond Jone. His mother

onq fother ore Mr ond Mrs Green.

Bob is Peter's best f riend. Every doy

Bob comes round to see Peter. Every doy

Bob helps Peter do his work, ond then

Peter helps Bob with his. Then, every

doy, they ploy gomes of home or Eo out.

Todoy, when Bob osks Peter to come

out to ploy, Peter tells him his fother soid

he must work for some time.

"l will help youi' soys Bob. ") like to

help."

The two boys soon do the work ond

then go off for the ofternoon.
"Let us toke your dog," soys Bob. "He

likes to come with us."

"Yes," soys Petgr, "comg on, Pot."

new words

Bob every doy

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Here is Peter with his best friend Bob

who lives next door. Every doy Peter ond

Bpb go out to ploy.

"\Vhot do you wont to do tod oy ?" osks

Peter.

Bob soys, " Let us go for o wolk

to see whot we con find."

The two boys wolk by the trees down

by the woter, They look into the woter

to find some fish. Pot wonts to jump

into the woter, but Peter keeps him out.

The two boys look ot the birds in

trees. They like to see them. Then

finds some birds eggs. He tells Peter
obout them. The two boys look ot the

eggs but they do not toke them.

birds

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Here ore Peter ond Bob ogoin. Todoy

they hove come to see if they con find
some rqbbits. They do f ind some. The

rdbbits connot see the boys if they keep

by the trees. There ore birds in the trees.

"The robbits come here every doy,"

Bob tells Peter. "lf they see us they will

go," hg sqys.

"The boby ones run round ond rouod,"

soys Peter, "ond the big ones keep o look

out oII the time."

"T here ore one, two, three, four

"ro bbits, soys Peter.
"Yes, there ore four," soys Bob. "l con

see fou r."

Then the big robbit sees the boys. He
tells the others, ond off they oll go.

"There they go," soys Peter.

"Yes," soys Bob, "off they oll go.

They sow donger."

new words if four

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The girl with Jone is Mory. She is

Bob's sister. Mory lives next door to Johe,

qnd her mother ond fother ore Mr ond

Mis Green. Mory ond Jone ore very good

f riends.

Mory likes to ploy with Jone very

much, ond she comes into Jone's house

every doy. Jone con go next door into
Mory's house if she wonts to.

Mr ond Mrs Green like Jone very much,

ond they let her come into their house

when she likes.

Jone ond Mory ploy with Jone's doll

Ann. Mory likes Jone's doll, so Jone lets

her ploy with it when she wonts to.

Todoy Jone tells Mory obout her friend

Tom who lives by the seo. She tells

Mory obout the doy she wos in the boqt.

new words

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Mory ond Jone ore going to give their

dolls some teo todoy. Mory hos her own

dojl, ond Jone hos her own doll, Ann.

Th6 dog is there.
They hove some cokes which Mrs Green

gove them, ond some milk which Jone's

mother let them hove. Bob gove his sister

*: o Hr,:',J#'j'i;lt1 ne's brother

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new words

own qove

Jone gives out the cokes . " One, two,

th ree, fo ur:' she .soys " There o re fou r

of us ond the dog." She gets off her choir

to give Pot some milk. He Iikes it very

much, ond looks os if he wonts some

more.

Mory gives out the sweets, ond then

she sees the birds. "We must find some-
thing for the birds," she soys.

Today Jane finds Mary by her garden.
Mary has her own little garden. Her
fa.ther gave it to her. Every day Mary
likes to go to her own garden to look at
the flowers.

Mary likes birds, but if she finds them
on her garden she makes them fly away.
"Fly away," she says to the birds. "I
don't want you on my garden."

Bob has his own little garden, and so
have Peter and· Jane. All four children
like their gardens very much.

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Pat is with Jane, and she says to him
"Don't go on there, Pat. Don't go onr
the garden." Pat runs after the birds ms
they fly away.

The two girls want to get somee
flowers for their mothers.

new words

garden fly don't1

The little girl in the gorden is Molly.

She is Mory's sister ond she is three.

she hos her own toy bird ond she con

moke it fly. Molly is going round ond

round to moke her bird f Iy. Her fother

gove her this toy.

Mory is coming with Pot, ond the dog

wonts to run ofter Molly's toy bird.

" Don't, Po t," soys M o ry, "don't ru n."
She pulls qt the dog.Pot Iikes little

Molly very much. He wonts to ploy with
her. Molly loves the dog.

The little girl loves oll four children

ond they oll love her.

Mory looks ofter Molly if Mrs Green

is not there. She hos Molly's hot. She
puts the hot on her sister. "Keep your

hot on, Molly," she soys.

new words

3B Molly loves hot



It is hot todoy, Molly likes to ploy

with woter on o hot doy. Here she is in

the, gorden with her toys ond the dog.

The dog is hot, so Molly gives him

some woter. Then she puts some wqter

on the dog. Pot likes it os he is hot. He

is very wet now. Molly is wet, ond the

toys qre wet.
Here comes Bob. "Put some woter on

the flowers," he soys to Molly."lt is

good for them. The sun mokes them so
hot." He helps Molly woter the flowers

in their own gordens.

Then he ploys with Molly ond the dog.

They oll love to ploy in the sun. Bob

soys, " Molly, don't toke off your hot or

get it \Met."

new words

hot wet

It is o hot doy ogoin. lt wos wet, but

now the sun is out. Peter ond Jone ore

on the top of o big red bus. They ore

going down the street to the stqtion.

They ore going to see their grond-
mother ond grondfqther. Fother is qt

work todoy, so he is not with the children.

Mother is with them.

The two children love their grond-

mother ond grondfother. Jone likes her

grondmother to toke her round her big

gqrden, ond Peter wonts his grondfother

to help him to moke o boot. Grondfother

is good of this.

Pot is on the bus with them. He is o

good dog on the bus ond in the troin.

new words

grondmother grondfother

Grandmother and Grandfather live in
an old house. They are at home all the
time. Grandfather is old and he does not
g'o "out to work. He likes to work in the
garden and sit by the fire and read.

Grandmother is old, like Grandfather.
She does not do very much work. She

likes to walk in her garden.

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They have a big garden with trees
and flowers. Grandmother and Grand­
father sit in the garden. They look at the
birds as they fly about.

There is a big d og in this house, and
he likes Pat. They are old friends.

Here are Mother and the children at
the house. Grandmother comes out. "It
is good to see you," she says. "Come
in. Let us all have some tea."

"Dad wants us to give you his love,"
says Jane.

new words

old does

Here ore the children of their school.

They oll Iike going to their school,
becouse they like the teocher. The

t6ocher is on old f riend of theirs. She

loves children.

The teocher soys, " Let us tolk obout

the police." She drows o policemon.

"The policemon is our friehd," she soys.

"l will tell you obout the work he does."

She tolks for some time.

Soon it is time to go home. "The time

does fly," soys Jone.

Some doys Peter ond Jone wolk home.
Todoy they ore going by bus becouse it

is wet. "We don't wont to get wet,"'

soys Peter.

"We will see Qrondmother ond Grond-

fother todoy:' soys Jone. "They ore
coming for teo."

"Good," soys Peter, "Grondfother will

hove my boot with him. I wont it very

much."

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Pam has come to Jane's home today.
Mary and Molly from next door are there.·
Pam has been to tea before with Jane,
and so have Mary and Molly.

Pam says, "Mum wants to ask our
teacher to tea because Mum wants to
see her. Will you all come?"

"Yes, it will be fun," says Mary.
#'Molly and I have not been to the farm
before."

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