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Before Reading Before Reading Before Reading 4 Look at the picture from the story. Match the words below to the numbers. 1 Look at the picture. Match the words to the parts of the pirate ship. a) cabin b) deck c) hold d) jolly roger e) mast f) sail a) mouth b) fairy 4 c) hook d) pirate 2 3 e) sword 5 2 Use the words in Exercise 1 to complete the definitions. 1 a) The ........... is the top floor of the ship where people walk. b) The ........... is a large piece of cloth that catches the wind and moves the ship. c) The ........... is a tall pole that holds the sail. 5 Complete the sentences with a word from Exercise 4. d) The ........... is an area for storing things below the deck. e) The ........... is a room on a ship for the crew or passengers. a) Captain Hook is a ............... f) The ........... is the pirate flag. b) He has a ............... instead of a hand. c) Captain Hook fights with a ............... 3 Circle the correct ending. d) The crocodile is waiting for the captain with its ............... When a pirate captain wants to kill his prisoners, he ties their open. hands behind their backs and makes them drink poison / walk e) Tinker Bell is a ............... and Peter Pan’s friend. the plank. 10 11 Peter Pan RED.indd 10 04/10/11 11:50 Peter Pan RED.indd 11 04/10/11 11:50 Peter Pan 5 NEvERLAND 8 Wendy, John and Michael fly through the sky with Peter Pan for many, many days. They enjoy flying and Peter plays games with them in the air. When they are hungry, Peter finds food for them. Then, one morning he says: ‘There it is. There’s Neverland.’ ‘Where, where?’ the children shout. ‘Where all the arrows• are pointing.’ It’s true! A million golden arrows are pointing from the sun to the island of Neverland. The children stand on their toes• in the air to look at it. It’s their first visit to the island but they all recognise it immediately. ‘Look, John! There’s the lagoon•,’ says Wendy. ‘Wendy, look at the turtles•. They’re burying• their eggs in the sand,’ says John. ‘I can see the smoke of the Indian camp!’ says Michael. As they get nearer to Neverland, it starts to get dark. Flying becomes more difficult and slower. Sometimes Peter has to push his way through the air before they can move. When their feet are almost touching the tops of the trees, Peter says: ‘They don’t want us to land•.’ ‘Who are THEY?’ asks Wendy. But Peter does not want to say. T inker Bell is asleep on his shoulder. He wakes her up and tells her to fly down and have a look around. Glossary • arrows: • lagoon: small sea • burying: putting in a hole and • toes: fingers on your feet covering • turtles: • land: touch the ground 28 29 Peter Pan RED.indd 28 04/10/11 11:51 Peter Pan RED.indd 29 04/10/11 11:51 Peter Pan Then he says in a very casual way: ‘Do you want an adventure now?’ ‘What kind of adventure?’ John asks. ‘There’s a pirate in the grass down there,’ says Peter. ‘He’s asleep. If you like, we can go down and kill him.’ John isn’t sure that he wants this kind of adventure so he asks: ‘Do you kill many pirates?’ ‘Lots,’ Peter replies. ‘Who is the pirate captain?’ ‘Hook,’ answers Peter, and he looks angry as he says the name. Michael begins to cry. John is worried, too. They all know about Hook, the terrible pirate captain. ‘What’s he like? Is he a big man?’ John asks. ‘He’s a bit smaller since our last fight•. A bit• of him is missing• now,’ Peter replies. Then Peter says: ‘John, you must promise me one thing.’ ‘Which bit, Peter?’ asks John. ‘What, Peter?’ ‘His right hand.’ ‘If we meet Hook in a fight, you must let me fight him. ‘So he can’t fight now?’ ‘I promise,’ says John. ‘Oh, yes, he can.’ There’s a tinkling noise above them. It’s Tinker Bell. She’s ‘Does he fight with his left hand?’ speaking to Peter. ‘No. He has an iron hook• instead of a right hand. He fights ‘The pirates know that we are here,’ he tells the others. with that!’ BOOM! A cannonball• flies past them. It doesn’t hit them but it makes a strong wind that blows Wendy high up into the sky with Tinker Bell. The little fairy suddenly decides that she wants PARTS oF The BoDy to kill Wendy. She isn’t a bad fairy but she’s very jealous• of What do you do with these parts of your body? Peter’s new friend. She has an idea. She flies around Wendy and tinkles loudly: ‘Follow me, follow me’. Wendy doesn’t understand your mouth your ears your nose your head your fingers but the tinkling voice sounds kind so she follows the fairy. Glossary • bit: small part • iron hook: • cannonball: • jealous: unhappy because someone • fight: when people hit each other has something you’d like to have • missing: not there 30 31 Peter Pan RED.indd 30 04/10/11 11:51 Peter Pan RED.indd 31 04/10/11 11:51 Peter Pan 6 PooR WENDy! They are all walking round and round the island in a circle. They never catch each other because they are all walking at the 9 When Peter is away from Neverland, it is always quiet. The same speed•. At the end of the procession there is an enormous pirates, the lost boys, the Indians and the beasts• live peacefully. crocodile. The boys are the first to leave the circle. They disappear But when Peter returns, everything changes. Now the lost boys very quickly into their home under the ground. The entrances• to are looking for Peter, the pirates are looking for the lost boys, the their home are in seven large trees. There’s one for each lost boy Indians are looking for the pirates and the beasts are looking for – Nibs, Slightly, Tootles, Curly, the Twins• – and one for Peter the Indians. Pan. Each boy enters through a hole in the trunk• of his tree. Hook does not know where their home is, but he wants to find it. Later Nibs goes out for a walk. While he’s walking through the woods, the pirates see him. Starkey, the ship’s mate•, takes BeASTS out his pistol• but Hook stops him and says: ‘No. I don’t want Re-order the letters to find the names of four beasts on Neverland. to shoot one lost boy. I want to kill all of them. Go and look for onli ......... abre ......... giret ......... doorlicec ......... them! I want to find their house!’ Glossary • beasts: wild animals • entrances: ways into a place • ship’s mate: officer on a ship • pistol: • twins: brothers or sisters who are born at the same time • speed: how fast or slow you are • trunk: 32 33 Peter Pan RED.indd 32 04/10/11 11:51 Peter Pan RED.indd 33 04/10/11 11:51 Peter Pan The pirates disappear into the woods. Now Captain Hook and Mr Smee, the ship’s bo’sun•, are alone. Hook begins to talk about the lost boys. ‘I want their captain, Peter Pan, Smee,’ he says. ‘I don’t have a right hand because of Peter Pan – oh, and the crocodile.’ ‘Oh, yes. I know that you are afraid of crocodiles,’ says Smee. ‘I am not afraid of all crocodiles,’ explains Hook quickly. ‘Just one crocodile. It has my hand and now it wants to eat the rest of me.’ Then he sits down on a large mushroom•. ‘Smee,’ he says. ‘That crocodile wants to kill me, but luckily it has a clock inside it. The clock makes a noise: tick-tock, tick-tock. When I hear the tick-tock of the clock, I have time to run away before the crocodile can catch me.’ Suddenly Hook starts to feel very warm. ‘Oh dear!’ he cries. ‘I’m burning!’ He looks at the mushroom carefully. Then he pulls it out of the ground. Smoke starts coming out of the hole. ‘Look, Smee! It’s a chimney•!’ Hook cries. Now they can hear the voices of the lost boys. They look around and they see the holes in the trees. ‘It’s the lost boys’ house!’ whispers Hook. Then they hear another sound. At first it’s a very small sound, but it comes nearer and nearer and gets louder and louder. Tick-tock, tick-tock! Hook shivers. ‘The crocodile!’ he cries and runs away very fast. Smee follows him. Glossary • bo’sun: officer on a ship • mushroom: • chimney: part of a house that takes smoke out 34 35 Peter Pan RED.indd 34 04/10/11 11:51 Peter Pan RED.indd 35 04/10/11 11:51.
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