A Fight with Underbite Role-play Level 4

Optimus Prime told Bumblebee he must go to Ladybird Readers Ladybird Readers Cast Earth to help. There, the Transformers must stop the bad robot Underbite from eating a city!

Ladybird Readers is a series of traditional tales, modern stories, and nonfiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign language.

The series follows the CEFR framework and includes language activities A Fight with Underbite that help develop key skills and can provide preparation for the Cambridge English: Young Learners (YLE) exams.

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Starter Pre-A1 A and B 50—100 words ? Pre-A1 Level 1 YLE Starters 100—200 words A1 Narrator Bumblebee Russell Sideswipe Strongarm Underbite Level 2 YLE Movers 200—300 words A1+ 1 Level 3 YLE Movers 300—600 words A2 Level 4 YLE Flyers 600—900 headwords

Lexile measure XXX Included online Level 4 4 Level 4

Audio Teacher’s U.K. £4.99 Download Resources www.ladybird.com/ladybirdreaders Also available A Fight with ? www.penguin.co.uk Activity Underbite Book Narrator Fixit Grimlock Optimus Prime Denny 2 (non-speaking) Crop Work with the children to allocate characters and prepare a short performance. Discuss the stage directions in advance and make sure the children understand how to follow the script.

Narrator 1: Bumblebee was a police robot in Cybertron. He worked with another police robot called Strongarm.

Strongarm: I’m very happy that you worked with the great Optimus Prime. Optimus was very important to me!

Narrator 2: Optimus Prime was dead. It made Bumblebee sad to think about him, so he didn’t answer.

Narrator 1: Sideswipe was a fast robot. At that moment, he was driving too fast around Cybertron.

Strongarm: Stop going so fast!

Narrator 2: But Bumblebee wasn’t thinking about Sideswipe. Suddenly, he could see Optimus’s face in some water.

Optimus Prime: You must go to Earth, Bumblebee! The people need you there!

Narrator 1: Bumblebee used a space bridge to travel to Earth. He didn’t know Strongarm and Sideswipe were following him until he arrived there.

Strongarm: It’s my job to stay with you. HASBRO and its logo, TRANSFORMERS, TRANSFORMERS ROBOTS IN DISGUISE, the logo and all related characters are trademarks of Hasbro and are used with permission.© 2018 Hasbro. permission.© are used with and of Hasbro are trademarks logo, its TRANSFORMERS,HASBRO characters related and all TRANSFORMERS logo the and ROBOTS IN DISGUISE,

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Bumblebee: Go back to Cybertron!

Sideswipe: No, we won’t!

(Sideswipe runs off.)

Narrator 2: A few minutes later, Bumblebee and Strongarm met a small robot called Fixit. He was happy to see them.

Fixit: I was taking two hundred bad robots to Cybertron, but our spaceship fell to Earth. All the bad robots ran away!

Bumblebee: We have to find those bad robots and stop them from (to Strongarm) hurting the people on Earth.

Narrator 1: At the same time, Russell was helping his dad Denny in his scrapyard.

Narrator 2: Russell hated the scrapyard. It was boring, and he never had any adventures there.

Narrator 1: Suddenly, there was a very loud sound from over in the trees.

Russell: What was that?

Narrator 2: He walked into the forest to find out.

Narrator 1: In the forest, Russell saw Sideswipe. He felt very frightened, because he was seeing a robot for the first time!

Narrator 2: Sideswipe was afraid too, because he was seeing a boy for the first time!

Narrator 1: But when Underbite suddenly came around the rocks, they were both much more afraid of him! HASBRO and its logo, TRANSFORMERS, TRANSFORMERS ROBOTS IN DISGUISE, the logo and all related characters are trademarks of Hasbro and are used with permission.© 2018 Hasbro. permission.© are used with and of Hasbro are trademarks logo, its TRANSFORMERS,HASBRO characters related and all TRANSFORMERS logo the and ROBOTS IN DISGUISE,

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Narrator 2: Underbite was one of the bad robots from Fixit’s spaceship. He was very BIG and very ANGRY.

Underbite: I eat metal to get strong. Once, I ate a whole city!

Narrator 1: Sideswipe and Russell started to run. Underbite was following them. Then, Sideswipe suddenly changed into a car. Russell was very surprised!

Underbite: I eat metal, remember?

Narrator 2: Russell jumped in and Sideswipe drove away quickly.

Narrator 1: The other Transformers saw Underbite, too! They changed into cars and quickly drove back to Fixit’s spaceship, because Underbite was very strong and they could not fight him.

Narrator 2: When they all arrived back at the spaceship, Fixit was happy to see them. But he was not happy to see Underbite!

Bumblebee: Quick, hide! Fixit! Stay with him!

Narrator 1: The Transformers began to fight Underbite. At that moment, Grimlock woke up. Grimlock was another bad robot from the spaceship. He wanted to fight Underbite. But Underbite saw the scrapyard through the trees.

Underbite: Look at all that lovely metal! I feel hungry!

(Underbite runs towards the scrapyard.)

Russell: On no! My dad’s in the scrapyard! We have to stop Underbite! HASBRO and its logo, TRANSFORMERS, TRANSFORMERS ROBOTS IN DISGUISE, the logo and all related characters are trademarks of Hasbro and are used with permission.© 2018 Hasbro. permission.© are used with and of Hasbro are trademarks logo, its TRANSFORMERS,HASBRO characters related and all TRANSFORMERS logo the and ROBOTS IN DISGUISE,

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