ly 5 a ri a E n r os TEen The Swiss Family Robinson Pa ieOXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, 0x2 6pP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press isa department of the University of Oxford. Iefurthers the University sobjective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford isa registered trade ‘mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries ‘The Swiss Family Robinson ‘This eBook edition © Oxford University Press 2015 ‘The moral rights of the author have been asserted First published 2015, 188: 9780 19 462936 2 (code) & 9780 19 462937 9 (irapp) Print edition 1snw: 978 0 19 4249805 Print edition first published in Dominoes 2014 No copying or file sharing. ‘This digital publication is protected by international copyright laws. 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He enjoyed reading the story Robinson Crusoe, and so he wrote a similar adventure story to read aloud to his children. The four boys in the book are based on his four sons. Years later, Johann David's son Johann Rudolf edited his father's 800 handwritten pages, and published the story for the first time in 1812 as The Swiss Family Robinson. The first English translation appeared two years later. Since then, it has remained popular with both children and adults, There have been several film and TV versions of the story. OXFORD ‘UNIVERSITY PRESSBEFORE READING 1 In The Swiss Family Robinson, a family lives on an island like the famous character Robinson Crusoe. Complete the sentences about them with the words in the box. Use a dictionary to help you. el cloth ope seeds tools wood desborel ce cee q Mother, Father, Fritz, Hans, @ Mother has some..CY6th....... ; Ernst, and Franz on the island, b There’ a.horrtl........ . under Father’ foot. ¢ There are some. Fools o in Fritz’s hands. Tope. over one arm. gu d Hans has some.. e Ermsthas got some ..... need. . e . f Franzis looking at some...$@eds....... mee a a" mete 2 What do you think? Answer these questions about the family’s time on the island. a What do they eat? rab sore DK 0d eth - : ne® oe xe b What things do they make? hore . © Where do they sleep? at home inthe Islnnd ~ Met a ct n cntship in the Pawifie: asked little Franz. ‘OK,’ said Mother. The Swiss family were on a ‘Can we explore downstairs?’ Franz’s older brothers Hans and Ernst. went with him. In the dark rooms under the deel, they saw dogs, horses, and a lot of boxes and barrels. ; At the same time, their oldest brother, Fritz, spoke to some children on the deck. ‘We're going to live in Australia,’ said a Scottish girl, Jenny Montrose, excitedly. Suddenly the sky went dark. Father stopped writing his journal. ‘There's going to be a eepestorm,’ he told Fritz. ‘Find your brothers and bring them to our room.’ explore to walk around a new place and learn about it deck wheres barrel und box: y @s_ storm alot of rain and very bad ib weather journal ItIn bed that night, the Swiss family listened to the storm. Big waves hit the ship aisie 22) 4} Are we going to be all right?’ Ernst asked his father. ‘Tdon’t know,’ Father answered. Up on the deck, the ship’s men were tired. They couldn't see in the rain. ‘Oh, no! Rocks!’ one of them cried. Just then, there was a terrible noise at the front of the ship. ie Father ran to the deck. When he came back, his face was white. ‘Everybody's getting into the ship's boats,’ he said. ‘Be quick!’ But when the family arrived on the deck, there was no boat for them. that moves terrible very bad boat little shiphen they went to their room, Mother cried, ‘The ship's going down. I can feel it!” 4 me bar down: ‘Let's make a raft with them. Then we can leave the ship on that.’ 9 a) raft a little boat made fron tool thi things Father and the older bi ent downstairs for the barrels. When Ernst opened a door to one room, two dogs ran out. Fritz and Father found barrels, tools, and rope, but th couldn’t make the raft in | the storm. So they waited for the morning. in their room, Mother gave some bread to the boys. ‘Are we all going to die tonight?’ Father thought.The older boys brought the barrels up from downstairs. Father brought some tools and made the barrels into a raft with ropes and wood. That afternoon, the raft was ready, Father and the boys put it into the sea. Then the family took their things, and they got on it. But the waves were big and their raft was very little. Could it carry them all to the island? island a country in the sea wood the hard part of a treeWhen they moved away from the ship, Franz said, ‘Look! The dogs are in the water behind us.’ Ernst quickly pulled them on to the raft. ‘Rocks!’ Father cried suddenly. ‘Go left!” Big waves hit them, and water went over the ralt. But slowly the island came nearer, Mother was very happy when they arrived at the beach. The boys wanted to explore the cliffs and tall trees near them. ‘OK,’ said Father, ‘but don’t go far.’ wood. But just then, she heard Hans. He was in the water near some rocks. ‘Ouch!’ he cried. ‘Something’s got my leg!” pull to move something quickly nearer you beach the land next to the sea cliff a wallREADING CHECK Choose the correct word to complete each sentence. beach leg boats raft rocks -ship~ storm a The family are ona......SMIP......in the Pacific. b One night, there is a terrible ¢ Suddenly, they hit some ees d_ People get into and leave the Swiss family behind. e The next day, Father and the boys make a.........0:see « f They arrive ona...... and begin to explore. g Something in the water has got Hans's........c...0.+ WORD WORK The words don’t match the pictures. Correct them. a Jools” b island d cliffe wave f journal GUESS WHAT What happens in the next chapter? Tick the boxes. The first day on the island, Father makes 1 aboat 1) 2. a‘house'for the night. 1] Father and Fritz explore the island. They see 1 people from their ship. 1] 2 nobody. C] Fritz finds 11 someone from a different ship. C] 2 anice little animal. 11 Father says,’We must...’ 1 go back to the ship. (] 2 leave the island. 1] They take 1 animals from the ship. 2 meat from the island to the ship. [] They see a dangerous animal when they are. 1 onthe raft. 1) 2 under some trees. [] co a a ~Mother ran to Hans. She put her hands under the water, and quickly pulled =") a big blue lobster off his leg. Ee ‘Here’s our dinner!’ she cried happily. After Mother cooked the lobster, the |7 family ate it hungrily. They gave lobster and bread to the dogs, too. Franz .| thought of names for the two dogs. He called the white dog ‘Bello’, and the darker dog ‘Juno’. Beit b\ In the evening, Father put up ropes Nobody slept much that between three trees. He put cloth night. They could hear the sS from the ship over them. cries of different island “a ‘Here’s a tent for us,’ he said. animals in the dark! lobster an animal with two big claws that lives near 10 the sea 00k tomake hot things for people tent a house ma in toeat can take with you cloth you make clothes from thisNext morning, Father said, ‘We must find food, and look for people from the ship.’ Father and Fritz left the beach for the forest. Juno and Bello ran after them. They found a river, and drank some water. Near the river, there were tall coconut trees, but how could they bring the coconuts down? throwing coconuts at them! “They're angry with us,’ Fritz laughed. Then he and Father began hitting the trees, and the monkeys threw more coconuts down. Just then, a little monkey fell from a tree. ‘Catch it, Fritz!’ Father cried. food you eat monkey this animal with 2 long tail fall (st fell) to go down suddenly coconut 3 hard white fruit with mik ves" tees catch (past caught) to take quickly initand a brown outside throw (20s threw) to make in your hands something air with your hands hrough theFritz caught the little monkey. Then he and Father walked up a big hill. Fritz carried the monkey in his arms. ‘Let's call him \ Knips,’ he said. From the hill, they could see most of the island. They looked for boats or smoke, but saw nothing. Va “So we're the only people from the ship here,’ Father thought. Ww Then they found some fruit trees. ‘Mmm. Fruit!’ cried Fritz hungrily. ‘Wait. Don’t eat it,’ said Father. ‘Is it safe?” ‘Father, Knips is eating it. So we can eat it, too, I think,’ said Fritz. Later, they caught two birds for dinner. After that, they walked home. safe not bad or dangerous; in no danger of dy thing from bananas and apples bird an animal that can fly; you can eat some birds‘We're the only people on the island,’ Father said that night. ‘And we need more things from the ship.’ ‘Please don't go back,’ Mother cried. ‘It’s dangerous.’ “We must,’ he answered. The next day, Father, Fritz, and Hans took the raft to the ship. They found seeds and guns. And the animals were alive, too. Father tied barrels to the animals. Then he tied ropes from these to the raft. #| ‘Now they can swim easily 4 behind us,’ he said. They moved slowly through the water. Then, suddenly, something dark went under the raft. It was a big shark! Fritz took a gun and stood up. ‘Careful!’ Father cried. ‘Don’t fall!’ dangerous able to kill you gun a person can fi shark big fish with teeth that ets smaller fish and sometimes people seed flowers and trees come tie to keep som: from these with ropeREADING CHECK Correct eight more mistakes in the chapter summary. lobster Mother pulled a big-fishroff Hans's leg, and she cooked it for dinner. Later that night, Father put wood between two trees, and made a tent for them. They slept very well that night because they could hear the cries of different island animals. In the moming, Father and Fritz wanted to look for food and people from their plane. They found some trees, and monkeys threw apples at them. One monkey fell from the trees, and Father caught it. Later, they walked up a cliff and looked around, but they didn't see any people. The next day, Father, Fritz, and Hans went back to the ship. They took animals from the ship, and tied them to boxes. Slowly they moved through the water on their raft, and the animals swam behind them. Suddenly, they saw something dark under the raft. It was a very big rock! WORD WORK 1 Find six words from chapter 2 in the coconuts. Then use the words to complete the sentences. (oOo A... lobster... has ten legs, and it lives in the sea You can make a tent with ropes and. . Help! Those... .are throwing coconuts at us. There are a lot of trees on the island. Look at that... in the sky! Trees and flowers come from ~eaano®2 Find seven more new words in chapter 2 to match the definitions. to make hot things for people to eat 0. 0. 0 K you can take this cloth house with you you eat this notsafe_ 2 ~~ this big fish with teeth sometimes eats people __ _ __ _ _ you can kill things from far away with this _ _ _ to keep something in one place with a rope _ _ _ a b c d e f 9 GUESS WHAT What do you think happens in the next chapter? Read the sentences and write Yes or No. a Dangerous island animals come near b Father and Fritz find more people from the the family’s tent. ........ the ship. ......... di The family all work hard, and make a cat garden. ........a) ‘ The shark came nearer to the raft. At the last minute, Fritz shot it. ‘Wow! You hit it, Fritz!” Hans cried. Alter that, they watched the water carefully, but the shark didn’t come back. Mother met them on the beach. “We've got a horse now,’ Father said. “More importantly — you're alive!’ Mother answered. ) That night, the family heard a noise, and looked out of the tent. Yellow eyes watched them in the dark. ‘Jackals!’ Ernst cried. Hans saw a little jackal. ‘It can be my pet,’ he thought. So he caught it with a rope. Just then, Bello and Juno attacked, and all of the bigger jackals ran away. shot) to use a gun pet an animal that attack to start bit something or somer jackal a dangerous animal lke a dog or hitting‘The island animals can easily 4 attack our tent,’ Father said next morning. ‘We need a better house.’ Some days later, they found some 7 big trees on a hill. Father threw a rope over a branch, | and went up into the biggest tree. # ‘Here's our new house!’ he said. Father and the older boys put long pieces of wood between branches for the floor. Then they made the rooms. ‘They put a big cloth over them. When the tree house was ready, Hans asked, ‘What can we call it?" Fritz saw a falcon in the sky, ‘How about Falconwood?’ he said. branch part of atiee floor the placeinaroomwhere you falcon @ day bird that files up in the stand and walk sky and kills small animals by suddenly piece some, but not all, of something coming down on themOne day, Hans wanted to teach his pet jackal, Fangs, to hunt. So he and Fritz took it into the forest. Suddenly, they heard a terrible noise from the trees in front of them. Minutes later, hundreds of buffaloes began running out of the forest at them! ‘Quick,’ Fritz cried. ‘Let's go behind those rocks!” Hans took Fangs in his arms. Then the boys went behind the rocks. Fritz caught a young buffalo with a rope when all the bigger buffaloes ran past them. ‘Father's going to be very happy when we take this little buffalo home with us,’ he said. hunt to look for and kill animals forest a place v th lots of trees buffalo a big animal ike a cowS Ye | af. In the autumn, Mother made a garden with | their seeds. The boys looked for food in the | Father made a room for their animals under the tree house. Then he put his tools in the beach tent because there was no room for them in the house. When the winter came, the family stayed in their tree house. And their animals stayed in their home at the foot of the tree. It rained for weeks. ‘We haven’t got much food,’ Father wrote in his journal one day. ‘Are our animals going to live? Are our seeds going to grow?” grow (past grew) to get biggerREADING CHECK Choose the correct words to complete the sentences. aA shark attacks their boat, but Fritz catches AShoo®it. b Hans / Franz catches a baby jackal with a rope. ¢ They find some big rocks / trees on a hill, and make a house there. d Hans and Fritz are walking in the forest / on the beach when they hear a terrible noise in front of them. e In the autumn, Mother makes clothes / a garden. f Father leaves animals / tools in their tent on the beach. WORD WORK Use the clues to complete the puzzle with new words from chapter 3. What is the mystery word in the blue squares? a There area lot of trees ina.. b A....isabig animal. It can run fast. ¢ Hans has got a pet d Father and the boys make a house in the... .of a big tree. e@ Seeds ... into flowers and trees. f Father and the boys often ... birds for food. fEjolriel[s|t Mystery word:2 Complete the dialogues with these words from chapter 3. attack floor ~jackat~ pet pieces shoot Mother Why did you catch a baby a.....j2K\....., Hans? Hans =| wanted tohaveab............ -...of wood on the beach, father! Ernst There are somebige.... Father Wonderful! We can make thed........ . of the tree house with them. Hans That shark is going to... the boat! Give me the gun. | can f................ it GUESS WHAT What happens in the next chapter? Tick three sentences. Knips finds something interesting. The boys catch a lot of fish. C1) Mother leaves the island. Father and the boys make a new house. Hans gets into danger, but a pet helps him. OFritz shoots a very dangerous animal. g C1 The boys see a ship. ~meaanoeWhen they arrived, they couldn't see the ship any more, but they found pieces of ‘| wood by the sea. Their [7 tent was in pieces — with Father’s tools, ss cloth, and barrels all over the beach. After winter, spring arrived. All their animals were alive, and little green plants grew in the garden. “Very good!’ Father said. ‘And now let’s go to the beach for my tools. I need them here.’ He looked into the hole. ‘Hey, everyone!’ he called. ‘There's a big cave behind this cliff! What a good new home for us! Let’s make a door into it.” Knips ran after a little forest animal. He went into a hole in the cliffs. ‘Where is he?’ thought Ernst. plant 2 smal thing with leaves and hole an opening in something that cave a big hole in the side ofa cliff sometimes with flowers you can look through orgo through or hil 20Alter hours of work, the door was ready. They went into the cave. “You were right, Ernst, it is big!’ Father said. ‘This can be our winter house.’ For weeks after that, Father and the boys worked on the cave house. They made rooms, and cut windows in the rock. One day, Mother found some tall plants in a swamp near the beach. ‘With these reeds we can make a reed floor for the cave,’ she said. The next day, Hans wanted to cut more reeds. He went further into the swamp. Suddenly, he began sinking into the water there. ‘Help!’ he cried, but nobody heard him. swamp 2place with low wet land reed a tall thin plant that livesnear sink (past sank) to go down in the near the sea or a river or in water 2me reeds, and made a raft from them. He pulled his body up on the rafi, but how could he get out of the swamp? Just then, his pet jackal arrived. ‘Fangs, come here!’ he called. Fangs ran to him. Hans took the jackal’s tail in his hand. When Fangs ran away, he pulled Hans out of the swamp. “What happened to you?’ Mother asked when Hans arrived back home later. ‘T've got some reeds for the cave floor,’ Hans said. ‘I nearly died in that swamp. But Fangs came and pulled me out in time.’snake a long animal with no legs They stayed in the cave all day. Father and the boys stood at the windows with guns, but the snake didn’t come. “Perhaps it went away,’ Father said that evening. ‘I’m going to look.’ When he opened the door, their horse ran out into the swamp. Fri after it before Father could stop him. went Fritz wanted to catch the horse. But the snake waited out in the swamp. And now it saw Fritz. It moved nearer.READING CHECK Are the sentences true or false? Tick the boxes. True False uw A lot of the animals died in the winter. The tent on the beach is in pieces. Fangs finds a cave in the cliffs. Father and the boys cut a door into the cave. Mother finds some reeds in a swamp. Father pulls Hans out of the swamp. They see a shark when they are near the river. zyereoan oD OOOO0Oo00U0 oO Oo oO Oo Their horse runs into the swamp. WORD WORK Find new words in chapter 4 to match the pictures. 24(9 Perr GUESS WHAT What happens in the next chapter? Tick two boxes to complete each sentence. a Father 1 20 30 © Fritz 10 2 Lican't come back to his family. 30 finds some new fruit. makes cloth from animal hair. makes a boat with Fritz. explores the island in a boat. finds a message. b Mother 1 L)makes clothes for everyone. 2 Di thinks a lot about Fritz. 3 Lifinds a new pet. d_ Hans 1 2 * CO) shoots an animal in the swamp. Cigoes swimming in the river. Li comes home with a red face. =Fritz heard Father and Hans behind him. ‘Don’t move!’ they cried. Then he heard their guns, and when he looked down, the snake was dead at his feet. ‘Hooray! We killed it!’ Hans cried excitedly. When the rains came, Father made some cloth from plants and animal hair. Mother made new clothes from this for everyone. One night, Mother said, ‘Our island home hasn't got a name. What can we call it?” “New Switzerland”!’ Ernst cried. ‘And we're the Swiss Family Robinson Crusoes!" Everyone laughed at that, but they liked Ernst’s name for the island. clothes people wear these 26 message - ysis ‘This winter, we can be safe from storms and snakes in the cave house!’ Father said. That autumn, the family made the cave ready for the winter months.Over many years, the family changed their garden into a little iain New Switzerland with his farm. They grew food older brothers. They often on the farm, and had ba went away for days. lots of animals — and Lk ‘Lworry about them,” a Mother said. ‘L worry sometimes, too,’ Father answered, ‘but they must learn to be men.’ ‘What happened to your face, Hans? It’s all red!’ Mother said when the boys came home one day. ‘We found some honey in a tree,’ Hans laughed, ‘with lots of bees!” farm 2 place in the country where worry to be unhappy about honey this is sweet and good to eat; people keep animals and grow plants something and to think about it bees make it after visiting flowers all the time bee a little black and yellow animal that can fly and make honey 27ey The next summer, Fritz made a new boat with Father. They made it from wood and animal skins. wanted to take it out to sea, and to explore the island in it. ‘All right,’ Father told him. When Fritz took his boat out across the bay, Mother and Father watched from the beach. ‘Is he going to be OK?’ Mother asked, hlizabeth, he’s twenty-one,’ Father answered. ‘I was twenty-one when I met you — remember?’ Mother smiled at that, but she didn’t feel better about 28For many days, Fritz explored the island by boat. He swam in the sea, and he hunted in the forest. At night, he made a tent from cloth and branches on the beach. He slept in it. One afternoon, Fritz caught lots of fish. Suddenly lots of birds came down from the sky, and they began to take all the fish from his boat. Fritz caught one of these birds. Just then, he saw a piece of cloth on its leg. ‘Tt's a message!’ he thought excitedly. He quickly took the piece of cloth off the bird's leg, and opened it. message you vite this to someone 2930 READING CHECK Match the parts of the sentences. a father and Hans shoot .. 1 plants and animal hair. b The next winter, they are safe from storms 2. he wants to explore the island. ¢ Father makes cloth from... 3 worry about the boys. d They call their island... 4 asnake in the swamp. e Mother and Father 5 anew boat. f Father and Fritz make 6 in the cave house. g Fritz leaves in his boat because 7 ‘New Switzerland: WORD WORK Write out the sentences with new words from chapter 5 in the correct form. Use the pictures to help you. Mother makes a Mother makes new b The family have a ¢ The boys find somee Father and Fritz need animal f Fritz goes actoss the g He finds a GUESS WHAT How does the story finish? Tick one picture for each question. a Who does Fritz find on a beach? b What does the family hear? 3160 To Engine Fritz read the message. eg = eS S ce EE =e iS He remembered the Scottish girl Fritz looked for Jenny for two days. Forth erehioicelenmeritehecs In the end, he found a sea cave, Jenny. I must find her,’ he thought. and he took his boat far into it. After some time, he came out of the cave into a little bay. There were tall cliffs all around it. He saw a girl in animal skins on the beach near these cliffs. ‘Hey! You there!’ he cried. When the girl saw Fritz in his boat, she began running away. “Wait!” he called. ‘Jenny Montrose!’ She stopped at this, and waited for him. captain the most important person ona ship around all the way round; to all the places 32In Jenny’s cave home, they talked about their last night on the ship . . . ‘T got into a boat, but it sank near the cliffs,’ Jenny said. ‘So I swam into the cave, and found this bay.’ “We couldn't see it from our hills,’ Fritz told Jenny. ‘And I couldn't climb the cliffs,’ Jenny answered. ‘So I wrote messages.’ ‘But why did you run away from me?’ Fritz asked her. ‘Pirates came here last year,’ Jenny said. < ‘Lran away from J 4 ( them. When I saw ~ you, I thought, 7 vip ee pirates are here!” 4 g YY 33The next day, Ernst ran to the cave house. ‘Fritz is coming. And _| there’s somebody with him!’ he told Mother and Father. Fritz’s brothers were excited when they met Jenny. They asked her lots of questions, and took her around the farm. Father made a room for Jenny in the cave. She was happy. ‘I've got a family again,’ she thought. When the winter came, the boys read books for the first time in years. ‘Fritz’s English is very good now,’ Father said one day. ‘Jenny's books are helping him.’ Mother laughed. ‘It’s not the books,’ she said. ‘It’s Jenny.’‘This is an important day,’ Father said one morning. ‘We arrived on this island seven years ago — so no work today’ At once Jenny and the boys ran up the hill and shot their guns over their heads excitedly. Suddenly, they heard the noise of a ship's gun. ‘Somebody heard us, and they're answering!’ Fritz said. ‘Pirates!’ Jenny cried. They ran to the cave house, but no The next morning, Father and Fritz took the boat out. When they left the bay, they suddenly saw a ship in front of them. They quickly moved their boat behind some rocks.Then Fritz looked out from behind the rocks, and said, ‘They aren't pirates. They're British!’ So they went to the ship. When they arrived, the captain met them. ‘T'm James Montrose,’ he told them. ‘Captain Montrose!’ Father cried. ‘Your daughter Jenny’s with us.’ ‘That's wonderful!’ the captain said. ‘I waited in That afternoon, the captain visited the Australia for her, but her island. Jenny took him in her arms happily. ship never came. I looked for her for years, but found nothing. Then four months S) ago, we caught some pirates. They told us about a girl on this island.’ 36A week later, Fritz told Mother and Father, ‘Jenny’s leaving for England tomorrow. And I want to marry her, and go with her.” ‘Then let’s tell Captain Montrose,’ Father said. And they did. ‘The next day, the captain married Jenny and Fritz. When they said goodbye to the family, Father gave a box to them. ‘Open it later,’ he said. Jenny and Fritz stood on the ship, and looked back at their island home. Soon they could see it no more. Then they opened the box. In it, they found Father's journal: the story of “The Swiss Family Robinson’! i,38 Match the words with who says or writes them. Nauswnea € Fritz’s English is very good Ernst says this to Mother and Father. _] Captain Montrose says this to Father and Fritz. _] Fritz says this to Mother and Father. Jenny says this to Fritz. Jenny writes this in a message. Father says this to Mother. [_] Fritz cries this when he sees Jenny f and ther | waited for her in Australia, but her ship never came. re’sWORD WORK Write new words from chapter 6 to match the pictures. cm WHAT NEXT? What happens after the story finishes? Tick some of these ideas, and write ideas of your own. Pirates attack Captain Montrose’s ship. [] Fritz and Jenny stay in England for some years, then come back to New Switzerland. (] Alot of English people move to New Switzerland. [] Falconwood is a big town in the end. [] Mother and Father leave the island. L] Franz is a famous ship’s captain when he’s older. (J zFerrancDo 39dk) (a9. ® Real-life survivors 1 Read the text about a real-life survivor and complete the notes. 40 The real Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe is a character in a book by the British writer Daniel Defoe. Defoe knew about the story of a real-life island survivor, Alexander Selkirk, when he wrote it. Alexander Selkirk was a Scottish sailor. In September 1704, when he was 28 years old, a ship’s captain left him on Mds a Tierra Island, in the Pacific Ocean. Nobody lived on the island, but Selkirk soon learnt to survive there. He hunted animals for food, and he made clothes from their skins. He ate island plants and fruit, too. Selkirk built a little house, and he made tools from pieces of an old barrel. Selkirk lived well on the island, but it wasn't easy to live alone. Once, he fell off a cliff, and he couldn't move for a day because there was nobody to help him. There was nobody to talk to, so he found animals and made them into pets. Selkirk stayed on the island for four years. In February 1709, some English pirates arrived there. They found Selkirk, and they took him home to Britain, Alexander Selkirk, from. Scotland in the Pacific Ocean left him on the island. animals and ate fruit, too. He made a , clothes, and tools. It wasn't easy to be on the island. English..... ...-Visited the island and found him.3 Research these different real 2 Read the notes about another survivor and complete the text. Juliane Koepcke, from Peru: The Amazon rainforest December 1972 Her plane broke into pieces in a storm Juliane fell 3 kilometres to the forest. She ate a bag of sweets, and drank dirty river water. She followed a river and looked for a village. She was hurt and alone in the rainforest. There were dangerous animals in the river. She saw a canoe, and found an empty house. The girl who fell from the sky On 24th December 1971, Juliane Koepcke, from Peru, was inaa)....P!@1S....over the Amazon rainforest. The plane flew into a terrible b) , and it broke into pieces. 17-year-old Juliane fell 3 kilometres to the ¢) .- below, but amazingly she didn’t die! She was d).. _ in the forest, and she was hurt. What's more, she didn't have any food with her — only a little bag of e). Juliane needed to find af) 5 ,s0 she walked along a river for ten days. There were g)............+....animals in the river, and the water was h) 200 but she needed to drink it. On the tenth day, she saw a i) .... ,and then she found an empty house. The next day, people visited the house and found her. survivor stories. Choose one story. Write a text about it like the texts in activities 1 and 2. — Robertson family — on raft for 38 days — William LaFever — in desert for 3 weeks — Sophie the dog — on island for 4 months — Salamon Vides — in jungle for 32 years42 Newspaper interviews 1 Look at the newspaper headline, and answer the questions. a Which tense do we often use for newspaper headlines? Scottish captain Present Simple / Past Simple finds daughter on is : ; b Which words are missing in the newspaper headline? island in Pacific Nouns and verbs / Articles and possessive adjectives 2. Look at the sentences below and rewrite them to make newspaper headlines. ‘An English ship caught some pirates in the Pacific Ocean, a English. ship. catches. pirates. in Pacific A family from Switzerland spent ten years on an island after their ship sank. b The Swiss family changed an island into a small country, The survivors ftom New Switzerland are going to arrive in London on Saturday, d The Swiss family’s journal became a very famous book. Jenny Montrose and her husband, Fritz, met the Queen of England. f3 Complete the interview with Captain Montrose with the reporter's questions. So how did you find it? Was she alone? Did it take long to find the survivors? Did you like the island? How-de-yeufeel? Did any islanders live there with them? Well, thank you for talking to us. How did they get there?_ Where did you find her? Captain talks about finding survivors When Captain Montrose arrived in London, a Daily News reporter spoke to him. This is his interview. Reporter: .. (tow. do. you. feel... Captain: Very happy. | looked for my daughter for years, and now she's with me again. Reporter: . Captain: We found her on a little island in the padiic Reporter: .. Captain: No, she wasn't. ree was sstit fs TE a Swiss family Reporter: .. Captain: They were ona ship to Australia, but it sank near the island. Reporter: ...0..0..0.cccccccccecseeeeveveeveseeeveeveses Captain: No, they didnt ‘And te island w wasn't on any maps. Reporter: .. Captain: Some months ago, we rea some pirates. eine told me about a on it onan island, so we went there. Reporter: .. Captain: No, it didn't, because they found us. They ro ‘our guns, and they came across the bay in a boat. Reporter: ... a Captain: Yes, | did They cal it New Switzerland, and it's beautiful Reporter: . B4 Read the notes, then complete the newspaper interview with Jenny's words. Jenny Montrose | + Salling to Australia to meet her father when her ship hits rocks in a storm. + Gets into a boat but the boat sinks near cliffs. Swims to the island, | + Lives in a cave near the beach. Eats fish and coconuts, | + Writes messages and ties them to birds | + Fritz Zermatt catches a bird and finds her message. Later he finds her. + Jenny and Fritz marry on the island. Survivor’s story The Daily News talks to Jenny Montrose. Reporter: Why were you in the Pacific? Jenny: ...£. WaS..91.0.. ship. to. Australia. Reporter: Was your father on the boat with you? Jenny: . Reporter: What hai eee to your 1 ship? Jenny: Reporter: How did you get to the island? Jenny: 0... cote Reporter: Where did you live on the island? Jenny: . Reporter: What did you eat? Jenny: Reporter: You sent messages. How did you do that? Jenny: Reporter: So how did Fritz Zermatt ai you? Jenny: Reporter: Now, you and Fritz did comet important before you left the island — right? Jenny: Yes. Reporter: Wonderful! Well, thanks for eer tous. wu A reporter visits New Switzerland and interviews the people there. Choose a different story character and write an interview with him or her.N GRAMMAR CHECK Plural nouns We usually add —s to nouns to make them plural. birds, trees When a noun ends in -o or —ch, we add -es. buffalo - buffaloes, watch — watches When a noun ends in consonant + y, we change the ‘y'to ‘i’ and add —es. country — countries When a noun ends in -fe, it usually changes to -ves. wife — wives Some nouns have irregular plurals: fish — fish, man - men, person - people Write the plural form of these nouns. Use a dictionary if necessary. a buffalo. Puffalogs........ b seed...... ¢ family. d child e knife f foot g barrel... ne h_ monkey... ET DIANCH...eeeeseeeerseeeesenes j fish. k beach Complete the sentences with the plural forms of the nouns in act a There were alot of young... CMiIA1-eN ..on the ship to Australia b We can put things in these old water.............0.. ¢ They loved the yellow..................and blue sea around the island, d Nomore from the ship came with them to the island. e From the trees,....... threw coconuts at Father and Fritz. f Hundreds of big...... ....fan through the forest. g Father and the boys made a house in the..................0fa tall tree. h Mother took the. and made a garden with them. i Father and the boys caught..................in the sea for dinner. j When Hans was in the swamp, he couldn't move his k Father took guns and long..................from the ship. 4546 w GRAMMAR CHECK Going to future: affirmative and negative We use going to to talk about plans and make predictions about the future. We make the going to future with the correct form of the verb be + going to + the infinitive. Father is going to be happy when we take the buffalo home. We aren't going to leave this island. Complete Father's words with the correct form of going to. zrerean oD The weather is changing, Winter. \. .49!9g. +2. CQM€.. (come) soon. THingS .......0.s2eseeee+seeeeeeee++ (NOt be) easy in a tree house all winter. Peers -. (make) a room for the animals under the tree. The boys......- - (find) vegetables for the winter. Mother ...(finish) the garden before the rain comes. We cs vseeeeseeee+ (NOt put) all our things in the tee house because there isn’t room. We... «++... (not have) have much food. You can't hunt in the rain. eerste +. (leave) a lot of tools in the tent over the winter. Complete the pages from Father's journal. Use the correct going to form of the verbs in brackets — affirmative or negative. Thursday 15th Winter is here. The rain isn't. going 49. St. (ota) for weeks now. Mother and the boys (stay) in today because the weather is terrible, but I must go out. 1 .. (look) for some fo One et IS (66) vere 0d because we haven't hungry soon! Some of the animals are ill. Maybe they (live) through the winter. Water is coming into our tree house, and we are cold all the time. Next year, we (make) a better house — we can’t stay in the tree house next winterGRAMMAR CHECK Imperatives We use imperatives to tell people what to do or to give strong advice. We make the affirmative imperative with the infinitive without to. Be carefull We make the negative imperative with don't + the infinitive without to, Don't move! Complete the sentences with the affirmative or negative imperative of the verbs in brackets. a Find your brothers and.....P°1:99..... (bring) them to our room. Uh ketene eer eens CALA! ¢ Wait! ..................(eat) it! Is it safe? d Please (go) back to the ship. Its dangerous esc ret ene sees (fall)! Fangs, -..cc.e+ce+2.+-(Come) here! 9 -- (move), Fritz! h neon Please ... find) me! i Hey, .. : (wait)! Jenny Montrose! j sesseseeeess. (Open) it later. Who says or writes the things in exercise 5? Write the letters. Father and Hans tell Fritz this when they see a snake. [9 Jenny writes this in a message. Father says this to Fritz when a monkey falls from a tree Mother says this to Father. Fritz says this when he sees Jenny on a beach. Father says this to Jenny and Fritz when he gives them a box. Hans says this to his pet when he’ in the swamp. [_] Father says this to Fritz when they find some fruit. Father says this to Fritz on the ship before the storm. Father says this to Fritz on the raft. Seamyaueawna a748 GRAMMAR CHECK Countable and uncountable nouns Countable nouns have a plural form and uncountable nouns don't. We use a/an with singular countable nouns. fritz saw a falcon. We use some, any, lots of, and a lot of with uncountable nouns and plural countable nouns. We usually use any in questions and negative sentences. | found some honey. Did you find any bees? We use much with uncountable nouns and many with plural countable nouns. We usually use much in questions and negative sentences. _/ looked for Jenny for many years Read the sentences. Are the underlined words countable or uncountable? Write C or U. a The ship hita big rockin the storm. ... ©. b A lot of water came into the ship. ¢ There weren't many boats, and the Swiss family arrived late. .... d_ They used some barrels to make a raft. . e They didn’t have much time. They couldn't stay on the ship for long. f That night, Father made a tent with some cloth. Tick the correct sentences and rewrite the incorrect ones. There aren't some people on the island. [] There aren't. any. .pesple.on. the. island,. o When you make a tree house, it’s a lot of work. [A a We haven't got many food for the winter. [] Mum's got some seeds, so we can make a garden. (] a We can grow lots of food next year. ] ~ Did you catch much birds when you went hunting? [] The boys saw bees and found some honeys in a tree. C]10 GRAMMAR CHECK Reference words We use reference words when we don't want to repeat the same word again in a text. pO Father ran upstairs. When he came back, his face was white. They saw some barrels, made a raft with them, and left on that. Write reference words to complete the sentences. a Mother ran to Hans. .....2F1€..... (Mother) pulled a lobster off (Hans) leg. b The boys gave food to the dogs, and...... .....(the boys) gave names to . (the dogs), too. ¢ The island was beautiful. .................(The island) had forests, and................. (the forests) had lots of fruit trees in (the forests). d Ashark came near the raft, but Fritz took a. gun. ....... +++ (Fritz) shot the shark, and (the shark) went away. e Mother slept badly because the island animals made lots of noise. ................. (Mother) could hear (the animals) cries all night. Complete the text with the reference words in the box. he her his it she them they they this Little Franz is twelve now, and......@........likes to explore New Switzerland with ... Older brothers, ...... . . often go away for days, but Mother always worries about “This island is big, and.................has dangerous animals on it,.............+.+.SayS to Father one day. ‘Lworry when the boys go away, too; Father tells New Switzerland isn't a safe country for children, but .. is their home now. must learn to live here! a9LAP SENS TNA GRAMMAR CHECK Sequencers and time adverbs We use sequencing words like after, after that, at first, at the same time, before, then, later, and in the end to link story events. At first, | saw some birds. Later, | caught a fish. Then | went home. After that, | cooked the fish. In the end, | ateit. We use time adverbs like ago, at once, just then, now, soon, and suddenly, to talk about when something happened. Suddenly, | heard a terrible noise. At once, Fangs was afraid. Just then, lots of buffaloes came. We soon caught one. This was hours ago. (ago = before now) 11. Jenny is telling Fritz about her time on the island. Choose the correct words to complete her story. Before our ship hit the rocks, | went up to the deck and got into a boat ago / at once. Our boat slowly came nearer the island. Then / At first something terrible happened. Later / Suddenly, a big wave hit us, and everyone fell into the sea. | couldn't see any people in the water, but | was near a sea cave so | swam there. Later / After, | found this beach. That was nine years ago / later, of course. The beach was my new home in those days. Just then / At first, | couldn't find any food, but | soon / before learnt to catch fish. At once / At the same time, | wrote messages and tied them to birds. In the end / At once, you read one of my messages and found me. After that / Now I'm very happy - | was alone for years, but I'm going to be with people again! * VvGRAMMAR CHECK Going to future, yes / no questions and short answers To make yes / no questions with going to, we use the auxiliary verb be + going to + the infinitive. Are our animals going to live? _Is Franz going to come with us? For short answers, we use the verb be. _ Yes, they are. / No, he isn't. Captain Montrose’s ship is going to leave New Switzerland tomorrow. Write the questions and answer them. a_Jenny/go/to England? ES Jenny .going 49. 99.t9. England?... 2S. SNES. arora b Captain Montrose/stay/on the island? ¢ Fritz and Father/talk/to Captain Montrose about Jenny? d_ Ernst/leave/New Switzerland? e Jenny and Fritz/marry? f Father/give away/his journal?Read Dominoes for pleasure, or to develop language skills. I's your choice. Each Domino reader includes: © a. good story to enjoy integrated activities to develop reading skills and increase vocabulary « task-based projects — perfect for CEFR portfolios © contextualized grammar activities Each Domino pack contains a reader, and a MultiROM with: © an excitingly dramatized audio recording of the story interactive games and activities to improve language skills If you liked this Level One Domino, read these: CEFR Ea ea os ‘Mevel 1-42 A Sherlock Holmes: The Top-Secret Plans by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "This telegram is from my brother Mycroft said Holmes. He wants to speak to me at once about Mr Arthur Cadogan. Do you know this man, Watson? | saw something about him in todays newspaper'| answered \When a young man dies on a London Underground line, top- secret pians for a new British submarine go missing, But who is Cadiogan's kil, why did he die, and where are the missing papers? Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must quickly help Mycroft to angiver these important questions. Journey to the West Retold by Janet Hardy-Gould “Tripitaka, can you go to the west for me — and for Buddha?” When the holy woman Guanyin asks the young Chinese monk Trpitaka to bring some holy waitings back from India, he says'yes But how can he travel across rivers, and fight terrible monsters and demons, on his long journey? He needs three strong helpers Monikey, Pigsy, and Sandy ~ to do that! But where do they come from? Do they always help? And can they bring the holy writings home again? Read this old Chinese story, and find out Cambridge Exams tetrs ToeFLisT OEIC PET 40 57-86 550 KEDPET 30-40 5 390 YEFiyersMET [30 - 25 YLEMovers | 10-20 . = You can find details and a full list of books and teachers’ resources on our website: www.oup.com/elt/gradedreadersaa HEADWORDS © ou ° § ‘UNIVERSITY PRESS www.oup.com/elt ‘There's going to be a storm, Father told Fritz. ‘Find your brothers and bring them to our room! A Swiss family are going to Australia when their ship sinks in a storm. After that, Mother, Father, Fritz, Hans, Ernst, and little Franz must make their home ona Pacific Island. Like Robinson Crusoe, they have many exciting times on the island, and they learn a lot about its animals and plants. But do they always want to stay there, or are they going to leave one day? Text adaptation by Alex Raynham Illustrated by Peter Cottrill This book is supported by a MultiROM, containing a complete dramatized audio recording of the story plus interactive activities. 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