PB3 and the Jacket (Stage 2)

Stage 2: A1 Starters
An exciting adventure with a friendly extraterrestrial and his robot. When a big black spaceship arrives everyone is afraid. Who is in it? What do they want? Two children, Sue and Ben, dive into the sea and meet PB3 and his robot, Robin.
Together they come face to face with the bad OOs from Planet X011 and together they discover a terrible plan. Can they stop the OOs?

The book contains five pages of exercises for revision at the end. An illustrated dictionary, placed on the inside of the cover, keeps the vocabulary the student needs within sight at all times. Fun cut out bookmarks personalize the book. Reading, speaking, writing and listening skills are fully practised and developed through exercises specifically designed for each skill. The text, either whole or partial, is narrated by native speakers on an Audio CD. The illustrations have been carried out by the most interesting of illustrators, with the conviction that visual ‘comments’ in the text aid the comprehension of a foreign language text. The Young ELI Readers compel the reader to fall in love with both the stories and illustrations. It's elegant book made up of fine details which surprise the reader: from the type of paper to the font chosen. This particularly clear and captivating design was created to guide the readers in the comprehension of the text and the execution of the activities.

Syllabus:
Verb tenses and patterns - Positive, negative, question, positive imperative forms and short answer forms including contractions:
Present Simple (except negative questions), Present Continuous with present meaning (except negative questions) can/can’t for ability, requests and permission have got for possession Let’s
Sentence types - Simple one-clause sentences, Two clauses joined with and, but or or
Direct speech + noun/pronoun + say/ask

In this Reader you will find:
- Games and language activities
- An audio recording of the story and the song
- A picture dictionary