Young ELI Readers
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Friendship
Family
Animals
Eli Readers is a beautifully illustrated series of timeless classics
and specially-written stories for learners of English.
Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book
This is the real story of the Jungle Book. It is not a funny film for
children. People and animals die. And one child kills the great tiger
and changes the laws of the jungle.
Stage 3
Jane Cadwallader, Uncle Jack and the Bakonzi Tree
Jane Cadwallader, Uncle Jack and the Emperor Penguins
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
ELI Readers
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Paola Accattoli, Grazia Ancillani,
Daniele Garbuglia (Art Director)
Graphic Design
Sergio Elisei
Stage 4
Layout
Romina Duranti
Stage 1
100 headwords
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Starters
Stage 2
200 headwords
A1
Starters/Movers
Stage 3
300 headwords
A1.1
Movers
Stage 4
400 headwords
A2
Flyers
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Stage 2
Jane Cadwallader, PB3 and the Vegetables
Jane Cadwallader, PB3 and the Jacket
Stage 4
Jane Cadwallader, Harry and an Electrical Problem
Jane Cadwallader, Harry and the Crown
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Paloma Bellini, The Secret Passage
Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
Retold by Richard B. A. Brown
Illustrated by Valentina Mai
- Games and language activities
- An audio recording of the story
- A picture dictionary
Stage 1
Dominique Guillemant, Hooray for the Holidays
Dominique Guillemant, Sophie’s Dream
Jane Cadwallader, Granny Fixit and the Ball
Jane Cadwallader, Granny Fixit and the Pirate
Valentina Mai loves
drawing animals, in
particular, tigers.
She spends her time
between the cities of
Ferrara, Padova and
Venice, but when she
works on a book she
stays in one place.
Whilst working on
this book, she lived in
Barcelona, where the
light was perfect.
The ELI Readers collection is a complete range
of books and plays for readers of all ages, ranging
from captivating contemporary stories to timeless
classics. There are three series, each catering for a
different age group; Young ELI Readers, Teen ELI
Readers and Young Adult ELI Readers. The books
are carefully edited and beautifully illustrated to
capture the essence of the stories and plots.
Stage 4
Readers
THE JUNGLE BOOK
Young
RUDYARD KIPLING
Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936) lived in
India until he was 6,
and then went to
school in England.
He returned to India
when he was 17. He
was the first writer
in English to receive
the Nobel Prize for
literature, in 1907.
SYLLABUS
Topics
Animals, adventure, family
Notions and concepts
Ability, actions and activities, life and death,
narration
Other
Verbs: Simple present for narrative (common
verbs- all forms)
Simple past for narrative (common verbs
- all forms)
Modal verbs can and could for ability;
must for necessity / obligation
Adjectives and adverbs:
Positive, comparative and superlative adjectives
adverbs of time and manner
Connectives: and but so because
Determiners: a an that the this
Nouns
Pronouns: Subject object and possessive
Young
Readers
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his is the story of the Jungle Book.
Perhaps you know the film? The
cartoon with dancing bears and
singing monkeys? It’s a film for
children, and people laugh when they watch it.
It’s funny.
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But it’s just a cartoon. It isn’t real.
The real story of the Jungle Book isn’t funny. You
don’t laugh when you read the real story.
If you don’t like stories with blood and death,
stop reading now. Find a different book, or watch
a cartoon. Then you can laugh.
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This is the story of the Jungle Book.
It starts when two people die. A man and
a woman. Their names are not important.
Their lives are not important. Only this is
important: they died.
Of course, everyone dies, sooner or later. It is
natural. It is the First Law of the jungle.
But the woman and the man died in a terrible way.
They went into the jungle, but they
didn’t know the laws of the jungle.
So Shere Khan killed them.
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One day in the jungle Shere Khan – the great
tiger – killed a man and a woman. He did this
because they were alone. He did this because
he was hungry. Hungry animals kill. This is
the Second Law of the jungle.
Animals do not understand fire. They call it
“The Orange Flower” and they are frightened
of it. Before they died, the man and the woman
used fire against Shere Khan.
They burned the great tiger. They burned his
paw – his foot – and Shere Khan was angry.
He killed them, and then he went away. He went
away because he was frightened of the fire.
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We can call her Mother Wolf. Her
name was Raksha in the jungle.
She was in her home. She gave her
milk to her cubs, to her baby wolves.
Suddenly, she heard a noise, outside.
But she could not move.
A mother protects her cubs. This is the
Third Law of the jungle.
‘Father Wolf,’ she said to her husband,
‘what is that noise?’
‘It is Shere Khan,’ he replied.
‘No, I can hear another noise,’ she said.
‘Go outside, and see.’
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Father Wolf went outside. He saw the fire, he saw
the man and he saw the woman. They were dead.
He did not see Shere Khan.The great tiger was
not there.
And he saw a baby. The woman’s baby. The baby
was not dead.
‘It is small,’ he thought. ‘It is like my wolf cubs,
a man-cub.’
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Raksha was sorry for the little man-cub.
He had no mother.
‘I can call him Mowgli,’ she said to her
husband. Mowgli is Little Frog in the
language of the jungle.
‘Mowgli? It is a good name,’ he replied.
‘He is a little frog because he has no hair
on his body.’
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Activity Pages
1 Can you remember the story? Match each
beginning to an end.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
A man and a woman died but
Akela was the leader because
Baloo and Bagheera spoke for the baby so
Mowgli learned the language of animals and
Bagheera took him to a village and
Shere Khan coudn’t escape because
Mowgli spoke to the wolves and
a the language of people.
b he joined the pack.
c he was the strongest.
d the cows ran very fast.
e they didn’t kill the old wolf.
f a woman found him.
g their baby didn’t.
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2 Mowgli lived with the wolf family in their
wolf home. Can you draw the wolf home?
3 Use the right form of these words to
complete the sentences and tell the story.
change find
kill
learn live look take want
found a little baby in the jungle.
1 The wolves _________
2 Shere Khan __________ to eat the little baby.
3 The wolves saved him, and he __________
with them.
4 He __________ the language of wolves.
5 Bagheera __________ him to a village.
6 He __________ after the cows.
7 He __________ the great tiger.
8 He __________ the laws of the jungle.
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