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Aladdin an<Ld the Magic Lamp

Retold, ac.ti' /ities an d poem by Ja n e C adw allader
Illustrated by G ustavo M azali

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Aladdin is a PICTURE DICTIONARY
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
poor boy who
plays all day
long in the
streets with
his monkey,
but som ething
w ill change
his life.

cave

guitar

lizard

andthe
Magic Lamp m agician
 his is Aladdin and his monkey,
Alex. Alex loves fruit. Aladdin
loves Princess Bulbul! Here is
Princess Bulbul and her tiger Tony.
Aladdin is watching her.
I love Princess
* Bulbul! v
ri v /
 /alk. He
s lizard,
i cave

In the cave
there is an old lamp
C an you bring it
| to me, please?
Aladdin jumps down into the cave
and goes to look for the lamp.
The old m an is really a bad m agician
He smiles happily.
Aladdin goes down, down, down.
Suddenly he sees chairs and pictures
and clocks and mirrors. They are all
gold! Under an old carpet Aladdin
sees an old lamp. I

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Aladdin gives the lamp to the bad
magician.
But the bad magician closes the cave
with Aladdin and Alex inside!

ABRACADABRA!
.C L O S E CAVE! J
Aladdin is angry. But Alex has the
lamp! He gives the lamp to Aladdin
and Aladdin begins to clean it.
Suddenly out of the lamp
comes...
A GENIE!

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 Master! Master! Tell me your wish!
A day at the beach or a special dish?
I can give you a castle
Or a beautiful nose
A super fast car
Or eleven .
Master! Master! Tell me your wish!
A day at the beach or a special dish?
(►) 4 Aladdin makes
wish number one.
The genie takes
Aladdin and Alex
to a beautiful palace.

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Aladdin goes to see Princess Bulbul
and her father the King. He wants
to m arry Princess Bulbul.

Will you
m arry me?
Everyone is very happy. But who is that
watching Aladdin and Bulbul? Yes3it’s
the bad magician. Be careful Aladdin!

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Aladdin and Bulbul live happily in the
palace. But one day Aladdin is not at
home and an old m an comes to the
palace. He shows Bulbul some beautiful
new lamps. Be careful Bulbul ...
,

Do you have
an old lamp?

... it’s the bad magician!

But Princess Bulbul shows the old
m an Aladdin’s lamp. The old m an
takes the lamp and gives
Princess Bulbul a new one.
Oh no! The bad m agician
calls the genie.

Take me and
Princess Bulbul
and Aladdin’s
palace to Africa
 Aladdin comes home and finds ...
no palace, no lamp AND NO
PRINCESS BULBUL! Tony draws
a map in the sand.

So ...
are they in Africa?
Let’s qo!

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Aladdin and Alex and Tony go to
Africa on a boat. The days go slowly
. . . 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 10. Aladdin reads a
book and plays the guitar and sings
songs about Princess Bulbul.

Alex sits on Aladdin’s hat.

She doesn’t like the sea! Tony sits
next to Aladdin and looks for Africa
Aladdin, Alex and Tony arrive in
Africa and they look and they look
and they look until one day ...
They go to the palace. Aladdin tells
Tony and Alex to be very quiet.
They see Princess Bulbul. They
are all very happy! Aladdin gives
Princess Bulbul some sleeping
medicine.
Princess Bulbul
puts the sleeping
The bad m agician is sleeping.
Aladdin makes wish number
two and number three.

We want to go
home please.
We want you
to be free.
And so Aladdin and Princess Bulbul
and Alex and Tony and the Genie live
happily ever after. (■)
 activity pages ^
MatcK tKe characters and their pets.
W rite their names.
Bulbul Lucy the lizard Alex-^heTTTOnfcey"
Tony the tiger The bad m agician -A ktdttirT

Tick the Jruit you can find on pages 2 and 3.

□ b an an a □ grape □ m ango

□ pineapple □ lemon □ orange

□ waterm elon □ lime □ pear

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 Find the words and match them w ith the
pictures. Fill the gaps in the poem.

Master! Master! Tell me your wish!

A day a t the beach or a sp e c ia l__________ ?
I can give you a _________
O r a b e a u tiju l_________
A super j a s t _________
Or e le v en __________ .
Master! Master! Tell me your wish!
A day at the beach or a special dish?

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o Look at the tw o pictures. There are six
differences. Complete the sentences.

1 In picture 1there a r e ________mirrors but in picture 2

there is _______ .
2 In picture 1 there i s _______ lamp but in picture 2
there a r e ________ .
3 In picture 1there a r e ________chairs, but in picture 2
there a r e _______ .
4 In picture 1there a r e _______ carpets but in picture 2

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Look, read and draw a line to skow , In
order, wkere tke lamp goes In tke storg.

An old man takes the lamp,

(he’s tke bad magician!)

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Im agine the genie gives you three w ishes.
W rite w hat they are and draw one of them.

My wish num ber two is

My wish number three is

Do you like the story? Draw your Jace.

/ o° \

= I love the story!

( ^ ) = I like the story.

I 8° \
= I quite like the story.

( ^ ) = I don’t like the story.

No one knows who SYLLABU S
the first person was
to tell the story of Vocabulary areas
Aladdin. It was passed The home, animals, numbers, fruit, the world
on from storyteller around us
to storyteller. Some
versions of the story Grammar and structures
are set in China whilst Present simple
in later versions, like Present continuous
the Disney film, the Prepositions of place
story happens in an Question words
Arab country. Let's
Like + v + ing
Adjectives of description an d feeling.

Youriy ELI Readers

Stage 1
Anonym ous, A laddin and the M agic Lamp
D. Guillemant, Hooray f o r the Holidays
D. Guillemant, Sophie's Dream
J. C adw allader, Granny Fixit and the Yellow String
J. C adw allader, Granny Fixit and the Pirate
J. C adw allader, Granny Fixit and the Ball

Stage 2
L.F. Baum, The W onderful W izard o f OZ
J. C adw allader, PB3 and Coco the Clown
J. C adw allader, PB3 and the Vegetables
J. C adw allader, PB3 and the Jacket

Stage 3
My nam e is Gustavo. 0 . Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
I live in a very big J. C adw allader, Uncle Jack and the M eerkats
city, Buenos Aires. J. C adw allader, Uncle Jack and the Emperor Penguins
I have been drawing J. C adw allader, Uncle Jack and the Bakonzi Tree
all my life, ever since J.M . Barrie, Peter Pan
I was a child as
I didn’t have a TV. Stage 4
J. London, W hite Fang
I enjoy most of all
J. C adw allader, Harry and the Sports Com petition
drawing comic strips
J. C adw allader, Harry and an Electrical Problem
an d picturing myself J. C adw allader, Harry and the Crown
and my kids in the P. Bellini, The Secret Passage
illustrations th a t L. Carroll, Alice in W onderland
I create. R. Kipling, The Jungle Book
 A iu u u m u* u — riCiURE DICTIONARY
poor boy who Aladdin, and the Magic Lamp

plays all day

long in the
streets with
his monkey,
but som ething
w ill change
his life.

gold

*lamp

A
lizard

andthe
Atagic Law>p m agician
 PICTURE DICTIONARY
Aladdin and theMagic Lamp

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oeautijully Illustrated series oj tim eless classics

and specially-written stories Jor learners English.

Aladdin and the Magic Lamp

Aladdin is a poor boy who plays all day long in the streets with
his monkey, but som ething will change his life.

A laddin loves Bulbul but his love is impossible. She is a princess an d

he is ju st a poor boy. But the m agic lam p a bad m agician changes
everything and helps A laddin to get w h at he w ants. Well, th a t’s w hat he
thinks! The bad m agician has o th er ideas!

- Games and lan g u ag e activities

- An audio recording o j the story
- A picture dictionary

Friendship Fantasy Good a n d b ad Persistence

Stage 1 100 headwords below A1 Starters

ge 2 200 headwords A1 Starters/Movers

300 headwords A1.1 Movers

Q Stage 4 400 headwords A2 Flyers

Classic

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