Young Readers

Jane Cadwallader

Uncle Jack
and the Bakonzi Tree
Illustrated by Gustavo Mazali
 ‘T
2 here’s a picture of my friend King
Kambogo and Nyungwe Forest.
Let’s go and listen to him!’ said
Uncle Jack.

THURSDAY

E N Y U N G WE
SAV REST
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FRIDAY 24 APRIL
th

FRIDAY

King Kambogo told the people about Nyungwe

Forest and the animals that live there.

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Then he told them about some bad men who
wanted to cut down the forest to grow tea. Most of
the people said, ‘We must help the forest!’ But there
were two bad men listening to King Kambogo.
One of them said, ‘We must stop King Kambogo!’
The other said, ‘Let’s give him a stomach-ache
with this medicine, then he can’t tell people about
Nyungwe Forest and we can cut down the forest
to grow tea!’

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The next week Uncle Jack got a letter. It was from
King Kambogo. ‘I must go and see King Kambogo
in hospital!’ said Uncle Jack.
That afternoon Uncle Jack went to visit King
Kambogo. King Kambogo wasn’t well! ‘I feel
terrible!’ he said. ‘Some people from the television
are coming to talk to me about Nyungwe Forest
but I can’t talk to them. I’m too weak.’
The bad men were behind the curtain. ‘Ha Ha,’
they thought, ‘our plan is working!’

Dear Un
cle Jack
,
I’m in S
t John’s
Hospita
I have a l.
terrible
stomach
-ache!
Please co
me and
see me.
Your fri
end.
King Kam
bogo

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‘I want you to go to Nyungwe Forest and bring
me some bark from the Umusurirabakonzi tree.
I need this to get well,’ said King Kambogo. Uncle
Jack listened. The two bad men listened too.
‘We must find this tree before Uncle Jack,’ the
bad men said very quietly, ‘and stop Uncle Jack
bringing the bark to King Kambogo.’

Uncle Jack put a map, some cheese sandwiches, a

pineapple and some tea into a basket. Of course
the children wanted to go with him! Grumpy the
dog didn’t want to go ... but he had to help Uncle
Jack with the children!
Uncle Jack said, ‘We are going to Africa. We must
look for a Umusurirabakonzi tree.’
‘A WHAT?’ asked Daisy.
‘Let’s just call it a Bakonzi tree,’ said May.
‘O.K.’ said Uncle Jack laughing.
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 Activity Pages 2 Choose letters from each tree in order and
complete the words of the song.
1 Look at the picture from the story. Read the f s e r e o t s
sentences about the story. Write before if h r o k o o y e e e s r
the action was before what happens in the i t d n s e s s
picture. Write after if the action was after.

In the deep green fo__

r __
e __
s __
t
What can you see?
Ants and __ __a k__ __ and s p__ __ __ __s
And m __n__e__ __ up a tree!

In the deep green __ __r__ __t

after
1 Uncle Jack took some bark from the tree. _______ What can you do?
2 They met Winnie. _______
before Take p__ __t__ __ . Climb up
3 The chimpanzees threw fruit at the bad men. And swing from __ __ __ __s too!
_______
4 Uncle Jack and the children went to Rwanda.
3 Match the speech bubble to the person.
_______
5 Jim took photos of some forest animals. _______ Stop and Hello
Where are Was it
6 The bad men ran away. _______ watch! Chimps!
you going? you?
7 Winnie showed Uncle Jack the way to the
Umusurirabakonzi tree. _______
8 Uncle Jack, the children and Grumpy went
to see King Kambogo in hospital. _______

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 4 Cross out letters to find verbs in the past. 5 Use the regular verbs in activity 4 to
Write them beside the verbs in the present. complete the sentences in the past.
Circle the ants with irregular verbs.
1 Yesterday Daisy ___________
watched the television.
2 Grumpy ___________ onto the sofa.
esawle hiwantedfg “Get off the sofa!” said Uncle Jack.
beran
3 May talked and Uncle Jack ___________ .
4 Jim ___________ a new camera.
see ________
saw want ________
run ________ 5 Grumpy opened one eye and ___________
everyone.
puter megave alistenedw

put ________ give ________ listen ________

6 Write the sentences.

watchedel lejumpedme
1 ImustgoandseeKingKambogo.
______________________________________________
I must go and see King Kambogo.
watch ________ jump ________ 2 WemustfindthetreebeforeUncleJack.
______________________________________________
3 Theywantedtocutdowntheforest.
fetooked esaidet
______________________________________________
4 Themenstartedtocutdownthetree.
take ________ say ________ ______________________________________________

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 PICTURE DICTIONARY
Uncle Jack and the Bakonzi Tree
7 Imagine and draw a tree that looks or smells
special. Invent a name and write about it. +971 2 645 8987
info@jarirbookstores.ae

ant

bark

This is the ___________________ tree. It ___________

_________________________________________________
chimpanzee
_________________________________________________ curtain
_________________________________________________

8 Do you like the story?

Draw your face and I love it.
choose a sentence I like it.
(to) cut down
to write. I quite like it.
forest
I don’t like it very much.
I don’t like it at all.

__________________________________ grumpy

32 headache

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A nail biting PICTURE DICTIONARY SYLLABUS

adventure in Uncle Jack and the Bakonzi Tree Vocabulary areas

Animals, nature, feelings
the Rwandan
Grammar and structures
rainforest with Past simple regular and irregular forms
Uncle Jack, Verb + infinitive
Verb + -ing
Jim, Daisy and (to) hug medicine My name is Jane and Adverbs
I live in a beautiful Can / can’t
May (and of Spanish city, Madrid. Must / mustn’t
course Grumpy I’m an English author Question words: what? / why?
of children’s books. Prepositions of place
the dog!). I’ve always loved
creating stories and
Can they save songs for children.
the life of King The best ideas
pineapple road come to me while…
Kambogo? I’m jogging!

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