Activity Pages 3 Find the words. Fill the gaps in the song.

lerriuqs takreem yad dnuora tresed

1 Who are the characters in the story?
teef tar tac yalp
takreem yad yalp dnuorg
1 2 3
smra tresed
The ________
_______ men _______ _______ _______
squirrel or a __________.
I’m not a __________
from the lorry. from next door. the dog.
I’m certainly not a horrible __________!
4 5 6 I’m a __________ and I love to __________
In the __________ all the long __________.

_______ The six _______

Flap your __________ all __________.
and the twins. _______. _______.
Tap your __________ on the __________.
2 Fill the gaps to tell the story.
Come with me. Be a __________ and __________
meerkats meerkats cages desert lorry In the __________ all the long __________.
hot-air balloon families men lions
4 Match the speech bubble to the character.
hot-air
Uncle Jack and the children went in the _________
I bought the Meerkats
balloon to look for the _________ of the _________.
_________ It’s their are wild
WOOOOF! meerkats in address!
When they were in the Kalahari _________ some a pet shop. animals.
_________ arrived in a _________. They put the meerkats
into _________. Suddenly some _________ arrived too!
Uncle Jack rescued the men but first they promised
never to catch _________ again.

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5 Write the words. Match the words with 7 Use the characters from Activity 1, the past
the pictures and the past forms. verbs from Activity 5 and the words in the
t u boxes to make sentences.
n r
o n the their in
turn on
________ flew 1 themeerkats netswith 3 meerkats school bags
c ar at their holes
y r 2 the loudly meerkats 4 quickly to
________ barked
the
c at 5 MP3
h c
________ ran 1 The two men caught the meerkats with nets.
______________________________________________

r u 2 ______________________________________________
n 3 ______________________________________________
________ turned on
4 ______________________________________________
f l 5 ______________________________________________
y
________ carried
a 8 Fill the gaps with next, over, between,
b r
k inside or in.
________ caught
1 Mr Smith lived ______
next door to Uncle Jack.
6 Write the verbs from Activity 5 in the right 2 ________ the pet shop there were four baby
column.
meerkats.
Regular past verbs Irregular past verbs
3 The lions were ________ the men and their lorry.
barked
______________________ flew
______________________ 4 The balloon flew ________ forests and seas.
______________________ ______________________ 5 Jim and the twins carried the meerkats
______________________ ______________________ ________ their school bags.

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 PICTURE DICTIONARY
Uncle Jack and the Meerkats
9 Draw and write a description of what the
balloon is flying over.

address

(to) bark

between

cage
Uncle Jack’s balloon is flying over ______________
There are ______________________________________
________________________________________________
________________________________________________ (to) cry
________________________________________________
________________________________________________

10 Do you like the story? Draw your face. desert

= I love the story! hills

= I like the story.
= I quite like the story.
= I don’t like the story. hole

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A hilarious SYLLABUS
PICTURE DICTIONARY
adventure with Vocabulary areas
Uncle Jack and the Meerkats
Animals, nature, feelings, town
Uncle Jack,
Grammar and structures
Daisy, May, Past simple regular and irregular forms
Jim and the Verb + infinitive
Verb + -ing
meerkats. My name is Jane and Could
inside lorry I live in a beautiful Must for obligation
Spanish city, Madrid. Shall for obligation
I’m an English author Adverbs: never, sadly, a lot
of children’s books. Comparatives / superlatives: better best
I’ve always loved
creating stories and
songs for children.
The best ideas
net
loudspeaker come to me while…
I’m jogging!

toothache
stomach-ache

My name is Gustavo.
I live in a very big
city, Buenos Aires.
I have been drawing
twins meerkats all my life, ever since
I was a child as
I didn’t have a TV.
Jane Cadwallader
I enjoy most of all

Uncle drawing comic strips

and picturing myself

Jack
and my kids in the
illustrations that
I create.
and the next to
Meerkats