Story 1. I’m Hungry

This story covers greetings and animals.

Animals: Ant, spider, snake, bird, cat, fox, and lion.

Greeting: Hello, how are you?
I’m fine, thanks.

Verbs: Eat

Phrases: I’m hungry.
I am going to eat you.

Extra vocabulary for version 2: What are you doing? Look for, look, find, gobble up, pop out, unfortunately

Story 2. Anna goes to the zoo

This story introduces counting from one to ten. It also revises animals from story one and introduces new ones.

Animals: Revision: Lion, spider, snake, bird, and ant
Numbers: 1-10

New animals: Elephant, giraffe, bear, duck, and monkey

Nouns: Daddy, zoo

Verbs: See

Phrases: At the zoo

An option is to revise colours, deliberately getting them wrong, for example:
“At the zoo, Anna sees two elephants.  There they are, two green elephants,” and let the children spot the mistake – they will soon be calling out the right colour.

Extra vocabulary for version 2: The text proposes a variety of verbs to describe what the animals are doing and animal body parts.  Repeat the same verbs more often if you need a simpler version, but not as simple as the basic one.

Walk, stick out, say, spray, eat, think, chew, dance, rest, swim, lie down, monkey around, play, and sit.
Tongue, trunk, back, webbed-feet, beak, head, and body.
Hot, hungry, and meal.

Story 3. Archie and his pony 

This story revises counting and introduces colours.

Numbers: Revision: 1-10

Colours: Black, blue, green, yellow, brown, red, white, orange, pink, purple

Nouns: Pony, jump

Verbs: Jump

Phrases: Here is, it is, well done! Yippee!

Extra vocabulary for version 2: Excellent, mischievous, very good, good, OK, naughty, crazy, really crazy, groovy, cool

If there are too many of these adjectives, use fewer and repeat them.

That was, don’t
Look, eat, drink and stay on

Story 4. Hide & seek

This short story revises animals and introduces some nouns from nature.

Greeting: Revision: Hello, how are you? I’m fine, thanks.
Numbers: Revision: 1-10
Colours: Revision: yellow, green, blue, red
Animals: Revision: Giraffe, bird, spider, monkey, snake, lion, and ant

Nouns: Path, bush, pond, grass, flower, head

Verbs: Hide

Phrases: Is that you?  No, it’s me.

Extra vocabulary for version 2: Counted, found, searched, thought, saw, move and said, coming, stepping, popping, flying.  Watch out! silly

Story 5. The marching ants

This story revises much of what has been covered so far, notably counting, colours, and words from nature.

Numbers: Revision: 1-10
Colours: Revision: white, yellow, red, brown, orange, green, blue, pink, and purple
Nouns: Revision: ant, path, bush, pond, grass, and flower
        
New nouns: Field, garden, bed, teddy bear

Verbs: March

Phrases: Feels tired, falls asleep

Other: Little

Extra vocabulary for version 2:

First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, last
They have been working
Marching, working, looking, take back, notice
Anthill, nap