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Nyangoma’s Story: A Child’s Life in Uganda – ELI Young Reader (Level 4)
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Nyangoma is an Ugandan girl who tells her daily life to children of her age: what they eat, how their school is like, the toys they play with, her friends. It’s really touching listening to her words describing her Country and her life.
Nyangoma, a twelve-year-old African girl, invites the reader into her world to meet her family and to see what
everyday life is like in a real Ugandan village. Come and find out about her home and school and what Nyangoma and her friends do in their free time. Then discover what happens to her one day on the way to school.
Syllabus
Vocabulary areas
Home and family, food, animals, the world around us
Grammar and structures
Past continuous – Present perfect – Will – Adverbs – Conjunctions after before – If so – If and when clauses (in zero conditionals) – Before / after clauses
– Verbs that take infinite /gerund – Infinitive of purpose – Be/look like – Be made of/from – Comparatives and superlatives – Descriptive adjectives
In this Reader you will find:
Games and language activities | An audio recording of the story | A picture dictionary
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About the Series
The Young ELI Readers/Real Lives series expands to include a collection of Children True Stories. It means that children from different and not so well known Countries tell ELI students about their daily life and Countries.
Features
• 4 introductory pages of information and curiosities about the country the children are from, allow the young learners to get to know the main characteristics and interesting
aspects of the country.
• Stunning and authentic photos invite the reader into the children’s world, their family and their everyday life.
• an authentic story lets the reader become familiar with other cultures and different ways of living, while having fun.
• a cooperation between ELI and an NGO (non-governmental organization) for each Book: ELI donates parts of the proceeds for relevant development and aid projects
• final pages of activities, including tasks dealing with 21st Century Skills, help pupils to revise and analyse the story with a critical thinking approach, to compare cultures dealing with a great amount of information, to solve problems creatively while working in teams or small groups.
• a Multimedia files adds a digital dimension to reading in class, with an IWB, or at home on the PC. With the Multimedia files children follow fun animations of the story, listen to the recording with a ‘karaoke’ function, do engaging, interactive and autocorrecting exercises, and
much more.
