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The Pumpkin with No Face



THE PUMPKIN WITH NO FACE

Daniela Perez

English A1-A2

Graded reader with vocabulary, grammar and exercises




Chapter 1. A Blue House on Bell Street





Key vocabulary



a house  

a porch  

a garden  

a kitchen  

a bedroom  

stairs  

a window  

a suitcase  

a grandmother  

a cat  , 

blue  

old  

quiet  

tired  

happy  




A Blue House on Bell Street



It is the twelfth of October. It is four oclock in the afternoon.

Mia Delgado is nine years old. She is in a car with her mother and her father. The car is small and green. There are two suitcases in the car, and one of them is Mias suitcase. It is red.

The car is on a long road. On the left there is the sea. The sea is grey today. On the right there are trees. The trees are red, orange and yellow, because it is October.

Are you happy, Mia? her mother says.

I dont know, Mia says.

It is only one month, her father says. Our new house is not ready. In November you are with us again.

I know, Mia says.

Mia is not sad. She is not happy. She is tired, and she is a little bit nervous.

The car stops. They are in a small town. The name of the town is Harbor Point. It is a very small town in Maine. There is one school, one shop, one bakery and one library. There are about six hundred people in Harbor Point.

The car is on a street. The name of the street is Bell Street.

Bell Street is not long. There are nineteen houses on Bell Street. Some houses are white, some houses are yellow, and one house is blue.

The blue house is number seven.

Here we are, Mias father says.

The blue house is old. It is one hundred years old. There is a big porch in front of the house, and there are three stairs to the porch. There is a green door and there are eight windows.

In front of the house there is a garden. In the garden there are flowers, but they are not big now, because it is October. There is a tree in the garden. It is an apple tree. There are apples on the tree, and there are apples on the grass.

Mias grandmother is on the porch.

Her name is Rosa Delgado. She is sixty-nine years old. She is not very tall. She has got white hair and brown eyes. Today she is in a green dress and a brown coat.

Mia! Grandma Rosa says.

Mia opens the door of the car. She runs to the porch. Her grandmother is warm and she smells of apples and soup.

You are very big now, Grandma Rosa says.

I am nine, Mia says.

Nine is very big.

Mias mother and father are in the house for twenty minutes. They drink tea in the kitchen. Then they are in the car again.

Be good, her mother says.

I am always good, Mia says.

Her mother laughs. The green car goes down Bell Street, and then it is not there.

Mia is quiet for a minute.

Come, Grandma Rosa says. This house is your house now.

The house is big and it is very quiet.

Downstairs there is a kitchen, a living room and a small room with books. The kitchen is yellow. There is a big table in the kitchen and there are six chairs. There is a window over the sink, and from this window you can see the garden and the apple tree.

There is a big pot on the cooker. Something in the pot is hot and it smells very good.

What is in the pot? Mia says.

Soup, her grandmother says.

Is it for dinner?

It is for Friday. On Friday I make soup for the street.

For all the street?

For all the street, Grandma Rosa says. Nineteen houses.

Upstairs there are three bedrooms. Mias bedroom is at the end of the stairs. It is small. There is a bed, a little table, a chair and a window. The window is over the porch. From the window Mia can see the garden, the apple tree, the street and the sea.

There is a blue blanket on the bed.

Is this room OK? her grandmother says.

It is very good, Mia says. And it is true.

At six oclock they have dinner in the kitchen. They have bread, cheese, tomatoes and apple cake. The apple cake is warm.

At seven oclock something comes into the kitchen.

It is a cat. The cat is grey and very big. He has got green eyes and one white foot.

This is Pepper, Grandma Rosa says. He is eleven years old and he is not a friendly cat.

Pepper looks at Mia. Then he sits on Mias feet.

Oh, Grandma Rosa says. Interesting.

At half past eight Mia is in bed. The house is quiet. Outside the window she can hear the sea. It is a long, slow sound.

She thinks about her mother and father in the car. She thinks about her new house in the new town. She thinks about school in November.

Then she thinks: October is a long month.

She is wrong. This October is not long. This October is very fast, and it is the strangest October in her life.

But she does not know that now.

Now she is only a tired girl in a small bedroom in a blue house on Bell Street, and outside the window the sea is grey and quiet, and downstairs a big grey cat sits in front of the green door and looks at the porch all night. ## Vocabulary exercises




1. Complete the sentences ( )


1. Grandma Rosa is on the ______ in front of the house.

2. Mias ______ is red.

3. There is an apple tree in the ______.

4. The ______ in the house is yellow.

5. Mias ______ is at the end of the stairs.

6. From the ______ Mia can see the sea.

7. The house on Bell Street is ______.

8. Pepper is a big grey ______.




2. Match the words ( )


1. a porch 2. stairs 3. quiet 4. tired 5. a grandmother 6. old

a.  b.  c.  d.  e.  f. 




3. Choose the correct answer (  )


1. A garden is: a) in a house b) in front of or behind a house c) in a car

2. A porch is: a) a room for food b) a place in front of the door c) a big window

3. If you are tired, you want: a) to sleep b) to run c) to sing

4. A suitcase is for: a) food b) clothes and things c) flowers

5. A kitchen is a room for: a) sleeping b) cooking c) reading




4. Answer the questions (  )


1. How old is Mia?

2. What is the name of the town?

3. How many houses are there on Bell Street?

4. What colour is Grandma Rosas house?

5. Who is Pepper?




5. True or false (  )


1. Mia is ten years old.

2. Harbor Point is a big city.

3. Grandma Rosa has got white hair.

4. There are nineteen houses on Bell Street.

5. Pepper sits on Mias feet.










 to be: am / is / are


            . ,      ,       to be ().

  . ? Mia is nine.

 . ? The house is blue.

 

    :

I am  Im

you are  youre

he is / she is / it is  hes / shes / its

we are  were

they are  theyre

I am nine.  She is my grandmother.  They are in the car.

 

   not.

    :

I am not  Im not

you are not  you arent

he is not  he isnt

we are not  we arent

they are not  they arent

Mia is not sad.  The trees arent green.

 

    ,  .

She is happy. ? Is she happy?

You are tired. ? Are you tired?

 

      yes  no,   :

Are you tired? ? Yes, I am. / No, Im not.

Is the house blue? ? Yes, it is. / No, it isnt.

 :       .   Yes, Im.  Yes, I am.




Grammar exercises





1. Write am, is or are


1. Mia ______ nine years old.

2. The trees ______ red and orange.

3. I ______ tired.

4. Grandma Rosa ______ on the porch.

5. We ______ in a small town.

6. The sea ______ grey today.

7. You ______ very big now.

8. Pepper and Mia ______ in the kitchen.




2. Make the sentences negative (  )


1. Mia is happy. ? ______

2. The house is new. ? ______

3. They are in the garden. ? ______

4. I am tired. ? ______

5. Pepper is a friendly cat. ? ______




3. Make questions and short answers (    )


1. Mia / nine ? ______ ? Yes, ______.

2. the house / green ? ______ ? No, ______.

3. you / tired ? ______ ? Yes, ______.

4. the apples / on the tree ? ______ ? Yes, ______.

5. Harbor Point / a big city ? ______ ? No, ______.








Vocabulary 1: 1. porch 2. suitcase 3. garden 4. kitchen 5. bedroom 6. window 7. blue 8. cat

Vocabulary 2: 1-b, 2-a, 3-e, 4-f, 5-c, 6-d

Vocabulary 3: 1-b, 2-b, 3-a, 4-b, 5-b

Vocabulary 4: 1. She is nine years old. 2. Harbor Point. 3. Nineteen. 4. It is blue. 5. He is Grandma Rosas cat.

Vocabulary 5: 1. False 2. False 3. True 4. True 5. True

Grammar 1: 1. is 2. are 3. am 4. is 5. are 6. is 7. are 8. are

Grammar 2: 1. Mia isnt happy. 2. The house isnt new. 3. They arent in the garden. 4. Im not tired. 5. Pepper isnt a friendly cat.

Grammar 3: 1. Is Mia nine? Yes, she is. 2. Is the house green? No, it isnt. 3. Are you tired? Yes, I am. 4. Are the apples on the tree? Yes, they are. 5. Is Harbor Point a big city? No, it isnt.




Chapter 2. The First Pumpkin





Key vocabulary



autumn / fall  

a pumpkin  

a leaf / leaves   / 

chalk  

a word  

a face  

wet  

cold  

a morning  

a step  

big  

heavy  

strange  

a neighbour  

to write  




The First Pumpkin



Mia opens her eyes at seven oclock in the morning.

The room is cold. The window is grey. Outside there is a lot of rain, and the rain is on the glass in small lines.

It is the thirteenth of October. It is Monday.

Mia is in her blue blanket for five minutes. Then she puts on two socks, a big sweater and old jeans, and she goes down the stairs.

The stairs are cold too. Number four and number nine make a small noise. In this house every step has got a different voice.

In the kitchen there is a light. Grandma Rosa is at the table with a cup of coffee and a newspaper. Pepper is on a chair. He is asleep.

Good morning, Grandma Rosa says.

Good morning.

There is bread on the table. There is butter and there is honey. There is no chocolate in this house, and there is no chocolate in this house in November too, so please dont ask.

Mia laughs.

She has got bread with honey and a glass of milk. Outside the rain stops. The sky is grey but there is a little bit of light over the sea.

Is there a shop in this town? Mia says.

There are two shops. There is a vegetable shop and there is a shop for everything else.

And a school?

There is one school. It is very small. There are forty-two children in it.

Forty-two, Mia says. In my school there are six hundred.

Six hundred children in one school, Grandma Rosa says. That is not a school. That is a town.

At half past eight Grandma Rosa opens the green door, because on Monday morning the newspaper man puts a second newspaper on the porch.

She does not say anything for four or five seconds.

Mia, she says. Come here.

Mia comes.

On the porch, in front of the door, there is a pumpkin.

It is not a small pumpkin. It is very big and very orange. It is on the second step, between the two flower pots. Around it there are wet leaves, red and brown, from the apple tree.

The pumpkin has got no face. There are no eyes, there is no nose and there is no mouth. Nobody cuts this pumpkin. It is only a big orange pumpkin in the rain.

But on the side of the pumpkin there is a word.

The word is in white chalk. The letters are big.

SOUP

Mia looks at the pumpkin. Then she looks at her grandmother.

Is it for you? Mia says.

I dont know.

Is it a present?

I dont know.

Who is it from?

Mia, Grandma Rosa says, I dont know.

They stand on the porch and look at the pumpkin. The rain is small now. The pumpkin is wet and it shines a little bit.

Mia goes down the three steps. She looks at the grass in front of the porch. There is a lot of water in the grass and there is a lot of hair from Pepper, but there are no shoes, no lines and no marks. There is nothing.

She looks at the street. Bell Street is empty. There are nineteen houses and there are no people. There is one car and it is not new.

Is there a person in the garden? she says.

No, her grandmother says.

Is there a person in the street?

No.

That is strange.

Yes, Grandma Rosa says slowly. That is strange.

Mia puts her hands on the pumpkin. It is very cold and very heavy. She cannot move it. It is like a small orange rock.

Grandma, why is there no face?

Ah, her grandmother says. Now that is a good question.

She sits down on the top step, with her coffee in her hands, and she is quiet for a moment.

In this town, she says, in October, there is a pumpkin in front of every house. And every pumpkin has got a face. Two eyes, one nose, one mouth. Big teeth. It is for the children on Halloween night. A pumpkin with a face says: this house is ready.

And a pumpkin with no face?

A pumpkin with no face is not ready, Grandma Rosa says. A pumpkin with no face is a pumpkin that is waiting.

Waiting for what?

Grandma Rosa drinks her coffee.

I am sixty-nine years old, she says. And I dont know.

They take the pumpkin into the house. It is very heavy, so they take it together, four hands on one pumpkin, and they put it on the kitchen table next to the bread.

The word SOUP is white and clear in the light of the kitchen.

Soup, Mia says. You make soup on Friday. For nineteen houses.

I do.

So it is about you.

Or it is about soup, Grandma Rosa says. Sometimes soup is only soup.

But Mia looks at her grandmothers face. Her grandmother is quiet, and her eyes are on the word, and she is not thinking about soup.

That night Mia is at her window for a long time. She looks down at the porch and at the two flower pots and at the second step.

At half past ten there is nothing.

At eleven oclock there is nothing.

At twenty past eleven her eyes are heavy, and at half past eleven she is asleep with her head on the window.

In the morning there is a second pumpkin. ## Vocabulary exercises




1. Complete the sentences ( )


1. There is a big orange ______ on the porch.

2. On the side of it there is one ______ in white chalk.

3. The pumpkin has got no eyes, no nose and no mouth. It has got no ______.

4. Around the pumpkin there are wet ______ from the apple tree.

5. The pumpkin is very ______ and Mia cannot move it.

6. In October it is ______ in Maine.

7. Somebody puts the pumpkin there in the ______.

8. Nineteen families live on Bell Street. They are all ______.




2. Match the words ( )


1. chalk 2. a step 3. strange 4. wet 5. autumn 6. to write

a.  b.  c.  d.  e.  f. 




3. Choose the correct answer (  )


1. You write on a blackboard with: a) chalk b) soup c) a leaf

2. In autumn the leaves are: a) green b) red, orange and brown c) blue

3. Something heavy is: a) not easy to move b) very small c) very hot

4. A neighbour is a person who: a) lives near you b) works in a shop c) is in your family

5. A pumpkin is: a) a fruit tree b) a big orange vegetable c) a kind of bread




4. Answer the questions (  )


1. What day is it in this chapter?

2. Where is the pumpkin?

3. What is the word on the pumpkin?

4. Why is there no face on it, in Grandma Rosas words?

5. What does Mia see on the grass?




5. True or false (  )


1. It is Monday the thirteenth of October.

2. There are six hundred children in the school in Harbor Point.

3. The pumpkin is light and Mia can move it easily.

4. Grandma Rosa knows who puts the pumpkin there.

5. In the morning there is a second pumpkin.










There is / there are


    ,  -     - . -   , , ,      .

  . ? There is a pumpkin on the porch.

   . ? There are nineteen houses on the street.

   

    :

There is a pumpkin.  There are two pumpkins.

Theres a cat.  There are five cats.

      : theres.  therere      .



  ,   :

There isnt a shop here. = There is no shop here.

There arent any children. = There are no children.



   there:

Is there a school in this town? ? Yes, there is. / No, there isnt.

Are there any people in the street? ? Yes, there are. / No, there arent.

 

  there is  there are  ,       :

There is a bed, a table and two chairs in the room.

There are two chairs, a bed and a table in the room.

   it is

There is ,   . It is    .

There is a pumpkin on the porch. It is very big.




Grammar exercises





1. Write there is or there are


1. ______ a pumpkin on the second step.

2. ______ nineteen houses on Bell Street.

3. ______ two shops in the town.

4. ______ a word on the pumpkin.

5. ______ wet leaves on the grass.

6. ______ no chocolate in this house.

7. ______ forty-two children in the school.

8. ______ a light in the kitchen.




2. Make the sentences negative (  )


1. There is a face on the pumpkin. ? ______

2. There are people in the street. ? ______

3. There is a car in the garden. ? ______

4. There are marks on the grass. ? ______

5. There is a shop next to the school. ? ______




3. Write questions and short answers (    )


1. a school / in the town ? ______ ? Yes, ______.

2. any people / in the street ? ______ ? No, ______.

3. a word / on the pumpkin ? ______ ? Yes, ______.

4. two shops / in Harbor Point ? ______ ? Yes, ______.

5. a face / on the pumpkin ? ______ ? No, ______.








Vocabulary 1: 1. pumpkin 2. word 3. face 4. leaves 5. heavy 6. cold 7. morning 8. neighbours

Vocabulary 2: 1-b, 2-e, 3-f, 4-c, 5-a, 6-d

Vocabulary 3: 1-a, 2-b, 3-a, 4-a, 5-b

Vocabulary 4: 1. Monday, the thirteenth of October. 2. On the second step of the porch, between two flower pots. 3. SOUP. 4. Because a pumpkin with no face is a pumpkin that is waiting. 5. Water and cat hair, but no marks and no shoes.

Vocabulary 5: 1. True 2. False 3. False 4. False 5. True

Grammar 1: 1. There is 2. There are 3. There are 4. There is 5. There are 6. There is 7. There are 8. There is

Grammar 2: 1. There isnt a face on the pumpkin. 2. There arent any people in the street. 3. There isnt a car in the garden. 4. There arent any marks on the grass. 5. There isnt a shop next to the school.

Grammar 3: 1. Is there a school in the town? Yes, there is. 2. Are there any people in the street? No, there arent. 3. Is there a word on the pumpkin? Yes, there is. 4. Are there two shops in Harbor Point? Yes, there are. 5. Is there a face on the pumpkin? No, there isnt.




Chapter 3. The Boy from Number Nine





Key vocabulary



a boy  

a girl  

a bike  

a fence  

a friend  

hair  

tall  

short  , 

thin  

funny  

loud  

to live  

to know  

to help  

every day   




The Boy from Number Nine



The second pumpkin is on the first step. It is smaller than the first one. On the side there is one word in white chalk:

AND

And? Mia says. And what?

And nothing, Grandma Rosa says. It is just and.

That is not a word. That is half of a word.

It is a word. It is a small word.

They put the second pumpkin on the kitchen table next to the first one. Now there are two pumpkins on the table and there is not a lot of space for the bread.

At ten oclock Mia goes into the garden.

The garden is wet. Mia walks around the house two times. She looks at every window. She looks behind the apple tree. She looks under the porch, where it is dark and where there are old flower pots and a lot of leaves.

There is nothing.

Hello!

The voice is very loud and it comes from the other side of the fence.

There is a boy on the fence. He is about nine or ten. He has got red hair and a lot of freckles. He is thin and he is not tall. He has got a blue coat and one green glove. He does not have a second glove.

Hello, Mia says.

You are the granddaughter, the boy says.

I am Mia.

I know. Everybody knows. It is a very small town. My name is Tommy Bird. I live at number nine, next to you.

Tommy jumps down from the fence into Mias garden. He does not ask.

So, he says. Two pumpkins.

Mia looks at him.

How do you know that?

I see everything, Tommy says. I get up at half past six every day. My father works at the harbour and he goes at seven, so my family gets up early. I look out of my window and I see your porch.

Do you see the pumpkins in the morning?

I see them at half past six. They are there. They are always there.

So somebody puts them there in the night.

Yes, Tommy says.

Mia thinks for a moment.

Or you put them there, she says.

Tommy laughs. He laughs very loudly, and two birds go out of the apple tree.

Me? I dont get up in the night. I like my bed. My mother says I love my bed more than I love my family.

That is not an answer.

It is a good answer, Tommy says. And I dont have any pumpkins. My mother buys one pumpkin every year and she buys it on the thirtieth of October, because she never does anything early.

Mia looks at his face. She does not know him, but she thinks he is telling the truth. And she also thinks: he laughs too much for a person with a secret.

OK, she says. You dont do it.

Thank you very much.

Do you know who does?

No, Tommy says. But I want to know. This town is very boring. Nothing happens here. Last year a dog runs into the school and everybody talks about it for four months.

Mia laughs.

So, Tommy says. We work together?

Do you want to?

Yes! Yes, of course. Look, I know everybody in this street. I know all nineteen houses. I know who has a dog, who has a boat, who is nice and who is not nice. You know nothing. You are new.

That is true, Mia says.

So I am useful, Tommy says. And you have the pumpkins. So you are useful too.

They shake hands over the wet grass. It is a very serious moment, and then Tommy puts his hand in his pocket and takes out half a sandwich and eats it, so it is a less serious moment.

They sit on the porch steps. Tommy tells Mia about Bell Street.

At number one there is a man with three dogs. At number three there is a family with a baby, and the baby cries every night. At number five there is Mrs. Pike, and she is one hundred and one years old, and she never opens her door.

One hundred and one, Mia says.

One hundred and one. She is the oldest person in Maine. Maybe.

At number nine there is Tommy. At number eleven there are two brothers with a boat. At number fifteen there is Mr. Doyle. He is the postman and he knows every house.

At number nineteen, at the end of the street, there is a red door.

Who lives there? Mia says.

Miss Ada, Tommy says. She has the vegetable shop.

Mia stops.

The vegetable shop, she says slowly.

Yes.

Does she sell pumpkins?

Tommy looks at her. Then his eyes are very big.

Oh, he says.

Yes.

Oh!

Tommy, does she sell pumpkins?

She sells all the pumpkins, Tommy says. Everybody in this town buys pumpkins from Miss Ada. Everybody. Every year.

They look at each other on the cold porch step.

Tomorrow, Mia says, we go to the shop.

Tomorrow I have school.

After school.

After school, Tommy says. OK. But I want to say one thing first.

What?

This is the best October of my life, Tommy Bird says, and he goes back over the fence. ## Vocabulary exercises




1. Complete the sentences ( )


1. Tommy Bird is a ______ with red hair.

2. He sits on the ______ between the two gardens.

3. He has got red ______ and a lot of freckles.

4. Tommy is not tall. He is ______.

5. He is very ______ when he laughs.

6. Tommy and Mia are ______ now.

7. Tommy ______ at number nine.

8. He gets up at half past six ______ ______.




2. Match the words ( )


1. a bike 2. thin 3. funny 4. to know 5. to help 6. a fence

a.  b.  c.  d.  e.  f. 




3. Choose the correct answer (  )


1. A person who lives next to you is: a) a friend b) a neighbour c) a teacher

2. If a person is loud: a) you cannot hear them b) you can hear them very well c) they never talk

3. Freckles are on your: a) face b) shoes c) bike

4. If something is boring: a) it is very interesting b) it is not interesting c) it is dangerous

5. A postman brings: a) vegetables b) letters c) children




4. Answer the questions (  )


1. What is the word on the second pumpkin?

2. Where does Tommy live?

3. Why does Tommy see the porch every morning?

4. Who lives at number five?

5. Why is Miss Ada interesting for Mia and Tommy?




5. True or false (  )


1. The second pumpkin is bigger than the first one.

2. Tommy has got two gloves.

3. Tommys father works at the harbour.

4. Mrs. Pike opens her door every day.

5. Miss Ada sells the pumpkins in the town.










Present Simple:  


Present Simple   ,   ,   : , , .

Tommy gets up at half past six every day.

Miss Ada sells vegetables.

The sea is cold in October.



      .    he, she, it  -s.

  :

I  live

you  live

he / she / it  lives

we  live

they  live

I live in a big city.  Tommy lives at number nine.

  -s

 :     : -s  : works, sells, knows

 : -s, -ss, -sh, -ch, -x, -o   : -es  : watches, goes, does

 :  + -y   : -y   -ies  : cry ? cries, study ? studies

 :  + -y   :  -s  : play ? plays, buy ? buys

  

have ? has  do ? does  go ? goes

-

      Present Simple: always, usually, often, sometimes, never, every day, every morning, on Mondays.

     ,    to be:

She always helps.  She is always happy.




Grammar exercises





1. Write the correct form (  )


1. Tommy (live) ______ at number nine.

2. I (live) ______ in a big city.

3. Miss Ada (sell) ______ vegetables.

4. Mia and Tommy (walk) ______ in the garden.

5. Grandma Rosa (make) ______ soup on Friday.

6. The baby (cry) ______ every night.

7. Mr. Doyle (know) ______ every house.

8. Pepper (go) ______ out at night.




2. Choose the correct verb (  )


1. Tommy (get / gets) up early.

2. We (live / lives) on Bell Street.

3. My father (work / works) at the harbour.

4. The children (play / plays) in the garden.

5. She (watch / watches) the porch every morning.




3. Put the adverb in the right place (    )


1. Mrs. Pike opens her door. (never)

2. Grandma Rosa is happy on Friday. (always)

3. Tommy laughs very loudly. (often)

4. I get up at six oclock. (sometimes)

5. The pumpkins are there in the morning. (always)








Vocabulary 1: 1. boy 2. fence 3. hair 4. short 5. loud 6. friends 7. lives 8. every day

Vocabulary 2: 1-b, 2-d, 3-e, 4-a, 5-f, 6-c

Vocabulary 3: 1-b, 2-b, 3-a, 4-b, 5-b

Vocabulary 4: 1. AND. 2. At number nine, next to Mias grandmother. 3. Because his family gets up early and his window looks at Mias porch. 4. Mrs. Pike, who is one hundred and one years old. 5. Because she sells all the pumpkins in the town.

Vocabulary 5: 1. False 2. False 3. True 4. False 5. True

Grammar 1: 1. lives 2. live 3. sells 4. walk 5. makes 6. cries 7. knows 8. goes

Grammar 2: 1. gets 2. live 3. works 4. play 5. watches

Grammar 3: 1. Mrs. Pike never opens her door. 2. Grandma Rosa is always happy on Friday. 3. Tommy often laughs very loudly. 4. I sometimes get up at six oclock. 5. The pumpkins are always there in the morning.




Chapter 4. Mias Notebook





Key vocabulary



a notebook  

a page  

a pencil  

a pen  

a list  

a line  , 

a table (in a book)  

a plan  

a question  

an answer  

to draw  

to count  

to remember  

to forget  

difficult  




Mias Notebook



The third pumpkin is on the third step. It is very round and it is dark orange. The word is:

YOU

Soup, and, you, Mia says. Soup and you. That is not a sentence.

No, Grandma Rosa says. It is not.

Soup and you. And You Soup. You And Soup.

Mia.

Yes?

Please stop.

At the school in Harbor Point the children finish at three oclock. At ten past three Tommy Bird is at the fence.

Do you have a notebook? he says.

No.

You need a notebook. A detective always has a notebook. That is a rule.

Is it a rule?

It is a very big rule, Tommy says.

Grandma Rosa gives Mia a notebook from the little room with the books. It is old and green and there is nothing in it. She also gives Mia a pencil.

Dont use a pen, she says. With a pen you cannot change anything. With a pencil you can be wrong.

Mia sits at the kitchen table. She opens the notebook at the first page and she writes at the top, in big letters:

THE PUMPKINS

Then she makes a table with a ruler. There are three lines: day, word, where.

Then she writes:

Monday 13 October. SOUP. Second step.

Tuesday 14 October. AND. First step.

Wednesday 15 October. YOU. Third step.

Tommy looks at the page over her shoulder.

That is very good, he says. You are better than me. I dont write things. I only remember them, and then I forget them.

On the second page Mia writes QUESTIONS. Under it she writes five questions:

1. Who puts the pumpkins on the porch?

2. When? (In the night? Very early?)

3. Why is there no face?

4. Why one word?

5. Is it for Grandma?

Now the people, Tommy says. Who does it? Write the names.

On the third page Mia writes NAMES.

Tommy Bird. She looks at Tommy.

Do you want to write my name?

A detective writes every name, Mia says.

That is fair, Tommy says. But put a line after it. A line means no.

Miss Ada. She sells all the pumpkins.

Mr. Doyle. He is at every house every morning.

Mrs. Pike. She is one hundred and one.

Mrs. Pike does not carry a big pumpkin in the night, Tommy says.

I know. But a detective writes every name.

At four oclock Grandma Rosa comes into the kitchen with a basket of apples. She looks at the notebook, and at the table with three lines, and at the list of names.

She does not say anything.

Grandma, Mia says. Who do you think it is?

I dont think about it.

You dont think about it?

No.

Mia puts down her pencil.

That is a strange answer, she says.

Grandma Rosa washes an apple in the sink. She does not turn around.

Mia, she says, in this town people give things. They do not always say who they are. Somebody puts fish on my porch in July. Somebody puts wood next to my door in January. Somebody cuts the grass in front of my house in August and I never see them.

Really?

Really. And I dont ask. If a person wants me to know, they tell me.

But this is different! Mia says. This is nineteen days of pumpkins with words on them!

Her grandmother stops. Her hands are in the water and she is very quiet.

Why do you say nineteen? she says.

Mia opens her mouth. Then she closes it.

I dont know, she says. It is a number. It comes into my head.

Grandma Rosa dries her hands slowly with a small blue towel.

There are nineteen houses on this street, she says.

Then she goes into the living room and she does not come back for a long time.

Tommy and Mia look at each other.

Write that down, Tommy says quietly.

Mia opens the notebook at the second page and adds a sixth question.

6. Why does Grandma not want to talk about it?

That evening Mia sits on her bed with the notebook. Pepper is on the blanket next to her. He is very heavy and he is asleep on her left foot.

She reads the three words again.

SOUP. AND. YOU.

They are all different, she says to Pepper. Soup is a thing. And is a small word. You is a person. They dont go together.

Pepper does not answer. He is a cat.

But maybe, Mia says slowly, maybe they dont come in the right order.

She sits up. Pepper is not happy about this.

She takes the pencil and on a new page she writes the three words in a different way:

AND YOU SOUP

YOU AND SOUP

SOUP YOU AND

They are all wrong. But something in her head is right, and it is like a light in a dark room, very small and very far away.

Maybe the words are not in order, she writes at the bottom of the page. Maybe I have to wait.

She looks at the window. Outside it is black and there is no moon.

Wait for how long? she writes.

Then she puts the notebook under her pillow, because that is what detectives do, and she goes to sleep. ## Vocabulary exercises




1. Complete the sentences ( )


1. Grandma Rosa gives Mia an old green ______.

2. She says: dont use a pen, use a ______.

3. On the first page Mia makes a ______ with three lines.

4. On the second page there is a ______ of questions.

5. Mia writes the names in a ______.

6. Every question needs an ______.

7. Tommy does not write things. He ______ them.

8. This mystery is very ______.




2. Match the words ( )


1. a page 2. to draw 3. to count 4. to forget 5. a plan 6. a line

a.  b.  c.  d.  e.  f. 




3. Choose the correct answer (  )


1. You write in a notebook with: a) a pencil b) a spoon c) a fence

2. If you forget something: a) you remember it b) you do not remember it c) you write it

3. A list is: a) a picture b) names or things one under the other c) a question

4. If something is difficult: a) it is easy b) it is not easy c) it is small

5. To count is to say: a) one, two, three b) hello, goodbye c) red, blue, green




4. Answer the questions (  )


1. What is the word on the third pumpkin?

2. Why does Grandma Rosa give Mia a pencil and not a pen?

3. Who is on Mias list of names?

4. What does Grandma Rosa say about people in the town?

5. What is Mias new idea at the end of the chapter?




5. True or false (  )


1. Mia writes in the notebook with a pen.

2. Tommy wants his name on the list.

3. Grandma Rosa likes talking about the pumpkins.

4. There are nineteen houses on Bell Street.

5. Mia puts the notebook under her pillow.










Present Simple:  


   ,       do  does.     not     .  I not know .



  :

I / you / we / they  do not (dont) + 

he / she / it  does not (doesnt) + 

I dont know.  She doesnt know.  They dont live here.

  

 doesnt     -s.      .

: She doesnt live here.

: She doesnt lives here.

:

Tommy lives at number nine. ? Tommy doesnt live at number nine.

Mrs. Pike opens the door. ? Mrs. Pike doesnt open the door.

 to be  -

  to be   ,  do  does:

She isnt here. ( she doesnt be here)

They arent happy.

 

never  

not any  , 

nothing  

nobody  

:      .      .

   . ? I know nothing.  I dont know anything.

  I dont know nothing.




Grammar exercises





1. Make the sentences negative (  )


1. Mia knows the answer. ? ______

2. Tommy writes things in a notebook. ? ______

3. They live in a big city. ? ______

4. Mrs. Pike opens her door. ? ______

5. Grandma Rosa talks about the pumpkins. ? ______

6. I remember his name. ? ______




2. Write dont or doesnt


1. Mia ______ understand the words.

2. We ______ have a car.

3. Pepper ______ like other cats.

4. The children ______ go to school on Sunday.

5. My father ______ work on Saturday.




3. Correct the mistakes ( )


1. She doesnt lives here.

2. I not know the answer.

3. Tommy dont get up in the night.

4. He doesnt is my friend.

5. I dont know nothing about it.








Vocabulary 1: 1. notebook 2. pencil 3. table 4. list 5. list 6. answer 7. remembers 8. difficult

Vocabulary 2: 1-b, 2-d, 3-f, 4-a, 5-c, 6-e

Vocabulary 3: 1-a, 2-b, 3-b, 4-b, 5-a

Vocabulary 4: 1. YOU. 2. Because with a pencil you can change things and you can be wrong. 3. Tommy Bird, Miss Ada, Mr. Doyle and Mrs. Pike. 4. That people give things and do not always say who they are. 5. That the words are not in the right order and she has to wait.

Vocabulary 5: 1. False 2. True 3. False 4. True 5. True

Grammar 1: 1. Mia doesnt know the answer. 2. Tommy doesnt write things in a notebook. 3. They dont live in a big city. 4. Mrs. Pike doesnt open her door. 5. Grandma Rosa doesnt talk about the pumpkins. 6. I dont remember his name.

Grammar 2: 1. doesnt 2. dont 3. doesnt 4. dont 5. doesnt

Grammar 3: 1. She doesnt live here. 2. I dont know the answer. 3. Tommy doesnt get up in the night. 4. He isnt my friend. 5. I dont know anything about it. ( I know nothing about it.)




Chapter 5. Miss Adas Vegetable Shop





Key vocabulary



a vegetable  

a potato  

a carrot  

an onion  

a cabbage  

a tomato  

a bean  , 

a box  , 

a shop  

a customer  

to sell  

to buy  

to pay  

fresh  

expensive  




Miss Adas Vegetable Shop



The fourth pumpkin is next to the flower pot on the left. The word is:

OPEN

Mia writes it in the notebook.

Thursday 16 October. OPEN. Next to the flower pot.

Soup, and, you, open, she says.

Still not a sentence, Grandma Rosa says from the kitchen.

I know.

The vegetable shop is at the end of Bell Street, at number nineteen, and it is under the house with the red door.

It is a small shop. There is one room and there are two big windows. In front of the shop, on the street, there are wooden boxes. In the boxes there are potatoes, carrots, onions, cabbages, tomatoes and green beans. Everything is fresh and everything is cheap.

And on the right of the door there are pumpkins.

There are a lot of pumpkins. Big pumpkins, small pumpkins, orange pumpkins and one white pumpkin. They are on the ground in three lines.

Mia and Tommy stand in front of them.

How many? Mia says.

Tommy counts.

Fourteen.

Are they the same as our pumpkins?

They are pumpkins, Tommy says. All pumpkins are the same.

That is not true. Look at ours. Ours are very big and very round and they are all dark orange. Look at these.

Tommy looks. Some of the pumpkins are small. Some are light orange. One is white.

OK, he says. Some of them are the same.

A bell rings when they open the door.

Inside the shop it smells of earth and apples. There is a wooden table with a machine for money. Behind the table there is a woman.

Miss Ada is about sixty. She is tall and thin. She has got short grey hair and glasses on a chain around her neck. Her hands are big and brown, like the hands of a person who works with the ground.

Tommy Bird, she says.

Hello, Miss Ada.

Does your mother want potatoes?

No.

Then why are you in my shop?

This is Mia, Tommy says. She is Rosas granddaughter.

Miss Ada looks at Mia for a long moment. Her face does not change, but something in her eyes is different.

Ah, she says. Yes. Of course you are.

Hello, Mia says.

How is your grandmother?

She is well.

Good, Miss Ada says. That is good.

Mia takes a breath.

Miss Ada, do you sell pumpkins?

You have eyes. There are fourteen pumpkins in front of my door.

Do a lot of people buy them?

In October? Everybody buys them. This is a small town and I am the only shop.

How many do you sell in October?

Miss Ada puts her glasses on her nose.

Why do you ask? she says.

Somebody puts a pumpkin on our porch every morning, Mia says. There are four now. And there is one word on every pumpkin, in white chalk. Do you know about it?

The shop is very quiet. Somewhere behind the wall there is a clock.

No, Miss Ada says.

You dont know anything?

I sell vegetables, Miss Ada says. People come in, people pay, people go out. I dont ask what they do with a cabbage and I dont ask what they do with a pumpkin.

But do you remember who buys the big ones? The very big, round, dark orange ones?

Miss Ada takes her glasses off again.

Child, she says, and her voice is not unfriendly. In this town, in October, everybody buys a big round dark orange pumpkin. That is what October is.

Tommy makes a small noise. It is the noise of a boy who wants to say something and knows he must not.

OK, Mia says. Thank you.

Do you want carrots? Miss Ada says. For your grandmother. She makes soup on Friday and she always needs carrots. Take these. No, dont pay. Take them.

She puts eight carrots in a paper bag and gives the bag to Mia. The carrots are cold and they still have earth on them.

Miss Ada, Mia says at the door. One more question.

Yes?

Does my grandmother buy pumpkins from you?

Miss Ada looks down at her table.

No, she says. Rosa Delgado does not buy pumpkins. She never buys a pumpkin. Not for thirty years.

Why not?

You must ask her that.

Outside, the sky is white and the air is cold. Mia and Tommy walk up Bell Street with a bag of carrots.

She knows something, Tommy says.

Yes.

She definitely knows something.

Yes, Mia says. But she is not going to tell us.

How do you know?

Because she gives us free carrots, Mia says. People give you free things when they want you to go away and be happy about it.

Tommy stops in the middle of the street.

That, he says, is a very good detective thing to say.

At home Mia gives the carrots to her grandmother. Grandma Rosa looks at them and she knows immediately where they are from.

Ada gives you these, she says.

Yes.

How is she?

She is well. She has got fourteen pumpkins in front of her shop.

Grandma Rosa cuts a carrot in two.

Grandma, Mia says. Why dont you buy pumpkins?

Her grandmother puts down the knife. For a moment she is not in the kitchen at all. She is somewhere else, and it is not now.

Because for thirty years, she says, somebody gives them to me.

Then she picks up the knife again, and that is the end of the conversation, and Mia goes upstairs and writes it in her notebook with hands that are not completely steady. ## Vocabulary exercises




1. Complete the sentences ( )


1. In the boxes there are potatoes, ______ and onions.

2. Miss Ada does not ______ bread. She sells vegetables.

3. People come into the shop and ______ for the food.

4. The carrots are cold and ______.

5. There are fourteen pumpkins on the ______ in front of the shop.

6. A person in a shop is a ______.

7. The vegetables in this shop are not ______. They are cheap.

8. Grandma Rosa needs ______ for her soup.




2. Match the words ( )


1. an onion 2. a cabbage 3. a bean 4. a box 5. to buy 6. fresh

a.  b.  c.  d.  e.  f. 




3. Choose the correct answer (  )


1. A carrot is: a) orange b) blue c) black

2. If something is expensive: a) it costs a lot of money b) it is free c) it is small

3. A customer is a person who: a) works in a shop b) buys things c) makes vegetables

4. To sell is: a) to give a thing for money b) to eat a thing c) to lose a thing

5. Potatoes grow: a) on trees b) in the ground c) in water




4. Answer the questions (  )


1. What is the word on the fourth pumpkin?

2. Where is the vegetable shop?

3. What does Miss Ada look like?

4. What does Miss Ada give to Mia?

5. Why does Grandma Rosa never buy a pumpkin?




5. True or false (  )


1. There are fourteen pumpkins in front of the shop.

2. All the pumpkins in the shop are the same.

3. Miss Ada asks Mia to pay for the carrots.

4. Miss Ada says she knows nothing about the words.

5. Somebody gives pumpkins to Grandma Rosa for thirty years.










Present Simple: 


    Present Simple,       do  does.     .

  (:   )

  :

I / you / we / they  Do +  + ?

he / she / it  Does +  + ?

Do you know the answer?

Does she sell pumpkins?

Do they live here?

,   

   does     -s:

: Does she sell pumpkins?

: Does she sells pumpkins?

 

Do you know? ? Yes, I do. / No, I dont.

Does he live here? ? Yes, he does. / No, he doesnt.

 

    do  does:

Where do you live?

What does she sell?

How many pumpkins does she have?

  

what  , 

where  , 

when  

who  

why  

how  

how many   ( )

 to be   do

Is she here? ( Does she be here?)




Grammar exercises





1. Write Do or Does


1. ______ you like carrots?

2. ______ Miss Ada sell pumpkins?

3. ______ they live on Bell Street?

4. ______ your grandmother make soup?

5. ______ we need onions?

6. ______ Tommy go to school?




2. Make questions ( )


1. Mia writes in a notebook. ? ______ ?

2. They buy vegetables here. ? ______ ?

3. He knows the answer. ? ______ ?

4. The shop opens at eight oclock. ? ______ ?

5. You want a bag. ? ______ ?




3. Complete with a question word (  )


1. ______ do you live? In Harbor Point.

2. ______ does she sell? Vegetables.

3. ______ pumpkins does she have? Fourteen.

4. ______ does the shop open? At eight oclock.

5. ______ doesnt Grandma Rosa buy pumpkins? Because somebody gives them to her.








Vocabulary 1: 1. carrots 2. sell 3. pay 4. fresh 5. ground 6. customer 7. expensive 8. carrots

Vocabulary 2: 1-b, 2-a, 3-f, 4-e, 5-d, 6-c

Vocabulary 3: 1-a, 2-a, 3-b, 4-a, 5-b

Vocabulary 4: 1. OPEN. 2. At the end of Bell Street, at number nineteen, under the house with the red door. 3. She is tall and thin, with short grey hair, glasses on a chain and big brown hands. 4. Eight carrots in a paper bag, for free. 5. Because for thirty years somebody gives them to her.

Vocabulary 5: 1. True 2. False 3. False 4. True 5. True

Grammar 1: 1. Do 2. Does 3. Do 4. Does 5. Do 6. Does

Grammar 2: 1. Does Mia write in a notebook? 2. Do they buy vegetables here? 3. Does he know the answer? 4. Does the shop open at eight oclock? 5. Do you want a bag?

Grammar 3: 1. Where 2. What 3. How many 4. When 5. Why




Chapter 6. Soup for Nineteen Houses





Key vocabulary



soup  

a pot  

a bowl  , 

a spoon  

a lid  

salt  

bread  

warm  

hungry  

an evening  

a story  , 

to cook  

to taste    

to bring  

together  




Soup for Nineteen Houses



Friday morning. The fifth pumpkin is on the grass, under the first step. The word is:

TWENTY

Mia sits down on the wet step and looks at it.

Twenty, she says.

Twenty is not like the other words. Soup is a thing. And is a small word. You is a person. Open is an action. But twenty is a number, and a number is different. A number means something.




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