The Magic Carpet Worksheet 1

Name: Class:

These girls like pink / yellow clothes.

His name is David / Peter.

This boy falls into the river / snow. Mike and Spike are brothers / friends.

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Cut out the children and stick them on their carpets. Read and circle.

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The Magic Carpet Worksheet 2
Name: Class:

c a s r p o e t

t z r e y a w d

c w l o a b p i

r k i w v a e r

d p f a l u y p

m i r t r o r c

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o s h w i o m r

t w e v i n p s

Colour the correct letters and write.

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The Magic Carpet Worksheet 3
Name: Class:

w i nne rs!
Peter, what are you doing?
t h e
We’re

Help! I can’t swim!

Dad, the carp
e t can fly!

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Look and write the speech bubbles.

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The Magic Carpet Teacher’s Notes

Before you read Using the worksheets

Play Pictionary: Introduce the word twins and show the Worksheet 1
children the first page of the book. Explain that the story
is about a pair of twins moving into a new house with Cut out the children and stick them on their carpets.
a new bedroom. Ask the children to think of different Read and circle.
furniture and toys that children have in their bedrooms.
Tell the class to look at the carpets and the characters
Then divide the class into two teams. Start to slowly
and try to remember whose carpet is whose. Hold
draw a toy or item of furniture on the board and ask the
up the worksheet and point to the first carpet. Ask
children to guess what it is. Award a point to the team of
Is this the girls’ carpet? (no). Is this Peter’s carpet?
the first child to guess. Repeat with other words.
(yes). Repeat with the other carpets. Then instruct
the children to cut out the four pictures and stick
While you read each character on the correct carpet. Write sentence
1 on the board: His name is David / Peter. Invite a
Stop and check the children’s comprehension at volunteer to come and circle the correct name and
different points: read out the sentence. Tell the class to circle the
correct option in the remaining sentences.
Page 9, ask: What are the twins’ names? (Mike and
Spike); Have the twins got a cat or a
dog? (a dog); Have the twins got a Worksheet 2
sister? (yes); Can the carpet fly? (yes);
Can the carpet talk? (no); What’s under
the carpet? (a note); How many wishes Colour the correct letters and write.
do the twins have? (three). Draw a picture of a carpet on the board and copy the
Page 19, ask: What colour is Peter’s carpet? (black, letter grid:
white and orange); What does Peter
do? (he pushes other children); What c a s r p o e t
happens to Peter? (He falls into the
snow); Do the twins win the race? (yes); _______________________________
What’s the prize? (gold medals).
Point to the picture, and ask: What’s this?, Elicit a
After you read carpet. Ask: How do you spell carpet? and lightly
shade the letters as the children say them. Then write
Ask the children to think of places to visit on a magic the word on the lines. Tell the children to colour the
carpet (a volcano, the moon, a zoo and so on). Give correct letters in each word and then write the word
out white paper and tell each child to draw a picture on the lines. Tell them to leave other letters blank.

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of themselves and a friend on a magic carpet with a
picture of a place they’d like to visit. Write this model
caption on the board and ask the children to copy and Worksheet 3
complete it next to their picture:
I’m on a magic carpet with my friend __________. We’re
Look and write the speech bubbles.
going to ____________.
Hold up the worksheet, point to each character in
turn and invite the class to tell you something about
each one. Encourage them to use English but allow
them to use some L1 at this point. Write the first
sentence on the board: We’re the winners! Read
out the sentence and raise your arms to celebrate.
Ask the class to tell you who says the sentence (the
twins) and which picture they say it in (number 4).
Instruct the children to complete the characters’
speech bubbles with the sentences at the top of
the page.

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The Magic Carpet Teacher’s Notes
Extension Answers
Write Three wishes on the board and ask the children Worksheet 1
to remember the twins’ three wishes (to play a trick on
their sister, to go to a magic carpet race, to go home). Cut out the children and stick them on their
Ask the class to suggest wishes they would like to carpets. Read and circle.
make. Ask each child to think of a wish and draw a
picture of it. Write this model sentence on the board 1 His name is Peter.
and ask the class to copy and complete it with your 2 These girls like pink clothes.
help: This is my wish. I want to ______________. 3 This boy falls into the river.
4 Mike and Spike are brothers.

Worksheet 2

Colour the correct letters and write.

1 carpet
2 read
3 clap
4 river
5 fly
6 mirror
7 swim
8 twins

Worksheet 3

Look and write the speech bubbles.

1 Dad, the carpet can fly!
2 Help! I can’t swim.
3 Peter, what are you doing?
4 We’re the winners!

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