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The Star Zoo: 1000 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms Library) (Gilbert, Harry)
exciting.
lay on the ground, very, very tired. I was happy and sad at the same time. Happy to be with everybody, sad that we were alone. Then the worst thing in my life happened.
I couldn’t believe what he was saying. This was terrible. And very bad luck.
Council I was doing important work. Perhaps that would be a good reason not to marry Buff. I said, ‘Find out what it is made of.’ The spaceship shot a laser at the thing and said, ‘It is not natural. It may be a spaceship, although it is moving too slowly to arrive at a star. It is made of plastic.’ A spaceship made of plastic? You can’t make spaceships out of plastic! And spaceships don’t travel slowly.
if I escape, perhaps it will be helpful later.
gave orders
gardeners
tidal wave
There could be a huge tidal wave from the sea, which will drown the capital city of St Pierre. Mabel will destroy houses, farms, roads, bridges …
enormous baby
himself! The monster is like an enormous baby
I was so angry with him, and so depressed about my future,
‘Why are people running towards
‘Why are people running towards us?’
‘Take off now!’ I shouted. ‘It’s life or death!’
‘Why are people running towards us?’ the spaceship asked. ‘Take off now!’ I shouted. ‘It’s life or death!’ The spaceship couldn’t argue. It took off.
It had yellow eyes and grey hair all over its body. I could smell it … Its mouth came towards my face.
Yes, it had a mouth full of teeth, yellow, shiny teeth. It had yellow eyes and grey hair all over its body.