Five Children and It - Edith Nesbit

Imagine you found a fairy at the bottom of your garden. And imagine the fairy tells you that your wishes will come true! This is what happens to the five children in this story.

However, things don't happen exactly as expected and the fairy turns out to be quite grumpy! Readers through the generations have loved this humorous story by Edith Nesbit. Along with an appreciation for the funny side of life it teaches children that if not thinking things through properly can get you into trouble, thinking carefully can usually get you out of it.

Syllabus

Vocabulary areas: family, parts of the body, animals, house and garden

Grammar and structures: Present simple and continuous, Past simple (regular and irregular forms), Had to for obligation, Can / could for ability, Adverbs, There was / There wasn't, Comparative and superlative adjectives