Harry and the Crown - Jane Cadwallader

'Put your elbows up stamp your feet on the ground make circles with your shoulders and turn around do the Armour Jive and count to five 1 2 3 4 5 HEY!'

In this amusing story Harry, the reluctant hero, braves robbers and ghosts and armour to triumph in the end (by accident!). Two detectives, Harry and Emma are sent to the castle to lie in wait for some robbers. The enthusiastic Emma persuades Harry to put on some armour as a disguise. The night is long and events take an un expected turn. Harry's mood turns from reluctant to bored to horrified! How will the night end?

Vocabulary areas: Materials, directions, places in a town, parts of the body, clothes.

Grammar and structures: Past simple, Past continuous, Be going to…, Will, Giving directions, If... (zero conditional), Be made of..., See you...