Sometimes things go wrong, but he is a lucky Toad. He has the most important thing that anyone can have. He has friends. He has Rat, and Mole, and Badger. Follow these four friends around the English countryside. Visit them inside their houses, and travel with them in a car, or on a boat on the river. Listen to the wind in the willows.

 

Vocabulary Areas

Animals, Food, Transport, Weather, Nature

Grammar and Structures

Simple present: States and habits; Present Continuous: actions in progress;

Past Simple: Finished actions; Future forms; Will, going to, Present Continuous; Can: ability; Could: ability: Must: obligation: Have to: necessity.

Will: predictions. Adjectives, Prepositions; (place, time), Question words; Relative Clauses; There is/There are; Pronouns; Verbs + infinitive/ing

 

Glossary of difficult words | After-reading activities | An audio recording of the book

 

Adventure | Nature | Friendship