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AB 21

Story Lucky customer 50
time

A 5 Listen, read and find out.

1 Can you nd three words used to describe Kareem’s character?
2 What is the name of the new book Kareem wants to buy?
3 What does ‘saving up’ mean in paragraph 1?
4 What do you think the collection of poems Islands of Salt is about?

NEW RELEASE Kareem had read all of Al-Nawab’s
poems at least twice and found
from bestselling poet them very interesting. The quiet boy
Mudhafar Al-Nawab spent most of his free time reading
or writing his own poems and his
Come to Al Saqi Bookshop parents, friends and teachers all
on 23rd November and get said he was very imaginative. It was
your copy of Al-Nawab’s Kareem’s dream to be a famous poet
new collection of poems himself one day.
Islands of Salt

PLUS an extra special prize
for the 50th customer of the day!

Kareem went to Al Mutanabbi
Street and hurried towards Al Saqi
bookshop. As he got closer, he saw
there was a long queue forming
outside the door to the shop, and
his heart sank. He had been saving
up for months and wanted to be the
first one to buy the new book by his
favourite poet – now he would have
to wait in line. As he stood waiting,
the hard-working schoolboy pulled
the advert for the new book out of
his pocket.

14 Unit 1 Describing things