Joseph Rudyard Kipling

adaptation by G. Canazza
 Many people would like to talk to animals and understand what they say. It is impossible, but not for “man-cub” Mowgli. He lives with a family of wolves, is part of a pack and can talk to his great friends Bagheera (a black panther) and Baloo (a big, brown bear). They all help him in the dangers of the jungle. Read these classic stories by J.R. Kipling and follow Mowgli’s exciting adventures in the jungle, among noisy monkeys, a big snake and a dangerous tiger!
 
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 Chi non vorrebbe essere in grado di comunicare con animali feroci e bestie selvagge? È un sogno, ma, senza sorprese, quest’abilità si accompagna a difficoltà e pericoli. Segui le avventure del giovane cucciolo d’uomo Mowgli che, aiutato dai grandi amici Baloo e Bagheera, vive la sua infanzia in un branco di lupi, apprendendo la legge della giungla e combattendo contro pericoli e nemici.
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Chapter 1 – Mowgli’s Brothers

Extension: The Jungle Book and Scouting

Chapter 2 – Good Lessons

Extension: Many Other Stories

Chapter 3 – Kaa’s Hunting

Extension: Disney’s The Jungle Book Films

Chapter 4 – The Red Flower

Extension: Wildlife In India

Summing-up activities

Glossary

AFTER READING   Good Lessons d. e. f. g. h. 2 Chapter .................................... Chil a bird? Yes, it .................................... . Baloo .................................... a great idea. Mowgli .................................... in danger. The monkeys .................................... angry with Mowgli. The monkeys .................................... the man cub. WORKING ON SKILLS Writing 6 Among the following adjectives choose the ones that can be used to describe Kaa. Then, write a brief paragraph. ugly   yellow   short   young   hungry   thin   intelligent   old   gold   brown   strong   stupid   red   wonderful   long Speaking 7 Mowgli s school is the jungle and Baloo is his teacher. What about you? Talk about your school. Say:   Where your school is and how you get there,   What your favourite subjects and teachers are,   What sports and other activities you do at school. Listening 4 8 Listen to some information about Indian Pythons and fill in the sentences with the missing words. a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. Indian Pythons are from the family of .................................................... . They are very big and .................................................... . They like living near the .................................................... . They live in the .................................................... of India. They don t chew their .................................................... . They can eat .................................................... animals. Pythons are in .................................................... of extinction. People use their .................................................... to make ........................................., .................................................... and belts. 28 

E X T E N S I O N MANY OTHER STORIES What you probably do not know about Kipling s The Jungle Book is that it is not a novel1, but a collection of short stories. In the book, in fact, there are many other stories set in different geographic locations and with other exotic animals and people of different ethnicities as protagonists. Some other popular stories are, for example:   The White Seal - about a rare, white seal that decides to find a safe home for his people because the humans in the Bering Sea want to kill them;   Rikki-Tikki-Tavi about a mongoose2 that defends an English family in India from a pair of large cobras;   Toomai of the Elephants about a boy who risks his life to defend some elephants from some hunters;   The Servants of the Queen - about an army3 s working animals   a mule, a camel, a horse, a bull, and an elephant   that discuss the orders of the Queen the night before a British military parade. All the tales in the book are fables and use animals in an anthropomorphic4 manner to teach moral lessons. The first story of the text, Mowgli s Brothers, is published for the first time in a magazine in 1894 before becoming part of the book. Because of its success, Kipling wrote other parts, and, in total, Mowgli and his friends appear   in a non-linear manner   in a total of nine connected stories in The Jungle Book and in The Second Jungle Book, which Kipling writes in 1895. The book is a big success immediately after its publication, but it is the 1967 Disney film production (personally supervised by Walt Disney) which gives Kipling s characters a face and a voice and captures the imagination of many future generations. 3. army: military force of a country. 4. anthropomorphic: with human aspect. 1. novel: a long-printed story. 2. mongoose: 29 

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