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you I’ll get you down instead”
1. Cognitive
4. 84
“There’s a little door at the back,” said Tom, lowering his voice. If we choose a
moment to go in when there’s a lot of banging and shooting going on, nobody
would hear us. It leads into a small
passage, and if nobody’s about we can slip into the main passage and down into
side seats without being seen .
I’ve done it before.”
Tom has his own idea how to slip into a cinema without being
noticed because he ever did it before.
5. 103
“Oh” she said. “It’s Frisky. Whatever have you got him here for, Bob? You
know I don’t like him in the house. It’s too bad of you, when I come home tired, to
have a great dog like Frisky messing
round.”
“I’ll take him back,” said Bob, bitterly disappointed with his mother, all his joy at
seeing her fading away. He took Frisky by the collar and led him out.
Bob takes Frisky back to his home without being asked literally by
his mother.
6. 119
“Coo Look here,” said Les, peering down some stone steps. “What’s this?
Underground tunnel or something?
Let’s play spies This would be a fine hiding
place. ”
Les asks his friends to play in a new place for them.
7. 135
“Can he stay?” asked Bob. “I’m going to set out my railway for you all to see
tonight
, and Tom knows how to do it with me. He’d be useful.”
Bob initiates himself to finish the railway set and asks his friends to
allow Tom to be their gang member.
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159 He went out shopping. He spent the
evening decorating a tiny tree, and hanging it with the presents he had
bought.
The gang were not going to meet that night. They all had other things to do.
Bob decorates a Christmas tree without the help from other
characters.
1. Cognitive
9. 214
“Are you going to buy your mother a Christmas present, Bob?” Pat asked.
“Yes I am,” said Bob.
Bob has his own plan to choose a Christmas gift for his mother.
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12 She looked round for the new girls and
boy. She saw them standing rather forlornly together, wondering where to go.
Elizabeth took Joan’s arm. “Let’s go and look after the new ones
,” she said. “They’re looking a bit lost.”
Together with Joan, Elizabeth takes an action to guide the
freshmen.
11. 21
“I think Robert’s a bully,” she said. “He’s always running after the smaller ones, and
jumping out at them, and giving them sly
pinches.” “The hateful thing” cried Elizabeth, who
always hated any unfairness. “Wait till I catch him
I’ll jolly well report him at the very next Meeting
” Elizabeth is not doubt to catch and
report Robert who loves bullying other kids in the Meeting.
12. 34
At last William knocked with his wooden mallet for silence.
The whole School sat up, eager to know what had
been decided. Elizabeth was still fiery red in the face, but Robert looked quite pale
and cool. William knows what to do to calm
a noisy crowd without being asked by others.
13. 46
In the meantime, school life went on much Elizabeth and John take care of
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hard with John in the school garden. They cut down all the old summer flowers,
and piled them in heaps on the place where they had their bonfires.
the school garden without being asked by the teachers.
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55 “I’ll be very, very careful so that nobody
guesses it’s me,” thought Kathleen to
herself. “I’ll hide their books—and make blots on their home-work
—and do things like that.
I’ll soon pay them out” Kathleen has her own idea to play
tricks on her friends.
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“I know what I’ll do” he said to himself.
“I’ll go and watch the match—and if Elizabeth shoots a goal I’ll cheer like the
rest. That will be a hard thing for me to do,
but I’ll do it just to show everyone I can” Robert plans to watch Elizabeth in
the match and pretends to be cheerful though he feels the
opposite.
16. 170
Elizabeth galloped her horse up Windy Hill and at last overtook Tinker.
But Tinker started in fright as soon as the other
horse came up beside him. He stretched out his neck and began to gallop off again.
But Elizabeth had managed to get the reins
, and when Tinker felt her strong little hand on them, he quietened down, and
listened to her voice. Elizabeth was good with horses and knew how to speak to
them. Elizabeth takes an action to catch
Tinker by getting the reins of the horse.
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Naughty Amelia
Jane
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Once she poured a jug of milk down the golliwog’s neck, and that made him wet
and uncomfortable for two days. Another Amelia Jane does these actions
without being asked or dictated by anyone.
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