Pinky, mum and I go to our plants. We dig and dig. Hooray! Our carrots and potatoes are funny.
They hide in the ground. We dig them out. There are a lot of them.
"Now," says mum, "Pinky and Reddy can have a lot of carrots and potatoes for lunch."
"And me?" asks Blackie. He wants carrots and potatoes, too.
"You can have your green tomato," says mum.
We look at Blackie. He is crying. We are sad.
"Mum," we say. "Can we give him some carrots and potatoes? We have got a lot of them."
Mum looks at Blackie. He is still crying. Our mum is kind and she says: "OK, but don't eat his green tomato. You can eat it when it is red."
"Mummy," says Blackie, "I can water the tomatoes every day."
Now he works in the garden every day and there are a lot of tomatoes in the leaves. They are red, and we eat them together.
Exercises
1 Circle the odd word.
1. carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, roses
2. funny, yellow, green, red
3. Monday, Sunday, day, Tuesday
4. flowers, seeds, grass, trees
5. look, cry, see, listen
2 True or false?
1. They are planting fruit.
2. There are carrots and potatoes in the leaves.
3. Blackie waters his plants on Tuesdays.
4. Reddy and Pinky can have carrots and potatoes for lunch.
5. The kittens can eat the green tomato.
3 Choose right.
1. Blackie is planting potatoes/tomatoes.
2. Blackie doesn't water his seeds/ carrots every day.
3. Our carrots and potatoes are fine/ funny.
4. Pinky can have carrots for dinner/lunch.
5. Blackie is crying/happy.
6. Our mum is kind/angry.