This download includes 14 separate PDFs full of activities to complement the book Birthday Boy by David Baddiel, published by HarperCollins Children’s Books.

There are comedy caption competitions, a task that gets students to draw out a scene from the book into comic-style panels, word-list challenges and many other grammar and writing tasks.

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