The Go-kart by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta

pull /pʊl/ ●●● S1 W1 verb

MOVE SOMETHING TOWARDS YOU [intransitive, transitive] to use your hands to make something or someone move towards you or in the direction that your hands are moving OPP push

   • Mom! Davey’s pulling my hair!

   • He pulled her down into her seat.

push /pʊʃ/ ●●● S1 W1 verb

 MOVE [intransitive, transitive] to make someone or something move by pressing them with your hands, arms etc OPP pull

• It didn’t move, so she pushed harder.• She pushed him away.

fight /faɪt/ ●●● S1 W1 verb (past tense and past participle fought /fɔːt $ fɒːt/)

HIT PEOPLE [intransitive, transitive] if someone fights another person, or if two people fight, they hit and kick the other person in order to hurt them

• Two guys were fighting with each other in the street.• They were fighting over a girl.

- Dad made a go-kart.

- Biff wanted the go-kart.

- Chip wanted the go-kart.

- Biff wanted a go.

- Chip wanted a go.

- Biff push.

- Chip pulled.

- They had a fight.

- “Stop it” said Dad.

- “Stop it” said Mum.

- Dad put the go-kart away.

- Oh no!