STARTER LEVEL

(a) A hundred thousand dollars.

(b) Mr Blane is bad./Mr Blane is rich.

Students own answer. A good guess would be Len Samuel. (The

man is wearing the kind of hat and raincoat which private detectives
wear in films.)

Tuesday: Len and Frank go to the bus station. Len and Frank
meet Carmen and a young man. Carmen and the young man
jump onto a bus. Thursday: Len finds Carmen in San Francisco.
Carmen gives Len some papers. Friday: Len is at the police station. Frank and Mr Blane are at the police station.

Students own answers. Sample answers:

(a) Len Samuel has dark hair. Len Samuel is tall./a tall man. Len
Samuel is tough./is a tough man. Len Samuel is kind./is a kind
man.
(b) Mr Blane is fat./is a fat man. Mr Blane is bad./is a bad man.
Mr Blane is old./is an old man. Mr Blane has grey hair.

left picture: Frank

right picture: Carmen Blane

Students own answer. Thoughts might be:

Blane Papers! What papers? or, Frank I want to hit Len
Samuel.
Teachers could help students with more complicated responses.

Students own answer. Students could use the Young Ones note on
page 6 as a model.

ANSWER KEYS

Worksheets

L. A. Detective by Philip Prowse

Ski Race by Eleanor Jupp

1

(a) page 2
(b) pages 5, 15
(c) page 10

(d) pages 2, 3, 5, 6-7, 9, 11,

12-13, 14-15, 16
(e) page 12

2 (a) winter
3
SKI SUIT
HAT
BOOTS
SKIS
GLOVES

SUE
purple
yellow
yellow
blue
white

REBECCA
yellow
red
red
white
red

MARK
red
red
purple
purple
blue

DAVID
green
yellow
blue
red
yellow

4 Students own answer. Suggestion could be: Sue and Rebecca, or

Mark and David.
5 (a) F
(b) T

(c) T
(d) T

(e) T
(f) F

(g) F
(h) T

6 fine/ski/snow/fast/love/race/Rebecca/win

HEINEMANN ELT GUIDED READERS

First Published 1993 and 1992 Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998
Published by Macmillan Heinemann English Language Teaching

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