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The Lottery Winner

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: UK Oxford University Press 2007Description: 64pISBN:
  • 9780194789073
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 428.75/BOR
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

Everybody wants to win the lottery. A million pounds, perhaps five million, even ten million. How wonderful! Emma Carter buys a ticket for the lottery every week, and puts the ticket carefully in her bag. She is seventy-three years old and does not have much money. She would like to visit her son in Australia, but aeroplane tickets are very expensive. Jason Williams buys lottery tickets every week too. But he is not a very nice young man. He steals things. He hits old ladies in the street, snatches their bags and runs away ...

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Story Introduction (p. i)
  • 1 The bag-snatcher (p. 1)
  • 2 The winning ticket (p. 5)
  • 3 Jason in trouble (p. 10)
  • 4 Everybody loves a winner (p. 17)
  • 5 Emma gets a lawyer (p. 26)
  • 6 The money and the ticket (p. 30)
  • 7 So who's going to win? (p. 37)
  • Glossary (p. 41)
  • Activities: Before Reading (p. 44)
  • Activities: While Reading (p. 46)
  • Activities: After Reading (p. 48)
  • About The Author (p. 52)
  • About The Bookworms Library (p. 53)

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