Reading in the Garden - Lesson 2

Part 1

 a ) Look at the title and the picture. What kind of story is it? Does it interest you?

b) Read the back cover. Can you understand the story? What's it about?

c) What's White Death?


Back Cover:

WHITE DEATH

Sarah Harland is nineteen and she's in prison. At the airport they find h... in her bag. So now she's waiting to go to court. If the court decides that it was her h..., then she must die.
She says she did not do it. But if she did not, who did? Only two people can help Sarah: her mother and an old boyfriend who does not love her now. Can they find the real criminal before it is too late?

Part 2

Read Extract 1 once. Answer the questions.
1. What do you know about the woman?
2. Which country is she in?
3. What does she want to do?

EXTRACT 1

The woman (stood) in front of the (prison). The woman was very (hot), and she did not like the (noise) from all the cars in the road. She was an English woman and she did not like hot countries or a lot of noise. She was tall, about fifty years old, with blue eyes and a long (face). Her face was red, and she looked tired and (angry). She (knocked) at the door of the prison. For a long time nothing happened. Then a little window opened in the door, and a man looked at her.

Part 3

1. Read Extract 1 again. Are the words in round brackets nouns, adjectives, or verbs?
2. Guess the meaning of the words.

Part 4

Read Extract 2. Who are the woman, the man and the girl?

EXTRACT 2

'Yes? What do you want?'
'I want to see my daughter. It's very important.'
'Name'
'Anne Harland'
'Wait a minute.'
After twenty minutes the door opened. 'Come with (me)', the man said. She walked a long time, past hundreds of doors. Then the man opened one of (them). 'In here´, he said. 'You can have ten minutes'. Anne Harland walked into the room and the man went in after (her). He closed the door behind (him). There was a table in the room, and two chairs. On one of the chairs sat her daughter. (She) was a tall girl, about nineteen years old, with big blue eyes.
'Mother!' she said. 'I'm so happy to see (you).'
Part 5

1. What do the pronouns in round brackets mean?


Part 6

Read Extract 3. Answer the questions

1. When and where did the police arrest Sarah?
2. Was she alone?
3. What did the police find in her toothpaste?
4. How does the story end?

EXTRACT 3

'Sarah, what happened?' she said. 'When did they bring you to this prison?'
'Last week, I think. Yes, last week. At the airport, when we arrived ... The police stopped us, and looked in our bags. They said there were drugs in my bag. Then they brought me here'.
'I see. Where were the drugs, then? Where did they find them?'
'Didn't they tell you?' Sarah looked up, and there was a smile in her face, but it was not a happy smile. 'The drugs were in a tube of toothpaste.'
'And you didn't know about it?'
'No, mother, of course not. Do you think I clean my teeth with heroin?'

VOCABULARY

court; noun = a place where judges and lawyers work.
death; noun = end of life
toothpaste; noun = stuff for cleaning your teeth
brought; verb = bring (past simple)
sat; verb = sit (past simple)
stood; verb = stand (past simple)


Source: English File Book 1 by Clive Oxeden & Paul Seligson - Oxford Universty Press - 19th Edition 2003

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