HEINEMANN ELT oooHeinemann cuipeD reapeRs STARTER LEVEL Series Editor: John Milne The Heinemann Guided Readers provide a choice of enjoyable read- ing material for learners of English. The series is published at five levels ~ Starter, Beginner, Elementary, Intermediate and Upper. At Starter Level, the control of content and language has the following main features: Information Control There is a wide choice of interesting subject matter, covering a variety of cultural backgrounds. Stories are written in a fluent and pleasing style with a restrictééhtimber Sf chanateses: Information which is vital to the understandihi oF the ‘téty 1s'learly presented and repeated for reinforcement where necessary. Structure Control Students will meer only the simplest of grammatical features. Special attention is paid to the control of tenses. Tenses are limited to the Present Simple, the Present Continuous, the Future with going 10, and the occasional use of the Fueure with will. Vocabulary Control Ac Starter Level there is a carefully controlled vocabulary of approx- imately 300 basic words. Help is also given in the form of vivid illus- trations which form an integral part of the text. This means that students at the very beginning of their course and with a very basic knowledge of English will be able to read Starter Level books with understanding and enjoyment. For further information on the full selection of Readers at all five levels in the series, please refer to the Heinemann Readers catalogue. HEINEMANN GUIDED READERS ‘STARTER LEVEL POLLY SWEETNAM / Photo Finish ‘Mgt. Pamela €. Flores de Tepitaky Ue.y Protea Lenaa nga "radeon HEINEMANN ELTLisa works at Black and Sons. Alice is Lisa’s friend. Alice works for Black Black and Sons is a large company. and Sons too. She works in the Marketing Lisa works in the Accounts Department Department. Alice is an artist. She designs h The work is very important. But it is advertisements for Black and Sons. @ a [Were not very exciting. . x < lL) ae Your holiday is next week, Lisa.) Are you excited? ) | want to werk with Alice. | want to werk in the Marketing Department. The Marketing Department is always busy. Everybody is very friendly. They have exciting jobs. Oh, yes! I'm going to go with Alice. We're going to go to Greece. It will be | fun. Perhaps something exciting will happen. et |Alice phones Lisa. They are going to get their passports today. They must go to the Post Office. Let's meet at lunch time Then we can get our Passports for our holiday. } OK. I'll meet you outside the office at 12.30. Lisa and Alice are in the Post Office. ° The assistant gives the passport. ', forms to the two friends. é Please fill in these forms. Where are your passport photos? Oh, no! My photos aren't in my bag! My photos are at home!(Lisa, you must go to) the photo booth in the old bus station. | You can get your \photos there. Oh, no! | hate the) ‘ old bus station. || I don’t want to a go there. But you must get the photos today. Listen, | can fill in the forms. ‘| Go and get your photos. ll wait for you here. Nobody goes to the bus station now. There is a new bus station in the centre of town. The old bus station is empty and dark. Lisa walks quickly. Her shoes make a loud ‘noise on the ground. Then she sees the photo booth. There is nobody in the photo booth. Lisa is happy. She can get her photos quickly. 7Lisa goes into the photo booth. She puts Lisa hears a noise. Some photos are her money into the machine. She closes coming out of the slot. Are they her the little curtain. She sits down. She waits. photos? No, it is too soon. Lisa’s photos rane » ( FLASH! The camera is very quick. can’t be ready. e FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! Now Lisa can But who is in the photos? get her passport today. There is nobody in the bus station. Nobody else is waiting for photos. Lisa is alone. aa Lisa goes outside the photo booth. Her photos will come out of a slot in the machine. Lisa takes the photos out of the slot. There is a man in the pictures. But something is wrong. She is frightened. 9The four photos show a murder! There is a man in the first photo. He is very large. He is wearing a black coat and ared scarf. The man is sitting in the photo booth. He is smiling. It is not a nice smile. Itis a cruel smile. The man is in the second photo. The man is looking to the right. He is afraid. Something is happening in the third photo. Somebody is holding the man’s scarf. Somebody is holding the man’s scarf very tightly. The large man is pulling at his scarf. There is no man FF in the fourth photo. There are two hands. The hands are 4 holding the red scarf. There is a ring on one of the hands. Iv is a strange ring There is a snake on the ring. There is a tattoo on the other hand. It is a tattoo of a bird. The hands are the murderer's hands. 1Now Lisa is very frightened. The man with the red scarf is dead. But where is his body? Where is the murderer? Is the murderer in the bus station? The photos show the murder. “The murderer knows about the photos. The murderer will Ve come back to the photo booth. | “== He will want the photos. I'm in danger! Lisa and Alice are at the police station. They are telling their story to the police They are showing the photos to a detective. She is very interested. The detective has a plan. | know the man in the photos. He is a criminal. Now he is dead. But we can | catch his murderer. | The murderer will go a back to the photo : booth. He will want | his photos. But he will find your photos, Lisa. He will look for you. You can help us, Lisa.a, Lisa is in the bus station. She is walking towards the photo booth. She is going to get her pl The police are in the bus station. They are hiding, They are watching Lisa. They are waiting for the murderer. Lisa walks slowly. She is very frightened. Het cae ‘A man is standing by the photo booth. © He is young and handsome. Is this the murderer? The man sees Lisa. He smiles at her. He has a nice smile. He is holding some photos. Lisa sees his hands. She sees the snake ring. She sees the bird tattoo! 15The police catch the murderer. The detective is pleased. Lisa is safe Thank you for 4 your help, Lisa Well done, Lisa! It's exciting to nd Exciting? No! It's very frightenit cael But everything is OK now. We're going on holiday. \ It will be fun. Yes. Perhaps something exciting will happen! Teaching, Oxford Macmillan Companies ed eprescttie wghowt the word ISBN 0435 27162 8 Text © Polly Sweetnam 1995 Design and llustation © Macmillan publishers limited 1998, Fire Published 1995 al repro form orby any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior writen permission of the Publishers. reserved no part ofthis publication may be stored in a retrieval system, o¢ transmitted, in any “This isa work of fetion, Any similarities ro people, insiutions, corporations or public bodies hearing the same names are purely coincidental IMlustated by Philip Bannister (Cover by David Axtell and M: Typeset in 13/155 pe Frtiger and by Joshua Associates Led, Oxford Printed and bound in Malea by Incrprint Limited 98 99 00 01 02 14 1312 1 1098765PHOTO FINISH Lisa wants some passport photos, So she is in the old bus station, She is alone. Lisa is at the photo booth. She is waiting for her passport photos. There are some photos in the machine. Lisa looks at the pictures. But they are not Lisa's pictures. Something is wrong. Now Lisa is frightened, HEINEMANN GUIDED READERS ‘STARTER LEVEL ing both original and simplified stories, is published at five levels and provides a choice of enjoyable reading material for all learners of English. UPPER INTERMEDIATE ELEMENTARY BEGINNER STARTER ala Ty ee ° | 35 Il