Choose a good (G) title for each chapter. One heading is not good (NG). Explain why.

 

Chapter 1         The Hottest Day of the Year

The Clarkson Family

Diane Needs Money

Chapter 2       Molly Says No

A Wonderful Dress

A Birthday Dinner

Chapter 3       Dr Pratt Phones the Police

The Bottle of Sleeping Tablets

Diane and the Dogs

Chapter 4         Sergeant Foster and the Tennis Club

The Police Ask Questions

A Cup of Hot Milk

Chapter 5         I Didn't Kill My Mother

Sergeant Foster and Diane

An Old Love Story

Chapter 6       The Picture of a Friend

Inspector Walsh Feels Hungry

Inspector Walsh Knows the Answer

Chapter 7         Mother Gave Me Nothing

Love and Money

Accident!

 

4 Here is a new illustration for the story. Answer these questions about the illustration.

1 Who is the girl on the stairs and what is she doing?

2 Who are the other two people in this picture?

3 Where is Albert?

4 What happened next? Write three or four sentences. Now write a caption for the illustration.

 

 

What happened next? Here are five different endings. Fill in the gaps with these words. (Use each word once.) Which ending or endings do you like best?

 

didn't, farm, garden, happy, house, love, love, love, married, money, money, money, murder, never, nobody, rich

 

1 Jackie went to prison for the________________________________of her mother and at

first_______________________________visited her. In the end Roger and Diane went

to see her, but they______________________________talk about Molly.

 

2 After ten years Jackie came out of prison and______________________________

Tom Briggs. They lived very quietly and they didn't have much_______________________, but they were____________________________________________.

 

3 Roger lived in Molly's____________________________. He built ten houses in the

__________________________________and was soon a very____________________man. Diane found a

husband, but she didn't____________________________him. She married him

because he had a lot of_____________________________________________________.

 

4 Jackie_________________________saw Tom Briggs again because he sold his

_________________________________to Roger and went to live in Australia. Jackie

never married, and so she never found_________________________________________.

 

5 The Clarkson family are nicer people now. After their mother died, they learnt something - they learnt that _______________________is more important than____________________________________

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rowena Akinyemi is British, and after many years in Africa, she now lives and works in Cambridge. She has worked in English Language Teaching for twenty years, in Africa and England, and has been writing ELT fiction for ten years. Love or Money? was her first story for the Oxford Bookworms Library, and she has now written several other stories for the series, including Remember Miranda and The Witches of Pendle (both at Stage 1). She has also written books for children. One of her favourite pastimes is reading detective stories.

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The Oxford Bookworms Collection is a series for advanced learners. It consists of volumes of short stories by well-known authors, both classic and modern. Texts are not abridged or adapted in any way, but carefully selected to be accessible to the advanced student.

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ROWENA AKINYEMI. 1

LOVE OR MONEY?. 1

Chapter 1. 4

Chapter 2. 5

Chapter 4. 11

Chapter 5. 14

Chapter 6. 16

Chapter 7. 18

GLOSSARY... 21

ACTIVITIES Before Reading. 23

ACTIVITIES While Reading. 24

ACTIVITIES After Reading. 25

ABOUT THE AUTHOR.. 29

OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY... 29

 

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