The oy LOST SHIP| | Stephen Colbourn _ CARYINGY Thy GINALS ORIGIN}MACMILLAN GUIDED READERS + ORIGINALS STARTER LEVEL Founding Editor: John Milne Macmillan Guided Readers provide a choice of enjoyable reading material for all learners of English. The series comprises three categories: MODERNS, CLASSICS and ORIGINALS, Macmillan Originals are specially written stories, published at five levels of grading ~ Starter, Beginner, Elementary, Intermediate and Upper. At Starter Level, the control of content and language has the following 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 restricted number of characters. Information which is vital to the understanding of the story is clearly presented and repeated for reinforcement where necessary. Structure Control Students will meet only the simplest of grammatical features. Special attention is paid to the control of tenses. Tenses are limited to the Present Simple, the Present Gontintious, the*Future, with going to, and the occasional use of the Future with will: “+: Vocabulary Control ‘At Starter Level there is a controlled Yocabulary of approximately 300 basic words, Help is also given in the form of vivid illustrations 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 understariding and enjoyment. For further information on the full selection of titles in all of the categories and all levels of the series, please refer to the Readers catalogue. a MACMILLAN GUIDED READERS STARTER LEVEL STEPHEN COLBOURN The Lost Ship MECENAS S.R.1.. unin 877-Tel.: 08783-43843 $400-Corrientes- Argentina LaerThis is the Captain of the ship. He is in his cabin. He is writing in the ship's log book. The Captain writes in the log book every day. He writes about the weather and he writes about the ship. He writes about the men on the ship. The Captain and his men are going home. They are going to reach home soon. They are well and happy. tain! There's a strange ship near us. jou come on deck?OD Meet The Captain is shouting, ‘Hallo! Is anybody there? Can you hear me? Is. anybody there?’ Now the Captain and all the men are on deck. They are looking at the strange ship But there is no answer from the strange ship. It’s a very strange ship. There’s no name on the ship. There are no men on deck. Where are the ship's men? Where are the men on the ship? Are they ill?SE. aT The Captain is on the deck of the The Captain gets into a small boat. Two j strange ship. The two men are with * men go in the boat with him. They row | him. They walk along the deck. They go across to the strange ship. They are | to the ship's wheel. going to look for the men on the ship. There is nobody at the wheel. Nobody is steering the ship. The ship is sailing in the wind. The wind is steering the ship. _— The Captain shouts, There is no answer. There is nobody on deck,The Captain is below deck. He is looking for the ship’s men. He cai find them. Now he is in the cabin where the men eat. There is a table. There is food on the table. But who is going to eat the food? There is water in the jug. But who is going to drink the water? There is a cigar in the ashtray. But who moking the cigar? ca oo This is the Captain’s cabin. But the Captain is not here. There is nobody in the cabin. here is a table and a chair. The ship’s log book and a photograph are on thetr Poon LL te Pane | scuns Lar if Jook . a yi tor A > on! yon J 5 yh Bs mor aR 4 an eh The Captain reads the log book. He sees the photograph on the table. He picks it up. He looks at the photograph.The Captain looks at the photograph. It is a photograph of a man. The Captain looks in the mirror on the cabin wall. He looks at his face in the mirror. He looks at the face in the photograph. They are the same. It is a photograph of himself! The Captain runs up on deck. There is a thick mist around the ship. The Captain looks around. He can see nobody. He can see nothing. Where is his ship? Where are his men? He cannot see the sun. He is alone.MECENAS S.* unin 877-Tel.: 03783 +4 [3400 -Corriantes -Argunliia 2005 2004 2003 19 18 17 16 15 14 13a THE LOST SHIP The Captain and his men are looking at the strange ship. ‘Hallo. Is there anybody there? Can you hear me?” But there is no answer. Pe one) Ee eS MACMILLAN GUIDED READERS STARTER LEVEL ; ‘This series provides a wide variety of enjoyable reading material forall learners of English. Choose from MACMILLAN ORIGINALS, MACMILLAN CLASSICS and MACMILLAN MODERNS. Macmillan Originals are specially written stories, published at five levels. 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