‘STARTER LEVEL,
Founding Eto: Joba Milne
‘The Macaullan Readers provide a choice of enjovable reading
materials fr learners of Eris, The series published asx levels
A'Snater, Beginner, Elementary, Pre-intermiediat, intermediate
and Urper.
Level control
Information siacture apd vocabulary ate controlled to suc the
stadene ability at each level
‘The number of words at each levels
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Vocabulary
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indenting the story. Sore cf these words ae explained in the
sory and ome te shown 4 the pictures. From Presintermedte
level apm. wande are mated with a number like ts These
‘son are explained in the Glossary a the eco the Fook
MACMMLLAN READERS
STARTER LEVEL
STEPHEN COLBOURN
The Lost Ship‘This is the Captain of the ship. He is in
is cabin. He is writing in the ship's log
‘The Captain writes in the log book
every day. He writ
and he writes about che ship. He also
writes about the men on the ship.
nd blows and the shi
‘The Caprain and his men are going
home. They are going to reach home
soon. They are well and happy.
ptain! There's a strange
‘ome on deck=
T Now the Caprain and all the men }
are on deck. The
strange ship.
The Captain is shouting, ‘Hallo! Is
anybody there? Can you hear me? Is
anybody there?’
are looking at the
I's a very strange ship. There’s no
"ame on the ship, There are no men
(on deck. Where are the ship’s men?
Bur there is no answer from the
strange ship.
Where are the men on the ship?
Are they ill?aT
‘The Captain gets into a small boat. Two
PN men go in the boat with him. They row
across to the strange ship. They are
{going to look for the men on the ship.
‘The Capeain is on the deck of the
strange ship. The two men are with
him. They walk along the deck. The
to the ship's wheel.
There is nobody at the wheel. Nobody
is steering the ship. The ship i sling in
the wind. The wind is steering the ship. _
The Caprain shouts, iylooking for the ship’
find them.
Now he is in the cabin where the men
car, There isa table
There is food on the table. Bu
going to eat the food?
is water in the jug. But who is
cigar in the
is smoking the cigar?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. Ie
isa 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.
Itis 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?
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