Ideally, students will retell more or less the whole stories, using much of the language from the listening. Use the summaries below, shown in words that aren’t exact, to rephrase and support what students tell you:
- one day, she woke up and found her car had been stolen from outside her house, she called the police and reported it, when she got back home the car was in the driveway there was a note on the driver’s seat the note said that the thief’s mum had been taken ill and he’d had to drive her to hospital, next to the note there were a couple of tickets for a concert, the following day she went with a friend and they both had a fantastic time
- he suddenly collapsed and had to be rushed to hospital, they diagnosed him as having been poisoned, they reported the incident to the police, the detective in charge of the case questioned the man, but he couldn’t think of any reason why anybody would want to poison him
- he noticed this elderly woman just staring at him with these desperately sad eyes, he turned away, grabbed a loaf, he was getting a bit freaked out by the old woman staring, he remembered that he’d run out of toilet paper and so he went back to get some, when he got back to the cashier, there was the old woman again her trolley was almost full to the brim, she said he was the spitting image of her dead son, she asked if he could do her a favour and say goodbye mum as she left so he did, feeling like he’d done his good deed for the day
