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Here is the first part of a story
frorn One-Way Ticket, a book of
short stories in the Oxford
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Bookworm Seies-
Lorrk.tt tlris list rrl places
and events. South for tbe Winter
Read the story quickly. Match the
places and events.
I never stay in one country for a long time. It gets boring. I like to
move on1 see new places, me'et different people. It's a good life,
Venice Two American girls
most of the rime. Sfhen I need money, I get a job. I can clo most
got on the train.
things - hotel and restaurant work, building work, picking fruit.
Melanie and Carol
Trieste I like to go south in the winter Cyprus, or perhaps North
are going to meet -
Tom at the weekend. Africa. Lif-e is easier in the sun, and northern Europe can get Yery
Zagreb Tom bought a train cold in the winter. Last year I was in Venice for October. I did some
ticket. work in a hotel for three weeks, then I began slowly to move south.
The girls got off the I always go by train r.vhen I can. I like trains. You can walk about
Belgrade train. on a train, and you meet a lot of people.
Tom worked in a I left Venice ancl went on to Trieste. There I got a cheap ticket
hotel for three weeks. for the slow train to Sofia, in Bulgaria. It takes a day and a haif, but
Bela Palanka
Tom went to the rhe express was too expensive.
restaurant car with The train left Trieste at nine o'clock on a Thursday morning.
Sofia Melanie. There weren't many people on it at first, but at T.agreb mctre
people got oo. Two girls went along the corridor, past my
Read the story again and find the compartment. Tl-rey looked thror-igh the door, but they clidn't come
answers to these questions. in. The train left Zagreb and I looked out of the rc'indow for about
I Wl-rat is Tom's job? ren minutes, then I went to sleep.
2 Why was he on the train? SThen I opened my eyes again, the two girls were in the
I How did the girls find out Tom's compartment.
nanle? 'Hil' tirey said.
4 How old are Tom and the girls? 'Yoi-r're American,' I said. 'Or Canadian. Rigirt?'
5 Why were the girls on the train? 'American,' tire taller girl said" She srniled. 'Anci you're twenty-
6 Why didn't Carol go to the
three, your name's Tom Waish, you'ye got blue eyes, and your
restaurant car? rlurn lives in Burnham-on-Sea, UK. Right?'
7 Why was Tom surprised when the
'How did you know all that?' I asked.
girls got off the train? 'She looked at your passport' It's ill
8 Whcre and whcn are the girls The second girl laughed.
your coat pocket.'
meeting Tom again? 'Oh. Rigirt.' My coat was on the seat next to rne. I took my
9 Where and when did thc train
stop? passport out of my pocket antl put it in my bag in tire iuggage rack'
'Who are you, then?' I asked.
What do you think will hapPen in They told me. Meiernie ancl Carol from Los Angeles, USA. They
the story? Give reasons for Your liked Europe, the1, said. They knew a 1ot of places - Britain,
predictions.
Germany, France, Spain, Italy, I{ungarv, Br-rlgaria, Greece . . '
T'hey seen:red iike nice girls. They were older than nte, perhaps
[wenty-seven or trventy-eight, br,rt I liked tl-lem. Xile talked and
laughecl for l-rours. I told them a ior of stories about my life. Some
of rhe stclries were true, some weren't. But the girls laughed
anywa),', and said I was a :ireat guy. I asked them about tsuigaria,

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