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The Goalkeeper's Revenue and Other Stories Author: Bill Naughton Retold by Peter Hodson Publishing company: Helnemann ELT Year of publishing:1992 Word level: elementary Number of pages: 60 There are five stories in this book. "The Goalkeeper's Revenue" tells a story about Sim Dalt, an extraordinary goalkeeper. He helped his team to the final of the Mayor's cup. But he couldn't play in it because he was having difficulty in his school. He was fired by the team's captain, Bob. Since then, Sim had made up his mind to take revenge on him one day. He then found an interesting job - a goalkeeper at the Amusement Arcade and became the owner of it after a few years while Bob became a famous football player. Sim became very famous after Bob lose the football game to him and be asked to be the director of the football culb of Sim and fired Bob. The second story "Seven Oranges" is about Joe who stole seventeen oranges from the docks and was caught by a policeman. The policeman locked him in a hut and went to bring another policeman as a witeness. While he left the hut, Joe thought up an idea: he decided to eat all of the oranges include the pips and the peel so that there would not have any evidence. He did that and didn't have to go to prison but end up feeling sick. "A Bit of Bread and Jam" is a story about a lucky boy, Billy. One day, he did some shopping for Mrs.Hoskey and got a jam sandwich but Mr.Hoskey told him never eat them. The boys decided to fish carp which is difficult to catch. Billy took the sandwich as the bait and caught many carp. When they went home, they saw an ambulance outside Billy's home. His mother and the police were worried about him because the sandwich was poisoned. It was very lucky of he that he haven't eat it. "A Real Good Smile" is also a story about Billy. He left school at the age of fourteen. He wanted an ordinary job in a mill while his parents wanted he to work in the locomotive shed. Alf tought him what to do to make Mr.Bidwell, the boss of the locomotive shed like him. He must keep his hands out of pockets; he must stand up straight like a soldier; he must speak in a loud, clear voice. He practiced over and over again, but at the time he saw the boss, he forgot everything. The boss shouted at him and he said that he don't want a boss like him. Superisingly, he he got the job to work at locomotive shed because of his honesty. The last story is "Maggie's First Reader". Maggie was the best housewife in her street and she went to church with a prayer-book, but she couldn't read a word. One day Father O'Flaherty visited her family and asked his son to teach her to read. After she could read, she immersed in reading all day long, and even failed to do the housework. One day, she stopped reading because she was going to write a book herself. Her husband was beset about it. I can learn how to write a complete story in simple words and since each of the story is short, I can finish the stories without interrupted. But, I think I still wants to try some longer stories next time to find which of the type I would like most. This time I read the book in the morning before going to school in case that I end up read nothing on the day. I think it's a good way for me. Besides, it's quiet in the morning so that I can enjoy in it more. 49777011 黃韻如 [Jet]