deadly letters
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English Through Stories:
Deadly Letters – Chapter 1
STORY AND TRANSCRIPT
ESLPod.com presents Deadly Letters, a 15-episode murder mystery novel by
Sarah Gatchitie. Hello, I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the
Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California. Deadly
Letters is a 15-chapter mystery novel written especially for ESLPod.com’s
English Through Stories.
Each episode has three parts: first, we give a short preview of the chapter, giving you a general idea of what will happen in this episode; second, we read the chapter; and third, we give a summary of the chapter so you can check your comprehension. The definitions of the vocabulary words and a complete transcript can be found in the Learning Guide for each episode.
PREVIEW:
Our first episode introduces us to the main characters of the novel: Derrick Cruz, a college student, and his uncle, Jeff McQueen, a former college professor. We’ll learn about Derrick’s Aunt April, and we’ll meet a beautiful but mysterious woman. Let’s get started.
Chapter 1
“This is a strange, strange email,” my uncle said. He looked up from a piece of paper he was reading.
“What is so weird?” I asked.
It was 8:00 a.m. and we were eating breakfast in the kitchen.
“My old friend, Clara Dunn, is now a professor at California University,”
Uncle Jeff said. “She wants to meet with me this week. And she says she wants to talk to me about something very important.”
“I haven’t seen her in over twenty years,” he explained. “We were both teaching at the University of New York and we were good friends. But when I took a job at California University and moved to Los Angeles, we lost touch. We haven’t seen or talked to each other for a long, long time. I didn’t know she had moved to California, too.”
“Did she say anything in the email about what she wanted to talk to you about or why it was so important?” I asked.
www.eslpod.com
English Through Stories:
Deadly Letters – Chapter 1
STORY AND TRANSCRIPT
ESLPod.com presents Deadly Letters, a 15-episode murder mystery novel by
Sarah Gatchitie. Hello, I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the
Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California. Deadly
Letters is a 15-chapter mystery novel written especially for ESLPod.com’s
English Through Stories.
Each episode has three parts: first, we give a short preview of the chapter, giving you a general idea of what will happen in this episode; second, we read the chapter; and third, we give a summary of the chapter so you can check your comprehension. The definitions of the vocabulary words and a complete transcript can be found in the Learning Guide for each episode.
PREVIEW:
Our first episode introduces us to the main characters of the novel: Derrick Cruz, a college student, and his uncle, Jeff McQueen, a former college professor. We’ll learn about Derrick’s Aunt April, and we’ll meet a beautiful but mysterious woman. Let’s get started.
Chapter 1
“This is a strange, strange email,” my uncle said. He looked up from a piece of paper he was reading.
“What is so weird?” I asked.
It was 8:00 a.m. and we were eating breakfast in the kitchen.
“My old friend, Clara Dunn, is now a professor at California University,”
Uncle Jeff said. “She wants to meet with me this week. And she says she wants to talk to me about something very important.”
“I haven’t seen her in over twenty years,” he explained. “We were both teaching at the University of New York and we were good friends. But when I took a job at California University and moved to Los Angeles, we lost touch. We haven’t seen or talked to each other for a long, long time. I didn’t know she had moved to California, too.”
“Did she say anything in the email about what she wanted to talk to you about or why it was so important?” I asked.