h her husband's daughter by his first marriage：

Point out the phrase by his first marriage.

i She left home =She moved out of the family home and went to live somewhere else.

j for the past fifteen years =for the last fifteen years

k have seen her since =have seen her since she left home

l turned up at the service =arrived at the service without saying that she was coming. Before the burial of a person, a burial service (a religious ceremony) is usually held in a church.

m afterwards： time adverb =after the service

n divided up： Note the adverb up to express into pieces. Other examples： cut up, chop up, tear up.

o Did they use to go out a lot： Did they used to go out is also acceptable. In current English, used to is more often used in questions and negatives as an invariable form.

p The point is …=The important thing is …

q check out =To find out all the information about someone or something.

r something …smells funny =I think that something strange / dishonest / is happening; I am suspicious.

s so Clare would have been five years old： Tom is calculating the age of Clare.

t Can you go through them =Can you look through your aunt's papers

Step 5 Comprehension

SB Page 50, Part 4. Let the Ss do this exercise individually, then check their answers in pairs. If you wish, this exercise can be done for homework as consolidation.

Answers：

1 Clare Flower was born in 1966.

2 Five years later, Clare Flower's father married again.

3 Clare Flower moved to Los Angeles.

4 Clare Flower's father died ten years ago.

5 Mrs Flower died three weeks ago.

6 When Mrs Flower was buried, Clare turned up.

7 Tom Goode spoke to Clare Flower.

8 Tom Goode called on the detective.

Step 6 Reading aloud

Speech Cassette Lesson 81. Play the tape of the passage for the Ss to listen and follow. Play the tape of part of the passage once more; this time the Ss listen and repeat. Pay attention to stress and intonation, and the sentence stress of longer sentences. As most of the passage is in dialogue form, you could spend longer than usual on this reading aloud activity. Get Ss to work in pairs; one plays the part of the detective, the other plays the part of Tom Goode.

Step 7 Note making

SB Page 50, Part 2. Get Ss to do this exercise individually, so that every S has to make an effort to re-read the text and extract the relevant information. If it is done in class, get Ss to check their notes afterwards in pairs. Alternatively, if you wish, you can set this exercise for homework. In that case, get Ss to check their notes in pairs at the beginning of the next lesson.

Notes：

Clare Flower： born in 1966; left home at the age of 18; has lived in Los Angeles for the past fifteen years.

J.J. Coal： famous detective; works in Washington; smokes cigars.

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