Lectura Help!
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Level 1
Series editor: Philip Prowse
Help!
Philip Prowse
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# Cambridge University Press 1999
First published 1999
Reprinted1999
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ContentsChapter 1
``Every Morning''
5
Chapter 2
The letter
8
Chapter 3
Mel Parks
12
Chapter 4
Chip
17
Chapter 5
Help!
23
Chapter 6
Teresa comes back
293
People in the story
Frank Wormold
A writer
Teresa Wormold
A lawyer and Frank's wife
Mel Parks
A Hollywood producer
Chip
A computer
A postman
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Chapter 1``Every Morning''
`I'm leaving now,' Teresa said.
I looked up from the newspaper. I was in the kitchen,
at the table.
`I'm leaving,' Teresa, my wife, said again. She stood at
the kitchen table andlooked down at me. I looked at my
watch. It was eight o'clock in the morning. Time for
Teresa, my wife, to go to work. She was a lawyer, a very
good lawyer. And she was beautiful.
`What are yougoing to do today?' Teresa asked. `Don't
go back to bed! Why don't you go out and look for a job?'
`Oh no,' I thought. `Eight o'clock in the morning, and
she's telling me to get a job.'
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