VANESSA CLARKs Geschichten haben oft ein
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VANESSA CLARKs Geschichten haben oft ein
LANGUAGE | Story Competition Fotos: Alamy; Stockbyte Are you a creative writer? Here is your chance to finish our story 14 VANESSA CLARKs Geschichten haben oft ein überraschendes Ende – aber diesmal hat die Autorin es weggelassen. Lesen Sie weiter und lassen Sie Ihrer Fantasie freien Lauf. Um Sie beim Lesen zu unterstützen, haben wir nach jedem Abschnitt kleine Verständnisübungen eingefügt. Die Lösungen finden Sie auf Seite 21. Wir möchten dann, dass Sie das Ende selber schreiben. Wird die Geschichte gut ausgehen oder nimmt sie ein düsteres Ende? Wenn Sie gewinnen, bekommen Sie einen tollen Preis und Ihr Text wird auf unserer Webseite veröffentlicht. Viel Spaß! Spotlight 6|12 Monday O n Monday morning, Andy drove to work in his new car. He felt like the king of the road. He had picked the car up from the dealer on Saturday and had already driven more than 200 miles in it around the local area, just for fun. It was the first new car he’d ever owned. His previous car had been his mum’s old one — a Japanese model — and although it was reliable, it wasn’t really the car of his dreams. is new car, however, was great. It was stylish; it was cool; it was fun. It was a Mini Cooper in red — not just any red, but “chilli red” — with sporty alloy wheels and a dark grey interior. Andy had spent weeks researching the details (Andy loved to research) before deciding what to buy. e model he chose was named after a trendy part of London. Andy would have loved a big BMW, but that was out of the question until he was older and richer. His new Mini, though, had real BMW engineering, even if it had been built in a car factory in Oxford, only 30 miles away from his home town of Swindon. Andy had purchased this car with money from his first full-time job. He had been working at TechU-Know as a software tester for two years now and had saved up £2,000 for the deposit on the car. He would have to pay the rest of the money in instalments over the next three years, but he knew he could afford it. His expenses were low, because he still lived at home just with his mum, which was OK really. Ideally, he would have liked to find a place of his own and move out. at was his next plan, but for the moment, it was fine at his mum’s. She still cooked for him and, if he was especially nice to her, ironed his shirts. Andy drove into the industrial estate where Tech-U-Know was located. It was a big business park with several high-tech firms housed in large, grey buildings. He turned into the company car park and found a free space. He chose a good place — not under a tree, where birds might make a mess on the car’s paintwork, and not next to an old banger, the owner of which might open the car doors carelessly. Andy’s Mini was a real splash of colour among all the silver, blue, grey and black cars of his coworkers. Even locking the car gave him pleasure. As he pressed the remote control on his key ring, the car flashed its lights as if to say “I’m locked and safe now. Have a nice day!” alloy wheel [)ÄlOI (wi:&l] deposit [di(pQzIt] engineering [)endZI(nIErIN] industrial estate [In)dVstriEl I(steIt] UK instalments [In(stO:lmEnts] old banger [EUld (bÄNE] UK ifml. paintwork [(peIntw§:k] remote control [ri)mEUt kEn)trEUl] splash of colour [)splÄS Ev (kVlE] trendy [(trendi] Alufelge Anzahlung hier: Technik Gewerbegebiet Raten alte Klapperkiste Lackierung Fernbedienung Farbtupfer schick, angesagt 1. What’s wrong? Read this short summary of what happened on Monday and find the two incorrect pieces of information. Andy had bought a new car. It was a red Mini. He was very proud of it. He had enough money for the car payments because he lived at home with his parents. He worked for a high-tech firm in Oxford. Minis are built in the UK. 6|12 Spotlight 15