INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Meet Me In Istanbul by Richard Chisholm

A Before Reading

1 Read the extract from the story on the back cover of the book. Then write the next paragraph of
the story.

2 Here are some chapter headings from the book. Which order do you think they should be in?
Journey to Istanbul
Time for a Holiday
Journey into Danger
Disaster!
The Man in the Grey Raincoat
‘I Saw Her’
An Important Discovery
A Surprise Phone Call

B While Reading

3 Here is the map of Istanbul from the front of the book. Use the map to help you keep a record of
what happens in the story. Put a number on the map to show where something happened. Write
notes to explain what happened at that place. (You may have more than one number in the same
place on the map.)

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■ Worksheet ■
 Number on map What happened there

1 Tom’s plane from England

landed here.

C After Reading

4 Each of these people is important in this story. Why?

(a) Kemal:
(b) Dunya:
(c) David Pennington:
(d) Angela:
(e) Julie:

5 (a) Write a postcard from Tom to a friend in England.

or
(b) Write a postcard from Angela to her father. (Remember that Angela works for her father.)

6 Tom, Angela, Julie and Kemal go out for a meal together the day after the end of Chapter 14.
Write a script (a play) of their conversation at the restaurant.

Have you read The Smuggler by Piers Plowright (Intermediate Level) or

The Woman Who Disappeared by Philip Prowse? (Intermediate Level)
These are two more stories in which the main characters solve a mystery and a crime.

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