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3 BOOSTER är ett läromedel i engelska för dig som behöver förstärka,

”boosta”, din engelska för att bli godkänd och kunna gå vidare med a-kursen (steg 5) på gymnasiet.

BOOSTER finns på tre nivåer – BOOSTER 1, 2 och 3 – med en text-

och en övningsbok till varje nivå. Tanken är att du ska börja på den nivå som passar dig och sedan gå vidare till nästa nivå.

BOOSTER

BOOSTER

Birgit Harling Anders Lidén Lina Neidestam

3

BOOSTER PART THREE

Det här är textboken till BOOSTER 3 och här i den sista boken finns två riktigt långa texter, indelade i avsnitt som du kan läsa som en följetong. I BOOSTER 3 får du också veta hur det går för Zelda i serien Zelda’s High School Diary, som är specialritad för BOOSTER och som finns i alla de tre böckerna.

För läraren finns för alla tre nivåerna en lärarhandledning samt cd med texter och hörövningar.

ISBN 978-91-27-41424-2

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Harry and the Horse The Liar (song) She's too Young to Have a Baby Awkward Age (song) Word List

FOCU S ON WHAT YOU U NDER STAND don’t – get st uck o what n you d on’t under stand

booster 1 a rocket that gives a spacecraft extra power, 2 a device that gives extra power to a piece of electrical equipment, 3 a small amount of a drug that is given to increase the effect of one given earlier, 4 a thing that helps, encourages or improves sb/sth, 5 a person who gives their support to sb/sth, especially in politics

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HARRY AND THE HORSE Harry and the Horse – part 1 ‘I’m going to steal you’, said Harry to the horse, ‘but I don’t know how. I know nothing about horses. Nothing at all’.

The horse shifted in the stall and shook its head.

‘They will shoot me, you know, if I don’t steal you,’ said Harrry. ‘Not that it matters much. I will die soon anyway, but they don’t know that. I’m very sick.’

The horse’s ears moved. It snorted softly.

‘They’re outside with a van and a horse trailer. I’m going to take you out there. Somehow. We’ll probably walk. I mean you’re too heavy to carry.’

The horse stood still, ears peaked.

‘You’re worth a lot of money, they say. You won a lot of races. I don’t know about that either, but you sure are big.

Strong-looking, too. These guys that want you say they’re going to sell you off to some faraway country. A king or prince or whatever wants you for breeding. Could be a good life for you, I guess. Not much life left for me either way, though. I’ll be gone soon. I’m very sick, you know.

Sick all over.’

The horse was very still.

‘It’s strange to be in here, Horse’, said Harry. ‘I’ll just call you Horse, because I don’t know your name. It’s probably written up there on the board above your stall, but I don’t read too well. Never did, as a matter of fact. All right if I call you Horse?’

The horse snorted again. Softly.

‘Strange place this. Must be hundreds of horses in here.

shift flytta på sig snort frusta peaked spetsad breeding avel either way i vilket fall som helst

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I thought it would be noisy but it’s so quiet. Strange smells, too. But it’s nice talking to you. I always enjoy a good talk, but I rarely find anyone to talk to. Maybe you’re a good listener.’

rarely sällan

The Horse

The horse moved. It took a few steps across the stall and came to stand with its head almost touching Harry’s face.

It blew out its breath through its nostrils. Harry stood quite still. Again he noticed how quiet the stable was. No noise at all. No horse neighing, no snorting, no shifting, no kicking. He got the impression that the whole stable was listening. To what? To him?

The horse touched his face with its muzzle. It pushed softly but forcefully.

‘I get it,’ said Harry, ‘you’re ready to go.’

Harry opened the latch on the stall door and moved to the side. Without hesitation the horse moved slowly but purposefully out of the stall and walked down the aisle towards the door. Harry moved to follow him when he felt a hard object being pushed into the small of his back.

breath andedräkt nostril näsborre neigh gnägga muzzle mule forcefully kraftfullt latch lås purposefully målmedvetet aisle gång

The Man

‘Don’t move,’ said a tight voice. ‘Don’t you move one inch.

You’re trying to steal my stallion. My prize stallion. You fucking son of a bitch thief.’

The horse stopped. It didn’t turn around. It just stopped.

‘I could do one of three things,’ said the voice. ‘I could turn you over to the police, I could shoot you on the spot or I could give you a job. I’ve never seen anything like your fucking performance in my whole life. You talked my stallion out of his stall. Never seen the likes of it. So what do you want?’

stallion hingst performance föreställning

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Harry relaxed. He let out his breath.

‘I want you to shoot me,’ he said.

It was very quiet. Then the man exhaled.

‘I sense something here’, he said. ‘You’re doing something.

Something strange.’

‘I’m dying’, said Harry. ‘It’s not strange. Besides, it’s nice in here. I’d like to die here, if I may. Shoot me, please.’

‘You’re nuts’, said the man. ‘Nobody wants to die. You’re just playing tricks with me. You’re stalling for time, that’s what you’re doing. You’re waiting for one of your friends to come in and get you and my horse out of here. But, that’s not going to happen. The horse is mine and he’s staying here. I’m calling the police.’

‘You do that,’ said Harry, ‘but shoot me first. Please.’

The horse moved. It didn’t turn around, it just moved an inch. An inch away from the voice in the dark. Suddenly there was a bright light shining from somewhere behind Harry. It shone straight at the man he had been talking to.

It was a big man with a big gun.

exhale andas ut sense känna stall for time försöka vinna tid

The Woman

‘Don’t move’, said a woman’s voice. ‘Just stay where you are.’

‘What the …’ said the man with the gun.

‘Shut up’, said the woman’s voice. ‘Stay there or I’ll shoot.’

‘You fucking shut up or I’ll shoot,’ shouted the man with the gun. ‘Get out of my stable and just fuck off!’

‘Sure’, said the woman’s voice. ‘We’ll just take that horse there and leave quietly. You stay where you are now.’

‘No way’, cried the man with the gun. ‘I’d rather shoot him and you.’

There was a faint movement in the dark. A dark thing moved. It was like a shadow, nothing more.

movement rörelse

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‘Don’t force me’, said the woman’s voice.

‘Now’, said Harry and the horse moved. It bolted out of the stable like lightning. Harry was lying down on its back, holding on to its mane.

‘My God’, said Harry. ‘I hope you know where we’re going, Horse.’

Two shots rang out.

force tvinga bolt rusa lightning blixt mane man (på häst) rang out small (om skott)

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3 BOOSTER är ett läromedel i engelska för dig som behöver förstärka,

”boosta”, din engelska för att bli godkänd och kunna gå vidare med a-kursen (steg 5) på gymnasiet.

BOOSTER finns på tre nivåer – BOOSTER 1, 2 och 3 – med en text-

och en övningsbok till varje nivå. Tanken är att du ska börja på den nivå som passar dig och sedan gå vidare till nästa nivå.

BOOSTER

BOOSTER

Birgit Harling Anders Lidén Lina Neidestam

3

BOOSTER PART THREE

Det här är textboken till BOOSTER 3 och här i den sista boken finns två riktigt långa texter, indelade i avsnitt som du kan läsa som en följetong. I BOOSTER 3 får du också veta hur det går för Zelda i serien Zelda’s High School Diary, som är specialritad för BOOSTER och som finns i alla de tre böckerna.

För läraren finns för alla tre nivåerna en lärarhandledning samt cd med texter och hörövningar.

ISBN 978-91-27-41424-2

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