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Pirate Treasure

Author: Phillip Burrows and Mark Foster

Words: 950

Headwords: 250

Genre: OXFORD BOOKWORMS STARTER

 

Summary:

    It is 1607. Tom Creek’s pirate boat, The Black Star, goes down in the sea. Tom Creek loses all his treasure. As the boat goes down he shouts, ‘This is my treasure and no other man’s. I curse this treasure - forever.’ Many years pass. Many men try to get the treasure. Many men die. For example, in 7th December 1841. On the sea near The Black Star. Men find the treasure. They are engulfed by Tsunami and die. In 22nd April 1907. Another man wants the treasure. He finds the treasure. He gets attacked by a giant squid and die. In 16th February 1977. Another boat needs help. Men find the treasure. Their ship is sucked in by a whirlpool and they die. In 25th June 1999. Another man die. He looks at the treasure. However, he is enclosed in a sunken ship and die. In 2009. John West, his wife Mae, and their friends want to get the treasure. John West, his male friends try to get the treasure but fail. However, Mae try to get the treasure and success. She says, ‘You’re wrong. The curse says, no man can have Tom Creek’s treasure. . . But I am a woman.

 

Key points about the book:

    Tom Creek says, ‘This is my treasure and no other man’s. I curse this treasure - forever. This is Tom Creek’s treasure.’ Therefore, men can’t get the treasure but women can get the treasure. Tom Creek is goofy. The book has a little word game.

 

My opinion:

    This book is very easy to read, because there is no hard English word used in this book. There is no past tense even used in the book. The book is a short story. I think that this book is interesting. The book’s punch line is so nice.

 

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