1. No 1 Ladies‘ Detective Agency Reading: Upper-Intermediate/Advanced Regina Jirankova

2. Answer the questions: 1.Where is Botswana? 2.What skills did little Precious learn from her father? 3.What was the dispute about and how did Precious solve it? 4.What did she get from her father?

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5. Answers: 1.In Africa 2.To use eyes, ears, memory, to be patient, to love her country and all the creature but for snakes, to have te sense of justice and to enjoy the pleasure of solving a mystery 3.Whose the calf was, she let the calf find its mother 4.A van

6. Chapter One Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two chairs, a telephone and an old typewriter. Then there was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe-the only lady private detective in Botswana-brewed redbush tea. And three mugs-one for herself, one for her secretary and one for the client. What else does a real detective agency need?

8. Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.