Listen to an extract from a book and read along. The audio file is right after the text. Listen carefully and write down the title of the text. Use a capital letter to start a sentence. Don't use a full stop. You will hear the title at the beginning of the recording. Philippe was standing by his cousin’s newspaper stall when he noticed the thief. Philippe knew he was a thief because his picture was in the newspapers. In fact, his picture was in every one of the newspapers that his cousin was selling at this very moment.
The square was bustling on this hot afternoon. Several stalls were selling cold drinks and snacks. People were sitting in the shade of the trees around the edge. Cooing pigeons strutted hopefully around the benches.
Buses with dusty windows were cruising around the square. They wove their way through the never-ending flow of traffic. Now and again, one stopped under the trees. Its engine hummed noisily as the doors hissed open. Blue-grey fumes rose into the air. Their oily smell mixed with the scent of roses that drifted from the flower seller’s stall. Waiting passengers pushed their way onto the bus while others left it and hurried away across the square.
Nobody was taking any notice of the thief but Philippe did not stop watching him.
He was difficult to recognize. He did not look exactly like his pictures because he was in disguise, but Philippe knew it was him. The police were looking for this man all over the city and now, here he was, just a few metres from the newspaper stand.
