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Let’s create a checkpoint piece. You can either revise and polish your work from this lesson (we’ve pasted it below) or you can write something new. (Your teacher may have a preference.)

Remember to:

create a detective agency down on its luck
explain why it's not doing well
give a list of slowly escalating problems
finish with an exaggerated topper

There’s not much call for private detectives in Fulham.

The day it all started was a bad one. Business was so slack it was falling down all around us. The gas had been disconnected that morning, one of the coldest mornings for twenty years, and it could only be a matter of time before the electricity followed. We’d run out of food and the people in the supermarket downstairs had all fallen down laughing when I suggested credit. We had just $2.37 and about three teaspoons of instant coffee to last us the weekend. The wallpaper was peeling, the carpets were fraying, and the curtains… well, whichever way you looked at it, it was curtains for us. Even the cockroaches were walking out.

The Falcon's Malteser(2004)

Here is your work from this lesson. You can either revise and polish it, or write something new. (Ask your teacher if they have a preference.)

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Checkpoint