Write two paragraphs for the news, announcing Billy as a missing person; where he was last seen; the last person to whom he spoke; what is known about his final movements; his age, height, hair colour, eye colour; the clothes he was wearing; his parents’ appeal to the public for help in tracing him, etc.
SPEAK
Read your written piece aloud as if you were the television newsreader. You could begin and end with these words:
Police are appealing for information about a young man who was last seen …
Anyone who thinks they may have seen this young man or who has information about him is asked to contact …
Listen to the remaining six minutes of the radio play on YouTube. Dialogue
Some days after Billy’s disappearance, a witness tells a detective that he saw a young man answering Billy Weaver’s description going into a bed and breakfast in Bath. The detective decides to visit this B&B and question the owner.
Write the conversation that takes place between the detective and the landlady. A writes the detective’s questions. B writes the landlady’s replies.
Begin with the landlady answering the doorbell. The conversation starts at the door and moves inside to the warm and cosy sitting room with the big armchairs, the baby grand piano, the stuffed dachshund at the fire and the parrot in the cage. An example is given on the next page.
