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By making voodoo dolls of her more unruly students, Mrs. Clark saw a dramatic improvement in her

class’s behaviour.

bogus

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Let's get you cleaned up good and proper.

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Blessed are the , for they shall inherit the Earth – but not the oil and the mineral rights.

meek

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Nadal has struggled with injuries for a long time but looks fit again.

niggling

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A houserickety

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sluggishI don’t know what’s wrong. I just haven’t been feeling very lately.

You look a bit pale, are you OK?

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He remained over his alleged fraud.tight-lipped

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He's short, with looks enough to earn him comparisons to one of the hobbits from The Lord of the Rings. The Independent, January, 31st

unprepossessing

She's an idealistic young Englishwoman. He's an American politician more than twice her age, making his second run for the presidency and his third run at marital bliss.

She's six feet tall with long, flowing, red hair.

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I hate the new boss. He thinks he knows everything, but he’s just an upstart.

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“He looked at her in the darkness, at this woman who was everything to him – mother, Africa, wisdom, understanding,

good things to eat, pumpkins, chicken, the smell of sweet cattle breath, the white sky across the endless, endless bush, and the

giraffe that cried, giving its tears for women to daub on their baskets; O Botswana, my country, my place”. (p. 232)

Dr GulubaneGrace MapondweCharlie GotsoDr MaketsiDr KomotiGrace GakatsalaMma Notshi

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CHARACTERSA pathologistOne of Matekoni’s clientsAn very influential manAn old friend of Precious’sA fraudsterThe owner of a dress shopA witchdoctor’s wife

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CHARACTERS

Two very different men

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CHARACTERS

Two very different men

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a. What information did Precious get about the bone from Dr Gulubane?

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b. What plan did she devise to solve the case?

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c. How did Matekoni feel about that plan before carrying it out? And afterwards? Why did he change his mind?

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d. What was the deal between Precious and Gotso?

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e. What did Precious think of doctors?

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f. Why did Dr Maketsi need Precious? What did she find out about the case?

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g. What had happened to the missing boy?

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h. Why did Precious accept to marry Matekoni?

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… THE END?Until p.57

just after the hols.

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