One-Way Ticket

by Jennifer Bassett

Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two American girls on the train. They were nice and very friendly. They knew a lot of places. Tom thought they were fun. Tom certainly had a lot to learn about life. This is a collection of short stories about adventures on trains. Strange, wonderful, and frightening things can happen on trains - and all of them happen here.

Genres: Short Stories

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Jennifer Bassett has been a teacher, teacher trainer, editor, and materials writer, and has taught in England, Greece, Spain, and Portugal. She is the Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Library, and has written more than twenty original and retold stories for the series, including The Phantom of the Opera, One-Way Ticket, The President's Murderer, and William Shakespeare. Two of her adaptations, Rabbit-Proof Fence and Love Among the Haystacks, have won Language Learner Literature Awards, and three of her other titles have been finalists for the Awards. She has created a new sub-series called Bookworms World Stories, which are collections of short stories written in English from around the world. She has also written original stories for the English Today Readers and Storylines series. Jennifer is series co-adviser, with H.G. Widdowson, of the Oxford Bookworms Collection, volumes of unadapted short stories for advanced learners.

Reviews

[Abeer.]

nice story have a good and easy language it's very good one to starter reader who does not have a good english.

I read it then gave it to my brother :)

[Hadjer · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was my first english book. I think that the author was limited by the level , Although , the first story was interesting.
The second and third stories were kind of boring, full of unnecessary details, because the writer focused on the language learning and not on the story itself.
As a learning tool , I find it really useful.

[Zajafary · Rating 3 out of 5]

آفرین بر آخرین داستانش .

[Saori Fukuhata · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like short stories like this book because I don’t get bored. This is good for English learners like me. I will recommend this to my classmates at English school. It has glossary, too. That’s wonderful. It became much easier for me after understanding English words.

This contains three short stories.
The first one is nice. Communications among people on a train was interesting. While some people keep talking, two people keep quiet. There is no words conversation among them. However, they actually communicated without words, such as eye contacts or gestures. A woman said that sometimes people don’t need words. I like that. And the last part, I couldn’t expect that punch line.

The second one is not so bad, but I don’t remember that much.

The third one is funny. I mean, I like the protagonist, a old man who is quiet and people hardly recognize him. Two people came into the same room of a night train, and began to argue. They seemed the didn’t know there he was. So, the protagonist could see all things happened. I could slightly guess what was going to happen in the end, but I was able to enjoy his thoughts that why these people didn’t see him. At last, he had a glass of vodka with frightened face. I may be weird but his frightened face looked cute.

[Abrar Alarjan · Rating 3 out of 5]

there stories in the train
Nothing brings them together just train .
And The author said in page 38 :

"People tell your their life stories in train, because
they know they will never see you angin ."

I like the story .✨💛

[Yumi · Rating 3 out of 5]

1.One-way ticket/Oxford/level1
2.60minutes
3.a train, a carriage, a bored woman, get off the train, a lot of money, a quiet carriage, a beautiful neck less
4.Have you used a train to travel? - No, I haven't. I used an airplane when I traveled.
5.There are three short stories in the book, so it was easy to read. The last story was about ghosts. If I were a main character, I would run away soon after seeing ghosts.

[Trololoshka · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book telling you about some short stories in the train.The main character of this book is Tom Wash.

He like to travel on the trains and he enjoys to meet new people.He want to learn something from life and he isn't in hurry.

All of the stories in the book have only 13 pages.I dare you to read this book.This book is very good.

[Amaor · Rating 4 out of 5]

this is my forth English book I have read. I love to read Oxford Bookworms, as I found easy to understand and gradually improved after reading few books.

First, "the Girl with Green Eyes" , Julie is brave woman, She listen to her heart and get off the train at Plymouth with that tall dark man.

Second, "South for the Winter", Tom Walsh is nice boy, he is too nice and too easy trust strangers , so his life is not easy , in prison.

Third, "Mr Harris and the Night Train", Mr Harris is quiet man, he relived the accident of Elena and her brother in the carriage on the train. who had died about eighty years ago.

[Bayader · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was my first english book . The book speaks of someone who liked to travel. He was in no hurry . He liked meeting people . This a collection of short stories about adventures on trains . Strange , wonderful , and frightening things can happen on trains and all of them happen here . The first story was interesting . The second and third stories were kind of boring , full of unnecessary details . But I really enjoyed it and it was a nice story have a good and easy language.

[Na Dang · Rating 5 out of 5]

These three short stories are fascinating and surprising. I read and listened to the stories at once. The voice is obvious. I assure that you can listen to them nicely without looking at words. I cannot stop myself reading until the last words. I love all of them, considerately. I would recommend the book for English reading beginner.
Have a good reading time.

[jl.6 · Rating 4 out of 5]

كتاب ممتع و لذيذ جداً
شي متوقع من الكاتبه ،قريت سريتها الذاتيه كانت رائعه،
كتب اكسفورد كلها جميله
الكتاب كلماته و قواعده حلوه و يخليك تتعلم بسرعه
للامانه الالغاز الي بنهايه الكتاب مو كلها حليتها كانت صعبه علي 😭.

[Parsa Hossein · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book has three stories two of which were really ridiculous and pointless and their endings were not good but one of the stories is relatively good there are not many special words to learn in my opinion

[Anrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent for learners of A1 or A2 English.

[Ibrahim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simple language
Three interesting short stories

[Daisy White · Rating 5 out of 5]

it was a great and short book for me.
the stories are interesting - in my opinion - and it was not too long to bore me.
i'd recommend this to someone who has a decent amount level at English.

[Hm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Soo goood

[Santiago Gaynor · Rating 4 out of 5]

These stories are awesome for A1 or A2 students.

[Emre · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not too bad.

[Kokob · Rating 5 out of 5]

i love it so much it is short and good story I love amazing

[sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

لغه الكتاب حيل سهله وفيه ثلاث قصص حبيت جو القصص والقطار والحديث مع الغرباء .

[Fayez · Rating 2 out of 5]

Btw
I don't like it

[Reem Bsheer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice stories ,I liked them .
I liked the last one most ❤️

[Melissa Ortiz · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love it! My favorite book !

[Yomna Mahmoud · Rating 5 out of 5]

I LOOOVEE IT .. specially Mr harris and the night train... Poor elena i felt sorry for her

[hill · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is a good book to start reading in English but the level was very lower for me like A2. Also there were lots of repeating phrases like “ one or two” and it was irritating to me.

[ناصر البراعصي · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a lovely stories!
Spesifically the last one “Mr Harris and the Night Train”

[Mai · Rating 3 out of 5]

words 5533

[Bléu · Rating 3 out of 5]

This collection is brief and concise but there wasn't much deepness into it. That is why I think this book is for younger audiences who are starting to read more voraciously but briefly only. There are probably harder words that is why.

~*~
"People don't always need words, young man,' the children's mother said."

"I never stay in one country for a long time. It gets boring. I like to move on, see new places, meet different people. It's a good life, most of the time. When I need money, I get a job. O can do most things- hotel and restaurant work, building work, picking fruit. In Europe you can pick fruit most of the year. You need to be in the right country at the right time, of course. It's not easy work, but the money's not bad."

[Saire Marloz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Las historias son cortitas y muy fáciles de leer.

[Kazuhiro Furuhashi · Rating 3 out of 5]

1. OXFORD , LEVEL1

2.5/=90min

3.train, carriage, man, the girl, green eyes,St Austell, Plymouth

4a. Go and have your holiday in St Austell. You can have a good time there. Forget about Julie.

4b. At first, Bill was going to St Austell with Julie. But Julie thought she didn't go to there.
And maybe she became to dislike his character. Then she got off the train at Plymouth. With the tall dark man. Bill ought to have enjoyed holiday with Julie in St Austell. Eventually, the holiday changed for forget Julie in St Austell.

5. I was recommended this book by Kanae. This is the first time what I read a suspense book. Truthfully, this book was difficult for me to feel interesting. But I thought there was intellectual fun. So I want to understand like that.