Police Ask for Help to Find Melanie Hall's Killer
警方尋求協助追緝 Melanie Hall 的兇手
Introduction
Police in England want new information about Melanie Hall. She disappeared and died in 1996.
英國警方希望能獲得關於 Melanie Hall 的新資訊。她在 1996 年失蹤並死亡。
Main Body
Melanie was 25 years old. She went to a club in Bath on June 9, 1996. She did not go to work the next day. In 2009, a man found her body near a big road. She had a bad injury to her head. Her clothes and bag are still missing.
Melanie 當時 25 歲。她在 1996 年 6 月 9 日前往巴斯的一家夜總會。她第二天沒有去上班。在 2009 年，一名男子在一条大路附近發現了她的屍體。她的頭部受了嚴重傷勢。她的衣服和包包至今仍下落不明。
Police arrested eleven people, but no one went to jail. Now, police use old songs and football games from 1996. They want people to remember where they were on that night. They show these things on screens and cars.
警方逮捕了 11 人，但沒有人被判入獄。現在，警方利用 1996 年的舊歌曲和足球賽事，希望人們能回想起那天晚上他們身在何處。他們將這些內容顯示在螢幕和車輛上。
Melanie's father and sister are very sad. Her mother is very old and sick. They want to find the killer now. A group called Crimestoppers will pay £20,000 for information that helps the police.
Melanie 的父親和妹妹非常悲痛。她的母親年事已高且患病。他們現在希望能找到兇手。一個名為 Crimestoppers 的組織將為能提供協助警方的資訊提供 20,000 英鎊的獎金。
Conclusion
The police are still looking for the killer of Melanie Hall.
警方仍在尋找 Melanie Hall 的兇手。
Vocabulary Learning
⏳ The 'Past' Simple Shift
Look at how the story describes things that already happened. To tell a story in English, we change the action word (verb) to show it is finished.
The Pattern:
- Want Wanted
- Disappear Disappeared
- Arrest Arrested
Special Words (Irregular): Some words change completely. You must memorize these for A2 level:
- Go Went
- Do Did
- Find Found
Quick Example from Text:
- "She went to a club" (Action finished in 1996).
- "A man found her body" (Action finished in 2009).
💡 Pro Tip: When you see did not, the action word stays in its normal form.
- Wrong: She did not went.
- Right: She did not go.