The Ironing Man

Teacher:
Flor Pez Hilda

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General Information

Author: Colin Campbell

Title: The Ironing Man
Publisher: Early Blackbirds, Wolters-Noordhoff, Cambridge English Readers
Place of publication: The Netherlands
Printing Year: 2011
Number of pages: 63 pages
Year of copyright: 1999
Genre: Comedy
Series editor: Philip Prowse

Information about the author:

Colin Campbell
He has worked in ELT for more of 28 years as a teacher, trainer, Director of Studies and
Consultant. During that time he worked in a number of different countries, including Spain, Italy,
Poland, Ireland and Estonia. He has worked at the University of Reading since 1998 where he
teaches English for Academic Purposes. (Cambrige English )
He was a co-founder of two private language schools in Italy and Poland. He taught on various
short courses at CALS since February 1998 and was Short Courses Co-coordinator at CALS.
Since 2001 he has concentrated on teaching on and course directing EAP courses.
His most outstanding books are:
Campbell, C. 1999 The Ironing Man Cambridge University Press (Cambridge English
Readers)
Campbell, C. 2000 The Lady in White Cambridge University Press (Cambridge
English Readers)
Campbell, C. 2004 Parallel Cambridge University Press (Cambridge English Readers)
Some of his favorite memories from his career are: co-hosting a Learning English television
series for local television in Italy; recording Irish songs for a Children's course book in Poland;
writing original readers for Cambridge University Press and, still, teaching students anywhere.
In addition to teaching, training and writing, Colin Campbell does voluntary counselling work in
London.

Where and when the story took place?

The story takes most of the time place in Felton, the small village where Tom and Marina live,
but some time it plays in London and the whole book takes like 2 months approximately.

Summary of the book:

The book is about Marina who is a housewife. Her husband Tom works in London. They are
married and live in a small village near London. Marina hates ironing so she wishes someone
who does it for her. Then there is The Ironing Man, he does it for her and she is very happy.
When Tom got home she tells him all about it, but Tom doesnt take her very serious. She also
tells him that she is going to meet a friend; Johanna, but Tom knows that Johanna is in Nepal for
six months.
So Tom calls a personal-detective, who will follow Marina closely. Days after, the detective (by
mistake) informs Tom that his wife is cheating on him. Later he realizes that Marina is not
cheating on him and he was so excited that he decides to take Marine for a holiday to India for
two weeks.
They have a great holiday and very in love, they walking on the beach have their happy ending.

Bibliography

Cambrige English . (s.f.). Authors. Obtenido de Colin Campbell:

http://www.cambridge.org/us/cambridgeenglish/authors/colincampbell
University of Reading. (s.f.). International Study and Language Institute.
Obtenido de Satff Profile:
http://www.reading.ac.uk/ISLI/about/staff/colin-campbell.aspx