Read the story one more time and answer the following questions.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 1299.

You are going to read a short story about a robbery. Eight sentences are missing from it. Study sentences A-I and choose one that fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). Notice that there is one sentence which you DO NOT need to use.

Text 2

Story Frame

1. I heard them whispering in the corridor.
2. Luckily, or so I thought, the friend who had given me the jumper had also given me the receipt for it, and I had it with me.
3. If I had done so, I might have received a lot of money, but I just didn't want to be reminded of what had happened.
4. Without thinking, I put it and the receipt back in my bag, and dashed outside.
5. My astonished friends stared as she and the man with the moustache marched me back into the store.
6. He seemed totally uninterested in what I had to say.
7. It was dark green, which happens to be my favourite colour.
8. ‘Do you admit that you had this in your bag when you left the store?' she asked accusingly.
9. It seemed like an excellent idea.

The jumper I had been given for my birthday was too small for me and I wanted to exchange it for a larger one. One day some friends with a car came to visit me. They suggested dropping me off near the department store where the jumper had been originally bought. [0 - I ] I jumped out of the car and they drove off, saying they would be back in ten minutes.

The girl I spoke to at the counter was extremely helpful. Unfortunately, however, they had no other jumpers in my size and I decided to leave with the original gift. [1 - ] I was standing there, looking for my friend's car, when someone suddenly grabbed one of my arms from behind.

I tried to turn around to see who it was but a man shouted ‘Don't try to run away!' I caught a glimpse of a man with a moustache behind me. As I turned, the jumper fell out of the bag. Then a woman suddenly appeared in front of me and told me she and the man were store detectives. She picked up the jumper. [2 - ]

I was so shocked I could hardly concentrate.

‘Don't try to deny it!' she whispered.

Just at that moment, my astonished friends arrived in their car. One of them jumped out and asked the woman who she was and what was going on. She ignored him.

‘You'd better come with us,' she told me. [3 - ] They took me up some stairs and into an office.

‘What am I supposed to have done?' I demanded when they asked me to give them my name and address. The woman smiled.

‘Why don't you admit what you've done?' she said. I had realized by this time that they thought I had stolen the jumper, so I began to explain that it was a gift. [4 - ] The woman smiled again when I showed it to her.

‘Why did you try to throw the jumper away if you didn't steal it and if this is really the receipt for it?' she asked.

‘I didn't try to throw it away. It fell out of my bag when your friend here grabbed me,' I protested.

The next person I spoke to was another man who was obviously the boss of the two store detectives. [5 - ] I insisted that he should go and find the shop assistant I had spoken to earlier. Eventually, he and the woman reluctantly agreed to do so.

‘Keep an eye on her,' the woman said to the man with the moustache as she left. The woman came back a few minutes later, looking very embarrassed. She asked the man with the moustache to step outside with her. [6 - ] Then the manager of the store arrived, and apologized for what had happened. I told him that nothing he could say or do would compensate for the rudeness and insensitivity of his employees.

My friends later urged me to sue the store, but for some reason I never did. [7 - ]

2. Find the words or phrases in the text which mean:

a) proof that you have bought something ___________________

b) demand money from someone who's hurt you in some way ___________________

c) take someone in a car and let them out ___________________

d) see only for a moment ___________________

e) unwillingly ___________________

f) very surprised ___________________

g) suddenly put your hands around ___________________

h) pay money to or do something for someone

after you have done something wrong ___________________

· Who are the main characters of the story? What have you learned about them?

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· Where and when does the story take place?

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· How did the story start?

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· Where did the main character go and why?

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· Did he manage to exchange the jumper?

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· What suddenly happened?

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· How did the main character feel about it?

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· What happened next?

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· How did the story resolve?

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