Ex.70 Read the two extracts A and В from newspaper stories. Use your imagination to answer the questions.

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Ex.69 Find these words in the article and match them to the definitions 1-6.

Ex.68 Read the article again and put these events in the correct order.

a) He bought a new house.

b) He had a car accident in the mountains.
c) He was burnt at a petrol station.
d) He was hit by a bus.

e) He was in a plane crash.
f) He won the lottery.

g) His bus fell into a river.

h) His train fell into a river.

1 crashed into

2 suddenly caught fire with a loud noise

3 threw liquid over something

4 dead bodies

5 the lines that a train runs on

6 large pile of dried grass

A

When the ambulance arrived at Mrs Porter's flat, she was lying by the front door crying and in a terrible state. A few minutes later, the paramedics found her two-year old grandson, Reuben, playing behind a tree in the garden. They couldn't believe he was still alive.

1 Why had the ambulance gone to the flat?

2 Why was Mrs Porter crying?

3 Why couldn't the paramedics believe that the boy was still alive?

B

Hundreds of officers from the Manchester police force began to look for the two men, Martin and Eric Visser. They were surprised to receive a telephone call from the governor of the local prison, saying that he had the two young men.

1 What had the two young men done?

2 How had they got into the prison?

3 Why had they gone there?