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A STRANGE STORY. Skills Development. A strange story
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Skills Development A strange story This is a true history. My name´s Bill Mathews, and I´m living in Michigan near a lake. I had a little house and a small boat for fishing on the lake. One afternoon, I was in my house. It was summer, and the door was open. I was sitting near the window, and I was painting a picture of the lake. Suddenly , I heard a noise behind me. I look around. There was a little girl in my room. I didn´t know her. She was about nine years old. She was wearing a gold necklace with the letter H on it.
“Please”, she said, “my name´s Haley, and I need your help. Now my sister Katrina, is in the lake. She´s sixteen, but she isn´t a very good swimmer. The lake is very dangerous, and my sister is very tired. She´s going to drown. Please hurry,” Then she ran out of the house. I ran out the house, too. I didn´t see the little girl anywhere. So I got into my boat and went to the middle of the lake. Suddenly I saw something in the water. It was Katrina. She wasn´t swimming. Her head was under the water. I pulled her out and took her back to my house. I gave her a hot drink and called a doctor. “Thank you,” she said.
LISTENING Listen to and complete the last part of the story. (1) _________, Katrina said. “You saved my life” (2) ______ thank me, I said. You (3)________ thank your sister. She came and got me. Suddenly Katrina started to cry. “I (4) ________, she said. My sister died (5) _________. She was only (6) ______. Look. This was her necklace.” (7)________ the necklace around Katrina´s (8) ________. It was gold, and it had the letter H on it. “What was (9) ________? I asked. “Haley”, Katrina answered. “ She died (10) ___________. She fell in and drowned.”
Vocabulary Guess the meaning of these vocabulary for the context in the story. 1. true ________________ 2. artist ________________ 3. boat ________________ 4. fishing ______________ 5. paint a picture ______________ 6. gold ________________ 7. drown ______________ 8. cry ________________ 9. die ________________
Grammar Look at the dialogue and complete the sentences with was, wasn’t, were, weren’t. 1. Bill ______ painting a picture. 2. He ______ living near a lake. 3. Haley _______ wearing a silver necklace. 4. Haley _______ swimming in the lake. 5. Her sister _______ drowning. 6. Katrina ______ swimming. 7. Katrina ______ wearing a necklace.