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Story 1



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Theft Occurs Everywhere

An elderly woman told the police that, as she entered a restroom, she was jostled by a woman behind her. A few minutes later, as she was about to pay for a moustache remover at a nearby store, she discovered that her wallet was missing from her purse. Apparently the woman who had bumped into her had cleverly stolen her wallet. This type of theft is called pick-pocketing.

Perhaps an even more personal kind of theft is known as housebreaking, or burglary. After such an intrusion, the victims often report a feeling of violation. They seldom regain the comfort and security level they used to have in their home. They constantly feel like they are being watched; they feel that if they go out, the burglars will again come in. They feel uncomfortable when they are home, and they feel uncomfortable when they aren’t home.

Burglars get lucky or make their own luck. Sometimes homeowners forget to lock all their windows or doors. Sometimes burglars will break a window, cut through a screen door, or force open a side door.

Thieves have no shame. They will steal from anyone that they think is vulnerable. Of course, that means the elderly are their frequent victims. Some thieves are very clever; some are very lucky. All of them make an honest person’s life more difficult. It’s too bad that all of them can’t be caught and converted into honest people.

Imagine that: a world with no larceny, a world where you can park your bicycle unsecured on the sidewalk, or leave your purse unattended in your shopping cart. Is this only a dream? Some say that if you can dream about it, it can happen.

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Vocabulary
New Words and Expressions



• apparently
• bump
• burglary
• cleverly
• convert
• frequently
• intrusion
• jostle
• larceny
• moustache
• occur
• theft
• victim
• violation
• vulnerable



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General Questions

Instructions: Answer the following questions



1. What did the elderly woman enter?

2. Was she jostled by a man behind her?

3. What did she discover?

4. Do burglary victims often feel violated?

5. Who stole her wallet?

6. Do thieves have any shame?

7. How do burglary victims feel?

8. Are elderly people frequently victims?

9. What kind of world can we imagine?

10. Can all the thieves be caught?

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Crossword

Complete the crossword





bump - burglary - cleverly - convert - frequent - intrusion - jostle - larceny - moustache - occur - theft - victim - violation - vulnerable

Across:

1. The burglar ___ figured out how to break into the house without making a sound.
3. Some women with a big ___ on their nose will have it removed by plastic surgery.
4. If you move to the US, you have to learn to ___ grams and meters to ounces and yards.
5. A woman who has just been deserted by her boyfriend or husband is a ___ woman. She is desperate for love to replace the jerk who left her.
8. Do you know what ___red on September 11, 2001?
9. Men can grow a ___ on their upper lip and a goatee on their chin.
11. 'Warning--This Vehicle Makes ___ Stops' is a sign on the back of trash trucks and postal vehicles, which stop often.
12. If the phone or doorbell rings while you're reading a great book, you will feel that it's an ___.




Down:
2. If you steal something from someone, that is called ___. If you steal something of great value, it's called grand ___.
3. To help prevent ___, homeowners should belong to Neighborhood Watch.
5. Don't be a ___ of fraud. If you get an email saying that you won a million dollars, delete it.
6. When you are on a crowded train, you will get ___d by your fellow travelers as they try to get on and off.
7. Some intersections have a sign saying No Right Turn on Red. If you make a right turn on red, you commit a traffic ___.
10. A strong lock can help prevent ___ of your bicycle.

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Our first academic week is over. Your last chance to hand in any assignment is tomorrow at 5 AM Makka time.
During this weekend, your teachers will correct your assignments and post any comments in your homework threads. They will also post the correct answers for all assignments soon for everyone to see.

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Story 2



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A Life-Saving Cow

Six consecutive days of spring rain had created a raging river running by Nancy Brown’s farm. As she tried to herd her cows to higher ground, she slipped and hit her head on a fallen tree trunk. The fall knocked her out for a moment or two. When she came to, Lizzie, one of her oldest and favorite cows, was licking her face. The water was rising. Nancy got up and began walking slowly with Lizzie. The water was now waist high. Nancy’s pace got slower and slower. Finally, all she could do was to throw her arm around Lizzie’s neck and try to hang on. About 20 minutes later, Lizzie managed to successfully pull herself and Nancy out of the raging water and onto a bit of high land, a small island now in the middle of acres of white water.

Even though it was about noon, the sky was so dark and the rain and lightning so bad that it took rescuers another two hours to discover Nancy. A helicopter lowered a paramedic, who attached Nancy to a life-support hoist. They raised her into the helicopter and took her to the school gym, where the Red Cross had set up an emergency shelter.

When the flood subsided two days later, Nancy immediately went back to the “island.” Lizzie was gone. She was one of 19 cows that Nancy lost. “I owe my life to her,” said Nancy sobbingly.

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Vocabulary
New Words and Expressions



• acre n.
• attach v.
• consecutive adj.
• emergency n.
• favorite adj.
• ground n.
• helicopter n.
• hoist n.
• immediately adv.
• island n.
• knock v.
• lightning n.
• manage v.
• minute n.
• moment n.
• paramedic n.
• raise n & v.
• rescuer n.
• shelter n.
• sob v.
• subside v.
• support v.
• throw v.
• trunk n.
• waist n.


Click on the dictionary link to look up new words.
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General Questions

Instructions: Answer the following questions



1. Did the spring rain create a raging river?

2. Was the water rising?

3. Did the cow and Nancy go faster and faster?

4. Did the rescuers find Nancy?

5. Did the cow die?

6. What happened when Nancy tried to herd her cows to higher ground?

7. What did she see when she came to?

8. What did Nancy throw her arm around?

9. When did the flood subside?

10. How many cows did Nancy lose

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Crossword

Complete the crossword






acre - attach - consecutive - emergency - favorite - helicopter - hoist - immediately - island - waist - throw - knock - lightning - ground - manage - minute - moment - paramedic - raise - rescuer - shelter - sob - subside - support - trunk

Across:
1. Mechanics use a ___ to ___ an engine out of a car.
5. If you know the answer, ___ your hand.
7. Australia is a continent but also an ___.
8. To succeed in almost anything, you must know how to ___ your time.
10. The ___ is the thickest part of most trees.
11. A ___ or two often ride in an ambulance.
13. Many people ___ when friends or family members die.
16. Joe DiMaggio hit safely in 56 ___ baseball games.
18. Mountain towns use trained ___s to find lost hikers.
19. My ___ actress is Jennifer Lopez.
21. 208.7 feet by 208.7 feet = 1 ___ of land.
22. Your home is also your ___ from the weather.
23. For many older men, their ___ is bigger than their chest.
24. Inside, you walk on the floor. Outside, you walk on the ___.
25. Baseball players must know how to ___ and catch the ball.



Down:
2. Our family and friends ___ us when we are having problems.
3. ___ strikes the Earth every second of the day.
4. ___, and the door will open (they say).
6. If you are bitten by a poisonous snake, you should see a doctor ___.
9. When the storm ___s, we will go outside and check the damage.
12. Dial 911 in case of ___.
14. The doctor will see you in a ___ (they say).
15. A ___ needs no runway in order to land or to take off.
17. The doctor will see you in a ___ (they say).
20. People and their pets are very ___ed

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After our second week of lesson, today we start our third week with new lessons that will help you improve your English and be better users of the langauge. o

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Story 3



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Hotel Says Goodbye to Clean Couple

Theodore, the manager of the Paradise Hotel, told a middle-aged couple that they would have to leave the hotel after just one night. The couple, visiting from Texas, had booked a room for eight nights.

“They wanted a sterile environment,” Theodore said. “They should have rented a room in a hospital, maybe an operating room. This hotel is clean, but it isn’t that clean.”

Theodore said that, on the very first day, the couple brought all the sheets, pillowcases, and bedspreads down to the main lobby and just dropped them next to the front desk. They stood there next to this pile of bedding while other guests looked, pointed, and murmured. The hotel got three cancellations within the hour from people who witnessed this strange event.

When Theodore asked the couple what the problem was, they said that their bedding was filthy and they wanted it replaced. The couple could not identify any specific “filth” on the bedding. The wife just said, “We’re paying good money to stay here. How dare you doubt us? We know the filth is there. That’s all the proof you need.” Theodore called room service, and the bedding was replaced immediately.

Early the next evening, however, the couple marched to the front desk again and demanded seven cans of spray disinfectant. “We need a can for each night. We have to spray the phone, the TV, all the door handles, the toilet handle, the shower stall, the faucet, the sink, and any hotel staff entering our room.”

Worried about what their demands might be in the following days, Theodore politely suggested that a hotel more suitable for them was just around the corner. He then called ahead to reserve a “very clean” room, and gave them free transportation in the hotel limousine.

“They seemed surprised that I suggested a different hotel, but they liked the idea that I didn’t charge them for the second day, and they really liked the limousine service,” said Theodore.

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Vocabulary
New Words and Expressions


• bedspread n. 0
• cancellation n. 0
• disinfectant n. 0
• environment n.0
• faucet n.0
• filthy adj.0
• identify v.0
• limousine n.0
• lobby n.0
• murmur n. & v0
• paradise n.0
• pillowcase n.0
• reserve v.0
• sheet n.0
• stall n.0
• sterile adj.0
• witness n. & v.0


Click on the dictionary link to look up new words.
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General Questions

Instructions: Answer the following questions



1. Is Theodore the manager of the Paradise hotel?

2. Was the couple from Texas?

3. Did other guests notice the couple?

4. Was the bedding replaced?

5. Did the couple get free transportation in a hotel van?

6. How old was the couple?

7. Where did they drop the sheets?

8. What did other guests do?

9. How many cancellations did the hotel get?

10. How many cans of disinfectant did they demand? 0

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Crossword

Complete the crossword





bedspread - cancellation - environment - faucet - filthy - identify - limousine - lobby - murmur - paradise - reserve - sheet - stall - sterile - witness

Across:

2. A stretch ___ costs a lot of money to rent, plus you have to tip the chauffeur.
4. You can protect the ___ by recycling. Many 'green' products are ___ally friendly.
5. Turn on the left ___ to get hot water and the right ___ to get cold water.
10. Some people think that the higher the thread count, the more comfortable the ___ that you lie on will be.
11. Many scientists try to conduct their experiments in a ___ environment. The operating room in a hospital is ___ to prevent infection.
12. Put the ___ on top of the sheets when you make the bed.
13. Sometimes you can't make a reservation for dinner unless there is a ___ from someone who already made a reservation.



Down:
1. You can use your driver's license or your passport to ___ yourself.
3. The crowd ___ed when they heard that the star performer was about to appear.
5. 'Get your ___ hands off of me!' the woman yelled at the dirty old man.
6. People hope they will go to ___, or heaven, when they die.
7. A criminal might threaten a ___ to a crime. If so, the ___ might not appear in court to testify.
8. You should ___ judgment about someone until you have plenty of information about them.
9. Many corporations pay ___ists to persuade Congressmen to vote a certain way or pass certain bills.
11. Your car might ___ if it's low on gas or the air filter is filthy. Or it might ___ for a hundred other reasons. Regardless, you won't be going anywhere until the problem is fixed.

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Story 4



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Larry Needs a New Air-Conditioner

It had been another hot spring day. By ten o’clock in the evening, it had only cooled down to 87 degrees, according to Larry's thermometer in the living room. He rarely looked at his thermometer because he usually didn't care what the exact temperature was.

Larry had two table fans in his bedroom. Because of the high temperatures, the last three evenings had been “two-fan” nights. He used his air-conditioner only occasionally. During one month the previous summer, he had used the air-conditioner 10 days consecutively, day and night. His electric bill that July, normally about $30, was $77.

But Larry figured that, once in a while, using the AC wouldn't kill him. So that evening at 11:30, just before he went to bed, he turned on the AC. He set the thermostat to 72 degrees. He woke up four hours later when he heard a big bang, which sounded like two cars had run into each other on the street outside. But it wasn't two cars. It was the AC capacitor on the roof; it had just blown up. Larry's air-conditioner was officially dead.

Two circuit breakers had switched off, so he switched them back on. Larry had already suspected that there was something wrong with his air-conditioner. He called Jack, the repairman, but Jack didn't show up until four days later because he was so busy repairing all the other air-conditioners in the neighborhood.

When Jack finally came, he climbed up on the roof. Larry heard a lot of banging. Twenty minutes later Jack told Larry, "You need a new air-conditioner. Yours is the original model that came with this apartment building. All the other original AC units have been replaced. Yours lasted longest, but now it’s kicked the bucket. I'm going to call your landlady to see if she will approve a new AC unit for you. It’s going to cost $1200 parts and
labor.”

“Wow,” said Larry.

ack said that if everything went as planned, he'd install a new unit Monday morning. “Until then,” he said with a smile, “stay cool.”

Larry said, “No problem,” but he wondered if he should drive to the thrift store to look for a third fan for his bedroom.

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Vocabulary
New Words and Expressions


• air-conditioner
•approve
• capacitor
• circuit
• consecutively
• electric
•