Bullied into succeed

1 Read and answer

Jill I believe you´ve been having problems in school. What happened?

Kelly Well, er, we used to live in Surrey but we moved to Birmingham earlier this year. When I first went

to Kingsbury School, the kids used to make fun of my Southern accent, but I didn´t think much of it.

Some of the boys would make remarks and play jokes as well.

Jill Such as?

Kelly Silly things really. They´d hide my pencils or books, the usual things. As I said, I didn´t think much of it

until things started to get a lot worse.

Jill What happened then?

Kelly Well, you know when designer trainers were in? Well, all the kids started wearing them except me.

They would taunt me and make fun of my shoes. I mean, I really like trainers but I never nag my Mum

about clothes because she can´t afford it. Anyway, one day, a group of girls hid my shoes in the

changing room after a sports lesson.

They kept pushing their precious trainers in my face. I got so angry that I told the teacher. Well I got

my shoes back but it made them so mad that they attacked me after school. I had so many bruises

that I was taken to hospital.

1. Why did Kelly´s fellow make fun of her?

2. What kind of jokes did they play on her?
3. Did she care about it?
4. When did the problem get worse?
5. Where did her classmates hide her shoes?
6. Why did they attack her?

2 Complete the sentences with words from the list.

precious / jokes / accent / taunt / mad / bruises

a. Kelly was black and blue from the _____________ she got when she was attacked.
b. Kelly spoke English with a Southern _____________.
c. To ____________ is to say unkind things in order to upset someone.
d. If something is ____________, it is very valuable and important to you.
e. Something that you really love or hate can make you __________.
f. People make ____________ in order to make others laugh.

A) Complete the text

The story of Karen ______________ (begin) in 1972 when she _____________ (take) a new job at a nuclear
factory. Before that, she _______________ (work) as a secretary. She ______________ (have) a coffe at a
restaurant when she ______________ (see) in the newspaper that there was a job at the nuclear factory. She
_____________ (go) to see Mr Bailey, the manager of the factory. “I _________ (be) waiting for someone like you
since the factory _____________ (open)” said Mr Baily. “I see... My boyfriend ______________ (work) here”,
answered Karen...

B) Turn these sentences from active to passive voice.

1. We generally apply the term computer to a collection of devices that together are technically known as
“computer system”
2. The potential dangerous of Virtual Reality alarms many people.
3. They will sell Virtual Reality before any research has been done on its psychological effects.
4. Professionals have taught how to break a code system.
5. They won’t limit computer experiments to processes that occur in nature.
6. The CPU has processed the instructions.