COLEGIO DE LA UNIVERSIDAD LIBRE

“Hacia un proyecto de vida con compromiso social”

AREA: English SUBJECT: English GRADE: Seventh

TEACHER: Gabriela Alejandra Galeano Gómez

STUDENT: __________________________ DATE: _______________

DAY 3: READING AND WRITING

READING
A lucky escape
This is Monica Konczyk, a Polish woman in her thirties. In 2011, she was working in
the UK and living in a flat opposite a furniture store in Croydon, near London. On
the evening of August 8th, she smelt something burning while she was sitting in
her flat. The furniture store was on fire and so was the building she lived in. When
she tried to run down the stairs, thick black smoke was blocking the way. She
couldn’t escape, so she ran to the window at the front and shouted for help.

When professional photographer Amy Weston arrived at the scene, some people
were standing in the street near the burning buildings. They kept on shouting:
‘Jump!’ Amy looked up and saw a woman sitting on the edge of the window. It was
Monica Konczyk. Suddenly she jumped. At that moment, while Monica was falling
through the air, Amy took this photo.

Fortunately, a policeman caught Monica in his arms and she wasn’t injured.
However, firefighters couldn’t put out the fire and the furniture store burnt down.
The next day, Monica’s incredible story was in the headlines and Amy’s dramatic
photo was on the front page of the national newspapers. You need to be in the
right place at the right time to be a good news photographer and have your camera
ready to capture the precise moment that something dramatic happens. Amy
certainly did that night.

1) Read the article again. Find words or phrases for the definitions.

1. ___________________ A shop that sells sofas, tables...

2. ___________________. Burning.
3. ___________________. Physically hurt.
4. ______________________. The main stories in the news.
2) Read the text again and choose the correct answers.
2.1) Monica had a ...
A. job in England
B. job in a large shop
C. holiday in London

2.2) She couldn’t get out of her flat because of the ... on the stairs.
A. smoke
B. temperature
C. people

2.3) The people in the street wanted Monica to ...

A. stay in the flat
B. sit down
C. escape from the flat

2.4) Amy had a ... with her when she was standing in the street.
A. camera
B. a friend
C. policeman

2.5) The fire ... the shop.

A. destroyed
B. didn’t destroy
C. caused a small problem with

2.6) There ... interest in Monica’s story the next day.

A. was a bit of
B. was a lot of
C. wasn’t much

WRITING:
3) Choose one chapter from our book “The Secret Garden” and write a 300
words text, where you mention how you would change the story in that
chapter. You are allowed to change as much as you want, but do not change
the names of the characters. You must use past simple, past continuous, be
going to and will.