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5.

Read the text and answer the questions:

a. What ingredients did Dora need?


b. Why do you think Dora stood in the priority queue?
c. Did she pay cash?
d. When did the guard approach her?
e. Who had put the sausages in Dora’s handbag?

GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY?

Last Saturday afternoon, when Dora Black was leaving a big department store, one of the guards accused her of theft.

It all started when Dora made up her mind to make a big cake to celebrate her baby son's first birthday. She realized she had no flour and no
butter at home, and she didn't have any chocolate icing to decorate the cake either. Her husband was at work and would get back home at
about 9 pm, later than the supermarket closing time. This meant that if she wanted to make her son a cake, she had to go and buy the
ingredients she needed.

She put the baby's jacket on and sat him in the back of the car. She drove to the store and was tempted to buy a few other things such as eggs
and candles for David's cake. As she chose each ingredient for the cake, the baby sat in his pushchair. Once Dora thought she had everything
she needed, she stood in the priority queue to pay. Three other young mothers stood there before her, so she had to wait for a few minutes.
When her turn came, she took her credit card out of her bag and paid while the cashier put the things Dora had bought in a paper bag.

After signing, Dora took the baby in her arms and walked to the door. Just then, her nightmare began! As she was leaving, the alarm began to
ring and a guard approached her. He asked her to show him the paper bag with everything she had bought and paid for as well as her
handbag. Two of her neighbors saw the incident and walked up to Dora to explain to the guard that she was not a criminal. However, to their
surprise, when Dora opened her handbag, she found a packet of sausages! Who had put it there?

The guard said he had to report the theft but just at that moment, they realized that somebody had bitten the sausages, and that was David! In
the end, they all laughed.

5. Read the text and answer the questions:

f. What ingredients did Dora need?


g. Why do you think Dora stood in the priority queue?
h. Did she pay cash?
i. When did the guard approach her?
j. Who had put the sausages in Dora’s handbag?

GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY?

Last Saturday afternoon, when Dora Black was leaving a big department store, one of the guards accused her of theft.

It all started when Dora made up her mind to make a big cake to celebrate her baby son's first birthday. She realized she had no flour and no
butter at home, and she didn't have any chocolate icing to decorate the cake either. Her husband was at work and would get back home at
about 9 pm, later than the supermarket closing time. This meant that if she wanted to make her son a cake, she had to go and buy the
ingredients she needed.

She put the baby's jacket on and sat him in the back of the car. She drove to the store and was tempted to buy a few other things such as eggs
and candles for David's cake. As she chose each ingredient for the cake, the baby sat in his pushchair. Once Dora thought she had everything
she needed, she stood in the priority queue to pay. Three other young mothers stood there before her, so she had to wait for a few minutes.
When her turn came, she took her credit card out of her bag and paid while the cashier put the things Dora had bought in a paper bag.

After signing, Dora took the baby in her arms and walked to the door. Just then, her nightmare began! As she was leaving, the alarm began to
ring and a guard approached her. He asked her to show him the paper bag with everything she had bought and paid for as well as her
handbag. Two of her neighbors saw the incident and walked up to Dora to explain to the guard that she was not a criminal. However, to their
surprise, when Dora opened her handbag, she found a packet of sausages! Who had put it there?

The guard said he had to report the theft but just at that moment, they realized that somebody had bitten the sausages, and that was David! In
the end, they all laughed.

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