LD Vocabulary i &) Look at the photo and the title of th ; D " © article, What is it about? Rand the ontine newspaper article. Find out why these People and things are important in the story. 1. Alisha Wihams i zi 2. Raymond Jones Girl, 13, rescues sisters 3. Gary Beandrick from house fire bids heiee la a 5. A smoke detector Answe 1. How many people were there in the house? 2. Who did Alishaa rescue? Who rescued the others? ©) Putthe events in order. @ The smoke alarm woke Alisha up, {A13:yearold git rescued her two younger sisters rom ahouse a fire in Conwy, United Kingdom. The teenager, named locally as The fire crew arrived. 1 Alishaa Williams, threw a lsptop through a window and helped © > Al f a4 her sisters, aged eight and 18 months, get out of the house. en | ‘The children were all sleeping ina downstairs bedroom when the smoke alarm woke up the eldest girl, Alyn Edwards, of the d The fire service visited fire service, said the girl used a laptop computer -a gift for Christmas ~ to smash a window and help the eight-year-old get out. She then passed the baby to her younger sister through the window before breaking another window to make her own, Alishaa’s family { © Alisha threw a laptop | through a window. i | escape “Shewas exemely brave, and she stayed exremely ft ~ Mes Jones heard breaking | = glass and woke up her | Taxi driver Raymond Jones, 50, lives across the street. His wife husband, heard breaking glass and woke him up. He saw the three | “children outside and went across the road, He kicked the door 9 —Alishaa and her two sisters ‘open to get into the house but there was a lot of smoke, so he fetched a ladder from his home to try to reach the upstairs windows and rescue three adults. At this moment, the fire service arrived and rescued them from the top floor. Gary Brandrick, senior operations manager at the fire service, ssid:"The children were alerted to the fire by a smoke alarm, We carrled out a home fire safety check at the address last were sleeping, fh The fire crew rescued three adults from the top ficor. i Alishaa’s sister got out through the window. ! ‘September, when we fitted two smoke alarms and advised J Mr Jones tried to get into the family of fire safety precautions they should take ~ such as the house. | testing the smoke alarms regularly, the importance of having a ee : night time routine and of formulating a family escape plan? Nishaa passed the baby to her sister. 1 Mr Jones tried to reach the windows with a ladder.© Use the words in the box to label the pictures. | | (+ catch fire *crash into a post + trip and fall + gel trapped in a httUse the words in the boxes to complete the sentences, * tree ‘18 * fire * bike * hand 1. Her house caught 2. Our car crashed into ¢ 3. She burnt her 4, | fell off my 5. They got trapped in a » fell * leg * life + lost * girl 6. He broke a 8, | tripped and. 9. We rescued aQ Look at the picture and complete the paragraph. Use the past continuous. The fire alarm went off at 7.00 am. Max * 1S h hower in the bathroom. Craig the kitchen. Sarah? ... (0 the living room. Millie the dining room, Michael and in their bedroom and they Robbie ® didn’t hear the alarin!8 =) Put the verbs in the correct tense (past simple or past continuous). Last year, something very strange ‘happened....... (nappen) to my neighbour. She? (drive)'to work when suddenly she? cee (see) a light in the sky. She 4 (stop) to look at it. The light was very bright and it (not move). She® cee (get) out of the car and she? (walk) towards. it when HE Gye (fly) away silently! She __ Gelephone) the police, cecuessesinstestnted: (not believe) her. They probably oan, (think) she was crazy!