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1000 Words - Part I

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SET 1

A lot of snow in Japan

There is a snow storm in Japan The storm is very bad Thirteen people die More than 1,500 people areinjured

It snows a lot Thirteen inches (33 centimetres) of snow fall The snow falls on one area The area was hit by the tsunami in 2011

Some people cannot get to work Many flights are cancelled It is not easy to get to Tokyo’s centre

Strong winds take down power lines More than 20,000 houses have no electricity.

The weather is getting better It will get warmer

Questions:

1 How is the weather in Japan?

2 Is the storm big?

3 How many people died?

4 How many people were injured?

5 Does it snow a lot?

6 How high is the snow?

7 Did the snow fall on many areas?

8 What was the area hit by in 2011?

9 Can everyone get to work?

10.What happened to the flights in Japan?

11.Was it easy to get to Tokyo’s centre?

12.What happened to the power lines?

13.How many houses had no electricity?

14.Is the weather getting better? Will it get warmer?

Boy hears for the first time

A boy couldn’t hear from the time that he was born He is three years old now Doctors in the US helped him The video shows the moment when the boy hears his father's speak for the first time

The boy got a special implant The doctors will test if the implant is good for children The doctors connected the implant directly with the boy’s brain The boy will now learn how to speak

http://youtu.be/B-n_Ln3p2Ss

Questions:

1 Could the boy hear?

2 How old was he?

3 Who helped him?

4 What does the video show?

5 Was the boy happy?

6 What did the boy get?

7 Is it good for the boy?

8 How did the doctors connect the implant?

9 What would the boy learn?

Bus accident in Turkey

A bus in Turkey crashes There are 27 tourists inside Security cameras film it

Nothing hits the bus But is not OK and it falls on its side A teenager and an old woman die five people are injured Everybody on the bus is from Scandinavia

Twenty-We don't know what is wrong with the bus Police want to know They are investigating it

http://youtu.be/eiWLUiGnprI

Questions:

1 What happened to the bus?

2 How many people were on the bus?

3 How many tourists were on the bus?

4 Why did the bus crash?

5 How many people die? Who are they?

6 Were a lot of people injured? How many?

7 Where are the people on the bus from?

8 What do the police want to know?

9 What are they doing?

Driver on the wrong side

Here is some news from England A man makes a video It is filmed on a motorway

The video shows a car The car is going the wrong way It is going around 50 miles per hour (80

kilometres per hour) This is a very dangerous situation Other cars must move away

Two men talk about this One cannot believe it

The police stop the car The driver will lose his or her driving license

Questions:

1 Where did the news come from?

2 What did the man make?

3 What was the video filmed?

4 What does the video show us?

5 How fast was the car going?

6 Was it safe?

7 What did the other cars have to do?

8 What did the men talk about?

9 In the end, what happened to the car?

10.What would the driver lose?

Face with a lot of pictures

An artist makes an animation She is from Britain She paints her face and takes a photograph of it

Then she paints her face again The second picture on her face is a little bit different She takes a

photograph again She does this 750 times She works 17 hours a day for five days

The pictures are put together They are played fast It looks like a movie The animation is very

interesting It is about rebirth and transfer of energy

Questions:

1 Who made the animation?

2 Where is she from?

3 What did she do with her face?

4 Why did she paint her face again?

5 Is the second picture the same as the first?

6 Then, what did the artist do with the second picture?

7 How many times did the woman do that?

8 How long did it take her to finish?

9 What did she do with the pictures?

10.What does it look like?

11.What do you think about the movie?

12.What is the animation about?

First people in Europe

People find something amazing in Britain They find very old human footprints The footprints are very special They are the oldest footprints in Europe Older footprints are only in Africa

Scientists take pictures of the footprints They use the pictures to make a model There’s a conference

in London The pictures and the model are shown there Most of the footprints are children’s

This is a great discovery It gives us new information We will understand history better

1 What did people do in Britain?

2 What are those things?

3 Are the footprints normal?

4 Why are they special?

5 Where can you find older footprints?

6 What did scientists do to the footprints?

7 What did they make with the pictures?

8 What did people do in London?

9 Did they show the pictures and the model there?

10.Who do the footprints belong to?

11.Why is that a great discovery?

Floor of a lift falls down

Company LG wanted to test new monitors

They put the monitors on the floor of a lif They also put some cameras there

When the lif started to go up, the floor started to fall People didn’t like it They didn’t feel good

Later, they understood that it was a joke and they laughed

http://youtu.be/DSIx4KOt62c

Questions:

1 What does Company LG want?

2 Where did the put the monitors?

3 What else did they put there?

4 What happened when the lif started?

5 Were people in the elevator scared?

6 If you were one of them, would you be scared?

7 Did they feel good?

8 Finally, did they understand that it was a joke?

9 Did they cry when they get out?

10 Why didn’t company LG test the monitors in the normal way?

11 What do they really want?

Hole takes cars

An accident happens in Kentucky, USA A sinkhole opens in a museum Eight rare cars fall down

Everything is filmed by a security camera

Nobody gets hurt The sinkhole is 12 metres wide and 9 metres deep

The part of the museum is closed People cannot go there Experts are trying to understand the

accident

1 What happened in Kentucky?

2 What opened in the museum?

3 What fall down into the hole?

4 What was the accident filmed by?

5 Did anyone die?

6 Was anyone injured?

7 How deep is the hole? How wide is it?

8 Why did people close that part of the museum?

9 Who were trying to understand the accident?

10.What do they want to know?

4 Can people buy it in Gaza?

5 Where did they order the food from?

6 How was the food transported into Gaza?

7 What did they use to transport the food?

8 How much do you have to pay for one bag of KFC food in Gaza?

9 Is KFC really fast food for people in Gaza?

10 How long do they have to wait?

11 How is the food when it comes?

12 Is the food still good?

Man and fire

Here is news from England This happens on February 5th A man wants to burn a van He puts a liquid

on the van The liquid burns very easily

He sets the van on fire, but something goes wrong He is on fire, too! His arm is burning He starts to run away He gets into his car and drives away A security camera films this

Nobody gets hurt Police are looking for this man

1 Where does the news come from?

2 When did it happen?

3 What did the man want to do?

4 What did he use to burn the van?

5 Did the liquid burn easily?

6 What happened to the man when he set the van on fire?

7 What else was burning?

8 What did the man do?

9 Did anyone get hurt?

10.What were the police doing?

11.Why did the man want to burn the van?

12.What would you do if you your arm were burning?

SET 2 Man holds a woman

This happens in China A woman is in her bedroom She locks the room Nobody can enter it She wants

to kill herself She gets in the window.

Her family wants to stop her They ask her to stop, but the woman doesn’t stop The family calls the police

A firefighter is on top of the building He is on a rope He gets down to the window When the woman jumps, he catches her The two people get down on the ground The woman goes to hospital

Questions:

1 Where does the story happen?

2 Where is the woman?

3 Why does she lock the room?

4 Did she jump out of the window?

5 What did her family do to stop her?

6 Who come to help?

7 What did the firefighter use to save the woman?

8 How did he get down to the window?

9 What did he do when the woman jump?

10.Where did people take the woman too?

11.Why did the woman want to kill herself?

Man jumps into a swimming pool

One man wanted to tell people about his band He jumped into a swimming pool with ice He had only his underwear But the ice was very strong The ice didn’t break The jump was very bad for the man

But he did what he wanted to do He gave people information about his band.

He laughed afer the jump His friend laughed too

http://youtu.be/b-GBuyXKGjg

Questions:

1 What does the man want to tell people about?

2 What did he do?

3 How was the weather?

4 What was the man wearing?

5 What happened when the man jumped into the ice?

6 Why didn’t the ice break?

7 Did the man hurt?

8 Did he do what he wanted to do?

9 What did he give?

10 Is it funny? What do you think about the situation?

11 What did his friend do?

Man took a laptop

Two men were sitting at a table They were eating

Their laptop was on the table too A man came up to them and he took it They didn't expect this because the criminal was coming slowly

The two men tried to catch this criminal But he had a motorbike and he got away

http://youtu.be/D9am8TDp-Xg

Questions:

1 Where were the men?

2 What were they doing?

3 What was on their table?

4 How many laptops were on the table?

5 What happened to the laptop?

6 Why didn’t they expect that?

7 What did the men do when they saw that?

8 Did they catch the thief?

9 Why couldn’t they catch him?

10 Did someone help him escape?

Moves on water

There is a new attraction in China A lot of people want to see it

There are people who do special things on the water They stand on a long bamboo in a river It is not easy They need very good balance It is like a dance but it is a sport

This is an old thing but it is popular It is a traditional Chinese sport

http://youtu.be/Pfqy_mu3qpQ

Questions:

1 What is in China?

2 Do people like it?

3 Where do people do that?

4 What do they do in the river?

5 Is it difficult?

6 Do you think you can do it?

7 What do they need to do that?

8 What is the sport like?

9 Is it popular?

10 Is it a modern sport?

New hand with feelings

A fireworks accident happens A man loses his hand He is from Denmark

He cannot touch or feel things It is like this for nine years Now, he has an operation He has a new hand The hand is made by men

The hand is very special There are sensors inside it When the man touches something, the hand knows! This information goes to the man’s brain, and the man can feel things again! It is amazing

He can feel different types of things He is very happy He is the first man with a hand like this

Questions:

1 What kind of accident happens?

2 What does the man lose?

3 Where is he from?

4 Can he touch and feel things?

5 When did he lose his hand?

6 Did he have an operation?

7 What new thing does he have?

8 Who made the hand?

9 Why is the hand special?

10.Can he touch and feel things now?

11.Where does the information go to?

12.Is it amazing?

13.Can he feel different types of things?

14.Is he happy?

15.Is he the second man with a hand like this?

People eat a lot of hot dogs

Some people can eat very fast But people want to know who is the fastest There is a competition in eating hot dogs It happens in New York

There are champions and they know that they are good But they cannot stop They must get better and better

A lot of people come The competition is very popular The leader of New York comes too

http://youtu.be/uTlfygy-oa4

Questions:

1 Can some people eat faster than other people?

2 What do people want to know?

3 What happens in New York?

4 What is the competition about?

5 What do people need to do to become the champions?

6 What do the champions have to do?

7 Can they stop?

8 Do many people come?

9 Is the competition popular?

10.Who else come to the competition?

People walk on a wall

There is an attraction in London It is something special

It is a type of art An artist from Argentina makes the art He puts a fake house on the ground and he puts mirrors which stand near it The mirrors show the fake house When there are people on the house they are in the mirrors too

People come and they have fun They walk on the house which is on the ground and it looks like that they are walking in the air

http://youtu.be/23BMOsdw4Xk

Questions:

1 What is in London?

2 Is it special?

3 Who makes the art?

4 What did he do?

5 What do the mirrors show us?

6 What happens when people are on the house?

7 Did people have fun?

8 What does it look like when the walk on the house?

9 Is it interesting?

10.Do you want to go there?

Person in the air

People in London saw something special They saw a magic trick

A man was in the air He was three metres above the ground He touched one side of a double-decker bus He touched it with only one hand His body was in the air He was not afraid He was OK He even used his mobile phone

The bus was going in central London People saw him and they liked it They didn't know how he did the trick

http://youtu.be/sI33hIRH7yk

Questions:

1 What did people in London see?

2 Where was the man?

3 How high was he above the ground?

4 What did he touch?

5 What kind of bus is that?

6 Did he touch the bus with both of his hands?

7 Was he afraid?

8 What did he use?

9 Where was the bus going in?

10.Did people like it?

11.Did they know how he did the trick?

Pizza man ate pizza

Some people in Russia ordered a pizza to their home A young man brought the pizza He was going in alif and there was a security camera This camera filmed him

The man opened the box and took the pizza out He ate little pieces of it Then he made the pizza look good again and put it back into the box

The video is very popular on the internet His bosses say that their pizzas are very good Everybody wants to eat the pizzas even the pizza boys too But they will put special locks on these pizzas It will stop their pizza boys from eating the pizzas

http://youtu.be/00J82H80RKM

Questions:

1 What did people in Russia order?

2 Who brought the pizza?

3 Where was he going in?

4 What did the camera film?

5 What did the man do?

6 Did he put the pizza back into the box?

7 Is the video popular?

8 What do his bosses say about the pizzas?

9 What will they put on the pizzas?

10.What will the locks stop?

Protests in London

There will be a big meeting in Northern Ireland The capitalists will meet there Some people don't like

it They protested in London It was a protest against capitalism

Many people had masks They walked in a centre of London Not everything went well There were fights with the police Police took a lot of people to the police station Some protesters used water pistols for children to fight the police.

The police think that the protests will continue

http://youtu.be/L1ir_7vgdKg

Questions:

1 What will happen in Northern Ireland?

2 Who will meet in Northern Ireland?

3 Does everyone like it?

4 What did they do in London?

5 What did they protest against?

6 What did people have?

7 Did everything go well?

8 Who fought them?

9 Where did the police take them to?

10.What did some protesters use to fight the police?

11.What do the police think?

SET 3

Robots play rock music

How does music look in the future? Maybe robots will play it There is a concert in Tokyo Three robots played there

There are people who play too They sing with the robots They like the robots because their music is good

A professor from Tokyo University makes these robots He has a dream He wants the robots to play in space The robots may play on the moon or Mars They can also maybe leave our solar system

http://youtu.be/qtLWb96qwJc

Questions:

1 How does music look in the future?

2 What is in Tokyo?

3 What played in the concert?

4 Is there any people playing with them?

5 What do they do in the concert?

6 Why do people like the robots?

7 Who made the robots?

8 Where does he want the robots to play?

9 Do you think he can do that?

Ship hits land

A ship serves as a ferry It travels between England and France It does this for 22 years

It is given a different name It serves in Belgium for two years

The ship is old now It comes to Turkey There is a video It shows the ship’s end The ship is coming towards the land It is going fast It gets on the land It starts to slow down and it stops People will take the ship apart

Questions:

1 What does the ship serve as?

2 Where does it travel between?

3 How long did the ship do that?

4 What did people give it?

5 How long has the ship served in Belgium?

6 Where do people take the ship to?

7 What does the video show?

8 What is the ship coming towards?

9 How is it going?

10.What will people do to the ship?

Small things at Wimbledon

Wimbledon is different this year The players have small things on them These things are

3 What are the small things the players have on them?

4 What is the new technology of Sony for?

5 What is it called?

6 Is it better than HD?

7 What can you do if you have a 4K TV?

8 Does Wimbledon like advertisements?

9 Why did they make the change this year?

Small tigers and dogs

This story is from China A tiger has three cubs Two of them are girls One of them is a boy He is older than the sisters

Their mother stops feeding them The cubs need a new mother Their new mother is a dog.

The tigers are having a great time They like their new family They play with their new brothers and sister They love the game of ball The cubs are very cute Everybody likes them They are stars

Sadly, everything has an end They cannot play forever They will meet their real parents again soon.Questions:

1 Where is the story from?

2 How many cubs does the mother tiger have?

3 How many girls? How many boys?

4 Is the boy older than his sisters?

5 Why do the cubs need a new mother?

6 Who is their new mother?

7 Are the tigers having a great time?

8 Do they like their new family?

9 Who do they play with?

10.Are they cute?

11.Does everybody like them?

12.Can they play with their new family forever?

13.Who will they meet again?

Statue cries

A woman has a statue It is a statue of the Virgin Mary The statue is in the woman’s living room

The woman sees a miracle She sees that the statue cries She tells her husband He doesn’t believe it Later, he sees oil on the statue’s face and he believes it

Many people come to see the statue They travel for hours by cars or buses They believe in the miracle.They want to get blessings.

Some people think some things can be lies This can be a hoax The woman’s son looks at the statue Hesees that there is oil inside the statue

Questions:

1 What does the woman have?

2 Who is the statue of?

3 Where is the statue?

4 What did the woman see?

5 Who did she tell?

6 Did he believe her at first?

7 Later, why did he believe her?

8 What do people come to see?

9 How do they travel?

10.What do they want to get?

11.Does everybody believe in that?

12.What does the woman’s look at?

13.What is inside the statue?

Strange statue in snow

There’s a new statue in Massachusetts It is a statue of a man It is very realistic The man is wearing only his underwear The statue is outside in the snow

Some people like it Others are OK with it Some people don’t like it They don’t want the statue They start a petition

People talk a lot about this statue The statue is a part of a new exhibition.

Questions:

1 What is in Massachusetts?

2 Who is the statue of?

3 How is the statue?

4 What is the man in the statue wearing?

5 Where do people put the statue?

6 Does everyone like the statue?

7 What did people who don’t like the statue start?

8 What is the statue a part of?

Telescope record in Mexico

Many people were watching the sky There was a special moment in Mexico 2978 people had a

telescope and they watched the Moon They made a new record

It was a good moment for the families because people were together Astronomy is very popular in Mexico In the summer, there are many meetings for people who like astronomy

Questions:

1 What were people doing?

2 What was there in Mexico?

3 How many people had a telescope?

4 What did they do with it?

5 What did they make?

6 Was that a good moment for them?

7 Why was that good?

8 Is astronomy popular in Mexico?

9 What happens in the summer?

The ugliest dog

Some dogs are beautiful and some dogs are ugly Which dog is the ugliest? People want to know that There is a show all about it in California

There are 29 ugly dogs A four-year-old dog wins He is the ugliest He is a mix of four kinds of dogs He has got a big head and a bad back

They gave his owner $1,500 She buys something for the dog She is going to New York too

http://youtu.be/OV1NIVyHqG4

Questions:

1 Is every dog beautiful?

2 What do people want to know?

3 What is in California?

4 Who many dogs are there in the show?

5 Which dog wins?

6 Why does he win?

7 What kind of dog is he?

8 What does he have?

9 How much money did people give the owner?

10 What did she do with the money?

11 Where is she going to?

Two gay men fight

There is a show in Peru There are men in clothing for women People want to know who is the most beautiful

But there is a problem The judges make a mistake They say that the winner is someone else

Two men from the show get angry and they fight It is shocking

http://youtu.be/KiXspsT_dIo

Questions:

1 What is there in Peru?

2 What are the men in the show wearing?

3 What do people want to know?

4 Is there any problem?

5 What is the problem?

6 What happen afer that?

7 How is the fight?

Two men fall down

Two men do something amazing They are in a balloon 10,000 feet (3,048 metres) up in the air There’s another hot air balloon The men want to walk to the balloon on a rope They must be very brave!They try to do this, but it is too hard They fall down But don’t worry, they have parachutes

The men want to try this again They wait for good weather

Questions:

1 Who do an amazing thing?

2 Where are they in?

3 Where is the balloon?

4 What do the men want to do?

5 Are they brave?

6 Is it hard?

7 What happens to them?

8 Is it dangerous that they fall down?

9 Do the men want to try that again?

10.What do they wait for?

11.Why do they wait for good weather?

SET 4

Walking on cable

A man did a dangerous thing He walked on a cable over the Grand Canyon

The cable was 426 metres long It was 457 metres above the ground It was very hard and dangerous There was no safety net The biggest problem was the wind It moved the cable

It took him 22 minutes People on the other side welcomed him He said that he had been afraid.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGZ4ozqtn7I

Questions:

1 Who did a dangerous thing?

2 What dangerous thing did he do?

3 Where is the cable?

4 What did the man walk on?

5 What was 426 metres long?

6 How long was the cable?

7 What was 427 metres above the ground?

8 How high was the cable above the ground?

9 Was it easy and safe?

10.How was it?

11.Was there safety net?

12.What was the biggest problem?

13.What did the wind move?

14.How long did it take the man?

15.Who welcomed him?

16.Who did people on the other side welcome?

17.Who said that he had been afraid?

Wave and policemen

There are storms in England Some people like the weather They watch the sea Policemen watch it, too

People are close to the sea The waves hit the rocks The water gets on people They get wet

One area in England is flooded The army helps those people

1 What are there in English?

2 What do some people like?

3 What do they watch?

4 Who else watch it with them?

5 Are they close to the sea?

6 What do the waves hit?

7 What gets on people?

8 What happens to them when the water gets on?

9 What happens to one area in England?

10.Who help those people?

Windsurfers like a storm

The weather is very bad in England There are storms there Most people are home because they don’t like it Some people, however, like the weather

These people are windsurfers They are very good at windsurfing They are the best windsurfers in the world They compete in a competition The competition happens only when the weather is bad.

A man from France wins He is very happy He says that the weather is crazy A man from Brazil is second A German is third

Questions:

1 How is the weather in England?

2 What are there in England?

3 Why are most people home?

4 What don’t they like?

5 Does everyone hate the weather?

6 Who like the weather?

7 What are they good at?

8 Are they the best windsurfers?

9 What do they compete in?

10.When does the competition happen?

11.Who wins the competition?

12.Is he happy?

13.What does he say?

14.Who gets the second place?

15.Who gets the third place?

Woman works in her wedding dress

A woman from China had a wedding She works as a TV reporter Then there was an earthquake in China She lef the wedding She wanted to report about the earthquake

This woman didn't change out of her white dress She interviewed people in it People filmed her They put the video on the internet People say that she's pretty They say that she is the most beautiful woman in a wedding dress.

The reporter returned to her wedding The wedding finished What do you think she did afer it? Yes, she went back to work

Questions:

1 Who had a wedding?

2 What does she work as?

3 What happened in China?

4 What did the woman do?

5 What did she want to report?

6 Did she change her white dress?

7 What did people film?

8 Where did they put the video?

9 What do people say about the TV reporter?

10.What did the reporter return to?

11.What did the woman do afer finishing the wedding?

http://youtu.be/WJW25FqZRaA

Questions:

1 What is this story about?

2 Who old is the woman?

3 Can she hear well?

4 What must she use?

5 Where does she put the hearing aid?

6 What is on the table?

7 What lives in the fruit?

8 What does the larva get out of?

9 What does it get on?

10 What does the woman do with the hearing aid afer that?

11 What gets in her ear?

12 What is in pain?

13 What do the doctors see?

14 What do the put away?

15 How is the woman’s ear now?

Cyclist on a motorway

This happens on Tuesday morning A man rides his bike He has a phone with him The phone tells him

to go on a motorway The man does so.

There are a lot of cars on the motorway It is morning and people go to work The police can see the man There are security cameras at the motorway One policeman goes to the man

They talk Riding a bike on a motorway is illegal The cyclist must pay £50 The cyclist leaves the

motorway and rides home

http://youtu.be/8e3qQMsmMPQ

Questions:

1 When does this happen?

2 What the man ride?

3 What does he has with him?

4 What does the phone tell him to do?

5 Does the man do that?

6 Are there a lot of cars on the motorway?

7 Why are there so many cars?

8 Can the police see the man?

9 What are at the motorway?

10 Who goes to the man?

11 What do they do?

12 Is riding a bike on a motorway illegal?

13 How much does the man have to pay?

14 What does he do afer that?

Money underground

A couple from California is lucky They walk their dog They see something It is a metal can

They take it and open it They see that it is full of gold coins The coins are old They are from the 19thcentury They find more coins Now they have 1,400 gold coins The coins are worth $10 million

We don’t know who buried the coins The couple will sell the coins on the Internet

http://youtu.be/YxKA8bf9YGI

Questions:

1 Who are lucky?

2 What did they do with their dog?

3 What did they see?

4 What is the metal can full of?

5 Are the coins old?

6 What time are those coins from?

7 What did they find more?

8 How many coins do they have now?

9 How much are they worth?

10 Do we know who buried the coins?

11 What will the couple do to the coins?

Girl saves her father

An American man has an accident He is in the garden He is cutting a tree with his machete

He looks away for a second, and he cuts his arm He loses blood He sits down and tries to stop the blood His daughter is with him The man has a phone, but he cannot use it His daughter helps him She calls for help

An ambulance comes and helps him His arm will be fine in six to eight months

http://youtu.be/sN0EtxrehkY

Questions:

1 Who has an accident?

2 Where was he?

3 What was he doing?

4 What was he cutting tree with?

5 How long did he look away?

6 What did he do to his arm?

7 What did he lose?

8 What did he do afer he cut his arm?

9 Who was with him?

10 Could the man use his phone?

11 What did his daughter do to help him?

12 When came to help?

13 How long will it take his arm to be fine?

1 Where is the story from?

2 What comes into a hospital?

3 What does it do to a photographer?

4 What do people start to do?

5 Who are called?

6 Are people scared?

7 What is closed?

8 Are there any people in the streets?

9 What do people do the schools?

10 What do people want to know?

11 Are things like this normal in India?

12 What is getting smaller?

13 Where do the animals move into?

Train almost hits a woman

This happens in the Netherlands There are some people at a level crossing They want to get to the other side

The barriers begin to close They run across the tracks They are safe A woman wants to do this, too She thinks that she has time, but she does not.

She gets on the tracks She sees that a train is coming She jumps back She is lucky The train does not hit her She is fine

http://youtu.be/n4VXuIE9d70

1 Where does this happen?

2 Where are the people at?

3 What do they want to do?

4 What begins to close?

5 Who run across the tracks?

6 Are they safe?

7 What does the woman want?

8 Does she have time?

9 What does she do?

10 What is coming?

11 What does the woman do when she sees the train?

12 Is she lucky?

13 Why is she lucky?

14 How is the woman now?

SET 5

Fastest car

A car gets a new speed record The maximum speed is 270.49 miles per hour (435 kilometres per hour)

People set this record in Florida The car goes on a runway The runway is for the space shuttle.

The car is the fastest car in the world, but the record may not be in the Guinness World Records To be

in the book, the car must go fast again

http://youtu.be/WUHuobsAlO8

Questions:

1 What gets a new speed record?

2 What is its maximum speed?

3 Where do people set the record?

4 Where does the car run on?

5 What is the runway for?

6 Is the car the fastest in the world?

7 Will the car be in the Guinness World Records?

8 What does the card need to do be in the Records?

Oldest man

There is a man in India He is very old He says that he is the oldest man in the world

The man has his ID card It says that he was born on 11th May 1896 It means that he is almost 118 years old What is his secret to a long life? He eats simple food He eats vegetables and seeds He never eats meat or fish

The man lives with his large family in a village He can still walk Afer waking up, he reads from a Hindu book

http://youtu.be/1Fck99qcXFg

1 Where is the man from?

2 Is he old?

3 What does he say about himself?

4 What does the man have?

5 What does the ID card say?

6 What does it mean?

7 What is his secret to long life?

8 Does he eat meat or fish?

9 Who does the man live with?

10 Can he still walk?

11 What does he do afer waking up?

Two helicopters

Here is news from Ukraine The Ukrainian president is leaving his home There is a video of his

departure.

The video shows some trucks People move things onto the trucks, and then the trucks leave

You can see two helicopters in the video People bring bags and boxes to the helicopters The things areloaded onto the helicopters They fly away The Ukrainian president is on one helicopter We don’t know where the helicopters go We don’t know where the president is

http://youtu.be/nW-8sYdNaZU

1 Where is the news from?

2 Who is leaving his home?

3 What is the video of?

4 What does the video show?

5 What do people do with the trucks?

6 What do the trucks do afer that?

7 How many helicopters are in the video?

8 What do people bring to the helicopters?

9 Do they load things onto the he helicopters?

10 What do they do afer that?

11 Where is the Ukrainian president?

12 Do we know where the helicopters go?

13 Do we know where the president is?

Pig on a surfboard

A man from Hawaii has a pig The man and the pig are at a pool The pig slips and falls in the pool

The pig is OK with water It starts to swim The man sees that his pig is special Afer some time, the pig starts to surf! The man and the pig are on one surfboard

The pig loves surfing People like to watch the pig They smile and laugh The pig makes people happy.http://youtu.be/53LwFRUcqG8

1 Who has a pig?

2 Where are the man and the pig?

3 What happens to the pig?

4 Is the pig Ok with water?

5 What does it start to do?

6 What can the man see in his pig?

7 Can normal pigs swim?

8 What does the pig start to do afer some time?

9 Are the man and the pig on one surfboard?

10.Does the pig like surfing?

11.Do people like to watch the pig?

12.How does the pig make people feel?

Twins in Taiwan

The government in Taiwan organises an event It is a meeting of twins Hundreds of twins come

Some twins wear the same clothes Five boys have the same yellow clothes Their mother cannot say who is who Some twins wear costumes They dress as pandas or cowboys

Old twins are at the event, too There is a set of twins One twin is a man, and the second twin is a woman The twins are around 80 years old They are the oldest twins at the event

http://youtu.be/A7IzDsqquR0

1 What does the government in Taiwan organise?

2 What is the meeting of?

3 How many twins come?

4 Who wear the same clothes?

5 Who wear the same yellow clothes?

6 Is that interesting?

7 Can their mother say who is who?

8 What else do some twins wear?

9 Who do they dress as?

10.Are there any old twins at the event?

11.Who are they?

12.How old are they?

13.Are they the oldest twins in the event?

1 What does a cat hit?

2 What time does it happen?

3 How fast does the car travel?

4 How many people are in the house?

5 What are they doing?

6 Does the car hit them?

7 What are they covered in?

8 Is the driver hurt?

9 Where does he need to go to?

10 What does he have in his blood?

Food in the stratosphere

There’s a group of people They want to send a fake pastry into the stratosphere

They use a big balloon The balloon is filled with gas It takes the pastry up It gets up to 29,000 feet (8,839 metres) There’s a camera on the balloon, too It films an interesting video

Afer two hours up there, the balloon starts to go down The people then find it

http://youtu.be/s5Nlet1qQJs

1 Who want to send a fake pastry?

2 Where do they want to send the fake pastry to?

3 What do they use to send to pastry?

4 What is the balloon filled with?

5 What takes the pastry up?

6 How high does it get up?

7 What is on the balloon?

8 What does the camera do?

9 How long before the balloon starts to go down?

10 What do people do then?

Battle with oranges

This happens a long time ago A town in Italy has a leader He is very bad People don’t like him One girl saves the town She cuts off the leader’s head

People are happy They are in the streets, and they have a good time Some girls like some boys The girls start to throw oranges at the boys The boys throw things back This throwing becomes a tradition.The throwing tradition becomes the Battle of the Oranges

People organise the battle every year It is a lot of fun People wear costumes, and they throw 500 tons

of oranges

http://youtu.be/V4jFRheEKIM

1 When did that happen?

2 What does the town in Italy have?

3 Is he bad?

4 Do people like him?

5 Who saves the town?

6 How does she save the town?

7 Are people happy?

8 Where are they? Are they in the streets

9 Do they have a good time?

10.What does a girl do when she like a boy?

11.Who does the boy do?

12.What does this throwing become?

13.What does the throwing tradition become?

14.How ofen do people organise the battle?

15.What do people wear in the battles?

16.How many oranges do they throw each year?

No school for three days

This story is about a boy He is at school He makes his hand look like a gun He points the hand at another student

The school punishes the boy He cannot visit the school for three days He must study at home If he does it again, he will be punished again

The boy’s father doesn’t understand all of this He thinks that the punishment is too strict

This happens in the USA People talk about guns a lot there It is a serious problem

http://youtu.be/goVs3YnZzQo

Questions:

1 What is the story about?

2 Where is he at?

3 What does the boy do with his hand?

4 What does the boy point his hand at?

5 What does the school do to the boy?

6 How long can’t he visit the school?

7 Where does he study at?

8 What will happen if he does it again?

9 Does they boy father understand that?

10.What does he think about the punishment?