Exercise RC11-12, page CAN YOU understand this text? - English File Studetn's book, pre-intermediate, Oxford

CAN YOU understand this text?

a Read the two stories. What do they have in common?

b Read the stories again and mark the sentences T (true) or F (false).

1 Matteo and Enrica were going to Italy for a birthday party.

2 They were late because they got lost on the way to the airport.

3 When they got to the plane, it was ready to leave.

4 They were arrested after they'd got on the plane.

5 Hubert bought the lottery scratch cards in an airport shop.

6 One million dollars is the biggest prize for a scratch card.

7 At first he wasn't sure if he'd really won the prize.

8 He's decided to give all the money away to other people.

Stop the plane –

we want to get on!

An Italian couple ran out onto the runway of Malta's international airport to stop a Ryanair jet from leaving for Italy without them, a Maltese court heard on Thursday. Matteo Clementi, 26, and Enrica Apollonio, 23, got stuck in terrible traffic on their way to the airport on Wednesday. When they arrived, the gate was closed and they were not allowed to board their flight back to Italy. They went to the next gate, forced open a security door, and ran towards the plane. The engines were running and the stairs had been removed, but the couple tried signalling to the pilots to let them get on. However, they were not allowed to board and were arrested by security staff. A lawyer defending them in court said that Wednesday was Enrica's 23rd birthday. She had wanted to celebrate it with her family and friends in Italy. Instead she spent the evening in prison, and the couple were fined €2,329.

From $20 to $1,000,000 in 30 minutes

A man who found $20 in the street near San Francisco International Airport used it to play the California lottery and won $1 million, lottery spokesman Greg Parashak said on Monday. Hubert Tang used the $20 to buy two lottery scratch cards at a store near the airport on Wednesday and won the top prize with one of them, Parashak told us. Tang said, 'I scratched the ticket outside the store. I told my friend who I was with that I didn't know if it was real but I thought I had just won a million dollars.' Tang, who works as a barman at the airport, had not played the lottery for the last ten years. He said that he planned to continue working and had not decided how to spend the money. But he said that he might leave $20 notes in different places so that other people could find them and be lucky like him.

a. Прочитайте две истории. Что у них общего?

b. Прочитайте истории снова и отметьте предложения T (правда) или F (ложь).

Ответ:

a. Both stories take place at or near an airport. / Обе истории происходят в аэропорту или рядом с ним.

b.

1. T (True). Matteo and Enrica were going to Italy to celebrate Enrica's birthday. / T (Правда). Маттео и Энрика летели в Италию, чтобы отпраздновать день рождения Энрики.

2. F (False). They were late because they got stuck in terrible traffic. / F (Ложь). Они опоздали, потому что застряли в ужасной пробке.

3. T (True). When they got to the plane, the engines were running and the stairs had been removed. / T (Правда). Когда они добрались до самолета, двигатели работали, а трап был убран.

4. F (False). They were arrested before they got on the plane. / F (Ложь). Их арестовали до того, как они сели в самолет.

5. F (False). He bought the lottery scratch cards at a store near the airport. / F (Ложь). Он купил лотерейные скретч-карты в магазине рядом с аэропортом.

6. F (False). The text says it was the "top prize" for that specific lottery, not that it's the biggest prize for any scratch card. / F (Ложь). В тексте говорится, что это был «главный приз» в этой конкретной лотерее, а не то, что это самый большой приз для любой скретч-карты.

7. T (True). He said that he "didn’t know if it was real". / T (Правда). Он сказал, что «не знал, было ли это по-настоящему».

8. F (False). He has not decided how to spend the money and only mentioned that he might leave some $20 notes for other people. / F (Ложь). Он не решил, как потратить деньги, и лишь упомянул, что может оставить несколько 20-долларовых купюр для других людей.