Tragedy in the mountains
Two men wanted to have fun. They were in the Russian mountains.
Friends filmed them. They were in a big ball. They went down in the big ball. They lost control. Their friends could not do anything. They could only watch. It was horror. The two men were falling down very fast.
One man died. The second man is in hospital. The company which makes these big balls said that the men broke all safety rules.
Interesting words: safety (situation when everything is safe), rules (instructions).
Young pilot needed help
One man had a problem with his plane. The man was only 21 years old. His plane lost one part. It wasn’t easy to go down. It was in Australia. The instructor wasn’t in the plane. But he used a radio for talking with the young pilot. He told him what to do. He helped him.
The young pilot went down at a small airport. Everything was OK in the end. When he was down, people helped him out of the plane. Then he walked to an ambulance.
Interesting words: instructor (somebody who teaches how to fly), ambulance (special car for ill people).
The Oscars are coming soon
People started to prepare for The Oscars. People started to prepare two weeks before the usual time. People will watch The Oscars on TV on February 24. The nominations for The Oscars came two weeks before the usual time. People will have more time to see the films that got the nominations.
The biggest favorite is the film 'Lincoln' about the American president. It got 12 nominations. The second best film is the ‘Life of Pi’. It is a fantasy. It got 11 nominations. Every year, the nominations are prepared by 6,000 people who understand filmmaking.
Interesting words: usual (normal), nominations (when you get a nomination, you are chosen for the final), that (which).
Man was pulled behind a car
In Daveyton, South Africa, police wanted to take a taxi driver to the police station. The male taxi driver started to fight the police. The officers pushed him to the ground. Then they tied him to a police car. The car started to go. The man was behind the car.
The man later died at the police station. He was 27 years old. He was from Mozambique. The police said that the man was aggressive. They didn’t say that the man was pulled behind the police car.
Local newspapers say that the taxi driver was stopped because he parked on the wrong side of the road.
Interesting words: fight (hit and kick somebody), tie (connect things together).
Car on a roof of a house
In Texas, a car landed on the roof of a house in Houston. The car started the house alarm. The person in the house, Susan Mistini, said she thought that somebody was trying to get into the house.
When she went out, she saw a car on the roof of her house. Police say that the car landed there because the driver went very fast. The driver lost control of his car. The car turned around and around. The car landed on the roof of the house. The driver is in hospital, and is not dead.
Interesting words: landed (finish your flight), thought (think in the past).