Astronauts are back from space
Three astronauts came back to Earth. They came from the Space Station. They landed in Kazakhstan a day later than planned because the weather was bad. One American and two Russian astronauts were 144 days in the Space Station. They travelled 61 million miles in space.
Their way back was four hours long. NASA said that the way back to Earth was perfect. The astronauts are OK. They will go to a special center. They need to get stronger bodies after many days in space.
Interesting words: space (universe), land (come to land from the sky).
Woman paints animals on trees
A woman from China paints on trees. She says that she didn't like the trees in the street. She started painting on them. She is a student and she is 23 years old. She paints things from nature, for example pandas and white cats.
She makes one painting in 4 hours. Why does she paint? She wants to make people think about nature. She also hopes that people will be happier and forget about the bad weather.
Interesting words: make (push), hope (want something good to be).
Man shoots in a shop
Police in Philadelphia showed a video of a man. The man walked to the Chinese shop with food. He opened the door and tried to shoot people inside.
People inside the shop tried to close the door. The man tried to open the door and he shot again. Then he stayed outside and shot through the door. He shot three people. Then he ran away from the place. Police say that they are still looking for the man.
Interesting words: shoot (kill or try to kill somebody with a gun), shot (past form of “shoot”).
Ukrainian politicians fight again
Politicians in the Ukraine were fighting again. It was the first meeting in the parliament in March. One group of politicians didn’t like a speech made by the other group. And they started to fight.
The fight started because one politician gave a speech in Russian. Millions of people in the Ukraine see Russian as their mother tongue. But some people don’t like it when it is used in the parliament. They want to hear only Ukrainian in the parliament. There were a lot of fights between politicians over this problem.
Interesting words: speech (spoken words), mother tongue (language which you learn from your mother), Ukrainian (language in Ukraine).
Brave man saves a baby
A girl stopped breathing. It was in a supermarket in Australia. It was a difficult moment. Her mother didn’t know what to do. Her father tried to help the girl. But the girl didn’t move.
Other people tried to help too. They turned the girl upside down. It didn’t help. Then one man started to give her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. After 90 seconds the little girl opened her eyes. And her father thanked the man.
Interesting words: breathe (take air in and out of your body), resuscitation (activity when you try to bring somebody back to life).