Drunk man falls down
A man from China was in danger. He was touching wires with electricity. He was up very high. People watched him. They called the firemen. They switched off the electricity in the wires. One fireman tried to help the man. He talked to him but he couldn’t help the man.
The man started to get tired. He fell down but the other wires stopped the fall. The man didn’t die.
He later told the reporter about the alcohol. He drank the alcohol because he wasn’t happy. He is now better. He is trying to remember what happened.
Interesting words: wire (metal line for electricity), happened (was).
Girl fell into a hole
A four-year-old girl was saved from a deep hole. She fell in the hole in China. The hole was 17 meters deep. But the hole was also very narrow. It was only 30 centimeters wide. The firemen couldn't use their big machines. They had to use a rope.
The girl's mother was there too. She was scared. She spoke to the girl in the hole. She told her to hold the rope. The girl was saved. People took the girl to the hospital. The doctors looked at her. The girl was shocked but her body was OK.
Interesting words: narrow (not wide), rope (long line made from cotton or other material), be scared (have fear).
Barack Obama plays basketball
Barack Obama had a free day. He played basketball with young people on Easter Monday.
The President likes to play basketball very much. But he was not very good in the beginning. He missed the basket 14 times. His 15th ball was good. People clapped their hands.
Interesting words: missed (didn’t score), clap (make sound with hands)
Attack on a petrol station
Criminals broke a cash machine at a petrol station in England. People heard the explosion and they called the police. Policemen found only the broken cash machine. There was no money in there. The criminals took it all.
Policemen say that there were attacks like this in other countries in Europe too. Nobody was hurt in the explosion. Detectives want more information.
Interesting words: cash machine (machine from which you can get your money), hurt (injured).
People saved a leopard
Good people from India saved a leopard. The animal fell into an open well. It couldn't get out. People put the animal to sleep because leopards are dangerous. Then they moved it up with ropes.
Problems like this are normal in India. There is not enough space for the animals. They move closer to the villages.
Interesting words: well (deep hole with drinking water), enough (much).