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Page 24 - Exercise 5

Listening - In the news

Part A - Listen to three new stories. Number the pictures from 1 to 3. (There is one extra picture.)

1 - A man was seriously injured on Sunday, by a 3 and a half meter snake in a town in Thailand. It seems that the man ran over to see the snake after friends told him that it was beside one of the town’s main roads. The man put it around his neck and while he and his friends were walking home, the snake squeezed more and more tightly. Luckily the man got the snake off his neck in time.

2 - Two teenage girls who disappeared from a ship were found alive and well. The girls turned up on Friday near a small town on the north east coast of Australia. The girls said they were visiting a friend on the ship and fell asleep in their friend’s cabin. When they woke up, the ship was heading for Singapore. So they jumped off the ship ,swam to shore and had to walk for several days to get to the nearest town.

3 - Early Tuesday morning in California, two police officers were chasing a car thief when they suddenly lost control of their vehicle and drove into a river. Surprisingly, the thief went back to the scene of the accident and helped rescue the officers from the river. The local police department dropped all charges against the thief for saving the officers lives.