Exercise 1: Read the passage
MY MOST EMBARRASSING EXPERIENCE
My most embarrassing experience happened a few years ago, when I was a grade 9 student. In those days, my biggest dream was a red hat - a floppy cotton hat like the one my pop star idol wore in her video clip. I thought I would look great in it.
My father knew it, so on my birthday he gave me some money so that I could buy the hat for myself. I was extremely excited and decided to go to the shop at once. I got on the bus and sat down next to a schoolboy about my age. The boy glanced at me and turned away. There was a sneaky look on his face, but I didn't think much about it. I was busy imagining how I would look in the hat. After a while, I turned round and noticed that the boy's schoolbag was open. Inside it, I saw a wad of dollars notes exactly like the ones my father had given me. I quickly looked into my own bag - the notes had gone. I was sure that the boy was a thief. He had stolen my money. I didn't want to make a fuss, so I decided just to take my money back from the schoolboy's bag, without saying a word about it. So I carefully put my hand into the boy's bag, took the notes and put them in my own bag.
With the money I bought the pretty hat of my dreams. When I got home, I showed it to my father.
"How did you pay for it?", he asked.
"With the money you gave me for my birthday, of course, Dad", I replied
"Oh! What's that then?" he asked and pointed to a wad of dollars notes on the table.
Can you imagine how I felt then?
Task: Fill the blanks in the sentences
(making a fuss, sneaky, glanced, embrassing, idols)
1. The girl was so shy that she didn't look at him the face. She just _____ at him and looked away
2. She complains noisily about anything she doesn't like. She is the type of person who is always _____
3. She was in a very _____ situation. Se felt so stupid and didn't know what to say.
4. Teenagers nowadays often have their own _____ who they really love and imitate in different ways
5. I don't like the look of that man. There is something _____ about him
Bookmarks