A printable worksheet for news-based English conversation classes.
Date: 2024/03/09
Difficulty: Elementary A2
PDF: Grandma gets stuck in shop shutters
| shutters • | • event |
| dangling • | • doors |
| incident • | • hanging |
| security • | • safety |
| shopkeeper • | • force |
| pressure • | • store owner |
| shutters | doors |
| dangling | hanging |
| incident | event |
| security | safety |
| shopkeeper | store owner |
| pressure | force |
A grandmother, Anne Hughes, 71, got stuck in a shop's shutters in Wales. Her coat got caught in the security shutters outside a store, lifting her 7ft into the air. She joked about the event, saying, "It could only happen to me."
The video of her dangling upside down has been watched nearly two million times. She waited outside the shop, where she works, for it to open when this happened. The shopkeeper helped her down, holding her as the shutter lowered.
Anne told him, "just grab my head" because she was afraid of falling. She has been falling due to low blood pressure but wasn't hurt in this incident. She's now famous in her village.
| A: | Did you see what happened to Anne? |
| B: | Yeah, I couldn't believe it when I saw her hanging from the shutters. |
| A: | She looked so funny, just hanging there upside down. |
| B: | She kind of looked like Superman, or should I say, "Super Anne"?! |
| A: | Haha, and now she's famous! The whole village is talking about it. |
| B: | Not just the village. Over 2 million people have seen her on the internet! |