Grandma gets stuck in shop shutters

Nick's ESL News Lessons

A printable worksheet for news-based English conversation classes.

Date: 2024/03/09

Difficulty: Elementary A2

PDF: Grandma gets stuck in shop shutters

Vocabulary Match

shutters •• event
dangling •• doors
incident •• hanging
security •• safety
shopkeeper •• force
pressure •• store owner

Vocabulary Answers

shuttersdoors
danglinghanging
incidentevent
securitysafety
shopkeeperstore owner
pressureforce

Article

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.

Quiz

  1. What did Anne's coat get stuck in?
  2. How high was Anne lifted into the air?
  3. Who helped Anne down?
  4. Why has Anne been falling recently?

Quiz Answers (examples)

  1. Anne's coat got stuck in the shop's shutters.
  2. Anne was lifted 7ft into the air.
  3. The shopkeeper helped Anne down.
  4. She has been falling due to low blood pressure.

Conversation

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!

Discussion

  1. What would you do if you were in Anne's situation?
  2. Have you ever been stuck before?
  3. How would you feel if a video of you became popular?
  4. What kind of videos do you enjoy watching?

Source Material

https://news.sky.com/story/grandmother-left-dangling-7ft-upside-down-after-getting-stuck-in-shops-shutters-13087882


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