Conversation Starter Reading Comprehension.pdf

Starter

at an Intermediate Level. The material in this book was

speciically chosen to assist students in Advancing their

English Conversation.

It Includes Lots of interesting stories and has exercises

that include Grammar, Listening, Critical thinking and

other fun exercises, geared to get students into discus-

sions and lots of open talking.

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Hana English Academy

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ConversatioN

“ This book is designed for Students studying English

A Life-Saving Cow

Six consecutive days of spring rain had

created a raging river running by Nancy

Brown’s farm. As she tried to herd her

cows to higher ground, she slipped and

hit her head on a fallen tree trunk. The

fall knocked her out for a moment or

two. When she came to, Lizzie, one of

her oldest and favorite cows, was licking

her face. The water was rising. Nancy

got up and began walking slowly with

Lizzie. The water was now waist high.

Nancy’s pace got slower and slower.

Finally, all she could do was to throw

her arm around Lizzie’s neck and try to

hang on. About 20 minutes later, Lizzie

managed to successfully pull herself and

Nancy out of the raging water and onto

a bit of high land, a small island now

in the middle of acres of white water.

New Words

acre n.

attach v.

consecutive adj.

hoist n.

immediately adv.

lightning n.

manage v.

moment n.

paramedic n.

raise n & v.

rescuer n.

shelter n.

sob v.

subside v.

support v.

trunk n.

waist n.

Translation

___________

Even though it was about noon, the sky

was so dark and the rain and lightning

so bad that it took rescuers another two

hours to discover Nancy. A helicop-

ter lowered a paramedic, who attached

Nancy to a life-support hoist. They

raised her into the helicopter and took

her to the school gym, where the Red

Cross had set up an emergency shelter.

When the lood subsided two days lat-

er, Nancy immediately went back to

the “island.” Lizzie was gone. She was

one of 19 cows that Nancy lost. “I owe

my life to her,” said Nancy sobbingly.

Comprehension Exercises

• Making Sentences - Choose 5 words from the new vocabulary :

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• Answer the Following Questions :

1. Why was Nancy saving only the cows?

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2. Why did Nancy slip and fall?

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3. What kinds of animals are on a typical farm?

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4. Why did Nancy grab the cow’s neck?

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5. Where was Nancy going with the cows?

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6. Why are helicopters sometimes better than planes?

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7. Where was Nancy’s family?

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8. What was Nancy’s condition when the paramedic rescued her?

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