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MONTHLY WORK
Name: Ricardo Chica
Date: 5/09/2011
1. Look at the picture and read the title of the article. What do you think happened to this woman? Read and check youranswers.

I think that the woman is scared, because something wrong happens to the elevator.

B. Find phrases in the text which mean the same as the following:
-Visited for a short timePopped into
-become crazy
Go Bananas
-I couldn’t stand it any longer
I thought there was no way I could take it anymore.
-arrived
Turned up
-I began to realize it for thefirst time
Then it dawned on me.

C. Read the text again and completes the summary.
One Friday evening; Edna Walsden went to get her car to go home. When she entered the lift ofthe car park, it stopped because of an power cut. She believed that someone would get her out but unfortunately, she got stuck in there for four nights. You see, it was a long weekendso the security arrived on Tuesday morning. During her stay in the lift she didn’t do much. There wasn’t enough room for her to lie down and sleep. She just sang to herself and atethe crisps which she had bought before getting into the lift.
2. VOCABULARY
Find five examples of British English in the text and match them with their American equivalents below.-parking garage: car park
-store: shop
-a bag of chips: chips pocket
-elevator: lift
-power outage: power cut
-cell phone: mobile phone
PERSONAL OPINION:
I think that it wasa very bad situation for Edna Waldsen, because she didn’t have much food to eat and she was so uncomfortable. If I have a similar situation, I think that it is very hard, to stay in alift for three or four days alone and uncomfortable.
If this situation happens to me, my family will be so terrified and they will start to search me in every place of Quito.