I. Grammar and vocabulary

1) Match the journalist’s questions with the example answers. Tip: To question 4 the answer is the background to the story. Notice the past continuous and past simple structures. I was doing x when y happened. Write your suggestions for this structure.

1) What’s your name?	was cleaning house, heard noises, thought rats in roof so looked found box
2) What’s your job?	astonished, thought the money not real. v. surprised – money there for long time
3) What did you do?	Julia
4) How did that happen?	my daughter, Sue, 13
5) Who was with you when it happened?	manager
6) How did you feel at the time?	no thanks, want to be normal mum with normal job
7) How do you feel now?	found $1 million in box in roof, gave money to children’s charity
8) Do you want a film made about the event?	happy to help the children

2) To question 6 name other adjectives to describe feelings.

For example: excited, delighted, amused.

3) Match halves to make word combinations describing feelings.

Heart of adrenaline

Butterflies palms

Rush pounding

Sweaty terror

To strike in the stomach

4) Imagine the situation that your story caught the attention of a Hollywood film director and there’s a possibility to make a film. This is your opportunity to have fame and fortune – how do your feel about that?! Julia was clearly not interested.

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