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laughs best!"
"Laughter is the
best medicine."
"Laugh and the world laughs with you, trip over a big bag of garbage and fall on the sidewalk breaking
a bone or two and you fall alone!"
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Strange News Story Number Twelve
"Can I buy your car?"
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This story is about a stupid thief. Enjoy!
Vocabulary Story
A woman in South Wales reported to the police that her Ford Focus car
was stolen. In the report she also (1) mentioned (2) sheepishly that her Nokia
phone was in the car. The policeman who took down (3) her details was
quick-thinking and called her Nokia phone. He told the person who
answered that he had read an (4) advert in the local newspaper, and the
Ford seemed just the car he was looking for. They (5) arranged to meet
in a highway (6) rest stop, where the thief was (7) arrested.
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New Words
(1) said
(2) a little embarrassed
(3) the specific things she told them
(4) short for "advertisement"
(5) planned a time and place to meet
(6) a place next to the highway with toilets and sometimes a place to buy food
(7) taken in by the police
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Explanation: The car was not really for sale, but the thief didn't know that! The police pretended
that he had seen an ad, tricking the thief into meeting him.
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