Fire at a petrol station – level 1

01-05-2015 07:00

This happens at a petrol station. The petrol station is in Israel. A man is at the petrol station. He is filling his car with petrol.

A woman comes up to him.  She asks him for cigarettes. The man says no.

The woman walks away for a second, but she comes back soon. She has a lighter. She sets the petrol pump on fire. There is fire everywhere. It is shocking, but everybody is OK.

Police arrest the woman.

Difficult words: fill (to put something inside something), lighter (a small thing which can make fire; people use this to light a cigarette), pump (the thing that you put in your car to fill your car with petrol).

You can read the original story and watch the video in the Level 3 section.

The woman must be crazy to do something like this! What do you think?

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