Dangerous Building Materials – level 1

20-06-2019 07:00

In 2017, a building in London is on fire. It is a high building where people live. Its name is Grenfell Tower. The fire is very big. Seventy-two people die.

Survivors are filing a lawsuit against three companies. The lawsuit says that a Whirlpool fridge starts the fire. Materials in the building then burn really fast. These materials are made by Arconic and Celotex.

Difficult words: survivor (people who live after the fire), file (put in), lawsuit (an official document which says that somebody did something illegal/wrong/bad).

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