Man throws cake at Mona Lisa – level 1
02-06-2022 15:00
An old woman comes to the Louvre in Paris, France. She sits on a wheelchair.
She throws flowers around her. She come to the room with the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa is a famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci. The woman stands up. She hits the painting. Luckily, glass is in front of the painting. The woman hits the glass. Then she throws cake at it.
The room is full of shocked people. The security come. They see that the person is not an old woman. He is a man. He shouts that people don’t care about our planet.
In the past, people attack the Mona Lisa. The special glass keeps it safe since the 1950s.
Difficult words: wheelchair (a chair for people who cannot walk easily), shock (an emotion you feel from a lot of surprise), security (a person who keeps a place safe).
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