EL CURSO DE FIRST CERTIFICATE PREFERIDO POR LOS HISPANOPARLANTES

An Argentine tourist

The newspaper report below is about someone who used to be a student at your school. You would like more information about this person and her adventure to put in your class magazine. Read this article carefully in order to write a letter to her. Don't worry if there are some words you don't know: you should be able to get the general idea without needing to use your dictionary.

ARGENTINE TOURIST CONSOLES INJURED KIDS

Today Eugenia Marcos Fernandez is recovering after spending the night on an Andalusian hillside with two injured schoolchildren. The 38-year-old business woman was with her husband on a trip to Spain. "While he worked I went walking in the hills," she explained from her hospital bed. On a lonely hillside she found two ten-year-old boys who had fallen into a large hole in the ground. "They had hurt themselves quite badly and couldn't climb out," said Eugenia. "When I tried to help them, I fell in as well, and then none of us could get out!" They were trapped for 15 hours. "I knew we'd be rescued, but the kids were really frightened," she said.

A letter to Eugenia

ACTIVITY 72: After reading the report, write to Eugenia Marcos Fernandez. Give your feelings about her adventure, and, using the help notes in the box below, ask her for more information and tell her why you want it. Write a letter of between 120-180 words in an appropriate style. Do not write any addresses. Finally, click on the answer icon to compare your letter with the version given.

THESE NOTES WILL HELP YOU

1) DETAILS ABOUT ANDALUSIAN ADVENTURE:
       -  situation in the hole
       -  the boys
       -  her injuries
       -  rescue

2) HER'S SCHOOL EXPERIENCE

3) HER LIFE AFTER SCHOOL

TYPE YOUR LETTER HERE:

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