POLICE ESOL Cover - Cities of Migration

Hurting the one you lovea. Read the text below and answer the questions.Steve overslept one morning and missed the bus for work. It happens to everyone sometimes but it is anuisance. He had to get the next bus and this time his boss wanted to have a word with him because hehad been late more than once. Steve listened to his bass and did not say a word. All day long he thoughtabout it. Ideas went round and round in his head. He was late. He was angry because he was late. Whywas he late? Why was he angry?1. What is ‘a nuisance’?2. Has it ever happened to you?3. Why do you think Steve did not ‘say a word’?4. Do you think Steve is a happy or unhappy person? Why?b. Put the 5 sections below in the correct order.1. That evening he arrived home and found that the children were making a lot of noise playing in theliving room. Both children were under five years old. Dinner was not ready.2. She had had to clear it up and she had not spoken to another adult all day long. Helen felt that shejust could not do everything herself.3. He had been working hard all day long and he expected his dinner to be ready when he came home.He wondered what on earth Helen had been doing all day.4. Helen became angry, too, and shouted at Steve. She had a headache because the children had beennoisy and naughty all day long, the washing machine had broken down and water had emptied allover the kitchen floor.5. Feeling really tired he went straight to the sitting room and sat down but his wife, Helen, asked himto go to the kitchen to help her prepare dinner. Now Steve was angry again and he started to arguewith Helen because cooking was her job, not his.109