8543RB Reading for Me Level 6 Part A

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Imaginative The Woman Who Fell From the Sky My name is Anna and I remember clearly the day I literally fell from the sky. I was on board Flight 508, making my way from Lima to Panguana, a scientific research station in the Amazon rainforest that my family lived on. I was 17 years old and had just graduated from the high school that I attended in Lima, Peru. It was Christmas Eve 1971 when my life changed in the blink of an eye. My mother and I boarded the plane, eager to get home to my father for Christmas. It was a stormy night and the wind was blowing fiercely, throwing the plane around like it was a toy. My mother looked at me and said, ‘It will be okay,’ just as we saw lightning strike the right wing of the plane. Then I felt the wind in my hair and on my face, and that was the last thing I remember. I awoke in shock, still strapped in my chair and attached to a row of empty seats. I was surrounded by lush jungle trees and it seemed like I was perched in a tree like a foreign bird in a new habitat. I frantically searched with my eyes but there was no sign of my mother, let alone anyone else. I sat in disbelief until I finally became lucid and noticed the searing pain in my right shoulder. I went into survival mode and called on every trick I had learnt during my time in the Amazon with my parents. I was determined to get home to my father, who must have been worried sick by now. My first challenge was to get out of my seat and get down from the tree with my inconvenient injuries. I made a temporary sling from the loose seatbelt next to me, to help keep my arm and shoulder in a stationary position. Grimacing through the pain, I somehow made my way down to the ground just like the monkeys I had observed so many times before. Next, I knew I needed water and in the distance I could hear the rush of the great Amazon River. I headed towards it and knew that not only would this water sustain me but it would also lead me to safety if I followed it to the closest town. I waded desperately through the water until I finally saw a group of tree loggers working along the riverside. I don’t know who was more shocked when we laid eyes on each other—I relayed my incredulous story to them and they were in awe that I fell from the sky and survived to tell the tale. 42 Reading for Me Level 6 (Part A) 978-1-922843-65-4 R.I.C. Publications ® Prim-Ed Publishing
Questions 1 Why was Anna on the plane? 2 How did Anna save herself? 3 Why do you think Anna survived the impact of the fall? 4 How important to Anna’s survival was her knowledge of the jungle? 5 What would you think if someone came up to you and told you this story? 6 Draw lines to match the following words to their meanings. (a) incredulous (b) lucid (c) grimacing a facial expression with a twisted mouth and face that shows pain not able to believe something the ability to think clearly R.I.C. Publications ® Prim-Ed Publishing Reading for Me Level 6 (Part A) 978-1-922843-65-4 43
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