Soon after Dave left college, one of his uncles, who was rich and had no children of his own, died and left Dave a lot of money, so he decided to set up his own real estate agency.

He found a nice office, bought some new furniture and moved in. He had only been there for a few hours when he heard someone coming towards the door of his office.

"It's my first customer!" he thought. He quickly picked up the telephone and pretended to be very busy answering an important call from someone in New York who wanted to buy a big and expensive house in the country.

The man knocked at the door while this was going on, came in and waited politely for the agent to finish his conversation. Then he said to him, "I'm from the telephone company, and I was sent here to connect your telephone."

A     Answer these questions:

1. How did Dave get money to set up his real estate agency?
2. What did he do to set it up?
3. What happened after he had been in his office for a few hours?
4. What did he think, and then do about this?
5. What did the man do?
6. And what did he say when Dave finished talking?

B     Complete this puzzle:

Across:

1. He's a very ______ worker: he never wastes time on the job.

6. Very big.

7. Possession.

10. The telephone man waited until the_______ of Dave's conversation before he spoke to him.

11. We often say this at the beginning of a telephone conversation.

12. Dave found a nice office _______ in town.

Down:

1. The man who came to Dave's office was one of the_______ of the telephone company.

2. When there is a _______ at sea, you can't see very far.

3. People __________ when their team scores a goal.

4. Put into one's mouth, chew and swallow.

5. The man came to Dave's office to connect the _________.

8. Move your head to show that you mean yes.

9. Divide into two equal parts.

11."_________ can you use the telephone when it hasn't been connected?" "You can't."

C     Write this story, using words instead of the pictures:

Before he could open his office, Dave had to buy a lot of things to furnish it. For the hall, he bought a nice  , and for his own office,  with comfortable  , a pretty  , for his desk light, and a red .

Unfortunately, the telephone people had to make holes in some of the walls with an electric  , after which another man had to come to  and  the walls again.

اخر الاخبار

اخبار العتبة العباسية المقدسة

العتبة العباسية المقدسة تواصل تنظيم مجالس العزاء الصباحية بذكرى زيارة عاشوراء

مواكب العزاء تستذكر في التاسع من شهر المحرم شهادة عبدالله الرضيع بن الحسين (عليهما السلام)

العتبة العباسية المقدسة تستذكر تضحيات القاسم بن الحسن (عليهما السلام)

شعبة الحرم الشريف تواصل تنفيذ خطتها الخاصة بشهر المحرّم داخل مرقد أبي الفضل العباس (عليه السلام)

المزيد

الآخبار الصحية

لهذا السبب.. إغلاق 25 مركزًا لعلاج الإدمان في مصر ؟

خلافا للاعتقاد الشائع.. علماء يكشفون أسرار بذور البطيخ ؟!

هذا ما يحدث لجسمك عند تناولك الطماطم بانتظام !

تعرف على أطعمة تسرّع "تعافي الجسم" من حروق الشمس

المزيد

الآخبار التكنلوجية

الثلوج تغطي الصحراء الأكثر جفافا في العالم!

بتلسكوب "ألما".. التقاط صورا غير مسبوقة لبدايات الكون !

هل هاتفك مراقب؟.. 5 علامات خطيرة تكشف التجسس عليك

دبي تطلق أول رحلة تجريبية للتاكسي الجوي

المزيد

مواضيع ذات صلة

Cigarette effect

Embarrassing

All famous

Park in another street

Beautiful kindness

It was a bee

I have never told a lie

Four years ago

Only two choices

Not Twins

Fixing everything

That was obvious