Transcripts and questions 1000 words part i

Interactive Questions
1000 Words - Part I

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SET 1
A lot of snow in Japan
There is a snow storm in Japan. The storm is very bad. Thirteen people die. More than 1,500 people are
injured.
It snows a lot. Thirteen inches (33 centimetres) of snow fall. The snow falls on one area. The area was
hit by the tsunami in 2011.
Some people cannot get to work. Many flights are cancelled. It is not easy to get to Tokyo’s centre.
Strong winds take down power lines. More than 20,000 houses have no electricity.
The weather is getting better. It will get warmer.
Questions:
1. How is the weather in Japan?
2. Is the storm big?
3. How many people died?
4. How many people were injured?
5. Does it snow a lot?
6. How high is the snow?
7. Did the snow fall on many areas?
8. What was the area hit by in 2011?
9. Can everyone get to work?
10. What happened to the flights in Japan?

11. Was it easy to get to Tokyo’s centre?
12. What happened to the power lines?
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13. How many houses had no electricity?
14. Is the weather getting better? Will it get warmer?

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Boy hears for the first time
A boy couldn’t hear from the time that he was born. He is three years old now. Doctors in the US
helped him. The video shows the moment when the boy hears his father's speak for the first time.
The boy got a special implant. The doctors will test if the implant is good for children. The doctors
connected the implant directly with the boy’s brain. The boy will now learn how to speak.
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Could the boy hear?
How old was he?
Who helped him?

What does the video show?
Was the boy happy?
What did the boy get?
Is it good for the boy?
How did the doctors connect the implant?
What would the boy learn?

Bus accident in Turkey
A bus in Turkey crashes. There are 27 tourists inside. Security cameras film it.
Nothing hits the bus. But is not OK and it falls on its side. A teenager and an old woman die. Twentyfive people are injured. Everybody on the bus is from Scandinavia.
We don't know what is wrong with the bus. Police want to know. They are investigating it.
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What happened to the bus?
How many people were on the bus?
How many tourists were on the bus?
Why did the bus crash?
How many people die? Who are they?
Were a lot of people injured? How many?
Where are the people on the bus from?
What do the police want to know?

What are they doing?
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Driver on the wrong side
Here is some news from England. A man makes a video. It is filmed on a motorway.
The video shows a car. The car is going the wrong way. It is going around 50 miles per hour (80
kilometres per hour). This is a very dangerous situation. Other cars must move away.
Two men talk about this. One cannot believe it.
The police stop the car. The driver will lose his or her driving license.
Questions:
1. Where did the news come from?
2. What did the man make?
3. What was the video filmed?
4. What does the video show us?
5. How fast was the car going?
6. Was it safe?
7. What did the other cars have to do?
8. What did the men talk about?
9. In the end, what happened to the car?
10. What would the driver lose?
Face with a lot of pictures
An artist makes an animation. She is from Britain. She paints her face and takes a photograph of it.
Then she paints her face again. The second picture on her face is a little bit different. She takes a
photograph again. She does this 750 times. She works 17 hours a day for five days.
The pictures are put together. They are played fast. It looks like a movie. The animation is very
interesting. It is about rebirth and transfer of energy.
Questions:
1. Who made the animation?
2. Where is she from?

3. What did she do with her face?
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4. Why did she paint her face again?
5. Is the second picture the same as the first?
6. Then, what did the artist do with the second picture?
7. How many times did the woman do that?
8. How long did it take her to finish?
9. What did she do with the pictures?
10. What does it look like?
11. What do you think about the movie?
12. What is the animation about?
First people in Europe
People find something amazing in Britain. They find very old human footprints. The footprints are very
special. They are the oldest footprints in Europe. Older footprints are only in Africa.
Scientists take pictures of the footprints. They use the pictures to make a model. There’s a conference
in London. The pictures and the model are shown there. Most of the footprints are children’s.
This is a great discovery. It gives us new information. We will understand history better.
1. What did people do in Britain?
2. What are those things?
3. Are the footprints normal?
4. Why are they special?
5. Where can you find older footprints?
6. What did scientists do to the footprints?
7. What did they make with the pictures?
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8. What did people do in London?

9. Did they show the pictures and the model there?
10. Who do the footprints belong to?
11. Why is that a great discovery?
Floor of a lift falls down
Company LG wanted to test new monitors.
They put the monitors on the floor of a lif. They also put some cameras there.
When the lif started to go up, the floor started to fall. People didn’t like it. They didn’t feel good.
Later, they understood that it was a joke and they laughed.
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1. What does Company LG want?
2. Where did the put the monitors?
3. What else did they put there?
4. What happened when the lif started?
5. Were people in the elevator scared?
6. If you were one of them, would you be scared?
7. Did they feel good?
8. Finally, did they understand that it was a joke?
9. Did they cry when they get out?
10. Why didn’t company LG test the monitors in the normal way?
11. What do they really want?
Hole takes cars
An accident happens in Kentucky, USA. A sinkhole opens in a museum. Eight rare cars fall down.
Everything is filmed by a security camera.
Nobody gets hurt. The sinkhole is 12 metres wide and 9 metres deep.
The part of the museum is closed. People cannot go there. Experts are trying to understand the
accident.
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Questions:

1. What happened in Kentucky?
2. What opened in the museum?
3. What fall down into the hole?
4. What was the accident filmed by?
5. Did anyone die?
6. Was anyone injured?
7. How deep is the hole? How wide is it?
8. Why did people close that part of the museum?
9. Who were trying to understand the accident?
10. What do they want to know?
KFC to Gaza
KFC food is very popular. People in Gaza cannot buy it there in Gaza. People in Gaza order KFC food
from Egypt. The food is transported illegally into Gaza. People use tunnels to transport the food.
Some people like KFC very much. They pay 35 dollars for one bag of KFC food. KFC food is fast food but
it's not true for people in Gaza. The food doesn’t come fast. The food travels in 5 hours. When it comes,
it is cold. But it is better than nothing.
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Have you ever tried KFC food?
Is it good?
Is KFC food popular?

Can people buy it in Gaza?
Where did they order the food from?
How was the food transported into Gaza?
What did they use to transport the food?
How much do you have to pay for one bag of KFC food in Gaza?
Is KFC really fast food for people in Gaza?
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10. How long do they have to wait?
11. How is the food when it comes?
12. Is the food still good?
Man and fire
Here is news from England. This happens on February 5th. A man wants to burn a van. He puts a liquid
on the van. The liquid burns very easily.
He sets the van on fire, but something goes wrong. He is on fire, too! His arm is burning. He starts to
run away. He gets into his car and drives away. A security camera films this.
Nobody gets hurt. Police are looking for this man.
1. Where does the news come from?
2. When did it happen?
3. What did the man want to do?
4. What did he use to burn the van?
5. Did the liquid burn easily?
6. What happened to the man when he set the van on fire?
7. What else was burning?
8. What did the man do?
9. Did anyone get hurt?
10. What were the police doing?
11. Why did the man want to burn the van?
12. What would you do if you your arm were burning?

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SET 2
Man holds a woman
This happens in China. A woman is in her bedroom. She locks the room. Nobody can enter it. She wants
to kill herself. She gets in the window.
Her family wants to stop her. They ask her to stop, but the woman doesn’t stop. The family calls the
police.
A firefighter is on top of the building. He is on a rope. He gets down to the window. When the woman
jumps, he catches her. The two people get down on the ground. The woman goes to hospital.
Questions:
1. Where does the story happen?
2. Where is the woman?
3. Why does she lock the room?
4. Did she jump out of the window?
5. What did her family do to stop her?
6. Who come to help?
7. What did the firefighter use to save the woman?
8. How did he get down to the window?
9. What did he do when the woman jump?
10. Where did people take the woman too?
11. Why did the woman want to kill herself?
Man jumps into a swimming pool
One man wanted to tell people about his band. He jumped into a swimming pool with ice. He had only
his underwear. But the ice was very strong. The ice didn’t break. The jump was very bad for the man.
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But he did what he wanted to do. He gave people information about his band.
He laughed afer the jump. His friend laughed too.
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1. What does the man want to tell people about?
2. What did he do?
3. How was the weather?
4. What was the man wearing?
5. What happened when the man jumped into the ice?
6. Why didn’t the ice break?
7. Did the man hurt?
8. Did he do what he wanted to do?
9. What did he give?
10. Is it funny? What do you think about the situation?
11. What did his friend do?
Man took a laptop
Two men were sitting at a table. They were eating.
Their laptop was on the table too. A man came up to them and he took it. They didn't expect this
because the criminal was coming slowly.
The two men tried to catch this criminal. But he had a motorbike and he got away.
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1. Where were the men?
2. What were they doing?
3. What was on their table?
4. How many laptops were on the table?
5. What happened to the laptop?
6. Why didn’t they expect that?
7. What did the men do when they saw that?
8. Did they catch the thief?
9. Why couldn’t they catch him?
10. Did someone help him escape?

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Moves on water
There is a new attraction in China. A lot of people want to see it.
There are people who do special things on the water. They stand on a long bamboo in a river. It is not
easy. They need very good balance. It is like a dance but it is a sport.
This is an old thing but it is popular. It is a traditional Chinese sport.
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1. What is in China?
2. Do people like it?
3. Where do people do that?
4. What do they do in the river?
5. Is it difficult?
6. Do you think you can do it?
7. What do they need to do that?
8. What is the sport like?
9. Is it popular?
10. Is it a modern sport?
New hand with feelings
A fireworks accident happens. A man loses his hand. He is from Denmark.
He cannot touch or feel things. It is like this for nine years. Now, he has an operation. He has a new
hand. The hand is made by men.
The hand is very special. There are sensors inside it. When the man touches something, the hand
knows! This information goes to the man’s brain, and the man can feel things again! It is amazing.
He can feel different types of things. He is very happy. He is the first man with a hand like this.
Questions:
1. What kind of accident happens?
2. What does the man lose?

3. Where is he from?
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4. Can he touch and feel things?
5. When did he lose his hand?
6. Did he have an operation?
7. What new thing does he have?
8. Who made the hand?
9. Why is the hand special?
10. Can he touch and feel things now?
11. Where does the information go to?
12. Is it amazing?
13. Can he feel different types of things?
14. Is he happy?
15. Is he the second man with a hand like this?
People eat a lot of hot dogs
Some people can eat very fast. But people want to know who is the fastest. There is a competition in
eating hot dogs. It happens in New York.
There are champions and they know that they are good. But they cannot stop. They must get better
and better.
A lot of people come. The competition is very popular. The leader of New York comes too.
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1. Can some people eat faster than other people?
2. What do people want to know?
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3. What happens in New York?
4. What is the competition about?

5. What do people need to do to become the champions?
6. What do the champions have to do?
7. Can they stop?
8. Do many people come?
9. Is the competition popular?
10. Who else come to the competition?

People walk on a wall
There is an attraction in London. It is something special.
It is a type of art. An artist from Argentina makes the art. He puts a fake house on the ground and he
puts mirrors which stand near it. The mirrors show the fake house. When there are people on the
house they are in the mirrors too.
People come and they have fun. They walk on the house which is on the ground and it looks like that
they are walking in the air.
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1. What is in London?
2. Is it special?
3. Who makes the art?
4. What did he do?
5. What do the mirrors show us?
6. What happens when people are on the house?
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7. Did people have fun?
8. What does it look like when the walk on the house?
9. Is it interesting?
10. Do you want to go there?

Person in the air

People in London saw something special. They saw a magic trick.
A man was in the air. He was three metres above the ground. He touched one side of a double-decker
bus. He touched it with only one hand. His body was in the air. He was not afraid. He was OK. He even
used his mobile phone.
The bus was going in central London. People saw him and they liked it. They didn't know how he did
the trick.
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1. What did people in London see?
2. Where was the man?
3. How high was he above the ground?
4. What did he touch?
5. What kind of bus is that?
6. Did he touch the bus with both of his hands?
7. Was he afraid?
8. What did he use?
9. Where was the bus going in?
10. Did people like it?
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11. Did they know how he did the trick?

Pizza man ate pizza
Some people in Russia ordered a pizza to their home. A young man brought the pizza. He was going in a
lif and there was a security camera. This camera filmed him.
The man opened the box and took the pizza out. He ate little pieces of it. Then he made the pizza look
good again and put it back into the box.
The video is very popular on the internet. His bosses say that their pizzas are very good. Everybody
wants to eat the pizzas even the pizza boys too. But they will put special locks on these pizzas. It will
stop their pizza boys from eating the pizzas.

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1. What did people in Russia order?
2. Who brought the pizza?
3. Where was he going in?
4. What did the camera film?
5. What did the man do?
6. Did he put the pizza back into the box?
7. Is the video popular?
8. What do his bosses say about the pizzas?
9. What will they put on the pizzas?
10. What will the locks stop?

Protests in London
There will be a big meeting in Northern Ireland. The capitalists will meet there. Some people don't like
it. They protested in London. It was a protest against capitalism.
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Many people had masks. They walked in a centre of London. Not everything went well. There were
fights with the police. Police took a lot of people to the police station. Some protesters used water
pistols for children to fight the police.
The police think that the protests will continue.
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1. What will happen in Northern Ireland?
2. Who will meet in Northern Ireland?
3. Does everyone like it?
4. What did they do in London?
5. What did they protest against?
6. What did people have?
7. Did everything go well?

8. Who fought them?
9. Where did the police take them to?
10. What did some protesters use to fight the police?
11. What do the police think?

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SET 3
Robots play rock music
How does music look in the future? Maybe robots will play it. There is a concert in Tokyo. Three robots
played there.
There are people who play too. They sing with the robots. They like the robots because their music is
good.
A professor from Tokyo University makes these robots. He has a dream. He wants the robots to play in
space. The robots may play on the moon or Mars. They can also maybe leave our solar system.
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How does music look in the future?
What is in Tokyo?
What played in the concert?

Is there any people playing with them?
What do they do in the concert?
Why do people like the robots?
Who made the robots?
Where does he want the robots to play?
Do you think he can do that?

Ship hits land
A ship serves as a ferry. It travels between England and France. It does this for 22 years.
It is given a different name. It serves in Belgium for two years.
The ship is old now. It comes to Turkey. There is a video. It shows the ship’s end. The ship is coming
towards the land. It is going fast. It gets on the land. It starts to slow down and it stops. People will take
the ship apart.
Questions:
1. What does the ship serve as?
2. Where does it travel between?
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3. How long did the ship do that?
4. What did people give it?
5. How long has the ship served in Belgium?
6. Where do people take the ship to?
7. What does the video show?
8. What is the ship coming towards?
9. How is it going?
10. What will people do to the ship?

Small things at Wimbledon
Wimbledon is different this year. The players have small things on them. These things are

advertisements.
Sony has a new technology for TVs. It is called the 4K and it is better than HD. The picture in TVs can be
very good. If you have the 4K, you can see the small advertisements at Wimbledon.
Wimbledon doesn't like advertisements. But they made a change this year.
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Is Wimbledon different this year?
Why is it different?
What are the small things the players have on them?
What is the new technology of Sony for?
What is it called?
Is it better than HD?
What can you do if you have a 4K TV?
Does Wimbledon like advertisements?
Why did they make the change this year?

Small tigers and dogs
This story is from China. A tiger has three cubs. Two of them are girls. One of them is a boy. He is older
than the sisters.
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Their mother stops feeding them. The cubs need a new mother. Their new mother is a dog.
The tigers are having a great time. They like their new family. They play with their new brothers and
sister. They love the game of ball. The cubs are very cute. Everybody likes them. They are stars.
Sadly, everything has an end. They cannot play forever. They will meet their real parents again soon.
Questions:
1. Where is the story from?
2. How many cubs does the mother tiger have?
3. How many girls? How many boys?
4. Is the boy older than his sisters?
5. Why do the cubs need a new mother?
6. Who is their new mother?
7. Are the tigers having a great time?
8. Do they like their new family?
9. Who do they play with?
10. Are they cute?
11. Does everybody like them?
12. Can they play with their new family forever?
13. Who will they meet again?

Statue cries
A woman has a statue. It is a statue of the Virgin Mary. The statue is in the woman’s living room.
The woman sees a miracle. She sees that the statue cries. She tells her husband. He doesn’t believe it.
Later, he sees oil on the statue’s face and he believes it.
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Many people come to see the statue. They travel for hours by cars or buses. They believe in the miracle.
They want to get blessings.
Some people think some things can be lies. This can be a hoax. The woman’s son looks at the statue. He

sees that there is oil inside the statue.
Questions:
1. What does the woman have?
2. Who is the statue of?
3. Where is the statue?
4. What did the woman see?
5. Who did she tell?
6. Did he believe her at first?
7. Later, why did he believe her?
8. What do people come to see?
9. How do they travel?
10. What do they want to get?
11. Does everybody believe in that?
12. What does the woman’s look at?
13. What is inside the statue?

Strange statue in snow
There’s a new statue in Massachusetts. It is a statue of a man. It is very realistic. The man is wearing
only his underwear. The statue is outside in the snow.
Some people like it. Others are OK with it. Some people don’t like it. They don’t want the statue. They
start a petition.
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People talk a lot about this statue. The statue is a part of a new exhibition.
Questions:
1. What is in Massachusetts?
2. Who is the statue of?
3. How is the statue?
4. What is the man in the statue wearing?

5. Where do people put the statue?
6. Does everyone like the statue?
7. What did people who don’t like the statue start?
8. What is the statue a part of?

Telescope record in Mexico
Many people were watching the sky. There was a special moment in Mexico. 2978 people had a
telescope and they watched the Moon. They made a new record.
It was a good moment for the families because people were together. Astronomy is very popular in
Mexico. In the summer, there are many meetings for people who like astronomy.
Questions:
1. What were people doing?
2. What was there in Mexico?
3. How many people had a telescope?
4. What did they do with it?
5. What did they make?
6. Was that a good moment for them?
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7. Why was that good?
8. Is astronomy popular in Mexico?
9. What happens in the summer?

The ugliest dog
Some dogs are beautiful and some dogs are ugly. Which dog is the ugliest? People want to know that.
There is a show all about it in California.
There are 29 ugly dogs. A four-year-old dog wins. He is the ugliest. He is a mix of four kinds of dogs. He
has got a big head and a bad back.
They gave his owner $1,500. She buys something for the dog. She is going to New York too.

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1. Is every dog beautiful?
2. What do people want to know?
3. What is in California?
4. Who many dogs are there in the show?
5. Which dog wins?
6. Why does he win?
7. What kind of dog is he?
8. What does he have?
9. How much money did people give the owner?
10. What did she do with the money?
11. Where is she going to?

Two gay men fight
There is a show in Peru. There are men in clothing for women. People want to know who is the most
beautiful.
But there is a problem. The judges make a mistake. They say that the winner is someone else.
Two men from the show get angry and they fight. It is shocking.
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1. What is there in Peru?
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2. What are the men in the show wearing?
3. What do people want to know?
4. Is there any problem?
5. What is the problem?
6. What happen afer that?
7. How is the fight?

Two men fall down
Two men do something amazing. They are in a balloon 10,000 feet (3,048 metres) up in the air. There’s
another hot air balloon. The men want to walk to the balloon on a rope. They must be very brave!
They try to do this, but it is too hard. They fall down. But don’t worry, they have parachutes.
The men want to try this again. They wait for good weather.
Questions:
1. Who do an amazing thing?
2. Where are they in?
3. Where is the balloon?
4. What do the men want to do?
5. Are they brave?
6. Is it hard?
7. What happens to them?
8. Is it dangerous that they fall down?
9. Do the men want to try that again?
10. What do they wait for?
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