11th form – reading/comprehension on “Teen in Trouble”

Bearing in mind the text “Teen in Trouble”, published on 01 10 2010, try to answer the following questions, producing full sentences and using your own words, as far as possible:

Towards comprehension

1. Why was mother so astonished when she peeped into her daughter’s chamber?

2. Why did she start trembling as she read the letter?

3. Who was the letter from?

4. List some of the tragedies the little girl assembled in his letter.

5. Did the situation narrated in the letter correspond to the truth?

6. Why did the girl write her mom such a dramatic letter?

7. What dramatic event had really happened?

8. Explain the meaning of the expression “when it is safe for me to come home”?

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