THE BIG STORY (Level 0)

Rosie is a journalist who wants to find a big story for her article. Unluckily, she gets into a big story herself.

THE BIG STORY

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Vocabulary:

1. journalist: a person who writes stories for a newspaper
2. newspaper: people read about things that happen every day in this
3. editor: the person who says which stories go in a newspaper
4. news: when someone tells you something that is new
5. film: moving pictures that tell a story
6. idea: something that you think
7. river: water that moves through the country in a lone line
8. river bus: people go from one place to another on a river in this
9. worth: how expensive something is
10. chateau: a big old house in France or Switzerland where a rich person lives
11. dangerous: that can kill you
12. bridge: people can go across a river on this
13. art dealer: a person who has a shop with expensive pictures in it
14. buy: to give money for something
15. sell: to take money for something
16. steal: to take something without asking
17. mountain: a big hill
18. ski: to go over snow fast on long flat pieces of wood
19. snow: something soft, cold and white
20. break: to make one thing into two things when you hit it
21. lock this makes a door stay closed
22. upstairs to the upper part of a house
23.  asleep: sleeping
24. gun: a person can fight with this
25. drawing: a picture made with a pen or pencil
26. safe: a box with ta lock where you put important or expensive things
27. servant: a person who works for someone rich
28. Monsieur: Mr. in French
29. tie: to stop someone moving with a rope
30. art: drawings and pictures
31. collector: a person who like to buy and have a lot of things of one kind
32. crazy: not thinking well
33. snowmobile: a car that can go across the snow
34. police: they find people who do something bad
35. follow: to go after something or someone
36. crash: to hit something and stop suddenly
37. escape: to get away
38. thief: (plural thieves): a person who takes things without asking
39. gondola: you can go across the river with this in Venice
40. cafe: you go here to have a drink and something to eat
41. package: something that you take with you in some paper
42. grab: to take suddenly
43. alley: a small street
44. hurt: to do something bad to someone
45. pocket: the place in your coat where you can put things 
46. nastily: in not a nice way
47. frightened: afraid
48. balcony: a place at the front of a building upstairs where you can stand and look out 
49. pick up: to take in your hand
50. desk; a table where you can pay for a room or ask hotel workers things
51. painting: a coloured pictuer
52. knock: to hit strongly
53. case: a big bag
54. try: to want to do something but not to do it well
55. fall: to go down quickly
56. manager: a person who watches the work of other people
57. untie: to take off ropes that tie someone or something
58. Signors: Mrs. in Italian
59. boat: you go across water in this
60. canal: a river that people make
61. turn: to go to the right or the left
62. swim: to go through the water moving your arms and legs
63. sink: to go down in water
64. thanks to: because of
65. email: words that you send from computer to computer