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82 Getting around 07 LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPLORE LOOK AGAIN EXTRAS A traveller’s tale READING 25 a Write the words under the pictures. 'R \RX KDYH WKHVH DQLPDOV LQ $XVWULD" +RZ GR \RX IHHO DERXW WKHP" Read the story. What was Belinda frightened of? What was the receptionist frightened of? Read the story again. Who: What words in your language do learners sometimes mix up? a bear a snake a pigeon a spider a rat a bat A D B E C F b 26 27 28 1 took Japanese lessons? 2 shouted ‘Kuma’? 3 made a phone call? 4 looked frightened? 5 went into Belinda’s room first? 6 laughed? http://www.travellerstales.com TRAVELLERS’ TALES HELP! Belinda Ramos works for a large IT company and travels whenever she can. She’s visited Belgium, Lebanon, England, France, Germany, Japan and Mexico. She’d love to go to Africa one day. I was in the south of Japan at the time. One morning, I woke up in my hotel room, opened my H\HV DQG ORRNHG DURXQG P\ URRP 7KH ¿UVW WKLQJ I saw was a huge spider on the wall. It was about ten centimetres across. I hate spiders! I ran out of the room to the reception desk and shouted for help. “Kuma!” I remembered from my Japanese lessons that ‘kuma’ means ‘spider’. “Kuma?” the receptionist said. “Kuma!” I shouted again. “In my room!” “Kuma?” “KUMA!!!” The receptionist looked really frightened. She picked up the phone and said something quickly in Japanese. About a minute later – and I’m not joking – a policeman with a gun ran into the hotel and went into my room. For a minute there was silence but then we heard a laugh, so we went in. When the receptionist saw the spider on the wall, she started laughing too. In Japanese, spider is ‘kumo’. ‘Kuma’ means ‘bear’. Nur zu Pr üfzwecken – Eigentum d es Verlags öbv