She Went To Sleep And Woke Up 30 Years Later

1. For how many hours do you normally sleep each night?
   
2. What is the longest you have ever slept?
   
3. Who was Rip Van Winkle?
4. What problems might a person have if they slept for decades?

Woman’s name	Annie Shapiro
Occupation	Business-woman
Address	Tornto Canada
Husband’s name	Martin
Husband’s occupation
Children	Marilyn and martin
Year when she went into a coma (+ her age)	She awoke up nearly 30 years later in 1992.
Year when she woke up (+ her age)	She was 79 years old.
Cause of coma	She was watching news reports on the assassination of Us Preseident John F. Kennedy.

What shocked Mrs Shapiro about herself when she woke up? That way she looked and the world have change.

What did she find shocking about her family? She could not belive that her husband martin was an old man of 81 and that her teenage sonand 25 years old daughter marilyn were middle aged.As the years passed mrs shapiros son and daughter married and had two children each and most of her friends died.And she asked to the telephone to her sister Rose only to be that her husband were dead and her three brothers had died,too.

List four historical events that happened while Mrs Shapiro was asleep:

1. Her body was stareding breaking down.
2. __________________________________________________
3. __________________________________________________
4. __________________________________________________

Mention two health problems that Mrs Shapiro had while she was in the coma:

1. __________________________________________________
2. __________________________________________________

What were Mrs Shapiro’s first words when she woke up?

What surprised Mrs Shapiro about the television and phone in her room? She awe-struck to learn about cordless telephone and spaceships flights.The tv were white and black.

1. In what way does the story have a happy ending?

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2. In what way does it have a sad ending?

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Vocabulary

WORD	MEANING
miraculous	like a miracle or magic
emerge	came out of
amazed	astonished, amazed
Paralize	unable to move
therepy	exercises to help someone to get better
flabbergasted	astonished, amazed
surpise	astonished, amazed
reborn	started again
vows	promises