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    Complete this text (English exercise n°3476 - Please quote this number when contacting us)


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    Talking parrot saves trapped van driver by crying out 'help'

    A parrot rescued a man who was trapped under the wheels of a van by copying his calls for help. 'I thought I was going to be stuck under the van all night long, ' Mr Blog, 52, said. 'Although I cried and shouted for help, no one seemed to be able to hear me.' But 100 metres away, at the Broadway Caravan Park, Sonny, the parrot heard him and repeated his shouts which alerted two men who work at the park. 'Sonny is a real life-saver,' said Mr Blog. .....

     

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    1. The van driver under the wheels of his van.
    2. The van driver, Mr Blog, for help, but no one seemed to hear him.
    3. Mr Blog no one would hear him.
    4. Sonny, a talking parrot, him shout.
    5. The parrot his calls for help : that means he imitated his calls.
    6. Sonny could his shouts because he's a 'talking parrot'.
    7. Two men because they were put on the alert by the parrot.
    8. The two men at the park.
    9. Sonny Mr Blog's life.
    10. Mr Blog by a talking parrot.







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