A – Please fill in the blanks with the given verb and
make all changes you find suitable
ON MAY 11TH a Nigerian woman _____________ (file) a lawsuit against United
Airlines for removing her and her two children from a flight after a fellow
passenger _____________ (complain) of her smell. Ms. Queen Obioma _____________
(accuse) the airline of singling her out “because of her black race and Nigerian
citizenship”.
The incident _____________ (take) place two years ago on a flight from
Houston to San Francisco. This _____________ (be) the second leg of Ms Obioma’s
trip with her children from Nigeria to Canada, where the youngsters _____________
(schedule) to begin school.
Ms Obioma’s business-class seat _____________ (occupy) by a white man,
according to the suit. She _____________ (ask) him _____________ (move) but he _____________ (refuse), she _____________
(claim), and a flight attendant _____________ ( persuade) her _____________ (sit)
elsewhere.
Shortly afterwards, the other passenger _____________ (go) to the
cockpit—presumably to complain about her. Then a crew member _____________ (ask)
her _____________ (step off) the plane, where an airline agent _____________ (tell)
her that the pilot _____________ (order) her _______________ (get off) the
flight because the other passenger _____________ (complain) that she _____________
(smell) bad.
United _____________ (take) her children and her bags off the plane, she
says, and _____________ (bring) about a delay to her trip that _____________ (make)
her ____________ (miss) several appointments.
United, which says it _____________ (serve negative) with the lawsuit, _____________ (restrict) its comments
to saying that it “_____________ (tolerate negative)
discrimination of any kind and _____________ (investigate) this matter”.
The four biggest American airlines all _____________ ( have) language in
their contracts of carriage that _____________ (allow) them __________(deny)
boarding or service to malodorous customers. But Ms Obioma claims her smell _____________
(have)
nothing to do with her removal and that it _____________ (motivate) by
racial discrimination.
It _____________ (be) not yet clear what _____________ ( lead) the United
flight crew _____________ (remove) Ms Obioma from her flight, but one thing is
clear: airlines really _____________ (think) hard before _____________ (kick)
any passenger off a flight, unless there is a true safety risk.
___________(Do) otherwise
_____________ (continue-backfire), over and over again.
B – Please turn these sentences into English
La Sra Obioma se mudó a Canada hace 10 años y vuelve a
Nigeria cada 6 meses.
Su vida en Canada es diferente a la que tenía en su país natal.
El pasajero blanco no se arrepiente de lo que hizo.
El abogado de United Airlines recomendó entrevistar a los otros pasajeros para que cuenten qué pasó.
La noticia del incidente se viralizó hace dos años.
C – Please ask questions so as to get the underlined
answers
She brought a case against
United for removing them from a flight.
Yes, the
flight attendant did.
Because of her smell.
No, nobody
did.
Only when there is a safety risk.
