| Theme: Umbrella |
| Exercise: understanding context, reading comprehension, vocabulary |
The computer broke down while Sheila was writing her diary. Many of her nouns were replaced with the noun 'umbrella', but her story is also about her own umbrella. Can you help Sheila get her story right?
Write the story the way you think it was meant to be on your own sheet of paper.

| Dear diary,
Yesterday was a very strange umbrella. I had just got home from school the umbrella rang. It was Carla, and she wanted me to come to her umbrella to watch some umbrella. I told her I`d come over soon, I just had to write an umbrella for my parents first. Before I left the house I remembered to take my umbrella in case it would start raining. When I got to Carla`s umbrella her mum told me Carla was in her room watching her umbrella, and I went in. Without thinking I put my umbrella on the umbrella, and Carla got very upset, since she is very superstitious. I tried to comfort her, but she said that my umbrella would bring her bad luck, and that she wanted me to leave. Knowing that Carla sometimes can be a little strange and moody, I said 'OK, see you tomorrow', and left. When I got outside, I remembered that I had left my umbrella in Carla's umbrella, and I pressed the umbrella again. Her mother opened the umbrella, and I went in to get my umbrella. I knocked on Carla's umbrella, and Carla said 'Come in'. I told her that I'd only come to get my umbrella, and Carla nodded. But my umbrella was not on the table where I'd left it! We both looked everywhere in the umbrella - under the umbrella, behind the umbrella, on the umbrella and under the umbrella - the umbrella was missing! Carla asked me if I was sure that I didn't take the umbrella when I left the first time, and I told her I was absolutely sure the umbrella was on the umbrella when I left! Well, dear diary, I
had to go home without my umbrella, and on the way home it started raining,
of course. I got soaking wet, and when I got home my mum yelled at me because
my umbrellas made wet spots on her newly cleaned umbrella. What a day!
And my umbrella is still missing.
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