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5. HEN NIGHT Jim arrived home and forgot his door key. Last night all his friends invited him to go out and try a new beer called ‘Old Peculiar’. He didn’t feel like going out because he was waiting for a very important call. He had had a job interview in a factory that had just been opened. Jim rang the bell, but nobody came to open the door. He rang again, and waited, but still there was no answer. He walked round the house to see if he could find any open window, but they were all locked. It was beginning to rain and he didn’t know what to do. Dorothy, his wife, had obviously gone out, and he didn’t know where she had gone to, or when she could return. He waited for half an hour. Still nobody came. Finally, feeling wet and cold and angry, he picked up a big stone and threw it into the kitchen window. Just as he had unlocked the window and was climbing through it when he heard the front door open. His wife had come back! Jim had forgotten that it was Wednesday, the so called ‘hen night’, that’s what people call the day when all the ladies go out, while their husbands stay at home, looking after the children and taking them to bed. Friday evening is the day of the week when, on the contrary, all the ladies stay at home and their husbands go out while their wives take care of the children. This outing is called ‘stag night’ 1- Retell the story from the point of view of Fred 2- Rewrite or retell the story following these key words: Key beer call no key rain wife stone ‘hen night’ ‘stag night’ 3- friend told me….. 4- Build up a dialog from this story. 5- Use your imagination to complete the incident suggested below in a way you like. Write not less than a paragraph (about ten lines), and no more than two: At last I got to the station. If I had arrived ten minutes earlier, I had caught the train. It rained heavily all the afternoon. If I had not left the window of my bedroom open, my bed would not have got wet. My sister bought a lottery ticket. If she had not lost her handbag, she would have won a big prize.