Mobile phone battery explodes – level 1

16-10-2014 07:00

This happens in China. A woman is on a bus. She replaces her mobile phone battery. Suddenly, the battery is on fire. It explodes.

The woman and other passengers are shocked. They get off the bus. Luckily, everybody is fine. Experts tell people not to buy bad batteries.

Difficult words: replace (take out and put back again), suddenly (quickly and without warning), passenger (person who travels on something)

You can read the original story and watch the video in the Level 3 section.

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