Truck is too heavy for a bridge – level 1

02-02-2015 07:00

A truck drives onto a bridge. The truck is very heavy. The bridge is small and weak. The bridge falls down. This happens in China.

The bridge connects a village with towns. The people from the village have a problem. They cannot use the bridge. They must go around it, and that takes more time.

There is a water pipe under the bridge. The pipe is broken, too.

Difficult words: weak (not strong), connect (to go between two things), water pipe (a long object in which water moves).

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

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