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FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ENGINEERING

THEME

COUPLE TURNS ON AFTER 37 YEARS WITHUT POWER

CURRICULAR EXPERIENCE

English VI

STUDENT

Santa Cruz Hernández, Carlos

TEACHER

Pamela Stefany Salazar Bardales

PIMENTEL - 2017

COUPLE TURNS ON AFTER 37 YEARS WITHUT POWER

An  elderly couple is going to trade candles for ligh bulbs after 37 years without electricity at their home in suffolk, england. pat payne, 74, and his wife margaret, 72, brougth up their large family in their farmhouse, without any moderm appliances.

Their children laft home year ago but now one of them has moved back and is paying € 19,000 (almost $ 40,000) to have electricity put in the 200-year-old house next month.Mrs. payne said that she was looking forwad to "begin modernized" but does not feel that she has missed much by not having electricity.

"I would have been nice to have been able to do the ironing or to have a vacuum cleaner instead of having to sweep the floor, but we got by," she said. "i think our children are more excited about us getting electricity than we are".

The couple has mostly lived off the land. mr. payne, a former far laborer, grows vegetables in the garden. without a refrigerator or freezer in the thre-bedroom house, milk is delivered every other day and fresh meat is bought as needed. water comews from a well.

Mrs. payne used to wash clothes by hand, and with nine children that was a lot of clothes, but she believes that not having electricity may have been a good thing for her children while they were growing up. "instead of  watching television, they played todether and used to make up games or read books", she said.

The life also suited her husband.

"Neither of us has ever been seriously ill and we rarely get a cough or cold", mrs. paynesaid.

"With our fresh vegetables and not having central heating, it´s been a very healthy way to live." the couple has 24 grandchildren and eighht great-grandchildren.

5. READING

1. you´re going to read an article about a couple whon lived without electricity for 37 years. which two of these things do you think they missed most?

• A vacuum clerner
• A washing machine

1. Read the article once. were you right? Do they regret living without electricity for so long?

No, they do not regret having lived without electricity for so long, because they believe that in this way their children grew up instead of watching television, played often and used to invent games or read books and they lived very healthily.

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