Comprehension

With reference to yesterday's reading passage, Frogman, give short spoken answers to the following quesstions.

1. Where did Mrs Ramsbottom take her dog?
2. Why couldn’t she see what the object was?
3. What did she think it might be?
4. What did it turn out to be?
5. Who did she meet?
6. What seemed a bit strange?
7. Why couldn’t he have been a frogman?
8. Who called on Mrs Ramsbottom?
9. What was the verdict of the coroner’s court?



Answer guide
1. Beside the local canal. 2. It was too far away/some distance away. 3. A bird of some sort. 4. An old man. 5. A man walking his dog. 6. The old man had his jacket on. 7. He wasn’t wearing a helmet. 8. A policewoman. 9. Death by drowning.