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supplementary reading sentence ordering Conny Munro |
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Conny Munro The following fifteen sentences tell a story about Conny Munro, but they are not in the correct order.
____ So she went into a casino and lost everything. ____ Instead of using her savings, Conny decided she would try to get the money back by gambling. ____ When Conny got to the bank, it was closed. ____ After losing the money her boss had given her, Conny changed her mind about how she would repay it. ____ During that time, she spent all her savings and then she started stealing more money from the air conditioning company. ____ Conny was not sent to jail, but she was punished by being put under house arrest. ____ One day, after work, her boss gave her 800 Rand ($US 120) and asked her to put it in the companys bank account. ____ For the next four months Conny went to a casino almost every day, but she never won enough money to pay back her boss. ____ If she lost the money, Conny thought, she could pay it back from her savings. ____ In 2002, Conny Munro was working for an air conditioning company in Cape Town, South Africa. ____ That gave her an idea. ____ She also lost her job and her boyfriend as a result of what she had done. ____ Finally she confessed to her boss that she had been robbing him. ____ She could gamble with the money and, if she won, she could pay for her childrens school fees and buy their uniforms. ____ Her boss went to the police and Conny was arrested.
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