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Conny Munro
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"Conny Munro" (sentence ordering)

here is the story of Conny Munro with the sentences in the correct order

Conny Munro

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




the sentence ordering exercise