Tham khảo tài liệu 'true stories in the news phần 9', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | UNIT 21 1. PRE-READING Look at the picture. Where are these people from Can you guess how they feel Read the title of the story. Look at the picture again. What do you think this story is about Can you guess what happens 82 The Bottle in 1979 Dorothy and John Peckham a Los Angeles couple went to Hawaii on vacation. They traveled by ship. Some people on the ship were throwing bottles into the ocean. Each bottle had a piece of paper in it. On each piece of paper were a name an address and a message If you find this bottle write to US. Mrs. Peckham wanted to throw a bottle into the ocean too. She wrote her name and address on a piece of paper. She put the piece of paper and one dollar into a bottle. She put a cap on the bottle and threw the bottle into the water. Three years later and 9 000 miles1 away Hoa Van Nguyen was on a boat too. But Mr. Nguyen was not on vacation. He was a refugee from Vietnam. Mr. Nguyen his brother and 30 other people were going to Thailand in a small boat. The boat was in the Gulf of Thailand. There wasn t any drinking water in the boat and Hoa was thirsty. He saw a bottle in the sea. The bottle was floating near the boat. What s in the bottle Maybe it s drinking water he thought. Hoa took the bottle out of the sea and opened it. There wasn t any water in the bottle. But there was a dollar bill and a piece of paper. A name and an address were on the paper. The name was Peckham. The address was in Los Angeles California. Hoa and his brother arrived at the refugee camp in Thailand. Hoa used the dollar to buy an aerogram. Then he wrote a letter to Mrs. Peckham. We received a floating mailbox by a bottle on the way from Vietnam to Thailand Hoa wrote. Now we send a letter to the boss and we wish you will answer US. Hoa s English was not perfect but Mrs. Peckham understood it. She answered Hoa s letter Hoa wrote another letter and she answered it too. For two years Hoa and Mrs. Peckham wrote back and forth. When Hoa got married at the camp the .
