The Wrong Lab
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The Wrong Lab
On Friday, during her first week at Westbrook School, Amira was in the office when Ben, the class monitor, brought a note from Ms Evans, the languages teacher. It read, “Please take _____ to the lab at break.”
Amira knew the school had two rooms described simply as “lab”, but the note named neither. Ben hurried to registration, so she could not ask him. At break, she carried the folder into _____, where Mr Cole, the science technician, accepted it and left it on his desk. Across the corridor, Ms Evans’s class waited in _____ for its listening sheets.
Soon, Ms Evans arrived with Ben. Nobody could find the sheets, and Amira’s face grew hot.
Then Ms Evans spotted the folder beside Mr Cole. “They belong in the language lab,” she explained. “I wrote ‘the lab’ because staff mean that room in language lessons. I forgot you were new.”
Amira had chosen the science lab simply because it was the first lab she had passed. Mr Cole gave back the blue folder, and Ben showed her the correct room. The pupils smiled when she entered with the sheets.
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- the blue folder
- the science lab
- the language lab
