Five Children Taken to Hospital in Lugo After Mistaking Ecstasy Pills for Sweets
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Five children went to hospital in Lugo, Spain.
The children were on a school bus.
They found some small pills. A pill is a small hard piece of medicine or drug.
They thought the pills were sweets. Sweets are small sugary food that children like.
The children ate the pills.
The pills may have been ecstasy. Ecstasy is a dangerous drug.
After eating the pills, the children felt bad.
People took the children to a hospital called Hula.
Doctors checked the children at the hospital.
The story happened in Lugo, a city in Spain.
Police may look at how the pills got on the bus.
Vocabulary10 words
- pill
- a small hard piece of medicine or drug
- sweets
- small sugary food that children like
- ecstasy
- a dangerous drug that people should not take
- hospital
- a place where doctors help sick people
- school bus
- a bus that takes children to school
- confuse
- to think one thing is another thing by mistake
- doctor
- a person who helps sick people get better
- dangerous
- able to hurt you
- check
- to look carefully to see if something is okay
- found
- past form of find; to see something by chance
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1. On a school bus 2. Sweets 3. Ecstasy
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Five children went to _____ in Lugo, Spain.
The children were on a _____ bus.
They found some small _____.
They thought the pills were _____.
The children _____ the pills.
The pills may have been _____.
After eating the pills, the children felt _____.
People took the children to a hospital called _____.
Doctors _____ the children at the hospital.
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