An important businessman was asked to give a twenty-minute speech in another city. He was too busy to write it himself, so he asked his secretary to put one together for him out of a large book of speeches which she had on her desk. She typed one out for him, and he picked it up just in time to rush off to his plane. But when he gave his speech, it ran on for an hour, and the audience was getting very restless and bored by the end of it.

When the businessman got back to his office, he complained to his secretary about this. "I told you it was supposed to be a twenty-minute speech!" he said to her bitterly.

"That's what I gave you," she answered, "the original and two copies. The original for you to read at the meeting, and two copies for the files, after you had checked them."

A     Answer these questions:

1. What was the important businessman asked to do?
2. Who prepared the speech for him?
3. How did the audience receive it?
4. Why did the speech last an hour instead of twenty minutes?
5. Why had the secretary given him so many copies?
6. What mistake had the businessman made?

B      Complete this puzzle:

Across:

1. The __ in this story had to give a speech.

6. When he was sick, he used to take some _______.

8. "Did the man only read one copy of his speech?"

"No, he read_____ three of them."

9. The businessman's plane is _______ now. 

12. Travel by plane, instead of by train, ______ time.

13. The businessman should ________ have read more than one copy of his speech.

16. The businessman's audience did not find his speech very _______ after the first time.

Down:

1. 

2. The businessman always took ______ of his company's products with him to show other people.

3. There are sixty in a minute

4. The secretary forgot to _______ that there were two extra copies of the speech when she gave them to her employer.

5. The businessman had ______ time to write his own speeches.

7. The businessman had to _______ his speech in another city.

10. The businessman _____ secretary to type his speech.

11. The businessman was met ________ arrival at the airport.

14. "Did the businessman have his _________ plane?" "No, he flew with the commercial airlines."

15. The businessman had to read _______ his speech the meeting.