hello.. this is a fictitious article for a newspaper.. I would be very pleased if you could read thr

Cliff climber saved after hanging by fingertips 150 feet above sea
Australia, Victoria
Yesterday, at the 5th of November
the local sea police were able to 
save an unexperienced cliff climber
out of a problematic situation.


A 30-year-old Englishman was on holiday with his wife- an average mountain climber. Both hadn’t been cliff climbing before!
Anyway they wanted to try something exciting and so they started their way to the great viewing balcony on the summit of Port-Campbell- cliffs early in the morning.
Shortly after that they reached the first cliff without any problems. But then the women didn’t get further. She was too little to get over the next ledge. Her husband wanted to help her and so he climbed horizontally over to his wife, but then he also didn’t get further and only hung with his fingertips at a rock spur.


He was 150 feet above the sea. His wife jumped backwards into the sea, but the 30-year-old panicked, because he wasn’t able to spring because of many wide salient ledges beneath him. Luckily the sea police was controlling this area, because of the high swell.
They got his wife, who is a good swimmer and then phoned a professional climber, who got to the man hanging in the cliffs in around two minutes. Then the unexperienced climber was roped down to the ship.
The doctor on the boat was able to determine that the English couple only had a big shock. So this was a real blessing in disguise!

2013-11-05, jhh

I would be very pleased if you could read through it and collect my mistakes.. thank you :)

was/were able to - a specific situation - I was able to finish yesterday.

could - general - I could run fast when I was little.

hello.. this is a fictitious article for a newspaper.. I would be very pleased if you could read thr

Cliff climber saved after hanging by fingertips 150 feet above sea
Australia, Victoria
Yesterday, the 5.th of November, the local sea police (coast guard) were able to rescue an inexperienced cliff climber from a dangerous situation.


A 30-year-old Englishman was on holiday with his wife- a middle-rate mountain climber (the man or his wife?). Neither had been cliff climbing before!
Wanting to try something exciting, they made their way to the lookout on the summit of Port-Campbell- cliffs early in the morning.
They soon reached the first cliff without any problems. But then the women didn’t get further. She was too short to reach the next ledge. Her husband wanted to help her and so he climbed horizontally over to his wife, but then he also didn’t get further and only hung with his fingertips at a rock spur.


He was 150 feet above the sea. His wife jumped backwards into the sea, but the 30-year-old panicked, because he wasn’t able to spring on account (avoids saying because twice) of many wide salient ledges beneath him. Luckily the sea police was controlling this area, because of high swell.
They got his wife, who is a good swimmer and then phoned a professional climber, who got to the man hanging from the cliffs in around two minutes. Then the inexperienced climber was roped down to the ship.
The doctor on the boat could only determine that the English couple both had a big shock. So this was a real blessing in disguise!

2013-11-05, jhh

I would be very pleased if you could read through it and collect my mistakes.. thank you :)