Mrs Kaminski
This is a very short story about a woman who went
dizzy in the street, fell over and was taken to a hospital. There’s a sad/funny
dialogue between the woman and the doctor because the woman is very old, and
also a bit confused, and the doctor very young.
QUESTIONS
Tell us the story of Mrs Kaminsky.
What can you say about Tooting?
And about Lodz?
What do you know about Polish pilots in the RAF?
What do you know about Polish people migrating to the UK? Have you seen the film Moonlighting, starring Jeremy Irons?
Is the woman senile? Can you tell some anecdotes about
senile people?
Is it easy for a young person to understand a very old
person? What do you think they are the points where it’s easy to have misunderstandings
or difficulties in understanding between them?
VOCABULARY
(funny/nasty) turn
boilerman
dab