Millions of such banal-sounding mishaps occur every year, however, and the majority involve children and old folk. Advance Organiser Students relate an incident which has happened to them in the home.
Students discuss which of the above is the most common-and why.
My mother was speaking on the phone while a piece of meat was cooking on a pan in the kitchen. As my mother spoke the meat got hotter and hotter, until it caught fire-while my mother spoke. She spoke, and spoke and the flames coming from the meat got taller and taller. A neighbour who happened to look out his window saw the flames and ran to the door of my mother's flat-my mother was still on the phone. Another incident occurred in Zarautz, Basque country, on the morning of the 6th of January, the day of the kings-the three wise men.