Drunk Dutch Tourist Gets Sharp Lesson

This is an article take from Look Ahead 1 for Senior High School Students Year X produced by Erlangga. Hope it help you (Indonesian) learn English, especially your vocabulary.

MONPELLIER: A Dutch tourist who drunkenly tried to pet a circus lion in its cage in southern France was nursing a wounded hand and neck on Tuesday after being scratched in return, police said.

The unnamed 21-year-old woman was lucky to be only slightly injured in the incident, which occured late Sunday after she and her friends went up to the cage following an evening of drinking in a campsite in the town of Vacquires, officers said.

She had stuck her hand in the enclosure in an attempt to touch the three-year old lion when the animal sprung around and slashed at her with its claws. The tourist was taken to hospital in Monpellier. -AFP

Vocabulary:

  Dutch = Belanda
  drunkenly = dengan mabuk
  pet = menimang (a dog, chlid), bercumbu-cumbuan
  scratched = tergores
  slightly = kecil, enteng (wound)
  stuck (v1= stick) = tersangkut
  enclosure = pagar