The facts

Words/Sentences to remember:
Editors of newspaper and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unnecessary facts and statistics.
at once: immediately
set out (JOURNEY): set out with journey: to start with a journey.
set out (Activity) to start an activity with a particular aim
set out:

reluctant:

Comprehension and Precis:
The journalist immediately set out to get the fact after receiving instruction from his editor, but he was not able to send them at once. The editor was getting impatient and he sent three telegrams , the last one of which he threatened to fire the journalist if he failed to reply the fact soon. However, his telegram was not answered and the article was reluctantly printed in its original form. The journalist managed to send a reply telegram a week later, explaining to the editor that he had been arrested while counting the 1084 steps surrounded the president's palace.

Vocabulary:
Journalist: someone who writes article for newspaper and magazine.
instructed: to ask people to do specific thing.
well-known: famous
publish: to bring articles/books to public
surrounds: to cover around something from the outer side
fire: to sack someone from the present job
reluctantly: have to do something that is against your will.
premise Hide phoneticsnoun [C]an idea or theory on which a statement or action is based:[+ that] They had started with the premise that all men are created equal.The research project is based on the premise stated earlier.--> (v) to do something based on a theory.

Composition:
The journalist counted the number of the steps as he came to the top of the staircases. On arriving outside the main entrance of the gate of the palace, he realized that he has reached the last step of all and he needed to do measure the height of the wall next. It was too high to measure by standing on the ground, so he decided to use a rope to climb on the wall to measure it. While he was busy doing so, a policeman spotted him and accused him of trespassing the government's premises. Though the journalist struggled to explain that he was just trying to measure the height of the wall, the policeman refused to believe his story. He was then arrested and sent to prison because the police thought that was necessary to have more investigation on the journalist. When the journalist was trying to tell that he just follow his editor's instruction for an article, he made things worse for himself. This proved to the police that he was trying to trespassing the palace with an intention of reporting about it to the public.

A/The: Needs more focus.

Special Difficulties:
Not only had the poor man been arrested but he had been sent to prison as well.

I have never seen so many people--> Never have I seen so many people.
I had hardly finish speaking when the door opned. Hardly had I finish speaking when the door opened.
He little realizes the danger he is in--> Little does he realize the danger he is in.

Not only had he made this mistake before but he will also make it happen again.
Only then did I realize what was happening.
Never will I trust him again.
Seldom do you find traffic wardens who are kind and helpful.