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Thai Restaurant Owner Put to Jail

מאמר באנגלית לתרגול קריאה. כולל 5 מילים חדשות עם תרגום לעברית, 3 שאלות הבנת הנקרא, 5 שאלות לשיחה. מתאים לרמה בינונית.

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Two owners of a Thai seafood restaurant received prison sentences of over 700 years each for scamming customers. Last year, their restaurant sold extremely cheap vouchers for its seafood buffet. The vouchers were real, but over 20,000 people purchased them, and the waitlist to eat at the restaurant became several months long.

After a few months, the restaurant announced that it was closing. On social media, it explained that it did not have enough seafood to serve people. However, many people had not been able to use their vouchers yet. Hundreds of customers complained, and the two owners were arrested.

The businessmen were originally given 1,446 years of jail time each, but because they pleaded guilty, their prison sentences were shortened to 723 years. Thai courts often give extremely long prison sentences for fraud, but according to the law, the maximum prison sentence for it is only 20 years. The owners will also have to pay a fine of 1.8 million baht (around ¥6.2 million), as well as 2.5 million baht (around ¥8.6 million) to the customers who complained.

מילים חדשות מהטקסט

  • Sentences /ˈsɛntənsəz/ noun משפטים

    the decision by a court of law

    Criminals received death sentences for their murder.

  • Scamming /ˈskæmɪŋ/ verb הונאה

    to deceive and take money from (someone)

    I could tell they were scamming you and charging too much.

  • Vouchers /ˈvaʊʧərz/ noun שוברים

    a document that gives you the right to get something (such as a product or service) without paying for it

    I have a lot of vouchers that I haven’t used yet.

  • Fraud /frɔd/ noun הונאה

    the crime of using dishonest methods to take something valuable from another person

    He was found guilty of bank fraud.

  • Guilty /ˈgɪlti/ adjective אָשֵׁם

    responsible for committing a crime or doing something bad or wrong

    Do you think he's innocent or guilty?

שאלות לשיחה

אין כאן תשובה נכונה — אלה שאלות לתרגול דיבור, לבד או מול מורה.

  1. Do you like eating at buffets?
  2. Are buffets usually cheap or expensive in your country?
  3. Do you agree with Thai law that the maximum prison sentence should be only 20 years?
  4. Do you think the owners were trying to scam customers? Why or why not?
  5. How long do you think it might take for a business to gain people’s trust again?

בדקו את עצמכם

3 שאלות. בחרו תשובה וקבלו בדיקה מיד.

  1. How many people purchased the cheap seafood buffet vouchers?

  2. When the restaurant announced that it was closing, why did customers complain?

  3. Why were the owners’ prison sentences shortened from 1,446 years to 723 years?

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