English Day by Day is designed for school students to improve their performance in the English language.
Hi guys,
today we continued to study Charles Dickens's biography that you had to reprhase in your own words. Here is what we said:
Positive facts:
Charles Dickens was a writer / a novelist. He became famous when he was 24. He created an organization to help the poor.
Negative facts:
He was poor so he had to work in a factory 10 hours a day when he was 12.
He didn't go to school.
He married and he had 10 children.
He divorced his wife because he didn't love her anymore.
He died suddenly / when he was young (58).
Cultural facts:
In the 19th century, it was frequent / common / normal to abandon children when you were poor.
Oliver Twist is a novel by Charles Dickens. It is about an orphan (Oliver).
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Homework:
- apprendre la leçon par coeur (contrôle possible...)