Spotlight 10 Module 2d

Match the words to make phrases.

Use the phrases to complete the sentences below. 1. They live in an old house with and a lovely balcony. 2. Our front door has in it. 3. I know she has but she is always messing things up. 4. I had a lovely to play with when I was young. 5. Fred's parents went to a(n) to look for a new house.

Fill in the words to make sentences. 1. There are more and more shopping centres these days. 2. The lecturer was so we thought we'd die of boredom. 3. George never gets . He's really very patient! 4. What a day. Everything went wrong. 5. Sam can be very at times. He seems to blame everyone for his mistakes. 6. Granddad is a old man who loves to have fun.

Fill in the verbs to make sentences. 1. No one believed him at first, but his story out to be true. 2. My grandmother had a hard time over her latest illness. 3. Ben would like to be a pilot when he up. 4. Children like to up funny stories. 5. I'm glad they won the match, but I couldn't sleep. Fireworks were off all night.

Read the text and mark the statements True, False or Not Stated. Edith Nesbit was born in London in 1858. When she was four her father died but her mother bravely continued to run the agricultural college her husband, and before that, his father, had founded in Kennington, London. Her childhood was shared with her sister, half sister and 3 brothers. She was educated on the continent when she accompanied her mother and sister Mary travelling throughout France, Germany and Spain. This was not an educational grand tour but an endeavour to get her sister well as she was suffering from tuberculosis. Upon their return to England Edith's mother moved the family from London to Halstead, Kent. This was the start of Edith's love of the countryside and especially of Kent. At 18 years of age she met Hubert Bland whom she was eventually to marry. They married in a Registry Office in the City of London and Hubert found Edith a home overlooking Blackheath, south east London. A move to a small terraced house in Elswick Road, Lewisham (still standing) with their first child, Paul, was to be one of the many homes in the south east of London they were to occupy. Edith had begun writing in her teens and her artistic talents were needed to bring in money when she and Hubert were first married. Her flourish for writing poems, articles and children's stories eventually led the family which now numbered three children, to move to larger homes in Lee and Grove Park. In 1899 the family moved to Well Hall, Eltham (pictured). The three-storey house surrounded by orchards and farmland adjacent to a Tudor barn was to be their home for 22 years. Edith was a very generous, gregarious person and would host parties at Well Hall, which attracted the many literary friends she and Hubert had come to know. Friends such as HG Wells, George Bernard Shaw and friends from the Fabian Society, Sydney and Beatrice Webb. The First World War and Hubert's death in 1914 brought a change to their fortunes. Managing a large house was becoming difficult and at the suggestion of a family friend she left Well Hall for her beloved Kentish countryside. Prior to the move she found solace and happiness with Tommy Tucker whom she married in 1917 and together they built a home at St Mary's Bay, Dymchurch, Kent where in May 1924 Edith Nesbit died. 1. Edith had no siblings. 2. The main aim of her family's stayingin Europe was Edith's education. 3. Edith loved living in the countryside more than in a city. 4. She had to move many houses during her life. 5. She earned more than her husband. 6. Edith was very sociable and had a lot of friends. 7. She never married the second time and devoted the rest of her life to literature.