![]() D Read the sentences and decide if they are true (T) or false (F). Children started work at an early age to earn 1 money to buy food and clothes for the rest of the family. governesses : wom en teachers who taught young children. spoilt : made unpleasant because they are given everything they want or ask for. There was not always enough food for everyone and clothes were passed down from Children queuing for breakfast at a Salvation Army hostel in London. There were often ten or more children living with their parents in small houses with only one or two bedrooms. Life was very different, however, for poor families. They, too, were brought up by servants and governesses, 2 and they only saw their parents for a short time each day. Back in Britain, things were similar for most children of rich fam ilies. It was not surprising that some of these children became spoilt1and lazy. They did not even have to put on their own clothes. nursem aids : people who are paid to look after children. native : som eone who is born in a country. A British officer in India receives a pedicure from an Indian servant. The British children who lived in India were looked after by native 1nursemaids 2 who had to do anything that the children asked. The British were often unkind to their servants and did not always treat them as equal human beings. Many of them lived a luxuriant life-style, and Indian servants did everything for them. Hundreds of British people went to India to help govern the country. The World of The Secret Garden At the time that Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote The Secret Garden in 1911, Britain controlled all of India. ![]() emigrated : left one country in order to live in another. Children and adults of today enjoy the story of how two sad, unwanted 3 children find happiness by tending an abandoned garden as much as they did when it was first written in 1911. Her most famous novel, Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) started a fashion in velvet2 suits for small boys! The Secret Garden is a much-loved children’s book that is still popular today, and has been made into a successful film. She wrote a lot of very popular books for children. When she was sixteen years old, she and her family emigrated 1to Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. Some Notes on the Author, Frances Hodgson Burnett Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester, England in 1849. These symbols indicate the chapters and exercises i p featured on the accom panying CD.įrances Hodgson Burnett. (Contents Some Notes on the Author 5 6 The World of TheSecret Garden 9 Chapter One aA Spoilt JSittle § ir l 13 Chapter Two 18 Chapter Three ACTIVITIES Chapter Four 22 Chapter Five About India 27 Apiary V is its the hardens 30 37 ACTIVITIES 40 qA B ry in the S K iy lt 45 49 ACTIVITIES 53 English Gardens 57 d)iclon ACTIVITIES Bolin ACTIVITIESĬhapter Six SW et ^Weat 60 Chapter Seven Chapter Eight ACTIVITIES 65 $ % €ill £ ive ^ o r 8>ver and Sver! 69 ACTIVITIES 73 £(acjic 77 ACTIVITIES 82 IN TE R N E T P R O JE C T 87 The Rich and Poor in 88 Victorian Times 94 EXIT TEST 96 KEY TO EXIT TEST PET Cambridge Preliminary English Test-style exercises T: g r a d e s 4 /5 T rinity-style exercises (Grades 4/5) The story is recorded in full. S7 Frances Hodgson Burnett ecret (Darden Text adaptation and dossiers by Jenny Pereira Activities by Jenny Pereira and Kenneth Brodey
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