Complete the story with the words and phrases below. useful, under the pen name, novels, the title, short stories, own, to earn his living, to become, succeeded in, used to, the glory. charles dickens: a man of letters. a great british writer charles dickens showing feelings and thoughts of a child in his and dickens’s childhood began in a very little house near portsmouth in 1812. as a child he got to know happiness with his family and unhappy years in london. at 15 he began as an office boy. he wanted a journalist. he spent much time in the reading room of the british museum educating himself. later he say that the time spent there was the most time of his life. dickens became one of the best reporters of london. at the same time he tried himself as a writer of short stories of “boz”. in 1836 he published his stories under “sketches by boz”. this was the beginning of the great british writer, of the british literature.

Useful, under the pen name, novels, the title, short stories, own, to earn his living, to become, succeeded in, used to, the glory. charles dickens: a man of letters. a great british writer charles dickens  succeeded in  showing feelings and thoughts of a child in his novels and short stories.       dickens’s own childhood began in a very little house near portsmouth in 1812. as a child he got to know happiness with his family and unhappy years in london.       at 15 he began  to earn his living  as an office boy. he wanted to become a journalist. he spent much  time in the reading room of the british museum educating himself. later he used to say say that the time spent there was the most useful time of his life.       dickens became one of the best reporters of london. at the same time he tried himself as a writer of short stories under the pen name of “boz”. in 1836 he published his stories under the title “sketches by boz”.  this was the beginning of the great british writer, the glory of the british literature.

Past simple: 1.i met my sister’s friend last weekend. 2.we went to the countryside five days ago. 3.our family had a trip to france last autumn. past cont.: 1.we were watching tv at 6 o’clock yesterday. 2.i was listening to music last evening. 3.while my mother was cooking,i came.