The Railway children by Edith Nesbit

Listen to the extract and answer the questions:
How can you tell the family was quite rich?
How did Mother spend her days?
Who was the youngest child?
How old was Peter?
What present did he get for his birthday?
When did he break it?
What was Mother like?
What was Father like?

VOCABULARY WORK:
Ordinary
Suburbs
Bells
French windows
Refurnishing
Mumps
Nursery
Heaps
Cross
Unjust
Over and done with
Inexperience
Intentions
Typical, usual, plain
An area outside the city centre
Devices that make a ringing sound to give a signal or to get attention
Glass doors usually leading to a garden
Putting of new furniture into a house
A childhood illness where your face and neck swell up
A room in a house where children play and sleep
A lot, many
Angry
Unfair
Finished
Lack of skills or knowledge
A plan of what you want to do in the future

Ex. 6:
Mother
loving
reliable
creative
imaginative
funny
Father
fair
loving
funny
creative

Hometask:
To read the biography of Edith Nesbit and learn what other books she wrote;
To write Peter’s diary entry for the day of the incident with the engine, ex. 7 p. 35
To write your own ending of the story
To translate the real end of the story