Unit grammar check
1 choose the correct words.
a hard life: oliver twist
the last book we read at school was 'oliver
twist'. it's about a boy called oliver. he was an
orphan - he didn't have (1) some / any parents
or relatives. he lived in a special place for poor
people, and he had a terrible life there.
i liked the story, but i thought the book was
(2) too / much long and there were too
(3) much / many different characters. in class,
we also watched a film of the story. that was
(4) easier / more easy to understand than the
book! the (5) more / most famous part of the
story is when oliver hasn't got enough food. he
holds his bowl and says, 'please, sir, can i have
some more? '
the author of this book was charles dickens. he
understood the situation of poor people because
his family didn't have (6) much / many money.
charles dickens worked in a factory when he
was 12 years old. but in the end he found success
as an author. he wrote (7) a lot of /too famous
novels, including 'great expectations and
'a christmas carol'.