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    FCE Use of English, Exercise 4: Charles Dickens' Childhood Experiences

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    Charles Dickens had a difficult childhood, as his parents struggled with money and his father was sent to prison for debt, forcing the young Dickens to leave school and work in a factory. His experience as a child worker inspired his novel 'Oliver Twist' and shaped his writing about the poor conditions many children faced at the time.

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    Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 2nd edition

    FCE Use of English, Exercise 4


    Complete the following article by writing the missing word for each gap. Use only one word for each gap.

    Charles Dickens childhood experiences


    Charles Dickens was one of the greatest nineteenth-century English novelists. At the time of his death in 1870
    he was a wealthy man, in contrast to the poverty of his early days. His parents 1 ________their best to look
    after him but were always in difficulties 2 ________money. Eventually, his father owed 3 ________a large
    amount of money that he was sent to prison for three months.
    Two days after his twelfth birthday, Dickens was taken away from school by his parents and made 4
    ________work in a factory in London to increase the family income. Factories could be dangerous places in 5
    ________days and some employers were cruel. Charles was not 6 ________extremely unhappy, but also
    ashamed of working there, and he 7 ________never forget that period of his life. Years later, 8 ________his
    novel Oliver Twist, Dickens described his own childhood experiences. Oliver Twist was one of his most famous
    characters and he too suffered 9 ________a child worker. Dickens novels showed how shocking working and
    living conditions 10 ________. Working in the factory affected him so deeply that he found 11 ________much
    too painful to speak about in later life. His own wife and children knew 12 ________at all about the
    unhappiness of his childhood while Dickens was still alive, 13 ________shortly after his death a biography was
    published in 14 ________Dickens terrible childhood experiences in the factory were revealed 15 ________the
    first time.

    Cambridge University Press 2005

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