Ejercicios Para Practicar Del Libro Brat Farrar

1. Read Chapters 1 to 3, and then complete this passage with the correct names. Use either a first name, or a first name and a surname, each time.

There were five Ashby children: the twins, and ,their sister __________, and the younger twins,_________and _____________. Their aunt had come from London to look after them when their parents, ____________and____________, were killed in a plane crash. Then _________, who was the oldest child, killed himself when he was only thirteen. The Ashby family had lived at Latchetts for more than two hundred years, but they were not rich

___________ had a lot of money, and _____________would inherit this on his twenty-first birthday.

But ____________ earned money to keep the family by working with horses. Her friend __________, who was married to the local priest, ________ ________ , used to live at Clare House when she was young. But her family had not looked after their money and in the end the house was sold. Her brother, _______ ________, became an actor and c hanged his name to _______. He was not very successful, so when he met ________ ________by accident in London, he saw a way of making lots of money easily. He told ____________that he could pretend to be _________ ________ , because he looked just like him. When _____ got the Ashby money, he could share it with _____________ . So ___________went to see the Ashbys'lawyer and told him that had not died when he was a child, but had run away to the United States. The lawyer thought that perhaps the story was true, because when he first saw __________, he thought that he was _________ __________.

2. Read Chapters 4 to 6. Here are some untrue sentences about them. Change them into true sentences.

1 After Patrick died, Simon kept all his things.

2 Patrick looked more like Simon than Brat did.

3 Brat didn't recognize Aunt Bee when she went to his room.

4 Simon's birthday party was put off until the lawyers decided whether Brat was really Patrick.

5 Simon was very happy when he heard that Patrick wasn't dead.

6 Aunt Bee was pleased that Patrick would have Latchetts because he was very sensible.

7 Brat had no doubts about what he was doing.

8 Aunt Bee went to meet Brat at the station.

9 Ruth and Jane were both unfriendly towards Brat at first.

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3. Read Chapters 9 to 12 and then answer these questions.

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1 ... did Sheila Parslow want to make Simon fall in love with her?

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2 ... was Eleanor surprised that Brat had been out on Timber?

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3 ... were Bee and Eleanor pleased that Mr Gates had bought Peggy a good horse?

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4 ... did Brat look at an old copy of the local newspaper ?

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5 ... was Bee sure that Patrick had written the note that they found in his jacket?

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6 ... did Brat take Timber to Clare Park?

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7 ... was Simon angry with Brat?

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8 ... was Brat unhappy when he saw Eleanor with Roger Clint?

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9 ... did Brat pull Chevron back just before the end of the race?

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4. Read Chapters 13 to 15, and then answer these questions.

1 How did Brat feel about Aunt Bee?

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2 Who did Roger Clint want the silver cup for?

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3 Why did Simon think that it was safe to tell Brat the truth ?

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