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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4 What made Brat realize that Patrick had died at Tanbitches?

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5 What did George Peck think when Brat told him that Simon had said that he had killed Patrick?

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6 What did Brat do with the rope that he bought?

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7 Why didn't Simon just cut the rope and let Brat fall?

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After Reading

5. Put these sentences about Simon's death in the right order and then join them together to make a paragraph of eight sentences. Use pronouns (he, his, it, etc.) where appropriate, and linking words (and, because, when, etc.).

1 Brat arrived there.

2 Simon put his foot on Brat's hand.

3 Simon planned to cut the rope and let Brat fall to his death.

4 The ground moved.

5 Brat tied the rope round a tree and slid over the edge of the quarry.

6 On Friday afternoon, Brat had bought a long piece of rope.

7 Brat tried to pull himself back up over the edge.

8 Brat heard nothing.

9 Simon fell on top of Brat.

10 They both fell into the quarry.

11 That night Brat made footholds at regular intervals along the rope.

12 Simon tried to stab Brat with his knife.

13 Brat caught hold of Simon's wrists.

14 Brat took hold of Simon's foot.

15 However, Simon was already waiting for Brat.

16 Then Brat went to the old quarry at Tanbitches,

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