Activity 1:

Complete the sentences using the words from the table.

Oliver- 1870- fifteen- children- Victorian- writer- Westminster- characters-

sisters- novel- factory- Portsmouth

1. Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English​ writer ​and social critic.
2. He was born in ​Portsmouth​, England. His parents were John Dickens
and Elizabeth Barrow.
3. Dickens left school when he was ten years old and worked in a ​factory
while his father was in prison for debt.
4. Charles had four brothers and three ​sisters ​ ​ .
5. He published ​fifteen​ ​novels and wrote hundreds of short stories and
non-fiction pieces.
6. The Pickwick Papers was the first ​novel ​of Charles Dickens.
7. He created some of the world`s best-known fictional ​characters​.
8. The Charles Dickens Museum in London is the historic home where he
wrote ​Oliver ​Twist.
9. Charles married Catherine Hogarth and they had ten ​children​.
10. Charles Dickens died on 9th June ​1870 ​ ​ .
11. He was buried in Poet`s Corner of ​Westminster ​ Abbey.

12. Charles Dickens is thought of by many as the greatest novelist of the

era ​Victoriana.