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TIM WILKINS LOVED HIS TREE HOUSE.

HIS FATHER BUILT IT WHEN


HE WAS 8.
Tim Wilkins ____________ (not have) any siblings. He usually
___________ (play) alone when his family ____________ (live) in
London. He ___________ (go) to the park every afternoon after school
when the weather __________ (be) fine. When it ____________ (rain),
his mum ___________ (take) him to the library and Tim ___________
(choose) a book and he ________ (read). He ____________ (prefer)
reading adventure books about pirates, explorers or spacemen. He
____________ (be) very imaginative.
When Tim ___________ (be) 8 years old, his father ___________
(lose) his job. He _________ (work) as a carpenter and he
____________ (decide) to start a new life in a little village called
Stonebridge. So Tim´s parents ___________ (sell) their house in
London and they ___________ (buy) a beautiful house in Stonebridge.
This house _________ (not be) new and the windows and doors
_____________ (be) broken. The roof __________ (have) a hole.
They _________ (repair) the house and ___________ (paint) the
walls. When they _________ (finish), the house _______ (look)
fantastic.
Tim´s father ___________ (have) an idea. Their garden __________
(be) very big and there ___________ (be) a lot of trees. There
__________(be) one tree especially tall and thick. Tim’s father
____________ (design) a tree house and he ___________ (spend) the
whole spring building the tree house. When the summer ___________
(begin), Tim __________ (have) his new house finished. He
___________ (invite) some boys to play there and all the things he
_______ (read) in the books ___________ (come) true.
The tree house __________ (not survive) many years. Unlucky, a
terrible storm __________ (destroy) it some years ago. But Tim
Wilkings ______________ (no forget) it when he _______ (grow up),
he _____________ (become) an architect and now he builds tree
houses all around the world.
_______________ (you/ have) a tree house when you ___________
(be) a child?.

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