Our address __________________ on it in large printed letters.WRITE

Mum said: “If one day Lucky gets missing, the tag __________________ us find him”.HELP

Lucky disappeared on the __________________ day after moving house. We looked for the cat everywhere. We asked all our new neighbours about him.THREE

We even asked all the __________________ in our district if they had seen him. But nobody had seen a cat that looked like our Lucky.POLICEMAN

In the end, we __________________ hope. Two weeks later I was passing by our old house. On the porch there was a cat that looked strikingly like Lucky. And it was Lucky!LOSE

I grabbed him and brought him home. “Mum, look who I __________________!” I cried to mum. “The new owner told me the cat had been waiting for us in our old house. Nobody could inf…

I come from England but now I live permanently in Québec, Canada. When my parents __________________ me to Canada, I was fifteen.BRING

It was winter and I __________________ by the amount of snow there. IMPRESS

I asked my new friends what they usually __________________ for entertainment in such a cold climate.DO

Their answer was simple, “In winter __________________ and adults go skiing and skating.” Before arriving in Canada I had never tried skating and my Canadian ice experience was re…

To start with, it took __________________ half an hour to put on the skates.I

I __________________ how to move so my new friends showed me some basic techniques. NOT KNOW

However, when I was left alone on the ice, I __________________ over immediately. When I opened my eyes, my new friends were standing around. They weren’t laughing, they looked wo…

“Are you OK?” they asked. “Fine,” I said, “I wish I __________________ skate as easily as you do.”CAN

“You definitely will,” they smiled. And they were right. By the end of my __________________ winter in Canada, I felt confident on the ice. More than that, I found out that skatin…

When I was little, I loved reading books written by Roald Dahl. They were my favourite choice of bedtime story. When Mum asked me what book I wanted, I always__________________ a …

Mum readily agreed. She said she __________________ reading him too in spite of the fact that she was an adult and had a very serious job.ENJOY

In those years there __________________ lots of Dahl ’ s books in our home library. BE

And to me he is still the best children ’ s author of the __________________ century. TWENTY

Roald Dahl started as an adult writer. His first book __________________ in 1942.PUBLISH

Later he began writing children ’ s books. Many of the __________________ are based on Dahl ’ s own childhood memories. STORY

Several of his books are now successful films, for example ‘Matilda’, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ and ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’. I’m sure you __________________ at least one of t…

When you shop for children’s books, Dahl is the __________________ choice. His books are entertaining and full of jokes. EASY

Roald Dahl is an author that you can never grow tired of. Now I read his books to __________________ son. He is too small yet and cannot read himself. I

Most adults miss their childhood. Your school years are the __________________ years of your life, they say. GOOD

Just recently, while I was on my way to work, I started thinking back to my own school years. They probably were not trouble - free but there __________________ many reasons for u…

One of them was spending every single day with friends. We __________________ tired of being together. NOT GET

The __________________ one was uniform. Yes, in my opinion, the school uniform had more advantages than disadvantages. TWO

It was dark green, unfashionable but comfortable. It __________________ of natural materials. MAKE

Besides, the uniform __________________ a lot of time in the mornings. SAVE

Now it __________________ me hours to decide what to wear. TAKE

Another thing is that I don’t really like sport. But at school we __________________ football, netball, hockey and so on. Sport was compulsory. Now I realise that this was a good …

And of course there were… holidays! Christmas, Easter, half - term, and the jackpot – the summer holidays. I wish I __________________ as much free time now. HAVE

This story happened long ago. My son was six and we lived in an old house near a large park. There __________________ lots of people in the park at weekends and we enjoyed walking…

One day, my son __________________ an injured bird from the park.BRING

It was a crow. Its wing __________________ and the bird could not fly.BREAK

I didn’t know what to do with the crow, but my son said that he __________________ care of it.TAKE

“If you were a couple of years__________________, you could manage it. But I doubt you can do it now,” I tried to talk him out of keeping the crow but finally agreed to take the b…

The next day we took the crow to the vet. The vet fixed and bandaged the wing and explained to __________________ what medicines we should give to the bird.WE

“Ok,” he said, as we left, “I __________________ everything I can. There’s no need to bring this crow here any more.DO

The bird is young and strong, and I think it __________________ soon. This is the good news. The bad news is that it will never be able to fly again.”RECOVER

“We’ll see,” my son __________________ to agree with this fact too easily. NOT WANT

Kate called me early in the morning. It was the __________________ day of holidays; I felt angry with her for waking me up. TWO

“What __________________?” I didn’t sound very polite, but she paid no attention to that. HAPPEN

“Oh, nothing! I want to go shopping today and wondered if you wanted to go with __________________.” I

“No, I don’t want to.” “But it __________________ you long! I promise”. NOT TAKE

My first impulse was to say “no” – unlike most __________________ I hated shopping. But Kate sounded so unhappy that I felt sorry for her. WOMAN

“Ok, what do you need to buy?” Kate’s voice __________________ cheerful again. BECOME

She excitedly explained to me that she __________________ to buy a pair of hiking boots and a raincoat. WANT

That __________________ strange as Kate had never been fond of hiking. “I want to take up hiking as a new hobby,” went on Kate. “Bob Smith says that it’s really exciting.” BE