READING: Worksheet 2
A
1) On a farm, near a gravel pit (also possible: In Lincoln County, in the USA) in the early 1920s.
2) Three men loading gravel, a dead farmer called LLoyd Wilson, Wilson's uncle Fred, his two boys, the elderly housekeeper, the undertaker and assistant.
B
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LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: Worksheet 3
A
1 were forbidden 2 I took this to be a literal statement of fact 3 shortly before daybreak 4 he was not aware that 5 the household at that time consisted of 6 he was in a cheerful mood 7 a man he had engaged 8 he had been stricken with heart failure
B
1 boys under sixteen (paragraph 1) 2 a man in his late sixties (paragraph 3)
3 boys aged six and nine (paragraph 3)
C
1 a woman in her early thirties 2 girls over 16 3 men aged 40 4 a man in his mid-fifties
5 a woman under 20 6 a man in his late eighties
