Here is William's day: he gets up (1)_at_ 7 o'clock (2)_in_ the morning. School starts (3)at_8:00 (4)_in_ the morning but William is never late. At school he does his schoolwork easily. (5)At_ 4 o'clock (6)_in_ the afternoon he comes home and does his homework. (7)_In_ the evening William walks his dog and watches TV. He goes to bed (8)_at_ 9.30 pm. (9)_On_ Wednesday William goes to football practice. (10)_On_ Friday, he goes to music classes. (11)_On_ Saturdays he always helps his mum and dad to clean the house. (12)_During_ winter weekends, he comes to my house and we go on the computer or watch cartoons. (13)_In_ summer we skateboard or ride bicycles.
Useful, under the pen name, novels, the title, short stories, own, to earn his living, to become, succeeded in, used to, the glory.
Charles Dickens: a man of letters. A great British writer Charles Dickens succeeded in showing feelings and thoughts of a child in his novels and short stories. Dickens’s own childhood began in a very little house near Portsmouth in 1812. As a child he got to know happiness with his family and unhappy years in London. At 15 he began to earn his living as an office boy. He wanted to become a journalist. He spent much time in the Reading Room of the British Museum educating himself. Later he used to say say that the time spent there was the most useful time of his life. Dickens became one of the best reporters of London. At the same time he tried himself as a writer of short stories under the pen name of “Boz”. In 1836 he published his stories under the title “Sketches by Boz”. This was the beginning of the great British writer, the glory of the British literature.
