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Modules 7 & 8. Revision Section - номер 4, страница 81.

4 Complete the text with the words and word combinations below. Two words are extra.

• at the age of • author • born • characters • company • died • experience • famous for • good • greatest • home • received • remembered • sent • storyteller • unhappy time • world famous

Roald Dahl: early years

Roald Dahl ( 1) .......... 1916, Wales - 2) .......... 1990, Oxford, London) was a 3) .......... British writer, a popular 4) .......... of children's books. They call him "one of the 5) .......... storytellers for children of the 20th century".

His parents were from Norway. His mother was a great 6) .......... and had a fabulous memory. Roald 7) .......... many tales that she told him about trolls and other mythical Norwegian 8) .......... .

Roald had a happy 9) .......... life, but he had an 10) .......... at his school in Wales. His mother 11) .......... him to boarding school in Weston-Super-Mare. 12) .......... 13, Roald went to Repton Public School in Derbyshire. He was happier here. He was brilliant at sports and was very 13) .......... at boxing. The boys at the school helped sometimes as chocolate testers for a famous chocolate 14) .......... . Later Roald Dahl used this 15) .......... in the book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".