True or false?

1. Five dolls lived in the doll’s house.

2. The doll’s house was left in the courtyard because there was no place for it at home.

3. Isabel told her classmates about the doll’s house only at playtime because she did not want to hurry.

4. Nobody made friends with the Kelveys at school because of their social position.

5. The doll’s house made a great sensation at school.

6. The little Kelveys were independent and behaved badly at school.

7. The Kelveys had a look at the doll’s house without any invitation.

8. The Kelveys were very angry when Aunt Beryl shooed them out as if they were chickens.

If you have got fewer than five right answers right, try a comprehension exercise at pre-intermediate level.

If you got between 5 and 7 answers right, try some more comprehension exercises at this level.

If you got all the answers right, try a comprehension exercise at advanced level.

2. In the center of the story there is a vivid description of a doll’s house. (Lines 5-25, 74, 75, 77-78). Represent its content through a drawing or a map. Use different colors if possible.

The Doll’s House

3. Doing word games can be an enjoyable way of learning new vocabulary. In this way you can learn and do something amusing at the same time. There is a great variety of word games, for example, a crossword puzzle.

The crossword puzzle below is devoted to the topics “Housekeeping” and “Home”. You can come across all the words given in the story above. Read the clues and fill in a suitable word.

			1															h
													2						o
			3													u
																	s
													5		e
															k
7														e
8														e
		9												p
													10		i
	11													n
															g

1. A person who washes clothes for a living.

2. A low structure projecting from the doorway of a house and forming a covered entrance.

3. An open area of ground surrounded by walls or buildings.

4. An apparatus, usually of metal and heated by gas, electricity, oil, or solid fuel, for cooking food.

5. Sheets, blankets, and other coverings of a bed.

6. A room or part of a building equipped for preparing and cooking food.

7. A building used as a home; dwelling.

8. A cloth for covering the top of a table, especially during meals.

9. A heavy fabric for covering floors.

10. The medium of illumination that makes sight possible.

11. A vertical structure of brick, masonry, or steel that carries smoke or steam away from a fire, engine, ect.

12. An opening to allow passage into or out of an enclosed place.