THE LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS. 1. Watch the video and fill in the blanks with the words below.

THE LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS

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Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on 7^th of February 1812 to John and Elizabeth Dickens. Charles was the second child of eight ¹_____________in all, six of whom survived to adulthood. John, a naval clerk, always²____________beyond his means. One day he pointed out a house to Charles, remarking that he could ³__________in such a house, if he worked hard. The family moved to London in 1822. At 12, as the family ⁴_________worsened, Charles had to start working in a blacking factory, labelling bottles for eleven hours a day. John Dickens was eventually sent to a debtors' ⁵__________ Charles visited him there every Sunday. His youth left him with a⁶___________drive. In 1827 he began work as a solicitor's clerk. From the surroundings of his unremarkable office he began to collect names and characteristics of the people he saw.

Charles began a ⁷________________career in 1831. Writing became his passion, working for the paper by day and on his own work by night. He was beginning to taste success. His first piece of ⁸____________ was published in 1835. That same year Charles met Catherine Hogarth, they fell in love and were married. The next few years of ⁹_____________activity resulted in much writing and many children. As his writing became more popular and his fame morewidespread, ¹⁰__________began to aboundofhis drunkenness and admission to an asylum. Stories were easy to concoct about the writer who kept a pet raven and whose writing dwelt in the extremes of the sentimental and the grotesque.

In 1842 Charles and Catherine set¹¹__________ for America. On landing in Boston they were mobbed by¹²____________. Dickens'sinterest lay in visiting the unusual, which inspired his writing. He took his whole family on his next big ¹³__________ to Italy, in the summer of 1844. Upon his return, Dickens began to look for new diversions. He helped to start and edit a radical¹⁴________, founded a refuge for homeless women and ¹⁵______________his works at public readings.

Aged 44, Charles bought Gads Hill, the house his father had pointed out to him all those years before. It symbolised the pinnacle of ¹⁶________________whilst Dickens was organising a theatrical project, The Frozen Deep, he met and was spellbound by a young actress Ellen Ternan. There is much speculation about this¹⁷______________that caused the end of his marriage to Catherine. One fateful night in 1865, whilst Charles and Ellen were returning from Paris their train¹⁸_____________ outside Staplehurst. Dickens administered brandy and water to the ___________and dying. Only at the last minute did he remember to retrieve the final part of Our Mutual Friend from the wrecked¹⁹______________. The incident left Charles very shaken. For a while he maintained his ²⁰__________itinerary, and then his health began to fail. At home on Wednesday 9^th June 1870, at the age of 58 Charles suffered a²¹___________and died. He's buried in Westminster Abbey.

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