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- Read the article again. then cover the text and say what the the following numbers refer to.

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37: Years without electricity at their home in suffolk, england.

74 and 72: years of the couple.

19,000: is paying to have electricity.

200: years old of the house

3: number of bedrooms in the house.

9: number of children of the couple.

24: number of grandchildren

8: number of great-grandchildren

- ANSWER THE QUESTIONS IN PARIS.

- Do any of their children still live with them?

No, but one of your children has returned to put electricity in the house.

- How does mrs. payne feel about the house being modernized?

Mrs. Payne feels that he did not get too lost by not having electricity.

- Was it a big problem for her not to have an iron or a vacuum leaner?

No, it wasn´t a big problem for her because she managed.

- Where did they get most of their food from?

Most of their food was taken from the land because it grew, the rest they bought according to their needs.

- Why does mrs. payne think that not having electricity was good for the children?

She thinks that not having electricity was good for her children because they grew up instead of watching television, played often and used to invent games or read books.

- How was it good for her and her husband?

It was good for her and her husband, because none of them had been seriously ill and they rarely had a cough or cold, their life has been very healthy.

- Match the highlighted phrasal verbs with their definitions. write the base forms in the chart.

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- Growing Up to develop into an adult

- Got By to manage to live or do something with difficulty

- Brought Sth Up to install something in your house, e.g., central heating

- Moved Back to return to live in a place where you lived before

- Lived Sth Off to invent

- Make Sb/ Up sth to depend on sb/sth in order to live

- Put Sb In take care of a child until he/she is an adult