Задание

Read the text. Mark the statements below as true or false.

1. James M. Barrie’s story about Peter Pan was published in 1904. It’s a story about a boy who never grows up. The story became very popular. The author gave all the rights to his book to one of London’s hospitals. Nowadays the hospital gets all the money from all films and performances of Peter Pan. The money is used to improve the work of the hospital.

2. Joanne K. Rowling invented her story about Harry, a young magician, and his friends on a train in 1990. But she published the book only in 1997. The main character, Harry, got the surname from one of the writer’s friends.

3. Lewis Carroll told his story about a young girl and her trip to a magic country to his friend’s daughters. The three sisters liked the story very much. They asked him to repeat the story again and again. And the youngest of the sisters, Alice, asked Lewis Carroll to write the story down. Soon the book “Alice in Wonderland” was published.

4. In his book, Alexander Milne wrote about Poohsticks, a game for children. You can play it with your friends on any bridge over the running water. The players drop their sticks into the water on one side of the bridge, then they run to the other side of the bridge. The child whose stick first sails under the bridge becomes a winner. This game has become very popular in Britain.

1. Peter Pan is a story about a boy who never grows up.

2. Joanne K. Rowling invented her story about Harry, a young magician, and his friends in a train in 1990.

3. Lewis Carroll wrote the story of Alice in Wonderland for his own daughters.

4. Alexander Milne wrote about a game called Poohsticks in his book.