2) Why did everybody in England have a holiday?
3) What did the English speak about the time?
4) What did the Cantys think about their new baby?
5) Where did Tom Canty live?
6) What did the houses in that part of London look like?
7) How many rooms did Tom's family have? What did it look like?
8) Who did the family consist of?
9) How did the Cantys earn their living?
10) They were a happy friendly family, weren't they?
11) Did Tom go to school? Could he read and write?
12) What were Tom's neighbors like at Offal Court?
13) What was Tom's everyday life like?
14) What did Tom think and dream of all the time?
15) How did Tom's reading and dreams change him?
16) What did people at Offal Court think of Tom?

2) Everybody in England had a holiday because the king had a baby son, Prince Edward.

3) The English spoke about the birth of the new prince and the great future of England.

4) The Cantys were unhappy about their new baby because they were very poor and had no money to feed another child.

5) Tom Canty lived in Offal Court, a poor part of London.

6) The houses there were old, dirty and crowded. They stood very close to one another.

7) Tom’s family had one small room. It was dark, dirty and uncomfortable.

8) The family consisted of Tom, his father, his mother, his two sisters and his grandmother.

9) Tom’s father and grandmother earned money by begging and stealing. Tom was also made to beg.

10) No, they were not a happy friendly family. Tom’s father and grandmother were cruel to him.

11) Yes, Tom went to school. An old priest taught him to read and write.

12) His neighbours at Offal Court were poor people, beggars, thieves and homeless children.

13) Tom’s everyday life was hard: he begged in the streets, was often hungry and was beaten when he brought home too little money.

14) He constantly thought and dreamed about kings, princes, palaces and a better life.

15) Reading and dreaming made Tom polite, imaginative and different from the other children of Offal Court.

16) People at Offal Court thought that Tom was strange because he behaved and spoke like a prince.

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