When Dick was six years old, he went and stayed with his grandparents in the country for a few weeks in the summer. He talked a lot with his grandmother while he was there, and she told him a lot of interesting things about their family which he had not known before. When he came home again to his own parents, he said to his father, 'Is it true that I was born in London, Daddy?' "Yes, it is, Dick,' his father answered.

And were you really born in Germany?' Dick asked. 'Yes, that's right,' his father answered. 'I was.' And is it true that Mummy was born in Ireland?' Dick continued. His father said, 'Yes, it is, but why are you asking me all these questions?

Dick answered, "Because when Granny told me all those things while I was with her, I couldn't understand how we had all met.

A        Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)? Write Tor F.

1. Dick and his grandmother talked to each other a lot.
2. Dick already knew a lot about his family.
3. His grandmother told him a lot about it.
4. Dick's parents had been born in the same country.
5. Dick had been born in a different country.
6. Dick had met his parents in Germany.

B     Answer these questions:

1. Whom did Dick visit when he was six?
2. How did Dick find out a lot of interesting things about his family?
3. Whom did he talk to about these things when he came home?
4. Where had Dick been born?
5. Where had his father been born?
6. And where had his mother been born?
7. What did his father say when he asked a lot of questions?
8. And what did Dick answer?

C      Put what, which or who in each empty space:

1. Dick's grandmother told him things... he had not known before.
2. She told him... he wanted to know.
3. Dick had a father ... had been born in Germany.
4. It didn't matter... Dick asked: his grandmother knew the answer
5. ‘... a strange thing!' Dick thought. We were all born in different places, but we all met.'
6. ‘... of those men is Dick's father?’ ‘The tallest one.'
7. ‘...is he?' 'He's a teacher.'
8. ‘... is that woman?' 'She's Dick's mother.'