A- Fill in the blanks with the words in the chart to complete Dahl’s biography. (A- Complete los espacios en blanco con las palabras en la tabla para completar la biografía de Dahl.) fame- crash- close- adaptation- museum- disabled- boarding- calling- Wales- Norwegian- genius- secret- credit- legacy- outset. (fama- choque- cierre- adaptación- museo- discapacitados- embarque- llamar- Gales- noruego- genio- secreto- crédito- legado- comienzo.) Roald Dahl was born in ……………… in 1916 to ……………….. parents. He grew up in England and lived there for most of his life. He went to a ……………… school and spent holidays with his family in Norway. He worked as a representative for Shell Oil Company in West Africa, a Royal Air Force fighter pilot in the Second World War, and an air attaché before becoming an author. At the …………… of World War II, he joined the Royal Air Force of the UK and became wartime ……………… agent besides being a fighter pilot. After being injured by machine gun fire, his pain was so severe that he was sent back to England on the …………… list. He was then reassigned to Washington DC as a RAF attaché. He accidentally began his writing career there in 1942, by writing his first story which was about his plane ………………….. in 1941. His career as a writer was launched in 1943, by writing his first children’s book ‘The Gremlins’, followed by books like, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Matilda. First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt read The Gremlins to her grandchildren and frequently invited Dahl to have dinner at the White House. She was the wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), the 32 nd president of The United States (from 1933 to 1945). He returned to England in 1945, and published his first collection of short stories for adults in 1946. Not until 1961, when James and the Giant Peach was published in America did he realize that he had found his true …………………. He wrote the BFG in 1982 and Quentin Blake illustrated it. Dahl wrote several screenplays, including his own work ……………….. for Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. He also wrote over 60 stories for adults. Roald Dahl was married from 1953 to 1983 to Academy Award-winning actress, Patricia Neal. They had 5 children: Olivia, Tessa, Theo, Ophelia and Lucy. Their home was called Gipsy House, in Buckinghamshire, England. The same year he divorced Patricia Neal, he married Felicity Crossland, his wife’s ………………….. friend and a friend of the family. Until his death in 1990, at age 74, Dahl was one of the most popular writers of literature for young readers all over the world, with more than a dozen children’s book to his ………………….. . Today he is widely acknowledged as a literary …………………………. who changed the course of children’s literature forever. In 2000 Roald Dahl was voted the UK’s favourite author, surpassing the ………………….. of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and even J.K. Rowling. The Roald Dahl …………………. And Story Center carry on his ……………………………… POR FAVOR A LOS QUE SABEN INGLÉS
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