The Children's House: exercises

Fill the gaps

Choose the missing word for each gap. The words are in the box.

Abril, eyes closed in her secret hideaway, wonders what she will be when she grows up and knows only that she wants to work with Choose…BambinichildrenilliterateLorenzoMariamasonMontessorineighbourhood, just like the heroine of the story she imagines. Choose…BambinichildrenilliterateLorenzoMariamasonMontessorineighbourhood, a brave and determined young woman, has been asked to open a home where children aged three to six can learn and be safe from the dangers of the street while their parents are out at work. She is too busy to say yes, until curiosity takes her to San Choose…BambinichildrenilliterateLorenzoMariamasonMontessorineighbourhood, one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Rome. There she sees a girl chasing smaller children with a stick, a filthy building with no front door and a little boy crying on the floor who calls her a witch. Maria gathers a Choose…BambinichildrenilliterateLorenzoMariamasonMontessorineighbourhood, an electrician, a painter and a team of helpers, and The Children's House opens its doors. But how do you teach children who are hungry, frightened and ready to run? The story is inspired by Maria Choose…BambinichildrenilliterateLorenzoMariamasonMontessorineighbourhood and her Casa dei Choose…BambinichildrenilliterateLorenzoMariamasonMontessorineighbourhood.