Exercises · Goal 3 · Good Health
The House of Hope: exercises
Two short exercises on the book. Do them on screen or print them.
Fill the gaps
Choose the missing word for each gap. The words are in the box.
Words to use
- Abril
- Elisabeth
- Elne
- France
- Francisca
- Hospital
- latrine
- maternity ward
Leafing through a photo album, finds a picture from a war that she cannot forget, so she lets her imagination carry her to a refugee camp in the south of during the Second World War. has fled the Spanish Civil War and now sits on a sandy beach behind barbed wire, with almost no food, no water, no latrines and no shade. Her baby is nearly due, and she has already seen other women's babies die with no doctor or midwife to help. Nearby, Eidenbenz, a slight young Swiss woman with a big, stubborn personality, refuses to leave the mothers to their fate. She finds an abandoned mansion in , gathers volunteers to repair it and stands up to the prefect, who does not want to give her permission to open a maternity home. Will Francisca reach the house in Elne in time? The book is inspired by the real Elisabeth Eidenbenz, whose Elne Maternity saved the lives of nearly 600 babies.
Connect the dots
Join each word to its meaning. Tap a word, then tap its meaning.