Chapter 15 ----Looking after English children [30 gaps]

It's _________ evening and Isaac is already in bed. Elisabeth is asking Rosa a lot of questions.

"Where's mummy?"

"You _____ where mummy is."

"Where's daddy?"

"You know where daddy is."

"Where's your daddy?"

Rosa does not want to answer this question. Her father is ______, but what can she say to a small child with her bad English ____________?

"My daddy's in the _____?" Rosa answers.

"Is he a ________?" Elisabeth asks.

Rosa does not want to __________ this conversation.

"No, he isn't a pilot, but we're pilots and we're going to fly three times ______ the living room, ____ ___ the living room _____ the hall, ___ the stairs, ______ the landing, _____ your daddy's door, _____ your bedroom and you're going to land right ____ your bed."

"Where are you going to land?" Elisabeth wants to know.

"I've got to do many things before I land and you're going to help me. We're going to fly all the _____ to the bathroom. Then we're going to wash your aeroplane's ______ and clean all its little _______."

"Don't be _____", Elisabeth says, "____________ don't have teeth!"

"Well, _______ got very nice teeth!" Rosa tells her. "First, we're going to ______ them. Then, I'm going to _____ on your bed and tell you a ______!"

"I ______ want a story!" Elisabeth says. "I want to ask you another question!"

"But I want to read you a story." Rosa answers. "It's good for my English! You can _________ my mistakes!"

"Mummy and daddy don't make _________ when they read me ________!"

"That's because English is their first language. My mummy and I live in Spain and our first language is Spanish!"

"____ does your daddy live in the sky and what _________ does he speak?" asks Elisabeth.