Book Miss Doyles Life Savings

Book: Miss Doyles Life Savings 

Miss. Doyle was an artist, she said the doctor who had cataracts and was very worried about the cost of its operation, she commented to her daughter Jane crying in her illness, Jane promised to pay it neccessary for operation.

Miss. Doyle did not want them to feel sorry for her or his brother Robert. Robert was a soldier with mentally illness, he was afraid of the wars. They were sick but Miss Doyle demaciado worried his brother and the care she needed, she spent her money on the cost of Robert and daughter hers. Ann, the hospital accountant brother, was angry about so many debts. One day  Miss Doyle I talk to  Ann and promised to pay the debts.

Eventually Miss Doyle pay debts with borrowed money.

*I liked it when Miss  Doyle could pay  Ann  your dinnero and showed him that if he could pay the bills.

Activities

1: Vocabulary and Idioms

Use words and phrases from Chapter Three to complete the following paragraphs about a different situation. Choose your answers from the box below

arrangements        

independence

cataracts

concerned

expenses

going on

invaded her privacy

odd

poured her heart out

What's up

When her mother came home, Jane was __concerned____ because of her mother's ____odd____ behavior. Jane knew that something was _____going on_____.

_____Wast’ up_____ ? "Jane asked, At first, her mother seemed angry-as if Jane had __ invaded her privacy___.

But soon, her mother began to cry and ____poured her hear out___ to  her daugther. The doctor had just told her that she had _cataracts__ and needed an eye operation. She was worried that she would become blind and lose her __independence________.

She told Jane that she was worried about the __expenses______  to pay for the operation. Jane told  her mother not to worry because she would make all the necesary  ___arragements______

2: THE STORY

The People

Complete each of the following sentences with the correct name. Write  Ann, Robert, or Miss Doyle on each blank line.

1._Miss Doyle____ was an artist.

2.__Ann___ was a bookkeeper

3.___Ann__ is worried that Miss Doyle will not able to pay her bills.

4.__Robert___ was a soldier.

5._Rober___ is in a home for the mentally ill.

6.___Miss Doyle__ is angry at Ann 

Between the Lines

Which of the following statements are probably true according to the information in Chapter Two? Check (-/) each true statement.

_-/_   1. Miss Doyle does not want people to feel sorry for her.

_-/_   2. Robert became mentally ill because he was afraid of the war.

_-/_   3. Miss Doyle feels that her brother needs  good care at the state home.

___   4. Miss Doyle was a bookkeeper for more that  fifty years.

_-/_   5. Before she left the car. Miss Doyle I talk to  Ann