1 You are going to read part of a novel by a famous English writer. Read the text about his life and complete the fact sheet.Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was born inPortsmouth but spent a lot of his life in London Hisfamily had money problems and Chades had to go towork in a factory at the age of 12 Later he became ajournalist. He wrote his first story in 1833 and his firstbook appeared in 1836. In the same year he mamedCatherine Hogarth and the first of his ten childrenwas born in 1837. Dickens went on to write 15 classicnovels, including Oliver Twist. David Copperfield andCreat Expectations. When he died he was the mostpopular writer in the English-speaking worldCharles DickensBorn in!...in PortsmouthLived inEarly jobs: factory workerWiote his first book inReading A novel1 In this text from Great Expectations a boy called Pip is telling the story. Read thefirst part of the text and answer the questions.1 How many characters are mentioned?2 Where are they is it an attractive place?lady took me into the house. The first thing I noticed was that the hatwas very dark and she had left a candle burning there. She picked it up, and wewalted along more passages and up the stars, and only the candle lighted us.At last we came to the door of a room and she sakd, "There, boy. Go in. And thenshe walked away - and took the candie vte with her.This was very uncomfortable, and I was afraid. However, the only thing I could dowas to knock at the door and a voice from inside told me to enter. I found myselfin a fairly large room. Ighted with candies, No daylight was alowed to get in. A lotof the furniture had shapes and uses that I did not recognise. But there was a tablewith a gold-coloured mirror and I could see that it was a fine lady's dressing-table.In an armchair, with an elbow on the table and her head leaning on her hand, satthe strangest lady I have ever seen or will ever see.