Reading Unit 2
1 Read the text. Choose the best title.
A A website for young writers ___
B Advice for young novelists ___
C Story of a teenage novelist ___
2 Complete the sentences with the underlined
words in the text.
1 He’s going to spend the summer in London to
___________ his English.
2 How can I ___________ pictures to a website?
3 My friend is a great cook, and she’s going to
enter a cookery ___________ .
4 My mother writes crime stories as a
___________ .
5 I won £100 in ___________ money.
3 Complete the sentences with information from
the text.
1 Abigail comes from ______________________ .
2 The title of her first novel is
______________________________________ .
3 Wattpad ______________________ for writers.
Abigail Gibbs is a young novelist from Devon in the
4 Abigail couldn’t finish her novel quickly because
UK. She began her first novel, Dinner with a
______________________________________ .
Vampire, when she was fifteen. When she started
5 She published Dinner with a Vampire when
writing the story, she wasn’t expecting to publish it.
______________________________________ .
She enjoyed writing, but it was just a hobby. Then,
one day, she decided to upload the first chapter to a 4 Answer the questions.
website for writers called Wattpad. It was very
1 Why wasn’t Abigail expecting to publish her
popular, so she started uploading more chapters.
novel?
After only four months she had one million readers!
_______________________________________
People also made comments about the story while
_______________________________________
she was working on new chapters. This helped her
2 How was Abigail able to improve her style?
to improve her writing style.
_______________________________________
At about the same time, Wattpad organized a _______________________________________
competition for its writers. Abigail decided to enter it 3 What happened when she won the competition?
and won first prize! This attracted a lot of attention _______________________________________
and several book companies contacted her. They _______________________________________
loved Dinner with a Vampire and wanted to publish
it. But there was a problem – it wasn’t finished. And
Abigail was studying for exams, so she didn’t have
much time for writing. She finally published her
novel at the age of eighteen and the rest is history!
