The document is an article which was published in Newsweek on December the 3rd, 2008.

 

It was written by Slliman Staynuk.

 

The document was adapted for schoolbooks*.

 

Oliver Twist is poor (« hungry », line 2), and his parents are dead (« orphan », line 5).

 

Dickens denounces* the way the children were treated. Indeed, they were « treated terribly » (line 12).

 

Nowadays* India reminds* the journalist of* England in the nineteenth century.

 

Suresh is a young Indian boy who already* works. He earns* about* one dollar a day.

 

He is not allowed to* talk to his friends when he is at work.

 

His break for lunch only lasts* ten minutes.

 

« Had to » is the preterite version of « must ».

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Example : 

Yesterday, I had to go to the swimming-pool.

 

Vocabulary :

Schoolbooks* : manuels scolraires

To denounce* : dénoncer

Nowadays* : de nos jours

To remind of* : rappeler 

Already* : déjà

To earn* : gagner (de l’argent)

About* : environ

Allowed to* : autorisé à 

To last* : durer