Learn vocabulary - 5 ways to use the word 'light' - Oliver Twist part one - BBC Learning English

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Hello, I'm Mariam and today I've got a story about a young orphan - he has a tough
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life but with hope, spirit and a little bit of luck, all that could change.
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This young orphan is called Oliver. At the age of nine he ends up in a miserable, grim
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workhouse. All the children who work there are always cold and light fires to keep
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warm. They are also badly treated and are always so hungry. One day, Oliver bravely
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goes up to the manager to ask him for more food, but he is thrown out because of his
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insolence. And so begins Oliver's new life. I'll jump on a bit in the story. He's in London
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and he gets in with the wrong crowd: a friendly young beggar invites him to shelter
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in a run-down, damp building with very little light - so it is dark too. It is run by
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a scruffy old man called Fagin. Oliver doesn't have to pay anything to stay there but in
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order to earn his keep, he has to work as a pickpocket carefully and secretly stealing
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money and valuable possessions from people's pockets. He knows it's wrong but what else
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can he do? When he sees the other children pickpocketing
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Oliver isn't happy and he runs away but the police catch him, thinking he is the thief.
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Luckily, a kind gentleman called Mr Brownlow sees what is going on and is able to shed
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light on what happened to the police. He then agrees to look after poor Oliver.
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All seems well - Oliver has his own big spacious room, with windows and it's painted in a light blue
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colour. For the first time, he even has his own big comfy bed and it's not long before
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he's out like a light.
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