Chapter 19 ---- Working from home [30 gaps]

It’s Monday afternoon and Mr Frost is asking Rosa about her __________.

"Were you __________ all by yourself in the house __________ we were in Oxford?"

Rosa decides to tell him the __________.

"___________, I spent Saturday and Sunday in Brighton with a ___________."

Before they can finish the ________________, the door bell rings and Mr Frost leaves the room. There are two large ___________ for him. He __________ the delivery man who helps him carry the boxes to his office. Then he returns to the living-room where Rosa and the children are waiting with _____________.

"Daddy, what have you got?" Elisabeth asks.

"Come and see!" is Mr Frost’s answer.

They all go __________. The children do not often enter Mr Frost’s ___________.

"This is daddy’s new __________." he says.

Rosa and Mr Frost unpack the boxes and take out a very modern ___________.

The children watch them ____________ the monitor, ____________ and mouse to the computer ________. Finally, Mr Frost __________ the machine in and _________ the ON / OFF button.

"This computer is very easy to use!" Rosa tells him. "All the ___________ is already on the hard __________."

Mr Frost bought his old computer many years ago. He does not have Rosa’s confidence in new ________________.

"All the new software is already there," he says, "but all my work is on these large _______________ disks."

The old disks are too large for the new computer, but Rosa has the answer to every problem.

"Why don’t you buy a small external disk ___________ for your old computer!" she suggests. "Then you’ll be able to _________ all your ________ on small modern disks and you’ll have two ________________ computers!"

The two children enjoy the paint _____________ on the new machine and fill the ____________ with colour. But they are not interested in their daddy’s technical problems. Mr Frost is very impatient. He cannot wait to ____________ his customer database and translation programs onto the super new machine.