Here are some facts about the writer J.K. Rowling. Read the sentences and put them in chronological order.

_____  She finished her first Harry Potter book.

_____  She got married and had a daughter.

_____  She studied French at university.

_____  She became very famous.

_____  She moved to Scotland.

_____  She started writing her first Harry Potter book.

_1__   She wrote her first story, Rabbit.

_____  She worked in Portugal as an English teacher.

_____  She was unemployed.

    Now read J.K. Rowling's biography and check your answers.

J.K. Rowling was born in England in 1965. She loved reading, and wrote her first story, 'Rabbit', when she was only six years old. She studied French at university, then worked as a secretary in London. She had the idea for Harry Potter when she was on a train. 'Harry just walked into my head,' she said later. She started writing the first Harry Potter book the next day.

In 1992 she went to live in Portugal for three years. She wrote Harry Potter in the morning, and worked as an English teacher in the afternoon and evening. She got married to a Portuguese TV journalist and had a daughter called Jessica.

Then she returned to Britain and lived in Edinburgh, in Scotland. She was unemployed at that time, and wrote in cafés because they were warmer than her small flat. After five years she finished the first book, 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'. The book sold millions of copies all over the world, and Joanne Kathleen Rowling became very famous. She is now very rich, but she still writes her books in cafés!

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