Before she was famous…

J K Rowling was born near Bristol in 1965. She always wanted to be a writer, and her first book was called Rabbit, which she wrote when she was six years old. She grew up in a town in the south-west of England, and when she left school, she went to Exeter University. After that, she moved to London and worked for Amnesty International. 

She first had the idea for a Harry Potter book in 1990 when she was on a long train journey. But in the same year, she went to Oporto in Portugal and worked as an English teacher. When she was there, she met a Portuguese journalist – they got married and had a baby. Unfortunately, the marriage wasn’t a long one and she left with her baby daughter, in 1993. She came back to Britain and lived in a small flat in Edinburgh. She was unemployed and didn’t have much money, but she continued writing. She also did a teaching course and then became a French teacher in a school in Edinburgh. In 1997, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was published.

Rowling’s first three books sold over 35 million copies in three years, and in 2001 Chris Columbus made the first Harry Potter film. J K Rowling still lives in Edinburgh. 

From: Natural English – Elementary. Oxford: Ruth Gairns & Stuart Redman, 2006, p. 56.

Select the CORRECT proposition(s) to complete the following sentence.

The text above gives information about J K Rowling’s ________.

01. childhood

02. education

04. parents

08. present husband

16. hobbies

32. previous occupations

64. future plans