This exercise was sent in by Frankie Meehan, an ESL Teacher at United World College of SE Asia, Singapore. Any page numbers below refer to the Heinemann New Windmill Series 1997 edition of the book. You may need to change them to reflect the particular version you're using. While reading 1. Conkers turn brown in August.
Brown conkers are good for fighting.
Dahl wrote a letter saying that not enough children were playing Conkers. One thousand people wrote letters to Dahl. People play Conkers in the autumn and winter. The game of Conkers is only played in England. The toughest conkers have been stored for a year or more.